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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome to the Tomico Ryans Show as

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Speaker 1: we celebrate a bit and get ready for Sunday's game

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Speaker 1: against the Colts and get ready for the postseason, because,

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Speaker 1: as you know, the Texans are in clinch their birth

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Speaker 1: with a victory of the Chargers on Saturday and getting

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Speaker 1: to eleven wins with an eight game winning streak in progress.

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Speaker 1: Let's get right to the conversation with the head coach.

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Speaker 1: Brought to you by AMAG Bank, the official business bank

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Speaker 1: of the Houston Texans. Here's our talk with Dimiko Ryans

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Speaker 1: in studio with us right now, head coach, Dimiko Ryans

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Speaker 1: for your playoff bound, Houston Texans coach.

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Speaker 2: Great to see your congratulations.

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Speaker 3: Thank you man.

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Speaker 4: Great to see you guys too. Playoff bound, this sounds

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Speaker 4: really nice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds nice, indeed, and it's been a long

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Speaker 1: run and it continues here. This is in progress. But

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Speaker 1: it was great to get that achieved on Saturday, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a huge way for us. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I really proud of the way our guys work throughout

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Speaker 4: the entire week, knowing how big that game was for us.

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Speaker 3: We controlled it. We go out, we handle business the

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Speaker 3: right way. We win the game.

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Speaker 4: We're in like, and that's what you that's what you

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Speaker 4: play for, that's what you suit up for. You want

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Speaker 4: to play, so you play the game so you can

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Speaker 4: have an opportunity to get into the playoffs. You want

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Speaker 4: to get in the playoffs, and then hey, once you

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Speaker 4: get in, it's a new season and everything starts over there.

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Speaker 4: But and there was a lot of work there to

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Speaker 4: get to the playoffs. It took a lot for our guys.

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Speaker 4: And I'm just the way we battled, the way we worked,

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Speaker 4: you know, even at the beginning of our season when

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Speaker 4: it didn't look great and everybody casted us off. Just

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Speaker 4: the belief, the work ethic that everybody continued to show.

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Speaker 4: That was That's the cool part about this season of

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Speaker 4: being able to get in, how we got in and

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Speaker 4: and the fashion got in and now being on the

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Speaker 4: streak that we're on. Just continue to find different ways

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Speaker 4: to win games, no matter what it looks like, no

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Speaker 4: matter what it takes, just win the game.

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Speaker 5: So happy to be in to that end, Coach, the

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Speaker 5: fact that you have so many different guys that have

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Speaker 5: contributed us win big moments throughout the year, and that

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Speaker 5: came up on Saturday too. Lucky Foto playing his first game.

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Speaker 5: You know, JaMarcus down in that ball inside, the one

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Speaker 5: on the punt. Guys stepping up that in some cases

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Speaker 5: had never played for us, stepping up and making big plays.

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Speaker 5: It feels like, yeah, everybody knows about CJ and Nico

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Speaker 5: and you know, the rookies even but it's guys that

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Speaker 5: have stepped on the field the last couple of weeks

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Speaker 5: that weren't even here when we were zero and three,

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Speaker 5: that are coming up and making plays that goes you know.

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Speaker 4: I would give credit to our coaches for how they

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Speaker 4: have the new guys who come in and how quickly

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Speaker 4: they get the guys caught up, the speed not only

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Speaker 4: on the ball, but how we do things and the

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Speaker 4: style of play at which we play. So for our

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Speaker 4: our special teams coaches like, man, he's instant, he goes

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Speaker 4: out there, he's a gunner. He's making impact plays for US.

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Speaker 4: Folks comes in and he's big guy playing style at

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Speaker 4: the line of scrimmage, which is what we needed.

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Speaker 3: We needed.

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Speaker 4: We need his presence at the d tackle spot. He's

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Speaker 4: stepped in there, and that fo was also Keavon Wallace,

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Speaker 3: But taking those.

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Speaker 4: Safety reps did a really good job of communicating, did

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Speaker 4: a great job of tackling It's just and when guys

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Speaker 4: then they're ingrained with our players, and our players show

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Speaker 4: them like the culture.

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Speaker 3: And what we're about here.

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Speaker 4: You know, you there's a certain style of play you

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Speaker 4: had to play, so you're not sticking out like a

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Speaker 4: sore throw on the other way. Yes, right, So those

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Speaker 3: So happy for all those guys.

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Speaker 1: What about developing that culture though, coach, because some of

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Speaker 1: the new guys who came in during the offseason said, ooh,

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Speaker 1: there's something special here, and then the new guys who

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Speaker 1: come in during the season they really see it. But

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Speaker 1: it doesn't happen overnight. It's taking you some time. The

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Speaker 1: it takes time to really develop that culture with the players.

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Speaker 4: It truly takes a lot of time. It takes a

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Speaker 4: how they work each week, thinking you see it better

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Speaker 3: You don't hear culture.

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Speaker 4: You see culture and you see it from the day

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Speaker 4: to day process of how everyone operates and not just practice.

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Speaker 3: How we operate in our.

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Speaker 4: Meeting rooms, like you, how guys are it's conversational, We're talking,

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Speaker 4: ask questions if you got them, like we want to

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Speaker 3: How are guys operating in the meal room.

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Speaker 4: Like how our staff is in the meal room, our

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Speaker 4: just feel a different vibe in our room. Nobody has

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Speaker 4: to tell you what the Houston Texans culture is. Just

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Speaker 4: when you come in our building, you'll see it instantly.

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Speaker 2: Positive and inclusive. Positive and inclusive.

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Speaker 5: That's I mean, That's why I say, you know, guys,

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Speaker 5: you always have a smile on your face. You're always

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Speaker 5: that way, and I think that matters a lot, Coach.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I speak for everybody in this building when

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Speaker 5: I say that, you know, just seeing you with smile

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Speaker 5: on your face every day is like enough for me

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Speaker 5: to want to do what I need to do marked

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Speaker 5: the same way so, and I know the players have

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Speaker 5: get upset when the tackling is not great. I know that.

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Speaker 2: I know that. Look it's not always that smile, But

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Speaker 2: how do you think the tackling was the other day?

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Speaker 5: You know, I got to ask you about it, and

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Speaker 5: you mentioned it when you and I talked about Henry

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Speaker 5: after the game. But overall, when you're up back and

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Speaker 5: looked at it, it felt like from the sideline like

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Speaker 2: What'd you think when you went back and looked at it.

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Speaker 3: Tackling was good. I was smiling.

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Speaker 2: I was not upset.

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Speaker 3: The tackling was really well.

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Speaker 4: You know, the guys did a really really nice job

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Speaker 4: and just put Hampton. He's a big boy. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 4: a tough guy to get down. But I thought we

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Speaker 4: you just got to take the charge, just get body

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Speaker 4: You're not gonna make the big hits all the time,

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Speaker 4: it's just about securing the tackle, getting the guy down,

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Speaker 4: So everybody you know tackled really well and that's the

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Speaker 4: key to winning. That's the key to getting off the

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Speaker 4: field as well on third down, and that's what the

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Speaker 2: Coach.

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Speaker 1: Opening drive of the game, you hit Higgins on the

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Speaker 1: long pass for the touchdown. It felt kind of like

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three versus the Colts in Week eighteen, early

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Speaker 1: Haymaker and then you hit another one. Those really helped

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Speaker 1: because fourteen nothing. You feel like with this defense, it

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Speaker 2: Thoughts on the early strikes by the offense.

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Speaker 4: Man, those are exciting for everyone when those go up

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Speaker 4: and we scores like, man, you give yourself a little

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Speaker 3: So the defense was definitely.

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Speaker 4: Fired up, and the way the offensive line protected on

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Speaker 4: me like CJ had time. Of course, he delivered two

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Speaker 4: a defensive coordinator, when two plays they go over your

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Speaker 4: heads like, okay, gotta do something different. That's either sending

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Speaker 4: making sure they stay back even deeper. So they started

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Speaker 4: So they made some adjustments, but overall, like for us

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Speaker 4: to get up and get that lead early, that was

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Speaker 2: That's why I want to go to your coach.

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Speaker 5: I looked up at the touchdown when they scored the

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Speaker 5: thirty seven left. I was like, we've done this before.

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Speaker 5: I don't remember what it was in Indianapolis, but we

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Speaker 5: did it Indianapolis. We've done it other times to run

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Speaker 5: in different ways, but you went I think it was

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Speaker 5: three first Nico, then the penalty, and then you got

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Speaker 5: Woody with that run at the end. What do you

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Speaker 5: think it says about the offense because there were some

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Speaker 5: struggles at times offensively after a couple of big plays,

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Speaker 3: Hey, clutch moments.

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Speaker 4: They're stepping up in the clutch moments and they're they're

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Speaker 4: making the plays that we need and to close games out. Mean,

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Speaker 4: we did it last week versus the Raiders. We throw

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Speaker 4: the pass up to Nico. Right again in this situation

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Speaker 4: where everybody's thinking, you got to run the ball, run

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Speaker 4: a run, and let's throw the ball. Make sure we're

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Speaker 4: throwing into our best player. Make sure we throw the

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Speaker 4: ball to Nico because we know how he performs in

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Speaker 4: those clutch moments, you know you can count on the guy,

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Speaker 4: and that's what he did. He showed up, got a

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Speaker 4: huge first down for us, and then we're at that

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Speaker 4: moment like hey, now let's pound a rock, like let's

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Speaker 4: continue to press, press forward. Woody did a great job

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Speaker 4: and as a coach in those moments, that one thing

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Speaker 4: you worried about, and they probably tired of me on

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Speaker 4: the heads is yelling, make.

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Speaker 3: Sure we protect the ball.

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Speaker 6: Secure the ball.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I got it. I got it of tell I

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Speaker 4: Make sure because that's the one thing I'm worried about most.

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Speaker 4: But what it is is done a great job protecting

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Speaker 4: That's the NFL and Cole coach Papavis, he's done a

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Speaker 4: You know, we talked back, seems like forever. But in

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Speaker 5: A guy that I know from the day you've seen

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Speaker 5: I don't even know what it was, but he ends

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Speaker 3: Man, can you hear me on game day?

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Speaker 4: I can't because man, I said, I'm on the I'm

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Speaker 4: But me, for Kamara, man, it's one of the toughest

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Speaker 4: I'm coming back in his game. Like that's why I

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Speaker 3: He truly loves football.

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Speaker 4: Like you talk about building a culture program, like you

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Speaker 3: He wants to be out there no matter what he

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Speaker 4: Probably you have to make this, make him not practice

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Speaker 3: But man, he's He's everything you want you know in

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Speaker 4: And the unique part is you don't see that in

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's the thing is player, you have to

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Speaker 4: We all have had those type of games, right, But

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Speaker 4: It's like so many impact players he's able to make.

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Speaker 4: Why did he do it, coach? I just play my technique,

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Speaker 3: So it's a big game by him, big game coach.

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Speaker 1: so important as you approach the postseason, especially.

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Speaker 4: It's very important to win on the road, and that

442
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Speaker 4: place has definitely surprised me how loud it was in La.

443
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Speaker 3: I mean credit to.

444
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Speaker 4: The Chargers fans, they say showed up and they got

445
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Speaker 4: extremely loud, and our guys.

446
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Speaker 3: You know, we were able to handle it right.

447
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Speaker 4: We try to practice, you know, with the with the

448
00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:03,600
Speaker 4: crowd noise and practice throughout the week, but it still

449
00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:06,320
Speaker 4: doesn't compare when you get the real crowd noise, Like,

450
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Speaker 4: how are you going to communicate it?

451
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Speaker 3: Are huddles tight?

452
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Speaker 4: So our communication on it and our guys have done that.

453
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Speaker 4: Folk forced them in practice to make sure our huddles

454
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Speaker 4: are even tighter, to make sure we're all saying the

455
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Speaker 4: same thing. We're all on the same page, because that's

456
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Speaker 4: the main thing that happens when you go on the road.

457
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Speaker 4: It's like, oh I heard this or and I heard that.

458
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Speaker 4: It's like, oh, no, that can't happen. If we got

459
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Speaker 4: all eleving guys hearing the same thing, everybody listening with

460
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Speaker 4: their eyes and ears like that allows us just to

461
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Speaker 4: be on the same page, so we break. Now we

462
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Speaker 4: can go function at a high level.

463
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Speaker 3: Right.

464
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Speaker 4: A lot of teams get you get man, you get

465
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Speaker 4: messed up when you're when you're not locked in and

466
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Speaker 4: you're not focused, and that can't happen on the road now,

467
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Speaker 4: So even more so going into the playoffs, if we

468
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Speaker 4: have to go on the road somewhere, we know it's

469
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Speaker 4: going to be loud, it's gonna be rowdy, or we

470
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Speaker 4: face those environments before we know what it's like. You know,

471
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Speaker 4: playing in Seattle, playing in Kansas City, Andy Chargers, like,

472
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Speaker 4: we've been there before, We've done it, so our guys

473
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Speaker 4: have that experience. Or wherever we have to go, it

474
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Speaker 4: doesn't matter. Our guys are prepared for that noise element.

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Speaker 5: So you mentioned the playoffs and we're in the playoffs,

476
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Speaker 5: third year in a row.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic. Great.

478
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Speaker 5: However, it can be easy because I know Mark and

479
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Speaker 5: I even we shouldn't tell you this, but even this

480
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Speaker 5: morning when we're doing radio, we're kind of looking ahead

481
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Speaker 5: to the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: I know, I listen, just you have to. He'll understand.

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Speaker 5: But it's tough to fight human nature in a sense,

484
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Speaker 5: coach of what's going on. So Week eighteen, you know

485
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Speaker 5: there's Jacksonville playing Tennessee. There are other things that can

486
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Speaker 5: dictate and determine where we might go or where we

487
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Speaker 5: might stay for the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: How do you kind of fight all of that.

489
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Speaker 5: And stay focused for Week eighteen against the Colts and

490
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Speaker 5: kind of let all that other stuff kind of go

491
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Speaker 5: not scoreboard, watch, Hey, what's going on?

492
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Speaker 2: It's how do you kind of avoid all that?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, as tough as it might be, I was in

494
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Speaker 4: on all of that yesterday as well. I didn't have

495
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Speaker 4: a game to worry about, so you know, we didn't

496
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Speaker 4: know our schedule or when we will be playing. So

497
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Speaker 4: I'm locked in on all the games on Sunday, just

498
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Speaker 4: like you guys are seeing all the different scenarios of

499
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Speaker 4: what can happen. So from all the studying I did yesterday,

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Speaker 4: I understand you know all the things that have to happen,

501
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Speaker 4: and for us, I know one thing that has happened.

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Speaker 3: We have to make sure we're focused. We have to

503
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Speaker 3: win versus Indy.

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Speaker 4: That's the main thing, because by winning this game a

505
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Speaker 4: lot of different things can happen. But if and it's

506
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Speaker 4: it's possible, if the Tights can go and you're to win,

507
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Speaker 4: you know versus the Jags. Hey, we're sitting here and

508
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Speaker 4: we can be AFC South Champs, So not losing sight

509
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Speaker 4: of that.

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Speaker 3: We have to do what we have to do. We

511
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Speaker 3: have to handle business. We have to win this game.

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Speaker 4: So if that does happen, then we're sitting in a

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Speaker 4: three seed and we're here in Houston, NRG playing the

514
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Speaker 4: home playoff game.

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Speaker 1: So what about the Colts, whoever the quarterback is. You

516
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Speaker 1: watch them play against the Jacks, and they were right

517
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Speaker 1: in that game, hotly contested affair and had their opportunities

518
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Speaker 1: big returns. They made some big plays in that game.

519
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Speaker 1: It's a good football team. I know the record has

520
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Speaker 1: been sliding, but they can make some plays.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they can make some plays. Really good football team.

522
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Speaker 4: As you and said, they had a chance on yesterday

523
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Speaker 4: versus his Jags, like turn.

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Speaker 3: The ball over there and they're in the red zone.

525
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Speaker 3: That really hurt them.

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Speaker 4: But I thought the returner stepped up for him dueling,

527
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Speaker 4: He stepped up a lot of big returns for him

528
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Speaker 4: to put them in, you know, in striking distance, go score.

529
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Speaker 4: Their defense made some big stops took the ball away

530
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Speaker 4: as well. So I mean this coach team is still

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Speaker 4: a tough team, even though people say you don't have

532
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Speaker 4: anything to play for. You're not in the play like

533
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Speaker 4: there's always pride on the line. Every time you suit

534
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Speaker 4: up as a player, you're always laying on the line

535
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Speaker 4: giving your absolute best every single time. So we know

536
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Speaker 4: we're gonna get their best. Not sure who would be

537
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Speaker 4: the quarterback, it's Leonard or Rivers, but we're going to

538
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Speaker 4: get their.

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Speaker 3: Best, all right.

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Speaker 1: What Johnny said, he could have phrased it like this, coach,

541
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Speaker 1: because every week when you play, you know the next

542
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Speaker 1: opponent the following week, right during the regular season, and

543
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Speaker 1: you have to compile information on that opponent so you're

544
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Speaker 1: ready to scout for it and get prepared for that

545
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Speaker 1: following week so you can jump right into it.

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Speaker 2: But with the postseason you don't.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of different possibilities here, coach, just about

548
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Speaker 1: everybody in the field, you have a scenario where you

549
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Speaker 1: could play them. So how do you go about that

550
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Speaker 1: compiling the information in advance, or do you.

551
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Speaker 2: Just have to wait? I could have said that you

552
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Speaker 2: said you could have done it like that. Johnny could have.

553
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Speaker 4: Said that with all of the different scenarios and different

554
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Speaker 4: teams we could possibly play, our scouts have.

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Speaker 2: A lot of work files on.

556
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Speaker 4: Everybody have to do that work, but they have a

557
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Speaker 4: lot of work to do, so they we'll have guys.

558
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Speaker 4: Each guy don't have a team, they would be assigned

559
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Speaker 4: a team, and so each one has to prepare for

560
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Speaker 4: any team that we could possibly face. And I don't

561
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Speaker 4: worry about it until it's said after Sunday night.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right?

563
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Speaker 1: The ambig Bank asked coach question of the week, New

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Speaker 1: Year's an up, Coach, here we go. Now, a lot

565
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Speaker 1: of people have New Year's resolutions. I don't know if

566
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Speaker 1: you participate in this little activity. I would imagine not.

567
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Speaker 1: But people who want to start a good habit in something,

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Speaker 1: help us out, coach, Coach the people this is good

569
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Speaker 1: for all of us want to start a good productive habit,

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Speaker 1: whether it be working out, eating better, whatever it is.

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Speaker 1: What's a good way to go about that? In general?

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Speaker 1: What advice might you have?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the advice to me. If you want

574
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Speaker 4: to start any good habit, it always starts with one day,

575
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Speaker 4: like do it for one day? Like you can you

576
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Speaker 4: do it for one day? Yes, then go do it

577
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Speaker 4: again like, but you have to have to have a

578
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Speaker 4: great start to anything and then just feel that consistency,

579
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Speaker 4: have someone or reliability. The accountability partner to check in

580
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Speaker 4: on you, like, don't just go work out on your own, like, hey,

581
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Speaker 4: don Mark, come work out with me, like everything, now

582
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Speaker 4: check up on me.

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Speaker 3: Did I hit my workouts? Are you hitting your goals?

584
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Speaker 4: And they just have someone to check in with you,

585
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Speaker 4: And I think that's when you can and accomplish Moregan,

586
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Speaker 4: I always go back to the team. You need a

587
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Speaker 4: team right to accomplish day. So you have these big goals,

588
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Speaker 4: have someone else in your corner who can you can.

589
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Speaker 3: Actually try to achieve those goals with.

590
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Speaker 4: Now you get your team together, you can do powerful

591
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Speaker 4: things about this.

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Speaker 1: I knew you'd have the answers. We helped people today. Coach,

593
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Speaker 1: thanks a lot, good luck, Thank you guys. There's the

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Speaker 1: head coach, Tamiko Ryans and plenty more coming up with him,

595
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Speaker 1: including his postgame conversation with John Harris. Jellen Knowle, who

596
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Speaker 1: caught the second touchdown of the game. He was a

597
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Speaker 1: guest on Texans post game, so we'll check in with him.

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Speaker 1: We'll also hear from Woody Marx, who had a nice

599
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Speaker 1: day against the Chargers, and the postgame locker room speech

600
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Speaker 1: stick around. There's much more coming up here on Texans Radio.

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Speaker 1: We continue now with the Tamico Ryan Show. Following the

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Speaker 1: Texans victory over the Chargers on Saturday twenty to sixteen,

603
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Speaker 1: they go to eleven and five on the year and

604
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Speaker 1: a date with the Colts Sunday at noon to conclude

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Speaker 1: the regular season. The Texans, as we discussed with the

606
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Speaker 1: head coach, still very much alive for the division title.

607
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Speaker 1: And I say very much alive. They need the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: to lose to Tennessee and for the Texans to beat

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Speaker 1: the Colts and then Joila. Another AFC South championship might

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Speaker 1: be tough to get, but at least you're in the postseason,

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Speaker 1: and they got there with the victory over the Chargers.

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Speaker 2: Right after the game, here's the.

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Speaker 1: Coach in the locker room with the team, also celebrating

614
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Speaker 1: a couple of birthdays, Nick Chubb and Nick Cassario, and

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Speaker 1: a nice conversation with the crowd in the locker room.

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Speaker 3: What bad guys say? Baby? How does it feel to

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Speaker 3: be in.

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Speaker 4: Congratulations to every single person in his room? It took

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Speaker 4: everybody rock staff, players, coaches, every person in his room man,

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Speaker 4: from where we started this season all right to where

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Speaker 4: we are now. Because everybody believing in each other, showing

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Speaker 4: up the work, continuing to work to give us an

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Speaker 4: opportunity to get into playoffs. Man, it love working what

624
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Speaker 4: you got all right, And I'm super proud of every

625
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Speaker 4: body here for the work you put in and to

626
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Speaker 4: have us to have this opportunity right now.

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Speaker 3: It's special.

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Speaker 4: Man told you guys every week we got a special team,

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Speaker 4: and you guys put it on display every single week

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Speaker 4: that you guys play. Proud to be your coach, proud

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Speaker 4: to be it with you guys, and proud to hey.

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Speaker 2: Kick that door open they.

633
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Speaker 3: Go in the playoffs. Baviy. So hey, you guys did

634
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Speaker 3: exactly what we talked about doing.

635
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Speaker 4: Man, come in here, taking what we wanted and handling business.

636
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Speaker 4: That's how you do it. That's how we operate. And

637
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Speaker 4: can't be more thankful, can't be more proud for you guys.

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Speaker 4: Come on, got one hey, birthday shout out with your niggas.

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Speaker 4: We got two knigs birthday to day, I got another

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Speaker 4: one niggas. Hey, man, Hey, nobody, nobody, nobody works harder

641
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Speaker 4: at trying to get this tape, making sure we're successful.

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Speaker 3: That Nick man, he's always with you guys, and I

643
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 3: see him.

644
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,960
Speaker 4: But He's always there in the background, working every single day, man,

645
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 4: every single day, pouring his heart into his team.

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Speaker 3: All right, I just want to say, man, thank you,

647
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Speaker 3: it's a players are working with you.

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Speaker 6: Happy birthday till you know what time.

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Speaker 2: Baby, Texas.

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Speaker 1: Always love to hear those locker room celebration talks, and

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Speaker 1: I'd like to hear how many more one, two, three, four,

652
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Speaker 1: five more five more this year would do me just fine?

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: After the game on Saturday, Jellen Knowle, who cut the

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Speaker 1: forty three yarder from c J. Stroud second touchdown of

656
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Speaker 1: the game, checked in with Texans post game. That would

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Speaker 1: be Sean Pendergast and Clint Sterner. And here's how that

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Speaker 1: conversation went.

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Speaker 7: Tell us about the locker room, man, how that feel?

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Speaker 8: It feels great to have an opportunity like this and

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Speaker 8: to be able to come out here to LA and

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Speaker 8: capitalize knowing that it was an opportunity to go to

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Speaker 8: the playoffs.

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Speaker 6: It's it's an amazing feeling.

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Speaker 9: Hey man, how about themas iclones, baby, I mean, look,

666
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Speaker 9: we look up and I mean, hell, it wasn't just

667
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Speaker 9: you two that caught a touchdown. I think the first

668
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Speaker 9: five completions, two of which weren't touchdowns, but one of

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Speaker 9: X had one of those catches, but the first five

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Speaker 9: completion CJ Strout had.

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Speaker 2: We're all the cyclones.

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Speaker 9: I don't know that that's ever happened in the NFL

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Speaker 9: game where college teammates or at least guys from the

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Speaker 9: same college. How about how about you guys not only

675
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Speaker 9: sharing the locker room in the field, man, but all

676
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Speaker 9: getting off to a good start.

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Speaker 6: It's always good seeing my guys perform.

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Speaker 8: Obviously seeing Jah kick it off with that big touchdown,

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Speaker 8: Hutch is always stepping up, and then obviously Nico see Kirk,

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Speaker 8: all those guys.

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Speaker 6: But to see college teammates go out there and perform

682
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Speaker 6: the way they did it, it was special, all.

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Speaker 7: Right, Jalen, take us through the take us through the touchdown.

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Speaker 8: It was just a call that we we had played

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Speaker 8: throughout the week. I believe we got a quarters look

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Speaker 8: and it was honestly perfect for me to run a

687
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Speaker 8: post and beat the safety across his face, and then

688
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Speaker 8: of course CJ put a perfect ball out there, let

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Speaker 8: me run under it and big time play.

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Speaker 9: Would you gut did you guys see that on film?

691
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Speaker 9: Because they couldn't have worked out any better. To me,

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Speaker 9: it looked like it was a half coverage of your

693
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Speaker 9: side because that safety he never even had a chance

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Speaker 9: with you with your inbreaking route, he never even had

695
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Speaker 9: a damn chance. Hell of a route, and then the

696
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Speaker 9: other safety jumped down so quick, man, is that something

697
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Speaker 9: y'all saw on film? Like, Hey, I know, these guys

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Speaker 9: typically play a deeper defense and kind of make you

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Speaker 9: earn it and keep everything in front of them. Boy,

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Speaker 9: we can go get we can go get this safety

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Speaker 9: or that safety in these certain coverages. Was that something

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Speaker 9: y'all saw in film or did it's kind of unfold

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Speaker 9: that way?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure.

705
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Speaker 8: When you got a receiver like Nico Collins on the field,

706
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Speaker 8: you know he's gonna grab a lot of attention.

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Speaker 6: So the backside safety holding.

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Speaker 8: Down to his route and getting me a one on

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Speaker 8: one with my safety on my side.

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Speaker 6: It was an awesome play.

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Speaker 8: And like you said, throughout the week seeing they play

712
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Speaker 8: real soft zone, so we were just trying to find

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Speaker 8: a way to attack and get the ball downfield and

714
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Speaker 8: it was a play that worked out and a great

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Speaker 8: call by Kaylee.

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Speaker 7: Hey, Jalen, just taking a step back from this game

717
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Speaker 7: and looking at the season as a whole, and just

718
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Speaker 7: how you've been able to contribute. You know, you guys

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Speaker 7: have a pretty deep receiving room, so snaps, know the

720
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Speaker 7: volume of snaps you played in college aren't there for

721
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Speaker 7: you yet at least, but you've been making contributions on

722
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Speaker 7: special teams with a lot of big returns. Can you

723
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Speaker 7: just put us in your frame of mind with the

724
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Speaker 7: opportunities that you get both in on offense and on

725
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Speaker 7: special teams. How what's your approach each and every week?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, just just gonna I'm preparing like I'm a starter

727
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,120
Speaker 8: each and every week, and when I do get the

728
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Speaker 8: ball in my hands, make the most of the opportunity.

729
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Speaker 8: I know I can make an impact on this team

730
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Speaker 8: and help us win. And just just kudos to the

731
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Speaker 8: guys around me on the on the return teams blocking

732
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Speaker 8: their asses off.

733
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Speaker 6: And allow me to do what I do.

734
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Speaker 8: And then on offense when I when I get that opportunity,

735
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Speaker 8: CJ is always putting the ball in the right place

736
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Speaker 8: the lines doing great and all my other receivers out

737
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Speaker 8: there running their route, doing their responsibilities. So this is

738
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Speaker 8: awesome to be able to contribute to a team of

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Speaker 8: this caliber.

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Speaker 2: Jay, you can take this for what it's worth.

741
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Speaker 9: Man, And I know Nick Kaylee and company, they probably

742
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 9: don't pay much attention to the fan vote. But if

743
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Speaker 9: there were a fan vote out there, we talked to

744
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Speaker 9: the fan base every single day in his beautiful city

745
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Speaker 9: using if there was a fan vote out there for

746
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Speaker 9: one guy offensively to get more touches and get more run,

747
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Speaker 9: it would be you.

748
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Speaker 2: So I'll tell you what I mean. If there were

749
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Speaker 2: a fan but there's a trophy out there.

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Speaker 9: It'd be on your man after the year, Man, So

751
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 9: we're all pulling for you, man, and excited about the

752
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Speaker 9: future with you and all the other guys. I want

753
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 9: to talk about that future for a minute. I know

754
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Speaker 9: we're here right now post game and all that, but Man,

755
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 9: to see you go out there and ball out, to

756
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Speaker 9: see him get some run. And then obviously what Woody

757
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Speaker 9: Marks does. It's not big, gaudy numbers in the box score,

758
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Speaker 9: but man, he is critical moments.

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Speaker 2: He is absolutely nails.

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Speaker 9: Man. Y'all's rookie class has just contributed in a monster

761
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Speaker 9: way this year. Just talk a little bit about those guys.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, starting off with Woodie.

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Speaker 8: You see, he's a bruiser or whatever you need him

764
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Speaker 8: to be come out the backfield catch the ball. But

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Speaker 8: he's our finisher and he goes out there finish. The

766
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Speaker 8: game runs hard, and he has the confidence and the

767
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Speaker 8: eagerness to go out there and do whatever it takes

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Speaker 8: for our team to win. So it's a blessing to

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Speaker 8: have him on our team. And then he I mean,

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Speaker 8: you've seen him go out there and make the first

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Speaker 8: big play of the game and capitalize off that. And

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Speaker 8: then honestly, all season, those two have been making plays constantly,

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Speaker 8: and it gives me something to look towards to and

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Speaker 8: compete with them to see if I can also make

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Speaker 8: plays and contribute.

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Speaker 6: So just to see what this rookie class is doing.

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Speaker 8: And I mean tay Ursery, I mean he was out

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Speaker 8: this game, what he's done all season.

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Speaker 6: And then the defensive guys.

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Speaker 8: I feel like this this rookie class has come in

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Speaker 8: and really try to establish himself and be impactful to

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Speaker 8: this team.

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Speaker 6: And just really proud of all those guys.

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Speaker 7: No question Texans wide receiver Jalen Noel joining us. Are

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Speaker 7: you guys following it all what needs to happen for

786
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Speaker 7: you guys to win the division and things like that,

787
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Speaker 7: or you just focused on one game at a time.

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Speaker 8: We're focused one game at a time on what we

789
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Speaker 8: can do. We controlled our own destiny going into this game.

790
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Speaker 8: Obviously there'll be games out there, and I'm always watching football,

791
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Speaker 8: so I'll be watching regardless. But yeah, I mean just

792
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Speaker 8: taking it one game at a time. I'm ready for

793
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Speaker 8: our next game against the Colts. Although we clinch the playoffs,

794
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Speaker 8: we take every game just as serious as the next.

795
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Speaker 8: So we're we're looking forward to the opportunities and just

796
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Speaker 8: excited to see how it plays out.

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Speaker 2: Well, you've had a hell of a rookie year.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 7: We've enjoyed watching you and obviously you got a lot

800
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Speaker 7: more football to play, not just that Colts game, but

801
00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 7: a nice playoff run coming up, and we appreciate you

802
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Speaker 7: making a few minutes for us.

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Speaker 2: Congrats on the win.

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Speaker 6: Yes, sir, I appreciate you. Thank you guys for having me.

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Speaker 1: There's Jail and Nolan. Texans post game with Sean Pendergast

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Speaker 1: and Clint Sturterer. Now some stuff from c. J.

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Speaker 2: Straud.

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Speaker 1: You're a started quarterback, got the team off to a

809
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Speaker 1: great start with the two TD passes, and he talks

810
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Speaker 1: about the turning point of the season how this whole

811
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Speaker 1: thing turned around from owing three, three and five.

812
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Speaker 2: What it took, et cetera.

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Speaker 10: Well, I think honestly goes back to consistency of practice.

814
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 10: You know, practice being you know, really hard and you know,

815
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Speaker 10: Demko pushing us and you know, you know, making sure

816
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 10: that you know, we're getting the right looks and we're not.

817
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 6: He lets us know.

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Speaker 10: So you know, it's you know, it's good to you know,

819
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Speaker 10: get led by somebody who you know wants in demand's

820
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Speaker 10: excellence and you know he's hard on us. But I

821
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Speaker 10: think you know that that ultimate you know, it helps us,

822
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Speaker 10: you know, to you know, in these type of games,

823
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Speaker 10: you know, to finish out tough wins like that. But

824
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Speaker 10: thing goes back to practice.

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Speaker 1: What did he see from the Chargers defense that enabled

826
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Speaker 1: the Texans to get off to the hot start.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean they played really a solid, you know

828
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Speaker 10: Shelle defense, you know, and kind of.

829
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Speaker 3: Like the the.

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Speaker 10: The way the league is going on defense is like

831
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 10: they're playing too high shlle. You know, they're trying to

832
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 10: you know, take away your best guys. So we kind

833
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 10: of knew that and you know, came up with some

834
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,279
Speaker 10: good plays and designed some good players just to pick

835
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Speaker 10: on that and you know, got to just keep that going.

836
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:33,440
Speaker 10: You know, it can just be in the first quarter,

837
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 10: you know, it got to be throughout the whole game.

838
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Speaker 10: So the thing something we can learn from is, you know,

839
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Speaker 10: it was just keeping the gas on and making sure

840
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Speaker 10: you know, we're still calling it. I'm taking care of

841
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:42,359
Speaker 10: the ball, and you know, we're moving forward.

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Speaker 1: More from CJ. What he's most proud of the campaign, Oh, I.

843
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Speaker 10: Think I'm most proud of how we stuck together as brothers,

844
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 10: you know, sisters as well. You know, everybody in our

845
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 10: in our facility. You know, we stuck together. When I

846
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 10: was in college, we used to have this term called

847
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 10: Ohio versus the world. You know, a lot of times

848
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 10: in this league and you know, and games, it's.

849
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Speaker 6: Just how the world is.

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Speaker 10: People turn their back on you, or you know, they

851
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 10: start talking crazy and just doing whatever. But you know,

852
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:09,279
Speaker 10: at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter

853
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 10: what's happened on the outside. I thought, when you know,

854
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 10: people were trying to divide us and you know, try

855
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,280
Speaker 10: to pick on one person or one thing or whoever,

856
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 10: we had opportunity to stick together. So I thought, you know,

857
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,920
Speaker 10: that's what you know, this year has been for me.

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00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 10: And that's where I'm most proud of is just in

859
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 10: that time we stuck together, you know and stayed one

860
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Speaker 10: because we could have easily splinter it off, and I

861
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Speaker 10: think this season would look way different.

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Speaker 2: Another one from CJ.

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Speaker 1: Here, at what point in the season did he know

864
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Speaker 1: the team had something really special cooking training camp?

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Speaker 10: It's just, you know, I don't If you look at

866
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Speaker 10: the NFL, every game almost comes to one point, I mean,

867
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Speaker 10: one scorer. And you know, just because it wasn't going

868
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 10: our way for three weeks in the beginning doesn't mean

869
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Speaker 10: it's not going to go to the rest of it.

870
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 10: Like what if we would have won out? Like that

871
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,479
Speaker 10: was our mindset every game, just one game at a time,

872
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 10: And that doesn't mean, like, you know, the the urgency

873
00:36:58,120 --> 00:36:59,799
Speaker 10: wasn't up. You know, the urgency is up every week.

874
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 10: But I think you know, for us to you know,

875
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Speaker 10: be able to you know, take a one game at

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00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 10: a time is while we're in a position we're in.

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Speaker 1: All right, they're CJ. Stroud, You're starting quarterback Texans and

878
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Speaker 1: Colts Sunday at noon to wrap up the regular season.

879
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Speaker 1: Then the playoffs, we won't know the opponent until after

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Speaker 1: Sunday's activities in the NFL coming up what he marks

881
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: had a nice day. After the game, he caught up

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00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:25,839
Speaker 1: with John Harris and also Johnny's interview with Demiko right

883
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 1: after the game. You want to hear this. This is

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Speaker 1: really special and it's next on Texans Radio. We resume

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Speaker 1: with the Tamiko Ryans Show in the aftermath of the

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Speaker 1: Texans victory of the Chargers Saturday, twenty to sixteen, eleventh

887
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: win of the season, eighth in a row regular season

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Speaker 1: concluding Sunday against the Colts at noon. Unfortunately, the Jaguars

889
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Speaker 1: could not lose to the Colts like we needed them to.

890
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Speaker 1: So it'll take a Jaguar loss in a Texans win

891
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 1: to win the division. But the problem is the Jaguars

892
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 1: are playing the Titans and they're not.

893
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Speaker 2: Very good this year.

894
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: And that's being extremely polite. John Harris caught up with

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Speaker 1: the head coach right after the game. This is always

896
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Speaker 1: a special conversation, especially now that the Texans clinched a

897
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Speaker 1: playoff berth three consecutive seasons in the playoffs for the

898
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Speaker 1: first time in franchise history. Demico Ryans off to the

899
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Speaker 1: hottest start of any coaching franchise history. Let's get to

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Speaker 1: that conversation with Johnny and coach. I think they were

901
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Speaker 1: in the service level. You might hear some adio related

902
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: to that, but it's very authentic.

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Speaker 2: Coach, there's so much to hit.

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Speaker 5: I don't know that we'll be able to do it

905
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Speaker 5: in a few minutes we got here. We'll definitely do

906
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Speaker 5: it on your Coaches show. But your level of pride

907
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 5: of this team and doing it in this building where

908
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 5: we had a gut punch week one loss, fighting throw

909
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Speaker 5: in three, getting to eleven and five and getting in

910
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Speaker 5: the playoffs, what's your pride level for this team?

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Speaker 6: Ooh?

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Speaker 3: Pride level is over the moon.

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Speaker 4: Oh man, oh to be to start the season in

914
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Speaker 4: this building and to end on such a poor fashion

915
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Speaker 4: and then we didn't close the game out to see

916
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Speaker 4: how we've come like full circle our team games and

917
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Speaker 4: to see that and we can't close games out. Now

918
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Speaker 4: we're doing a much better job of closing it out,

919
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Speaker 4: win it no matter what it takes to win the

920
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 4: game or our guys are finding a way to do that.

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Speaker 3: So, man, I'm.

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Speaker 4: Extremely proud of this team, and I'm proud of the

923
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Speaker 4: way they battle, the way they work every single day,

924
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Speaker 4: and I'm happy that they're able to see the fruits

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Speaker 4: of their labor show up and winning fashion. So hats

926
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Speaker 4: off to everybody with the way the way we work.

927
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Speaker 4: We work the right way. Our process is right. You know,

928
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Speaker 4: we know what it takes to win. We just have

929
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Speaker 4: to hey, stay with it.

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Speaker 5: How important were those two absolute bomb haymakers to hit

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Speaker 5: them with right off the bat.

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Speaker 3: Man?

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Speaker 4: You talk about impressing because first off, their defense they

934
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Speaker 4: do not give up a ton of explosives, right, But

935
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Speaker 4: so as we're watching it all week, it's like, man,

936
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Speaker 4: we still need to be able to take a shot.

937
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Speaker 3: On these guys.

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Speaker 4: It's not just let the umbrella defense not allow us

939
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Speaker 4: to take shots. And we were able to do that

940
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Speaker 4: and show our entire team that we can't hit it explosives.

941
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Speaker 4: And when we get the protection the right way, CJ

942
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Speaker 4: makes outstanding throws and the young rookie finished the right way. So, man,

943
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Speaker 4: those are plays on two players I'm most proud of

944
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Speaker 4: in this game because of what people say you can't

945
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Speaker 4: do versus a defense, we came out and did that offensively.

946
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Speaker 5: To finish the game, they come down, they score cut

947
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Speaker 5: the four, but they missed extra.

948
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Speaker 2: Point three thirty seven.

949
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Speaker 5: I looked up at the clock and I thought, man,

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Speaker 5: can we run this three thirty seven out? You did

951
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Speaker 5: it again. It's something this team has done in the

952
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Speaker 5: fourth quarter a number of times. How impressive was it

953
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Speaker 5: for the offense to finish it with that three thirty

954
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Speaker 5: seven running that off the clock.

955
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Speaker 4: I mean, we know we needed it in that moment.

956
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,080
Speaker 4: Our offense knew we needed it. We spluttered a little

957
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Speaker 4: bit there in the third and fourth. Now it was hey,

958
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Speaker 4: it's clutch time.

959
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Speaker 3: We got to step up. We gotta control the line

960
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:43,800
Speaker 3: of scrimmas.

961
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Speaker 4: We gotta make some runs, knowing that if we got

962
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Speaker 4: them down to the two minute, game would be over.

963
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Speaker 4: So the way we operated that drive, I thought it

964
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Speaker 4: was really great by Kaylee, by all of our offensive players.

965
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Speaker 4: The calls everybody was, they were on it. And it

966
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Speaker 4: was the same last week. And when you see your

967
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Speaker 4: offense finishing games in four minute like that's a beautiful

968
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Speaker 4: sight to see, especially when we're kneeling the football out.

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00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 5: I know what you said to us last week about

970
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Speaker 5: defensively against the Raiders, and I know you said, hey,

971
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Speaker 5: you know it wasn't our best performance, But I know

972
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Speaker 5: down deep, I know you. I know that you weren't

973
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Speaker 5: real happy with it, and you saw the fruit of

974
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Speaker 5: that work today against the Chargers, especially in the inside,

975
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Speaker 5: Hampton got pretty much nothing. You had five sacks, you

976
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Speaker 5: had actually a couple more that were taking off the

977
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Speaker 5: board for wild penalties. What do you think about the

978
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Speaker 5: way your defensive line, in particular your front seven played.

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Speaker 4: Today, ye, d Lin, they were off the charts, man,

980
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 4: I mean they could not block the guys up front.

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Speaker 4: It multiple sacks, multiple guys get into the quarterback. But

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Speaker 4: the probably the thing I'm most proud of is the

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Speaker 4: way we tackled.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

985
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 3: That was the thing that let me down last week

986
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Speaker 3: was just the poor tackling.

987
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Speaker 4: So I feel like we tackled really well at all

988
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Speaker 4: three levels. We didn't allow them to run the ball,

989
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Speaker 4: which we knew that's what they wanted to do.

990
00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 3: They wanted to hang their head on the running game.

991
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Speaker 3: We did that right.

992
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 4: And the way our d D Lions is, man, they

993
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 4: went to work today all right, and they made it

994
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Speaker 4: miserable for the offensive line. They made it miserable for

995
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Speaker 4: their quarterback. And that's what we need. We all we

996
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Speaker 4: get pressure with our front four guys when they continue to,

997
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:16,960
Speaker 4: you know, make plays that way. It makes it hard

998
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Speaker 4: on any offense if they're gonna try to come back

999
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 4: versus us, it's gonna be hard to block our guys.

1000
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Speaker 5: There's a break in the fourth quarter and coach, I'm

1001
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Speaker 5: telling you, three different people said the same words to me.

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Speaker 2: Henry Toto is.

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Speaker 5: Playing his guns out today. What did he bring to

1004
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Speaker 5: the defense, playing in the middle there, making tackles out

1005
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Speaker 5: in space. He had that big one on Hampton when

1006
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,000
Speaker 5: they swung him out there in the fourth quarter. What

1007
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Speaker 5: he thoughts about Henry the way he played today.

1008
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Speaker 3: And happy for Henry.

1009
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Speaker 4: I'm so happy for He knew that last week wasn't

1010
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Speaker 4: his best, so it was a little extra. Yeah, he

1011
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 4: had a little extra in the tank this week. He

1012
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Speaker 4: knew and he wanted to make up for the performers

1013
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,399
Speaker 4: last week. And that's what sports is about. Man, It's

1014
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Speaker 4: not always gonna go your way. Didn't go his way

1015
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Speaker 4: last week, but you get another opportunity, and man, he

1016
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Speaker 4: maximized the opportunity. Is we He tackled really well, play

1017
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Speaker 4: well in coverage.

1018
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 3: Didn't give up any leaky yardage.

1019
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Speaker 4: Like I'm so proud of Henry for you know, bouncing

1020
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 4: back from a poor performance, and let's stay on track

1021
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Speaker 4: with this performance.

1022
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 3: Let's keep building off of this.

1023
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 2: One from MO and three to the playoffs.

1024
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 5: Coach, congratulations, been a heck of running those more to go,

1025
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Speaker 5: yes sir, and not.

1026
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Speaker 3: Doing yet, thank you.

1027
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Speaker 1: Not close to being done, coach. And let's get to

1028
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 1: Woody Marx in the locker room after the game. Woody

1029
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:32,759
Speaker 1: and Jawar Jordan combining forces in this one. Jordan had

1030
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Speaker 1: thirty six yards and eight carries, Woody nineteen carries for

1031
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,319
Speaker 1: seventy one, a long of nineteen. That one got them

1032
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 1: out of the shadow of their goalpost late in the

1033
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Speaker 1: first half, and Woody big runs in the fourth quarter

1034
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Speaker 1: to help run that clock out. In addition to that

1035
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 1: Nico Collins reception off the arm of CJ. Stroud, Texan's

1036
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 1: running for a buck eighteen in this game. And let's

1037
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Speaker 1: get to a thumping celebratory locker room with Johnny Harris

1038
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 1: catching up with Woody Marx.

1039
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Speaker 5: Marx, welcome back to LA in the playoffs.

1040
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:01,439
Speaker 3: Man, how's it feel?

1041
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:02,439
Speaker 2: I feel great?

1042
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 11: Never been there in my career, he says, so real

1043
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,640
Speaker 11: chests with this team being drafted to this team up

1044
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:10,920
Speaker 11: tests trying to do whatever.

1045
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 5: I can take me through that last three mans in

1046
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Speaker 5: thirty seven seconds.

1047
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 4: You're getting the rock. You know you gotta hang on

1048
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 4: to it, but you also know you gotta pick.

1049
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 2: Up the first downs and.

1050
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 4: You pick up the big ones.

1051
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 5: Take me through that last third down that got you

1052
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:23,360
Speaker 5: the first down.

1053
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:25,919
Speaker 11: Test, everybody, you beg never be for it. We don't

1054
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,839
Speaker 11: close out games running the ball many games, and they

1055
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:30,840
Speaker 11: trusted me, and I gotta do what I gotta do

1056
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:32,879
Speaker 11: for them guys to trusted.

1057
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 3: Me more going down the road.

1058
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:35,759
Speaker 5: What did you mean for the offense morning to get

1059
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 5: those two first quick touchdowns the head and also know

1060
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 5: how big was that for those two to.

1061
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 3: Kick it off like that?

1062
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 2: Oh that was super big.

1063
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 11: Just coming out there and taking the shots that we

1064
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Speaker 11: call and they hit. They been hitting practice like that,

1065
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 11: so we knew it was gonna be.

1066
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 6: A great play. So chest hands off to.

1067
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Speaker 11: Them guys at CJ and O line and the tight

1068
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 11: ends blocking.

1069
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:55,759
Speaker 4: Does it meet a little bit more that you did

1070
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:57,800
Speaker 4: back here in to town when you finished your college

1071
00:44:57,840 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 4: career in LA. Yeah, for sure.

1072
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,360
Speaker 11: It says coming from us a lot of USC fans,

1073
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 11: is there some guys on the other side, some USC

1074
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 11: players total Tess Hugh shout out on the field, great people,

1075
00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 11: what are.

1076
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 4: You being fantastic? When you were needed in the fourth

1077
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:15,879
Speaker 4: forty team through a big graduations.

1078
00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:16,800
Speaker 7: Man, you're in the playoffs.

1079
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Speaker 4: You can make you.

1080
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 1: To everybody dancing, everybody having a good time. That's the

1081
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 1: way it was Saturday after the game in the Texans

1082
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: locker room, that was Woody Marks and John Harris. All right,

1083
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: coming up tomorrow night, we expect to be joined by

1084
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Speaker 1: Aziz al Shire. That would be really cool six o'clock

1085
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: and it's waiting to be confirmed, but we expect to

1086
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Speaker 1: catch up with the Walter Payton Man of the Year nominee.

1087
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:40,400
Speaker 1: A guy who has two picks on the year, and

1088
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Speaker 1: that's good for any player, but linebacker and Azaz mentioned

1089
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:45,919
Speaker 1: it before he got the first one, or maybe after

1090
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Speaker 1: he got the first one.

1091
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 2: He's had some.

1092
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 1: Drops, some dropped opportunities, intercepted the ball for the Houston Texans,

1093
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 1: but a big one against the Kansas City Chiefs, big

1094
00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: one against the Chargers, so in road games. Very nice

1095
00:45:57,239 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: to come up with those picks. Let's do it to

1096
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 1: the postseason as well, which is coming up not this

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Speaker 1: weekend but the following weekend. After the Texans take on

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Speaker 1: the Colts on Sunday at noon. It'll be the Space

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Speaker 1: City game at NRG Stadium and it will be fun,

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Speaker 1: all right. Thanks so much for listening this whole show.

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Speaker 1: We'll be in podcast form soon enough on the Odyssey app, Spotify,

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Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts, including Houston Texans dot com.

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Speaker 2: Have a great night, Go Texans.