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Speaker 1: Welcome in Texas All Access Players Edition. We have a

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Speaker 1: great show. You are going to enjoy it. We're going

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Speaker 1: to catch up with our main mate John Harris and

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Speaker 1: talk about the somewhat halfway point with the Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: sitting at six and three. But first Mark and John

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Speaker 1: had a chance to catch up with Cad Stover.

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Speaker 2: Joining us right now in studio. It's Caid Stover. Caid,

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Speaker 2: great to see you. How's it going good?

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Speaker 3: Good to see you guys.

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Speaker 4: All right, back to.

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Speaker 3: The work week.

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Speaker 4: So what is this week like?

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Speaker 3: Last week?

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Speaker 2: The big thing was short week into the jet game.

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Speaker 2: Now you have sort of a long week. How did

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Speaker 2: you spend the weekend regenerating? How's this week going to

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Speaker 2: be for you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we're back to it.

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Speaker 5: The weekend was nice, get a couple of days to

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Speaker 5: kind of just look yourself in the mary a little

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Speaker 5: bit and just see or evaluate what's happened to that

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Speaker 5: point and just enjoy yourself and get away from a

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Speaker 5: little bit. So it was good to do that. Now,

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Speaker 5: I mean, we're back in a normal week now, So ready,

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Speaker 5: Rock Kate.

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Speaker 6: I don't want to use the word tougher because it

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Speaker 6: makes it sound like it's a negative. But in your

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Speaker 6: first year in the NFL, what's been a bigger challenge

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Speaker 6: the mental part of it or the physic part of it.

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Speaker 5: Early on, I feel like mental was definitely a part

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Speaker 5: of it. Just moves faster. Yeah, Everything just moves faster,

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Speaker 5: and people move faster, and I mean each game just

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Speaker 5: keep getting more comfortable and more comfortable and more opportunity

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Speaker 5: to do something. And then things just really start to

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Speaker 5: slow down. And I'm starting to start feel like his

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Speaker 5: game start to slowing for me.

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Speaker 4: But what about the mental part of it?

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Speaker 2: I mean, you're out there doing a lot of work,

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Speaker 2: a lot of different things, the blocking element, pass, receiving,

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Speaker 2: you have to know everything, the whole offense.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: No, I mean I kind of look at that like

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Speaker 5: a like kind of a compliment balance with you that

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Speaker 5: they're asking a rookie to be able to go and

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Speaker 5: move and I do a lot of moving. I'm always

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Speaker 5: moving here, in motion here and moving here, and I

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Speaker 5: like doing it. I enjoy playing that way. It just

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Speaker 5: takes a lot. I mean, it takes a lot during

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Speaker 5: the week to really get yourself prepared to play fast.

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Speaker 6: On Sunday in the tight end room, you lose Brevin,

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Speaker 6: but it was good to get TQ back into the

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Speaker 4: When Dalton has.

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Speaker 6: His catch the other day where he kind of shakes

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Speaker 6: off a couple guys and he shakes saw us. I

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Speaker 6: thought it was pretty cool because on the sideline you

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Speaker 6: can see Q getting really really excited for him.

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Speaker 4: You guys have pretty tight tight end room. What's that

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Speaker 4: room like this?

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Speaker 5: No doubt it's really good, even I mean really obviously

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Speaker 5: really sad losing Brevin. He was really instrumental to me

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Speaker 5: during camp and stuff. Just him and Dalton both just

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Speaker 5: really really good dudes, and honestly they could have not

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Speaker 5: been good dudes to me obviously, yep. So just have

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Speaker 5: them do that and he Teaking back now, I mean

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Speaker 5: I didn't really know Teaking that well during camp, but

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Speaker 5: now since he's been back, like I would say, I'm

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Speaker 5: pretty close and good friends with that kid. So it's

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Speaker 5: just really good to have such good people in the

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Speaker 2: I'm sure we discussed this, but Jake Morland, your tight

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Speaker 2: Ends coach, was an original Texan, so you can ask

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Speaker 2: him to tell you all the story being in this

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Speaker 2: building before the team ever played a game. So that's

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Speaker 2: interesting stuff right there. But talk to us a little

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Speaker 2: bit about the offense because you mentioned during the week

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Speaker 2: it's a lot of work. Do you bring the playbook

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Speaker 2: home and you go over all this stuff, because, like

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Speaker 2: you said, you're out there moving a lot and it's noticeable.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's a lot. But then again, I

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Speaker 5: mean this is your job, no, right, I mean I

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Speaker 5: guess in the lesser terms, I mean I watched my

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Speaker 5: pops get up and go to work every day. He's

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Speaker 5: if all I gotta do is go and study a

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Speaker 5: play for studying my place for a couple hours. And

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Speaker 5: now I'm pretty sure I got it pretty good. You

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Speaker 5: don't have class, no class, you know, I mean, I

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Speaker 5: got your job now, Like there's no pay for due.

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Speaker 5: I don't got it right, You don't have study hours

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Speaker 5: just kind of take that time and put it towards that.

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Speaker 6: Now, as the famous Buckey once said, you don't have

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Speaker 6: to play school anymore, so you don't have to worry

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Speaker 6: about that from from that standpoint. OK, this week, and

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Speaker 6: you had this earlier in the season, But now you

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Speaker 6: have another one. Well you had one Thursday, you had

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Speaker 6: primetime games. Now you go from Ohio State. You got

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Speaker 6: them at all kinds, at all times throughout the day, eleven,

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Speaker 6: two thirty, and at night. Right, But just being in

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Speaker 6: primetime games is something that we haven't seen around here

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Speaker 6: for a few years. What's kind of that nighttime element?

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Speaker 6: Like for you guys, is add a little bit more

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Speaker 6: like we did against Chicago?

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Speaker 4: What's that kind of nighttime experience?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 7: Fair?

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Speaker 5: The hardest part of a nighttime game is waiting around

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Speaker 5: all day That's yeah, that's awful, I mean to me,

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Speaker 5: that's why, like a lot of players, you don't like

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Speaker 5: long just to play, right, And the hardest part about

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Speaker 5: that you got to keep yourself. You gotta keep yourself calm, right,

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Speaker 5: you can get You can't wake up and be ready

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Speaker 5: to rock because if you do, then you to burn

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Speaker 5: yourself out before. Right, Like there were times in college

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Speaker 5: where early on I would do that and you're like,

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Speaker 5: I don't got no legs, Like, why are my legs

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Speaker 5: on it? It's because you're constantly like you're just thinking

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Speaker 5: you're moving like you just you got to relax. And

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Speaker 5: that's I mean, one of the harder parts for me

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Speaker 3: Just relax.

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Speaker 4: You got to keep the adrenaline kind.

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Speaker 3: Of low, right.

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Speaker 5: You can't, I mean, because you can only handle so

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Speaker 5: Like then be able to go out there through warm

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Speaker 5: and then if you do it right, you're feeling damn good.

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Speaker 3: Eight o'clock kids.

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Speaker 2: Still over with us, all right, So we want the

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Speaker 2: stadium to rock Sunday night, huge game with Detroit and

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Speaker 2: the fans will be there. When you were in college,

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Speaker 2: what were some of the louder environments you played in?

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Speaker 2: Obviously at home it was loud, but as an offense

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Speaker 2: So and here you've.

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Speaker 4: Dealt with it.

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Speaker 2: Green Bay, Minnesota, obviously the Jet game, but I would

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Speaker 2: think Minnesota was probably number one, right as far.

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Speaker 5: As yeah, that was just yeah, Minnesota, and that's the

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Speaker 5: one game I try and forget about for the rest

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Speaker 5: of my life. Yeah, but I would say that was

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Speaker 5: was good for me to grow up in that aspect

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Speaker 5: of State, I've ever been in Penn State and it's

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, Mark knows.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I used to work there a long time ago.

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Speaker 2: But your boys got it done this weekend.

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Speaker 3: They did. They got it done.

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Speaker 5: I just remember, like I mean, obviously, anybody's played their

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Speaker 5: especially with they if they get some life early on,

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Speaker 3: Playing us, we normally come back that.

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Speaker 6: Life gets extinguished very quickly against the Buckeyes lately.

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Speaker 4: Uh, that's for sure.

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Speaker 6: Would I know you don't want to you know, the

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Speaker 6: Minnesota game, it was a tough one and it's probably

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Speaker 3: Back on that.

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Speaker 6: Would that would taught me some lessons, So I know

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Speaker 6: it's It's one that you probably will never want to

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Speaker 6: did you have and have you had kind of a

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Speaker 3: That was it? That was it considered?

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Speaker 5: That whole game was kind of like because up to

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Speaker 5: I've not played on the line yet in a full

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Speaker 4: In a full game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you had some big moments. You had the

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Speaker 5: Mean, But like that was just from the backfield, a

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and then they.

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Speaker 5: Moved me to the why right, and like the first

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Speaker 5: But then like it just was different and just I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, is it's it's so different, huh from practice because

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Speaker 2: practice you're getting the look team. You're not blowing the

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Speaker 4: He's not gonna have what he's gonna have against you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and even more like I it's hard to describe,

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Speaker 5: but like when you're really like that was my first

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Speaker 5: and I've never been in there like that to me

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Speaker 5: don't know what you consider it, but like I was

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Speaker 5: the first guy out there with the first team offense, right,

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Speaker 5: that's my NFL career. And I was like that was

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Speaker 5: and you kind of forget and then you're like, god

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Speaker 5: darn it, he came a little kid again. Just felt

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Speaker 5: like I was six years old again in that name.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: But I mean, like you said, look, those things happened,

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Speaker 6: but you have lined up at fullback, You've lined up

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Speaker 4: And CJ was really good too. Well, that's what I

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Speaker 1: That was Mark and John with rookie tight end Kate Stover.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we're gonna take inventory with a halfway

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Speaker 1: All Access Welcome in. Welcome back, Texans All Access players. Addition,

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Speaker 1: what I don't want to miss the guy to my right,

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Speaker 1: But sitting at six and three, it's tough to do

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Speaker 2: Now, You've cut to the right place with me and

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Speaker 2: But you protect those who need to be healed, and

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Speaker 6: I don't know, some point on Tuesdays, I was kind

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Speaker 6: of driving around, maybe driving in. How many games this

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Speaker 6: year have we had Nico Collins and Joe Mixon start

444
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Speaker 6: and finish the game?

445
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Speaker 4: How many? Oh, it's it's it's zero, it's one, it's one,

446
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Speaker 4: it's one.

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Speaker 6: And you had twenty nine points, your second highest total

448
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Speaker 6: output point output of the year, and that was in

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Speaker 6: week one.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 6: You had Nico going off, you had Joe for one

452
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Speaker 6: point fifty nine, and you look in the offense I

453
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Speaker 6: think had its best output.

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Speaker 4: So in some sense you.

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Speaker 6: Look at it and go, at some point, we're gonna

456
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Speaker 6: get Joe and Nico together rocket and rolling and what

457
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Speaker 6: can happen? And yes, you miss steph, there's no question

458
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Speaker 6: about that. You definitely miss Steph. But you play one

459
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Speaker 6: of nine games, one that you started and finished with

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Speaker 6: Joe Mixon and Nico Collins. So to me, and look,

461
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Speaker 6: I know there are teams around the league.

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Speaker 4: That have injury issues. I mean, Alliance have been playing

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Speaker 4: without Aiden Hutchinson.

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Speaker 6: I get it, I understand, but the Texans were playing

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Speaker 6: games without at times Joe Mixon and Nico Collins.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I mean the rest of the Bills game was without

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Speaker 6: Nico and without Joe. So they've been playing those games

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Speaker 6: without Nico and Joe together. Hopefully, at some point Nico

470
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Speaker 6: can get back healthy. Maybe it's this week, I don't know,

471
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Speaker 6: maybe it's next week, I don't know. But at some point,

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Speaker 6: getting Joe and Nico back on the field together, I

473
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Speaker 6: think we'll take this offense up a notch. I think

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Speaker 6: it helps everybody at that point, and I think you

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Speaker 6: start playing better football starting on Sunday night against the Alliance.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna be tough.

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Speaker 6: They they just traded for Zadarius Smith to replace Aiden Hutchinson.

478
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Speaker 6: It's gonna be tough, But then again, where do you

479
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Speaker 6: think they are?

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Speaker 3: Indeed, you know, it's funny.

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Speaker 1: I'm listening to both of you guys, and I'm just

482
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Speaker 1: nod in my head because I'm in agreement. When Mark

483
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Speaker 1: talked about when we talk big picture and where they're

484
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Speaker 1: at now six and three, I even go back further,

485
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Speaker 1: and it's not because I'm trying to say, oh, everything

486
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Speaker 1: is fine, you don't need to worry about anything. There

487
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Speaker 1: are some glaring issues with this team, if you ask me,

488
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Speaker 1: when you look at it, and that's how you're supposed

489
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Speaker 1: to look at every single team that you follow, whatever

490
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Speaker 1: team you root for, you don't look Kansas City. They're

491
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Speaker 1: the only undefeated team in the NFL. But when I

492
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Speaker 1: watch that team, I'm like, something about them just doesn't

493
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Speaker 1: feel like the Kansas City that's won the past two

494
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Speaker 1: Super Bowls. But with the Texans, I look at what

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Speaker 1: they accomplished last year, where they're at this year, where

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Speaker 1: they're at when it comes to the division. I know

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Speaker 1: as a player, we had different phases within the season

498
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Speaker 1: that we want to accomplish, and we used to break

499
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Speaker 1: it down by quarters, but when it was all said

500
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Speaker 1: and done, you just wanted to get into the playoffs

501
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Speaker 1: because you wipe the slate clean. Everybody's O and O,

502
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Speaker 1: and the Texans are still trending towards that. So in

503
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Speaker 1: that scenario, I'm as excited as can be I can be,

504
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Speaker 1: But then the question is, okay, where you trend or

505
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Speaker 1: are we trending towards being able to beat and compete

506
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Speaker 1: against a team like the Detroit Lions. We're about to

507
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Speaker 1: find out or is it like, oh man, the ship

508
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Speaker 1: is sinking and I feel like the next couple of

509
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Speaker 1: weeks ago that's going to answer those questions. But overall,

510
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Speaker 1: six and three, if you'd have told me this when

511
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Speaker 1: Demico was higher, CJ was drafted, hey in year two,

512
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Speaker 1: after nine games, they're gonna be two games, you know,

513
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Speaker 1: ahead in the division. They're gonna be sitting in six

514
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Speaker 1: and three. I'll be like, okay, sign me up. But

515
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Speaker 1: right now, of course, the thought is going to be

516
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Speaker 1: where which way are they trending?

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Speaker 4: But what about offseason?

518
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Speaker 2: If I told you in July, right when camp is

519
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Speaker 2: beginning and d would you take six and three after

520
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Speaker 2: nine with a two game lead in the division or

521
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Speaker 2: what's behind door number two?

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Speaker 1: Now give me the six and three. Give me the

523
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Speaker 1: six and three and we're there now. So I'm excited

524
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Speaker 1: about that, But if I'm gonna be realistic, there's no

525
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Speaker 1: reason to be in Panama at panic mode. There's no

526
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Speaker 1: reason to say, you know, this entire position group needs

527
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Speaker 1: to be changed.

528
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Speaker 3: Offensive line.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, if you're practicing, if you're

530
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Speaker 1: getting better, and it's hard for me to believe that

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Speaker 1: the guy that I've played with, the guy that I

532
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Speaker 1: know and admire, Domigo Ryans, is watching film, watching practice,

533
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Speaker 1: thinking to himself, Oh, we're fine right here. You know,

534
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Speaker 1: I think they're going to be whether it's technique change,

535
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Speaker 1: coaching change, not anybody being fired, but how you're coaching

536
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Speaker 1: a certain position group. There's gonna be something done with

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Speaker 1: that offensive line. And I believe we're going to see

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Speaker 1: when Detroit comes in town.

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Speaker 6: I got six and three lead, the sixty three record,

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Speaker 6: the two basically two and a half game lead in

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Speaker 6: the Colts over the Colts.

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Speaker 4: This is going to sound really strange, but I hit

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Speaker 4: Mark with this.

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Speaker 6: I started thinking as I was walking on a building

545
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Speaker 6: today and I was like, Colts are four and five,

546
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Speaker 6: were six and three, and we got the tiebreaker over them.

547
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Speaker 4: And I start thinking about this next four game stretch.

548
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Speaker 4: Here we go. Now, this is good, this is good, And.

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Speaker 6: I start thinking about this next four game stretch, so

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Speaker 6: it's tough with the lines, no doubt. Then you've got

551
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Speaker 6: a Cowboys team that could be without Dak Prescott. Then

552
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Speaker 6: you go you have Tennessee at home, and then you

553
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Speaker 6: have Jackson on the road.

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Speaker 2: So three and one, three and one reasonable? Maybe maybe

555
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Speaker 2: let's just say, for sake of argument, go ahead.

556
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, it's it's not only is it reasonable,

557
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Speaker 1: it's expected.

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Speaker 4: So that puts you at nine and four, right right.

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Speaker 6: If the Colts, and I mentioned earlier they played the Bills,

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Speaker 6: the Lions, the Jets, the Patriots, we'll say the Colts

561
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Speaker 6: go one and three in that stretch, you'll have clinched

562
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Speaker 6: the AFC South by the bye week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah wow, Yeah, with four games left, the four games

564
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Speaker 2: left to go, you'll have clinched the AFC South by

565
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Speaker 2: the bye week.

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Speaker 4: And then it becomes all right, where are we at here? Really?

567
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Speaker 2: With seating versus keeping guys healthy versus whatever. I mean,

568
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Speaker 2: you could have those luxury problems, and that's what I

569
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Speaker 2: call them, because if you have, if you've clinched going

570
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Speaker 2: into that gauntlet of games with Miami, Kansas City, Baltimore,

571
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Speaker 2: if you've clinched by then that's what the whole top

572
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Speaker 2: radio universe is going to be talking about on YouTube everything.

573
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Speaker 4: What should you do?

574
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Speaker 3: Davis clipboard down.

575
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Speaker 4: Hasn't played it all month and he's healthy. No, there's

576
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Speaker 4: a lot that goes into those four games.

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Speaker 6: But to my point, and to your point, in d

578
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Speaker 6: three and one, you look at it and go, yeah,

579
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Speaker 6: you would expect to.

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Speaker 4: Be three and one. Now, what happens to the Colts?

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Speaker 4: You never know. But you got Bills and you got Lions.

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Speaker 6: I mean, then you get beat by either Jets or

583
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Speaker 6: or And I'm telling you, if they get hammered by

584
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Speaker 6: the Bills, the Jets have got a great shot to

585
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Speaker 6: knock them off.

586
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Speaker 4: If the Jets start getting hot, and.

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Speaker 6: Then the Lions, as long as the Lions stay healthy,

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Speaker 6: and then the Lions do it, I.

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Speaker 4: Mean it could.

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Speaker 6: It's just crazy to think about in a season in

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Speaker 6: which we're When I say we, I mean the collective,

592
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Speaker 6: we were nitpicking about a lot of things.

593
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Speaker 4: And then look, I mean you mentioned Indie.

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Speaker 6: I don't think it's any secret the offensive lines got play,

595
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Speaker 6: gotta play better. It's gotta play better. But to go

596
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Speaker 6: into the bye week and go we.

597
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Speaker 4: Got the division in hand, that would be wild.

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Speaker 2: That'd be wild beat got to think the Cults somehow.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they could split. You might not be able

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Speaker 2: to go three and one. We'll see. But look, that's

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Speaker 2: four games from now. I like talking like this because

602
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Speaker 2: it's it warms my heart to think about clinching the AFC.

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Speaker 4: With four games back. That'd be crazy, even more than.

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Speaker 2: Four games because it's really five weeks of the season,

605
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Speaker 2: because you'll have a buye in there. We could go

606
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Speaker 2: into that bye week like we are the division chance.

607
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Speaker 2: Let's put up the banner with four weeks.

608
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Speaker 4: To go, put it up early for the Miami game.

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Speaker 2: I really hope Hannah is not listening right now. She

610
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Speaker 2: will kill me talking like this.

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Speaker 3: Uh hold on, hold on?

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Speaker 1: How cool would that be what I would do that

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Speaker 1: in today's day and age, where I would have a

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Speaker 1: banner president pation in the middle of the game time

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Speaker 1: and have Andre Johnson pulling.

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Speaker 4: On come in celebrating the division.

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Speaker 8: That would.

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Speaker 2: Get controlled in the postseason if you don't back it

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Speaker 2: up with outstanding playoffs.

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Speaker 4: Earliest to clinch in the NFL.

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Speaker 2: Because I mean listening, it's like the Cults. I mean

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Speaker 2: AFC Championship game participant.

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Speaker 6: Well, I mean obviously I mean, you know, on Twitter,

624
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Speaker 6: you follow all kinds of people, and I've been following

625
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Speaker 6: the you know, sal and our friends up in Buffalo.

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Speaker 6: That's something they've been talking about. What's the earliest they

627
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Speaker 6: can clinch.

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Speaker 4: They could clinch.

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Speaker 6: And I think when you look at that division, you

630
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Speaker 6: better be careful of Jets. And I know it was

631
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Speaker 6: a one game, like I get it, but that team

632
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Speaker 6: that we played the other night, their teams that are

633
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Speaker 6: going to have issues against them, well.

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Speaker 2: Once they get Adams really comfortable along with Wilson rights,

635
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Speaker 2: it's dangerous. It's just like the Texans getting Autrey into

636
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Speaker 2: the fold and two games in Okay, one game was

637
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Speaker 2: one thing, the second game was a whole lot better.

638
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Speaker 2: With two sacks. What's Autry gonna do in Game three

639
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Speaker 2: against the Lions. We need Autrey to step up along

640
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Speaker 2: with the rest of the guys up front see what

641
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Speaker 2: you can get. But I wanted to bring this up

642
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Speaker 2: to both of you guys being former players, all right,

643
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Speaker 2: and ND obviously in the league for twelve years, Johnny

644
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Speaker 2: not so many years in the league, but of course

645
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Speaker 2: played college football.

646
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Speaker 4: But CJ.

647
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Speaker 2: Stroud talked about after the game, after the Jet game

648
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Speaker 2: about leadership we need our leaders to step up.

649
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Speaker 4: And you know, he's the leader. He's the quarterback last year.

650
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Speaker 4: You're a rookie. It's tough to be that leader quarterback.

651
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Speaker 2: And I don't want to word it like getting people's faces,

652
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Speaker 2: but maybe that to a degree that kind of thing

653
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Speaker 2: year two?

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Speaker 4: Is it? Okay?

655
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Speaker 2: It's not necessarily an adversarial thing, but he is the

656
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Speaker 2: man and he knows it. And is that accepted in

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Speaker 2: the locker room if a quarterback does that.

658
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Speaker 3: Here's the thing, even though he's a young guy. You

659
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Speaker 3: and I.

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Speaker 1: We interviewed John Weeks, you know, who's been in the

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Speaker 1: league forever, and he talked about how CJ. Stroud, will Anderson,

662
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Speaker 1: how they are truly leaders. Because I questioned and this

663
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,439
Speaker 1: wasn't a knock against will Anderson and c J. Stroud,

664
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Speaker 1: This was just my own not knowing how things are

665
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 1: working in the locker room. I question rookies being named captains.

666
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: And so that's why I asked some of the leaders,

667
00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 1: as far as veterans and years on this team, hey,

668
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: are they really you know, leaders or y'all just kind

669
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 1: of giving them a nud for confidence? And to a

670
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 1: t every veteran on this team was like, no, these

671
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: guys are leaders, like they're the leaders of the team.

672
00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: So that was as rookies, So second year. Absolutely, if

673
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 1: c J. Stroud sees something that he doesn't like as

674
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Speaker 1: far as the way guys are carrying themselves, as far

675
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: as how they're responding to the negativity and some of

676
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,120
Speaker 1: the bad plays, he should get in people's face. Because

677
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Speaker 1: he's also a guy from everything that I've heard and

678
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 1: seen when I go out to practice, he's gonna put

679
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Speaker 1: in the work. You know, you don't want a guy

680
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 1: who's just raw raw, let me get in the face

681
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: for the sake of the camera. And they're not putting

682
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Speaker 1: in the work. I mean from everything I hear, first

683
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 1: guy in, last guy out, he absolutely to answer your

684
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,640
Speaker 1: question mark emphatically, can get into the face of these players,

685
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,960
Speaker 1: and he should, let me tell you, not only he can't,

686
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: he should do that.

687
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Speaker 6: Yeah, And I think that's I think we've gotten to

688
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,920
Speaker 6: that point. I don't just kind of knowing CJ. I

689
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 6: don't know that that's something that CJ wants to do. But

690
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,640
Speaker 6: CJ's competitive, dude. He don't want to he doesn't want

691
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 6: to lose, and he doesn't even get the hell beat

692
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Speaker 6: out of him either. So I think that this weekend,

693
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 6: this past weekend, with everybody getting a chance to just

694
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:36,719
Speaker 6: you got forty eight to seventy two hours to just

695
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 6: collect yourself, just go back, just get away from the

696
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 6: game for a little bit, think about something else. But

697
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 6: there's gonna be times because it's your occupation, no matter

698
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 6: what you're in, you're gonna think about what it is

699
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 6: that you do. And Okay, what's my role and responsibility

700
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 6: on this team right now? And I think will Anderson

701
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 6: aziz al Shire and that's another one we've missed a

702
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 6: Zz absolutely, even though I think Neville has played pretty well.

703
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 6: I think Nevill's played pretty well, but a These just

704
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 6: the way that he carries himself and sees himself as

705
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 6: he should be the leader of the defense.

706
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Speaker 4: I think Azz can take some of that leadership burden.

707
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 6: And I would mind if Z's walked into the offensive

708
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 6: room and said, hey, y'all need to start picking it up,

709
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 6: because we're going to pick up our stuff over here,

710
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 6: so y'all need to match us.

711
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Speaker 1: You know, let me take a step first, because I

712
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: love that. But Auzz doesn't even have to go into

713
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Speaker 1: the offensive meeting room. And I know you're using as

714
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Speaker 1: an example, but what he could do where it's not

715
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 1: as abrasive. He walks into the scout team defensive line

716
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 1: room and says, man, give them everything you've got, like literally,

717
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 1: give that offensive line right, everything you've got during our

718
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 1: scout during our scout team, because they need the practice,

719
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: they need those reds, and that's the only way they're

720
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Speaker 1: going to get better.

721
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a great point, and you know, push those

722
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Speaker 6: guys to the limit, push them until they're frustrated, you know,

723
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Speaker 6: do the things that other teams have been doing to

724
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Speaker 6: him and get at That's a great point. And that's

725
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Speaker 6: why I think I think missing disease the last few

726
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Speaker 6: weeks because of that. I mean, a these is we're

727
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Speaker 6: in New England and he's on her knee that he's

728
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Speaker 6: gonna end up missing when we played three games since,

729
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 6: I can't remember what it was.

730
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Speaker 4: I think it's three games since, but either.

731
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Speaker 6: Way, we've missed three games since, and he's begging to

732
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Speaker 6: go back into the game, begging, like on the sidelines,

733
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Speaker 6: like they're having to hold him back, like you're not

734
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Speaker 6: going back in and that's gotta be worth something.

735
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Speaker 4: I mean to defensive mates going dude.

736
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Speaker 6: Man, that dude loves to play like that's got to

737
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Speaker 6: rub off on guys and especially young guys to see

738
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Speaker 6: that and go, okay, I see that. But yeah, I

739
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,240
Speaker 6: think CJ and A Z's you know, kind of tag

740
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Speaker 6: team the leadership and maybe I mean he was standing

741
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 6: up with team meetings and just being able to say,

742
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Speaker 6: as a collective, WI instead of offense defense, we're pitting

743
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 6: the two of y'all against each other. As a collective,

744
00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 6: we we've got to.

745
00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 4: Do these things to play with.

746
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 6: This swarm mentality can kind of make it almost that

747
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 6: as opposed to the offense feeling like, well, the defense

748
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 6: is getting mad at us because we're not doing our thing.

749
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 4: Well, you know what, we're gonna get mad at them

750
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 4: because they're getting mad at us. You know that sort

751
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 4: of thing, So you stay away from that.

752
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 6: But I think the leadership on this team, to your question, mark,

753
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 6: I think CJ is absolutely not only within his rights

754
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,760
Speaker 6: because he's the one getting the hell beat out of him.

755
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 6: I absolutely if I was an offensive lineman and I

756
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 6: knew my quarterback was getting sacked and going, you know,

757
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 6: was talking to Kirk herber Street saying, then.

758
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Speaker 4: I'm beat up at this time of year, I would

759
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Speaker 4: be mortified.

760
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Speaker 3: I would be.

761
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Speaker 4: Mortified nine games to go when he talked to them, Yeah,

762
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Speaker 4: I would be mortified that my quarterback is going through that.

763
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 6: It just would kill me. So we'll see, guys need

764
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,200
Speaker 6: to rise up. But I do think this is a time.

765
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 6: And look, think of the guys.

766
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Speaker 4: That we've had that have missed games lately.

767
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Speaker 6: You know, we missed Joe for three games, and you

768
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Speaker 6: think about the leadership that Joe provides.

769
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 4: We've had Nico without being without.

770
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Speaker 6: Four four games now, and Nico's not the most outgoing sort.

771
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 6: Does it more quietly, does it more by example, But

772
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Speaker 6: still you see what Nico does. You see the work

773
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Speaker 6: that he put it, puts in. We have a disease

774
00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 6: on the sideline, haven't had Jimmy Ward on the side.

775
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Speaker 4: I think that's big.

776
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Speaker 6: You think about the collective leadership of those four, just

777
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Speaker 6: those four guys in particular, that you've been without for

778
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Speaker 6: certain points of the year, for long stretches of time.

779
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Speaker 4: It takes a toll.

780
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Speaker 2: You've had to make big stops on defense without disease,

781
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:40,040
Speaker 2: without Jimmy Ward. And look, I know Jimmy was hurt

782
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 2: last year for a time there's no doubt that they

783
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 2: were able to do some good things without him, but

784
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Speaker 2: to have him his leadership, like you said, his savvy

785
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 2: is playmaking ability, and then you have a disease.

786
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 4: Of course, I think.

787
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Speaker 2: Those two being missing from the lineup is a major

788
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 2: factor in some of their issues defensively, and there's still

789
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 2: the number two total yards defense in the league or

790
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 2: whatever that's worth. But they've had to make some big

791
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 2: stops that have been tough to get green Bay late

792
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 2: in the game, couldn't make the stop the Jets, give

793
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 2: me the ball back. We're not doing well on offense.

794
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 2: We need a back time and time again. It's got

795
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 2: to be one of those nights where we're just gonna

796
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 2: have to win a game holding the opponent in the

797
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 2: teams they couldn't do it, So you know, we you'll

798
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Speaker 2: hear the interview. It's up on YouTube. But Nick, he

799
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 2: was in here. He talked about missed field goals in

800
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Speaker 2: that game. He's not barrying Kaimi, who's been one of

801
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:28,440
Speaker 2: the MVPs of this team, but you know that's kind

802
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 2: of a factor when you're trying to hang in there

803
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 2: in one of those close games, get get a field goal.

804
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 2: Or two, get a stop or two. All of a sudden,

805
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 2: it's a completely different situation. Maybe you don't win, but

806
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 2: maybe it's a lot closer.

807
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 4: Okay, this one's for both of y'all.

808
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Speaker 6: It's a two part question, and you kind of mentioned

809
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 6: it a little bit, so you'll hear on replay or

810
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 6: excuse me, a matchup a little bit later tonight. I

811
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 6: did the ultimate eleven plays from the first half of.

812
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Speaker 4: The season, right okay, Oh boy, I know where this

813
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 4: is going.

814
00:33:56,040 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 6: A what is the top play or moment from the

815
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 6: first half of the season?

816
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 4: I got it.

817
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 6: B Who is the team's MVP through the first half

818
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 6: of the season in your opinion?

819
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:10,279
Speaker 3: All right?

820
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 4: Can we want them?

821
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:11,440
Speaker 2: An?

822
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 4: CJ.

823
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 2: Stroud from the conversation A different category, non quarterback category.

824
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 6: I've got player moment is number one for you? What

825
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,320
Speaker 6: player is the MVP of the first half of the season?

826
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,279
Speaker 4: Who wants to go first? I'll go first, all right, Mark,

827
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:28,399
Speaker 4: you go first? All right?

828
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 2: The top moment is fair Baron's field goal against Buffalo,

829
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:37,240
Speaker 2: and the top player is Nico Collins top quarterback player.

830
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 2: I think Mixon could be it, but they win when

831
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 2: Nico goes off.

832
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 4: They don't always win when Mixing.

833
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,799
Speaker 2: Goes off, and that's not Joe's fault, but they're not

834
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,280
Speaker 2: able to capitalize on it. That's heartbreaking to me because

835
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 2: Mixon has been wonderful when he's out there, and he's

836
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,920
Speaker 2: third in the league in yards per game. That's amazing,

837
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 2: behind Derrick Henry and Saquon Barkley. That's incredible company right there.

838
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,360
Speaker 2: Mix and one of the best backs in the NFL.

839
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,919
Speaker 2: He's performing at a high level, and they're not able

840
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 2: to cash it every time he goes over one hundred

841
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 2: and it's four consecutive games now, But when Nico goes off,

842
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 2: they tend to be victorious.

843
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 4: How about that?

844
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,919
Speaker 1: Okay, so for the moment, I didn't have one play,

845
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,839
Speaker 1: but it was Nico's breakout game even though I don't

846
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:22,280
Speaker 1: have them and which one? But yeah, so that because

847
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 1: to me, it's solidified himself as the number one going

848
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: into the season. You and I talked about it during

849
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: the preseason game. Oh, who's going to be the number one?

850
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: Jiggs is gonna be Collins? I thought it was. It

851
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: was very telling.

852
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 4: Was it week one?

853
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 3: Maybe? Yeah?

854
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, Diggs had two weeks two, right.

855
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: But I think in week one Nico said No, I

856
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:46,400
Speaker 1: am the guy. You know Diggs has all the you

857
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: know talent, he has, you know, all the highlights from

858
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 1: a long, storied career. But I'm the number one receiver

859
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 1: on this team. But with that being said, I feel

860
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: like the MVP is Joe Mixon. I just think he

861
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:02,479
Speaker 1: makes CJ's job a little bit easier, and he even

862
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 1: makes the offensive line's job a little bit easier because

863
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,239
Speaker 1: when he was out, we were like, oh man, what's

864
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: wrong with the running game? What's wrong with the offensive lineman?

865
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: Same offensive line? Joe Mixon comes in and it's like,

866
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: you know what, He's a special running back. So I

867
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 1: still believe that Joe Mixing right now, outside of c J. Stroud,

868
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 1: is the MVP of the game. But the thing that

869
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 1: sticks with me the most during the first half is

870
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: Nico Collins really stating and showing everyone that he's the

871
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:30,959
Speaker 1: true number one wide receiver of this team.

872
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 6: I actually agree with both of you.

873
00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:36,320
Speaker 3: What would be the answer to your question.

874
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 6: Half half fair baron number one half Mixing as MVP.

875
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 4: Okay, I just think when I don't know, maybe maybe

876
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 4: it's been in my mind the fact.

877
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 6: That we have not been able to run the ball

878
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 6: effectively since Carlos Hyde in a twenty nineteen team.

879
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, five years we have been strung. We have had

880
00:36:57,480 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 4: running back after running back.

881
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:02,880
Speaker 2: That Nanza either, that was kind of hard, fuck grind

882
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 2: it out.

883
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,320
Speaker 4: It was just when we last had a thousand yards.

884
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 6: And even if you went before that, like Lamar Miller,

885
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 6: I love Lamar, you know, I felled about Lamar. I

886
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 6: love Lamar, but it was still it was a dogfight all.

887
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 4: The time to even get to one hundred yards for Lamar.

888
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 6: Joe is taking the rock and gone over one hundred

889
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 6: every game that he's started.

890
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 4: In fun to watch.

891
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 6: It's been incredible watch. And with Nico out and now

892
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 6: Steph out. The other night against the Jets, the Jets

893
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 6: knew he was getting the ball and he still went

894
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 6: for a hundred plus.

895
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:40,479
Speaker 4: Yet you couldn't capitalize. Where's the play action?

896
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 2: Every year of my life with this team, we talk about, hey,

897
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 2: when they start running the ball, well they'll have a

898
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 2: play action.

899
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 4: They can capitalize.

900
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 2: It's just a formula, that's the recipe, and they're getting

901
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:54,720
Speaker 2: that key ingredient. We're getting the pasta and the sauce,

902
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 2: but it doesn't have the flavor that we want. I

903
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 2: don't know, we're not scoring the points. I can't come

904
00:37:59,120 --> 00:37:59,840
Speaker 2: up with a good cookie.

905
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 6: I have at least four or five plays going back

906
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:04,879
Speaker 6: and looking at the film. I don't know if they're

907
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 6: all play action, but past plays that could have been

908
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:14,439
Speaker 6: significant plays in that game against the Jets. I think

909
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 6: none that I'm thinking about some of them. I think

910
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 6: most of them are play action that could have been

911
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 6: significant games.

912
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,400
Speaker 2: But what happens not enough time? Not enough time, okay,

913
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,800
Speaker 2: enough time, blow block, too much pressure.

914
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 1: When you asked the question about the play that really

915
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: stuck in your mind the fact I couldn't remember the

916
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 1: exact game, but y'all's recalls, so I'm always impressed with it.

917
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,399
Speaker 3: If I give you clues, y'all might know it.

918
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 1: It was third and eleven or third and ten and

919
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 1: and CJ puts the ball only where his receiver can

920
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: get it. They got eleven yard. Yeah, okay, that was

921
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: the play that really stuck because I felt like, it's

922
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 1: not a play if this question was asked, people would

923
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 1: think of But I just thought he made it look

924
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: so easy, and that was a big reason they were

925
00:38:58,640 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: able to extend that joint.

926
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:03,800
Speaker 6: Thing about that is that throws. I mean it's tremendous

927
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 6: store from CJ. But Nico's got to make that catch, absolutely,

928
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 6: But it doesn't run out the game, It doesn't run

929
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 6: out the clock, makes it runs out the clock and

930
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,359
Speaker 6: makes it does a little bit later. So that's to

931
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 6: my point, the original point, which was, you haven't had

932
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 6: those two guys on the field start finish.

933
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 4: The game since that game, right since that game.

934
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 6: And I'm not gonna say, well, you know you're gonna

935
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 6: just because we don't know when Eco's gonna come back,

936
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:31,239
Speaker 6: but we hope it's it's going to be soon that

937
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 6: when you do get those two, that you have one

938
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:35,360
Speaker 6: of the top three running backs in the league, that

939
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,240
Speaker 6: you have one of the top two or three receivers

940
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 6: in the league. And now all of a sudden, it

941
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 6: makes the game easier for your own quarterback, It makes

942
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 6: the game easier for your offensive line, and now maybe

943
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 6: things start to really come together, you get some confidence,

944
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 6: and maybe you can roll at that point.

945
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 2: All right, And these are all hot takes brought to

946
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947
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Speaker 1: All right, quick time out, don't touch that now. Texans

950
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:05,880
Speaker 1: Excess Players Edition right here, Welcome back now. Mark Vandermer

951
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: checks in with some high profile guys that were acquired

952
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 1: during the offseason. You might know them, Joe Mixon, Daniel Hunter.

953
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Speaker 1: Does that ring a bell?

954
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, Endy. Let's take stock here. Joe Mixon acquired

955
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 2: in the offseason from the Bengals. It was a trade,

956
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 2: felt like a free agent acquisition, whatever the case is.

957
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:23,919
Speaker 2: He's lighting it up for the Houston Texans. He's third

958
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 2: in the NFL in yards per game, behind Derek Henry

959
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 2: and Saquon Barkley. And he's running on a streak of

960
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 2: four consecutive one hundred yard games. Outstanding performance so far

961
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 2: for Joe Mixon. And he's missed some action, but it

962
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:41,839
Speaker 2: doesn't even feel like it. Let's harken back to when

963
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 2: Mixon was acquired. The day he had his press conference,

964
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 2: we asked Joe Mixon what the Texans would be getting

965
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 2: when they acquired him.

966
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:52,760
Speaker 9: I would truly feel like, on the failure, you're getting

967
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 9: a playmaker for one, a passionate player for two, and

968
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 9: three a leader. And I think that with what my

969
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 9: skill set is, and I truly feel like with what

970
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 9: I bring to the table in terms of on and

971
00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,800
Speaker 9: off the field, you know, contributions, I feel like I

972
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 9: would be able to be the missing piece to really

973
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 9: make this thing go. And I truly feel like I

974
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:20,919
Speaker 9: could be able to get us over that hunt man.

975
00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 9: So I'm definitely very excited and I've definitely looked forward

976
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:24,880
Speaker 9: to it.

977
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 2: On that day, John Harris also asked Joe about his

978
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 2: style and who inspired him as a running back.

979
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 4: You grew up Cempsus Square Bay Area.

980
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 6: Was there somebody that you watched growing up that you

981
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,239
Speaker 6: emulated growing up that you wanted to play the game, like,

982
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 6: whether it's running back or not.

983
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 4: Just somebody you looked at and said, I like the

984
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 4: way that cat plays.

985
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt.

986
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 9: That man who I really looked up to and who

987
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 9: had nothing but the ultimate motivation that I wanted to

988
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 9: be like was Adrian Peterson. Okay, Yeah, he definitely inspired

989
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 9: me to be exactly like how he was at Oklahoma

990
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 9: and that's the reason why I went there. Obviously they

991
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,399
Speaker 9: had a great staff and things like that, but he

992
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 9: definitely made me want to be a Sooner and I

993
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 9: was that and I know if you went to Oklahoma

994
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 9: and you played there, more than likely as them being

995
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 9: running back you or one of the running back us,

996
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 9: I should say, you're definitely bound to go to the

997
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 9: NFL as long as you're doing work. So you know

998
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,319
Speaker 9: that was definitely my inspiration.

999
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 2: Right There's one important offseason acquisition for the Texans. Here's

1000
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,840
Speaker 2: another Danille Hunter who has five and a half sacks

1001
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 2: on the season. He's on pace for another double digit

1002
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,560
Speaker 2: sax season, which would be his third in a row

1003
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 2: and fifth out of the last six years. So we'll

1004
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 2: see how it goes down the stretch. Forward Danil and

1005
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 2: on the day he was acquired or announced officially, Johnny

1006
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:53,480
Speaker 2: asked him about his pass rush style.

1007
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 4: Where did you kind of craft your pass rush skills?

1008
00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 8: I feel like it's a big combination of a lot

1009
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:01,879
Speaker 8: of things. You know, the guys that's been there before

1010
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,720
Speaker 8: me that I've learned from, and he's just staying active

1011
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 8: as a pass rusher. I think that's the biggest thing.

1012
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,840
Speaker 8: When you're rushing the pastor you got to stay active.

1013
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 8: You know, if you're not active, then you're gonna be

1014
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 8: in a net. You're not gonna be able to move

1015
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:16,359
Speaker 8: around A guy or whatever, But the biggest thing is

1016
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 8: just having a technique and just staying active.

1017
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:22,280
Speaker 4: I've always asked this of guys that rush the quarterback.

1018
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:24,760
Speaker 4: Is it more art or science.

1019
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:28,240
Speaker 8: I think it's a combination of both, you know, because

1020
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 8: science you got it, you got that edge right, and

1021
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 8: if you're if you're not bought at edge, if you're

1022
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 8: not if you're not doing what you need to do

1023
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 8: get by it edge, you're not gonna beat the guy

1024
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 8: in front of you. So I feel like it's a

1025
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 8: combination of that, and it's a combination of just bringing

1026
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 8: your skill, bringing your attributes, your god given talents. Each

1027
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 8: guy is different, so there's there's something that works for

1028
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 8: each guy that they know that you'll be able to

1029
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:48,400
Speaker 8: beat a guy with.

1030
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 2: I cannot get over how soft spoken Daniel Hunter is,

1031
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 2: but he's extremely loud in play on the field. And

1032
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 2: that's just a check in with a couple of the

1033
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,920
Speaker 2: off season acquisitions the text and made as we are

1034
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:02,400
Speaker 2: just over the halfway point in.

1035
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:04,879
Speaker 1: D Thanks Mark, great job on the way out. Let's

1036
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: get some bonus audio as Andre Johnson, Jonathan Joseph have

1037
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:11,800
Speaker 1: a little goat talk with Hall of Famer Chris Carter,

1038
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 1: you don't want to miss that.

1039
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 10: Speaking of Buddy Ryan, talk about that experience. He seemed

1040
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 10: like a you know, I never got a chance to

1041
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 10: meet him. He seemed like a very fiery coach man.

1042
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 10: So talk about him a little bit and playing.

1043
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 4: For very fiery coach.

1044
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:32,800
Speaker 7: I think that his overall defense of philosophy and blitzing

1045
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 7: the quarterback, I think it's not it's not great to

1046
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 7: practice against because when you're blitzing playing a lot of man,

1047
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,479
Speaker 7: the man you're coming after your own quarterback. I thought

1048
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 7: it developed a lot of animosity, you know, amongst the team,

1049
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 7: so that when we went out on the field, we

1050
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 7: were three different units, the offense, the defense, which was dominant,

1051
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 7: and the special team. So I think that that really

1052
00:44:56,200 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 7: hurt our chance of maximizing the squad because of his

1053
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 7: overall intensity and how the defense pretty much dominated the team.

1054
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 4: And you have to have balance throughout your units.

1055
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:10,640
Speaker 10: Right, And you know, I wanted to ask something else,

1056
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 10: but I'm gonna stay up there with Philadeth.

1057
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 4: You talk about your time when he was in Philly.

1058
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:15,239
Speaker 4: To have a chance to be around a guy like

1059
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Speaker 4: Reggie White.

1060
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Speaker 7: Reggie was amazing, like he truly was. It was the

1061
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 7: first man to ever tell me that he loved me.

1062
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:25,439
Speaker 7: Me growing up, seven kids, no father in the home.

1063
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Speaker 4: You know, that was a you know, that was something.

1064
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Speaker 7: Very very different. And Reggie was, you know, one of

1065
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 7: those Christians. Was exactly how he portrayed himself. He wasn't

1066
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 7: two or three different people depend on what audience. He

1067
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 7: was exactly. He was consistent. But Reggie was a big,

1068
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:48,319
Speaker 7: fun loving guy. He joked and hung around with the

1069
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 7: best of the best and the worst of the worst

1070
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 7: on the team. So Reggie was a great role model

1071
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,759
Speaker 7: for me. The impact he had on me in day

1072
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 7: to day and how to be a man and how

1073
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 7: to function in the NFL and and how to do

1074
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:06,359
Speaker 7: it at a high level and have balance, Like that's who,

1075
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 7: That's who Reggie, right, that was.

1076
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 1: What he kind of in buy all right. That was

1077
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 1: just a short clip from Go Talk. If you want

1078
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: to hear the whole thing, make sure you check them

1079
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,799
Speaker 1: out on YouTube. Andre Johnson, Jonathan Joseph doing a great

1080
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 1: job with that. Go Talk, go check it out. And

1081
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:20,839
Speaker 1: that's going to do it for us today. Texans All

1082
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Speaker 1: Access the players addition, Go Texans