Speaker 1: Welcome in Texans All Access, the Players Edition. We have
Speaker 1: a jam pack show today. You're also going to hear
Speaker 1: from Jimmy Ward on the Shuffle with Chase b and
Speaker 1: we have our good buddy you see him on the sidelines.
Speaker 1: John Harris is going to be joining us. But first
Speaker 1: Mark Vandermer, the Voice, and myself. We catch up with
Speaker 1: Eric Murray.
Speaker 2: In studio with us. Now it's Eric Murray, Texans Safety.
Speaker 3: Eric. How's it going today?
Speaker 4: Doing well?
Speaker 5: Doing well?
Speaker 3: All right, great to have you in.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 2: So it's Tuesday, it's players day off. You guys do
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff in the community, do a lot
Speaker 2: of region rehab, whatever you're re ing. So how do
Speaker 2: you usually spend Tuesday because it's an off day for
Speaker 2: you technically, but there's really no off day during the season,
Speaker 2: is there.
Speaker 6: No, it's not typically start today off. Just take my
Speaker 6: kids in school now on break right now, so I
Speaker 6: didn't have to do that today. Just come in, get
Speaker 6: some needles, do some red light therapy, get massage, just
Speaker 6: to work out the kings from the game, and just
Speaker 6: get ready for the week.
Speaker 4: When you go through your rehab process. You talked about
Speaker 4: red light.
Speaker 1: The massage is more or contingent on how you feel
Speaker 1: or regardless on Tuesday, this is your set plan.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this week the week sometimes your foot get stepped
Speaker 6: on or you might take a different hit. So whatever
Speaker 6: you're feel in for that week, just make sure you
Speaker 6: can kind of configure your plan to fit that.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: I know, you know, my last year was in two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight, so I'm an old man, so I
Speaker 1: know massage, I know the needles, you know, but the
Speaker 1: red light explain that to me, and some of them.
Speaker 6: It's more on a cellular level, trying to kind of
Speaker 6: facilitate healing from that standpoint. So you know, as we
Speaker 6: go through life, we're influenced by lights, some like you know, sunset,
Speaker 6: So that's kind of the idea behind it, in these
Speaker 6: different forms of light to help heal the body from
Speaker 6: inside out.
Speaker 3: Well, this is interesting, all right.
Speaker 2: And the needles, it's kind of acupuncture ish.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's dry kneeling, the needles a little bigger. It's
Speaker 6: a little bigger, so it's more of a a more
Speaker 6: of a palpitation rather than acupuncture. Is like needle and
Speaker 6: then you kind of rest and you know, sit there.
Speaker 3: So does that hurt?
Speaker 2: I actually had this done once, indeed, because I had
Speaker 2: a foot problem playing basketball and Jeremy, one of the
Speaker 2: guys in there, he said, we'll try the needle and
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm not gonna look, and it does.
Speaker 2: You know, it feels interesting like there's a needle in
Speaker 2: your foot.
Speaker 3: Okay, So you go through this a lot.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it really anything that happens like right away, it
Speaker 6: helps alleviate it pretty fast, so you can kind of
Speaker 6: sense like if it worked or not right away.
Speaker 2: Are they hitting the nerve or something and knocking it
Speaker 2: out or not?
Speaker 6: Really the nerve more more so the muscle. They try
Speaker 6: to avoid the nerves, but you know, sometimes things happen,
Speaker 6: so I.
Speaker 3: Think it's a big distraction.
Speaker 2: I got a needle in me, so I don't feel
Speaker 2: the other thing anymore.
Speaker 3: I'm feeling the needle definitely.
Speaker 1: So a lot of guys like for me, you listen
Speaker 1: to the older guys. Brian Dawkins, you know, he really
Speaker 1: talked to me and taught me about cold tub hot
Speaker 1: tub when you were first in the league. Was there
Speaker 1: an older vet that you looked up to that kind
Speaker 1: of talked about this rehab process we're not rehabbing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, more so when I got I got drafted by
Speaker 6: Kansas City, So I follow it Bury around a lot,
Speaker 6: just watching him. How he, you know, took care of
Speaker 6: himself a lot of epsom, salt baths, a lot of sauna,
Speaker 6: and like you said, a lot of hot and cold
Speaker 6: tough therapy. He was religious with that stuff because he,
Speaker 6: you know, he played a physical game, so he had
Speaker 6: to take care of himself throughout the week, all right.
Speaker 2: So, Eric, at this point of the year, and maybe
Speaker 2: earlier in the year too, when you practice, is it
Speaker 2: more mental or physical right now? Because you want to
Speaker 2: maintain your body, maintain your energy for the game day.
Speaker 2: But you got to learn the schemes and whatever else
Speaker 2: you guys need to learn x's and those. Wise, how
Speaker 2: does that go for your practice?
Speaker 6: It's more it's a little bit of both, honestly. I
Speaker 6: think in the beginning of the season, like you, like
Speaker 6: you said, you're preparing, getting the body ready. But as
Speaker 6: you begin to taper down, I want to keep the
Speaker 6: mind as sharp as possible, but you want to keep
Speaker 6: the body as fresh as possible too, So it's a
Speaker 6: healthy balance.
Speaker 1: When you talk to some of the younger guys, Obviously,
Speaker 1: the ebbs and flows of a season ups and downs.
Speaker 1: I'm sure right now you know after the loss is
Speaker 1: feeling down, like, what are some of the things that
Speaker 1: you're telling the younger guy to keep the spirits up
Speaker 1: and let him know the big picture, the ultimate goal
Speaker 1: is still in reach.
Speaker 6: You got to take a game by game still like
Speaker 6: you know, at the top of our division and very
Speaker 6: much control our destiny. So continue to come out and
Speaker 6: put together consistent performances against our remaining schedule, and that's
Speaker 6: that's all you can really do.
Speaker 2: Is it a weird situation because we've only had this
Speaker 2: maybe once, maybe twice, really only once in the history
Speaker 2: of the franchise where you have this kind of cushion
Speaker 2: and you have a two game lead, but you don't
Speaker 2: want to see that evaporate either, do you guys think
Speaker 2: about that kind of stuff. You know that you're that
Speaker 2: you're in the lead, but you know the job's not
Speaker 2: done yet.
Speaker 6: I think just from what we've seen throughout throughout last week,
Speaker 6: you just got to come out and play every Sunday.
Speaker 6: It's you know, I think Kansas City what won by
Speaker 6: three points against the Panthers, so's you know, you got
Speaker 6: to come out there and play a best ball every Sunday,
Speaker 6: and you never know, however somebody's feeling that day, how
Speaker 6: they prepare it that week. It's the NFL, so you
Speaker 6: got to come ready.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: He's a good guy to ask. I'm going back a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. But I've always thought that the fans
Speaker 1: buy into certain rivalries more so than the players. With
Speaker 1: you not being from Texas and I'm going back a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks for you, was the Dallas Cowboy game
Speaker 1: just another game which is important? Or was there a
Speaker 1: little added umph to it?
Speaker 6: Like you said, I'm not from here, so I can
Speaker 6: only get the sentiment I get from other people who
Speaker 6: was born in Texas, you know. So I feel like
Speaker 6: even if it's a lot of people who live in
Speaker 6: Houston that might be Dallas fans, and then it might
Speaker 6: be a smaller percentage of people who live in Dallas
Speaker 6: who might be Houston fans. So I just tried to
Speaker 6: catch the vibe from them to see, you know, how things.
Speaker 1: Went okay, okay, because when I played in Philadelphia and
Speaker 1: I grew up in San Antonio, they hated Dallas. So
Speaker 1: you know, they're like, we don't care what happens, just
Speaker 1: be the Cowboys, and part of me was like, I
Speaker 1: just want to win every game, Like I don't care
Speaker 1: that much who were playing. So I just did you
Speaker 1: know you're from Wisconsin, right, Yeah, so guy from Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: You know, I just want to get your film Cowboy week.
Speaker 2: So coach Rymes was in here yesterday, Eric Eric Murray
Speaker 2: joining us, and he talked about the team meeting, and
Speaker 2: we talked about the twenty four hour rule, but he
Speaker 2: said this week, I might let it sit a little
Speaker 2: longer because that one really hurt. But you wanted to
Speaker 2: kind of motivate you at the same time, How do
Speaker 2: you see that? And how is the team meeting? What
Speaker 2: can you tell the listeners about that?
Speaker 6: Anyway, Like you said, the sentiments was it was an
Speaker 6: embarrassing loss for us. I think we all as an
Speaker 6: organization and as a whole, we have a high expectation
Speaker 6: of what we want to accomplish this year. So you
Speaker 6: just lay that out and be transparent about it, and
Speaker 6: you know, look yourself in the mirror and find ways
Speaker 6: to improve.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm gonna question you on that because
Speaker 1: I'm of the belief it's tough to win in the
Speaker 1: NFL every week, So why did you use the word embarrassing?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 6: I use that word mainly because of I think the
Speaker 6: expectation we set for ourselves coming out in the season,
Speaker 6: with the acquisitions that we had over the summer and
Speaker 6: stuff like that, So we felt like our ceiling was
Speaker 6: up here.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 5: So I think.
Speaker 6: As the season has progressed and some of the losses
Speaker 6: we took, I think our outlook looks a little different
Speaker 6: and it's just going forward. How do we continue to
Speaker 6: get better and grow?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: Good answer. I like that a lot.
Speaker 2: Playing Jacksonville on Sunday and these guys, you're in the
Speaker 2: division again.
Speaker 3: You haven't been on the road in.
Speaker 2: The division since opening day, and I don't know if
Speaker 2: that's a big factor or not, but you're on natural
Speaker 2: grass in the division. They're coming off a buy and
Speaker 2: they're gonna be hungry even though they don't have a
Speaker 2: lot of victories. What do you see on Sunday? How
Speaker 2: do you see this matchup?
Speaker 5: Division games always tough.
Speaker 6: Like I said, it's any given Sunday, and you always
Speaker 6: got to prepare that week for that team. So Tennessee
Speaker 6: got us last week. We moving on the Jags and
Speaker 6: you know we're going to do our best prepared this
Speaker 6: week and get it up.
Speaker 1: Speaking of preparation, you're a pros pro. I can just
Speaker 1: tell obviously you don't last in along this long, last
Speaker 1: in the league this long without being pros pro and
Speaker 1: the way you take care of your body. But as
Speaker 1: you prepare for this game, when you watch film at home,
Speaker 1: like what do you watch? You watch the receiver's movements?
Speaker 1: Do you watching formations? Like what do you look at?
Speaker 4: Really?
Speaker 6: I try to go look at other teams that duplicate
Speaker 6: the same defense we have. So if they play the
Speaker 6: Colts or something like that, we might have the same
Speaker 6: front and then we might play the same coverages on
Speaker 6: the back end. So just look at how they attack
Speaker 6: those coverages, and I guess what that coordinator likes to
Speaker 6: do against that certain tree of defense, do you?
Speaker 1: So you look more big picture and not so much
Speaker 1: individual receiving running back.
Speaker 6: But I mean, at the end of the day, it's
Speaker 6: like a coordinator. He has tendencies and what he likes
Speaker 6: to do at the end of the day. So like
Speaker 6: the people out there, yes they matter, but he gonna
Speaker 6: call what he's gonna call in those crucial situations. So
Speaker 6: if you privy to those situations. I think you can,
Speaker 6: you know, make some hairl on those plays.
Speaker 3: Eric Murray with us when you're on the road.
Speaker 2: For you guys on the defensive side, the crowd has
Speaker 2: to be quiet or should be quiet for their offense
Speaker 2: so they can communicate. Does that help you guys communicating?
Speaker 2: The way the crowd getting into a bit of a
Speaker 2: hush while their offensive.
Speaker 6: Oper definitely helps in communication. But you, I think you
Speaker 6: still need that energy to feed on defense, so you
Speaker 6: just have to bring it yourself. But communication will be
Speaker 6: at an all time high, and we make some plays
Speaker 6: so we'll get the energy up there too.
Speaker 2: Because at home, you guys have signals and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: because it does get loud while you're trying to communicate.
Speaker 3: For sure.
Speaker 6: So we just you know, do the best you can
Speaker 6: and the crowd to help us out a little bit
Speaker 6: in that regard.
Speaker 2: All right, cool, I've got the Hot Takes brought to
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Speaker 2: Be sure to pick up the new Nashville style hot
Speaker 2: Chicken soup at Kroger today. All Right, never mind hot chicken,
Speaker 2: I'm talking Thanksgiving here, all right, Eric and I know
Speaker 2: that you guys have worked to do this week, but
Speaker 2: what will you do about Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3: Can you share with us what your plans might be.
Speaker 6: I don't like Friday turkey on my own, so I
Speaker 6: do like a big air fighter.
Speaker 5: It's like a I.
Speaker 6: Can't remember the name of the oven, but I try
Speaker 6: to get a big air fire and I air fright
Speaker 6: the whole turkey.
Speaker 3: Wow, how long does that take to air fry the turkey?
Speaker 5: It don't really take that long. Really take about like
Speaker 5: two hours.
Speaker 6: So I typically I'm in the garage, you know, in
Speaker 6: the garage by myself, trying to do my best to
Speaker 6: be an adult.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, do you season it the night before?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I like dry Brian, and then I injected with some
Speaker 6: what is it, Tony sack sack the honey creole butter.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I just do that and cook at.
Speaker 3: The next That sounds good.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna come to your hands, just enjoy myself.
Speaker 2: So that sounds good, all right, But if you had to,
Speaker 2: and I've been throwing this question around, Nick Caserio, Demiko,
Speaker 2: Ryan's everybody we're talking to this week, you have to
Speaker 2: replace turkey with something else? What other main dish would
Speaker 2: you serve, you're putting turkey on waivers and now you
Speaker 2: need to replace turkey for your Thanksgiving dinner and Indy
Speaker 2: I want your answer also, so go ahead there.
Speaker 5: That's a hard one.
Speaker 6: And you know what's funny, I really don't eat turkey
Speaker 6: unless it's on things. See, so it's it's probably some
Speaker 6: type of I mean, you just gotta go chicken. I
Speaker 6: think that's the easier answer. Russian and have a little
Speaker 6: bit more uh variability with seasonings and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Se Demico said, Ham, what do you saying?
Speaker 4: Oxtail? Okay?
Speaker 1: Really, now, I guess chicken because it's big, a different pieces,
Speaker 1: so similar to a turkey, but the best better.
Speaker 4: I gotta go oxtail.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's the main that's that's coming out of left field. Okay,
Speaker 3: I like that. See that.
Speaker 2: See I want a national campaign to replace turkey with brisket.
Speaker 2: See I think if you serve brisket on Thanksgiving, everybody's
Speaker 2: gonna get really excited.
Speaker 6: Answer right there, Yeah, yeah, that's not Wisconsin.
Speaker 2: Wisconsin would be pot roast something like that.
Speaker 4: Maybe I've had the wrong brisket, but it just seems
Speaker 4: dry to me.
Speaker 2: Oh, you're going to the wrong places. Might Who do
Speaker 2: we have in the stadium here? Truth, they're good and
Speaker 2: there are many other good ones.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, okay, real quick favorite side?
Speaker 3: No, no, go ahead.
Speaker 6: I already gave my take on his dressing dressing stuff
Speaker 6: and that's what that's.
Speaker 2: My wait in Wisconsin. Do you call it dressing or stuffing?
Speaker 6: Well, most of my family is from the South, so
Speaker 6: oh yeah, that's right, call it dressing dressing.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: See, I grew up in the North. I called stuffing.
Speaker 2: What about you?
Speaker 4: Is that your favorite site?
Speaker 2: There's no question it's the best, But you got it
Speaker 2: can't be too dry. If it's too dry, I'm like,
Speaker 2: give me the gravy.
Speaker 5: I gotta you know. And that guys, some cranberry sauce.
Speaker 3: You good cranberry sauce.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he kind of tapped into my answers. The cranberry
Speaker 1: sauce on the Hawaiian Rolls's that's that's now we're getting
Speaker 1: hungry here exactly.
Speaker 2: All right, Eric, thanks so much for joining us. Good
Speaker 2: luck this week at Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: Keep up the great work, brother. That was your safety.
Speaker 1: Eric Murray in studio with Mark and myself, We're gonna
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Speaker 1: seven and five living record, still send a time. Yes,
Speaker 1: but things don't feel good right now. I want to
Speaker 1: get y'all's take.
Speaker 2: Things don't feel good. Let's see you don't feel good
Speaker 2: coming off the loss. I feel like there's still a
Speaker 2: remarkable opportunity here because there is. Factually, there's a remarkable opportunity,
Speaker 2: and they just got to get it right. I mean,
Speaker 2: Demiko in the press conference yesterday, and I think too
Speaker 2: many people this is a side note here on press conferences.
Speaker 3: I get it, that's all you got.
Speaker 2: They're gonna pick apart everything he says, especially postgame. Come on,
Speaker 2: this is not the State of the Union address, all right,
Speaker 2: and I guess it is for the football team week
Speaker 2: to week. But at the same time, he's not going
Speaker 2: to tell you exactly what he's thinking, exactly what he's
Speaker 2: telling the players, exactly what he's talking to with Bobby
Speaker 2: slowick about he's not going to reveal all that stuff,
Speaker 2: but he talks about some of the positive things they're doing.
Speaker 3: And I know people don't want to hear.
Speaker 2: That, but they're making some sensational plays. If they cut
Speaker 2: the mistakes by twenty five percent or a third, my gosh,
Speaker 2: what they could be. So they got to get it done.
Speaker 2: I still think they have the chance to get it done,
Speaker 2: don't they, He says rhetorically.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, yeah, I don't even know if it's rhetorically.
Speaker 8: I mean, I think the question has to be asked
Speaker 8: because because they're not finishing games.
Speaker 3: Five interceptions against Detroit.
Speaker 8: You lost eight sacks, a pick six, and two fumble
Speaker 8: recoveries against the Titans and lost. So this team has
Speaker 8: in some sense, sort of I don't know the right
Speaker 8: way of saying, it lost its way in winning games
Speaker 8: and finishing those games. Now, Green Bay one of the
Speaker 8: better teams in the league. He lost on the last
Speaker 8: second field goal, right Detroit Argua with the best team
Speaker 8: in the league. He lost the last second field goal.
Speaker 8: You went to New York, and that's the New York game.
Speaker 8: Is the one that's kind of like the head turner,
Speaker 8: Like I could if you would have said to me,
Speaker 8: the Texans are going to lose to either Jets or Titans,
Speaker 8: I would have thought probably the Titans.
Speaker 3: Really, it's a division game. It's a weird game.
Speaker 8: And I always go back to this and Indy, you
Speaker 8: know this better than anybody. If you haven't, if you
Speaker 8: have a weakness and the other team has a strength
Speaker 8: at that particular weakness, it's gonna get exploited.
Speaker 3: In this league, there's no doubt.
Speaker 8: They've got Jeffrey Simmons and Devandre Sweat sitting over there,
Speaker 8: and I don't even think it matters who's over there
Speaker 8: on the Texas side. That's a massive figuratively and literally
Speaker 8: advantage for the Titans. And that is what they are
Speaker 8: able to take advantage of those two guys inside because
Speaker 8: they shut down the run game completely and then the
Speaker 8: quarterback ends up playing like the guy they thought they
Speaker 8: were drafting. So I would have thought, yeah, Titans, I
Speaker 8: could see it. It's the Jets game that bothers me.
Speaker 8: It's still because it's like they had to come up
Speaker 8: with two miracle catches too, one handed catches. It's Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 8: Look at the Jets. The Jets are a mess. But
Speaker 8: we played them on a short week beat up after
Speaker 8: the Colts game. No excuse, but you don't want the
Speaker 8: digs injury at that point. I just think there's been
Speaker 8: a there's a game every now and again where you
Speaker 8: just go, Godly, you gotta shake your head, like, but
Speaker 8: those games in which you have five interceptions and eight
Speaker 8: sacks of pick six and two Folmbel recoveries and you
Speaker 8: don't win either one at home, Like, something's bizarre world
Speaker 8: in that now're trying to figure that out.
Speaker 1: Do you all take any comfort? Because there's always this
Speaker 1: thought like if if we're a Detroit fan, you're excited
Speaker 1: about what Detroit is doing, but then you're wondering, are
Speaker 1: we peek into early? You know, if you're a Baltimore fan,
Speaker 1: you might be saying the same thing. Is there any comfort,
Speaker 1: And I'm not suggesting there should be that you have
Speaker 1: confidence that they fixed the issues, but they're still going
Speaker 1: to be in a place where they're going to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: they're going to win the division, and by the time
Speaker 1: they get into the playoffs, they're gonna be hitting on
Speaker 1: all cylinders.
Speaker 2: They got to fix the issues first, though, I mean
Speaker 2: they will, well, we all agree there's a lot of
Speaker 2: room for improvement, and there's some time, not a ton,
Speaker 2: but some time for improvement. The question is will there
Speaker 2: be improvement, and that's what they have to prove in
Speaker 2: these final five games in the regular season that they
Speaker 2: will be better.
Speaker 3: I think we brought this up with Eric a little bit.
Speaker 3: I think that it's.
Speaker 2: A weird time in this franchise's history where you have
Speaker 2: this lead in the division, you haven't clinched yet. You
Speaker 2: really weren't even going into the Tennessee game. A better seed,
Speaker 2: like a two seed, was still very far off. It
Speaker 2: felt right, not impossible, but far off. And then you
Speaker 2: feel like, well, we're not gonna blow the division, are we.
Speaker 3: It's a weird dynamic.
Speaker 2: I almost wish and this is the first time I'm
Speaker 2: saying this on the year because I talked about this
Speaker 2: with Johnny before. I almost wish the Colts were winning
Speaker 2: because to put a little more pressure, maybe that would
Speaker 2: sharpen the edge a little bit.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: That's just a theory I have, and I could be
Speaker 2: totally wrong, but I feel that way.
Speaker 3: That's just one of the thoughts I've been having.
Speaker 1: I get feeling that way. But here's where you know,
Speaker 1: I differ from that thought. You know, you're saying that
Speaker 1: you wish Indianapolis or any AFC South team was winning
Speaker 1: more but was threatening. Yeah, but as players, and I
Speaker 1: could be wrong, As players, you're not really looking at
Speaker 1: the standings really, so in my opinion, the players are
Speaker 1: from my experiences say the players aren't looking at the
Speaker 1: standing saying, you know what, we have a two game lead.
Speaker 4: If we win, we win. If we don't, we don't.
Speaker 1: And I know you weren't simple that point, but I
Speaker 1: don't even think that enters the mind. Really, that's more us,
Speaker 1: you know, media fans on the outside looking in.
Speaker 8: So I think I think the best game I say
Speaker 8: in air quotes, the best game the Texans have played
Speaker 8: this year. The first half against the Buffalo Bills, the
Speaker 8: first half against the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 3: Right now, what do those two opponents have in common?
Speaker 3: They're really good. They're really freaking good.
Speaker 4: YEA.
Speaker 8: Now in the second half, you could, you know, against
Speaker 8: the Lions, you could argue, man, CJ just hit tank
Speaker 8: for that. It's thirty to thirteen, over knows how it
Speaker 8: opens up. I think that with this team kind of
Speaker 8: to your point, D, I feel like this team sees
Speaker 8: the Lions, or sees the Bills, or sees the Chiefs,
Speaker 8: and it's like strap them up, boys, let's go. And
Speaker 8: there's that. You know, we know we're in that category.
Speaker 8: Now we're going to go show it. I don't know
Speaker 8: that in those games that they knew exactly how to
Speaker 8: finish it because they got such big leads and it
Speaker 8: was like do we keep attacking and how do we
Speaker 8: go about this? It's if they can make adjustments in
Speaker 8: the second half such that and I'm not talking about
Speaker 8: exton nose adjustments. I'm just talking about mindset adjustments of
Speaker 8: we got to go put two touchdowns on a board
Speaker 8: and second half we can't get to a point where
Speaker 8: since Week six, how about this? Since week six second
Speaker 8: half touchdowns for the Texans one Derek Barnett won, Jimmy
Speaker 8: Ward won, and the Texans offense one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say one offensive touchdown.
Speaker 8: If we can get to a point where we're executing
Speaker 8: better in the second half, I think in those games
Speaker 8: when we do play those teams and we have those
Speaker 8: opportunities to play the Chiefs and the Ravens and then
Speaker 8: playoff games, if they come to be I think this
Speaker 8: team will show up that much more. I just kind
Speaker 8: of feel like that's that's this team. The thing about
Speaker 8: it is, I think to be able to win it all,
Speaker 8: you obviously have to beat those teams. And so having
Speaker 8: a two game margin I think is good because it
Speaker 8: does allow that, all right, well we just stepped all
Speaker 8: over ourselves against the Titans, but it does take out
Speaker 8: any opportunity more and more than likely if you're thinking
Speaker 8: down the road about a seating where you're gonna play
Speaker 8: that playoff game at home and then have to go
Speaker 8: on the road in the second round, So you're really
Speaker 8: gonna have to put that to the test because you're
Speaker 8: gonna have to play the Bills, the Chiefs, the Ravens, the.
Speaker 3: Steelers on the road.
Speaker 8: Are you then going to have that same mentality like
Speaker 8: that you've had against the Bills and Alliance, like we
Speaker 8: know we're in this class, we know we're this good,
Speaker 8: but can you do it for sixty minutes? And so
Speaker 8: I feel like it's one of Jacksonville is going to
Speaker 8: test that because it's Jacksonville. It's a place you haven't
Speaker 8: lost since twenty seventeen. Yet they've got enough athletes and
Speaker 8: enough players especially if Trevor plays to make it difficult
Speaker 8: and it's down in their place, and so it's a
Speaker 8: weird place to play in a sense that you know,
Speaker 8: you kind of have to bring your own energy to
Speaker 8: their building. But if they start getting in the game,
Speaker 8: those fans can be all over you and it can
Speaker 8: be kind of tough. So I don't know, it's it's
Speaker 8: tough Indy because I feel like I feel I want
Speaker 8: to say, I want to believe.
Speaker 3: That last week was the wake up call.
Speaker 8: I want to believe that I want to believe last
Speaker 8: week was the wake up call. You can't just roll
Speaker 8: your helmet out there and expect the teams to lay
Speaker 8: down for you, because they're not going to. So if
Speaker 8: you want to finish the season with something, then it
Speaker 8: starts in Jacksonville. You get a bye week, and then
Speaker 8: you can finish the last four games the way you want.
Speaker 8: To your point, it's man Mark said this, when's the
Speaker 8: test due? When's the test due? Because if I know
Speaker 8: when the test is, I can study the night before
Speaker 8: the test. I'll be good. We all did that. We're
Speaker 8: all smart people. We all studied the night before the test.
Speaker 8: We were fine, But we knew when the test was,
Speaker 8: when's the test for this team? What is the test
Speaker 8: for this team? Is it going to Jacksonville and playing well?
Speaker 8: Is it Miami at home against the hot Tua? Is
Speaker 8: it on the road to Kansas City? Are those all
Speaker 8: tests now for the rest of the year. So I
Speaker 8: think that's that's the question. It didn't feel like Sunday
Speaker 8: against Tennessee was a test, and maybe we weren't totally
Speaker 8: ready all tests, So I know, I know it should
Speaker 8: be that way, but it should be, but human nature
Speaker 8: tells it. Did you feel like going in walking in
Speaker 8: that building, either one of y'all on Sunday that you
Speaker 8: were like, yeah, the Titans have got a chance. I mean,
Speaker 8: we felt like they had a chance. But did you
Speaker 8: honestly feel like they're gonna beat this?
Speaker 3: No? No, you didn't. You kind of felt like, all right.
Speaker 2: I thought the Texans would take care of business. I
Speaker 2: learned a long time ago that my feelings have no
Speaker 2: bearings right on the thing. So people ask me, how
Speaker 2: do you feel? Are you kidding? What are my feelings
Speaker 2: have to do with how they're going to play today?
Speaker 3: You know? And that's the thing.
Speaker 2: Dan Riley, he was around when you were playing right,
Speaker 2: Dan Riley told me a long time ago, and the
Speaker 2: any given Sunday thing is so true, because anybody can
Speaker 2: rise up and play great on a particular afternoon. We'll
Speaker 2: see how the Titans do down the stretch here. Levis
Speaker 2: made some really good throws. Obviously, they ran the ball well,
Speaker 2: they played well enough on defense up the middle, whatever,
Speaker 2: and they got the job done. But what about that
Speaker 2: d How are the players feeling right now? Because you
Speaker 2: talk about, oh, they don't notice the standings that much,
Speaker 2: but they notice the losses, and they've lost four of
Speaker 2: six and they can't be feeling that great. But they
Speaker 2: have to find a way to feel really great and
Speaker 2: up going to Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: I don't want to repeat myself, but the feeling after
Speaker 1: a loss when you're a good team is this hurry
Speaker 1: up and get on the field, just so I could
Speaker 1: get that takes out of my mouth. So that's something
Speaker 1: that I believe they're feeling. I think they're chomping at
Speaker 1: the bit. You know, obviously they want to enjoy things,
Speaker 1: but they want to get on that plane. They want
Speaker 1: to get to Jacksonville, and they just want to taste
Speaker 1: victory more so than they want to taste that turkey
Speaker 1: because when you lose a game that you're expected to win,
Speaker 1: that you feel like you should win that game. And
Speaker 1: most NFL players go into every game feeling like they
Speaker 1: should win, no matter how ridiculous it may sound. Carolina like,
Speaker 1: let's look at the big picture. If anybody would have said,
Speaker 1: or if any Carolina player would have come out publicly
Speaker 1: and said, we expect to be Kansas City, most of
Speaker 1: I mean, y'all are football people, so y'all respect it,
Speaker 1: but most people are like, they're stupid, but then watch
Speaker 1: the game like they almost did it. So my point
Speaker 1: is every single NFL player goes into a game expecting
Speaker 1: to win. But after a loss like that, and Eric
Speaker 1: Murray even mentioned it. He didn't disrespect the Titans, but
Speaker 1: you know he mentioned without saying verbay and we're a
Speaker 1: better team, we should have won that game. That's when
Speaker 1: you really want to just get that bad taste out
Speaker 1: of your mouth. And as far as the Test, I
Speaker 1: think that's awesome. The analogy. I don't know if the
Speaker 1: test is an actual team like Miami Kansas City. I
Speaker 1: think the the test is can you score in the
Speaker 1: second half, because if you want to pass the final exam.
Speaker 1: If you want to pass the midterm, it's not even
Speaker 1: about who's in front of you. It's about fixing what
Speaker 1: you're doing in the second half. And it's an interesting
Speaker 1: problem because is it play calling, is it player mentality?
Speaker 1: Is it preparation during the week, And I'm sure the
Speaker 1: answer is a little bit of all the above. But
Speaker 1: that's an interesting if I'm the coaching staff, if I'm Demko,
Speaker 1: like I'm getting the whole crew, the entire staff, at
Speaker 1: the table and be like, hey, what's like, what can
Speaker 1: we do to make sure the success we've had in
Speaker 1: the first half we have in the second half, because
Speaker 1: it's not even just about maintaining the lead. There's gonna
Speaker 1: be times in the playoff where you have to get
Speaker 1: the lead in the second half, so you really have
Speaker 1: to be explosive. So that would be I would love
Speaker 1: to be a fly on the wall in that meeting
Speaker 1: of the minds with the coaches, even if I'm Demiko.
Speaker 1: If I'm Demiko, I'm even meeting with my defensive coaches
Speaker 1: and saying, hey, is there something we should be doing
Speaker 1: during the with our scout team to, you know, to
Speaker 1: make sure that in the second half where we're as
Speaker 1: productive as we've been in the first half.
Speaker 8: You brought up something and d at some point, oh, oh,
Speaker 8: I know we were talking with Miko. I want to
Speaker 8: ask you this, And I asked him because that loss
Speaker 8: wasn't sitting well with me, I could imagine it was
Speaker 8: sitting well with him. And I got a pretty good
Speaker 8: read on him because I'm the last person that talks
Speaker 8: to him on Sunday, getting my postgame interview with him,
Speaker 8: I get a pretty good read on how he's.
Speaker 3: Kind of feeling about things.
Speaker 8: And I knew when he walked out of that room
Speaker 8: he was feeling a lot like I was. And so
Speaker 8: I asked him about the whole you know, twenty four
Speaker 8: hour rule, you know, and you know, I said it
Speaker 8: feel I said, how hard is that to really apply
Speaker 8: to yourself? The twenty four hour rule? And I was like,
Speaker 8: can you really apply that? And this was, you know, Monday.
Speaker 8: I can't remember what time we were talking to him,
Speaker 8: probably like three in the afternoon, so it was about
Speaker 8: twenty four hours. Said I don't want to forget. He goes,
Speaker 8: I want to remind these guys all throughout the week
Speaker 8: of what happened. And I was like, interesting. Okay, go
Speaker 8: with that thought. I wanted to kind of see where
Speaker 8: he was going with that, But his basic premise was,
Speaker 8: I want these players to be reminded of what happens
Speaker 8: if you don't if you're not in the details, if
Speaker 8: you're not in your in your playbook, if you're not
Speaker 8: doing the things and paying attention and just having an
Speaker 8: overall swarm mentality. Did you ever have that a situation,
Speaker 8: Indy where a coach there was a loss and a
Speaker 8: coach just kept holding that over your head the following
Speaker 8: week or the following weeks because maybe you did something
Speaker 8: wrong in practice and you're like, man, you did that
Speaker 8: wrong against Dallas and they beat you, and now you
Speaker 8: got to face you know, the Texans and they're gonna
Speaker 8: beat you. Do you have coaches that would hold that,
Speaker 8: They wouldn't let it go.
Speaker 3: They just kept holding that loss over your head.
Speaker 1: The bad ones, you know, in that way where they
Speaker 1: keep bringing like a you know, like a wife that
Speaker 1: brings up something you did wrong seven years ago, so
Speaker 1: they hold on to that. Yeah, And you also have
Speaker 1: to get a feel because it's not even a bad
Speaker 1: technique to bring it up. If your players are reading
Speaker 1: the press clippings and they think they're better than they are.
Speaker 1: And I've also had coaches where we had a horrible
Speaker 1: game and we didn't even watch film on that game
Speaker 1: and memory, yeah, and that's something that very rarely happens.
Speaker 1: Like in the NFL, you watch every single game. I mean,
Speaker 1: keep in mind, this is the league where you watch
Speaker 1: every snap at practice. So in a game, good or bad,
Speaker 1: you're gonna watch every snap. But I've had I remember,
Speaker 1: it only happened a couple of times in twelve years,
Speaker 1: and I think both times with Jim Johnson May Soul
Speaker 1: Rest in peace, our defensive coordinator with the philw Eagles,
Speaker 1: And I remember the one time he walked into the
Speaker 1: defensive meeting room said that wasn't us. We're not even
Speaker 1: gonna watch it, and we just moved forward to the
Speaker 1: next Wow, and I think I had a bad game.
Speaker 1: I was like, who, thank god. I remember thinking like,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you know we're not gonna watch that as
Speaker 1: a team, because there's nothing worse than watching a bad
Speaker 1: play in front of all your brethren, you know, a
Speaker 1: bad play that you made. But obviously I wasn't the
Speaker 1: only one. So but the problem with this team you know,
Speaker 1: fast forward twenty twenty four, Houston Texans. There's been multiple,
Speaker 1: you know, performances. So I don't know if you do
Speaker 1: watch it as a team and you you focus on
Speaker 1: the little things, or if you just say, you know what, let's.
Speaker 4: Move on to Jackson.
Speaker 3: Well, they've already watched some of it. Yeah, it's too late.
Speaker 2: It's too late to change Tomiko's mind on anything for
Speaker 2: a while.
Speaker 8: Apparently, I think he said fifty to sixty plays, and
Speaker 8: knowing the way that coaches with the coaching clicker, fifty
Speaker 8: sixty plays could have probably taken a couple hours.
Speaker 4: It's not more.
Speaker 2: Look look if this guy does this, Look this is
Speaker 2: a touchdown, or this is a prevented touchdown, or whatever
Speaker 2: the case.
Speaker 4: Every play is more than one.
Speaker 1: When Chigg the tight end for the Tennessee Titans, scored
Speaker 1: on that seventy yard trust me, that wasn't one guy.
Speaker 1: So you're watching that play and you're probably watching six
Speaker 1: or seven mistakes.
Speaker 3: I think that three les exactly. I went back twenty times.
Speaker 2: I think that play blew his mind in a bad way.
Speaker 2: This is just a theory more than any other play
Speaker 2: in the game. The fact that you have a four
Speaker 2: point lead. You'd rather have more, but you have a
Speaker 2: four point lead. You're kicking off to them, make a stop,
Speaker 2: get it back. Let's try to get out of the game, right.
Speaker 2: It's been a bad afternoon. We've got the lead. Let's
Speaker 2: not let go of the lead. You lose the lead
Speaker 2: in one play. It's not like they meticulously drove down
Speaker 2: the field and got it in the end zone one play.
Speaker 2: I think that really burned him to see it go
Speaker 2: like that and then all of a sudden you're up
Speaker 2: against it again.
Speaker 1: It's funny, said that Mark. That's exactly that was my
Speaker 1: thought process before the touchdown. I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: this has been a quote unquote ugly game. They score
Speaker 1: their ahead. Now they're just gonna get a three and
Speaker 1: out and we're gonna win the game. Then we scored
Speaker 1: the touchdown. Chicka quote quote the tight end, who's not
Speaker 1: even that fast? And I was that before you You
Speaker 1: literally just expressed my thoughts before he scored that touchdown,
Speaker 1: And when he scored, I was like, Wow, make him.
Speaker 2: Work for it, because you're getting after Levis all day.
Speaker 2: You're getting after him, You're making life tough for him.
Speaker 2: You've gotten one turnover already from him, and there could
Speaker 2: be more, but you limit your opportunities obviously by allowing
Speaker 2: one play of seventy yards and they score.
Speaker 3: So that's it.
Speaker 8: And the thing about it is they allow that play
Speaker 8: and it's so easy.
Speaker 3: Nobody, I mean really nobody touched him.
Speaker 2: I mean basically they could have gotten him down and
Speaker 2: then re lo.
Speaker 8: I mean he's wide open. First of all, okay, blew
Speaker 8: the coverage gonna make to stop. Then you don't do that,
Speaker 8: then nobody can catch him. So it's like everything that's wait,
Speaker 8: he's gonna I'm watching from the other angle. It's obviously
Speaker 8: running towards your side, Mark, where we call the games from,
Speaker 8: and I see him.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I guess somebody a game. Somebody's gonna stop. No.
Speaker 3: Mark keeps saying he's running, he's running. It was like
Speaker 3: a bad dream. It was. It was like one gun
Speaker 3: get to him, you know.
Speaker 8: Just now the defense's gonna have to all right, listen,
Speaker 8: explosives all year defensively have been an issue, and they've
Speaker 8: got to They've got to prevent those things.
Speaker 3: Things got to stay in front.
Speaker 8: Guy's gotta tackle better, I mean to Miko's talked about
Speaker 8: that a lot, but it's really got.
Speaker 3: To come to the forefront this weekend.
Speaker 2: But Andy, what about Okay, you have that play we
Speaker 2: talked about, and you had a tremendous special teams play
Speaker 2: out of Damian Pierce to open the game, and you
Speaker 2: have Kimi Fairbarn who's a great kicker, but he misses
Speaker 2: twenty eight yarder. You also had, oh I forgot to
Speaker 2: cover up the ball in the end zone. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: and you know that occurred, and then you had a
Speaker 2: bobble and you just had weird stuff happening throughout the
Speaker 2: afternoon that is so preventable. And again it you know,
Speaker 2: I get it, people make mistakes, human element, all of that,
Speaker 2: but you gotta be tighter than that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, false start. I'm upset with that. I
Speaker 1: want to get tighter. As you mentioned, when it's covering
Speaker 1: up the ball in the end zone. You know that's
Speaker 1: something you're like, come on, guys, we're in the pros.
Speaker 1: Let's fix that. Believe it or not. Commie Ferburn missing
Speaker 1: that field goal, I was like, that's that. That's an outlier.
Speaker 1: Like that didn't even bother me. I mean, he made
Speaker 1: a fifty four yarder and he's been awesome all Like.
Speaker 4: To me, that was like, damn game time one.
Speaker 1: No, I get what you're saying, and I'm not giving
Speaker 1: him a pass because I like him, which is saying
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 3: That wasn't the reason you'll lost that way.
Speaker 1: And that's not going to happen. You know that's not
Speaker 1: going to happen frequently. I was like, Oh, that's that
Speaker 1: was a freak of nature. So it But it's the
Speaker 1: mental mistakes, leaving a receiver a tight end wide open,
Speaker 1: the multiple false starts.
Speaker 4: Those.
Speaker 3: Touchdown Yeah, that's.
Speaker 1: Those are the ones that those are the ones that
Speaker 1: are really tough to accept, and those are ones you
Speaker 1: better watch multiple times in front of the whole team
Speaker 1: to not to shame the guys, but to shame the
Speaker 1: guys because you don't want that to happen. But no
Speaker 1: shame for any of you. Listeners. Definitely appreciate y'all joining us.
Speaker 1: Tech is All Access Players Edition coming up. You're gonna
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Speaker 7: How you feeling, bro?
Speaker 9: I feel great, man.
Speaker 10: What's the deal before camp though? What was that looking like?
Speaker 10: What was some of like for you? Were you traveling
Speaker 10: with you more family baseball?
Speaker 7: What was going on?
Speaker 11: Both went to Alabama a few times. I was raised
Speaker 11: in Mobile, Alabama.
Speaker 8: Yea.
Speaker 9: Went to the Midwest. I was born in the Midwest.
Speaker 10: What's like the differences with those that's like, I feel
Speaker 10: like that's like polar opposites for especially weatherwise.
Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely weather. Yeah. Food, food is different.
Speaker 11: I'm saying some good food down south with Alabama, but
Speaker 11: they're big on like it's the base so they with
Speaker 11: the golf, so they big on seafood. And Midwest you
Speaker 11: kind of got a bunch of different foods. You got
Speaker 11: a big, big, big Italian group out there, so Italian
Speaker 11: food you got. Partillo is one of my favorite restaurants.
Speaker 9: That cheese, fries.
Speaker 11: Yeah, good dairy products because of Wisconsin got all them
Speaker 11: dairy farms and it's the culture out there. I like both,
Speaker 11: but not gonna lie. Chicago's up there with Houston with
Speaker 11: the food for sure.
Speaker 7: No, I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 9: Bro.
Speaker 10: I always say this and obviously I'm from here, Do
Speaker 10: not cancel me. And then this, but I think that
Speaker 10: Chicago has the best food in the country, just because,
Speaker 10: like Houston, you come here for a certain reason, right,
Speaker 10: It's a lot of Cajun food, Like, especially after contrining
Speaker 10: everything happened, we got this whole influx of people from
Speaker 10: Louisiana that really influenced all our seasons and all our
Speaker 10: sauces and all that type of stuff, And we.
Speaker 7: Have amazing food. I definitely think we number two.
Speaker 10: But you go to Chicago and they're just so good
Speaker 10: at everything, you know what I'm saying, Like they got
Speaker 10: jerk egg rolls, they have an Italian food, deep this pizza,
Speaker 10: all this type of crazy. I just think Chicago's they
Speaker 10: might have a little edge when it comes to like
Speaker 10: expertise when it comes to but you can't go wrong
Speaker 10: with either one, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: I agree with you. Yeah, I say that.
Speaker 11: I tell people that all exactly gonna want Houston too,
Speaker 11: So it's right there and there's nothing wrong with picking
Speaker 11: either one.
Speaker 7: So Jimmy, bro, you got here last year.
Speaker 10: Last year was the first season with the Texans, right
Speaker 10: after spending a lot of time with the Niners. How's
Speaker 10: it been just you know, just the whole adjustment coming
Speaker 10: to a new city, new new squad and you was
Speaker 10: already in captain like already last year, right, So.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that was that was different, Oh captain thing. I
Speaker 11: was like, I was like, all right, what like respect?
Speaker 10: Just somebody outside looking at what other like responsibilities as
Speaker 10: I have. Obviously on the field, you have certain obligations
Speaker 10: and responsibilities with that see on your jersey, but just
Speaker 10: off the field, like, does that come with a whole
Speaker 10: different like energy of like responsibility to take care of what.
Speaker 11: I would say, I say, I would say it doesn't.
Speaker 11: But then again, I feel like it's it's a big responsibility.
Speaker 11: A lot of younger players looking up to you, watching
Speaker 11: you all the time. So and I just feel like
Speaker 11: the way of how I go about my things and
Speaker 11: go about my work, I feel like I feel like
Speaker 11: I'm a natural natural happening. So I just kind of do,
Speaker 11: like try to do the right stuff. Basically, if I'm
Speaker 11: answering your question for.
Speaker 10: Not literally and and what you was at where you
Speaker 10: was at San Francisco, the Miko was there?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 4: What you were there?
Speaker 9: Yeah, Miko was there? Yeah, I think Miko was.
Speaker 11: At first he was a position coach, and then he
Speaker 11: ended up getting to DC and I watched him end
Speaker 11: up getting.
Speaker 9: A head job.
Speaker 10: And you've been killing it ever since. Man, everybody seems
Speaker 10: like they loved the Migo around here. We gotta get
Speaker 10: him on the show one time.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, you gotta get me.
Speaker 10: I was watching him while I was growing up watching Texas,
Speaker 10: I was watching Miko, So we got to definitely gotta
Speaker 10: have them on the show. But so when it comes
Speaker 10: to all these adjustments and all that, uh, you know,
Speaker 10: playing for different teams, different coaches, especially at dB, you
Speaker 10: might switch around a lot. When it comes to you
Speaker 10: might play corner back, you might play free, safty, strong, safety.
Speaker 7: You have a pressmen, when it.
Speaker 10: Comes to which one, which one do you think you
Speaker 10: excel at the most, and which one is the most fun?
Speaker 11: Oh man, I would say I wanted to play safety
Speaker 11: when I first got there. I didn't really know how
Speaker 11: to play corner, but somehow I want the job. So
Speaker 11: corner was the most It was the biggest challenge for me,
Speaker 11: but that helped me overall game at safety. And when
Speaker 11: they put me a nickel, and which is I played
Speaker 11: nickel on college safety nick at college.
Speaker 9: So really the the funnest position is nickel.
Speaker 11: If they use you right, I would say yeah, because
Speaker 11: you get the blitz you get, you get man coverage,
Speaker 11: you get zone coverage, and it's really really like you're
Speaker 11: like a hybrid linebacker.
Speaker 1: We continue with Jimmy Ward and Chase b on the
Speaker 1: Shuffle podcast.
Speaker 10: Let me ask you or interception interception? Yeah, it's not
Speaker 10: even close.
Speaker 12: Now it's now if it's a sack, strip, sack, take
Speaker 12: it to the crib. Okay, because you get a sack
Speaker 12: and you get a tackle and you get a force
Speaker 12: and you pick it up and score.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, yeah, we go to celebration this year.
Speaker 7: You got you got some of your mind if you
Speaker 7: touch his zone.
Speaker 9: Man, I gotta stop flipping in his Yeah, I.
Speaker 7: Seen that one. See, I think everything I see.
Speaker 9: I got, I got, I got, I gotta. I might
Speaker 9: have a dancer too.
Speaker 11: I don't got I can't think of nothing coming. Man,
Speaker 11: it might happen, bro, I'm gonna do something for sure.
Speaker 11: What's the this last question about football and just per
Speaker 11: se right now?
Speaker 10: What do you think like is the overall kind of
Speaker 10: like the tone of the defense right now? I feel
Speaker 10: like just even watching the Textans for the last couple years,
Speaker 10: I feel like the tone is just switched. Especially in
Speaker 10: the playoffs last year, I was just kind of looking
Speaker 10: like all these they they it's aggressive. It's like a
Speaker 10: real it's a unit now. One before it kind of
Speaker 10: felt like individual players. Now it feels like it's a
Speaker 10: whole force of Like the Texans play very aggressive, very
Speaker 10: on the ball defense. So have you seen have you
Speaker 10: noticed like the switch and the energy?
Speaker 11: Yeah, definitely physicality and you know, having a group of
Speaker 11: guys back with a majority of the group of guys
Speaker 11: back for this second year, so you know, guys out
Speaker 11: there playing fast and we know where to be and
Speaker 11: then we're playing off each other. We added a few
Speaker 11: guys off a free agency in the draft, but you
Speaker 11: know it's it's follows suits. So when you got younger
Speaker 11: guys or guys just coming from different teams, you know,
Speaker 11: they watching the guys that been here and it's easy. Okay,
Speaker 11: this is how he goes about it, this is this
Speaker 11: is what he sees, and this what he does. So
Speaker 11: it's just like plug in and play and our twos
Speaker 11: and threes is just as good as the ones coming
Speaker 11: in hot.
Speaker 10: For real, suiciding football bro. I noticed they sent me
Speaker 10: a note man that you actually wrote. I read a
Speaker 10: little bit of it too, but you actually wrote nutrition book.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 4: What year was that?
Speaker 11: It's like three years ago. I started on it like
Speaker 11: three years ago and it's out is publishing there. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 11: what made you want to do that? Just because I
Speaker 11: didn't know how to eat and what to eat when
Speaker 11: I was young, right for real?
Speaker 9: And I used to always try to gain Yeah.
Speaker 11: So yeah, I used to try to gain weight, and
Speaker 11: because I was trying to get offers and stuff, and
Speaker 11: it's like I need to put on weight really that
Speaker 11: I feel like your weight doesn't have to do anything
Speaker 11: with it, Like you're fifteen sixteen, the weight gonna come.
Speaker 11: But it's about being strong. But besides that, so I
Speaker 11: just wanted to teach kids. Uh, we just teach kids
Speaker 11: what I learned as I got older, because I didn't
Speaker 11: learn how to eat and what to eat, and I
Speaker 11: started training for a combine and then I didn't get sleep.
Speaker 11: Talking on the phone to the girls, I probably get
Speaker 11: a protein shake and pit water and it really couldn't
Speaker 11: afford a bunch of milk, and just knowing like how
Speaker 11: to eat like lean grill food or lean meat, not
Speaker 11: too much red meat, chicken fish, a bunch of rice,
Speaker 11: and a bunch of fruits and vegetables organic if you know,
Speaker 11: that'd be the best type of type of vegeon.
Speaker 9: Fruit, more fresh.
Speaker 10: And so I just try to share that with the kids,
Speaker 10: not supporting man, especially now with all these you know,
Speaker 10: you know a lot of ether having like heart problems
Speaker 10: and heart conditions that they don't even know where these
Speaker 10: things are coming from. It's just, you know, it literally
Speaker 10: isn't what they eat. And if you could prevent it,
Speaker 10: you know, that would be a very important thing. And
Speaker 10: with adults as well. So I wanted to ask you
Speaker 10: if you could, because the book is called The Nutritional
Speaker 10: Abcs for Active Kids, if you had an adults version
Speaker 10: of this book, what would you think adults need to know?
Speaker 10: What to come of the certain abcs of nutrition.
Speaker 11: How to sleep, how much to eat right, don't starve
Speaker 11: yourself like people thinking starving theirself is a proper way
Speaker 11: to losing weight.
Speaker 9: Now you still gotta eat. You just need to.
Speaker 11: Up your veggies and up your fruit to just eat
Speaker 11: clean and then just let's let's meet. Let's like yo,
Speaker 11: I think the protein that you sussed to eat is
Speaker 11: supposed it's supposed.
Speaker 9: To be like the palm of your hand.
Speaker 11: And wise, yeah, portion wise and grains too, less grains
Speaker 11: and you're trying to gain or wait, you just gotta
Speaker 11: eat more grains, more protein, more grains. So and about
Speaker 11: sleep and then recovery too, like when you're working out.
Speaker 11: You know a lot of people were trying to, you know,
Speaker 11: kill theyself in a workout, but you know you're eating off.
Speaker 11: You gotta do everything you gotta You gotta have a
Speaker 11: proper recovery and a proper diet balance. You know, for
Speaker 11: everything to work, just do one of the three. You
Speaker 11: gotta have all three. I'll talk about the balance, man.
Speaker 11: And you know, check this out.
Speaker 10: If we was doing an adult version of the ABC's Nutrition,
Speaker 10: I got one letter we got to take out. Man,
Speaker 10: We're taking this letter out. We're taking out the letter.
Speaker 10: Oh all right, all this O zipic and all of that,
Speaker 10: We're taking that letter out. We're just gonna take the
Speaker 10: whole concept of that and just throw it away.
Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying. We're gonna get the healthy
Speaker 7: the right way.
Speaker 1: You fully, you're listening to Chase B and Jimmy Ward
Speaker 1: on the Shuffle podcast.
Speaker 10: Even in league for a while, What is your favorite stadium.
Speaker 4: To play in?
Speaker 11: Not gonna cancel me if I don't say Houston, willn't
Speaker 11: I want to say It's okay, always the home you
Speaker 11: want to be home.
Speaker 7: But if it's.
Speaker 11: Away game, uh, the environment down the street New Orleans.
Speaker 11: Just man, I played there on the primetime game and
Speaker 11: the lights just went off the first time playing what what?
Speaker 7: What year was that?
Speaker 11: This is the year we went to the Super Bowl
Speaker 11: when I was playing for sant France and then lights
Speaker 11: went off.
Speaker 7: It's like, dang, it's dark.
Speaker 11: Then all of a sudden, the lights just start flickering
Speaker 11: and everybody phone just start flickering.
Speaker 7: And then they just.
Speaker 9: Who they say? Who they say?
Speaker 3: Who?
Speaker 9: They say, it's gonna beat them safe.
Speaker 11: I'm looking then at the highlights just start going on
Speaker 11: and off.
Speaker 7: Five words.
Speaker 9: I'm like, all right, we got us a game.
Speaker 7: Now, the super definitely got it. I'll saw him into
Speaker 7: an actual football game and there I got. I gotta
Speaker 7: check one out. Well, what's your least favorite stadium playing Lambo?
Speaker 10: Was that?
Speaker 11: Just because it's old Lambo, It's got to be at
Speaker 11: a certain time, Limbo in December, January or February.
Speaker 7: You can't.
Speaker 9: You can't feel your body.
Speaker 11: You go out there the first even and walk through
Speaker 11: as soon as you get off the bus. The first
Speaker 11: three minutes, your fingers and your toes go numbs over.
Speaker 7: It can't even feel it. Soldier Field, it's the same
Speaker 7: way it was Lambo a little bit.
Speaker 11: I've been playing the Soldier Field since I was in college,
Speaker 11: so yeah, it's not as bad. I think it gets
Speaker 11: kind of tough towards like when it when it gets
Speaker 11: colder outside, but it's not as it's not as worse
Speaker 11: as Limbo.
Speaker 10: As Limbo even Buffalo, Buffalo others Bad only went up
Speaker 10: the Buffalo one time.
Speaker 9: It wasn't cold, so that.
Speaker 7: Might be a different beasts up there. You've seen them
Speaker 7: throw the snowball.
Speaker 10: I'm like, yeah, I want I'm not visiting that after
Speaker 10: after October it might.
Speaker 7: Be over with for the Buffalo.
Speaker 9: Yeah that's yeah, hopefully, I don't.
Speaker 11: I don't know, you never know. I might end up
Speaker 11: playing in that one time. Yeah, yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 10: Aside from playing though, what's your favorite city of the
Speaker 10: vas I know we talked about New York a little
Speaker 10: bit earlier.
Speaker 7: In the same Letstons of the World and Pargol and
Speaker 7: all that. Is there a favorite place you just like
Speaker 7: to visit off the field?
Speaker 9: Chicago?
Speaker 7: Chicago?
Speaker 9: Still Chicago, just because the food and I.
Speaker 11: Went to school up that way and I got a
Speaker 11: lot of family members and friends from College Street. Yeah,
Speaker 11: down the street, So it's yeah, Chicago. But other than that,
Speaker 11: I'm in the city where I want to be at.
Speaker 9: Yeah, for real, Houston.
Speaker 4: So you like it here?
Speaker 7: Yeah, we gotta love Houston, man.
Speaker 10: After what would you think we talked a little about
Speaker 10: a little bit about nutrition. Would you see yourself coaching
Speaker 10: Nutritian's coach is just getting your whole you know, just
Speaker 10: kind of you know, entrepreneur that way or.
Speaker 9: Uh that's I thought about that.
Speaker 11: I may do a little bit in that field, fill
Speaker 11: the work, you know, since I kind of got my
Speaker 11: masters degree in football.
Speaker 9: So exactly where stay around there? So, uh, I don't know.
Speaker 11: Uh, I feel like I'm gonna have my hand in
Speaker 11: a few different pots.
Speaker 1: Pulling up bron That was Jimmy Ward joined by Chase
Speaker 1: b on the shuffle. That's gonna do it for us
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