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Speaker 1: it has been indescribable today in London. And then we

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Speaker 1: was absolutely awesome. The fans are jacked up. Here's what

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Speaker 1: I love you asked this question, which I thought was great.

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Speaker 1: You were like, how many of you are from Europe

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Speaker 1: fantastic to see that. But Johnny, you're right Europe. So

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Speaker 1: I think we need a game in Reikjavik. Wow, my

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Speaker 1: practice a little bit, Johnny, because they aren't getting ready

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Speaker 1: when actually on the airs, we have to move it

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Speaker 1: But Johnny, the travel aspect of this, a lot of

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Speaker 1: go about playing defense. With a player like JJ out

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Speaker 1: of the lineup, Well, we've been working together eighteen years,

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Speaker 1: so I'm sure you've seen the same thing I have

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Speaker 1: and are concerned about the same thing. And that's Leonard Fournette,

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Speaker 1: who's having a really good season, and you mentioned the

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Speaker 1: early downs and needing to stop him. The Texans did

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Speaker 1: a good job last time, but they're going to have

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Speaker 1: to do that again and maybe more this time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and he seems that. I'll tell you what's what's the

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Speaker 1: difference in Leonard Fournette is that he's running behind a

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Speaker 1: healthier offensive line. They've gotten some players back up front

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Speaker 1: that have opened some holes for him. And when you're

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Speaker 1: playing with backups, we know how tough that is to us,

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Speaker 1: especially get the running game going. When everybody's not in sync,

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Speaker 1: or you have one guy in, one guy out. It's

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Speaker 1: tough to go about your business that way, especially for

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Speaker 1: a talented backlight Fournette. But he's back, the offensive line

442
00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:15,680
Speaker 1: is a little bit healthier, and he's starting to reap

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Speaker 1: the benefits. We know what type of talent he is.

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Speaker 1: He looks as though, studying last week's film, he's having

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Speaker 1: fun again. And when you're there are no holes there

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Speaker 1: and you're constantly being stopped in the backfield or at

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, it's no fun for not only

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Speaker 1: a quarterback, but certainly a running back. Gardner Minshew seems like,

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Speaker 1: you know, he's just continuing to build every single week

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Speaker 1: on the last week's performance where his confidence is at

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Speaker 1: an all time high right now. So those are two weapons.

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Speaker 1: Are certainly a lot more that are around those two

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Speaker 1: that will be a factor in Sunday's game. But they

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Speaker 1: look like a very good, young offensive team that's starting

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Speaker 1: to turn the corner and starting to compete at a

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Speaker 1: high level. Minshew is kind of making it, I hate

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Speaker 1: to say, look easy. It's not easy, and maybe he's

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Speaker 1: not making a look that easy. But he's a rookie

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Speaker 1: andre and they're four and four, and I know the

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Speaker 1: competition isn't super Bowl worthy, but you have to give

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Speaker 1: him some credit here for coming in and doing a

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Speaker 1: nice job. Yeah, I had credit how he was coached

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Speaker 1: in college and being able to read defenses and things

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Speaker 1: of that. That goes a long way when you can

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Speaker 1: come to the line of scrimmage and see different looks

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Speaker 1: and know how to attack certain defenses based on where

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Speaker 1: the weaknesses are. Mike Leach did an outstanding job with him,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's he's part of a trend where

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Speaker 1: that's the way in the direction that the NFL is going.

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Speaker 1: It's going more towards the spread looks, the offenses, the

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Speaker 1: air raid type offenses where guys are are prepared for

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Speaker 1: what the NFL has in store from a defensive standpoint,

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Speaker 1: not a whole lot. You can show him that he

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Speaker 1: hasn't seen to be quite honest, and and he has

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Speaker 1: taken the coaching. He's often running with it, and he's

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Speaker 1: getting he's improving each and every week, and you can

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Speaker 1: actually see it when you turn on the tape and

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Speaker 1: watch it. All Right, I'm looking at the Cults here

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Speaker 1: going to Pittsburgh, and we saw Pittsburgh. I hesitate to

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Speaker 1: use the word struggle, but it was more of a

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Speaker 1: struggle than we thought against the Miami Dolphins on Monday night.

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Speaker 1: So what are you thinking of the Steelers hosting the

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Speaker 1: Cults this weekend? Well, I think I go back to

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Speaker 1: that game on Monday Night against the Dolphins. I think

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Speaker 1: it may have been one of those where you underestimate

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Speaker 1: an opponent and a young team. You know Mason Randolph

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Speaker 1: or Rudolph there as a quarterback, and you just can't

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Speaker 1: do that. There's a there are a lot of young

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Speaker 1: components to the Steelers. And then you're reading about the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins and how the tank in the season and how

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Speaker 1: you know this that and the other where it's going

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Speaker 1: to be an easy game. Just we're at home. We'll

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Speaker 1: roll the helmets out there and roll the balls out

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Speaker 1: and we'll win and move on. Let's the NFL, and

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Speaker 1: you find yourself up. We're down fourteen nothing, we better

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Speaker 1: start playing. I think it was more more of that

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Speaker 1: than it was a lapse of talent. With the Steelers

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Speaker 1: going or playing against Indie this week, this will be

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Speaker 1: a tough game. It's one that on paper, the Colts

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Speaker 1: should be able to take care of the Steelers, but

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Speaker 1: it's the NFL and you never know. Any given Sunday

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Speaker 1: it can happen. We saw that Miami came out fighting

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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden the Steelers reacted. This

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Speaker 1: could this is one of those where the coach should

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Speaker 1: win it, but it could be a toss up game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and then you have the Titans in Carolina in North Carolina,

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Speaker 1: so that's going to be interesting as well. Carolina coming

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Speaker 1: out that bad loss seems to be coming down back

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Speaker 1: down to earth. There was a lot of Kyle Allen.

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Speaker 1: He suffered his first loss this past weekend. I know

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Speaker 1: they've got some injuries in Carolina, but Tennessee is a

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Speaker 1: team that is starting to roll a little bit. They're

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Speaker 1: going on the road Tanny Hills. Starting to play some

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Speaker 1: consistent football. And that's always been the scary thing about Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: as if they can get consistent quarterback play each and

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Speaker 1: every weekend a week out with a dominant running game,

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Speaker 1: and and I think that's exactly what coach Vrabel wanted.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what he's starting to get and he's starting

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Speaker 1: to rout the benefits of it. There's my buddy andre

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Speaker 1: Ware And next up we'll get a little bit of

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Speaker 1: insight from Frank Frangie, voice of the Jaguars. We heard

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Speaker 1: from him earlier in the week, but what does he

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Speaker 1: have to say about coming to London, about this particular

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Speaker 1: game and about the rest of the Division two. Because

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Speaker 1: it's hot and heavy in the AFC South, like we discussed,

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Speaker 1: the barrel boy am banker and fans coming out of

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Speaker 1: the woodwork. Different countries, different states, different states of mind,

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Speaker 1: different throwing in their different continents and continent. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Iceland really blew me away. That was cool. That's cool.

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Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta find one to beat that, because

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Speaker 1: I me, London is one thing, but Iceland is another.

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Speaker 1: You know, we were talking earlier about World League and

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Speaker 1: you mentioned putting a game over in Germany. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: know one of the most successful franchises is from your motherland.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Amsterdam and play a game the Amsterdam Admirals. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's go to Amsterdam and play yah. Yeah, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: would love that. Okay. The local soccer team pro soccer

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Speaker 1: team is IAX and it's spelled Ajax Ajax, but it's

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Speaker 1: i AX and uh I follow them on Twitter now,

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Speaker 1: so that's fun for me. Anyway, a little bit more

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Speaker 1: about this game and the AFC South and Johnny, when

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Speaker 1: you look at the Cults going to Pittsburgh, this is

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Speaker 1: a big aven the Texas. Let's face it, let or

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Speaker 1: lose you want the Colts to lose to Pittsburgh somehow,

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Speaker 1: and no, t Y Hilton, like you stated earlier, what

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Speaker 1: do you make of that one? As those two will

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Speaker 1: get together, I want to tell you that Pittsburgh started

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Speaker 1: solving all of its issues in the second half against Miami.

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Speaker 1: But I do think it was great for Pittsburgh to

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Speaker 1: get a win and have Mason Rudolph back in the

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Speaker 1: lineup and say, hey, yeah, we had guys that made plays,

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Speaker 1: and not every single one of those guys who was

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Speaker 1: named Juju Smith Schuster for James Connor. They got contributions

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Speaker 1: from Deonta Johnson, and they also got contributions from Brian

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Speaker 1: Forrez sending an eight man blitz on third and twenty

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Speaker 1: and leaving Johnson wide open. So they got contributions from everybody.

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Speaker 1: I think the Steelers. The Steelers played better defense than

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Speaker 1: people think. T J. Watt has had a great year.

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Speaker 1: And obviously we'll talk about j J because we're in Houston,

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Speaker 1: but TJ has had a really good JJ is a

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Speaker 1: good pr agent for TJS and he really doesn't even

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Speaker 1: have to be because TJ's just playing that well. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna be key. But again we found out last week.

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Speaker 1: We've known, but it was re emphasized last week that

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Speaker 1: you can be great coming off the edge. You can

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Speaker 1: beat that block up front, and you might beat Brandon Smith,

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Speaker 1: you might beat Costanzo, but you've got to beat Jacoby

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Speaker 1: Brissette by wrapping him up and bringing him down. Bob Miller.

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Speaker 1: Bob Miller, a Hall of Famer, didn't do that, and

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Speaker 1: it allowed the Broncos, allowed the Colts excuse me, to

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Speaker 1: beat the Broncos as Brissette was able to get out

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Speaker 1: of it. And that play was the springboard two game

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Speaker 1: winning cougo by Adam Vinitari. So I think the Steelers

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Speaker 1: playing at home, that's it. That's the key, playing at home.

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Speaker 1: And this is one of those that we talked about

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Speaker 1: at the beginning of the when the schedule was announced.

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Speaker 1: What's the matchup games that we all played the same teams,

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Speaker 1: the Colts and Sex Since home and away, we all

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Speaker 1: we played the same team except for two. We played

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Speaker 1: the Patriots at home. They played the Dolphins at home. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we go to Baltimore, they go to Pittsburgh. So this

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Speaker 1: is one of those games you look at go We're

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Speaker 1: gonna pound the Dolphins. Okay, that's gonna happen at Holt.

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Speaker 1: You knew that was gonna happen, and it's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: I think it happens this week. Well we do get

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Speaker 1: some Patriots, we'll find out. It's gonna be a measuring

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Speaker 1: stick for us later in the year. But this one,

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Speaker 1: this is where you can pick one up. You pick

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Speaker 1: one up the Chargers right in and that was a

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Speaker 1: big one to pick up. That you won and they lost.

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Speaker 1: Denver almost came through last Denver almost came through for you.

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Speaker 1: But now you got to take care of your own

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Speaker 1: business obviously here in Jacksonville. But I do think that

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh is going to be in that ball game all

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Speaker 1: the way throughout, and you hope that playing in Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: that gives them a little bit of an advantage and

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Speaker 1: they can come through and pull off and win for us.

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Speaker 1: And how would that how ausse would that be to

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Speaker 1: be on a plane coming home going, Hey, Pittsburgh beat Indianapolis,

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Speaker 1: give beat Jacksonville, You're back in first place going into

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Speaker 1: the body, that would be that would be terrific. I mean,

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Speaker 1: when you look at Tennessee, check it out in Carolina.

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Speaker 1: I really think that the Panthers have. I know they

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Speaker 1: lost badly last week, but they do have a lot

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Speaker 1: going for them, especially against the Titans. I think this

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Speaker 1: is a hotly contested affair going down to the wire

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. Yeah, I mean, I think it's

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Speaker 1: that's the kind of game I think Tennessee's gonna play.

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Speaker 1: I think Tennessee plays those kind of games. And Mike

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Speaker 1: Brabel knows he doesn't have all the offensive talent in

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Speaker 1: the world. But what Brabel's doing is he's keeping that

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Speaker 1: game close enough that either Tanny Hill can make one

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Speaker 1: play or the other team makes a massive mistake and

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Speaker 1: they could take advantage of that. And it almost backfired

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Speaker 1: on him last week, but with that fake field goal,

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Speaker 1: but the whistle, he got bailed out because the whistle

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Speaker 1: should have never been blown in the Bucks should have

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Speaker 1: one half football game. But that's the way it goes

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Speaker 1: either way. With this game. With the Panthers, with Kyle

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Speaker 1: Allen now pretty much entrenched the starter, you don't have

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Speaker 1: to ask, Hey, is he gonna start this week? He's

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Speaker 1: gonna start this week. You know he's gonna start. Because

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Speaker 1: Cam is dealing with that foot That is a whole

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Speaker 1: heck of a lot worse than people imagined or even

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Speaker 1: let off with it originally happened. So he went up

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Speaker 1: apparently up to Green Bay to go see a surgeon

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Speaker 1: up there and see what the deal is. But Kyle

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Speaker 1: All's the guy, and I think that gives the Panther's

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Speaker 1: confidence that, hey, look Kyle doesn't have to answer those

637
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Speaker 1: questions a weekend and week out. He had a bad game,

638
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: he bounces back this week against the Titans, and I

639
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: think the Panthers end up being the Tights at home.

640
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: By the way, foot surgeon at Green Bay, not that

641
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: that's that unusual, but a specialist to warrants NFL type attention,

642
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: I guess that's good for him. Yeah, doctor Robert Anderson

643
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 1: does does a tremendous job. So and I want to

644
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: live in Green Bay, tarn't it because I like it

645
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: up there. Well, how we feel was Julilad. I told

646
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 1: us Green Bay was like a little he said it

647
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: was like a little mountpleasant, exactly what he said it is.

648
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: Of course, we're a central Michigan is located And don't

649
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: get me started, Okay. Frank Franchie is the voice of

650
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, and I've visited with him about some of

651
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: the details going on between the Texans and the Jaguars

652
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 1: and this trip to London. Okay, what about the fans.

653
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: I've heard that different jerseys are worn because they're NFL fans,

654
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 1: not necessarily fans of the team. Yeah, I think there'll

655
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: be more jagged than anything else because we've become sort

656
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 1: of the quasi home team over there, so you'll see

657
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 1: more Jackie jersey than you will have their teams. But

658
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: having said that, you'll see everybody you will see and

659
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: teams with big followings to go for the first time.

660
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: I guess the Texans will be this way. I can

661
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: tell you the first time when we played the Eagles

662
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: over there last year, there were tons of Eagles fans

663
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: because they've never made a trip before. But yeah, you

664
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: will see they all were at jerseys too, bro, So

665
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: you will see more NFL jerseys from more different teams.

666
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: I think the first year I went, I was kind

667
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: of astounded by that mark. I think I've probably counted

668
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 1: fifteen sixteen teams at one walk around the stadium. I

669
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 1: think I could probably counted fifteen or sixteen, so half

670
00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: of the NFL team. So it's colorful. It's kind of neat.

671
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: They've had to learn how to cheer. It's a different

672
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 1: kind of cheer than you're used to. And believe it

673
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 1: or not, even your players have to get used to

674
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: that because you're you know, you're players who used to

675
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: a certain cadence of the crowd. Home crowd acts a

676
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: certain way, the road crowd act a certain way. Well,

677
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 1: these hands are learning kind of how to cheer a

678
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: little bit. It'll be a very different experience for you

679
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: and for that team for sure. Here you are at

680
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 1: five hundred, are you surprised? How do you feel about

681
00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: the first half of the season for the Jaguars. I

682
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,959
Speaker 1: gotta tell you, and I think this the feeling around

683
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: here is to have lost your quarterback eleven plays into

684
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: the season, Mark eleven plays. You spend eighty eight million

685
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 1: dollars on Nick Bold and you lose him eleven plays in.

686
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: Then to have all the Jalen Ramsey stuff Jalen wanted

687
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 1: out of here. They you know the whole story by now.

688
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 1: By now about the confrontation or the discussion with the

689
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 1: front office, and he asked for a trade a day later.

690
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: I think everybody knows the drill. To lose your best

691
00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: defensive player, one of the best corners in the league

692
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 1: is not the best to lose your quarterback eleven plays

693
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 1: in and then you look up and you're right in

694
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: the middle of the race and you're four and four.

695
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: It's a pretty good four and four. The rookie quarterback's

696
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: pretty good. I think everybody knows that. Now. Now, look,

697
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: they've beaten struggling teams that yet they're struggling the Bengals,

698
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 1: they're struggling. Le Broncos are struggling. The wins have come

699
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 1: against bad teams. They have to see if they can

700
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: do it against good teams, and that, of course starts

701
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 1: in London. I thought the Texans jack Ward is getting

702
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 1: the first time around was pretty good. Game came down

703
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: to a two point conversion and Leonard Fournette was stopped

704
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: about an inch short, and there's a one point game.

705
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: So but now I think, all told, they feel pretty

706
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 1: good about where this team is. Okay, what about Minshew?

707
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:12,439
Speaker 1: And I know you probably get asked all the time

708
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,760
Speaker 1: about what happens when falls gets back, But what happens

709
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 1: when falls gets back, Frank I did get asked all

710
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: the time. I don't think anybody knows that answer. I

711
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 1: think let's see what happens in London. If the Jags win,

712
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,360
Speaker 1: that's three straight wins. He's played very well, thirteen touchdowns,

713
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: only two interstepttions. He's way beyond where a Speedmentally, I

714
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: think everybody knows that he's got a good arm, not

715
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 1: a great arm. He's mobile, he's got he's got a

716
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,799
Speaker 1: little moxie about him. There's something special about this guy.

717
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 1: Nobody would debate chat having said that you're committed. This

718
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: team committed themselves to nix fold. You don't make the commitment.

719
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 1: Someone said, well, you gotta play falls. They're gonna play

720
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: falls through their paytive. No, that has nothing to do

721
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 1: with it. But you paid him because you're committed to

722
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 1: him being your guy for the next three years. So

723
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:00,440
Speaker 1: I don't know which way they're gonna go. Honestly, I

724
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: don't know that it it does. Does I asked Tug about

725
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: that the other day and he told him he really

726
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: doesn't know, and I tend to believe him. I don't

727
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 1: think they've decided. I think the feeling is as an

728
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 1: open day. After the game, play the game, see what

729
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 1: happens when you play the game, catch your breath, and

730
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: then and then see what happens. My guest is Mark,

731
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: at some point hit Fold will quarterback this team again,

732
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,280
Speaker 1: whether it's the week after the buyern out, will see

733
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 1: all right, tell me about DJ Shark and what you're

734
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 1: getting out of him. I mean, this guy's really making

735
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,800
Speaker 1: a lot of noise right now with the six touchdowns,

736
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 1: six hundred and sixty yards. What are you seeing? Yeah,

737
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,320
Speaker 1: he's a good player at LSU. He's got all the measurables.

738
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: He's six foots four, he's two hundred pounds. He can run.

739
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: He reminds you Boddy. He reminds you of Hopkins a

740
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: little bit in terms of the way he looks. Came.

741
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,240
Speaker 1: He did not catch a lot of balls at LSU.

742
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 1: He probably caught fifty sixty balls his whole career there.

743
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,160
Speaker 1: So for that reason, he wasn't the most seasoned, the

744
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: skilled guy. I learned how to catch the ball. He

745
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: kind of fucked the ball a little bit Mark his

746
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: first year. Now he's really worked on that. He's a

747
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:00,799
Speaker 1: good pass catcher and the other stuff is there. He's

748
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: really fast, he's very athletic, works really hard. He's got

749
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:08,319
Speaker 1: a toughness about him. He's good. This guy's gonna be legit.

750
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 1: It's a good We have never had a great receiver

751
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: for him, you know, we had We had Jimmy Smith

752
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 1: and Keenan McCardell in the early years in the nineties,

753
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: and since then, it just hasn't been a very good core.

754
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: It's pretty good now, DDI. Westbrook's a good player. Chris

755
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: Conley got buried a little bit in Kansas City, but

756
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: now that he's here, he's a good player. So I

757
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:25,879
Speaker 1: wouldn't mind having a tight end. Tight End play hasn't

758
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: been very good, but as far as the wide receivers,

759
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: they've been pretty good. I thought you were on your

760
00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: way with Alan Robinson and Hearns and those guys. They

761
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: were looking like a good young crew, but it never

762
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: quite materialized, right, That was part of it. And look,

763
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 1: Alan Hearns is a really good player, and Alan Hearns

764
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: is the best teammate of all the time. But those

765
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 1: guys weren't very fast. We've gotten into it. We've gotten

766
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: a time in the league, I think, and maybe you

767
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: just agree with this, but we've gotten to a time

768
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: in the league where possession receivers have had to give

769
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: away to guys that can run. I mean look at

770
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: Hopkins Fuller. I mean, who's faster than Fuller in this league?

771
00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: And he's the second best receiver on your team. So

772
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: I think we've gotten, you know what I mean, Mark,

773
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 1: I think we've gotten where guys have to run as

774
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 1: good as as good as a rob and Hearns and

775
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: Mark E's Lee or they all came into the league together.

776
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: None of them took the top off the defense. These

777
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: three guys can all run. Now, this is three guys

778
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:15,800
Speaker 1: that can run. They haven't had that before. What's different

779
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: about Fournette if anything? Seven yards my goodness, five yards

780
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: per carry. The guys doing really well for him, Well,

781
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: he's healthy. He was hurt most of last year. And

782
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,480
Speaker 1: last year it got away from the Jaggers for whatever reason.

783
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: They had a lot of young guys. You started wondering

784
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: if they were playing for each other or playing for

785
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 1: themselves a little bit. I think they would tell you

786
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 1: that in a very introspective moment. I think most of

787
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 1: the guys on the team would tell you that. I

788
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 1: think Leonard recommitted himself, went to Wyoming in the off season.

789
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 1: Mark really really worked got himself in great shape. He's

790
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: he's the running game now. He gets all the carry,

791
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 1: they throw it to him out of the backfield, and

792
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: I think he's healthy. I think he's in shape. I

793
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 1: think he's a year older, a year of more mature,

794
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 1: and he's having a terrific year. But this whole team, Look,

795
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,839
Speaker 1: I'm Jalen Rams is a magnificent player, and everybody hated

796
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 1: the team go to the extent a good player, and

797
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:07,520
Speaker 1: he was a hard worker and he cared. He wanted

798
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: to be the best in his craft. So there's no

799
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:13,360
Speaker 1: negative stuff about Jalen. Yet it's got to where this team.

800
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: I think this team plays for each other more now

801
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: than it has in many many years. I think you

802
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: could sense that. I think you can feel that, and

803
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 1: I think there's a pretty good vibe in that locker room.

804
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 1: Frank Frangie, voice of the Jaguars with us, Frank, give

805
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: me a player too that doesn't get pub that. You

806
00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 1: think more people should be talking about somebody's doing well

807
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, I think there's some under the radar guys,

808
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: some of the young second year guys, David Bryant starting

809
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 1: to play well along that defensive front. Josh Allen's getting

810
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: a lot of pubs. So I guess he wouldn't qualify

811
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: as that guy. He's getting a lot. I think the

812
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,839
Speaker 1: two safeties, the two young safeties, remember ad To Sean

813
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: Gifton is there now and Barry Church, two veteran safeties

814
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: who kind of anchored that defense when the team was

815
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: the defense was so good two years ago. They're gone.

816
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 1: So the two young safeties, Jerry Wilson's played well, Ronnie

817
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 1: Harrison's played well. This young defensive tackle the first round

818
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: or a year ago, Taven Brian. When Caven Brian came

819
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: into the league, he's six foot five to six five

820
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,399
Speaker 1: and kind of looked in a uniform like JJ Watt

821
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 1: and everyone said he's j J Watt. Well he's not.

822
00:39:11,480 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 1: The tackle was a three technique, he's not an end.

823
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:14,919
Speaker 1: They tried him an end of last year. He didn't

824
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: play to well. So he's starting to play better. The

825
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:19,840
Speaker 1: Wan Smoot is a draft pick a third round or

826
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 1: three years ago that they thought maybe they had missed on.

827
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,399
Speaker 1: He's got two sacks already. He's starting to play better.

828
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 1: So some of the young guy, I'll give you one

829
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: more guy, keep and eye and Trey Herndon the cornerback

830
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: number thirty seven. Mark he's a guy that had to.

831
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,360
Speaker 1: He's an undrafted guy out of Vanderbilt that had to

832
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,879
Speaker 1: go in and play. When they traded Jalen and people thought,

833
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 1: oh boy, well he had two interceptions last week. And

834
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: I mean good interception. I don't mean balls the pumped

835
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: in his hands. I mean he went dove and went

836
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,799
Speaker 1: and got him. The week before against Cincinnati, he thought

837
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,759
Speaker 1: he had an intercept head was overturned by replay. This

838
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: guy's got two picks, almost three. He's been a really

839
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: good cornerback for them, so he's played pretty well. Excellent stuff, Frank,

840
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 1: all right, one more for you. I don't think anybody

841
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: should be surprised at the AFC South has. All four

842
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: teams at five hundred are better, but it's the way

843
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 1: they got there. I think that is a little bit

844
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 1: of a surprise at the very least. What about the

845
00:40:08,080 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 1: Titans and the Cults, your quick thoughts on them. Yeah,

846
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised that your Kobe were set. I know

847
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 1: him a little bit when he was at Florida before

848
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: he transferred to NC State. I said on my day

849
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 1: on my daily radio show, watch he's not Andrew the lucks.

850
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna do luck. But he is a really good player,

851
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:26,839
Speaker 1: and they will not take the step back to people

852
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: thinking the people on the radio show with me look

853
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: like I had a blue head. But I'm telling you,

854
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised by that. I don't know what to

855
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: make of the Titans. I think they're a good, tough,

856
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 1: physical football team. Mariota got benched. I'm not sure what

857
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 1: to make of him. Mike. He's a good friend of

858
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: both years and mine and Mike and I talk about

859
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 1: it a lot. I'm not sure he knew where they

860
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 1: were headed with Mariota. So I don't know what to

861
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 1: make of the Titans. The tough, nos physical football teams

862
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:51,359
Speaker 1: find the way to win. They know how to win.

863
00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised by the Colts. I think your Kobe

864
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 1: were set a good player. I expected him to play

865
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:59,439
Speaker 1: well like he has. There's my buddy, Frank Frangie, voice

866
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:01,560
Speaker 1: of the Jet Aguars. Wanted to get a little of

867
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 1: that conversation on the air. So many of you have

868
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:06,640
Speaker 1: been focused on baseball, and I get it. I totally

869
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,800
Speaker 1: get it. Tremendous run for the Astros didn't end the

870
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:11,840
Speaker 1: way we wanted it too. But now we're on the

871
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 1: football and the baseball hot stove, which is gonna be

872
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:17,920
Speaker 1: piping hot just a moment here if it isn't already.

873
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 1: We're always piping hot of your in Texans Radio in

874
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 1: the barrel Buoyant Backer the Texans Pub in London, and

875
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 1: it is packed with Texans fans. More coming up, including

876
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 1: some from Whitney Merciless what he has to say about

877
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: this particular matchup. How about our buddy Prent and Scarlett.

878
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: How about Johnny's Keys to the game. And I'm going

879
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 1: to throw something as well next hour our Texans Radio.

880
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 1: This is Texans Radio on Sports Radio six ten video

881
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: six ten Video sixty. Let's go the road bright side

882
00:41:54,640 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 1: that hots touchdown game day. He is every day goes

883
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 1: to the end of us five nights a week. They

884
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: hits keep on coming. He's got it. How about that

885
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 1: Now from inside NRG Stadium, it's Texans All Excess, presented

886
00:42:17,160 --> 00:42:27,359
Speaker 1: by Geico, Martin, vandermir John Harry first with you, Bara

887
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: Boy and Banker downtown London. The place is rocking Texans

888
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: and Jaguars at Webley Stadium on Sunday. And I said

889
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 1: it's like food Ruckers on steroids. By the way, we

890
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,879
Speaker 1: will be at food Ruckers Tuesday, and it's the bye week.

891
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 1: Hard to believe. I mean it's there already the week.

892
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: And Clint Sterner will be our guest Tuesday at six

893
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 1: at food Rutgers Greenway. It's gonna be a lot of

894
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: fund at Clint there and get to know him deeper,

895
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:57,839
Speaker 1: a lot deeper than you do in the Afternoon Show

896
00:42:57,880 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: where he does such a terrific job and he's on

897
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: our game anytime with you on Wednesdays. But we'll dive

898
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:06,919
Speaker 1: deep with Clint Sterner Tuesday at six o'clock. But this place, look,

899
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 1: this is Johnny. I don't even know what time of

900
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: date is for these Texans because you know, here we

901
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 1: are at seven o'clock Central. I get it, But for

902
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: them it's yeah, I guess it is, but it's later,

903
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,320
Speaker 1: it's earlier. It's crazy and they're all gent lagged and

904
00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 1: having a good time, and you know, so are we.

905
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 1: By the way, but we're on the radio, so we

906
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 1: have to be fit to be on the air, right

907
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:33,920
Speaker 1: we I would say we're fit to be on the air.

908
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit surprised by that. Well, you know,

909
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 1: one thing we were talking about actually an uber and

910
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: the way over here. We we just flat out missed

911
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 1: Halloween because we left in the afternoon and then we

912
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 1: got here it was November first already, so we just

913
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 1: had which I was a little set. That's one of

914
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: my favorite things about Halloween is I just kids a

915
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: way out of Holliday. No, no, I know, but for them,

916
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 1: I'm just sick selflessly because it's all about me. And

917
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 1: you'd like to give out the candy at the door,

918
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,440
Speaker 1: I do. I sit at the door and I get

919
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: to play. I get to play. Uh, the candy banks.

920
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:05,800
Speaker 1: You're coming to the candy bank. And you know what

921
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 1: this is the super Bowl of holidays for the kids. Well,

922
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 1: Christmas and Halloween are the two biggest kid holidays. My

923
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 1: kid was Alexander Hamilton for Halloween for him and he

924
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,640
Speaker 1: was singing lyrics from the show going around the neighborhood

925
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:22,200
Speaker 1: and you know the town crier who in the hip

926
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 1: hop Hamilton and people who don't know what that is.

927
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: By the way, we have two really well dressed Texans

928
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: fans play Texas flags suits. I mean he's got Jay's

929
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 1: on the original Jay's with this Texas Flag suit and

930
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 1: his wife has got the same way now her shoes

931
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 1: are not Jay's. She gets his wife. Yeah, she's got

932
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 1: cowboy boots that are just fantastic. Got The best thing

933
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: is the London nurse seeing these folks. Yeah, that's it,

934
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:53,880
Speaker 1: not just us, but London nurse saying, okay, those Americans

935
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: do love their football. They loved that brand. And by

936
00:44:57,080 --> 00:45:02,440
Speaker 1: the way, my British accent here, I'm really sort of

937
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 1: hesitant to use it around the bride because they're gonna say, oh,

938
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: another American trying to be British. Gray. That's so like

939
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 1: when I went to Spain. Yeah, I have just enough

940
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: Spanish to like just recognize words, and so I m

941
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:20,879
Speaker 1: I was afraid to bring it out though. I didn't

942
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:24,799
Speaker 1: want to embarrass myself, you know, just even like they

943
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 1: just but not embarrass myself mocking the Brits by doing

944
00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 1: a b It's like, it's not very respectful. I have

945
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:32,760
Speaker 1: a feeling, so I gotta be careful with that. Anyway,

946
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 1: you mentioned we are at the barrow boy and banker,

947
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 1: and I got to think, in what's a barrel boy? Well,

948
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: so I looked it up. A barrow boy is well,

949
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: it's got two expressions, occupational and social. Street traders. Since

950
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:50,840
Speaker 1: the nineteenth century sold seasonal goods from two wheeled barrows.

951
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:56,760
Speaker 1: London street traders were called costermongers, or more generally, barrow boys,

952
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:00,280
Speaker 1: since anything can be sold from a barrow, including coals.

953
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 1: Crockery and banker would be the more white collars straight

954
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 1: version of it, trader, if you will, right, So, yeah,

955
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: both here Sabara boy and banker. Yeah. So it's kind

956
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 1: of like like trading places. You had Eddie Murphy and

957
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:19,879
Speaker 1: you had Randolf in Mortimer, kind of all in one. Randolph. Okay, look,

958
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 1: I know we're a little while along in the place,

959
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: but give us a break. Where in London doing a

960
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: radio show. Back to the United States of America, and

961
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 1: God bless Houston. By the way, I love London, even

962
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:31,400
Speaker 1: being here in this short time. I am just thanking

963
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: my lucky stars. I live in Texas. I just I

964
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:36,799
Speaker 1: love where we live and it's great to be It's

965
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 1: great to visit other cities, other cultures, but I love

966
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 1: Texas and I just thought i'd get that in and

967
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 1: I'm not pandering. That is the god honest roat. And

968
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:49,400
Speaker 1: I can't wait to get home after I went on Sunday. Now, Whitney, Merciless,

969
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:51,839
Speaker 1: you've heard of him, part of that front seven, part

970
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: of that pass rush that has to do damage on

971
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:57,800
Speaker 1: Sunday and the rest of the campaign with no jj Watt,

972
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: Drew Doherty had a chance to catch shop with Whitney.

973
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: How energizing is it to be in London and to

974
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: get to play in London they get to be in

975
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 1: front of a different crowd than you normally are. Yeah,

976
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:10,359
Speaker 1: it's gonna be exciting, different venue, cross the pond. YEA,

977
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,240
Speaker 1: of course that's good. That's a cool thought. And also

978
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 1: I hear those fans are like absolutely crazy. Just talking

979
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 1: to a few guys around the league who've done that

980
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,800
Speaker 1: travel a few times, and I'm excited to get in

981
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:23,800
Speaker 1: front of that crowd. See how crazy it is the

982
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 1: atmosphere and hopefully it's not too cold. Hopefully it's not

983
00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:28,359
Speaker 1: too cold. It's a little bit chilly this time. You're

984
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:30,400
Speaker 1: but nothing you can't handle. You've played in much colder

985
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:32,839
Speaker 1: environments and let's talk about how this season has been

986
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: for you. What's the deal do you have? Is there

987
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:37,360
Speaker 1: like a magnet in your body now because you're around

988
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 1: the ball all the time, it seems what's going on? Buddy?

989
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:43,560
Speaker 1: No man? You know what? God just designed that way

990
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 1: for this year. I'm just saying, you know, this is

991
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: my thought. I just want to get around the ball,

992
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 1: just make sure that I'm creating or impacting the game somehow,

993
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 1: just to get the ball back to the back to

994
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 1: the offense, whatever it is is stripping it in orsecting

995
00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:00,239
Speaker 1: it or recovering a fumble, pretty much like it just

996
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 1: happens to be just right there. And so I just

997
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 1: want to try to continue that forward. You know, it's

998
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:06,359
Speaker 1: a slowdown just a little bit, but it's all good.

999
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:08,640
Speaker 1: It's been fun seeing you play so well, and it's

1000
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:11,840
Speaker 1: also been fun seeing these celebrations afterwards. You're part of

1001
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 1: quote unquote the Rock Boys. Can I know mostly what

1002
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 1: it is, but for those that haven't heard it, can

1003
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: you kind of explain where that came from, who the

1004
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 1: Rock Boys are and what's going on with all that?

1005
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:23,120
Speaker 1: Oh of course I would love to eleborate Rock Boys.

1006
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:25,759
Speaker 1: It's a great shout out for everybody in the in

1007
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 1: the linebacker group itself. So b Max the manager, he

1008
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 1: came up with it, you know the name. But to

1009
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 1: go back to how it actually started was during training camp. Yeah,

1010
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, man, we make these like great plays,

1011
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 1: you know, sacks and all that, and guys are celebrating individually.

1012
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 1: So it's like, how do we get because everybody's involved

1013
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 1: in the play to make it happen, right, so how

1014
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 1: do we get more people involved and do like a

1015
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,640
Speaker 1: group group celebrations. So we just it was just me

1016
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 1: and Scarlett. We just messed around and it was just like,

1017
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: you know, we're just playing a guitar air guitar and

1018
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 1: all that. Then Bmac jumped in and then now it

1019
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:00,040
Speaker 1: just snowballed. And then finally Bmac came up with a

1020
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: name for it, and we've just been rocking with it

1021
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 1: ever since. And so outside linebackers are the rock Boys, right,

1022
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:08,360
Speaker 1: b Max the manager. Okay, that's how it is. And

1023
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 1: then we got a collaboration with the LPC crew. Yeah,

1024
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:13,239
Speaker 1: the LPC crew is obviously the lunch pill crew, kind

1025
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 1: of the interior defensive lineman. And you know, Dylan Cole

1026
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:17,880
Speaker 1: was sitting in your spot about a week ago when

1027
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:20,520
Speaker 1: we did this interview and he said he wedged himself

1028
00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: into the Rock Boys and he's the drummer because hey,

1029
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 1: every good band needs a drummer. So that's kind of funny.

1030
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:28,319
Speaker 1: It's it's an inclusive process for guys that are making place.

1031
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:30,399
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no doubt. And also well we're still looking

1032
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:33,360
Speaker 1: for that singer as well too. I like it. I

1033
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 1: like it. Well, how do the rock Boys, how does

1034
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 1: the LPC? How do they come together and compensate for

1035
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 1: the loss of a guy like jj Watt? I know

1036
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: you don't, you know, replace a guy like that one

1037
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 1: on one, but you gotta do things a little bit

1038
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,399
Speaker 1: differently now to kind of stem the tide. I suppose, yeah,

1039
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:50,399
Speaker 1: no doubt. First of all, guys got it now it's

1040
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: the next man up mentality. So Scarlett, let's see Charles

1041
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: y Berghevas and also Jacob who got to step up

1042
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 1: their game as well too. Just replacing why it's some

1043
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:03,879
Speaker 1: form and fashion and also just a scheme as far

1044
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 1: as replacing such a monumental guy on defense as well too.

1045
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 1: So the thing is we've got to just locking our keys,

1046
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:13,399
Speaker 1: just play that a whole lot, better affect the game

1047
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 1: in some type of shape or form, and we've got

1048
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:18,320
Speaker 1: to get a lot of penetration up front in the

1049
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: run game and the past game as well too. So

1050
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 1: you know, it's nothing we're going to freak out about

1051
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:25,279
Speaker 1: this has happened to us, you know before, and guys

1052
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 1: stepped up then, and guys are gonna step up now.

1053
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 1: And probably it doesn't hurt to have a mind like Romeo.

1054
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,359
Speaker 1: Cornell's helping orchestrate some of these things too, right exactly, Romeo,

1055
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:35,040
Speaker 1: he's gonna look at it, and I mean, of course

1056
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:37,840
Speaker 1: they they're already looking at it early on and all that,

1057
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: and so pretty much he's gonna look at what he asks,

1058
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 1: what the skill set is, and adapt to it. And

1059
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,279
Speaker 1: so that's that's literally what this league is all about.

1060
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 1: It is just adaptation. Yeah, Sunday morning, it'll be Central Time,

1061
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:50,320
Speaker 1: it'll be breakfast with the Texans. You guys will be

1062
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:51,879
Speaker 1: playing in the middle of the afternoon. So let's talk

1063
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:55,840
Speaker 1: about the opponent. Gardner Minshew, he's not playing like a

1064
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:58,400
Speaker 1: rookie who was drafted in the late rounds who's just

1065
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 1: coming in and has a mustache. This guy can play.

1066
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got them in position. They're doing really well.

1067
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 1: What was the challenge initially when you saw him and

1068
00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:08,200
Speaker 1: how has he kind of grown over the last month

1069
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 1: or so? Man, So, Okay, the biggest thing is the

1070
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: first time that we faced him, his composure is unusually

1071
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:16,080
Speaker 1: kind of reminded me of Deshaun Watson's composure when he

1072
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:18,360
Speaker 1: first came into the league, right, And the guy just

1073
00:51:18,440 --> 00:51:21,360
Speaker 1: goes out there with a not care attitude, honestly, and

1074
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 1: so he's just trying to win a game and he's

1075
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:26,360
Speaker 1: a competitor and I'd love to see that, and it

1076
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: makes it tough for defenses to contain him. He's good

1077
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:32,720
Speaker 1: at scrambling, making plays with either his feet or scrambling

1078
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:35,440
Speaker 1: outside the pocket, and throwing balls down field getting out

1079
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 1: of sacks as well too, So that'll be challenging. So

1080
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 1: we've got to be able to contain him seeing him

1081
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:41,880
Speaker 1: grow over the letting you know, the course of the

1082
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 1: season since we've last seen him, he's done exactly that.

1083
00:51:44,320 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: His confidence has definitely been boosted more and more and more,

1084
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: and he's been more confident in his level of play

1085
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 1: and just making some health five plays out there. It's

1086
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 1: actually impressive for a rookie. And so I think they've

1087
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:58,279
Speaker 1: done a great job as far as getting him ready

1088
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:00,839
Speaker 1: to play week to week. And you know, he's really

1089
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:03,759
Speaker 1: embraced the embraced his role as far as that goes,

1090
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:05,840
Speaker 1: And so we're gonna have to contain him in the pocket,

1091
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 1: allowing play quarterback get him rattled off the spot, and

1092
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:11,439
Speaker 1: really come, we gotta we gotta be humming, but first

1093
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 1: of all, we gotta take care of that run, so

1094
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,279
Speaker 1: we turn them into a one dimensionble team. How hard

1095
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:17,239
Speaker 1: is it to be humming against that offensive line? What

1096
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 1: have you seen from them? Man? The group? There are

1097
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:22,200
Speaker 1: some holes in the group that you could take advantage

1098
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:24,240
Speaker 1: of on one on ones and things like that. They're

1099
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 1: still solid at the end of the day, no doubt,

1100
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: and you cannot underestimate your opponent because that one time

1101
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: you know they will get you and flighting you on

1102
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:34,759
Speaker 1: your back. No question is So we've got to be

1103
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:36,840
Speaker 1: great up front. Run some stunts things and things to

1104
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 1: that nature. And so I think all we gotta do

1105
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: is just be conscientious of our rush so we don't

1106
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 1: get broken off for like a twenty yard run by

1107
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:47,040
Speaker 1: Minsu himself. You've seen a lot of variations of the

1108
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 1: AFC South in your times of Texan. I think this

1109
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 1: has got to be the toughest, most rugged version of it.

1110
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 1: You know midway through the season that you've ever seen, right,

1111
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 1: all four teams are above or at five hundred. It's

1112
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 1: a pretty tough division, man, it is, it is, and

1113
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:03,319
Speaker 1: you know it's my time coming in the league. You know. Yeah,

1114
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:06,800
Speaker 1: there's been some there's been one team that's always dominated,

1115
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 1: of course, the Colts whatnot and so. But over the

1116
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: course of years, as these teams have built themselves up,

1117
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:14,360
Speaker 1: you know, with the rosters, with the coaches, the staff

1118
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 1: and things of that nature, it's being it's become super

1119
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:20,400
Speaker 1: super competitive over the last few years or so. Then

1120
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:22,840
Speaker 1: that's exactly what you're seeing right now. We need Merciless.

1121
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:25,279
Speaker 1: It's always a pleasure talking with you. Best of luck

1122
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:28,239
Speaker 1: in London against the Jaguars. Knock him dead and we'll

1123
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 1: talk to you again very very soon, okay, So appreciate it.

1124
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 1: All right. So Johnny Whitney, Merciless has to rush the

1125
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 1: pass her well and he's been doing that well. So

1126
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:37,520
Speaker 1: that's good news. Setting the edge, yep, putting pressure on

1127
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 1: the quarterback. He's gonna need some help from his friends

1128
00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 1: to get the jobs done. The rest of the way,

1129
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 1: never mind Sunday, it's the rest of the way. I

1130
00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:46,360
Speaker 1: do like that, all right. Watchmen gone a week we

1131
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 1: mentioned that they held the Raiders to ten points after

1132
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 1: he left the game, that was not bad at all,

1133
00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 1: considering where that game appeared to be headed for a

1134
00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:55,320
Speaker 1: while before they found there a rhythm. And now you

1135
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:57,960
Speaker 1: have to get a MANA Who and Martin and everybody

1136
00:53:58,040 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 1: else involved, and Scarlett of and have them do a

1137
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:03,120
Speaker 1: good job up fun Well. The one friend that I

1138
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:06,760
Speaker 1: think has a bigger spotlight to make sure that Whitney

1139
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 1: has a good day Sunday is Romeo Cornell, because I

1140
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 1: do think that Romeo is gonna He's gonna be Look,

1141
00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 1: I think Romeo was already looking for ways to get

1142
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:18,800
Speaker 1: Whitney free. But now with JJ out, I think it

1143
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 1: gives him the opportunity to move Whitney to a lot

1144
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 1: of different places and let Whitney finding advantage for himself.

1145
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:26,759
Speaker 1: And that might be over a guard, it might be

1146
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:29,360
Speaker 1: over the center, it might be working the outside, might

1147
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:31,399
Speaker 1: be working some twists and stunts with him Man and Huna,

1148
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:34,319
Speaker 1: guys you already mentioned, and you're right, Scarlett, A Man

1149
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 1: and Who, those guys are playing a big role. But

1150
00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 1: I think Romeo plays a huge role in what Whitney

1151
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 1: is able to do on Sunday against the Jacks. It

1152
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 1: is a good offensive line, a very good offensive line.

1153
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 1: Cam Robinson's back in left tackle. And Juan Taylor was

1154
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:53,200
Speaker 1: a guy that you knew. I really liked Juan Taylor.

1155
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:56,080
Speaker 1: He played for a buddy online in high school, at

1156
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:58,880
Speaker 1: down to High School, at Coco Beach High School, Coco

1157
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 1: High School, and a tremendous player in his knee kind

1158
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 1: of concerns about his knee, just like Miles Jack dropped

1159
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 1: into the second round. The Jack's like, oh, we'll take him,

1160
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 1: and he said, he is a rock solid right tackle.

1161
00:55:11,960 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 1: And when I look at these two teams, that's the

1162
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 1: one thing that sort of stands out when to look

1163
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: at him, is that they've got two tackles for the

1164
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:21,239
Speaker 1: next how many ever years in Cam Robinson and Juan

1165
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 1: Taylor and Larmy Tunso and tit As Howard said it,

1166
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:26,719
Speaker 1: and forget it, as romp Papelle said, those guys are

1167
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 1: your tackles for a long time now. Tunso is I

1168
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:31,360
Speaker 1: think a much better player than Cam Robinson. Cam Robinson

1169
00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:32,840
Speaker 1: will hold his own and I think he's done a

1170
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 1: little bit better than I even expected him to do.

1171
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:36,800
Speaker 1: But when he's gonna have to face Cam Robinson tomorrow,

1172
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 1: he's got to bring out his full array of moves.

1173
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 1: Against that big fellow. It's mind boggling to me that

1174
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:45,840
Speaker 1: you have Minshew playing in Jacksonville, you have Presentent playing

1175
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:49,880
Speaker 1: in Indy, you have Tannehill now starting at Tennessee, and

1176
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:54,000
Speaker 1: you have a division where everybody's five hundred or a ball. Yeah,

1177
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 1: this should be I'm not gonna say it should be

1178
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:58,359
Speaker 1: a cakewalk. Ah wait a minute, I just said it. Yeah,

1179
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:00,359
Speaker 1: Like if you told me that's back in May, guess

1180
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 1: what mark it's Tannehill, Minshew and percent What do you think?

1181
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 1: First of all, I would say, who's Minshew? Second of all,

1182
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:09,440
Speaker 1: I would say that should be a two or three

1183
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:12,280
Speaker 1: game lead at the halfway point. However, you're in second.

1184
00:56:12,480 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying this to say anything against the Texans,

1185
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:18,760
Speaker 1: but I'm really propping up the competition here. Give them credit.

1186
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:21,320
Speaker 1: They've done a good job. These are solid teams in

1187
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:24,000
Speaker 1: your division. I know the competition that's been spectacular for

1188
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:27,520
Speaker 1: the jackson Titans, but and the Colts last week as well.

1189
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 1: But give them credit for winning these games. Yeah, no doubt.

1190
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:32,479
Speaker 1: Now to your point, and I was gonna be mine,

1191
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:37,800
Speaker 1: the Titans have Carolina on the road, Kansas City a

1192
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:41,720
Speaker 1: bye week, then Jacksonville at Indie, at Oakland, US twice

1193
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 1: in the Saints. That reality is going to hit Tennessee

1194
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:48,040
Speaker 1: at some point, and it hit him right square in

1195
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:52,400
Speaker 1: the face. Jacksonville's schedule coming into this game wasn't all

1196
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 1: that difficult. After they lost to the Saints and the

1197
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:56,719
Speaker 1: Bengals and the Jets, and they won those two games.

1198
00:56:57,200 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 1: After the bye week, they go two Indian, they go

1199
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 1: to Tennessee, then they get Tampa Bay, they get the Chargers,

1200
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:07,160
Speaker 1: then they're at Oakland at Atlanta. Atlanta has been garbage,

1201
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 1: but you never know when they can find it. And

1202
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:10,400
Speaker 1: then they play the Colts. So they play the Colts

1203
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 1: twice over the last half of the season in addition

1204
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:17,320
Speaker 1: to the Chargers, Raiders, et cetera. The Jaguar schedule is

1205
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:19,959
Speaker 1: much easier than the Titans. But that's where we're gonna

1206
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:22,040
Speaker 1: separate the weeks from the chaff, if you will. And

1207
00:57:22,080 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 1: they got a decision to make what you do with

1208
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 1: Nick Foles? What are you gonna do with Nick Foles?

1209
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 1: With Gardner Minshew going this is a huge game for

1210
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:30,040
Speaker 1: him on Sunday, Well, I've mention plays great, I keip

1211
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:32,200
Speaker 1: Minshew if it's just okay, I gotta go to Falls.

1212
00:57:32,240 --> 00:57:34,120
Speaker 1: I paid him a lot of money. That's my thought. Anyway,

1213
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people disagree. Next, we'll see

1214
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 1: if we agree on this weekend's games. You and I

1215
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 1: never really have a chance to know lush out the

1216
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:45,040
Speaker 1: games before they happen, So let's do it next. On

1217
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 1: Texans Radio from London. Can't get enough Texans Radio. We've

1218
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1220
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:06,880
Speaker 1: your Houston Texans three hundred and sixty five days a year.

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00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:17,720
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1222
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:21,560
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1223
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:25,400
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1224
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 1: to bring you to London with us, or we'll bring

1225
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:29,520
Speaker 1: London to you, or some version of that. Go to

1226
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:33,720
Speaker 1: Houston Texans dot com or follow the Texans on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook.

1227
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 1: We've got all the London content there. In fact, tomorrow

1228
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:40,200
Speaker 1: night our TV shows Texans Extra Points and Texans Buzz,

1229
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:42,760
Speaker 1: both with plenty of London stuff. Extra Points it is

1230
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:45,320
Speaker 1: from London. Most of Buzzes and you can get a

1231
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:48,040
Speaker 1: closer look there on your flap screen, but to check

1232
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 1: out your phone for all the other visuals here from London.

1233
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:55,680
Speaker 1: Fun stuff. It's been fun. It's been a blast. I mean,

1234
00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:57,680
Speaker 1: you and I do extra points today out at the

1235
00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:00,680
Speaker 1: London Irish Rugby Center where the team practice. And now

1236
00:59:00,800 --> 00:59:02,960
Speaker 1: is really how about that all those rugby fields? You

1237
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 1: know we were thinking is this one club? They used

1238
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:07,720
Speaker 1: that facility for a lot of tournaments and things like that,

1239
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:10,360
Speaker 1: and the London Irish I've never even heard of them

1240
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:13,400
Speaker 1: until now, but that's a heck of a facility. So

1241
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 1: they got a few bucks to play rugby. Well were

1242
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 1: you and I talking about this? I think we may

1243
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 1: have been talking about this. You know. The one thing

1244
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 1: about having all those fields is the London Irish have

1245
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:26,640
Speaker 1: a top team and then they've got you know, sort

1246
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:29,720
Speaker 1: of like high school has a varsity at JAB a sophomore.

1247
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:31,600
Speaker 1: They kind of have that same thing, but they're all

1248
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 1: filtered through the London Irish program, you know, and that's

1249
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:39,200
Speaker 1: what which just the way sports should be. Club team concept.

1250
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:41,440
Speaker 1: You know, my team, Manchester City, I mean they have that,

1251
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:44,480
Speaker 1: they have a Manchester City Academy. They start with the kids.

1252
00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:47,040
Speaker 1: They're like six seven years old, you know, and they're

1253
00:59:47,080 --> 00:59:50,320
Speaker 1: getting kids that are coming through that organization, that academy,

1254
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:52,720
Speaker 1: and they go up all all through the rankings. They

1255
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:56,320
Speaker 1: play together and they end up. I don't I can't

1256
00:59:56,400 --> 00:59:58,520
Speaker 1: disagree with you about that. I think it's a fantastic thing.

1257
00:59:58,640 --> 01:00:01,880
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's counter to what we grew up

1258
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:04,040
Speaker 1: with and it's so much fun to have the school

1259
01:00:04,080 --> 01:00:06,920
Speaker 1: passion and everything. And as we talk about that next segment,

1260
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:08,200
Speaker 1: I want to get some of your thoughts on the

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Speaker 1: sense double a stuff with the image and likeness of

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01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:15,000
Speaker 1: profitability potential. All right, let's get to this though. NFL

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01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:16,919
Speaker 1: games a lot of people like to profit from these.

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01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:19,800
Speaker 1: So we talked a lot about the Jaguars and Texans,

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01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 1: and we don't pick that one, but we've given you

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Speaker 1: a lot of that matchup and we'll continue to do

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Speaker 1: it before the close up business here tonight. But some

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01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:27,800
Speaker 1: of the other games taking place. We talked about the

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Speaker 1: Colts and the Steelers. I think probably enough, I think

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Speaker 1: the Colts probably win that game, but the Steelers have

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01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:36,720
Speaker 1: enough juice to win it. That could be real tight

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01:00:36,800 --> 01:00:38,440
Speaker 1: going down the stretch. I think the Cults had a

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01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:41,120
Speaker 1: classic trap game scenario last week with the Broncos. I

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Speaker 1: agree with you, And anytime you face the Steelers, that's

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Speaker 1: gonna bring the best out of you. Yeah, I think.

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Speaker 1: I think uniform I don't care how they're doing in

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Speaker 1: their building. I mean, it just brings the best out

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Speaker 1: of you. The Steelers are one point favorite, which I'm

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01:00:54,560 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 1: a little bit surprised by that. I think I think

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01:00:57,480 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 1: if now, if I were the firing type, I would

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01:00:59,760 --> 01:01:02,120
Speaker 1: fire on the other side. Because I think that's the

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01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:04,840
Speaker 1: thing though, Johnny, because if you made the Colts favored

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01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 1: by anything, Vegas knows this, you're gonna do all the

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01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:10,280
Speaker 1: money's gonna come in on the Pittsburgh side to cover.

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01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:12,760
Speaker 1: So they had to do it like that. Is the

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01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:16,160
Speaker 1: Jets Dolphins game the worst game in the history of

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01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:18,640
Speaker 1: the NFL. Now, it was pretty close a few weeks

1288
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 1: ago as the Dolphins and the Redskins, and actually turned

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01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 1: out to be a close game at the end of

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01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:25,840
Speaker 1: failed two point conversion cost the Dolphins to win. But

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Speaker 1: while you're talking about three matchup, these two teams are darby. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I know what you're saying. The Redskins Dolphins game on

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01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:35,840
Speaker 1: paper looked worse to me than this, You know what,

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01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:38,680
Speaker 1: I know, that's a Super Bowl rematch, two super bowls, right,

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01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:41,320
Speaker 1: but so what that was so long ago. A lot

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01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 1: of these people don't remember. Who are NFL consumers now?

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01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:47,040
Speaker 1: But to me, the Jets and the Dolphins, even though

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01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:50,160
Speaker 1: they're both having terrible years, that's a rivalry game. Yeah,

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01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:53,360
Speaker 1: so there's something about but you know, I hate to

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01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:57,720
Speaker 1: say it, the Dolphins are tanking so miserably that and

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01:01:57,880 --> 01:02:01,800
Speaker 1: and look, I say that without having actual proof except

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01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:05,320
Speaker 1: for the third and twenty last week that looked like proof.

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01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:10,920
Speaker 1: Nivin a counselor who tweeted, here's a diagram of what

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01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:13,040
Speaker 1: the Dolphins were doing, and they drew a picture of

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01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:16,800
Speaker 1: a tank on the telestrator in the giant gap. Was awesome.

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01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 1: The game's in Miami and the Jets are favored by three. Now.

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01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:26,080
Speaker 1: I watched. I watched, obviously the game last week, the

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01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:29,080
Speaker 1: Jets playing the jag The Jets had opportunities in that game.

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01:02:29,520 --> 01:02:32,479
Speaker 1: They had opportunities. What scares me a little bit about

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01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:36,120
Speaker 1: the Jags is the Jags just said, you know what,

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01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:38,920
Speaker 1: we're gonna blitz Darnold's they can't handle it, And they

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01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:42,080
Speaker 1: didn't Darnold turn it over. They scored the very next

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01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:43,840
Speaker 1: play and went from being a game. They could have

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Speaker 1: scored the tied too. Now you're down two touchdown. You

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01:02:46,120 --> 01:02:48,200
Speaker 1: gotta come on and blitz watch him because as soon

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Speaker 1: as he gets out, Yeah, you'll he'll find the open guy.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna pay the price. I think the Jets will

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01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:56,480
Speaker 1: win that game, but it would not surprise me. The

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01:02:56,560 --> 01:02:58,400
Speaker 1: only reason it would surprise me at the Dolphins won,

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01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 1: I would say, oh my gosh, they are interested winning

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01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:03,320
Speaker 1: a game, and now they're gonna blow their number one pick. Maybe. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: I've got a question for you. Yeah, just out of curiosity.

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01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:10,080
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I know why. So late I thought this

1324
01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:12,840
Speaker 1: was a Sunday night game, the Packers going to play

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01:03:12,880 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 1: the Chargers, and I saw nine twenty five pm and

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01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:18,440
Speaker 1: I realized it's picking up London. I was like, how

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01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:20,880
Speaker 1: did the Chargers get two Sunday night games? And they

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01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 1: have bandbox against the Steelers and Packers, but Aaron Rodgers

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01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:28,440
Speaker 1: and the Packers seventy one, Chargers three and five, the

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01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:30,920
Speaker 1: Packers favored by three and a half. I might be

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01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:32,680
Speaker 1: willing to fire on the other side of the Chargers.

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01:03:32,680 --> 01:03:34,440
Speaker 1: I don't know. There's something about that. And then the

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01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:36,920
Speaker 1: Chargers are kind of a mess. But I just think

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01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 1: at home, they gotta they're gonna find the secret sauce

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Speaker 1: of stuff. At Green Bay. I think, no, it's at

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01:03:41,600 --> 01:03:44,760
Speaker 1: it's at the chargers. Oh not the charger. That here,

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01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:48,040
Speaker 1: she's at the chargers. Okay, all right, so it's at

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01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:50,280
Speaker 1: the chargers. We'll see how that fair. I'm gonna fire

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01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:52,440
Speaker 1: the Chargers. I think the Packers win it, but the

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01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:56,040
Speaker 1: Chargers keep it close. So I would pick the Packers

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01:03:56,120 --> 01:03:58,520
Speaker 1: to win, but the Chargers to get inside that number.

1342
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:02,840
Speaker 1: Should we go Randolphin Mortimer on this one? Okay, I'm

1343
01:04:02,840 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 1: gonna say green Bay by ten and oh okay, all right,

1344
01:04:05,880 --> 01:04:11,960
Speaker 1: let's do all the huge amount. Let's do it. Patriots

1345
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:17,640
Speaker 1: go to Ravens on Sunday night. This is the one. Yeah.

1346
01:04:17,840 --> 01:04:21,440
Speaker 1: I love this matchup. I love it because Bill Belichick

1347
01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:23,960
Speaker 1: has been running the defense to the Patriots. Yeah, and

1348
01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:28,280
Speaker 1: every challenge in his career as a defensive play caller.

1349
01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:31,520
Speaker 1: You know, the nineties Bills, you know, he had a

1350
01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:33,560
Speaker 1: he had a game plan and said, look, Thurman Thomas

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01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:35,480
Speaker 1: carried all night. We got shut down to receivers. The

1352
01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 1: forty nine ers the week before that, an NFC Championship

1353
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:41,240
Speaker 1: game in the West Coast offense the Bears the week

1354
01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:43,680
Speaker 1: before that when they were pounding the ball. He's come

1355
01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:47,200
Speaker 1: up with a defensive game plan throughout his career. I

1356
01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:49,040
Speaker 1: mean the Rams in two thousand and one, he and

1357
01:04:49,160 --> 01:04:51,400
Speaker 1: Romeo came up with that plan and the Super Bowl.

1358
01:04:51,880 --> 01:04:54,400
Speaker 1: But this is a whole different animal with Lamar Jackson.

1359
01:04:54,760 --> 01:04:57,880
Speaker 1: It is, and he can do things. When things break down,

1360
01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:00,480
Speaker 1: he can make them breakdown on purpose, sometimes to break

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01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:03,560
Speaker 1: you down. This is what I really wish I could watch,

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01:05:03,640 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 1: and we're not going to be able to will be

1363
01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:07,280
Speaker 1: in the air for this game, so let's just see

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01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:09,360
Speaker 1: how it plays out. I'm actually rooting for the Ravens

1365
01:05:09,360 --> 01:05:11,920
Speaker 1: because I want turmoil in the AFC and they can

1366
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:13,400
Speaker 1: help create it, and then you can take care of

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01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:15,680
Speaker 1: your business by playing them and beating them there. Look,

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01:05:15,720 --> 01:05:17,640
Speaker 1: they lost to Cleveland at home, but I think they

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01:05:17,640 --> 01:05:19,880
Speaker 1: are capable of so much better. They're having a good year,

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Speaker 1: so let's see how they handle it. I just you're

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01:05:22,560 --> 01:05:25,760
Speaker 1: right about Belichick and the defensive coordinator position that he's

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01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:29,960
Speaker 1: he's always really held. I'm sorry, even when Patricia whoever

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01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:33,640
Speaker 1: else is coaching the d Belichick has his thumb prints

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01:05:33,640 --> 01:05:36,440
Speaker 1: all over the game plan. And I always go back

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01:05:36,440 --> 01:05:39,800
Speaker 1: to this the Texans coaching staff in the Kubiak era

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01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:41,640
Speaker 1: when they were getting ready to play the Patriots in

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01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:45,280
Speaker 1: twelve and one of the offensive coaches told me he's

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01:05:45,320 --> 01:05:47,800
Speaker 1: still one of the greatest defensive coordinators, if not the

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01:05:47,920 --> 01:05:50,880
Speaker 1: greatest ever. And that's what you're dealing with as the

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Speaker 1: head coach. Was it last week's game of the game

1381
01:05:53,920 --> 01:05:56,040
Speaker 1: before where he pulled the whole defense together on the

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01:05:56,120 --> 01:05:59,160
Speaker 1: sideline and just eliminated the head coach thing for a

1383
01:05:59,240 --> 01:06:02,520
Speaker 1: moment and was the coordinator on the sideline with the defense.

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01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:04,919
Speaker 1: Wouldn't you have loved to hear what he was saying

1385
01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:07,640
Speaker 1: to them in that particular moment. Whatever it was, it worked.

1386
01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:10,200
Speaker 1: It's pretty fascinating because if you think about what's happened

1387
01:06:10,200 --> 01:06:12,240
Speaker 1: to him on the defensive side of the ball over

1388
01:06:12,320 --> 01:06:15,200
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. He's lost Matt Patricia, he's

1389
01:06:15,240 --> 01:06:19,160
Speaker 1: lost Brian Flores, he lost his d line coach. Doesn't matter.

1390
01:06:19,360 --> 01:06:23,320
Speaker 1: He's got Gerard Mayo, who was doing media two years ago.

1391
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:26,040
Speaker 1: He's got him coaching linebackers. I got a feeling he's

1392
01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 1: a turning defense over to Mayo. At some point, his son,

1393
01:06:28,720 --> 01:06:33,560
Speaker 1: Steve Belichick junior. Steve Belichick is coaching the safety like.

1394
01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:36,360
Speaker 1: It's not as Brett bielam I remember him in Arkansas.

1395
01:06:36,560 --> 01:06:38,560
Speaker 1: He's coaching a D line. I mean, these are guys

1396
01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:40,920
Speaker 1: that haven't been together for a long time, and yet

1397
01:06:41,120 --> 01:06:42,720
Speaker 1: he's got it going. And I want to just see

1398
01:06:42,800 --> 01:06:45,439
Speaker 1: the plan he comes up with to stop Lamar because

1399
01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:49,560
Speaker 1: that offense and how fast he is and what he

1400
01:06:49,720 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 1: can do with the ball, you can scheme up a

1401
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:53,840
Speaker 1: lot different things, but man, I don't know that there's

1402
01:06:53,840 --> 01:06:57,280
Speaker 1: a guarantee that you can stop Lamar fully. But what

1403
01:06:57,400 --> 01:06:58,800
Speaker 1: I want to see is how he attacks him the

1404
01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:00,880
Speaker 1: throwing game, Like what is he do in the passing

1405
01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:02,920
Speaker 1: game to make things tough for Lamar? And then as

1406
01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:04,920
Speaker 1: soon as he stops him, everybody's gonna freak out and

1407
01:07:04,920 --> 01:07:08,160
Speaker 1: say Belichick's so great, which he is, but Lamar's not

1408
01:07:08,360 --> 01:07:10,920
Speaker 1: where he can be as a passer will be in

1409
01:07:10,960 --> 01:07:15,080
Speaker 1: the future. Give me another game. Okay, we talked about

1410
01:07:15,160 --> 01:07:18,920
Speaker 1: Titans and Panthers already. Okay, here's one. This one it

1411
01:07:19,080 --> 01:07:22,360
Speaker 1: matches two teams that aren't over five hundred yet. But

1412
01:07:22,440 --> 01:07:25,360
Speaker 1: I'm intrigued by this because there's always gonna be a

1413
01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:29,760
Speaker 1: connection between Mitchell Trubisky, right, and Michelle Watson and Patrick Mahomes.

1414
01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:35,080
Speaker 1: Trubisky takes the Bears into Philly. Billy is a four

1415
01:07:35,240 --> 01:07:40,400
Speaker 1: point favorite at home. Now, I know that Philly has

1416
01:07:40,480 --> 01:07:43,280
Speaker 1: not been great, but Philly went up to Buffalo beat

1417
01:07:43,280 --> 01:07:44,840
Speaker 1: the five and one team and beat him up. That

1418
01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:46,960
Speaker 1: was a surprise to me. And I picked Buffalo in

1419
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:49,320
Speaker 1: that game, and I almost convinced McClane to go against

1420
01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:52,919
Speaker 1: his gut pick of Philly. He was right, congratulations General. Yeah.

1421
01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:54,960
Speaker 1: But they go into and not only did they going

1422
01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:57,840
Speaker 1: to beat Buffalo, they ran it for well over two

1423
01:07:57,880 --> 01:08:01,320
Speaker 1: hundred yards on Buffalo, which which is weird. I'm very weird.

1424
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:03,880
Speaker 1: But now the Bears coming. The Bears have got some defense.

1425
01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:07,080
Speaker 1: But Trubisky just to me, I can't I can't come

1426
01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:09,280
Speaker 1: to grips with what he's gonna do. And I know

1427
01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:12,400
Speaker 1: at some point, because we used to get asked questions

1428
01:08:12,400 --> 01:08:15,320
Speaker 1: about that, Hey, guys, is coach O'Brien going to continue

1429
01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:17,560
Speaker 1: with Oswalden? Is he going to continue with Hoyer? Is

1430
01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:20,639
Speaker 1: he gonna continue with this quarterback? When those questions get asked,

1431
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:23,479
Speaker 1: it basically means no one's got answers to it, and

1432
01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:26,320
Speaker 1: the defense then starts to get frustrated because it feels

1433
01:08:26,360 --> 01:08:28,760
Speaker 1: like we've got to make every stop, we got to

1434
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:31,599
Speaker 1: make every play because we know offensively they're not gonna

1435
01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:33,519
Speaker 1: get it done. I think Philly wins is by well

1436
01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:36,360
Speaker 1: more than four. All right, Next up, a little bit

1437
01:08:36,439 --> 01:08:40,439
Speaker 1: from our buddy J. P. Shadrick on this matchup, and look,

1438
01:08:40,520 --> 01:08:42,160
Speaker 1: we want to go. Jack's heavy as far as the

1439
01:08:42,200 --> 01:08:45,240
Speaker 1: scouting goes, and some of the stuff is just so

1440
01:08:45,439 --> 01:08:48,599
Speaker 1: valuable from people who have been here to London many times.

1441
01:08:48,840 --> 01:08:51,200
Speaker 1: What to look out for, what not to look out for.

1442
01:08:51,600 --> 01:08:53,720
Speaker 1: It's gonna be Sunday at Wembley Stadium. Don't forget a

1443
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:57,160
Speaker 1: thirty kickoff. One more segment coming your way on Texans

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01:08:57,200 --> 01:09:03,679
Speaker 1: All Access. Download the Texans Mobile app for news, videos, alerts,

1445
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:10,040
Speaker 1: and more on your Houston Texans Texans. What are the

1446
01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:14,960
Speaker 1: experts predicting about this week's big game? Watch Texans Extra

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01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:18,160
Speaker 1: Points Saturday nights at eleven or after the late local

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01:09:18,280 --> 01:09:27,680
Speaker 1: news on ABC thirteen. Hello again, Texans, and we are

1449
01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:32,160
Speaker 1: in a downtown London pub. Barrow Boy and Backer it's

1450
01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:34,720
Speaker 1: called And I've looked at so many pictures of this

1451
01:09:34,840 --> 01:09:37,640
Speaker 1: place to scout out where we'd be broadcasting, and I

1452
01:09:37,800 --> 01:09:39,800
Speaker 1: never even thought we'd be where we are. So that

1453
01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:41,720
Speaker 1: goes to show you can prepare all you want, you

1454
01:09:41,800 --> 01:09:43,880
Speaker 1: just don't know how things are gonna go. It's nuts

1455
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:47,080
Speaker 1: in here with all these Texans who have come overseas

1456
01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:49,639
Speaker 1: and this is just a smidge of them. This city

1457
01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:53,240
Speaker 1: is peppered with people wearing the bullhead and it is

1458
01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:56,120
Speaker 1: a delight. Mark Vandermayer, John Harris with you. It really

1459
01:09:56,240 --> 01:09:58,320
Speaker 1: is fun to see. John, it's cool you said that.

1460
01:09:58,439 --> 01:10:00,720
Speaker 1: I started like, Wow, I got when you said that,

1461
01:10:00,840 --> 01:10:03,880
Speaker 1: because it is it comes support their team. I know

1462
01:10:04,080 --> 01:10:06,640
Speaker 1: a lot of these fans are also Astros fans, and

1463
01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:08,240
Speaker 1: so I've talked to a number of them that were

1464
01:10:08,360 --> 01:10:10,400
Speaker 1: on a flight and they didn't know what happened to

1465
01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:12,200
Speaker 1: the Astros. They took off. They're up to nothing. They

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01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:14,240
Speaker 1: didn't know what happen until they landed, you know. But

1467
01:10:14,320 --> 01:10:17,240
Speaker 1: they came over here wanted to support the Texans, and man,

1468
01:10:17,360 --> 01:10:20,880
Speaker 1: they are in here in full effect. I mean, it's

1469
01:10:21,520 --> 01:10:24,400
Speaker 1: it's been really really cool to see. It has been indeed,

1470
01:10:24,520 --> 01:10:26,640
Speaker 1: and it continues to be and tomorrow is gonna be

1471
01:10:26,680 --> 01:10:29,200
Speaker 1: another big day of prep. I'll put that in air

1472
01:10:29,320 --> 01:10:32,760
Speaker 1: quotes for these fans as the shit ready to see

1473
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:35,040
Speaker 1: their team take on the Jaguar Sunday morning at eight

1474
01:10:35,240 --> 01:10:38,519
Speaker 1: thirty at Wembley Stadium. And Wembley, by the way, is

1475
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:41,560
Speaker 1: a historic name for a stadium, but this is a

1476
01:10:41,640 --> 01:10:44,320
Speaker 1: rebuild of the stadium at oh seven. Yeah, they put

1477
01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 1: it back up. The old place had a lot of memories,

1478
01:10:47,560 --> 01:10:50,519
Speaker 1: had some NFL games preseason, but they went to the

1479
01:10:50,600 --> 01:10:53,800
Speaker 1: regular season schedule here once they built the new joint.

1480
01:10:53,920 --> 01:10:57,240
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful looking stadium. I was talking to Drew earlier.

1481
01:10:57,360 --> 01:10:59,240
Speaker 1: Drew went on a tour every buddy Joe Palis who

1482
01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:02,559
Speaker 1: was shooting a little bit at the beginning, he also

1483
01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:04,439
Speaker 1: had a chance of going that tour and they were

1484
01:11:04,479 --> 01:11:07,800
Speaker 1: really impressed, really impressed with what has come out of

1485
01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:09,479
Speaker 1: There's a part of me and you know, Hi him.

1486
01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 1: I love all the old stads, Like one of my

1487
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:14,600
Speaker 1: favorites to go to is the Oakland Media Coliseum and

1488
01:11:14,640 --> 01:11:17,679
Speaker 1: we'll never go back there, at least in into your future.

1489
01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:19,720
Speaker 1: I love going in there because all the history that

1490
01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:23,479
Speaker 1: was in that building. That's I love that. I would

1491
01:11:23,560 --> 01:11:25,559
Speaker 1: like to walk into Wembley and gone, all right, that's

1492
01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:28,000
Speaker 1: where Freddie Mercury played Live Aid. That's where you know,

1493
01:11:28,040 --> 01:11:30,320
Speaker 1: that's where Live Aid happened. You know, all that kind

1494
01:11:30,360 --> 01:11:33,040
Speaker 1: of stuff that was you know, the great soccer matches

1495
01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:36,639
Speaker 1: had always taken place, and Wembley still carries that name,

1496
01:11:37,040 --> 01:11:40,360
Speaker 1: especially in the soccer community. Oh it's Wembley. Wembley's a

1497
01:11:40,479 --> 01:11:43,080
Speaker 1: big deal. It's kind of like Madison Square Gardener, same

1498
01:11:43,200 --> 01:11:47,000
Speaker 1: name and rebuild of the old garden which had so

1499
01:11:47,120 --> 01:11:50,439
Speaker 1: many great events and boxing and all this other stuff.

1500
01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:54,960
Speaker 1: Even in the Cinderella Man movie James Browne his biopick,

1501
01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:58,360
Speaker 1: they have the garden in there and fights at the

1502
01:11:58,439 --> 01:12:01,400
Speaker 1: garden or whatever. It's great stuff. But this is cool

1503
01:12:01,800 --> 01:12:05,800
Speaker 1: because you have so much NFL action happening lately. I thought,

1504
01:12:05,920 --> 01:12:07,840
Speaker 1: and I wrote about this this week on the Daily

1505
01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:10,960
Speaker 1: Brew on Wednesday, I thought that this might be one

1506
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:13,760
Speaker 1: of the first, if not the first division games overseas.

1507
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:16,840
Speaker 1: But no, there have been five, and as recently as

1508
01:12:16,880 --> 01:12:19,040
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago when you had the Panthers

1509
01:12:19,120 --> 01:12:22,320
Speaker 1: beat the Bucks. So hey, it happens. And the Texans

1510
01:12:22,360 --> 01:12:24,519
Speaker 1: of course had the Mexico City game in twenty sixteen.

1511
01:12:24,520 --> 01:12:26,960
Speaker 1: You want to talk to historic stadiums. That was cool

1512
01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:29,439
Speaker 1: to be in the Studios Teca, even though the place

1513
01:12:29,600 --> 01:12:32,040
Speaker 1: is not exactly state of the art. You think about

1514
01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:33,479
Speaker 1: the hand of God, you think about it, some of

1515
01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:35,880
Speaker 1: the other great events they've had their my goodness. So

1516
01:12:35,960 --> 01:12:38,240
Speaker 1: it's a treat to be here for us, and we're

1517
01:12:38,280 --> 01:12:41,799
Speaker 1: taking you along for the ride on Texans Media, radio, TV,

1518
01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:44,679
Speaker 1: all our social media stuff. You know. Clinch Sterner said

1519
01:12:44,720 --> 01:12:48,000
Speaker 1: something the other day to me. It was something that

1520
01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:50,800
Speaker 1: I had heard him say prior to And I think

1521
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:54,559
Speaker 1: about this a lot because we both got into football

1522
01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:57,200
Speaker 1: because we love. You love what you do. I love

1523
01:12:57,280 --> 01:13:00,760
Speaker 1: what I do. We love doing it together. And I

1524
01:13:00,920 --> 01:13:04,280
Speaker 1: think about I've been in the building since fourteen, the

1525
01:13:04,400 --> 01:13:08,719
Speaker 1: places that I've been because of football, because of the NFL.

1526
01:13:08,840 --> 01:13:12,120
Speaker 1: I mean, we're here tonight because we're playing a game

1527
01:13:12,560 --> 01:13:15,400
Speaker 1: against the Jacksonville Jaguars. We're in London. I mean I've

1528
01:13:15,439 --> 01:13:18,120
Speaker 1: been to London, in Mexico City, in San Francisco, of

1529
01:13:18,320 --> 01:13:21,719
Speaker 1: New York and all these tremendous cities around the world

1530
01:13:22,800 --> 01:13:25,439
Speaker 1: because of football. And I mean it's just amazing. And

1531
01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:27,479
Speaker 1: Clinton talked about that. He said, you know us from

1532
01:13:27,479 --> 01:13:29,960
Speaker 1: the wrong side of the tracks, basically in Baytown. And

1533
01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:31,920
Speaker 1: I never thought that I would be able to see

1534
01:13:31,960 --> 01:13:34,280
Speaker 1: the things that I have in my life. But because

1535
01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:36,240
Speaker 1: of the game of football. I played at Arkansas, I

1536
01:13:36,360 --> 01:13:38,920
Speaker 1: played with the Dallas Cowboys. I played in places around

1537
01:13:38,960 --> 01:13:41,800
Speaker 1: the world. He played in Amsterdam, he played you know.

1538
01:13:41,880 --> 01:13:43,800
Speaker 1: I asked him whether they played in London or played

1539
01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:45,639
Speaker 1: in this area, and he said, no, they played in Scotland,

1540
01:13:45,960 --> 01:13:48,240
Speaker 1: you know, and he talked about that experience. So I mean,

1541
01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:52,280
Speaker 1: it just is incredible what football ends up doing for

1542
01:13:52,439 --> 01:13:54,519
Speaker 1: all of us. If you think all these fans here, yeah,

1543
01:13:54,600 --> 01:13:57,519
Speaker 1: like we don't. I said this, you know, speaking at

1544
01:13:57,560 --> 01:13:59,920
Speaker 1: at a Battle of Hinewoods function, I said, you know,

1545
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:01,840
Speaker 1: without Bob McNear, none of us like, none of us,

1546
01:14:02,240 --> 01:14:04,519
Speaker 1: none of us are here. Even without Bob, we don't.

1547
01:14:04,880 --> 01:14:06,759
Speaker 1: We don't have any of this. We're now the traveling

1548
01:14:06,800 --> 01:14:09,320
Speaker 1: Texans don't exist. We don't. We exist, but we don't

1549
01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:13,080
Speaker 1: exist in this capacity. But Bob made that possible. And

1550
01:14:13,240 --> 01:14:16,200
Speaker 1: Jamie Roots likes to say that nothing brings people together

1551
01:14:16,280 --> 01:14:18,120
Speaker 1: like the sport of football, you know, and maybe over

1552
01:14:18,200 --> 01:14:22,680
Speaker 1: here would be football, but football in Houston. Houston's the

1553
01:14:22,720 --> 01:14:25,920
Speaker 1: most diversity in America. People come together with the Houston

1554
01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:28,599
Speaker 1: Texans and it's such a great rallying point. All right.

1555
01:14:28,640 --> 01:14:31,599
Speaker 1: So you brought up something that was interesting with Clint

1556
01:14:31,920 --> 01:14:34,519
Speaker 1: saying he owes so much to the game. It brought

1557
01:14:34,600 --> 01:14:36,200
Speaker 1: him places he never thought he'd be able to go,

1558
01:14:37,040 --> 01:14:39,559
Speaker 1: seeing things he's thought he's well, he thought he would

1559
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:41,320
Speaker 1: never be able to see. But Chinning, let me go

1560
01:14:41,479 --> 01:14:44,160
Speaker 1: here with this. It applies to the NCAA thing this

1561
01:14:44,240 --> 01:14:46,240
Speaker 1: week about being able to make money on your likeness

1562
01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:51,760
Speaker 1: or whatever endorsement possibilities for NCAA athletes. Friends of mine

1563
01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:53,840
Speaker 1: in college football have always said, look, I think the

1564
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:57,200
Speaker 1: education does have tremendous value. I think for some players

1565
01:14:57,840 --> 01:15:01,360
Speaker 1: it's not enough of a compensation. A shouldn't point for them.

1566
01:15:01,640 --> 01:15:04,439
Speaker 1: I think for most it is, but for some it is.

1567
01:15:04,479 --> 01:15:06,120
Speaker 1: And what do you make of the new ruling and

1568
01:15:06,160 --> 01:15:08,240
Speaker 1: how it's gonna play out? Well, I always go back

1569
01:15:08,280 --> 01:15:11,760
Speaker 1: to a story that Chris Webber told Mitch Album and look,

1570
01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:14,800
Speaker 1: I do think there was some hypocrisy with Chris Webber

1571
01:15:14,840 --> 01:15:17,080
Speaker 1: and some of the things he said. But he had

1572
01:15:17,120 --> 01:15:19,599
Speaker 1: gone into a McDonald's and he had placed an order

1573
01:15:19,680 --> 01:15:22,519
Speaker 1: and the woman said, okay, that'll be you know, eight

1574
01:15:22,680 --> 01:15:24,720
Speaker 1: dollars or whatever it was. He reached his pocket. You

1575
01:15:24,800 --> 01:15:27,880
Speaker 1: realize he only had five and he said, hey, okay,

1576
01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:30,800
Speaker 1: take this off and take this off. And he said,

1577
01:15:30,840 --> 01:15:33,040
Speaker 1: you know what, Mitch, I gotta do that. And you

1578
01:15:33,120 --> 01:15:35,920
Speaker 1: look across there's the bookstore selling my jersey. Yea, his

1579
01:15:36,080 --> 01:15:38,920
Speaker 1: name's not on the jersey, but selling his jersey number

1580
01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:42,519
Speaker 1: for one hundred bucks. It's Michigan number four. Well, you

1581
01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:44,479
Speaker 1: know that's Chris Webber. And the only reason people are

1582
01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:46,600
Speaker 1: buying it is because it is Chris Webber. And I

1583
01:15:46,720 --> 01:15:48,840
Speaker 1: know there are a lot of a lot of you know,

1584
01:15:48,880 --> 01:15:50,760
Speaker 1: a lot of people are and I think about that

1585
01:15:50,960 --> 01:15:55,400
Speaker 1: part of it. But there's you know, people are buying

1586
01:15:55,479 --> 01:15:59,240
Speaker 1: T shirts, they're buying jerseys with numbers of a player.

1587
01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:03,200
Speaker 1: Why did Texas m fans buy jerseys that said number

1588
01:16:03,200 --> 01:16:06,760
Speaker 1: two on them? What was one guy? It was one guy?

1589
01:16:07,040 --> 01:16:08,960
Speaker 1: And we live in a free market place in the

1590
01:16:09,040 --> 01:16:12,360
Speaker 1: United States that if there's value there, you know, if

1591
01:16:12,360 --> 01:16:14,720
Speaker 1: somebody wants to pay for your autograph, you should be

1592
01:16:14,760 --> 01:16:18,800
Speaker 1: able to make money for that. I don't care what role. Yeah,

1593
01:16:19,320 --> 01:16:22,280
Speaker 1: well I agree. I just think it's gonna be very

1594
01:16:22,320 --> 01:16:25,880
Speaker 1: hard to regulate. That's the hard party. That's the hard

1595
01:16:25,920 --> 01:16:27,760
Speaker 1: part is now how do you regulate? But at least

1596
01:16:27,800 --> 01:16:29,960
Speaker 1: I will say this, they're thinking about what they can

1597
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:33,040
Speaker 1: do to regulate it. Yeah, and they listen, they've had

1598
01:16:34,120 --> 01:16:38,000
Speaker 1: handshake a hundred dollar handshakes and side agreements for years

1599
01:16:38,200 --> 01:16:41,559
Speaker 1: and they've never been able to regulate that perfectly. They

1600
01:16:41,640 --> 01:16:44,519
Speaker 1: won't be able to regulate this perfectly. But maybe with

1601
01:16:44,720 --> 01:16:47,439
Speaker 1: some of this, the players are gonna say, look, I

1602
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:49,800
Speaker 1: can do it above board or I could take this

1603
01:16:50,560 --> 01:16:53,680
Speaker 1: under the table payment yep, And maybe they choose to

1604
01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:56,000
Speaker 1: do it above board now and you don't have some

1605
01:16:56,120 --> 01:16:59,600
Speaker 1: of that hangers on get involved that don't need to

1606
01:16:59,640 --> 01:17:01,360
Speaker 1: be there. All right, Let's get to our buddy from

1607
01:17:01,400 --> 01:17:05,040
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, JP Shadrick. He covers them for him post game,

1608
01:17:05,120 --> 01:17:07,599
Speaker 1: does a whole bunch of Jack's media. We love him,

1609
01:17:07,760 --> 01:17:12,240
Speaker 1: and he visited with Deepie about some things in regard

1610
01:17:12,479 --> 01:17:15,960
Speaker 1: to this matchup Sunday at Wembley. Let's talk about Gardner Minshew. Now,

1611
01:17:16,080 --> 01:17:20,040
Speaker 1: he's got thirteen touchdowns, two interceptions, and he's broken I

1612
01:17:20,080 --> 01:17:22,280
Speaker 1: don't know, like a million more rookie records since the

1613
01:17:22,360 --> 01:17:24,560
Speaker 1: Texans faced him in a week two. How have you

1614
01:17:24,640 --> 01:17:27,360
Speaker 1: seen him progress over the last seven games? What's changed

1615
01:17:27,400 --> 01:17:29,439
Speaker 1: at about Minshew now that he's got some more experience

1616
01:17:29,520 --> 01:17:33,400
Speaker 1: in hers built. It's funny, there's not a lot. I mean,

1617
01:17:33,479 --> 01:17:35,920
Speaker 1: he's seen probably a few more different looks on defense.

1618
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:38,880
Speaker 1: There's going to be something that surprises him here and there, right,

1619
01:17:39,080 --> 01:17:43,200
Speaker 1: and a different look or a different blitz concept or whatever.

1620
01:17:43,360 --> 01:17:46,240
Speaker 1: But he's still the same guy who was in Houston

1621
01:17:46,320 --> 01:17:48,599
Speaker 1: week two and week one when he came in against

1622
01:17:48,680 --> 01:17:51,280
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Well, now you just have a little more

1623
01:17:52,439 --> 01:17:56,080
Speaker 1: belief that something good's gonna happen. Then you had no idea.

1624
01:17:56,400 --> 01:17:58,080
Speaker 1: Who knows what's gonna happen with this kid? Right? And

1625
01:17:58,120 --> 01:17:59,840
Speaker 1: then he drives down the field and scores a touch

1626
01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:02,000
Speaker 1: down in Houston, And if it wasn't for the two

1627
01:18:02,040 --> 01:18:04,080
Speaker 1: point try, then you know, you go to overtime. Who knows.

1628
01:18:04,200 --> 01:18:07,000
Speaker 1: But they lost that football game, but you saw a

1629
01:18:07,080 --> 01:18:10,360
Speaker 1: little spark and then it happened again. And then they

1630
01:18:10,439 --> 01:18:12,720
Speaker 1: go to Denver and win and he rallies them back

1631
01:18:12,760 --> 01:18:14,840
Speaker 1: from a late score of the defense gave up and

1632
01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:16,960
Speaker 1: they went on the road in Denver, tough place to play,

1633
01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:22,120
Speaker 1: so he's doing things. He's he's got great awareness of

1634
01:18:22,560 --> 01:18:26,040
Speaker 1: the scheme and where guys are going to be. He

1635
01:18:26,600 --> 01:18:29,760
Speaker 1: when he is pressured, he can keep his head up

1636
01:18:29,760 --> 01:18:33,040
Speaker 1: and look downfield. He's great in his progressions. I think

1637
01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:35,320
Speaker 1: that that keeping the head up thing is really important

1638
01:18:35,400 --> 01:18:38,360
Speaker 1: because especially for a rookie quarterback. I mean, you're used

1639
01:18:38,360 --> 01:18:42,280
Speaker 1: to a guy ducking and covering right for when there's pressure,

1640
01:18:43,200 --> 01:18:45,400
Speaker 1: any flash of the other colored jersey, he's gonna go

1641
01:18:45,479 --> 01:18:47,439
Speaker 1: down right, Well, this guy gets out of the way,

1642
01:18:47,800 --> 01:18:50,960
Speaker 1: keeps it alive somehow, keeps his eyes down field, and

1643
01:18:51,120 --> 01:18:53,240
Speaker 1: receivers get open and make plays for him too. So

1644
01:18:53,360 --> 01:18:56,679
Speaker 1: you have all that combination together. It is exciting to watch.

1645
01:18:57,400 --> 01:18:59,880
Speaker 1: I'm curious how much longer we'll get to watch it.

1646
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:03,000
Speaker 1: And that's the big debate. Deep you down here right now? Hi?

1647
01:19:03,360 --> 01:19:05,920
Speaker 1: You were you're leading into my next question JP. Nick

1648
01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:09,080
Speaker 1: Foles J Yeah, no, no, you're reading my mind. He's

1649
01:19:09,320 --> 01:19:11,519
Speaker 1: it's about that time for nick Foles. So it's it's

1650
01:19:11,560 --> 01:19:13,240
Speaker 1: going to be a pretty big decision for the Jags.

1651
01:19:13,280 --> 01:19:16,800
Speaker 1: Where do you see it going. He's he's eligible week eleven. Okay,

1652
01:19:16,880 --> 01:19:19,080
Speaker 1: so I think officially would be eligible week ten. But

1653
01:19:19,360 --> 01:19:21,439
Speaker 1: the Jags have a bye that week, so so week

1654
01:19:21,479 --> 01:19:25,080
Speaker 1: eleven against the Colts. So if Minshew comes out and

1655
01:19:25,280 --> 01:19:28,120
Speaker 1: throws for three to fifty and three touchdowns in Wimbley

1656
01:19:28,200 --> 01:19:30,400
Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Texans against a win against the

1657
01:19:30,439 --> 01:19:33,080
Speaker 1: division rival, and the Jags are five and four and

1658
01:19:33,240 --> 01:19:36,400
Speaker 1: he's five and three as a starter, can you pull

1659
01:19:36,520 --> 01:19:40,639
Speaker 1: him out? Well, this offense was built for Nick Foles, right,

1660
01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:44,840
Speaker 1: I mean, so they do you ride the wave and

1661
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:46,840
Speaker 1: try to get through the middle part of this season

1662
01:19:47,520 --> 01:19:50,040
Speaker 1: with a hot quarterback and a defense that's starting to

1663
01:19:50,080 --> 01:19:52,880
Speaker 1: come into its own, or do you shake it up

1664
01:19:53,120 --> 01:19:55,680
Speaker 1: and put Foles in there and hope he's at his

1665
01:19:55,800 --> 01:19:58,400
Speaker 1: peak performance, you know, in a time where he has

1666
01:19:58,479 --> 01:20:00,519
Speaker 1: to be right, because if they don't get through the

1667
01:20:00,520 --> 01:20:03,439
Speaker 1: middle part of the schedule, the next month December won't

1668
01:20:03,479 --> 01:20:06,080
Speaker 1: matter because you're gonna lose three division games. Then you're

1669
01:20:06,080 --> 01:20:08,519
Speaker 1: not gonna be you know, the five games in December,

1670
01:20:08,600 --> 01:20:11,320
Speaker 1: three at home, or you're you're playing uphill the rest

1671
01:20:11,360 --> 01:20:14,360
Speaker 1: of the way. So it's really about what gives them

1672
01:20:14,439 --> 01:20:17,120
Speaker 1: the best chance to win the next month's worth of

1673
01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:19,720
Speaker 1: worth of games, and then they'll figure it out if

1674
01:20:19,760 --> 01:20:22,280
Speaker 1: they try him and he at some point does fail

1675
01:20:22,360 --> 01:20:24,439
Speaker 1: and doesn't look as sharp, then you make the move,

1676
01:20:24,479 --> 01:20:26,479
Speaker 1: because I think if you if you make the move

1677
01:20:26,520 --> 01:20:29,240
Speaker 1: and unmake the move, then you're flopping quarterbacks and you

1678
01:20:29,360 --> 01:20:32,040
Speaker 1: have two quarterbacks you don't have one. That's a whole

1679
01:20:32,080 --> 01:20:35,439
Speaker 1: issue for me. I'm kind of split. I'll be honest

1680
01:20:35,520 --> 01:20:38,080
Speaker 1: with you. It's really tough. And the analysts here that

1681
01:20:38,160 --> 01:20:40,479
Speaker 1: we have on our shows that it's you just don't

1682
01:20:40,720 --> 01:20:42,760
Speaker 1: have a feel for it yet, And Doug Morone says

1683
01:20:42,800 --> 01:20:45,240
Speaker 1: publicly he hasn't thought about it. I think that they'll lie.

1684
01:20:45,320 --> 01:20:47,000
Speaker 1: I think he has a gut feeling what he wants

1685
01:20:47,080 --> 01:20:51,160
Speaker 1: to do, but hey, it's the hot hand. And then

1686
01:20:51,240 --> 01:20:53,600
Speaker 1: you got a guy who's come off the bench in

1687
01:20:54,040 --> 01:20:56,880
Speaker 1: key situations late in seasons before or lead a team

1688
01:20:57,240 --> 01:21:00,640
Speaker 1: to the Promised Land. So who knows. The next two

1689
01:21:00,680 --> 01:21:02,640
Speaker 1: weeks will be just fascinating to see what they come

1690
01:21:02,720 --> 01:21:04,920
Speaker 1: up with. That It's funny that Nick Foles always finds

1691
01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:07,160
Speaker 1: himself in that situation where even if he's meant to

1692
01:21:07,160 --> 01:21:09,200
Speaker 1: be the starter, he's going to come off the bench

1693
01:21:09,240 --> 01:21:11,439
Speaker 1: in December or a time like maybe maybe he will,

1694
01:21:11,520 --> 01:21:14,320
Speaker 1: maybe he won't for Jacksonville and make things happen. I

1695
01:21:14,400 --> 01:21:16,519
Speaker 1: know the Texans saw him last year against Philly, and

1696
01:21:16,640 --> 01:21:18,200
Speaker 1: boy does he look good late in the season. I

1697
01:21:18,280 --> 01:21:20,360
Speaker 1: got to say, all right, let's talk about before I

1698
01:21:20,439 --> 01:21:22,720
Speaker 1: let you go. Leonard Fournette. We saw what he's done

1699
01:21:22,720 --> 01:21:25,200
Speaker 1: over the last few years. But man, he's really having

1700
01:21:25,240 --> 01:21:28,160
Speaker 1: a season. Leads the AFC, ranked second in the NFL

1701
01:21:28,280 --> 01:21:31,200
Speaker 1: with seven hundred ninety one rushing yards on the season.

1702
01:21:31,479 --> 01:21:33,599
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on the season that he's having

1703
01:21:33,680 --> 01:21:35,240
Speaker 1: so far. Do you think he sustains it for the

1704
01:21:35,280 --> 01:21:38,120
Speaker 1: rest of the year. He's well on his way. You know.

1705
01:21:38,240 --> 01:21:40,320
Speaker 1: The one thing, he just hasn't scored much. He's had

1706
01:21:40,360 --> 01:21:43,360
Speaker 1: one touchdown all year, so that's bothering him. You can

1707
01:21:43,439 --> 01:21:47,000
Speaker 1: tell he's just a different cat altogether. And I'm not

1708
01:21:47,080 --> 01:21:49,080
Speaker 1: just talking about on the field. That's obvious with the

1709
01:21:49,200 --> 01:21:52,320
Speaker 1: numbers and he's leading the league and attempts as well.

1710
01:21:52,320 --> 01:21:54,640
Speaker 1: I mean, they're running him a lot and he's got

1711
01:21:54,680 --> 01:21:57,760
Speaker 1: a great average and he's getting good yardage habit in

1712
01:21:57,800 --> 01:22:01,240
Speaker 1: production and everything. But his attitude and the way he

1713
01:22:01,360 --> 01:22:04,600
Speaker 1: goes about his day to day business has changed. You

1714
01:22:04,680 --> 01:22:06,920
Speaker 1: gotta remember the last time we saw Leonard Fournette in

1715
01:22:06,960 --> 01:22:09,880
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, He's sitting on the bench down there in

1716
01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:14,360
Speaker 1: your place, and with t J. Yeldon alongside him, sitting

1717
01:22:14,520 --> 01:22:18,120
Speaker 1: on the bench during offensive drives. You know, he wasn't active.

1718
01:22:18,439 --> 01:22:20,880
Speaker 1: TJ was, and they were just kind of it was

1719
01:22:21,439 --> 01:22:25,120
Speaker 1: moping basically, and Tom Coughlin made a public statement after

1720
01:22:25,200 --> 01:22:28,400
Speaker 1: the game chastising both of them basically, right, So he's

1721
01:22:28,439 --> 01:22:31,639
Speaker 1: in the doghouse basically at that point. Then he goes

1722
01:22:31,720 --> 01:22:34,840
Speaker 1: to Wyoming to go with his old college strength and

1723
01:22:34,880 --> 01:22:36,920
Speaker 1: conditioning coach to kind of get away from New Orleans,

1724
01:22:37,200 --> 01:22:39,000
Speaker 1: get away from here, see if he can get back

1725
01:22:39,040 --> 01:22:41,160
Speaker 1: on track physically. He'd gotten a little big, you know,

1726
01:22:41,960 --> 01:22:44,200
Speaker 1: So that's one thing. Okay, it's a good start. Then

1727
01:22:44,280 --> 01:22:48,680
Speaker 1: he gets arrested in April for a suspended license and

1728
01:22:48,760 --> 01:22:51,679
Speaker 1: some other traffic violations. Kind of a wake up call, Okay,

1729
01:22:51,720 --> 01:22:53,400
Speaker 1: what am I doing? Like, let me get my thing

1730
01:22:53,479 --> 01:22:56,640
Speaker 1: in order here, And he said, and he said this

1731
01:22:56,760 --> 01:22:59,680
Speaker 1: the other day. Actually that kind of woke him up.

1732
01:23:00,240 --> 01:23:03,320
Speaker 1: So he's focused a little more on everything off the field,

1733
01:23:03,880 --> 01:23:08,120
Speaker 1: focus more on football, and you can tell like he's

1734
01:23:08,360 --> 01:23:10,960
Speaker 1: actually he's a pleasure to talk to this year. He

1735
01:23:11,080 --> 01:23:13,160
Speaker 1: was not great with the media at all last year,

1736
01:23:13,760 --> 01:23:17,120
Speaker 1: very short, one word answers, you know, very very short.

1737
01:23:17,280 --> 01:23:20,040
Speaker 1: Not much you're gonna get out of him. This year,

1738
01:23:20,120 --> 01:23:22,840
Speaker 1: he's you can chat him up after the press conference.

1739
01:23:22,960 --> 01:23:27,040
Speaker 1: He's engaged, he's locked in, he's a he's a different guy,

1740
01:23:27,280 --> 01:23:29,040
Speaker 1: and I think that shows up on the field too,

1741
01:23:29,160 --> 01:23:32,360
Speaker 1: so everything around him is different. It's an unbelievable turnaround

1742
01:23:32,400 --> 01:23:34,800
Speaker 1: from last year when there was talk of you gotta

1743
01:23:34,800 --> 01:23:37,040
Speaker 1: get this guy out of here right Well now, it's

1744
01:23:37,680 --> 01:23:39,920
Speaker 1: what would they be without him? They wouldn't be four

1745
01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:42,040
Speaker 1: and four. I could tell you that. Even with what

1746
01:23:42,160 --> 01:23:45,439
Speaker 1: Gardnerman she's doing, it's a dramatic turnaround, and it's I

1747
01:23:45,520 --> 01:23:48,160
Speaker 1: think it's saved at least the first half of the season,

1748
01:23:48,240 --> 01:23:50,720
Speaker 1: and I don't see any signs of slowing down. All right,

1749
01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:53,479
Speaker 1: Johnny on the way out, Let's get to some keys

1750
01:23:53,560 --> 01:23:56,519
Speaker 1: here Sunday. What's they're gonna take to go six and three?

1751
01:23:56,600 --> 01:23:58,479
Speaker 1: The Texas n six and three before they were six

1752
01:23:58,520 --> 01:24:00,360
Speaker 1: and three last year? Yep, there were six three and

1753
01:24:00,479 --> 01:24:04,000
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. Six and three is a good start after nine,

1754
01:24:04,439 --> 01:24:06,880
Speaker 1: Let's see if they can get it. What's it gonna take? Well,

1755
01:24:06,960 --> 01:24:09,720
Speaker 1: I think on the offense, on the defensive side. You

1756
01:24:09,760 --> 01:24:12,320
Speaker 1: can't allow Mitsch you Mania to go running wild over you,

1757
01:24:12,400 --> 01:24:15,000
Speaker 1: and that is Garner Mitch You creating outside the pocket

1758
01:24:15,520 --> 01:24:18,320
Speaker 1: gap discipline on the run defense, you gotta do that.

1759
01:24:19,040 --> 01:24:21,800
Speaker 1: You gotta be hugged up on receivers. You cannot allow

1760
01:24:21,840 --> 01:24:24,479
Speaker 1: those rub routes to just knock you off. You cannot

1761
01:24:24,520 --> 01:24:26,240
Speaker 1: allow that this week. You've been at this now for

1762
01:24:26,280 --> 01:24:28,519
Speaker 1: a few weeks to seeing all that. Because you're playing

1763
01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:30,599
Speaker 1: a lot of man, right, You've got to be able

1764
01:24:30,600 --> 01:24:32,160
Speaker 1: to get a hit, pocket and run and not get

1765
01:24:32,240 --> 01:24:33,840
Speaker 1: picked off. How do you do that with some of

1766
01:24:33,920 --> 01:24:37,640
Speaker 1: the losses or the absences you have on these back well,

1767
01:24:37,680 --> 01:24:39,960
Speaker 1: you can still play man, but you gotta hug up

1768
01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:41,960
Speaker 1: on these guys. You gotta get up on these guys

1769
01:24:42,000 --> 01:24:43,719
Speaker 1: that make sure if you're gonn run a crossing route

1770
01:24:44,280 --> 01:24:46,800
Speaker 1: that I'm not gonna give room. I'm gonna go cut

1771
01:24:46,840 --> 01:24:49,760
Speaker 1: that room off right so that you don't get picked off.

1772
01:24:50,479 --> 01:24:51,920
Speaker 1: And if they do pick you off at that point,

1773
01:24:51,960 --> 01:24:54,640
Speaker 1: it will end up being OPI. So that's one thing

1774
01:24:54,640 --> 01:24:56,320
Speaker 1: you gotta do on the offensive side of the ball.

1775
01:24:56,960 --> 01:25:01,160
Speaker 1: I think establishing the physical mindset that you did in

1776
01:25:01,240 --> 01:25:05,200
Speaker 1: the first half against them, doing that again, and then

1777
01:25:05,680 --> 01:25:07,960
Speaker 1: figure out who's covering DeAndre Hopkins and how are they

1778
01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:10,040
Speaker 1: gonna cover them. Is it gonna be Boyer one on one?

1779
01:25:10,479 --> 01:25:12,960
Speaker 1: Is he gonna be Trey Herndon with some help? And

1780
01:25:13,080 --> 01:25:16,160
Speaker 1: then attack it early and see what you can get

1781
01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:18,120
Speaker 1: out of it. And then if you don't get much

1782
01:25:18,160 --> 01:25:19,720
Speaker 1: out of it, then you've got other weapons that you

1783
01:25:19,800 --> 01:25:21,880
Speaker 1: can go to and do not forget. How about your

1784
01:25:21,960 --> 01:25:24,599
Speaker 1: RPEO packages in Darren Felds, what do we say every

1785
01:25:24,640 --> 01:25:27,639
Speaker 1: week about this offense? Though every week? Score early, score

1786
01:25:27,680 --> 01:25:29,400
Speaker 1: in your first drive for the first time this year?

1787
01:25:29,680 --> 01:25:32,479
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be great? Grab an early lead and go

1788
01:25:32,680 --> 01:25:35,320
Speaker 1: ahead and take it to them right? You know, too

1789
01:25:35,360 --> 01:25:38,280
Speaker 1: many times and look they've won five games, they've lost three,

1790
01:25:38,560 --> 01:25:41,160
Speaker 1: but too many times they're down. They gotta come back.

1791
01:25:41,760 --> 01:25:44,280
Speaker 1: There's a lot of pressure. Look it's fine, they've responded

1792
01:25:44,320 --> 01:25:47,000
Speaker 1: to it more often than not. That's terrific. But wouldn't

1793
01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:48,560
Speaker 1: it be great to not be in that position, to

1794
01:25:48,640 --> 01:25:51,519
Speaker 1: be in the position of having a lead right and

1795
01:25:51,920 --> 01:25:55,040
Speaker 1: just taking care of business, maybe getting up two scores

1796
01:25:55,200 --> 01:25:57,519
Speaker 1: right and putting it, pushing the pedal to the metal

1797
01:25:57,800 --> 01:26:00,240
Speaker 1: and riding into the finish. That would be fun. That

1798
01:26:00,320 --> 01:26:02,240
Speaker 1: would be fun. I would like to have a calm,

1799
01:26:02,320 --> 01:26:04,880
Speaker 1: cool game. But I said to you and Andre in

1800
01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:07,200
Speaker 1: a break right before kickoff as we were getting ready

1801
01:26:07,240 --> 01:26:08,720
Speaker 1: to go, it's like, all right, buckle up, because it's

1802
01:26:08,720 --> 01:26:13,000
Speaker 1: gonna be three hours of three hours plus of highly intense,

1803
01:26:13,160 --> 01:26:15,120
Speaker 1: stressful football. And it's gonna be like that tomorrow. But

1804
01:26:15,520 --> 01:26:16,960
Speaker 1: if you come out and hit them right in the

1805
01:26:17,080 --> 01:26:20,280
Speaker 1: mouth a few times and you back off Saxonville a

1806
01:26:20,320 --> 01:26:23,120
Speaker 1: little bit, keep doing it, keep taking it to them

1807
01:26:23,479 --> 01:26:25,839
Speaker 1: and see how they're gonna response, See how Gardner Mitchhew's

1808
01:26:25,840 --> 01:26:30,320
Speaker 1: gonna respond. And then don't take your foot off the throat.

1809
01:26:31,040 --> 01:26:33,000
Speaker 1: Don't take your foot off the throat. All right, Johnny,

1810
01:26:33,080 --> 01:26:35,200
Speaker 1: thank you. We gotta Mark. That's gonna do it. Here

1811
01:26:35,280 --> 01:26:38,120
Speaker 1: we can barely hear ourselves at the barrow Boy and Banker.

1812
01:26:38,200 --> 01:26:41,120
Speaker 1: It's like third down an NRG stadium. Bring a playoff game.

1813
01:26:41,200 --> 01:26:45,000
Speaker 1: The intensity here, and I'm not exaggerating, this place is deafening.

1814
01:26:45,360 --> 01:26:47,639
Speaker 1: And it's fun to be here with all these Texans fans,

1815
01:26:47,840 --> 01:26:50,240
Speaker 1: and it's been fun to visit with you this Friday night.

1816
01:26:50,560 --> 01:26:53,439
Speaker 1: Houston Texans dot com for all the coverage, all the

1817
01:26:53,560 --> 01:26:57,280
Speaker 1: social media channels ABC thirteen tomorrow after the local news,

1818
01:26:57,520 --> 01:27:00,240
Speaker 1: Tomorrow morning You've got what, that's what. The TV shows

1819
01:27:00,280 --> 01:27:02,080
Speaker 1: by the way, Texans, TEXU pots and Texans Buds. And

1820
01:27:02,120 --> 01:27:05,280
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning eight thirty on Local two It's Texans Game, Dick.

1821
01:27:05,520 --> 01:27:10,600
Speaker 1: Have a great night everyone, and go Texans. How This

1822
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