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Speaker 1: What's happened? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome in too Wednesday edition that Texans All Access from

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Speaker 2: No Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris, Football

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Speaker 2: on a sideline reporter for your Houston Texas getting ready

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Speaker 2: to go to Cincinnati on Saturday, take on the Bengals

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Speaker 2: at twelve noon Central, one pm Eastern if you are

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Speaker 2: in Cincinnati going to the game, or in Kentucky driving

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Speaker 2: over one o'clock Eastern. But pumped, really pumped to see

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Speaker 2: where this Texans team is not so happy about the

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Speaker 2: injury report. We'll get to that a little bit later.

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Speaker 2: And we got a lot, a lot, a lot to do.

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Speaker 2: On tonight's show, We're gonna go behind anemy sidelines with

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Speaker 2: Drew Doherty. I gonna miss Deep City, but Drew Doherty

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Speaker 2: goes behind animy sidelines, a really really good one, a

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Speaker 2: guy that he knows very very well that we're gonna

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Speaker 2: talk to a little bit later. I'll also have Drew

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Speaker 2: Stoppinbay for our in the lab for this week. We're

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Speaker 2: also gonna have Men behind the mics with Dan Horde,

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Speaker 2: played by Playman of the Cincinnati Bengals. We'll dive into

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Speaker 2: that injury report a little bit later in the show,

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Speaker 2: but we gotta kick it off with our good pal,

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Speaker 2: Executive vice president and general manager of your Houston Texans,

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Speaker 2: Nick Caserio.

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Speaker 1: Here we go, Mark me and Nick.

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Speaker 3: Let's rock visiting with us in the hun Day Texans

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Speaker 3: Radio Studio Executive VP and GM Nick Cassario.

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Speaker 4: Nick, how's it going, fella.

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Speaker 5: It's good to be here.

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Speaker 3: We're recovering in a good way from a wild afternoon

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Speaker 3: at NRG Stadium and a lot of prep this week

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Speaker 3: for a very tough opponent Cincinnati. But let's start with

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Speaker 3: the review on what happened against the Buccaneers and what

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Speaker 3: was going through your mind as all that is transpiring

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Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, probably didn't have as much fun as you had

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Speaker 6: in a radio call, but you know, there are a

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Speaker 6: lot of things in that game. I think the big

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Speaker 6: thing was, you know, halftime, the realization was it was

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Speaker 6: a one score game. So despite how poorly things had

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Speaker 6: gone in the first half, for a merrier reasons, it

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Speaker 6: was a one score game. So if we could just

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Speaker 6: put ourselves in a position to keep it competitive and

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Speaker 6: give ourselves a shot into the fourth quarter, then it'll

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Speaker 6: be It would have been similar to some of the

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Speaker 6: other games that we've been in this season. So they

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Speaker 6: got they scored when I'm twenty to ten and we

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Speaker 6: were scored. Had the whole kicking situation went for two,

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Speaker 6: so we were sort of back in the game. And

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Speaker 6: then really the end of the game and the fourth

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Speaker 6: quarter was kind of back and forth. So the big

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Speaker 6: thing with the field goal there was the idea was

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Speaker 6: the good points on the board. I mean, Frank and

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Speaker 6: Demico talked about it. You know, it was kind of

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Speaker 6: unorthodox or out of the box thinking, but nonetheless getting

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Speaker 6: points in that situation, there's kind of a lot of

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Speaker 6: demarcation about when we might attempt the field goal because

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Speaker 6: points we premium. So kick the field goal, go up three,

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Speaker 6: they get the ball back, go down the field and scored,

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Speaker 6: and we get the ball back and you know, get

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Speaker 6: two minute execution by everybody involved. So you know a

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Speaker 6: lot of our games have come down to the last possession.

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Speaker 6: That was another good example. So you know, we're fortunate

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Speaker 6: to come out with the victory. It was good execution,

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Speaker 6: you know, by a lot of people involved.

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Speaker 1: Nick, You've been around and seen some things.

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Speaker 2: Had you seen that happen before, had that happened at

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Speaker 2: any point, whether you were the Patriots, because I know

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Speaker 2: he has happened since it's been here where you've lost

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Speaker 2: a kicker during the game, and how did you handle

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Speaker 6: Not quite to that extent. And the kicker is so

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Speaker 6: so they really have one of those people. You have

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Speaker 6: in practice you'll simulate and who's the backup snapper, letting

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Speaker 6: him get a few snaps. So if you're in that

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Speaker 6: just about on every scoring possession, you know, puts a

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Speaker 6: little stress. But you know, credit to the offensive staff

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Speaker 4: I know we have a lot to get you.

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Speaker 3: But you were in New England for the fluty drop

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Speaker 3: asked us, well, why can't Cameron Johnston dropkick? It easier

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Speaker 3: said than done right, and how do the rules play

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's not as easy. I mean Doug, you know,

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Speaker 6: Doug was a phenomenal athlete. I mean, Doug could do

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Speaker 6: a lot of different things, and it's something he actually

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Speaker 6: So whether or not we actually need to do it

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Speaker 6: and i'd say the extra point has moved from where

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Speaker 6: goal as opposed to just an extra point. The reason

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Speaker 6: they moved the extra point back was because there was

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Speaker 6: So it takes a little bit more execution. The percentage

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Speaker 6: I'm not sure we're going to see that anytime soon.

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Speaker 6: On the drop kick, but it's just not as easy.

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Speaker 6: I'd say punting is a very specialized skill or task.

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Speaker 6: You see some punters that also handu kickoff duties. Mitch

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Speaker 6: Wznosky does it in San Francisco, Jake Bailey did it

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Speaker 6: New England. For US, he's done it, and think for Miami.

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Speaker 6: So it's just you have to practice it. Some are

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Speaker 6: So those things happen, and it doesn't happen often, but

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Speaker 2: Nick, one of the things if you're paying attention to

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Speaker 2: this team that it's done really well is handle end

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Speaker 2: of half, end of game situations pretty well. I think

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Speaker 2: there was a stretch of like three or four games

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Speaker 4: As you're looking at that situation, what are your overall thoughts.

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Speaker 2: And then obviously how it came out, what was the

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Speaker 6: Yeah, those end of half, end of games it's certain

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Speaker 6: understand the philosophy of what you're trying to accomplish. Make

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Speaker 6: sure everybody understands where we headed on this, what are

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Speaker 6: those are things that Tamiko and the staff discuss, I

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Speaker 6: can react accordingly. So how you use your timeouts, when

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Speaker 6: to use the timeouts, what's the score of the game?

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Speaker 6: End a half is certainly one situation. End of game

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Speaker 6: be different to pay depending on where you are in

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Speaker 6: a game. But it's practice, it's strategy, it's making sure

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Speaker 6: the players understand. I would say there's a couple other

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Speaker 6: things involved too, sometimes offensively and defensively. There's a simplification

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Speaker 6: a repetitive nature to the calls, but a lot carry over,

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Speaker 6: masks for something specific. You may have a certain scheme

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Speaker 5: Those things are all a part of the dialogue.

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Speaker 2: So this is going to sound sort of strange, but

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Speaker 2: three so you brought that decision made way? How do

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Speaker 2: Or is it better that you were down four that

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Speaker 6: I mean, I think you know what the situation is,

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Speaker 6: so you have to score a touchdown. So if you

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Speaker 6: there's probably a good chance unless we got close enough,

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Speaker 6: where we kicked the field goal from with Dara there

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Speaker 6: in the first in the fourth quarter was about maximum range.

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Speaker 6: the whole situation was handle all the ball and hit

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Speaker 6: I mean that says a lot about your players.

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Speaker 4: Nick.

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Speaker 3: A little over three months ago you started training camp

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Speaker 3: and Scotty Quessenberry was your center, among others. A little

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Speaker 3: over three months later, four centers later, we have Michael

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Speaker 3: What does that say about the coaching and about CJ

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's really a credit to the players and the

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Speaker 6: build the depth of your team, especially on the offensive line,

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Speaker 6: that's why you train them at as many positions as possible.

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Speaker 6: Some are a little bit more equipped to handle than others.

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Speaker 6: We've talked about this on the show. Some guys are

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Speaker 6: to create as much flexibility and versatility amongst the group

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Speaker 6: you know Q played center all last year. Q's probably

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Speaker 6: he'd done both at Penn State. You know, Dieter had experience,

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Speaker 6: he started I don't know forty some odd games for Miami,

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Speaker 6: That's why you rotate through you work. This is going

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Speaker 6: We certainly can't control that, but you just try to

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Speaker 4: All Right, I'm stealing Johnny here.

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Speaker 1: This is a highlight of the I am done with

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Speaker 3: The Bengals as good as any team in the league

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Speaker 5: I mean really a great football team.

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Speaker 5: I mean, Zach's done a great job.

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Speaker 6: You know, Brian Callahan's defensive coordinators, give me the offensive coordinator,

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Speaker 6: So it's a good football team top to bottom. And

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Speaker 6: everything starts with Joe. Joe's a great player. I mean,

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Speaker 6: So it's certainly going to present challenges for us on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: Nick facing a guy like Joe.

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Speaker 2: Guy doesn't run all the time, but when he runs

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Speaker 5: But he's very smart.

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Speaker 6: You understands to go to the football plays with good

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Speaker 6: Its snapped a pas in terms of getting rid of

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Speaker 6: Joe does a lot of things really well. I mean,

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Speaker 3: All right, Nick, you're from Ohio. The Bengals were started

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Speaker 3: back to Bill Walsh, right, who goes back to Paul

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Speaker 3: Brown in Cincinnati.

436
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Speaker 6: Correct, absolutely, I mean the imprint that the Brown family

437
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Speaker 6: has had on football is significant and matter of fact,

438
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Speaker 6: when you go to Ohio State, they're indoor, they have

439
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Speaker 6: a banner with Paul Brown because he was at Ohio

440
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Speaker 6: State for appeared very successful and then he went you know,

441
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Speaker 6: Cleveland and Cincinnati, so his impact on football just in

442
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Speaker 6: general is massive. And then I would say in the

443
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Speaker 6: state of Ohio is significant. And then Mike is still

444
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Speaker 6: there running the football team. You know, Katie Blackburn has

445
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Speaker 6: a big role within the front office, so part of

446
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Speaker 6: the Brown family. So it's a very family oriented, family

447
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Speaker 6: driven organization. And they had success with Marvin. Marvin was

448
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Speaker 6: there for a long time, so they had a lot

449
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Speaker 6: of stability and they decided to make the change to bring

450
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Speaker 6: Zach in. And Zach, let'd say, his first couple of

451
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Speaker 6: years were hard. I mean they won three or I

452
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Speaker 6: mean four or five games. But you know, I think

453
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Speaker 6: Zach's a really good coach, very bright and very good

454
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Speaker 6: offensive mind, has a good system. He adjusts and adapt

455
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Speaker 6: So I mean they've they're really i'd say, one of

456
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Speaker 6: the top franchises, you know, probably in our sport right now.

457
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Speaker 6: So when you look at it, how they pieced it

458
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Speaker 6: together and what they've done, you know, there's certainly a

459
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Speaker 6: lot that we can learn and you know, hopefully implement

460
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Speaker 6: here in Houston.

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Speaker 2: Nick, it feels like one of the guys that doesn't

462
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Speaker 2: get mentioned a lot when you talk about the Bengals, because

463
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Speaker 2: you talk about a lot of stars and you talk

464
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Speaker 2: about Zach Taylor, Lou and Roumo is a defensive coordinator.

465
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Speaker 2: It feels like he's got his guys that kind of

466
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Speaker 2: fit what he wants to do. How big of a

467
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Speaker 2: challenge is it going against him, and what he's been

468
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Speaker 2: able to do with the group he has because up Fron,

469
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Speaker 2: you mentioned Reader and you mentioned bj Hill. Teams are

470
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Speaker 2: running the ball a little bit, but as far as

471
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Speaker 2: getting to the quarterback, they get back there as well

472
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Speaker 2: as anybody in the league.

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Speaker 1: Why is Lou the right fit for them?

474
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Speaker 2: And what does he kind of bring to it from

475
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Speaker 2: their defense as a defensive play caller.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, a couple of things. And even statistically when you look.

477
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Speaker 6: At their defense you say, well, they're near the bottom

478
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Speaker 6: of the league in most categories, But I mean, don't let

479
00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:17,440
Speaker 6: this is where stats can be a little bit misleading.

480
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Speaker 6: I think they're one of the better red area teams

481
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Speaker 6: in the league. They create turnovers and Lou's a secondary coach,

482
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Speaker 6: has been a very successful secondary coach's defensive backs coach

483
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Speaker 6: going back to college and then worked his way through

484
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Speaker 6: the NFL. But I'd say they are very disciplined and

485
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Speaker 6: very consistent. But they kind of give thee the illusion

486
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Speaker 6: of complexity within simplicity. But guys are in the right spots.

487
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Speaker 6: They tackle their very sound, They kind of make you

488
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Speaker 6: earn it, and they have some different looks that you

489
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Speaker 6: have to deal with, especially you know on third down,

490
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Speaker 6: so post snap you have to be able to adapt

491
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Speaker 6: and adjust to what the defense is doing. But I mean,

492
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Speaker 6: lou is very well respected in this league and deservedly

493
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Speaker 6: so because he's done a great job and he's put

494
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Speaker 6: the team in a position again when it's just when

495
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Speaker 6: you top to bottom offensively, defensively, kicking game. Front office,

496
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Speaker 6: I mean think a lot of good people, which is

497
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Speaker 6: why they're having success that they're having.

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Speaker 3: So is there gonna be Skyline Chili Ridge at Montgomery?

499
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Speaker 3: I mean, what's it going to be for you in there?

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Speaker 6: It depends. I'll probably won't get down there too late.

501
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Speaker 6: I might try to make my way to off Hoio

502
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Speaker 6: State for the game and then head down.

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Speaker 1: So those two sound like kryptonite to you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Ribs at Montgomery in slathered in sauce and Skyline

505
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Speaker 2: chili control the solid cheese and meat and onion.

506
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Speaker 6: That just does that sounds like I'd say there's a

507
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Speaker 6: less than zero chance that probably either happening.

508
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Speaker 3: Is there a huge rivalry between the Cleveland area and

509
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Speaker 3: the Cincinnati area. They don't really like each other, right, Yeah.

510
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Speaker 6: It's it's interesting because they're diametrically opposed one as far

511
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Speaker 6: up north as you can be one of the one.

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Speaker 6: I mean, essentially, it's interesting. In the stadium is almost

513
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Speaker 6: in Kentucky. Yeah, I mean it's right there on the

514
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Speaker 6: border when you fly into the airport. It's actually in Kentucky,

515
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Speaker 6: but it's considered Cincinnati. So there's a lot of history

516
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Speaker 6: that goes back and forth New Cleveland and Cincinnati, no.

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Speaker 4: Question, Nick, thanks a lot, good luck this week.

518
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Speaker 5: Thanks guys, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, great stuff there from Nick Casario. Love getting the

520
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Speaker 2: opportunity to talk to Nick each and every Wednesday. Appreciate

521
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Speaker 2: him being on with us. We get to meet you

522
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Speaker 2: every Monday, We get Nick every Wednesday. It's always a blast.

523
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Speaker 2: And bring back in Mark. I know Nick hit on

524
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Speaker 2: a lot of things, Mart, but there's a lot of

525
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Speaker 2: stuff that happened at practice, and we practice, I mean

526
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Speaker 2: it's Wednesday, so you're kind of gearing back up, but

527
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Speaker 2: get your thoughts about, well, two guys back designated to return,

528
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Speaker 2: Charlie Hack and Derek Stingley Junior. Your gut reaction to

529
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Speaker 2: at least seeing them on the field.

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Speaker 3: Good to see you, hey, Charlie. Heck, and I'll start here,

531
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Speaker 3: because why not. We saw him in camp walking around

532
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Speaker 3: in Jim shortz and a T shirt and he was

533
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Speaker 3: clearly nursing something and trying to get back, and we thought,

534
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Speaker 3: you know, doctor VanderMeer walking around, thought this wouldn't take

535
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Speaker 3: long because there's no walking boot, there's no cast. Looks

536
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Speaker 3: good to me, of course, all my medical knowledge, John,

537
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Speaker 3: and just watching him walk around, I made the assessment

538
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Speaker 3: that he could be back soon. But it was a

539
00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 3: lot more severe than that. And now he's out there

540
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Speaker 3: on the Houston Methodist Training Center practice turf, and it's

541
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Speaker 3: good to see because you need that depth on the

542
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Speaker 3: offensive line. He plays tackle, obviously, but we all know

543
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Speaker 3: that right now, George fanis playing right tackle, and Titus

544
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Speaker 3: moved into guard, and Heck's not going to play guard

545
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Speaker 3: for you anytime soon. But God forbid, something happens to

546
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Speaker 3: a tackle Charlie Heck's going to be a big help

547
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Speaker 3: for this team, so that's good. And obviously Stingley as well,

548
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Speaker 3: And I'd love to see Stingley play Sunday, but maybe

549
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Speaker 3: he's not ready for that yet.

550
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Speaker 4: There might be a ramp up, whatever the case may be.

551
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Speaker 3: But you're going to get him back and now you

552
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Speaker 3: know it, and it's great to see. Hopefully he stays

553
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Speaker 3: out there when he does get back. Shack Griffin's been

554
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Speaker 3: doing a nice job. The defense still is a little

555
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Speaker 3: bit of a mystery. It's funny because what a difference

556
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Speaker 3: a week makes. A week ago, this team was tied

557
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Speaker 3: for six and points per game allowed, and you thought,

558
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Speaker 3: look at that, those point totals are staying low. Right,

559
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Speaker 3: even in the Atlanta game, it's not like they got

560
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Speaker 3: bludgeoned or anything like that. They did allow the drive

561
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Speaker 3: at the end, they should be okay. Even the Carolina game,

562
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Speaker 3: all right, they gave up the drive at the end,

563
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Speaker 3: but look at the overall low point total. Carolina didn't

564
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Speaker 3: get much done. This defense really could be very good,

565
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Speaker 3: and then you allowed what you allowed against Tampa Bay

566
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Speaker 3: an offense that's not explosive, but they had explosive plays

567
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Speaker 3: and it wasn't a good day for the defense overall.

568
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Speaker 3: Now you're wondering what's going to happen in Cincinnati. Prolific,

569
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 3: high powered weapons all over the place offense. You need

570
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Speaker 3: Singletary back and you might not get up for this week.

571
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Speaker 3: But it's nice to know he'll be back. But who

572
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 3: else is how Johnny because numerous guys didn't practice And

573
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Speaker 3: we'll see what happens at the end of the week.

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Speaker 3: I hate to sound like Demico Ryans in this case,

575
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Speaker 3: but he's not very specific on injuries.

576
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Speaker 4: I don't blame him at all for that.

577
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Speaker 3: It'll just have to be all hands on deck and

578
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Speaker 3: guess what score a lot of points?

579
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Speaker 7: Baby.

580
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Speaker 4: Could be another shootout.

581
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I really could. And you know, if it is,

582
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Speaker 1: it is.

583
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Speaker 2: And I mean it's been a while since we've had

584
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Speaker 2: a squad who we felt like, Okay, this squad.

585
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Speaker 1: Can go in a shootout.

586
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Speaker 2: I feel like twenty eighteen Texans everybody healthy could go

587
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Speaker 2: in a shootout. Yeah, that team definitely could. Could you

588
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Speaker 2: know it could? I feel like this team has proven

589
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:04,800
Speaker 2: it came when a shootout won the one the other

590
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:08,960
Speaker 2: day that turned into a one. We didn't imagine that

591
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 2: over under total was forty point five going in. The

592
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Speaker 2: Texans almost almost got to that number on their own,

593
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Speaker 2: on their own.

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Speaker 1: I think the one that.

595
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Speaker 2: You know, seeing Stingley come back and just being back,

596
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Speaker 2: whether he is available for Sunday or he's not, I

597
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Speaker 2: think that's gotten people excited. I actually I was excited

598
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Speaker 2: for Charlie Heck, because I feel like Charlie's improvement since

599
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Speaker 2: he's been here. I remember watching him as a rookie

600
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty. Now there's no offseason the COVID year.

601
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Speaker 2: There really wasn't time to kind of work on your game.

602
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:46,480
Speaker 2: So he he's thrown right into the mix and it's

603
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Speaker 2: in training camp and it's like.

604
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Speaker 1: Whoa, he's got a long.

605
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Speaker 2: Way to go. But then he started. Actually I think

606
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Speaker 2: he started against the Bengals. Was his first game back

607
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty. Started against the Bengals, and you're like.

608
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Speaker 4: Okay, it's not bad.

609
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Speaker 1: It's not bad. As still not there.

610
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Speaker 2: But then each and every game that he played after that,

611
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 2: you could see him getting better and better and better

612
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:07,119
Speaker 2: at right tackle.

613
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Speaker 1: And he started a lot of games for this team.

614
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Speaker 2: And you had to go out and get George Fan, which,

615
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Speaker 2: by the way, I thought about this because I was

616
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Speaker 2: watching the game back the other day because I was

617
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 2: doing big play breakdown and at some point and I

618
00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 2: showed it to you, they showed George Fant getting called

619
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Speaker 2: for a holding that was an absolute joke, call joke.

620
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: He tossed Joe Tryon shank.

621
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Speaker 4: It was a ridiculous call.

622
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Speaker 2: I think we need to do either a deep slant

623
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Speaker 2: or we need to get George Fant in here because.

624
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Speaker 1: His basketball career is how he got to be a

625
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Speaker 1: football player.

626
00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,679
Speaker 2: I think we need to dive into, okay, because he

627
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 2: was a really good basketball player, like really really good

628
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:49,920
Speaker 2: in college at Western Kentucky.

629
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Speaker 1: Like that's what he did at Western.

630
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Speaker 4: The Hilltoppers are no joke.

631
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely so he was. He was.

632
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Speaker 2: He was on the All sum Belt Conference tournament team

633
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 2: when he was there as a senior in twenty fourteen.

634
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 2: Twenty fifteen, he led team with eight rebounds a game.

635
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 2: He averaged thirteen point eight per game, points per game.

636
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,520
Speaker 2: He recorded twelve double doubles. He was second team All

637
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,640
Speaker 2: Conference Conference USA that final year. Is a senior like

638
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 2: he's he was good, big time, really really good.

639
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:20,959
Speaker 1: So I like to do a deep dive on George Fan.

640
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 4: What was his playing weights?

641
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I don't know that.

642
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 3: We gotta look at I think it's more now to

643
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 3: say a little bit, a little bit more, but actually.

644
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 4: Just some athletic ability for sure.

645
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,719
Speaker 2: But after that penalty, Charles Davis just kind of flippantly

646
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 2: threw in there. And this is what it reminded me,

647
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 2: because I remember him. I remember that about him. He

648
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:44,200
Speaker 2: played basketball, George or who did I just say Charles

649
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 2: Davis said, yeah, oh yeah, George Fan used to play basketball.

650
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 1: Was like, oh, that's right. Yeah, we need to talk

651
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: to him about this.

652
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 7: We need to get him.

653
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 2: George Fans played some really good football. That was a

654
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 2: bogus call on him. He's played some really good football, but.

655
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 3: Never on the deep slant interview. You and I should

656
00:27:58,160 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 3: get him on a Monday Tuesday.

657
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 1: Oh hoops, we need to talk hoop. Yeah. He is

658
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 1: a gentle giant.

659
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 4: He is.

660
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:07,639
Speaker 2: I get a chance, just briefly to talk to him

661
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:09,639
Speaker 2: at the end of the game. He's got the brightest smile.

662
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,119
Speaker 2: I mean, he's just really this would be a fun interview,

663
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 2: but either way, I think I don't want to call

664
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 2: George Fant found money in your pocket? I mean, you

665
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:20,640
Speaker 2: went out and got him for training camp. But it's

666
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 2: kind of been you find twenty dollars in your pocket

667
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 2: because you really didn't know what you had with George Fan.

668
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 2: Now he's turning into a starter for you and played

669
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 2: some pretty good football. You got Charlie Heck coming back,

670
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 2: who has had some experience with the system, So you

671
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 2: start to feel like, Okay, if you can get Juice

672
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:36,400
Speaker 2: back at some point, and I don't know when that's

673
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 2: gonna happen, have no idea.

674
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 1: He wasn't ready this week.

675
00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 2: But if at some point you can get juice back,

676
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 2: now your offensive line is not only got it starting five,

677
00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 2: but you've got depth. You got to start feeling pretty good, like, okay, now,

678
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 2: now let's start running the ball.

679
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 3: I think it's funny, though, how they have some of

680
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:58,880
Speaker 3: their best games overall production wise, maybe obviously not in

681
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 3: the running game department past weekend, but they did put

682
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 3: up a lot of points in a lot of yards

683
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 3: Johnny right. They have some of their best games when

684
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 3: adversity strikes, when they know, uh oh, we have Michael

685
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 3: Dieter at CENTA, who does have center experience. I know,

686
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 3: but he's the fourth string center. From where you were

687
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 3: at the start of training camp. Ye, you were hoping

688
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 3: not to use Michael Dieter, et cetera, and you had

689
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 3: to use them. So when they had those instances where

690
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 3: everybody's got to be really buttoned down here because they

691
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 3: have to pick up the slack, they tend to play

692
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 3: better overall. And that's why I brought up with Damiko Ryans,

693
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 3: the fact that Daria Gounbowale kicked a field goal.

694
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 4: What did that do for the team, or that he

695
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:37,840
Speaker 4: had to place kick?

696
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 3: It was huge everyone and you know, everyone talked about

697
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 3: on kick coverage, we don't know where it's going.

698
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 4: It was it was nuke laloush.

699
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 3: We don't know where this thing's going, but he's gonna

700
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,640
Speaker 3: kick it, and we better cover it wherever it goes.

701
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 3: It's not like, look, you're just hoping he gets it

702
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 3: beyond the ten yard line. It's not like fairbarn, Hey,

703
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 3: place this one right on the left side between the

704
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 3: five in the goal line.

705
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, put it in this like one foot by one

706
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 2: foot box right here.

707
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's not gonna do that.

708
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 3: And by the way, Matdameidola out there today, saw I'm

709
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 3: kicking some field goals. Look sharp, look good. They were

710
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 3: testing the leg, testing the whole operation. Did I reveal

711
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 3: too much there? No, not much, too much of the

712
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 3: Cincinnati Bengals right there by saying that probably.

713
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 7: No.

714
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 2: I mean it's out there that Mada Amidola is signed

715
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 2: with the practice squad, So I mean I don't think that.

716
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's kicking field goals of practice headline. No,

717
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 3: they're gonna play him and running back and Darry's gonna

718
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 3: be the new place kicker.

719
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 4: They're gonna really screw them up.

720
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,200
Speaker 1: Here's what I remember about Amadola for twenty twenty two.

721
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: He can hit bombs. He's got a strong, strong leg.

722
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 2: I remember they were testing it too, absolutely, and I

723
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 2: think that's you know, that's a good thing.

724
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: But yeah, at least you kind of know how to

725
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: handle it versity. You know.

726
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:49,320
Speaker 2: It's funny, Mark, I've thought about this game, you know,

727
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 2: the game last Sunday, and I remember back and I'm

728
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 2: parkening back to the days of my coaching. There was

729
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 2: there was a game I had my last year coaching

730
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 2: where we go up fourteen nothing, bang bang, My running

731
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 2: back runs one for about about twenty five yard touchdown.

732
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 2: My quarterback runs one like seventy five and it's like

733
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,320
Speaker 2: we're gonna it's a walk in the park.

734
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 1: We're playing a young school. They had some athletes.

735
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 2: But my quarterback goes down to start the second quarter

736
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh boy, And so now I got

737
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 2: a decision to make. Do I put my wide receiver,

738
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 2: who is kind of technically the backup there?

739
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 1: Or do I put my running back there?

740
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 2: And just kind of turned this into a running you know,

741
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 2: like a running game, and I gotta change everything on.

742
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: My play card. I got to call different things.

743
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 2: I look back at that night and now it's twenty

744
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 2: three years later, but I look back at that night

745
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 2: and go, that was a fun night. Yeah, it was

746
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 2: a fun night because I had to pull things out

747
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 2: and really like go into the I had to go

748
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 2: into the coaching recesses of my brain to find what

749
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 2: was gonna work to get us a win, and we

750
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 2: ended up getting a win.

751
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:53,719
Speaker 4: My quarterback was fine. He came back to next week.

752
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 2: I would think in a quiet moment, it was stressful,

753
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 2: as I'll get on that sideline, but I would imagine

754
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 2: that's going to be a game that Demiko and his

755
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:02,720
Speaker 2: coaching staff remembers.

756
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 3: For a long Absolutely, that's a coaching staff win. A

757
00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 3: coaching staff win, it's a win for everybody.

758
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 4: Look, a win is a win.

759
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 3: But the way it happened, what you had to go

760
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 3: through adventure on the high seeds with the Buccaneers, and

761
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,479
Speaker 3: you're able to come out of there with the w

762
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 3: and learn from it because there's a ton of stuff

763
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 3: they need to work on.

764
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 4: We all know that. I thought that was a monumental win.

765
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 3: And everybody's talking about them right now, and the difference

766
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 3: between this week's everybody's talking about them and two three

767
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 3: weeks ago after they beat the Saints or after they

768
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 3: beat the Steelers. I don't see any kind of let

769
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 3: up here after this one. They know how good the

770
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 3: Bengals are, and they know they have a lot of

771
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 3: guys on the injury report right now, so who knows

772
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 3: who's ready who's not ready. But they have a better

773
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 3: idea than the rest of the world, and they know

774
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 3: that they have to be at their very best to

775
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 3: have a shot in this game. So I don't expect

776
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 3: anything else but a maximum performance by the Texans and

777
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 3: we'll see if it's enough to get it done. This much,

778
00:32:58,080 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 3: you know you have one of the better quarterbacks in

779
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 3: league I don't know where to rank them. I know

780
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 3: they have those quarterback power rankings. The guys this morning

781
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 3: we're talking about them. He's getting a lot of attention

782
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 3: right now, deservedly, so he'll be ready. Let's go to

783
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 3: Cincinnati and sling it and see if you can get it.

784
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 2: Yea, who's well aware of him. That Bengals defensive coordinator

785
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 2: Lou Narumo. He was on seven hundred WLW Bengals line.

786
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 2: He said, and I quote, I know he CJ. Stroud

787
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 2: got my attention. I'm gonna make sure he has our

788
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 2: team's attention.

789
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,959
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, how can you not, right? Absolute kid threw

790
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 3: for four hundred and seventy yards the.

791
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 2: Week before you face them, and you're building, yep, in

792
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 2: a big game.

793
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 3: But I say to the Bengals, get ready for the Ravens.

794
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 3: Don't worry about this game. Concentrate on Baltimore. Rest everybody

795
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 3: treated like preseason game four back in the old days.

796
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 4: Do that for us, please. You don't need this one

797
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 4: so bad. It's more.

798
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 3: But if you if you had to ask them which

799
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 3: one do you need more this week or the Ravens game,

800
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 3: they'll say the Ravens. Though they would take the l

801
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 3: this week, no doubts, head to head with the Ravens,

802
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 3: who beat them already once.

803
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 2: Just the same way. Which one would you rather win?

804
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 2: This one or Jaguars at home? Yeahs, Jaguars at home,

805
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 2: you know, same same sort of tha win that division game?

806
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would rather win both.

807
00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,839
Speaker 2: I got a feeling no matter who's ready, who's up,

808
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 2: ain't gonna be in the lineup on Sunday, They're gonna

809
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 2: be geared up for this one. I mean, how can

810
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:26,879
Speaker 2: you not. I mean Bengals and I mean that's gonna

811
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 2: be a hell of an environment. I know it's gonna

812
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 2: be a kickoff at one o'clock as opposed to you know,

813
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 2: they're used to their primetime games now, but you know

814
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 2: former Buck guy quarterback coming back, he's you know, been

815
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:40,720
Speaker 2: that guy. It's a great uh, it's a great opportunity

816
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 2: for their defense. I mean, I just feel like this

817
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 2: one's gonna have some juice on Sunday, which is gonna

818
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,760
Speaker 2: be really fun. So looking forward to that. Also looking

819
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:51,359
Speaker 2: forward to seeing Dan Horde. He's the play by play

820
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 2: man and Mark went one on one with Dan Horde,

821
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:55,280
Speaker 2: one of the best guys in the business.

822
00:34:55,280 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: Next on Texas All Access.

823
00:34:56,960 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 2: Sidebro man behind the mics, did you man making a

824
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 2: call on sun Mark Vandermir You know from the Houston

825
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 2: Texas Dan Horde you've heard before, but now you hear

826
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,200
Speaker 2: him again getting ready for this one on Sunday.

827
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 3: Funny because you and I started to talk a lot

828
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 3: in twenty eleven when the Texans beat the Bengals to

829
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 3: win the division for the first time. And I knew

830
00:35:16,520 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 3: that there'd be some battles over the years, But my goodness,

831
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,320
Speaker 3: these franchises have been through a lot in the last

832
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 3: decade plus, the Bengals obviously having recently been to a

833
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 3: Super Bowl. Joe Burrow outstanding quarterback, certainly one of the

834
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 3: top three in the league. Tell me how it's going

835
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 3: right now, because I know he was unhealthy early rough start,

836
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 3: But right now the Bengals look as good as any

837
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:38,840
Speaker 3: team in the NFL.

838
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 8: And it's all because of Joe Burrow's right calf. He

839
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 8: heard his cap on the second day of training camp,

840
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 8: missed the entire camp, and tried to play at the

841
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 8: beginning of the season. I'll give him credit for trying

842
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 8: to gut it out because he still was not completely

843
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 8: healthy and in the Bengals first four games. I don't

844
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 8: know what the most famous statue is in Houston, but

845
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:01,960
Speaker 8: whatever it is, picture that staff standing seven yards behind

846
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,879
Speaker 8: the line of scrimmage and staying there regardless of what

847
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 8: was happening on a given play. So it gave the

848
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:12,320
Speaker 8: opposition a sitting duck target. They didn't have to worry

849
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,840
Speaker 8: about the pass rush lanes. There was never the threat

850
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 8: that the quarterback was going to scramble. They were so

851
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:23,879
Speaker 8: limited offensively because Joe just couldn't move well. The calf

852
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,400
Speaker 8: is healthy. He looks like the Joe Burrow of old,

853
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 8: and as a result, they won four straight. They won

854
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 8: five out of six, and I believe they're one of

855
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 8: the best teams in the NFL.

856
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:37,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, besides Burrow playing well, what else is going well

857
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 3: for the Bengals right now?

858
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 2: Dan?

859
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 8: The defense has been good throughout even early this season

860
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,399
Speaker 8: when they were losing, and in some of those games

861
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 8: the final score was lopsided. I thought that the defense

862
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 8: played well enough to win. It was just the offense

863
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 8: couldn't stay on the field. The defense is being put

864
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,640
Speaker 8: in short field situations time and time again because the

865
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,760
Speaker 8: offense was so feeble. In their season opener, the Bengals

866
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 8: didn't even have ten first down against Cleveland because the

867
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 8: offense could do nothing. So the defense has been good throughout.

868
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 8: It's been really good lately. If you look at the

869
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Speaker 8: Bengals last two games, they faced the Bills and the

870
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Speaker 8: forty nine Ers. Those are two of the best offensive

871
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Speaker 8: teams in the league. Neither team was able to score

872
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 8: twenty points against Cincinnati. So a healthy Burrow and a

873
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 8: really good defense is a potent combo.

874
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Speaker 3: Dan Horde, the boys of the Cincinnati Bengals joining us

875
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,919
Speaker 3: on Texans Radio, talk to me about the running game

876
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 3: with Joe Mixon been inconsistent.

877
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 8: It wasn't good on Monday Night against Buffalo, although he

878
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 8: did make a great run at the end of the

879
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 8: game to seal the victory. Two weeks ago against San Francisco,

880
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 8: they had their best rushing performance of the year. So

881
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 8: there at least has been a recent game where it

882
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:45,879
Speaker 8: was good. But for the entire season, I would say

883
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 8: that's been a bit of a disappointment. Again, part of

884
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 8: it was the offense was so limited in the first

885
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 8: four weeks. The defense knew that one of two things

886
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 8: was coming. Either a really short pass to get the

887
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 8: ball out of Burrow's hands before he could get hit,

888
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 8: or a run out of a shotgun formation. Because Joe

889
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 8: Burrow is not capable of being under center for the

890
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 8: first four games of the season, so I think there

891
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 8: are reasons for why the run game hasn't been very good.

892
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 8: But the bottom line is it has not been very good.

893
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,800
Speaker 3: Dan a little bit more on Burrow here, just having

894
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 3: him around. I know the rookie year, he got hurt,

895
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,279
Speaker 3: but you saw the signs for sure, and obviously we

896
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,320
Speaker 3: saw the Super Bowl appearance. What's he like to be around,

897
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 3: what's he like as a player, maybe in the building,

898
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 3: that sort of thing.

899
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 8: Mike Turrico from NBC Sports I think coined the perfect

900
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:40,919
Speaker 8: description for Joe Burrow's personality. He has a likable cockiness,

901
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:43,760
Speaker 8: which are two words that you rarely put together. Usually

902
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:46,920
Speaker 8: cocky people are people that you don't like. But somehow

903
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:49,400
Speaker 8: Joe Burrow has the ability to put it to pull

904
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Speaker 8: it off. He's so comfortable in his own skin. He's

905
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 8: very cool and confident that that permeates throughout the building.

906
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Speaker 8: From his first day in the Bengals locker room, you

907
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 8: just had sense that, all right, this guy's going to

908
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 8: lead us. Who want to go, and that's exactly the

909
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,720
Speaker 8: way it played out. You mentioned the horrific knee injury

910
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 8: his rookie year. The next year was the year they

911
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 8: went to the Super Bowl, so he wasn't even one

912
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 8: hundred percent yet and he took the team to the

913
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Speaker 8: super Bowl. They went back to the AFC Championship Game

914
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 8: last year, and now they seem to be ascending toward

915
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Speaker 8: another postseason run based on the way they're playing right now.

916
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Speaker 4: Outstanding.

917
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Speaker 3: Okay, AFC North Texans are one to one in that

918
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Speaker 3: division so far. You have the Ravens after the Texans.

919
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 3: They can't look ahead, but we can. What do you

920
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 3: make of the Ravens this year?

921
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 8: Dan Bengals faced the Ravens in Week two again, that

922
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 8: was back when Burrow was in Mobile and it was

923
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 8: a great game. It was in Cincinnati and Baltimore won late.

924
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 8: I thought that the Ravens were going to be one

925
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Speaker 8: of the NFL's best teams this year because whenever Lamar

926
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Speaker 8: Jackson has been healthy, they've won. Now, it hasn't extended

927
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Speaker 8: to the postseason yet. He's only got one playoff win

928
00:39:57,880 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 8: in his career. But I think if you look at

929
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Speaker 8: his right ular season record as the Ravens starting quarterback,

930
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Speaker 8: They've won something like seventy five percent of the games.

931
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Speaker 8: I think Cleveland and Baltimore have the best defenses in

932
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Speaker 8: the NFL right now, or at least the AFC right now,

933
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Speaker 8: and again with Lamar healthy, that offense always seems to

934
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Speaker 8: function well. So that's going to be a big showdown

935
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Speaker 8: next Thursday night for the Bengals having to head to

936
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Speaker 8: Baltimore and trying to beat them on the road in

937
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Speaker 8: the Thursday night game.

938
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Speaker 3: Dan Horde, voice of the Bengals, joining us, What about

939
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:29,320
Speaker 3: the Steelers. Texans beat them pretty decisively here at NRG Stadium,

940
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 3: but they find ways to win, for sure. As the

941
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Speaker 3: entire division is above five hundred and playoff bound at

942
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 3: the season ended today.

943
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's right. I mean there's seven teams that go

944
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Speaker 8: to the playoffs in the AFC, and right now, four

945
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Speaker 8: of the seven the four teams from the AFC North.

946
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Speaker 8: So that tells you about the strength of the division.

947
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Speaker 8: I'm still a little skeptical on the Steelers. I don't

948
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,280
Speaker 8: know how they're doing it. They have been out gained

949
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:58,040
Speaker 8: in every single game this season and yet they're two

950
00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 8: games over five hundred. How do they do it well.

951
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 8: I think they're plus eight on turnover margin, so that's

952
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 8: a big thing. But watching their games, they seem to

953
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 8: make one huge game changing type defensive play in the

954
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 8: fourth quarter, and Kenny Pickett throws one big pass to

955
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 8: either George Pickens or Deontay Johnson and that seems to

956
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,640
Speaker 8: be enough. They don't really just seem to do anything

957
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:22,879
Speaker 8: else well in the first three quarters of the game,

958
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 8: but they make a couple of big plays, one on offense,

959
00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 8: one on defense in the fourth quarter, and that seems

960
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 8: to get them win. So it doesn't seem sustainable. It

961
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 8: seems to me if you get out gained every single week,

962
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 8: you're not going to keep winning. But credit Mike Tomblin

963
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 8: and that group so far this year that managed to

964
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 8: get it done.

965
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 3: What's your take on the Cleveland Browns Texans face down

966
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 3: December twenty fourth, Christmas Eve. Obviously Watson in and out

967
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,760
Speaker 3: of the lineup, great defense, what are your thoughts on them?

968
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 8: Incredible defense, that's the best defense in the NFL in

969
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 8: my opinion. They're two games over five hundred entirely because

970
00:41:55,440 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 8: of their defense. They held Arizona last week to that's

971
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 8: the one hundred yards in the game. Clayton Tune. Houston

972
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 8: people are familiar with him. I think he finished at

973
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Speaker 8: fifty five passing yards in that game. Miles Garrett's in

974
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 8: contention for not only Defensive Player of the Year, but

975
00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 8: MVP in my opinion, he's been that good. The Bengals

976
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,280
Speaker 8: could get nothing going offensively when they faced the Browns

977
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 8: this year, so if they get decent play out of

978
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 8: Deshaun going forward, that is a legitimate candidate to make

979
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:27,879
Speaker 8: a postseason run.

980
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 3: I know I asked you this years ago, Dan, but

981
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 3: tell me your latest on what is Cincinnati like as

982
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 3: a sports town. If I was an outside or asking

983
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 3: you that question, what's your response.

984
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 8: Resilient Because they're teams, whether it's Bengals fans, Reds fans,

985
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 8: college fans here, there have been periods where their teams

986
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 8: have been down for an extended period of time and

987
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 8: they remain loyal and it pays off when the team

988
00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 8: makes a turnaround. So the Bengals Super Bowl year a

989
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:03,359
Speaker 8: couple of years, it goes the perfect example. Anytime you're

990
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 8: a fan of a team that's good, that in and

991
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 8: of itself is fun, but if it's entirely unexpected. I

992
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 8: don't think it gets any better than that for a

993
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 8: sports fan. So that season two years ago, the Bengals

994
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 8: had won four games the year before, two games the

995
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 8: year before that, Nobody had high expectations for the team,

996
00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 8: and they go on this storybook, fantasy like super Bowl

997
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:32,439
Speaker 8: run that probably would have been the greatest underdog super

998
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 8: Bowl winner in history had they pulled off the win

999
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 8: against the Rams. Unfortunately, that game, you know, got away

1000
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,879
Speaker 8: from them the final two minutes. But they remain on

1001
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 8: that high from that super Bowl run and from the

1002
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:47,959
Speaker 8: AFC Championship trip last year and now watching this team

1003
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 8: ascend again with Joe Burrow. Bengals fans are definitely, you know,

1004
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:56,720
Speaker 8: basking in the glow of having one of the NFL's

1005
00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 8: best teams.

1006
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Speaker 3: Dan Horde, Voice of the Bengals with us, You all's

1007
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 3: a call Cincinnati Bearcats games. Dan, So I know it's

1008
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,240
Speaker 3: a nightmare season right now, we're talking about a dream

1009
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:08,320
Speaker 3: come true with the Bengals going to the super Bowl.

1010
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:12,800
Speaker 3: The Bearcats are owing six in the conference right now

1011
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 3: as they embark on Big twelve play. But what's the

1012
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 3: outlook moving into the future for them?

1013
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,799
Speaker 8: Well, it's hard for Cincinnati fans to believe this right

1014
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,399
Speaker 8: now because the team was in the fourteen playoffs two

1015
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:28,360
Speaker 8: years ago, so expectations have been really high around here recently.

1016
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Speaker 8: But Cincinnati had a coaching change. Luke Fickle did an

1017
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:35,719
Speaker 8: incredible job, took the head coaching job at Wisconsin, got

1018
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 8: a new coaching Scott Centerfield, and there's a little bit

1019
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,840
Speaker 8: of a deja voo going on for long time University

1020
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:46,360
Speaker 8: of Cincinnati football fans. When there's a coaching change, typically

1021
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 8: there's a dip. It takes a year or two to

1022
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:53,240
Speaker 8: get their own culture in and establish the coaching staff

1023
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 8: and the things that they want to do, and then historically,

1024
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 8: whatever league Cincinnati has been in, within a few years,

1025
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 8: you're one of the better teams in the league. So

1026
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:03,919
Speaker 8: that's what I think is going to happen. I guess

1027
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,439
Speaker 8: you never know for sure when a new coach comes in,

1028
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 8: but I'm basing it on the history of this program

1029
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:12,279
Speaker 8: over the past twenty five years. Give whatever coach they

1030
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 8: hire two or three years and they're usually pretty good.

1031
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 8: So I would expect Cincinnati to bounce back from a

1032
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 8: tough year one under Scott Satderfield and be solid in

1033
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 8: a relatively short period of time.

1034
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 3: Have you ever had a close call calling a Bengals

1035
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 3: game after a Bearcat Saturday?

1036
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:36,799
Speaker 8: Yes, I have more with the pregame show than the

1037
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 8: game itself. I've never really cut it close for being

1038
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 8: there in time for kickoff. We go on the air

1039
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 8: ninety minutes before the game, and sometimes it's pretty close

1040
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 8: for me to get there in time for that. In fact,

1041
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:50,359
Speaker 8: that was the case two weeks ago. The Bearcats played

1042
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:54,880
Speaker 8: a night game at Oklahoma State Stillwater, Oklahoma, Saturday night

1043
00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 8: at eight pm. The Bengals were in San Francisco the

1044
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 8: following afternoon five kickoff. I got there in time for

1045
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 8: the pregame show by about ten minutes, so it was

1046
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 8: it was a little bit nerve wracking, but I answered

1047
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:08,879
Speaker 8: the bell.

1048
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Speaker 2: There is Dan Horre of the Cincinnati Bengals coming up.

1049
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 2: Our injury report does not look good. We'll break it

1050
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 2: down next right here in Texans All Access. Yes, sir,

1051
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:20,440
Speaker 2: welcome back to this Wednesday edition of Texans All Access.

1052
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 2: I am John Harris football and on a sideline reporter

1053
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 2: for your Houston Texans. And this was probably the most

1054
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:28,919
Speaker 2: anticipated injury report because we knew it was gonna be bad.

1055
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 2: How bad bad. Here are your DMPs from Wednesday's practice.

1056
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 2: Will Anderson junior knee, Andrew Beck ankle, elbows, shoulder, Blake

1057
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:42,800
Speaker 2: Cashman knee, Kimie Fairbank quad, Jake Hansen hamstring, hand, Brevin

1058
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:46,840
Speaker 2: Jordan foot, Stephen Nelson back neck, Damian Pierce ankle, Jaremy

1059
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 2: Tunsall knee, Jimmy Ward hamstring, Robert Woods foot, limited participants,

1060
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:57,840
Speaker 2: Nico Collins calf, Jonathan Gernard's shoulder, Henry toatoa concussion, George

1061
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:02,399
Speaker 2: Fan knee, Titus Howard knee, My j Sanders knee, And

1062
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Speaker 2: if there's good news, it's this. Derek Stingley junior back

1063
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 2: at practice was limited with a hamstring, but he has

1064
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:15,320
Speaker 2: been added back in the twenty one day window, designated

1065
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:17,799
Speaker 2: for a return, which is great, and also designated for

1066
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 2: a return. Charlie Heck his first full practice. He was

1067
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:26,160
Speaker 2: a full participant. So is Christian Harris, Josh Jones, John Metchi,

1068
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 2: Sheldon Rankins. That's almost the entire roster now the Bengals

1069
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 2: not so much. However, there are two names to keep

1070
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 2: an eye on. Jamar Chase did not participate with a back,

1071
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 2: and t Higgins was limited with a hamstring.

1072
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:43,399
Speaker 1: Whoa, that's a lot. We'll see what tomorrow brings.

1073
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 2: Hopefully some of those guys will get back to practice,

1074
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 2: but my goodness, that injury report does not look good.

1075
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:50,359
Speaker 2: Kind of like the last time we went to Cincinnati

1076
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 2: when we had this many guys in an injury report with

1077
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 2: the game on Thursday. Luckily the game is on Sunday.

1078
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 2: All right, we get back. We'll go behind enemy sidelines

1079
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 2: a little bit more about these Bengals. Nexts All Access.

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Speaker 2: We got one hour down, one hour left to go.

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Speaker 2: Right here on a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access

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Speaker 2: from the Honday Texans Radio Studio. I am John Harris

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Speaker 2: Football and a silent reporter for your Houston Texas. Glad

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Speaker 2: to be with you. It's time to go behind enemy sidelines.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: For the last ten years I have said with Deep Sidhu,

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Speaker 2: but Deep is moving on and a lover gonna miss her. Oh,

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Speaker 2: I don't know what I'm gonna do without her, But

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Speaker 2: we have to trudge forward with behind amy sidelines. And

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Speaker 2: this week it's with Drew Doherty and he catches up

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Speaker 2: with an old boss of his, Brian Giesenschlog.

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Speaker 1: I hope I've said that right, but.

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Speaker 2: They used to be uh well, they used to be teammates,

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00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 2: work together. In fact, Brian I think was Drew's boss

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Speaker 2: back in the day. Brian's been in Cincinnati for a

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Speaker 2: while and gives us the thoughts of the Bengals and

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Speaker 2: what the Texans might face on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Drew take it away. That's right.

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Speaker 9: It's one of my close friends, a former boss, and

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Speaker 9: a long time I say long time, but it was

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00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,839
Speaker 9: four years. Brian. It's great to be with you. How

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Speaker 9: you been my friend?

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Speaker 7: Man, I'm so good. It's so good to talk to you,

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00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:12,360
Speaker 7: and looking forward to anytime some Texans can visit the

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Speaker 7: Buckeye State and I get a chance to be a

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Speaker 7: part of it. That's all good. So I'm excited.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's It is truly one of my favorite road

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Speaker 9: trips because every time I go, I get to see

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00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:25,319
Speaker 9: you and your wife Julie. Good friends. We always have fun,

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00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 9: and the Texans since I've come, they've always won, oh nine, eleven, fifteen, seventeen,

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Speaker 9: and then none of those times they were favored. So

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Speaker 9: it's always a fun time. But it's better because I

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00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 9: get to see you. So let's talk about about the

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00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 9: football game and back in the old days when I

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Speaker 9: was producing for you, we did this show called Cadillac

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Speaker 9: Legends and Sports, and we would interview a monster, like

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00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:51,319
Speaker 9: a big time like a Nolan Ryan or a bum

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Speaker 9: Phillips sort of Johnny Rutherford who won three Indy five hundreds.

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Speaker 9: Ty Murray is a good one of rodeo cowboys. We

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Speaker 9: interviewed him and I sat next to Jewel while you

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Speaker 9: a timer. But my first question out of the gate,

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Speaker 9: I would always sneak one in, and it's this Joe Burrow,

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Speaker 9: quarterback of the Cincinnati Bengals. Is Joe Burrow a ninja.

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Speaker 7: Put sy this way? Ask anyone in these parts, and

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Speaker 7: Joe Burrow could be anything he wants to be. You know,

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Speaker 7: he spent obviously, went to high school a couple of

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00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 7: hours from here, started at Ohio State, and kind of

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Speaker 7: circled back here. And you know, Cincinnati, it's kind of

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Speaker 7: a place that you know, we don't ever think or

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Speaker 7: the people who especially grew up here and are from here,

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Speaker 7: you don't think that you don't sometimes think that you

1132
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Speaker 7: deserve certain things. It's kind of they accept, you know

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00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 7: that we're hard working, good people and that's going to

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Speaker 7: be enough. Well in the case of Joe Burrow landing

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Speaker 7: with this franchise. You know, they got something that doesn't

1136
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Speaker 7: come along very often. And he's different, man, he's a

1137
00:50:56,680 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 7: different cat in a lot of ways. But in terms

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Speaker 7: of Joe Burrow as the quarterback of this team. I

1139
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Speaker 7: was just talking to a good buddy who covers the

1140
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 7: team on a regular basis. I said, is it as

1141
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 7: simple as it seems that when Burrow got right, the

1142
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 7: team became a completely different team and everything all of

1143
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 7: a sudden, everything else was right. Yeah, And he said,

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00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:23,040
Speaker 7: he said, geez, man, it's that simple. He's that big

1145
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,320
Speaker 7: of a difference maker. When they started one and three

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00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:29,800
Speaker 7: and went to Arizona, Burrow played the must win card.

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00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:30,800
Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: And you know, in the fifth game of the season,

1149
00:51:32,719 --> 00:51:35,319
Speaker 7: he played the must win card when they were one

1150
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 7: and three. They won that game. Have been completely different

1151
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:46,040
Speaker 7: since he's been healthy and everything revolves and orbits around

1152
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 7: Joe Burrow being healthy and doing what he does. It's

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Speaker 7: it's been pretty amazing.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, And it's wild you bring that up. So they

1155
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:55,040
Speaker 9: were one and three. They've peeled off four wins since

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00:51:55,080 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 9: that one and three start. So depending on if you're

1157
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 9: a half glass full half glass empty. Guy. They're tied

1158
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Speaker 9: for second in the AFC North at five and three,

1159
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Speaker 9: or they're tied for last, so exactly, either way, they're

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00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:10,360
Speaker 9: still in a good spot and the AFC South is

1161
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Speaker 9: playing the AFC North this year. Texans already began their

1162
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 9: season by going to Baltimore in Week one. Didn't go well,

1163
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:19,400
Speaker 9: that was a keyed up Ravens team. Took care of business.

1164
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Speaker 9: They'll see the Browns later this season. They took care

1165
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 9: of the Steelers eight. I mean, they throttled Pittsburgh here

1166
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Speaker 9: at home, one of those kind of statement type of wins.

1167
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:31,200
Speaker 9: But back to Burrow, have you seen just tangentially, have

1168
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:33,799
Speaker 9: you seen him heat up? Because it looks like it

1169
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 9: from the outside, Like you just mentioned, he was injured

1170
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Speaker 9: in the preseason and then they kind of have found

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Speaker 9: their footing with him. I mean, what are you seeing

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Speaker 9: him do over the last.

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Speaker 7: Month or so. Well, he was injured in the preseason,

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Speaker 7: and everyone assumed when he stepped away from camp and

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Speaker 7: stepped away from the preseason games that that would be

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00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 7: enough time. I mean, if that's not enough time for

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Speaker 7: your calf to heal, you know, it didn't seem like

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00:52:56,200 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 7: that would would be a problem. And then the season started,

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00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 7: everyone assumed he was healthy. I think admitted that maybe

1180
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 7: there would be russ because he didn't play or practice

1181
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:08,360
Speaker 7: much in the preseason, that maybe that would be a problem.

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00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 7: And then it just wasn't right the first couple of games.

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00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 7: And when I say it wasn't right, he just couldn't

1184
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 7: move very well. And you think, Okay, if he's dealing

1185
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 7: with this and playing through it, is it really going

1186
00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:23,200
Speaker 7: to get better if it's still hurt. So there was

1187
00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 7: a question from some people locally, is you know, hey,

1188
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 7: man shitt he just pull him off the field. You know,

1189
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 7: you just invested all this money, We know what he is.

1190
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Speaker 7: Maybe he shouldn't play, maybe he should get right. And

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00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 7: that was not his mindset. He never used it as

1192
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,799
Speaker 7: an excuse, but it was so blatantly obvious that he

1193
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:44,160
Speaker 7: just couldn't move and play the way that he normally did.

1194
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 7: The Arizona game comes along, he starts to show some signs.

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Speaker 7: They get through that game, but then it was like

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Speaker 7: an explosion. It was like the train got back on

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Speaker 7: the tracks really quickly and started downhill. I mean there

1198
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Speaker 7: was no slowing down. And so the teams that they've

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Speaker 7: you know, some of the teams they've knocked off in

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Speaker 7: this four game streak, you know Buffalo certainly the other night,

1201
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 7: San Francisco, Seattle. They're two of their three losses are

1202
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Speaker 7: two division teams. Those were the two that they started

1203
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Speaker 7: with out of the gate, and so that's been tough.

1204
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 7: But what he's done, and what you saw him do

1205
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:22,799
Speaker 7: specifically against the Bills on Sunday night, was he's back

1206
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:25,839
Speaker 7: to having the full complement of tools. And by that

1207
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 7: I mean he can move effectively in the pocket. He

1208
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 7: is not a beat you with his legs guy. What

1209
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:36,600
Speaker 7: he is is a guy who can move well enough

1210
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 7: to create space to make a few people miss, just

1211
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:44,360
Speaker 7: to buy that extra little bit of time inside or

1212
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 7: outside of the pocket for those unbelievable wideouts to get

1213
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 7: any kind of separation. And right now they don't need

1214
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:55,280
Speaker 7: much separation with burrow throwing and the way that they play,

1215
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 7: and so it just kind of all came together. But

1216
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:02,279
Speaker 7: everything started to click when he started to click. He

1217
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 7: is the unquestioned Beacon north star of the entire team.

1218
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:11,799
Speaker 7: The defense didn't play well early in the season and

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Speaker 7: they kind of went on a parallel path with Burrow

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Speaker 7: when he came back, and the offense took off and

1221
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 7: now the defense is playing in a similar fashion. So

1222
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:24,360
Speaker 7: it really is he's the lynch pin man. All it

1223
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:26,879
Speaker 7: all trickles down from Burrow and the fact that right

1224
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:30,319
Speaker 7: now the calf appears to be healthy, he's been back

1225
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,799
Speaker 7: under center some all of those things, it opened up

1226
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:36,880
Speaker 7: what they could do offensively and what they can do

1227
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Speaker 7: offensively with those wideouts as has been really impressive.

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Speaker 9: You're really proud, Baylor Bear. Does Burrow remind you more of?

1229
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:48,880
Speaker 7: Now?

1230
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Speaker 9: All time man? All time? Who does he remind you of? No,

1231
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 9: I'm not saying I'm joking about the Baylor be but

1232
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 9: does he remind you of anybody quarterback wise, whether it's

1233
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Speaker 9: current or past.

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Speaker 7: You just wanted to mention command under Cody. I did

1235
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:03,000
Speaker 7: you just you just had this in your head of

1236
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:04,879
Speaker 7: Commander Cody and I got back in the day.

1237
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 9: I know I'm playing the blue bonny ball and beat Colorado.

1238
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:13,480
Speaker 7: So that you know what this it's this sounds, this

1239
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 7: sounds it just I hate to hear myself say it

1240
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:20,799
Speaker 7: because it sounds probably like what people don't want to hear.

1241
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:22,920
Speaker 7: But the first thing that I think of is Tom Brady,

1242
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 7: not because they have the exact same game or skill set,

1243
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 7: but they have, even in just a couple of years

1244
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:33,279
Speaker 7: of Joe Burrow, they have that aura where they make

1245
00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:38,880
Speaker 7: everyone believe. And Burrow is not his persona that with

1246
00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 7: the media and the way that he portrays himself and

1247
00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:44,759
Speaker 7: the way that he speaks. It's not always the just

1248
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:47,319
Speaker 7: saw shucks guy next door, even though he's from a

1249
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:51,520
Speaker 7: small town in eastern Ohio, and he embraces that, and

1250
00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 7: he and he loves that. He's a little bit hard

1251
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 7: to read sometimes, he's a little bit distant seeming at times,

1252
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 7: and some of the things that he does. The guys

1253
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:02,880
Speaker 7: who talk to him on a regular basis, he's not

1254
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 7: best friends with anybody down there in the media, but

1255
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 7: what he is consistently is confident, believable, respected, all of

1256
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:15,400
Speaker 7: those things. And you just kind of think about the

1257
00:57:15,520 --> 00:57:18,920
Speaker 7: feeling that some of those Great Brady teams had was

1258
00:57:19,840 --> 00:57:22,600
Speaker 7: we're not going to lose because He's not gonna let

1259
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:24,920
Speaker 7: us lose. And I think there's a little bit of

1260
00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:28,320
Speaker 7: that belief in Joe Burrow, even only after a couple

1261
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 7: of years in Cincinnati, based on what he's done. He

1262
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 7: has made people believe and in Cincinnati when that comes around,

1263
00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 7: you know, you're this town is all in. You know

1264
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:40,640
Speaker 7: they you know that they have they have the Big

1265
00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:43,640
Speaker 7: Red Machine, they have the nineteen ninety Reds, the Bengals

1266
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 7: super Bowl team that lost to the Niners, and they

1267
00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:49,480
Speaker 7: believe in those people. And when you make this fan

1268
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:53,040
Speaker 7: base believe, you can feel it, and you can feel

1269
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 7: it on Sunday night when they beat the Bills.

1270
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Speaker 9: It's such a distinct set of circumstances for Burrow because

1271
00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:02,280
Speaker 9: he's got that up there and he will forever be

1272
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:08,360
Speaker 9: revered by LSU fans. You can't go around Houston without seeing,

1273
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 9: you know, his his Burrow jersey or is Burrow with

1274
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 9: the eaux?

1275
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:14,160
Speaker 7: I mean he's my favorite.

1276
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 9: Oh it's awesome. Yeah, it's so cool to see. So

1277
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:18,520
Speaker 9: Texan's going to have their hands full of Joe Burrow

1278
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 9: and company, no doubt.

1279
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:20,200
Speaker 7: So.

1280
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:23,560
Speaker 9: Jamar Chase also a ninja, whether he plays or not.

1281
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:26,320
Speaker 9: You know, he's got the back injury. He might play,

1282
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:28,919
Speaker 9: might not. What's he meant to Burrow? What's he meant

1283
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 9: to this offense? Because he's almost it's almost like a

1284
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:33,000
Speaker 9: one A one B thing you would think with those

1285
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 9: two guys in that city.

1286
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 7: Yeah, guys I talked to first of all, said that

1287
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 7: talking to him yesterday about the back, he sounded concerned.

1288
00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 7: It's still listed as day to day. They said, he's

1289
00:58:43,720 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 7: he sounded a little concerned. And keep in mind, you know,

1290
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:49,640
Speaker 7: the Bengals have to win every game, you know, because

1291
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Speaker 7: of the slow start, because of the division. There's no

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Speaker 7: game that they don't need to win. But the biggest

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00:58:55,760 --> 00:58:57,320
Speaker 7: game of the year so far is coming up next

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Speaker 7: week after Houston, and that's they play at Baltimore. Uh

1295
00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 7: So you have to think that if he's if there's

1296
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:06,920
Speaker 7: a threat that he's not going to be at his

1297
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 7: best or could re injure it, maybe he doesn't play

1298
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:12,960
Speaker 7: and you try to get him right for Baltimore. That's

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00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 7: that's all background, but that's where they are. But as

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00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:18,440
Speaker 7: far as what he means, the Bengals are in the

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Speaker 7: business of Burrough, Chase and Higgins. You know back when,

1302
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:24,800
Speaker 7: back when we were in Dallas together, you know, the

1303
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:26,680
Speaker 7: Cowboys had the triplets. Everybody knew that.

1304
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 9: Actually actually actually point of contention there. When we were

1305
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:34,080
Speaker 9: in Dallas together, the Cowboys went five and eleven, five

1306
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:36,680
Speaker 9: and eleven, five and eleven, and then ten and six.

1307
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:38,120
Speaker 9: So we were right after the triple.

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00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:41,680
Speaker 7: We were after the triplets. But my, my, my, Dave

1309
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:45,480
Speaker 7: camp Yeah, that was tough, that Dave Campo era. But

1310
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:48,120
Speaker 7: my time in Texas. Yeah, there were the triplets. Everybody

1311
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:52,600
Speaker 7: remembers that the triplets. Here are those three And in

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00:59:52,720 --> 00:59:57,040
Speaker 7: terms of what this means for the Triplets, Higgins likely

1313
00:59:57,120 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 7: will not play here after this year. Yeah, the he's

1314
01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 7: up for a contract. He'll be a number one somewhere else.

1315
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Speaker 7: But Jamar Chase is as key to Joe Burrow as

1316
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:13,600
Speaker 7: as anything you can come up with. He's just good

1317
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:16,400
Speaker 7: at everything. Zach Taylor has said before. You know, you

1318
01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 7: could put them at running back and he'd be exceptional.

1319
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:23,960
Speaker 7: He's just that good as a receiver. And so those

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Speaker 7: two are connected. Obviously it goes back to LSU, but

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Speaker 7: they're connected in their desire for greatness, for their desire

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Speaker 7: to just compete. And the more that I've you know,

1323
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:40,280
Speaker 7: been around professional athletes and and everything in the last

1324
01:00:41,360 --> 01:00:44,560
Speaker 7: you just I look for guys who compete, and there's

1325
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Speaker 7: a difference, and you can see it. There are guys

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Speaker 7: who are great at what they do, but they may

1327
01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 7: not be the best competitor on the field. And these

1328
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 7: guys are both there. They might be the best at

1329
01:00:54,560 --> 01:00:58,280
Speaker 7: what they do, but they're also the best competitors. And

1330
01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:01,520
Speaker 7: when you when you get them together, and the way

1331
01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:05,200
Speaker 7: that Zach Taylor and Brian Callahan, the offensive coordinator, have

1332
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:08,400
Speaker 7: come up with ways to make that work for both

1333
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:12,280
Speaker 7: of them, it's just dangerous. And so that's that's it.

1334
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:15,320
Speaker 7: Those two together, that's what it is. But right now

1335
01:01:15,320 --> 01:01:17,760
Speaker 7: they're gonna milk the Big three for lack of a

1336
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:20,800
Speaker 7: better term of Burrough, Chase, and Higgins for as much

1337
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:21,320
Speaker 7: as they can.

1338
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Speaker 9: Yeah, And on the flip side, the other side of

1339
01:01:23,800 --> 01:01:25,680
Speaker 9: the ball, Trey Hendrickson looks like he's on his way

1340
01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:28,120
Speaker 9: to his third Pro Bowl campaign. He's got eight sacks.

1341
01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:30,440
Speaker 9: You know, he's been in double digit sacks before a

1342
01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:33,200
Speaker 9: couple of times, started coming on strong with New Orleans

1343
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:35,760
Speaker 9: and twenty. That pass rush looks like it's kind of fine,

1344
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:38,800
Speaker 9: and it's footing over the last you know, not coincidentally

1345
01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 9: over the last four or five games.

1346
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Speaker 7: Huh, Yeah, no doubt. You've got Hendrickson, You've got Sam Hubbard,

1347
01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 7: who's another local guy who grew up just down the

1348
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:49,480
Speaker 7: street here, and they have found their footing. And I

1349
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:52,120
Speaker 7: think that was a concern. You know, they took some

1350
01:01:52,240 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 7: hits in terms of players they decided to keep and

1351
01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:58,120
Speaker 7: players they decided to roll with from last year's defense

1352
01:01:58,160 --> 01:02:01,160
Speaker 7: that was so good, and early on in the year,

1353
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:03,640
Speaker 7: like a lot of things with this team that looked

1354
01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:07,680
Speaker 7: a little suspect, and it has really come together in

1355
01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:11,320
Speaker 7: the last several weeks. And the guy who gets, you know,

1356
01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:13,640
Speaker 7: a lot of credit for that, most of the credit,

1357
01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:16,880
Speaker 7: deservedly so, is lou Anarumo, the defensive coordinator who everyone

1358
01:02:16,880 --> 01:02:20,840
Speaker 7: expects to be a head coach sometime soon. The Bengals

1359
01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:26,520
Speaker 7: feel incredibly blessed on a selfish team level that he

1360
01:02:26,640 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 7: didn't get a job last year when most of them

1361
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:32,400
Speaker 7: thought that he would. The fact that he's back and

1362
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:35,720
Speaker 7: they could retool a little bit, especially in the secondary

1363
01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:39,160
Speaker 7: with him for another year and keep this all together

1364
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 7: for another year, they feel very, very fortunate that that happened.

1365
01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:46,440
Speaker 7: They think that highly of him, as does a lot

1366
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:49,040
Speaker 7: of the league right now. But yeah, what he's been

1367
01:02:49,040 --> 01:02:52,480
Speaker 7: able to do with the defense and the pass rushers specifically,

1368
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:54,000
Speaker 7: it's it's been good.

1369
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 9: Yeah. And to wrap things up on this Bengals chit chat,

1370
01:02:59,480 --> 01:03:02,640
Speaker 9: since Nati also has one of my favorite Texans ever,

1371
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:06,160
Speaker 9: DJ Reader there in the middle of the defense, love

1372
01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:09,520
Speaker 9: Grave Dave And then also on the coaching staff James

1373
01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:14,720
Speaker 9: Casey Thour former Rice and Houston Texan tight end. So

1374
01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:17,040
Speaker 9: and when he was at Rice, he played everything. I mean,

1375
01:03:17,080 --> 01:03:19,520
Speaker 9: he could throw, he was play, he filled in at

1376
01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:22,560
Speaker 9: defensive end, outside linebacker, got some sacks in a game.

1377
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Speaker 7: So yeah, I love all the connections like that. You know,

1378
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:27,200
Speaker 7: I look for the same one. You know, Zach Taylor

1379
01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:29,920
Speaker 7: was on staff at A and M and Mike Sherman,

1380
01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:31,600
Speaker 7: who was the head coach then, is one of his

1381
01:03:31,680 --> 01:03:34,880
Speaker 7: coaching mentors. Not to mention his father in law that

1382
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:39,640
Speaker 7: wi yeah, it's it's crazy, And so yeah, I love

1383
01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 7: ties like that. And he's you know, he's coached with

1384
01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:45,840
Speaker 7: in FO a number of other guys with Texas ties.

1385
01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:50,560
Speaker 7: He was with Dan Campbell uh in Miami, and so yeah,

1386
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:54,760
Speaker 7: I love things like that, and and I love I

1387
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:59,120
Speaker 7: love seeing and following people as they make those different

1388
01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:02,000
Speaker 7: stops and then a end and then their paths cross again.

1389
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:03,800
Speaker 7: So it's good to see.

1390
01:04:03,920 --> 01:04:06,600
Speaker 9: Dan Campbell a Dallas Cowboy when we were covering the

1391
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:10,120
Speaker 9: Cowboys and other teams up in TXCN and I don't.

1392
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:13,040
Speaker 7: Believe I dropped the triplets on you, and you corrected me.

1393
01:04:13,080 --> 01:04:16,000
Speaker 9: I love that. I'm not going to let that fly.

1394
01:04:16,760 --> 01:04:18,520
Speaker 7: You mentioned Troy Hambrick though.

1395
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:23,400
Speaker 9: Strike t ham Yeah, what voluntary mean? Hey, you're a

1396
01:04:23,560 --> 01:04:26,120
Speaker 9: unique individual to have on this because you've got the

1397
01:04:26,560 --> 01:04:28,640
Speaker 9: you've got the way back perspective as well. When you

1398
01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:30,640
Speaker 9: and I were working together with our good power Christ

1399
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:33,800
Speaker 9: Pelican and a few others back at TXCN, the Texans

1400
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:37,400
Speaker 9: played their first game, they went through the expansion draft.

1401
01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:39,880
Speaker 9: We were working together from two thousand to two thousand

1402
01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:43,640
Speaker 9: and four. Tell me your first venture down here, because

1403
01:04:43,680 --> 01:04:45,080
Speaker 9: I know the story and it's a good one. But

1404
01:04:45,120 --> 01:04:48,080
Speaker 9: I think the listeners ought to hear about it because

1405
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:51,880
Speaker 9: I believe it involves a Texans training camp practice. It's

1406
01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:53,800
Speaker 9: not that it was probably a super Bowl, you know.

1407
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:56,200
Speaker 9: It was one of those things like the four. You've

1408
01:04:56,200 --> 01:04:57,520
Speaker 9: got lots of good little Texans story.

1409
01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:00,400
Speaker 7: I get a couple of and listen. I not to

1410
01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:02,479
Speaker 7: sound older than I am, because I am kind of old,

1411
01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:04,240
Speaker 7: but I do get fuzzy on a lot of things.

1412
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:06,919
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, you were young when you did I.

1413
01:05:06,800 --> 01:05:08,840
Speaker 7: Was young when I did these things. But what I

1414
01:05:08,880 --> 01:05:13,200
Speaker 7: remember about the infancy of the Houston Texans and what

1415
01:05:13,240 --> 01:05:17,880
Speaker 7: we did. So obviously I remember, you know, all the

1416
01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:21,160
Speaker 7: David Carr stuff. I remember going to cover training camp

1417
01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:23,320
Speaker 7: and is this what you're getting at my live shot

1418
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:24,439
Speaker 7: in training camp.

1419
01:05:24,520 --> 01:05:24,720
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1420
01:05:24,760 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 7: So all of the all of the cliche sports casting

1421
01:05:31,280 --> 01:05:34,160
Speaker 7: live TV things that you can think of, all happened

1422
01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:34,800
Speaker 7: in one thing.

1423
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:35,400
Speaker 8: You have.

1424
01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:41,320
Speaker 7: Young TV personality who thinks he's better than he is

1425
01:05:41,480 --> 01:05:43,680
Speaker 7: doing TV. So that was the first thing that just

1426
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:48,439
Speaker 7: came across and just screamed inexperience and all of those things.

1427
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:52,360
Speaker 7: When I was standing at the Texans practice field for

1428
01:05:52,560 --> 01:05:56,800
Speaker 7: a ten PM live shot something like that, trying to

1429
01:05:56,800 --> 01:05:59,360
Speaker 7: make myself look and sound good, thinking I was better

1430
01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:01,400
Speaker 7: than I was, and then all of a sudden, in

1431
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:05,880
Speaker 7: the middle of said live shot live TV, about a

1432
01:06:05,880 --> 01:06:10,520
Speaker 7: half dozen sprinkler heads pop out of the ground within

1433
01:06:10,680 --> 01:06:16,320
Speaker 7: feet of me and immediately are full blast everything. And

1434
01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:18,840
Speaker 7: so all of that happens on live TV. I try

1435
01:06:18,880 --> 01:06:22,600
Speaker 7: to step away. You probably remember who the photographer was.

1436
01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:24,520
Speaker 7: I don't even remember who it was, but whoever it was,

1437
01:06:25,200 --> 01:06:29,480
Speaker 7: literally grabbed parking traffic cones, the orange cones and started

1438
01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:33,440
Speaker 7: trying to cover the sprinkler heads. Just to maintain some

1439
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:36,560
Speaker 7: sense of okay, maybe we're going to be okay. We weren't.

1440
01:06:36,720 --> 01:06:39,640
Speaker 7: The whole thing was destroyed, and that's that's what it was.

1441
01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:42,640
Speaker 7: I also remember my Chester Pits story. Oh yeah, do

1442
01:06:42,680 --> 01:06:46,439
Speaker 7: you remember that? I don't, just trying to find some

1443
01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:48,800
Speaker 7: kind of nugget about some of the players down there

1444
01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:51,440
Speaker 7: that we weren't familiar with. And I don't remember all

1445
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:54,360
Speaker 7: the details, but I remember it was Chester Pits and

1446
01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:57,120
Speaker 7: he had been working in a grocery store.

1447
01:06:57,320 --> 01:06:58,440
Speaker 9: Yep was there was.

1448
01:06:58,360 --> 01:07:02,440
Speaker 7: Some tie to doing. So those are my early textans stories.

1449
01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:06,480
Speaker 9: Great times, goodness, gracious, Where did the time go?

1450
01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:06,840
Speaker 8: Donne?

1451
01:07:07,640 --> 01:07:08,480
Speaker 7: The time gone?

1452
01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:12,160
Speaker 9: Yeah? That was a lot of fun. For those that

1453
01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:15,840
Speaker 9: don't know, it doesn't come up much because the place

1454
01:07:15,880 --> 01:07:17,920
Speaker 9: we work does not exist anymore. But we worked at

1455
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:21,280
Speaker 9: a place called Texas Cable News TCN.

1456
01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:23,640
Speaker 7: It was a lot of fun CXC man.

1457
01:07:23,760 --> 01:07:26,360
Speaker 9: Yeah, it was like a CNN for the state of Texas.

1458
01:07:26,360 --> 01:07:29,080
Speaker 9: They had news going twenty four to seven and we

1459
01:07:29,080 --> 01:07:31,160
Speaker 9: were in the sports department. We did a lot of

1460
01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:34,480
Speaker 9: great work. We had a lot of fun. There was

1461
01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:37,360
Speaker 9: a show that was an hour long sports talk show

1462
01:07:37,720 --> 01:07:40,480
Speaker 9: that you would host on Friday nights and sometimes other times.

1463
01:07:40,760 --> 01:07:43,680
Speaker 9: He also hosted State of the Game, which is a

1464
01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:48,520
Speaker 9: weekly show, Sports Day, which was a weeknight like a

1465
01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:50,640
Speaker 9: sports cast show thirty minutes. It was like a sports

1466
01:07:50,680 --> 01:07:54,480
Speaker 9: center for the state of Texas and Cadillac Texas Legends

1467
01:07:54,520 --> 01:07:56,560
Speaker 9: and Sports wiggled its way in there. I mean, we

1468
01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:59,280
Speaker 9: did so much content in addition to just the normal

1469
01:07:59,320 --> 01:08:02,320
Speaker 9: sports wheel. Yeah, we just had so much fun back

1470
01:08:02,360 --> 01:08:03,560
Speaker 9: in there. And it was for all of the state

1471
01:08:03,600 --> 01:08:06,479
Speaker 9: of Texas, so we wasn't just Dallas. We were covering

1472
01:08:06,480 --> 01:08:06,880
Speaker 9: the Texas.

1473
01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:09,560
Speaker 1: It was Otis and l Passo, That's what.

1474
01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:13,880
Speaker 9: It was for Otis and help Passomani and Lumberton. We

1475
01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:16,360
Speaker 9: had friends down in sam Benito. Yeah, it was great.

1476
01:08:17,479 --> 01:08:20,960
Speaker 7: You're right. The headline was that we had so much fun.

1477
01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:25,320
Speaker 7: But when I look back at that, uh, you know,

1478
01:08:25,560 --> 01:08:27,880
Speaker 7: like anything else, everybody has their story and I'm not

1479
01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:30,320
Speaker 7: trying to make like ours was any different or any

1480
01:08:30,320 --> 01:08:32,720
Speaker 7: greater than others. But we had so much fun. We

1481
01:08:32,800 --> 01:08:35,799
Speaker 7: worked a ridiculous number of hours to make it happen,

1482
01:08:36,360 --> 01:08:38,800
Speaker 7: but we had the opportunity to do some things, and

1483
01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:40,880
Speaker 7: yeah we did. We did some terrible things. We did

1484
01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:43,320
Speaker 7: some things that were bad, Some of us, like I said,

1485
01:08:43,360 --> 01:08:45,880
Speaker 7: weren't ready to really be on TV and we were,

1486
01:08:45,920 --> 01:08:47,559
Speaker 7: which you know that was great too.

1487
01:08:47,920 --> 01:08:51,280
Speaker 9: I'm raising my hand as well all of us.

1488
01:08:51,640 --> 01:08:54,639
Speaker 7: But we did do some really good stuff. And when

1489
01:08:54,680 --> 01:08:57,679
Speaker 7: you talk about the Texas Legends and Sports, I think

1490
01:08:57,720 --> 01:08:59,880
Speaker 7: that was some of the best stuff we did. I mean,

1491
01:08:59,880 --> 01:09:02,920
Speaker 7: if you had to show it, because because it seems

1492
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:06,280
Speaker 7: like it would have been, oh well, they're no one

1493
01:09:06,360 --> 01:09:09,439
Speaker 7: was doing that, and we and we got thanks to

1494
01:09:09,520 --> 01:09:12,760
Speaker 7: you and largely thanks to you, you know, working the

1495
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:17,000
Speaker 7: phones and whatever. We got great guests for that show.

1496
01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:19,200
Speaker 7: And I think some of the people that you talked

1497
01:09:19,200 --> 01:09:21,120
Speaker 7: to because you did a lot of that, or a

1498
01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:22,840
Speaker 7: couple of them that I talked to, I think they

1499
01:09:22,840 --> 01:09:27,679
Speaker 7: were a little laddered that, you know, whatever we were,

1500
01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:29,800
Speaker 7: they didn't know what we were. But whatever we were,

1501
01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:32,320
Speaker 7: we're putting in this effort to do those stories and

1502
01:09:32,360 --> 01:09:35,639
Speaker 7: tell those stories. And some of those if I remember correctly,

1503
01:09:36,320 --> 01:09:37,880
Speaker 7: they were great. Maybe we look at them now and

1504
01:09:37,880 --> 01:09:39,240
Speaker 7: they're terrible. I think they were great.

1505
01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:41,040
Speaker 9: That was awesome. We did a lot. I think they

1506
01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:44,120
Speaker 9: appreciated the research that was done in preparing for it

1507
01:09:44,120 --> 01:09:47,200
Speaker 9: because it was shoot off the top of my head.

1508
01:09:47,240 --> 01:09:50,400
Speaker 9: We had Mary lou Retten, Roger Clemens right after he

1509
01:09:50,439 --> 01:09:53,519
Speaker 9: had just signed with the Astros. Yeah for me, and

1510
01:09:53,520 --> 01:09:56,679
Speaker 9: then came out of retirement and then uh Nolan Ryan,

1511
01:09:56,880 --> 01:10:00,880
Speaker 9: Darryl Royle rest in Peace? Uh bum Phil ressed in Peace.

1512
01:10:00,920 --> 01:10:02,439
Speaker 9: That was one of the That was one of the

1513
01:10:02,439 --> 01:10:03,000
Speaker 9: great ones.

1514
01:10:03,479 --> 01:10:07,240
Speaker 7: And what about Don go ahead and we.

1515
01:10:07,280 --> 01:10:09,839
Speaker 9: Do Don Meredith too, he was we did Don Meredith

1516
01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:12,000
Speaker 9: first twenty years.

1517
01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:12,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, because he.

1518
01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:21,679
Speaker 7: Didn't do him. Uh the Mustang guy Carol Shelby, Carol, Yeah.

1519
01:10:21,760 --> 01:10:23,880
Speaker 9: That's Matt Damon in the movie. And we were at

1520
01:10:24,040 --> 01:10:27,600
Speaker 9: Carol Shelby's chicken farm O Texas. He was great, he

1521
01:10:27,680 --> 01:10:29,880
Speaker 9: was really cool. So, yeah, we had a lot of

1522
01:10:29,880 --> 01:10:34,080
Speaker 9: fun doing those. And yeah, Jewel and I sat next

1523
01:10:34,120 --> 01:10:37,680
Speaker 9: to Jewel and you sat next to her her husband boyfriend.

1524
01:10:37,880 --> 01:10:41,599
Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah. She offered to h get us, you know,

1525
01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:44,080
Speaker 7: a water or a coke from the kitchen, as I recall,

1526
01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:46,840
Speaker 7: as she was have I embellished this or when we

1527
01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:49,240
Speaker 7: pulled up, was she in the front yard with her guitar.

1528
01:10:49,600 --> 01:10:51,800
Speaker 9: She was sitting on a swing that was hanging from

1529
01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:54,880
Speaker 9: a tree with her guitar. We pulled up and she

1530
01:10:54,960 --> 01:10:56,920
Speaker 9: walked in and we were like, oh, well, we're not

1531
01:10:56,920 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 9: going to see her, but that's clearly her. And we

1532
01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:01,479
Speaker 9: get inside, we're talking with him, and then she just

1533
01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:05,360
Speaker 9: strolls into the kitchen. He's like, Hey, this jewel my girlfriend.

1534
01:11:07,520 --> 01:11:10,880
Speaker 7: She was cool, man, And I'm glad you verified that

1535
01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:12,360
Speaker 7: for me, because I tell that story and I think

1536
01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:14,800
Speaker 7: I probably embellished this over the year. She probably wasn't

1537
01:11:14,800 --> 01:11:16,840
Speaker 7: in the front yard. She was literally in the front yard.

1538
01:11:17,120 --> 01:11:19,680
Speaker 9: She was yeah, yeah, as we rumbled up the gate.

1539
01:11:20,120 --> 01:11:23,080
Speaker 9: Well listen, hey, I cannot wait to see you and

1540
01:11:23,120 --> 01:11:26,240
Speaker 9: your lovely wife Julie this weekend. Uh, we're gonna have

1541
01:11:26,360 --> 01:11:28,920
Speaker 9: much more fun reminiscing and catching up. And that's right,

1542
01:11:29,280 --> 01:11:33,840
Speaker 9: all forty eight of our combined children are doing. And uh,

1543
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:37,320
Speaker 9: you're you're always, You're always a favorite road trip man.

1544
01:11:37,479 --> 01:11:38,120
Speaker 9: So it's good talking.

1545
01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:41,040
Speaker 7: Wow, the Dohertys are my he you're my hero. Is

1546
01:11:41,040 --> 01:11:43,720
Speaker 7: a dad and as a parent, I couldn't Uh. I

1547
01:11:43,840 --> 01:11:45,960
Speaker 7: marvel at I marvel at what you and the lovely

1548
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:46,400
Speaker 7: be to do.

1549
01:11:47,120 --> 01:11:49,519
Speaker 9: Oh, just give it time, Just give it time. I'll disaipplint.

1550
01:11:52,240 --> 01:11:54,120
Speaker 7: It's gonna be fun. Man. We can't wait to host.

1551
01:11:54,160 --> 01:11:56,120
Speaker 7: We don't get to host a lot up here. Heck,

1552
01:11:56,200 --> 01:11:58,360
Speaker 7: my family doesn't even come visit us. You've you've been

1553
01:11:58,400 --> 01:12:00,800
Speaker 7: here more than some of my family has. So we're

1554
01:12:00,800 --> 01:12:03,840
Speaker 7: looking forward to hosting you for a second or third time.

1555
01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:07,160
Speaker 9: Amen. Well that's a great Brian Gizislaw. We appreciate it,

1556
01:12:07,240 --> 01:12:09,639
Speaker 9: and uh we will talk to you again very very soon.

1557
01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:12,320
Speaker 2: All right, here's gonna stick around because it's in the

1558
01:12:12,439 --> 01:12:17,160
Speaker 2: lab time coming up next right here on Texans All Access. Yes, sir,

1559
01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:20,000
Speaker 2: welcome back to Wednesday edition of Texans All Access from

1560
01:12:20,040 --> 01:12:22,960
Speaker 2: the Howday Texas Radio Studio. I am John Harris, glad

1561
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:26,000
Speaker 2: to be with you. It's time to go in the lab.

1562
01:12:26,720 --> 01:12:28,680
Speaker 2: Drew Doerty and I've been doing in the lab I

1563
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:30,200
Speaker 2: think now for five or six.

1564
01:12:30,040 --> 01:12:31,599
Speaker 1: Years, maybe through COVID.

1565
01:12:31,760 --> 01:12:34,799
Speaker 2: Before COVID, we'd like to geek out and talk about

1566
01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:39,639
Speaker 2: your really good, solid football stuff. But we started this

1567
01:12:39,680 --> 01:12:46,000
Speaker 2: one unfortunately saying goodbye to a to a family member

1568
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:47,920
Speaker 2: who will be leaving us. We've mentioned a few times

1569
01:12:47,960 --> 01:12:50,800
Speaker 2: Deep City moving on. So we started in the lab

1570
01:12:50,920 --> 01:12:53,639
Speaker 2: talking about Deep saying goodbye to her.

1571
01:12:54,160 --> 01:12:56,880
Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm sad Deep's leaving us. Deep Situs got a

1572
01:12:57,040 --> 01:13:02,000
Speaker 9: job working for Petrochemical industry company. I'll get it out.

1573
01:13:02,360 --> 01:13:04,719
Speaker 9: And we did our last show with her. We're shooting

1574
01:13:04,720 --> 01:13:07,559
Speaker 9: this Tuesday, you and I and we did the show

1575
01:13:07,600 --> 01:13:11,719
Speaker 9: earlier with her today. So end of an era decade,

1576
01:13:12,160 --> 01:13:14,480
Speaker 9: one of my good friends, one of your good friends.

1577
01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:18,080
Speaker 9: And wish her well. She's going to do great and

1578
01:13:18,120 --> 01:13:20,759
Speaker 9: we're going to miss her a lot, a lot.

1579
01:13:21,400 --> 01:13:22,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I told her.

1580
01:13:22,040 --> 01:13:23,720
Speaker 7: I said this to her the other day.

1581
01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:25,439
Speaker 2: I said, you know, you've been in the building since

1582
01:13:25,479 --> 01:13:29,320
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine, and Mark's been in it from

1583
01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:32,960
Speaker 2: the beginning. I've not experienced a day in the building

1584
01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:36,800
Speaker 2: without Deep City. Yeah, because I got in a year

1585
01:13:36,840 --> 01:13:40,840
Speaker 2: after and twenty fourteen, and the three of you guys

1586
01:13:40,840 --> 01:13:43,439
Speaker 2: had been together. I know, dep had just gotten there

1587
01:13:43,439 --> 01:13:45,120
Speaker 2: in twenty thirteen, but you guys have been together at

1588
01:13:45,160 --> 01:13:46,160
Speaker 2: least for a year together.

1589
01:13:46,880 --> 01:13:48,559
Speaker 7: And you know, here I come in.

1590
01:13:48,640 --> 01:13:50,479
Speaker 2: I'm the young buck of the group, and I come

1591
01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:53,080
Speaker 2: in and you know, I've never experienced a day at

1592
01:13:53,080 --> 01:13:55,840
Speaker 2: that building without her, which is going to be all

1593
01:13:55,920 --> 01:13:56,519
Speaker 2: kinds of weird.

1594
01:13:57,280 --> 01:13:59,760
Speaker 7: Love her to death, you know. Doing the radio for

1595
01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:01,559
Speaker 7: Tuesday was a lot harder.

1596
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:04,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I knew it was gonna be, but

1597
01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:07,160
Speaker 2: you know, it's just the finality.

1598
01:14:06,680 --> 01:14:10,200
Speaker 7: Of of you know, we we've.

1599
01:14:09,680 --> 01:14:11,559
Speaker 4: Known for a little while, but just.

1600
01:14:13,040 --> 01:14:14,639
Speaker 1: You know, the finalite. What's your last day?

1601
01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:16,880
Speaker 2: Oh it's Tuesday, Okay, Tuesdays off in the distance, and

1602
01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:19,360
Speaker 2: then Tuesdays shows and you're like, wait, what the hell?

1603
01:14:20,479 --> 01:14:20,800
Speaker 7: Dang it?

1604
01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:22,479
Speaker 1: So, yeah, that's tough.

1605
01:14:22,960 --> 01:14:25,559
Speaker 9: Yeah, you put it very perfectly on the show. You

1606
01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:28,840
Speaker 9: talked about how there's your family and then sometimes you're

1607
01:14:28,920 --> 01:14:32,200
Speaker 9: lucky enough to have work family, and she's been like that,

1608
01:14:32,240 --> 01:14:34,599
Speaker 9: but a lot of times at work family you get

1609
01:14:34,640 --> 01:14:36,800
Speaker 9: sick of them with with the years that pass. And

1610
01:14:36,800 --> 01:14:40,000
Speaker 9: then yeah, in our case, and I spoke for the

1611
01:14:40,040 --> 01:14:42,000
Speaker 9: three of us, and you guys all agreed, you three,

1612
01:14:42,280 --> 01:14:44,759
Speaker 9: you two agreed, You and Mark. You know, if anything,

1613
01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:47,639
Speaker 9: we all got closer over the time. So yeah, it's

1614
01:14:47,720 --> 01:14:49,760
Speaker 9: a it's a big bummer. So with that in mind,

1615
01:14:50,040 --> 01:14:51,360
Speaker 9: let's let's play Whitey.

1616
01:14:52,360 --> 01:14:54,320
Speaker 7: Okay for the people.

1617
01:14:55,320 --> 01:14:58,280
Speaker 9: So if you listen to this, you know what it means.

1618
01:14:58,280 --> 01:15:00,759
Speaker 9: But if you're new, thank you for join. I remember

1619
01:15:00,760 --> 01:15:04,040
Speaker 9: to subscribe. We love it if you subscribe. But Whitey

1620
01:15:04,120 --> 01:15:06,200
Speaker 9: is a game that we play, an exercise that we

1621
01:15:06,280 --> 01:15:08,920
Speaker 9: do to lead things off here on in the lab,

1622
01:15:09,280 --> 01:15:13,479
Speaker 9: and it stands for what if I told you so Whitey,

1623
01:15:14,280 --> 01:15:18,080
Speaker 9: What if I told you w I it t Y

1624
01:15:18,920 --> 01:15:24,560
Speaker 9: and John if before the game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,

1625
01:15:25,120 --> 01:15:28,240
Speaker 9: what if I told you you're gonna fumble on your

1626
01:15:28,280 --> 01:15:32,439
Speaker 9: third play from scrimmage, You're gonna lose your kicker, Kayamie

1627
01:15:32,520 --> 01:15:34,760
Speaker 9: Fairbairn to injury, and he's not gonna kick for you

1628
01:15:34,760 --> 01:15:37,519
Speaker 9: in the second half at all. Oh, on top of that,

1629
01:15:37,560 --> 01:15:39,840
Speaker 9: you're also gonna lose Jimmy Ward. And then on the

1630
01:15:39,840 --> 01:15:42,960
Speaker 9: next play you lose M. J. Stewart, And you're also

1631
01:15:42,960 --> 01:15:45,880
Speaker 9: gonna lose Hassan Ridgeway and John Mets you the third,

1632
01:15:46,320 --> 01:15:49,200
Speaker 9: all of them in the first half to injury. Okay,

1633
01:15:49,680 --> 01:15:51,920
Speaker 9: uh oh, yeah, don't forget. You're also gonna run for

1634
01:15:51,920 --> 01:15:56,719
Speaker 9: fifty three yards as a team five to three. Oh,

1635
01:15:56,760 --> 01:16:01,479
Speaker 9: you're gonna turn in your worst points per game defensives

1636
01:16:01,479 --> 01:16:02,520
Speaker 9: of the seasons.

1637
01:16:02,680 --> 01:16:03,679
Speaker 7: Yeah it can you give.

1638
01:16:03,640 --> 01:16:06,120
Speaker 9: Up thirty seven points. Oh and on top of that

1639
01:16:06,160 --> 01:16:09,639
Speaker 9: thirty seven, you're gonna allow Baker Mayfield a one hundred

1640
01:16:09,680 --> 01:16:13,559
Speaker 9: nineteen point four passer rating. Oh and you're also gonna

1641
01:16:13,560 --> 01:16:17,000
Speaker 9: go three of eleven on third down and something that's

1642
01:16:17,040 --> 01:16:21,200
Speaker 9: been a real bugaboo lately, you're gonna get penalized nine times,

1643
01:16:21,280 --> 01:16:27,000
Speaker 9: Bueller nine times, nine times for one hundred and fifteen yards,

1644
01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:29,080
Speaker 9: and then to boot you'll also lose time of possession.

1645
01:16:29,080 --> 01:16:31,599
Speaker 9: If I told you all those things, what's it gonna

1646
01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:33,439
Speaker 9: look like for the good guys at the end?

1647
01:16:33,479 --> 01:16:35,240
Speaker 2: I would have said, I would have said, we're gonna

1648
01:16:35,240 --> 01:16:37,920
Speaker 2: be three and five going to Cincinnati again. If you

1649
01:16:37,920 --> 01:16:39,960
Speaker 2: remember in twenty fifteen we were three and five and

1650
01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:41,720
Speaker 2: went to Cincinnati Monday night game.

1651
01:16:42,120 --> 01:16:44,040
Speaker 1: I would have said, we're going to Cincinnati three and

1652
01:16:44,120 --> 01:16:44,679
Speaker 1: five again.

1653
01:16:45,880 --> 01:16:48,200
Speaker 2: But the other side of the other side of Whitey

1654
01:16:48,400 --> 01:16:51,080
Speaker 2: is the fact that you're rookie quarterback. Through four hundred

1655
01:16:51,080 --> 01:16:54,160
Speaker 2: and seventy yards and five touchdowns to four different receivers,

1656
01:16:55,080 --> 01:16:58,240
Speaker 2: you with forty six seconds left together a seventy five

1657
01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:02,400
Speaker 2: yard drive and scored in forty seconds with just two timeouts.

1658
01:17:02,479 --> 01:17:03,639
Speaker 7: You have three timeouts, you had two.

1659
01:17:04,240 --> 01:17:07,640
Speaker 1: Your pass catchers were just remarkable U nine completions.

1660
01:17:07,680 --> 01:17:10,160
Speaker 9: You had nine completions of twenty one yards or more.

1661
01:17:10,320 --> 01:17:11,439
Speaker 9: Nine nine.

1662
01:17:11,880 --> 01:17:15,160
Speaker 2: It's it's remarkable to think how that team won. And oh,

1663
01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:19,120
Speaker 2: by the way, the running back Daria Goomble knocked home

1664
01:17:19,880 --> 01:17:23,280
Speaker 2: a twenty nine yard field goal to make it thirty

1665
01:17:23,320 --> 01:17:27,360
Speaker 2: three to thirty, which I've thought a lot about, not

1666
01:17:27,360 --> 01:17:30,240
Speaker 2: not just you know, Darry kicking it, but just having

1667
01:17:30,280 --> 01:17:35,160
Speaker 2: the guts and the stones of Demiico Ryans and you know,

1668
01:17:35,200 --> 01:17:36,640
Speaker 2: Frank Robt was kind of in his ear like, you

1669
01:17:36,680 --> 01:17:38,120
Speaker 2: know this, I think he can do this.

1670
01:17:38,160 --> 01:17:38,960
Speaker 7: I think he can do this.

1671
01:17:39,360 --> 01:17:41,280
Speaker 1: But to be able as the head coach to say

1672
01:17:41,479 --> 01:17:42,120
Speaker 1: all right.

1673
01:17:41,960 --> 01:17:44,599
Speaker 2: Go do it was a huge feather in Frank's cap

1674
01:17:44,640 --> 01:17:45,639
Speaker 2: that he believed in Dara.

1675
01:17:46,400 --> 01:17:47,639
Speaker 7: But I went back to and I'm.

1676
01:17:47,520 --> 01:17:50,360
Speaker 2: Glad you posted this video because you and I were

1677
01:17:50,360 --> 01:17:53,080
Speaker 2: standing there a training camp practice one day and we're

1678
01:17:53,080 --> 01:17:55,960
Speaker 2: looking at them just messing around and Darry's just kicking

1679
01:17:55,960 --> 01:17:57,880
Speaker 2: a soccer ball around.

1680
01:17:57,680 --> 01:18:01,680
Speaker 9: And very nimbly like he was juggling, but he was

1681
01:18:01,840 --> 01:18:03,880
Speaker 9: you know, you could tell, Okay, that guy's obviously played

1682
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:07,280
Speaker 9: soccer before, and he's I know you know this, and

1683
01:18:07,320 --> 01:18:09,400
Speaker 9: I know this because I I've talked about it with

1684
01:18:09,479 --> 01:18:12,519
Speaker 9: him multiple times. He's we love all Texans, but we

1685
01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:14,840
Speaker 9: like him a little bit more because we we we've

1686
01:18:14,920 --> 01:18:16,320
Speaker 9: he's been around, you know, he was here.

1687
01:18:16,160 --> 01:18:18,920
Speaker 7: In the city. He's seen some things, as he's.

1688
01:18:18,760 --> 01:18:21,559
Speaker 9: Seen some things. He does dirty work. He's a special teamer,

1689
01:18:21,640 --> 01:18:24,000
Speaker 9: he's a running back. I mean he's he's one of

1690
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:27,519
Speaker 9: our favorite guys to talk to. And uh yeah, you

1691
01:18:27,560 --> 01:18:29,640
Speaker 9: bring that up. It's clear he knew he knows how

1692
01:18:29,640 --> 01:18:31,840
Speaker 9: to handle it, handle his business with his feet, you know.

1693
01:18:32,520 --> 01:18:32,720
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1694
01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:34,400
Speaker 2: And it was good to see him have a moment

1695
01:18:34,479 --> 01:18:37,480
Speaker 2: like that too. I mean, he was just all smiles

1696
01:18:37,560 --> 01:18:40,160
Speaker 2: in locker room. He had contributed it.

1697
01:18:40,280 --> 01:18:42,360
Speaker 7: I think. You know, it's the interesting thing.

1698
01:18:42,240 --> 01:18:47,040
Speaker 2: About this team to me, Drew is guys just want

1699
01:18:47,080 --> 01:18:50,280
Speaker 2: to contribute in any way, shape or form, you know,

1700
01:18:50,320 --> 01:18:53,559
Speaker 2: whatever it takes. You know, Tank had two touchdowns receiving.

1701
01:18:53,640 --> 01:18:56,360
Speaker 2: But Tank will tell you about that block that he

1702
01:18:56,439 --> 01:18:58,400
Speaker 2: threw to Spring Noah Brown.

1703
01:18:58,439 --> 01:19:00,280
Speaker 4: No Brown will tell you about that that block.

1704
01:19:00,320 --> 01:19:02,599
Speaker 2: We had Noah Brown on the Coaches Show last night

1705
01:19:03,280 --> 01:19:05,000
Speaker 2: and we asked Noah about it.

1706
01:19:05,040 --> 01:19:06,880
Speaker 1: He's like, man, Tank through a heck of a block.

1707
01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:12,639
Speaker 2: And you know, nobody really seemingly cares who's getting the credit.

1708
01:19:12,720 --> 01:19:15,400
Speaker 2: It's just a matter of this guy making play, this

1709
01:19:15,439 --> 01:19:18,439
Speaker 2: guy making a play. They're happy for each other, but

1710
01:19:18,640 --> 01:19:20,840
Speaker 2: they want to contribute in any way, shape or form.

1711
01:19:20,880 --> 01:19:24,800
Speaker 2: And Daray just wanted to contribute and you know, Daria

1712
01:19:24,840 --> 01:19:26,800
Speaker 2: had been inactive for a few games, and then a

1713
01:19:26,840 --> 01:19:29,080
Speaker 2: couple of games ago he started being active again, even

1714
01:19:29,080 --> 01:19:31,320
Speaker 2: with Damian Pierce. So they had and we're carrying four

1715
01:19:31,400 --> 01:19:34,600
Speaker 2: running backs and maybe it was for this reason, not

1716
01:19:34,640 --> 01:19:37,240
Speaker 2: that they knew Kaymu was going to get injured, but

1717
01:19:38,160 --> 01:19:40,320
Speaker 2: who are you going to use to kick if it's

1718
01:19:40,360 --> 01:19:43,760
Speaker 2: not Dara? And is there somebody else that if Dara

1719
01:19:43,920 --> 01:19:46,360
Speaker 2: is not active that day that they've got.

1720
01:19:46,479 --> 01:19:48,200
Speaker 1: You know, I just never been around a game.

1721
01:19:49,080 --> 01:19:50,880
Speaker 4: I've never been on a game Drew where I could

1722
01:19:50,920 --> 01:19:52,280
Speaker 4: remember a team losing a kicker.

1723
01:19:52,600 --> 01:19:55,400
Speaker 9: There's a weird game all all around, not just that.

1724
01:19:55,439 --> 01:19:57,400
Speaker 9: I mean that's a huge aspect of it, but it

1725
01:19:57,439 --> 01:19:59,559
Speaker 9: was just yeah, on the whole, it was a weird,

1726
01:19:59,640 --> 01:20:00,280
Speaker 9: weird day.

1727
01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:01,800
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was.

1728
01:20:02,080 --> 01:20:04,559
Speaker 10: Well, you know the fact that CJ sets a rookie

1729
01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:07,519
Speaker 10: record for yards in the game with four seventy and

1730
01:20:07,840 --> 01:20:10,960
Speaker 10: he started off the first quarter and some change not

1731
01:20:11,120 --> 01:20:14,400
Speaker 10: looking like himself, and it kind of threw all of us, Like,

1732
01:20:14,680 --> 01:20:16,479
Speaker 10: you know, he had a deep ball to Tank where

1733
01:20:16,479 --> 01:20:22,519
Speaker 10: Tank is breaking over like this is six yeah, and thendown, Yeah,

1734
01:20:22,640 --> 01:20:25,280
Speaker 10: CJ threw it, you know, kind of behind him and

1735
01:20:25,280 --> 01:20:28,080
Speaker 10: out of bounds, and I just remember I was staying

1736
01:20:28,120 --> 01:20:30,960
Speaker 10: at the about the scrimmage line and I just saw

1737
01:20:31,040 --> 01:20:32,840
Speaker 10: him throw it. I was kind of looked back and

1738
01:20:32,880 --> 01:20:35,200
Speaker 10: you could just tell that CJ was like it almost

1739
01:20:35,200 --> 01:20:37,920
Speaker 10: shook him that he hadn't made that throw. But then

1740
01:20:37,960 --> 01:20:40,360
Speaker 10: when the second half started and he hit Noah on

1741
01:20:40,360 --> 01:20:43,120
Speaker 10: that crossing route and he put it on the money.

1742
01:20:43,160 --> 01:20:46,519
Speaker 7: I before no even turned a corner. In my mind,

1743
01:20:46,560 --> 01:20:48,759
Speaker 7: I'm thinking, no, No, that's we're good.

1744
01:20:49,120 --> 01:20:49,559
Speaker 1: We're good.

1745
01:20:49,600 --> 01:20:53,800
Speaker 2: He that that throw on the money like that, that

1746
01:20:53,920 --> 01:20:56,360
Speaker 2: is tremendous. We're gonna be alright. And then all of

1747
01:20:56,360 --> 01:20:58,160
Speaker 2: a sudden he put on a show in the second half.

1748
01:20:58,400 --> 01:21:00,200
Speaker 9: I want to talk a little bit about Noble where

1749
01:21:00,200 --> 01:21:05,040
Speaker 9: we move on to Texan to watch or under Cream

1750
01:21:05,040 --> 01:21:07,960
Speaker 9: of the Cropper to watch. Noel Brown played in the

1751
01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:12,360
Speaker 9: opener at Baltimore, got injured, missed four games, came back

1752
01:21:12,720 --> 01:21:16,880
Speaker 9: for the Saints game, played in that one, played last

1753
01:21:16,880 --> 01:21:20,519
Speaker 9: week at Carolina, and played this week. Each of those games,

1754
01:21:20,520 --> 01:21:23,400
Speaker 9: he's had a reception at least one reception of thirty

1755
01:21:23,439 --> 01:21:27,640
Speaker 9: one yards or longer. He's caught eleven passes combined in

1756
01:21:27,680 --> 01:21:30,479
Speaker 9: that three game span for two hundred and forty seven yards,

1757
01:21:30,800 --> 01:21:34,000
Speaker 9: so he's averaging twenty two and a half yards per catch.

1758
01:21:34,000 --> 01:21:37,559
Speaker 9: He's the definition right now of explosion. A month ago,

1759
01:21:38,240 --> 01:21:40,719
Speaker 9: really a week ago, at this time, nobody's talking about

1760
01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:44,639
Speaker 9: oh Man, Noel Brown is such a threat for the Seaman.

1761
01:21:44,720 --> 01:21:46,360
Speaker 9: Now you're getting a little bit more of it, but

1762
01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:50,280
Speaker 9: still there's not much being said about him. And that

1763
01:21:50,320 --> 01:21:52,439
Speaker 9: says a lot about this offense because you have him,

1764
01:21:52,439 --> 01:21:55,800
Speaker 9: you have Tank Dell, you have Dalton Schultz contributing. You

1765
01:21:55,840 --> 01:22:00,679
Speaker 9: have Nico Collins, who he caught a touchdown pretty good day,

1766
01:22:01,120 --> 01:22:03,160
Speaker 9: but he was feel fourth on the list there as

1767
01:22:03,320 --> 01:22:06,400
Speaker 9: as far as you know, past catching goes Noah Brown

1768
01:22:07,400 --> 01:22:13,800
Speaker 9: sneaky good, sneaky solid contributor and sneaky explosive contributor to

1769
01:22:13,840 --> 01:22:15,800
Speaker 9: the last four games games.

1770
01:22:15,800 --> 01:22:17,160
Speaker 7: You know, you know, it's interesting.

1771
01:22:17,200 --> 01:22:19,519
Speaker 2: We all, I think we all kind of look at

1772
01:22:19,600 --> 01:22:22,719
Speaker 2: and have expectations for you know, everybody on the team.

1773
01:22:22,760 --> 01:22:26,479
Speaker 1: And so in that first game, you know, when we

1774
01:22:26,520 --> 01:22:27,200
Speaker 1: all knew.

1775
01:22:26,960 --> 01:22:29,519
Speaker 2: Tank would be involved in it, there's no question with

1776
01:22:29,560 --> 01:22:32,000
Speaker 2: his speed, and you know, Nico made some catches in

1777
01:22:32,040 --> 01:22:34,760
Speaker 2: that game, and then Robert was catching everything third every

1778
01:22:34,960 --> 01:22:37,920
Speaker 2: third down catch. Seemingly we're like Okay, well we got

1779
01:22:37,920 --> 01:22:39,720
Speaker 2: our three guys. You know, you're like, oh, we got

1780
01:22:39,720 --> 01:22:41,600
Speaker 2: our three guys. We don't need any more. And and

1781
01:22:41,640 --> 01:22:43,200
Speaker 2: I think there was a lot of that, and like,

1782
01:22:43,280 --> 01:22:45,200
Speaker 2: you know, then Noah gets hurt and so he's kind

1783
01:22:45,240 --> 01:22:47,679
Speaker 2: of out of side of the mind. But he comes

1784
01:22:47,720 --> 01:22:52,120
Speaker 2: back when Robert Woods was you know, was healthy and

1785
01:22:52,160 --> 01:22:54,599
Speaker 2: played in that Saints game, and Noah ends up having

1786
01:22:54,640 --> 01:22:56,880
Speaker 2: a huge catch in that game.

1787
01:22:56,880 --> 01:22:59,080
Speaker 7: And I thought, okay, all right, well.

1788
01:22:58,920 --> 01:23:01,920
Speaker 2: The more the more you have that CJ can use,

1789
01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:04,400
Speaker 2: the more guys you can rotate in and be fresh

1790
01:23:04,400 --> 01:23:07,040
Speaker 2: at all times. And you're not looking at the you know,

1791
01:23:07,040 --> 01:23:08,800
Speaker 2: not look at the mix of receivers on the field,

1792
01:23:08,840 --> 01:23:11,160
Speaker 2: going okay, well, these receivers on the field to run,

1793
01:23:11,320 --> 01:23:13,679
Speaker 2: these receivers are on the field to pass. The more

1794
01:23:13,720 --> 01:23:17,320
Speaker 2: guys you can use and have in the passing game,

1795
01:23:17,360 --> 01:23:21,080
Speaker 2: it just makes it that much more diverse and difficult

1796
01:23:21,080 --> 01:23:23,280
Speaker 2: to stop. And I mean, I think about the Bengals,

1797
01:23:23,520 --> 01:23:25,280
Speaker 2: I mean the team we're gonna face, and everybody knows

1798
01:23:25,320 --> 01:23:27,840
Speaker 2: about Jamar Chase, everybody knows about T Higgins, you know,

1799
01:23:27,880 --> 01:23:29,720
Speaker 2: so a lot of people know about Tyler Boyd. But man,

1800
01:23:29,720 --> 01:23:33,400
Speaker 2: they're getting contributions now from a rookie Andre Yoshavas from

1801
01:23:33,400 --> 01:23:35,400
Speaker 2: out of Princeton. As much as I hate Princeton, I

1802
01:23:35,439 --> 01:23:38,240
Speaker 2: really like him. And then he's got the tight ends

1803
01:23:38,240 --> 01:23:41,240
Speaker 2: and so allows Joe Burrow to spread the ball out. Well,

1804
01:23:41,360 --> 01:23:44,280
Speaker 2: it so happens that Robert goes out. Now know's got

1805
01:23:44,360 --> 01:23:46,280
Speaker 2: to step up. And then that Carolina game, he had

1806
01:23:46,400 --> 01:23:48,760
Speaker 2: huge catches in that game, and then the other day

1807
01:23:48,800 --> 01:23:49,880
Speaker 2: he was just dynamic.

1808
01:23:49,920 --> 01:23:52,240
Speaker 7: I mean he was I mean, he was awesome. He

1809
01:23:52,400 --> 01:23:53,400
Speaker 7: was just awesome.

1810
01:23:53,640 --> 01:23:56,000
Speaker 2: And he won't get credit for this, but you know,

1811
01:23:56,080 --> 01:23:58,479
Speaker 2: sometimes when guys know the ball's not coming to them

1812
01:23:58,840 --> 01:24:01,920
Speaker 2: a receiver, you know you're gonna run your route and

1813
01:24:01,960 --> 01:24:04,720
Speaker 2: you know, do whatever. But on that touchdown, on that

1814
01:24:04,760 --> 01:24:08,160
Speaker 2: touchdown catch, I'm convinced that Tank. Tank won't catch that

1815
01:24:08,200 --> 01:24:10,559
Speaker 2: pass if Noah doesn't run his route like a banshee,

1816
01:24:10,880 --> 01:24:13,880
Speaker 2: because Noah's got to pull the safety with him. And

1817
01:24:13,880 --> 01:24:16,599
Speaker 2: if Noah pulled the safety with him, then Tank can't

1818
01:24:16,600 --> 01:24:18,960
Speaker 2: get into that void. But Noah did. Noah ran that

1819
01:24:19,120 --> 01:24:21,479
Speaker 2: post route and pulled the safety out of there. Tank

1820
01:24:21,560 --> 01:24:23,280
Speaker 2: then got in there with the post route and CJ

1821
01:24:23,360 --> 01:24:26,240
Speaker 2: stuck it on him for a touchdown. So uh, you know,

1822
01:24:26,280 --> 01:24:28,519
Speaker 2: there are a lot of things that just go unmentioned,

1823
01:24:28,600 --> 01:24:31,080
Speaker 2: and this is the other one. And I don't think

1824
01:24:31,080 --> 01:24:33,080
Speaker 2: they'll do this because I think they've found some guys

1825
01:24:33,080 --> 01:24:35,280
Speaker 2: to do this. But there's a time where Noah Brown

1826
01:24:35,360 --> 01:24:37,200
Speaker 2: was running down on punk covers as a gunner.

1827
01:24:37,640 --> 01:24:38,519
Speaker 7: He was, and he was.

1828
01:24:38,600 --> 01:24:39,000
Speaker 4: He's been in the.

1829
01:24:39,040 --> 01:24:40,160
Speaker 7: League with five six years.

1830
01:24:40,160 --> 01:24:42,360
Speaker 2: And I thought I was also telling when Dolton Schultz

1831
01:24:42,360 --> 01:24:46,280
Speaker 2: at the podium on Monday, he talked about how far

1832
01:24:46,439 --> 01:24:47,280
Speaker 2: Noahs come.

1833
01:24:47,240 --> 01:24:49,960
Speaker 9: Yeah, how much his body has changed, how much he's worked,

1834
01:24:50,120 --> 01:24:52,840
Speaker 9: you know, those two together in Dallas. Yeah, Yeah, it's

1835
01:24:52,880 --> 01:24:53,640
Speaker 9: just incredible.

1836
01:24:53,720 --> 01:24:57,160
Speaker 2: So it's really really cool to see what what he's

1837
01:24:57,200 --> 01:24:57,679
Speaker 2: been doing.

1838
01:24:57,960 --> 01:25:00,519
Speaker 9: It's a it's one more thing that opposing d have

1839
01:25:00,520 --> 01:25:03,280
Speaker 9: to worry about. I love that. So do we see

1840
01:25:03,520 --> 01:25:06,559
Speaker 9: do we see safeties creep back just a little bit more?

1841
01:25:06,880 --> 01:25:09,519
Speaker 9: And might that open up the run game a little bit?

1842
01:25:09,720 --> 01:25:13,600
Speaker 9: We'll see, we'll see maybe. All right, last week we

1843
01:25:13,640 --> 01:25:16,360
Speaker 9: did this, We're gonna do this again. Your cream of

1844
01:25:16,360 --> 01:25:18,840
Speaker 9: the crop, the cream of the crop, thank you much,

1845
01:25:18,880 --> 01:25:21,120
Speaker 9: a man, Randy Savage, You're cream of the crop. But

1846
01:25:21,200 --> 01:25:23,000
Speaker 9: we do this on Tuesday. We're gonna be looking back

1847
01:25:23,000 --> 01:25:25,400
Speaker 9: and saying that was a good call. But your cream

1848
01:25:25,400 --> 01:25:29,200
Speaker 9: of the crop player for the Texans at the Bengals

1849
01:25:29,720 --> 01:25:31,960
Speaker 9: is going to be the cream.

1850
01:25:31,680 --> 01:25:35,599
Speaker 2: Of the crop. Jonathan Grenard, all right, And I think

1851
01:25:35,840 --> 01:25:37,839
Speaker 2: I mean when you figure about, you know, Joe Burrow,

1852
01:25:38,040 --> 01:25:40,160
Speaker 2: you think about how fast he gets the ball out.

1853
01:25:40,360 --> 01:25:43,280
Speaker 2: There are times when Joe can escape and make things happen,

1854
01:25:44,479 --> 01:25:47,360
Speaker 2: and just getting any semblance of pass rush and getting

1855
01:25:47,400 --> 01:25:53,240
Speaker 2: that pass rush to Joe very quickly is is a must.

1856
01:25:53,360 --> 01:25:56,040
Speaker 2: And you know, at some point during that game against

1857
01:25:56,080 --> 01:25:59,400
Speaker 2: the Bucks, you know, Will Anderson was limping a little bit,

1858
01:25:59,439 --> 01:26:02,000
Speaker 2: and I'm not sure sure what that's gonna mean, you know,

1859
01:26:02,080 --> 01:26:07,000
Speaker 2: for Will going forward. But this Bengals offensive line has

1860
01:26:07,240 --> 01:26:11,639
Speaker 2: not been tremendous. Orlando Brown was a big addition for them,

1861
01:26:11,640 --> 01:26:12,760
Speaker 2: and it was a good one for them.

1862
01:26:12,840 --> 01:26:14,000
Speaker 7: That's helped a lot.

1863
01:26:14,760 --> 01:26:17,559
Speaker 2: That's gonna mean John Garnard going against Orlando Brown, and

1864
01:26:17,680 --> 01:26:20,599
Speaker 2: so he's got to use that quickness and get underneath

1865
01:26:20,680 --> 01:26:23,360
Speaker 2: Orlando dre holdings, you know, rock him a little bit,

1866
01:26:24,000 --> 01:26:26,439
Speaker 2: and just rock the confidence of that offensive line that

1867
01:26:26,479 --> 01:26:30,360
Speaker 2: they can protect against this defensive line for Joe Burrow.

1868
01:26:30,479 --> 01:26:32,520
Speaker 7: So to me, Jonvin Gernard's.

1869
01:26:32,040 --> 01:26:33,719
Speaker 1: Got to play at a level that he's been playing

1870
01:26:33,760 --> 01:26:34,200
Speaker 1: all year.

1871
01:26:34,720 --> 01:26:36,840
Speaker 2: And I think if he has that kind of game,

1872
01:26:37,360 --> 01:26:39,200
Speaker 2: you know, where he gets a sack, he's getting pressure,

1873
01:26:39,200 --> 01:26:40,760
Speaker 2: and he's flying around all the time.

1874
01:26:40,800 --> 01:26:43,680
Speaker 7: He dumped Baker Mayfield on one just as Baker's get

1875
01:26:43,760 --> 01:26:46,320
Speaker 7: rid of the ball, and he's playing his game.

1876
01:26:46,400 --> 01:26:48,120
Speaker 1: He's playing that game at a high level.

1877
01:26:48,280 --> 01:26:50,480
Speaker 2: If he has that game against a team like the Bengals,

1878
01:26:50,840 --> 01:26:54,760
Speaker 2: I think John's gonna be mentioned by a few more people.

1879
01:26:54,479 --> 01:26:56,680
Speaker 1: Like, Hey, hey, y'all watching John Garnard down there.

1880
01:26:56,680 --> 01:26:58,200
Speaker 2: People are starting to pay attention to what we're doing

1881
01:26:58,240 --> 01:26:59,400
Speaker 2: in the large part because the CJ.

1882
01:27:00,080 --> 01:27:01,639
Speaker 7: But we're winning games and.

1883
01:27:01,680 --> 01:27:03,280
Speaker 1: I think that's drawn to my balls.

1884
01:27:03,280 --> 01:27:06,120
Speaker 2: And obviously JJ mentioned him on McAfee now on the

1885
01:27:06,160 --> 01:27:09,080
Speaker 2: McFee Show to give him some love, and it's John Grenard.

1886
01:27:09,400 --> 01:27:12,320
Speaker 2: But John's also put in that work too, and he

1887
01:27:12,439 --> 01:27:14,599
Speaker 2: had that game against Carolina two and a half sacks.

1888
01:27:14,640 --> 01:27:15,800
Speaker 1: He's just playing at a high level.

1889
01:27:15,800 --> 01:27:19,800
Speaker 2: And I think having that game against Joe Burrow will

1890
01:27:19,840 --> 01:27:23,200
Speaker 2: elevate his status, but also it will, you know, maybe

1891
01:27:23,240 --> 01:27:25,280
Speaker 2: call some doubt in the minds of the Bengals offense

1892
01:27:25,320 --> 01:27:26,519
Speaker 2: liner Hey, how do we want to do this? We

1893
01:27:26,560 --> 01:27:28,160
Speaker 2: want to slideer protection over here? Do we want to

1894
01:27:28,240 --> 01:27:30,880
Speaker 2: chip on him and maybe take a back out of

1895
01:27:30,920 --> 01:27:33,439
Speaker 2: a route? I mean, just that alone, just one little

1896
01:27:33,520 --> 01:27:36,880
Speaker 2: small thing that can happen. If John is rushing his

1897
01:27:37,000 --> 01:27:39,720
Speaker 2: guts out, it's it's gonna be really I think it's

1898
01:27:39,760 --> 01:27:42,360
Speaker 2: gonna be really interesting for him on Sunday. And I'm

1899
01:27:42,400 --> 01:27:45,400
Speaker 2: really excited to see what he does against his Bengals offense.

1900
01:27:46,000 --> 01:27:48,200
Speaker 9: Me too, I can't wait to see it too. It's

1901
01:27:48,240 --> 01:27:50,400
Speaker 9: been fun seeing what he's done this season. I'm gonna

1902
01:27:50,439 --> 01:27:54,960
Speaker 9: go with Nico Collins. I think Nico. We're gonna be

1903
01:27:54,960 --> 01:27:58,360
Speaker 9: saying some very nice things about Nico on Monday morning

1904
01:27:58,680 --> 01:27:59,559
Speaker 9: on Sunday evening.

1905
01:28:00,080 --> 01:28:00,320
Speaker 7: Yep.

1906
01:28:00,400 --> 01:28:02,320
Speaker 9: I just think he's kind of I don't want to

1907
01:28:02,360 --> 01:28:04,479
Speaker 9: say do because he had a good he played a

1908
01:28:04,479 --> 01:28:06,479
Speaker 9: good game the other day. He just wasn't one of

1909
01:28:06,479 --> 01:28:09,320
Speaker 9: the three one hundred yard receivers. But he's he's putting

1910
01:28:09,360 --> 01:28:11,439
Speaker 9: together a heck of a season, man. I mean, think

1911
01:28:11,479 --> 01:28:14,479
Speaker 9: about what he's done so far. He's already surpassed everything

1912
01:28:14,479 --> 01:28:18,200
Speaker 9: he's done season wise previously in his career, and he

1913
01:28:18,360 --> 01:28:21,040
Speaker 9: is on his way and he's got a quarterback who

1914
01:28:21,240 --> 01:28:23,240
Speaker 9: kind of in the same way that Deshaun sort of

1915
01:28:23,560 --> 01:28:28,679
Speaker 9: unlocked Will Fuller's potential. I think we're seeing CJ. Stroud unlock,

1916
01:28:29,320 --> 01:28:32,760
Speaker 9: Nico unlock, Tank, unlock a lot of guys because he's

1917
01:28:32,800 --> 01:28:34,920
Speaker 9: just so darn good, has such a command of this

1918
01:28:35,320 --> 01:28:39,479
Speaker 9: creative offense, and along with offensive coordinator Bobby Slok, they're

1919
01:28:39,520 --> 01:28:43,840
Speaker 9: finding and hunting mismatches and I think it's coming all

1920
01:28:43,880 --> 01:28:46,200
Speaker 9: to fruition. We saw it at its peak form there

1921
01:28:46,240 --> 01:28:48,439
Speaker 9: in the second half on Sunday. So give me Nico

1922
01:28:48,560 --> 01:28:50,559
Speaker 9: Collins the cream of the crop.

1923
01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:53,120
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's the mucho man.

1924
01:28:53,400 --> 01:28:56,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that cream of the crop. Yeah, it's

1925
01:28:56,120 --> 01:28:58,160
Speaker 2: good stuff. All right, get back, let's go run the NFL.

1926
01:28:58,439 --> 01:29:01,080
Speaker 2: Plenty of things happening in the league. What's going on

1927
01:29:01,120 --> 01:29:04,440
Speaker 2: with Justin Fields? Do the Rams have a new quarterback?

1928
01:29:05,160 --> 01:29:07,920
Speaker 2: One that they could have drafted many many years ago

1929
01:29:08,200 --> 01:29:09,759
Speaker 2: but now they have in the fold?

1930
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Speaker 1: Maybe let's talk about that next on Texans All Access.

1931
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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody?

1932
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to this final segment of Texans All Access

1933
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Speaker 2: from the Honday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris,

1934
01:29:21,160 --> 01:29:25,240
Speaker 2: Footballinals sideline reporter and glad you are with me. We've

1935
01:29:25,240 --> 01:29:26,679
Speaker 2: had a lot for you. And now we had Nick

1936
01:29:26,720 --> 01:29:29,640
Speaker 2: Cassari on the show. We had Drew going behind it

1937
01:29:29,720 --> 01:29:31,679
Speaker 2: himy sidelines that are in the lab. We had Dan

1938
01:29:31,720 --> 01:29:34,599
Speaker 2: Horde with Ben behind the Mike's with Mark Vandermer. We

1939
01:29:34,640 --> 01:29:37,800
Speaker 2: talked a little bit about the injury report. It's lengthy,

1940
01:29:38,520 --> 01:29:42,200
Speaker 2: but if there's some good news. Two players were designated

1941
01:29:42,240 --> 01:29:46,920
Speaker 2: to return, Derek Stingley Junior and Charlie Heck. Now we

1942
01:29:46,960 --> 01:29:49,400
Speaker 2: haven't seen Charlie at all this year, so great to

1943
01:29:49,400 --> 01:29:53,320
Speaker 2: see him in pads or in uniform doing some work

1944
01:29:53,360 --> 01:29:56,880
Speaker 2: and then staying back out in a limited capacity, which

1945
01:29:57,000 --> 01:29:59,240
Speaker 2: was great to see as well.

1946
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Speaker 1: So those the main things. Now. On the other side,

1947
01:30:01,680 --> 01:30:02,639
Speaker 1: a couple things to monitor.

1948
01:30:02,720 --> 01:30:05,439
Speaker 2: Jamar Chase took a really bad fall Sunday night against

1949
01:30:05,439 --> 01:30:10,639
Speaker 2: the Bills, and as soon as he fell, Chris collins Worth,

1950
01:30:10,720 --> 01:30:13,720
Speaker 2: former Bengal, had talked about how bad that was going

1951
01:30:13,800 --> 01:30:17,480
Speaker 2: to feel for Jamar Chase. So it's really not surprising

1952
01:30:17,760 --> 01:30:22,560
Speaker 2: that Jamar Chase was a DNP at practice on Wednesday.

1953
01:30:23,040 --> 01:30:28,120
Speaker 2: T Higgins dealing with a hamstring, was a limited participant.

1954
01:30:28,240 --> 01:30:31,120
Speaker 2: So those are definitely two to keep an eye because

1955
01:30:31,200 --> 01:30:33,080
Speaker 2: you think about all the guys that are DMPs for

1956
01:30:33,160 --> 01:30:35,880
Speaker 2: the Texans today, Well, it's a number of guys in

1957
01:30:35,880 --> 01:30:38,640
Speaker 2: the secondary, Jimmy Ward, Stephen Nelson.

1958
01:30:39,640 --> 01:30:42,639
Speaker 1: Really tough stuff. They just put M. J. Stewart on IR.

1959
01:30:43,000 --> 01:30:45,880
Speaker 2: Eric Murray's already on IR, so they'd go and get

1960
01:30:45,880 --> 01:30:48,599
Speaker 2: great with Arnold back. They brought in DeAndre Houston Carson,

1961
01:30:49,000 --> 01:30:51,280
Speaker 2: who I guess his next man up at this point.

1962
01:30:51,360 --> 01:30:53,800
Speaker 2: So the depth at the safety is stretched, the depth

1963
01:30:53,840 --> 01:30:54,800
Speaker 2: that corner is stretch.

1964
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Speaker 1: We'll see about staying.

1965
01:30:56,840 --> 01:30:59,479
Speaker 2: And here's a note, just because he's designated to return

1966
01:30:59,520 --> 01:31:02,240
Speaker 2: doesn't mean that he is ready to go this weekend.

1967
01:31:02,280 --> 01:31:05,280
Speaker 2: He's got a twenty one day window with which to

1968
01:31:05,320 --> 01:31:07,720
Speaker 2: become active on the fifty three man roster, and at

1969
01:31:07,720 --> 01:31:09,840
Speaker 2: that point you got transactions and all that stuff that's

1970
01:31:09,840 --> 01:31:13,800
Speaker 2: got to take place. So it's been dicey, but keeping

1971
01:31:13,840 --> 01:31:16,240
Speaker 2: eye on those two Bengals wide receivers, they are to

1972
01:31:16,439 --> 01:31:16,920
Speaker 2: the best.

1973
01:31:18,120 --> 01:31:20,120
Speaker 1: I love Chase. Chase was my number one wide receiver.

1974
01:31:20,200 --> 01:31:23,599
Speaker 2: Fact, he's the best highest rated wide receiver I've ever had,

1975
01:31:23,760 --> 01:31:26,200
Speaker 2: other than Marvet Harrison Junior still at Ohio State. Those

1976
01:31:26,200 --> 01:31:28,600
Speaker 2: are the two and Jamar Chase has lipped up to that.

1977
01:31:28,640 --> 01:31:31,439
Speaker 2: There's no doubt. We'll see if Marv does as well. Now,

1978
01:31:31,479 --> 01:31:36,040
Speaker 2: some other news around the league. The Giants are gonna

1979
01:31:36,040 --> 01:31:43,040
Speaker 2: start Tommy DeVito and that's toy. Yikes. That's going to

1980
01:31:43,080 --> 01:31:47,000
Speaker 2: be interesting, to say the least. To say the least,

1981
01:31:47,000 --> 01:31:50,160
Speaker 2: that's gonna be interesting. Tommy DeVito could struggle, all right.

1982
01:31:50,200 --> 01:31:53,400
Speaker 2: The NFL named Highlight name their players of the week,

1983
01:31:53,840 --> 01:31:56,040
Speaker 2: and I buried this lead because of all the injuries.

1984
01:31:56,680 --> 01:31:58,320
Speaker 1: How about c J Stroud?

1985
01:31:58,439 --> 01:32:02,719
Speaker 2: That's right, baby, AFC Offensive Player of the Week thirty

1986
01:32:02,760 --> 01:32:05,519
Speaker 2: of forty two completed, seventy one point four percent of

1987
01:32:05,520 --> 01:32:09,880
Speaker 2: his past is four and seventy yards. Five tudies for

1988
01:32:10,000 --> 01:32:13,000
Speaker 2: c J. Stroud, and he is shooting in just a

1989
01:32:13,000 --> 01:32:15,280
Speaker 2: few minutes. He's shooting the first shot over with the Rockets.

1990
01:32:15,439 --> 01:32:17,400
Speaker 2: It's a Lakers Rockets game. So I know, I know

1991
01:32:17,479 --> 01:32:20,280
Speaker 2: he's conflicted. I know it because he's a Lakers fan.

1992
01:32:20,320 --> 01:32:21,960
Speaker 2: He grew up in La or as he calls it,

1993
01:32:21,960 --> 01:32:26,120
Speaker 2: the ie Inland Empire, which is just South La I

1994
01:32:26,160 --> 01:32:29,240
Speaker 2: know on my LA geography now. So anyways, he's a

1995
01:32:29,280 --> 01:32:32,639
Speaker 2: big Lakers fan, big Lebron fan, but loves the Rockets.

1996
01:32:32,640 --> 01:32:34,280
Speaker 1: He loves the City of Houston. I told him that

1997
01:32:34,280 --> 01:32:34,559
Speaker 1: one day.

1998
01:32:34,560 --> 01:32:36,160
Speaker 2: I said, you're as good a representative of the City

1999
01:32:36,160 --> 01:32:38,920
Speaker 2: of Houston as we've had so AFC Offensive Player of

2000
01:32:38,920 --> 01:32:41,519
Speaker 2: the Week c J. Stroud NFC Offensive Player of the

2001
01:32:41,560 --> 01:32:43,960
Speaker 2: Week didn't even play for this team a week ago,

2002
01:32:44,560 --> 01:32:47,920
Speaker 2: Josh Dobbs. Josh Dobbs was traded at the trade deadline

2003
01:32:47,960 --> 01:32:48,880
Speaker 2: to the Minnesota Vikings.

2004
01:32:48,920 --> 01:32:49,400
Speaker 1: He didn't start.

2005
01:32:49,520 --> 01:32:52,120
Speaker 2: Jaron Hall started the rookie, but he got injured early,

2006
01:32:52,960 --> 01:32:55,000
Speaker 2: and then Dobbs came in twenty of thirty passing fo

2007
01:32:55,000 --> 01:32:57,240
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty eight yards and two touchdowns, ran

2008
01:32:57,400 --> 01:32:59,519
Speaker 2: for sixty six yards in a score in a massive

2009
01:32:59,600 --> 01:33:03,920
Speaker 2: upset only because Josh Dobbs had to go in against

2010
01:33:03,960 --> 01:33:05,679
Speaker 2: the Falcons thirty one to twenty eight victory.

2011
01:33:05,760 --> 01:33:07,080
Speaker 1: So kudos to Tim.

2012
01:33:07,040 --> 01:33:08,600
Speaker 2: AFC Defensive Player of the Week is also in the

2013
01:33:08,600 --> 01:33:12,040
Speaker 2: AFC South Kenny Moore AFC Specialties Player of the Week.

2014
01:33:12,479 --> 01:33:17,719
Speaker 2: At anybody can run back punts and kickoffs. Only one

2015
01:33:17,800 --> 01:33:19,920
Speaker 2: time in nineteen years as a running back kicked the

2016
01:33:19,920 --> 01:33:22,479
Speaker 2: field goal. It should have been Daria Gumbowale. It's not

2017
01:33:22,720 --> 01:33:26,720
Speaker 2: Darius Davis eighty seven yard punt return for a touchdown

2018
01:33:27,680 --> 01:33:30,280
Speaker 2: for the LA Chargers on Monday Night. He wins the

2019
01:33:30,280 --> 01:33:34,360
Speaker 2: AFC Special Teams Defensive Player of the Week, but CJ.

2020
01:33:34,520 --> 01:33:39,759
Speaker 2: Strodd your AFC Offensive Player of the Week. Kyler Murray

2021
01:33:39,760 --> 01:33:42,840
Speaker 2: of the Cardinals is something obviously to monitor because Texas

2022
01:33:42,840 --> 01:33:46,599
Speaker 2: will play the Cardinals very soon. He is off the

2023
01:33:46,680 --> 01:33:50,320
Speaker 2: injury report now, It's been said earlier this week, Jonathan

2024
01:33:50,360 --> 01:33:53,840
Speaker 2: Gannon said Kyler Murray will start as long as there

2025
01:33:53,840 --> 01:33:58,360
Speaker 2: are no hiccups. So anticipating seeing Kyler Murray this weekend

2026
01:33:58,439 --> 01:34:01,280
Speaker 2: against the Falcons and then he'll come to Houston and

2027
01:34:01,360 --> 01:34:05,559
Speaker 2: take on the Houston Texans. At that point, Patriots are

2028
01:34:05,560 --> 01:34:08,479
Speaker 2: heading off to Germany, but not with cornerback j C.

2029
01:34:08,920 --> 01:34:09,400
Speaker 1: Jackson.

2030
01:34:09,439 --> 01:34:15,880
Speaker 2: Apparently he was late, had a curfew situation apparently over

2031
01:34:15,920 --> 01:34:19,479
Speaker 2: the weekend, and so things have not gone well for J. C.

2032
01:34:19,840 --> 01:34:20,320
Speaker 1: Jackson.

2033
01:34:20,479 --> 01:34:23,560
Speaker 2: In the slightest he will not travel to Germany to

2034
01:34:23,600 --> 01:34:26,519
Speaker 2: take on the Indianapolis Colts. And this is another one

2035
01:34:26,640 --> 01:34:30,400
Speaker 2: Colts Patriots who you cheering for in Germany.

2036
01:34:30,840 --> 01:34:31,080
Speaker 4: Hmm.

2037
01:34:32,000 --> 01:34:34,640
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not sure how to feel about that,

2038
01:34:34,760 --> 01:34:36,880
Speaker 1: to be honest, I don't know.

2039
01:34:37,320 --> 01:34:38,679
Speaker 4: That'll be a game time decision.

2040
01:34:38,720 --> 01:34:40,720
Speaker 2: We'll probably watch a little bit of that from Cincinnati

2041
01:34:40,760 --> 01:34:43,720
Speaker 2: before the game starts. But Colts Patriots, it's like we

2042
01:34:43,720 --> 01:34:46,840
Speaker 2: w and lowse all at the same time in some respects.

2043
01:34:46,960 --> 01:34:48,960
Speaker 1: So there you go. Congrats to CJ.

2044
01:34:49,439 --> 01:34:52,400
Speaker 2: Glad to see staying back, Glad to see Charlie heck back.

2045
01:34:52,880 --> 01:34:55,960
Speaker 2: Hope to get guys back for Thursday's practice from the

2046
01:34:56,040 --> 01:34:58,600
Speaker 2: DMP list, But man, it's gonna be tough, gonna be

2047
01:34:58,720 --> 01:35:00,600
Speaker 2: very very tough. So bang up Foo team going to

2048
01:35:00,640 --> 01:35:03,960
Speaker 2: take on a really hot Bengals team. But they got

2049
01:35:03,960 --> 01:35:05,600
Speaker 2: a couple of injuries that they got to deal with

2050
01:35:05,680 --> 01:35:07,240
Speaker 2: as well, so we'll see how kind of how that

2051
01:35:07,600 --> 01:35:10,120
Speaker 2: plays out. But the one guy they've got is Joe Burrow.

2052
01:35:10,280 --> 01:35:13,080
Speaker 2: One guy we got, c J. Stroud see where their

2053
01:35:13,120 --> 01:35:15,400
Speaker 2: shootout commences on Sunday, but we got a lot of

2054
01:35:15,400 --> 01:35:18,320
Speaker 2: time before then. Hopefully enjoyed the show. Big thanks to

2055
01:35:18,320 --> 01:35:20,840
Speaker 2: everybody to participating. We'll see you next time everybody, and

2056
01:35:21,080 --> 01:35:22,759
Speaker 2: as always, go Texans.