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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody, Welcome into a Friday at issue

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Speaker 1: of Texas All Access, a TGI F F f F,

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Speaker 1: I don't know put as many f says you want

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Speaker 1: into this Football Friday edition. Glad to be with you.

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Speaker 1: I am your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter,

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Speaker 1: and we are less than forty eight hours away, less

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Speaker 1: than well forty less than forty eight hours away from

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Speaker 1: taking on the Browns. We are less than twenty four

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Speaker 1: With the weather report for Sunday. Keep my fingers crossed

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Speaker 1: because you know how things can change quickly right there

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Speaker 1: in Lake Erie. But right now, seventy eight and sunny

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, and hopefully it stays that way, because that'll

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Speaker 1: be the complete antithesis of what it was last year

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Speaker 1: sleet and hail, sideways with fifty to fifty five milein

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Speaker 1: In fact, those wins last year about knock me over, now,

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Speaker 1: I was the greatest of shape because when we return

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Speaker 1: from Cleveland two days later, I ended up at back

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Speaker 1: surgery that said fifty to fifty five miles an hour.

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Speaker 1: We're just pounding us last year, so hopefully the weather

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Speaker 1: will be quite different there in Cleveland. It will be

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Speaker 1: quite different in Cleveland because there will be fans on

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Speaker 1: hand filling the stadium. Now, there were some fans last year,

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Speaker 1: but just a smattering, as you guys obviously know, like

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Speaker 1: we had here in Houston throughout the year of the

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Speaker 1: COVID twenty twenty. But there will be a full house.

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Speaker 1: And this is the first time. It's funny, Kevin Stefanski

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Speaker 1: said this in his press availability today or yesterday. It's

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Speaker 1: like this is the first time he's coached a game

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Speaker 1: in that environment there in Cleveland. So very interesting stuff

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Speaker 1: going on with the trip to Cleveland. Take on the

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Speaker 1: Browns oh and one lost last week to the Kansas

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Speaker 1: Chiefs thirty three to twenty nine. We will break this

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Speaker 1: game down in full. We will do it with coach

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Speaker 1: David Culley. Happy birthday, coach. Hopefully he had a great one.

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Speaker 1: I don't think think the number sixty six, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: who's counting at this point. Coach Kelly will join us

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Speaker 1: with Mark Vandermer as we do each and every Friday.

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Speaker 1: We'll also have Brandon Cooks on the show with a

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Speaker 1: little deep slant one on one. Dani A Mendola, Man,

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Speaker 1: this is a chauffeur receivers. Huh, Danie Mendola is gonna

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Speaker 1: meet up with a guy that spent a lot of

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Speaker 1: time with him prior to the draft back in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and nine ish, I think it was two thousand

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Speaker 1: and eight, maybe earlier than that. Damndola and Drew Doherty

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Speaker 1: oh Man, Danny Drew Dohrty love it alliteration. Dany Am

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Speaker 1: Mendola catches up with Drew Dohrty. They did a lot

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Speaker 1: when they were together at Texas Tech, Danny as a

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Speaker 1: player heading off to the draft, Drew doing his work

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Speaker 1: there for Lobbick TV stations and also for Texas Tech.

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Speaker 1: So they have a history. That's gonna be a fun interview.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you my keys to the game. Then

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Speaker 1: Mark is gonna stop back by and have our men

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Speaker 1: behind the pikes. Two long time voices for the teams.

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Speaker 1: Mark has been the only voice of the Texans and

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Speaker 1: Jim Donovan the voice of the Cleveland Browns. Looking forward

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Speaker 1: to that, I will make predictions straight up and against

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Speaker 1: the spread for every game this weekend. I'd love doing

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Speaker 1: that I don't care if I'm Owen sixteen, which I'm not,

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Speaker 1: but I love talking about the game, So that's a

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Speaker 1: good way to do it straight up and against the spread.

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Speaker 1: And then we'll go back to Drew. So we got

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Speaker 1: a little different flavor dany Avendola, And first we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get drews dozen, then we're gonna get kind of the

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Speaker 1: lead up to the game, pregame football, he sort of

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Speaker 1: stuff with dany A Mendola. So we got a lot

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Speaker 1: of everything happening on this show. So let's started with

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Speaker 1: And we start the show each and every Friday with

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Speaker 1: the head coach of your Houston Texas, David Kelley, with

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Speaker 1: the voice of the Texans, Mark Vandemir. Mark, take it away, coach,

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Speaker 1: how did preparation go for this one? How was the

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Speaker 1: week of practice for you? It's been good. It's always

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Speaker 1: good going to the next week after a win. There

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Speaker 1: were things that we needed to clean up, and those

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Speaker 1: than they are a loss. But it was a good

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Speaker 1: tell me, I know you go into every game thinking

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Speaker 1: this week against this bunch. Right. Well, this bunch has

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Speaker 1: they run the football. They do a great job of

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Speaker 1: play action pass. We've got a quarterback that's very good

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Speaker 1: at it. They've got skilled positions all over the place

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Speaker 1: with receiver and tight end, and they do a good

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Speaker 1: different ways. Well, you played clean last week, I know

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Speaker 1: the ability to run the ball so important obviously for you,

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Speaker 1: but you also made some big plays last week. How

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Speaker 1: it clean and not make mistakes. Well, when you're running

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Speaker 1: this past week, mark, it allows you to be able

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Speaker 1: It allows the defense to be able to have to

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Speaker 1: same thing this week. But that is all predicated on

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Speaker 1: How about special teams. You're outside this time, no longer

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Speaker 1: perfect conditions, although the weather should be pretty good. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: on the road, is there's something bonding about that. Of

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Speaker 1: is always team, team, Team. When you travel, your team

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Speaker 1: there is branding Cooks big game last week, five catches,

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Speaker 1: seven catches in a touch. That's his average over the

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Speaker 1: last three games he's played as a Texan All three

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Speaker 1: for a little deep Slant Interview of the Week, brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Axfinity. I love when DP is a

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Speaker 1: and this time she does. That would be C thirteen

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Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks. It's the Deep Plant one on one presented

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Speaker 1: by Xfinity. We're chatting with wide receiver Brandon Cooks, year eight,

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Speaker 1: now a seven thousand yard receiver for his career. Did

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Speaker 1: you know that you've surpassed seven thousand yards as it?

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Speaker 1: Do you do you check your stats? I didn't know that.

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Speaker 1: Actually I didn't know that. I know I was closed

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Speaker 1: or I was up there somewhere, but I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know I surpassed it. This week. You just

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Speaker 1: he would check his stats throughout the game you passed.

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Speaker 1: You're not doing that because you passed one hundred yards

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Speaker 1: before halftime, which is the most that you've ever done

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Speaker 1: in a first half as well, so against the Jaguars.

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Speaker 1: Do you sort of get that sense in a game

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Speaker 1: that it's going to be that sort of a game

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Speaker 1: when you're when you're putting up numbers like that, you

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Speaker 1: know what is your mentality? Because you've had now three

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Speaker 1: lot with Texas Tech. Spend a lot of time with Danny,

428
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Speaker 1: and that's fun for them to reconnect many years later

429
00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:22,480
Speaker 1: as they're both here in Houston with the Texans together.

430
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Speaker 1: So let's do a little Drew's Dozen and catch up

431
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Speaker 1: with Danny Amandola alongside Drew Dorty. Drew, all right, well

432
00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:34,640
Speaker 1: this is a fun one Drew Dorty with Danny Amondola.

433
00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:36,760
Speaker 1: And before we get too far down the road, the

434
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Speaker 1: last time you and I did a one on one interview,

435
00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:42,000
Speaker 1: it was the spring of two thousand and eight. I

436
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,600
Speaker 1: think you're back in Lubbock. You've been off training getting

437
00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,440
Speaker 1: ready for the NFL and I think you've just done

438
00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,560
Speaker 1: a pro day at Texas Tech. But you're back, and yeah,

439
00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:52,240
Speaker 1: you kind of the hay was in the barn. You

440
00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,280
Speaker 1: didn't have to do much more for about a month,

441
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,440
Speaker 1: and I think it was outside of a rental house

442
00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,960
Speaker 1: on nineteen Streets. So it's great to have you back.

443
00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:01,960
Speaker 1: Look how far you've come. I mean that seems like

444
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,360
Speaker 1: twenty years ago. Yeah, I actually remember that that time.

445
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:06,280
Speaker 1: We spent a lot of great times in Lowick, man. Yeah,

446
00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:08,400
Speaker 1: we always appreciate all the work that you did there

447
00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,600
Speaker 1: and thanks. Lobeck's a special place, man, it sure is.

448
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:13,199
Speaker 1: It's a great way to put it. It was a

449
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:16,119
Speaker 1: fun time and you were part of hell of a

450
00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 1: hell of a player on some great teams. This is

451
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,720
Speaker 1: a is a treat to see you back. Okay, once

452
00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:22,280
Speaker 1: you found out you were going to be a Houston Texan.

453
00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:24,640
Speaker 1: Who's the first call you made. I called my mom

454
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,159
Speaker 1: and she lives in Dallas, and she's excited and she

455
00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,439
Speaker 1: loves coming to the games, coming to football. And you know,

456
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:32,080
Speaker 1: it took me a second to kind of get into

457
00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:35,320
Speaker 1: my apartment situation here, so she didn't get to come

458
00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,240
Speaker 1: to the first game, so she got to watch it

459
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Speaker 1: on television. But she's excited for the next home game

460
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,600
Speaker 1: and hopefully we get to uh have some have some

461
00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,879
Speaker 1: family in town. And being from Houston is awesome. You know,

462
00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,600
Speaker 1: I got a lot of friends and family here obviously,

463
00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:51,199
Speaker 1: so this has definitely been been a great homecoming for me,

464
00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:55,720
Speaker 1: no doubt. Okay, your first NFL touchdown came against the

465
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Speaker 1: Texans in two thousand and nine when you were Saint

466
00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 1: Louis Ram. Your first NFL touchdown pass, so you caught

467
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,480
Speaker 1: that one with the Rims came against the Texans. The

468
00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:07,680
Speaker 1: pass twenty eighteen when you were a Dolphin. So are

469
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:09,760
Speaker 1: you gonna have your first NFL touchdown run with the

470
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 1: Texans at some point? A good point, man, that's a

471
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 1: good point. Hopefully. Yeah, that would be awesome. Hopefully as

472
00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 1: much as I can contribute to this team putting points

473
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Speaker 1: on the board. It's fine with me in whatever capacity

474
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Speaker 1: that may be. And shoot, I leave out your your

475
00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:23,800
Speaker 1: NFL or you excuse me. Your Super Bowl win comes

476
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:25,919
Speaker 1: here and he says, well, you've had some good times here.

477
00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 1: It's good to have you back. Your most overrated food

478
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 1: in the world, though, is overrated food in the world?

479
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 1: Is Gosh, that's a good question. I would say, shrimp.

480
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,959
Speaker 1: Oh okay, Yeah, it's just kind of like whatever you

481
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 1: cook it in is gonna taste like not a shrimp guy.

482
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:43,480
Speaker 1: I mean, I like it, but you gotta just kind

483
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,000
Speaker 1: of you got you gotta dress it up. You know

484
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,720
Speaker 1: what I'm saying to each his own. That's your opinion.

485
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:48,960
Speaker 1: We can all have opinions in this world. Day. What's

486
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:50,960
Speaker 1: your favorite exercise in the weight room and what's your

487
00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 1: least favorite exercise? Favorite exercise in the weight room is

488
00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:58,480
Speaker 1: squat because it helps. It helps me tremendously. My least

489
00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:04,919
Speaker 1: favorite is probably the neck machine. I hate that neck machine.

490
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know what I'm saying, What are we doing?

491
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 1: I got a pencil neck, so I've never used it.

492
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:10,920
Speaker 1: I saw it, I looked at it, and I was like, yeah,

493
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:12,919
Speaker 1: then you gotta then you gotta get you know, custom

494
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 1: fitted shirts. And he's just like, it's a hassle man.

495
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 1: Or you could say, then you gotta get custom fitted, right,

496
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:20,119
Speaker 1: you know, if you want to do it that way.

497
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,679
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor also said squat. So you have something in

498
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 1: common with with ty Rod. I've done some research on you.

499
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,960
Speaker 1: Your first job was evidently in a batting cage. It

500
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 1: was it was batting cage. I was underage at the time,

501
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 1: probably fourteen years old. I'm not going to dime you out, No,

502
00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 1: it was on my only way to kind of get

503
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:42,720
Speaker 1: some cash under the table. I was answering phones, cleaning,

504
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,720
Speaker 1: fixing the machines, picking up the baseballs, and I was

505
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 1: playing for the owner of the batting cage was my

506
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:50,679
Speaker 1: traveling baseball coach. Yeah, so he kind of, you know,

507
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:52,959
Speaker 1: hooked it up and obviously I was with him all

508
00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 1: day and practice in games and gave me my first job.

509
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Speaker 1: Best part of the job was what the best I

510
00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 1: could hit for free? Well yeah, yeah, well yeah, three

511
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,719
Speaker 1: lessons free everything baseball was the worst part twenty four

512
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:10,040
Speaker 1: seven picking up the baseballs. There's there's five hundred baseballs

513
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:12,480
Speaker 1: on the ground, come up you got to find a

514
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: fun way to do it. So how far did you take?

515
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 1: I guess you played in high school the way played

516
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 1: in high school. I reached all state honors and then

517
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 1: signed a letter of intent to go to Texas Tech.

518
00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:25,399
Speaker 1: And then my batting average pummeled. After that, I just

519
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 1: tried to hit home runs and then I just tried

520
00:25:28,359 --> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 1: to have fun with it my senior year. I love

521
00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,080
Speaker 1: what we love baseball man. Growing up, it's just really

522
00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:37,360
Speaker 1: mentally with football was my gig. Yeah, that's understandable. Okay,

523
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:39,399
Speaker 1: who's your favorite astro of all time? I'm guessing you

524
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 1: were an astro. I love I love the ashows. Craig

525
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,199
Speaker 1: Bizio is my favorite player. I played second base growing up.

526
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,879
Speaker 1: He started as a catcher and then he moved to

527
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 1: second base. He was my favorite player, part of the

528
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,320
Speaker 1: Sunshine Kids. I think his foundation is and he did

529
00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 1: a lot for the community. Obviously, it was a staple

530
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Speaker 1: in the community, and you know his philanthropic ways. And

531
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:00,600
Speaker 1: then also he could crush a base ball and he

532
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,680
Speaker 1: played really good d so I love this pine tar.

533
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,159
Speaker 1: That's how he played dirty stole basses. He was like,

534
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:07,240
Speaker 1: he's a rugged, gritty player. I mean addition to be

535
00:26:07,240 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 1: an amazing he's he had that, that attitude, no doubt,

536
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 1: I loved I loved his approach, his whole game. All right,

537
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 1: if you had made it and pursued it and you're

538
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 1: saying you're you're thirteen fourteen in the bigs, what would

539
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 1: your walk up song be to the plate? Probably the

540
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 1: Andy Griffith theme, I just because it's just it gets

541
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 1: you in the right frame of mind and it's just

542
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: a slight little whistle. The whistle. Yeah, that would throw

543
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:32,119
Speaker 1: people off because it's usually bad anyways. Yeah, that would Yeah,

544
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 1: that would be difficult get the crowd favorite Halloween candy

545
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 1: to get because it's on the way it's come up.

546
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously the bigger candy bars uh in regard

547
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 1: to size, but I'm I'm a I love mister Goodbar.

548
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 1: It's just simple. It's you know, the chocolate, it's really good,

549
00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,439
Speaker 1: and then obviously the peanuts and it is fantastic, and

550
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:55,320
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's it's pretty, it's pretty flawless. Which

551
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 1: one when you saw it go in your bucket or

552
00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:58,680
Speaker 1: your bag or you're just like, damn it, I didn't

553
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 1: want this. Yo. The coconut found mounds. Yeah, I don't.

554
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,640
Speaker 1: I don't mess with the mounds too much. The coconut

555
00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 1: flavorites kind of tastes like suntan lotion. Do you eat

556
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 1: suntan lotion? No? But it just brings me back to

557
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,439
Speaker 1: like a bad situation. All right. What was your best

558
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:17,480
Speaker 1: Halloween costume ever? My best Halloween costume I was my

559
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: mom got me like this. I would say this like target,

560
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 1: like cheap ninja outfit, but it came with this these

561
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: sweet numb chucks padded. Obviously. I just felt like I

562
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,880
Speaker 1: could kick anybody's but that year with numb chucks, Yeah

563
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 1: you can. I always do. I always pronounce someone numb

564
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:36,360
Speaker 1: with an M none I think nine chucks. Yeah, yeah,

565
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 1: I always made it bad. Okay, you're from the Woodlands. Yeah,

566
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 1: greatest concert you've ever been to up there in the Woodlands,

567
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 1: because you know you've been around? Yeah, what's the best

568
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 1: one you saw there? Though? Because there's been a lot

569
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: of good ones there. I can, I can rattle. I've

570
00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:51,399
Speaker 1: been there. I've seen probably ten shows there. My first

571
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 1: ever show was probably the best one is Blink one

572
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 1: eighty two. Oh yeah, A lot of interesting smells that night.

573
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 1: I think I was twelve years old and was my

574
00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,400
Speaker 1: first memory being at Cynthia Woods Mitch Pavilion and Dave

575
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 1: Matthews Band was sweet to Kyle was a little older.

576
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 1: I think it was eighteen. It was raining, he was

577
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,400
Speaker 1: it was probably blink when e two or Dave Matthews

578
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:11,679
Speaker 1: band was. Yeah. Those are good ones. Those are all

579
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 1: timers right there. Okay. He played at Texas Tech. Yep.

580
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,600
Speaker 1: He played with Michael Crabtree. He had a thousand yards

581
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 1: the year he had yep, you know his first year. Ye,

582
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,199
Speaker 1: Mike Leach was your head coach. Yes, sir. When you

583
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 1: get asked about Mike Leach, what's the first Mike Leach

584
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 1: story that you tell? And I know you have seven zillion,

585
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 1: that's the first one that typically comes to the forefront

586
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,879
Speaker 1: for you. That's a good question. They just kind of

587
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:35,959
Speaker 1: asked me, you know, is he is he really as

588
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: quirky as he is? And and you know his magic tricks,

589
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: his obsession with pirates and swing your sword and right,

590
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: and the best thing about Coach Leach is that he

591
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 1: can he can add so many different perspectives in your

592
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,440
Speaker 1: life on even the simplest route. So you got to

593
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: you gotta flag a simple post route, flag route whatever.

594
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 1: He'll kind of relate it to like women's softball in

595
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: some degree, and for whatever reason, it will come back

596
00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 1: and you'll really get a great point out of it.

597
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: He is um a brilliant mind, obviously, but adds a

598
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: lot of perspective and you know, obviously very thankful for him. So,

599
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 1: after all those meetings that you're there for, and I'm

600
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 1: sure that they kind of meandered at times, when you

601
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: get to the NFL, was it pretty jarring or was it, Hey,

602
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: I'm a coach's son because your dad is a head coach,

603
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: very successful head coach, by the way, do you just

604
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: remember that and know that, Hey, I was kind of

605
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,600
Speaker 1: in a unique situation there in college, no doubt, no doubt.

606
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 1: And and you know I went I went to Tech

607
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: for the air raid offense, so I could you know,

608
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 1: hopefully catch you know, a lot of footballs and and

609
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: and have fun. I never really thought I was going

610
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: to play in the NFL until until the opportunity arose.

611
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: But you know, I wanted to go to college. I

612
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 1: wanted to have fun. And I feel like the you know,

613
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: the lessons that my father instilled in me kind of

614
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: or ahead of my time when I got to college,

615
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 1: so I was ready to go when I got there,

616
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: and and you know, and work in the weight room

617
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: and train room and stuff like that, so you know,

618
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 1: it was it was a very unique situation. Obviously there

619
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 1: an awesome time, and then kind of when I got

620
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 1: to the NFL, it was it was kind of the same,

621
00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: the same scene for me. Just worry about what you

622
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: can control and do everything you can do to catch

623
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 1: the ball, return kicks, punts, hold if you need to

624
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 1: throw it, if you need to stuff like that, exactly exactly.

625
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 1: Just try to bring value to the team in any

626
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: way you can, and and and unselfish lee try to

627
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: help the team win. Who do you keep in touch

628
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 1: with from those love of days? Anybody? Cliff Kingsbury, good

629
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: friend of mine, great player there, a great coach obviously, Crab.

630
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 1: I see Crab. I haven't talked to Crab in a

631
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 1: couple of years. Usually see him when we play against them,

632
00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: and I'm really happy to hear he's going in the

633
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:45,680
Speaker 1: Ring of Honor this year. You know. Talk to Graham

634
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 1: Harrow a couple of days ago. He's doing great things

635
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 1: over at USC Louis Vasquez, talk to him about a

636
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 1: month ago. Manny Ramirez, Joe Falani, a couple of good

637
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,959
Speaker 1: offensive linemen, a couple of really good receiver absolutely yeah,

638
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Speaker 1: Cody campbell Um, the Acock Brothers, all these guys. Man,

639
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,479
Speaker 1: we got a tight knit group. Obviously. When you're in Lubick,

640
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: you're out in the middle of nowhere and you kind

641
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 1: of got to stick together because you got nobody else.

642
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: So it's it's an awesome, awesome, tight knit community obviously.

643
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 1: Eric Morris, Oh yeah, great coach, coach Air coach, Eric

644
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: Morris exactly. So we all kind of keep in contact

645
00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 1: and it's awesome. Man. Yeah. Okay, of all the Spider Man's,

646
00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,680
Speaker 1: which one's the best, Toby McGuire, Andrew Garfield or Tom Holland.

647
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: I would say Toby McGuire, But I gotta be honest

648
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 1: with you, I've never seen any of them. The fact

649
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 1: that I think it was Toby McGuire that came down

650
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: upside down and kissed the girl. Oh yeah, that was

651
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: like the first one, right, Yeah, that was the only

652
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: scene I kind of that kind of stuck with me.

653
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: I might have seen it in the in the trailer,

654
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: but that was a pretty slick move. Dany A Mendola.

655
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: You're a pretty slick dude. Thanks for coming on and

656
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: doing Drews Dozens always good to see it. We're glad

657
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,719
Speaker 1: you're here. Best moving forward, appreciate it. We can definitely

658
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: add dany Amndola to the list of undrafted free agents

659
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 1: that have found their way to Houston and made an impact.

660
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,840
Speaker 1: AJ Boyer, Aaron Foster, Dylan Cole. Over the years, We've

661
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: seen plenty of them. From an NFL global perspective, Danny's

662
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: probably one of the great undrafted free agents of all time.

663
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 1: I'm just glad he's here. Man Drew said it best.

664
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Speaker 1: Glad you're here. When we go there Sunday to take

665
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Speaker 1: on the Cleveland Browns, what are the keys to getting

666
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Speaker 1: a victory? Well, I've got my keys to the game

667
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Speaker 1: next right here in Texans All Access. One of the

668
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Speaker 1: great things that I get a chance to do every

669
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Speaker 1: single week is sit down with the Texans future opponent

670
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Speaker 1: that weekend and try and come up with after watching

671
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Speaker 1: Obviously I've seen our game, I've seen it back on

672
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: video a couple of times, and then watching film of

673
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Speaker 1: the opponent. I was trying to come up with my

674
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 1: keys to the game. Here's what I think are going

675
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: to be key and vital to getting a win against

676
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Speaker 1: the future opponent. Well, the future opponent is the Cleveland Browns.

677
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: That game will be Sunday. You can hear it right

678
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: here in Sports Radio six ten, starting at noon. Obviously

679
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 1: we've got pregame before that, nine to twelve. If you're

680
00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: in Cleveland going to the game games at one. To

681
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: keep that in mind, don't show up at noon thinking way,

682
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 1: where's the game? It'll happen and just be one PM.

683
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: So if you show up at noon that's school. Just

684
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: know that it won't be until one o'clock that everything

685
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: really kicks off. And hopefully it won't be pushed back

686
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Speaker 1: to one thirty five like it was last year because

687
00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: of a thirty five minute delay due to weather. Hopefully

688
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Speaker 1: the weather it's going to be fine, So let's dive in.

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Speaker 1: Here are my keys to a victory over the Cleveland

690
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Speaker 1: Browns this weekend, and let's start with the Texans defense

691
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: facing the Browns offense is an offense at six in

692
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: the NFL and rushing one hundred and fifty three yards

693
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: per game, passing three hundred and four yards per game.

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Speaker 1: That's the eleventh in the league. And total offense four

695
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: fifty seven, that's second in the league. They did have

696
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 1: two key turnovers last week. Lost a fumble and then

697
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 1: they all said, now interception as two, they should have

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Speaker 1: had third. And I don't know should it is the

699
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: right way of saying it, but they could have had

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Speaker 1: a third. And that was the funnel of the putter.

701
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: Now he picked it back up, but he got tackled

702
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: short or the first down marker. But that might have

703
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: been as big a turnover. I say that air quotes

704
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: as any of them. This is offense. As I go

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00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: through and I do this on know your Foe, I

706
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: always I always put in all Caps players that are

707
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: new to the team, and then I put all Caps

708
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:30,720
Speaker 1: and italics for rookies. There's one player that is new

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00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: to this starting eleven one, and then the I put

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00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:38,399
Speaker 1: in some key non or some key non starters. They've

711
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: all been around, Kareem Hunt, Harrison, Bryant, Donald, People's Jones

712
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 1: with Shard Higgins. I mean they've all been around. These

713
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: guys have all been around. This is an offense that

714
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 1: knows each other and knows it very very well. So

715
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 1: one are the keys is slowing this Brown's offense down

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Speaker 1: number one in all caps. Big boy pads needed. I

717
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 1: really wanted to find some alliteration to go with it,

718
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: but I just couldn't do it to be on. But

719
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:05,720
Speaker 1: big boy pads are needed against these guys. Why well,

720
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: you know Nick Chubb, Kareem Hunt. Those guys are always fresh.

721
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is there's always a

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00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 1: back getting rest on the sideline while there is a

723
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: guy running the ball right down your throats on the field.

724
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,400
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunko's out there and gives Nick Chubb arrest. Chubb

725
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 1: gets regenerated, Kareem Hunt wears down a defense, then they

726
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: flip flop. You must match their intensity when they're on

727
00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: the field, and you must match their energy. And the

728
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,280
Speaker 1: one thing you got to be able to do against

729
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 1: them is to make sure that they don't hit things downhill.

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00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 1: And that takes a lot against this offensive line, especially

731
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Speaker 1: against two fresh backs, and when they are fresh, they

732
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: hammer the rock. You got to be able to bring

733
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Speaker 1: everything you got every single time to not allow a

734
00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: two yard run into a five yard run because you're

735
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: tackling atrocious. Big boy pads needed. Number two. May the

736
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Speaker 1: Schwartz not be with you now? If you remember the

737
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:10,799
Speaker 1: movie Spaceballs that I believe was one of the It

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00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,399
Speaker 1: was a playoff may the Force be with you, May

739
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:15,439
Speaker 1: the Schwartz be with you. And maybe maybe I don't

740
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: remembering it wrong. I thought it was Spaceballs. Maybe I

741
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 1: could be completely wrong, but either way, the point being

742
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Speaker 1: Anthony Schwartz, the guy just mentioned earlier in the show,

743
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:28,239
Speaker 1: rookie from out an Auburn. The Browns have found and

744
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 1: creative ways to get him the football. The Texans have

745
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 1: to be aware of wherever he is on the field.

746
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: Now he is this questionable, but if he is out

747
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 1: on the field, the Texans have to make sure they

748
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Speaker 1: have a plan for number ten. Anthony Schwartz, Number three

749
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: fights smarter, not harder than What I mean by this

750
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:48,840
Speaker 1: is this offensive line is extremely good and extremely physical

751
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: special especially from guard to guard from Batonio, Tredder and Teller.

752
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: Those guys will knock your you know what in the dirt. Well.

753
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 1: The Texans aren't mad sive up front, but they are

754
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 1: quick and they are explosive, and they can win getting

755
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: up the field. So you may not want to sit

756
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 1: there and just trade body blows with them, and you

757
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 1: might want to, you know, Duck and dodge and bang

758
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: hit him with an overhand right. You've got to fight smarter,

759
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,360
Speaker 1: not harder against them number four, twelve or thirteen, whatever

760
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: it takes. And that has to do with the Browns

761
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: use of tight ends. The play I did for telestrator

762
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 1: is a throat Anthony Schwartz. But they had three tight ends.

763
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: They had thirteen personnel in the field, and the Browns

764
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: aren't scared to use all tight ends, all three tight

765
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: ends all at once. They can go out there with

766
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: three tight ends and then go empty, and they have

767
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,319
Speaker 1: playing options the passing game. Harrison, Bryant, David and Joco

768
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,440
Speaker 1: and Austin Hooper are as good as trio as you're

769
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: gonna find in a league. The Browns aren't scared to

770
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: use them, and they're gonna get a tight end matched

771
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: up on a linebacker. Linebackers have got to be excellent

772
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 1: in coverage because that might be what's forced upon them

773
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 1: because of the way the Browns use they're tight hands.

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Speaker 1: Number five is just Baker. I think he's come a

775
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: long way. I'm not gonna see here and tell you

776
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 1: that Baker's the next coming to Tom Brady. But Baker

777
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: does worry me because he has. He's like a golfer

778
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: in that he can hit the three hundred and fifty

779
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: yard drive and then follow it up with a three

780
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: iron another two hundred yards with the ball within five

781
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 1: feet of the whole in eagle territory. He also on

782
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 1: that same hole could hit one out of bounds and

783
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: be hitting three and he's stole four hundred yards from

784
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: the hole. You just the consistency hasn't been there with Baker,

785
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: but he's kind of honing in on it. But when

786
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 1: he makes a mistake, you got to take advantage of it.

787
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 1: If he throws you one, you gotta make sure you

788
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: catch it. You can't let it just oh man, It's

789
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 1: like last week, Keen Griffin Shill Griffin an opportunity. He

790
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:46,720
Speaker 1: gets the Texans to have that pick on the first

791
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 1: drive of the game and dropped it and you saw

792
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 1: the game kind of went from there. If Baker throws

793
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,799
Speaker 1: you one, you gotta make him pay. And he worries me.

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00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:57,959
Speaker 1: He worries me a lot. I don't think he'll run

795
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: and kill you with the run, but he'll run when

796
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: he has to, and that can be a problem. All right.

797
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 1: Flip it over to the Texans offense. Against the Brown's defense. Now,

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00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 1: this is a completely different story. They could have as

799
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Speaker 1: many as nine different starters including Jadeveon Clowning, Malite McDowell,

800
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: Greg Newsom, the rookie Anthony Walker, a guy the Texas

801
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: no from having been with the Colts, John Johnson at safety,

802
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: and Troy Hill at corners. So the Keys going against

803
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 1: this Brown's defense that only gave up seventy three yards

804
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: on the ground, but they did give up three hundred

805
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 1: and twenty four through the air. That was Patrick Mahomes.

806
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:36,320
Speaker 1: So it's to be expected. Number One, Pride won't block anyone.

807
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: Here's what I mean by that. If you get to

808
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,319
Speaker 1: a point where you're like, hey, I got this, I

809
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: can handle this guy, Miles Garrett one on one, well,

810
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 1: Garrett's gonna make you pay at some point because he's

811
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Speaker 1: that good. If you do that with Jeveon Clowney, same thing.

812
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,800
Speaker 1: We'll talk about jd in a little bit, But especially

813
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:57,760
Speaker 1: against Garrett, Larmy Tunsil can handle his own, there's no doubt.

814
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 1: And Larrmy is not one of those where hey I

815
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: gotta have Miles Garrett one on one, etc. But you're

816
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 1: gonna have to go one on one of them some.

817
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 1: But don't be prideful to think that, hey, Laramie can't

818
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: use the help, We'll just keep using help on the

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Speaker 1: other side. No, Kive Laramie help when he needs it.

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Speaker 1: Give him that help, whether it's a running back chip,

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Speaker 1: whether it's a tight end over there. Kive Laramie's some

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00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: help on Miles Garrett when it's needed. Kive, Marcus Cannon

823
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Speaker 1: and J'ron Christian, whoever's playing right tackle some help if

824
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 1: Garrett lines up over there, if needed, and that leads me.

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00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: Number two, Devion Clowney. We know him and we know

826
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: his patterns, and he shows that he's still relatively the

827
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: same guy that we saw in Houston, which is good

828
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:47,000
Speaker 1: and bad. He's still explosive, he's still megatalented. But you know,

829
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Speaker 1: his best pass rush move is that inside pass rushing move.

830
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 1: He's gonna swim inside. Don't allow him, set hard inside,

831
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:55,520
Speaker 1: make him go around you, and then wall him off.

832
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 1: He's back fresh, but that's his move. We know it.

833
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: You know it. Don't let him get to the quarterback.

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00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 1: Number three or in the running game. Keep on Cooking,

835
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Speaker 1: keep Cookson, as I put it, Brandy Cooks going against

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Speaker 1: Denzel ward I said earlier. We talked about this in

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00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,360
Speaker 1: the first segment. That's gonna be a whale of a

838
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 1: matchup to watch. But keep attacking. I always hate the

839
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: word decoy. Brandy Cooks can't be a decoy. I know

840
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: Brandy Cooks doesn't want to be a decoy. Don't make

841
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 1: it that way. Four feet the ball to number thirteen

842
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: is one of your best offensive players, if not the

843
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 1: best offensive player. Get him the ball. They're gonna roll

844
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: coverage and double him. Doesn't matter. Get him the ball.

845
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: Find different ways where those doubles don't matter. You can

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00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 1: get him the ball. Number four. What's good for the goose,

847
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 1: as you know, is good for the gander. Why what

848
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 1: am I getting at here? The tight ends? The Browns,

849
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 1: they have got three tight ends they can use. The

850
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 1: Texans have a number of tight ends they can use.

851
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:55,879
Speaker 1: Jordan Nakins, Farrell Brown in particular, Anthony all Claire comes

852
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: in the game to be more of a blocker. But

853
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: the Texans aren't scared to use twelve and thirteen personnel either,

854
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: And when they do, they've got a little bit more

855
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 1: of a blocking component to it. They still can stretch

856
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 1: and throw the ball against it. As they did in

857
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:10,800
Speaker 1: a third one last week against the Jack to farall

858
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:15,320
Speaker 1: brown down the field, use it, use those tight ends.

859
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 1: It's okay to use two three tight ends because that

860
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 1: puts a defense in a bind. And last, and certainly

861
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,000
Speaker 1: not at least keep them guessing, especially with the four

862
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 1: running backs. Keep them guessing. Now. I say four because

863
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 1: those are the four they were active. Could be five,

864
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: but if it's four again, that's fine. Keep spreading the wealth.

865
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:33,879
Speaker 1: Use David Johnson the passing game, Use Philip Lindsay market

866
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: Ingram and the Wildcat together. Keep mixing and matching your

867
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: running backs, keep them all fresh, and put that same

868
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 1: pain over on the other side. The Texans are gonna

869
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: have to face with Chubb and Hunt. Make the defense

870
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: for the Browns have to do the same. All right,

871
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 1: those are my keys to the game. What does Jim Donovan,

872
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: the voice of the Browns thing, talk to him next?

873
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:56,879
Speaker 1: Right here on Texans oxisxins Oxis, We've got one hour

874
00:42:56,960 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 1: in the books, one hour left to go. And as

875
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:02,919
Speaker 1: we get into this second hour, I'm your host, John

876
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 1: Harris Football and Alison's sideline reporter, and I'm gonna step

877
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,959
Speaker 1: aside because the two men that will call this game

878
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: for their respective franchises are about to well on a

879
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:16,439
Speaker 1: football field. We call it swap some paint, But that's

880
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 1: kind of an adversarial situation. This is not so much adversarial.

881
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 1: This is two men that have known each other for

882
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 1: a long time and have been the longtime voices for

883
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 1: their respective franchise, Mark Vandermir for your Houston Texans and

884
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:35,080
Speaker 1: Jim Donovan of the Cleveland Browns. And he's always a

885
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: guy think about because he's been there through the lead

886
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,239
Speaker 1: years and last year they get to the playoffs and

887
00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 1: has playoff wins and they're calling the games from home.

888
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 1: I felt so bad that they had to do it

889
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 1: that way, but I imagine that Jim Donovan pretty excited

890
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:53,280
Speaker 1: about what the Browns are bringing to the party, even

891
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:55,879
Speaker 1: at O and one. So let's get to our men

892
00:43:55,960 --> 00:44:01,200
Speaker 1: behind the mics with Mark Vandermir and Jim Donovan, Jim

893
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 1: losing to the Chiefs from Afar, it just seems like, Okay,

894
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 1: you were right there. It's very disappointing, but it's a

895
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 1: long season. How are the Browns taking this loss internally?

896
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:12,960
Speaker 1: You know, Mark, I have to tell you, I think

897
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 1: it's been a tough one for them to get out

898
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 1: of their system and to move on, you know, And

899
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 1: it would be advisable to move on and get ready

900
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: for this one against the Texans. But I think, like

901
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,439
Speaker 1: any opening game, you put so much into that game

902
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 1: in preparation because you have so much time to get

903
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:31,480
Speaker 1: ready for that game, and they definitely were prepared. I

904
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,720
Speaker 1: think the fact that they were in such good control

905
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 1: of the game for so long. I think they led

906
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:39,280
Speaker 1: for fifty three minutes of the game, and how quickly

907
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 1: it kind of imploded on them in the last couple

908
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: of minutes of the game. I think that there was

909
00:44:44,239 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 1: a shock value to it that they had done so

910
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:48,839
Speaker 1: many good things. But the lesson is that you really

911
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:50,880
Speaker 1: have to learn how to finish the game. So I

912
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 1: know that they're eager to get into that kind of

913
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: a situation again and do better. So I think in

914
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 1: that vein, it's been tough for them to put it

915
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 1: beside them and put it aside and get ready for

916
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 1: this one. But I think now as we speak, I

917
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: think they're onto the Texans. To kind of use a

918
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick line. All right, So when people ask you,

919
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 1: what is the strength of the Browns offensively running game

920
00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 1: passing game. I would maybe say yes, because it's a

921
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:19,880
Speaker 1: little bit of both. But what do you think, how

922
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 1: would you describe that? Jim? Yeah, I would think that,

923
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 1: you know, the combination of Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt

924
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 1: together parlayed with a really good offensive line, that is

925
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 1: the go to button for them. That's the one that

926
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 1: they push. That's if they are really kind of clicking offensively.

927
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: That's the thing that is the engine that makes them

928
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:41,640
Speaker 1: go is that running game. And the fact that they

929
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 1: can commit with two really high quality running backs and

930
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:48,919
Speaker 1: there's no drop of makes it even more powerful for them.

931
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 1: So I would have to say their running game is

932
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 1: really kind of the meat and potatoes of what they do.

933
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:57,319
Speaker 1: Everything definitely feeds off of that. And I think even

934
00:45:57,560 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: last Sunday in Kansas City, that running game was really

935
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:03,360
Speaker 1: strong to the point where they threw it well. But

936
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: I think it was all set up because they were

937
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: being so effective in their running game. Jim Donovan, voice

938
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 1: of the Cleveland Browns, joining us tell us about the

939
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: growth of Baker Mayfield better in the second half last

940
00:46:14,239 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: year than the first. So trending up, you have the

941
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:20,439
Speaker 1: playoff success and now this year I know it didn't

942
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 1: go well last week, but what are we seeing in

943
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield and year four? You know, it was really

944
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 1: amazing Mark from the bye week last week last I

945
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 1: mean last year, the bye week came and he took

946
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,239
Speaker 1: off at that point, I mean, he was having a

947
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:38,800
Speaker 1: good season. He was definitely kind of a game manager.

948
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 1: It was in new offense and they were really leaning

949
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 1: on the run game through the front half of the

950
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:47,479
Speaker 1: schedule last year. But from the point of the bye week,

951
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: post bye week, they came out, they played Cincinnati. It

952
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 1: was interesting. It was the day they lost Odell Beckham

953
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,879
Speaker 1: Junior on the first passing play of the afternoon. From

954
00:46:56,920 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 1: that point on, he was red hot. And I think

955
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:03,759
Speaker 1: it was a comfort factor that he had the offense more,

956
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:06,400
Speaker 1: you know in his head, that he was more comfortable

957
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: with it. He was being coached really well. His head coach.

958
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 1: You knows, his offensive coordinator in Kevin Stefanski, but he's

959
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: got another offensive coordinator alongside Alex Van Pelton. They're really

960
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 1: doing a very very good job with him. His play

961
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 1: action passing game became really excellent and everything kind of

962
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: fell into place. He is he is definitely a guy

963
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 1: that plays with a lot of momentum. I mean, he

964
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:32,840
Speaker 1: builds up a great deal of energy, and when he's going,

965
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:36,400
Speaker 1: I mean he plays fast, and his decisions are quick,

966
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 1: and he's got a great arm, and all of that

967
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 1: just continued week by week last year and even Sunday.

968
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,840
Speaker 1: I mean I have never seen him better than he

969
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: was in the first half of the game against Kansas City.

970
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 1: I mean he was right on target, great decisions, very

971
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:53,319
Speaker 1: very quick of foot in the pocket. I mean, things

972
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 1: were really good. The next step is for him, you know,

973
00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:00,560
Speaker 1: to be able to put together that last drug mark

974
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 1: when the game is on the line and you need

975
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: a touchdown to go down and score. He has to

976
00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 1: be able to do that, I think, to get to

977
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 1: the level that he wants to get to. But so far,

978
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: since Kevin Stefanski has come in and taken over as

979
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: the head coach of the team, his arrow, meaning Baker Mayfield,

980
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 1: has really shot up. Jim Donovan, voice of the Cleveland Browns,

981
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: joining us on Texans Radio. We know about some of

982
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 1: the defensive players, of course, but Jadeveon Clowney of great

983
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 1: interest to the Texans fans. How's he fitting in, Jim? Yeah,

984
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:32,319
Speaker 1: last week it was kind of a strange week. He

985
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:34,879
Speaker 1: was sick most of the week and it had nothing

986
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:36,880
Speaker 1: to do with COVID. I mean, he was under the

987
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,080
Speaker 1: weather last week, so he didn't practice a great deal

988
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 1: leading up to the Kansas City game. It really didn't

989
00:48:43,239 --> 00:48:46,880
Speaker 1: play out on the field that you know, the image

990
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:49,760
Speaker 1: that the Browns wanted with Miles Garrett on one side

991
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,879
Speaker 1: and Jadevion on the other side, and it didn't come

992
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 1: to fruition last week. Now we'll see how it plays

993
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 1: out this week and in the week's following that. I

994
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 1: think they're very excited to have him here, and I

995
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:04,200
Speaker 1: think he's very excited to be here. It seems as

996
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:08,280
Speaker 1: though he seems really excited to play alongside Miles Garrett

997
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 1: and it's a great one two punch on paper. Now,

998
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: we'll see how it plays out on the field. Of course,

999
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:15,280
Speaker 1: he's got to he has to stay on the field

1000
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: to make it happen. And he had a very light

1001
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 1: training camp in the way that he didn't really participate

1002
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:23,799
Speaker 1: an awful lot, and he didn't play in any of

1003
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,760
Speaker 1: the preseason games. So I think we're all very interested

1004
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: to see how this thing plays out with him and

1005
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: how he's going to play and hopefully it's going to

1006
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,200
Speaker 1: be very good. Jim, I know you get interviewed a

1007
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,759
Speaker 1: lot about the Cleveland Browns, of course, asked a lot

1008
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: of the same types of questions, But you tell me

1009
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:42,800
Speaker 1: something about this team, maybe a player or an aspect

1010
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 1: of the team that people don't talk about enough from

1011
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 1: the outside looking in. I think it's a team right now,

1012
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:53,319
Speaker 1: Mark that was You know, there are enough guys that

1013
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:56,840
Speaker 1: were still on the team when it was really scraped

1014
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:58,520
Speaker 1: in the bottom of the barrel. I mean, I know

1015
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 1: the roster has been changed great deal and it's been

1016
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 1: upgraded tremendously, and that's one of the big reasons why

1017
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: they have had success now. But there are enough guys,

1018
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:10,839
Speaker 1: the foundation guys that were here still when they were

1019
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 1: kind of scuffling. And I think the fact that those

1020
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:19,319
Speaker 1: guys really seem to appreciate the turn of a franchise

1021
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 1: and how a culture change can come into a franchise

1022
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 1: and really have a tremendous turn from a losing, beaten

1023
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 1: up organization, kind of a laughable organization, the butt of

1024
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 1: a lot of jokes around the NFL. A one win season,

1025
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 1: a winless season. I think those guys, when other guys

1026
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 1: come into the locker room and they listen to those

1027
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:45,240
Speaker 1: guys how it was and how they appreciate how winning

1028
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 1: is here in the city of Cleveland and with the Bronx.

1029
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 1: I think it's a great marriage, and I think that

1030
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 1: that's why the team has come together so much, and

1031
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:56,799
Speaker 1: then in turn, with an incredible fan base, you put

1032
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 1: that together. It's been a fun thing to be a

1033
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:02,680
Speaker 1: part of it. It wasn't fun during those seasons when

1034
00:51:02,680 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 1: they were scuffling and there were many of them, too

1035
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:07,360
Speaker 1: many of them. But it's been fun to watch a

1036
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:10,840
Speaker 1: turn around. And I think that those organizational guys that

1037
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: have been here for a period of time, I'm really

1038
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: happy for them, and I know their teammates are happy

1039
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: for them too. Jim, what about Kevin Stefanski and what

1040
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 1: he brings to the table as a head coach. We've

1041
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 1: seen his work as a coordinator and of course last

1042
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 1: year as the head coach. But what's it like being

1043
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:27,880
Speaker 1: around him and the effect he has on the organization?

1044
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:29,920
Speaker 1: You know, Mark, I go back to him when he

1045
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:33,399
Speaker 1: was hired. It was kind of one of these situations

1046
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:35,800
Speaker 1: where the Browns are gonna hire Kevin Stefanski. It was

1047
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 1: the day after the Minnesota Vikings had lost to the

1048
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:41,880
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers in the playoffs, and that

1049
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:45,880
Speaker 1: made Kevin Stefanski readily available. And the year before that,

1050
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 1: Stefanski was a finalist for the Browns head coaching job,

1051
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,320
Speaker 1: and instead they stayed in house and they brought Freddie

1052
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 1: Kitchens up to the point of being the head coach

1053
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:56,760
Speaker 1: of the team. So the day that it was announced

1054
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski is going to be the head coach of

1055
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 1: the Browns, I have to tell you a lot of

1056
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 1: people felt it was very underwhelming. I mean, they wanted

1057
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 1: a big name, a hot coordinator, you know, and they

1058
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 1: just didn't feel that it was happening. Okay, we're going

1059
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:13,400
Speaker 1: to get this guy named Kevin Stefanski. Wow. Since he

1060
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 1: has come in, he is an impeccably organized guy. He

1061
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: is just an amazing you know, down to the every note.

1062
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 1: Have this team fully prepared. And I think what happened,

1063
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 1: Mark was that the roster felt like, Hey, we're tired

1064
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 1: of losing and we've done it a million different ways.

1065
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: Let's listen to what this guy has to say and

1066
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 1: follow through with what he's teaching us, and maybe this

1067
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 1: might be the way it is to turn this thing

1068
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 1: around and start to become a winning team. He's incredibly composed.

1069
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: They are so perfectly prepared for games, and I thought

1070
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:55,959
Speaker 1: they were impeccably prepared last week going into Kansas City

1071
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:58,760
Speaker 1: and playing at Arrowhead Stadium. And that is the norm

1072
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:00,799
Speaker 1: now with the Browns that they go in and you

1073
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:03,360
Speaker 1: know that they are ready for each game and it

1074
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: plays out on the field. You know they're not racking

1075
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:07,759
Speaker 1: up a lot of penalties and I'm making a lot

1076
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: of mental mistakes. They practiced very well. Their training camp

1077
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 1: was right down to the minute organized, and I think

1078
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 1: it's a good thing for them. He's been a breath

1079
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 1: of very very needed fresh air hearing Cleveland Jim Donovan,

1080
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,240
Speaker 1: voice of the Cleveland Browns, joining us on Texans Radio,

1081
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:27,200
Speaker 1: Tarrod Taylor, what do you remember about him his time

1082
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. I just remember what a great pro he

1083
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 1: was because it was an extremely difficult situation for him.

1084
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:38,279
Speaker 1: I remember when the day came that they traded for him,

1085
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:41,280
Speaker 1: John Dorsey pulled off the deal with the Buffalo Bills,

1086
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 1: and we were all excited and saw the vision of

1087
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:46,680
Speaker 1: the plan as they stated it, and the plan was

1088
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:49,640
Speaker 1: he was going to come in and play at least

1089
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: for one year, and they were going to draft at Quarterbineck,

1090
00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:56,120
Speaker 1: who eventually then became Baker Bakefield. And when he came in,

1091
00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 1: he said, a great example to Baker Mayfield and really

1092
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 1: everybody else on the team. I mean, the guy was

1093
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:04,799
Speaker 1: in that facility at five thirty every morning, doing his

1094
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:07,359
Speaker 1: workout and getting his physical work in and then going

1095
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:09,719
Speaker 1: out on the field and doing what he does, which

1096
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:13,359
Speaker 1: is a real pro. And you know, it was very

1097
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:16,480
Speaker 1: very short lived here in Cleveland obviously, because when you

1098
00:54:16,600 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 1: have a high draft choice, and in this case, the

1099
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 1: highest draft choice, the number one pick, and it's a quarterback,

1100
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:25,719
Speaker 1: the town is salivating for that guy to get in

1101
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 1: so tired, you know, he was playing in the preseason

1102
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: and he was getting his work done, and that was

1103
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 1: the amazing thing about him. He just had he had

1104
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 1: a job performance in front of him, and he would

1105
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 1: go out and do it and he would accomplish it,

1106
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:41,799
Speaker 1: and he was just a real pro and he did

1107
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 1: it pretty well. And the team just wasn't ready to

1108
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,120
Speaker 1: win yet. I mean, and I don't think that they

1109
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:51,399
Speaker 1: were ready to play behind and in front of Baker Mayfield. Either,

1110
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:56,399
Speaker 1: but he went in. He didn't say anything about being

1111
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:58,680
Speaker 1: yanked out. He went out because of injury. On a

1112
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:01,439
Speaker 1: Thursday night game against the Jets. It was game three

1113
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 1: of the season, and Mayfield came in, and this hurricane

1114
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 1: called Baker Mayfield blew into Cleveland, turned that around. The

1115
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:11,120
Speaker 1: Bronze finally won a game, and of course they put

1116
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:13,719
Speaker 1: him in as the starting quarterback, and then he was

1117
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:16,680
Speaker 1: off to the sideline. There was never a bad word said,

1118
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:20,279
Speaker 1: there was no pouting. He was there if Baker needed him.

1119
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:23,080
Speaker 1: I just I admire what he did, and I know,

1120
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 1: you know, the higher up offices in Brea appreciated what

1121
00:55:27,239 --> 00:55:29,680
Speaker 1: he did while he was here, though it was a

1122
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:32,600
Speaker 1: brief period of time. Oh. I one more rhetorical question,

1123
00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:34,520
Speaker 1: I guess. I mean, how hungry are the fans to

1124
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 1: get into the building and just be together for an

1125
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:39,319
Speaker 1: NFL game in the regular season for the first time

1126
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 1: in a while? Yeah, you know, Mark, when they finally

1127
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 1: made the playoffs last year, it was on the final

1128
00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:47,560
Speaker 1: Sunday of the regular season, and it was a win

1129
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 1: in your end game and they beat the Steelers that

1130
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: day to get into the playoffs, and it was a very,

1131
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 1: very emotional day because the Bronze hadn't been in the

1132
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 1: playoffs and way since, way back in the early two thousands,

1133
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 1: eighteen year wait in between playoff appearances. And it was

1134
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 1: a great moment, and it was thrilling, and the game

1135
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 1: itself was thrilling to be able to punch your ticket

1136
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:12,279
Speaker 1: and get into the playoffs. But there were only twelve

1137
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:15,719
Speaker 1: thousand people allowed in the building for that particular game

1138
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 1: and all of the other home games last year. So

1139
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 1: as great as it was, I kept saying to myself,

1140
00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:22,120
Speaker 1: and I know a lot of other people did too,

1141
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:24,600
Speaker 1: can you imagine what it would have been like if

1142
00:56:24,640 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 1: we weren't involved and in the middle of this storm

1143
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 1: of a pandemic and the place had been packed. It

1144
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:32,400
Speaker 1: would have been you know, it would have been just

1145
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:35,360
Speaker 1: crazy because here are the Browns finally making it to

1146
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 1: the playoffs. So I think people have been marking the

1147
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 1: days off until they can get into that stadium, and

1148
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be a great, great scene,

1149
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 1: much the way it was last week, when you know,

1150
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:49,719
Speaker 1: when the Chief fans just packed Arrowhead Stadium. I don't

1151
00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:53,239
Speaker 1: know if we can reach those levels of decibels that

1152
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 1: we heard last week, but I think it would be

1153
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:58,399
Speaker 1: pretty close. So I know that everybody is just very

1154
00:56:58,480 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 1: very excited to get back in there and be able

1155
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:03,919
Speaker 1: to cheer for this team and be able to experience

1156
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 1: hopefully winning football with this team. I mentioned this a

1157
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:10,600
Speaker 1: little earlier as we were talking about the Browns and

1158
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 1: how odd and weird last year actually was. They're kind

1159
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:18,960
Speaker 1: of the same boat in some sense like Buffalo. And

1160
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 1: I've talked to my buddy South Pachs, the South of

1161
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:22,760
Speaker 1: the reporter for the Bills, about this, and they go

1162
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:25,040
Speaker 1: through all this, and the Bills have such a strong

1163
00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 1: fan base, you know, Bills Mafia, and they've got to

1164
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:30,720
Speaker 1: have that year winning the ANFC East without the Bills

1165
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 1: fans there, and they finally got a chance to go

1166
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 1: to the playoff game and see the Bills beat both

1167
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 1: the Colts and the Ravens, but it wasn't a full crowd.

1168
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 1: And now you get to read start all that in

1169
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:43,560
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, and you there's a part of me

1170
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 1: that really wants them to have success so the fans

1171
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:48,479
Speaker 1: can experience that well. Kevin Stefanski said in his press

1172
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 1: conference about the Browns. He said, I've never I've never

1173
00:57:51,840 --> 00:57:55,040
Speaker 1: coached in this environment when this place is full and

1174
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 1: Browns fans are the dog pound and they're they're feeling it.

1175
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:02,720
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not coached in that environment. So it's gonna

1176
00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 1: be a very interesting on Sunday with a full crowd.

1177
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 1: They're ripping in roar and looking to see their guys back.

1178
00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:14,479
Speaker 1: The Browns owned one after a tough loss to Kansas

1179
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:16,680
Speaker 1: City Chiefs and going back and watching that game, they

1180
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: had every opportunity to win that game and just just

1181
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:24,520
Speaker 1: couldn't put that final Just kneel in the coffin for

1182
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:26,920
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs, they left the door cracked just

1183
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:29,960
Speaker 1: a little bit, and you do that. Mahomes, Kelsey and

1184
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 1: Hill are gonna break it wide open, and they did

1185
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 1: and got to win. Now the Browns, well, the Browns

1186
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:38,840
Speaker 1: have a lot of pressure, if that makes any sense.

1187
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 1: Texans are twelve and a half point dogs. What they

1188
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:45,560
Speaker 1: got to lose. Nobody thinks they're gonna win. It's one

1189
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:48,040
Speaker 1: of the highest spreads. People still think they're the thirty

1190
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:51,520
Speaker 1: second team. We'll leave me though they manhandle Jacksonville, definitely

1191
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:53,959
Speaker 1: not gonna be Cleveland. Browns. Well, they got to lose.

1192
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:56,080
Speaker 1: Cleveland's got the pressure. If this thing is close. In

1193
00:58:56,080 --> 00:58:59,200
Speaker 1: the second half, guests who's carrying the pressure they are

1194
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:02,520
Speaker 1: EXAs won't be. Texas are gonna be playing with house money.

1195
00:59:02,560 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 1: The Texans are gonna be playing with house money for

1196
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:06,720
Speaker 1: a good majority of the twenty twenty one season. I'm

1197
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:09,480
Speaker 1: totally fine with that. They love being the underdog, going

1198
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 1: in the locker room and tell them, hey, you guys,

1199
00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 1: the underdog would be like, awesome, fantastic. We'll show them

1200
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:17,160
Speaker 1: and hopefully that's what ends up happening. Then in the

1201
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:20,400
Speaker 1: second half, the Texans have shown them and the Browns

1202
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:22,800
Speaker 1: are sitting there going may We're down seven with I

1203
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:24,600
Speaker 1: don't know five minutes left to go on a third quarter.

1204
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 1: Holy cow, we're in trouble and that creates issues. That's

1205
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 1: my hope. But big thanks for Jim Donovan for stopping

1206
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 1: by on the show. I love men behind the mikes.

1207
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:37,280
Speaker 1: In fact, that was my idea many many years ago

1208
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 1: to invite the play by play voice to spend a

1209
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:43,960
Speaker 1: segment with our play by play voice, that being Mark Vannymer.

1210
00:59:44,040 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 1: All right, the next segment is all meat because that

1211
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:50,800
Speaker 1: means well, I've got to pick games. I pick them

1212
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:53,400
Speaker 1: straight up and against the spread. I love doing it.

1213
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:55,600
Speaker 1: I'll make all my predictions next right here on Texans

1214
00:59:55,680 --> 00:59:58,560
Speaker 1: All Access. Here on Texans All Access, here on Texans

1215
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:00,840
Speaker 1: All AXI oh ba, I mean we've gotten to that

1216
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:04,560
Speaker 1: time in this show that I absolutely love and I

1217
01:00:04,680 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 1: love doing the whole show, don't get me wrong, But

1218
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:10,160
Speaker 1: when I get to put my neck on the line

1219
01:00:10,160 --> 01:00:14,439
Speaker 1: and make some predictions, oh baby, that's just the most

1220
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:17,920
Speaker 1: fun for me. It's competitive, That's why I like it.

1221
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:22,120
Speaker 1: So let's dive in. And if you're just joining me

1222
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 1: and wonder where you've been, but I'm glad you're here.

1223
01:00:24,160 --> 01:00:28,200
Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst sideline reporter for

1224
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:31,480
Speaker 1: a Friday edition of Texans All Access. And one of

1225
01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:33,400
Speaker 1: the ways that I like to go around the NFL

1226
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 1: is to pick the games straight up and against the spread.

1227
01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:40,760
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe you learn something about the game.

1228
01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:43,680
Speaker 1: This is not meant for you to god and gamble

1229
01:00:43,720 --> 01:00:46,680
Speaker 1: and do all that, but I just like picking these games,

1230
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:50,200
Speaker 1: and so I figured, hey, let's do it straight up

1231
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:52,160
Speaker 1: and against the spread. Some of you like to know

1232
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:54,800
Speaker 1: that stuff. If you use it, that's up to you.

1233
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 1: Don't care. But I like to pick these games. So

1234
01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:03,120
Speaker 1: queue up my music, and there it is. And let's

1235
01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:07,439
Speaker 1: get to these games. And let's start in Chicago, where

1236
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:11,560
Speaker 1: the Bears return home after a Sunday night thrashing at

1237
01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:16,040
Speaker 1: Sofi Stadium, opening up Sofi Stadium with fans, they return

1238
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:18,800
Speaker 1: oh and one to take on the Bengals one and oh,

1239
01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:22,000
Speaker 1: Chicago's favorite by two and a half. Now, the old

1240
01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 1: adage goes that three points usually goes to the home

1241
01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:28,960
Speaker 1: team usually, so Vegas actually thought the Texans were a

1242
01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:31,800
Speaker 1: six point underdog last week at home, and I didn't

1243
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:33,520
Speaker 1: go well either way. Chicago is a two and a

1244
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 1: half points, So essentially Vegas sees these two teams as even.

1245
01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:44,240
Speaker 1: There's one major discrepancy and that's at quarterback. And that's

1246
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:47,760
Speaker 1: why I'm going to Chicago. Bears. Yeah, I can't do it.

1247
01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:50,440
Speaker 1: I can't do Cincinnati two weeks in a row. Cincinnati

1248
01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:54,320
Speaker 1: had a big win last week, beating the Vikings, team

1249
01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:57,200
Speaker 1: thought to be number two I would guess over in

1250
01:01:57,200 --> 01:02:00,760
Speaker 1: the NFC North. Well, they beat the Bengald beat the

1251
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:04,200
Speaker 1: Vikings in overtime twenty seven, twenty four. I don't think

1252
01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 1: they're gonna repeat that, although I don't think this will

1253
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 1: be a very high scoring game. I think the Bears

1254
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:11,200
Speaker 1: are gonna get this one at home, because they don't.

1255
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:16,000
Speaker 1: It is trouble in the Windy City. Bears win. Bears

1256
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:18,680
Speaker 1: cover that two and a half Texans Browns. It's now

1257
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 1: up to thirteen Cleveland thirteen point favorite. I don't pick

1258
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 1: heart and head, you know the whole thing. I've told

1259
01:02:24,280 --> 01:02:28,080
Speaker 1: you that before. But let's go up there see what

1260
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:32,480
Speaker 1: we can do. The game taking place in Indie. Indie

1261
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:35,919
Speaker 1: got two straight home games. They got sauced last week

1262
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:41,560
Speaker 1: by the Seahawks. Now the Rams come in feeling good.

1263
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:47,080
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford looked tremendous. The Rams offense unveiled another layer

1264
01:02:47,240 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 1: because of Stafford. Rams one to oh if they're beating

1265
01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:53,720
Speaker 1: the Bears. The Colts on one after losing the Seahawks,

1266
01:02:54,560 --> 01:02:57,400
Speaker 1: Carson wentz to watch that game, and I just went

1267
01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:01,520
Speaker 1: and I don't know, kind of that Larry David expression, like,

1268
01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:05,400
Speaker 1: h maybe that's kind of the way I felt watching.

1269
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 1: I just don't know that I trust the Colts fully,

1270
01:03:11,640 --> 01:03:17,440
Speaker 1: But I don't love road favorites, especially one like the Rams.

1271
01:03:18,160 --> 01:03:19,880
Speaker 1: But I'm not buying the Colts, So I'm in a

1272
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:23,000
Speaker 1: quandary here. The Rams are favored by three and a half.

1273
01:03:23,000 --> 01:03:24,840
Speaker 1: So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take the

1274
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 1: Rams to win this thing, but it to be a

1275
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:31,400
Speaker 1: three point difference. That's enough to get under the number.

1276
01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:35,400
Speaker 1: So let's go Rams to win outright, but the Colts

1277
01:03:35,440 --> 01:03:37,840
Speaker 1: to cover getting side the three and a half. That's

1278
01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 1: kind of splitting on both sides. I just don't know

1279
01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:43,160
Speaker 1: which team I can trust at this point, to be

1280
01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:47,040
Speaker 1: brutally honest. All right, let's go down to Miami where

1281
01:03:47,040 --> 01:03:49,840
Speaker 1: news this week that Will Fuller will be stepping away

1282
01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:52,400
Speaker 1: from the team for this game, in particular dealing with

1283
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:56,080
Speaker 1: some personal issues. And hope all is well for Will.

1284
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:59,320
Speaker 1: I know, from from an off the field perspective, rule

1285
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:01,720
Speaker 1: was always to stand up guy here with the Texans

1286
01:04:01,720 --> 01:04:05,400
Speaker 1: and rooting for him and hope everything is okay with him.

1287
01:04:05,920 --> 01:04:09,600
Speaker 1: But the Dolphins at that point, with no speed threatening outside,

1288
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 1: they do have Jalen Waddles, so they do have some playmakers.

1289
01:04:12,280 --> 01:04:14,720
Speaker 1: The only scored sixteen point or seventeen points last week

1290
01:04:14,760 --> 01:04:18,040
Speaker 1: and win over the Patriots. I think they'll need more

1291
01:04:18,040 --> 01:04:20,760
Speaker 1: against the Bills. I don't think they can produce that

1292
01:04:20,880 --> 01:04:23,040
Speaker 1: at this point. So the Bills own one good own

1293
01:04:23,080 --> 01:04:25,080
Speaker 1: in Miami and the Bills will get this win. They're

1294
01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:27,600
Speaker 1: a three point favorite on the road. I'm taking the

1295
01:04:27,680 --> 01:04:30,800
Speaker 1: Bills to win and to cover that three. Speaking in

1296
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:33,520
Speaker 1: the AFC East, the other two AFC East teams meet

1297
01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:38,640
Speaker 1: in New Jersey, with the Jets and Zach Wilson a

1298
01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:42,160
Speaker 1: solid finish to the game last week against the Carolina Panthers,

1299
01:04:42,400 --> 01:04:45,760
Speaker 1: but unfortunately they still took the l the Patriots. Man

1300
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:49,680
Speaker 1: had some moments, but couldn't put the Dolphins away, lost

1301
01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:53,080
Speaker 1: that one seventeen sixteen. So I was gonna say one

1302
01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:54,520
Speaker 1: of these teams is going to come up with a win,

1303
01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:56,800
Speaker 1: but it could be a tie, which would be awesome,

1304
01:04:56,840 --> 01:04:59,440
Speaker 1: but not gonna happen. The Patriots, a six point favorite

1305
01:04:59,640 --> 01:05:02,160
Speaker 1: in Jersey, are gonna take this win. They're gonna win

1306
01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:05,000
Speaker 1: this thing by seven a touchdown or more. So let's

1307
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:07,600
Speaker 1: go Patriots to win and cover on the road. Man

1308
01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:13,200
Speaker 1: on these road favorites. And here's another one in Philadelphia,

1309
01:05:13,280 --> 01:05:15,680
Speaker 1: and I think this is just a case of Las

1310
01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:19,640
Speaker 1: Vegas not really knowing how to handle this one. With

1311
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:22,520
Speaker 1: the San Francisco forty nine Ers going to take on

1312
01:05:22,600 --> 01:05:25,480
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles. The forty nine Ers put up forty

1313
01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:29,760
Speaker 1: one points last week in Detroit, and the game was

1314
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:33,160
Speaker 1: really a runaway, but then the Lions actually got back

1315
01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:35,240
Speaker 1: into it at the end when the Niners let off

1316
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:39,120
Speaker 1: the gas. The Eagles didn't let off the gas once

1317
01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:42,720
Speaker 1: house the Atlanta Falcons thirty two to six on the road.

1318
01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:46,000
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts look great. Vante Smith caught a touchdown pass

1319
01:05:46,080 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 1: from him in the same exact spot that he won

1320
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:51,240
Speaker 1: the National Championship game against Georgia back in twenty seventeen.

1321
01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:53,560
Speaker 1: But the Eagles at home, he would think after a

1322
01:05:53,560 --> 01:05:56,040
Speaker 1: performance like that and not really knowing what the Niners

1323
01:05:56,080 --> 01:05:59,440
Speaker 1: are all about now. Vegas says that San Francisco is

1324
01:05:59,440 --> 01:06:04,720
Speaker 1: a three point favorite again, a road favorite, which means

1325
01:06:04,720 --> 01:06:07,840
Speaker 1: I'm going to Eagles. I think the Eagles playing back

1326
01:06:07,880 --> 01:06:10,520
Speaker 1: home again kind of I don't want to, kind of

1327
01:06:10,520 --> 01:06:12,400
Speaker 1: like the Texans, but you know, playing a little bit

1328
01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:15,520
Speaker 1: of house money. Jalen Hurts a you know they'll trade

1329
01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:19,640
Speaker 1: for a quarterback. Yeah, maybe a quarterback. We know. Jalen

1330
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:22,200
Speaker 1: Hurts just steps up, does his job every single week.

1331
01:06:22,240 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 1: I love that guy. I absolutely love Jalen Hurts. Love him.

1332
01:06:25,240 --> 01:06:27,680
Speaker 1: He's everything that football players should be about. And I

1333
01:06:27,720 --> 01:06:29,479
Speaker 1: love the fact that he's from the Greater Houston area.

1334
01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:33,320
Speaker 1: There a channel view. So I'm going Eagles in an

1335
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:36,920
Speaker 1: upset to win and obviously to cover with that little

1336
01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:40,919
Speaker 1: three point spread. Finally, a home favorite, the Raiders taking

1337
01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:44,040
Speaker 1: on the Steelers. So the Raiders play an overtime game

1338
01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:49,320
Speaker 1: Monday night, somehow find a way to win. They gotta

1339
01:06:49,360 --> 01:06:53,840
Speaker 1: fly cross country into the Eastern time zone and take

1340
01:06:53,920 --> 01:06:56,160
Speaker 1: on the Steelers a six and a half point favorite. Look,

1341
01:06:56,200 --> 01:06:59,440
Speaker 1: the Steelers offense is gonna be kind of a ragged

1342
01:06:59,560 --> 01:07:03,040
Speaker 1: hagg mass all year, to be honest, but the defense

1343
01:07:03,160 --> 01:07:06,480
Speaker 1: is legit. There's no doubt about the defense. The defense,

1344
01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:09,520
Speaker 1: Cameron Heyward and t J. Watt were unbelievable against the Bills.

1345
01:07:10,160 --> 01:07:12,320
Speaker 1: The main reason why they ended up winning that game.

1346
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:14,440
Speaker 1: Defense and then of course a big special team to

1347
01:07:14,480 --> 01:07:16,560
Speaker 1: play that put the Steelers in the lead and they

1348
01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:19,560
Speaker 1: held on to it. I'm going with the Steelers to

1349
01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:21,600
Speaker 1: win this thing, and I think they're gonna win this

1350
01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:25,640
Speaker 1: thing by ten. It's gonna be I don't know, twenty

1351
01:07:25,640 --> 01:07:28,280
Speaker 1: four to fourteen something of that ilk. I don't think

1352
01:07:28,280 --> 01:07:30,720
Speaker 1: the Raiders are gonna move the ball effectively against the Steelers,

1353
01:07:30,800 --> 01:07:32,840
Speaker 1: and I think the Steelers gonna win that in coverage

1354
01:07:32,840 --> 01:07:35,640
Speaker 1: at home. I think that negative body clock and having

1355
01:07:35,680 --> 01:07:38,920
Speaker 1: played on Monday night is going to work against the Raiders.

1356
01:07:38,920 --> 01:07:41,640
Speaker 1: So take the Steelers, all right, Let's go to Charlotte

1357
01:07:41,680 --> 01:07:46,320
Speaker 1: for this next one, because the Carolina Panthers one and oh,

1358
01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:49,800
Speaker 1: really goodwin on the road at the Jets. Sam Donald

1359
01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:53,280
Speaker 1: looked good, hit his buddy Robbie Anderson for a touchdown.

1360
01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:57,760
Speaker 1: Second half, Jets start chipping away, just couldn't chip away enough,

1361
01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:02,160
Speaker 1: so the Panthers get to win. But the Saints had

1362
01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:08,400
Speaker 1: maybe the most dominant win all weekend. They were unbelievable

1363
01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:10,920
Speaker 1: thirty eighth to three in Jacksonville. I mean they were

1364
01:08:10,960 --> 01:08:15,360
Speaker 1: dealing with hurricane. With the hurricane that knocked them out

1365
01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:18,599
Speaker 1: of New Orleans, basically, it's sent LSU here to Houston.

1366
01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:22,840
Speaker 1: New Orleans was looking for a place to reside. I

1367
01:08:23,040 --> 01:08:26,000
Speaker 1: think New Orleans ended up going to Dallas. Can't totally

1368
01:08:26,040 --> 01:08:28,439
Speaker 1: remember exactly where they were. Anyways, the fact that the

1369
01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:33,360
Speaker 1: Saints played a home game in Jacksonville and completely spanked

1370
01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:37,120
Speaker 1: the Packers, there's something to be said for that team. However,

1371
01:08:37,280 --> 01:08:44,559
Speaker 1: check this out on Sunday. The following will not be

1372
01:08:44,680 --> 01:08:50,080
Speaker 1: in attendance due to COVID nineteen protocols. Offensive analyst Jim Cheney,

1373
01:08:50,120 --> 01:08:54,280
Speaker 1: Declan Doyle, offensive assistant Phil Galileano, Assistant Special Teams Curtis Johnson,

1374
01:08:54,360 --> 01:08:58,320
Speaker 1: Senior offensive assistant, Wide Receivers coach, Brendan Nugent, Offensive line

1375
01:08:58,360 --> 01:09:00,920
Speaker 1: coach Dan Rushard, Run Game Corps, Nader In tight Ends,

1376
01:09:01,360 --> 01:09:05,360
Speaker 1: Joel Thomas running backs. None of them will be there

1377
01:09:05,439 --> 01:09:11,360
Speaker 1: due to COVID nineteen protocols. Zach Street is the assistant

1378
01:09:11,400 --> 01:09:14,000
Speaker 1: OH line coach. You know what he was doing last year?

1379
01:09:14,479 --> 01:09:17,320
Speaker 1: He was the play by play voice for the Saints

1380
01:09:17,479 --> 01:09:22,680
Speaker 1: radio Network. This Sunday, he will be coaching the offensive

1381
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:26,320
Speaker 1: line as the only offensive line coach because Brendan Nugent

1382
01:09:26,920 --> 01:09:30,360
Speaker 1: is out. The team also plays the defensive Van Marcus Davenport, Kwan,

1383
01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:36,040
Speaker 1: Alexander Unreserved Ijart. The Saints are shorthanded, and yet there's

1384
01:09:36,040 --> 01:09:38,840
Speaker 1: a part of me that thinks they're gonna cover this.

1385
01:09:39,040 --> 01:09:42,720
Speaker 1: There are three and a half point favorite in Charlotte,

1386
01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:45,200
Speaker 1: and I'm not totally all the way there on the Panthers,

1387
01:09:45,439 --> 01:09:47,760
Speaker 1: but man, the Saints will look really, really good last

1388
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:50,840
Speaker 1: week and they did it with defense, and I think

1389
01:09:50,920 --> 01:09:53,920
Speaker 1: that's where it goes again. I think the Saints win

1390
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:56,960
Speaker 1: this game. Shorthanded with an offensive coaching staff that will

1391
01:09:56,960 --> 01:10:00,120
Speaker 1: come together, the Saints win this. They covered that three

1392
01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:02,519
Speaker 1: and a half and they sang Carolina here to Houston,

1393
01:10:03,280 --> 01:10:05,679
Speaker 1: smarting a little bit with that Thursday night game coming

1394
01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:10,400
Speaker 1: up on the twenty third. Five math is correct, Yes,

1395
01:10:10,439 --> 01:10:14,280
Speaker 1: the twenty third Saints win and cover on the road.

1396
01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:18,280
Speaker 1: How about data. Another Newton game is gonna take place

1397
01:10:18,280 --> 01:10:21,400
Speaker 1: down to Jacksonville to be one pm local, Jacksonville the

1398
01:10:21,439 --> 01:10:23,880
Speaker 1: home game for the second straight week, well the city

1399
01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:28,920
Speaker 1: of This time it's their Jaguars off a pounding from

1400
01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:32,360
Speaker 1: the Texans. The Denver Broncos who had a great win

1401
01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:35,200
Speaker 1: against the New York Giants the New Jersey Giants. The

1402
01:10:35,320 --> 01:10:38,080
Speaker 1: Broncos went up to New Jersey and beat up on

1403
01:10:38,120 --> 01:10:42,200
Speaker 1: the Giants pretty solidly. They're one to oh Jaguars one one.

1404
01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:45,360
Speaker 1: Denver's a six point favorite in that to me is

1405
01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 1: tricky because I got a feeling that the Jaguars is

1406
01:10:48,920 --> 01:10:51,280
Speaker 1: gonna win a game. It's gonna be after performance that

1407
01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:54,880
Speaker 1: they had in Week one. I don't think the Jaguars

1408
01:10:54,960 --> 01:10:58,960
Speaker 1: are very good. I do think they have talent. I

1409
01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:01,320
Speaker 1: do think they play this game like it is a

1410
01:11:01,400 --> 01:11:03,960
Speaker 1: super Bowl. So you know what, I'm going Jags to

1411
01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:06,559
Speaker 1: get inside the six, but the Broncos to eat one out.

1412
01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:09,600
Speaker 1: I think that's what the Jags lacked, That lacked that

1413
01:11:10,160 --> 01:11:12,080
Speaker 1: can they get over the top and win some games.

1414
01:11:12,080 --> 01:11:15,879
Speaker 1: They're just they had one one in what sixteen straight games?

1415
01:11:16,439 --> 01:11:21,479
Speaker 1: So I'm going Broncos to win. However, Jaguars are gonna

1416
01:11:21,479 --> 01:11:25,880
Speaker 1: get inside that six. The Vikings travel to the Cardinals

1417
01:11:26,160 --> 01:11:30,120
Speaker 1: in an afternoon till. The Vikings just got beat by Cincinnati.

1418
01:11:30,360 --> 01:11:36,960
Speaker 1: The Cardinals put an absolute trouncing on the Titans in Tennessee.

1419
01:11:37,840 --> 01:11:40,439
Speaker 1: For some reason, Arizona is only a three and a

1420
01:11:40,479 --> 01:11:44,599
Speaker 1: half point favorite. Fire fire, fire, fire on the Cardinals

1421
01:11:44,600 --> 01:11:46,599
Speaker 1: to win and cover that three and a half. Are

1422
01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:50,960
Speaker 1: you kidding me? There is no way the Cardinals at

1423
01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:53,920
Speaker 1: three and a half that what that number is grossly low?

1424
01:11:54,120 --> 01:11:56,639
Speaker 1: Holy smokes. All right, let's go down to Tampa Bay.

1425
01:11:56,880 --> 01:11:59,800
Speaker 1: The Tom Brady says he's gonna play until he's fifty, Well,

1426
01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:02,679
Speaker 1: he just has to play another week. The Falcons look

1427
01:12:02,800 --> 01:12:06,840
Speaker 1: like absolute horse maneuver against the Eagles, and I do

1428
01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:10,160
Speaker 1: think that Arthur Smith and the Falcons will move it

1429
01:12:10,320 --> 01:12:12,559
Speaker 1: back in the other direction, but not enough. Tampa based

1430
01:12:12,560 --> 01:12:14,160
Speaker 1: favored by twelve and a half to win this thing

1431
01:12:14,200 --> 01:12:18,960
Speaker 1: by seventeen. I'm going thirty one fourteen. Tampa Bay wins

1432
01:12:19,040 --> 01:12:22,439
Speaker 1: and covers that twelve and a half. The Cowboys they

1433
01:12:22,479 --> 01:12:24,720
Speaker 1: go to California for training camp every year where they're

1434
01:12:24,720 --> 01:12:28,640
Speaker 1: going back to California, going back to Callie take on

1435
01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:32,280
Speaker 1: the La Chargers. Justin Herbert Brandon Staley, head coach, gets

1436
01:12:32,320 --> 01:12:35,720
Speaker 1: winning his debut against Washington. The Chargers are favored by

1437
01:12:35,720 --> 01:12:38,400
Speaker 1: three and a half, and I think that's low. The

1438
01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:41,280
Speaker 1: Cowboys look good on the road, but they threw it

1439
01:12:41,320 --> 01:12:44,400
Speaker 1: and they've got a bunch of guys out though DeMarcus

1440
01:12:44,479 --> 01:12:50,160
Speaker 1: Lawrence is out, Michael Gallup is out, They're gonna be hurting.

1441
01:12:50,439 --> 01:12:52,000
Speaker 1: I think the Chargers win that thing, and they win

1442
01:12:52,080 --> 01:12:56,320
Speaker 1: it by more than three and a half. Late afternoon

1443
01:12:56,400 --> 01:13:02,439
Speaker 1: game Titans Seahawks twelve fun. I can I would do that.

1444
01:13:02,479 --> 01:13:06,200
Speaker 1: Almost screwed that up. The twelves up in Seattle have

1445
01:13:06,320 --> 01:13:08,400
Speaker 1: been waiting for their guys, waiting to see their guys.

1446
01:13:08,400 --> 01:13:10,160
Speaker 1: They didn't get a chance to see them all last year.

1447
01:13:10,640 --> 01:13:12,439
Speaker 1: They're gonna be jacked and ready to go after the

1448
01:13:12,439 --> 01:13:16,879
Speaker 1: Seahawks beat the Colts last week in Indie. Tennessee looked

1449
01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:19,760
Speaker 1: awful in a loss to the Cardinals. Now, I think

1450
01:13:19,800 --> 01:13:23,040
Speaker 1: Tennessee will bounce back and played better. But the Seahawks

1451
01:13:23,080 --> 01:13:26,160
Speaker 1: playing front of their home crowd, they'll rely on that energy.

1452
01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:28,760
Speaker 1: Seattle's favored by six and a half. I think the

1453
01:13:28,760 --> 01:13:34,600
Speaker 1: Seahawks cover that. This feels thirty to twenty three, thirty

1454
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:37,280
Speaker 1: one sort of game. Either way. The Seahawks will cover

1455
01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:39,920
Speaker 1: that by a touchdown, winning by seven, So they'll cover that.

1456
01:13:40,200 --> 01:13:45,320
Speaker 1: Seahawks to win and cover Sunday night game. Baby. The

1457
01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:50,760
Speaker 1: Chiefs are taken on the Ravens. Now the Ravens and

1458
01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:54,280
Speaker 1: shot both their feet off last week, both their talents,

1459
01:13:54,280 --> 01:13:56,519
Speaker 1: if you will. They had every opportunity to win that

1460
01:13:56,600 --> 01:14:01,800
Speaker 1: game against the Raiders and just couldn't, just couldn't finish.

1461
01:14:02,120 --> 01:14:04,559
Speaker 1: The Chiefs found a way to finish, and I think

1462
01:14:04,560 --> 01:14:07,120
Speaker 1: that's the difference here. The Ravens have not being the

1463
01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:10,040
Speaker 1: Chiefs since Lamar took over at quarterback. He is oh

1464
01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:12,880
Speaker 1: and three against Mahomes and the Chiefs, and I think

1465
01:14:13,040 --> 01:14:17,439
Speaker 1: it remains when he remains winless the Ravens or a

1466
01:14:17,479 --> 01:14:20,000
Speaker 1: three and a half point dog. I'm taking the Chiefs

1467
01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:24,040
Speaker 1: to win and to cover and Monday night we can

1468
01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:25,879
Speaker 1: probably talk about this a little bit more on Monday.

1469
01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:27,640
Speaker 1: But I don't know how excited I'm gonna be for

1470
01:14:27,880 --> 01:14:30,719
Speaker 1: Lions Packers. Oh, who am I kidding? I love old

1471
01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:35,080
Speaker 1: NFC Central Battles Lions Packers. I'll be geeked about that.

1472
01:14:35,240 --> 01:14:37,400
Speaker 1: The Packers are eleven and a half point favorite at home.

1473
01:14:38,760 --> 01:14:41,000
Speaker 1: Lay those things all day. The Packers are gonna come

1474
01:14:41,040 --> 01:14:43,920
Speaker 1: back with a vengeance. This feels forty two twenty one

1475
01:14:44,280 --> 01:14:49,320
Speaker 1: Lions defense who struggling and Jeff Okuda out. I think

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01:14:49,320 --> 01:14:52,240
Speaker 1: the Packers will light up the scoreboard and get back

1477
01:14:53,080 --> 01:14:56,120
Speaker 1: in the win column and even the record at one

1478
01:14:56,240 --> 01:15:00,800
Speaker 1: and one, making Aggie Dan Campbell oh in two. Coming

1479
01:15:00,880 --> 01:15:05,479
Speaker 1: up next Drew Doherty Day Mendola Not Aggies. We're gonna

1480
01:15:05,479 --> 01:15:09,320
Speaker 1: wax poetic about this weekend of football against the Cleveland Browns.

1481
01:15:09,320 --> 01:15:13,599
Speaker 1: That's next the Texans A Axis Exans Axis, exens Axis.

1482
01:15:13,640 --> 01:15:16,080
Speaker 1: We got one final segment of this Friday edition of

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01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:20,040
Speaker 1: Texans All Access from the dun Day Texans Radio studio.

1484
01:15:20,120 --> 01:15:24,280
Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst and sideline reporter,

1485
01:15:24,800 --> 01:15:29,320
Speaker 1: and each and every week I saved the final segment

1486
01:15:29,680 --> 01:15:33,400
Speaker 1: and I saved the final word for Drew Doherty. We

1487
01:15:33,479 --> 01:15:36,200
Speaker 1: get interviews during the week, I break things down, but

1488
01:15:36,240 --> 01:15:39,479
Speaker 1: I always saved the last segment for Drew Doherty. Now,

1489
01:15:39,840 --> 01:15:45,160
Speaker 1: a really interesting dynamic has sort of evolved, if you will,

1490
01:15:45,760 --> 01:15:50,080
Speaker 1: on this particular season, and that is Drew gets an

1491
01:15:50,080 --> 01:15:54,400
Speaker 1: opportunity to do a Drews dozen, and then he sticks around,

1492
01:15:54,439 --> 01:15:57,680
Speaker 1: he does a pregame interview with that particular player. So

1493
01:15:57,720 --> 01:16:00,439
Speaker 1: they get a little nutty with the Drews dozen, and

1494
01:16:00,479 --> 01:16:03,960
Speaker 1: then they come back and they're like, Okay, serious face,

1495
01:16:04,080 --> 01:16:07,720
Speaker 1: let's talk football. And so we talked with he talked

1496
01:16:07,800 --> 01:16:11,759
Speaker 1: with Danny Amndola earlier doing a Drews doesn't. And now

1497
01:16:12,160 --> 01:16:14,200
Speaker 1: we flip it and now we talk a lot of

1498
01:16:14,200 --> 01:16:17,400
Speaker 1: football with Danny A. Mendola. Here's Drew Doherty and the

1499
01:16:17,479 --> 01:16:21,760
Speaker 1: final word with Danny A. Mendola. Wow, what a whirlwind

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01:16:21,880 --> 01:16:24,160
Speaker 1: sort of ten days this has been for you. How

1501
01:16:24,200 --> 01:16:26,519
Speaker 1: are you, what's going on and what's it been like

1502
01:16:26,680 --> 01:16:29,439
Speaker 1: just the last two game weeks. I'm great. First of all,

1503
01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:31,320
Speaker 1: thanks for asking. It was great to see you again. Yes,

1504
01:16:31,479 --> 01:16:33,439
Speaker 1: And the past ten days really have been kind of

1505
01:16:33,479 --> 01:16:35,560
Speaker 1: a whirlwin for me, just trying to get acclimated with

1506
01:16:35,600 --> 01:16:38,439
Speaker 1: the city, get acclimated with the playbook, my teammates, all

1507
01:16:38,439 --> 01:16:41,759
Speaker 1: the staff here in the building, and everything's been been smooth.

1508
01:16:41,800 --> 01:16:44,560
Speaker 1: This is a great organization starting from the top, and

1509
01:16:44,840 --> 01:16:46,840
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to be here. Yeah. You know, we

1510
01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:49,160
Speaker 1: heard you last week meeting with the media before the game.

1511
01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:51,800
Speaker 1: You were talking about this offense is very similar to

1512
01:16:52,160 --> 01:16:54,400
Speaker 1: ones you've been in the past. In New England. There

1513
01:16:54,439 --> 01:16:57,320
Speaker 1: was a package installed for you and ho hum, you

1514
01:16:57,360 --> 01:16:59,439
Speaker 1: come out, you catch five passes, one of them's a touchdown,

1515
01:16:59,439 --> 01:17:02,080
Speaker 1: you help move the chains on the other four. How

1516
01:17:02,160 --> 01:17:05,840
Speaker 1: much more have you grasped of this offense since then,

1517
01:17:05,960 --> 01:17:08,160
Speaker 1: since the game? And how much more are you growing

1518
01:17:08,160 --> 01:17:10,360
Speaker 1: in it? You think? Every day is a process? Really,

1519
01:17:10,360 --> 01:17:12,360
Speaker 1: you know, I'm trying to absorb as much information as

1520
01:17:12,360 --> 01:17:14,720
Speaker 1: I can, ask as many questions as I can, and

1521
01:17:14,760 --> 01:17:17,960
Speaker 1: try to just learn and grow and kind of conform

1522
01:17:18,080 --> 01:17:20,680
Speaker 1: to being a good teammate here and learning my role,

1523
01:17:20,760 --> 01:17:23,000
Speaker 1: understanding my role with this team and try to expand

1524
01:17:23,040 --> 01:17:24,600
Speaker 1: that and try to grow and try to help this

1525
01:17:24,640 --> 01:17:26,439
Speaker 1: team win. What's the biggest challenge for you? And all that?

1526
01:17:26,439 --> 01:17:29,200
Speaker 1: Because I imagine you got to go back to your

1527
01:17:29,360 --> 01:17:31,760
Speaker 1: first year. You actually played on a fifty three men

1528
01:17:31,840 --> 01:17:33,840
Speaker 1: roster in two thousand and nine with the Rams join

1529
01:17:33,920 --> 01:17:36,360
Speaker 1: them same sort of time frame period. What's the biggest

1530
01:17:36,439 --> 01:17:38,559
Speaker 1: challenge all this? A lot of the verbage here is

1531
01:17:38,600 --> 01:17:41,200
Speaker 1: a little different than what I'm used to in pass offenses,

1532
01:17:41,360 --> 01:17:44,000
Speaker 1: although there's formations that are the same, although the verbiage

1533
01:17:44,080 --> 01:17:45,680
Speaker 1: is cut down and reduced. So as long as I

1534
01:17:45,760 --> 01:17:48,840
Speaker 1: understand the origin of how the play call is getting

1535
01:17:48,840 --> 01:17:51,000
Speaker 1: to what it is now, and then it helps me

1536
01:17:51,080 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 1: understand a lot. So if I kind of you know,

1537
01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:55,320
Speaker 1: backtrack and there's a lot of coach McDaniels here is

1538
01:17:55,400 --> 01:17:57,559
Speaker 1: kind of helping me break down, you know, how they

1539
01:17:57,680 --> 01:18:00,599
Speaker 1: got to where they are now. And when I can

1540
01:18:00,680 --> 01:18:03,320
Speaker 1: understand how they got here is when it all clicks

1541
01:18:03,360 --> 01:18:05,680
Speaker 1: for me. So just a lot of great coaches here

1542
01:18:05,680 --> 01:18:07,439
Speaker 1: helping me out. I got a lot of questions, and

1543
01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:09,640
Speaker 1: they've made the process really smooth so far. How that

1544
01:18:09,680 --> 01:18:12,240
Speaker 1: first catch field, great man. You know, I wasn't on

1545
01:18:12,280 --> 01:18:14,679
Speaker 1: a team this this whole summer, this obviously the past

1546
01:18:14,720 --> 01:18:16,760
Speaker 1: seven months, so I was dreaming about getting back on

1547
01:18:16,760 --> 01:18:20,080
Speaker 1: the field and catching the ball and Tyrod the first

1548
01:18:20,200 --> 01:18:22,000
Speaker 1: ball I caught. I knew I was gonna get the

1549
01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:24,479
Speaker 1: ball really before the play started, just because of what

1550
01:18:24,520 --> 01:18:26,840
Speaker 1: you saw. Yeah, the coverage of the coverage they were playing,

1551
01:18:26,960 --> 01:18:28,519
Speaker 1: and I knew I had a chance to get the ball.

1552
01:18:28,640 --> 01:18:30,800
Speaker 1: And it all kind of happened in slow motion, And

1553
01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:32,479
Speaker 1: I said, I remember saying to myself, all right, here

1554
01:18:32,520 --> 01:18:34,920
Speaker 1: it comes, and then I just caught it and kind

1555
01:18:34,920 --> 01:18:37,800
Speaker 1: of snapped into football mode and then you know, all

1556
01:18:37,960 --> 01:18:40,160
Speaker 1: all happened after that. So now seeing that, knowing that

1557
01:18:40,160 --> 01:18:41,600
Speaker 1: the ball was gonna come your way, did you know

1558
01:18:41,680 --> 01:18:43,240
Speaker 1: that back when you were rookie? Did you know stuff

1559
01:18:43,280 --> 01:18:45,200
Speaker 1: like that? Or was this is this just because of

1560
01:18:45,240 --> 01:18:47,960
Speaker 1: time and acclamation in the system and all that stuff

1561
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:52,040
Speaker 1: that and experience really and and learning conceptually how the

1562
01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:55,280
Speaker 1: plays were called, what the play is meant to, how

1563
01:18:55,280 --> 01:18:58,280
Speaker 1: the play is meant to run versus a specific coverage

1564
01:18:58,280 --> 01:19:01,040
Speaker 1: and vice versa. And it was it was just a

1565
01:19:01,160 --> 01:19:03,760
Speaker 1: zone hitch and easy pitch and catch and end up

1566
01:19:03,760 --> 01:19:06,479
Speaker 1: working out. Yeah, let's talk about this. Cleveland Brown's defense.

1567
01:19:06,560 --> 01:19:08,479
Speaker 1: What stands out to you when you look at them

1568
01:19:08,520 --> 01:19:10,880
Speaker 1: after what you saw against the Chiefs last week? Yeah,

1569
01:19:10,920 --> 01:19:13,000
Speaker 1: they got they got some playmakers. Man, they fly around.

1570
01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:15,360
Speaker 1: They're well coached, you know, they play good defense. They're

1571
01:19:15,439 --> 01:19:17,599
Speaker 1: they're playing at home. Now it's going to be it's

1572
01:19:17,640 --> 01:19:19,160
Speaker 1: gonna be a loud crowd. So we got to deal

1573
01:19:19,160 --> 01:19:21,360
Speaker 1: with being on the road, playing in the elements, and

1574
01:19:21,840 --> 01:19:24,280
Speaker 1: they're gonna be juiced up coming back, you know, off

1575
01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:26,800
Speaker 1: that close game with the Chiefs. So they fly around. Man,

1576
01:19:26,840 --> 01:19:28,280
Speaker 1: they got a bunch of great athletes, a bunch of

1577
01:19:28,280 --> 01:19:30,320
Speaker 1: a bunch of great defensive football players. So you know,

1578
01:19:30,320 --> 01:19:32,519
Speaker 1: we got to really grind this week, try to get

1579
01:19:32,760 --> 01:19:34,600
Speaker 1: in a good position against them. So now I'm not

1580
01:19:34,640 --> 01:19:36,559
Speaker 1: asking for specifics or anything like that, but being in

1581
01:19:36,600 --> 01:19:39,040
Speaker 1: a game plan offense, how much different is it this

1582
01:19:39,080 --> 01:19:42,120
Speaker 1: week versus what you did against Jacksonville. You look at

1583
01:19:42,120 --> 01:19:44,519
Speaker 1: it and you go into any game what you as offense,

1584
01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:47,040
Speaker 1: you try to determine what coverage they're gonna play. Leading

1585
01:19:47,040 --> 01:19:48,960
Speaker 1: into the game, you try to narrow it down and

1586
01:19:49,040 --> 01:19:52,000
Speaker 1: what specific situational kind of football they play. So we're

1587
01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:53,880
Speaker 1: gonna run the stuff that they've been practicing, we've been

1588
01:19:53,880 --> 01:19:56,920
Speaker 1: practicing for the entirety of camp, entirety of the preseason,

1589
01:19:56,960 --> 01:19:59,680
Speaker 1: and try to stick with the plays. Obviously that we know,

1590
01:19:59,680 --> 01:20:02,040
Speaker 1: we got some new stuff in there, some things that

1591
01:20:02,240 --> 01:20:04,559
Speaker 1: work against the specific coverages that we think they're going

1592
01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:07,160
Speaker 1: to play. So just like any game, just just try

1593
01:20:07,160 --> 01:20:09,479
Speaker 1: to pick your spots, try to win as much as

1594
01:20:09,520 --> 01:20:13,240
Speaker 1: possible and in many in every area, every every position,

1595
01:20:13,320 --> 01:20:16,200
Speaker 1: and try to you know, create good miss matchups against

1596
01:20:16,200 --> 01:20:18,280
Speaker 1: the other guys. So they got a good team, they

1597
01:20:18,320 --> 01:20:20,559
Speaker 1: fly around and they play good d so they sure

1598
01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:22,960
Speaker 1: do they get a nasty front man well Clowney and

1599
01:20:23,240 --> 01:20:24,800
Speaker 1: Garrett and the rest of the guys in between them.

1600
01:20:24,840 --> 01:20:27,160
Speaker 1: All right, now, let's see how you're powering game day,

1601
01:20:27,200 --> 01:20:31,080
Speaker 1: Danny Amdila. Do you have any game day superstitions. I'll

1602
01:20:31,120 --> 01:20:33,519
Speaker 1: tell you the truth. I don't. I don't. I kind

1603
01:20:33,520 --> 01:20:36,000
Speaker 1: of try to stay I have a routine, so to speak,

1604
01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:38,320
Speaker 1: but you know, not not too many superstitions I think

1605
01:20:38,320 --> 01:20:41,200
Speaker 1: I had. I had more superstitions when I was younger. Yeah,

1606
01:20:41,240 --> 01:20:43,120
Speaker 1: and then I kind of learned that you kind of

1607
01:20:43,120 --> 01:20:45,599
Speaker 1: get stuck in these different kind of modes. One thing

1608
01:20:45,640 --> 01:20:47,559
Speaker 1: goes wrong, then another thing goes wrong, and then then

1609
01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:49,559
Speaker 1: your your heads out of the you know, the proper

1610
01:20:49,560 --> 01:20:51,760
Speaker 1: headspace before the game even starts. So I just try

1611
01:20:51,800 --> 01:20:54,120
Speaker 1: to come into the game as free as I can,

1612
01:20:54,520 --> 01:20:57,280
Speaker 1: you know, of distractions of try to eliminate all of

1613
01:20:57,280 --> 01:20:59,000
Speaker 1: those things and and just get ready to get my

1614
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:01,599
Speaker 1: body ready, get my mind ready, and go. What sort

1615
01:21:01,600 --> 01:21:03,960
Speaker 1: of music you listen to on game day? Chill man?

1616
01:21:04,120 --> 01:21:07,120
Speaker 1: I I like chill music and if any music at all.

1617
01:21:07,160 --> 01:21:09,240
Speaker 1: I used to go out and pregame warm up and

1618
01:21:09,760 --> 01:21:12,759
Speaker 1: Blair music in my headphones and get all emotionally juiced

1619
01:21:12,880 --> 01:21:15,080
Speaker 1: up before the game started. But I've kind of noticed

1620
01:21:15,120 --> 01:21:17,960
Speaker 1: that works against me, kind of exhaust me a little bit.

1621
01:21:18,000 --> 01:21:21,000
Speaker 1: So as much as I can kind of be calm,

1622
01:21:21,200 --> 01:21:23,240
Speaker 1: in the right state of mind going into the game,

1623
01:21:23,320 --> 01:21:25,800
Speaker 1: and then obviously during the game, just burn it out.

1624
01:21:25,840 --> 01:21:27,800
Speaker 1: You know, it's obviously very taxing on my body, so

1625
01:21:28,040 --> 01:21:30,599
Speaker 1: just try to use all the energy in a proper way. Yeah.

1626
01:21:30,600 --> 01:21:32,320
Speaker 1: I don't think I've talked to a player who has

1627
01:21:32,360 --> 01:21:34,320
Speaker 1: at least like four or five years of experience in

1628
01:21:34,400 --> 01:21:36,639
Speaker 1: quite some time, who has ever answered that question with

1629
01:21:37,320 --> 01:21:41,000
Speaker 1: music other than something very very calm like you're talking about.

1630
01:21:41,040 --> 01:21:43,000
Speaker 1: So I think, yeah, it sounds like you'll learn and

1631
01:21:43,120 --> 01:21:44,920
Speaker 1: you go from there, no doubt. All Right, last thing,

1632
01:21:44,960 --> 01:21:46,680
Speaker 1: what do you eat before a game? Like since a

1633
01:21:46,720 --> 01:21:48,400
Speaker 1: noon game? What do you eat noon game? I like

1634
01:21:48,479 --> 01:21:51,559
Speaker 1: to eat. I'm I love bacon and eggs before before

1635
01:21:51,960 --> 01:21:54,800
Speaker 1: when I wake up. My little secret weapon is French

1636
01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:57,559
Speaker 1: toast with peanut butter and jelly on it. No syrup

1637
01:21:57,640 --> 01:21:59,479
Speaker 1: or butter, just peanut butter and jelly kind of give

1638
01:21:59,479 --> 01:22:02,680
Speaker 1: you that prop energy long term for the game and

1639
01:22:03,360 --> 01:22:05,360
Speaker 1: keep it rolling. So there you have a kids, P

1640
01:22:05,439 --> 01:22:07,760
Speaker 1: and B and J on a French toast and you

1641
01:22:07,960 --> 01:22:11,360
Speaker 1: will become like Danny Amndola, NFL receiver. All right, my friend,

1642
01:22:11,640 --> 01:22:14,040
Speaker 1: good luck on Sunday, best luck against the Browns, and

1643
01:22:14,080 --> 01:22:16,679
Speaker 1: best luck the rest of the season. Thank you appreciate it. Okay,

1644
01:22:16,720 --> 01:22:19,320
Speaker 1: can we rewind just a little bit? Did he say

1645
01:22:20,040 --> 01:22:26,160
Speaker 1: French toast with peanut butter and jelly. Danny Amndola is

1646
01:22:26,200 --> 01:22:29,400
Speaker 1: an absolute genius. Now, I will tell you to be

1647
01:22:29,479 --> 01:22:34,360
Speaker 1: on a shadow of a doubt. I love a grill

1648
01:22:34,439 --> 01:22:36,080
Speaker 1: PEB and J. You know, like a grilled cheese, but

1649
01:22:36,120 --> 01:22:40,519
Speaker 1: a grill PEB and J. Moms, Miss Harris has been

1650
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:42,599
Speaker 1: doing this for a long time for me. I love

1651
01:22:42,640 --> 01:22:46,760
Speaker 1: it now. People in my family not the biggest fan

1652
01:22:46,840 --> 01:22:49,840
Speaker 1: of certain foods, and PB and j's don't always hit.

1653
01:22:50,200 --> 01:22:52,880
Speaker 1: So whenever I'm in a kitchen making some things I

1654
01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:55,599
Speaker 1: love to make, especially in the fall, in the winter,

1655
01:22:56,080 --> 01:22:58,360
Speaker 1: I love to make me some grill peb and J's,

1656
01:22:58,760 --> 01:23:01,000
Speaker 1: but the French toast with the PB and j as

1657
01:23:01,040 --> 01:23:05,360
Speaker 1: a PB and Jerry, Oh, Dandy Amendola, you, my friend,

1658
01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:10,840
Speaker 1: are a visionary and I absolutely love it speaking. I

1659
01:23:10,960 --> 01:23:13,080
Speaker 1: love it. I love the fact that you guys were

1660
01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:16,000
Speaker 1: here with me this evening. And I had a lot

1661
01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:19,160
Speaker 1: of friends. I had Dpcity and Brandon Cooks here. I

1662
01:23:19,200 --> 01:23:22,559
Speaker 1: had Mark Vandemir, David Cully here, I had Mark Vandemir

1663
01:23:22,640 --> 01:23:27,479
Speaker 1: along with Jim Donovan. Here, we had Drew Doherty and

1664
01:23:27,680 --> 01:23:32,880
Speaker 1: Dandy A. Mendola here twice. I'm a man, Robert Harris

1665
01:23:32,920 --> 01:23:36,400
Speaker 1: back in studio, got all you listening. I got everything

1666
01:23:36,800 --> 01:23:40,920
Speaker 1: that I could possibly want, minus one, and that would

1667
01:23:40,920 --> 01:23:44,960
Speaker 1: be a w on Sunday against the Browns Texans twelve

1668
01:23:45,040 --> 01:23:50,000
Speaker 1: and a half point underdogs that hasn't stopped them before.

1669
01:23:50,520 --> 01:23:53,760
Speaker 1: As a very talented Browns team, I would say a

1670
01:23:53,840 --> 01:23:56,760
Speaker 1: desperate Brown's team to make sure they get that win.

1671
01:23:56,840 --> 01:23:59,760
Speaker 1: If it's a team that's thinking along the lines of

1672
01:23:59,760 --> 01:24:02,599
Speaker 1: what I heard all week in Cleveland, they're thinking about

1673
01:24:02,720 --> 01:24:05,320
Speaker 1: number one seed getting a buy all that kind of stuff,

1674
01:24:05,400 --> 01:24:08,479
Speaker 1: and obviously lost to Kansas City didn't help. But how

1675
01:24:08,520 --> 01:24:11,360
Speaker 1: about I lost to the Texans and what a statement

1676
01:24:11,520 --> 01:24:15,640
Speaker 1: that would make around the league. Well, you're playing with

1677
01:24:15,640 --> 01:24:18,960
Speaker 1: the house money, nobody expects you to win out there

1678
01:24:18,960 --> 01:24:21,280
Speaker 1: and play your ass off and see what happens. We'll

1679
01:24:21,280 --> 01:24:25,639
Speaker 1: see on Sunday nine o'clock to twelve o'clock pregame show.

1680
01:24:26,040 --> 01:24:29,760
Speaker 1: Twelve o'clock we take over Mark Andre and myself with

1681
01:24:29,840 --> 01:24:32,679
Speaker 1: the game broadcast, and then you got postgame show after

1682
01:24:32,720 --> 01:24:35,599
Speaker 1: that Sean and Clint to take you through the rest

1683
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Speaker 1: of the evening and hopefully there will be great news

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Speaker 1: that they are talking about during that postgame show. You

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Speaker 1: are the best. We'll see a Sunday as always, Go Texans.