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Speaker 1: What's happened? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome through Wednesday edition of Texans All Access, Getting ready.

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Speaker 1: For the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you being here with Mae John Harris Football on

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Speaker 2: a sideline reporter and Man, we have a lot for.

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Speaker 1: You this evening.

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Speaker 2: We've got Nick Cassario, we have got Wade Smith oll

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Speaker 2: later in the show with Little Texans Ogs with our

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Speaker 2: good buddy Indie Clue. We got West Durham play by

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Speaker 2: play voice of the Atlanta Falcons. We've got oh Man,

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Speaker 2: wait for this one, Will Anderson Junior who did his

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Speaker 2: very first deep slant interview, and a little Birdie told

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Speaker 2: me that Will Anderson actually sings Adele. I'm not saying

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Speaker 2: who said it to me, but DPCI who told me

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Speaker 2: that at the studio today, So I'm taking her at

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Speaker 2: her word.

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Speaker 1: And then il in the lab with Judori and myself.

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Speaker 2: So we've got plenty to do, Man, a lot to

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Speaker 2: do on this Wednesday night show. But we kick off

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Speaker 2: each and every Wednesday with the general manager of your

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Speaker 2: Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: That's Nick Cassio.

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Speaker 2: And stick around for a question that Mark asked about

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Speaker 2: what television show Nick watched growing up and trust me,

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Speaker 2: it gave me chills.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you why in a little bit. Here's Nick

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Speaker 1: with me, Mark and John.

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Speaker 3: I guess now in the hun Day Texans Radio Studio

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Speaker 3: Executive vice president and general manager Nick Cassario, Nick, how's

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Speaker 3: it going.

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Speaker 4: Jan's good to be here.

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Speaker 3: Well, congratulations on the victory and it really was special

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Speaker 3: to see the Texans come out so strong against the Steelers,

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Speaker 3: a day where JJ watkos and the Ring of Honor

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Speaker 3: and a thirty point output.

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Speaker 4: What were your impressions of the.

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Speaker 5: Day, Nick, Yeah, it was probably a good day for

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Speaker 5: everybody involved. I think the most important thing is we

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Speaker 5: played good football. So anytime you play good football, there's

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Speaker 5: kind of a trickle down effect. I think the halftime

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Speaker 5: ceremony really the whole weekend for JJ, you know, is

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Speaker 5: well deserved. There's a lot and hopefully he was happy

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Speaker 5: with the result and happy with the outcome from a

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Speaker 5: team standpoint. The big thing is we were able to

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Speaker 5: go off to a fast start, so we're able to

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Speaker 5: take the ball on the field and score what you

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Speaker 5: haven't done over the first three games. So got off

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Speaker 5: to a good start, a gain a little bit momentum,

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Speaker 5: you know, played well defensively. You know, in the first half,

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Speaker 5: you know, we're up thirteen to nothing, and then we're

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Speaker 5: able to execute there at the end of the first

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Speaker 5: half kick the field go up sixteen nothing, so against

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Speaker 5: a good Pittsburgh team. So I think being able to

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Speaker 5: get off in a good start, off to a good

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Speaker 5: start was key to the game. It was good atmosphere.

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Speaker 5: You know, the Steelers had a lot of fans, but

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Speaker 5: there was a lot of Texans fans in the in

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Speaker 5: the stadium as well. So overall, I think we're pleased

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Speaker 5: with the performance celebrated on Monday, and time move on

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Speaker 5: and get ready for Atlanta, which we'll talk about here

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Speaker 5: in a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Nick Nico Collins says been. I mean, he's been really

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Speaker 2: good this year. There's no doubt. I want to go back,

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Speaker 2: if you don't mind, to his draft evaluation because he

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Speaker 2: doesn't play in twenty twenty. The co COVID thing with

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Speaker 2: the Big ten was all jacked up, and by that

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Speaker 2: point when he had already decided I'm out. So he

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Speaker 2: doesn't play in twenty twenty. He does go to the

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Speaker 2: Senior Bowl for a few days for a week. What'd

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Speaker 2: you see a Nico back then? And how much trust

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Speaker 2: did you have to kind of put in what you

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Speaker 5: No, it's a great point. So I'd say the player

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Speaker 5: evaluation sometimes is going to be specific to the individual player,

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Speaker 5: and you really can't control the circumstance. The only control

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Speaker 5: of the things that you see on tape. As you

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Speaker 5: a little bit heavy, a little bit overweight. So I

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Speaker 5: think from the time he was drafted until now, he's

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Speaker 5: things that we've asked him to improve, he's improved. Probably

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Speaker 5: where he's made the biggest jump is just to run

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Speaker 5: after catch. I think a lot of that is the

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Speaker 5: fruits of some of that labor that Nico has put in.

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Speaker 5: But going back to the evaluation, you try not to

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Speaker 5: If you go based off of that, it could skew

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Speaker 5: your evaluation. It's not the same. I'm not saying they're

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Speaker 5: the same players, but this was similar to Gronkowski when

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Speaker 5: he came out. You know, Rob basically missed a year

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Speaker 5: of football. So you have to go off of the

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Speaker 5: and then put it all together and then just make

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Speaker 4: Nick.

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Speaker 3: I know there are a lot of answers to this question,

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Speaker 3: But to what do you attribute the play of the

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Speaker 4: How do you see it?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd say work ethic and coaching. So I think

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Speaker 5: when the players put the work in on a day

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Speaker 5: think that at times there's a certain pride element that's

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Speaker 5: other side of the ball that we were facing relative

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Speaker 5: think just staying kind of consistent, and I think we've

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Speaker 5: make excuses. Whoever is available to us, try to make

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Speaker 5: to play good football and just have confidence in your teammate,

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Speaker 5: the best of your ability, because that's all any of

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Speaker 2: Nick the rookie class has best performed very very well.

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Speaker 2: I think a guy that gets lost it in a

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Speaker 2: little bit is deal important. But when he's on the field,

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Speaker 2: he's been making plays. What did you see in him

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Speaker 2: the growth of him the last few weeks in particular.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, typically take eight or nine defensive line to the game.

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Speaker 5: They're all going to play. They're all gonna be on

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Speaker 5: the field. Dylan missed a pocket a training camp there.

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Speaker 5: He was out for a few days. I think what

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Speaker 5: you've just seeing improvement. So is the player improving from

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Speaker 5: where they started to where they are now. Dylan played

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Speaker 5: he gets incrementally better. Think the play on the wide

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Speaker 5: screen there the other day was a very aware instinctive play.

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Speaker 5: You know, it could have been a big play, but

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Speaker 5: you know, to be able to make that play, to

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Speaker 5: You know, certainly big play in a game. And I

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Speaker 3: I asked coach about this about the Bama backers, Right,

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Speaker 3: you have Christian Harris and you have Henry, and those

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Speaker 4: Can you talk about that stuff?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean specifically, that play is very instinctive play.

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Speaker 5: We were in a coverage where they created a matchup,

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Speaker 5: I think, you know, Dimiko talks a lot about finishing,

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Speaker 5: certainly improved. Christians certainly made improvements. Even going back to

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Speaker 5: made some incremental progress as well. And we've talked about

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Speaker 5: to see hopefully improvement in your team, both individually and collectively,

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Speaker 5: and you're starting to see that across positions and specific

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Speaker 5: to those two players that you just mentioned.

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Speaker 2: Nick, You've been around a lot of teams throughout your career,

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Speaker 2: a lot of different iterations of Patriots teams, different nerations

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Speaker 2: of Texans teams. So it's kind of a strange question

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Speaker 2: in some sense. But what does confidence do for a team?

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Speaker 2: Because it feels like the team that we saw on

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Speaker 2: Sunday was playing with a lot of confidence coming off

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Speaker 2: that win against Jacksonville, and I would imagine having a

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Speaker 2: lot more confidence coming out of this win against Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 2: Confidence do for a team, but also there's a fine

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Speaker 2: line of confidence can't turn into cockiness as well.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the reality is about mindset and it's

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Speaker 5: about belief. So do you believe in what is in

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Speaker 5: front of us? Do you believe you can go out

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Speaker 5: there and win? That's a big part of it. So

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Speaker 5: it's about what your mindset and then during the course

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Speaker 5: conducive to winning. So and when when you go out

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Speaker 2: the Texans have not gotten to play in Andy's room.

438
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Speaker 4: Toy Story I don't even know.

439
00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:46,880
Speaker 6: I was going.

440
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Speaker 4: Over my head. You know, the movie toys.

441
00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:54,000
Speaker 5: Yes, okay, don't ask me about movies. We've talked about that.

442
00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,560
Speaker 2: I know I missed that one. It was pretty awesome

443
00:18:57,600 --> 00:18:59,439
Speaker 2: how they how they did it. They took the they

444
00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:01,800
Speaker 2: basically to go the geo tracking and everything and turning

445
00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:05,919
Speaker 2: them into toy story figures and played the game from Atlanta, Jacksonville.

446
00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:09,199
Speaker 3: I'll stick to normal football though, now that we're going

447
00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:11,679
Speaker 3: to subject, give us a show or two that you

448
00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:13,879
Speaker 3: liked when you were a little kid. Oh, bowing up.

449
00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:17,680
Speaker 3: You watch this because you liked it? What was a Transformer?

450
00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:18,119
Speaker 8: You?

451
00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:22,040
Speaker 5: Actually, I'm parking embarrassed myself, but that's okay.

452
00:19:22,040 --> 00:19:23,840
Speaker 9: We embarrass our stuff on a daily basis.

453
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Speaker 5: I actually was a Saved by the Bell here we go. Hell, yes, yeah,

454
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Speaker 5: I'd say that was one. You have not gone my

455
00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:35,199
Speaker 5: rank Rickie Schroeder silver spoons. So those are the couple

456
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Speaker 5: i'd say sort of that I may have watched time

457
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Speaker 5: to time.

458
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Speaker 2: So yeah, there you go now and that I can't

459
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Speaker 2: believe you just said saved by the bell. You are

460
00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,760
Speaker 2: You're like, you're high in my rankings, but you I mean,

461
00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:48,560
Speaker 2: you just went up.

462
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Speaker 4: That's huge.

463
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Speaker 2: That's one of my just said that to Josh the

464
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Speaker 2: other day. It was like, say by, say by the

465
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Speaker 2: Bell was one of my favorites growing up.

466
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Speaker 3: Zach Morris, yep, absolutely screech Okay, Nick, thanks a lot,

467
00:19:58,320 --> 00:19:59,400
Speaker 3: good luck, Thanks.

468
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Speaker 2: Guys, all right, great stuff there from Nick Cassario, and

469
00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:04,160
Speaker 2: I gotta say Mark and I were very good as well,

470
00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:07,680
Speaker 2: so let's make sure we get that clear. One of

471
00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:09,640
Speaker 2: the things Mark that stood out when he was talking

472
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Speaker 2: about the Falcons, well.

473
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Speaker 4: I thought you were going to ring up Saved by

474
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Speaker 4: the Bell.

475
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Speaker 6: Oh.

476
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Speaker 9: I love that, you know that.

477
00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:20,360
Speaker 2: I'm still buzzing from that because that's I don't know why.

478
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Speaker 4: That's one of my favorite shows too. I love that show.

479
00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,879
Speaker 3: Elizabeth Berkeley started talking about show Girls Gonna go off

480
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Speaker 3: the rails very quickly.

481
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Kelly Kapowski is still My wife is in Los Angeles, right,

482
00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:31,960
Speaker 2: She's in Los Angeles still.

483
00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:34,159
Speaker 4: Yeah, a couple of weeks she'll be here. But I

484
00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:34,679
Speaker 4: could say this.

485
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Speaker 2: Kelly Kapowski was like, yeah, absolutely she was.

486
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Speaker 9: She was the original crush for me. She was gorgeous.

487
00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,320
Speaker 2: Tiff the Amber Theesen was her name that she went

488
00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:47,240
Speaker 2: to and it was even more so. But either way,

489
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Speaker 2: we'll keep that aside. He was talking about he's talking

490
00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,720
Speaker 2: about the Falcons, and he mentioned one thing that I've

491
00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:55,960
Speaker 2: always been a big fan of, but always on defense,

492
00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:01,119
Speaker 2: but positionless football, off fence version.

493
00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,919
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and I feel like that's the Falcons.

494
00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:09,480
Speaker 2: And with Bjon Robinson, Kyle Pitts, Drake London, Patterson, I

495
00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:11,560
Speaker 2: feel like they've got guys that well, is that guy

496
00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,680
Speaker 2: a receiver? Is that guy tight End's that eleven personnel?

497
00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:16,439
Speaker 2: Is that twelve personnel? That's one of the things that

498
00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:19,280
Speaker 2: kind of messes with in some sense is how do

499
00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,160
Speaker 2: you try and match personnel groups to what they have. Oh,

500
00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,400
Speaker 2: they're in twenty one personnel. We're going to put our

501
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:27,639
Speaker 2: base defense out on the field. Oh that's eleven personnel.

502
00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,119
Speaker 2: Let's get our nickel or our subpackage out on the field.

503
00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:31,720
Speaker 2: I feel like that could be one of the things

504
00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,680
Speaker 2: that's the most difficult in preparing for these guys.

505
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Speaker 3: Well, it's always difficult when you have a lot of

506
00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:37,639
Speaker 3: teams do this. The Texans do this. You put a

507
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Speaker 3: wide receiver in the backfield. Right, put a receiver in

508
00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:41,760
Speaker 3: the backfield, looks like a running back. Oh wait a minute,

509
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,680
Speaker 3: it's Tank Dell or something like that. Right, you hand

510
00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,840
Speaker 3: off the TANKDLL out of orbit motion something like that.

511
00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:49,840
Speaker 3: We see it all over the place with tight ends,

512
00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:51,400
Speaker 3: because there are a lot of tight ends who, let's

513
00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:53,880
Speaker 3: admit it, are Yeah they're a tight end, but they're

514
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,520
Speaker 3: kind of really a receiver and they can block a

515
00:21:56,560 --> 00:21:59,320
Speaker 3: little bit as well. They're big dudes, but they're not.

516
00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:04,520
Speaker 3: They're not Quittriano type tight ends. So I think that

517
00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,639
Speaker 3: it's an interesting thing to talk about. I think you

518
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:09,720
Speaker 3: can do a lot with running backs as receivers. We

519
00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:11,880
Speaker 3: talk about receivers in the backfield, what about running backs

520
00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:13,879
Speaker 3: as receivers, getting about why we see it all the

521
00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,679
Speaker 3: time with empty backfield, Pierce motions out, he sets up

522
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:19,720
Speaker 3: in the slot, and by the way, Johnny, I think

523
00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,960
Speaker 3: that as much as they've used it, which isn't a ton,

524
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,080
Speaker 3: but they've used it, they've spread the ball around. Nobody

525
00:22:25,119 --> 00:22:27,800
Speaker 3: can complain about the versatility of the variety in the

526
00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,320
Speaker 3: offense so far. But I still think there's a lot

527
00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:32,480
Speaker 3: of stuff that they can do with Damian Pierce, and

528
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:35,320
Speaker 3: they will do with Damian Pierce as the season progresses

529
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Speaker 3: here as a receiver.

530
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Speaker 2: I think the same for Devin. I think the same

531
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Speaker 2: for Damien. I think there's more there for Dalton Schultz too.

532
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Speaker 2: I think one of the things about getting Lineman back

533
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Speaker 2: this week and hopefully Larami's ready to go, Hopefully Titus

534
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,800
Speaker 2: is ready to go. They were both at practice today

535
00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,439
Speaker 2: and practicing now again we see a small part of it,

536
00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,280
Speaker 2: so it could have been limited, could have been just

537
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,200
Speaker 2: you know, a small piece, but they were at least

538
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:02,600
Speaker 2: out there.

539
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:04,680
Speaker 4: That was good. So if you start to.

540
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Speaker 2: Get those guys back, then maybe you don't have to

541
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 2: use Dalton Schultz to chip all the time or to

542
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 2: double He could just go right to his route, you know,

543
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,160
Speaker 2: same with brev And and Tiguan as well.

544
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Speaker 4: But that worked.

545
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,399
Speaker 2: Against the Steelers to use the tight ends and you

546
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 2: didn't lose much in the passing game. But I think

547
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 2: you can add to the passing game by having those

548
00:23:26,520 --> 00:23:29,159
Speaker 2: guys back that you're like, Okay, we don't feel like

549
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:30,159
Speaker 2: we got to help Laramie.

550
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:31,600
Speaker 4: Larimy is on his own island.

551
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,359
Speaker 2: He can handle who's ever out there, you know, who's

552
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 2: ever playing on the inside, whatever, wherever Titus is playing,

553
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,400
Speaker 2: whether it's tackle, he can be out there on his own.

554
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:42,720
Speaker 4: You could trust all of that.

555
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:46,199
Speaker 2: George, George fan does not get enough credit for what

556
00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:48,560
Speaker 2: he did against the Steelers and t J.

557
00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 4: Watt.

558
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Speaker 9: He played a wonderful game.

559
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,200
Speaker 2: And I think you know Steelers fans, but well, yeah,

560
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:56,000
Speaker 2: he had double teams and chips all the time. He

561
00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 2: had a few, he had a few, but he handled

562
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Speaker 2: it on his own. And I think that was one

563
00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:04,119
Speaker 2: of the things that was so I would saying lightning,

564
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,000
Speaker 2: but was great to see that.

565
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 4: Man.

566
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,639
Speaker 2: You got maybe with guys coming back, you maybe now

567
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 2: have some depth on the offensive line, but I think

568
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 2: that part could open things up for the tight ends,

569
00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 2: which now makes you even more dangerous if you start

570
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,960
Speaker 2: adding in. You know, Dalton had three catches the other day.

571
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 2: He started getting him to he's five or six because

572
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:27,640
Speaker 2: he's getting the best matchup. You know, he's beating linebackers.

573
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,359
Speaker 2: I mean the throat on the team. He had to

574
00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 2: beat Landy Roberts. He gave him little hesitation, went up

575
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 2: to seehim. CJ threw him a dot and he caught it.

576
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 2: Big play. Maybe those things start to happen when you

577
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 2: get some of these guys back. But I'm with you,

578
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,560
Speaker 2: I feel like the offense has layers that they even

579
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:42,880
Speaker 2: thought about peeling back yet.

580
00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, because look what we saw in game four

581
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 3: versus Game three, by versus game two, and it grows

582
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:53,879
Speaker 3: every week, and I think they're finding it enjoyable to

583
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:56,520
Speaker 3: an experiment with new stuff and see what they can do.

584
00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 3: You know, one of the things that O'Brien said when

585
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 3: Watson got hard was, man, he was so much fun

586
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,159
Speaker 3: to coach that year, right, And we talked about that

587
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 3: year that he used a lot of Clemson stuff and

588
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,080
Speaker 3: they seem to get away with that or from that

589
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 3: when he came back the following year. But that's another topic.

590
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 3: But I bring it up because the fun to coach

591
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,399
Speaker 3: thing when you have a young pupil or young pupils

592
00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 3: like this as a teacher like Bobby Slowick does, and

593
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:25,800
Speaker 3: they're taken to it and executing. Everybody's working together to

594
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,439
Speaker 3: do the next fun thing, and how else can we

595
00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:29,800
Speaker 3: be more explosive?

596
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 4: Like Damian Pierce said the other day that they.

597
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 3: Feel like they can be even more explosive, more effective

598
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,320
Speaker 3: on offense. So let's see what they got. We're all

599
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 3: here for it, and so far it's working really well.

600
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 3: And you know, Johnny, the other thing is this, we

601
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,879
Speaker 3: can talk about creativity all. You want to see Pierce

602
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,160
Speaker 3: do some of the things he did against the Steelers,

603
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:51,160
Speaker 3: the Damien Pierce that we saw last year. You put

604
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 3: that kind of production and that kind of punishing running

605
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 3: style which he displayed on Sunday, and more of that,

606
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,439
Speaker 3: more production that way, in eddition to this passing attack,

607
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 3: you're gonna score a lot of points. Because as much

608
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:06,399
Speaker 3: as you know, you could talk about the Falcons and

609
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,439
Speaker 3: what they can do to you, and you were just

610
00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:11,679
Speaker 3: mentioning some of their weapons and positionless players and all

611
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 3: of that. Hey, if you just keep scoring, they can't

612
00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 3: touch you. And I think this team feels like that.

613
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:18,960
Speaker 3: And I know I said a little cocky when I

614
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:20,560
Speaker 3: say that, but I believe that they can move the

615
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:22,200
Speaker 3: ball in a lot of squads in this league, right.

616
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,040
Speaker 2: You know, it's starting to emerge from me, And I've

617
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 2: said this before. I think a team's greatness is measured

618
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 2: by how many different ways they can beat you. Like,

619
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 2: is that a team that you go out there and, Okay,

620
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,160
Speaker 2: the defense can shut you down and win a game

621
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 2: that way? They can win a nine to six game,

622
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,879
Speaker 2: is that one in which the offense can win a shootout?

623
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 2: A thirty eight thirty five game? And it was funny,

624
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 2: it sort of crystallized for me when I was watching

625
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 2: America's game a long time ago with the doing the

626
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 2: Patriots in two thousand and three, and I remember Charlie

627
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 2: Weiss was talking about that. He said, we could win

628
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:55,639
Speaker 2: a ninety three game, we could win a thirty eight

629
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,160
Speaker 2: thirty seven game. We could win a game that went

630
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,160
Speaker 2: back and forth. We could win games that we came

631
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 2: from behind. That's the parcels way too. Yes, many if

632
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,120
Speaker 2: you can have multiple ways of winning a game, like hey,

633
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,399
Speaker 2: offense not quite feeling it today, but the defense is

634
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 2: keeping you in the game for a long time because

635
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,119
Speaker 2: that's the unit you have over there.

636
00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:18,640
Speaker 9: The more ways that you have to win games, the better.

637
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,919
Speaker 2: And I feel like that's starting to really kind of

638
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 2: emerge for this team, especially getting the running game going

639
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,360
Speaker 2: the other day, Like, okay, could there be a game

640
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:28,120
Speaker 2: in which man, you pound for one hundred and forty

641
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,640
Speaker 2: five hundred and fifty yards on the ground and they're

642
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 2: just not stopping you and you just keep handing it

643
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 2: off because your identity that day is to just ground.

644
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 4: Them into submission.

645
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 2: And maybe there's gonna a day where they're loading the

646
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:40,440
Speaker 2: box with eight saying, you know what, all right, rookie

647
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:42,679
Speaker 2: beat us, and then sett has to and he's done

648
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 2: it already and he'll do it again.

649
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 4: So I like the fact that there.

650
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:50,199
Speaker 2: Are multiple ways for the Texans to go about winning games.

651
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,160
Speaker 2: And to that point, then to your point about getting

652
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 2: cocky getting confident, you know, there's there's definitely a fine line.

653
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 2: But what we've seen the last couple of weeks has

654
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 2: giving us the opportunity to be confident, like, man, we

655
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 2: did that and we didn't have all of our healthy guys. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we did that on defense and we still were missing

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Speaker 2: a couple of key guys. Man, what can we do

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Speaker 2: get everybody healthier? What can we do get a lot

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Speaker 2: of guys healthy? What can we do when they've got experience?

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Speaker 2: Or when Nico feels like he can't be stopped, what

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Speaker 2: more can he do? So it's gonna be a tough test,

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Speaker 2: especially against the SA Atlanta defense.

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Speaker 4: The s Atlanta defense has got some dudes. Yeah, they

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Speaker 4: got dudes on that defense society.

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Speaker 2: They don't give up much, especially in the passing game,

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Speaker 2: and that worries me a little bit because you got

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Speaker 2: aj Trail back there, you got Jesse Bates, You got

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Speaker 2: some dudes in that secondary and that does that does

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Speaker 2: worry me. You got Jeff Fakuda who came over from

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Speaker 2: the Lions. He was the number three overall pick a

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Speaker 2: few years ago, and you know he's just getting back

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Speaker 2: in after being injured. But the Atlanta Falcons defense is

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Speaker 2: gonna be no joke on Sunday you.

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Speaker 3: Know, I think about the last two games and I

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Speaker 3: wonder what would have happened if Andrew Beck doesn't return

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Speaker 3: the kickoff for a TV And what would have happened

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Speaker 3: if the Steelers made that fourth down?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 3: Do they score? Does that put extra pressure on your offense?

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Speaker 3: How do they respond? You're gonna have situations like that,

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Speaker 3: you know, as we enjoy this two game winning streak,

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Speaker 3: want to add it to a three game winning streak

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Speaker 3: and go on from there, and they're gonna have situations where, yeah,

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Speaker 3: they do get closer, they get really close, or maybe

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Speaker 3: you're behind and you have to win a game that way.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna see it's all gonna unfold. Like we saw

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Speaker 3: during the team record nine game winning streak in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 3: they had to win games in a variety of ways.

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Speaker 3: Let's see if they can do it with this budge

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Speaker 3: and keep this thing going. It's the start of something.

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Speaker 3: Let's see it turn into something really special.

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Speaker 2: One key guy in all of this is the number

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Speaker 2: three overall pick. Yeah, the Texas gave up a lot

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Speaker 2: to go get their Lamborghini, but they got him the terminator.

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Speaker 2: Will Anderson Junior sits down with dpcity and a little

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Speaker 2: Birdie told me that she got him to sing.

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Speaker 9: I can't wait for this. That's next on Texans All Access.

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Speaker 2: Wealking Back this Wednesday is of Texans All Access from

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Speaker 2: Monday Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris.

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Speaker 2: Football Analyst, sideline reporter, and it's time for our Deep

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Speaker 2: Slant Interview of the Week, brought to you by Infinity.

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Speaker 2: Deepcity sits down this week with Will Anderson Junior.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna want to miss this. Take a listen.

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Speaker 10: It's a deep sent one one presented by Exfinity.

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Speaker 11: Our guest this week, Will Anderson, number three overall pick,

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Speaker 11: got the first quarter of the season under your belt.

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Speaker 10: First of all, how are you doing. How's it going.

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Speaker 12: I'm doing good. It's going great. Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 12: I appreciate you. But it's been a blessing. It's been

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Speaker 12: fun so far. I'm just ready to see what else

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Speaker 12: the season hopes for us.

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Speaker 11: I'm wearing my new Balance shoes. I dug these up

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Speaker 11: because you've got a new Balance to be repeat, I

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Speaker 11: was like, I have some new balances. Congrats on that.

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Speaker 11: I just saw the announcement came out what like a week.

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Speaker 10: Or two ago.

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Speaker 11: Yes, okay, So how did that come about? Are you

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Speaker 11: just like an it's an interesting choice of brands, I

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Speaker 11: would say.

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Speaker 12: Well, I'm all about being different, so like I just

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Speaker 12: feel like, you know, most guys, you know, they go

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Speaker 12: with Nike or somebody else, and I'm always talking about

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Speaker 12: going this different route. And also, like New Balance was

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Speaker 12: on the beliefs and values that I have for you know,

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Speaker 12: myself and my family and being in the community and

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Speaker 12: everything like that, and just being innovative, and that's something

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Speaker 12: that they've been doing really well, you know, just innovating

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Speaker 12: new things like new fashions, new designs, and I'm all

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Speaker 12: for so I was really excited to be partners with

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Speaker 12: them and try to you know, come up with the

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Speaker 12: cleat and then they like have us like making our

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Speaker 12: own cleats, own designs on feats and everything like that,

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Speaker 12: just being hands on. So it's really exciting and really fun.

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Speaker 11: It's like what's old is new again because I remember

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Speaker 11: when New Balance was really in. I mean, I'm a

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Speaker 11: little bit showing my age here and now it's new again.

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Speaker 11: And you I was reading this great story in The

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Speaker 11: Athletic about how you're super into thrift store shopping. Yes,

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Speaker 11: so you do like old is new again. So okay,

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Speaker 11: so how did you get into thrifting and what do

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Speaker 11: you think about the thrift scene in Houston?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 12: So it originally started with my grandmother. Her name was

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Speaker 12: Betty Child. And at first I just used to go

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Speaker 12: to like get all the old toys and everything like that.

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Speaker 12: But then as I got older, I was like on,

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Speaker 12: like they got some good pieces in here, and then

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Speaker 12: like me and my friends just used to go all

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Speaker 12: the time and like get like all types of like

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Speaker 12: vintace jackets, vintage pants and stuff like that. And what's

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Speaker 12: really cool is like New Balance their shoes. It goes

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Speaker 12: perfect with like it does yeah, like boot cut pants

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Speaker 12: and everything like that, like the bag you look. So

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Speaker 12: it was really fun and exciting just to you know,

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Speaker 12: aventu around different like lanes of clothing and different like

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Speaker 12: lanes of like other brands you know that can connect

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Speaker 12: with New Balance really well.

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Speaker 11: Okay, but is it not hard to find your size

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Speaker 11: in a thrift store? Like sizing is already tricky and

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Speaker 11: then you're not you know, an average size guy, You're huge,

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Speaker 11: So how do you find your size?

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Speaker 4: So I'll go for the oversized.

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Speaker 13: Look, okay, I always like try to go over over.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, over oversized, so like it's never really easy to

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Speaker 12: find like a straight thirty eight, so sometimes I have

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Speaker 12: to go up to like a forty.

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Speaker 11: Or forty and you get it taken in. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 11: and I and I read that you also take some

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Speaker 11: of some of your teammates also like thrifting. Who else

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Speaker 11: do you think is big into that scene?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 12: All of them? I went with. Who is that I

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Speaker 12: went with that one day? Dang No, it wasn't one

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Speaker 12: of my teammates. It was one of my friends that came.

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Speaker 12: But I know a couple I've seen Sting at one

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Speaker 12: of the thrift stores that he was there.

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Speaker 10: He likes m I heard.

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Speaker 4: Likes to th J likes to thrift too.

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Speaker 12: By the time I went was with one of my

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Speaker 12: friends from back home. But I know, like I've seen

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Speaker 12: CJ there and CJ, I mean CJ and Steing there

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Speaker 12: as well.

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Speaker 10: Which city do you think has got a great thrift

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Speaker 10: store scene?

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Speaker 4: I gotta say Georgia, of course.

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Speaker 10: Georgia really okay, But Houston.

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Speaker 12: Has a lot of great thrifting stores here, like Thrifted

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Speaker 12: Threads is one that you probably read that. H yeah,

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Speaker 12: that I've been to, but it's some other ones Like

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Speaker 12: I was like, oh wow, like y'all got a lot

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Speaker 12: of Vinci stuff in here. I'll be back on one

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Speaker 12: of these.

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Speaker 10: Offers really okay, and you find some good stuff.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of great stuff.

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Speaker 10: So is that what you were on game day?

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Speaker 11: Or do you buy your stuff? Seems pretty high fashion.

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Speaker 11: I don't think you're writing those the thrift stores. So

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Speaker 11: the like what your what's your fashion aesthetic?

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Speaker 12: Like my fashion aesthetic is just really calm, cool and collected.

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Speaker 12: I don't really like being really flashy, but I feel

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Speaker 12: like some some of the old stuff flashy to me,

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Speaker 12: Like what my flashy is versus what somebody else flashy

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Speaker 12: is is really different.

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Speaker 4: I kind of just like I like cut off shirts

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Speaker 4: a lot.

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Speaker 12: So the outfit that you seen me wear this past Saturday, yeah,

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Speaker 12: I got like five more shirts.

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Speaker 4: Just like that.

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Speaker 12: And I have some other brands like do you aren't

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Speaker 12: stuff like that that's cut off too. I mean for me,

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Speaker 12: it's really just what I feel comfortable in, you know

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Speaker 12: what I'm saying, Like what I want to wear?

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Speaker 11: All right, so you look really comfortable showing up to

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Speaker 11: the game you're obviously very comfortable in the game. Let's

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Speaker 11: talk about the first few games of this season. I mean,

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Speaker 11: you blocked a field goal, which is amazing. It seemed

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Speaker 11: like you could have had two blocked field goals. What

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Speaker 11: about that? Like Drew Dolerty was in here earlier and

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Speaker 11: he said, you gotta ask Will did that hurt blocking

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Speaker 11: the field goal? And I was like, I didn't even

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Speaker 11: notice what part of your body was it? Your hand,

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Speaker 11: your wrists?

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Speaker 10: Like how did you even block it?

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Speaker 4: Everybody keep saying that it didn't hurt.

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Speaker 12: Like surprisingly, I thought it was because we were like

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Speaker 12: coming to like the preparation that whole week.

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Speaker 4: We was like, oh, we're going to block a.

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Speaker 12: Field goal, we know, really and like we didn't, Like

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Speaker 12: I didn't get my hands on in practice and I

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Speaker 12: never got my hand on the field. But I was

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Speaker 12: like the force of this ball. I wonder how it's

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Speaker 12: gonna feel. And honestly, it just felt like I was

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Speaker 12: playing volleyball. I just went out there and smacked it down.

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Speaker 12: But I also think it was like the agenda them too,

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Speaker 12: so like I probably didn't feel nothing.

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Speaker 10: You didn't have any bruises or any pain afterwards.

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Speaker 4: Oh it was fine.

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Speaker 10: When did you learn.

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Speaker 11: That that was a skill set that you had, that

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Speaker 11: you were able to jump up and block field goals

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Speaker 11: like that?

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Speaker 12: It probably started when I used to have to go

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Speaker 12: practice with my sister's at volleyball practice.

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Speaker 11: Really okay, so you would try to block their shots

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Speaker 11: or were you actually playing with them?

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Speaker 4: I was actually playing with them? It was fine.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, okay.

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Speaker 11: And what about just the first four games, Like, have

850
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Speaker 11: you had your welcome to the NFL moment?

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Speaker 10: You've played some pretty big names so far.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a few times. You know, it's a part of

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Speaker 4: the game.

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Speaker 12: You know, you get a shot here and there, you

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Speaker 12: know what I'm saying, that somebody block you here and there.

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Speaker 12: But like, I feel like coach Dimiko does a really

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Speaker 12: good job with the intensity of practice, making sure that

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Speaker 12: we're really prepared going into a game, knowing how fast

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Speaker 12: we need to play, how physical we need to be.

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Speaker 12: And then plus just being in Alabama, you know, practice

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Speaker 12: was very physical there. So the transition from Alabama to

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Speaker 12: the league, it's kind of just it's been like an

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00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 12: easy transition, you know what I'm saying. Like, guys are

864
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 12: way bigger, you know what I'm saying. But the physicality

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Speaker 12: is always going to be the physicality, you know what

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Speaker 12: I'm saying. So I just got to give a big

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Speaker 12: shout out to the coaching staff and plus the players

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Speaker 12: that we have here that just want to keep getting better.

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Speaker 12: They want to have the insensity every day in practice

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Speaker 12: knowing that it's going to make us better on Sunday.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, you were, you were a leader of the locker

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Speaker 11: room at Alabama. You are a captain. Now you're a

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Speaker 11: captain here. I wonder what is that like as a

874
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 11: rookie when you're the team. I mean obviously you and c. J. Stroud,

875
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 11: But you know what is it like when you're a

876
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 11: rookie but you're a captain. You're a leader, but yet

877
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 11: you're still kind of young. You know what is that

878
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:36,160
Speaker 11: dynamic like in the locker room?

879
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,799
Speaker 4: Man, it's honeastily great, you know what I'm saying.

880
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 12: Like, of course you're a little nervous sometimes he's got

881
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 12: vets that's probably been in the league like ten years.

882
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 12: And then you have a rookie that haven't even played

883
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,240
Speaker 12: a snap of football yet, but yet he's a captain.

884
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 12: But I think it's just about the preparation and how

885
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 12: hard you work every day. And when guys see that,

886
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 12: when guys see a humble guy, a guy that works

887
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,240
Speaker 12: hard every day, a guy that doesn't complain, that's hungry,

888
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 12: that you know, wants it. You know, I think they

889
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 12: just respect them, you know what I'm saying. So I

890
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 12: think it's just that level of respect in the locker room.

891
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,720
Speaker 4: Man. But I see it as like everybody being leaders.

892
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 4: You know that.

893
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 12: Yeah, I got to see on my chest, But everybody

894
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 12: leads in a different way, and everybody does a good

895
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,719
Speaker 12: job of, you know, making sure that everybody's doing what

896
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 12: they need to do, like holding each other accountable on

897
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 12: one thing, like I said today was like a match

898
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 12: me thing. It's the same thing that we used to

899
00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 12: say at Alabama, And like we've been doing a really

900
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 12: good job of just matching each other's energy out on

901
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 12: the field, you know what I'm saying, Like everybody off

902
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 12: of everything. So it's been fun to watch and fun

903
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 12: to be a part of.

904
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 11: One of the first things I learned about you was

905
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 11: that your nickname was the Terminator and that you just

906
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 11: have this like transformation when you're on the field and

907
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 11: like sitting here talking to you, you're just like so chill,

908
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 11: We're just have a crips, are shopping and like all

909
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 11: this fun stuff. But when does that transformation take place

910
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:44,760
Speaker 11: for you? Because I heard you are relentless on the field.

911
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 11: In fact, Amiko Ryan's during Ota said we almost have

912
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,319
Speaker 11: to hold Will back like he's so intense. But for

913
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 11: you personally, when does it? When do you go from

914
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 11: this will to that terminator? Is it like what part

915
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 11: of game day gets you into that mindset?

916
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 12: Really, just as soon as it's like that helmet and

917
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 12: show of pass get on. When I walk in and

918
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:02,399
Speaker 12: do it, it's just a switch that goes like it's

919
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 12: business time, you know what I'm saying, Everything that you've

920
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,800
Speaker 12: put in through the whole week leading up into this moment,

921
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 12: like it's time to go put on display and go,

922
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 12: you know, go out there and play ball, Go out

923
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 12: there and you know, do your job for you not

924
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:15,280
Speaker 12: only yourself, but for your teammates and for this whole team.

925
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,880
Speaker 12: So that's just kind of the switch that gets flipped.

926
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,279
Speaker 12: I got to go out there and do a job

927
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,040
Speaker 12: not only for me, not only for what I got

928
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:22,920
Speaker 12: going on, but for the dude beside me, because he's

929
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 12: counting on me to do my job and I'm not

930
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 12: gonna go out here and you know, not do my job,

931
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 12: you know what I'm saying. So that's all the things

932
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 12: that go through my head, like, yeah, I got to

933
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 12: go ball for this duo right here because I know

934
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 12: he's gonna give me everything he got. And that's that

935
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 12: switch that flips for me.

936
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 10: So have you ever met the real terminator? Have you

937
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 10: ever met Arnold Schwartzenegger?

938
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 11: You haven't, okay, but you're You've got his nickname and

939
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 11: you got a chain one selection. I feel like that

940
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 11: has to happen one celebrity that you have met. And

941
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,359
Speaker 11: I was super jealous this offseason. You don't what I'm

942
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,839
Speaker 11: going to say, you're laughing? Who do you think? I'm

943
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 11: gonna say?

944
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 4: Adele?

945
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 6: Yes?

946
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 9: All right?

947
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 10: I felt like I don't.

948
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 11: Know who's the I don't know if you're the bigger

949
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 11: Adell fan or she's the bigger wily inner.

950
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 10: It seemed like she was like really a big fan

951
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 10: of yours. At the Lakers game? What happened? How did

952
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 10: you guys meet?

953
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 12: I mean she was just so down to earth, just

954
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 12: great spirits, great energy, She's just an awesome human being.

955
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 12: Like it's you know, like usually like oh well we

956
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 12: don't know celerities, but she was very welcoming. She just

957
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 12: had the biggest smile.

958
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 9: You you went.

959
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 10: Up to her, Yes, and you are a big adel

960
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 10: fan a little.

961
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 4: Bit, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know a lot of her, so.

962
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,360
Speaker 11: Yeah, of course, okay, and I set the scene. I

963
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,280
Speaker 11: have to know how this happens. Okay, So what happened.

964
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,280
Speaker 11: You're at the Lakers game. You guys are court side?

965
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,240
Speaker 12: Yes, And I was with the people from my agency

966
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 12: and we walked over there so they can let me

967
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 12: meet a deal. And I went over there to meet

968
00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 12: her and like we just started talking, you know, we

969
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:45,479
Speaker 12: was just getting to know each other whatever like that, And.

970
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 10: What did you guys talk about?

971
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 12: We were just talking about like life and stuff like that,

972
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 12: like nothing, like nothing too crazy, just like hey, I'm

973
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 12: will I played for you know, the Texans and everything

974
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 12: like that. And the reason why she was smiling that

975
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:58,399
Speaker 12: hard in the picture actually is because I was thinking

976
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 12: I had right right before that, I had song, like

977
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 12: two songs of hers and yes to.

978
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 13: Her, what did you sing?

979
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,720
Speaker 12: I saw Rolling in the Deep and I saw uh

980
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 12: my Little Love or her new album that she just dropped,

981
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 12: and like it just cracked her well, you.

982
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:19,319
Speaker 11: Know, what I'm gonna ask, now, can you You've got

983
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 11: to sing one of those.

984
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 10: I want to know what made her smile so big?

985
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 10: Because I'm obsessed with the Dell.

986
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:27,359
Speaker 11: Well was like I did not know this is where

987
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,839
Speaker 11: this was going, just a little bit like I half,

988
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:32,040
Speaker 11: I won't look at you if that makes you lessen.

989
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 4: Nervous, Okay, rolling in the.

990
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:41,840
Speaker 10: Okay, I'm just so tickled.

991
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:44,840
Speaker 11: Oh that's fantastic. I was so jealous of you, but

992
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 11: so happy for you. I've seen the concerts. She's amazing.

993
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 10: Another guy that you met, JJ watt this past week.

994
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:54,359
Speaker 10: So what was that like? Were you starstruck? Was it?

995
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:56,320
Speaker 10: What was what was it like just meeting him for

996
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:56,919
Speaker 10: the first time?

997
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 12: Well, that wasn't my first time meeting him, Yeah, he's been.

998
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:05,319
Speaker 12: I met JJ a couple of months back when he

999
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 12: was here. Oh okay, and we exchanged well Bert sent

1000
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 12: me his information, yes, and like he's been a great

1001
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 12: mentor for me and whatever I need, like I send

1002
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 12: him clips of film and anything like that.

1003
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 4: He always helps me with.

1004
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 12: So just having a guy like JJ Watt man, it's

1005
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 12: like I don't take that for granted at all. It

1006
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 12: just goes back to show you like how these people

1007
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 12: are just so down to earth and willing to help.

1008
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 12: I'm just so appreciative because he could be doing anything,

1009
00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 12: like he's retired, he could be doing anything he wants

1010
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 12: right now, but like he's spending time talking with me,

1011
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,560
Speaker 12: helping me and everything like that. And like he came

1012
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 12: to talk to the team before we had played the Stealers,

1013
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:44,839
Speaker 12: and one thing I really just took away from him

1014
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 12: that was like, don't take this moment for granted. And

1015
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 12: like God has put so many like great blessings in

1016
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,760
Speaker 12: my life and great people in my life and surrounded

1017
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 12: me by great men and women in my life, and

1018
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 12: to have somebody like JJ Man, it's just been such

1019
00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 12: a blessing because he's an awesome person and I just

1020
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 12: can't thank him enough for everything that he's done for

1021
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 12: me so far.

1022
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 11: I mean, it just seems like yesterday that he was

1023
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,359
Speaker 11: starting out in the league. I mean, when I started here,

1024
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 11: he was so young in his career, and to see

1025
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 11: him going up in the Ring of Honor, it's just crazy.

1026
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 11: But he said that he asked you if you had

1027
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 11: any questions for him, and you didn't have any questions

1028
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 11: for him, So do you have you come up with

1029
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:20,359
Speaker 11: your questions. Do you know what you want to ask him?

1030
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,759
Speaker 11: Or do you feel like you'll just go play by play.

1031
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 12: No, I've been asking him questions. Yeah, We've been texting it.

1032
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 12: I've been asking him questions about everything. So we good,

1033
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:28,720
Speaker 12: we good.

1034
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: We're good.

1035
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,359
Speaker 11: Good now, and then what about Sunday? You guys are

1036
00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 11: playing the Falcons. Are you playing some really good rookies

1037
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 11: this year so far? And you have Bijon Robinson coming up.

1038
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 11: I know you guys probably hung out a little bit

1039
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 11: probably throughout the draft process, But what's gonna be the

1040
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 11: big challenge here? You guys got a two game win streak.

1041
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:46,719
Speaker 11: You want to obviously keep that rolling. You know, what

1042
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 11: are the challenges for Sunday's game?

1043
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 12: Honestly, the challenges for us You just stay consistent and

1044
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:53,359
Speaker 12: it's all about us at the end of the day,

1045
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 12: and what we do.

1046
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. If we just go out

1047
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:55,879
Speaker 4: there and.

1048
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 12: We do our job and we have great preparation throughout

1049
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 12: the week, we can have the same on Sunday. So

1050
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,439
Speaker 12: I think it just falls back on everybody just playing

1051
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:06,479
Speaker 12: their technique, playing the defense, playing the offense, and going

1052
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 12: out there executing what the coaches.

1053
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 10: Ask us to do all right, can't wait to see it.

1054
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 11: Well, thank you so much, and would you mind signing

1055
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:12,760
Speaker 11: our wall of course?

1056
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 4: Thank you for having me.

1057
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:17,399
Speaker 11: Yes, there's a sharpie your son. You can sign next

1058
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:21,440
Speaker 11: to Tank or anywhere else. Awesome, Thank you so much.

1059
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 13: Will thank you.

1060
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 10: I appreciate you guy the rest of the season.

1061
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 4: Thank you, man.

1062
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 2: I love that guy. I can't believe he's Houston Texans.

1063
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,280
Speaker 2: So glad and deep situ getting him to sing adele,

1064
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 2: I mean deep, he's tremendous, but to get him to

1065
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 2: sing adele, oh, Deep's the absolute best. All Right, we

1066
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,720
Speaker 2: get back. Let's thin injury reports go around the NFL quickly.

1067
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 2: Next on Texans All Access. Yes, sir, it's Wednesday ish

1068
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 2: of Texas All Access.

1069
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 1: You had to check the clock to see what day is. Man.

1070
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 2: The days are flying by, and it tends to happen

1071
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 2: when you got a football team playing well and you're

1072
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 2: feeling the momentum and you're getting ready for Wednesday. But

1073
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,880
Speaker 2: I appreciate you being here with me on Texans All Access.

1074
00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 2: I'm John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter and host of

1075
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 2: this great program right here on Sports Radio six ten

1076
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 2: Odyssey app but I appreciate you being you guys being

1077
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 2: here with me.

1078
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: All right.

1079
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 2: Injury report, it's kind of lengthy today, but there is

1080
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 2: some pretty good news because there's some names on here

1081
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:20,799
Speaker 2: that I know I was excited to see back on

1082
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:22,239
Speaker 2: this list.

1083
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:25,239
Speaker 1: DMP is not always excited. Now.

1084
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:28,720
Speaker 2: Two of the three were rest related. Jimmy Ward, Robert Woods.

1085
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 2: They got VET days.

1086
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,800
Speaker 1: MALIEK. Collin's not participat he's dealing with the abdomen issue,

1087
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 1: so hopefully he's gonna be okay. Limited participants.

1088
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:38,800
Speaker 2: Josh Jones was in a limited capacity, so I was

1089
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 2: good we saw him practice. He's got a cast on

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Speaker 2: that hand. Shaq Mason deal with ankle. Steven Nelson was

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Speaker 2: limited VET trend rest day. By the way, if you

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Speaker 2: want to check out my quick tel straight you go

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Speaker 2: check out my Twitter page, X page, whatever you call it.

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Speaker 2: At you Harris Football, and I did a quick, quick

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Speaker 2: and dirty illustrator showing you how great of a play

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Speaker 2: that was by Steven Nelson on Sunday against the Steelers.

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Speaker 2: Damian Pierce and Laramie Tunsall will both with these.

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Speaker 1: But it was good to see.

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Speaker 2: Laramie back at practice today obviously, so hopefully we're moving

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Speaker 2: towards a situation where they're gonna be ready to play

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Speaker 2: full participants.

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Speaker 1: Michael Dieter back deal with a chess.

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Speaker 2: But how about this, Titus Howard back full, Cameron Johnston

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Speaker 2: back full, Denzel Perriman back in full, Tavier Thomas back

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Speaker 2: in full. Man, that's that was just that was the

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Speaker 2: best news from the day to see Titus cam off

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Speaker 2: of I r ready to go hopefully for this week.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't mean that just because they're fully participating doesn't

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Speaker 2: mean they're gonna play on a match with Cam, he's

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Speaker 2: ready to go because they released Tyzanner. But we'll see

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Speaker 2: on the others to have also had a cast on

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00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 2: similar to Josh Jones. So we've had a lot of

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Speaker 2: hand injuries and hopefully these guys can get back health

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Speaker 2: the play the way that they are used to playing.

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Speaker 1: And we're playing obviously before the injuries.

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Speaker 2: So injury report not the best yet, but man, compared

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Speaker 2: to what it has been lately, oh gosh, I will

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Speaker 2: absolutely take it around.

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Speaker 1: The NFL started in Atlanta.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, the team of Texans are gonna play Arthur Smith

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Speaker 2: this week, said, Desmond is our quarterback. You'll see him

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Speaker 2: on Sunday against the Texans. So on the road, Desmond

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Speaker 2: Ritters struggled, offensive struggled. They scored a total of thirteen

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Speaker 2: points on the road. They scored six in Detroit, they

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Speaker 2: scored seven against the Jaguars in London.

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Speaker 1: At home, though they scored.

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Speaker 2: Twenty five and twenty four, so the average twenty four

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Speaker 2: and a half points a game at home, so a

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Speaker 2: little different playing him in their building, so where they're

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Speaker 2: accustomed to playing. So that's pretty much the biggest nugget

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Speaker 2: from around the NFL on this week. All right, we

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Speaker 2: get back, let's talk to Let's talk to West Durham.

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Speaker 2: And by I talk to Westernham, I mean Mark vandermir

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Speaker 2: the voice of Texans talking to the voice of the Falcons.

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Speaker 2: Mark and Wes met me out of Mike's next right

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Speaker 2: here on Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: We got one hour down, one hour left to go.

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Speaker 2: Right here on Texans All Access on Sports Radio six '

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Speaker 2: ten Odyssey app. If you're listening on the pod, thank you,

1141
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 2: thank you for being here, because then it's timeless and

1142
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:21,839
Speaker 2: you don't have to worry about what time it is.

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00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 4: I do.

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00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 2: I have to kind of worry about the time, but

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Speaker 2: that's okay, because we got some great stuff coming up

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Speaker 2: for you. In this second hour, we'll have our End

1147
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 2: the Lab podcast with Drew Doherty. We had a lot

1148
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 2: to talk about, and Drew calls me out for something

1149
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 2: that my former players ratted me out when we were

1150
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Speaker 2: in Jacksonville. I don't think I did this, but apparently

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Speaker 2: I did, and I had to explain why. So that's

1152
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Speaker 2: a little later, and we've also got a little Texans

1153
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Speaker 2: og podcast, and this week we're kind of going back

1154
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 2: a little bit. Indy Kalu had a chance to catch

1155
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 2: up with Wade Smith and talk about some of the

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Speaker 2: things that Wade did in his career and his time

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Speaker 2: spent in Houston. So it'd be a little in the show.

1158
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Speaker 2: But right now, we got to catch up with the

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Speaker 2: men behind the mics. Two men that'll be calling this

1160
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Speaker 2: game for each respective organization. Obviously, you know Mark Vandermere,

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Speaker 2: I said the other night he's the greatest ambassador of

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Speaker 2: this organization that I've ever seen or been around. And

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Speaker 2: West Durham of the Atlanta Falcons been calling the games

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Speaker 2: there for a while, son of the famous Woody Durham,

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Speaker 2: who was a long time play by play voice legend

1166
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Speaker 2: of the University nor Klainda Tarhules. So West Durham, the

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Speaker 2: Atlanta Falcons sits down with Mark called men behind the mikes.

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Speaker 3: Let's go all right, joining us now Texans Radio. It's

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Speaker 3: West Durham, the legendary voice. Can I call you that, West,

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Speaker 3: the legendary voice of the Atlanta Falcons.

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Speaker 7: No, you cannot because you're older than me and you've

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Speaker 7: been at it in the NFL. But you did do

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Speaker 7: the cane, so you know you can say if you

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Speaker 7: need to there you go right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's an ACC team and I know you're

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Speaker 3: big on the ACC. We can get into all that.

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Speaker 3: But let's talk Falcons here because obviously good start and

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Speaker 3: the last couple of games, it's so good. What went

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Speaker 3: well in the first two that's not going well lately?

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Speaker 4: West? Wait, can you tell us well?

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Speaker 7: I feel like talking to your audience. I ought to

1182
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Speaker 7: say Bjohn Robinson and Bjon Robinson went well in weeks

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Speaker 7: one and two, and then Bjon Robinson went well in

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Speaker 7: week four when it end blay very well. I think

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Speaker 7: that this is a team that is a sending mark.

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Speaker 7: But I also was one of those guys that felt like,

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Speaker 7: you know, what if they get off to a relatively

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Speaker 7: good start, they've got a chance, but it's still a

1189
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Speaker 7: long road in the NFL, right there were gonna be bumps.

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Speaker 7: Atlanta's not a complete team by a long shot, but

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Speaker 7: they've got a lot more pieces than they had a

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Speaker 7: year ago, and significantly more pieces than they had two

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Speaker 7: years ago. For me, the inability to make plays offensively

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Speaker 7: right now has been the real crux of the issue

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Speaker 7: the last two weeks. And it's you know, and as

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Speaker 7: we all know in these discussions, it falls on the

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Speaker 7: quarterback ninety nine percent of the time. The reality of

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Speaker 7: it is sure, Desmond Ritters not played as well as

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Speaker 7: he would like in the last two games, but the

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Speaker 7: offensive line hasn't helped him. You know, there are other

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Speaker 7: things that have contributed to that. You've got guys who

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Speaker 7: are kind of working their way back into the lineup.

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Speaker 7: You've got a veteran guy left tackle on Jake Matthews,

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Speaker 7: who starts his one hundred and I think forty seventh

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Speaker 7: game on Sunday. I mean, he's just an institution at

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Speaker 7: left tackle. But you've got a rookie right beside him

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Speaker 7: at left guard, and Matt berger On who they're excited about,

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Speaker 7: but who is obviously still getting kind of acclimated to

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Speaker 7: what Sundays are like as opposed to Saturdays.

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Speaker 6: And then the right side.

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Speaker 7: Lenstrom and McGarry the garden tackle on the right side

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Speaker 7: have been pretty good.

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Speaker 6: They've not been great yet.

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Speaker 7: And Dalman the center, feels like a guy that who's

1215
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Speaker 7: won the job and now's got to get better. So

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Speaker 7: to tell you the offensive line has been superior would

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Speaker 7: be a vast overstatement. They've been okay. Ritter has made

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Speaker 7: some good throws. He's made some good decisions. He's also

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Speaker 7: made some head scratching throws and that is exactly what

1220
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Speaker 7: I expected after eight career starts for Desmond Ritter, and

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Speaker 7: that's kind of where we are. Defensively, they are much improved.

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Speaker 7: Anyamada has added a lot to the defensive line. He's

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Speaker 7: helped Grady Jared immeasurably. Kalaias Campbell has coming here and

1224
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Speaker 7: been a terrific presence. Jesse Bates has three interceptions. In

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Speaker 7: my opinion, he was the most important sign Atlanta made

1226
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Speaker 7: in the offseason. You had to solidify your back end.

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Speaker 7: It had been chaos back there for about three or

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Speaker 7: four years. And they did with Jesse Bates. And you've

1229
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Speaker 7: got some good players at linebacker. You lost one two

1230
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Speaker 7: weeks ago in Troy Anderson, who you were really counting on,

1231
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Speaker 7: and now you turn to a guy who was on

1232
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,200
Speaker 7: and off your practice squad and on and off your

1233
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:34,720
Speaker 7: active roster in Nate Landman, to kind of take that spot.

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Speaker 7: So you know, that's that's been the that's been the

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Speaker 7: worst injuries so far in the first four weeks that

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Speaker 7: Atlanta's had to overcome.

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Speaker 3: West Durham joining us voice of the Atlanta Falcons. What

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Speaker 3: about b Jon Robinson? What can you tell us of

1239
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:48,400
Speaker 3: what you've seen so far? We see the numbers. What

1240
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:50,480
Speaker 3: are you seeing in the player as you observe him

1241
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Speaker 3: up close?

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Speaker 6: Well, he's delivered everything. Mark.

1243
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Speaker 7: You take the guy at eight, and everybody here is

1244
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:58,359
Speaker 7: kind of like, well didn't you want Jalen Carter who

1245
00:51:58,360 --> 00:51:59,840
Speaker 7: played at Georgia, And no, you needed.

1246
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Speaker 6: This is a showstopper.

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Speaker 7: I mean he not only if you make a play

1248
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:08,759
Speaker 7: for him, the play will happen, but if you don't

1249
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 7: make the play, the play still got a chance to

1250
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 7: happen because of how good he is. And I feel

1251
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 7: like I'm you know, preaching to the choir a little

1252
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 7: bit to people in Texas who saw him play in

1253
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Speaker 7: Austin and go, well, yeah, that's who he was in Austin. Well,

1254
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Speaker 7: this is who he's become at the in the at

1255
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Speaker 7: the NFL level. I mean, he made Frankie Louvu the

1256
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:29,840
Speaker 7: linebacker the Panthers looked like he was playing Pop warnerball

1257
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Speaker 7: on opening week. I mean, and then he got Darnell

1258
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:35,360
Speaker 7: Savage of the safety from Green Bay. And then last

1259
00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 7: week he you know, he juked another guy from from Jacksonville.

1260
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Speaker 7: So look he's Look, he's leading him in rushing, he's

1261
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Speaker 7: leading them in receiving. I mean, he's doing everything. He's

1262
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Speaker 7: touched it a lot more than I thought he would.

1263
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Speaker 7: And I will say that their best package when they

1264
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Speaker 7: when they can get them both on the field, is

1265
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Speaker 7: this sledgehammer Tyler Algier, who's set a rookie rushing record

1266
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Speaker 7: a year ago of William Andrews. And they put Algier

1267
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Speaker 7: and Robinson on the field together, Mark at the same time,

1268
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Speaker 7: they're as good offensively as they've been in Arthur Smith's

1269
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Speaker 7: time here, but they haven't been able to do that

1270
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Speaker 7: very much the last couple of weeks. Because they've been

1271
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Speaker 7: facing deficits, and I think Sunday, regardless if they're playing

1272
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Speaker 7: the Texans or they were playing anybody else, they've got

1273
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Speaker 7: to start well Sunday. The fact that they have only

1274
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 7: scored what touchdown in the last two games, and quite

1275
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:27,880
Speaker 7: frankly haven't been very good in the first fifteen minutes

1276
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Speaker 7: is overbearing at this point to this team.

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Speaker 3: Well, are you surprised that John new Smith has more

1278
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:36,000
Speaker 3: catches than Kyle Pitts At this point, we know that

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Speaker 3: Smith is good. We've seen him before tennis surf for example,

1280
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Speaker 3: But what about Pitts? What can you tell me about

1281
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Speaker 3: those two tight ends?

1282
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Speaker 4: And especially Pitts?

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Speaker 7: I think the clarity on Kyle pittsmark is is that

1284
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 7: he's still coming back from what ended up being a

1285
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Speaker 7: far more significant knee injury last year than anybody ever realized.

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Speaker 6: Kyle has made some plays.

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Speaker 7: He's made a terrific play in the Green Bay game

1288
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Speaker 7: to set up a winning score, made a terrific play

1289
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:00,480
Speaker 7: in the Carolina play and the Caro A game in

1290
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Speaker 7: Week one, But to ask him to be what we

1291
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Speaker 7: all thought he was going to be three years ago

1292
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Speaker 7: when he came out of Florida and was picked so

1293
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:13,000
Speaker 7: high at three, maybe stretching it. Where his health is.

1294
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Speaker 7: I think is something now that's that's coming out. Is

1295
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Speaker 7: it coming out because he's not making plays? I think

1296
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Speaker 7: that's part of it. I think it's also coming out

1297
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Speaker 7: because you know, he's getting his confidence back.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 7: They never said it was an ACL, but it must

1300
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Speaker 7: have been somewhere in the close of an ACL range

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Speaker 7: for him to miss the back end of the schedule

1302
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 7: and then he was, you know, to use the baseball term,

1303
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 7: he was on a pitch country training camp and I

1304
00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:40,400
Speaker 7: think they wanted to make sure and I think he

1305
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:43,439
Speaker 7: needs to be confident, and I think he's getting there.

1306
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 7: You know, does he have a breakout game on Sunday?

1307
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:48,960
Speaker 7: I'm always ready for it because I think he's the

1308
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 7: kind of guy who can change a game. He is

1309
00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 7: a red zone nightmare. And when you take London and

1310
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:56,880
Speaker 7: you take Mike Collins and now but John Robinson involved

1311
00:54:56,880 --> 00:55:00,080
Speaker 7: in it, Mark Atlanta's got a tremendous amount of weaponry

1312
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:03,839
Speaker 7: around Desmond Ritter that I think he's once he gets

1313
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:06,880
Speaker 7: over the barrier in confidence and cutting it loose, I

1314
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 7: think that's where Atlanta maybe has the chance to take off.

1315
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:11,879
Speaker 7: Whether that's Sunday or not, I don't know. I think

1316
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 7: it's a it's a tall task against against fifty one

1317
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:18,320
Speaker 7: in that white jersey on Sunday, because fifty one is

1318
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 7: a playmaker too. He's as electric on defense as anybody

1319
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,760
Speaker 7: I've seen a long time come out of the college game.

1320
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 3: West Durham joining us voice of the Falcons. All right,

1321
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:29,680
Speaker 3: We've seen Arthur Smith put together some great game plans

1322
00:55:29,719 --> 00:55:33,240
Speaker 3: in Tennessee over the years, up close and personal, and

1323
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 3: some of them with the odds against them and they

1324
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:39,720
Speaker 3: come out with a victory somehow, some way. They raved

1325
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:41,759
Speaker 3: about him for years as he worked his way up

1326
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:43,799
Speaker 3: through the organization. What can you tell me about what

1327
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:45,680
Speaker 3: it's like to work around Arthur Smith.

1328
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 7: He's one of the brightest people I've ever been around,

1329
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 7: period in terms of just his acumen as a human being,

1330
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 7: but his football recall and his football savvy in terms

1331
00:55:56,520 --> 00:56:00,399
Speaker 7: of building game plans is really pretty impressive. And I've

1332
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:02,840
Speaker 7: had limited conversations. Of course, he got the job in

1333
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 7: the pandemic, and you know, we kind of were integrating

1334
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:08,319
Speaker 7: back into you know, working together on some things.

1335
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:10,319
Speaker 6: And in the role I have he and I have.

1336
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:13,959
Speaker 7: Brief conversations practically every week, but they're not very long,

1337
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,240
Speaker 7: but yet I always get something out of him from

1338
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:19,120
Speaker 7: what he's thinking about the ballgame, and he'll tell you

1339
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:21,279
Speaker 7: a lot in press conferences. You'll notice that going through

1340
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 7: the week in preparation for this he is a guy

1341
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:27,719
Speaker 7: who talks honestly and candidly about his football team at

1342
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:30,879
Speaker 7: times and talks about the competitive nature of his team.

1343
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:32,880
Speaker 7: I think the one thing I do know that he

1344
00:56:33,120 --> 00:56:36,319
Speaker 7: likes about this team is the competitive depth they've been

1345
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 7: able to bring to the table now in year three

1346
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 7: of his administration with GM Terry Fonteau, and I think

1347
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 7: it's pretty important. I think it's one of those things

1348
00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 7: that in all honesty, Mark has kind of grown this

1349
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 7: team in the face of a pair of seven to

1350
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 7: ten campaigns. If you will, they tend to play close games.

1351
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 7: You won't be surprised by that, because that's what they

1352
00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:57,759
Speaker 7: did in Nashville when he was running the offense there.

1353
00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:01,480
Speaker 7: They want to run it before they throw. Nobody's surprised

1354
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:04,560
Speaker 7: by that. The multiple tight ends will be the least

1355
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:07,239
Speaker 7: biggest upset for you guys. I mean, you're gonna see two,

1356
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 7: sometimes you'll see three and he is going to play

1357
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:14,440
Speaker 7: percentage football most of the time. Now he's gotten a

1358
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 7: little more aggressive, they've gotten the ball more vertical at times.

1359
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 7: But that's something that in this transition to Ritter is

1360
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 7: a full time starter, not just the guy who was

1361
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 7: given the last four games last year to kind of

1362
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 7: find out. I think it's one of the growing pains

1363
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 7: that this football team's enduring right now. But I will

1364
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 7: say this, He's also brought some really good coaches here.

1365
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:36,560
Speaker 7: Jerry Gray and Ryan Nielson have done a terrific job

1366
00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 7: with fortifying the defense. And I think that maybe the

1367
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:42,600
Speaker 7: most important thing is Arthur Smith and Terry Fonteau had

1368
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:45,480
Speaker 7: a vision, a collaborative vision when they got here, and

1369
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:47,520
Speaker 7: now in year three you can start to see the

1370
00:57:47,560 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 7: building of that with the football team as a whole.

1371
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:53,280
Speaker 3: All right, Wes, let's talk about the ACC a little bit.

1372
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:55,400
Speaker 3: I want to shift gears here because this is so

1373
00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:59,040
Speaker 3: much in your DNA. You do so much ACC broadcasting.

1374
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 3: We know you're father was the legendary announcer at North Carolina.

1375
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 4: I can call him a legend, But.

1376
00:58:05,400 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 3: Tell me about the level of surprise you have as

1377
00:58:09,600 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 3: to what's going on right now in college athletics, the portal,

1378
00:58:13,840 --> 00:58:18,600
Speaker 3: the conference realignment, anil, how it's all evolving, changing, and

1379
00:58:18,640 --> 00:58:20,560
Speaker 3: where does the ACC go from here?

1380
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 7: You know, Mark, I wish I could give you any

1381
00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:28,480
Speaker 7: kind of clarity on college athletics. All of this changed

1382
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:35,040
Speaker 7: during the pandemic. The portal thing was already occurring where

1383
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 7: student athletes could have, you know, freedom of movement as

1384
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:39,440
Speaker 7: I call it. We talked about freedom of movement in

1385
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 7: basketball a few years ago and it was related to

1386
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:44,600
Speaker 7: you know, fowls being called. Well, freedom of movement in

1387
00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 7: college athletics means you can sign up at one place

1388
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:49,160
Speaker 7: in one fall and be at another place the next fall,

1389
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 7: and then you know, I'm going to try to stay

1390
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:57,760
Speaker 7: far off my soapbox here. The NCUBA allowed name, image

1391
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 7: and likeness to become a thing and allowed it to

1392
00:59:00,600 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 7: be measured by the States and not by Congress, right,

1393
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 7: And when that happened, that changed the dynamics of everything.

1394
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 7: Now that's the big picture stuff. The ACC has been

1395
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,720
Speaker 7: impacted by the fact that there's been this money grab

1396
00:59:13,360 --> 00:59:16,800
Speaker 7: in college athletics for conferences. It relates to television packages,

1397
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 7: and the ACC signed a grant of rights deal in

1398
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:22,520
Speaker 7: twenty sixteen that last twenty years, and it also included

1399
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:24,920
Speaker 7: Notre Dame on what I call an ipo because they

1400
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:27,960
Speaker 7: play five football games a year, and obviously they participate

1401
00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:29,520
Speaker 7: in all the other sports sans hockey.

1402
00:59:30,120 --> 00:59:33,600
Speaker 6: For me, the accason in good shape. It's not in

1403
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:34,400
Speaker 6: great shape.

1404
00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:37,960
Speaker 7: The Big Ten in the Southeastern Conference, of the two

1405
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:41,000
Speaker 7: war daddies, if you will, of college athletics, because they've

1406
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:45,040
Speaker 7: got you know, nearly billion dollar television rights fees out there.

1407
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:47,240
Speaker 7: The Big twelve has made a lot of inroads. And

1408
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:49,360
Speaker 7: I know, folks and you're part of the world followed

1409
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 7: the Big Twelve, and they should because I think Brett

1410
00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:54,680
Speaker 7: you Ormark's done a really nice job. Their television contracts

1411
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 7: a lot shorter. But in the packaging, as we know

1412
00:59:57,480 --> 01:00:00,720
Speaker 7: college athletics, I think we're standing on the I think

1413
01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:03,160
Speaker 7: we're standing on the deck and waiting to get on

1414
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:06,480
Speaker 7: a boat of a new reality. And if that reality

1415
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 7: is going to be dictated by the twelve team college

1416
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:11,160
Speaker 7: football Playoff, then so be it. But I think that

1417
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:14,000
Speaker 7: the decisions that presidents and chancellors are going to have

1418
01:00:14,040 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 7: to make it a lot of these institutions and major

1419
01:00:16,040 --> 01:00:18,280
Speaker 7: college athletics are getting ready to be tricky ones, because

1420
01:00:18,720 --> 01:00:21,440
Speaker 7: they're gonna be decisions you have to make today, and

1421
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:23,360
Speaker 7: you're gonna have to have the foresight of the next

1422
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 7: twenty five to fifty years perhaps in your pocket as well.

1423
01:00:26,600 --> 01:00:29,400
Speaker 3: On the field, west, who do you trust more? Miami,

1424
01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:32,640
Speaker 3: Florida State, North Carolina? Where are we going to the ACC?

1425
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 3: Who's the best contender?

1426
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:36,320
Speaker 7: You know, we've been waiting since you did the Canes

1427
01:00:36,320 --> 01:00:38,800
Speaker 7: a million years ago from Miami and Florida State to

1428
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:42,440
Speaker 7: play for an ACC championship, and it never happened, right,

1429
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:45,080
Speaker 7: I mean you remember that talk. Oh the reason they're

1430
01:00:45,080 --> 01:00:46,920
Speaker 7: adding Miami is because it's going to be Miami and

1431
01:00:46,960 --> 01:00:49,320
Speaker 7: Florida State every year and they've never played for the

1432
01:00:49,360 --> 01:00:52,960
Speaker 7: ACC football title. And I was when we got back

1433
01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:56,840
Speaker 7: from London early Monday morning yesterday, I spent some time

1434
01:00:56,880 --> 01:01:00,000
Speaker 7: watching games and it finally dawned on me looking at

1435
01:01:00,120 --> 01:01:02,520
Speaker 7: schedules and kind of comparing where teams are playing, that

1436
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:04,880
Speaker 7: we're going to see Miami in Florida State play in

1437
01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:07,160
Speaker 7: November in the regular season. It's going to be an

1438
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 7: unbelievable game because they're likely both be undefeated. But then

1439
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:12,960
Speaker 7: we have a chance three weeks later to see the

1440
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:15,880
Speaker 7: same game and I think Miami and Florida State are

1441
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:17,920
Speaker 7: the two best teams in the league right now. Carolina

1442
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:22,000
Speaker 7: is close. I think even Clemson with two losses is

1443
01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:24,960
Speaker 7: still very dangerous. Mark, But on the whole, I would

1444
01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 7: not be surprised at all if we have a one

1445
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:31,880
Speaker 7: loss Miami Florida State game against an undefeated Miami or

1446
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:34,440
Speaker 7: Florida State in December for the ACC title, with the

1447
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:35,600
Speaker 7: winner going to the Final Four.

1448
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:38,440
Speaker 3: One more for you, Wes. Back to the Falcons sure

1449
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:41,720
Speaker 3: recovery from the London trip, How do you think it goes?

1450
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:43,920
Speaker 3: These are young men, They should be able to respond.

1451
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 3: How are you feeling?

1452
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:47,080
Speaker 4: How did it go other than the game itself?

1453
01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:51,560
Speaker 7: Injury wise? I think they're okay, which is important, right.

1454
01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:53,919
Speaker 7: You don't want to bring anybody back on that long

1455
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 7: a trip and then have them spend all week in

1456
01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 7: rehab hoping that they might be able to pull the

1457
01:01:58,200 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 7: trigger on Sunday. For me, they had a bout as

1458
01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 7: good a plan from a practice and reacclamation situation on

1459
01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:08,560
Speaker 7: the back end of this, and I think, as you know,

1460
01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:11,640
Speaker 7: this has become a lot more now, Hey, Lee, Thursday,

1461
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:13,959
Speaker 7: come back after the game and play the next week

1462
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 7: and then push your by as far into the season

1463
01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 7: as you can get it.

1464
01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:18,480
Speaker 6: Atlanta.

1465
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:21,040
Speaker 7: For the most part, knock on Wood was generally very

1466
01:02:21,080 --> 01:02:24,840
Speaker 7: healthy out of the ballgame Sunday. I think Arthur Smith

1467
01:02:24,840 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 7: had been over there when they went his first year

1468
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:29,080
Speaker 7: to play the Jets at Tottenham, and they did the

1469
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:32,520
Speaker 7: Thursday Sunday and they came back okay. He felt really

1470
01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:35,520
Speaker 7: good when I saw him Saturday in the hotel about

1471
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:37,840
Speaker 7: whether they won or lost the game, that they had

1472
01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:40,120
Speaker 7: a really good blueprint for what the back end would be.

1473
01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:43,240
Speaker 7: They know how important these next two home games are

1474
01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:46,160
Speaker 7: mark because believe it or not, half their home games

1475
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:48,800
Speaker 7: are going to be gone after these next two weeks.

1476
01:02:49,360 --> 01:02:51,920
Speaker 7: They played two at home to start, they went to Detroit,

1477
01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:54,920
Speaker 7: London to play Jacksonville. Now they're back to play Houston

1478
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 7: and Washington, and they've only got four home games left

1479
01:02:57,880 --> 01:03:01,280
Speaker 7: the rest of the year. So they've got to maximize

1480
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:04,000
Speaker 7: home field because in all honesty, this is a team

1481
01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:07,120
Speaker 7: that has now struggled on the road. Yesterday was our Sunday,

1482
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:10,400
Speaker 7: rather was their ninth road loss in their last ten

1483
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:13,720
Speaker 7: games on the road. So they've got to they've got

1484
01:03:13,760 --> 01:03:15,880
Speaker 7: to find a way to kind of shake that a

1485
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:19,160
Speaker 7: little bit if they're gonna try and crack what is?

1486
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:19,680
Speaker 6: What is?

1487
01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:21,560
Speaker 7: You know, we all were sleeping on the NFC South.

1488
01:03:21,600 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 7: I'll be the first to minut I said, one team,

1489
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:25,920
Speaker 7: one team only out of the division, and all of

1490
01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:29,040
Speaker 7: a sudden, you know, Tampa, New Orleans, Atlanta have fired

1491
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:31,680
Speaker 7: out of there. Everybody was two and one, and now

1492
01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:34,680
Speaker 7: the Buccaneers they've kind of pushed it forward, believe it

1493
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:36,880
Speaker 7: or not with Baker Mayfield. Kind of like they're drinking

1494
01:03:36,880 --> 01:03:39,439
Speaker 7: the Tom Brady juice down there again. So it's gonna

1495
01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:42,080
Speaker 7: be interesting to see what happens in this division, bar

1496
01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:44,720
Speaker 7: none of what happens on Sunday with the Texans here.

1497
01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:47,880
Speaker 3: Texans have four in a row against the NFC South

1498
01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:50,600
Speaker 3: right now, it's weird in the schedule, but I'll have

1499
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:53,320
Speaker 3: some notes after this stretches over West. Yes, so much

1500
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 3: for the time, great information, We appreciate it.

1501
01:03:55,480 --> 01:03:57,320
Speaker 6: Mark anytime. Great to see you, look forward to seeing

1502
01:03:57,320 --> 01:03:57,800
Speaker 6: you Sunday.

1503
01:03:57,960 --> 01:04:00,439
Speaker 2: It's so funny when I moved to North Carolina back

1504
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:03,640
Speaker 2: in two thousand and one, after I left Jacksonville, and

1505
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 2: I would drive around, I would listen to North Carolina

1506
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:08,560
Speaker 2: football or basketball, whatever it is, and I would hear

1507
01:04:08,560 --> 01:04:12,080
Speaker 2: Woody Durham's voice, and this happens for a lot of people.

1508
01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:13,919
Speaker 2: A lot of people when my dad answers the phone

1509
01:04:13,920 --> 01:04:16,400
Speaker 2: to think it's me, or when I answered.

1510
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:17,880
Speaker 1: It they thought it was my dad. We sound very

1511
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:18,480
Speaker 1: very similar.

1512
01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:22,600
Speaker 2: Woody Durham and West Durham sound one hundred percent identical.

1513
01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:25,760
Speaker 2: It's amazing to listen to them, and you wouldn't be

1514
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:27,840
Speaker 2: able to tell the difference, like, Hey, here's Wes. You

1515
01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:31,680
Speaker 2: wouldn't be able to know two tremendous broadcasters. And hopefully

1516
01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:34,320
Speaker 2: Wes on Sunday is announcing a loss for his Falcons

1517
01:04:34,360 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 2: and Mark is announcing a win for the Texans. But

1518
01:04:38,280 --> 01:04:40,640
Speaker 2: Texans have struggled in Atlanta. I don't even want to

1519
01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:42,040
Speaker 2: get into last time.

1520
01:04:41,880 --> 01:04:42,439
Speaker 1: We were there.

1521
01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:45,920
Speaker 2: Hopefully twenty twenty three is much different than twenty fifteen,

1522
01:04:46,240 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 2: if you know what I mean, and different from two

1523
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:51,800
Speaker 2: thousand and seven that was bad too, So hopefully things

1524
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:55,400
Speaker 2: will change on Sunday in Atlanta. Speaking of all of.

1525
01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:57,040
Speaker 1: That, it's time for in the lab.

1526
01:04:57,280 --> 01:04:59,640
Speaker 2: Next, Drew Doerdy and I talk about our Creamy the

1527
01:04:59,680 --> 01:05:01,120
Speaker 2: Cropper from the Winner of the Steelers.

1528
01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:05,200
Speaker 1: We talked about this Falcons matchup and Drew out.

1529
01:05:05,160 --> 01:05:07,760
Speaker 2: Me for something I did as a coach because my

1530
01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:09,360
Speaker 2: former players outed me.

1531
01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:12,000
Speaker 1: That's next right here in Texans All Access. Yes, sir,

1532
01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:14,360
Speaker 1: glad to be with you on this Wednesday evening.

1533
01:05:14,400 --> 01:05:18,240
Speaker 2: Hopefully you're staying dry and feeling good wherever you are,

1534
01:05:18,360 --> 01:05:20,560
Speaker 2: because well you're a Texans fan, or at least I

1535
01:05:20,600 --> 01:05:22,720
Speaker 2: hope you are. I am your host, John Harris Football

1536
01:05:22,760 --> 01:05:26,560
Speaker 2: on a sideline reporter for your Houston Texans and I'm

1537
01:05:26,560 --> 01:05:28,600
Speaker 2: also one half of the in Lab crew.

1538
01:05:28,720 --> 01:05:31,360
Speaker 1: My man Drew Doherty will be with us in just

1539
01:05:31,360 --> 01:05:31,880
Speaker 1: a second.

1540
01:05:32,040 --> 01:05:34,640
Speaker 2: But I'm a little mad at Drew, even though he

1541
01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:36,800
Speaker 2: is my in the Lab partner. But he outed me

1542
01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:40,680
Speaker 2: because my former players outed me for doing something he

1543
01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:44,880
Speaker 2: said and jokingly was bad sportsmanship. But I don't think

1544
01:05:44,880 --> 01:05:47,080
Speaker 2: I did this. But you have to hang around for

1545
01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:48,600
Speaker 2: that story a little bit later. But it's time for

1546
01:05:48,760 --> 01:05:49,600
Speaker 2: in the Lab.

1547
01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:52,480
Speaker 8: I don't recall, and I'm sure it's happened. I'm certain

1548
01:05:52,480 --> 01:05:54,920
Speaker 8: it's and I'm certain it's happened while I've been employed here,

1549
01:05:55,320 --> 01:06:00,280
Speaker 8: while you've been employed here. But I'm getting old and

1550
01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:03,520
Speaker 8: it's been in a rough four years. Yep, I do

1551
01:06:03,560 --> 01:06:08,080
Speaker 8: not remember a better back to back, more fulfilling, more

1552
01:06:08,120 --> 01:06:11,960
Speaker 8: dominating stretch of football, more fun stretch of football than

1553
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:15,400
Speaker 8: what we just saw. It's recency bias, I know. But

1554
01:06:15,680 --> 01:06:19,120
Speaker 8: you factor in the JJ Watt homecoming stuff, ring of

1555
01:06:19,160 --> 01:06:22,240
Speaker 8: honor induction and the good feelings that happened there and

1556
01:06:22,320 --> 01:06:26,400
Speaker 8: playing a marquee franchise the week after playing one of

1557
01:06:26,400 --> 01:06:29,400
Speaker 8: your rivals that you've dominated for the last fifteen years

1558
01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:33,480
Speaker 8: or so, I don't recall feeling happier and I want

1559
01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:35,280
Speaker 8: to get your thought on that. But first, a very

1560
01:06:35,360 --> 01:06:38,080
Speaker 8: quick table of contents for this in the lab today,

1561
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:40,720
Speaker 8: you and I are going to recall the good feelings.

1562
01:06:40,960 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 8: We're going to have a cream of the cropper for

1563
01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:49,200
Speaker 8: this last week. We're going to have a Texan under

1564
01:06:49,240 --> 01:06:52,920
Speaker 8: the radar to watch at Atlanta. We have to also

1565
01:06:53,560 --> 01:06:59,080
Speaker 8: tell a story about when you implored high school players

1566
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:03,760
Speaker 8: to act disrespectful and have poor sportsmanship, and that's a

1567
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:04,680
Speaker 8: fantastic story.

1568
01:07:04,760 --> 01:07:05,960
Speaker 13: I can't wait to tell this one.

1569
01:07:06,120 --> 01:07:08,960
Speaker 8: And then after that, I had a chance to get

1570
01:07:08,960 --> 01:07:12,120
Speaker 8: some off the field stuff from Nico Collins that was

1571
01:07:12,160 --> 01:07:15,360
Speaker 8: a lot of fun. It was prior to his eruption

1572
01:07:15,480 --> 01:07:18,080
Speaker 8: in this last game. And it's the second eruption of

1573
01:07:18,120 --> 01:07:21,200
Speaker 8: twenty twenty three, and this guy's not far off from

1574
01:07:21,320 --> 01:07:24,520
Speaker 8: already equaling and bettering his career best in a lot

1575
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:28,160
Speaker 8: of different numbers. But back to the good feelings. Do

1576
01:07:28,200 --> 01:07:31,480
Speaker 8: you recall a more dominant two game stretch for the

1577
01:07:31,520 --> 01:07:34,280
Speaker 8: Texans back to back, like like we just witnessed.

1578
01:07:34,040 --> 01:07:37,520
Speaker 13: No, not start it is now just beat these guys up.

1579
01:07:37,640 --> 01:07:39,240
Speaker 9: The last time the Texans won back.

1580
01:07:39,120 --> 01:07:41,600
Speaker 2: To back games was in twenty twenty one and went

1581
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:44,720
Speaker 2: to Jacksonville and in the rain beat Jacksonville.

1582
01:07:44,840 --> 01:07:45,320
Speaker 4: That was good.

1583
01:07:45,360 --> 01:07:48,040
Speaker 2: And then it came back home and had probably the

1584
01:07:48,040 --> 01:07:49,520
Speaker 2: best game of the year. I don't know if I

1585
01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:52,240
Speaker 2: would say it was dominated against La Chargers, but that

1586
01:07:52,280 --> 01:07:54,040
Speaker 2: was the last time they had one back to back games.

1587
01:07:54,080 --> 01:07:56,920
Speaker 8: Those were fun. Yeah, it was fun during lost seasons.

1588
01:07:56,960 --> 01:07:58,720
Speaker 8: You know, there's still a lot of hope for this season.

1589
01:07:58,960 --> 01:08:01,080
Speaker 2: During lost season and even in a nine game win

1590
01:08:01,160 --> 01:08:04,240
Speaker 2: streak in twenty eighteen, like each game was.

1591
01:08:04,200 --> 01:08:06,440
Speaker 4: Just nil, nil, nail biting.

1592
01:08:06,880 --> 01:08:11,280
Speaker 2: One night that I felt like, wow, we're pretty good

1593
01:08:11,400 --> 01:08:16,200
Speaker 2: was Thursday night in twenty eighteen. Unfortunately, in the Sports quarter,

1594
01:08:16,240 --> 01:08:18,840
Speaker 2: Will Fuller went down with the tornycl and that's when

1595
01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:20,840
Speaker 2: it kind of took the good feelings out. But I

1596
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:25,080
Speaker 2: remember that night thinking, okay, wow, for a long time

1597
01:08:25,120 --> 01:08:26,760
Speaker 2: in that game, I'm thinking, we're pretty good.

1598
01:08:26,880 --> 01:08:27,800
Speaker 4: We're on a roll.

1599
01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:29,280
Speaker 9: I think it was four or five in a row

1600
01:08:29,320 --> 01:08:29,800
Speaker 9: at that point.

1601
01:08:29,800 --> 01:08:32,920
Speaker 2: It was a Thursday night, We're getting the mini by

1602
01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:36,719
Speaker 2: and I just remember thinking and then kind of getting

1603
01:08:36,760 --> 01:08:38,440
Speaker 2: the news in the locker room that Will.

1604
01:08:38,320 --> 01:08:39,960
Speaker 13: Was gut punched me.

1605
01:08:40,040 --> 01:08:42,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was got out. Yeah, that was a tough one.

1606
01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:45,400
Speaker 2: And even though DT Marius Thomas joined us, it just

1607
01:08:45,439 --> 01:08:47,560
Speaker 2: it wasn't the same. And then DT went down to

1608
01:08:47,560 --> 01:08:49,519
Speaker 2: the Philadelphia game, so it was definitely not the same

1609
01:08:49,560 --> 01:08:54,960
Speaker 2: going forward. But from beginning to end, two games in

1610
01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:57,760
Speaker 2: a row, all three phases.

1611
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:00,519
Speaker 9: Exciting football watch.

1612
01:09:01,680 --> 01:09:02,080
Speaker 4: That was.

1613
01:09:02,680 --> 01:09:05,559
Speaker 2: That's the epitome of it, those those two games back

1614
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:08,679
Speaker 2: to back, beating the Jags in Jacksonville and then beating

1615
01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:11,920
Speaker 2: the Steelers here, and I mean this, I mean, Drew,

1616
01:09:11,920 --> 01:09:14,559
Speaker 2: if you look at the score, you look at the numbers,

1617
01:09:14,680 --> 01:09:17,280
Speaker 2: and you look at the film, all three of them

1618
01:09:17,320 --> 01:09:21,439
Speaker 2: tell the same story, and that is Texans dominated from

1619
01:09:21,439 --> 01:09:23,479
Speaker 2: play one through the end of the game.

1620
01:09:23,560 --> 01:09:24,960
Speaker 4: And it was really impressive to watch.

1621
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:28,000
Speaker 8: So many things to pinpoint, I want to get your

1622
01:09:28,320 --> 01:09:28,800
Speaker 8: cream of.

1623
01:09:28,760 --> 01:09:32,200
Speaker 13: The crop crop. Thank you much of man. Randy Savage,

1624
01:09:32,200 --> 01:09:34,559
Speaker 13: rest in peace, Macha man. I got a chance.

1625
01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:37,200
Speaker 8: After you tell your bad sportsmanship story when you were

1626
01:09:37,200 --> 01:09:40,040
Speaker 8: a poor sport I'm gonna tell a little Randy Matroman

1627
01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:44,400
Speaker 8: Savage story. But cream of the crop crop? Who is

1628
01:09:44,439 --> 01:09:48,599
Speaker 8: your Houston Texans cream of the cropper? From this Sunday?

1629
01:09:48,760 --> 01:09:49,840
Speaker 4: You know what I'm gonna go with.

1630
01:09:50,320 --> 01:09:51,840
Speaker 9: Nico Collins love it.

1631
01:09:52,439 --> 01:09:53,360
Speaker 4: I hate to do it.

1632
01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:55,400
Speaker 13: But how do you hate to do it? I hate

1633
01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:56,439
Speaker 13: to do it, I don't hate to do it.

1634
01:09:57,240 --> 01:09:58,760
Speaker 9: I don't want to say that's obvious, but I mean

1635
01:09:58,840 --> 01:10:00,320
Speaker 9: Nico is seven catches.

1636
01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:02,640
Speaker 8: Oakham's razor baby. Sometimes the most obvious twice is the

1637
01:10:02,640 --> 01:10:03,120
Speaker 8: best squader.

1638
01:10:03,240 --> 01:10:06,280
Speaker 2: I mean Nico's day, he tied his career high interceptions

1639
01:10:06,400 --> 01:10:09,559
Speaker 2: seven in a game. He broke his career record, which

1640
01:10:09,600 --> 01:10:11,120
Speaker 2: was a couple weeks ago, with one hundred and sixty

1641
01:10:11,160 --> 01:10:14,439
Speaker 2: eight yards in a game, and he set a new

1642
01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:18,800
Speaker 2: record for his single game touchdowns with two. So he

1643
01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:23,679
Speaker 2: was high marks in all three categories. But I'm gonna

1644
01:10:23,680 --> 01:10:25,600
Speaker 2: say this. I mean, everybody saw the catches and all that.

1645
01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:28,360
Speaker 2: What I think a lot of people missed were those

1646
01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:31,800
Speaker 2: three wide receivers, even even Tank, and I should say

1647
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:35,640
Speaker 2: four wide receivers because John Metchi as well, and I

1648
01:10:35,720 --> 01:10:39,360
Speaker 2: probably put Metch in front of Tank on this one.

1649
01:10:39,560 --> 01:10:43,080
Speaker 2: The run blocking from those wide receivers was incredible.

1650
01:10:43,200 --> 01:10:45,120
Speaker 13: And that's just clamping up TJ. Watt.

1651
01:10:45,120 --> 01:10:45,680
Speaker 4: Incredible.

1652
01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 9: I mean it was incredible.

1653
01:10:47,360 --> 01:10:50,800
Speaker 2: I mean Nico, Nico had Marcus Golden so ticked off

1654
01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:53,040
Speaker 2: at him. He was like swinging at him on the

1655
01:10:53,080 --> 01:10:55,680
Speaker 2: Texas sideline and Nico is just laughing at him, you know,

1656
01:10:56,000 --> 01:10:57,360
Speaker 2: Nico six four two fifteen.

1657
01:10:57,120 --> 01:10:58,760
Speaker 4: Holding his own. Yeah.

1658
01:10:58,840 --> 01:11:01,320
Speaker 2: But I'll say this, you know, Robert Woods didn't have

1659
01:11:01,320 --> 01:11:02,479
Speaker 2: a ton of catches in his game. He had a

1660
01:11:02,479 --> 01:11:04,960
Speaker 2: couple of key third down ones. Of course, that's just

1661
01:11:05,080 --> 01:11:08,240
Speaker 2: Robert Woods. But I was listening to a podcast this

1662
01:11:08,280 --> 01:11:10,720
Speaker 2: past summer, I don't remember. I think it was called

1663
01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:13,280
Speaker 2: The Playmakers. It was Jordan rod Reeg from the Athletic

1664
01:11:13,880 --> 01:11:18,320
Speaker 2: and she talked about four coaches Sean McVay, Mike McDaniel,

1665
01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:22,040
Speaker 2: Matt Lafloor, and whom I missing in that in.

1666
01:11:21,920 --> 01:11:23,360
Speaker 13: That group Shanahan.

1667
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:25,240
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, yeah, Kyle Shannon.

1668
01:11:25,320 --> 01:11:26,439
Speaker 4: That was kind of the impetus of it.

1669
01:11:26,479 --> 01:11:29,560
Speaker 2: So she when she got to the chapter about McVeigh.

1670
01:11:30,200 --> 01:11:34,560
Speaker 2: I thought it was interesting because McVeigh came from Washington.

1671
01:11:34,680 --> 01:11:35,719
Speaker 4: He had been under Kyle.

1672
01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:37,599
Speaker 2: They had been a lot of you know, a lot

1673
01:11:37,640 --> 01:11:39,720
Speaker 2: of eleven personnel team, you know, one one back, one

1674
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:40,120
Speaker 2: tight end.

1675
01:11:40,120 --> 01:11:40,559
Speaker 4: That was that.

1676
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:42,680
Speaker 9: Then he went to the Rams thinking that's what he

1677
01:11:42,760 --> 01:11:43,280
Speaker 9: was going to do.

1678
01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:46,160
Speaker 2: He got to the Rams and he's got Cooper Cup

1679
01:11:46,160 --> 01:11:48,640
Speaker 2: and Robert Woods, and he realized that they could be

1680
01:11:48,640 --> 01:11:51,320
Speaker 2: a twelve personnel team basically with those two on.

1681
01:11:51,240 --> 01:11:53,759
Speaker 9: The field because they were such good run blockers.

1682
01:11:53,800 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 2: And he said, Robert Woods blocking in particular in the

1683
01:11:56,800 --> 01:12:00,000
Speaker 2: run game changed his entire thought about what he thought

1684
01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:02,439
Speaker 2: the team was going to be and what it actually

1685
01:12:02,479 --> 01:12:04,880
Speaker 2: turned into. And it turned into basically eleven and a

1686
01:12:04,920 --> 01:12:07,920
Speaker 2: half person out because Cooper Cup and Robert Woods were

1687
01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:10,400
Speaker 2: so down good, in particular Woods in the in the

1688
01:12:10,479 --> 01:12:13,960
Speaker 2: run blocking game. And so he's great, and Nico and

1689
01:12:14,240 --> 01:12:16,840
Speaker 2: Mets you were fantastic and ten listen, Tank is five eight,

1690
01:12:17,080 --> 01:12:18,800
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty five pounds, so can wet and

1691
01:12:18,800 --> 01:12:20,759
Speaker 2: he'll throw his body in there and make some blocks.

1692
01:12:21,080 --> 01:12:23,920
Speaker 2: So that I would throw on top of the fact

1693
01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:26,840
Speaker 2: that Nico was just fantastic in the receiving game. I mean,

1694
01:12:26,840 --> 01:12:29,760
Speaker 2: his route running was great. He beat Steeler DB's like

1695
01:12:29,800 --> 01:12:31,559
Speaker 2: they were just staying still a couple of times on

1696
01:12:31,600 --> 01:12:34,320
Speaker 2: a touchdown going into the north end on a slant,

1697
01:12:34,360 --> 01:12:36,920
Speaker 2: he just shook that dB and then he just went

1698
01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:39,360
Speaker 2: right by Patrick Peterson stacked and ran the corner rod

1699
01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:41,640
Speaker 2: on the final touchdown. So he was he was a

1700
01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:43,719
Speaker 2: route running beast as much as he was a blocker,

1701
01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:45,559
Speaker 2: as much as he was anything. So I'm gonna give

1702
01:12:45,600 --> 01:12:48,479
Speaker 2: him credit for all facets as a cream of the cropper,

1703
01:12:48,520 --> 01:12:49,000
Speaker 2: how about you.

1704
01:12:49,080 --> 01:12:49,479
Speaker 13: I love it.

1705
01:12:49,720 --> 01:12:52,799
Speaker 8: And as an addendum to yours, I'm gonna say, Robert Woods,

1706
01:12:52,880 --> 01:12:55,160
Speaker 8: he's gonna get his. He's gonna have a few hundred

1707
01:12:55,240 --> 01:12:58,240
Speaker 8: yard games. Oh yeah, Nico's had a couple, Dells had one.

1708
01:12:58,800 --> 01:13:01,640
Speaker 8: That's I think it's just the way CJ spreads the ball. Right,

1709
01:13:01,680 --> 01:13:03,000
Speaker 8: We're gonna see this from Dalton Schultz.

1710
01:13:03,040 --> 01:13:03,200
Speaker 4: Yep.

1711
01:13:03,240 --> 01:13:06,960
Speaker 8: Dalton's just Dalton's playing fine. I think he just these receivers.

1712
01:13:07,200 --> 01:13:08,960
Speaker 8: They're getting the line share of these catches and chewing

1713
01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:10,360
Speaker 8: up yardage and chunking up yardage.

1714
01:13:10,439 --> 01:13:10,679
Speaker 4: Yep.

1715
01:13:10,720 --> 01:13:12,320
Speaker 8: So that's that's what I'm gonna go with. I'll go

1716
01:13:12,360 --> 01:13:17,120
Speaker 8: on defense, Steven Nelson's my cream of the cropper. I

1717
01:13:17,160 --> 01:13:21,120
Speaker 8: think the the lone win of the day for Pittsburgh

1718
01:13:21,240 --> 01:13:24,479
Speaker 8: was they won the coin toss, and they win the

1719
01:13:24,479 --> 01:13:27,880
Speaker 8: coin toss and can he Pickett. They're like, you wanna

1720
01:13:28,360 --> 01:13:30,920
Speaker 8: what do you wanna do? And he kind of like smiles,

1721
01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:32,559
Speaker 8: or at least I'm remembering it this way, he might

1722
01:13:32,640 --> 01:13:35,639
Speaker 8: or just might be like embellishing, but yeah, he kind

1723
01:13:35,640 --> 01:13:39,519
Speaker 8: of did defer like, we got all these Steelers fans

1724
01:13:39,520 --> 01:13:41,920
Speaker 8: in the building, We're gonna put them on offense. First,

1725
01:13:41,920 --> 01:13:44,519
Speaker 8: we're gonna get loud, and then we're gonna get the ball. Well,

1726
01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:49,880
Speaker 8: Texans received that kickoff. Chop chop, chop, chop chop. They

1727
01:13:49,920 --> 01:13:52,479
Speaker 8: go score four times three times on the first drive,

1728
01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:57,160
Speaker 8: only one of them counts, and then Steven Nelson ends

1729
01:13:57,439 --> 01:14:00,519
Speaker 8: the Steelers first drive with an interception, a really nice

1730
01:14:01,080 --> 01:14:05,800
Speaker 8: diving acrobatic play, had a great return. Afterwards, he said, Hey,

1731
01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:07,960
Speaker 8: if you want to know about my return skills, go

1732
01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:10,720
Speaker 8: ask Frank Ross. I still got a record from high

1733
01:14:10,720 --> 01:14:14,920
Speaker 8: school in Georgia. Steven Nelson's been outstanding. He was good.

1734
01:14:14,920 --> 01:14:17,680
Speaker 8: He was really really good last year in another i

1735
01:14:17,720 --> 01:14:20,519
Speaker 8: say lost season, another lost season. He was really really good.

1736
01:14:21,040 --> 01:14:23,320
Speaker 8: That was not a lost season because of Steven Nelson,

1737
01:14:23,680 --> 01:14:27,000
Speaker 8: and I think he's raised the bar in twenty twenty two.

1738
01:14:27,120 --> 01:14:30,559
Speaker 8: He's a captain, he has played phenomenally. I loved what

1739
01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:34,680
Speaker 8: he did the other day. When teams do go at him,

1740
01:14:35,200 --> 01:14:37,600
Speaker 8: it usually doesn't go well. He usually is batting it

1741
01:14:37,640 --> 01:14:40,639
Speaker 8: down or the receiver's not getting much yardage, or as

1742
01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:42,240
Speaker 8: we saw yesterday, that was the second pick of the

1743
01:14:42,280 --> 01:14:43,800
Speaker 8: year for Steven Nelson. He had won in the first

1744
01:14:43,840 --> 01:14:45,880
Speaker 8: game against the Ravens, got the one yesterday and it

1745
01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:48,960
Speaker 8: was massive. Help set the tone and it's fun when

1746
01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:52,000
Speaker 8: you're up double digits like the Texans quickly were after that.

1747
01:14:52,040 --> 01:14:54,920
Speaker 8: They get a field goal from Kymie Fairburn. Tough for

1748
01:14:55,000 --> 01:14:56,760
Speaker 8: other teams to do what they want to do when

1749
01:14:56,760 --> 01:14:58,720
Speaker 8: they're already down ten nothing early in the game.

1750
01:14:58,800 --> 01:15:01,439
Speaker 2: What I love about a veterer and Steven talked about

1751
01:15:01,439 --> 01:15:03,040
Speaker 2: this a little bit after the game, but I mentioned

1752
01:15:03,080 --> 01:15:06,160
Speaker 2: it during the game, you know, film study.

1753
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:08,760
Speaker 8: Yeah, and that was Miko talked about that with you guys, Yeah,

1754
01:15:08,800 --> 01:15:10,520
Speaker 8: he did, and about Nelson's.

1755
01:15:10,160 --> 01:15:13,080
Speaker 2: Film that that particular play was the exact same play

1756
01:15:13,080 --> 01:15:15,479
Speaker 2: that the Steelers had run the week before and beat

1757
01:15:15,479 --> 01:15:17,760
Speaker 2: the Raiders with a seventy two yard touchdown. So when

1758
01:15:17,840 --> 01:15:19,800
Speaker 2: they came out in that formation on second eight team

1759
01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:22,120
Speaker 2: because just to play prior, Jerry Hughes ad it a

1760
01:15:22,160 --> 01:15:26,400
Speaker 2: sack for eight yard loss. So second eighteen, and so

1761
01:15:26,479 --> 01:15:29,040
Speaker 2: when they come out, it's the personnel, it's the formation.

1762
01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:31,240
Speaker 2: Steven Nelson knew like, oh, I know what they're doing.

1763
01:15:31,640 --> 01:15:34,000
Speaker 2: They're running this deep post route and Nelson got on

1764
01:15:34,040 --> 01:15:35,600
Speaker 2: top of it. That's a really hard thing to do

1765
01:15:35,640 --> 01:15:36,200
Speaker 2: for a corner.

1766
01:15:36,240 --> 01:15:38,200
Speaker 8: They basically scored on that against the Raiders that they

1767
01:15:38,360 --> 01:15:41,960
Speaker 8: they two yards in the week before play the week before,

1768
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:44,599
Speaker 8: and so they they dialed up again.

1769
01:15:45,520 --> 01:15:46,080
Speaker 4: Second eighteen.

1770
01:15:46,200 --> 01:15:47,560
Speaker 9: Was kind of a weird time to do it, but

1771
01:15:47,600 --> 01:15:48,080
Speaker 9: they did it.

1772
01:15:48,360 --> 01:15:50,720
Speaker 2: Stephen recognized everything about it, got on top of the

1773
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:53,400
Speaker 2: post route, stayed deep, He knew it was coming, he

1774
01:15:53,439 --> 01:15:55,360
Speaker 2: knew picker was going to take a shot, and he

1775
01:15:55,400 --> 01:15:57,840
Speaker 2: took that shot and he went up and got me.

1776
01:15:57,920 --> 01:16:02,280
Speaker 2: It was for all the great catch which is on Sunday,

1777
01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:04,439
Speaker 2: that might have been the best catch of the day

1778
01:16:04,520 --> 01:16:05,920
Speaker 2: right there on either side the one.

1779
01:16:05,960 --> 01:16:09,840
Speaker 8: Stephen Nelson mayre have difficulty that one. And then you

1780
01:16:09,880 --> 01:16:12,920
Speaker 8: know who has a you know who topped him. Unfortunately

1781
01:16:12,920 --> 01:16:15,880
Speaker 8: it didn't count. Shack Griffin had an interduption late, but

1782
01:16:15,920 --> 01:16:17,720
Speaker 8: I guess he had pushed a little bit and got

1783
01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:20,720
Speaker 8: called for a p I but I love Shaq Griffin's

1784
01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:24,320
Speaker 8: pick that should have been Anyways, those are great ones. Okay,

1785
01:16:25,080 --> 01:16:30,840
Speaker 8: Falcons coming home from London chose not to take the buye.

1786
01:16:30,840 --> 01:16:32,320
Speaker 8: I think you do have a choice in this. I

1787
01:16:32,360 --> 01:16:35,800
Speaker 8: know the schedule makers set the schedule, but I think

1788
01:16:35,840 --> 01:16:38,280
Speaker 8: when you play internationally, you can choose to take a

1789
01:16:38,360 --> 01:16:41,280
Speaker 8: bye the week after. And they apparently thought they're taking

1790
01:16:41,320 --> 01:16:43,599
Speaker 8: a buy against the Texans. I don't think that's gonna

1791
01:16:43,640 --> 01:16:45,040
Speaker 8: be the case. I don't think you think that's gonna

1792
01:16:45,040 --> 01:16:47,360
Speaker 8: be to be the case. Let's see how it turns

1793
01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:50,200
Speaker 8: out on Sunday. But under the radar, guy who you

1794
01:16:50,240 --> 01:16:50,920
Speaker 8: keeping your eyes on?

1795
01:16:51,040 --> 01:16:54,120
Speaker 2: John a guy that should be getting a whole lot

1796
01:16:54,160 --> 01:16:58,040
Speaker 2: more credit than he's gotten. And I thought he played fantastic.

1797
01:16:58,080 --> 01:17:00,600
Speaker 2: And I actually said it to Mark Not on the

1798
01:17:00,640 --> 01:17:02,439
Speaker 2: air we were talking about it. I said, man, you

1799
01:17:02,479 --> 01:17:05,280
Speaker 2: who played really well the other day? And then in

1800
01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:09,280
Speaker 2: the press conference, Damiko Ryans brought him up. I think

1801
01:17:09,800 --> 01:17:14,200
Speaker 2: unprompted Sheldon Rankins. Now, if you go look.

1802
01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:15,160
Speaker 13: What defensive tackle.

1803
01:17:15,320 --> 01:17:18,280
Speaker 4: The numbers for number ninety eight are. They're not high.

1804
01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:19,280
Speaker 9: You know, he doesn't have a bunch of.

1805
01:17:19,240 --> 01:17:21,400
Speaker 13: Sacks, and that's defensive tackles man.

1806
01:17:21,640 --> 01:17:23,439
Speaker 9: Sheldon Rankins is doing work.

1807
01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:27,600
Speaker 2: And the one thing that the Miko said was exactly

1808
01:17:28,600 --> 01:17:29,599
Speaker 2: one of the reasons why.

1809
01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:31,600
Speaker 9: And I think when you have defensive lineman that.

1810
01:17:31,600 --> 01:17:36,120
Speaker 2: Can run and you're not a tremendous tackling team yet

1811
01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:40,200
Speaker 2: you need everybody hustling all the time one hundred percent.

1812
01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:42,960
Speaker 2: And Rankins did that on a third I think it

1813
01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:45,479
Speaker 2: was a third and fourteen play through the ball. I

1814
01:17:45,479 --> 01:17:47,840
Speaker 2: think the Jalen Warren maybe. I think it was Warren

1815
01:17:48,320 --> 01:17:50,479
Speaker 2: and he made the first guy miss, but Rankins, after

1816
01:17:50,520 --> 01:17:53,000
Speaker 2: his rush just turned around and sprinted. And after Warren

1817
01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:55,759
Speaker 2: made that guy missed, it slowed him down and Rankins

1818
01:17:55,800 --> 01:17:58,640
Speaker 2: was going full speed blasted him, kept him short of

1819
01:17:59,040 --> 01:18:03,320
Speaker 2: a fourth of a first down conversion. But it's that

1820
01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:05,479
Speaker 2: he had another one like that a little bit later.

1821
01:18:05,720 --> 01:18:09,240
Speaker 2: He's just he's getting more penetration. He is really the

1822
01:18:09,400 --> 01:18:12,160
Speaker 2: perfect compliment over to Malee Collins. I think they play

1823
01:18:12,200 --> 01:18:15,480
Speaker 2: off one another really really well. Sheldon Rankins is my

1824
01:18:15,479 --> 01:18:17,320
Speaker 2: my under the radar guy. And this week it becomes

1825
01:18:17,320 --> 01:18:20,640
Speaker 2: that much more important for those defensive lineman to be

1826
01:18:20,680 --> 01:18:23,240
Speaker 2: pursuing one hundred percent because you got b Jon Robinson

1827
01:18:23,320 --> 01:18:23,960
Speaker 2: run the football.

1828
01:18:24,280 --> 01:18:26,920
Speaker 9: He's gonna make the first guy miss, it's gonna happen.

1829
01:18:27,400 --> 01:18:29,559
Speaker 2: So when he makes that first guy miss and you

1830
01:18:29,560 --> 01:18:31,680
Speaker 2: know he darts outside and comes back inside, if those

1831
01:18:31,680 --> 01:18:33,640
Speaker 2: defensive linemen are flying from the inside, they get a

1832
01:18:33,640 --> 01:18:36,200
Speaker 2: good shot possibility and knocking the ball out. And I

1833
01:18:36,200 --> 01:18:38,760
Speaker 2: think Sheldon Rankins, you know, have that opportunity to look

1834
01:18:38,760 --> 01:18:41,040
Speaker 2: it's in a good off. It's a good Atlanta offensive line.

1835
01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:44,040
Speaker 2: They've got a lot of good talent. Crystal Innstrom is

1836
01:18:44,040 --> 01:18:46,240
Speaker 2: one of the best guards in the in the NFL,

1837
01:18:46,280 --> 01:18:48,000
Speaker 2: if not the best guard. He just got paid like

1838
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:50,400
Speaker 2: a Jake Matthews the left tackle. But Gary had a

1839
01:18:50,439 --> 01:18:52,680
Speaker 2: much better year last year. You can get after him

1840
01:18:52,680 --> 01:18:54,679
Speaker 2: a little bit. And that's why I think Sheldon Ranks

1841
01:18:54,760 --> 01:18:56,320
Speaker 2: got to play a big role in this one. On Sunday,

1842
01:18:56,320 --> 01:18:56,879
Speaker 2: how about.

1843
01:18:56,640 --> 01:19:01,719
Speaker 8: You, Henry Totoe Dejon Robinson defense? Yeah, well Bjeon Robinson, Yeah,

1844
01:19:01,760 --> 01:19:03,960
Speaker 8: I mean I don't I saw his numbers from Sunday.

1845
01:19:03,960 --> 01:19:05,200
Speaker 8: He probably didn't get the ball enough.

1846
01:19:05,439 --> 01:19:08,240
Speaker 2: No, they're not good they I mean, they have so

1847
01:19:08,280 --> 01:19:11,479
Speaker 2: many weapons, they're probably not using it enough and that's

1848
01:19:11,479 --> 01:19:13,760
Speaker 2: why the offense becomes big and keep the ball over there.

1849
01:19:13,760 --> 01:19:15,040
Speaker 4: But yeah, Toto is a good one.

1850
01:19:15,120 --> 01:19:18,479
Speaker 8: Yeah, the three round linebacker and he's basically the I

1851
01:19:18,479 --> 01:19:20,200
Speaker 8: mean he's not he doesn't have a Captain C on

1852
01:19:20,240 --> 01:19:21,639
Speaker 8: his chest, but he's running the defense.

1853
01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:21,880
Speaker 3: Yep.

1854
01:19:22,120 --> 01:19:24,280
Speaker 8: Four games, three games in. Really it was because he

1855
01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:26,280
Speaker 8: was the starter out there at Jacksonville.

1856
01:19:26,360 --> 01:19:26,559
Speaker 4: Yep.

1857
01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:29,160
Speaker 8: It's saying a lot that's and he's gonna get called

1858
01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:32,400
Speaker 8: upon linebacking like he's the front seven. They've got their

1859
01:19:32,400 --> 01:19:34,880
Speaker 8: hands full of Bjeon Robinson. Hell, the whole defense does

1860
01:19:34,920 --> 01:19:36,960
Speaker 8: with Bjon Robinson and all those weapons like you mentioned.

1861
01:19:36,960 --> 01:19:40,120
Speaker 8: But I'm gonna go with Toto. That's my guy. Okay, Hey,

1862
01:19:40,120 --> 01:19:42,120
Speaker 8: two weeks ago we went to Jacksonville, and the night

1863
01:19:42,120 --> 01:19:45,439
Speaker 8: before the game, you had coached in Jacksonville. Anyway, listens

1864
01:19:45,439 --> 01:19:47,360
Speaker 8: to this show, knows that you have a history in

1865
01:19:47,439 --> 01:19:47,920
Speaker 8: that town.

1866
01:19:48,320 --> 01:19:48,519
Speaker 6: Yep.

1867
01:19:48,600 --> 01:19:50,640
Speaker 8: And we get to the place where we're eating and

1868
01:19:50,680 --> 01:19:53,479
Speaker 8: there's three dudes there with their families. They're you know,

1869
01:19:53,479 --> 01:19:56,800
Speaker 8: in their early forties, late thirties. I say, hey, did

1870
01:19:56,840 --> 01:19:59,000
Speaker 8: you guys all coach together, and you're.

1871
01:19:58,800 --> 01:20:00,519
Speaker 13: Like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

1872
01:20:00,640 --> 01:20:05,559
Speaker 8: I coached these guys and so heard some fun stories. Yeah,

1873
01:20:05,680 --> 01:20:09,880
Speaker 8: from twenty some years ago. And John, you were a

1874
01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:17,160
Speaker 8: poor sport you poor boy, dirty coach, and you encouraged taunting,

1875
01:20:17,720 --> 01:20:22,360
Speaker 8: you encouraged poor sportsmanship, and you had youth of America

1876
01:20:22,720 --> 01:20:27,000
Speaker 8: going into a hostile environment and risking their their themselves.

1877
01:20:27,160 --> 01:20:29,400
Speaker 13: What happened? Tell us this, okay, scoundrel.

1878
01:20:29,520 --> 01:20:33,120
Speaker 2: Now I didn't remember this story this way, but allegedly so.

1879
01:20:33,200 --> 01:20:34,960
Speaker 2: This was nineteen ninety eight. It's my first year as

1880
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:36,200
Speaker 2: a varsity head coach.

1881
01:20:36,040 --> 01:20:36,559
Speaker 1: And we.

1882
01:20:38,160 --> 01:20:39,400
Speaker 13: Nineteen ninety eight was a great year.

1883
01:20:39,479 --> 01:20:40,120
Speaker 4: It was a great year.

1884
01:20:40,400 --> 01:20:43,680
Speaker 2: Twenty five years ago. Yeah, we did have it was

1885
01:20:44,040 --> 01:20:45,599
Speaker 2: I mean, shoot, I was twenty six at the time.

1886
01:20:45,640 --> 01:20:47,519
Speaker 2: We're just trying to get the program up and kind

1887
01:20:47,520 --> 01:20:50,280
Speaker 2: of really going. And I'd been there and I coached

1888
01:20:50,320 --> 01:20:53,360
Speaker 2: all these kids as junior high kids, and we started

1889
01:20:53,400 --> 01:20:54,800
Speaker 2: kind of winning a few games, and I left for

1890
01:20:54,800 --> 01:20:56,880
Speaker 2: a couple of years. I came back and now they're

1891
01:20:56,960 --> 01:21:00,479
Speaker 2: junior sophomores, junior seniors, and so we go when we

1892
01:21:00,520 --> 01:21:04,080
Speaker 2: play and it's that private school called piscol which is

1893
01:21:04,120 --> 01:21:07,720
Speaker 2: very similar to the Piscopal here in Houston, and we

1894
01:21:07,800 --> 01:21:11,360
Speaker 2: go to play it in a place called Branford, Florida.

1895
01:21:11,600 --> 01:21:13,440
Speaker 2: And I didn't set the schedule.

1896
01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:13,639
Speaker 4: For this year.

1897
01:21:14,479 --> 01:21:16,120
Speaker 2: This was set by the previous head coach. So we're

1898
01:21:16,120 --> 01:21:20,600
Speaker 2: going to Branford, Florida. Now, if you went to Branford.

1899
01:21:20,160 --> 01:21:22,080
Speaker 13: Florida, it's kind of like a rural school.

1900
01:21:22,520 --> 01:21:27,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, like and then some So I'm bringing rich private

1901
01:21:27,720 --> 01:21:33,200
Speaker 2: school kids to Branford, Florida, and you know, kind of

1902
01:21:33,320 --> 01:21:38,280
Speaker 2: rural public school, one of those places where on Friday night,

1903
01:21:38,320 --> 01:21:40,080
Speaker 2: that's you just went to the football game.

1904
01:21:40,120 --> 01:21:42,160
Speaker 4: This is what you did, sure, And this place is packed.

1905
01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:46,800
Speaker 2: It's homecoming over them, and we sort of unleashed our

1906
01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:49,280
Speaker 2: passing game on them in that in that particular game.

1907
01:21:49,320 --> 01:21:53,320
Speaker 9: Now, my players remembered it as the.

1908
01:21:53,360 --> 01:21:55,880
Speaker 8: Yeah, I didn't hear anything about your pass. Yeah I

1909
01:21:55,960 --> 01:21:58,519
Speaker 8: heard what happened that the game. Yeah, Kyle Hicks threw

1910
01:21:58,520 --> 01:22:01,760
Speaker 8: four touchdowns. Andy Kidd, who was at dinner, he had

1911
01:22:01,760 --> 01:22:05,840
Speaker 8: a couple of touchdowns running touchdown. Branford was angry with us,

1912
01:22:05,880 --> 01:22:07,559
Speaker 8: but they might have been angry for a different reason.

1913
01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:09,799
Speaker 8: I don't remember it this way, but apparently my players,

1914
01:22:09,800 --> 01:22:11,840
Speaker 8: all three of them confirmed that I told him to

1915
01:22:11,880 --> 01:22:14,320
Speaker 8: do this when they went on the field that I

1916
01:22:14,360 --> 01:22:15,000
Speaker 8: told them to go.

1917
01:22:15,040 --> 01:22:18,040
Speaker 9: Jump on the logo right and get fired up.

1918
01:22:18,240 --> 01:22:19,479
Speaker 4: And part of the reason if I.

1919
01:22:20,000 --> 01:22:22,640
Speaker 8: With their with through it, with their helmets off in

1920
01:22:22,720 --> 01:22:27,000
Speaker 8: the air, I did do that as a team. That

1921
01:22:27,120 --> 01:22:28,280
Speaker 8: was kind of what I was going for.

1922
01:22:28,320 --> 01:22:29,760
Speaker 2: I was going for them to have a little bit

1923
01:22:29,840 --> 01:22:32,839
Speaker 2: of emotion, you know, have a little bit of you know, juice.

1924
01:22:33,200 --> 01:22:34,799
Speaker 4: And apparently I told him the dude.

1925
01:22:34,680 --> 01:22:37,599
Speaker 8: Halftime, yeah, you doubled down on already had like twenty

1926
01:22:37,640 --> 01:22:41,040
Speaker 8: eight second They said, you guys. They they the opposing

1927
01:22:41,040 --> 01:22:43,320
Speaker 8: team had a furious comeback, but you held him off.

1928
01:22:43,439 --> 01:22:44,040
Speaker 13: Ye win.

1929
01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:44,720
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1930
01:22:44,800 --> 01:22:47,439
Speaker 2: We My best player was Andy Kidd and so after

1931
01:22:47,479 --> 01:22:49,240
Speaker 2: we had taken a lead, he broke his fingers, so

1932
01:22:49,240 --> 01:22:50,800
Speaker 2: he had to leave the game. So the fourth quarter

1933
01:22:50,840 --> 01:22:53,600
Speaker 2: they started coming back and then we launched a go

1934
01:22:53,760 --> 01:22:57,040
Speaker 2: route to uh to Doug vanner Malley and never forget

1935
01:22:57,040 --> 01:22:58,880
Speaker 2: it and he caught it, went in the end zone.

1936
01:22:58,880 --> 01:23:00,639
Speaker 4: We ended up winning like thirty four twenty four.

1937
01:23:00,560 --> 01:23:04,599
Speaker 2: Something like that, and it was not easy to get

1938
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:07,160
Speaker 2: out of there that night. I don't know leus jumping

1939
01:23:07,240 --> 01:23:10,479
Speaker 2: on the logo. I didn't remember doing that that's I'm

1940
01:23:10,520 --> 01:23:12,680
Speaker 2: not a big fan of it, but I might. I

1941
01:23:12,760 --> 01:23:14,920
Speaker 2: might have been that night, just kind of feeling my oats,

1942
01:23:14,960 --> 01:23:17,360
Speaker 2: like's motivating your team a little bit, let's show.

1943
01:23:17,240 --> 01:23:17,840
Speaker 4: Them who we are.

1944
01:23:17,920 --> 01:23:19,639
Speaker 9: And of course they go to the logo and jump

1945
01:23:19,640 --> 01:23:19,880
Speaker 9: on it.

1946
01:23:19,960 --> 01:23:22,880
Speaker 2: And the way I remember it was they went jumped

1947
01:23:22,920 --> 01:23:25,000
Speaker 2: on the logo, and I remember my coach going did

1948
01:23:25,040 --> 01:23:25,880
Speaker 2: you tell them to do that?

1949
01:23:25,920 --> 01:23:28,800
Speaker 4: And I'm like, I don't think so, but maybe I did,

1950
01:23:29,400 --> 01:23:30,720
Speaker 4: so that's the way I remember it.

1951
01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:32,280
Speaker 9: But either way it worked out.

1952
01:23:32,320 --> 01:23:32,840
Speaker 4: I don't know.

1953
01:23:32,840 --> 01:23:34,720
Speaker 2: I didn't think it was bad sportsmanship. They played with

1954
01:23:34,760 --> 01:23:36,519
Speaker 2: the most fire and energy, so I don't know how

1955
01:23:36,560 --> 01:23:38,280
Speaker 2: them going the you know, it's kind of what the

1956
01:23:38,280 --> 01:23:41,360
Speaker 2: Titans do. They go jump on logos and try and

1957
01:23:41,400 --> 01:23:43,559
Speaker 2: win games. The last time they did it here in Houston,

1958
01:23:43,880 --> 01:23:46,400
Speaker 2: they I'd beat fifty seven, seventeen and twenty seventeen.

1959
01:23:46,479 --> 01:23:47,439
Speaker 9: So I don't know.

1960
01:23:47,439 --> 01:23:48,759
Speaker 4: Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't.

1961
01:23:48,840 --> 01:23:50,599
Speaker 2: But that's the way my players remember it, and all

1962
01:23:50,640 --> 01:23:53,600
Speaker 2: three of them had the same exact memory of it,

1963
01:23:53,680 --> 01:23:54,760
Speaker 2: so I must have done it.

1964
01:23:54,840 --> 01:23:58,200
Speaker 13: So this was not made up. I witnessed this story being.

1965
01:23:58,080 --> 01:24:00,000
Speaker 9: Told, Yeah, exactly, and they were like, no, no, you

1966
01:24:00,120 --> 01:24:00,439
Speaker 9: told us.

1967
01:24:00,479 --> 01:24:03,240
Speaker 13: I'm like, all right, I guess I did dang it well.

1968
01:24:03,680 --> 01:24:06,920
Speaker 8: At times. A guy who was also a poor sport

1969
01:24:07,160 --> 01:24:10,040
Speaker 8: was Randy Machaman Savage. And when I say poor sport,

1970
01:24:10,080 --> 01:24:13,000
Speaker 8: one time he took a bell and crushed Ricky the

1971
01:24:13,080 --> 01:24:15,880
Speaker 8: Dragon Steamboat's throat with it, so not nice.

1972
01:24:16,000 --> 01:24:16,599
Speaker 4: Not nice.

1973
01:24:16,800 --> 01:24:20,240
Speaker 13: I got a chance to have I booked him.

1974
01:24:20,280 --> 01:24:21,960
Speaker 8: I used to be a producer for a TV show

1975
01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:25,040
Speaker 8: in Dallas, and this was two thousand and one when

1976
01:24:25,040 --> 01:24:26,360
Speaker 8: I did this. But I booked him and he came

1977
01:24:26,400 --> 01:24:30,160
Speaker 8: on a TV show and he was awesome. He was

1978
01:24:30,439 --> 01:24:32,439
Speaker 8: everything you could think he would be, and I was.

1979
01:24:32,720 --> 01:24:34,679
Speaker 8: I got a chance to spend about fifteen twenty minutes

1980
01:24:34,680 --> 01:24:36,800
Speaker 8: with him before the show in the green room, just

1981
01:24:36,840 --> 01:24:38,799
Speaker 8: chit chatting with him, trying to make him feel comfortable,

1982
01:24:38,880 --> 01:24:39,800
Speaker 8: and he was.

1983
01:24:40,240 --> 01:24:40,679
Speaker 4: He was great.

1984
01:24:40,680 --> 01:24:43,679
Speaker 8: He was telling stories like I used to play minor

1985
01:24:43,800 --> 01:24:47,080
Speaker 8: league baseball in the organization did.

1986
01:24:47,360 --> 01:24:49,200
Speaker 13: But he was awesome, and he got a cool picture.

1987
01:24:49,439 --> 01:24:51,320
Speaker 13: I put it up. I put it up whenever I can.

1988
01:24:51,400 --> 01:24:54,800
Speaker 8: I'll try probably put it up in conjunction with this podcast.

1989
01:24:55,040 --> 01:24:56,760
Speaker 9: If I had to tell my story, you've got to

1990
01:24:56,800 --> 01:24:57,559
Speaker 9: put that picture up.

1991
01:24:57,600 --> 01:24:59,160
Speaker 13: There's really not a wild story.

1992
01:24:59,280 --> 01:25:02,360
Speaker 8: He had just Spider Man and he was in the

1993
01:25:02,680 --> 01:25:04,680
Speaker 8: original well I don't know if it's the original, but

1994
01:25:04,720 --> 01:25:06,280
Speaker 8: the one from two thousand and one.

1995
01:25:06,200 --> 01:25:08,960
Speaker 13: To McGuire with Toby McGuire and he played a character.

1996
01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:10,600
Speaker 13: He's like, oh it was bone.

1997
01:25:10,320 --> 01:25:14,639
Speaker 8: Saw McGraw was swimming from the chandeliers with Christian Dunts.

1998
01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:16,680
Speaker 8: That's my poor macho Man impersonation.

1999
01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:17,800
Speaker 4: It's pretty good.

2000
01:25:18,080 --> 01:25:21,519
Speaker 8: Now I got a cough, but yeah, love rest in peace,

2001
01:25:21,560 --> 01:25:25,360
Speaker 8: macho Man. So because of that, because of all his

2002
01:25:25,479 --> 01:25:28,120
Speaker 8: different sayings, he had that little the cream of the

2003
01:25:28,240 --> 01:25:31,759
Speaker 8: Crop in this interview he did with mean Gene Okland.

2004
01:25:31,880 --> 01:25:34,840
Speaker 8: So I thought, let's see our so just calling it

2005
01:25:35,080 --> 01:25:37,120
Speaker 8: best Player of the Game ward. It's the Dream of

2006
01:25:37,120 --> 01:25:37,679
Speaker 8: the Crop.

2007
01:25:37,479 --> 01:25:40,000
Speaker 9: Awards recognizing Randy Macho Man Savage.

2008
01:25:40,080 --> 01:25:42,400
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, rip man.

2009
01:25:42,120 --> 01:25:44,559
Speaker 13: Rip and rip to the rest of this interview with

2010
01:25:44,600 --> 01:25:45,080
Speaker 13: you and me.

2011
01:25:45,600 --> 01:25:48,760
Speaker 2: Now back in nineteen ninety eight, Yeah, I was twenty six.

2012
01:25:48,840 --> 01:25:52,759
Speaker 2: I was probably a hothead and I probably did have.

2013
01:25:52,640 --> 01:25:53,960
Speaker 1: My team go jump on a logo.

2014
01:25:54,439 --> 01:25:56,200
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I did it for my team's

2015
01:25:56,200 --> 01:25:57,880
Speaker 2: good to kind of get them going a little bit,

2016
01:25:57,920 --> 01:26:00,080
Speaker 2: and it did. It worked, we won, So yeah, I

2017
01:26:00,080 --> 01:26:02,320
Speaker 2: don't know, maybe I don't know. I don't think I

2018
01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:04,960
Speaker 2: was a dirty coach. I definitely was a dirty coach.

2019
01:26:05,080 --> 01:26:07,120
Speaker 2: But yeah, I push the envelope on that one. There's

2020
01:26:07,120 --> 01:26:07,960
Speaker 2: no question about that.

2021
01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:08,760
Speaker 1: All Right, we get back.

2022
01:26:08,800 --> 01:26:12,559
Speaker 2: It's time for a little smidgen of Texans OG podcast

2023
01:26:12,720 --> 01:26:16,240
Speaker 2: Indie Klue did with Wade Smith. This is some good

2024
01:26:16,280 --> 01:26:19,880
Speaker 2: stuff from n d as. He was talking with Wade

2025
01:26:19,920 --> 01:26:21,880
Speaker 2: about his career with the Texans and some of the

2026
01:26:21,920 --> 01:26:23,120
Speaker 2: things that happened in his playing career.

2027
01:26:23,120 --> 01:26:24,960
Speaker 1: That's next right here we Texans All Access.

2028
01:26:25,120 --> 01:26:26,840
Speaker 2: We got one to find a segment of this edition

2029
01:26:26,920 --> 01:26:30,320
Speaker 2: to Texans All Access from the out at Texans Radio Studio.

2030
01:26:30,439 --> 01:26:33,920
Speaker 2: I am your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter,

2031
01:26:34,160 --> 01:26:36,519
Speaker 2: and you are good pal. Indie Klue has been catching

2032
01:26:36,600 --> 01:26:42,240
Speaker 2: up with the Texans legends on the Texans OG's podcast. Now,

2033
01:26:42,280 --> 01:26:45,280
Speaker 2: if you haven't had a chance to catch it, I

2034
01:26:45,320 --> 01:26:47,360
Speaker 2: don't know what you're waiting for. Because there have been

2035
01:26:47,400 --> 01:26:52,639
Speaker 2: some great guests between Jonathan Wells, Jonathan Joseph, those two

2036
01:26:52,760 --> 01:26:58,160
Speaker 2: were were tremendous, very very good. Moran Norris was also one,

2037
01:26:58,240 --> 01:27:00,679
Speaker 2: I mean really really good stuff. Indy has been doing great.

2038
01:27:01,040 --> 01:27:05,200
Speaker 2: Here's a sample of a conversation that Wade Smith did

2039
01:27:05,280 --> 01:27:07,960
Speaker 2: with n D. They talked about case Keenum and what

2040
01:27:08,080 --> 01:27:11,000
Speaker 2: his presence is like in the building and gets into

2041
01:27:11,000 --> 01:27:12,280
Speaker 2: the playing days of Waite Smith.

2042
01:27:12,320 --> 01:27:14,440
Speaker 1: Here we go. Indeed, with Wade Smith.

2043
01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:16,680
Speaker 14: This is not me being a homer, and I know

2044
01:27:16,760 --> 01:27:20,240
Speaker 14: most people outside of this building will throw up. As

2045
01:27:20,280 --> 01:27:21,560
Speaker 14: a matter of fact, I know a lot of my

2046
01:27:22,120 --> 01:27:25,000
Speaker 14: buddies when I talk about this, they just shake their head.

2047
01:27:25,400 --> 01:27:28,320
Speaker 14: I love case Keenum, move like I don't think Case Keenum.

2048
01:27:28,439 --> 01:27:29,840
Speaker 14: I'm not saying he should have been the start of

2049
01:27:29,840 --> 01:27:33,040
Speaker 14: the entire time, but in my opinion, from day one,

2050
01:27:33,520 --> 01:27:36,200
Speaker 14: Case Keenum should have always been a Texan because one,

2051
01:27:36,479 --> 01:27:38,320
Speaker 14: I get the sense and you played with him if

2052
01:27:38,360 --> 01:27:41,559
Speaker 14: I'm not mistaken, so you can tell me if I'm wrong.

2053
01:27:42,160 --> 01:27:46,760
Speaker 14: I get the sense that he understood, accepted, and appreciated

2054
01:27:46,800 --> 01:27:50,000
Speaker 14: his role here in Houston. But I feel like he

2055
01:27:50,120 --> 01:27:52,559
Speaker 14: was also a guy that if he gets in the game,

2056
01:27:52,880 --> 01:27:56,040
Speaker 14: if the starter goes down, you can still expect to win.

2057
01:27:56,120 --> 01:27:58,400
Speaker 14: So he's just one of those guys that I feel

2058
01:27:58,439 --> 01:28:01,720
Speaker 14: like should have always been paid a little bit more

2059
01:28:01,720 --> 01:28:04,519
Speaker 14: of the most backups. Yeah, and make him comfortable and

2060
01:28:04,600 --> 01:28:06,840
Speaker 14: let him know, Hey, we're trying to find starters, but

2061
01:28:06,960 --> 01:28:09,559
Speaker 14: we value you. There's always gonna be a position for

2062
01:28:09,600 --> 01:28:11,679
Speaker 14: you on this team. I've just always had that feeling,

2063
01:28:11,800 --> 01:28:13,400
Speaker 14: and I didn't play with him like you did, so

2064
01:28:13,400 --> 01:28:14,519
Speaker 14: I would love to get your take.

2065
01:28:14,840 --> 01:28:18,799
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, loved I loved Case as a teammate.

2066
01:28:19,120 --> 01:28:21,040
Speaker 15: I thought that he did an excellent job when he

2067
01:28:21,120 --> 01:28:24,000
Speaker 15: got his opportunities his rookie year. It was a bad

2068
01:28:24,040 --> 01:28:26,400
Speaker 15: situation going on around him as far as we had

2069
01:28:26,439 --> 01:28:28,320
Speaker 15: a bunch of injuries that year that was the two

2070
01:28:28,320 --> 01:28:31,720
Speaker 15: and fourteen year. But he came in a huddle and

2071
01:28:31,760 --> 01:28:34,639
Speaker 15: you believed like you believed it, like we can get

2072
01:28:34,640 --> 01:28:36,040
Speaker 15: this done with this guy. And he made a lot

2073
01:28:36,040 --> 01:28:37,920
Speaker 15: of plays. He made a lot of mistakes. He made

2074
01:28:37,960 --> 01:28:40,880
Speaker 15: a lot of rookie mistakes, turned the ball over, things

2075
01:28:40,920 --> 01:28:43,519
Speaker 15: like that, not being able to see the hots and

2076
01:28:43,560 --> 01:28:46,080
Speaker 15: all that type stuff. But all he's done was gone

2077
01:28:46,160 --> 01:28:48,200
Speaker 15: to work and get better and better and better. He's

2078
01:28:48,200 --> 01:28:53,360
Speaker 15: gotten opportunities at other places and he's done well with

2079
01:28:53,400 --> 01:28:57,680
Speaker 15: his opportunities. The reason why Case wasn't here initially got

2080
01:28:57,680 --> 01:29:00,160
Speaker 15: I think when they bringing a new coaching staff. You

2081
01:29:00,160 --> 01:29:02,439
Speaker 15: know he was drafted by or he wasn't drafted. He

2082
01:29:02,479 --> 01:29:05,800
Speaker 15: was an undrafted guy with Gary Kubiak regime. And so

2083
01:29:05,920 --> 01:29:08,440
Speaker 15: once that happens and they bring in a Bill O'Brien,

2084
01:29:08,880 --> 01:29:10,360
Speaker 15: that's not your guy. You want to bring in one

2085
01:29:10,360 --> 01:29:11,880
Speaker 15: of the other one of your guys to be the

2086
01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:14,120
Speaker 15: undrafted guy that's on the roster. So that's why Case

2087
01:29:14,160 --> 01:29:16,400
Speaker 15: had to leave. Now eventually he came back, like he

2088
01:29:16,479 --> 01:29:19,599
Speaker 15: did what he did in other places in Bill O'Brien's regime,

2089
01:29:19,720 --> 01:29:21,439
Speaker 15: brought him back here. To me, that says a lot

2090
01:29:21,479 --> 01:29:23,639
Speaker 15: about a guy, like if you can, if you can

2091
01:29:23,720 --> 01:29:26,920
Speaker 15: be in an organization, I think I think Demps did

2092
01:29:26,920 --> 01:29:29,000
Speaker 15: that too. Q Demps did that too, Like where he

2093
01:29:29,160 --> 01:29:33,400
Speaker 15: was with the Kubiak regime. I think maybe Daniel Manny

2094
01:29:33,479 --> 01:29:35,920
Speaker 15: might have did that too. They were with the Kubiak regime,

2095
01:29:36,280 --> 01:29:39,360
Speaker 15: got let go eventually and then they came back with

2096
01:29:39,400 --> 01:29:42,040
Speaker 15: the Bill O'Brien regime. To me, if you can play

2097
01:29:42,080 --> 01:29:45,360
Speaker 15: in both, because there's it's a night and day scenario

2098
01:29:45,400 --> 01:29:47,800
Speaker 15: between the two. To me, you're you're you're a good

2099
01:29:47,800 --> 01:29:51,000
Speaker 15: football player because it's it's not just completely a scheme fit.

2100
01:29:51,040 --> 01:29:53,040
Speaker 15: There's things you bring to the table as a good

2101
01:29:53,080 --> 01:29:53,759
Speaker 15: football player.

2102
01:29:53,960 --> 01:29:56,799
Speaker 14: You also it teach you that lesson. Don't burn bridges,

2103
01:29:57,280 --> 01:30:01,000
Speaker 14: you know when you leave somewhere. This is professional football,

2104
01:30:01,040 --> 01:30:03,799
Speaker 14: it's a profession. You never know what's going to happen.

2105
01:30:04,080 --> 01:30:07,800
Speaker 14: I was actually drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles. I was

2106
01:30:07,920 --> 01:30:10,840
Speaker 14: cut by the Philadelphia Eagles when they brought in Hugh

2107
01:30:10,880 --> 01:30:14,479
Speaker 14: Douglas and I broke my hand and it hurt. But hey,

2108
01:30:14,520 --> 01:30:16,720
Speaker 14: thank you for the opportunity. I appreciate y'all drafting me.

2109
01:30:17,040 --> 01:30:20,760
Speaker 14: I go to Washington and then after my rookie contracts up,

2110
01:30:20,960 --> 01:30:23,400
Speaker 14: I signed a five year deal back with Philadelphia. So

2111
01:30:23,680 --> 01:30:25,720
Speaker 14: I always tell that to my kids, like, you never

2112
01:30:25,800 --> 01:30:29,320
Speaker 14: know what's going to happen, and you can't burn bridges

2113
01:30:29,360 --> 01:30:32,120
Speaker 14: because you just don't know, you know how these things

2114
01:30:32,120 --> 01:30:34,240
Speaker 14: are gonna end up. So for you bringing up like

2115
01:30:34,280 --> 01:30:36,479
Speaker 14: case Keenum, you know when he left, I'm sure he

2116
01:30:36,479 --> 01:30:37,400
Speaker 14: said all the right things.

2117
01:30:37,520 --> 01:30:38,559
Speaker 4: Yeah, all the right things.

2118
01:30:38,760 --> 01:30:42,920
Speaker 14: Danielle Manning Quintin Demps, who's now coaching at Judson University

2119
01:30:43,320 --> 01:30:44,200
Speaker 14: to Quintin Demps.

2120
01:30:44,680 --> 01:30:46,439
Speaker 4: But there's a lesson in life right there. Yeah.

2121
01:30:46,479 --> 01:30:49,679
Speaker 15: I did not know that you got released by the Eagles.

2122
01:30:49,680 --> 01:30:51,559
Speaker 15: I always thought you were the Eagles for like eight

2123
01:30:51,640 --> 01:30:53,840
Speaker 15: nine years and then you finished up here in Houston.

2124
01:30:53,840 --> 01:30:56,120
Speaker 4: I didn't realize that that even at six.

2125
01:30:56,120 --> 01:30:59,760
Speaker 14: Year, but they were like, nah, brother, you suck. I

2126
01:30:59,760 --> 01:31:02,439
Speaker 14: didn't release is the nice one? I was cut? But no,

2127
01:31:02,520 --> 01:31:05,160
Speaker 14: I was cut. Then I kind of found my legs

2128
01:31:05,160 --> 01:31:08,920
Speaker 14: in Washington and learned a lot in Washington. And I

2129
01:31:08,960 --> 01:31:12,559
Speaker 14: was playing against Philly. One quick story, and this is

2130
01:31:12,600 --> 01:31:16,080
Speaker 14: before the whole concussion protocol. Obviously, it's early two thousands.

2131
01:31:16,479 --> 01:31:19,960
Speaker 14: I was in Washington for three years and I signed

2132
01:31:19,960 --> 01:31:22,080
Speaker 14: a five year deal to go back to Philly. But

2133
01:31:22,160 --> 01:31:25,479
Speaker 14: at first year back in Philly, a guard pool and

2134
01:31:25,680 --> 01:31:28,959
Speaker 14: we just had this collision, and I was so dazed.

2135
01:31:29,240 --> 01:31:32,400
Speaker 14: I looked at the Washington excuse me, the Washington huddle

2136
01:31:32,800 --> 01:31:35,759
Speaker 14: and it was John Jansen, Chris Samuels, all my guys.

2137
01:31:35,960 --> 01:31:38,000
Speaker 14: So I'm just walking over there thinking it was I

2138
01:31:38,040 --> 01:31:40,559
Speaker 14: was at a practice or something, and I'll never get

2139
01:31:41,080 --> 01:31:43,240
Speaker 14: I saw the film, but I don't remember when it happened.

2140
01:31:43,240 --> 01:31:46,080
Speaker 14: But John Jansen kind of turned me around and pushed

2141
01:31:46,120 --> 01:31:48,639
Speaker 14: me towards my Egle huddle and pointed like, no, you're

2142
01:31:48,640 --> 01:31:51,280
Speaker 14: walking to the wrong huddle, and we just laughed about it.

2143
01:31:51,560 --> 01:31:54,000
Speaker 14: You know, now, I would have been a game, you know,

2144
01:31:54,720 --> 01:31:56,760
Speaker 14: I would have gone through some concussion protocol, but I

2145
01:31:56,800 --> 01:32:00,760
Speaker 14: was so familiar with those guys that when I got hit,

2146
01:32:00,800 --> 01:32:02,479
Speaker 14: I was, oh, I supposed to be in this huddle,

2147
01:32:02,520 --> 01:32:03,719
Speaker 14: even though they're on offense.

2148
01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:06,800
Speaker 15: But times of change, it's definitely a different world that

2149
01:32:07,320 --> 01:32:09,840
Speaker 15: you know, you hit somebody and you have that day

2150
01:32:09,920 --> 01:32:13,600
Speaker 15: javu like, man, I've been here before, but then you

2151
01:32:13,680 --> 01:32:17,400
Speaker 15: haven't been here before, and that that's that that you

2152
01:32:17,400 --> 01:32:19,320
Speaker 15: you look back on. It's like, man, I know I

2153
01:32:19,320 --> 01:32:22,320
Speaker 15: had multiple concussions, and it was it's just something you

2154
01:32:22,320 --> 01:32:24,639
Speaker 15: didn't really talk about or reported. It really didn't start

2155
01:32:24,640 --> 01:32:27,519
Speaker 15: coming in to play until after like the new CBA

2156
01:32:27,640 --> 01:32:30,559
Speaker 15: in twenty eleven, when they, you know, they started talking

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Speaker 15: and all that type of stuff. That's when the really

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Speaker 15: concussions people started to pay attention to them. But there's

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Speaker 15: stories of when I look back on him, I kind

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Speaker 15: of feel bad about him. Like I remember Chris Meyers.

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Speaker 15: I know he got a concussion. We didn't it never

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Speaker 15: got diagnosed, but at the time it was just like, bro,

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Speaker 15: you can't you can't leave right now, like, we don't

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Speaker 15: we need you right now, And it was and you

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Speaker 15: look back on and you feel like man was terrible

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Speaker 15: to do. But when you're in it, yeah, when you're

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Speaker 15: in it, When you're in it, it's just a different mentality,

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Speaker 15: like playing with broken ribs, broken bones, all that type

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Speaker 15: of stuff, concussions.

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Speaker 4: It was just it's part of the deal.

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Speaker 15: And like you said, it's just a completely different ball game,

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Speaker 15: and hopefully it pays dividends for guys as far as

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Speaker 15: their their post career health going forward in the future and.

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Speaker 14: They're smarter because it wasn't even and I'm a little

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Speaker 14: bit older than you, but it wasn't even like we

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Speaker 14: were trying to be tough. It was more, you know what,

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Speaker 14: I could stand up, I can still run. I might

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Speaker 14: not know my name, but you go out there and

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Speaker 14: play where if you tear your ac l or break

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Speaker 14: your leg, it's like I physically can't move. So but

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Speaker 14: now that we know, like now, if you have too

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Speaker 14: many of these, you know, at forty you might be

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Speaker 14: forgetting your name and pissing on yourself. So I just

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Speaker 14: think it's the knowledge.

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Speaker 1: Now. I know you like that, there's no question you

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Speaker 1: like that.

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Speaker 2: You like that you like it when ND talks to

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Speaker 2: for a player, So make sure you're checking out the

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Speaker 2: Texans OG's podcast Indie Clue, Love how having him as

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Speaker 2: part of everything that we do. Love Wade Smith Wade

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Speaker 2: done radio with him, shows with him, talk to.

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Speaker 1: Him all the time.

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Speaker 2: I mean, just a great ambassador for this organization as

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Speaker 2: is ND. So appreciate those guys for being by. Appreciate

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Speaker 2: Mark and Drew and Deep and Will Anderson who sang

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Speaker 2: Adele tonight to Nick Cassario to West Durham, to all

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Speaker 2: of you for listening.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. We'll be back tomorrow night.

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Speaker 2: The General will be with us live before Thursday Night Football,

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Speaker 2: and then we'll carry it through the weekend and get

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Speaker 2: ready for Sunday against the Atlanta Falcons.

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Speaker 1: From the at L. We'll see that everybody, and as always,

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Speaker 1: go Texans.