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Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody? Welcome into a Friday edition of Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio. I am

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Speaker 1: your host, John Harris Football and a sideline reporter. We

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Speaker 1: got plenty to do tonight. We're gonna hear from DP

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Speaker 1: thirty one. That's right, Damian Pierce in our next segment

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Speaker 1: doing a little Drew's Dozen playing the Jenga. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: we got Damian Pierce on the show. We are also

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Speaker 1: gonna hear from Dpcity who goes behind him me sidelines.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna hear a little bit about re gentle Houston

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Speaker 1: Methodist doctors. Then we got Damian Pierce to close the

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Speaker 1: show with your Doherty's final word, got my keys, got

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Speaker 1: my picks. But we kick off every Friday show with

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Speaker 1: the man himself, the head coach of your Houston Texans,

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Speaker 1: Lovey Smith, who sat down with Mark Vanimby earlier today.

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Speaker 1: Coach going to New York. Let's focus on the prep first.

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Speaker 1: How has preparation been with a little mini buy in

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Speaker 1: the full week of practice. I know you had the

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Speaker 1: extra day sort of to get ready. How did that go?

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Speaker 1: We just seem like we've been working on them for

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Speaker 1: a long period of time and rightfully so they're playing

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Speaker 1: great football right now, one of the surprise teams in

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Speaker 1: the league. And then how they want it. I mean

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Speaker 1: we were talking a lot about finishing, and that's what

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Speaker 1: they've done. I think they've been behind every game but

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Speaker 1: have found the way to win it at the end,

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Speaker 1: and we got to match that. Is it different to

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Speaker 1: defend Barkley as opposed to other backs because he's also

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Speaker 1: their leading receiver and he can attack you that way.

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Speaker 1: How does that change things defensively or affect them? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I think all the guys seem like all the guys

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Speaker 1: we play can catch the ball, but bark that can

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Speaker 1: do both well. But first is about stopping him as

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Speaker 1: a runner. And they're all the same. They can make

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Speaker 1: you miss, they all have size, seem like, they all

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Speaker 1: have excellent speed, can make you miss in old field,

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Speaker 1: and can run between the tackles. And we haven't played

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Speaker 1: our best ball versus a run. So that challenge of

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Speaker 1: trying to get as many guys as possible to the

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Speaker 1: throughout the year. So it's about gang tackling as much

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Speaker 1: as anything. What about Daniel Jones what does he bring

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Speaker 1: against opponents, because it seems like he's playing very efficient

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Speaker 1: right now, his best season ever. He's done a great

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Speaker 1: two interceptions and so and he can make all of

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Speaker 1: the throws. Big, big guy in the pocket, and that's

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Speaker 1: what you assume. That's who Daniel Jones is. But the

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Speaker 1: part of you start really studying him is what he's

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Speaker 1: doing with his feet, his legs, moving the chains. He's

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Speaker 1: a live bad athlete he'd given credit for. So what

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Speaker 1: him getting on the perimeter, that's what is causing defenses

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Speaker 1: as much problems as anything. It seemed like you moved

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Speaker 1: up a level in your balanced attack mode against the

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles a week and a half ago. Is that

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Speaker 1: something you can take with you moving forward and continue

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Speaker 1: to improve on. We have to, That's who we are.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's always about balance, you know, but our

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Speaker 1: with our balance of run setting everything up. Teams coming

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Speaker 1: do some things in the passing game. So that's the

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Speaker 1: balance part that we want to get as far as

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Speaker 1: special teams go. Coach, it might be a bit windy.

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Speaker 1: Does that affect preparation and also does it affect preparation

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Speaker 1: with the passing game? Yeah, just this time. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're in November, playing on the road and the elements

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Speaker 1: in the nineties when we played it, but that's just

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Speaker 1: in November. So we feel like we're made to Helmley

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Speaker 1: Elements with what we do offensively, you've got to be

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Speaker 1: able to run the football, you know, kicking you know

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Speaker 1: the amount of effort and stuff we put into the

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Speaker 1: So we don't think that'll affect us that much. Coach,

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Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, good luck, Thank you very much. All right, Mark,

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Speaker 1: great stuff there with Lovey Smith and I want to

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Speaker 1: know the answer to the trivia question that I well

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Speaker 1: the numbers is the Texans have a one game winning

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Speaker 1: streak at Metlive Stadium, beating the Jets twenty eighteen. The

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Speaker 1: Texans have one position player from the roster still on

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Speaker 1: the roster. Do you know who that is? So this

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Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes is at a really nice start to the year, right,

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Speaker 1: a little bit of math just projecting it forward seven

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Speaker 1: that's that's pretty solid. That would be second all time

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Speaker 1: in Texans history. Okay, that's where I was going. Actually,

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Speaker 1: You did it, Okay, you did it. I was gonna

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Speaker 1: ask you how many players in Texans history have had

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Speaker 1: more than fifteen sacks? Well, and we haven't had double

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Speaker 1: digit sacks since twenty eighteen with what right? Correct? That

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Speaker 1: completely over. Just for some reason, Don and Jerry finished

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Speaker 1: with seven sacks. There are only seven Texans that would

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Speaker 1: very fine. The deal with Buffalo after that, the free

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Speaker 1: And this is one of those things, Johnny. You could

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame, right, yes, and I'm not saying Jerry's

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Speaker 1: fan base. If you're an offensive lineman, you could grate

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Speaker 1: out it like ninety seven percent good. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: so unforgiving. Yes, it's not like you have to pitch

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Speaker 1: got to hope that if you do give up a sack,

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Speaker 1: remember he in Clowney wreaking havoc. But he had he

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Speaker 1: You didn't improve the defense enough, didn't do anything to it, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: You're going into twenty twenty. Yeah, that's big. So what

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Speaker 1: was the plan that you drafted Blacklock? But come on,

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Speaker 1: built like Reader, right, he was not BILLI Reader. I

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Speaker 1: mean a lot of people aren't. I mean, that's that

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Speaker 1: and have worked on my Harris one hundred. Sure, I've

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Speaker 1: a while, and now I'm starting to look at all, right,

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Speaker 1: who can I add to this? Listen, you started looking

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Speaker 1: at big, athletic defensive dudes, and that's That's what I

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Speaker 1: because DJ Reader to me was he was the key.

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Speaker 1: He was the key when he was there with Wilfork,

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Speaker 1: you just weren't going to run on us. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: just forget it. It was not happening. And you obviously

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Speaker 1: it's close. It was four hundred and fifty six to

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Speaker 1: straightway center yourdons, no, well, fifty all right, but hang

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Speaker 1: on a second. Jordons goes up and lands really high

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Speaker 1: up on the way down. It's got more distance true cover, right,

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Speaker 1: I would think they measure it that way. How they

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Speaker 1: measure it, I don't know, but that ball was hit

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Speaker 1: a long way at the arc of it and where

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Speaker 1: it's gonna land, and a pretty good chance it gets

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Speaker 1: out either way. A lot of guys were scoring after

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Speaker 1: wherever that ball hits. But the Polo Grounds were It's

436
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Speaker 1: a very interesting demand. I always thought about that dimension

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Speaker 1: watch for a stadium because when I was growing up,

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Speaker 1: all the stadiums were the same. It was three Rivers,

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Speaker 1: it was river Front, and they were just these cookie

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Speaker 1: cutter stadiums. They all looked the same. And that's why

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Speaker 1: the Polo Grounds always stood out to me reading the

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Speaker 1: history of it, how weird and odd it was. And

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Speaker 1: I love a park that's got odd, kind of weird dimensions,

444
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Speaker 1: and the Polo Grounds had that. But that was the

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Speaker 1: that was the center of the sports world for a

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Speaker 1: long time, and that's the franchise we're going to play

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Speaker 1: this weekend. I always always love that, even though the

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Speaker 1: games are now in New Jersey and no longer at

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Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium or in New York, and the same for

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Speaker 1: the Jets, there's just something about being being up there

451
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Speaker 1: and playing in that place. There's been a lot of

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Speaker 1: a lot of great games in the Metal Lands with

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Speaker 1: the Giants, and you know, going through the parcels years

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Speaker 1: and all that and growing up and seeing the Metal

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Speaker 1: Lands and then like, oh man, we're here. Yeah it's

456
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Speaker 1: a different stadium. I get that, but it's like you're

457
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Speaker 1: in the Metal Lands, it's the Giants. Oh yeah, I

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Speaker 1: love it. Well, I can't wait. Look, we're not in Manhattan,

459
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Speaker 1: but Madison Square Garden is there. And I know sometimes

460
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Speaker 1: we make too big a deal out of the New

461
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Speaker 1: York buildings, but trust me, growing up in the shadows

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Speaker 1: of the Big Apple and being able as a kid,

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Speaker 1: and this was a different error. I used to take

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Speaker 1: it the train when I was a teenager to go

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Speaker 1: to concert, said Madison Square Garden. I saw led Zeppelin

466
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Speaker 1: when I was a kid. I did, and I was young,

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Speaker 1: and that was my first concert. And I saw other

468
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Speaker 1: shows there like Ted Nugent and Peter Frampton and the

469
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Speaker 1: list goes on unbelievable stuff and I have such memories

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Speaker 1: of that. There's just this buzz about it and I'm

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Speaker 1: excited to go see it. Absolutely in the Texas need

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Speaker 1: to get a win and they need to perform in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, which is something that the Giants do

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Speaker 1: very very well. I will discuss that a little bit

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Speaker 1: later in the show as I go through my keys

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Speaker 1: to the game. And coming up next, it's our guy

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Speaker 1: Damian Pierce right here on Texans All Access. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: this Friday, Nation of Texas All Access from the Hunday

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris Football on

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Speaker 1: a sideline reporter. We're less than forty eight hours away

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Speaker 1: from heading to the Big Apple. Now we're gonna hear

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Speaker 1: from Damian Pierce in just a second. But let's go

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Speaker 1: through our status report of who's in, who's out, and

484
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Speaker 1: actually much much better this week than it was last week.

485
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Speaker 1: Man had a bunch of guys out last week and

486
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Speaker 1: competing their guts out against Eagles. So we'll see only

487
00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:04,359
Speaker 1: player out for the Texans, Neville Hewitt out hamstring, four

488
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Speaker 1: players questionable, although JRM Jalen rees Maaben was a full

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Speaker 1: participant today in practice but still listed as questionable. And

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Speaker 1: he has been phenomenal whether he's been playing on defense

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Speaker 1: or he's been playing special teams. Be really good on

492
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Speaker 1: special teams, and maybe I'll get some more reps on D.

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Speaker 1: But he is questionable, as are the Collins brothers, even

494
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Speaker 1: though they're not brothers. Of course, Malik and Nicod be

495
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:29,080
Speaker 1: great to get them back. And then Brandy Cooks now Giants.

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Speaker 1: Two guys are out, two rookies and two guys that

497
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Speaker 1: figure prominently in that offense or have before they got injured.

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Speaker 1: Daniel Bellinger is still out that I he got poked

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Speaker 1: in the eye gets the Jaguars, he has been out

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Speaker 1: ever since. Also, outright tackle Evan Neil much more than

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Speaker 1: likely puts Tyree Phillips over on that right side. Big,

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Speaker 1: a little bit slower, tends to hold. I think some

503
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Speaker 1: quick guys on that edge could really give him an issue. However,

504
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,399
Speaker 1: in the run game he could be a masher. So

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Speaker 1: guys are really gonna have to hold up against Tyree Phillips.

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Speaker 1: Who who will replace Evan Neil, Cordelle Flot, Kenny Galladay,

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Speaker 1: O'Shane him and as those three are questionable they were

508
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Speaker 1: limited participants in practice. And Richie James is back wide

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Speaker 1: receiver part returner for the g Men. So there's your

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Speaker 1: statushed report. Only player out for the Texans, Neville Hewitt

511
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Speaker 1: for the Giants, Daniel Bellinger, Evan Neil, both of them

512
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Speaker 1: rookie foundation pieces, I would think for the Giants going forward. Now,

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Speaker 1: speaking of foundation pieces, how about the Texans foundation piece

514
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Speaker 1: right now, and that is Damian Pierce. This is awesome.

515
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,880
Speaker 1: Damian Pierce is the absolute best. And you get him

516
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Speaker 1: playing djenga, but Drew Doherty for a drews dozen and

517
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Speaker 1: there is no telling the hilarity that wouldn't sue. Trust me,

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Speaker 1: you'll love this. It's DP with d D with a

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Speaker 1: d D right here on. TAA got it? Good, Drew go.

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Speaker 1: Today's guest is a brass knuckles for the Houston offense.

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Speaker 1: He was drafted in the fourth round out of the

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Speaker 1: University of Florida, grew up in South Georgia, and now

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Speaker 1: he's picked up six hundred and seventy eight yards on

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Speaker 1: the ground for the Houston Texans, ninety four percent of

525
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Speaker 1: which have come after contact. Of course, talking about the

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Speaker 1: one and only Damian Piers, It's great to see you,

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Speaker 1: my friend, Thank you, thank you for for having already play

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Speaker 1: a little ginger. Yeah you first, man me first, you

529
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Speaker 1: got a whole court, You got a whole court, home court.

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Speaker 1: All right. I still have never won, and the rules

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Speaker 1: are can't go from the top three and you can

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Speaker 1: only use one hand pull a block. So I'll start

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Speaker 1: right here or there? How about that? And I'll ask

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Speaker 1: this question of you. What's your favorite TikTok dance? Fat?

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Speaker 1: I don't even have TikTok on my phone, so I'm

536
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Speaker 1: wanting the club me. Hey, so I don't know, Pot,

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Speaker 1: you know? Is that the philos one? Or is it?

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Speaker 1: I have? No a dancer? Huh nah? Who has the

539
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Speaker 1: cleanest locker on a team? Who is it? Is it you? Oh? No? Pot?

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Speaker 1: Dori Darry Goomble Whalley, a fellow running back, Alt larm

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Speaker 1: me or Weeks John Weiks? Who's got the dirtiest me? Troy? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, probably probably Dne and that corn to

543
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 1: be messy man, that's a messy corner of the defensive one. Oh,

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Speaker 1: what's your go to karaoke song? Remember the time Michael Jackson,

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Speaker 1: Let's go, Let's here it? Do you remember when we

546
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:26,399
Speaker 1: family love were young? And yeah? Yeah, that's like I

547
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Speaker 1: get your family rid, I got paid for you know.

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Speaker 1: That's really good. That's really good. He doesn't just punish linebackers.

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00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: He can also sing some m that's that's beautiful. I

550
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Speaker 1: like it. Okay. Were you a Disney or a Nickelodeon

551
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Speaker 1: kid growing up? Oh? Nickelodeon cat cat dog cat dow Yeah?

552
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,920
Speaker 1: What else? Anything else? Nickelodeon wise, let's do hey, arnad

553
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,719
Speaker 1: be all that. I know y'all know about all that.

554
00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:54,600
Speaker 1: Of course we did it did and Doug Yeah. Okay.

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Speaker 1: What is your zodiac sign? I'm a fish. I'm cool,

556
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Speaker 1: calm and smooth with the water, the Pisces. When's your birthday?

557
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: February nineteenth? Okay, all my birthday? Twins? You for me? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I love this. You've got You have some nicknames? What's

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Speaker 1: your favorite nickname? Buster Buster? Who gave you that one?

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00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: Because I was a fat baby? Said that's a Buster

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00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 1: when I came out, That's a Buster. That's a Buster. Okay.

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Speaker 1: You're also people call you DP. I've heard Dame. What

563
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Speaker 1: what are some other nicknames that's probably got? Okay the

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Speaker 1: ones I've heard and I responded to d DP Buster,

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00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:35,359
Speaker 1: that's hometire, peasy Diesel okay, my shrink coat, gobb meds

566
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Speaker 1: from Florida bull they caught me, jagon Lane Wait, what

567
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: was your bullhead? Bowleg? Okay, okay, Janglin. All these from

568
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Speaker 1: the tens by the week. Okay, jack O Lantern Jan

569
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: from the movie Life. Oh, okay, okay about it? Those

570
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: are pretty good ones about it. Okay, but Buster is

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Speaker 1: your favorite nickname? Yeah? Do you want us to call

572
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,680
Speaker 1: you buster? You caught me bust. Okay. What is your

573
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Speaker 1: first memory as a kid? What's my oldest memory? I

574
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 1: gotta go back home, We gotta go way back. Oh,

575
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: my first memory probably was I remember me and my

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00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: MoMA going to my grandmama has sec stayed like the

577
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: department so like they had like a concrete porch. Man.

578
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: I felt I was skipped my head. I don't know

579
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 1: if I was clumsy. I was a clumsy kid man,

580
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: So I just fell out. I ain't scraped bad. It

581
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,040
Speaker 1: was just a little band aid. But uh, I think

582
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: my mom took a picture that I think we were

583
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,000
Speaker 1: going to take pictures that day, and I had would

584
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Speaker 1: have got to cut on my head right before? Who went?

585
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 1: So I take it the concrete though, Like there's a

586
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: crater in the concrete there right now, right because you

587
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: didn't you don't just hit stuff. Not a crater. It's

588
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:37,520
Speaker 1: a crack though. There's a crack. Yeah, A little bit

589
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: you from my baby DP then you, but you still

590
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: dished out some punishments just a little bit. I like it. Okay,

591
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,200
Speaker 1: just gotta make sure we have the record straight. Yeah,

592
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: you longs to Just gonna let you know. You were

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Speaker 1: two and you remember that Marvel or DC Marvel Marvel?

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00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: How come? Who's your favorite? My favorite Marvel character? Yes,

595
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: quick Silver, quick Solver. Ain't that to do? That was

596
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 1: in that movie? They're like when you go to run

597
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 1: around the time, so down, yeah, quick Celver? Yeah yeah,

598
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 1: quick quicks over. Okay, what other sport could you be

599
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: pro at? Well? Pie, blue beard, album berry and okay,

600
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: I can't go wrong with a good chair. Good chair

601
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 1: pie is good too. Okay, did you play any other

602
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: sports growing up? A little bit of air thing. But

603
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 1: they want to let me because they wanted me to

604
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Speaker 1: be healthy football season, so the football coaches said not Yeah,

605
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: is it favorite potato chip flavor? Oh? Cream ridged or no?

606
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:36,480
Speaker 1: And then a close second is rough of cheddar, it's

607
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Speaker 1: our cream. Best concert you've been to I've never been

608
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: to a concert in my life, not one other than

609
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: the ones I throw on the shower. You know, what

610
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,040
Speaker 1: do you say or is it remember the time that

611
00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: you're singing most recently or is that just your karaoke?

612
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 1: That's just karo? What are you singing right now these days?

613
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 1: In the shower? Yeah? Can't we just talk? What a Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's something. It's on top of my hand. Yeah, favorite

615
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: childhood TV show? What was it? We just heard that

616
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 1: from someone else. That's a good favorite childhood with a

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Speaker 1: big ball of the Captain Craik sent him told whatever. Yeah, yeah,

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00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: Saturday Morning, us to be you and Trymont Smith, Big

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Speaker 1: Ed and Eddie's fans. Which teammate has the most inaccurate

620
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Speaker 1: Madden rating? Inaccurate? Inaccurate like it's either way too high

621
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Speaker 1: or way too low. Hmmm, that's a good question, probably,

622
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: I say, das King. Yeah, yeah, this is a really

623
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Speaker 1: good year. I says, to be way higher. Yeah, yeahs

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Speaker 1: to be way good. It's gracious, Okay, here we go.

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00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: Oh boy, Damien Pears, you'll win again? Hey man, I

626
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:49,760
Speaker 1: try to win games. Will in a game with jingle?

627
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: All right? I know that I speak for a living

628
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Speaker 1: and I'm supposed to speak right now, but I can't.

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Speaker 1: I can't top that. Man. David appears thru already. That

630
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: was freaking awesome. Thank you boys for jumping in and

631
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,760
Speaker 1: of course playing a little Jenga along the way. See,

632
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: I love that. I've always had my wish is to

633
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Speaker 1: do an interview where I'm just playing catch with somebody,

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Speaker 1: just playing catch with somebody who as baseball, football, whatever,

635
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: any kind of catch man, any play soccer, I get

636
00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 1: called playing catch, you play footy, I don't know what

637
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: do you do? Either way? I want to do that

638
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 1: because I think it always loosens the interview. Eat up.

639
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: Not that Damian Piers needed that, but I just always

640
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: think it's fun. So great stuff there from Damien and

641
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: from Drew. All right, coming up? My keys to the game.

642
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: How are the Texans gonna get this thing done against

643
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: the gim? And I was asked this at lunch today

644
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Speaker 1: and I kind of went through the different keys and

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Speaker 1: the different things at lunch informally. Now I put them

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Speaker 1: on wax next right here in Texas All Access. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back this Friday edition of Texas All Access from Monday

648
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Speaker 1: Texans Radio Studio. I am John Harry, your host. Glad

649
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: to be with you football outsideline reporter for your Houston Texans.

650
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 1: Traveling to East Rutherford, New Jersey. Yeah, heading to the

651
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:15,719
Speaker 1: Big Apple south West. I guess trying to figure out

652
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: trying to remember where New Jersey is in relations to

653
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: New York. My geography is all off either way. We're

654
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 1: going to East Ruthford to take on the New York

655
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Speaker 1: Football Giants. As Mark and I talked about, you know

656
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,240
Speaker 1: why they're now called to New York Football Giants. Giants

657
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: are six in two. It's a good record. So let's

658
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Speaker 1: jump into the keys to the game. Get me my music,

659
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: and let's rock. Let's talk about that six and two records.

660
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: They've played eight games. Their point differential through eight games

661
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,400
Speaker 1: is plus six. Now, if you're going is that good

662
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 1: is it bad? Plus six in six wins. That basically

663
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 1: means they've won each game by an average of one

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Speaker 1: point for their wins. So if they've played close games,

665
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: they won by one, they won by three, they're lost

666
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: by seven, they won by eight, they won by five,

667
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 1: they won by four, they won by six, they lost

668
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: by fourteen. I was the last one against the Seattle Seahawks.

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Speaker 1: The Seahawks really the one team that defensively able to

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Speaker 1: really slow them down, and the Giants weren't able to

671
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: turn over the Seahawks as much as they have been

672
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: turning over other teams. So let's dive in offensively and

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00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 1: talk about this team. It is sae Quon Barkley and

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00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 1: sae Quon Barkley alone. The rushing yards per game one

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00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty one point five yards per game. It's

676
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:36,240
Speaker 1: fifty the NFL. That is the only category in which

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00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: the Giants are top half in the league. Rushing yards allowed,

678
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: passing yards allowed, total yards allowed, and turnovers. I don't

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00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: know they're plus two tournaments. I didn't check that one.

680
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:50,799
Speaker 1: But they're not top half of the league except for

681
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 1: one thing, the running game. Now they're without Evan Neil.

682
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 1: He's a big part of the first six games. I

683
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 1: think it was before he got hurt. I think it

684
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: was in the Jacksonville game. They've been given the ball

685
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: to sa Kuon Barkley a lot. The wide receivers totally pedestrian.

686
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones has shown massive improvements this year. So let's

687
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: talk about what they can do the Texas could do

688
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: to stop them. Number One, keep Barkley under wraps, stressing

689
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 1: the rap part. The toughest thing about sa Kuon Barkley

690
00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 1: is wrapping his big thighs, butt legs, trunk and getting

691
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: him to the ground. He is so low to the

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00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 1: ground when he runs. He is such a large individual.

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00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: I mean he I mean he's five eleven I think

694
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 1: five eleven if that. And he's so thickly built, and

695
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: he's so quick. He can get from B gap to

696
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: B gap with a jump cut and you're like, wait,

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00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 1: what just happened. So wrapping him up, he will step

698
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: out of tackles, he will get his motor going outside.

699
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: I say this every week. Tackling has got to be

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00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: a premium. But there's certain weeks, like what I said

701
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: in my Keys to the Game. Know your four article

702
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 1: was when you go up to the white and you

703
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 1: start putting on your keys to the game. You know,

704
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: if the coaches do that, they go through and what

705
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,439
Speaker 1: are the keys to winning this week? What we gotta

706
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:09,240
Speaker 1: do X, Y and Z. At the top of that list,

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00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 1: they can just put him magging up there and just

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00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,320
Speaker 1: leave it up there. Every time it's tackling. Well, sometimes

709
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: tackling becomes outage more important because of the team in

710
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,320
Speaker 1: the back that you're facing, that is sae Quon Barkley.

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00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:23,319
Speaker 1: If the tackling is shoddy, the Texas have no chance

712
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley has picked up nearly fifty percent of his

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00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 1: yards after first contact. He also if they can't get

714
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: it to him between the tackles, they'll throw it to him.

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00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,839
Speaker 1: He has twenty eight receptions this year, and he has

716
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 1: been fantastic in a passing game. So twenty eight receptions.

717
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: They give him the ball in a lot of different ways.

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00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 1: You've got to tackle him. Got to number two, What

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Speaker 1: can Jones do to you? What will Daniel Jones do? Now?

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Speaker 1: A lot has been made about what love he Smith said,

721
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: But love he was dead on about the fact that

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00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: he can fly well, he can run, and he is

723
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Speaker 1: not afraid to run, and he is as tough as

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Speaker 1: a two dollars. And that was what I put in

725
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: my scouting report back in twenty nineteen. He will run

726
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 1: and the Giants have figured out how to use him. Bootlegs, movement, RPOs.

727
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 1: Those are things that get Daniel Jones with the ball

728
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 1: in his hands, putting pressure on a defense, dropping back

729
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: into the pocket. That is not a strength of Daniel Jones.

730
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,600
Speaker 1: That is not what he does exceptionally well. Now. The

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00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:24,279
Speaker 1: Texans linebackers in particular are prone to bite heavy on

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00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 1: play actions so I'd imagine the Giants are gonna try

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Speaker 1: to go to play action, try and hit dig routes

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00:37:28,880 --> 00:37:31,839
Speaker 1: across the middle, crossing routes across the middle with those

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00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,879
Speaker 1: linebackers pulled up into the line of scrimmage. I could

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Speaker 1: see that happening. And the final key is Jerry Hughes

737
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: versus Andrew Thomas. And now we know Tyree Phillips because

738
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Speaker 1: Evan Neil is going to be out. This is one

739
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 1: of the key match ups in the game. This is

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00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:49,360
Speaker 1: one of those kind of inside the game things. The

741
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: game is the Giants versus the Texans, but inside the

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00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:53,959
Speaker 1: game the matchups, the one on one stuff. Jerry Hughes

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00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 1: taking on Andrew Thomas is worth the price of admission. Now,

744
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: when Jerry goes to the other side against Tyree Phillips,

745
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 1: watch for him to drop that inside shoulder, give me

746
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 1: that ghost move and that ripped through. That's what he

747
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:09,360
Speaker 1: has been doing to the bigger maybe a shade slower tackles.

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00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,280
Speaker 1: That's what he hit Jordan Mylotta with. He went against

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00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 1: quicker Lane Johnson and that's when he countered and went

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00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,399
Speaker 1: inside on him. So he's got a variety of moves.

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00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: I think Jerry has been fantastic, and he's got to

752
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 1: be fantastic. But when he gets to Daniel Jones, got

753
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 1: to finish, gotta finish, all right. Giants defense, let's flip

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00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 1: it over. They give up one hundred and thirty seven

755
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 1: point three yards per game on the ground. It's twenty

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00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: fifty in the NFL. Now, I'm gonna give you a

757
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 1: key and just a little bit. And it's kind of

758
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: hard to see how a goes to be, but I'll

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00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: explain here a little bit. They give up two hundred

760
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 1: and eight point four yards per game through the air,

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00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: that's sixteenth. Total offense, three hundred forty six yards per

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Speaker 1: game that's seventeenth. And they generated nine fumble recoveries, only

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Speaker 1: one interception. The plus two in turnover margin they are

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Speaker 1: led by. And let's get to key number one here,

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00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:02,799
Speaker 1: Dexter Lawrence. Now to you out there, don't probably watch

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00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: the Giants. Maybe you watch some, but if you watch

767
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 1: him this year, you're like, whoa ninety seven animal? If

768
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: you haven't seen him at some point, you saw Helodi

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00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: Nada from the Baltimore Ravens. Hellodi Nada was an absolute

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00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: man child. But what made him great was his agility.

771
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: How he was so quick. He was strong as an ox,

772
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 1: but his agility up and down a lot of scrimmage.

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00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: He was so quick and could get into the backfield

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00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: and hiccup. It was like a two hundred and ninety

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00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:34,919
Speaker 1: pound because a tackle who just happened to be three

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00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five, three hundred forty, well, that's who

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Speaker 1: Textra Lawrence is. They list him as a nose tackle,

778
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: but he can play from three technique to three technique.

779
00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: He can slice in the backfield, he can loop on stunts.

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00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: He can do so much. But the biggest key is

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00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:49,000
Speaker 1: one on one against Extra Lawrence. He will break you

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00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 1: in half. The Texas cannot allow ninety seven to be

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00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: one on one. Now. It's hard because ninety nine Leonard

784
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 1: Williams is a different type of player, but he's just

785
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: as disruptive. Son. Ninety have got to get blocked. If

786
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: you block them, you have a chance. What did I

787
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:06,799
Speaker 1: say about the running game? One hundred and thirty seven

788
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,719
Speaker 1: point three yards per game. Teams have gotten to that

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Speaker 1: number because they were able to contain ninety seven to

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Speaker 1: ninety nine. Number two came on Thibodeau. The rookies a

791
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: lot of talk about drafting came on Thibodeau at number

792
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Speaker 1: three overall. Texas deed edge help all that kind of stuff.

793
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,880
Speaker 1: Back in April. He ended up being a giant. He

794
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: missed the first four game for five games he's been back.

795
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,839
Speaker 1: He's really not up to speed yet, but you can

796
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:34,879
Speaker 1: see the makings of what he can do and he

797
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 1: can create some havoc. However, he's going against two very

798
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:42,839
Speaker 1: accomplishing skilled tackles and Titus Howard and Larrmy Tunsil. He

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00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 1: will throw hands, He's very technically sound, but those two

800
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 1: guys have definitely got to shut him down and not

801
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:50,919
Speaker 1: to let him have a game out on the edge.

802
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,400
Speaker 1: And finally, and definitely last, but not of hims a

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00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: wink and a smile or a blitz wink. Martindale's defense

804
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: coordinate for the ballp for Ravens. He is known for

805
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: bringing heat. But where he's different than teams of Texas

806
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:08,080
Speaker 1: have faced is you have to guess where they're coming from.

807
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 1: He'll show you seven up front and they're all mugging

808
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 1: and you're like, how do I want to protect this?

809
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 1: But then four come from one side to drop from

810
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:18,720
Speaker 1: the other and you're like, I did it wrong. Davis

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00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 1: Mills cerebral nature is going to be on display. He's

812
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 1: gonna have to figure out where Wink Martindale's bringing. The

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00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: blitzes from the Seahawks did a great job with this.

814
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 1: They rolled Geno Smith away from blitzes a number of times.

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00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,359
Speaker 1: God open throwers move the sticks doing it that way.

816
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 1: They better figure out who's coming and who's not, because

817
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:40,399
Speaker 1: if they don't, there's gonna be a Blitcher coming free

818
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,880
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be sacapalooza and that cannot happen. All right,

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Speaker 1: those your keys to the game. And that ends our

820
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Speaker 1: first hour here on Texas All Access. To start our

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Speaker 1: second hour, we're gonna go behind him the sidelines and

822
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Speaker 1: talk with Deep City about these giants that we're gonna

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Speaker 1: see on Sunday. We got one hour down, one hour

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Speaker 1: left to go. Right here on a Friday edition of

825
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Speaker 1: Texans All Access, getting ready to fly to New York Newark,

826
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Speaker 1: which is in New Jersey, but it's just on the

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Speaker 1: other side of the river, so it's all within You

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Speaker 1: get on the right train, you're there in New York

829
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Speaker 1: in five minutes. So if you're going to the game,

830
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 1: and you are spending time in New York City. Great,

831
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Speaker 1: Remember you're going to the game in New Jersey on

832
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Speaker 1: Sunday at MetLife Stadium. That's one of the largest stadiums

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00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:29,000
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. It's just immense. I mean, I don't

834
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Speaker 1: know what the capacities. I think it's like one hundred thousand.

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Speaker 1: It is just an enormous stadium. And it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: filled with blue and light. And hopefully it's blue and

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00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: white and red from the Texans as well, so there'll

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00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 1: be a lot of red, white and blue throughout that

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Speaker 1: stadium on Sunday. Kickoff is noon here Central Central Standard time,

840
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 1: one o'clock if you're at the game there at East Rutherford.

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to it. And I always look forward to

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Speaker 1: And I texted the dB City today and I told

843
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Speaker 1: her this. I always look forward to her behind Enemy

844
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Speaker 1: Sidelines interviews. I always love just the full picture that

845
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 1: we get from team reporters that she talks to, analysts

846
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: that she talks to. And this week it was Madeleine Burke,

847
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 1: who's a team reporter for the New York Football Giants.

848
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 1: So let's go behind Enemy Sidelines with Deep Sinu and

849
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:22,920
Speaker 1: Madeleine Burke. Right now, we're going behind enemy sidelines with

850
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:27,359
Speaker 1: Giants team reporter Madeleine Burke. Madeleine, great to have you,

851
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:29,279
Speaker 1: and I got to ask, what's the mood like in

852
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: New York. You've got two teams that are riding pretty

853
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: high entering week ten, the Giants are at six and two.

854
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,799
Speaker 1: What's the excitement like around there? It is so much fun. Deeply,

855
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 1: thank you so much for having me, first of all.

856
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 1: And yeah, as you mentioned, not one but two New

857
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,319
Speaker 1: York football teams doing pretty well, and three if you

858
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 1: count Buffalo, I mean, but yeah, area, the New York

859
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 1: New Jersey area seeing the Jets and the Giants playing well.

860
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 1: Especially for this Giants team. You know, coming into this season,

861
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,720
Speaker 1: if you would have said six wins, people would have said, Okay,

862
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 1: that's what the count will be at the end of

863
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 1: the year, not at the bye leak. So it's definitely

864
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: it's definitely a nice welcome surprise and great to build on.

865
00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 1: All right, Brain Dable comes in as head coach. You know,

866
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,120
Speaker 1: he's a big reason why the team's off to a

867
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 1: six and two starts. What's the biggest change since he

868
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: took over as head coach this season? And how has

869
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: the team surpassed its expectations. You know, it's tough to

870
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,399
Speaker 1: articulate exactly what the biggest change would be. I think

871
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: there have been a lot of little ones. But Brian Dable,

872
00:44:29,239 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 1: of course, he's gotten over twenty years of experience in

873
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:37,320
Speaker 1: coaching in various roles and various teams. He's won super Bowls,

874
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 1: He's been the Bill's offensive coordinator for the last several years,

875
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: and it's just one of those guys that when you

876
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 1: interact with him and you meet him, he's the same

877
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:48,919
Speaker 1: guy in the hallway as he is in the media availability,

878
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 1: as he is with his players. He's very authentic, and

879
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:55,480
Speaker 1: guys that I've talked to who have played for him

880
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 1: or under him, or played on teams that he's been

881
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:01,360
Speaker 1: a part of the staff for in various other positions

882
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,879
Speaker 1: have said that, you know, Dave says, he goes by

883
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 1: Brian Dabel. Daves said, Dave's is just more of Dave's. Oftentimes,

884
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 1: with guys come into their very first head coaching role,

885
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 1: they kind of assume the position of what a head

886
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 1: coach should be, or what a head coach talks like,

887
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: or how a head coach acts. But Brian Dable is

888
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 1: just more Brian Dable, and I think that authenticity, that passion,

889
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 1: that genuine care he has for his players and putting

890
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: these guys in the best position to succeed, as well

891
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 1: as just the ridiculously talented coaching staff that he's built

892
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: with Mike Kafka coming over from Kansas City as the

893
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, Wink Martindale the defensive coordinator of course previously

894
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:41,880
Speaker 1: with the Baltimore Ravens for a decade. It's a great

895
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 1: coaching staff and a lot of creativity and putting these

896
00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:48,800
Speaker 1: young players is very young team in a good position

897
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 1: to succeed. Yeah, let's talk about some of that creativity.

898
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:53,840
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. He's now in year four. He's dealt with

899
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:57,920
Speaker 1: his share of coaching changes, offensive scheme changes, but so

900
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 1: far this year through through the games, he's played six touchdowns,

901
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 1: only two interceptions, but he's also rushed for three scores,

902
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 1: so he's definitely making some plays this year. How has

903
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 1: Davel really adapted that offense to sort of bring out

904
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:13,719
Speaker 1: the strengths of Daniel Jones. Yeah, Daniel Jones has kind

905
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: of always been a dual threat running quarterback to I

906
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: think his biggest issue prior to this year was just

907
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: staying on the field. You know, he hadn't yet had

908
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 1: a full season where he played all sixteen or seventeen

909
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:28,719
Speaker 1: games because of injury. But you know, we've seen him run.

910
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:30,840
Speaker 1: I think there's that famous moment from a couple of

911
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 1: years ago when he had nothing but green grass and

912
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 1: tripped over his own feet when he was breaking off

913
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: that long touchdown run and didn't quite make it through

914
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 1: the end zone. But he's a fast, athletic guy, and

915
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: the coaching staff is really leaning into that. They're not

916
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 1: afraid of that. They're letting him, trusting him to use

917
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 1: that strength because the strength of this Giant's team is,

918
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,440
Speaker 1: of course the run game behind sa Quon Barkley and

919
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, and having that option there something that has

920
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: been challenging for opposing defenses. Okay, so you mentioned Saquon Barkley.

921
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: I think after Week one when he put up one

922
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty four rushing yards, Yeah, some of us

923
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 1: were surprised, but you know, he's kept it up and

924
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 1: you know, he leads the NFC in rushing yards. I

925
00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:12,200
Speaker 1: think he's got five touchdowns on the year so far.

926
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:14,760
Speaker 1: He leads the giants in rushing and receiving yards. Actually,

927
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 1: so tell me about him. I mean, are you surprised

928
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:19,839
Speaker 1: at all at what he's been able to do this year.

929
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 1: I know he's missed so many games or the past

930
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:24,360
Speaker 1: three years with injury, but he seems to be healthy.

931
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: But does it seem like he's being used differently or

932
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,240
Speaker 1: is this sort of the Sake One Barkley you remember

933
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: from several years ago. Yeah, I'd be honest and not surprised.

934
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:36,280
Speaker 1: I think this is the Stake One Barkley I remember

935
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 1: from several years ago, and I think the hard part

936
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: with Sake one was, you know, he came out swinging

937
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 1: his Rookie of the Year campaign, he had incredible numbers

938
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: and then just dealing with some unfortunate injuries right the

939
00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: me the ankle, you know, the ACL WHI shook him

940
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:54,440
Speaker 1: eleven months to come back from. He gets back on

941
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:56,400
Speaker 1: the field, and of course, as you've seen time and

942
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,399
Speaker 1: time again, a player comes back from injury, it takes

943
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:00,480
Speaker 1: a couple of games to get their legs under them

944
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: and to feel kind of at home again. Once he

945
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,720
Speaker 1: finally finds his rhythm and is playing free, that ankle

946
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 1: injury happens and it just takes him out for the

947
00:48:09,280 --> 00:48:11,879
Speaker 1: majority of the rest of last season. So I think

948
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 1: a lot of injury too. Is number one getting your

949
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: body right, but number two getting your mind right and

950
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 1: being able to trust your body and feel free in

951
00:48:18,719 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: your body and be able to say, you know what,

952
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 1: I'm going to think about playing the game. I'm not

953
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:25,280
Speaker 1: going to think about protecting my ankle or protecting my knee.

954
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: And coming into training camp even as early as spring

955
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:31,319
Speaker 1: this year, say Quan looked healthy, He looked quick, he

956
00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: looked agile, he looked confident. And I talked to him

957
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 1: earlier this year, and you know, he had mentioned how

958
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: excited he was for the way that this offense was

959
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 1: using him and moving him around. He said he hadn't

960
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 1: moved around this much since college at Penn State. And

961
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 1: I said, well, did you you know, what did it

962
00:48:45,800 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 1: feel like? Because he mentioned he went back and watched

963
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 1: some of that Penn State film, So what did it

964
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,640
Speaker 1: feel like watching you as a college player this far

965
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 1: removed from that? He said, one thing he noticed was

966
00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:57,319
Speaker 1: that when he was in college, he was playing a

967
00:48:57,320 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: lot more free, a lot more confidently, because that was

968
00:49:00,040 --> 00:49:02,760
Speaker 1: before all these injuries. But he said at this time,

969
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: and this was back in training camp that he was

970
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:07,520
Speaker 1: feeling that freedom and that confidence in his body. And

971
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,399
Speaker 1: from week one, as you mentioned at shown and it's

972
00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:13,239
Speaker 1: week and week out, he's playing like he's you know,

973
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: feeling at home in his body and trusting himself to

974
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: do these things. Well, let's switch gears and talk about

975
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 1: the defense. Levy Smith has said that that defense under

976
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 1: Wink Martindale blitz is more than any other defense the

977
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:29,000
Speaker 1: Texans have or we'll face this year. What about Cavan Thibodeaux.

978
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: The Texans were drafting at number three, the Giants had

979
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 1: the number five overall pick, they draft Thibodeaux. You know,

980
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 1: what have you seen from him so far? And how

981
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 1: does he really add to that defense? Yeah, Wink Martindale

982
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 1: loves the blitz. First of all, even during the preseason

983
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 1: he was sending him way at an alarming rate. But

984
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:47,719
Speaker 1: you know, and he loves the blitz. That's who he is.

985
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,720
Speaker 1: That's the identity of the defensive coordinator on this defense.

986
00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:54,320
Speaker 1: And Cavon Thibodaux, as you mentioned, two number five overall

987
00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:56,680
Speaker 1: pick for the Giants, coming off the edge. You know,

988
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: we saw what he can do in Oregon. He got

989
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:02,840
Speaker 1: his first career back against Lamar Jackson a couple of

990
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 1: weeks ago. He's a young a young player who's very,

991
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:09,799
Speaker 1: very excited to get those numbers up. But he's also

992
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 1: very patient and very patient and trusting himself and trusting

993
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,400
Speaker 1: his technique. And as much as been made about Cavon

994
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:18,880
Speaker 1: off the field of oh he's got a big personality,

995
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:21,319
Speaker 1: is he going to be a distraction this? And that?

996
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:26,280
Speaker 1: He has been a consummate professional, a teammate, a great

997
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: guy in the locker round, a great guy to be around,

998
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 1: and a guy who works very hard and you know

999
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:34,359
Speaker 1: is starting to come into his own in this Giant's defense. Well,

1000
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 1: we saw the news earlier in the week that the

1001
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 1: Giants safety Zavier McKinney broke his hand while on the

1002
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 1: bye week, while on vacation. So now he's on ir

1003
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 1: How are the Giants handling that situation? So he was

1004
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 1: in an accident over vacation. He had an injury to

1005
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 1: his hand that hasn't actually been specified yet. They're not

1006
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:56,239
Speaker 1: certain how long he will be out because they're still

1007
00:50:56,239 --> 00:51:00,040
Speaker 1: evaluating what the implications of that will be. But I

1008
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:02,239
Speaker 1: your McKinney has been a key part of this defense, right,

1009
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:05,200
Speaker 1: he wore the green dot because in Martindale's defense, you know,

1010
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:08,759
Speaker 1: safety does rather than a linebacker, so having him out

1011
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:12,320
Speaker 1: will be will change things for sure for this defense.

1012
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:14,560
Speaker 1: But there are a lot of talented players. Julian Love,

1013
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:16,759
Speaker 1: a guy who's been a part of this team for

1014
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: several years and is really coming into his own under

1015
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 1: this system, and you know, some other younger defensive backs.

1016
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 1: It'll step up and fill that void. So hopefully, you know,

1017
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 1: Brian Dabele talked about it this morning. It's very disappointing

1018
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:31,799
Speaker 1: for him, for the player, for the team, but you

1019
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 1: know what, they're going to look forward and keep it moving.

1020
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:37,840
Speaker 1: Great stuff ANEMYS sidelines with Giants team reporter Malin Burke. Mallin,

1021
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 1: appreciate the time. Thank you so much, Deepe, thanks so

1022
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:42,839
Speaker 1: much for having me and looking forward to a good

1023
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,719
Speaker 1: game on Sunday. Oh yeah, I'm gonna be exciting in

1024
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:50,720
Speaker 1: East Rutherford against the Giants. Appreciate deep and Madeline Burke

1025
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:54,359
Speaker 1: four jumping in on the show this evening. All right,

1026
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 1: we get back. We've got a full slate of NFL

1027
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:00,839
Speaker 1: games that I've got a pick, so I say put

1028
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: it on Wax each and every week. I'll do that

1029
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: next right here in Texans all Access. Alright, alright, alright,

1030
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 1: we have reached that time in the show where I

1031
00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 1: get to put my predictions to the test. And I'm

1032
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:17,279
Speaker 1: your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporters, so you

1033
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:19,399
Speaker 1: know who I am, so you can remember the name

1034
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:22,279
Speaker 1: when you go that guy got them, all right, and

1035
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:27,399
Speaker 1: you only missed one or two or five hopefully it's

1036
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:31,360
Speaker 1: not that many. But I pick every single NFL game

1037
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 1: straight up and against the spread, well because well that's

1038
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:37,840
Speaker 1: just what I do, and it's a good way to

1039
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 1: talk about the games around the NFL as well. So

1040
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:46,880
Speaker 1: quee up my music and let's rock and let's start

1041
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 1: the game in Germany, Yes, Germany. I think it's the

1042
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:54,479
Speaker 1: first regular season NFL game ever in Germany. It's gonna

1043
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 1: be in Munich and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are taking

1044
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:00,799
Speaker 1: on the Seattle Seahawks. And the Seyhawks had to fly.

1045
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:04,760
Speaker 1: I think the number was like ten thousand miles or something.

1046
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:07,359
Speaker 1: It's an absurd number of miles they had to fly.

1047
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 1: But they're there and so are the Bucks. When the

1048
00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:12,279
Speaker 1: Bucks are coming off will win last week, and I

1049
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:15,000
Speaker 1: think that is big for them. They had to get

1050
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 1: a win. They got one laid against the Rams. I

1051
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,240
Speaker 1: don't know if that really spurs them on. The Seahawks

1052
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 1: are hot, I mean hot and very very good. However,

1053
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna roll with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to win

1054
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:31,840
Speaker 1: this game and cover the three and a half point spread.

1055
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:34,359
Speaker 1: I just have a feeling the Bucks are gonna turn

1056
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 1: to corner. Not saying that Seattle is going to turn

1057
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:40,360
Speaker 1: it to a pumpkin, because Seattle super talented, but I

1058
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 1: just got a feeling Tom Brady going to Germany trying

1059
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 1: to show it off for the NFL and the fans

1060
00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 1: over there. So let's go Bucks to win and cover

1061
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:52,360
Speaker 1: that three and a half against Seattle. All right, next

1062
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 1: game at Buffalo. Now, this one gets a little trick

1063
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:00,839
Speaker 1: because the Buffalo Bills are were and a half point

1064
00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:05,439
Speaker 1: favorites and Josh Allen has not practiced all week. Now

1065
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 1: have we seen players not practice all week go on

1066
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:11,200
Speaker 1: the field and play and play, well, yes, we've seen

1067
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 1: it here in Houston. We have seen a lot of

1068
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: different places. Could Josh Allen be ready to go, Yes,

1069
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:22,920
Speaker 1: but I don't think they should. I mean, it's the

1070
00:54:22,920 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: middle of the season, he goes out there and has

1071
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:26,840
Speaker 1: something happened. It's maybe it's the rest of the season.

1072
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 1: I without having practiced, my guess is he's not gonna play.

1073
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 1: So that leads me to addam minimum, Minnesota's gonna cover

1074
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:36,880
Speaker 1: that four and a half because they're four and a

1075
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:40,840
Speaker 1: half point dog up in Buffalo, and I think the

1076
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 1: Bills are gonna win. So it's go Bills to win narrowly.

1077
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: I think they will band together and get a w

1078
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 1: against the Vikings. And I'll be honest with you, I

1079
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 1: don't think the Vikings are great. The record's great, and

1080
00:54:52,360 --> 00:54:54,439
Speaker 1: they're doing really good things on both sides of the ball.

1081
00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:56,920
Speaker 1: But if it's case Keenum, he knows that Vikings defense,

1082
00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 1: he knows them, he knows some of the personnel, not

1083
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 1: all of it, but he knows some. He's got the

1084
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:03,399
Speaker 1: fund dicks. So I think Bill's win. The Viking's keeping

1085
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:05,439
Speaker 1: very close inside that four and a half, So let's

1086
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 1: go Bill's win. Minnesota cover all right. NFC North used

1087
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 1: to be an NFC Central Chicago getting a visit from

1088
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:18,920
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. Now the Bears played a lot better

1089
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:20,799
Speaker 1: last week, and they have the last few weeks not

1090
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: the thursdaynight game, but they've played better when they have

1091
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 1: allowed justin fields to use urpos, to use the zone

1092
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 1: read they called more designed runs. That seemingly is clicked

1093
00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:34,839
Speaker 1: for Chicago now. For other reasons, I don't really want

1094
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:38,600
Speaker 1: Chicago to win this game, but because I'm picking him now,

1095
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:40,440
Speaker 1: I want them to win, and I think they'll cover

1096
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 1: the three and a half points spread. I think this

1097
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:44,320
Speaker 1: is probably a three to four point game, somewhere in

1098
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 1: that range, but I'm gonna go with the Bears playing

1099
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:51,520
Speaker 1: in Chicago to get this one over the Lions. Tennessee

1100
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 1: gets a visit from Denver. I think Denver's a mess,

1101
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:58,400
Speaker 1: an absolute mess. Now. Don't know about Ryan Tannehill. My

1102
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:00,799
Speaker 1: God tells me he's going to play the ankle. It's

1103
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 1: been a few weeks now. I think he's gonna give

1104
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: it a go. And I don't even know if that's

1105
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:07,560
Speaker 1: really what it takes to beat Denver. That team is

1106
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:11,120
Speaker 1: just not very good. But Broncos are coming off of buye,

1107
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:14,439
Speaker 1: so they should be rested self. Scout see what they're

1108
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 1: able to find. That doesn't matter to me. Tennessee the

1109
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:19,279
Speaker 1: three and a half point favorite, playing at home. I

1110
00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 1: think Derrick Henry will run all over that defense, or

1111
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 1: at least enough that the quarterback won't matter. Titans win

1112
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:29,719
Speaker 1: cover the three and a half. This one's tricky. The

1113
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars coming off a win over the Las Vegas Raiders,

1114
00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:36,400
Speaker 1: where the Jaguars had to come from seventeen. Now they're

1115
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 1: down to seventeen enough to come back and win twenty

1116
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:41,360
Speaker 1: seven twenty. They go to Kansas City for Kansas City's

1117
00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:44,360
Speaker 1: coming off a Sunday night win a physical game against

1118
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:47,640
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans, and I think that's key because I

1119
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 1: think the Chiefs are gonna end up winning this. But

1120
00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 1: the number is nine and a half. I think Jacksonville

1121
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 1: gets inside that. Jacksonville has played against good opponents, played

1122
00:56:57,120 --> 00:56:59,320
Speaker 1: it really close, and played it very well. They're the

1123
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:01,200
Speaker 1: only team in as South right now with a positive

1124
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 1: point to French him. So I think that Jacksonville does

1125
00:57:04,200 --> 00:57:06,719
Speaker 1: not win the game, but they get inside that nine

1126
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 1: and a half. So Kansas City to win in Arrowhead,

1127
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:12,359
Speaker 1: but the Jaguars will get inside nine and a half

1128
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 1: to get the cover. Cleveland goes to Miami. Let's go Dolphins.

1129
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 1: Let's go Dolphins get this win too. We need it

1130
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 1: going against Jacoby Brissette, who is the quarterback that we

1131
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 1: saw in Miami last year. I think Miami jumps up early,

1132
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 1: stays on Cleveland. Cleveland can't match, and the Dolphins win

1133
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:36,040
Speaker 1: and cover that three and a half point spread. Now,

1134
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: the last time we saw the Browns on Monday Night

1135
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:40,200
Speaker 1: and they looked good against the Bengals. They had a

1136
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 1: bye last week. Hopefully some rusts set in. Hopefully they

1137
00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 1: can't stop Miami and Miami wins. I don't care if

1138
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 1: it to shoot out, I don't care what it is,

1139
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:51,640
Speaker 1: just as long as Miami wins and wins by more

1140
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 1: than three and a half, because that's my prediction. Dolphins

1141
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 1: win at home and win by more than three and

1142
00:57:56,240 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 1: a half. Then we've got Pittsburgh going New Orleans. Oh no,

1143
00:58:00,720 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, New Orleans going to Pittsburgh, and I don't

1144
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:07,320
Speaker 1: have a clue. I don't have a clue. The Saints

1145
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:11,440
Speaker 1: have not been good, although I mean Monday night against

1146
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 1: the Ravens, the Ravens jumped all off Pittsburgh stepick. However,

1147
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:20,960
Speaker 1: it does look like T. J. Watt's gonna be back

1148
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 1: for Pittsburgh, and that's enough. Combined with plane at home

1149
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:29,120
Speaker 1: for the Pittsburgh Steelers to get a mild upset and win.

1150
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 1: They're two and a half point dog to New Orleans.

1151
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna roll with Kenny Pickett and the Steelers and t. J.

1152
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 1: Watt being back to beat the Saints in Accrasher Field

1153
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: and cover that two and a half obviously by winning

1154
00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:46,440
Speaker 1: the game. So we're going to Steelers. The Cults are

1155
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:48,600
Speaker 1: going to Las Vegas. Now, this was the most talked

1156
00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 1: about game amongst the NFL stratus year this week because

1157
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 1: of what happened in Indianapolis. Jim Ursay, owner named Jeff

1158
00:58:57,640 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 1: Saturday Interram head coach. And you know that's how I said.

1159
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:03,080
Speaker 1: Jim Ursay named him. That was not a Chris Ballard decision.

1160
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 1: That was a Jim Ursay decision. He's never coached the NFL.

1161
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:08,160
Speaker 1: He's never coached the position the NFL. He's never coached

1162
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 1: the college. He coached three years in high school. Now,

1163
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,600
Speaker 1: I will not poo poo anybody coaching in high school,

1164
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:15,439
Speaker 1: because you've got to be very creative coach in high school.

1165
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 1: I think some of us coaches have ever met have

1166
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:20,360
Speaker 1: at least started their careers at high school. And I

1167
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 1: think those guys. I don't think it a bad rap,

1168
00:59:22,320 --> 00:59:24,240
Speaker 1: but it's like, oh, it's high school. No, you gotta

1169
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 1: be very creative to coach in high school, very much so.

1170
00:59:30,160 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 1: And any high school coach out there and knows I'm

1171
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 1: talking about. You don't just get the studs. You get

1172
00:59:34,680 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 1: what's in your neighborhood. That's what you get. These players

1173
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:40,080
Speaker 1: at our zoned here, we get them. You gotta develop

1174
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:41,960
Speaker 1: what you got and go with it. Kind of the

1175
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 1: same in the NFL, same way. So that I'll give

1176
00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:49,439
Speaker 1: to Jeff Saturday. However, the Colt's offense is putrid. They're

1177
00:59:49,440 --> 00:59:52,240
Speaker 1: gonna have a thirty year old Parks Fraser who has

1178
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 1: never called plays in his life. He's never been an

1179
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:57,080
Speaker 1: assistant coach. He's been well should say that he's never

1180
00:59:57,200 --> 01:00:00,880
Speaker 1: been an official assistant coach. He was an assistant offensive assistant.

1181
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:03,560
Speaker 1: He will be calling plays now. There might be some

1182
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:05,640
Speaker 1: excitement in that, but it's still in the same Alinger

1183
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:09,080
Speaker 1: pulling the trigger. So in a football world, that just

1184
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 1: seems just in some way. The Raiders at home need

1185
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:16,560
Speaker 1: to win this game. They're favored by six and a half.

1186
01:00:17,160 --> 01:00:20,280
Speaker 1: I'll lay the six and a half and take the

1187
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:25,240
Speaker 1: Raiders to beat the Indianapolis Colts out in Las Vegas.

1188
01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:28,439
Speaker 1: All right, other afternoon game, Dallas is going to Green Bay.

1189
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 1: What the heck is green Bay? I mean, seriously, what

1190
01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:35,400
Speaker 1: is Green Bay? I mean the team this year, no one,

1191
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:38,520
Speaker 1: no idea. The receivers are banged up. Aaron Rodgers has

1192
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:41,160
Speaker 1: not found any synergy with him. He just looks miserable.

1193
01:00:41,360 --> 01:00:44,640
Speaker 1: The offense looks miserable. People I follow on Twitter that

1194
01:00:44,680 --> 01:00:47,440
Speaker 1: are Packers analysts or fans, etc. I mean, they're just

1195
01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 1: down at the TOMPs. So like this is nineteen eighties

1196
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 1: before Brett fav got there. Green Bay Packers stuff. It

1197
01:00:53,680 --> 01:00:56,680
Speaker 1: is just not good. And now they're getting a visit

1198
01:00:56,720 --> 01:00:59,320
Speaker 1: from a very talented football team in the Dallas Cowboys.

1199
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:04,520
Speaker 1: Can't see the Packers keeping this close, maybe within ten

1200
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:06,840
Speaker 1: to seven, but the spread is five and a half.

1201
01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:10,360
Speaker 1: So we're going with the visiting Dallas Cowboys to win

1202
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:12,800
Speaker 1: and cover that five and a half in Lambeau, which

1203
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:16,040
Speaker 1: has not always been easy to the Dallas Cowboys. But

1204
01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 1: they're that much better close to full health. Then the

1205
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:22,960
Speaker 1: Packers are even closer right now, So I'm gonna go

1206
01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:26,240
Speaker 1: Cowboys win that one over Green Bay. Could man wins

1207
01:01:26,280 --> 01:01:28,120
Speaker 1: that that could be a circle of wagons sort of

1208
01:01:28,160 --> 01:01:31,800
Speaker 1: moment for green Bay. But Minnesota seven to one. Minnesota's

1209
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:34,120
Speaker 1: pulling away with that division, so it's gonna be tough

1210
01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:36,200
Speaker 1: to get back in it. A win obviously would help

1211
01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:38,520
Speaker 1: the Packers. I just don't see it happening. Dallas wins

1212
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:41,040
Speaker 1: and covers the five and a half. I said to

1213
01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:43,080
Speaker 1: Mark on Thursday night, this one confuses me more than

1214
01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:46,880
Speaker 1: any other. The Arizona Cardinals are three and six. They're

1215
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:48,800
Speaker 1: going to so far to take on the Rams. Three

1216
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:52,080
Speaker 1: and five. The La Rams have one of the three

1217
01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:57,240
Speaker 1: worst offenses in the NFL. Now, think about that, Cooper Cup,

1218
01:01:57,680 --> 01:02:00,840
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford, Alan Robins do they paid a lot of

1219
01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:05,760
Speaker 1: money to this offseason, Tyler Higbee. They got cam Akers back.

1220
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:07,720
Speaker 1: It's one of the most talented teams in the league.

1221
01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:10,560
Speaker 1: One of the worst offenses in the NFL, I mean,

1222
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:15,680
Speaker 1: just dreadful, and Matt Stafford is going to be questionable,

1223
01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:18,400
Speaker 1: So keep an eye on that. So I don't trust

1224
01:02:18,480 --> 01:02:21,120
Speaker 1: the Rams and I don't trust the Cardinals. However, that

1225
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:23,400
Speaker 1: Cardinals team is talented. They just have to keep it

1226
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:26,160
Speaker 1: together for sixty minutes. Now, if they're without Buddha Baker,

1227
01:02:26,640 --> 01:02:30,240
Speaker 1: which could be the case. Yeah, that does scare me

1228
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:32,080
Speaker 1: a little bit. The Rams are three and a half

1229
01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:34,439
Speaker 1: point favorites. So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna

1230
01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:36,920
Speaker 1: split the middle here. The Cardinals are gonna keep it close,

1231
01:02:37,680 --> 01:02:39,840
Speaker 1: but the Rams are gonna win. So this one's twenty

1232
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:43,080
Speaker 1: one eighteen, this one is twenty seven, twenty four, twenty four,

1233
01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:45,840
Speaker 1: twenty one. It's a three point game, and that will

1234
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:47,480
Speaker 1: give a coverage to the Cardinals, but a win to

1235
01:02:47,560 --> 01:02:51,120
Speaker 1: the Rams. That's how I'm gonna get over my in

1236
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:54,520
Speaker 1: between this if you will. Sunday night, the Chargers travel

1237
01:02:54,640 --> 01:02:58,360
Speaker 1: to San Francisco seven and a hook. That's the only

1238
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 1: reason I'm going with the Chargers here. San Francisco forty

1239
01:03:01,480 --> 01:03:04,200
Speaker 1: nine Ers win, but the Chargers who put some points

1240
01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:06,240
Speaker 1: on the board and get inside that seven and a

1241
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:11,760
Speaker 1: half point number. And then on Monday night, Washington travels

1242
01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:14,800
Speaker 1: to Philadelphia, so Philadelphia has the mini buy and an

1243
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:18,880
Speaker 1: extra day to get ready for the Commanders. Hey, it's

1244
01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:21,400
Speaker 1: a ten and a half point spread. We played our

1245
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:25,480
Speaker 1: guts out nighttime against the Eagles, and I don't think

1246
01:03:25,480 --> 01:03:27,800
Speaker 1: the Eagles played extremely well. They went at game by

1247
01:03:27,840 --> 01:03:31,360
Speaker 1: twelve any other team's building, they're gonna hammer the car. Commanders,

1248
01:03:31,480 --> 01:03:33,400
Speaker 1: they'll whin they have by fourteen or more, they'll cruise

1249
01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:35,680
Speaker 1: through the fourth quarter. I worry about a backdoor cover,

1250
01:03:36,120 --> 01:03:40,600
Speaker 1: but it won't happen. Eagles beat Commanders by more than

1251
01:03:40,680 --> 01:03:43,400
Speaker 1: ten and a half. That does it. Coming up next,

1252
01:03:43,640 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 1: Houston Methodist Minutes Final where with Drew Doherty and a

1253
01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:49,920
Speaker 1: little surprise visit MC guy who scored a touchdown against Eagles.

1254
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:52,240
Speaker 1: Who's that? We'll find out next of Texas All Access.

1255
01:03:53,040 --> 01:03:54,640
Speaker 1: We're got to find a segment of this edition of

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01:03:54,720 --> 01:03:59,520
Speaker 1: Texans All Access on a wonderful Friday evening. I'm your host,

1257
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:02,360
Speaker 1: John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter, and a little bit

1258
01:04:02,400 --> 01:04:05,240
Speaker 1: of a surprise. I didn't actually plan this, but I

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Speaker 1: thought about it after a while, and I thought, man,

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Speaker 1: I got a little gift interview for you here in

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Speaker 1: this final segment. So I mentioned Houston Methodist Minutes. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna have that in just a second. We're gonna have

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Speaker 1: Drew Doherty's final word, but sandwiched in between my visit

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Speaker 1: with Chris Moore this week. But let's start off with

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Speaker 1: our Houston Methodist Minutes right now talking Regin with Mark

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Speaker 1: vandermir It's Houston Methodist Minutes, joined today by Jay's Duke

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Speaker 1: Athletic Trader with Houston Methodist. How's it going, JACEK, Are

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Speaker 1: you doing great? So tell me about regen rehab recharging

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Speaker 1: the batteries. We talked about this a bit last week

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Speaker 1: as the Texans were facing a Thursday night game and

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Speaker 1: had to get their bodies back so to speak, very quickly.

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Speaker 1: How does this work in all walks of athletic life?

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01:04:53,120 --> 01:04:55,800
Speaker 1: The timing involved and some of the dudes and don'ts

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Speaker 1: involved that people can apply to their real life situation. Yes, sir, yeah,

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Speaker 1: so so whenever you're you're doing any kind of you

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Speaker 1: know activity, repetitive activity that athletes do, you know, training

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Speaker 1: things like that, your body needs. Your body needs some time,

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Speaker 1: which is which is always the most important, that time

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Speaker 1: to recover. But uh, you know what you do during

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Speaker 1: that time is even more important. So you know a

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Speaker 1: lot of us we get out, we get active, and

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Speaker 1: we're thinking, oh, we need some time off. They said

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Speaker 1: to rest. I need to set here and you know,

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Speaker 1: not do anything today. And you know, even though that

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Speaker 1: may make you feel better, the idea of an active recovery.

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Speaker 1: You know, so you're getting up, you're staying moving, you're

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Speaker 1: doing some low impact type activities, uh is better for you.

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Speaker 1: It keeps the blood flowing UH and lets the body,

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Speaker 1: you know, do what it's made to do and and

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Speaker 1: try to heal itself naturally. So you know, activities like yoga,

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Speaker 1: plate things like that are are key. Uh. You know,

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Speaker 1: getting adequate sleep uh and you know, focusing on a

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Speaker 1: balanced nutrition during that time off what will help you

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Speaker 1: body get back where it needs to be. Jase Duke

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Speaker 1: had athletic trainer with Houston Methodist joining US. Jase with

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Speaker 1: professional athletes or college athletes, athletes who compete a lot

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Speaker 1: and need to when they have an injury, how hard

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01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:15,520
Speaker 1: is it to keep everything else strong, other parts of

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Speaker 1: the body that aren't hurt. How difficult to challenge is

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Speaker 1: that for athletic trainers and the people involved. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's one of those things that we've gotten a lot

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Speaker 1: better over the years with different gadgets and gizmos, I

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01:06:26,560 --> 01:06:28,760
Speaker 1: guess the best way to say it. So there's always

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Speaker 1: something people can be doing, and I think that you know,

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01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:37,800
Speaker 1: with highly competitive athletes, it's a lot less telling them

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Speaker 1: to go and more telling them to woe sometimes and

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Speaker 1: you know, so now a flip side of that, you have,

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Speaker 1: you know something your amateur athletes that it's a little

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Speaker 1: harder to get them going and get them back because

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Speaker 1: you know, they get a diagnosis and sometimes that diagnosis

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Speaker 1: make or that note that comes from the provider may

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Speaker 1: say no activity for you know, two to four weeks

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Speaker 1: or whatever it may be. Well, there's always something you

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Speaker 1: can be doing. And you know, if you focus on

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Speaker 1: other areas of bodies that aren't injured and staying that

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Speaker 1: active regeneration that we talked about, staying active but low intensity,

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Speaker 1: focusing on other body parts, there's always something that you

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Speaker 1: can be doing. Jase, thanks so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate the time. Yes, sir, thank you. That's Jason Duke,

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Speaker 1: head athletic trainer, Houston Methodist. It's the official healthcare provider

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01:07:27,120 --> 01:07:31,440
Speaker 1: of the Houston Texans, Houston Methodist leading Medicine. It's funny

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01:07:31,480 --> 01:07:34,000
Speaker 1: as time goes by, there are words that you hear

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Speaker 1: that you've never heard before. Maybe regent for some people

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01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:39,360
Speaker 1: is is new to them. I know it's new to me.

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01:07:39,560 --> 01:07:43,000
Speaker 1: The last three to four years started hearing this Regent.

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Speaker 1: Regent like reach in and it makes total sense. Of course,

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Speaker 1: you just get used to hearing it and get used

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Speaker 1: to saying it, and obviously that's you know, it's a

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Speaker 1: recovery that you want to get yourself to a point

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01:07:54,080 --> 01:07:57,160
Speaker 1: where you can recover faster so you can practice better

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01:07:57,320 --> 01:07:59,880
Speaker 1: and be ready for Sunday to take on whatever team

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Speaker 1: is in front of your whatever game is in front

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01:08:01,520 --> 01:08:04,080
Speaker 1: of you at that particular point. Now, a guy that

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Speaker 1: has butt in the region, has butt into the program,

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Speaker 1: has butt into everything. Really, it is Chris Moore. He

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Speaker 1: is just I mean, it's the sweetheart of an individual.

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Speaker 1: He's been playing his butt off. He had a great

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Speaker 1: touchdown catch against the phildelph Eagles. He had one against

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders. He has been making plays and hopefully

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Speaker 1: that continues on Sunday. Why had the chance to sit

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Speaker 1: out with him and discuss what happened against Philadelphia and

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Speaker 1: then look ahead to go to against the New York Giants.

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Speaker 1: Two big plays in the game against Eagles. I want

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Speaker 1: to talk about these real fast. First of all, the

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01:08:32,800 --> 01:08:34,840
Speaker 1: touchdown catch that you have, you start on the far

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01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:36,320
Speaker 1: left side, but you catch it all the way on

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Speaker 1: the other side. Take me through that play and what

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01:08:38,479 --> 01:08:41,800
Speaker 1: happened on it. I was supposed I had a like

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01:08:41,920 --> 01:08:43,640
Speaker 1: a special we call a special route, so I was

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01:08:43,640 --> 01:08:47,120
Speaker 1: supposed to go through the middle and split the safeties.

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Speaker 1: And then when I look back, I saw Davis scrambling,

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Speaker 1: So then it turns into a scrambled drill and I

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01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:54,720
Speaker 1: saw a lot of green grass, and I'm like, if

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01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:56,719
Speaker 1: I crossed the safety's face and gets the other side,

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01:08:57,200 --> 01:08:59,720
Speaker 1: we could probably have a big play here. So just

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01:09:00,160 --> 01:09:02,000
Speaker 1: did you think Davis saw you? And when that ball

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01:09:02,080 --> 01:09:04,200
Speaker 1: started now he put some zip on that ball to

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Speaker 1: a dime? Yeah, And did you know did you feel

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Speaker 1: good about it even though you had it? But then

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01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:11,680
Speaker 1: as you rolled over popped up and you scooped it

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01:09:11,760 --> 01:09:14,040
Speaker 1: up real fast, did you have any thought that you

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Speaker 1: know what they could have returned this thing? No, because

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Speaker 1: I knew I possessed the catch all the way to

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Speaker 1: the ground. Literally the only reason I came out because

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Speaker 1: I don't know why, but I was trying to get

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Speaker 1: up with that arm right. It was just like a

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Speaker 1: I guess that's just was a comfortable thing the way

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Speaker 1: that my body rolled over and just tried to get

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Speaker 1: out with that arm. But I had no doubt that

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Speaker 1: you never know what those wrests are gonna do. But

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Speaker 1: I knew if they got the right angles that they

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Speaker 1: would see I possessed the catch throughout the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: They don't want to go to your catch in the

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Speaker 1: second half because you guys had gone down twenty one

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Speaker 1: fourteen on the first down play after that, I think

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01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:47,200
Speaker 1: you caught a screen. You got to tackle the backfield.

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01:09:47,240 --> 01:09:49,400
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, oh boy, you know this is thrown the

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01:09:49,439 --> 01:09:51,800
Speaker 1: interception they score like, oh man, it's training in the

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Speaker 1: wrong direction. Then you catch that screen and what do

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Speaker 1: you see what happened on that screen? Because it looked

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01:09:57,760 --> 01:09:59,240
Speaker 1: like it opened up pretty well for you. But then

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01:09:59,280 --> 01:10:01,160
Speaker 1: you had to make a move. Take me through that

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01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:03,360
Speaker 1: screen at big twenty five yard catch you had after

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01:10:03,479 --> 01:10:05,960
Speaker 1: that touchdown of the Eagles. Yeah, when I first David

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01:10:05,960 --> 01:10:07,920
Speaker 1: sent me that countermotion, I saw it was a man

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01:10:08,280 --> 01:10:09,680
Speaker 1: and I ain't gone. When I saw that, I was

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01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:12,000
Speaker 1: a little nervous because usually you don't want to run screens,

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01:10:12,080 --> 01:10:14,320
Speaker 1: especially not against the press man and that type of screen.

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Speaker 1: But when I pop back and Davids stew it to me,

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01:10:17,240 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 1: I circled to try to circle the defender and Brav

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01:10:20,360 --> 01:10:22,559
Speaker 1: did a great job of kicking him out to give

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Speaker 1: me space. And then when I turned my head and

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01:10:24,479 --> 01:10:27,479
Speaker 1: looked at field, I just saw red jerseys in front

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01:10:27,479 --> 01:10:29,599
Speaker 1: of me, so I knew, like, okay, this could be something.

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01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:32,120
Speaker 1: And LT did a great job of kicking out and

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01:10:32,240 --> 01:10:34,320
Speaker 1: beating the way. And then after that, it's just about

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01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:37,519
Speaker 1: digging againt as many yards as you can. I feel like,

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01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:40,800
Speaker 1: not only here but also in Baltimore too, there was

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01:10:40,840 --> 01:10:44,000
Speaker 1: just your knack of making big catches. I mean I

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01:10:44,040 --> 01:10:46,920
Speaker 1: remember Monday Night football you caught the fake put down

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01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:49,439
Speaker 1: the side of You have a knack from making big places.

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01:10:49,479 --> 01:10:52,080
Speaker 1: Where Where does that come from? Chris? I think it's

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01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:54,080
Speaker 1: just something I've been doing ever since I was first

1404
01:10:54,120 --> 01:10:56,760
Speaker 1: started playing football. I don't know, I like to be

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01:10:57,400 --> 01:10:59,599
Speaker 1: I don't think of it like intentionally, like oh, I'm

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01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:02,439
Speaker 1: gonna be a momentum sparker. But I just when I'm

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Speaker 1: out there, I'm trying to make a play to help

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01:11:03,880 --> 01:11:06,320
Speaker 1: our team in any anywhere I can, and usually those

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01:11:06,360 --> 01:11:07,960
Speaker 1: big ones get us going. So you know, I'm going

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01:11:07,960 --> 01:11:10,719
Speaker 1: to Cincinnati for college. Where'd you grow up, Tampa, Florida?

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01:11:11,439 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 1: Where'd you go to high school? Jefferson. Right, we want

1412
01:11:14,240 --> 01:11:16,640
Speaker 1: so how do you get to Well, I know the

1413
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:18,160
Speaker 1: answer to this question because I've seen a lot of

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01:11:18,200 --> 01:11:20,719
Speaker 1: players from Florida end up going all over the country.

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01:11:20,880 --> 01:11:23,400
Speaker 1: But why was Cincinnati for you? Oh? Well, I did

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01:11:23,479 --> 01:11:25,320
Speaker 1: a little different way. When I was getting recruited in

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01:11:25,400 --> 01:11:27,320
Speaker 1: high school, I had like a spreadsheet of every school

1418
01:11:27,320 --> 01:11:29,559
Speaker 1: I wanted to go to and had all these stats

1419
01:11:29,600 --> 01:11:32,679
Speaker 1: on it, like receiving yards, receivers, the years, the quarterbacks,

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01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:34,880
Speaker 1: anything you could think of. I had it on the spreadsheet,

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01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:38,120
Speaker 1: and Cincinnati was just clicking all the things I wanted

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01:11:38,160 --> 01:11:40,400
Speaker 1: in the school. So I was like, Man, this is

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01:11:40,400 --> 01:11:41,920
Speaker 1: gonna be my best chance. I feel like to go

1424
01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:43,640
Speaker 1: to the NFL if I go here. Did you have

1425
01:11:43,760 --> 01:11:46,880
Speaker 1: any family, any friends, anybody in Sincad Just kind of no.

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01:11:47,120 --> 01:11:49,320
Speaker 1: I never even knew. I didn't didn't even know. I

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01:11:49,479 --> 01:11:52,000
Speaker 1: never even heard of Cincinnati before, Like, I didn't know, really,

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01:11:52,160 --> 01:11:54,040
Speaker 1: I didn't know it was a city or anything. Like.

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01:11:54,120 --> 01:11:57,240
Speaker 1: I just one day I got offering. Also one year,

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01:11:57,400 --> 01:11:59,320
Speaker 1: one day I saw him on TV playing. Yeah, I

1431
01:11:59,400 --> 01:12:02,120
Speaker 1: fell in love with the Jersey's offer because they had it.

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01:12:02,160 --> 01:12:04,479
Speaker 1: That's when we had the cat scratches on the side yeah, yeah, yeah,

1433
01:12:04,479 --> 01:12:06,800
Speaker 1: that's always a help. But then I really started doing

1434
01:12:06,840 --> 01:12:08,720
Speaker 1: my research and one on my visit and I love

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Speaker 1: the city. Okay, so obviously in Cincinnati red and black.

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01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:15,040
Speaker 1: Yeah you were the red the other night. Oh yeah,

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01:12:15,240 --> 01:12:17,200
Speaker 1: how'd you like those? I loved it. I was a

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01:12:17,240 --> 01:12:19,479
Speaker 1: little skeptical at first because it looks different in person,

1439
01:12:19,600 --> 01:12:22,400
Speaker 1: but yeah, on TV and on pitches and all that

1440
01:12:22,520 --> 01:12:25,160
Speaker 1: already on, it's amazing. I definitely think we need to

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01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:28,120
Speaker 1: keep those as a permanent Yeah. I think you speak

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01:12:28,479 --> 01:12:30,120
Speaker 1: the truth for a lot of people. I think a

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01:12:30,120 --> 01:12:31,760
Speaker 1: lot of people love this. How are they taking the

1444
01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:35,960
Speaker 1: locker room? It felt like universally it's I mean, you

1445
01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:38,000
Speaker 1: know how NFL teams are in NFL cities are like

1446
01:12:38,080 --> 01:12:39,840
Speaker 1: there's always something to complain about. I don't know that

1447
01:12:39,880 --> 01:12:41,920
Speaker 1: I hurt anybody complain about those red jerseys. How were

1448
01:12:41,920 --> 01:12:44,040
Speaker 1: they taking in the locker room? Everybody liked it. Yeah,

1449
01:12:44,120 --> 01:12:46,240
Speaker 1: Like when we put it on before the game, you

1450
01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:49,240
Speaker 1: could feel like a different energy that like, Okay, these

1451
01:12:49,280 --> 01:12:51,800
Speaker 1: things are clean, like this is a this is a

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01:12:51,880 --> 01:12:54,280
Speaker 1: jersey combination we definitely need to keep. Yeah, there's no doubt,

1453
01:12:54,320 --> 01:12:57,000
Speaker 1: all right. Going to New York on Sunday taking on

1454
01:12:57,320 --> 01:12:59,120
Speaker 1: the Giants. I don't know how far you've got into

1455
01:12:59,439 --> 01:13:01,320
Speaker 1: looking at the remember just watching them from a far Chris,

1456
01:13:01,439 --> 01:13:02,960
Speaker 1: what do you think about a team that's won a

1457
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:04,400
Speaker 1: lot of games in the fourth quarter, for a lot

1458
01:13:04,439 --> 01:13:06,240
Speaker 1: of close games. What do you think about the Giants?

1459
01:13:06,280 --> 01:13:08,200
Speaker 1: Wink Martin Nell guy likes to blitz a little bit.

1460
01:13:08,400 --> 01:13:09,680
Speaker 1: What does that mean for you and the receivers in

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01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:12,280
Speaker 1: your offense? Where you think about this one against the Giants? Um, Yeah,

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01:13:12,320 --> 01:13:14,639
Speaker 1: it's just definitely their defense has a lot of difference

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01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:16,680
Speaker 1: out of coverages and blizzers. Like you said, Um, I

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01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:19,600
Speaker 1: was with Wink in Baltimore, solid a little familiar with it.

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01:13:19,920 --> 01:13:21,960
Speaker 1: But it's just something that you gotta do your film

1466
01:13:22,000 --> 01:13:24,360
Speaker 1: study this week. You gotta you gotta be prepared for

1467
01:13:24,560 --> 01:13:26,920
Speaker 1: different hot routes and just different things to get open

1468
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:30,479
Speaker 1: because that defense is gonna Blizzum. As far as as

1469
01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:32,920
Speaker 1: a team and hole, I feel like when it came

1470
01:13:32,960 --> 01:13:34,920
Speaker 1: down to the third and fourth quarter for us and

1471
01:13:35,080 --> 01:13:37,680
Speaker 1: we were to make the plays and anscute like we're

1472
01:13:37,680 --> 01:13:39,600
Speaker 1: supposed to do, we'd be in the situation they are in.

1473
01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:42,240
Speaker 1: So yeah, I feel like they're a team that if

1474
01:13:42,280 --> 01:13:43,840
Speaker 1: we're looking at them. This is how we could be

1475
01:13:43,880 --> 01:13:45,760
Speaker 1: in playing this season if we just came down and

1476
01:13:45,840 --> 01:13:49,080
Speaker 1: one day made these plays in the end. Now, when

1477
01:13:49,120 --> 01:13:50,599
Speaker 1: you line up on the field, I mean we see

1478
01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:52,840
Speaker 1: you line up in a lot different spots, whether it's X, Y, Z,

1479
01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:56,240
Speaker 1: where wherever, And then you've got to know are you hot?

1480
01:13:56,320 --> 01:13:59,120
Speaker 1: Are you're not? All that kind of stuff? How complicated

1481
01:13:59,200 --> 01:14:01,360
Speaker 1: does that get during a week? Chris, especially when you

1482
01:14:01,439 --> 01:14:03,880
Speaker 1: face a defense that you're not accustomed to see and

1483
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:06,000
Speaker 1: you haven't seen. Now you have because you've seen in

1484
01:14:06,080 --> 01:14:08,160
Speaker 1: practice those things. And how does that help you get

1485
01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:09,800
Speaker 1: ready the fact that you have seen this? But how

1486
01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:13,120
Speaker 1: complicated does it get? To know? Okay, I'm in this

1487
01:14:13,360 --> 01:14:15,600
Speaker 1: position on this particular play and now they're in this

1488
01:14:15,840 --> 01:14:18,599
Speaker 1: blitz or this scheme. Now I gotta adapt. Now I'm

1489
01:14:18,680 --> 01:14:21,080
Speaker 1: hot or now I'm not hot? How does how complicated

1490
01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:23,160
Speaker 1: does that get during a week? It can? It can

1491
01:14:23,240 --> 01:14:26,360
Speaker 1: get complicated, But I feel like Pep and Ben they

1492
01:14:26,400 --> 01:14:28,320
Speaker 1: do a good job of keeping it simple for us.

1493
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:30,519
Speaker 1: They make rules for us. So when we're out there,

1494
01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:32,720
Speaker 1: if we read this coverage right and we feel the

1495
01:14:32,920 --> 01:14:35,840
Speaker 1: same pressure as Davis, we're gonna be on the same

1496
01:14:35,840 --> 01:14:38,720
Speaker 1: page and it makes it a lot easier m as

1497
01:14:38,800 --> 01:14:42,200
Speaker 1: far as just me seeing it personally, you get a

1498
01:14:42,240 --> 01:14:44,120
Speaker 1: feeling for it. And I play in a slot more so,

1499
01:14:44,600 --> 01:14:46,840
Speaker 1: I feel like in the slot, it's easier to feel

1500
01:14:46,960 --> 01:14:48,680
Speaker 1: when all that blitz is coming and you can you

1501
01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:51,639
Speaker 1: can sense like, oh some reason, nobody's on the inside

1502
01:14:51,680 --> 01:14:54,360
Speaker 1: like this pressure going. So as far as that comes,

1503
01:14:54,360 --> 01:14:57,040
Speaker 1: it comes, that turns into just more like back our

1504
01:14:57,080 --> 01:14:59,479
Speaker 1: football and stuff me and Davis I worked on in

1505
01:14:59,520 --> 01:15:03,680
Speaker 1: this office and just getting chemistry and timing together. When

1506
01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:06,640
Speaker 1: we think about a slot receiver, I think there's a

1507
01:15:06,720 --> 01:15:09,719
Speaker 1: stereotypical thought of this guy that's five nine hundred seventy

1508
01:15:09,720 --> 01:15:12,240
Speaker 1: five pounds and just kind of in and out of breaks.

1509
01:15:12,720 --> 01:15:14,200
Speaker 1: But you do play a lot in the slot, and

1510
01:15:14,680 --> 01:15:17,400
Speaker 1: you're not built that way. You're built a little differently. Yeah,

1511
01:15:17,479 --> 01:15:20,000
Speaker 1: you still have equal success in the slot. What what

1512
01:15:20,240 --> 01:15:23,599
Speaker 1: makes you successful from in that particular position? Christ Um,

1513
01:15:23,680 --> 01:15:26,519
Speaker 1: I just think it's my knowledge of my study. I

1514
01:15:26,920 --> 01:15:30,320
Speaker 1: study defensive line and I know this playbook very well,

1515
01:15:30,360 --> 01:15:32,600
Speaker 1: so I know where I'm supposed to be at and

1516
01:15:32,640 --> 01:15:34,760
Speaker 1: I try to do my job as best as possible. Um.

1517
01:15:35,280 --> 01:15:37,519
Speaker 1: I think it also helps that I'm able to I'm

1518
01:15:37,560 --> 01:15:40,040
Speaker 1: fast enough to help in the screen game, and I'm

1519
01:15:40,080 --> 01:15:41,960
Speaker 1: big enough to help. I'm closer to the point of

1520
01:15:41,960 --> 01:15:44,320
Speaker 1: attack for the running game too. So I feel like,

1521
01:15:45,720 --> 01:15:47,920
Speaker 1: hopefully you don't say more big guys can be in

1522
01:15:47,960 --> 01:15:51,040
Speaker 1: the slot, because there's really no difference. Yeah, man, you

1523
01:15:51,120 --> 01:15:52,559
Speaker 1: know you know where you're starting to see this well.

1524
01:15:52,560 --> 01:15:54,200
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it's coming to the NFL too, but

1525
01:15:54,520 --> 01:15:56,760
Speaker 1: but also because slot fade is so important and you

1526
01:15:56,920 --> 01:15:58,439
Speaker 1: have the speed to be able to beat people with

1527
01:15:58,520 --> 01:16:01,360
Speaker 1: the slot fade. See a lot of college teams using

1528
01:16:01,479 --> 01:16:03,280
Speaker 1: that bigger guy in this lot because they get a

1529
01:16:03,360 --> 01:16:05,280
Speaker 1: matched up on his safety and it works that way.

1530
01:16:05,760 --> 01:16:08,040
Speaker 1: In the run game, you're always working. I mean I

1531
01:16:08,280 --> 01:16:09,920
Speaker 1: watched you pretty closely. You've been one of my favorite

1532
01:16:09,920 --> 01:16:12,200
Speaker 1: guys ever since Cincinnati. Man, the night that you caught

1533
01:16:12,240 --> 01:16:14,000
Speaker 1: that fake punt, I was so mad because I was like, man,

1534
01:16:14,040 --> 01:16:15,280
Speaker 1: that's my dude. I like that guy. So when you

1535
01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:17,600
Speaker 1: signed here, I was really excited. You know that. But

1536
01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:19,960
Speaker 1: you do work at all times, especially in a run game,

1537
01:16:20,040 --> 01:16:22,000
Speaker 1: and you have a guy like Damian Pierce. Oh yeah,

1538
01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:24,439
Speaker 1: I knew it's gonna be fun to block for a

1539
01:16:24,479 --> 01:16:26,759
Speaker 1: guy like that. But on the flip side, you probably

1540
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:28,400
Speaker 1: gotta block a whole lot longer than you do maybe

1541
01:16:28,439 --> 01:16:30,760
Speaker 1: for some other guys. Oh can it be? I don't

1542
01:16:30,880 --> 01:16:33,360
Speaker 1: say difficult, but do you have to stay on that

1543
01:16:33,400 --> 01:16:35,400
Speaker 1: block a little bit longer knowing he might be coming

1544
01:16:35,479 --> 01:16:37,719
Speaker 1: my way? And if he is, it's gonna look embarrassing

1545
01:16:37,760 --> 01:16:39,360
Speaker 1: if I'm just kinda standing here is he's trying to

1546
01:16:39,360 --> 01:16:41,519
Speaker 1: break through a tackle. How much more difficult does it

1547
01:16:41,640 --> 01:16:43,080
Speaker 1: become to block for a guy like that because you

1548
01:16:43,120 --> 01:16:45,600
Speaker 1: gotta block almost six seven eight seconds the length of

1549
01:16:45,640 --> 01:16:47,240
Speaker 1: some of his runs. Yeah, I mean, I don't think

1550
01:16:47,280 --> 01:16:49,920
Speaker 1: it's any more difficult. I just think it's like you

1551
01:16:50,040 --> 01:16:51,800
Speaker 1: had to change in mentality when you go on in

1552
01:16:51,840 --> 01:16:54,120
Speaker 1: the field with him, because you, like you said, usually

1553
01:16:54,360 --> 01:16:56,880
Speaker 1: you block in you you could tell like the rhythm,

1554
01:16:57,000 --> 01:16:58,960
Speaker 1: like oh he's down, because you could feel it. But

1555
01:16:59,040 --> 01:17:02,280
Speaker 1: with him, he's not going down the first two three hits. Yeah,

1556
01:17:02,280 --> 01:17:04,280
Speaker 1: he's gonna keep running, so you just you gotta just

1557
01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:06,600
Speaker 1: keep trying to extend the block. And at the end

1558
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:08,880
Speaker 1: of the day, with the way he runs, you don't

1559
01:17:08,880 --> 01:17:11,439
Speaker 1: even have to really be like fully on and defended.

1560
01:17:11,479 --> 01:17:12,720
Speaker 1: All you gotta do is keep a hand on of

1561
01:17:12,800 --> 01:17:14,840
Speaker 1: him and don't let them fully hit him because he's

1562
01:17:14,840 --> 01:17:17,719
Speaker 1: gonna break an arm tackle. Yeah, I know you played

1563
01:17:17,760 --> 01:17:19,240
Speaker 1: with a lot of you know, you played with Lamar

1564
01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:23,639
Speaker 1: Jackson in Baltimore. He's a little different, but also similar

1565
01:17:23,680 --> 01:17:25,040
Speaker 1: in that way that baby he's not gonna take a

1566
01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:26,479
Speaker 1: bunch of hits, but he's gonna make a bunch of

1567
01:17:26,479 --> 01:17:28,160
Speaker 1: people miss and you never know when he's gonna pop out.

1568
01:17:28,160 --> 01:17:30,080
Speaker 1: It's kind of a similar mindset in some sets for

1569
01:17:30,160 --> 01:17:32,000
Speaker 1: blocking like guy like that. Oh yeah, definitely. I mean

1570
01:17:32,040 --> 01:17:35,040
Speaker 1: I remember my first time I ever playing with Lamar

1571
01:17:35,080 --> 01:17:37,200
Speaker 1: in the field, Like I didn't block long enough on

1572
01:17:37,320 --> 01:17:38,960
Speaker 1: a play and I all of a sudden you look

1573
01:17:39,040 --> 01:17:40,680
Speaker 1: back and you just see him spreading at you, so

1574
01:17:40,920 --> 01:17:42,559
Speaker 1: like you really have to go out there, like, yeah,

1575
01:17:42,720 --> 01:17:45,240
Speaker 1: this guy's out there giving his all. He's gonna keep

1576
01:17:45,280 --> 01:17:47,120
Speaker 1: making this play goes, So you gotta do your best

1577
01:17:47,160 --> 01:17:49,120
Speaker 1: to keep making a go for him because he's gonna

1578
01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:51,559
Speaker 1: be running taking on the Giants on Sunday. Like we said,

1579
01:17:52,360 --> 01:17:55,479
Speaker 1: you seem to have this connection with Davis. I mean,

1580
01:17:55,600 --> 01:17:57,920
Speaker 1: obviously the touchdown the other day of the screen, those

1581
01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:01,120
Speaker 1: kind of things, you guys were a lot in the offseason,

1582
01:18:01,160 --> 01:18:03,200
Speaker 1: I know, working together and doing those things. How valuable

1583
01:18:03,240 --> 01:18:05,519
Speaker 1: did that ended up being as you got into the season, Chris,

1584
01:18:05,760 --> 01:18:08,040
Speaker 1: I think it's very valuable because I don't think he

1585
01:18:08,160 --> 01:18:10,280
Speaker 1: has to guess where I'm gonna be a lot of

1586
01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:13,519
Speaker 1: routes anymore. I think he understands, like Chris runs his

1587
01:18:13,640 --> 01:18:16,559
Speaker 1: routes like this, and obviously you adjust a little bit

1588
01:18:16,640 --> 01:18:19,799
Speaker 1: for coverages and stuff, but it's it's a confidence between

1589
01:18:19,840 --> 01:18:21,479
Speaker 1: both of us, like, Oh, I know he's gonna throw

1590
01:18:21,479 --> 01:18:22,960
Speaker 1: it here. This is how he throws. Oh I know

1591
01:18:23,080 --> 01:18:24,960
Speaker 1: Chris is gonna be here. This is how he usually

1592
01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:27,639
Speaker 1: runs his route. So I feel like that paid off

1593
01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:29,960
Speaker 1: big so far. And uh, I just we just gotta

1594
01:18:30,040 --> 01:18:32,320
Speaker 1: keep it going. Chris. I appreciate you, Tom Man, thank

1595
01:18:32,320 --> 01:18:34,080
Speaker 1: you for stopping by. Thank you. I appreciate you having me.

1596
01:18:34,320 --> 01:18:36,240
Speaker 1: As I told him an interview, probably a couple of times,

1597
01:18:36,280 --> 01:18:38,960
Speaker 1: I almost felt like, Chris Farley, remember that time when

1598
01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:42,200
Speaker 1: you had that that catch on the on the punt

1599
01:18:42,240 --> 01:18:44,800
Speaker 1: fake against US at ty seventy. That was really really cool.

1600
01:18:45,240 --> 01:18:47,160
Speaker 1: Now it wasn't cool because it happened against us, But

1601
01:18:47,400 --> 01:18:49,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be Chris Moore fan for a while and

1602
01:18:49,920 --> 01:18:52,639
Speaker 1: hearing how he got to Cincinnati was very very interesting.

1603
01:18:52,680 --> 01:18:55,160
Speaker 1: So I love that interview. So an opportunity to chop

1604
01:18:55,200 --> 01:18:57,400
Speaker 1: it up with Chris here the final syr. Now we

1605
01:18:57,520 --> 01:19:00,519
Speaker 1: saved the final word for Drew Doherty. Everything good Friday,

1606
01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:03,720
Speaker 1: it goes to Drew Dorty, as it should, and of

1607
01:19:03,800 --> 01:19:08,200
Speaker 1: course this week it's Damien Pierce with Drew Doherty. They

1608
01:19:08,280 --> 01:19:11,280
Speaker 1: played Jenga earlier and now they're talking ball. Here for

1609
01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:13,920
Speaker 1: a final word, Drew take it away. Running back Damian

1610
01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:17,080
Speaker 1: Pierce joins us now to preview the Texans at Giants.

1611
01:19:17,200 --> 01:19:20,240
Speaker 1: Great to see it and was glad to glad that

1612
01:19:20,240 --> 01:19:22,439
Speaker 1: you're with us. How was the little mini by that

1613
01:19:22,520 --> 01:19:24,320
Speaker 1: you guys had after playing a Thursday night against the

1614
01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:26,240
Speaker 1: even That was amazing. My body needed that, you know,

1615
01:19:26,439 --> 01:19:30,120
Speaker 1: everybody's well refreshed, ready to go. Half some time to

1616
01:19:30,240 --> 01:19:32,479
Speaker 1: you know, I want to think about me anybody. We

1617
01:19:32,560 --> 01:19:34,360
Speaker 1: had no more time to think about the loss. But

1618
01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:37,360
Speaker 1: you know, turn around, turn around, come back. We came

1619
01:19:37,400 --> 01:19:39,519
Speaker 1: back on Monday. We got back at it and you

1620
01:19:39,520 --> 01:19:41,280
Speaker 1: know we're ready to go play some ball man. Yeah,

1621
01:19:41,360 --> 01:19:43,639
Speaker 1: you've had a nice, very nice start to the first

1622
01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:45,400
Speaker 1: half of your rookie season. What are you looking to

1623
01:19:45,439 --> 01:19:48,200
Speaker 1: accomplish the second half. I'm just trying to get better

1624
01:19:48,240 --> 01:19:50,160
Speaker 1: and better every week. I try to find something to

1625
01:19:50,240 --> 01:19:52,519
Speaker 1: work on and trying to implement it. Any game, just

1626
01:19:52,600 --> 01:19:54,280
Speaker 1: try to look better than I did the week before,

1627
01:19:54,320 --> 01:19:55,880
Speaker 1: and that's going to be a trend. I want to,

1628
01:19:56,240 --> 01:19:58,280
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully continue to do. You know what I'm saying.

1629
01:19:58,439 --> 01:20:00,400
Speaker 1: What's that little thing if you want to peek behind

1630
01:20:00,400 --> 01:20:03,320
Speaker 1: the curtain and you're trying to get better, just discipline.

1631
01:20:03,439 --> 01:20:05,080
Speaker 1: Just just been with my eyes, with my steps, with

1632
01:20:05,160 --> 01:20:08,120
Speaker 1: my reads, being more involved in the past game, being

1633
01:20:08,200 --> 01:20:10,320
Speaker 1: more involved without the ball. Just a little stuff, man,

1634
01:20:10,640 --> 01:20:12,479
Speaker 1: you know, always working. I hear it. You know you

1635
01:20:12,520 --> 01:20:14,400
Speaker 1: can talk about being involved without the ball. One of

1636
01:20:14,439 --> 01:20:17,160
Speaker 1: the things we saw in your college tape excellent blocker,

1637
01:20:17,479 --> 01:20:18,800
Speaker 1: great at catching the ball in the back of it.

1638
01:20:18,920 --> 01:20:20,840
Speaker 1: We knew about, you know, the violence when you run.

1639
01:20:21,360 --> 01:20:23,400
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this giant team. They blitz a lot.

1640
01:20:23,680 --> 01:20:25,360
Speaker 1: When when when other teams are throwing the ball, they

1641
01:20:25,400 --> 01:20:27,200
Speaker 1: blitz about forty three percent of the time on us.

1642
01:20:27,439 --> 01:20:29,160
Speaker 1: What's that mean for you? That just means I gotta

1643
01:20:29,200 --> 01:20:31,160
Speaker 1: be signed a petition. Make sure Demili got time to

1644
01:20:31,200 --> 01:20:33,160
Speaker 1: make plays because when they blitz, you know, they get

1645
01:20:33,200 --> 01:20:35,000
Speaker 1: a little limited on the back end of what they

1646
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:36,880
Speaker 1: can do with coverage, So it should be an easy

1647
01:20:36,960 --> 01:20:38,519
Speaker 1: read for meals as long as we just make sure

1648
01:20:38,600 --> 01:20:40,200
Speaker 1: we do our job up front and give them time

1649
01:20:40,400 --> 01:20:42,559
Speaker 1: no doubt. And you talk about David Smells, he brought

1650
01:20:42,640 --> 01:20:44,280
Speaker 1: up when he was asking kind of the same question

1651
01:20:44,360 --> 01:20:46,760
Speaker 1: the importance of playing well against blitz. He said, Hey,

1652
01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:49,080
Speaker 1: at times, I gotta be able to check into a

1653
01:20:49,240 --> 01:20:51,920
Speaker 1: run and let us gash them with Pierce. What's that

1654
01:20:51,960 --> 01:20:53,719
Speaker 1: mean when you hear something like that, that just means,

1655
01:20:53,800 --> 01:20:56,640
Speaker 1: you know, I gotta be situation situationally aware, just like

1656
01:20:56,800 --> 01:20:58,360
Speaker 1: de Milli. You know, he's a quarterback. You know, he's

1657
01:20:58,360 --> 01:21:00,679
Speaker 1: a captain of my team. So the day we're gonna

1658
01:21:00,720 --> 01:21:02,640
Speaker 1: rally behind him and make sure like whatever call he may,

1659
01:21:02,680 --> 01:21:04,439
Speaker 1: we're gonna make sure it's right. But uh, like he

1660
01:21:04,600 --> 01:21:06,640
Speaker 1: was saying, uh, you know, we just got to be

1661
01:21:06,720 --> 01:21:09,120
Speaker 1: able to check into things. That's gonna be at our advantage,

1662
01:21:09,240 --> 01:21:10,920
Speaker 1: like when they blitzed, Like when they do something that

1663
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:12,720
Speaker 1: they like to do, that's getting something that we like

1664
01:21:12,800 --> 01:21:14,920
Speaker 1: to do. We talk about or we hear you guys

1665
01:21:14,960 --> 01:21:17,439
Speaker 1: talking about finishing and it's very very important. It's been

1666
01:21:17,560 --> 01:21:20,320
Speaker 1: a struggle in the fourth quarter. But Lovey Smith is

1667
01:21:20,320 --> 01:21:22,920
Speaker 1: always quick to say, well, Damian Pearce. He finishes talking

1668
01:21:22,920 --> 01:21:26,160
Speaker 1: about your running style and everything. When you hear that,

1669
01:21:26,479 --> 01:21:28,120
Speaker 1: how much do you think that can kind of bleed

1670
01:21:28,200 --> 01:21:30,200
Speaker 1: over to the rest of your teammates to what stuff

1671
01:21:30,240 --> 01:21:31,880
Speaker 1: you're doing. When I hear stuff like that, man, that

1672
01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:34,320
Speaker 1: just means like I might be doing something right. But

1673
01:21:34,360 --> 01:21:35,920
Speaker 1: I can do a little mom finish a little mom,

1674
01:21:36,120 --> 01:21:37,760
Speaker 1: go a little harder, run a little harder. You know,

1675
01:21:37,880 --> 01:21:40,400
Speaker 1: anything I can do to motivate my teammates, or said

1676
01:21:40,439 --> 01:21:44,200
Speaker 1: the Zapple, I'll do it. You know, hey, get by, okay,

1677
01:21:44,360 --> 01:21:46,080
Speaker 1: shout out to coach love you know, great coach and

1678
01:21:47,160 --> 01:21:49,560
Speaker 1: he always telling me, man, just finished, man, playballs. Just

1679
01:21:49,640 --> 01:21:51,040
Speaker 1: go out there and have fun. And um, that's what

1680
01:21:51,120 --> 01:21:52,600
Speaker 1: I think he wanted this football team to do. So

1681
01:21:52,640 --> 01:21:54,439
Speaker 1: as long as we go out there, playball, show up.

1682
01:21:54,439 --> 01:21:56,000
Speaker 1: So you know, I feel like we're gonna come out

1683
01:21:56,000 --> 01:21:59,000
Speaker 1: on talk. I know you're you're wanting everybody wants more wins,

1684
01:21:59,040 --> 01:22:00,760
Speaker 1: but how much fun are you because it looks like

1685
01:22:00,920 --> 01:22:02,760
Speaker 1: you're having a great time when you're out there. Fine, right,

1686
01:22:02,800 --> 01:22:04,200
Speaker 1: it's the NFL. You know this is what you've been

1687
01:22:04,320 --> 01:22:06,439
Speaker 1: drinking of every since he was in peewee League. So

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01:22:07,280 --> 01:22:09,679
Speaker 1: just to be here and just playing in an atmosphere

1689
01:22:09,760 --> 01:22:12,080
Speaker 1: every week, you know, it's a blessing man looking forward

1690
01:22:12,080 --> 01:22:14,080
Speaker 1: to playing in the Big Apple. Oh yeah, I ain't

1691
01:22:14,120 --> 01:22:15,760
Speaker 1: up been in New York. They'll go play some bio

1692
01:22:15,920 --> 01:22:18,080
Speaker 1: made all right, Damian Pierce. It's always good to be

1693
01:22:18,160 --> 01:22:19,800
Speaker 1: with you. Best of luck against the Giant's best of

1694
01:22:19,920 --> 01:22:22,320
Speaker 1: luck the rest of the season. Thank you, Drew. There

1695
01:22:22,479 --> 01:22:25,519
Speaker 1: is DP thirty one to a little Damian Pierce, a

1696
01:22:25,600 --> 01:22:29,479
Speaker 1: little Chris more some Houston Methodist minutes talking region. It's

1697
01:22:29,479 --> 01:22:33,639
Speaker 1: a great way to close this Friday show. And hopefully

1698
01:22:34,040 --> 01:22:36,920
Speaker 1: wherever you are, it's starting to get cool, maybe not raining,

1699
01:22:37,200 --> 01:22:40,240
Speaker 1: but cool and cooling off. We needed to cool off.

1700
01:22:40,640 --> 01:22:43,000
Speaker 1: I like some days in the sixties, but we need

1701
01:22:43,080 --> 01:22:46,559
Speaker 1: the Texans to get hot on Sunday against the New

1702
01:22:46,680 --> 01:22:51,040
Speaker 1: York Football Giants up in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Can't

1703
01:22:51,080 --> 01:22:52,920
Speaker 1: wait to be there. A lot of people to thank

1704
01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:55,840
Speaker 1: for tonight's show. Gotta start with Drew Doherty and Damian Pierce,

1705
01:22:55,920 --> 01:22:58,400
Speaker 1: Chris Moore with the surprise visit there at the end

1706
01:22:58,880 --> 01:23:02,719
Speaker 1: the great doctors from Houston Methodist, Mark Vanimir, Lovey Smith,

1707
01:23:03,200 --> 01:23:05,559
Speaker 1: Madeline Burt from the Giants, and of course our good

1708
01:23:05,600 --> 01:23:10,240
Speaker 1: friend Deep City. Everybody back at six ten for making

1709
01:23:10,280 --> 01:23:12,639
Speaker 1: sure that I stay on the air. But mostly it's

1710
01:23:12,680 --> 01:23:15,080
Speaker 1: you guys, you guys out there listening. You guys are

1711
01:23:15,080 --> 01:23:17,479
Speaker 1: the reason that we do this. You're you're the reason

1712
01:23:17,560 --> 01:23:21,639
Speaker 1: that we get to infotain about this team, football, the NFL,

1713
01:23:21,840 --> 01:23:24,000
Speaker 1: whatever it might be. You are the best and we

1714
01:23:24,080 --> 01:23:26,760
Speaker 1: appreciate it so very much. Thank you, and we'll see

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01:23:26,800 --> 01:23:30,599
Speaker 1: you next time, hopefully after a Texans win on Sunday,

1716
01:23:30,880 --> 01:23:32,479
Speaker 1: and as always, go Texans.