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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody, Welcome into a Wednesday a nation

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Speaker 1: of Texans. All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris Football Knows, the sideline reporter

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Speaker 1: for your Houston Texans. And what a crazy world we're

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Speaker 1: living in right now. Hopefully everybody is out there safe

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Speaker 1: and sound. I know a lot of you aren't a

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Speaker 1: lot of you're dealing with omicron, omicron, whatever you say it,

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Speaker 1: the big oh, a lot of COVID. My thoughts are

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Speaker 1: with all of you. Stay safe, please, especially at this

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Speaker 1: holiday time, and just take care of yourselves and hopefully,

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Speaker 1: hopefully we're gonna have a game on Sunday. We will

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Speaker 1: not have radio on Friday. A lot of stuff going

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Speaker 1: on in Sports Radio six tenth, So this will be

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Speaker 1: our last all access show before the game being played

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Speaker 1: on Sunday. We will have John McClain on with Marking

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Speaker 1: Myself tomorrow night, the hour show before the Thursday night game,

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Speaker 1: which is big one Titans v. Forty nine Ers. That's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a big one in Nashville. Let's go Niners.

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Speaker 1: Let's go get it done and knock the Titans down.

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Speaker 1: Another peg was just it's just fun. To watch, Sad

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Speaker 1: and mad Rabel fun to watch. Anyhow, we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: some joy in this season. That would be the joy.

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Speaker 1: But that's for tomorrow. So we got a lot to

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Speaker 1: do because we don't have a Friday show, so we

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Speaker 1: gotta get everything in. So we got Nickssaria coming up.

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Speaker 1: We got Davis Mills with Deep City. We have got

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Speaker 1: Tremont Smith with the Drews dozen. We have got a

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Speaker 1: where are they Now? Wednesday with Fred Weary who sat

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Speaker 1: down with your Doherty. Haley Elwood, who covers the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: will join dpfour behind enemy sidelines. We've got Houston Methodist

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Speaker 1: minutes on this COVID and omicron situation, and then the

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Speaker 1: Judeory's final word is with Tremon Smith. So we got

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Speaker 1: a lot to do. So let's dive in with the

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Speaker 1: generalman manager of your Houston Texans, Nick Cassario, joining us

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Speaker 1: right now in Texans Radio. It's Nick Cassario, general manager

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Speaker 1: of your Texans, and Nick, congratulations on the win beating Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: Let's get to that and then get to what's happening

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Speaker 1: down the stretch here. In the twenty twenty one campaign,

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Speaker 1: seemed like everybody pulled together very well. You had a

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Speaker 1: got a much needed win. Yeah. Really it was a collective,

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Speaker 1: i would say, team and kind of organizational effort. Um.

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Speaker 1: A lot of players who hadn't played very much during

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Speaker 1: play extensive snaps. Some in fact, came down to a

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Speaker 1: It's actually it's just really a credit attribute to the

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Speaker 1: that they put in. So it's always good to win

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Speaker 1: on Sunday for as much time as everybody puts into it.

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Speaker 1: So you know, it's good to win. And you know

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Speaker 1: we're returning the page here getting ready for the Chargers. Nick.

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Speaker 1: There's so many challenges in this game of football, and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure over the years we've seen him but this

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Speaker 1: do you sort of relish it to see, Hey, let's

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Happy holidays, Thanks so much for the time.

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Speaker 1: the bat on a Wednesday. Now, we have got some

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Speaker 1: news that we need to discuss and who boy. First

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Speaker 1: of all, the injury report. There's not a lot on

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Speaker 1: the injury report. I mean, you look at the injury

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Speaker 1: report and you see only seven guys on it. That's

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Speaker 1: because freaking everybody else is on COVID nineteen reserve lit.

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Speaker 1: Three more went on the list today, Kymie Fairbairn, oh Boy,

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Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks, Eric Wilson. Those three went on the reserve

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen list. One player was added to the reserve

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Speaker 1: injured list, and that was Jeff Driscoll. Apparently you got

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Speaker 1: dinged up on a special team's play in Jacksonville this

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Speaker 1: last Sunday, So if you're keeping track, I believe it

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Speaker 1: was fifteen going into yesterday. Jalil Johnson was added to

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Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen list yesterday. I think the entire defensive

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Speaker 1: line is on the COVID nineteen reserve list. It's just

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Speaker 1: been rough now. It's not as if the charges of

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Speaker 1: got off Scott Free, Joey Bosa was on there. Austin

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Speaker 1: Eckler was put on the COVID nineteen list. If I

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Speaker 1: saw that properly today. So a lot of stuff going

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Speaker 1: on with COVID nineteen. Oh mcron. We thought this thing

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Speaker 1: would be out of our lives. It is. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: remain a part of our lives for forever more. I

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Speaker 1: got a feeling we just have to learn how to

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Speaker 1: handle everything that goes with it and be able to

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Speaker 1: function with it. And right now it's just a tough,

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Speaker 1: tough time we've gone to all virtual. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: just been it's been wild, to say the least. But

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Speaker 1: Kymie Fairbaron, Brandy Cooks, Eric Wilson put on the COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen list today, Jeff Driscoll put on the reserve injured list. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you're wondering about some of those players with the

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Speaker 1: COVID issues, could they come off. Sure they could come

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Speaker 1: off over the next few days. Even these three could

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Speaker 1: come off the next few days. It's based on when

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Speaker 1: they can get a negative test and get two of them,

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Speaker 1: and it doesn't have to be twenty four hours apart anymore.

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Speaker 1: They just have to get that negative test to get back.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Rams had a number of players I

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Speaker 1: think it was about twenty two players that ended up

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Speaker 1: going on the COVID nineteen list. They ended up getting

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Speaker 1: a good majority of them back such that they only

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Speaker 1: lost or without three starters the other night or last

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Speaker 1: night when they play the Seattle Seahawks. So there's hope

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Speaker 1: that guys can get back. The biggest thing is hopefully

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Speaker 1: they're asymptomatic and they can just be healthy, because I

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Speaker 1: know for some people that have been struck by this,

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Speaker 1: I mean we've been talking about since Mars twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: when they've been struck by this and the symptoms just

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Speaker 1: I mean are overwhelming at times. Some people have gotten

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Speaker 1: it and haven't had one ounce of issue. So thoughts

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Speaker 1: with everybody out there that's going through it, family members,

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Speaker 1: whatever the case might be. It's just it's all around

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Speaker 1: us now and obviously hitting the Texans. I believe that

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Speaker 1: makes eighteen people put on the COVID nineteen list, So

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Speaker 1: hopefully that will change in due time, but for right now,

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Speaker 1: it's a tough one. So we'll keep your eye on

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Speaker 1: it the rest of the week. But that'll be your

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Speaker 1: last injury report for the week. All right, We've got

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Speaker 1: to get to Davis Mills, who did a deep situed,

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Speaker 1: deep slant interview for the first time. Let's check it

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Speaker 1: out next right here in Texans All Access. Yes, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to this Wednesday edition of Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: And I'm calling all my Houston area teachers out there.

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Speaker 1: Learn more at Houston Texans dot com. Now, one guy

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Speaker 1: can imagine when into a classroom, a math classroom and

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Speaker 1: learn through the game of football, is Davis Mills. That's

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Speaker 1: just that's my hunch, but I would imagine that's really

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Speaker 1: how he learned. Matt was through football. Well, he's learning

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Speaker 1: football through a different prism playing quarterback as a rookie

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, and he sat down with Deep City

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Speaker 1: to talk all about that. Our Deep Slant Interview of

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Speaker 1: the week, Deepe take it away. It's the Deep Slant

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Speaker 1: one on one presented by expanding my guests this week,

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Speaker 1: starting quarterback Davis Mills. First of all, Davis, first NFL

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Speaker 1: win for you in your career. Congratulations, what's this week?

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Speaker 1: Been like for you, it's been great. Um, but I

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Speaker 1: mean since I guess we had the victory Monday, came

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Speaker 1: in and started the film film watching and prep on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: and it's kinda on to the next one. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you've gotten a lot of national love this week just

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Speaker 1: from what you were able to do. You know, you've

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Speaker 1: had eight starts, but you get the win, the fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter drive to get the final touchdown from you to

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Speaker 1: Cooks to really, as you said, final dagger in that

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Speaker 1: game against the Jaguars. With all this media attention that

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Speaker 1: you've gotten lately, does it feel like there's a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a weight lifted off your shoulders just get

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Speaker 1: that first win under your belt. I mean, I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: say away lifted off my shoulders. I would just say,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're coming in each way week with the

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Speaker 1: same goal, and that's to win football games. So now

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Speaker 1: that I accomplished that first one, it's I guess makes

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Speaker 1: it easier to move forward and go on to that

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Speaker 1: next week and try to do the same thing. I

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Speaker 1: think one of the big questions that has gotten asked

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Speaker 1: in the last few weeks from really all the coaches

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Speaker 1: that you work with is what's improved from the first

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Speaker 1: few games that you started until this last stretch of

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Speaker 1: when you were named a starter. And I mean I've

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Speaker 1: heard a number of answers from quicker decision making, recognizing blitzes,

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Speaker 1: your internal clock being a little bit faster. I know

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Speaker 1: David Colley has mentioned that a few times, but I

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Speaker 1: wanted to ask you, what do you think has really

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Speaker 1: improved from early on in the season when you were

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Speaker 1: playing games to now. I mean, I think it's a

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Speaker 1: combination of all those things. I think the biggest part

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Speaker 1: that plays a role in it is just the experience

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Speaker 1: and kind of having that knowledge and the memory bank

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Speaker 1: you can pull from the previous looks you've seen. I

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Speaker 1: mean the example of the Jaguars game this past week,

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Speaker 1: we had the delay a game at the start of

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Speaker 1: the game, but they brought a cover zero blitz and

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Speaker 1: I was trying to get to an audible and make

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Speaker 1: sure we were in the right play and I just

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Speaker 1: ran out of time pre snap and then we ended

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Speaker 1: up seeing that same thing later in the game and

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Speaker 1: I ended up checking it out of it and getting

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Speaker 1: a big play to Phillip there. So I think just

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Speaker 1: things like that that pop up and I'm able to

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Speaker 1: start start processing it faster and get to answers. It's

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Speaker 1: really helped out. What do you think in those few

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Speaker 1: games that you weren't playing where you were sitting behind

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Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor? Were there things that you were wanting to

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Speaker 1: work on or what were sort of the things that

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Speaker 1: you were looking at in game when you weren't actually

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Speaker 1: playing in the game. The biggest thing was just being

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Speaker 1: fully locked in mentally. I think that's the hardest part

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Speaker 1: of the backup quarterbacks job in the NFL, is just

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Speaker 1: staying fully locked into the game plan and any end

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Speaker 1: game changes that happened on the sideline, like in between series.

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Speaker 1: So I think that was the biggest thing to stand

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Speaker 1: locked in and making sure I was ready if I

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Speaker 1: was ever kind of thrown into that situation. Well, when

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Speaker 1: you were named a starter, you mentioned that your dad

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Speaker 1: was going to fly down and watch you play, and

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Speaker 1: I want to say, your mom was at this game

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Speaker 1: at Jacksonville. So what's it been like just having your

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Speaker 1: family around. They are they gonna be able to see

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Speaker 1: a lot of your games or where are they traveling

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Speaker 1: from when they're coming to watch you? Yeah, so my

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Speaker 1: family's all back in Atlanta. My parents and my oldest

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Speaker 1: sister are back there, and then the middle sibling, my

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Speaker 1: still older sister. Because I'm the youngest, I have a

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Speaker 1: sibling in Houston as well, so she's been out here

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Speaker 1: a lot. Along with my girlfriend, have been to basically

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Speaker 1: all the home games and then traveled to a couple

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Speaker 1: away games. But my dad's been really flying around to

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Speaker 1: as many games as you can. And fortunately I had

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Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of family down at this

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Speaker 1: past game in Jacksonville. Jacksonville, I have a lot of

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Speaker 1: cousins down in South Georgia that way able to make

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Speaker 1: a quick drive over, so that was good. I oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're in a little cheering section. That's amazing. When you

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Speaker 1: were drafted, I remember you did a press conference and

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Speaker 1: that's when everyone sort of learned about your who went

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Speaker 1: to University of Houston, and you joked about crashing at

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Speaker 1: her place because she just bought a house. So I'll

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Speaker 1: have to ask, did you get your own place? Wasn't

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Speaker 1: the plan of crashing in her spare bedroom. I assumed

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Speaker 1: that has gone by the wayside by now, right, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got my own place. Really. After rookomending camp ended,

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Speaker 1: I found a spot to stay, and my girlfriend moved

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Speaker 1: out here with me as well. My sister. Her house

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Speaker 1: is really still being renovated, so she's not even moved

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Speaker 1: into the new one yet and hopefully that should be

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Speaker 1: finished soon. Though, have you been able to explore much

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Speaker 1: of Houston at all? I know you're really busy being

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Speaker 1: the quarterback and with all the meetings and everything, but

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Speaker 1: how much of Houston have you gotten a chance to

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Speaker 1: see and what do you like to do when you

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Speaker 1: do have any free time. Most of my free time

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Speaker 1: has been either just trying to relax, watch movies or

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Speaker 1: play video games. But I think the biggest thing exploring

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Speaker 1: Houston that I've seen so far is really just like

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Speaker 1: the food scene. I've tried to eat at a bunch

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Speaker 1: of different restaurants and kind of figure out my go

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Speaker 1: to spots, so that's been really good. I'm excited in

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Speaker 1: the offseason though, when I go down to the Space

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Speaker 1: Center and maybe go see Galveston and just different things

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Speaker 1: like that that are a little farther out from really

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Speaker 1: the interloop. All right, So do you have your go

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Speaker 1: to spots? I think probably my favorite two would be

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Speaker 1: l TmPo and h MF Sushi. Which is in the

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Speaker 1: museum districts. I got a lot. Those are some good choices. Well,

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Speaker 1: you didn't go to college or you went to Stanford,

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Speaker 1: your sister went to you of age? How did you

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Speaker 1: end up at Stanford? Why'd you go there? And was

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Speaker 1: that your first choice with other colleges that you were

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Speaker 1: looking at? Yeah? So, um, Luckily in high school I

626
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Speaker 1: had a pretty good amount of colleges that were interested,

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Speaker 1: and I kinda had options to go all over. But

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Speaker 1: I felt Stanford was the best fit both academically and athletically,

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Speaker 1: because I my parents kind of always instilled his us

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Speaker 1: kids that, I mean, education first. If sports never work out,

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Speaker 1: you need to fall back on your education and really

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Speaker 1: um capitalize that. So I felt like Stanford was the

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Speaker 1: best of both worlds. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure the

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Speaker 1: classes at Stanford are really on a top notch another

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Speaker 1: level academically. So that leads me to wanting to know

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Speaker 1: what you might think you would be doing if you

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Speaker 1: weren't playing football. What do you think you'd be doing?

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure entirely. I mean, obviously I'm doing what

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Speaker 1: I'd like to be doing, and I was playing football,

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Speaker 1: playing quarterback, but I did end turn one summer at

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Speaker 1: Stanford and commercial real estate with CBR, so maybe some

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Speaker 1: sort of real estate investment or something in that realm.

643
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, I saw your Instagram, and I've looked

644
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 1: at your Instagram and you've curated it very nicely. It's

645
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 1: all black and white pictures and then you scroll and

646
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 1: it's a color version, which esthetically is very pleasing and

647
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: very artistic, and it's it's very organized. So how did

648
00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 1: you get the idea for that? I really have no clue.

649
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 1: I think I think I started it maybe freshman year

650
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,479
Speaker 1: of college. I just thought it looked cool and then

651
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: kind of road with it. And I feel like I'm

652
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 1: at the point now where I'm kind of just stuck

653
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: in that box of everything has to be black and white.

654
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 1: So who knows. I might switch it at some point,

655
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:12,000
Speaker 1: but I'm kind of just riding it. Yeah. My biggest,

656
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: my biggest fear for you in that is that if

657
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: you ever want to post a video highlight or a video,

658
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,480
Speaker 1: how will you do that? How will you do the video?

659
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think you have no videos right now.

660
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: I have, like the cover photo be black and white

661
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: and then transition, but I don't know yeah, black and

662
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: white cover photo swipe and then you get the color video.

663
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: I think, I mean you could try that. You could

664
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: start put because you're gonna have some highlights you you

665
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: might want to throw them up on your Instagram soon.

666
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: All right, how about for yourself? You got a few

667
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 1: games left before the end of the rookie campaign. You

668
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: know what are some things that you want to work on,

669
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 1: some goals for yourself here in this final stretch of

670
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: the season. I think just continue to go out and

671
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: improve and really make all the players around me better.

672
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: I think that's the main role of the quarterback, and

673
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: then score more touchdowns when we get down close to

674
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: the zone. Try to capitalize on field position and get

675
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: the ball on the end zone rather than not gonna

676
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: kick field goals. Although I mean Kaim he's been doing

677
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: a great job, but I think we can spread the

678
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 1: ball around and getting ends one ourselves. As an offense.

679
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: That field goal target line is moving further and further

680
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 1: down the field with Kim there. So it's been a

681
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 1: lot of fun to watch, Davis, and we're looking forward

682
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: to the rest of the season. Thanks for joining us today,

683
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: of course, thanks for having me there is Rookie quarterback

684
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: Davis Mills. I feel back called him a rookie. He

685
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 1: started a number of times, so he's still rookie though

686
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: it's still his first year. But these next three games

687
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 1: for Davis are just massive Chargers, Niners, Titans. I think

688
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: all three teams are going to end up in the playoffs,

689
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: so he's going an opportunity to see three playoff teams. Now,

690
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,719
Speaker 1: he shredded the Patriots at home. Hopefully he does that

691
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: to the Chargers. But he has just looked more control.

692
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 1: He's taken profit when it's there. He's finding open receivers

693
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: and making big plays against the blitz, which you did

694
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,239
Speaker 1: against Jacksonville. That was absolutely a massive, massive play. Now

695
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 1: another guy who made big plays and in fact there's

696
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 1: big news about is Tremont Smith. It's time for drews

697
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: dozen next with the kickoff returner extraordinaire right here in

698
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: Texans All Access. Now, I shouldn't have buried the lead,

699
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: and I did because COVID nineteen has become such a

700
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: big part of our lives. Had to give you the

701
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,520
Speaker 1: news who went on the transaction list. But the biggest

702
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 1: news of today happened which Tremon Smith was named AFC

703
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: Special Teams Player of the Week. Congrats Tremon ninety eight

704
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: yard kickoff returned down upon inside the five, had a

705
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 1: special team's tackle, had to return out to the thirty

706
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: three as well. He was outstanding against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

707
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: He's outstanding in this drews dozen interview with Drew Doherty

708
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: as well. Drews Dozen Time, and we're doing it with

709
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: Tremont Smith, the reigning AFC Special Teams Player of the Week.

710
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: You know you were miked up before that game, and

711
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: I've seen the first draft of the video and it's

712
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:09,280
Speaker 1: pretty cool. You said I'm itching to do something before

713
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,800
Speaker 1: you went out and busted that ninety eight yard kickoff

714
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 1: returning and did all the other great plays that you

715
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,320
Speaker 1: did on special teams because it wasn't just the touchdown.

716
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: You sure scratch that itch, didn't you. Huh? Yes, I

717
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:20,760
Speaker 1: had to. I just I don't know. I kept coach Baker.

718
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: He does a good job of staying on me. So

719
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 1: like if I don't have a tackle in a game

720
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 1: or two, like all right, tom on, I needed to

721
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 1: show up. So he does a good job of staying

722
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 1: on me, you know, coaching me very well. And I

723
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: just took all his details from practice, him and Frankie

724
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 1: and just winning put it out on the field. Yeah,

725
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 1: Sean Baker's the assistant special teams coach. Frankie as you mentioned,

726
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,840
Speaker 1: Frank Ross is the special teams coordinator. Both of them

727
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 1: are in this video as well, very integral parts of it.

728
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 1: Tell me first, I want to hear about both of them.

729
00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:49,439
Speaker 1: Tell me first about what Baker means to you as

730
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: a coach. For him playing the game like he plays

731
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 1: a couple of years and just having that field for

732
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: the game, I feel like he really can connect with

733
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: us players. And he's a younger guy too, so I

734
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 1: feel like he can really connect with us. He knows

735
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 1: the struggles that go out through the going through the season.

736
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 1: He knows how much the body hurts. Whether than a

737
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 1: coach that you know just coaches football, just coach football

738
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: their whole life. He just knows the ins and announced

739
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,959
Speaker 1: of it. So I feel like that's what makes Bakes

740
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 1: so close with the players. And then with Ross, he

741
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,359
Speaker 1: was focused on coaching the game like you talk about

742
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: and making sure everything was going on. But he also

743
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 1: made a point during the game, Hey did you get

744
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: that ball? Did you get the game? Ball that you

745
00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 1: scored with because he wanted to make sure you had

746
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 1: that keepsake. That was pretty cool. I thought, Yeah, I

747
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 1: gotta I'm on the equipment staff right now with Darwin

748
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: and all them. It's not in my locker yet, but

749
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:37,759
Speaker 1: I know they got it for me, so I'm not

750
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:39,319
Speaker 1: too worried about it, but I would love to see

751
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: it as Yeah, they're probably doctoring it up for you

752
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 1: because rating game, so they probably had to clean it

753
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: up a little bit. Well. They probably to write some

754
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 1: things on it too, you know, get get the stuff

755
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 1: in there. Now. It's very clear there's there's some return

756
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,879
Speaker 1: men in the NFL who they're very track fast. They're

757
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: very football fast. But you touch him and you know

758
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,439
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna go down pretty quickly. You know. They

759
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: they're not able to run through the tackles as as

760
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: much as some others can, as much as you can.

761
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: I mean, you ran with violence on both of those.

762
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,919
Speaker 1: In the second one even more so, you trucked a guy.

763
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:12,879
Speaker 1: You obviously have played a little bit of running back.

764
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: You know, they tinkered with you doing that with the

765
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: Chiefs a few years back, but you were all world

766
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 1: quarterback in the State of Alabama in high school, we

767
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:22,319
Speaker 1: got to see you playing a little bit offense at

768
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 1: some point. I hope, I really hope. So you know,

769
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 1: I've been trying to I've been bugging t K about it.

770
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 1: I haven't talked to coach Codd much about it, but

771
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: I've definitely been in t K here and he knows, like,

772
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: let's go, let me get something. It's good. It might

773
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: be important. With the stuff going on COVID wise, I

774
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 1: mean losing bodies left and right, you might have to

775
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: to step into the breach there. Yeah, emergency receiver, a quarterback,

776
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: anything you need, I'm stowed me out there. Yeah. You know,

777
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 1: if you look at your bio, nobody scored more touchdowns

778
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:49,839
Speaker 1: in your high school's history than you. So obviously I'm

779
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: guessing this one that you just scored the other day

780
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 1: is the biggest one of your life. But what were

781
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: some of the most unique ones you scored while you're

782
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: back home in Alabama? Tears, my passing, my past, and

783
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 1: touchdown when I played quarterback because yeah, I got labeled

784
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: as a running quarterback. Everybody just thought I ran the ball.

785
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: I mean I had twenty thirty of thirty six in

786
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 1: my touchdowns twenty of them was rushing. But that's just

787
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: because I mean, whynot. Yeah, but I chearished my passing

788
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,399
Speaker 1: touchdowns the most. It's a deep ball. I probably threw

789
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 1: it like sixty in the air on the sideline. My

790
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: one of my receivers ended up toe tapping it, and

791
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: it was just it was off the scramble too. So

792
00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: I feel like that was one of my favorite players

793
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: coming out of high school. Hopefully there's some other teams

794
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: watching this right now. They're thinking, oh no, we gotta

795
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,240
Speaker 1: worry about Tremont Smith coming into the game and throwing

796
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: the ball. So maybe they're going to spend extra practice

797
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: time now coming up with certain defensive packages when they

798
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 1: think you might be out there. But who knows. We'll

799
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 1: see from there. Okay, who's your all time favorite NFL player?

800
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: Eric Berry? How come? I watched him when I was

801
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: in middle school? You know, that's when he was at Tennessee.

802
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,320
Speaker 1: I used to wear fourteen just like him, used to

803
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 1: play a little bit of safety, the nickelback position. So

804
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: I don't know. I always grew up watching him and

805
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 1: he always just stood out to me. And then you know,

806
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: I got drafted to Kansas City in twenty eighteen. So

807
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,800
Speaker 1: when I first seen him, I was I was amazed

808
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: for like probably two days, like he was just he

809
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:08,160
Speaker 1: had to come to tell me, like calm down for

810
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 1: you in this position now, like you're gonna see me

811
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 1: every day. But now he's a great guy. Just I

812
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 1: love his journey. His story is unmask like it's remarkable. Yes, yeah,

813
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 1: the stuff he went through there at the end, and

814
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: then to come back, I mean that's that's pretty cool.

815
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: And then to have someone like you he had to

816
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 1: tell you to calm down that you guys have a

817
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: good laugh about that. Oh yeah, yeah, I got over

818
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: the fan boys stage. So what was your first job ever?

819
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 1: Concession standing at like baseball Little Baseball rate games. Yeah,

820
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,879
Speaker 1: first thing I did, Yes, sir. What was the one

821
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,399
Speaker 1: item that you hated to have to make or get?

822
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: I used to like make the popcorn. I used to

823
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:46,640
Speaker 1: hate that, like it takes forever being in the popcorn. Yeah,

824
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: but mainly I did the I just like took the

825
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 1: money at the at the gate, so it wasn't too

826
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,439
Speaker 1: hard on him one too bad. I got little kids

827
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: and we've had to put some rules and limits on

828
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 1: what they can get at the concession stand because we'll

829
00:38:58,800 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 1: get to the front of the line and there'll be

830
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 1: forty people behind us, and my son will like order

831
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: the thing that's it has like fifteen ingredients and they

832
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 1: get a ticket. You get a bubblegum or a coke

833
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:09,879
Speaker 1: or that's side here, norther there. Hey, you were born

834
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: on July twentieth. Lots of famous people born on that date.

835
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: You got Alexander the Great, you just sell bunching, Tom

836
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:22,280
Speaker 1: Brady's wife, Ben Simmons, Shaquille and Shaquem Griffin, the twins.

837
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: You played against one of them this weekend. But you're

838
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: on the same field as one of them. Where do

839
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: you rank in that group of July twentieth birthdays? It's

840
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 1: ranked the best. Put me in the top three. As

841
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:32,839
Speaker 1: long as I'm in the top three, I'd take my

842
00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:35,839
Speaker 1: mom was my mom was born on July twenty as well.

843
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:37,920
Speaker 1: We have the same birthday. So, son of a gun,

844
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 1: what want? How would you guys celebrate? Growing up? We

845
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: didn't celebrate. I mean, we'll just you know, hang around family,

846
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: be around family, a lot, eat good. That was the

847
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: main main thing we did. Just make sure I make

848
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,440
Speaker 1: sure somebody cooked. My grandma or great grandma somebody cooked

849
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:53,560
Speaker 1: for me? What does she? What was? What's what's your

850
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 1: great grandma cook? Like? She makes is real cabats. It

851
00:39:56,880 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: might sound weird, but it's amazing. Yeah, a little hot

852
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: sauce on it. It's perfect. It's literally I go home

853
00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 1: when I go home, that's all I'm asking for. Grilled

854
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:07,239
Speaker 1: cabbage with a little hot sauce. Huh, but a little

855
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: hot sauce, yes, sir. Birthday cake favorite? Did you have one?

856
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:12,320
Speaker 1: I don't like birthday. I'm not too big on sweets

857
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 1: I like, so if I did get a cake, it'll

858
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:15,880
Speaker 1: be an ice cream cake and I get like a

859
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 1: couple of bites of it, just to say I had

860
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: a cake. But I've never been a cake thout. Okay,

861
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:23,240
Speaker 1: fair enough. I feel like the cabbage. It's like greens,

862
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: like my greens. I bet lad the head of sports

863
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:28,560
Speaker 1: nutrition is a big fan of that. That's good. Yeah.

864
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 1: I give them a hard time. I love giving them

865
00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:31,839
Speaker 1: a hard time and then they do a great job though,

866
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:34,800
Speaker 1: they sure do. Yeah. Do you remember your best Christmas

867
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: gift you ever got? Oh? I got a little mopad

868
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: when I was probably like twelve. Raked it the same day, Oh,

869
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,759
Speaker 1: same day literally Christmas Day. But it was fun while

870
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 1: it last. It lasted probably like two three hours, and

871
00:40:49,239 --> 00:40:52,879
Speaker 1: it wasn't like wrecked beyond repair. It was was just raped.

872
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: And my mom was, are you're not You don't need

873
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 1: that again. You're not about to hurt yourself on this.

874
00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: I'm going downhills, hitting jumps and everything. It was, you know,

875
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 1: little adrenaline junkie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's for sure. If

876
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: you were not a football player, what would you be doing?

877
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,800
Speaker 1: I like real estate. I'm slowly getting into real estate

878
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 1: and like selling, like just selling and looking at houses,

879
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: buying houses, flipping houses. I think I'll do that because

880
00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 1: I'm it's slowly growing on me. Now do you do

881
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:18,800
Speaker 1: a lot of the handywork on some of these flips?

882
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:25,879
Speaker 1: Not handy at all? Yeah, that's my favorite answer. Fair enough. Yeah,

883
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 1: I can change light bulbs and hand some stuff, but

884
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: I'm not. I won't get them. I won't mount my

885
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 1: TV or none of that. I need to hire somebody

886
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 1: for all of that. Understandable. You want to have a

887
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 1: good view, you don't want to screw it up, and

888
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,160
Speaker 1: I don't want to. Then I have OCD. I don't

889
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 1: want my TV to be crooked by any means, I'm

890
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 1: with you. I'm with you there, Okay, favorite exercise in

891
00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:48,520
Speaker 1: the weight room and your least favorite exercise. My least

892
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:52,959
Speaker 1: favorite is squad, which is our head string coaches favorite right,

893
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: and my favorite one. I don't know. I like the

894
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 1: like the single leg ardls, just something to power up

895
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: my legs. I still like. I don't like. I don't

896
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 1: mind doing league, but it's just something about that squat right,

897
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:06,280
Speaker 1: being on my back. You're one of the few skill

898
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: position guys it's ever really said. Squats is not his.

899
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 1: Everybody else's. They love doing the squats. I think it's

900
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 1: because they like wearing those short shorts and showing off

901
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 1: the muscles. Yeah, yeah, Well, hey man, this is a

902
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:21,319
Speaker 1: lot of fun. I really appreciate you taking some time,

903
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 1: especially in a week when you had such a big

904
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:26,359
Speaker 1: time game. I mean, I've been here since oh nine,

905
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:30,720
Speaker 1: I don't remember better collective effort by the entire Special

906
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: Teams unit than what we saw. I mean, you guys

907
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 1: were an impressive and really influential force of the game.

908
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 1: So congratulations on that. It was really cool. Thank you

909
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 1: so much. Thank you for having me, and thank you

910
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:43,839
Speaker 1: Tremon for being well, the great player and great dude

911
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: that you are. A Merry Christmas and happy Holidays as well.

912
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 1: All right, that's one hour down. We got one hour

913
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: left to go when we get back. So where are

914
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 1: they Now? With Drew Doherty, Fred Weary, former offensive lignment

915
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 1: for you, Houston, Texas. That's next to Texas All Access.

916
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: We've got one hour down, one hour left to go

917
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: on this Wednesday edition of Texans All Access. I'm your

918
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 1: host Sean Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter, and I want

919
00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:15,160
Speaker 1: to remind you that tickets are available for remaining home games.

920
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 1: Single game tickets available for the Chargers game, for the

921
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 1: Titans game of his Houston Texas dot Com slash tickets

922
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 1: to experience that football feeling at an Archie Stadium. Now,

923
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 1: a guy that experienced that while he was a member

924
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 1: of the Texas is Fred Weary, former offensive lineman, played

925
00:43:31,719 --> 00:43:33,879
Speaker 1: at the University of Tennessee. That's where I saw him

926
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: in college before he joined the Texas. Well, he joined

927
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: Drew Doherty for a little Wednesday Where are they Now?

928
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 1: Drew ticket away. Fred Weary is the guest on Where

929
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: are They Now? It's great to see you as always, Fred,

930
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: I don't get to see as much as I would like.

931
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: You know, we've brushed pads a couple of times. You

932
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: played before I got here in two thousand and nine.

933
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 1: But you were a very important part in the early

934
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 1: days of this organization and we're gonna get into that.

935
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 1: But tell me first, where are you these days and

936
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: what exactly are you doing? Man? Oh man, I appreciate it, Drew.

937
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 1: I'm actually still here in Houston. I live in the Manville,

938
00:44:08,040 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 1: Texas area. Man. I guess I would retire from playing

939
00:44:11,840 --> 00:44:15,719
Speaker 1: two thousand and ten immediately when I got done with

940
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:18,760
Speaker 1: got done playing, I kind of got balled with the community,

941
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 1: with the youth. I have a mad line the foundation

942
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: that I started where I worked with you know, kids

943
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 1: in the community have a youth football league, the Chella

944
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:32,399
Speaker 1: Creek Tightens Youth Football Team. You and Pete Fagins, right, yes, sir, yes, sir, yeah, man,

945
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 1: coach coach Pete n called the coach Peter exactly right.

946
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,320
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, man. We are mentor and work with kids

947
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: with the game of football. I actually boys and girls.

948
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,360
Speaker 1: We have tier program as well, from the ages of

949
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: five to twitter. How much fun is that? Man? It

950
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 1: is enjoyed you know what I mean. I really enjoyed

951
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:52,359
Speaker 1: playing the game and experience in that part of it.

952
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 1: But when you dropped back down to this level and

953
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:57,359
Speaker 1: you're working with kids and teaching them the game, man,

954
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: that's that's even more fun for me. And I think

955
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 1: that's a lot of other former players. They're doing the

956
00:45:02,560 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 1: same thing. Wade Smith, Chris White, Travis Johnson. I think

957
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 1: he was coaching for a little time with his son

958
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 1: as well. Man. So when you drop back down and

959
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: kind of you know, kind of how to redirect how

960
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,919
Speaker 1: to play the game. You know with those young kids, man,

961
00:45:15,960 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's something to see and then for

962
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: them to thinking on to the junior high school level

963
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,840
Speaker 1: to the high school level. I have a couple of

964
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 1: kids that I've worked with as well that's playing on

965
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:30,240
Speaker 1: the college level right now. Terrence Cooks, he just committed

966
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: to TCU and also a j Abbey. He's out at

967
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: the University of Oregon playing quarterback. So you see those

968
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 1: kids go and you know, take it to that level

969
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,000
Speaker 1: and stuff. Man, it's an appreciation for you as a

970
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 1: coach and as a former player. Man. Congratulations, that's really

971
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 1: awesome to hear that that those guys that some of

972
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 1: the kids that you've helped have gone that far. And

973
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:56,759
Speaker 1: let's rewind. Let's go back to the college days you

974
00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 1: were a Tennessee volunteer, when the volunteers were bullies. Man,

975
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:05,359
Speaker 1: they were really, really good. You're a big reason why

976
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: you're a part of that. It's been tough for them lately.

977
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: But tell me about your college days and when you

978
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: might might have thought you might become a Texan, when

979
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: you might have thought you might become a pro What

980
00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:18,040
Speaker 1: was that like, that transition from being where you were

981
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:22,359
Speaker 1: a Tennessee heading into the NFL. Man, Shucks. I went

982
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: to college in nineteen ninety seven, graduated from high school,

983
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 1: signed with the University of Tennessee in nineteen ninety seven,

984
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,120
Speaker 1: And you're exactly right. You know, when I was looking

985
00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 1: at you know, colleges, I wanted to go to an

986
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: established program where I felt that, you know, the coaching

987
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:40,640
Speaker 1: situation was good as well and stuff. So I think,

988
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 1: you know, I fared out very well on that choice.

989
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: And you know, the band on that campus in nineteen

990
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 1: ninety seven and throughout, you know, with the likes of

991
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: you know, Peyton Manning, Leonard Little al Wilson, Jamal Lewis,

992
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: Peerless Price, you know a lot of those guys, and

993
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: he really laid the foundation for me and all that stuff,

994
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 1: you know, as a firstman coming in and whatnot of stuff. So,

995
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: you know, to being able to lean on you know,

996
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 1: those type players and kind of you know, watch the

997
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 1: game and see the game through them meant a lot

998
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:14,920
Speaker 1: to me and all that stuff. And so you know

999
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 1: that that inspired me right off my stepped on campus.

1000
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 1: You don't want to take it to another level. And

1001
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: then for guys like that, you know, to see Payton

1002
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:26,359
Speaker 1: coming back in the summer, Al Wilson, Jonathan Brown, Marcus Nash,

1003
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: those guys who went on to play in the NFL

1004
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: and to come back in the summertime and work out

1005
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:34,520
Speaker 1: and to be able to sit and have conversations with

1006
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: those guys and stuff about you know what it was

1007
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:38,920
Speaker 1: like playing at the next level. I mean there was

1008
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,360
Speaker 1: more even more motivation of why you know, you go

1009
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 1: to class to do the right thing, kan your butcher

1010
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 1: working busher but in the waiting rooms, butch but on

1011
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 1: the practice field and all this stuff to you know,

1012
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:51,440
Speaker 1: to be able to take your game to that next level. Yeah,

1013
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 1: you know, the Texans wind up taking you in the

1014
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 1: third round of that first draft that they had, the

1015
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 1: first first college draft. They had brought in the expansion

1016
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 1: guys from the expansion Draft, and they'd signed some free agents.

1017
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:05,280
Speaker 1: But you're part of that first you know, rookie draft class.

1018
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 1: Tell me about draft weekend for you then, because it

1019
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:10,319
Speaker 1: was a lot different than it is now. Obviously it's

1020
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 1: a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday day affair.

1021
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:16,479
Speaker 1: Back then it was Saturday and Sunday during the days.

1022
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:19,359
Speaker 1: What was it like for you? What happened? Oh? Man,

1023
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: it was a great time. You know. One of the

1024
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 1: things that I did, we did a little celebration at

1025
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 1: my sister's house and so we brought invited a lot

1026
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: of family members over. We sat around, watched the draft.

1027
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: The day went kind of long, I have to say,

1028
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,920
Speaker 1: from talking with my agent and kind of an infot

1029
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:39,960
Speaker 1: we were getting, you know, thinking maybe early second round,

1030
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 1: mid you know, second round somewhere that I would have

1031
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: probably been off the board, and you know, the second

1032
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:47,800
Speaker 1: round went. Think I was had walked to the kitchen

1033
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,440
Speaker 1: and my mom told and my phone was ringing, and

1034
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:52,479
Speaker 1: you know, one of the things I had the phone

1035
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 1: ring and I come back and get it and I

1036
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: was like, I might want to pick up this call

1037
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:59,800
Speaker 1: right and it was it was coach capers and everything

1038
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: on the phone, and you know, he asked me that

1039
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 1: I want to be a text and I told him,

1040
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 1: I tell you what I've been waiting on you guys

1041
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: and all this stuff. So it was it was a

1042
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:10,600
Speaker 1: dreat come true and everything to you know, look from

1043
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 1: you know, high school to college and everything. A lot

1044
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 1: of things that I went through and to be able

1045
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:18,439
Speaker 1: to push through. So it was one of those kinds

1046
00:49:18,440 --> 00:49:20,360
Speaker 1: of moments that you you know, you really kind of

1047
00:49:20,440 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 1: just sit back and just have to be very thankful

1048
00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: for That was really uncharted waters for pretty much everybody

1049
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:28,680
Speaker 1: involved in a lot of ways. So you just mentioned

1050
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 1: a few moments ago how some of those former volunteers

1051
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:32,840
Speaker 1: would come back and you chit chat with them in

1052
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:34,799
Speaker 1: the summer times and get a lot of in full

1053
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: and what it was like to be in the NFL.

1054
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:39,840
Speaker 1: But those guys weren't on an expansion franchise. What was

1055
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 1: How did that jive with what you actually experienced what

1056
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 1: you heard from them, How did that jive with your

1057
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:46,800
Speaker 1: experiences early on as a text. And what was it

1058
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 1: like for you after you'd gotten drafted. I mean pretty

1059
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 1: much I felt like I had the blueprint, the blueprint

1060
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. I mean, you really want to

1061
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 1: attach to some guys who were doing it the right

1062
00:49:56,800 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 1: way and all that stuff, and so to be able

1063
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: to come in that lock room, if you know, guys

1064
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 1: like Ryan Young, Gary Walker, self Payne Man, Jamie Sharp

1065
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:08,440
Speaker 1: for Kelly Wong, I mean, Aaron Glenn and you know,

1066
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:11,000
Speaker 1: I think those those were pros and pros, you know

1067
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:12,880
Speaker 1: what I mean. So you know, right right off the

1068
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 1: back of kind of hallway had the blueprint. You know, hey,

1069
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:17,239
Speaker 1: these are the type of guys that you want to,

1070
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:20,319
Speaker 1: you know, kind of follow behind. You want to get

1071
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: right behind them, and you know what, you want to

1072
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:25,200
Speaker 1: try to do whatever they what they're doing, because you know,

1073
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 1: you're talking about guys that was on there, you know,

1074
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:30,479
Speaker 1: eighth nineteenth year to me and all at that time.

1075
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 1: So if anybody knows what it takes to be a

1076
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 1: pro and all this stuff, you know, you want to

1077
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 1: be able to kind of get in line with those guys.

1078
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 1: So it was and I think that was a great

1079
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 1: part of being an expansion team. To be able to

1080
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 1: come into the locker room, especially for rooking like myself, Chester,

1081
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 1: David Carr, you know, Jonathan Welles, a lot of those guys.

1082
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: For us to come in there and get in the

1083
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:54,920
Speaker 1: locker room, if you know, those caliber players and to

1084
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 1: be able to you know, to learn something from them

1085
00:50:57,480 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 1: about being professional and stuff was great. What was your

1086
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 1: experience during the nineteen to ten game? What was that

1087
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:07,240
Speaker 1: like for you? Man? Which is the first NFL start

1088
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:09,480
Speaker 1: playing one of the teams that I grew up love

1089
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 1: and I was a big Cowboys fan. I loved Innis Smith.

1090
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:15,839
Speaker 1: I love that offensive line that the Cowboys had at

1091
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:18,279
Speaker 1: that time. I mean, it was it, man, it was.

1092
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:21,319
Speaker 1: That was phenomenal. I think, you know, outside of winning

1093
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:24,800
Speaker 1: the National CAMPATIP in nineteen ninety year, I think that

1094
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 1: was probably one of my next favorite moments. So, you know,

1095
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 1: my my playing career and all that stuff, and just

1096
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 1: the way that a lot of people, well a few

1097
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:37,239
Speaker 1: from Houston you knew how it went down, But I

1098
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:41,480
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys came down the weekend, I think prior

1099
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,400
Speaker 1: one of those weekends, prior we spermaced them over at

1100
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 1: you of age, and I'm talking about they absolutely just

1101
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 1: you know, that's ragged all and snappers around and you

1102
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 1: know they pretty much left that weekend, you know, feeling

1103
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: like that, you know, what, this game's over, but and

1104
00:51:56,760 --> 00:51:58,759
Speaker 1: all this stuff. Man, But it was just something about

1105
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:01,760
Speaker 1: that atmosphere that's in the Unite and all that stuff.

1106
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:04,560
Speaker 1: It was I'm talking about leading from when I woke

1107
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:07,879
Speaker 1: up that morning leaving all the way up to that game.

1108
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:09,920
Speaker 1: It was just a mistake about it. And you know,

1109
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:11,440
Speaker 1: we kind of knew that, you know, hey, if we

1110
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 1: would out there and played out plus off, that we

1111
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 1: would add an opportunity to win it all and stuff.

1112
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:19,359
Speaker 1: And we win it that way Sunday night against America's team.

1113
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:22,319
Speaker 1: You know, I always you know, tell any Cowboys fan

1114
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:24,279
Speaker 1: that I run into him here in Houston. You know

1115
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 1: where I got my phrase, the NFL winning off. You guys.

1116
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,160
Speaker 1: That's not a bad way to do it either. I mean,

1117
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:32,800
Speaker 1: that's one of the most fun games I've ever watched it.

1118
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:34,880
Speaker 1: You know, I was I'm from here. I grew up

1119
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:37,319
Speaker 1: an Oilers fan, and I'm just I'm one year older

1120
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 1: than you. So I had gone to school in Dallas

1121
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:41,759
Speaker 1: and spent my first four years out of school in

1122
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: Dallas and I watched that game with a lot of

1123
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: Cowboys fans because I was living in Dallas. I was

1124
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:48,640
Speaker 1: we had a party for it, and I was like

1125
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,280
Speaker 1: one of the only Houstonians and so I was pretty

1126
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: obnoxious and that was fun. Oh yeah, it was great

1127
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: right out of college. Guy, what was it like? You're

1128
00:52:57,160 --> 00:52:59,439
Speaker 1: one of I mean you could probably count on maybe

1129
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:02,840
Speaker 1: one hand two perhaps you're one of only like a

1130
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:06,759
Speaker 1: few players that was here from the very beginning, and

1131
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:09,840
Speaker 1: you were here through two thousand and seven, which that

1132
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 1: team wound up becoming, you know, a five hundred team, right?

1133
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:15,640
Speaker 1: What was that process like for you? But that's a

1134
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 1: pretty big upheaval when you have a new head coach

1135
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 1: come in, you have a new general manager coming you

1136
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:23,319
Speaker 1: you survived at what was it like seeing those rough

1137
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:25,400
Speaker 1: early years and then you know, kind of turning that

1138
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 1: corner and you thought you'd almost turned that corner and no.

1139
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 1: Four because you go to seven and nine and right

1140
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 1: and then everything went down the way it did. Yeah, man,

1141
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: it was you know, this is what they say, man,

1142
00:53:35,239 --> 00:53:38,320
Speaker 1: you have to trust the process and all this stuff,

1143
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 1: and you know, early on, I mean it was about

1144
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:43,680
Speaker 1: you know, for me as a rookie coming in after

1145
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:46,720
Speaker 1: that first season, you know, I mean really and truly

1146
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:50,000
Speaker 1: the way that locker room got cleaned out. You know, immediately,

1147
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:52,799
Speaker 1: you know, guys like me Chester, you know, people were

1148
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 1: coming into the building looking looking up to us and

1149
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:58,960
Speaker 1: all that stuff, because you know, we were kind of

1150
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:02,600
Speaker 1: the I guess you can say one year veterans at

1151
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:04,719
Speaker 1: that point and all that stuff, just the way the

1152
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 1: turnover is in the NFL. And then you know, year

1153
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:10,239
Speaker 1: and a year out, you know, we you know, you

1154
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 1: see yourself getting to know new more teammates and then

1155
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: again you become the older here and all that stuff.

1156
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 1: And so you know, even coming through dum Papers, I

1157
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 1: really appreciated coach coach Capers everything that he taught me

1158
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 1: about the game during that time. Really enjoyed it. And

1159
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:29,400
Speaker 1: then kind of moving on to you know, coach qubact Man,

1160
00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:32,440
Speaker 1: that was another great experience for it because you know,

1161
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: I got an opportunity to play for a coach that

1162
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:37,680
Speaker 1: actually played in the game also and all this stuff

1163
00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 1: and so kind of you know, I learned a life

1164
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:42,919
Speaker 1: from coach qubact and everything during that time as well,

1165
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 1: and stuff. So but you know, kind of just taking

1166
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:49,120
Speaker 1: the organization, uh, you know, putting them on the map

1167
00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:52,040
Speaker 1: and also kind of just setting that that that tradition

1168
00:54:52,200 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 1: for the organization and stuff was very very important to

1169
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 1: me and everything and stuff. You know a lot of

1170
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:01,160
Speaker 1: times it didn't you know, turned into you know the

1171
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:04,120
Speaker 1: ws and and the win college and whatnot, but you

1172
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:06,640
Speaker 1: know why we were building something and all that stuff.

1173
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:09,960
Speaker 1: And so even uh kind of when I left the

1174
00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:13,479
Speaker 1: team and the seed once they finally got over that hump,

1175
00:55:13,560 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 1: you know what I mean that that really, man, that

1176
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:18,319
Speaker 1: really meant something to me, because again, you know, it's

1177
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 1: about about man the bricks to that that foundation and

1178
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:24,440
Speaker 1: also kind of affecting those bricks and everything to that

1179
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:26,719
Speaker 1: success as well. So with all that in mind, and

1180
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:29,399
Speaker 1: if you put the win over the Cowboys aside there

1181
00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:33,000
Speaker 1: and the opener, what's one of your favorite Texans memories otherwise?

1182
00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 1: Probably every time that Andrey Johnson caught the ball? Yeah, yeah, man,

1183
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:44,560
Speaker 1: just you know, playing U playing with you know, that

1184
00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:47,920
Speaker 1: caliber player, just in the team. You know, kind of

1185
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 1: just each year get better and all that stuff. I know,

1186
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:53,160
Speaker 1: you know, kind of the things the way they are

1187
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 1: this year, but you know what, this is still a

1188
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:59,480
Speaker 1: great organization, first plays organization and all that stuff. I mean,

1189
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:02,319
Speaker 1: you know, I went on to you know, for one

1190
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:06,320
Speaker 1: year with the Cleveland Browns. I've talked to other guys,

1191
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:09,760
Speaker 1: you know, has been multiple years with other order, other teams,

1192
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:14,160
Speaker 1: and just hear the the conversation be different and everything

1193
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:17,440
Speaker 1: as far as you know, hey, how their their ownership was,

1194
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 1: you know, how their owners she treated their players, and

1195
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:21,919
Speaker 1: then how the expirits that I had as a text

1196
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,520
Speaker 1: and from the you know, from the very from the

1197
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 1: very start, it was a first class organization. And you know,

1198
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 1: I don't even I don't know any other way hitting

1199
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 1: all this stuff. And so that was one of the

1200
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 1: you know things that I appreciated because you know, hey,

1201
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 1: some places aren't that way and stuff and the text,

1202
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:41,640
Speaker 1: and we have always been a very welcome organization. That's

1203
00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:43,359
Speaker 1: a good point. I like to hear that. That's cool.

1204
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:46,759
Speaker 1: You also just brought up Andre Johnson, and I'm gonna

1205
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:49,239
Speaker 1: ask a very very obvious question, but I want to

1206
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:52,680
Speaker 1: make sure more people can hear this is Andre Johnson,

1207
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:57,080
Speaker 1: a Hall of famer. Absolutely, absolutely absolutely, I was talking

1208
00:56:57,160 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 1: with my son. Actually this more warning and stuff about

1209
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:03,959
Speaker 1: you know, being a leader. You know, he's a senior

1210
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 1: in high school and I was talking about being a leader,

1211
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:07,840
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what. You know, one of the

1212
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:11,120
Speaker 1: guys that I never heard say one word and boys

1213
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:13,640
Speaker 1: a leader was Andre Dunston. I mean he layed with

1214
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 1: the way that he carried himself on and off the

1215
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 1: field and stuff. And you know that's the type of

1216
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:20,080
Speaker 1: that's what I mean, that's what Hall of Famers do

1217
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 1: and all this stuff. I mean, you know, the play

1218
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 1: on field speak for itself. I mean, but he's even

1219
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 1: a better person all this stuff. And you know, like

1220
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:29,760
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, it wasn't too many words

1221
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:31,640
Speaker 1: you got out of him out of him. But I'll

1222
00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:33,880
Speaker 1: tell you what, man, when it came time, and it

1223
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 1: was so time, he was always ready to go. Oh yeah.

1224
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: And when he did speak, man, something profound usually was

1225
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 1: coming out of his mouth. Absolutely yeah. Well I take it.

1226
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 1: You still kind of you see him. We heard you

1227
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 1: see coach Pete from time to time. What other former teammates,

1228
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 1: former Texans do you kind of keep it touch with

1229
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:55,480
Speaker 1: and see for here and there, Rand Noris We keep

1230
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:57,720
Speaker 1: it touch a good little bit. He's always trying to

1231
00:57:57,760 --> 00:57:59,320
Speaker 1: come and give me to go work out with him

1232
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 1: in the box or man, you gotta yeah, we we

1233
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:03,480
Speaker 1: covered here. We gone to the gym with him, see

1234
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 1: him work out the ring man, He's gotta be careful.

1235
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:12,040
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Moran nors Chester PIDs Ester stay in contact

1236
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 1: with Chester Pish mister Travis Johnson and everything, keeping contact

1237
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 1: with him, Alfred Malone, Milford Brown. You know, we were

1238
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:25,000
Speaker 1: from the same hometown, so we stayed very you know,

1239
00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: the contact a lot together and all and stuff. Man,

1240
00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:30,720
Speaker 1: But you know, Steve McKinney and all. We always read

1241
00:58:32,160 --> 00:58:34,800
Speaker 1: Fred Weary. It's always cool to talk with former Texans

1242
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:37,320
Speaker 1: and uh, always cool to talk with the original Texans.

1243
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:40,040
Speaker 1: You're both of those, and we appreciate you taking some time.

1244
00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:44,320
Speaker 1: And so where are they now? Featuring Fred Weary? Thanks

1245
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:48,000
Speaker 1: you guys, appreciate it. Go Texans. Oh yeah, man, go Texans.

1246
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:50,680
Speaker 1: Thank you, Fred, appreciate you being on the show. Drew,

1247
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 1: excellent job with where are they now? Well, where are

1248
00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 1: the Chargers? Will They'll be coming to Houston this weekend.

1249
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:03,920
Speaker 1: Take on the Houston Texans. Haley Elwood covers the Chargers

1250
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:07,240
Speaker 1: for Chargers dot com'ss team reporter. She joins us next

1251
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 1: with Deep City as we go behind enemy sidelines right

1252
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 1: here in Texas, all access boxss boxss. It has been

1253
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:20,520
Speaker 1: absolutely beautiful outside and I love to eat outside. And

1254
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 1: one of the places I know I can eat outside

1255
00:59:22,400 --> 00:59:28,520
Speaker 1: that I absolutely adore is Freddie's Frozen Custard and steak Burgers.

1256
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 1: Freddie's is all about the good in creating more of it.

1257
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 1: More drive through celebrations, more road trips around the block,

1258
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:38,360
Speaker 1: more family dinners and lunches, more carb picnics and desserts,

1259
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:41,960
Speaker 1: maybe even more second desserts. More being together as much

1260
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 1: as we can. And that's really important right now. With

1261
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:49,640
Speaker 1: seventeen area locations in the Houston area, Freddie's keeps the

1262
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:53,080
Speaker 1: good going with the taste that brings you back. It's

1263
00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:55,760
Speaker 1: always calling my name. I know that is a fact

1264
00:59:55,800 --> 00:59:58,600
Speaker 1: that I'm your host, John Harris Football Animal Sideline reporter,

1265
00:59:59,040 --> 01:00:00,680
Speaker 1: So glad you are with me. It's time to go

1266
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:03,320
Speaker 1: behind enemy sidelines. On a little bit about the La

1267
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 1: super Nuts. That quite not quite San Diego Superchargers sounded

1268
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:11,840
Speaker 1: better LA Chargers. That just says a nice ring to it.

1269
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 1: Haley Elward hell would covers the Chargers for Chargers dot Com.

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Speaker 1: She's a team reporter and she caught up with our

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Speaker 1: reporter Extraordinary Deep City going behind Enemy Sidelines Deep take

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Speaker 1: it Away. It's Enemy Sidelines presented by Microsoft. Joining me

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Speaker 1: this week Hailey Ellwood. She's a team reporter for the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers. Haley, welcome in. I know the Chargers

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Speaker 1: are gonna have about ten days off before they play

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Speaker 1: this game on Sunday against the Texans. It can never

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Speaker 1: be easy lose again overtime to a division rival. But

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Speaker 1: what's the mood like for the Chargers heading into this game? Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: first off, thank you so much for having me on.

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Speaker 1: It's so good to see you. Albeit virtually we haven't

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Speaker 1: done our combine thing in quite a while, but no,

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Speaker 1: we haven't. I know, it's good to connect this way.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, so obviously that loss on Thursday night against

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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs did drop this Chargers team to

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Speaker 1: eight and six, But the mood is actually great, It's

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Speaker 1: actually really fine. And after the game even head coach

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Speaker 1: Brandon Staley said, Hey, our outlook would not have changed

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Speaker 1: whether we won this game or lost this game. And

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Speaker 1: when you look at sort of just that steady hand

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Speaker 1: and steady consistency, this is a team throughout this season

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Speaker 1: that his sort of weathered highs and lows. They've had

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Speaker 1: some bumps in the road, but they've been able to

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Speaker 1: overcome those and have really gotten them in a great

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Speaker 1: position right now. They are in wildcard standing as we

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Speaker 1: sit here in Week sixteen. But while that game didn't

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Speaker 1: go the way that they had hoped and probably anticipated,

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Speaker 1: it's onto the next and that's against the Texans this week. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they've certainly had some big close losses this year. And

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Speaker 1: then we saw the news on Monday that Joey Bosa

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Speaker 1: will be out for Sunday's game. I mean, I know,

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Speaker 1: a guy like that is hard to replace, but how

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Speaker 1: do you replace a guy like that on defense? And

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Speaker 1: who's going to have to step up for him? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: The thing about Joey too is even though he is

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Speaker 1: now a crude years in this league, he is the

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Speaker 1: longest I'm sorry, second longest tenured charger original charger on

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Speaker 1: this team, next to Keenan Allen. But he's got an

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Speaker 1: NFL leading six strip sacks, so his production will certainly

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01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:02,880
Speaker 1: be missed. But when you look at who could replace him,

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Speaker 1: look to a guy like Uchenna Nwosu, who is currently

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Speaker 1: he has stated having the best playing the best football

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Speaker 1: of his career. At this point. He had a strip

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Speaker 1: sack on Joe Burrow against the Bengals. He had his

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Speaker 1: first career interception against Patrick Mahomes last Thursday night, which

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Speaker 1: eventually led to a touchdown on the next offensive play.

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Speaker 1: He has just really been a force out there. But

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Speaker 1: Brandon Staley said, look, along with someone probably like Uchenna,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a team operation this team. This

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Speaker 1: defense has had a lot of substitutions, a lot of

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Speaker 1: different hybrid type groupings as Staley calls it, throughout this season,

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Speaker 1: whether it's been injuries or COVID. So this team has

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Speaker 1: certainly dealt with next man up and it's certainly going

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Speaker 1: to be that this week again. Yeah, and let's talk

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Speaker 1: about head coach Brandon Staley. I mean it's his first

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Speaker 1: year and he's led this team to an eight and

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Speaker 1: sixth record. You know what is the most surprising thing

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Speaker 1: about him as head coach? Yeah, I think one of

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Speaker 1: the things that he's had certainly a meteoric rise. That

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01:02:54,560 --> 01:02:56,920
Speaker 1: was the phrase that's been used to describe him when

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Speaker 1: he got hired by the Bolts. But when you look

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Speaker 1: at what he's off to this team, it really comes

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01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 1: down to building relationships and building camaraderie. He's huge on that.

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Speaker 1: He's talked about it even when he's spoken to the

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Speaker 1: staff that that's a big part of his philosophy. One

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Speaker 1: of the things he also has talked about too throughout

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Speaker 1: this whole season is really kind of communicating with players,

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01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:18,560
Speaker 1: but on a different level of talking to them about

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Speaker 1: what he thinks works for them, types of plays that works,

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01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:24,400
Speaker 1: getting their sort of mindset and mo on going into

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Speaker 1: a game and being like, hey, against this opponent, let's

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Speaker 1: run this, let's go with this, and that sort of

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Speaker 1: camaraderie breeds trust. And you've seen that, and you've seen

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Speaker 1: that even when kind of times have gotten tough in

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Speaker 1: late game situations. I think against maybe the Cleveland Browns

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01:03:38,880 --> 01:03:41,760
Speaker 1: where that game became a complete shootout, but this team

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01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:44,080
Speaker 1: ended up holding and holding on strong. You can look

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Speaker 1: to that Sunday night game against the Pittsburgh Steelers as well.

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Speaker 1: That's sort of camaraderie that he's brought and bread has

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Speaker 1: really made a huge difference on this team. I even

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01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:53,760
Speaker 1: look at someone I wrote a note down here of

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01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:58,080
Speaker 1: Justin Jones, defensive tackle, who talked or just spoke earlier

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Speaker 1: this week and said, you know, despite that loss that

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Speaker 1: they had on Thursday. He's like, I love the guys

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Speaker 1: in this room. I love this locker room. These are

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Speaker 1: the guys I want to go to war with every

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Speaker 1: game day. And I think that really starts at the top,

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Speaker 1: and that starts with Staley, and that's something that he's brought.

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Speaker 1: And whether you're on offense or defense, it's just radiated

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Speaker 1: throughout this locker room. All right. Well, he comes in

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01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:19,040
Speaker 1: inherits a quarterback in Justin Herbert, who was just coming

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Speaker 1: off a phenomenal rookie year. And then I shall saw

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Speaker 1: recently he became the first quarterback in NFL history to

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Speaker 1: throw at least thirty touchdown passes in his first two seasons.

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Speaker 1: He did it in week fourteen. So he gets Justin Herbert.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I have to imagine that can't be easy

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Speaker 1: for ricky quarterback to change head coaches. But what has

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Speaker 1: he done to sort of help Herbert make that leap

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Speaker 1: from year one to year two and keep things as

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Speaker 1: consistent as he can keep them considering there was a

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Speaker 1: coaching staff change. Yeah, and a guy who Herbert actually

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Speaker 1: really said, who credits I think with his development is

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Speaker 1: now with you guys in pet Hamilton as well. But

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Speaker 1: when you look at Justin Herbert when you were saying that,

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Speaker 1: I was kind of like not rolling my eyes, but

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01:04:58,080 --> 01:05:00,280
Speaker 1: just going to it really does feel almost like every

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01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:02,560
Speaker 1: week it's a new record for him and something that

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01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:05,400
Speaker 1: he's breaking or doing that has never been done before.

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01:05:05,800 --> 01:05:09,040
Speaker 1: And when you look at what sort of Staley's influence

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01:05:09,120 --> 01:05:11,240
Speaker 1: on him has been, it really from the get go

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Speaker 1: was we want to build this offense around Justin. We

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Speaker 1: look at we've seen what he can do. We saw

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Speaker 1: what he did his rookie season, Let's build it, Let's

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01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:20,520
Speaker 1: take it to another level. He surrounded him with an

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator and Joe Lombardi who's accrued a lot of

1385
01:05:23,200 --> 01:05:25,840
Speaker 1: years in this league, specifically working with the New Orleans

1386
01:05:25,920 --> 01:05:28,040
Speaker 1: Saints for a multitude of those and working with a

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Speaker 1: guy from a Charger and Drew Brees, but just really

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01:05:31,360 --> 01:05:34,200
Speaker 1: kind of getting that sort of veteran presence with him.

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01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:37,880
Speaker 1: Also again that collaboration, that discussion. Brandon Staley is a

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01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:41,400
Speaker 1: former quarterback as well who primarily now coaches defense, but

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01:05:41,960 --> 01:05:44,720
Speaker 1: has that sort of all twenty two view. So really

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01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:47,320
Speaker 1: it came down to sort of building the offense around him,

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01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:49,400
Speaker 1: and you've seen that, and you've seen that progression. And

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01:05:49,480 --> 01:05:52,320
Speaker 1: I think even though statistically he is doing things that

1395
01:05:52,400 --> 01:05:55,560
Speaker 1: have never been done before, it's impressive still to see

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Speaker 1: his poise out there because he is still so young.

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Speaker 1: And I think chrisy we are other team reporter and

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01:06:01,200 --> 01:06:03,360
Speaker 1: I have talked about this and some of the games

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01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:05,400
Speaker 1: that maybe haven't gone the Charger's way. You look at

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01:06:05,560 --> 01:06:08,440
Speaker 1: the Baltimore loss, the New England loss. Sometimes you forget

1401
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:11,520
Speaker 1: that Herbert is only in his second season, but really

1402
01:06:11,640 --> 01:06:13,880
Speaker 1: he is doing things that you just kind of sit

1403
01:06:13,960 --> 01:06:16,000
Speaker 1: in marvel at and he is such a great leader

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01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:18,919
Speaker 1: for this team. And I think when you look at franchises,

1405
01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:21,440
Speaker 1: you look at maybe the Niners, the Packers, when you

1406
01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:24,000
Speaker 1: go from one great quarterback to the next, these Charger

1407
01:06:24,080 --> 01:06:26,320
Speaker 1: fans are really lucky that this has worked out so

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Speaker 1: far for them to go from Philip Rivers to Justin Herbert. Yeah. Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: And you mentioned Pet Hamilton, who has a rookie in

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01:06:32,240 --> 01:06:34,560
Speaker 1: Davis Mills that he's working with this year. Like you

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Speaker 1: mentioned he worked with Herbert last year when he was

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Speaker 1: a rookie. What was his role with him and how

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01:06:39,040 --> 01:06:41,440
Speaker 1: did that relationship sort of developed. What does Herbert had

1414
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Speaker 1: to say about that. Yeah, he was the quarterbacks coach

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01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:46,040
Speaker 1: with the Chargers, and I think he came in. You

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01:06:46,160 --> 01:06:48,600
Speaker 1: look at the resume that Pep had working with someone

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01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:51,200
Speaker 1: like Andrew Luck in Indianapolis. He was such a great

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01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:54,360
Speaker 1: guy to come in and work with Justin Herbert. Their

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01:06:54,480 --> 01:06:57,920
Speaker 1: relationship was really strong, and like I said, Justin credits

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Speaker 1: Pep with a lot of the success that he had.

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01:07:00,400 --> 01:07:03,360
Speaker 1: I was up in Oregon this past summer at Justin

1422
01:07:03,480 --> 01:07:06,680
Speaker 1: that Herbert's golf tournament, his first annual golf tournament that

1423
01:07:06,760 --> 01:07:08,400
Speaker 1: he had, and Pep was there and I thought that

1424
01:07:08,560 --> 01:07:11,320
Speaker 1: was really cool to see that. You know, Eugene, Oregon

1425
01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:14,200
Speaker 1: not exactly a destination spot in the summer, but to

1426
01:07:14,320 --> 01:07:16,160
Speaker 1: go up for Pep to go up where Houston it

1427
01:07:16,320 --> 01:07:21,120
Speaker 1: is perhaps curate. Yeah, the humidity was not existed there,

1428
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:24,520
Speaker 1: so that was lovely. But I just thought that was

1429
01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:26,200
Speaker 1: really cool and it just kind of shows you the

1430
01:07:26,280 --> 01:07:29,480
Speaker 1: bond that they did have. And I think that was

1431
01:07:29,600 --> 01:07:32,720
Speaker 1: just a really great sort of mentorship role for someone

1432
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:34,880
Speaker 1: like Pep to come in and have that, and I'm

1433
01:07:34,920 --> 01:07:37,200
Speaker 1: sure it's working, you know. I know. Davis Mills got

1434
01:07:37,240 --> 01:07:39,720
Speaker 1: his first win last week against the Jaguars. But I'm

1435
01:07:39,760 --> 01:07:42,120
Speaker 1: sure that's just a great hub to kind of have

1436
01:07:42,320 --> 01:07:44,840
Speaker 1: and to huddle up with, especially when you're beginning your

1437
01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:48,240
Speaker 1: NFL career. All Right, Austin Eckler, he's been a huge

1438
01:07:48,520 --> 01:07:51,600
Speaker 1: red zone target for Herbert this year. Ten rushing touchdowns,

1439
01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:54,320
Speaker 1: seven receiving touchdowns. We saw earlier in the week that

1440
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:57,200
Speaker 1: maybe he might be on the COVID list, maybe he

1441
01:07:57,280 --> 01:07:59,320
Speaker 1: could play, maybe he might not play. But if he

1442
01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:02,200
Speaker 1: doesn't play, how do you replace a guy like Eckler

1443
01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:04,920
Speaker 1: in that offense? Yeah, this is an interesting situation and

1444
01:08:05,040 --> 01:08:06,800
Speaker 1: one to watch. A lot of days left to get

1445
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:09,880
Speaker 1: too before Sunday. Look to a guy like Justin Jackson.

1446
01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:13,000
Speaker 1: Justin Jackson had eighty six rushing yards versus the Chiefs.

1447
01:08:13,080 --> 01:08:15,360
Speaker 1: He really came alive. He is someone throughout his NFL

1448
01:08:15,480 --> 01:08:18,400
Speaker 1: career he's just dealt with injuries, but when he's healthy,

1449
01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:21,879
Speaker 1: he really really is slippery out there. He was breaking tackles,

1450
01:08:21,960 --> 01:08:25,120
Speaker 1: he was shaking tackles against Kansas City last week. And

1451
01:08:25,600 --> 01:08:27,840
Speaker 1: to me, as someone who's been with this team for

1452
01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:30,960
Speaker 1: a while, when the Chargers, excuse me, played the Steelers,

1453
01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:33,120
Speaker 1: I want to say in twenty eighteen, Justin Jackson had

1454
01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:34,920
Speaker 1: the game of his life in that game, so really

1455
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:36,920
Speaker 1: look to him. I know this team is kind of

1456
01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:40,120
Speaker 1: looking to solidify that number two running back. It's been

1457
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:43,719
Speaker 1: a sort of work by committee approach between Justin Jackson,

1458
01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:47,680
Speaker 1: Joshua Kelly, Larry Rowntree. But Jackson seems to be now

1459
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:49,760
Speaker 1: the leader in the clubhouse, and if he's healthy this week,

1460
01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:52,640
Speaker 1: he'll certainly be that go for them for sure. All Right. Well,

1461
01:08:52,680 --> 01:08:54,439
Speaker 1: a guy that you guys know very well that we've

1462
01:08:54,479 --> 01:08:56,120
Speaker 1: gotten in overy well over the course of the year,

1463
01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:58,840
Speaker 1: Desmond King. I know he was traded to the Titans

1464
01:08:58,920 --> 01:09:00,240
Speaker 1: last year, but he's been a lot of time with

1465
01:09:00,280 --> 01:09:03,040
Speaker 1: the Chargers as well. He's doing some great things on

1466
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:06,080
Speaker 1: punt returns and on defense back in the secondary. What

1467
01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:08,320
Speaker 1: do you remember about your time with Desmond King and

1468
01:09:08,400 --> 01:09:09,400
Speaker 1: what he was able to do when he was with

1469
01:09:09,479 --> 01:09:12,120
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Yeah, that was actually really what he did

1470
01:09:12,200 --> 01:09:14,040
Speaker 1: well for the Bolts as well. He was one of

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01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:16,519
Speaker 1: those the defensive backs in the Chargers room. I know

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01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:18,800
Speaker 1: that they've lost a couple of pieces, Desmond being one

1473
01:09:18,840 --> 01:09:19,920
Speaker 1: of them. But they used to be known as the

1474
01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:23,400
Speaker 1: jack Boys, where they would just you know, jack things up.

1475
01:09:23,439 --> 01:09:25,920
Speaker 1: If you will Jack take interceptions, do all of that.

1476
01:09:26,040 --> 01:09:28,439
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into semantics, and we get

1477
01:09:28,479 --> 01:09:30,519
Speaker 1: where you're going. You get where I'm going with that.

1478
01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:33,440
Speaker 1: But he certainly kind of brought that spark a specifically,

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Speaker 1: I think of when he was paired up with Derwin

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01:09:35,280 --> 01:09:37,880
Speaker 1: and what they could do together. I have a great

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01:09:37,920 --> 01:09:41,760
Speaker 1: Desmond story actually, back before COVID was non existent. I

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01:09:41,920 --> 01:09:44,160
Speaker 1: used to do a thing where we would do ride along,

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01:09:44,280 --> 01:09:47,000
Speaker 1: so I'd ride home with a guy, we'd have a

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01:09:47,080 --> 01:09:49,439
Speaker 1: trail car follow us. We'd, you know, once we got

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01:09:49,479 --> 01:09:52,400
Speaker 1: their pickup, go back to the facility. And Desmond was

1486
01:09:52,439 --> 01:09:56,160
Speaker 1: such a great sport And I remember we did the interview.

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01:09:56,280 --> 01:09:58,320
Speaker 1: He was great, He was in an awesome mood. He

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01:09:58,400 --> 01:10:01,280
Speaker 1: was super fun and he to me because you caught

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01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:02,880
Speaker 1: me on a good day, Haley, and I was like,

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01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:06,000
Speaker 1: really glad to do it because I know that not

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01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:08,519
Speaker 1: everyone wants to do things like this, but it's just

1492
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:11,200
Speaker 1: those moments. He was really fun to work with. Um.

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01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:13,360
Speaker 1: It'll be a great reunion to see what he can do.

1494
01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:15,680
Speaker 1: Obviously a different quarterback than he's going to go up

1495
01:10:15,720 --> 01:10:19,000
Speaker 1: against because he only knew Philip, but but really really

1496
01:10:19,080 --> 01:10:22,000
Speaker 1: good opportunity and it should be a fun one out

1497
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:24,679
Speaker 1: there watching in him battle. Yeah, absolutely that. It sounds

1498
01:10:24,680 --> 01:10:27,000
Speaker 1: like not much has changed because we've done radio with him.

1499
01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:29,000
Speaker 1: He's always great. It's not his favorite thing to do.

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01:10:29,080 --> 01:10:31,439
Speaker 1: But I was like, you need to do this more.

1501
01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:34,479
Speaker 1: You're really good yea and stuff. You're really good on camera,

1502
01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:38,479
Speaker 1: so I planted the seed. But Haley, always a pleasure.

1503
01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:41,799
Speaker 1: You are fantastic on camera as always and on radio

1504
01:10:41,880 --> 01:10:44,639
Speaker 1: wherever you are. Looking forward to seeing your content, Haley,

1505
01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:47,800
Speaker 1: team reporter for the Los Angeles Chargers, looking forward to

1506
01:10:47,800 --> 01:10:50,679
Speaker 1: seeing the Chargers here on Sunday in week sixteen. Thank

1507
01:10:50,720 --> 01:10:53,280
Speaker 1: you so much for having me deeply appreciate it. Ida

1508
01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:56,640
Speaker 1: love it deep Haley, great job, appreciate you being on

1509
01:10:57,120 --> 01:10:59,760
Speaker 1: the show. All right, we got one segment left, so

1510
01:11:00,200 --> 01:11:05,200
Speaker 1: we got a little Houston methodist minutes and normally it

1511
01:11:05,439 --> 01:11:08,360
Speaker 1: is sprained ankle, it's a risk, it's a finger. Well,

1512
01:11:08,560 --> 01:11:14,080
Speaker 1: this one is about COVID and it's pretty important and

1513
01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:16,599
Speaker 1: it's a pretty good one. Mark said, So I can't

1514
01:11:16,640 --> 01:11:19,439
Speaker 1: wait to hear this one. Andrew Doherty's final word with

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01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:25,840
Speaker 1: Tremont Smith All next on Texans All Access Axis. We

1516
01:11:25,960 --> 01:11:28,920
Speaker 1: got one final segment of this Wednesday edition of Texans

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01:11:29,040 --> 01:11:31,519
Speaker 1: All Access. It's gonna be our last. Well, I guess

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01:11:31,560 --> 01:11:33,640
Speaker 1: tomorrow night's Texans All Access as well. It's just a

1519
01:11:33,680 --> 01:11:36,800
Speaker 1: little different me. Mark, the General will have you for

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01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:40,840
Speaker 1: Thursday six to seven, just prior to Titans v. Forty

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01:11:40,920 --> 01:11:43,720
Speaker 1: nine ers on Sports Radio six ten. But no show

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01:11:43,760 --> 01:11:47,240
Speaker 1: on Friday given everything that's gone on, So we will

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01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:50,000
Speaker 1: not be here on Friday. So we gotta get a

1524
01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:53,360
Speaker 1: lot in. We gotta get our Houston Methodist Minutes in,

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01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:59,080
Speaker 1: and this one really important one on COVID. We one.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Houston Methodist Minutes. Mark Vandermare with you joined

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Speaker 1: by doctor cessar Arius, chief of Infectious Diseases at Houston Methodist.

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01:12:07,560 --> 01:12:10,760
Speaker 1: Doctor tell us about omicron here it is among us

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01:12:11,200 --> 01:12:14,800
Speaker 1: sweeping through Houston, the entire country, the world. Really, it

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01:12:14,960 --> 01:12:19,240
Speaker 1: seems like this is far more contagious than original COVID

1531
01:12:19,400 --> 01:12:21,960
Speaker 1: or the Delta variant, but might not be a severe

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01:12:22,080 --> 01:12:25,040
Speaker 1: What can you tell us about that? The data clearly

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01:12:25,160 --> 01:12:30,160
Speaker 1: show that your first assumption is correct, likely correct. This

1534
01:12:30,439 --> 01:12:38,639
Speaker 1: is definitely a match more transmisserable virus that is similar

1535
01:12:38,760 --> 01:12:42,679
Speaker 1: to other very highly transmitted virus like missiles for example,

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01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:48,640
Speaker 1: and match more transmisibles that the previous versions of these coronavirus.

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01:12:49,360 --> 01:12:54,040
Speaker 1: So the evidence I think is now clear that definitely

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01:12:54,120 --> 01:12:59,320
Speaker 1: a highly infectionous and highly transmissible virus. On the second

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01:12:59,400 --> 01:13:05,439
Speaker 1: assumption of a sort of severity of infection, I think

1540
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:09,360
Speaker 1: the jury is still out there, and I will cautious

1541
01:13:09,520 --> 01:13:12,800
Speaker 1: people on the assumption that this is going to be

1542
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:16,519
Speaker 1: a mile disease. Maybe mile for some if you think

1543
01:13:16,560 --> 01:13:19,920
Speaker 1: about with Delta, and I for some. But this all

1544
01:13:20,080 --> 01:13:25,840
Speaker 1: still poses a significant risk, and it's important to understand

1545
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:28,960
Speaker 1: that the data we have are from other countries with

1546
01:13:29,120 --> 01:13:33,559
Speaker 1: different situations. We still don't have a lot of data.

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01:13:34,200 --> 01:13:39,000
Speaker 1: There are some good signals of hospitalization not as impacted

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01:13:39,120 --> 01:13:43,920
Speaker 1: as we had before with Delta. However, I would not

1549
01:13:44,200 --> 01:13:48,240
Speaker 1: risk it, and I would still advise that the best

1550
01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:52,759
Speaker 1: way to deal with this is not to get it. Doctor.

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01:13:52,960 --> 01:13:56,320
Speaker 1: Is the symptomology the same. Are we still talking about fever,

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01:13:57,120 --> 01:13:59,640
Speaker 1: pain and the lungs tightness and the lungs all the

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01:13:59,720 --> 01:14:02,320
Speaker 1: other symptoms that we got to know with what we

1554
01:14:02,439 --> 01:14:05,960
Speaker 1: originally knew as COVID nineteen. Yeah, in general, it is

1555
01:14:06,280 --> 01:14:09,480
Speaker 1: very similar like what we call the flu like symptoms.

1556
01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:12,840
Speaker 1: It's scars that the loss of a smell and that

1557
01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:16,040
Speaker 1: sort of symptoms seems to be less prominent with this

1558
01:14:16,320 --> 01:14:21,759
Speaker 1: variant that with the others. So it's marshmall so congestion,

1559
01:14:21,840 --> 01:14:26,360
Speaker 1: national congestion, and you know, cough and some opper verstory

1560
01:14:26,439 --> 01:14:30,000
Speaker 1: symptoms to start with. Um, you know, so the flu

1561
01:14:30,120 --> 01:14:32,600
Speaker 1: like symptoms will be very similar, so it will be

1562
01:14:32,800 --> 01:14:36,120
Speaker 1: very difficult to differentiate. And I just want to say

1563
01:14:36,280 --> 01:14:40,120
Speaker 1: that I believe right now in the United States, most

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01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:43,800
Speaker 1: likely the majority, vast majority of infection are due to

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01:14:43,960 --> 01:14:48,280
Speaker 1: omicron that you know has surpassed all the other variants

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01:14:48,320 --> 01:14:51,519
Speaker 1: at the moment, doctor, does your data indicate that the

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01:14:51,680 --> 01:14:55,320
Speaker 1: vaccines are effective against omicron? And if so, how effective?

1568
01:14:55,400 --> 01:14:57,600
Speaker 1: What do we know so far about vaccines and the

1569
01:14:57,680 --> 01:15:02,400
Speaker 1: booster against this new variant? There is a clear uh.

1570
01:15:02,680 --> 01:15:06,400
Speaker 1: The data clearly points out that people who are unvaccinated

1571
01:15:06,760 --> 01:15:12,640
Speaker 1: not vaccinated at a much higher risk for severe disease, hospitalization,

1572
01:15:12,880 --> 01:15:16,640
Speaker 1: and death with this variant, as probably will apply to

1573
01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:22,439
Speaker 1: other variants. The people who have had a vaccine with

1574
01:15:22,560 --> 01:15:25,360
Speaker 1: two doses, and I'm just gonna call this the number

1575
01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:29,040
Speaker 1: of doses instead of starting calling these boosters, because I

1576
01:15:29,160 --> 01:15:31,840
Speaker 1: think it's probably a means number. Because that means you

1577
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:35,720
Speaker 1: probably need certain number of doses for full protection. So

1578
01:15:35,840 --> 01:15:38,680
Speaker 1: people who have had two doses there will have some

1579
01:15:38,960 --> 01:15:45,200
Speaker 1: protection probably protection against bad outcomes, but are not sufficient

1580
01:15:45,400 --> 01:15:48,920
Speaker 1: enough as you have with other variants. So these are

1581
01:15:49,240 --> 01:15:53,320
Speaker 1: variant with the two doses, will be much more prone

1582
01:15:53,360 --> 01:15:58,280
Speaker 1: to to get you ill and and the degree of

1583
01:15:58,360 --> 01:16:01,400
Speaker 1: illness will vary depending on of who you are, where

1584
01:16:01,439 --> 01:16:05,519
Speaker 1: your conditionous health conditions, So not enough protection. I would

1585
01:16:05,560 --> 01:16:10,080
Speaker 1: say the best protection by far that data suggests is

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01:16:10,160 --> 01:16:13,000
Speaker 1: to have the third doses that people call the booster.

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01:16:13,880 --> 01:16:19,240
Speaker 1: So in order to prevent this, I strongly recommend, strongly

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01:16:19,360 --> 01:16:24,439
Speaker 1: recommend that everyone take a booster, regardless of age or

1589
01:16:24,680 --> 01:16:28,400
Speaker 1: conditions or where your god COVID or not. I think

1590
01:16:28,520 --> 01:16:32,080
Speaker 1: that's the best way to prevent this infection from happening.

1591
01:16:33,320 --> 01:16:36,400
Speaker 1: And still mask up and do those things, take those

1592
01:16:36,520 --> 01:16:39,960
Speaker 1: kinds of precautions, spread out socially, distance all the stuff

1593
01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:42,120
Speaker 1: we've been hearing about for a long time. In this

1594
01:16:42,520 --> 01:16:46,800
Speaker 1: moment particularly of high community transmission that we're expecting with

1595
01:16:46,960 --> 01:16:51,360
Speaker 1: these new highly transmissional viruses. Remember that you know one

1596
01:16:51,680 --> 01:16:56,560
Speaker 1: measure is not sufficient, So if you are protected, you

1597
01:16:56,680 --> 01:17:00,559
Speaker 1: have your third dose, you wear masks. You are cautious

1598
01:17:00,680 --> 01:17:04,439
Speaker 1: and where you're going, and that is going to be

1599
01:17:05,320 --> 01:17:07,560
Speaker 1: put you in a very good position to try to

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01:17:07,680 --> 01:17:11,200
Speaker 1: avoid an infection. You know, every single is, every single

1601
01:17:11,320 --> 01:17:14,080
Speaker 1: measure is sort of a layer of protection. So you

1602
01:17:14,200 --> 01:17:19,160
Speaker 1: are sort of in a in a very good place

1603
01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:23,240
Speaker 1: if you do all these things. Sometimes these things are

1604
01:17:23,400 --> 01:17:26,559
Speaker 1: difficult to maintain unavoidable. But at the moment, I am

1605
01:17:26,800 --> 01:17:30,760
Speaker 1: very cautious and I'm putting together people. I think we're

1606
01:17:30,840 --> 01:17:33,320
Speaker 1: going to have a very bad wave in January, and

1607
01:17:33,439 --> 01:17:36,800
Speaker 1: they are coming. The holidays are going to spark all

1608
01:17:36,840 --> 01:17:40,200
Speaker 1: these infections and I expect that January will not be

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01:17:40,320 --> 01:17:46,200
Speaker 1: a very pleasant, you know month for either of us. Well, doctor,

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01:17:46,280 --> 01:17:48,440
Speaker 1: thank you very much for the information. We do appreciate

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01:17:48,520 --> 01:17:51,720
Speaker 1: your time. Thank you very much, doctor says our Ari

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01:17:51,960 --> 01:17:55,559
Speaker 1: is Chief of Infectious Diseases at Houston Methodist. Read up

1613
01:17:55,600 --> 01:17:58,880
Speaker 1: on coronavirus, on omicron, on all of it at Houston

1614
01:17:58,960 --> 01:18:03,880
Speaker 1: Methodists dot org, the official healthcare provider of your Houston, Texans.

1615
01:18:04,160 --> 01:18:08,320
Speaker 1: Houston Methodist leading medicine. What I love is the opportunity

1616
01:18:08,360 --> 01:18:11,559
Speaker 1: to pick up the phone call somebody over at Houston Methodist.

1617
01:18:11,920 --> 01:18:14,800
Speaker 1: They join us on the air and give us the

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01:18:15,040 --> 01:18:19,120
Speaker 1: latest information, the best information. Appreciate the great doctors from

1619
01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:22,360
Speaker 1: Houston Methodist, and of course Mark for giving us that.

1620
01:18:22,560 --> 01:18:25,479
Speaker 1: In our final segment of tonight's show, Now it's time

1621
01:18:25,479 --> 01:18:31,960
Speaker 1: for our Schlumberget stats challenge, and the statu is two.

1622
01:18:32,160 --> 01:18:35,519
Speaker 1: It's actually a by the numbers two. Kimie Fairbannon, who

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01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:40,320
Speaker 1: unfortunately won on COVID nineteen reserve list today, had not one,

1624
01:18:40,479 --> 01:18:46,120
Speaker 1: but two fifty one yard fuel goals in the second

1625
01:18:46,240 --> 01:18:51,280
Speaker 1: quarter against the Jacksonville Jaguars. A fifty one yarder, I'm sorry,

1626
01:18:51,320 --> 01:18:55,439
Speaker 1: a fifty two yarder through the rain drops hard rain

1627
01:18:55,520 --> 01:18:57,839
Speaker 1: two and then a fifty one yard right at the buzzer.

1628
01:18:58,600 --> 01:19:02,519
Speaker 1: Two fifty one plus yard field goals for Kyemie Fairban

1629
01:19:02,640 --> 01:19:03,960
Speaker 1: He's had a heck of a season. That was a

1630
01:19:04,080 --> 01:19:06,679
Speaker 1: sixty one yard or last week against the Seahawks, fifty

1631
01:19:06,720 --> 01:19:09,439
Speaker 1: one and fifty two yards against the Jags. So there's

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01:19:09,439 --> 01:19:11,960
Speaker 1: another by the numbers, a little three that's brought to

1633
01:19:12,000 --> 01:19:16,160
Speaker 1: you by Schlumberge. All Right, it's time for the final word,

1634
01:19:16,439 --> 01:19:19,120
Speaker 1: and this week Drew Doherty caught up with our guy

1635
01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:23,960
Speaker 1: Tremon Smith. This pregame interview is powered by Reliant Drew

1636
01:19:24,040 --> 01:19:26,880
Speaker 1: Doherty with a guy who's having a pretty darn good week.

1637
01:19:26,960 --> 01:19:30,799
Speaker 1: It's Tremont Smith. You played corner. You had an excellent

1638
01:19:30,920 --> 01:19:34,439
Speaker 1: week on Special Teams, the AFC Special Teams Player of

1639
01:19:34,479 --> 01:19:37,800
Speaker 1: the Week. Okay, you score that first touchdown, and that

1640
01:19:38,000 --> 01:19:40,439
Speaker 1: in and of itself probably wins you the award. But

1641
01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:42,800
Speaker 1: on top of that, you down a punt at the

1642
01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:44,840
Speaker 1: four yard line and the defense responds with a three

1643
01:19:44,880 --> 01:19:46,680
Speaker 1: and out and really kind of helps seal the game.

1644
01:19:47,160 --> 01:19:50,559
Speaker 1: You also start the second half by dropping Jaydon Mickens

1645
01:19:50,960 --> 01:19:54,360
Speaker 1: at the fourteen yard line. Big play there as well.

1646
01:19:54,439 --> 01:19:56,960
Speaker 1: And then on your second kickoff return, I mean, you

1647
01:19:57,040 --> 01:19:58,639
Speaker 1: did some damage, you punish some guys, and you bring

1648
01:19:58,680 --> 01:20:01,960
Speaker 1: the ball out to the thirty three. You and that performance,

1649
01:20:02,160 --> 01:20:05,920
Speaker 1: it was really encapsulating of everything you guys did across

1650
01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:08,080
Speaker 1: the board Special teams. Why what was it like being

1651
01:20:08,200 --> 01:20:10,920
Speaker 1: tip of the spear on that regard? It was fun.

1652
01:20:11,080 --> 01:20:12,920
Speaker 1: You know, anything, anytime I can go out there and

1653
01:20:12,960 --> 01:20:15,800
Speaker 1: perform for my teammates, I'm willing to do so. Whatever,

1654
01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:18,040
Speaker 1: whether it's a gun or rep If I got to

1655
01:20:18,200 --> 01:20:21,000
Speaker 1: go in as a reserve at corner, kickoff return and

1656
01:20:21,120 --> 01:20:23,679
Speaker 1: just anything, I'm willing to do anything to help the team.

1657
01:20:23,760 --> 01:20:26,479
Speaker 1: So I feel like I showed that this past Sunday

1658
01:20:26,520 --> 01:20:28,639
Speaker 1: and willing to show it on here on out. Yeah,

1659
01:20:28,680 --> 01:20:30,800
Speaker 1: how do you build on that individually? I know wins

1660
01:20:30,880 --> 01:20:33,280
Speaker 1: are the main goal on an individual basis, how do

1661
01:20:33,320 --> 01:20:35,400
Speaker 1: you build on this? What do you set as goals

1662
01:20:35,479 --> 01:20:37,080
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. I mean, I would love

1663
01:20:37,080 --> 01:20:38,479
Speaker 1: to get back in the end zone, of course, and

1664
01:20:38,640 --> 01:20:40,479
Speaker 1: just like I said, just anything I can do to

1665
01:20:40,560 --> 01:20:43,120
Speaker 1: help the team just perform, will and win the games.

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01:20:43,160 --> 01:20:45,880
Speaker 1: That's that's all. It comes down to the meet. You know,

1667
01:20:45,960 --> 01:20:48,880
Speaker 1: with all those rogues on special teams, you actually were

1668
01:20:48,880 --> 01:20:51,040
Speaker 1: out on the field on defense, made a tackle, part

1669
01:20:51,040 --> 01:20:52,679
Speaker 1: of a really good effort there. What do you guys

1670
01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:56,160
Speaker 1: need to do against the high powered Chargers offense this week?

1671
01:20:56,640 --> 01:20:58,839
Speaker 1: We got to just keep They got a good quarterback

1672
01:20:58,880 --> 01:21:00,760
Speaker 1: over to the good great young quarterback and a good

1673
01:21:00,760 --> 01:21:02,559
Speaker 1: receiving course, so we just got to keep the ball

1674
01:21:02,600 --> 01:21:06,280
Speaker 1: in front of us. As a defense perspective, special teams

1675
01:21:06,560 --> 01:21:08,040
Speaker 1: where to go out there and dominant. I feel like

1676
01:21:08,080 --> 01:21:09,800
Speaker 1: we have the upper hand on them on special teams,

1677
01:21:09,800 --> 01:21:11,760
Speaker 1: So we go out there and win that phase and

1678
01:21:11,880 --> 01:21:14,120
Speaker 1: they can jump start our offense and defense Yeah, what

1679
01:21:14,280 --> 01:21:17,360
Speaker 1: separates Justin Herbert from other qbs you've seen this year.

1680
01:21:17,800 --> 01:21:19,800
Speaker 1: I think his deep ball. He has a good deep ball,

1681
01:21:19,840 --> 01:21:22,760
Speaker 1: and he has the receiver that go hip pointed within

1682
01:21:23,200 --> 01:21:26,000
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen and Mike Williams. So he does a great

1683
01:21:26,080 --> 01:21:28,360
Speaker 1: job to on the deep ball and he doesn't force

1684
01:21:28,400 --> 01:21:30,320
Speaker 1: he doesn't force things too much. Here, take his check

1685
01:21:30,400 --> 01:21:32,200
Speaker 1: down and trust these guys and make some play. So

1686
01:21:32,280 --> 01:21:33,479
Speaker 1: we just got to keep the ball in front of

1687
01:21:33,560 --> 01:21:35,240
Speaker 1: us and make our tackles the way you guys are

1688
01:21:35,280 --> 01:21:37,640
Speaker 1: playing now as a special teams unit. How much have

1689
01:21:37,760 --> 01:21:40,880
Speaker 1: y'all grown, you think overall from maybe week one, week

1690
01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:42,880
Speaker 1: two in the early part of the season. Yeah, you know,

1691
01:21:43,040 --> 01:21:45,400
Speaker 1: we all knew, we all knew pieces out there, and

1692
01:21:45,479 --> 01:21:47,120
Speaker 1: we actually had a bunch of guys from the practice

1693
01:21:47,120 --> 01:21:49,920
Speaker 1: squad up on special team this past week. So I

1694
01:21:50,000 --> 01:21:51,920
Speaker 1: mean they still come to practice hard like they're a

1695
01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:54,040
Speaker 1: start us each and every week. So that's why we

1696
01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:56,080
Speaker 1: was just so confident going into that game. And I'm

1697
01:21:56,400 --> 01:21:58,960
Speaker 1: always confident in my blockers or whoever I'm running down

1698
01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:01,680
Speaker 1: there would kick off for my opposite gunner no matter what.

1699
01:22:01,840 --> 01:22:04,200
Speaker 1: So I just we have faith in all these guys

1700
01:22:04,240 --> 01:22:06,840
Speaker 1: and we know we all can perform at a high level. Yeah,

1701
01:22:06,880 --> 01:22:08,760
Speaker 1: you just brought up an interesting point, and you did

1702
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:11,040
Speaker 1: it after the game on Sunday talking about some of

1703
01:22:11,080 --> 01:22:13,760
Speaker 1: those those young guys like Viz straw Hunt. I mean,

1704
01:22:13,800 --> 01:22:15,320
Speaker 1: that's the first time they ever even suited up in

1705
01:22:15,360 --> 01:22:17,479
Speaker 1: an NFL game. If they come out there and they

1706
01:22:17,560 --> 01:22:20,880
Speaker 1: do what they did, How impressive is that in its

1707
01:22:20,960 --> 01:22:23,120
Speaker 1: own right? Where we are in the season and what

1708
01:22:23,280 --> 01:22:25,559
Speaker 1: those guys are doing, those young guys, that's a great

1709
01:22:25,640 --> 01:22:27,720
Speaker 1: job to them, you know, just they showed coaches that

1710
01:22:27,800 --> 01:22:29,760
Speaker 1: they was ready the whole time and they just needed

1711
01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:32,559
Speaker 1: their opportunity, and when they got the opportunity, they performed

1712
01:22:32,760 --> 01:22:36,320
Speaker 1: really well. Vsy got a couple of offensive snaps. Connor

1713
01:22:36,400 --> 01:22:38,240
Speaker 1: he was out there a lot too. So it was

1714
01:22:38,280 --> 01:22:40,800
Speaker 1: just good to see them actually take the opportunity to

1715
01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:43,120
Speaker 1: take advantage of their opportunity. All right, let's see how

1716
01:22:43,160 --> 01:22:46,679
Speaker 1: you're powering game day. It's noon kickoff at Energ Stadium.

1717
01:22:46,760 --> 01:22:48,599
Speaker 1: So with that in mind, what time are you're going

1718
01:22:48,640 --> 01:22:51,200
Speaker 1: to sleep at night? I'm sleep by I'm in bed

1719
01:22:51,400 --> 01:22:53,559
Speaker 1: probably like eight thirty, like right when we get done

1720
01:22:53,600 --> 01:22:56,040
Speaker 1: with means like laying around. I watched some football if

1721
01:22:56,120 --> 01:22:58,720
Speaker 1: some football loan or something like that. But I try

1722
01:22:58,720 --> 01:23:01,280
Speaker 1: to be sleep by like ten tent for sure. Yeah.

1723
01:23:01,320 --> 01:23:04,760
Speaker 1: And then when you wake up eight o'clock eight o'clock, yes,

1724
01:23:04,960 --> 01:23:07,680
Speaker 1: you get a good like nine ten hours of sleep almost. Yeah.

1725
01:23:07,680 --> 01:23:09,040
Speaker 1: I try to get all the sleep I can and

1726
01:23:09,560 --> 01:23:11,760
Speaker 1: make sure my legs are whale wristed. There you go,

1727
01:23:11,880 --> 01:23:14,040
Speaker 1: there you going? What do you eat before the game?

1728
01:23:14,479 --> 01:23:17,640
Speaker 1: Two scrambled eggs with onions and peppers, a little blackamole

1729
01:23:17,760 --> 01:23:21,560
Speaker 1: on the side, French toast, strawberries, and then I have

1730
01:23:21,600 --> 01:23:24,080
Speaker 1: a little protein check I drink in the morning. Okay,

1731
01:23:24,360 --> 01:23:28,160
Speaker 1: are that's every that's been for the past fifteen sixteen

1732
01:23:28,200 --> 01:23:31,960
Speaker 1: weeks as well? So okay, so by now something this year,

1733
01:23:32,080 --> 01:23:34,639
Speaker 1: that's that's how you started doing it. Huh yesh. I'm

1734
01:23:34,680 --> 01:23:36,360
Speaker 1: pretty routine when it comes out to my food. I

1735
01:23:36,439 --> 01:23:39,000
Speaker 1: like having certain things on the right on a certain day,

1736
01:23:39,080 --> 01:23:41,799
Speaker 1: so kind of kind of can say I'm picky anohing

1737
01:23:41,800 --> 01:23:43,320
Speaker 1: wrong with that. You like what you like, you know

1738
01:23:44,760 --> 01:23:49,200
Speaker 1: exactly all right. Finally, what are you listening to? Pregame? Musically?

1739
01:23:49,800 --> 01:23:53,280
Speaker 1: A whole lot of future, Little Dirt and Little Baby.

1740
01:23:53,360 --> 01:23:55,240
Speaker 1: That's probably my top three right now. Those are the

1741
01:23:55,280 --> 01:23:57,479
Speaker 1: three Huh? Those are the three? Yes, sir? They can?

1742
01:23:57,760 --> 01:23:59,680
Speaker 1: They give me going, They get me ready to run,

1743
01:24:00,000 --> 01:24:03,800
Speaker 1: go hit somebody. All right, we'd love to hear it.

1744
01:24:03,880 --> 01:24:05,599
Speaker 1: We're happy for you. Last thing. We know you want

1745
01:24:05,640 --> 01:24:08,040
Speaker 1: to win from Santa Claus. But what else would you

1746
01:24:08,080 --> 01:24:10,639
Speaker 1: like for Christmas? I think I want a new car.

1747
01:24:10,880 --> 01:24:13,040
Speaker 1: Thinks about time for a new car. So hopefully I

1748
01:24:13,040 --> 01:24:15,519
Speaker 1: can get this new car here soon. Tremont Smith, thanks

1749
01:24:15,560 --> 01:24:18,120
Speaker 1: so much for the time, best of luck against the Chargers.

1750
01:24:18,520 --> 01:24:20,360
Speaker 1: We'll see you again very soon, and so thank you

1751
01:24:20,439 --> 01:24:24,439
Speaker 1: for having that. Dude is awesome. Tremont Smith. Congratulations for

1752
01:24:24,600 --> 01:24:28,280
Speaker 1: being the AFC Special Teams Player of the Week, and

1753
01:24:28,320 --> 01:24:31,600
Speaker 1: a big thanks to Tremon, to Drew, to Dpe, to

1754
01:24:31,720 --> 01:24:35,200
Speaker 1: Haley Elwood, to David Mills, the Cassario, Mark Vanomir, all

1755
01:24:35,280 --> 01:24:37,599
Speaker 1: my guys over at Sports Radio six ten, y'all stay

1756
01:24:37,720 --> 01:24:40,960
Speaker 1: safe and all of you out there, you guys all

1757
01:24:41,040 --> 01:24:46,160
Speaker 1: stay safe, have continue to have a great holiday season.

1758
01:24:46,439 --> 01:24:50,120
Speaker 1: We will see you hopefully on Sunday. Hopefully you'll be

1759
01:24:50,240 --> 01:24:52,280
Speaker 1: there and support these guys as they go up against

1760
01:24:52,320 --> 01:24:56,879
Speaker 1: the LA Chargers tomorrow six to seven Texans All Access

1761
01:24:56,960 --> 01:24:59,000
Speaker 1: and then Titans forty nine ers after that, see you

1762
01:24:59,080 --> 01:25:01,800
Speaker 1: then everybody and us all ways go, Texans ways go,

1763
01:25:01,920 --> 01:25:03,280
Speaker 1: Texans ways go