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Speaker 2: Good people, Welcome into a Monday edition of Texas All

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Speaker 2: Access from the Honday at Texans Radio Studio. We got

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Speaker 2: Giants and Seahawks coming up for you at seven o'clock

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Speaker 2: right here on Sports Radio six ten.

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Speaker 3: I'm your host for this evening's proceedings. John Harris, Football Analyst,

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Speaker 3: sideline reporter. Fresh off a good hour, a good half hour,

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Speaker 3: I guess with coach Ryan's was fun to talk to him.

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Speaker 1: Always fun to talk win, lose, no matter what.

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Speaker 3: But after two wins in a row, it's great to

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Speaker 3: catch up with the head coach.

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Speaker 1: Now it's time to catch up with some of.

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Speaker 3: Our luminaries and one of our favorites is Andre Where. Now,

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Speaker 3: for those of you that weren't listening yesterday, let me

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Speaker 3: set the scene for how this thing starts.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday, Mark has to go down to be the Ring

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Speaker 2: of Honor Master of ceremonies.

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Speaker 1: So to get down.

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Speaker 2: To the field, he has to go with the coach's elevator.

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Speaker 2: They hold the elevator over on the on the west

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Speaker 2: side for the coaches. At a certain point. If you've

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Speaker 2: been over there, you know you hear the the ushers

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Speaker 2: and everybody. Coaches coaches they let them know, so Mark's

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Speaker 2: had to get on that particular elevator. But there was

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Speaker 2: also about forty five seconds left and a half, so

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Speaker 2: at this point Andre had to take over as play

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Speaker 2: by play man and he did awesome.

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Speaker 1: So that's how.

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Speaker 2: We rejoin with Andre making this call of a Nico

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Speaker 2: Collins catch CJ.

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Speaker 4: Back to pass over the middle, Nico Collins to the

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Speaker 4: forty forty five fifty Collins to the forty thirty five

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Speaker 4: yard line.

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Speaker 5: Big plays by.

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Speaker 4: Nico Collins twenty nine seconds left in the quarter, trying

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Speaker 4: to get to the line of scrimmage to spike the ball.

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Speaker 4: That's executed with about twenty one seconds, so the Texans

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Speaker 4: put themselves in a position to at least add a

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Speaker 4: field goal to their thirteen point lead. Forty two yard

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Speaker 4: throwing hitch from c J. Stroud to Nico Colley.

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Speaker 5: I've created a monster. That was good.

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Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, Andre Rarey and the half call in

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Speaker 6: the action as I'm heading down the elevator to go

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Speaker 6: m see the JJ Watt ring of honor ceremony.

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Speaker 5: Drey, great job with the call.

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Speaker 6: I am so happy that the door was not locked

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Speaker 6: when I went back up to the broadcast booth.

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Speaker 5: I really appreciate that.

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Speaker 6: And nice play by plate Chops, my friend, good job.

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Speaker 7: Thanks man.

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Speaker 8: That was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 9: That's that's one that we'll put in the vault and

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Speaker 9: seal it away, but and then go back to our normal,

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Speaker 9: our normal daily job. But that was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 9: It was fun for me, fun for Johnny. We were

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Speaker 9: trying to figure out how to lock the door.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was hoping that somebody was gonna print on

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Speaker 3: a picture of Wally Pip and put it on the

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Speaker 3: doors it was locked, and go.

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Speaker 5: You know who this is? Yeah, people need to know

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Speaker 5: the Wally Pip story.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well you think kids need to know the Wallypip story.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's got be updated.

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Speaker 3: I mean us generational, you know, like us uh seasoned veteran.

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Speaker 5: Drew Bledsoe.

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Speaker 9: Day.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he would go in Buffalo, he'd play in Dallas.

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Speaker 6: His career would continue, but it was never the same

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Speaker 6: after Tom Brady replaced him because Bledsoe got hurt.

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Speaker 5: They recognized him yesterday in Buffalo.

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Speaker 3: He was like, they, I don't know whatever they do

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Speaker 3: they you know, like bang the drum or you know

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Speaker 3: what it became.

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Speaker 9: It became a term with Wally Pip because you know,

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Speaker 9: you would say Drew Drew BLEDSOE got Wally pipped. You

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Speaker 9: know that it became a saying with with Wally Pip

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Speaker 9: where it's stuck and everybody knows he knows the Wallypip story.

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Speaker 3: Your good dad, Your good dad. Then you you've got

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Speaker 3: to teach your kids those lessons. Dre of everything that

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Speaker 3: doing a brilliant job with play play, what was the

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Speaker 3: one thing when you're driving home or you're thinking about

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Speaker 3: the game that you kept coming back to about yesterday's win.

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Speaker 7: I think it's the play of CJ. Stroud for me.

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Speaker 9: I don't know if that's because of what it was

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Speaker 9: having played the position. But the anticipation there were some

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Speaker 9: throws yesterday that I was just I came to come

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Speaker 9: out of my seat like there's a playfake or a

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Speaker 9: that reminiscent of Patrick Mahomes and it was just kind

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Speaker 9: his arsenal. And so when he made that throw on

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Speaker 9: a slant and then he came back later and went

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Speaker 9: over the middle to I think it was Brevin Jordan.

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Speaker 9: Oh my goodness, he had just cleared the linebacker.

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Speaker 7: No, it was it was yeah, Yeah, it was one

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Speaker 9: There was a couple of great throws, but I think

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Speaker 9: it was Schultz as the one where he just cleared

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Speaker 9: the linebacker and the ball was in the air. I mean,

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Speaker 9: he wasn't half a step, and that's next level quarterbacking

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Speaker 9: that you can't you know, it takes years to learn

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Speaker 9: the art of anticipation, and so.

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Speaker 7: He has picked it up quickly. That tells me that

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Speaker 7: he is totally in tuned with what they're doing offensively.

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Speaker 9: And it's not an easy offense to learn and master

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Speaker 9: and execute, and he seems to be doing it at

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Speaker 9: a very easy clip.

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Speaker 7: Drey.

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Speaker 6: In the offseason, we talked about some of the veterans

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Speaker 6: they added, and we talk about the rookies all the time.

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Speaker 6: But I find it interesting that they half back option

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Speaker 6: passed from Singletary to Schultz. Those are two free agents

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Speaker 6: they picked up, and these guys are connecting on a

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Speaker 6: really meaningful touchdown, and I just thought the whole thing

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Speaker 6: showed how well, everything's coming together so far with the

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Speaker 6: rookies and the vets. They added these offseason acquisitions.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it just shows you that everybody's kind of blending together.

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Speaker 9: If you as a player, if you like who you're

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Speaker 9: playing for, you're going to get the type of efforts

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Speaker 9: that you got yesterday with all you know, all the

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Speaker 9: players subtracted from injuries and out and inactive and this,

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Speaker 9: that and the other. Yet they show up and compete.

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Speaker 9: And I think that's a that's a.

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Speaker 7: Direct reflection on the coaching staff.

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Speaker 9: And on Demico Ryans as he's put this this staff together.

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Speaker 9: Those guys want to play for him, they feel and

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Speaker 9: they relate to him all of what it takes to

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Speaker 9: be a top class organization. And I think that's the

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Speaker 9: way it's headed. Uh, that's the way it's headed under

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Speaker 9: his leadership. And I think you're starting to see it

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Speaker 9: through the play of guys that are new and newer

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Speaker 5: So I know a lot of.

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Speaker 3: People will start broadcast, but a lot of times they

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Speaker 3: don't maybe get the beginning. They start right, so they

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Speaker 3: don't hear our pregame and during the preseason in particular,

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Speaker 3: first game of the season, and Mark, you would ask Dre, Dre,

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Speaker 3: who's your power player of the game, and Dre would

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Speaker 3: think for a second, he'd go Nico Collins. And I

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Speaker 3: kept thinking, all right, well, one of these days, you know,

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Speaker 3: Dre's gonna he's gonna nail it. And it feels like, Dre,

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Speaker 3: you you won't see Nico Collins any more because you

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Speaker 3: used it early. But Nico Collins is rising to be

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Speaker 3: the power player seemingly every single time he's out on

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Speaker 3: the field. His growth along with CJ. Stroud, I know

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Speaker 3: what kind of they're They're kind of the same. One

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Speaker 3: goes up, the other is going to go up. But

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Speaker 3: what are you seeing in Nico that's taken him to

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Speaker 3: a different level.

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Speaker 9: One is healthy, and I think he'll be the first

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Speaker 9: to tell you that when you're healthy, obviously.

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Speaker 7: You can do your job. The physical traits are there.

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Speaker 9: I think he has finally met an offense that matches

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Speaker 9: his skill set, and he's having fun, and that that

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Speaker 9: all those things I just mentioned.

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Speaker 7: Lead to the kind of day that he had yesterday.

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Speaker 9: He's he's fastly becoming this team's number one receiver. Where

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Speaker 9: you're not all of a sudden in the past, you

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Speaker 9: wouldn't look for him, but now you are.

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Speaker 7: You expect him to make certain plays.

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Speaker 9: Nico's gone two or three pass plays without a ball

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Speaker 9: going his direction. Let's let's get him something now, because

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Speaker 9: that's what he's earned.

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Speaker 7: He's earned the eleven.

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Speaker 9: Twelve targets that I talked about, what I've talked about

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Speaker 9: in the past, and yeah, you're right.

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Speaker 7: I could pick him every week.

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Speaker 9: He might be my favorite player on this team just

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Speaker 9: because of you know, him being a receiver.

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Speaker 7: You can throw it in a right.

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Speaker 9: In and around him and not to him, and he's

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Speaker 9: gonna make plays where in the past you know it

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Speaker 9: may he may catch it, he may not. He is

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Speaker 9: a reliable target, versatile. They can use him inside outside,

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Speaker 9: he is He's becoming this team's number one receiver.

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Speaker 5: Drey.

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Speaker 6: You're quick to point out on the broadcast that rumors

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Speaker 6: of Damian Pierce's demise were greatly exaggerated, that this guy

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Speaker 6: is still bringing it. I mean, it's your two, my goodness,

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Speaker 6: and we had played three games so far and here

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Speaker 6: he is putting up eighty one yards. I know the

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Speaker 6: average wasn't voluminous, but he showed that he's got it.

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Speaker 6: And as you piece this line together with more health

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Speaker 6: and more development with the coaching staff and everything, he's

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Speaker 6: gonna put up some big numbers.

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Speaker 7: Yeah. I mean, you're you're trying to grate a guy

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Speaker 9: Offensive i'man out, and you're grading it with guys that

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Speaker 9: just got to town, that are learning the offense on

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Speaker 9: the fly, Guys are having to tell him what to

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Speaker 9: do in the hubble, and so you went, that's a

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Speaker 9: direct reflection on him because he needs those guys to

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Speaker 7: I don't know of one running back ever in the history.

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Speaker 9: Of the game that didn't need the offensive line in

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Speaker 9: front of him and he was just that good.

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Speaker 7: Maybe Jim Brown. I don't know. I don't know of one,

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Speaker 7: but I thought it was a little unfair. And you know,

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Speaker 7: he's still the same player.

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Speaker 9: They had to figure out as well, and we talked

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Speaker 9: about this a little bit.

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Speaker 7: How to best utilize him. Is he a zone runner?

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Speaker 7: Is he a downhill runner. He's more of a downhill runner,

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Speaker 7: so you get him going that way, and they've been

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Speaker 7: able to do that.

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Speaker 9: I was watching San Francisco's game last night and that

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Speaker 9: little downhill pitch I saw McCaffrey run I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 9: that's that's exactly where that came from.

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Speaker 7: And you know, you start sinking the pieces together.

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Speaker 9: You see some of what San Francisco, Well, all that

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Speaker 9: takes a little bit of time because you don't have

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Speaker 9: the exact type are the same.

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Speaker 7: Players, and they figured out how to best utilize Damian Pearson.

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Speaker 7: You saw it yesterday.

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Speaker 5: Okay, you guys sit enough for this one. If the

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Speaker 5: season were to end today, Oh.

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Speaker 8: I like that?

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Speaker 7: You like that?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, four games in with thirteen to go, go ahead.

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Speaker 6: If the season we're to end today, the Texans.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, a second shot.

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Speaker 3: You wouldn't be fearful of going in there because you've

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Speaker 3: Gonna ask you about this because you've been in locker rooms.

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Speaker 9: Now the expectation has changed because you've done it, and

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Speaker 7: This player or that player back on the defense, But in.

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Speaker 9: Reality, Demico Ryans, his reality is I've got to go to.

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Speaker 7: No, we've done it. Now we expect to win from

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Speaker 9: Same guys, and if those other guys come back, we

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Speaker 9: So it's the expectations are that they've done it and

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Speaker 6: Man, I got to think the fact that the Miko

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Speaker 6: With the quarterback situation, he's thinking, just go out and

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Speaker 5: I don't care who you are, buckle up, let's go.

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Speaker 6: And I get that feeling from him, and that's confidence

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Speaker 6: Najie Harris has fifty five yards in the second half,

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Speaker 7: Clip of him because until you prove you can do

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Speaker 9: And then, though you know they held nause and check,

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Speaker 7: I would say the majority of his yardage came at.

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Speaker 9: every down. He's not trying to save himself. That that's

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Speaker 7: Down, keep him in check. And I would take I'd

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna give both y'all hundred Monopoly dollars and

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Speaker 3: But you have to put your one hundred Monopoly dollars down, right,

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Speaker 3: one hundred monopoly dollars. Where are they going? What team

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Speaker 5: You want me to go first?

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Speaker 8: Right?

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Speaker 5: All right, Mark, go ahead, go ahead? Buffalo, I mean

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Speaker 6: Look, they lost the opener to the Jets on a

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 5: It's early, but if I had to do that, I

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Speaker 7: Right. Pick Buffalo lose. Last week, they they.

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Speaker 5: Lost the opening.

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Speaker 7: Last week they lost.

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Speaker 6: I think they put up now, no, they put up

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they hammered the Commanders. They beat the Commanders thirty

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Speaker 6: Yeah, they put up since they lost Opening Day, they

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Speaker 5: They are on fire right now.

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Speaker 7: They're on fire.

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Speaker 9: But until you beat the Chiefs, until you beat the champs,

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Speaker 9: It's still they know how to handle playoff runs and

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Speaker 7: And so when you start getting into the nitty gritty

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Speaker 9: Until you beat them, they're the champs, and so I

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Speaker 3: There's some funny tweets about last night's game with the Jets.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, Wilson looked good for a while last

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Speaker 5: He did look very well. He did look good. Uh, Drake.

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Speaker 6: Texas Bowl is December twenty seventh, Big twelve versus SEC.

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Speaker 6: So let's get into some college stuff here. It's a

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Speaker 6: Texas looks pretty good here? And you've got the Aggies

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's that's gonna be that.

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Speaker 9: Both games are gonna be good football games. I don't

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Speaker 9: I think Milroe is the answer for for Alabama at quarterback, and.

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Speaker 7: They should have never taken him out of the lineup.

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Speaker 7: To him anyway.

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Speaker 9: But the other game of the undefeated with Oklahoma and Texas.

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Speaker 8: Call, Dray.

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Speaker 3: I'm on record as saying this, your Heisman vote this

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Speaker 5: Been for a while.

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Speaker 3: And we know that your position, quarterback gets a lot

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Speaker 11: It always seems tough, Johnny, But yeah, you're right, this

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Speaker 9: I'm under the opinion that I don't know that anybody's

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Speaker 7: Guys. It's sprinkled.

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Speaker 9: I'd love to have seen Travis Hunter go the entire

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Speaker 9: season healthy, just to see what he would have done

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Speaker 9: to throw his name into that mix.

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Speaker 7: The door Sanders is they had.

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Speaker 9: They've lost the last two weeks, but because of his play,

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Speaker 9: he's been outstanding. Four touchdown passes and over I think

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Speaker 9: four hundred yards again this week against USC So it's difficult.

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Speaker 9: It always seems though early in the season, there's always

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Speaker 9: a bunch of names and then as you get to

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Speaker 9: mid season and about the three quarter mark, it starts

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Speaker 9: to thin itself out a little bit and guys start

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Speaker 9: to separate in their play.

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Speaker 5: Trey back to the Texans here for a moment.

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Speaker 7: C J.

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Speaker 6: Stroud what he's doing right now, And then you look

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Speaker 6: at the other rookies. Richardson had a pretty good game

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Speaker 6: against the Rams yesterday, Bryce Young not so hot for

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Speaker 6: the Panthers. But so much of it is the situation,

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Speaker 6: and it looks like Stroud not only being great personally,

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Speaker 6: but the fit here. We always talk about this. It's

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Speaker 6: so important for these young guys to get into the

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Speaker 6: right situation, and maybe Wilson too, for that matter.

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Speaker 5: Zach Wilson I'm talking about with the Jets.

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Speaker 6: I mean, there's a lot of talent there and maybe

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Speaker 6: he doesn't have it, but he does have talent. And

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Speaker 6: when I say he doesn't have it, I mean the

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Speaker 6: big it.

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Speaker 5: But there's a lot of talent there. Maybe it just

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Speaker 5: needs to be developed. Thoughts.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think Zach he's headed in the right direction.

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Speaker 9: I just don't know if there's gonna be time because

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Speaker 9: there's so much negativity surrounding him. Uh in New York

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Speaker 9: with CJ. I mean, you guys, remember back was it

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Speaker 9: his first pass against New England there was an interception.

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Speaker 6: Well one of them. I think it was like, yeah.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it was early. I mean that seems like it's

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Speaker 7: way in the rearview mirror now.

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Speaker 9: Because when he threw that one, it was like, oh boy,

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Speaker 9: we got to go through this. And Demico's right, he

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Speaker 9: doesn't make the same mistake twice because we haven't seen

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Speaker 9: anything even remotely close to that pass.

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Speaker 7: Is the point I'm trying to make.

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Speaker 9: Yesterday, early in the game, he's escaping, rolling to his left,

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Speaker 9: throws the ball away out of bounds. He keeps it

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Speaker 9: out of harms when he's protecting the football along with

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Speaker 9: uh the advanced stage in which he's playing, and until

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Speaker 9: diipating receivers coming open, getting the ball out on time

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Speaker 9: and early. So who would you rather have? I mean,

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Speaker 9: I give you, give you your choice of guys, But

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Speaker 9: there are a lot of quarterbacks in this league that

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Speaker 9: I'm taking CJ.

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Speaker 7: Stroud overcluding including the guy we traded out of here

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Speaker 7: right now. And I'm talking right now.

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Speaker 9: I'm not talking about what somebody used to be or

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Speaker 9: I'm talking as they're playing right this minute, I'm taking CJ.

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Speaker 7: Stroud.

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Speaker 6: I don't think there's any doubt based on it's a

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Speaker 6: small sample size, it's only four games.

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Speaker 5: But based on that, I don't think anybody would take

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Speaker 5: the other guy over CJ. Stroud. He's younger. Yeah, look

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Speaker 5: at the head he has on his shoulders. He turns

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Speaker 5: twenty two tomorrow, so maybe.

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Speaker 7: This way he hasn't missed. He hasn't missed two years

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Speaker 7: of football and he's trying to put it back together.

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Speaker 7: I mean that that.

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Speaker 8: All that matters.

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Speaker 9: And so right now as they play, right this minute,

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Speaker 9: I'm taking Stroud.

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Speaker 3: How many quarterbacks in the league for both of you

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Speaker 3: would you absolutely go no, No, I got to have

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Speaker 3: that guy over my guy.

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Speaker 5: Well, Mahomes would be one maybe, right.

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Speaker 6: But but I want to say that because that because

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Speaker 6: now I feel like we're all family here, I know,

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Speaker 6: and Demko's got me feeling that way.

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Speaker 5: Our kids. I'm riding with CJ. But if you're honest,

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Speaker 5: you know there are kids better than your kids.

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Speaker 9: You got a favorite kid at times, you know, this

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Speaker 9: is one of those one of those times you got

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Speaker 9: to to I mean, you just went on the to

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Speaker 9: say Buffalo, So you gotta think Josh Allen, if yeah,

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Speaker 9: if you're picking Buffalo to win the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 5: I know, but but that doesn't know My point all

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Speaker 5: that is.

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Speaker 3: My point in all that is, you're not saying a

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Speaker 3: whole heck of a lot of names.

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Speaker 5: Now, no, are you kidding this guy?

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Speaker 9: In a short period of time, he has closed the

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Speaker 9: gap on a lot of like I'm not ready to

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Speaker 9: put the cart before the horse and all that, I

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Speaker 9: know to pump the brakes because there's some struggles that

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Speaker 9: are coming.

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Speaker 7: There's they're the game, and there's usually two of them

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Speaker 7: where you don't really you don't.

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Speaker 9: You don't recognize this team that we saw yesterday. That

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Speaker 9: game is coming. Just know it's on the schedule somewhere.

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Speaker 9: Sometimes it shows up when you least expect it. Sometimes

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Speaker 9: it shows up when you expect it against a certain opponent,

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Speaker 9: and you know that game just works out how you're thinking.

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Speaker 9: But until it shows up, I'm I'm gonna enjoy this.

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna enjoy the hell out of it. And it's

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Speaker 7: been two.

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Speaker 9: Weeks of this and you feel pretty good about the

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Speaker 9: direction this is going.

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Speaker 6: Do you feel good about being at the very least

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Speaker 6: uber competitive in the next four games, which are all

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Speaker 6: against the NFC South Atlanta, let's go New Orleans at home,

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Speaker 6: Carolina on the road, Tampa Bay at home. NFC South

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Speaker 6: Tour starting up with the bye week sandwiched in between

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Speaker 6: those two.

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Speaker 9: You can't you can't convince me that they can't go

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Speaker 9: and compete and win every one of those games, everyone,

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Speaker 9: including the Saints. The way I thought about the Saints

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Speaker 9: come out of the preseason.

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Speaker 7: I don't know, it shifted a little bit. They're not

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Speaker 7: playing like.

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Speaker 9: The team I thought they were going to be. And

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Speaker 9: that's where leadership is so important. You can have a

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Speaker 9: ton of talent. If you lead them the wrong way,

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Speaker 9: you don't get the you don't maximize the talent.

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Speaker 7: You can have less than talent. Do you lead it right?

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Speaker 7: You you maximize it and it plays better than.

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Speaker 9: What you actually what you really are. And I think

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Speaker 9: that's the case with the Saints right now.

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Speaker 2: Tremendous stuff with our game analysts, great friend Andre Ware

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Speaker 2: and well fill in played by play guy when you

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Speaker 2: need it, well he was fantastic. I mean the Texans

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Speaker 2: through twice the UCO Collins got a feudal position. Now

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Speaker 2: they did it the week before too, and scored in

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Speaker 2: the last play of the half as well with Mark,

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Speaker 2: So Mark's not getting wide pipped just yet.

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Speaker 1: My guys Andre Ware, Martha and Emir and myself, John Harris,

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Speaker 1: are we get back?

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Speaker 3: We talked to our buddy Indie Clue about everything that

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Speaker 3: went on and what he saw, in particular down.

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Speaker 1: At the line of scrimmage.

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Speaker 3: How big was that the Texans taking over that game yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about that with Indie clude next right here

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Speaker 3: on Texans All Access. Yes, sir, welcome back to him Monday,

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Speaker 3: Nation of Texans All Access from the Hunday Texans Radio studio.

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Speaker 3: I'm your host, John Harris Football on a sideline reporter

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Speaker 3: for your two and to Houston Texans. First time the

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Speaker 3: Texans have been five hundred since twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: How about that.

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Speaker 3: I don't even want to give you the stat and

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Speaker 3: I gave Mark Vandermure this morning, but after four games,

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Speaker 3: being two and two feels kind of nice.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we wanted to talk to our good.

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Speaker 2: Pal Indie Kalude does our preseason TV broadcast lack a

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Speaker 2: Champ and covers the Texans with Texans og podcast, and

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Speaker 2: we'd love having Indi on the air.

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Speaker 1: And of course we had to get his thoughts right

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Speaker 1: out to shoot.

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Speaker 2: What a ind you think about this weekend?

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Speaker 1: In this game against the Steelers.

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Speaker 12: I'll tell you what, that was a special day, especially

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Speaker 12: to have so many former Texan players come back for

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Speaker 12: obviously all the great events, but then to cap it

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Speaker 12: off and finish it with a dominant performance from one

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Speaker 12: of our very own I mean, we look at Demiko's

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Speaker 12: not just another coach, but like we look at him like, man,

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Speaker 12: that's one of our guys. At for that team to

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Speaker 12: perform the way they did in front of so many

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Speaker 12: of his former teammates, it was just a special day.

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Speaker 8: Special indeed.

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Speaker 3: Actually, Andy, we're gonna start obviously, we could start a

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Speaker 3: lot of different places. I want to start with you

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Speaker 3: because you obviously played the position you played in the trenches,

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Speaker 3: and that felt like as much as we talk about

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Speaker 3: CJ and Nico and all the all the fly boys outside,

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Speaker 3: that felt like it was a game where the Texans

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Speaker 3: dominated the trenches.

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Speaker 5: On both sides of the ball.

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Speaker 3: Is that the way you saw what you see from

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Speaker 3: the from the interior on both sides yesterday?

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Speaker 12: I know exactly when you when you looked at the

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Speaker 12: trenches especially on the offensive side, all the question marks,

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Speaker 12: and then you know that they were going against high

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Speaker 12: Smith and TJ. Widen, I don't believe they gave up

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Speaker 12: a sack. I didn't check the final stats, but I

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Speaker 12: don't believe they gave him a sack. And then on

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Speaker 12: on the other side, Jonathan Grenard. I mean, this guy,

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Speaker 12: we've always been saying if he can stay healthy. We've

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Speaker 12: already seen what he could do three years ago when

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Speaker 12: he was healthy, and I believe he had like eight sacks,

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Speaker 12: and now to see him produce and play in a

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Speaker 12: you know, in a way where he can be that

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Speaker 12: guy along with Will Anderson, he's just exciting. Jerry Hughes

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Speaker 12: comes in and you know, gives you what he's supposed

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Speaker 12: to do at his age. It was just very exciting

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Speaker 12: to see the trenches and see the production and not

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Speaker 12: just from the stars that we know about. You know,

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Speaker 12: we expect Will Anderson now to put up numbers, we

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Speaker 12: expect certain guys, but for Jonathan Garnard to be playing

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Speaker 12: as consistent and productive as he's been early in this season,

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Speaker 12: it's just fun.

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Speaker 5: To watch, you know.

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Speaker 6: And d A lot of people thought, hmm, interesting when CJ.

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Speaker 6: Stroud was named one of the captains of this team,

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Speaker 6: and after watching him play and listening to him in

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Speaker 6: these press conferences, there is no question that he is

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Speaker 6: a captain and a leader on this team. I know

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Speaker 6: there are many, but what do you think of what

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Speaker 6: you've seen so far from him, not only on the field,

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Speaker 6: but off the field, what we know about and the

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Speaker 6: way he handles himself.

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Speaker 12: You know, it is funny when you see a guy

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Speaker 12: like that. And we said the same thing about Themika,

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Speaker 12: We say, this guy's been here before, you know, like

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Speaker 12: whether and I don't believe in past life, but you know,

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Speaker 12: you got to think that just because to be so

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Speaker 12: young and that mature and that much of a natural leader.

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Speaker 12: And I keep going back to, uh, not just the

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Speaker 12: great stats, not the three hundred and six yards of passing,

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Speaker 12: the two touchdowns, zero interceptions, But I'm always watching CJ. Stroud,

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Speaker 12: like what does he do after a bad play, after

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Speaker 12: a negative play? And I brought this up last week

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Speaker 12: and I saw it again yesterday where a receiver had

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Speaker 12: a dropped past a pass that he should have caught.

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Speaker 12: It would have extended the series and the first person

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Speaker 12: to dap him up, the first person.

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00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 8: To shake his hand is CJ. Stroud.

667
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 12: It's just it's amazing to see someone that young have

668
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 12: those leadership qualities and it's just genuine. It doesn't it

669
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 12: doesn't look like, oh the camera's on me, let me

670
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 12: show people.

671
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 8: That I'm a leader. That's just who he is.

672
00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 12: We've all interviewed him, That's how he carries himself, and

673
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 12: I have to keep going back and look at his bio.

674
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 12: I'm like, am I sure he's twenty one because his

675
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 12: dude's acting like he's thirty one the way he leads

676
00:30:21,520 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 12: the team out there. I don't know if it's too early,

677
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 12: but it feels like they found their guy. It feels

678
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 12: like they've found their quarterback. I always like to wait

679
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:34,479
Speaker 12: until a season and a half because we've seen guys

680
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 12: the RG three's of the world where they have a

681
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 12: you know, NFL Rookie of the Year type season and

682
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:45,200
Speaker 12: then everything collapses. And we've also seen guys where Josh

683
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 12: Allen things don't start off too quickly and they're talking

684
00:30:47,800 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 12: about him being a butt and then he goes on

685
00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 12: to have a Hall of Fame type career. So with CJ,

686
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 12: I'm optimistically, you know, cautiously optimistic and I'm very excited,

687
00:30:58,160 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 12: but I just want to say, Okay, let me give

688
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 12: myself at least another four or five games.

689
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 8: But it's fun to watch and.

690
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 3: They you've played the many teams before, and just walking

691
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 3: in that locker room, I feel like the confidence is

692
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 3: oozing out of those guys now, like they know what

693
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 3: they can do so atually. Kind of a tricky question,

694
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 3: but I think it's one that maybe is valid for

695
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 3: this team. When you have that confidence, how much is

696
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 3: that worth to you as a team as you go

697
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,440
Speaker 3: in each and every Sunday.

698
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 12: It is priceless. I mean, when you go into each

699
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 12: game expecting to win. You know this is in the NFL,

700
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 12: So they're going into each game knowing that they can win.

701
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 12: But there's a difference between going out there and knowing

702
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 12: you can win and expecting to win. And the difference

703
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 12: isn't just on Sunday, it's on the preparation throughout the week.

704
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 12: So when you put together victories like the Texans have done,

705
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 12: when you have that confidence, when you have that coaching

706
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 12: staff that's doing such a great job with the players.

707
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 12: Now they're preparing from day through Friday, Monday through Saturday,

708
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 12: expecting to win, and that just changes the outcome. It

709
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 12: changes the way you prepare, it changes your outlook. Guys

710
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 12: like Nico Collins after having a huge game like that,

711
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 12: he's still going to spend time in the hot tub

712
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 12: and the cold tub, getting the extra stretches in because

713
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,240
Speaker 12: they're expecting to win. Where when you're playing on the team,

714
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 12: and I've been on it, where you're like, okay, well

715
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 12: if I give him my all and if everything goes

716
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 12: our right, our way and the ball bounces our way,

717
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:29,959
Speaker 12: then then maybe we could just pull it off. You

718
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:34,239
Speaker 12: tend not to prepare with the same amount of detail, uh,

719
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 12: with the same amount of intensity as you do when

720
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 12: you go into every game expecting to win.

721
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:42,000
Speaker 5: That's a great thing you just said.

722
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 6: And I got to say that, you know, even doing

723
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:47,479
Speaker 6: what we do, doing what I do, Demiico wants. I mean,

724
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 6: Demiko makes me want to be better, right. He's one

725
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 6: of those guys and that's what you want. You want

726
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 6: to coach. You want leadership that makes you want to

727
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 6: perform better whatever you do in life. I think he's

728
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 6: inspiring people. I don't want to get too deep into

729
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 6: that right now, but we'll see where it goes from here,

730
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 6: because you mentioned it. When you get a taste for it,

731
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 6: you want more. You just don't want to see them

732
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 6: be satisfied. Thirty to six, you beat the Steelers. A

733
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 6: lot of people are going to start talking about this

734
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 6: team now, talking about these young players.

735
00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 5: And they are young. I mean, they're doing this with

736
00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 5: rookies a lot of the way. So tell me about

737
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 5: that part of it.

738
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 6: When they're that young and they're in the league for

739
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 6: the first time in this very long season, you've played

740
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,959
Speaker 6: four games, You've got thirteen games remaining. That's more than

741
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 6: a full college season.

742
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 12: Yeah, when they're that young and they're buying in. We

743
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 12: keep talking about setting the culture. This is how you

744
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 12: truly set the culture. You know, when you have a

745
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,239
Speaker 12: Tank Dell, who in his rookie year is experiencing what

746
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 12: he's experiencing under this coaching staff, he's going to start

747
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,719
Speaker 12: to be a part of that culture that they're starting

748
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 12: to set. When you have the John Metchi, Nico Collins,

749
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 12: even though he's been here before, he's been here for

750
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 12: a while, but he hasn't really produced like this. You know,

751
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 12: when you have these young guys that are experiencing this

752
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 12: and they're buying into what the coaches are saying, because,

753
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 12: like you said, these are young guys. When you look

754
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 12: at them on paper, people are going to kind of

755
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 12: give this team a pass not to accomplish much this season.

756
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 12: But if those are the guys that accomplished, Henry Totoe,

757
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 12: you're a fifth round pick, but you did what I

758
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 12: was trying to coach you up to do. If you

759
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 12: know that's coming from Demico and the defensive coaches, and

760
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 12: that's why you're having success as a starter. It's a

761
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 12: fifth round pick, like I was a fifth round pick,

762
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 12: and my goal is just to make the team. And

763
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:31,080
Speaker 12: tote is like going on to say, hey, I'm trying

764
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 12: to make All Pro this year because he's buying into

765
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 12: what they're saying. When you have more young guys buying

766
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 12: into it, the whole culture that we talk about in

767
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 12: the culture setting that we all dreamed that he was

768
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 12: going in the right way, that's when it starts to

769
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,720
Speaker 12: go the way it's supposed to the way the coaches

770
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:49,879
Speaker 12: wanted to go. Because there's some old guys on here. Look,

771
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,320
Speaker 12: Jerry Hughes, he's a great player, he's a great leader

772
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,800
Speaker 12: to have and he fits the system. He fits the culture,

773
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 12: but you're not going to change his mindset. You're not

774
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 12: going to create him to be a part of that culture.

775
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 12: He's already in. So he was a nice piece to

776
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 12: plug into it. That's the point I'm making. Both these

777
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 12: young guys that are experiencing success, they're really buying into

778
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 12: what the coaches are saying.

779
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt. Indeed, it's Intlanta next week. So it's

780
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,760
Speaker 3: Bjon Robinson. And I don't want to ask you about Bjon,

781
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 3: but watching bijon the last few weeks in a Texas,

782
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 3: you know, the one thing he can do is he

783
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 3: can embarrass people just by making one move. Who was

784
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 3: that person that you faced when you were when you

785
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,560
Speaker 3: were playing that You're like, you know what, I hate

786
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:37,839
Speaker 3: playing this guy because there's a possibility I could end

787
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:41,080
Speaker 3: up on Sports Center on a highlight reel forever because

788
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 3: this guy could shake me, he could run me over.

789
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 5: Who was that one guy that you face that You're like, man,

790
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 5: this guy. I don't know that I want to face

791
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:48,800
Speaker 5: this guy this week.

792
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 12: You know what, that's a great question. It's not so

793
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 12: much that there was that guy that you were embarrassed.

794
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 12: You're gonna end up on Sports Center because as a

795
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 12: d lineman, you're not really in space. So yeah, I'm

796
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 12: not saying you don't miss tackles, but it doesn't look

797
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,000
Speaker 12: as bad when you're playing up front, when you were

798
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 12: the front four in the front seven. But there is

799
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 12: a guy that every time we played him, I felt

800
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 12: myself taping up just a little tighter, you know, I

801
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,720
Speaker 12: felt myself putting my shoulder straps on a little tighter.

802
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 12: And that was Barbara Marion, Barbara out of Dallas.

803
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 8: That dude.

804
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 12: I felt like he was very underrated. But the players,

805
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 12: especially the defensive players who played against him, you knew

806
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 12: that you were going to be bruised up after trying

807
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:36,359
Speaker 12: to hit him for four quarters. And you know who

808
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:40,200
Speaker 12: he reminds me of Damian Peers like that, he was

809
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 12: Damian Pierce before Damien Piers. I'm just a physical runner,

810
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,319
Speaker 12: a guy that had a linebacker mentality. And every time

811
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 12: we played the Cowboys and Barbara was back there, I

812
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 12: was like, yep, yeah, I gotta, you know, put the

813
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 12: tape on a little tighter and put that chin strap

814
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 12: on on boat. You know how I remember John, how

815
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 12: you have two buttons and sometimes you want to look

816
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 12: cool and you only let one, you let one hang down, like.

817
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 8: When you play to get the barberge. You buckled up both.

818
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:06,840
Speaker 5: Of them, both of them.

819
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 6: Absolutely, that was a great sign. Ce Pierce really get

820
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 6: going yesterday.

821
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 5: And you know there's more. You know they're gonna work

822
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 5: on that. Andy.

823
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 6: What about the Weekend Legends homecoming presented by Ford. It

824
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 6: was awesome, want going into the Ring of Honor, but

825
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 6: seeing everybody show up was really cool.

826
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:25,320
Speaker 8: Oh, it was awesome.

827
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:28,799
Speaker 12: And I'm not pandering to the mcnairs, but for them

828
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 12: to make that happen, it was just cool, just for

829
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 12: them to really go out and show how much they

830
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,280
Speaker 12: appreciate the former players.

831
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,240
Speaker 8: Like I had a chance to talk to Cal mcnare.

832
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 12: And I let them know, like, hey, I played for

833
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 12: the Redskins, I played for the Eagles, but the way

834
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 12: y'all are doing this is right. And after I told

835
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 12: him that, you know what he said, he said, what

836
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:51,360
Speaker 12: can we do to make it better? And I said, no,

837
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,839
Speaker 12: I'm telling you, like, this is awesome. Like and he's

838
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 12: already trying to make it better. And what's cool about that? Like, look,

839
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,360
Speaker 12: they call us Legends ambassadors, were has been you know,

840
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 12: we're former players. There's they don't have to do this.

841
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 12: Like if they didn't invite ninety of us back just

842
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 12: to hang out, they still would have won the game.

843
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 12: We still would be excited about what the Texans are doing.

844
00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:16,319
Speaker 12: So just for them to show their appreciation for the

845
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 12: former players and then to be able to see the guys,

846
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,080
Speaker 12: I mean guys that I haven't seen in years and

847
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 12: be able to just you know, remini this and hey,

848
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 12: we're the first team not to have a losing season.

849
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 8: You know that that was our claim to thing. But

850
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 8: you know, it meant a lot to us, and it

851
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 8: was just fun to talk about.

852
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 12: But then to cap it off with this victory from

853
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 12: one of our very own being the head coach.

854
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 8: It was just a special special weekend.

855
00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:43,760
Speaker 3: So Andy, how long does it take before you start

856
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 3: before you start getting into hey man, you remember that

857
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 3: play you made? How long does it take when you

858
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 3: hey man, how's your family?

859
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 1: How you doing?

860
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 3: How long does it take before guys start getting back

861
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 3: into the mode of Hey, you remember that play you

862
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 3: made in this game, or hey you remember when we

863
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 3: did this together. How long does it take before you

864
00:38:58,640 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 3: get into that mode?

865
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,880
Speaker 12: Oh, it's right after the good to see you then

866
00:39:03,920 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 12: you get right into it, like as soon as you

867
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 12: see somebody and you just roll right into the stories

868
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 12: like after you hug, and it just depends who it

869
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,359
Speaker 12: is because a lot of us stay in contact. But

870
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 12: then we have our brothers like C. C.

871
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 8: Brown.

872
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 12: I'ven't seen him in years, and that look. I don't

873
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 12: know what the fans thought about him, but that was

874
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 12: a dude that would take your head off. So the

875
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 12: players just had so much respect for him. So as

876
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 12: soon as you see him, you give him a hug,

877
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 12: and then you just start talking about you know, plays

878
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 12: and reminisce and a lot of times, Jean is you

879
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 12: know this because you played.

880
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,400
Speaker 8: It's not even a lot of the stories aren't even games.

881
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 12: It's like never at that practice when this happened, or

882
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 12: during training, Cab when that happened. So, you know, we

883
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 12: get right into it and the wives get bored. They

884
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 12: kind of sit off in the corner and roll their

885
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 12: eyes because of course we're gonna exaggerate on these stories.

886
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 5: It's a reunion.

887
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 6: I always say, don't bring the significant other to a reunion.

888
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,800
Speaker 5: It's it's not gonna be fun for that. Listen, here's

889
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 5: the truth. Our wives think all of us are idiots.

890
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:08,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, they think all of us they do.

891
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,319
Speaker 5: They're like they talk about football all the time. Yeah,

892
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 5: they think we're all idiots.

893
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 3: They married us and they love us, but they they're

894
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:17,919
Speaker 3: like they're idiots. Yes, this is very true. My wife

895
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 3: would love for John Lewis Harris Junior. That's me to

896
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 3: be way more cultured than I am to appreciate art.

897
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:26,280
Speaker 1: I do appreciate art.

898
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 2: But you know, if you want me to really do

899
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 2: anything and it helped falls in football season, it's not

900
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 2: gonna happen. And my wife knows that we're all idiots. Man,

901
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 2: it's just the way that it goes, and we just

902
00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 2: accept it and move on. I think my wife still

903
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,840
Speaker 2: loves me, and they all still love us. That's okay.

904
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: But that's facts, total facts. They think we're idiots, and

905
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 1: that's okay.

906
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 2: We're all right because we've got these radio shows where

907
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,840
Speaker 2: we can talk ball, and that gives us the opportunity

908
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 2: to talk to John McLain and that's next right here

909
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 2: on Texans All Access. We all want find a segment

910
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:58,919
Speaker 2: this Monday edition of Texans All Acts as we talked

911
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 2: to our buddy Andre where Clue and we're we have

912
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 2: no shortage of friends, especially John McLean, So we brought

913
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:07,960
Speaker 2: to General on to get his thoughts about what happened

914
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,800
Speaker 2: on Sunday at NRG Stadium.

915
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,399
Speaker 6: In general, what were your thoughts on what you saw

916
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 6: yesterday at at RG Stadium.

917
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:18,919
Speaker 13: It is one of the best regular season performances I've

918
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 13: ever seen, considering the circumstances, new head coach, new coordinators,

919
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:28,479
Speaker 13: and they just dominated the Steelers two hundred and twenty

920
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 13: five yards, no touchdowns. It's just I was amazed. I

921
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,839
Speaker 13: picked the Jaxans to lose by three. They blow them out.

922
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:40,839
Speaker 13: You know that's you look at what they've done these

923
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 13: last two games, and it's obvious Tugson's have outstanding coaching

924
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 13: and they have players who believe the message that the

925
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 13: coaches are preaching on both sides of the ball and

926
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 13: special teams. And yeah, it's not a great Pittsburgh team,

927
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 13: but to keep TJ Whtt with one quarterback hit no

928
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:06,400
Speaker 13: sacks and Alexi Smith no sacks, that offensive line deserves

929
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:11,760
Speaker 13: so much praise. All the guys deserve praise for protecting Stroud,

930
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 13: and then Stroud does a great job of getting rid

931
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 13: of the ball. I know the stealer fans left that

932
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 13: stadium shaking their heads at how their team just got obliterated.

933
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 13: Now they played four consecutive games against NFC South teams.

934
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Speaker 7: All are winnable.

935
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 13: It's Texans are two to two and a four way

936
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 13: time in the AFC South, and they ran the ball

937
00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 13: well for the first time. It was just a thorough

938
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:40,760
Speaker 13: butt whipping.

939
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:46,839
Speaker 3: General, how have your expectations changed for this team from

940
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 3: what they were going into the season where they are

941
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:51,240
Speaker 3: now after four games?

942
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 5: How have your expectations changed?

943
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 8: John?

944
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 13: It's you know, it's four games. They don't want to

945
00:42:56,239 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 13: start talking about winning the division. Although right now they

946
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 13: beat Jacksonville like a drum. Jacksonville responded by pounding the

947
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 13: Falcons and the Colts losing overtime. It looks like and

948
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 13: the Titans bounced back big time to pulverize the Bingals.

949
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:19,800
Speaker 13: So right now it looks like anytime any team's capable

950
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:23,439
Speaker 13: of winning it. Stroud is just getting more and more

951
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 13: well deserve praise around the NFL. I read a great

952
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 13: analysis last night of the three rookie quarterbacks and where

953
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 13: they stand, and it was right on, and it was

954
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Speaker 13: about one of the national guys. And then the way

955
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 13: my goodness, the way Nicocollins has emerged as a big

956
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:52,240
Speaker 13: time playmaker average twenty four yards a catch. Yesterday, people

957
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 13: got to take notice about him. Bobby Sloweck did an

958
00:43:55,960 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 13: outstanding job calling plays, keeping the Steelers off balance with

959
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 13: the run going outside in the arouse to Tangdell and

960
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 13: then Tom Gowd met Burke the defensive coordinator. They had

961
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 13: another outstanding game plan in which the offense was just

962
00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 13: totally smothered. And the better they do, the more confidence

963
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 13: the players have in what they're preaching the players, then

964
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 13: you know they talk about themselves. These coaches know what

965
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 13: they're doing. So it's not just about Demiko inspiring his

966
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 13: players with speeches. It's about the game plans, the adjustments,

967
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:43,279
Speaker 13: maximizing your strengths, minimizing your weaknesses, and attacking the opponents

968
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 13: in a way to expose their weaknesses. And these last

969
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 13: two games have been so impressive. I picked them to

970
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 13: be to win six games, double last year's win total.

971
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Speaker 13: And on our Utopia Football podcast last night, shot the

972
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Speaker 13: guests throughout the numbers eight nine or maybe ten, and

973
00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 13: he didn't predict it, but we were talking about how

974
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:09,720
Speaker 13: well they're playing and the way the division is shaping

975
00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 13: up right now. Injuries can change everything, of course, but

976
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 13: to overcome the injuries in the offensive line again Laramie

977
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 13: Tunsell and Titus Howard back and maybe Juice Scrugs, I'm

978
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:24,240
Speaker 13: eager to see. Is Juwe Scruggs going to start at center?

979
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 13: Is Jared Patterson going to move the left guard? Patterson

980
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 13: was the guard in camp in preseason and early in

981
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 13: the season, so I'm guessing he's played really well at center.

982
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:38,359
Speaker 13: It's amazing the way a rookie quarterback has not had

983
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:42,719
Speaker 13: one bad snap with two rookie centers, and so I

984
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:46,040
Speaker 13: can't wait to see how the offensive line plays out

985
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:49,359
Speaker 13: at center and left guard when they get their guys.

986
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:52,359
Speaker 6: Back, rookies all over the place, three in the front

987
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:53,400
Speaker 6: seven of the defense.

988
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 5: My goodness.

989
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 6: And they do that to Pittsburgh season low in yards

990
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 6: and points for the Steelers as the Texans go to

991
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 6: two general you mentioned the division, Well, Tennessee is as

992
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 6: good as any team in the division. They're all two

993
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 6: and two, so let's just start there. But they put

994
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 6: together a performance yesterday against the Bengals, who I know

995
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:12,720
Speaker 6: are hurting in all sorts of ways. But Dereck Henry

996
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 6: was back to being Derrick Henry won twenty two. He

997
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:17,720
Speaker 6: also threw a touchdown pass. Tannehill did throw a pick,

998
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 6: but he does enough.

999
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:19,879
Speaker 5: He does enough.

1000
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 6: As long as Henry's going like that, looks like they

1001
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 6: can win a lot of football games because they have

1002
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:24,720
Speaker 6: a good defense.

1003
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Speaker 13: They do. They do a great job shutting down the run.

1004
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 13: Ray will always make sure they're one of the best

1005
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 13: in the league against run. But you're right, if Derrick

1006
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 13: Henry is not running well, that takes away to play

1007
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 13: action game. And in their two losses he's been shut

1008
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:47,360
Speaker 13: down and Ryan Tannehill has been terrible. So they're on

1009
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 13: a roller coaster where that offense. They got a line

1010
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:56,319
Speaker 13: it's been totally rebuilt. They've got a defense that can

1011
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 13: keep them in games. And I don't know if so

1012
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:03,279
Speaker 13: much of them are Burrow. Joe Burrow's calf injury obviously

1013
00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 13: have thanksam for them to be O and three right now.

1014
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 13: That is, if you look around the NFL and everything

1015
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 13: going on, I think nothing is more surprising than than

1016
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:18,759
Speaker 13: the Bengals performance. Have they won a game yet?

1017
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 3: They won one a Monday night game against the beat

1018
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:24,400
Speaker 3: up Rams, and they're one and three, But Your Texans

1019
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 3: are two and two and a big thanks to John

1020
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,680
Speaker 3: McClain for joining us to d clue to andre Ware

1021
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 3: tomorrow Vandermir to everybody at portrayo six ' ten from

1022
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Speaker 3: making this possible.

1023
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Speaker 1: We'll see tomorrow everybody, and as always, go Texans.