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Speaker 1: In the Lab, a Texans podcast that takes a different

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Speaker 1: look at things to Doherty and John Harris have their

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Speaker 1: lab coats and goggles on and the Bunsen burners burning.

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Speaker 1: Here's Drew.

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Speaker 2: Yes, thank you very much, coming at you from NRG Stadium,

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Speaker 2: Drew Doherty. We got a fun one today, and before

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Speaker 2: we get into it, do me a huge favor. Would

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Speaker 2: you rate, review and subscribe to this podcast and then

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Speaker 2: go on Twitter drop me a line. It's at Doherty

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Speaker 2: Drew d o U g h E r t y

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Speaker 2: d r e w at Doherty Drew. Let me know

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Speaker 2: what you think, what you like, what you want to

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Speaker 2: hear in the future. But today on the show, Johnny

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Speaker 2: and I are going over the double Dip over the

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Speaker 2: last couple weeks of dominating football. So at double dip domination.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot of alliteration for an anxious anchor. And

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Speaker 2: then we're also going to go one on one with

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Speaker 2: Nico Collins, get to know him off the field a

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Speaker 2: little bit better, go under the helmet. And in between

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Speaker 2: there we're gonna hear about how John was once a

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Speaker 2: dirty coach.

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Speaker 3: Are you interested? I hear your ears pricking up? All right?

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Speaker 2: Anyways, that's enough. Here's John and I my pal, John Harris.

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Speaker 3: How are you doing a.

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Speaker 4: Lot better these days?

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Speaker 3: I don't recall. I'm sure it's happened.

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Speaker 2: I'm certain it's and I'm certain it's happened while I've

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Speaker 2: been employed here, while you've been employed here. But I'm

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Speaker 2: getting old and it's been in a rough four years.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 2: I do not remember a better back to back, more fulfilling,

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Speaker 2: more dominating stretch of football, more fun stretch of football

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Speaker 2: than what we just saw. It's recency bias, I know.

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Speaker 2: But you factor in the JJ Watt homecoming stuff, ring

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Speaker 2: of honor, induction and the good feelings that happened there

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Speaker 2: and playing a marquee franchise the week after playing one

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Speaker 2: of your rivals that you've dominated for the last fifteen

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Speaker 2: years or so. I don't recall feeling happier, and I

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Speaker 2: want to get your thought on that. But first, a

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Speaker 2: very quick table of contents for this in the lab today,

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Speaker 2: you and I are going to recall the good feelings.

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Speaker 2: We're going to have a cream of the cropper for

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Speaker 2: this last week. We're going to have a Texan under

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Speaker 2: the radar to watch at Atlanta. We have to also

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Speaker 2: tell a story about when you implored high school players

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Speaker 2: to act disrespectful and have poor sportsmanship, and that's a

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Speaker 2: fantastic story.

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Speaker 3: I can't wait to tell this one.

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Speaker 2: And then after that, I had a chance to get

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Speaker 2: some off the field stuff from Nico Collins.

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Speaker 3: That was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: It was prior to his eruption in this last game,

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Speaker 2: and it's the second eruption of twenty twenty three, and

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Speaker 2: this guy's not far off from already equaling and bettering

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Speaker 2: his career best in a lot of different numbers. But

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Speaker 2: back to the good feelings, do you recall a more

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Speaker 2: dominant two game stretch for the Texans to back like,

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Speaker 2: like we just witnessed, No, not start now, just.

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Speaker 3: Beat these guys up.

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Speaker 5: The last time the Texans won back to back games

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Speaker 4: That was good.

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Speaker 5: And then it came back home and had probably the

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Speaker 5: best game of the year. I don't know if I

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Speaker 5: would say it was dominated against La Chargers, but that

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Speaker 2: So those were fun. Yeah, it were fun during lost seasons,

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Speaker 2: you know, there's still a lot of hope for this season.

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Speaker 5: During lost seasons, I mean even in a nine game

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Speaker 4: Nail biting.

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Speaker 5: One night that I felt like, Wow, we're pretty good

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Speaker 5: was Thursday night twenty eighteen. Unfortunately, in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 5: I remember that night thinking, Okay, wow, for a long

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Speaker 4: We're on a roll. I think it was four or

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Speaker 5: It was a Thursday night, We're getting the mini by

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was got out. Yeah, that was a tough one.

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Speaker 5: And even though DT Mary's Thomas joined us and just

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Speaker 5: But from beginning to end, two games in a row,

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Speaker 5: all three phases exciting football to watch. That was That's

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Speaker 5: Steelers here, and I mean this, I mean Drew. If

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Speaker 5: you look at the score, you look at the numbers,

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Speaker 5: and you look at the film, all three of them

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Speaker 5: tell the same story, and that is Texans dominated from

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Speaker 5: play one through the end of the game.

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Speaker 4: And it was really impressive to.

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Speaker 2: Watch so many things. To pinpoint, I want to get

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Speaker 2: your cream of the crop.

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Speaker 6: The cream of the crop.

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Speaker 3: Thank you much for man, Rady says, rest peace, mare Man.

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Speaker 3: I got a chance.

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Speaker 2: After you tell your bad sportsmanship story when you were

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Speaker 2: a poor sport I'm gonna tell a little Randy Mataman

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Speaker 2: savage story.

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Speaker 3: But cream of the crop.

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Speaker 6: The cream of the crop.

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Speaker 3: Who is your Houston Texans cream of the cropper? From

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Speaker 5: You know what I'm gonna go with. Nico Collins love it.

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Speaker 5: I hate to do it.

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Speaker 4: But how do you hate to do it that I

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Speaker 3: I don't hate to do it.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to say that's obvious, but I mean

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Speaker 5: Nico is seven catches.

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Speaker 2: Malcams, razor baby. Sometimes the most obvious choice is the

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Speaker 5: I mean Nico's day he tied his career high interceptions

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Speaker 5: he was high marks in all three categories. But I'm

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Speaker 5: gonna say this. I mean, everybody saw the catches and

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Speaker 5: all that. What I think a lot of people missed

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Speaker 4: Tank on this one.

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Speaker 5: The run blocking from those wide receivers was incredible.

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Speaker 3: And that's just clamping up t J. Wattred.

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Speaker 5: I mean Nico, Nico had Marcus Golden so ticked off

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Speaker 4: You know, Nico six four to two fifteen holding his own.

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Speaker 5: But I'll say this. You know, Robert Woods didn't have

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Speaker 5: Robert Woods. But I was listening to podcast this past

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Speaker 5: summer I don't remember. I think it was called The

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Speaker 5: Playmakers with Jordan rod Reeg from the Athletic and she

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Speaker 5: talked about four coaches Sean McVay, Mike McDaniel, Matt Lafloor,

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Speaker 5: and whom I missing in that in that group Shanahan.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, yeah, Kyle Shannon. And that was kind of

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Speaker 4: He had been under Kyle.

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Speaker 5: They had been a lot of you know, a lot

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Speaker 5: of eleven personnel team, you know, one one back, one

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Speaker 4: That was that. Then he went to the Rams thinking

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Speaker 5: He got to the Rams and he's got Cooper Cup

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Speaker 5: Robert Woods blocking in particular in the run game changed

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Speaker 5: and Nico and Mets you were fantastic and ten listen,

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Speaker 5: tank is five eight, one hundred and sixty five pounds,

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Speaker 5: of the fact that Nico was just fantastic in the

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Speaker 5: So I'm gonna give him credit for all facets as

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Speaker 4: How about you.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 2: And as an addendum to yours, I'm gonna say, Robert

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Speaker 2: Woods he's gonna get his. He's gonna have a few

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Speaker 2: hundred yard games. Yeah, Nico's had a couple, Dell's had one.

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Speaker 2: That's I think it's just the way CJ spreads the ball, right,

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Speaker 2: We're gonna see this from Dalton Schultz. Yip, Dalton's just

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Speaker 2: Dalton's playing fine. I think he just these receivers. They're

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Speaker 2: getting the line share of these catches and chewing up

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 2: So that's that's what I'm gonna go with. I'll go

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Speaker 2: on defense. Steven Nelson's my cream of the cropper. I

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Speaker 2: think the the lone win of the day for Pittsburgh

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Speaker 2: coin toss and can he Pickett. They're like, you wanna

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Speaker 2: might be like embellishing, but yeah, he kind of did

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Speaker 2: defer like, we got all these Steelers fans in the building,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna put them on offense. First, we're gonna get loud,

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Speaker 2: and then we're gonna get the ball. Well, Texans received

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Speaker 2: that kickoff, chop chop chop chop chop. They go score

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Speaker 2: four times three times on the first drive, only one

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Speaker 2: of them counts, and then Stephen Nelson ends the Steelers

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Speaker 2: first drive with an interception a really nice diving acrobatic play,

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Speaker 2: had a great return. Afterwards, he said, hey, if you

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Speaker 2: want to know about my return skills, go ask Frank Ross.

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Speaker 2: I still got a record from high school in Georgia.

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Speaker 2: Steven Nelson's been outstanding.

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Speaker 3: He was good.

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Speaker 2: He was really really good last year in another I

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Speaker 2: That was not a lost season because of Steven Nelson.

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Speaker 2: And I think he's raised the bar in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: He's a captain. He has played phenomenally. I loved what

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Speaker 5: That particular play was the exact same play that the

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Speaker 2: They basically scored on that against the Raiders that they

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Speaker 4: Second eighteen. Was kind of a weird time to do it,

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Speaker 2: Have difficulty that one, and then uh, you know who

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Speaker 2: Let's see how it turns out on Sunday. But under

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Speaker 5: A guy that should be getting a whole lot more

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Speaker 4: I said, man, you know who played really well the

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Speaker 4: He's gonna make the first guy miss. It's gonna happen.

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Speaker 5: So when he makes that first guy miss, and you

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Speaker 5: a good it's a good Atlanta offensive line. They've got

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Speaker 4: On Sunday, how.

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Speaker 2: Well Bjeon Robinson, Yeah, I mean I don't I saw

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Speaker 5: No, they're not good they I mean they have so

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Speaker 4: But yeah, Toto is a good one.

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Speaker 6: Yep.

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Speaker 2: Four games, three games in. Really it was because he

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 3: That's saying a lot.

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Speaker 2: That's that's and he's gonna get called upon linebacking like

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Speaker 2: Hey, two weeks ago we went to Jacksonville and the

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 2: And we get to the place where we're eating and

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Speaker 2: I coached these guys and so heard some fun stories. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: from twenty some years ago. And John, you were at

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Speaker 3: What happened? Tell us this? Okay, scoundrel.

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Speaker 5: Now I didn't remember this story this way, but allegedly

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Speaker 4: It's my first year as a varsity head coach, and.

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Speaker 3: We nineteen ninety eight was a great year.

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Speaker 4: It was a great year.

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Speaker 5: Twenty five years ago. Yeah, we didn't have it was

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Speaker 5: And I didn't set the schedule.

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Speaker 5: This was set by the previous head coach. So we're

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Speaker 3: It's just what you did, sure, And this place is packed.

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Speaker 5: It's homecoming over them, and we sort of unleashed our

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Speaker 4: Now, my players remembered it as the.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't hear anything about your pass. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I heard what happened that the game. Yeah, Kyle Hicks

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Speaker 5: Branford was angry with us, but they might have been

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Speaker 4: That was kind of what I was going for.

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Speaker 5: I was going for them to have a little bit

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Speaker 5: Dude, halftime, Yeah, you doubled down on it already, you

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Speaker 3: Yeah you win.

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Speaker 5: We My best player was was Andy Kidd, and so

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Speaker 5: We ended up winning like thirty four to twenty four

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Speaker 3: Easy to get out of there that night.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, let's jumping on the logo. I didn't

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Speaker 3: Motivating your team a little bit.

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Speaker 4: Let's show who we are. And of course they go

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Speaker 5: And the way I remember it was they went jumped

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Speaker 4: And I'm like, I don't think so, but maybe I did.

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Speaker 4: That's the way I remember it. But either way it

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Speaker 5: And energy, so I don't know how him going got

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Speaker 4: They go jump on logos and try and win games.

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Speaker 5: The last time they did it here in Houston they

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Speaker 4: So I don't know. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't.

442
00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:31,479
Speaker 5: But that's the way my players remember it, and all

443
00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,520
Speaker 5: three of them had the same exact memory of it,

444
00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:35,679
Speaker 5: so I must have done it.

445
00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,760
Speaker 3: So this was not made up. I witnessed this story

446
00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:39,360
Speaker 3: being told.

447
00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:41,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, and they were like, no, no, you told us.

448
00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:44,119
Speaker 3: I'm like, all right, I guess I did dang it well.

449
00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:47,800
Speaker 2: At times. A guy who was also a poor sport

450
00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,920
Speaker 2: was Randy Matchaman Savage and when I say poor sport,

451
00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:53,879
Speaker 2: one time he took a bell and crushed Ricky the

452
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Speaker 2: Dragon steamboats throw it with it, so not nice.

453
00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:57,439
Speaker 4: Not nice.

454
00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:01,159
Speaker 3: I got a chance to have I booked him.

455
00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:02,840
Speaker 2: I used to be a producer for a TV show

456
00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:05,920
Speaker 2: in Dallash and this was two thousand and one when

457
00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:07,280
Speaker 2: I did this. But I booked him and he came

458
00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:11,040
Speaker 2: on a TV show and he was awesome. He was

459
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Speaker 2: everything you could think he would be, and I was.

460
00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:15,560
Speaker 2: I got a chance to spend about fifteen twenty minutes

461
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Speaker 2: with him before the show in the green room, just

462
00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:19,480
Speaker 2: chit chatting with him, trying to make him feel.

463
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Speaker 3: Comfortable and Yeah, he was. He was great. He was

464
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Speaker 3: telling stories.

465
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Speaker 2: He's like, I used to play minor league baseball in

466
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Speaker 2: the organization he did.

467
00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:30,080
Speaker 3: But he was awesome, and he got a cool picture.

468
00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:32,200
Speaker 2: I put it up. I put it up whenever I can.

469
00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:35,639
Speaker 2: I'll try probably put it up in conjunction with this podcast.

470
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Speaker 4: If I had to tell my story, you've got to

471
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Speaker 4: put that picture up.

472
00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,040
Speaker 3: There's really not a wild story.

473
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Speaker 2: He had just filmed Spider Man and he was in

474
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Speaker 2: the original well I don't know if it's the original,

475
00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:47,160
Speaker 2: but the one from two thousand and one.

476
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Speaker 3: To mguire with Toby maguire and he played a character.

477
00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:52,680
Speaker 3: He's like, oh, it was bone Saw. McGraw was swimming

478
00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:56,639
Speaker 3: from the chandeliers with Kirsten Dunst. That's my before Macho

479
00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:57,560
Speaker 3: Man impersonation.

480
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Speaker 4: It's pretty good.

481
00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,360
Speaker 2: No, I got a coff it's pretty but yeah, love

482
00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:05,280
Speaker 2: rest in peace, Macho Man. So because of that, because

483
00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:08,280
Speaker 2: of all his different sayings, he had that little the

484
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Speaker 2: Dream of the Crop in this interview he did with

485
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Speaker 2: mean Gene okle Lands, So I thought, let's he's our

486
00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,119
Speaker 2: So just calling it best Player of the Game or

487
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Speaker 2: the Dream of.

488
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Speaker 5: The Crop, recognizing Randon mamange Yes, yes, all right, ma.

489
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Speaker 2: R I P and R I P to the rest

490
00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:27,240
Speaker 2: of this interview with you and me, but not rip

491
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:30,399
Speaker 2: to the rest of this podcast, because the guy who

492
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,520
Speaker 2: we talked quite a bit about earlier in the show,

493
00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:36,560
Speaker 2: Nico Collins, is a monster on the field and he's

494
00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,720
Speaker 2: just a good, fun loving dude off of it.

495
00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:41,200
Speaker 3: As evidenced by this interview.

496
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:45,679
Speaker 2: Ico Collins, the animal you would least like to be

497
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:54,639
Speaker 2: around is what alliant? A lion? Okay, gorillas? Sneaky? Strong, Yeah, predictable,

498
00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 2: Yeah that's what. Okay, gutny petts.

499
00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:03,359
Speaker 6: I do have a robber. Oh boy, girl, good boy?

500
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:04,080
Speaker 2: What's his name?

501
00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,560
Speaker 6: Who knows? Like the game? Oh?

502
00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:07,040
Speaker 2: Like the game?

503
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:07,480
Speaker 6: Yeah?

504
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:09,400
Speaker 7: I got him doing COVID because you know, I love playing,

505
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,159
Speaker 7: you know, every game, and you know, I feel like

506
00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,560
Speaker 7: he was he looked good, So I feel like one.

507
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:17,639
Speaker 2: Who knows a good name. I like it. So how

508
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:19,639
Speaker 2: much food do you have to buy for on like

509
00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 2: a regular a lot?

510
00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,640
Speaker 6: I normally to go to Target get the big bag.

511
00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,159
Speaker 7: That's probably what seventy pounds cost a lot that was

512
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:27,320
Speaker 7: probably like one hundred dollars.

513
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:27,879
Speaker 6: Is crazy.

514
00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,040
Speaker 7: Yeah, I get mad every time it's fight my car,

515
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,560
Speaker 7: like food cost so much. But you know I hed

516
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,399
Speaker 7: him there and give him to the ground beef or

517
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:35,960
Speaker 7: whatever and should get the protein.

518
00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,560
Speaker 2: Now you're a big, strong football player. Yeah, but does

519
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:40,359
Speaker 2: Uno sometimes take you for a walk or are you

520
00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:41,600
Speaker 2: taking for a walk?

521
00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,400
Speaker 7: It depends on no, c you see something of your life,

522
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,480
Speaker 7: so taking me for a walk. But you know I

523
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Speaker 7: try to I try to get him right, you know,

524
00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:50,840
Speaker 7: get him in his command, and he always by my

525
00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:52,080
Speaker 7: side no matter what.

526
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, Roger smart dogs. You know it sounds like a

527
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:55,399
Speaker 2: fun guy.

528
00:22:55,480 --> 00:22:56,680
Speaker 6: Is you really cool like that?

529
00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:58,160
Speaker 2: Does he do any fun tricks?

530
00:22:58,680 --> 00:22:58,840
Speaker 6: Nah?

531
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Speaker 7: Well, he liked to play with tire's tied. You played

532
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,640
Speaker 7: with like a small light car tire spread tire. Yeah,

533
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,399
Speaker 7: that's this a little thing like you throw it up,

534
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 7: talk with it around, so.

535
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 2: It's like a football. You guys flip tires staying ship,

536
00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:12,360
Speaker 2: Yeah easily. If you didn't set an alarm, What time

537
00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:13,120
Speaker 2: would you wake up.

538
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 7: In the morning, seven seven fifteen, seven thirty? I bet yeah,

539
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 7: I'm going right back to sleep though. Yeah, yeah, I'm

540
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:22,520
Speaker 7: up too early.

541
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 6: I'm going back to sleep.

542
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:26,920
Speaker 2: There are a few better feelings in the world than

543
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:28,920
Speaker 2: waking up knowing you don't have to go anywhere, and

544
00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:30,640
Speaker 2: you get to go back and we'll we'll back over

545
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 2: to sleep right on of the what's what's a better feeling?

546
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 2: Is there one? I mean, yes, there is?

547
00:23:36,760 --> 00:23:37,080
Speaker 3: It is?

548
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 6: It is?

549
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:41,560
Speaker 7: But knowing like you got a lazy day? Yeah, alarm

550
00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 7: go off. You can shut that thing off. He was

551
00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,920
Speaker 7: a bathroom real quick, come back, get your feet right,

552
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:48,680
Speaker 7: the bundle up, right, man, just lay.

553
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 2: Down, get your feet right.

554
00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 1: Yeah.

555
00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:52,080
Speaker 6: What do you mean you leting your side? I like

556
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 6: laying on my side side, you know how you kind

557
00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:54,920
Speaker 6: of feet together?

558
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Speaker 2: Oh? Oh there go?

559
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:57,960
Speaker 6: Okay, yeah, all.

560
00:23:57,920 --> 00:23:59,840
Speaker 2: Right, we're going on a road trip. It's you and

561
00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:02,359
Speaker 2: you get three teammates. Who's coming with you? What are

562
00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 2: the other three? Who are the other three?

563
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,639
Speaker 6: I can only get three? Yes, okay, what are we

564
00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:07,359
Speaker 6: doing on this trip?

565
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:11,639
Speaker 2: You're gonna go to Florida beach trip Miami. Yes, you

566
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 2: gotta go all the way down Miami.

567
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 7: I gotta take a Florida do with me, you know, Florida.

568
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,080
Speaker 7: I'm gonna take my boy Briami.

569
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 2: Okay, Tank daytona beach guy was Florida Castle, Florida.

570
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,280
Speaker 6: DP Denzel Perryman, No another DP.

571
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Speaker 2: Oh Dimmi Pierce, Yes, played it Florida. All right. Who's

572
00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:38,240
Speaker 2: a teammate? Okay, don't mean you don't like him, but

573
00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 2: he's got a roll Separately, he's not coming on the

574
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Speaker 2: road trip.

575
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Speaker 6: Who's that Robin Dalton?

576
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 2: Dalton? Okay, he's gotta be he's on the outside looking. Yeah,

577
00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:51,920
Speaker 2: we had uh, we had Devin Singletary on last week.

578
00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:54,280
Speaker 2: He chows austendiculous as the guy who's got a ride

579
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Speaker 2: away along.

580
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

581
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Speaker 2: What what are the snacks though? What are you bringing? Drinking?

582
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:00,600
Speaker 6: Drinking?

583
00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 7: Okay, snacks for sure. You gotta bring a South past kid,

584
00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:07,680
Speaker 7: sour con. You gotta bring hot cheetos, hot fries, whatever,

585
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 7: you gotta have to get it right, blue.

586
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,440
Speaker 6: Pair the blue Yep? What else?

587
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:15,399
Speaker 2: Beef jerky?

588
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,200
Speaker 6: I'm not really a beep dirt guy. Yeah, chips for sure,

589
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 6: like to love the ridos? What else? All this night?

590
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:23,720
Speaker 6: You got some water?

591
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 2: What are you guys talking about?

592
00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 7: It's a conversation in Miami, trying to get them a boat,

593
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 7: get them the yacht or something flu up the city.

594
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:33,960
Speaker 7: You know, just see how that is. For sure, got

595
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,680
Speaker 7: hit the club night life, got to enjoy night life. Yeah,

596
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 7: you got to feel that's like a mandatory, like you

597
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 7: gotta go to dinner. Whatever the conversation is, that's gonna

598
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 7: get brought up.

599
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 2: You know.

600
00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:47,600
Speaker 6: I feel like there's no no ceiling, you know, it's

601
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:48,879
Speaker 6: just open up thing.

602
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,919
Speaker 2: Let's say about family. Your family is going on the

603
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:55,120
Speaker 2: family feud? So which of the family members is gonna

604
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 2: be the one that has the most inappropriate answers? That

605
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 2: makes Steve Harvey just do the face to words the camera.

606
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:01,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, he just looks.

607
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:01,880
Speaker 2: Yeah.

608
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:03,880
Speaker 6: I love him that every day.

609
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 7: Oh, I say, my brother, my older brother, Okay, what's

610
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 7: he gonna do?

611
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 6: Not do nothing? But I feel like his an is

612
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 6: probably gonna be like you say that. You know what

613
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 6: I'm saying. I just wanted those, but I feel like

614
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 6: it would be him.

615
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 2: Okay, we're some of your favorite football movies of all time.

616
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,400
Speaker 6: I got a couple, a couple of Friday Night Lights

617
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 6: really number one move.

618
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 2: Miuse Bob Miles so sad.

619
00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:34,199
Speaker 6: Yes, I remember the Titans. Okay, any given Sunday, Solid

620
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:34,919
Speaker 6: good box.

621
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,160
Speaker 2: I was in that movie as an extra way back

622
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 2: in the day.

623
00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, you gotta show it to him.

624
00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 2: You don't see me, you're here, I promise I was

625
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,200
Speaker 2: in there. I was at a scene where the guy that

626
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 2: got pushed the reporter. Yeahino has a press conference and

627
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:48,879
Speaker 2: apologize for that.

628
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:51,680
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, okay after those.

629
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,199
Speaker 7: Three, those three, yeah, I feel like nothing gonna bet

630
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 7: those three.

631
00:26:56,119 --> 00:27:00,479
Speaker 2: Solid, very good choices. Which teammate of yours?

632
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:02,399
Speaker 6: Man, I'm not gonna lie. We got some charts on

633
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:06,880
Speaker 6: the team. Man. I feel like j G. He's hilarious.

634
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 6: How come just like the jokes he made. Man, just

635
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 6: like just being around him, you're gonna laugh at least

636
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 6: once a day, twice a day. It's like mandatory, you're

637
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:15,160
Speaker 6: gonna laugh.

638
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 7: A couple of guys on the old line, Austin Douglas funnyarious.

639
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:20,160
Speaker 1: Man.

640
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:21,800
Speaker 6: It's a lot of people, man, it's a lot of

641
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 6: people you least suspect that's.

642
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 2: Like funny grenardulous. So those are two I've not heard before.

643
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 6: Number one for sure.

644
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, if you were not a football player, what

645
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 2: would you be doing?

646
00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 6: I feel like I'll be coaching.

647
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,439
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, I like coaching like the youth because I

648
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 7: have two little nephews.

649
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 6: You know, they in sports.

650
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 7: I was in sports as well, and like I like

651
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 7: just seeing them just you know, just ball like a

652
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,439
Speaker 7: young age. You know, just showing them the rights and

653
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 7: wrong you know what I'm saying, watching them grow. So

654
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 7: I feel like just the youth, I feel like i'd

655
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,880
Speaker 7: be a youth football coach. Yeah, or just being around

656
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 7: the youth.

657
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,960
Speaker 2: You learn a lot about yourself, man, do that? Yeah?

658
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:56,479
Speaker 2: Are they playing all sorts of sports?

659
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 1: Yeah?

660
00:27:57,040 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're playing football, basketball, and baseball. There you go,

661
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 6: all three. Just letting them do pick on one one coach.

662
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,120
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for the time. I can't wait

663
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 2: to do this. Okay, and we're gonna wrap things up

664
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 2: with a few questions from you. I in the past

665
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 2: have done a Dear Drew video, but not enough people

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Speaker 2: watched it, so they're like, hey, just make it an article.

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Speaker 3: So I did. I've been doing that for the last few.

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Speaker 2: Years and every Tuesday during the season I release it.

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Speaker 2: And yesterday I had four questions. And since the release

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Speaker 2: of the article, thank you all for reading, thank you

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Speaker 2: all for sending in the question. Since then, got another question,

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Speaker 2: and this one comes from Rick Lamb and he says, this,

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Speaker 2: Dear Drew Stroud gets all the publicity. How is Anderson

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Speaker 2: stacking up against expectations? Seeing the block kick at Jacksonville

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Speaker 2: has me wondering well Will is definitely stacking up very

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Speaker 2: very well.

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Speaker 3: He obviously was expected to do great things.

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Speaker 2: Team traded up and trade it a lot to go

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Speaker 2: all the way up to number three in the draft

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Speaker 2: to get him and Hey. First game out, he gets

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Speaker 2: a sack of Lamar Jackson. Two weeks later, he blocks

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Speaker 2: a field goal attempt. Massive, massive play on special teams

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Speaker 2: early in that win at Jacksonville.

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Speaker 3: All the way through, he's been getting after the quarterback.

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Speaker 3: He got after the quarterback.

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Speaker 2: On Sunday and made life miserable for Kenny Pickett. I

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Speaker 2: think he had six pressures total. He was hitting him,

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Speaker 2: he was making a move around, getting him off his spot,

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Speaker 2: which is what you want him to do. Now, I

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Speaker 2: think Will Anderson is going to start getting some more

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Speaker 2: sacks as the week's advance. But yeah, everything about Will

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Speaker 2: Anderson so far has been the real deal, and it's

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Speaker 2: only going to get better in my estimation. So yes,

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Speaker 2: he is deserving of the publicity and probably should get more.

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Speaker 2: But Willy Anderson doing very nice things, and I appreciate

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Speaker 2: you sending that question. Please keep more of them coming

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Speaker 2: on in. Like I said, go and rate, review and

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Speaker 2: subscribe to this podcast. We have so much fun doing it,

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Speaker 2: but you're the reason we do it, So get after

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Speaker 2: it and let us know, and we'll talk to you again,

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Speaker 2: very very soon.

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Speaker 3: Fun in the lab