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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody? Welcome into a Friday edition of

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio, as I

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Speaker 1: live and breathe, less than forty eight hours away from

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Speaker 1: kickoff against Indianapolis Colts. Let me say that again, less

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Speaker 1: than forty eight hours away from coltsby Texans at Energy

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Speaker 1: Stadium to kick off the twenty twenty two season. Who

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Speaker 1: oh does that feel good to say? And that woo

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Speaker 1: felt good to get out? I'm your hostess Evening, John Harris,

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Speaker 1: football analyst, sideline reporter, and we got plenty for you tonight.

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Speaker 1: We're going to hear from Lovey Smith and Davis Mills

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Speaker 1: and just a little bit. We got my predictions, my

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Speaker 1: keys to the game. We also are going to hear

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Speaker 1: from dpcito, who sat down with Colts silin rapport reporter

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Speaker 1: Laura Overton. I hope I said that right. I keep

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Speaker 1: that right. So love Me Smith, Davis Mills, Laura Overton,

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Speaker 1: my predictions, my keys, a little bit of Mark Vanimir,

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Speaker 1: a little bit of Drew Jorty, a little bit of

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Speaker 1: Deep All on tonight's show. If that sounds good to you.

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Speaker 1: Let's rock and start by hearing from the Texans head

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Speaker 1: coach Lovey Smith, who spent a few minutes with Mark

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Speaker 1: VanderMeer talking about this one against Indianapolis. All right, coach,

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Speaker 1: here we go the opener. Tell me, how do you

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Speaker 1: balance with the players or help them balance all the

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Speaker 1: and physically at the same time. Well, I think the

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Speaker 1: first thing you have to do is just acknowledge that

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Speaker 1: doing it a while, but every year is different. And

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Speaker 1: then the amount of young players you have. You know,

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Speaker 1: And that's what I've done. Hey, you know, trying to

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Speaker 1: Jalen Patriot there LUI to go say, hey, if you

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Speaker 1: know we can get you one. Or if you're just

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Speaker 1: I'm probably up to so. But again, the excitement for

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Speaker 1: have to help too as far as adversity you might

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Speaker 1: experience within the game itself, right, because not everything goes

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Speaker 1: as that. Well, you have to at least slow down,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, how do you do that? What can you

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Speaker 1: more too, and being a division opponent, we know exactly

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Speaker 1: What about the matchup of your old line versus their

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Speaker 1: It's going to be one of those kind of games.

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Speaker 1: You know we're talking. We just talked defensively about what

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Speaker 1: going back to preparation. They're prepared, and you prepared, and

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Speaker 1: you you're a good football player. Your mom and dad

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Speaker 1: know what the result is going to be at the end. Coach,

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Speaker 1: its a lot for joining us. Good luck anytime at all.

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Speaker 1: So there's Mark Vanimre with rock Star number one, and

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Speaker 1: it's time for Drew Doherty with a little drews does

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Speaker 1: it with rock Star number two to get golf Tonight's show,

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Speaker 1: Davis Mills Drew for yours, Drews Does in Time presented

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Speaker 1: by Mustang Cat. We got the quarterback, Davis Mills with us.

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Speaker 1: It's great to be with you. This is fun, hey,

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Speaker 1: since it's Mustang Cat and they do the earth moving

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Speaker 1: equipment amongst other things. What's the last time you remember

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Speaker 1: He has an extra gear at that moment like this.

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Speaker 1: And Stafford took some violent hits in that game, so

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Speaker 1: did Alan, by the way, but a lot of his

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Speaker 1: were because I guess he wanted to. He's like, I'm

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Speaker 1: running and I guess you're gonna hit me. Oh, by

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Speaker 1: the way, can we give credit. Now, I was not

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Speaker 1: listening to the game last night, so I don't know

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Speaker 1: if any credit was given. But your boy, Kenny Dorsey

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Speaker 1: called one heck of a game. They talked about him,

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Speaker 1: and they showed him a few today because we know him,

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Speaker 1: you know, from back in the day. She does like, oh, Kenny,

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Speaker 1: but she said, that doesn't even look like him. All right, listen,

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Speaker 1: it's twenty something years later. Can you give the guy

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Speaker 1: Fantastic's got his glasses on, he's got a hat on,

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Speaker 1: he's falling the game. And you know what helps when

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Speaker 1: you're an offensive coordinator, Josh Allen? That helps a lot?

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Speaker 1: Does he The throws that he makes into tight spots

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Speaker 1: now that are accurate. I just remember seeing him at

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Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl and just thinking, man, if he can

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Speaker 1: rein that in and that thought. What was interesting thinking

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Speaker 1: back to Josh Allen in eighteen was at the Senior

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Speaker 1: Bowl the first day watching it was he and Baker

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Speaker 1: Mayfield and I think it was Taylor Lee for Nebraska.

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Speaker 1: Those are three quarterbacks on that team, and I'm watching

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Speaker 1: him throw. They're thrown at that that netting, that's got

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Speaker 1: the three squares to kind of diagonally set three squares,

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Speaker 1: but Chris Palmer target, yeah, and Mark Allan can't hit it.

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Speaker 1: He can't hit it. He's just spraying it. But the

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Speaker 1: next day they did that drill. He's popping it. Oh

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Speaker 1: he got And then the next day it was he

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Speaker 1: was doing it again. And I remember thinking at the time, Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's that's something. Maybe that's showing how he's making adjustment

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Speaker 1: he's taking in coaching. That's something good. It wasn't great

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Speaker 1: when he wasn't hitting the net. Now you gotta worry

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Speaker 1: about that. But man, he did show improvement day after

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Speaker 1: day after day. If he does that, oh boy, he's

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Speaker 1: starting to do that now. Wasn't his completion percentage in

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Speaker 1: college in the fifties? It last night? It was in

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Speaker 1: the eighties. Okay, he's ripping it. Yeah, I mean just

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Speaker 1: he has gotten. But he does what you want every

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Speaker 1: player to do, which I always talk about. But people

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Speaker 1: really gonna mention this again. Get better. It's that obvious, folks,

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Speaker 1: improve How do you do it? Hard work plus talent

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Speaker 1: equals improvement. That's it. It's not really that difficult. Well,

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Speaker 1: it is difficult. I should say, it's not that complicated. Okay,

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Speaker 1: hard work plus talent, you're gonna get better. Now. If

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Speaker 1: you're not talented, you're still gonna get better, but maybe

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Speaker 1: not enough. Right, But if you're talented as an athlete

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Speaker 1: and you work your butt off and you stay healthy,

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Speaker 1: obviously that's gonna equal success. It's pretty simple. It's just

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Speaker 1: harder to do. It's like being a salesperson make the

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Speaker 1: ten calls a day. Well, it's pretty simple to say that.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to do. The phone weighs a thousand pounds.

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Speaker 1: After a while. When he was at Wyoming, he had

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Speaker 1: a couple of throws where he'd be running dead to

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Speaker 1: the sideline, but he always kept his eyes down the

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Speaker 1: field and then he would sling at sixty yards falling

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Speaker 1: on a bounds. I thought, when the heck is he

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Speaker 1: ever gonna do that in a game? And then he

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Speaker 1: did that last night. Yeah, he rolls right and there's

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Speaker 1: digs fifty five yards in the air. He's just when

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Speaker 1: he let that one go, I thought, this is gonna

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Speaker 1: be good. This is there's something down there and it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be good. Because I was rooting hard against the Rams.

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Speaker 1: Usually I root against every AFC team no matter what.

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Speaker 1: But I just and I like McVeigh yet I want

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Speaker 1: to see the Rams fail. There's just something about it.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. I wanted to see the Rams

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Speaker 1: field too. And of course we know Salon and I

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Speaker 1: know the history of Buffalo and Houston in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. But I love going

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Speaker 1: out to Buffalo. You know, Salon, I obviously have a connection,

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Speaker 1: you know that we've you know, fostered over the years,

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Speaker 1: and so I was cheering for him. I'm happy for that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, did they show up? Oh, they showed up,

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Speaker 1: speaking up, shown up and shown out Buffalo fans. Did.

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Speaker 1: Texas fans got to show up, show out on Sunday

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Speaker 1: as well, and they will. We will at NRG Stadium

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Speaker 1: and guess where else we can implement the silent count,

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Speaker 1: you know, on the opposing quarterback on the road in Dallas. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you gotta do that again for Dak Prescott the way

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Speaker 1: they did for Romo the Traveling Texans in twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 1: Gotta make that happen. Yeah, definitely, that will be in December.

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Speaker 1: But Sunday is the Colts. I will give you my

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Speaker 1: keys to the game next, right, here on Texas Delaxis,

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Speaker 1: right here on Texas Delaxis, right here on Texas Delaxis,

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Speaker 1: right here. Welcome back everybody, this Friday edition of Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access. It's a football Friday. It's less than forty

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Speaker 1: eight hours away from the Colts and Texans kicking it

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Speaker 1: off at noon NRG Stadium. The twenty twenty two season

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Speaker 1: is here. My goodness, it's everything all wrapped in one.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris Football an, a sideline reporter

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Speaker 1: and every year, this is now the ninth year I

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Speaker 1: have spent either this or the next segment. We're moving

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Speaker 1: up to the second segment this year for my Keys

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Speaker 1: to the Game. And I know over the years, I've

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Speaker 1: had plenty of people, a number of them inside the

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Speaker 1: Texans building that love listening to this segment. What are

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Speaker 1: the keys to victory? I get asked this all the time.

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Speaker 1: So and I've done Keys to the Game articles for

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Speaker 1: nineteen years. I started in two thousand and three ready

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Speaker 1: for Coas Football News, and that's when I started doing them,

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Speaker 1: and I've been doing them ever since. Now I put

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Speaker 1: this an article called No Your Foe Houston Texas dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you check that out. Check out the app.

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Speaker 1: Have the app handy because obviously you're gonna need it

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Speaker 1: for your tickets getting into the building on Sunday, and

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Speaker 1: get in there early, man, get a button a seat

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Speaker 1: by eleven thirty. Man, let's rock that place. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be awesome for Liberty white out on Sunday. Now, let's

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Speaker 1: buckle in. Let's focus on the Colts. I've always said

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Speaker 1: this Wednesday show is always kind of like a final recap,

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Speaker 1: you know, putting the final kind of nails in the

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Speaker 1: coffin of the previous week. Friday is looking ahead to

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Speaker 1: that game and diving in as I do right about here. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do my keys to the game. I need music.

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Speaker 1: I need my music because it just gets me in

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Speaker 1: the mood. I mean, you got me in the mood

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Speaker 1: right right, And what gets you in the mood a

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Speaker 1: lot of times, Well, for me, it's football, but for

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Speaker 1: a lot of people's music. So let's put football music

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Speaker 1: together and get our keys to the game cranked. All right,

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Speaker 1: Let's start with the Texans defense against the Colts offense.

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Speaker 1: It's Colts offense that average one hundred and fifty nine

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Speaker 1: point seven yards per game, second in the NFL. Why

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Speaker 1: was that went sider center Taylor in the backfield, first

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Speaker 1: down Colts at their twelve yard line, five men across

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Speaker 1: the front for the Texans. Wentz takes the snap handoff.

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Speaker 1: Taylor has a lot of room fifteen twenty left side

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Speaker 1: and Red can't cut him down thirty forty still going

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Speaker 1: on the left side, by forty of huston the thirty,

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Speaker 1: the twenty, and finally Mitchell brings him down inside the five,

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Speaker 1: just shot out of a cannon. Jonathan Taylor was pretty

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Speaker 1: darn good. He did that against the Texans in the

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis matchup up at Lucas Oil last year. They threw

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Speaker 1: for under two hundred yards. Again, there was twenty six

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Speaker 1: in the league last year. Total offense at three forty

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Speaker 1: seven or sixteenth, right in the middle of the league,

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Speaker 1: and they nineteen turnovers. Now you think of nineteen turnovers,

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Speaker 1: it's a salty number. They had thirty three takeaways there

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Speaker 1: plus fourteen turnover margin. My goodness. A lot of the

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Speaker 1: Colts stay the same. Alec Pierce jumps in a wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: The rookie six foot four, two hundred and fifteen pounder

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Speaker 1: from out of Cincinnati will jump in for t Y Hilton.

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Speaker 1: He is a heightweight, speed guy. He is down the

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Speaker 1: field guy. He is the version of t Y Hilton

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Speaker 1: kind of because t Y Hilton's like five ten, one

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Speaker 1: seventy five. But they're gonna get to the same spot

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Speaker 1: and the same speed and create a lot of issues

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Speaker 1: down the field. It's just that it's not t Y Hilton.

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan will pull the trigger, of course. And the

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Speaker 1: offensive line still I think has two particular spots where

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Speaker 1: the Texas could take advantage. Left tackle Matt Prior is

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Speaker 1: new to the starting lineup, as is Danny Pinter, taken

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Speaker 1: over Mark Lewinski, whom moved on to the Giants coming

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Speaker 1: out of nineteen Hines also as well. Now, the first

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Speaker 1: key to the game, it's got to be, I like

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Speaker 1: my literation here, make Matt move. Matt Ryan fifteenth year

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. He has faced Lovey Smith's seven previous times.

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Speaker 1: Three when Love he's with the Bears, four when Love

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Speaker 1: he was in the division with the Atlanta Falcons, when

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Speaker 1: Love he was down in Tampa Bay. Matt doesn't move

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Speaker 1: extremely well. Now, there have been times where Matt has

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Speaker 1: had a scramble, He's gotten out a dodge man coverage,

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Speaker 1: everybody got their back to him. He's got just enough

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Speaker 1: to be able to go get a scramble for a

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Speaker 1: first time, those kind of things. But Matt's not going

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Speaker 1: to make an undisciplined rusher miss for the most part.

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Speaker 1: If guys are flying at him, he's not gonna creator

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Speaker 1: and go into a turtle pose. But he's not gonna

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Speaker 1: be able to Lamar Jackson that thing and just slip

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Speaker 1: a gap and gone. I mean, you could do everything

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Speaker 1: right against Lamar and he can make him miss. You

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Speaker 1: could do everything wrong against Matt Ryan. But if somebody

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Speaker 1: has one upfront, you have an opportunity to get back

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Speaker 1: there and sack him. You've got to move him off

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Speaker 1: the spot. If you let him drop throw, drop, throw,

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Speaker 1: drop throw, he's gonna beat the you know what out

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Speaker 1: of you. Make him move, and if the front four

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Speaker 1: can't do it, bring five, Bring six love. He's not scared,

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Speaker 1: he's done that before. Make him move and once he moves,

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Speaker 1: then DB's gotta plash to those receivers and hopefully they'll

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Speaker 1: do that. But you gotta make him move. Number two

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Speaker 1: free up Malik Malik is Maliek Collins. Now I mentioned

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Speaker 1: Danny Pinter taken over at right guard. The other guards,

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Speaker 1: Quinn Nelsey's the best in the league of mine. From

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Speaker 1: my thoughts, you have Quinn Nelson, you have Zach Martin,

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Speaker 1: two best guards. They came from Notre Dame. They're incredible.

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Speaker 1: You don't face Zach Martin, do face Quinn Nelson. Danny

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Speaker 1: Pinter on the other side is a guy that's played

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Speaker 1: a little bit, a little bit center, a little bit

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Speaker 1: of guard. But MALIEK Collins was on one of training

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Speaker 1: camp about as explosive as I can remember seeing him

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Speaker 1: free him up. If malikos one on one against Pinter,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be a win for Malik often. So whatever

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Speaker 1: they gotta do against Quinn Nelson, let Quinn and Y

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Speaker 1: Lopez bang. Roy's gonna win his share because Roy Roy's

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Speaker 1: game has gone up to a different level. But Malik

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Speaker 1: is the key. Malik can make their life miserable inside.

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Speaker 1: MALIEK Collins is that guy. I'd like to see him

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Speaker 1: take over this game number three. Gap sound. Now there

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Speaker 1: was the band called the Gap, the Gap Band. Then

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Speaker 1: there was the store of the Gap. The gaps I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about, the A to B, the C, the D

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Speaker 1: in the defense and the offensive line. Everybody's responsible for

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Speaker 1: a gap, but you try and steal a gap at

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Speaker 1: times playing some of the coverages that coach does with

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Speaker 1: some Tampa two you only have seven. How do you

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Speaker 1: get into your gaps? We've got to make sure that

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Speaker 1: everybody is in a gap where that player needs to be.

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor's good enough to do. You have all the

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Speaker 1: gas filled and he still beat you. He's that good,

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Speaker 1: So you can't allow him opportunities when you have botched

637
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: your gap responsibility and he's now about to embarrass you.

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00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,800
Speaker 1: That can't happen, all right. I was flip it over

639
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: to the other side of the ball where the Colts

640
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: defense now has a new face leading it. That would

641
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: be Gus Bradley. Last year, they gave up on hundred

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Speaker 1: and nine yards for game in the grounds, eleventh the NFL.

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00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 1: They allowed two hundred and thirty four yards per game

644
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 1: through the air, it was nineteenth in the NFL and

645
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 1: total offense three and forty three. That was sixteenth right

646
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Speaker 1: in the middle of their offense. But they generated thirty

647
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: three turnovers. They're plus fourteen in turnover margin. Jannikn Gockway

648
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Speaker 1: joins the lineup out on the edge across from Quitty

649
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: pay Brandon Facon moves out to corner. He played in

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Speaker 1: Gus's defense last year in Las Vegas, and Nick crossed

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Speaker 1: the rook He more than likely he is going to

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Speaker 1: start at safety. He is the Colts version of Jalen Petree,

653
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: but a bigger, more middle of the field, deep coverage

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Speaker 1: kind of guy, whereas Jalen is a guy who can

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Speaker 1: kind of play all over the place. And they've also

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Speaker 1: added former Defensive Player of the Year Stefan Gilmore. This

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00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: is a talented, talented defense. So let's get into the keys.

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Speaker 1: Number one. Excuse my grammar here, but this ain't Grover

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Speaker 1: from Sesame Street. Now, if you're my generation, or maybe

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Speaker 1: I don't know this one, I don't. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if younger generations watched Sesame Street or not,

662
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Speaker 1: but I did. I watched a lot of Sesame Street.

663
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: I used to love Sesame Streets, Oscar Grouch, big Bird.

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Speaker 1: But Grover Grover is always this kind of happy girl, lucky,

665
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Speaker 1: fun guy with a kind of weird scratchy boys. But

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Speaker 1: he always seemed to get a lot of France. He

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Speaker 1: got along with everybody which I guess the sesame Street

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Speaker 1: number ninety is not that Number ninety is Grover Stewart

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Speaker 1: and I've often talked about the Forrest Buttner. Forrest Buckner

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Speaker 1: is arguably one of the top five defensive lineman in

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Speaker 1: terror defensive linemen in the league. He can wreck a

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00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: game plan in a quick second. I think we have

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00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 1: seen that over the years against the Texans. He was

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00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:08,359
Speaker 1: traded in twenty twenty of the Colts and he's been

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00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 1: dominant ever since. But while Buckner was taking games over

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Speaker 1: next to him number ninety, Grover Stewart was quietly becoming

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Speaker 1: a stud six six three thirty five three forty absolute

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Speaker 1: animal on the inside. And watching him in preseason games

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00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 1: this year, he looks about as good as I can

680
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: remember him looking. He reminds me a little bit of

681
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 1: a bigger, faster, more athletic version of Lawrence Guy who

682
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,919
Speaker 1: played for the Patriots for a long time. And guy

683
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: just wrecked everything on the inside. And that's the way

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Speaker 1: it feels like Grover Stewart is. He's as heightweight, speed,

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Speaker 1: top notches you can get. He is becoming a force

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Speaker 1: in both the run and the past defense, and that

687
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Speaker 1: is troubling especially because deforce Buckner's still there, So Grover Stewart,

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00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:02,959
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a big one. Grover Stewart gotta

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Speaker 1: get him blocked effectively against the interior offensive line that's

690
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,240
Speaker 1: got Justin britt A. J. Cann has seen him before,

691
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: played against the Colts when he's at the Jags. And

692
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: then we'll see what happens to left guard, whether it's

693
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Speaker 1: Justin McCrae, Kenyan Greene. How they're gonna divvy up those reps.

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Speaker 1: Maybe there's a split, maybe they split them, maybe there's

695
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: one series on, one series off. We'll see, but those

696
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Speaker 1: three are gonna have their handsful with Buckner, of course,

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Speaker 1: but also number ninety, Grover Stewart, number two. That's our ball,

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Speaker 1: not shacks. Now. I wrote my know your Foe and

699
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: my Keys to the Game and put my Keys to

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00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: the Game in it earlier in the week, and I

701
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: think it's one of those things where rather be prepared

702
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: for it and adjust to Shaquie Leonard not playing as

703
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 1: opposed to, oh, he's not gonna play, and then all

704
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: of a sudden he plays, and you're like, oh boy,

705
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,879
Speaker 1: now it's gonna be interesting how Shaquie Leonard fits into

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Speaker 1: a US Bradley defense either way. The fact that Shaque

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00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,879
Speaker 1: Leonard is not playing in this game. He has been

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00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: ruled out. He's the only player on both sides to

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00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 1: be ruled out of this matchup. And that, my friends,

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00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:23,319
Speaker 1: is huge. And I'm talking from all different angles. The

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00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:26,319
Speaker 1: interception last year when it was ten to three up

712
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,479
Speaker 1: in Lucas Soil, punching the ball out from Kiki Qt.

713
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty, fourth down and five at the fifteen

714
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Speaker 1: yard line of the Colts, Watson shotgun, three receivers, wad

715
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Speaker 1: side light, one back Johnson. Here's the snap, four man rush,

716
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 1: Watson throwing over the middle, got a man QT at

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00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: the five breaks to tackle. The ball is out, The

718
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 1: bull is out of the end zone. It's loose. It

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00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: looks like the Colts have it. QT caught it and

720
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 1: doubled inside the five, and the Cults are gonna have

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Speaker 1: it on the recovery with nineteen seconds to go, and

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Speaker 1: the Texans will lose to india Care last year, punching

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Speaker 1: the ball out David Johnson. I think both here and

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Speaker 1: up at Indianapolis at the forty three yard lot of

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00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,879
Speaker 1: Indie Mills and the gun Johnson of the backfield draw play,

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00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 1: Johnson has the first down, running left down to the

727
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,399
Speaker 1: thirty six yard lot of Indie and the Colts say

728
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 1: the ball is out and it's a fumble, but it

729
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: appears that Johnson was down Indie pleating its case. They

730
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 1: may look at this. It's a fumble a punch out

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Speaker 1: as David Johnson ran for the first down but coughed

732
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 1: it up and it's another turnover in this half of

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Speaker 1: the Houston Texans. The guy wasn't even one hundred percent

734
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,479
Speaker 1: last year playing with a bum ankle. He's probably about

735
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 1: He still was the best player on the field at

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00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,879
Speaker 1: that point, but he's not playing. He is out. He's

737
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 1: still dealing with that back injury. There was a thought

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Speaker 1: he might get ready for Week one, but with the

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00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: schedule Texans and then Jags before a Week three matchup

740
00:37:56,600 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 1: with the Chiefs, they kept the possibility. But he had

741
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: not played at all in the preseason. He's just put

742
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,240
Speaker 1: the pads on just getting back. He is not able

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00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 1: to go, thankfully for the Texans. Now, that doesn't mean

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00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a walk in the park. With the

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00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:20,720
Speaker 1: linebacker crew led by Bobby o'karake Okaake is a really

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Speaker 1: good player. But o'karake with Leonard is different than o'karake

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Speaker 1: without Leonard. That is a massive key. No Shaquille Leonard

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Speaker 1: aka Darius Leonard in this ball game. The last key

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Speaker 1: the old Gilmore. Now, when you put the word old

750
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Speaker 1: in front of something, it's not always good. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I guess because I'm now older, I'm a little bit

752
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: more sensitive to it. But when I say the old Gilmore,

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00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about Gilmore Stefund Gilmore being old. I'm

754
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 1: talking about Stefan Gilmore playing like his old his younger self.

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00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 1: Now as an older player watching him in the preseason games,

756
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: he looked sensational. He was top notch in coverage. He

757
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: looked like the old Stefan Gilmore, the Gilmore that won

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00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: Defensive Play of the Year back in twenty eighteen. First

759
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: down Texans at the Houston twenty five yard line, Griffin

760
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 1: motions around the backfield, settles to the right wing, Watson

761
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 1: fakes to give Watson throwing downfield, and it's picked off.

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00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: Gilmore a a fifty forty forty right side line. The

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00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:31,399
Speaker 1: twenty five twenty cuts inside and he's finally down at

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Speaker 1: the eleven yard line. Hopped in with the tackle, Watson

765
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: threw it off balance and Gilmore cashed in with a

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Speaker 1: pick and he just looked like he was that guy.

767
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Speaker 1: And that's scary. Now, how did the Colts go about

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Speaker 1: using Gilmore? Does he travel with Brandy Cooks? Does he

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00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 1: travel with Nico Collins? How do they use gilmourre That's

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Speaker 1: gonna be interesting. All I know is watching Stefan Gilmour.

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Speaker 1: He looks like the same guy and one defensive player

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Speaker 1: of the Year back in twenty eighteen, now four years later,

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Speaker 1: and that's not good. So Texans have to be able

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Speaker 1: to tangle was Stefan Gilmore to get a win? All right?

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Speaker 1: Those are your keys to a win over the Innanapolis

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Speaker 1: Colts will be back go around to the NFL with

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Speaker 1: a quickie in his first hour right here, Texans All Access,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back this Friday, Nation of Texans All Access from

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Speaker 1: the Hunday Texans Radio studio. We got the shorty here

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Speaker 1: as we get through with our first hour, I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: John Harris, Football Ana, a sideline reporter and boy, last

782
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: night was a show. It was an absolute show put

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Speaker 1: on by Josh Allen and the Bills. And you can

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00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 1: try and hate on the Bills if you want. Of

785
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: my goodness, what a talented squad that was last night.

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Speaker 1: Mark and I talked about that a little bit in

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Speaker 1: the first segment. But Bills beat the Rams, scoring twenty

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Speaker 1: one points twenty one unanswered. In the second half, Gabe

789
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 1: Davis scored a ken because like every game he played,

790
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: he plays, he's scoring touchdowns. So the Bills jump out

791
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 1: one oh on the seasons. The Rams follow zero and

792
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 1: one on one, first time they've been owned one since

793
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: Vet is taken over, and they've got issues that offensive line.

794
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: It's now they're gonna be not every team is gonna

795
00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: be able to do what the Bills did to them.

796
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 1: But holy smokes, Joe no Boom struggled to left tackle.

797
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 1: Coleman Shelton struggled at guard. Brian Allen has been a

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00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:33,360
Speaker 1: center for them, but I'm telling you they just don't

799
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,839
Speaker 1: have it. Havenstein and just gave a contract too, very

800
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 1: very good tackle, but David Edwards struggled. They needed Logan

801
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 1: Bruce for that team and he got hurt in our game, Wow,

802
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 1: our preseason game. That line is struggling, but be surprised

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00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 1: the Rams make a move with all that draft capital

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00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 1: they don't have. All right, We're gonna talk a little

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00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: bit more about Bills Rams later in the show when

806
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: we go around the NFL with our predictions. But coming

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Speaker 1: up next, let's talk about this one with Lara Overton,

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Speaker 1: dpcit who set down let's called Sideline Report. That's next

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Speaker 1: the Texans All Access. I love Game Week, love it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, who doesn't love game Who doesn't love Game Week? Man?

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Speaker 1: You kidding me? Game at the end sometimes it's hard

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Speaker 1: to get through the week because you're so excited about

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Speaker 1: the game on Sunday. But one of the things I

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Speaker 1: love about Game Week is that our All Access shows

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Speaker 1: go from not just six to seven to go sixt eight.

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Speaker 1: We can that second hour, and we kick off the

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Speaker 1: second hour right here from the Honday Texans Radio studio

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Speaker 1: with me. I'm your host, John Harris, football Analyst, Sideline reporter.

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Speaker 1: But I have to step aside, which I'm fine with

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Speaker 1: because it's my good friend dep cit who's stepping in.

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Speaker 1: She had a chance to catch up with her good

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Speaker 1: friend Lara Overton. Hopefully I said that right, I've been saying. Laura, Laura, Laura,

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Speaker 1: Laura Overton, who covers the sidelines and covers the Colts

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Speaker 1: like none others. She does a great, great job. And

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Speaker 1: she and Deep sat down and broke this one down

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Speaker 1: about five six, seven different ways. Here's Deep and Miss

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Speaker 1: over to cover in this game for the Colts. It's

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Speaker 1: enemy sidelines and we've got Lara over ten, team reporter

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Speaker 1: for the Annapolis Colts. Lara does TV, she does radio,

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Speaker 1: she does podcasting, she does everything. Lara is great to

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Speaker 1: see you for Week one Colts here at Energy Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Welcome in, my friend. It is so great to see

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Speaker 1: you again. And I can tell you it's so exciting

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Speaker 1: to get back on the road and get to Houston

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Speaker 1: again after the last two seasons were the way that

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Speaker 1: they were so excited to start things off. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the stakes are high. Not only is it week one,

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Speaker 1: but you start up within the division, which is always

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Speaker 1: exciting starting the season and ending the season with the Colts.

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Speaker 1: But for now, for Week one, let's talk about Matt Ryan.

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Speaker 1: I know, before the season started, I hit you up

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Speaker 1: in a few of our division writers to find out

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Speaker 1: what are the top storylines heading into training camp, and

844
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,280
Speaker 1: of course the big storyline for the Colts. Matt Ryan,

845
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 1: the veteran QB traded to the Colds now under center.

846
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 1: So how has this offense changed or how has it

847
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 1: looked with Matt Ryan under center? It has changed. I

848
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: wouldn't say a mentally, but you think it has been impactful.

849
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Speaker 1: The difference that he's made. He already came in and

850
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: we heard it the first week of the off season

851
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,719
Speaker 1: program when he came in that coach Reich was like, oh, yeah,

852
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,880
Speaker 1: we've already changed a good percentage of the playbook just

853
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,799
Speaker 1: based on some of the preferences that Matt has had

854
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:19,760
Speaker 1: from things he's done in the past. But also Matt's

855
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,400
Speaker 1: very open to suggestions on what has worked for you

856
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,279
Speaker 1: guys before, and especially, hey, what works when you have

857
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:27,960
Speaker 1: a running back like Jonathan Taylor, So you can run

858
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,799
Speaker 1: this offense through as well, where it's not a situation

859
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: that the entire offense is on Matt Ryan's shoulders. He

860
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:37,720
Speaker 1: has Jonathan Taylor, you have this unique weapon in Nihim Hines.

861
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:40,360
Speaker 1: You have a very young group of wide receivers behind

862
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman Junior, who had a thousand yard receiving season

863
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 1: last year. Then you have an interesting group of tight

864
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Speaker 1: ends to work with this well, with the retirement of

865
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Speaker 1: Jack Doyle. You're seeing Moali Cox and Kyl and Granson

866
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:54,319
Speaker 1: in the rookie Gilannie Woods take on larger roles. So

867
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,799
Speaker 1: one of the things that we've really learned is Matt

868
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 1: Ryan has an expectation of what he wants all of

869
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: the other guys within this offense to do, and where

870
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:06,839
Speaker 1: he wants them to be and how he wants them

871
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,800
Speaker 1: to play. And the guys have thrived, they have embraced

872
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: having that type of leadership. He was very hands on

873
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 1: over the course of training camp, giving immediate feedback to

874
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 1: guys like your rookie Alec Pierce, who comes in with

875
00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 1: incredibly high expectations. Man Paris Campbell is due to have

876
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: a breakout year, battered injuries over his previous three seasons

877
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 1: with the organization, it's a huge year for him to

878
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: step up. You have some departures of guys like t

879
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:34,359
Speaker 1: Y Hilton and then Zach Pastell, who was a big

880
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: role guy no longer with this organization, so not a

881
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: single receiver over the age of twenty five. So to

882
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:44,240
Speaker 1: have a fourteen year veteran like Matt Ryan is critical

883
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: for that group and this is going to be a

884
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Speaker 1: really good test for them. Frank Reich said that in

885
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:52,799
Speaker 1: the preseason they were very generic of Horace Nott. Ryan

886
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:55,359
Speaker 1: played in two of the three preseason games. They kept

887
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: things very bland. So it's going to be interesting to

888
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 1: see when they start to open up the playbook what

889
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:02,879
Speaker 1: the balance is like with the run and the pass,

890
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 1: and then how you're incorporating guys differently, because we do

891
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 1: expect Naive Hines to have a greater role in the

892
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:12,280
Speaker 1: passing game as well, a lot to unpack their Naim Hines.

893
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:15,200
Speaker 1: And then Jonathan Taylor, which Lovey Smith. He was here

894
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 1: last year's defensive coordinator, and we all remember a little

895
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: too well what Jonathan Taylor was able to against this

896
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 1: Texans defense last year. And I mean, hey, it wasn't

897
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 1: that a Texans defense. It was a lot of yes, yes,

898
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: thank you for finishing my sins. He had quite the season.

899
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 1: So you know, do you think that he can repeat

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00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one the campaign? I mean, are they planning

901
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: on giving him the same number or same amount of

902
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 1: touch as I know, it's sort of like looking into

903
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: a crystal ball, but you know, how much does the

904
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: offense change with Matt Ryan being added? As far as

905
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:47,160
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor's concerned. I do think that there's going to

906
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:50,479
Speaker 1: be a lot more consistency in the passing game with

907
00:46:50,560 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan's than what you had last year, just because

908
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:57,360
Speaker 1: of the poise that he brings, the command that he brings,

909
00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 1: the decisiveness. That was one of the things we learned

910
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:03,239
Speaker 1: early on in training camp practices were running a lot

911
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 1: more quickly because they were getting through all of the

912
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 1: plays they needed to do with about ten minutes to

913
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:11,960
Speaker 1: spare because of how quickly Matt Ryan got into his calls.

914
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 1: So it was a really good test for the defense

915
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:16,040
Speaker 1: as well. They're like, oh, okay, this is how we're

916
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:19,200
Speaker 1: going to play right. They're conditioning was very quickly tested,

917
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:21,879
Speaker 1: So we do know that that's something that Matt Ryan

918
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:25,360
Speaker 1: brings in. Frank Reich talked earlier this week about striving

919
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: for a bit of balance between the run and the past,

920
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:30,879
Speaker 1: but that does look differently week to weeks. Some days

921
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 1: you will be more pass heavy, and then maybe you

922
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,239
Speaker 1: commensate the next week and you go a little bit

923
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 1: more run heavy. One of the things I expect is that,

924
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: of course Michael Pittman Jr. Is kind of the workhorse

925
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 1: of the receiver group, and although he will get I

926
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: would imagine the bulk, the bulk of the targets and

927
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 1: of the looks. You'll really see the ball spread around

928
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: a lot with Matt Ryan and in the run game.

929
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 1: One of the stats that really stuck out to me

930
00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 1: was last year for Jonathan Taylor, his rush yards after

931
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:04,080
Speaker 1: contact one thousand, two hundred and seventy two exceeded the

932
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:08,839
Speaker 1: total rushing yards produced by any other player period. Nick

933
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,879
Speaker 1: Chubbring second the league with one two hundred and fifty nine.

934
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: That is rushing yards after contact. That is a huge number.

935
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 1: And one of the things we know with running backs

936
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 1: is you overload them and at some point in their

937
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 1: careers they're going to start to wear down. Now, that

938
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like that's indicative of what Jonathan Taylor is

939
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 1: going to do, because not only of the workload he's

940
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: he's had so far in those two seasons with the Colts,

941
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: but even going back to his college days and you

942
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 1: know the workhorse that he was, the workload that he

943
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: carried at Wisconsin. So I do expect that you're going

944
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 1: to continue to be a run first football team and

945
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 1: allow yourself to establish the run behind the offensive line.

946
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:53,320
Speaker 1: That you have with Quentin Nelson, Ryan Kelly, Braydon Smith,

947
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: and then you know, some new guys up front as well.

948
00:48:55,680 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 1: I think that it will be very run dominant, but

949
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: I do think that you'll see a little bit more

950
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 1: balanced because I expect nahem Hin's role to be much

951
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,879
Speaker 1: greater in twenty twenty two than in twenty twenty one.

952
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,760
Speaker 1: And an indication of the type of teammate that Jonathan Taylor.

953
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:12,759
Speaker 1: He's all for it. He's not a selfish guy who

954
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 1: is like, you know, thinking of the touches first, his

955
00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 1: touches first. He's all about distributing the ball, having a

956
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 1: balanced offense, and winning football games and doing whatever he

957
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: has to do to put his team in position to

958
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:26,760
Speaker 1: do that. All right, let's talk about the Colts defense.

959
00:49:26,800 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 1: Matt Everflus is gone. He's now the head coach of

960
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears, so they lose their defensive coordinator. But

961
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: they had some pretty big names this offseason. Janna King, Gockway,

962
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 1: who we saw a lot of when he was with

963
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:40,680
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, Stefan Gilmour. What's been different about this Colts

964
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 1: defense heading into twenty twenty two. Well, you know, not

965
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:45,840
Speaker 1: just the guys that you've added from a personal standpoint

966
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 1: on the roster, but also Gus Bradley brings in an

967
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:52,399
Speaker 1: entirely new scheme that you have. And you know, there

968
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 1: are things that we've seen that have been characteristic of

969
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: the past and the type of defenses he ran, like

970
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: with Seattle, with Jack Sinzil, with the Chargers, with the Raiders,

971
00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:08,239
Speaker 1: different organizations. But he also has taken the great foundation

972
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:12,359
Speaker 1: that Matt Eberflus established with this group and then just

973
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 1: brought some of his nuances to it. You knew that

974
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: this Colts defense was going to be very fast, very physical.

975
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 1: They loved to take the ball away right, That's one thing.

976
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:27,000
Speaker 1: And then Gus has really taken the strong foundation that

977
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 1: was here that you have with Shaquille Leonard, the Forrest Buckner,

978
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 1: Kenny Moore the second. I mean, it was a defense

979
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:37,479
Speaker 1: at last year that had Pro Bowl players at every level,

980
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 1: d line, linebacker and in your secondary. Now you add

981
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 1: to it, you compound two that a proven pass rusher

982
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:48,480
Speaker 1: in Unique and Gackway, and then you also have a

983
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 1: former Defensive Player of the Year and Stefan Gilmore. And

984
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:53,959
Speaker 1: one of the things that the Colts lacked last year

985
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: was pressuring the quarterback. They needed more sacks, You needed

986
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: more pressure off the edge. So one of the best

987
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 1: things about the addition of Unique and Ghakway is how

988
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:07,480
Speaker 1: Quitty pay benefits from that. You do expect them to

989
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:11,640
Speaker 1: be more attacking up front, and one of the things

990
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:13,960
Speaker 1: that DeForrest Buckner had to deal with a lot last

991
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 1: year was getting double teamed on, you know, almost every

992
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:20,799
Speaker 1: single snap. So you do expect that pressure upfront to

993
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:24,240
Speaker 1: be more consistent with what you're doing. And then, of course,

994
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,919
Speaker 1: with the Gust Bradley system, you rely heavily on those

995
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 1: safeties and those guys on the back end. So very

996
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: early on, I think that this play well for the

997
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:37,480
Speaker 1: athleticism you have with young safeties. Julian Blackman coming back.

998
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:40,240
Speaker 1: His season was shortened last year with that achilles injury.

999
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 1: He's looked incredible in training camp. Now you have the

1000
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 1: rookie and Nick Cross. Get this. Nick Cross turns twenty

1001
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:49,240
Speaker 1: one the day before this game against the Houston Texas,

1002
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 1: so he will make his NFL debut one day removed

1003
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 1: from his twenty first birthday. And then that whole group

1004
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 1: is reinforced by Roddy McCloud. So you do have a

1005
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,400
Speaker 1: really great group of playmaking safeties, and I think that

1006
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 1: because of the pressure you're going to get up front,

1007
00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 1: that's gonna allow those guys on the back end to

1008
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 1: make more plays. All right, Well, the athlete formerly known

1009
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 1: as Darius Leonard, he's now Shaquille Leonard. I saw that

1010
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:12,319
Speaker 1: a few months ago. He goes by his middle name. Now.

1011
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:15,480
Speaker 1: He had back surgery this offseason. What can you tell

1012
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 1: us about him and his recovery? And one of the

1013
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 1: things we learned from Shack Leonard And just to clarify,

1014
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 1: Shaquille is his middle name, so he his family. So

1015
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:28,440
Speaker 1: the backstory on that family. Friends had always called him

1016
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:31,240
Speaker 1: Shack or Shaquille when he was growing up. He joked

1017
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:32,960
Speaker 1: at the only time he was called Darius is when

1018
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:34,640
Speaker 1: he was in school or when he was in trouble.

1019
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 1: But when he got into the league, it was the

1020
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 1: advice of Randy Moss, who was like, you know, shut

1021
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:43,880
Speaker 1: your mouth, open your ears, you know, be quiet and listen.

1022
00:52:43,960 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 1: That's what you do as a rookie. So he didn't

1023
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:48,800
Speaker 1: want to make waves that first year, you know, and

1024
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 1: kind of tell people he really prefers Shaquille over Darius.

1025
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:56,359
Speaker 1: And then finally I asked him about it this year

1026
00:52:56,440 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: because last year we found out that we were pronouncing

1027
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:05,239
Speaker 1: Bobby o'karakay's name incorrectly. He came into the league and

1028
00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 1: we all called him Bobby Okariki, which is the Americanized

1029
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 1: pronunciation of his Nigerian last name. So in my attempt

1030
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:15,279
Speaker 1: to just be sure we were being accurate and how

1031
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:19,320
Speaker 1: we were referring to everyone and getting pronunciations and everything correct,

1032
00:53:19,360 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 1: I asked shack maniac de Leonard how everyone referred to

1033
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 1: him about that, and he said he does prefer Shaquille.

1034
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 1: So we overhauled, you know, the rosters and the meeting guys.

1035
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: Everything is up to date with Shaquille Leonard. But yes,

1036
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 1: he had that back surgery, and it's really interesting. We

1037
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:37,160
Speaker 1: knew that he battled the ankle, and he said that

1038
00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:40,799
Speaker 1: the ankle injury is something he's really played on and

1039
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 1: played through since his rookie year. There was a point

1040
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:46,840
Speaker 1: in his rookie year when he rolled his ankle pretty severely.

1041
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:50,719
Speaker 1: And you know how attacking of a linebacker he is.

1042
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 1: When you have any limitations with the way he moves,

1043
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:56,720
Speaker 1: and you know the way he goes after the football,

1044
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: that's going to severely impact your game. So in treating

1045
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:06,640
Speaker 1: the ankle injury, they realized that this wasn't just an

1046
00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:10,840
Speaker 1: isolated ankle injury. It was actually stemming from some disc

1047
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:13,960
Speaker 1: issues that were in his back. So they had to

1048
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 1: have a procedure. He had to have a procedure where

1049
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 1: they alleviated the pressure from the backs that was radiating

1050
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 1: all the way down to the ankle. So this is

1051
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 1: a compound issue. So it's not so much just making

1052
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:28,879
Speaker 1: sure the ankle is ready and the strength is there,

1053
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 1: but also where is the back in all of that,

1054
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 1: And it has all of that healing taken place. And

1055
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:37,359
Speaker 1: in my conversation today with Frank Right, he says it's

1056
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:41,640
Speaker 1: going to be a while before he's one hundred percent. Obviously,

1057
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 1: no one wants to be out there more than he does,

1058
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:46,160
Speaker 1: and he has such high expectation for himself. But one

1059
00:54:46,160 --> 00:54:48,480
Speaker 1: of the things we know about Shack Leonard is that

1060
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:52,600
Speaker 1: he plays at full speed and nothing less. And he

1061
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:54,600
Speaker 1: and I had a conversation last week and that he

1062
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 1: said there were parts of last season where he was

1063
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 1: playing well below one hundred percent and he feels like

1064
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 1: he really hurt his football team because he wasn't able

1065
00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:05,359
Speaker 1: to make the plays that he was used to making

1066
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:07,919
Speaker 1: and that they counted on him to make. So he

1067
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 1: knows that having him at full capacity, full strength for

1068
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:15,600
Speaker 1: fourteen games or fifteen games or whatever it is, and

1069
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 1: making sure that he's ready the latter part of this

1070
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:21,120
Speaker 1: season to put the team in position to make a

1071
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:24,480
Speaker 1: playoff push to get into the postseason. If that's a

1072
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:26,600
Speaker 1: sacrifice that needs to be make you miss a game

1073
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:28,960
Speaker 1: or two upfront, that's going to be worth it. They've

1074
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 1: not ruled him out for this game. There's certainly a

1075
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 1: scenario where he could play against the Texans. It's all

1076
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 1: going to depend on how he responds to three straight

1077
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:41,640
Speaker 1: days of work Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Interesting interesting to note,

1078
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 1: all right, before I let you go, Lara, A few

1079
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:46,440
Speaker 1: of us around here have been obsessed with the Andrew

1080
00:55:46,480 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 1: Luck podcast that was on the Athletic and we Binge

1081
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 1: listened to it this offseason. I don't know if you've

1082
00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 1: listened to it, but what's been the reaction about Andrew

1083
00:55:57,080 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 1: Luck in going through his injury history and everything that

1084
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:03,319
Speaker 1: he'd been playing with the last few years of his career.

1085
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:06,280
Speaker 1: Especially I was on a couple of trips this summer,

1086
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 1: So that was what I listened to on my flights.

1087
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:12,080
Speaker 1: Because you didn't hear a podcast, I have heard it,

1088
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:14,239
Speaker 1: and I actually knew it was in the works for

1089
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:18,719
Speaker 1: a while because zat Keifer, the brilliant journalist for The Athletic.

1090
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:21,680
Speaker 1: He was previously with the Indie Star. He's a fellow

1091
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:25,280
Speaker 1: I you alone, so I've known back for many years,

1092
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:28,440
Speaker 1: so I knew that I knew what he was working on.

1093
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 1: So I was very intrigued, and he would send me

1094
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:33,399
Speaker 1: out little little previews and little snippets along the way

1095
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 1: of what he was working on. But it's really nothing.

1096
00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 1: It was all interesting to all of us. We all

1097
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:42,439
Speaker 1: lived it, so I feel like that there was most

1098
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 1: of it, you know, that we knew or were aware

1099
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:48,680
Speaker 1: of upfront. I think more than anything, it was mostly

1100
00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:52,880
Speaker 1: the perspective of everyone else in hearing from guys like

1101
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:57,240
Speaker 1: David Shaw, and hearing from Jacoby Brissette and the different

1102
00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 1: people who were interviewed along the way. I loved you

1103
00:57:00,920 --> 00:57:04,440
Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah's perspective coming from a scout. I think to

1104
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:08,840
Speaker 1: me that was really the interesting just thoughts on it

1105
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:12,400
Speaker 1: all was different people from outside the organization because we

1106
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 1: all I mean, I had been with the team just

1107
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 1: over a month when Andrew abruptly retired, but I'd covered

1108
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 1: the team for the previous five years, so I was

1109
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:25,000
Speaker 1: pretty aware. You know, I documented almost every step of

1110
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:27,640
Speaker 1: the way since early on in his career what he'd

1111
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 1: been through. But you know, it's almost I think for

1112
00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 1: a lot of Colts fans, it was like reopening the wounds,

1113
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:35,960
Speaker 1: you know, and hearing all this. Here we're going into

1114
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:39,479
Speaker 1: a fifth straight year with a different starting quarterback. So

1115
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:43,600
Speaker 1: I think though, the biggest takeaway for me in it

1116
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:49,360
Speaker 1: all was there was a piece that you found at

1117
00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 1: the end of this where you do feel like it

1118
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 1: seems that he's moved on and is happy and has

1119
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 1: is formulating this next chapter of his career. I mean,

1120
00:58:00,640 --> 00:58:03,880
Speaker 1: we just learned from David Shaw that, you know, Andrew's

1121
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:06,840
Speaker 1: going back to Stanford and going to grad school and

1122
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 1: had his family out there. He and his wife Nicole

1123
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:13,200
Speaker 1: were both Stanford, you know, are both Stanford alums, both

1124
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:15,400
Speaker 1: were Stanford student athletes, so they're going back out there.

1125
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:19,040
Speaker 1: And I really think that there was some reassurance and

1126
00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 1: it all that you're really rooting for Andrew in whatever

1127
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 1: this next chapter holds. Whatever he's doing. And I also

1128
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:30,720
Speaker 1: think too, like I knew a lot about his Stanford career,

1129
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 1: but there were a lot of things that I didn't

1130
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:36,120
Speaker 1: didn't realize about it along the way. It certainly filled

1131
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:38,120
Speaker 1: in the gaps. And it's funny when you say everyone

1132
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 1: has a piece. I feel like Texans fans have a

1133
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:44,280
Speaker 1: piece that he definitely closed the door on returning to football,

1134
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: because I felt like every year when the cults were

1135
00:58:45,880 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 1: looking for new quarterback, there'd be rumblings of Andrew Luck

1136
00:58:48,840 --> 00:58:50,560
Speaker 1: coming out of retirement. And I feel like after that

1137
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:54,040
Speaker 1: last episode, I felt pretty confident he was happy where

1138
00:58:54,080 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 1: he was in life and good for him. And this Sunday,

1139
00:58:56,920 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 1: the Colts will be doing it again with Matt Ryan.

1140
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 1: So looking forward to the matchup. Lara. Always a pleasure

1141
00:59:01,840 --> 00:59:04,680
Speaker 1: to catch up with you. Let's do it again soon. Yeah,

1142
00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 1: can't wait to see you in Houston. Now, I'm gonna

1143
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:10,360
Speaker 1: admit a couple of things. Number One, I was always

1144
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:13,600
Speaker 1: a big Andrew Luck fan, huge massive. I thought he

1145
00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:16,960
Speaker 1: was what was right about football, right about human beings.

1146
00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:19,840
Speaker 1: I thought he was so he was quirky, but he

1147
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:23,040
Speaker 1: embraced it. I had talked to people up there and

1148
00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:24,920
Speaker 1: they said he would just tool around on his bike

1149
00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 1: living in downtown Indianapolis. It was just different. And when

1150
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:31,280
Speaker 1: you listen to that podcast about Andrew Luck, I don't know,

1151
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 1: I gained an even greater appreciation for him because he

1152
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:40,280
Speaker 1: just thought differently from everybody else. But he was an

1153
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:45,680
Speaker 1: incredibly intense competitor. He loved to compete, and that came

1154
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 1: through his entire career. It got to a point though,

1155
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:53,400
Speaker 1: where he had said he was spending more time rehabbing

1156
00:59:53,960 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 1: than getting ready for the season, and that was particularly frustrating.

1157
01:00:00,120 --> 01:00:02,320
Speaker 1: I will admit I miss seeing him on the field.

1158
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:04,920
Speaker 1: I always loved going against him when we could beat him.

1159
01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:06,720
Speaker 1: I mean, it was frustrating because he was so good.

1160
01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 1: I mean twenty eighteen, those two games the play the

1161
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:11,080
Speaker 1: game that broke the nine game winning streak, get into

1162
01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:14,840
Speaker 1: playoff game, be so good, just so good. So I've

1163
01:00:14,880 --> 01:00:16,640
Speaker 1: missed him for that reason. But I'll tell you this,

1164
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 1: as sure as heck, I'm not gonna miss him on Sunday.

1165
01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 1: My goodness, had he been there twenty nineteen through twenty

1166
01:00:25,120 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 1: twenty one, twenty two. Going forward, I think the culture

1167
01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 1: that have had at least a championship, I'm convinced that.

1168
01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:35,040
Speaker 1: So I'm okay not seeing Andrew Luck on the field,

1169
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:37,000
Speaker 1: but I wish him the best. I think that dude

1170
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:40,080
Speaker 1: is a really unique guy, and I love his dad, Oliver.

1171
01:00:40,160 --> 01:00:42,080
Speaker 1: I've known Oliver for I don't know a long time.

1172
01:00:42,440 --> 01:00:44,520
Speaker 1: I think Oliver is just salt of the earth. But

1173
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 1: I'm glad that Oliver is not in the building watching

1174
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:51,160
Speaker 1: his son play against the Texans. I like that. I'm

1175
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:53,800
Speaker 1: okay with that. I could admit that. It's okay. Mark

1176
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:56,280
Speaker 1: Namby would admit it. Two, we're okay to admit that.

1177
01:00:56,840 --> 01:01:01,560
Speaker 1: All right, there are Well, one game was played Thursday,

1178
01:01:01,600 --> 01:01:05,160
Speaker 1: and one game will be played Monday night. That's gonna

1179
01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:10,400
Speaker 1: be the Seahawks and the Broncos in between fourteen games

1180
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:12,920
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Man, y'all pick the Monday night game too?

1181
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 1: Why not my predictions straight up against the spread? Off

1182
01:01:17,080 --> 01:01:20,000
Speaker 1: for fun? Next right, Aaron Texans All Access DREIGHTI Aaron

1183
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:23,000
Speaker 1: Texans All Access DREIGHTI Aaron Texans All Access. Well we

1184
01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:26,240
Speaker 1: made it to the NFL season. Everybody. Last night, Thursday

1185
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:30,640
Speaker 1: night out in Sofi Stadium, the Buffalo Bills brought the

1186
01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:33,640
Speaker 1: funk all over Los Angeles. Rams thirty one to ten.

1187
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:37,560
Speaker 1: We made it. We haven't gotten to the very first

1188
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:41,960
Speaker 1: NFL Sunday Now that is something special. Welcome back to

1189
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:44,960
Speaker 1: this Friday Nation of Texans All Access. I'm Heros, John

1190
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:49,720
Speaker 1: Harrod's football analyst sideline reporter for yours Houston Texans, and

1191
01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:53,160
Speaker 1: I've been running this Friday show for last nine years now.

1192
01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:58,360
Speaker 1: I've been doing what I'm about to do in this

1193
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 1: segment for the last nine years. It's one of my

1194
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:05,640
Speaker 1: favorite things to do because it puts me essentially out there.

1195
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:09,360
Speaker 1: I make predictions of all NFL games. I do it

1196
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:11,520
Speaker 1: straight up and against the spread. As a way to

1197
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:15,400
Speaker 1: talk about the game, not so much here's gambling advice.

1198
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:18,680
Speaker 1: No no, no, no no, no, no no no. It's

1199
01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:22,240
Speaker 1: a way to talk about the games. And that's what

1200
01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:25,200
Speaker 1: I love to do, because, man, there's nothing better than

1201
01:02:25,240 --> 01:02:30,760
Speaker 1: the NFL Sunday chock full of matchups and for Week one,

1202
01:02:31,160 --> 01:02:35,120
Speaker 1: chock full of road favorites and home underdogs. How are

1203
01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:39,520
Speaker 1: we gonna handle that? Well, get my music and let's

1204
01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:43,400
Speaker 1: roll with a full slate of Sunday game starting in

1205
01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:50,800
Speaker 1: Atlanta with the Falcons and Marcus Mariota. Await the Jamis

1206
01:02:50,800 --> 01:02:53,640
Speaker 1: Winston led New Orleans Saints. Now I've gone a record

1207
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:56,880
Speaker 1: saying the Saints, I just don't know, man, I just

1208
01:02:56,920 --> 01:02:59,800
Speaker 1: don't know. I know it's a town of team. There's

1209
01:02:59,800 --> 01:03:04,200
Speaker 1: no doubt, receivers, running backs, Tyrn Matthew, that defense, They've

1210
01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:07,720
Speaker 1: got every piece you need. Can Jamis a stay healthy

1211
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:10,720
Speaker 1: and be not turned the ball over thirty times? Now,

1212
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:14,080
Speaker 1: last year, when Jamis is a starter, that team, until

1213
01:03:14,080 --> 01:03:16,040
Speaker 1: he got hurt, Saints were one of the better teams

1214
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:19,000
Speaker 1: in the league. Could he have continued that for seventeen games?

1215
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:22,120
Speaker 1: Don't know? Obviously was not able to finish the year.

1216
01:03:22,240 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 1: Ian book came in, not good, Trevor Simeon done. They

1217
01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 1: even called Drew Brees. It was not good. But he's back. However,

1218
01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:34,280
Speaker 1: this game is in Atlantic. That's it. I just don't

1219
01:03:34,280 --> 01:03:36,120
Speaker 1: think Atlantic could play with the Saints. The Saints or

1220
01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:38,000
Speaker 1: five and a half point favorites. I am going to

1221
01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 1: lay the five and a half. I'm gonna take the

1222
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:43,440
Speaker 1: Saints to win and cover and beat the Falcons, the

1223
01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:47,840
Speaker 1: hated rival. I think it happens. I don't want to

1224
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:50,880
Speaker 1: say handily, but handily it's a fourteen point win for

1225
01:03:50,920 --> 01:03:53,080
Speaker 1: the Saints. I'm thinking like twenty eight fourteen outsie the

1226
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:56,200
Speaker 1: Falcons scoring putting up any points on the Saints. I

1227
01:03:56,200 --> 01:03:59,080
Speaker 1: think it's a long day for them, and Winston shows, hey,

1228
01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 1: I got this, sofense could be pretty good in New Orleans.

1229
01:04:01,840 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 1: The forty nine Ers go to the Bears, where San

1230
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:08,040
Speaker 1: Francisco is a seven point favorite. Yes, it's Trey Lance.

1231
01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:10,640
Speaker 1: I know people are panicked about that. I've been saying, look,

1232
01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:13,440
Speaker 1: calm down, Trey Lance is gonna be just fine. I

1233
01:04:13,480 --> 01:04:16,080
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be very, very good. That offense is

1234
01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:21,560
Speaker 1: point to Worst case, he is Jimmy Garoppolo, and Garoppolo

1235
01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:23,600
Speaker 1: got him in a Super Bowl. Best case, Trey Lance

1236
01:04:23,680 --> 01:04:30,280
Speaker 1: ends up being Lamar Jackson plus Patrick Mahomes reincarnate in

1237
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:32,040
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers we're talking about them. Is the

1238
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 1: bully for the next ten to twelve years. I think

1239
01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:39,280
Speaker 1: San Francisco houses the Bears. San Francisco that road favorite

1240
01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:41,520
Speaker 1: by touchdown. I think they cover that. I think they

1241
01:04:41,520 --> 01:04:43,280
Speaker 1: win by a couple of touchdowns. Forty nine Ers to

1242
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:46,560
Speaker 1: win on the road and cover that seven point spread.

1243
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:50,920
Speaker 1: Steelers going into Bengals. Bengals had Joe Burrow ready to go. Now,

1244
01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:53,880
Speaker 1: one thing that I noticed in Mark and I talked

1245
01:04:53,920 --> 01:04:56,760
Speaker 1: about this earlier Thursday night. Game boy Matt Staff would

1246
01:04:56,760 --> 01:04:58,840
Speaker 1: look off a little bit. Now, part of that was

1247
01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:02,480
Speaker 1: the injury, part of that just didn't play much. Joe

1248
01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:05,840
Speaker 1: Burrow hasn't played at all. Can he step right in

1249
01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:08,040
Speaker 1: and move that team like he has? I think the

1250
01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:09,880
Speaker 1: lowerst going game. I think the Steelers defense is going

1251
01:05:09,920 --> 01:05:12,040
Speaker 1: to definitely show up to play. Bengals are fair by

1252
01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:13,640
Speaker 1: six and a half. I'm gonna get the Bengals a win,

1253
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:17,560
Speaker 1: but this feels twenty seventeen, twenty four seventeen something of

1254
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:20,560
Speaker 1: that ilk Bengals win. Steelers got the cover that six

1255
01:05:20,600 --> 01:05:23,680
Speaker 1: and a half. Eagles going to Detroit, that's four and

1256
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:27,240
Speaker 1: a half point favorites. I think the Eagles are scary

1257
01:05:27,400 --> 01:05:31,600
Speaker 1: good this year. The moves they've made recently, it's on

1258
01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:34,520
Speaker 1: Darius Say. Last year they went traded for A J. Brown.

1259
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:39,880
Speaker 1: This year they just traded for CJ. Chauncey Gardner Johnson

1260
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:43,560
Speaker 1: formerly of the Saints, to add to Darius slaying that secondary.

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01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:45,320
Speaker 1: I think the Eagles are very good. I think Jalen

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01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:47,800
Speaker 1: Hurtz takes a step, maybe not all the steps need

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01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:50,440
Speaker 1: to take, but he takes a step Eagles win. Eagles

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01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:52,439
Speaker 1: cover that four and a half. Lions will stick around

1265
01:05:52,480 --> 01:05:54,240
Speaker 1: for three quarters, win the fourth quarter of the Eagles

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01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:57,480
Speaker 1: pulled away win by ten thirty one. Twenty one. Patriots

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01:05:57,600 --> 01:05:59,880
Speaker 1: taken on Dolphins. This one blows down to this for me.

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01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:03,280
Speaker 1: Either Bill Belichick and the Patriots have been playing possum

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01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:07,520
Speaker 1: this whole time, or the Patriots are definitely on the

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01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:09,720
Speaker 1: back end. I don't know if either one of those

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01:06:09,720 --> 01:06:12,480
Speaker 1: are good. I'm not sure which one I want. Either

1272
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:15,040
Speaker 1: Do I want the Patriots to be good again? Or

1273
01:06:15,040 --> 01:06:18,200
Speaker 1: do I want the Dolphins to spank them. Let's go

1274
01:06:18,280 --> 01:06:21,640
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins spanking them or at least covering the

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01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:24,120
Speaker 1: three and a half. Miami's a home favorite with three

1276
01:06:24,120 --> 01:06:25,840
Speaker 1: and a half three and a half points spread. I

1277
01:06:25,840 --> 01:06:29,240
Speaker 1: think it Dolphins will win this. Let's go twenty four seventeen.

1278
01:06:29,360 --> 01:06:31,800
Speaker 1: They beat up on the Patriots and Mike McDaniel gets

1279
01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:34,360
Speaker 1: his first coach or his first win as head coach

1280
01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:37,760
Speaker 1: of the Dolphins. Dolphins win and cover at home. Ravens

1281
01:06:37,960 --> 01:06:41,240
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, I guess he's playing. Didn't get a contract today, though.

1282
01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:46,440
Speaker 1: Play the Jets. Joe Flacco, former Ravens quarterback, the one

1283
01:06:46,480 --> 01:06:49,400
Speaker 1: who has a Super Bowl championship for the Ravens. Baltimore's

1284
01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 1: fairy by six and a half. I think Flacco keeps

1285
01:06:52,200 --> 01:06:55,120
Speaker 1: it interesting. But the Ravens get any kind of heat,

1286
01:06:55,560 --> 01:06:58,920
Speaker 1: dapheo way off the edge. However, they get heat, I

1287
01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:00,880
Speaker 1: think that could be a problem Flacco, He's gonna be

1288
01:07:00,880 --> 01:07:03,919
Speaker 1: a sitting duck. I'm going Ravens to cover that six

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01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:06,480
Speaker 1: and a half. I think Lamar is on the verge

1290
01:07:06,520 --> 01:07:09,920
Speaker 1: of proving everybody he's worth that contract, and he's gonna

1291
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:12,280
Speaker 1: I mean, remember Joe Flacot inside contract going into two

1292
01:07:12,280 --> 01:07:15,040
Speaker 1: thousand and eight, twenty twelve, sorry, won a Super Bowl

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01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:17,240
Speaker 1: and got paid mad cash. I think that's gonna happen

1294
01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:20,160
Speaker 1: to Lamar Jackson Jaguars taking on the Commanders. Last time

1295
01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:23,080
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz faced to Jaguars, it was down in Duval County.

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01:07:23,160 --> 01:07:25,760
Speaker 1: It did not go well, did not go well at all.

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01:07:25,960 --> 01:07:28,560
Speaker 1: Washington's favor by two and a half. However, this time

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01:07:28,600 --> 01:07:33,840
Speaker 1: I think Wentz does get a win narrow twenty one seventeen,

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01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:37,600
Speaker 1: twenty four, twenty that's more than two and a half.

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01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:43,720
Speaker 1: I think Washington wins and covers if they don't. Oh,

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01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:45,400
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is gonna be on a hot seat very

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01:07:45,480 --> 01:07:47,760
Speaker 1: very soon. He has not responded well to that. Browns

1303
01:07:47,800 --> 01:07:51,320
Speaker 1: Panthers another Newton game, it's a pick him. It's the

1304
01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:55,800
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield revenge tour. No DeShawn Watson, Jacobe Rosette will

1305
01:07:55,840 --> 01:07:57,880
Speaker 1: be the leader for the Browns. I think at home,

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01:07:57,880 --> 01:07:59,920
Speaker 1: I'll give it to the Panthers. I think Baker may

1307
01:08:00,120 --> 01:08:03,480
Speaker 1: Field as long as Christian McCaffrey is relatively healthy. One

1308
01:08:03,520 --> 01:08:06,160
Speaker 1: on the injury report this week. He got spiked. They

1309
01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:10,320
Speaker 1: think on the shin and that doesn't feel good at all.

1310
01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:12,920
Speaker 1: So we'll keep an eye on that. But if he's

1311
01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:18,240
Speaker 1: ready to go, McCaffrey, DJ Moore, Robbie Anderson, Bakers slinging

1312
01:08:18,280 --> 01:08:20,640
Speaker 1: the rock. That defense has got some athletes. I think

1313
01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:22,519
Speaker 1: they make life tough for the Browns. It's getting the

1314
01:08:22,560 --> 01:08:25,879
Speaker 1: Panthers and Matt Rule a big win that's needed at

1315
01:08:25,920 --> 01:08:30,599
Speaker 1: home against Cleveland, Texans and Colts. The spreads down to seven.

1316
01:08:31,720 --> 01:08:34,000
Speaker 1: What does that tell you, Well, it tells you that

1317
01:08:34,120 --> 01:08:36,000
Speaker 1: Vegas is moving the number down because more money's coming

1318
01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:38,960
Speaker 1: into the Texans, which hopefully it's a good sign. I

1319
01:08:39,080 --> 01:08:40,519
Speaker 1: never go against my heart in my head up to

1320
01:08:40,520 --> 01:08:44,880
Speaker 1: Texans win. I don't ever pick that game, but interesting,

1321
01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:46,439
Speaker 1: it's gone from eight and a half to eight, down

1322
01:08:46,479 --> 01:08:49,400
Speaker 1: on to seven. Let's go out to Tennessee starting in

1323
01:08:49,439 --> 01:08:53,120
Speaker 1: the afternoon games as the Titans get a visit from

1324
01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:56,880
Speaker 1: the Gyman New York Giants. Tess He's favored about five

1325
01:08:56,920 --> 01:08:59,360
Speaker 1: and a half. It's one of the more interesting teams

1326
01:08:59,360 --> 01:09:03,000
Speaker 1: in the league to me because I have I hear

1327
01:09:03,160 --> 01:09:08,639
Speaker 1: such polarizing opinions far left far right as it pertains

1328
01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:11,160
Speaker 1: to the Titans. They're gonna fall into the cellar. I

1329
01:09:11,200 --> 01:09:13,280
Speaker 1: don't know if I hear that, but they're gonna be

1330
01:09:13,280 --> 01:09:15,720
Speaker 1: seven to ten team, They're gonna be twelve and five

1331
01:09:15,760 --> 01:09:17,960
Speaker 1: win division. I don't know that. I just really I

1332
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:19,840
Speaker 1: think they fall somewhere in between. I think it's a

1333
01:09:19,920 --> 01:09:23,240
Speaker 1: nine eight football team that could potentially get the seventh spot.

1334
01:09:23,280 --> 01:09:25,960
Speaker 1: And the Colts are way more talented, and we'll see

1335
01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:29,000
Speaker 1: whether Ryan Tannehill is that guy the Giants. I just

1336
01:09:29,360 --> 01:09:34,639
Speaker 1: can't see the Giants and Brian Dabl's debut as head

1337
01:09:34,640 --> 01:09:37,400
Speaker 1: coach getting a w against the Titans. Now. I do

1338
01:09:37,560 --> 01:09:40,080
Speaker 1: think the Giants will play well for David. I don't

1339
01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:43,479
Speaker 1: think they get to win, so I think the Titans

1340
01:09:43,479 --> 01:09:45,240
Speaker 1: will get to win, but I think the Giants will

1341
01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:48,080
Speaker 1: get to cover. Titans win, the Giants get inside that

1342
01:09:48,160 --> 01:09:51,959
Speaker 1: five and a half. Packers Vikings. It's in Minnesota. Fremay's

1343
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:54,560
Speaker 1: favored by a point and a half, and no, Minnesota's

1344
01:09:54,600 --> 01:09:56,800
Speaker 1: supposed to be better this year. It feels like Minnesota's

1345
01:09:56,800 --> 01:09:59,679
Speaker 1: gonna be better this year. Kevin O'Connell is gonna ramp

1346
01:09:59,760 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 1: that offense up. Is the defense back though, that's the key,

1347
01:10:05,080 --> 01:10:09,320
Speaker 1: Harrison Smith's back, Patrick Peterson's back. They've made some changes.

1348
01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:13,320
Speaker 1: It's Aaron Rodgers. Packers win. Packers cover that one and

1349
01:10:13,320 --> 01:10:16,519
Speaker 1: a half. Although keep in mind last year Packers opener

1350
01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:18,880
Speaker 1: down in Jacksonville against the Saints because the Saints were

1351
01:10:18,840 --> 01:10:21,120
Speaker 1: doing the hurricane. What happened thirty eighth to nothing, The

1352
01:10:21,120 --> 01:10:23,280
Speaker 1: Packers got a house. Doesn't happen again. Packers win, they

1353
01:10:23,320 --> 01:10:27,160
Speaker 1: win big. Chiefs Cardinals, No hop for the Cardinals. Kansas

1354
01:10:27,200 --> 01:10:30,439
Speaker 1: City favored by six. We'll see if Patrick Mahomes was right.

1355
01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:33,840
Speaker 1: Does he have more weapons to spread the rock around too?

1356
01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:37,480
Speaker 1: I think he does. I don't think it's as explosive,

1357
01:10:37,680 --> 01:10:39,400
Speaker 1: but the Chiefs will win by touchdown, so that I'll

1358
01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:41,760
Speaker 1: get him a win and a cover out in Arizona

1359
01:10:41,840 --> 01:10:44,120
Speaker 1: Raiders Chargers. Last time we saw these two it was

1360
01:10:44,120 --> 01:10:48,160
Speaker 1: a classic Week eighteen of last year. This one's being

1361
01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:50,800
Speaker 1: played in so far, though LA is favored by three

1362
01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:53,519
Speaker 1: and a half. I think the Chargers will get that

1363
01:10:53,720 --> 01:10:57,000
Speaker 1: win for Brandon Staley as Josh McDaniels leads the Raiders

1364
01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:59,920
Speaker 1: in in his debut performance as head coach for the Raiders.

1365
01:11:00,120 --> 01:11:03,479
Speaker 1: It'll be a very good ballgame in twenty twenty seven,

1366
01:11:03,560 --> 01:11:05,479
Speaker 1: something like that, but it'll be a four point win

1367
01:11:05,760 --> 01:11:08,160
Speaker 1: for the Chargers and they will get to win and

1368
01:11:08,200 --> 01:11:12,080
Speaker 1: cover Bucks and Cowboys. Is it okay they hate both

1369
01:11:12,080 --> 01:11:15,040
Speaker 1: these teams? I kind of do Tim Bay's favorite bout

1370
01:11:15,040 --> 01:11:18,040
Speaker 1: two and a half going up against the Cowboys. I

1371
01:11:18,080 --> 01:11:20,000
Speaker 1: think Jerry's crew is gonna play hard. Let's get the

1372
01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:22,879
Speaker 1: Cowboys are winning to cover in a little mild upset

1373
01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:26,800
Speaker 1: at home and Monday Night Broncos Seahawks. There ain't no

1374
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:30,400
Speaker 1: way Russell Wilson's losing that game. None. Andy'll cover the

1375
01:11:30,439 --> 01:11:33,000
Speaker 1: six and a half. So there you go. There your predictions.

1376
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:36,759
Speaker 1: Coming up? Next final where of Drew Doherty with Davis Mills.

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01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:41,360
Speaker 1: That's next in Texans All Access. We got one finals

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Speaker 1: seg me this Friday, Nation of Texans All Access. I'm

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01:11:44,080 --> 01:11:46,599
Speaker 1: your host, John Harris Football and on a sideline reporter,

1380
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:50,280
Speaker 1: So glad to be with you on this Friday evening.

1381
01:11:50,479 --> 01:11:53,760
Speaker 1: And before we get to Davis Mills, we gotta have

1382
01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:58,600
Speaker 1: a little bit of talk and the talk that we

1383
01:11:58,720 --> 01:12:02,080
Speaker 1: all should have as we head into a football season. Now,

1384
01:12:02,200 --> 01:12:05,040
Speaker 1: it's sort of like the talk your parents would give you,

1385
01:12:05,760 --> 01:12:08,559
Speaker 1: but it's not about the birds and the bees, but

1386
01:12:08,720 --> 01:12:13,840
Speaker 1: it's about staying hydrated. As you throw down a few

1387
01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:17,680
Speaker 1: beverages this weekend, you gotta stay hydrated. It's still in

1388
01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:21,360
Speaker 1: the ninety degree range. It's gonna be hot still, and

1389
01:12:21,439 --> 01:12:24,360
Speaker 1: it's gonna be intense. It's gonna be football going on,

1390
01:12:24,960 --> 01:12:28,360
Speaker 1: and we haven't been doing that much this summer, so

1391
01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:32,479
Speaker 1: we gotta stay hydrated. Well, I've got some even further

1392
01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:35,080
Speaker 1: good news for you. Mark Vandermer sat down with the

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01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:38,680
Speaker 1: great people from Houston Methodist talk about how you can

1394
01:12:38,760 --> 01:12:42,639
Speaker 1: stay hydrated this time of year. It's Houston Methodist Minutes.

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01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:46,960
Speaker 1: Mark Vandermer with you, joined now by doctor Jillian Wooldridge. Doctor,

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01:12:47,000 --> 01:12:49,840
Speaker 1: how's it going today? I'm doing fine? Thanks? How are

1397
01:12:49,840 --> 01:12:52,280
Speaker 1: you doing? Well, now, I was on the practice field

1398
01:12:52,280 --> 01:12:54,080
Speaker 1: this morning. It was a little warm out there, but

1399
01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:56,600
Speaker 1: not so much for me, warm for the players. So

1400
01:12:56,680 --> 01:12:59,320
Speaker 1: let's talk about working out in this heat. High school

1401
01:12:59,360 --> 01:13:02,679
Speaker 1: football team and all sports teams who participate outside haven't

1402
01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:05,200
Speaker 1: at it for a while, obviously the Texans have as well.

1403
01:13:05,479 --> 01:13:08,160
Speaker 1: What are some of the dues and don'ts of working

1404
01:13:08,160 --> 01:13:10,640
Speaker 1: out in this hot weather we're having. Although in the

1405
01:13:10,680 --> 01:13:14,160
Speaker 1: morning it's cooling off a tad, just not enough. Yeah,

1406
01:13:14,200 --> 01:13:15,720
Speaker 1: I know, I think we're lucky that we're getting a

1407
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:17,800
Speaker 1: little bit of temperature draw but it's still a pretty

1408
01:13:17,800 --> 01:13:21,120
Speaker 1: warm out there, especially if you're exercising. I think if

1409
01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:23,280
Speaker 1: there are a couple of things that can be done

1410
01:13:23,360 --> 01:13:26,120
Speaker 1: to help prevent teat illness and stay hydrated and safe

1411
01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:29,719
Speaker 1: with exercising in the heat. The first thing to really

1412
01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:33,080
Speaker 1: consider is that hydration doesn't start necessarily the day of

1413
01:13:33,080 --> 01:13:36,120
Speaker 1: a practice or an exercise about you know, hydration really

1414
01:13:36,160 --> 01:13:38,960
Speaker 1: starts before then. So one thing that we really counsel

1415
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:42,080
Speaker 1: our athletes whenever it comes to game day hydration, for example,

1416
01:13:42,200 --> 01:13:46,040
Speaker 1: is a Saturday game day hydration plan really starts on

1417
01:13:46,200 --> 01:13:49,000
Speaker 1: Monday the week leading up to that, So making sure

1418
01:13:49,000 --> 01:13:51,519
Speaker 1: that you're staying hydrated during the week, I think is

1419
01:13:51,560 --> 01:13:54,720
Speaker 1: incredibly important. That way, you're not trying to play catch

1420
01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:56,360
Speaker 1: up all of a sudden on game day, because a

1421
01:13:56,360 --> 01:13:58,280
Speaker 1: lot of fluid at once can really start to custom

1422
01:13:58,320 --> 01:14:02,960
Speaker 1: stomach upset. When we think about hydration in particular, obviously

1423
01:14:02,960 --> 01:14:07,280
Speaker 1: a lot of people are reaching for sports beverages and water,

1424
01:14:07,439 --> 01:14:09,920
Speaker 1: and I think there's a little bit of misconception about

1425
01:14:09,960 --> 01:14:12,960
Speaker 1: when you need either for most people. When it comes

1426
01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:17,439
Speaker 1: to general exercise, even outdoors indoors, doesn't matter. If it's

1427
01:14:17,520 --> 01:14:21,080
Speaker 1: less than sixty minutes, water is considered perfectly adequate for hydration.

1428
01:14:21,600 --> 01:14:25,719
Speaker 1: If you're exercising beyond sixty minutes, that's when something containing

1429
01:14:25,760 --> 01:14:30,599
Speaker 1: some carbohydrates like sugar, as well as electrolytes like salt, sodium,

1430
01:14:30,600 --> 01:14:32,559
Speaker 1: and potassium can be helpful. And that's when a sports

1431
01:14:32,640 --> 01:14:36,000
Speaker 1: drink can be very useful. When you think about preparation

1432
01:14:36,080 --> 01:14:39,680
Speaker 1: for an athletic event, Like I said, hydration starts beforehand.

1433
01:14:40,240 --> 01:14:43,439
Speaker 1: A rule of them is about two to four hours

1434
01:14:43,479 --> 01:14:46,760
Speaker 1: prior to a significant exercise. About we recommend consuming about

1435
01:14:46,800 --> 01:14:49,360
Speaker 1: a half a liter or five hundred milli liters of fluid.

1436
01:14:50,320 --> 01:14:54,280
Speaker 1: If the athlete urinates it should come out a pale yellow,

1437
01:14:54,800 --> 01:14:56,840
Speaker 1: and if it does, they're probably in a good place.

1438
01:14:57,120 --> 01:14:59,160
Speaker 1: If it's still a dark yellow, they need to consider

1439
01:14:59,240 --> 01:15:01,559
Speaker 1: drinking about an other two hundred and fifty million leaders

1440
01:15:01,600 --> 01:15:06,360
Speaker 1: of fluid. So that's our pre game or pre exercise hydration.

1441
01:15:06,520 --> 01:15:09,920
Speaker 1: Now during the game, frequent SIPs of cool fluid definitely

1442
01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:13,600
Speaker 1: a good idea. If exercising in the heat, especially, you

1443
01:15:13,640 --> 01:15:17,000
Speaker 1: want to consume probably about twenty ounces. You'd think about

1444
01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:19,920
Speaker 1: a Gatorade bottle every hour or so of fluid in

1445
01:15:20,040 --> 01:15:22,840
Speaker 1: small SIPs to not prevent or basically to prevent you

1446
01:15:22,880 --> 01:15:25,200
Speaker 1: from getting an upset stomach from drinking too much fluid

1447
01:15:25,200 --> 01:15:29,280
Speaker 1: at once and then after exercise is also a time

1448
01:15:29,280 --> 01:15:33,120
Speaker 1: that we want to target hydration. A little rule of

1449
01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:36,880
Speaker 1: thumb is if you for about every pound loss of

1450
01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:40,720
Speaker 1: fluid pre and post exercise or be pound loss of

1451
01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:43,799
Speaker 1: weight should be replaced by about sixteen ounces of fluid.

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01:15:44,200 --> 01:15:47,560
Speaker 1: Great information, doctor, thanks so much for joining us. Absolutely,

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01:15:47,600 --> 01:15:51,479
Speaker 1: thanks so much, Doctor Jillian Wooldridge of Houston Methodist, the

1454
01:15:51,479 --> 01:15:55,879
Speaker 1: official healthcare provider of the Houston, Texans. Houston Methodist leading medicine.

1455
01:15:56,360 --> 01:16:00,040
Speaker 1: We appreciate doctor Wooldridge for stopping buying give us some

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01:16:00,240 --> 01:16:03,639
Speaker 1: tips and hints on how to stay hydrated at this

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01:16:03,680 --> 01:16:06,840
Speaker 1: time of year. Look, it's week one, it's a seventeen

1458
01:16:06,920 --> 01:16:12,000
Speaker 1: game season. We gotta pace ourselves people. But if it's

1459
01:16:12,040 --> 01:16:14,519
Speaker 1: the seventeen game season we all hope it's going to be.

1460
01:16:15,120 --> 01:16:19,240
Speaker 1: Then that means Davis Mills needs to step up starting Sunday,

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01:16:19,640 --> 01:16:24,519
Speaker 1: and he is ready. And each and every Friday, I

1462
01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:28,439
Speaker 1: give the final word to my good friend Drew Doherty

1463
01:16:28,439 --> 01:16:30,839
Speaker 1: as he sat down for the second year starting quarterback

1464
01:16:30,840 --> 01:16:34,639
Speaker 1: for your Houston Texans, Davis Mills. Drew and Davis. Now

1465
01:16:35,200 --> 01:16:39,680
Speaker 1: the Texans are playing real football, regular season football, so

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01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:42,559
Speaker 1: it's time to talk with the man in charge under center,

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Speaker 1: Davis Mills. It's great to be with you again. And

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Speaker 1: we did this about a year ago. One thing I've

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01:16:47,600 --> 01:16:51,439
Speaker 1: always noticed about you supremely confident, doesn't matter what's going

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01:16:51,439 --> 01:16:55,000
Speaker 1: on around you, calm and confident. How much more confident

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01:16:55,040 --> 01:16:57,360
Speaker 1: are you now though, versus this time a year ago?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think the confidence level has changed months.

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01:17:01,720 --> 01:17:04,280
Speaker 1: I think the comfortability of being out there and being

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01:17:04,280 --> 01:17:06,559
Speaker 1: in control of everything is what has changed. Building that

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01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:08,519
Speaker 1: experience from last year and going out there and really

1476
01:17:08,560 --> 01:17:11,160
Speaker 1: putting that successful stint together at the end of the year.

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01:17:11,240 --> 01:17:14,240
Speaker 1: Obviously the outcome of each game wasn't what we wanted,

1478
01:17:14,280 --> 01:17:15,760
Speaker 1: but I felt like I was going out there and

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01:17:15,760 --> 01:17:18,479
Speaker 1: playing good football, protecting the football. And I think the

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01:17:18,520 --> 01:17:20,679
Speaker 1: biggest thing this year is just carrying on that momentum

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01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:23,400
Speaker 1: from last year and what we've put together all offseason

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01:17:23,400 --> 01:17:26,080
Speaker 1: and throughout camps. So I think the comfort level and

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01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:28,240
Speaker 1: just being in control of everything is the biggest thing

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01:17:28,240 --> 01:17:30,439
Speaker 1: that I've noticed. It's a good distinction you make comfort

1485
01:17:30,520 --> 01:17:33,960
Speaker 1: versus confidence. So with the comfort idea in line, how

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01:17:34,040 --> 01:17:37,760
Speaker 1: much more comfortable did it make it for you being

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01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:41,160
Speaker 1: involved in February and March, in April and helping install

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01:17:41,200 --> 01:17:43,400
Speaker 1: this offense with pet Hamilton because it's a different offense

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01:17:43,400 --> 01:17:45,400
Speaker 1: than what you're doing last year, And how much did

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01:17:45,439 --> 01:17:47,360
Speaker 1: that help with what you're doing and what you're seeing

1491
01:17:47,479 --> 01:17:49,280
Speaker 1: right now? Yeah, I mean it's been great having all

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01:17:49,360 --> 01:17:51,599
Speaker 1: off season to learn it. Obviously, last year you get

1493
01:17:52,040 --> 01:17:54,799
Speaker 1: you get drafted and you only have like a weekend

1494
01:17:54,920 --> 01:17:58,240
Speaker 1: throughout OTAs and then in camps. So having a full

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01:17:58,280 --> 01:18:01,559
Speaker 1: offseason to prepare and and what PAP's done is similar

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01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:03,760
Speaker 1: to what I ran in college, So some of the

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01:18:03,840 --> 01:18:06,439
Speaker 1: verbiage and carry over if some of the scheme it's similar,

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01:18:06,479 --> 01:18:08,280
Speaker 1: So I already have a little bit of idea of

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01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:10,640
Speaker 1: coming into it of what it's been like. So, I

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01:18:10,640 --> 01:18:12,840
Speaker 1: mean we're really excited. I feel like the whole team's

1501
01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:15,240
Speaker 1: really bought into what we're capable of on offense, and

1502
01:18:15,320 --> 01:18:17,360
Speaker 1: I mean everyone's really excited to go out there and

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01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:18,840
Speaker 1: put up some points and see what we can do

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01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:21,200
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Dan, how much does that excitement level raise

1505
01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:23,520
Speaker 1: after seeing what you're able to do in the preseason

1506
01:18:23,680 --> 01:18:26,559
Speaker 1: without your whole offensive line, without Brandon Cooks and Farrell.

1507
01:18:27,120 --> 01:18:30,080
Speaker 1: Everybody's back and everybody's ready to go, and on top

1508
01:18:30,120 --> 01:18:31,800
Speaker 1: of all that, the playbook opens up a little bit

1509
01:18:31,840 --> 01:18:33,760
Speaker 1: even more done it. Yeah, I mean that's what we're

1510
01:18:33,760 --> 01:18:36,720
Speaker 1: probably most excited for. Obviously, the stuff preseason with a

1511
01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:38,960
Speaker 1: little vanilla. They're not trying to show too much because

1512
01:18:39,040 --> 01:18:41,200
Speaker 1: people are watching film and game planning against you, so

1513
01:18:41,240 --> 01:18:43,439
Speaker 1: you can't tip your hand too early. But I think

1514
01:18:43,439 --> 01:18:46,280
Speaker 1: everyone's really excited what we're able to do this year.

1515
01:18:46,320 --> 01:18:47,960
Speaker 1: And I mean you're ready to just go out there

1516
01:18:47,960 --> 01:18:50,280
Speaker 1: and play fast. You got bonds with all your receivers,

1517
01:18:50,320 --> 01:18:52,439
Speaker 1: there's been growth with all your past catchers and whatnot.

1518
01:18:52,479 --> 01:18:54,680
Speaker 1: But what's the bond like with Brandon Cooks? You were

1519
01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:58,479
Speaker 1: both named on Wednesday captains for the offense. What's it

1520
01:18:58,560 --> 01:19:00,320
Speaker 1: like throwing the ball to him and just being a

1521
01:19:00,320 --> 01:19:02,599
Speaker 1: teammate of his and what he means to you. Brandon's

1522
01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:05,439
Speaker 1: been great, obviously, same type of energy each and every day.

1523
01:19:05,479 --> 01:19:07,160
Speaker 1: He's coming in ready to get to work and lead

1524
01:19:07,200 --> 01:19:09,120
Speaker 1: those guys around him. And I try to do the same.

1525
01:19:09,200 --> 01:19:10,840
Speaker 1: But I mean, when you know you have Brandon out

1526
01:19:10,840 --> 01:19:13,200
Speaker 1: on an edge going against somebody, I for sure can't

1527
01:19:13,240 --> 01:19:15,439
Speaker 1: cover him, and I know pretty much all the dbs

1528
01:19:15,479 --> 01:19:17,360
Speaker 1: across the league can't cover him either. So when you

1529
01:19:17,400 --> 01:19:19,200
Speaker 1: have somebody like that on your side, it's awesome. The

1530
01:19:19,280 --> 01:19:22,080
Speaker 1: guy just cranks out thousand yard receiving seasons and he's

1531
01:19:22,080 --> 01:19:23,680
Speaker 1: been doing it for a while. A guy who's new

1532
01:19:23,680 --> 01:19:26,000
Speaker 1: to the league is Damian Pierce. Well, could a run

1533
01:19:26,040 --> 01:19:28,920
Speaker 1: game with that guy do for you? Do for this offense,

1534
01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:30,920
Speaker 1: do for this whole team? He can do a lot.

1535
01:19:30,960 --> 01:19:33,400
Speaker 1: I think when we can establish a really strong run game,

1536
01:19:33,560 --> 01:19:36,800
Speaker 1: it can change the momentum of everything. I think the

1537
01:19:37,240 --> 01:19:38,960
Speaker 1: best game we ran the football last year was the

1538
01:19:39,040 --> 01:19:41,360
Speaker 1: Chargers game, and at the time last year they were

1539
01:19:41,360 --> 01:19:43,840
Speaker 1: a playoff team, and that game we moved the ball

1540
01:19:43,920 --> 01:19:46,799
Speaker 1: very efficiently, and I think Rex ran for one fifties.

1541
01:19:46,880 --> 01:19:49,160
Speaker 1: So we can do that and establish a run game.

1542
01:19:49,200 --> 01:19:52,120
Speaker 1: It opens up everything across the board on the offense.

1543
01:19:52,160 --> 01:19:54,120
Speaker 1: So we're really excited to see what he can contribute

1544
01:19:54,160 --> 01:19:55,640
Speaker 1: and do out there. All Right, Texans want to be

1545
01:19:55,680 --> 01:19:57,080
Speaker 1: a tough team. They want to be a rugged team.

1546
01:19:57,120 --> 01:19:58,400
Speaker 1: They want to be able to run the ball. To

1547
01:19:58,479 --> 01:20:00,479
Speaker 1: do that. On Sunday, gonna go against some of the

1548
01:20:00,479 --> 01:20:03,479
Speaker 1: best interior defensive lineman you're gonna face all season long.

1549
01:20:03,920 --> 01:20:05,920
Speaker 1: How tough are they? How much of a challenge are

1550
01:20:05,920 --> 01:20:08,320
Speaker 1: those guys in the middle into Forced Buckner and in

1551
01:20:08,439 --> 01:20:11,799
Speaker 1: Grover Stewart. They're great players. Obviously we got to respect

1552
01:20:11,800 --> 01:20:13,920
Speaker 1: them a ton, but I think we're really capable on

1553
01:20:13,960 --> 01:20:16,559
Speaker 1: offense of handling them. Our offensive line right now has

1554
01:20:16,680 --> 01:20:19,560
Speaker 1: done an amazing job all camp and throughout the preseason.

1555
01:20:19,880 --> 01:20:21,840
Speaker 1: Our guys can line up against anybody and we can

1556
01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:24,040
Speaker 1: be confident. So if we can run the football well

1557
01:20:24,080 --> 01:20:25,679
Speaker 1: on Sunday, I think we got a really good chance.

1558
01:20:25,800 --> 01:20:29,360
Speaker 1: Difference makers in the linebacking corps and Shaquille Leonard Darius

1559
01:20:29,400 --> 01:20:32,200
Speaker 1: Letard is his former name. He also got Stefan Gilmore,

1560
01:20:32,200 --> 01:20:34,320
Speaker 1: one of the best to ever play at corner. There's

1561
01:20:34,320 --> 01:20:36,360
Speaker 1: a lot of pieces on that defense for the Colts,

1562
01:20:36,360 --> 01:20:38,280
Speaker 1: but it's like you guys are saying, got to do

1563
01:20:38,320 --> 01:20:41,120
Speaker 1: our job basically, right, Yeah, exactly. I mean, you got

1564
01:20:41,160 --> 01:20:43,240
Speaker 1: a game plan and know who you're playing against to

1565
01:20:43,320 --> 01:20:45,519
Speaker 1: some extent, but when it boils down to it, it's

1566
01:20:45,520 --> 01:20:48,280
Speaker 1: about what we do on offense and how well we execute,

1567
01:20:48,400 --> 01:20:50,040
Speaker 1: and I mean that's what's going to go on and

1568
01:20:50,040 --> 01:20:52,559
Speaker 1: win games. All right. We started this interview talking about

1569
01:20:52,600 --> 01:20:55,800
Speaker 1: your confidence. When game time rolls around, however, will there

1570
01:20:55,840 --> 01:20:57,400
Speaker 1: be just a little bit of a butterfly, a little

1571
01:20:57,439 --> 01:21:00,880
Speaker 1: flutter here and there. Yes, I've never been one to

1572
01:21:00,920 --> 01:21:03,120
Speaker 1: get super nervous, but I mean I think when you

1573
01:21:03,600 --> 01:21:05,840
Speaker 1: get those butterflies before the game you have to or

1574
01:21:05,880 --> 01:21:08,040
Speaker 1: else it doesn't mean anything to you. So that'll be

1575
01:21:08,080 --> 01:21:10,000
Speaker 1: a little bit of jitters. But once we get a

1576
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:11,840
Speaker 1: couple of players into it, I'll be smooth sailing and

1577
01:21:11,840 --> 01:21:14,400
Speaker 1: we'll be ready to go. All right. Davis Mills, best

1578
01:21:14,439 --> 01:21:18,040
Speaker 1: of luck, show up, show out for h Town and beyond.

1579
01:21:18,320 --> 01:21:20,120
Speaker 1: Can't wait to see you out there in just a

1580
01:21:20,160 --> 01:21:22,719
Speaker 1: bit for sure. Thank you. Now. I did my keys

1581
01:21:22,640 --> 01:21:25,240
Speaker 1: to a game earlier in the show, and I didn't

1582
01:21:25,240 --> 01:21:29,080
Speaker 1: mention Davis as a key. I tried to spread the wealth,

1583
01:21:29,120 --> 01:21:31,639
Speaker 1: if you will. But Davis is absolutely key in this game,

1584
01:21:31,680 --> 01:21:34,760
Speaker 1: and I think the biggest key for Davis. Just one

1585
01:21:34,760 --> 01:21:37,479
Speaker 1: thing that stood out to me last year was that

1586
01:21:37,560 --> 01:21:41,200
Speaker 1: the best games Davis had, he did something positive on

1587
01:21:41,240 --> 01:21:43,080
Speaker 1: the first drive. Now I wasn't always a field goal

1588
01:21:43,120 --> 01:21:45,639
Speaker 1: or touchdown, but he made a key third down throw.

1589
01:21:46,400 --> 01:21:49,439
Speaker 1: He scrambled out of dodge and made a nice throw

1590
01:21:49,520 --> 01:21:52,639
Speaker 1: to pick up some yardage. He just got comfortable. When

1591
01:21:52,680 --> 01:21:56,680
Speaker 1: I think about the games in which Davis struggled, he

1592
01:21:56,800 --> 01:21:58,759
Speaker 1: struggled on a first drive, like I think a Buffalo.

1593
01:21:58,840 --> 01:22:01,960
Speaker 1: Buffalo was really good, but he fumbled that throw early on.

1594
01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:03,840
Speaker 1: It was pouring down rain and he just felt like

1595
01:22:03,840 --> 01:22:06,400
Speaker 1: he never got his confidence. Arizona kind of same thing.

1596
01:22:06,560 --> 01:22:09,160
Speaker 1: Didn't really get anything going early and they just sort

1597
01:22:09,160 --> 01:22:12,400
Speaker 1: of eroded his confidence. But I think about the Patriots game,

1598
01:22:12,439 --> 01:22:15,080
Speaker 1: he had that drive right off the bat, got him

1599
01:22:15,080 --> 01:22:17,519
Speaker 1: in the end zone, and that was a great day.

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01:22:17,920 --> 01:22:21,920
Speaker 1: Against the Chargers, same thing, drive right up the field

1601
01:22:22,520 --> 01:22:24,320
Speaker 1: for a touchdown on the first drive, and yeah, the

1602
01:22:24,360 --> 01:22:26,240
Speaker 1: run game picked up some stuff, but he had some throws.

1603
01:22:26,400 --> 01:22:29,960
Speaker 1: If he gets some confidence early, I think Davis is

1604
01:22:30,040 --> 01:22:33,680
Speaker 1: really hard to beat. Knowing that, I would imagine pet

1605
01:22:33,680 --> 01:22:36,479
Speaker 1: Hamilton's gonna scheme up some throws to get Davis that

1606
01:22:36,560 --> 01:22:40,559
Speaker 1: confidence early, get him rolling early, and then away you go.

1607
01:22:41,040 --> 01:22:43,280
Speaker 1: Davis had some of that confidence against the Colts in

1608
01:22:43,400 --> 01:22:45,439
Speaker 1: that thirty one to three matchup. It was ten to

1609
01:22:45,479 --> 01:22:47,360
Speaker 1: three and Davis was making some throws and just couldn't

1610
01:22:47,360 --> 01:22:49,960
Speaker 1: put any points on the board. Then Leonard got the

1611
01:22:50,000 --> 01:22:52,760
Speaker 1: pick and it all went downhill from there. But there

1612
01:22:52,800 --> 01:22:55,960
Speaker 1: is no Darius Leonard this week, and that If there

1613
01:22:56,040 --> 01:22:58,680
Speaker 1: is any good news about facing the Colts, it's that.

1614
01:22:58,920 --> 01:23:03,040
Speaker 1: But it's Jonathan Taylor, Matt Ryan, Davis, Mills, Brandon Cooks.

1615
01:23:03,040 --> 01:23:08,639
Speaker 1: It's regular season football at NRG Stadium, Texans opener twenty

1616
01:23:08,720 --> 01:23:12,040
Speaker 1: twenty two. Lovey Smith leading the team. How do you

1617
01:23:12,040 --> 01:23:14,919
Speaker 1: not get excited? Man? How do you not get excited

1618
01:23:14,920 --> 01:23:18,040
Speaker 1: about ball season? If you don't, maybe you love baseball

1619
01:23:18,080 --> 01:23:19,920
Speaker 1: and that's fine, then you're not listening to the show.

1620
01:23:20,880 --> 01:23:23,760
Speaker 1: If you are listening, you know you feel like me.

1621
01:23:24,439 --> 01:23:27,559
Speaker 1: Put the jersey on. Get it n RG Stadium early,

1622
01:23:28,120 --> 01:23:31,360
Speaker 1: get my tailgating done, Go grab a pop, sit in

1623
01:23:31,439 --> 01:23:35,080
Speaker 1: my seat at eleven thirty and go nuts and let's

1624
01:23:35,080 --> 01:23:37,960
Speaker 1: go get a w against Annapolis Colts. Liberty White out

1625
01:23:38,479 --> 01:23:42,400
Speaker 1: where You're white, Come Rep h Town and let's get

1626
01:23:42,439 --> 01:23:45,240
Speaker 1: it done. Appreciate you guys for listening. So many people

1627
01:23:45,320 --> 01:23:49,519
Speaker 1: to thank Mark Vanimir, Lovey Smith, Davis Mills, Drew Doherty,

1628
01:23:49,600 --> 01:23:55,000
Speaker 1: Deep City, Lara Overton and all of you for being here.

1629
01:23:55,320 --> 01:23:57,160
Speaker 1: You guys are the reason that I do this, that

1630
01:23:57,280 --> 01:23:59,400
Speaker 1: we do this. We love getting a chance to talk

1631
01:23:59,400 --> 01:24:01,800
Speaker 1: to you and tell you about this team and tell

1632
01:24:01,840 --> 01:24:03,719
Speaker 1: you the story of this team. And hopefully the story

1633
01:24:03,720 --> 01:24:07,960
Speaker 1: of this team stretches for the next eighteen nineteen weeks

1634
01:24:08,680 --> 01:24:10,720
Speaker 1: and at the end of it, we feel like that

1635
01:24:10,840 --> 01:24:13,200
Speaker 1: was one hell of a story. And it begins Sunday.

1636
01:24:13,479 --> 01:24:17,759
Speaker 1: Kickoff is at noon, Radio pregame at nine. Sean Pendergast

1637
01:24:17,800 --> 01:24:19,519
Speaker 1: and Seth Pain will take you through. You'll hear me

1638
01:24:19,640 --> 01:24:22,000
Speaker 1: and Mark and Andrea and John mcclan and any other

1639
01:24:22,400 --> 01:24:26,240
Speaker 1: ambassadors legends that stop by, and then the game with

1640
01:24:26,280 --> 01:24:31,960
Speaker 1: Mark Andrea, myself, and then postgame with Clint and Sean Pandergass.

1641
01:24:32,200 --> 01:24:36,719
Speaker 1: You can see our pregame show live streaming at ustexas

1642
01:24:36,760 --> 01:24:39,040
Speaker 1: dot com and our app Depicity. Drew Doory will be

1643
01:24:39,520 --> 01:24:41,920
Speaker 1: part of that. There's a lot going on, so let's

1644
01:24:41,920 --> 01:24:45,080
Speaker 1: get pump people Sunday. We'll see you there. As always

1645
01:24:45,160 --> 01:24:48,559
Speaker 1: go Texans pro Texans Protections