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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into Wednesday edition of Texans All Access from the

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Speaker 2: Hooday at Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, John.

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Speaker 2: Harris, Football Finals sideline reporter for Your Houston Texas.

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Speaker 1: So glad to be with you. We've got plenty to

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Speaker 1: do and to.

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Speaker 2: Discuss a lot of news of the day type things happening.

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Speaker 2: One in particular that we will discuss a little later.

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Speaker 2: But we got to kick off the show on a Wednesday,

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Speaker 2: as we always do now. We talked with Nick Cassario, Executi,

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Speaker 2: vice President, general manager of Your Houston Texans. We always

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Speaker 2: talk with him on Tuesday, but we always played the

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Speaker 2: interview on Wednesday, so we didn't get into the.

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Speaker 1: I guess official announcement about CJ.

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Speaker 2: Strapp, but we did ask him about Davis Mills with

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Speaker 2: the thought that CJ probably wasn't gonna play seven days

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Speaker 2: after suffering a concussion.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I've ever seen anybody.

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Speaker 2: In a Texas uniform get a concussion on a Sunday

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Speaker 2: and then play the following Sunday.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it's happening, I just can't remember it. It won't

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Speaker 2: happen for CJ.

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Speaker 1: Stroud.

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Speaker 2: He is going to be out of this game on

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Speaker 2: Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars, but we're still gonna kick

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Speaker 2: off the show with our guy, executive.

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Speaker 1: Vice president general manager Nick Cassio right here joining us

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Speaker 1: in studio.

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Speaker 3: It's executive vice president and general manager Nick Cassario.

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Speaker 1: Nick, great to see you.

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Speaker 4: Fella's get to be here.

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville Week, Big week.

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Speaker 3: Indeed, let's review a little bit what went down against

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Speaker 3: the Broncos. Very close game but unfortunately unable to get

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Speaker 3: over the ump.

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Speaker 1: Nick.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, similar to some of the other games we've been in,

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Speaker 5: you know, hit a couple of games literally have come

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Speaker 5: down to last play of the game. And you know,

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Speaker 5: it was a case here the other day against Denver.

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Speaker 5: So had some opportunities in the end, just the red

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Speaker 5: zone and some of the inability to kind of and

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Speaker 5: Johnny and I talked about this before the game that

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Speaker 5: was going to kind of be the key to the game.

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Speaker 5: So had some ops, couldn't necessarily capitalize on those opportunities,

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Speaker 5: and in the end came up a little bit short.

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Speaker 5: So it did some decent things. You know, lost some

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Speaker 5: players during the course of the game, but still had

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Speaker 5: our chances. So in the end is going to come

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Speaker 5: down to kind of our basic fundamentals and execution. If

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Speaker 5: we can just do some of the basics a little

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Speaker 5: bit better, probably give ourselves a little bitter opportunity to

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Speaker 5: finish the games.

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Speaker 2: Nick, when you and I started that, I used to

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Speaker 2: ask you about the keys that us say, Hey, give

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Speaker 2: me keys on both sides of the ball, and I

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Speaker 2: started thinking, you know what, we're really good on special teams.

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Speaker 2: I better asked third key, you know, the third phase.

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Speaker 2: And the third phase was really good. We covered the

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Speaker 2: muff punt, got the block kick, almost had them pinned

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Speaker 2: at the one, very very close to that. Special teams

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Speaker 2: continue to be great, and they gave you a lot

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Speaker 2: the other day that seemed to be a big win

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Speaker 2: for the special teams.

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Speaker 4: Yeah for sure.

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Speaker 5: I mean Jy Noles continued to provide and smart during

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Speaker 5: a return game. And you know, Denko has kind of

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Speaker 5: done what he's done throughout the course of his career.

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Speaker 5: So the kicking game is really about hitting the yardage,

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Speaker 5: trying to create additional plays. Can you create a first

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Speaker 5: Denver did a pretty good job as well. There punt

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Speaker 5: did a good job of flipping a field and some

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Speaker 5: situations kind of forcing us to go on a longer field.

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Speaker 5: So for the most part, we played pretty consistent the

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Speaker 5: kicking game. So it's a combination of the players coaching,

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Speaker 4: So for the most part, we've done a pretty good job.

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Speaker 3: To your point in that pace, Nick CJ had to

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Speaker 3: leave the game obviously, and they did throw a flag

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Speaker 3: then they picked it up. A long explanation to demic goo.

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Speaker 3: Has that rule kind of changed evolved a little bit.

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Speaker 3: We saw something with disease last year at Jacksonville. Has

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Speaker 3: it changed a little bit, Yeah, it has.

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Speaker 4: It's evolved.

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Speaker 5: There's certain plays that you can review, there's replay assists

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Speaker 5: that's involved. So there's been a big topic of discussion

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Speaker 5: in a lot of the league meetings just trying to

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Speaker 5: a foul, If there's an infraction, so be it. If

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Speaker 5: there's not, you know, should a team be penalized if

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Speaker 5: there's not infraction. So we understand there's a subjective nature

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Speaker 5: sometimes to some of the calls, but in the end,

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Speaker 5: maybe a few more people involved, and when they talk

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Speaker 5: about it goes to replay assists. We had the opportunity

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Speaker 5: whatever it is. So whatever the outcome is, whatever the

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Speaker 5: result is, we'll just handle and deal with it accordingly.

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Speaker 2: Nick I thought about this last night. I was kind

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Speaker 2: of flipping through social and I saw somebody make a

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Speaker 2: we've been doing it and it's been successful. Obviously the

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Speaker 2: other day it's got to be short circuited because Titus

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Speaker 2: goes out and Bike has to go in. But what's

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Speaker 2: been the success of that sixth offensive lineman role for

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Speaker 2: Blake and just using it all together?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd say league wide, it's your whoever that extra

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Speaker 5: are you better, sir, putting an offensive lineman in that spot.

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Speaker 5: A lot of times you're blocking the same individual that'd

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Speaker 5: You're also seeing some players use defensive players or defensive tackle,

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Speaker 5: so you're trying to get some size, some strength to

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Speaker 5: create a little bit of a point of attack advantage

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Speaker 5: if you can so some of its matchup base. Some

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Speaker 5: of it's if you put this grouping on the field,

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Speaker 4: So so you know, Blake's done a pretty good job

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Speaker 5: And to your point, Johnny, league wide, more and more

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Speaker 5: people are using that player and that role, so it's

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Speaker 5: maybe you take one less tight. You get eight linemen

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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go that real quick mark the offensive

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Speaker 2: and I think we were down to I think six

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Speaker 2: offensive linemen at that particular point, Like you said, you

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Speaker 2: can carry eight to the game, how far do you

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Speaker 2: go down the rabbit hole of if if, if this happens,

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Speaker 1: What if something happens.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's kind of a last resort, right, kind of

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Speaker 5: ultimate catastrophe. But you have eight, so you're really gonna

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Speaker 4: So you kind of manage as you go.

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Speaker 5: You just want the information who's available, and then once

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Speaker 5: figure out, all right, what's the best way for us

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Speaker 5: we were playing centers at tackle. I justtinkly remember a

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Speaker 5: a way to make it work. I think this will

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Speaker 5: be a good test, honestly for both teams dealing with

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Speaker 5: some injuries that they incurred in the course of the game.

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Speaker 4: So this is what you have the practice squad for.

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Speaker 5: This is why you hopefully have enough depth on your

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Speaker 4: There and perform to the best of their ability on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: If it comes down to that again, I nominated Niko

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Speaker 3: The best tackled to Nico Austrey the best defensive line.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes some defensive tackles they've played tackles or they've played inside.

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Speaker 5: So if we get to that point, we'll have to

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Speaker 3: Is exactly, all right, So, Nick concussion protocol, we saw

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Speaker 3: Nico go through it. You have a couple of players

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there are certain steps within the process and you

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Speaker 5: through the concussion Protocol. There's a physical component, a physical activity,

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Speaker 5: and then there's a contact component, you know, which you

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Speaker 5: through certain checkpoints. There's computerized tests, there's physical activity, there's

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Speaker 5: a contact component, and then they have to go out

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Speaker 5: they're cleared. If they're not, they're not, then they just

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Speaker 5: kick it to the next week. So depending on the

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Speaker 5: severity of the injury and the nature of the injury,

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Speaker 5: that'll determine how long the player is going to be out.

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Speaker 5: You know, which the league has done a good job of,

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Speaker 1: Have you ever had a concussion?

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Speaker 4: The only one that I.

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Speaker 1: All right, this is Jacksonville, so it's getting this scount

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Speaker 2: But Nick, I watched you to focus on a couple

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Speaker 5: He played as an undrafted rookie. I had to play

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Speaker 5: It's really that fifty to the thirty five, like that area. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Nick I thought something was interesting.

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Speaker 5: It's always going to be case by case, always going

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Speaker 4: Inside of twenty.

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Speaker 5: So I think this is like everything, it's a process

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Speaker 5: and everybody's going to kind of look at what makes

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Speaker 5: the most sense. I think the subtle adjustment they made

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Speaker 5: where you have the ability to kind of have that

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Speaker 5: third player a little bit further back relative to last year,

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Speaker 5: So how do you use that? That probably gives you

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Speaker 5: more flexibility than anything else.

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Speaker 3: Nick and the Jags win over the Raiders. It went

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Speaker 3: to overtime. Liam Kohane had the option to put the

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Speaker 3: Raiders on the field first, but he took the ball

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Speaker 3: with the ten minute period. He cited, well, maybe we

451
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Speaker 3: want to grind out the clock here. Raiders did get

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Speaker 3: the ball back. But your thoughts on that, do you

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Speaker 3: guys discuss these things, philosophy, that sort of thing.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a strategy that goes into it, and each

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Speaker 5: week you're kind of look at it and just understanding

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Speaker 5: what is the other team for pensity to what do

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Speaker 5: they want to do in those particular situations, And then

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Speaker 5: you look at your team, what do we want to do?

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Speaker 5: How do you want to handle it? So it's the

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Speaker 5: same thing. Do you defer the kickoff? Do you take

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Speaker 5: the ball? What goes into that? So everybody has a

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Speaker 5: philosophy that they espouse. In the end, you're going to

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Speaker 5: do what you feel is best for your team.

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Speaker 2: Without Devin Lloyd, it doesn't feel like they've had too

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Speaker 2: much of a drop off because Ventro Miller. I remember

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Speaker 2: him in week four last he came in and did

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Speaker 2: a really good job against US.

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Speaker 1: If Lloyd plays, we know what he brings.

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Speaker 2: But if it's venture a Miller at linebacker for them,

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Speaker 2: how much changes, if anything at all?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they run their defense. Ventreil is a good football player.

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Speaker 5: I mean he was a fourth round picker. Wherever fourth

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Speaker 5: or fifth round pick. He was a good football player

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Speaker 5: come out of Florida, He's tough, good straight line speed,

475
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Speaker 5: very instinctive, highly productive. So they're almost to a degree

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Speaker 5: three for two inside. And they obviously moved on from

477
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Speaker 5: Muma because they felt between Devin, you know, Olacan and

478
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Speaker 5: Van Trell, whoever played, they would feel comfortable. So he's

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Speaker 5: done a good job when he's played, he's been a

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Speaker 5: productive tackler, so they didn't really have to change too

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Speaker 5: much of what they're doing defensively.

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Speaker 3: Nick, if CJ can't go, that puts Graham Mertz in

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Speaker 3: the on deck circle. For lack of a better way

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Speaker 3: of putting it, how about his progress? You put him

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Speaker 3: on the fifty three prior to the start of the

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Speaker 3: season and he's been the third guy.

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Speaker 1: How's he doing?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, No, he's worked really hard.

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Speaker 5: I mean he's getting a lot of his reps in practice,

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Speaker 5: and really what we've done is between him and Davis,

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Speaker 5: they've kind of rotated on the show team. But and

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Speaker 5: Graham's been in there. You really want to go in

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Speaker 5: there and still focus on your techniques, focus on playing quarterback.

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Speaker 5: You're doing some things that are specific to the defense.

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Speaker 5: But take the play, look at it through the lens

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Speaker 5: of the Houston Texans, because it might be because we

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Speaker 5: try to call the play for this skill the look

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Speaker 5: team in our vernacular. So you go through kind of

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Speaker 5: your process. Now if there's something specific to that team, Hey,

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Speaker 5: we want you to do this this way, read the

501
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Speaker 5: play this way, but you still want to go get

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Speaker 5: get in a huddle, call to play, get the snap count,

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Speaker 5: go through your progression.

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Speaker 4: Graham's worked really hard.

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Speaker 5: He's made some progress physically relative to his lower body strength,

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Speaker 5: which is a point of emphasis.

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Speaker 4: So he's certainly working hard, making progress.

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Speaker 5: So if the roles are adjusted or changed this week,

509
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Speaker 5: then you got to be prepared because whomever the backup

510
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Speaker 5: quarterback is essentially your one snap away from potentially being

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Speaker 5: in a game.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so we're nearly halfway through an NFL season, but

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Speaker 2: we're three quarters or more through.

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Speaker 1: A college season.

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Speaker 2: So at that point, Nick, are you making adjustments and

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Speaker 2: things to what you know, Hey, we got to make

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Speaker 2: sure we see these couple of guys, or hey, these guys.

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Speaker 1: Are kind of popping.

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Speaker 2: We want to see them, you know, uh, you know, live,

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Speaker 2: get kind of a read on them live. And then

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Speaker 2: how many mock drafts are you reading at this time

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Speaker 2: of year?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're winding down here, there's only so many call

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Speaker 5: the month of football that's left, we've probably seen everybody

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Speaker 5: that we need to see. Now, if a player hadn't

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Speaker 5: played because he's been injured, maybe you get to see

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Speaker 5: the player live. But we're winding down here, we're gonna

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Speaker 5: actually start maybe we're gonna tweak our process this year,

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Speaker 5: maybe start the discussion on players a little bit sooner

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Speaker 5: than we normally do. Understanding there's certain players that are

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Speaker 5: going to declare and be draft eligible. There's other players

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Speaker 5: that maybe they're going to declare they're gonna go back.

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Speaker 5: But we're going to try to keep the discussions moving

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Speaker 5: here a little bit. But our starts have done a

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Speaker 5: great job. We get in a lot of information on

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Speaker 5: a weekly basis. I've been fortunate enough to see a

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Speaker 5: number of games here through in the course of the year,

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Speaker 5: so it's important. I feel like it's important for me

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Speaker 5: to do the work so that we're having a discussion

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Speaker 5: with a group like in somewhat talk in an educated

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Speaker 5: fast so we can have productive dialogue and discourse back

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Speaker 5: and forth.

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Speaker 3: Nick, I might have asked you this last year, but

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Speaker 3: for the sake of the audience, I'll ask again if

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Speaker 3: I did. It's Salute to Service Day. And if you

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Speaker 3: had to pick up branch of the armed services to enter,

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Speaker 3: we're gonna send you away for a few years. Navy, Army,

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Speaker 3: Air Force, Marines or Coast Guard. Which one are you picking?

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Speaker 4: It's a great question. Have you asked me this before?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but.

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Speaker 4: They're gonna let it rip. They're all important, I would say.

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Speaker 1: But which one would you want to do?

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Speaker 4: Maybe the Navy or the Air Force?

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Speaker 5: I would say, so fly jets if I had a lean,

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Speaker 5: So I'd have to obviously learn. So if anybody want

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Speaker 5: me behind a jed.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we'll see how good you are on the spot.

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Speaker 2: So if you join the Air Force and you go

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Speaker 2: to top Gun, because we know you would because that's.

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Speaker 1: The one percent of the one percent, right, And so.

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Speaker 2: You had Maverick and you had Viper and you had hangman,

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Speaker 2: what would be your call sign?

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Speaker 4: Well, you guys can make it much all side. That's

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Speaker 4: not John Carroll.

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Speaker 5: I've seen all the Top Gun movies, so I don't

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Speaker 5: see a lot of movies, watch a lot of movies.

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Speaker 5: But you fit in the top Gun. What's the John

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Speaker 5: Carroll nickname?

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Speaker 1: The Blue Streaks, Blue Streak. That's it Blue Streak. Alright, Nick,

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Speaker 1: thanks a lot for joining us, Good luck, Thanks fellas.

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Speaker 2: Blue Streak is absolutely the perfect nickname, and that's what

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Speaker 2: he will be from now on.

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Speaker 1: Nick, Blue Streak Casario.

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Speaker 2: All right, coming on, Max, Mark and I we'll go

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Speaker 2: into some of the things we learned at practice today

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Speaker 2: and what it might mean for Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Speaker 1: That's next on Texans All Access. Welcome back to.

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Speaker 2: This Wednesday edition to Texans All Access from the Hyundai

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Speaker 2: Texans Radio studio. We had a chance to catch up

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Speaker 2: with Nick Asiio in the first segment, John Harris alongside

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Speaker 2: Mark vandermir the voice of the Texans. But we have

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Speaker 2: not gotten into the news of the day Mark, the

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Speaker 2: injury situation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah wait, we didn't get into this.

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Speaker 2: No, okay, we did not, all right, because we did

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Speaker 2: get into a little bit with we a little bit.

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Speaker 2: But Miko Ryans today at his presser said no CJ

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Speaker 2: on Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars, ruling him out already.

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Speaker 2: Although I know you're probably like me, we kind of

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Speaker 2: mentally already ruled him out.

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Speaker 1: To hear it on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: Your thoughts well, last time this happened, they started case

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Speaker 3: Keenum against the Titans two years ago. And it shows

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Speaker 3: you that CJ's been durable. CJ's been out there. He's

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Speaker 3: taken some hard hits. I mean there are several hits

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Speaker 3: over the last couple of years where I thought he

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Speaker 3: might not get up right and or get up right

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Speaker 3: away and he would have some sort of injury that

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Speaker 3: would keep him out. So he's been really tough. You

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Speaker 3: look at his body, he's thick.

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Speaker 1: He can take a beating, and he has taken a beating.

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Speaker 3: But he always gets up, dusts himself off and gets

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Speaker 3: back under center and the shotgun and next play up.

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Speaker 3: But now he took a hard hit concussed and he's

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Speaker 3: gonna have to sit at least this week. We'll see

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Speaker 3: about next week. All you can do is worry about

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Speaker 3: this week. Davis Mills gets the start. We've talked about it,

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Speaker 3: twenty sixth start of his career, and this needs to

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Speaker 3: be a really good one. I think that you could

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Speaker 3: alibi to a degree. He hasn't played much. You know,

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Speaker 3: he played off the bench against a really tough defense.

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Speaker 3: Didn't play great, didn't play horribly either. He just didn't

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Speaker 3: make all the plays he needed to in the second half.

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Speaker 3: They went over seven on third down. So full week

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Speaker 3: of practice. Let's see if this is any better Jacksonville's defense, Johnny.

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Speaker 3: They a bunch of turnovers early, yes, and when they

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Speaker 3: don't get turnovers, they don't win. They tend not to win.

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Speaker 3: They're five and three. They could easily be three and five.

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Speaker 3: The Texans could easily be five and three. This is

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Speaker 3: how the NFL is.

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Speaker 6: That's right.

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Speaker 1: This is gonna be tough to deal with. Now.

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Speaker 3: They don't get many sacks. Josh heinz Allen only has

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Speaker 3: two sacks. But he's highly disruptive.

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Speaker 2: So he doesn't get a sack for the interception on

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Speaker 2: the last play all ass offensive play.

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Speaker 1: Of the game. Right, but he forces a terrible Playdy,

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Speaker 1: But what stat is you get for that? He gets

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Speaker 1: a better than as a pass? Does he get a

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Speaker 1: pass breakup?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, but it's better than a sack. Now

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Speaker 3: he forced a pick, absolutely, you know it's it's outstanding.

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Speaker 3: He gets some pressure, talk about the pressures are often

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Speaker 3: better than the sacks forcing bad throws. And that was

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Speaker 3: a throw that CJ wants back because heines ally got

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Speaker 3: a hand.

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Speaker 1: On him, yep.

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Speaker 2: And he had Christian Kirk opening in the end zone. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean he was thrown out to a spot right

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Speaker 2: down the middle of the field where Christian was going to be.

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Speaker 2: Now does Christian make catch point being in that first game,

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Speaker 2: in that first matchup, and this is the first time

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Speaker 2: we've been able to say this going back to a

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Speaker 2: previous matchup. It's the only it's the first time that

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Speaker 2: we're playing a division opponent twice this year. But in

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Speaker 2: that first matchup, it was so incredibly frustrating that Texans

647
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Speaker 2: could not run the ball generate offense, made a lot

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Speaker 2: of mistakes that I I don't know that they're making

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Speaker 2: all those. I think Arianta Erscheri had a tough game

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Speaker 2: that day, but I feel like Tay has played a

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Speaker 2: lot better. That's been one of the things that gets

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Speaker 2: glossed over when you don't win a game like the

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Speaker 2: one against Denver. But I think it deserves mention that

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Speaker 2: Mariante Ursieri kept Nick Benito from registering anything on the

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Speaker 2: stat sheet other than one tackle.

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Speaker 3: That's pretty strong what Benito had eight sacks. Denver really

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Speaker 3: good in sacks, number one in the league, so they

658
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 3: did a good job there. Tied us out of practice

659
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,639
Speaker 3: with the concussion. Now he might plague. They didn't roll

660
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 3: him out put it that way.

661
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:23,919
Speaker 4: He might not.

662
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: He might. They're just gonna have to figure it out, Johnny,

663
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:27,359
Speaker 1: because if he.

664
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 3: Can't go, you don't get that sixth old lineman unless

665
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 3: Trent Brown.

666
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,159
Speaker 1: Does Brown he could do it. Maybe they get somebody

667
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:35,239
Speaker 1: else to do it. I don't know.

668
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 3: I lobbied Mario Edwards Junior. We're gonna hear that conversation later.

669
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,199
Speaker 1: We did not see ed Ingram at practice either. I'm

670
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 1: joking about Mario Editors Junior.

671
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 3: By the way, I know he plays d line, but

672
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 3: we were thinking, can a d lyman come in and

673
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 3: do something for you? I mean, after all, the Ravens

674
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 3: have Patrick Ricard, who's a three hundred pounds fullback. You

675
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 3: can do a lot of things in this league, all right,

676
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 3: I'm just joking around here. There's no William Refrigerator Perry

677
00:27:57,720 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 3: walking through that door right now for the Houston Texans.

678
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:03,919
Speaker 2: I would think you would think, you think, but Mario

679
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 2: could do it. What Mario Edwards Junior on a little

680
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 2: bit later in the show, We asked him about that,

681
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 2: What would happen because you and I, obviously we talk

682
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 2: about this team all the time, whether we're on there

683
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 2: or off, and we always think about You asked me

684
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 2: today who would be the emergency third quarterback? Yeah, and

685
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 2: I said, throws the ball as well as anybody.

686
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 3: Dingley throws the ball a lot because he is always

687
00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,600
Speaker 3: throwing it around with you, always chucking the ball around,

688
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,320
Speaker 3: and he's a tremendous athlete. He's really smart. But I

689
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 3: would think it would be an offensive guy. Okay, it's

690
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 3: gonna be an offensive guy. That's a great question for Tamiko.

691
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:41,000
Speaker 3: We gotta ask him this.

692
00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 1: He will have to have somebody ready. You gotta have

693
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 1: somebody ready. He will tell us. You don't think he'll

694
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: tell us. No, I wouldn't tell you. Sorry to Miko,

695
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: I wouldn't tell you.

696
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 3: More likely to happen emergency third string quarterback?

697
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: Is it Dara? It could be Dara. That would make sense.

698
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 3: You know, Darry out of the shotgun could make a

699
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 3: lot of sense. It could make a lot of sense.

700
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,440
Speaker 3: I mean, Darry's mister everything, and he probably knows the offense.

701
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 3: You know, you could probably draw everything up on a

702
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 3: on a dry erase board correct better than most of

703
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 3: the guys that.

704
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 2: Darry would make a lot of sense. I think he

705
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 2: would be able to command a huddle. You could just

706
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 2: kind of get in single wing.

707
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 7: Now.

708
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: I don't know if Darry can throw it.

709
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 3: I would be shocked if Darry can't throw it a

710
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 3: little bit. Darry would have been good in that Denver

711
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 3: game during COVID where they had no quarterback. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

712
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 3: And they couldn't even practice with the would be quarterback

713
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 3: because what did they elevate somebody from the practice squad? Rightly,

714
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 3: it was last moment, so you just had to go

715
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 3: out there on game day. Did he complete one pass?

716
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 3: I forget who it was playing.

717
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: I don't think he won it was it was a

718
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: guy who played.

719
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 2: It was a guy who played a little bit of

720
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 2: quarterback when he was in college at Wake Forest.

721
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: And his name escapes me.

722
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 3: I should notice everybody was a Bronco fan that day,

723
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 3: just to see if they could pull that.

724
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 2: I was cheered for him as as much as you could. Uh,

725
00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 2: this might sound odd, Dalton Schultz. You know, Dalton's gonna

726
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 2: go to the offense. I was thinking Dalt would make

727
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 2: some sense. I gotta have a great understanding of the offense.

728
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 2: And I bet he has a bit of an arm too.

729
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 2: You know, it would be very interesting who has a

730
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 2: third quarterback which you could get kind of you could

731
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:16,360
Speaker 2: get crazy creative too, Jalen Knowle.

732
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:20,960
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, you you could get wildly created.

733
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, there's a lot you can do. I've told

734
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 2: this story before. In fact, I may have told it

735
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 2: earlier tonight.

736
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 1: I don't know.

737
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 2: But many years ago, my last year coaching, we were

738
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 2: playing a game and look, at the high school level,

739
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,440
Speaker 2: you want to have a backup, but very rarely do

740
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 2: you get to your third string guy. But my backup

741
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 2: was also one of my starting wide receivers. Yeah, so

742
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 2: my quarterback goes down and I mean we ran a

743
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 2: lot through him, and so it was like, as I'm

744
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 2: going out to check on him, I'm talking to my

745
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 2: coach up in a box and I'm like, I was like, Mike,

746
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 2: what do I do? Do I go with the receiver?

747
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 2: It would have been tough or that we can practice.

748
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,560
Speaker 2: I just messed around with taking my running back and

749
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 2: say hey, take some snaps just in case, and that's

750
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 2: what I went with. I put him in shotgun and

751
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 2: I just said, I said, here you go, just basically

752
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 2: sing a wing the whole night. I went under center

753
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,120
Speaker 2: to run brun like, I'll never forget this. We used

754
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 2: to run a play. We used to run a play

755
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 2: called midline option. We called a husker, and mid line

756
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 2: option was pretty simple. We would run it to the

757
00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:32,080
Speaker 2: three technique side, and so we wouldn't block the three technique.

758
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 1: We would just let the three technique.

759
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,400
Speaker 2: Either run upfield then we'd hand it off, or the

760
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 2: three technique would jump on the running back and the

761
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 2: quarterback would pull it and run.

762
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,320
Speaker 8: And so he has to read that pro So he's

763
00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 8: got to read it. Yeah, but he's the running back

764
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 8: and so he's been seeing this. Now he doesn't get

765
00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 8: the ball, but he's been seeing this the whole time.

766
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 8: So in the third quarter, he takes the snap from center,

767
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 8: which also was an adventure, and he gives it to

768
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 8: the full back and the three techniqu would flying up field.

769
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 2: He comes over and I'm like, man, I'm congratulating him,

770
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 2: and I'm patting him on the head and I'm like,

771
00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 2: that's awesome, you did a great job reading it.

772
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: He's like, no, coach, I was tired. I just gave too.

773
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, good enough, But we had to pull

774
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 2: some stuff out of our backside. But you put Jalen

775
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 2: know back there, you could do some of that stuff too.

776
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 2: That would be kind of fun. And come to that,

777
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 2: Johnny hopefully. And you're right, Mills has got to stay upright.

778
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 2: If it's not him, it's Graham Mertz, who look good

779
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,200
Speaker 2: in the preseason. But you don't want to dabble around

780
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 2: too much in this situation. Mertz has a lot of upside.

781
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 3: It's gonna be interesting to follow his career how they

782
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 3: handle this quarterback situation moving forward. But anyway, this is

783
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 3: what Davis is here for. This is why they signed him.

784
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 3: They need him as the insurance policy. Now it's time

785
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 3: to make a claim and Mills has to add through

786
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 3: for you.

787
00:32:47,880 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 2: And that's exactly what I said the other day, Like

788
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 2: you paid all these insurance premiums.

789
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: At some point you're gonna have to make a claim.

790
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 1: You don't want to. It's just like any insurance, like

791
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: car insurance.

792
00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 2: You pay car insurance and you hope you never have

793
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 2: to call the insurance company and go, hey, I had

794
00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 2: a wreck and I need your help. You at least

795
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 2: have it, you don't want to use it. Well, the

796
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 2: Texans are at that point, So they got to make

797
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 2: a claim.

798
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 3: What's the deductible? Here is the deductible. You're gonna lose

799
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 3: this and this and this. What are you gonna lose

800
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,640
Speaker 3: and what are you gonna gain here? Mills has to

801
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 3: have a great understanding of the offense.

802
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: Now.

803
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 3: He's had coordinators galore here. We just talked about this

804
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 3: with Nick in the last segment. A lot of different

805
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 3: coordinators here, but a lot of similarities in the systems.

806
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 1: And Mills is super smart.

807
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 3: He picked up the offense in twenty twenty one pretty well.

808
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 3: A lot of it was just not a great team,

809
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 3: not an array of talent.

810
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 7: You know.

811
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,320
Speaker 3: One of his best games was a loss to the

812
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 3: Titans the final game of that season.

813
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 2: He was dealing that second half, I promisely, throwing the

814
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 2: ball around the yard, completing all sorts of passes touchdowns.

815
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 3: And we interviewed him the next day on the checkout

816
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 3: day for the players, and we went into twenty twenty

817
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 3: two very confident that Mills was going to take another

818
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 3: step forward after performance like that, a couple of wins

819
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 3: late in the season when you beat the Jags and

820
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 3: the Chargers and you felt like, okay, Mills even at

821
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 3: San Francisco.

822
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: There were some good things in that game.

823
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 3: He's a rookie challenged team and you thought, okay, keep

824
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:14,360
Speaker 3: getting better.

825
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 1: But in twenty twenty one, they didn't get better.

826
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 2: They and then he shared time with Drisco for a

827
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 2: few games because we had the Driscoll cat. Yeah, and

828
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 2: then it went to Davis for the last few games

829
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 2: of that year. Of course, then he has the game

830
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,719
Speaker 2: against Indeapolis Colts where he just he was flinging it

831
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,920
Speaker 2: everywhere and making some tremendous plays and doing it and

832
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 2: of course a couple of the most famous plays in

833
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 2: Texas history when he hit Jordan Akens for the touchdown

834
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 2: and then the two and we walked out of there

835
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,080
Speaker 2: with a win against the Colts.

836
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 3: The other fourth and long on that series, fourth and

837
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,320
Speaker 3: Brandon Curse thirteenth and thirteen, all right, So that was

838
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 3: right in front of me, the Brandon Cooks. So that

839
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 3: that was actually a better play because the one the

840
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 3: Akins could have would have should.

841
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 1: Have been picked.

842
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 2: I mean, he was flinging it up there because he

843
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 2: was getting some pressure Hail Mary, and yeah, it had

844
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 2: a very hair Hill Mary feel to it. But the

845
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 2: one he threw to Brandon Cooks on the sideline was

846
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:03,439
Speaker 2: literally right in front of me and I could see

847
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 2: the ball.

848
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: Whoa, he stuck this one in here. This is a

849
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: good throat.

850
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 2: It was a wild game as a wild kind of situation,

851
00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 2: but it's one of those times where you're gonna have

852
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 2: And look the Bengals, Joe Burrow Lamar was out for

853
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:23,440
Speaker 2: what three games? Washington is now going without Jane Daniels.

854
00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 2: You know, teams have to go without their quarterbacks. You

855
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 2: don't want to, but it happens. You go without your

856
00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 2: quarterback for a little bit.

857
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: Doesn't injury.

858
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 3: It doesn't seem to happen to Ma Holmes, it doesn't

859
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,279
Speaker 3: seem to happen to Josh Allen. No, it's happened to

860
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 3: Lamar before he has gotten fame.

861
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: I'll put that in air quotes.

862
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 2: Mahomes missed a couple of games back. This is a

863
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 2: while back, but I remember it's a kneecap. He went

864
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,800
Speaker 2: down and he landed on his kneecap. Was against Denver,

865
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 2: and I think he missed a game or two, but

866
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 2: that was about it.

867
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 1: I don't think he's missed much other than that.

868
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 2: And look, some guys, for some reason, some guys are

869
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 2: more susceptible to injuries. Them guys aren't much. I mean,

870
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:04,879
Speaker 2: he hasn't just the two games his rookie year.

871
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 1: Unfortunately there to the one injury.

872
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 2: You'd I almost rather have a high ankle spring and

873
00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 2: have a concussion. It might cost them a couple of games,

874
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,320
Speaker 2: but obviously with concussion you're talking about something at a

875
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 2: much higher level that you don't even want to.

876
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 3: Run anytimes, guys, and it's not going to happen to him.

877
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 3: I mean, fingers crossed, prayers all that. Let's just not

878
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 3: even go there because you know too, it doesn't look

879
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 3: the same after having so many I don't even I've

880
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:33,040
Speaker 3: lost count. But with CJ, this is two years after

881
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,319
Speaker 3: the last one, and let's just get through it. Let's

882
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 3: just get through it. Heel up, get him out there

883
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 3: as soon as possible safely. But back to Mills and

884
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 3: what he's got to work with here, Johnny Nick Chubb

885
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:46,720
Speaker 3: misspractice wednesday. You got to see how he progresses. Otherwise

886
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 3: you start what he marks. Damian Pierce gets more carries,

887
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,759
Speaker 3: Dary gets in there more. You know, just everybody's got

888
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,920
Speaker 3: to elevate this. Want to see there's no more Jordan

889
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 3: on this team either not on the practice squad. He's

890
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 3: nowhere to be found in the building.

891
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,399
Speaker 2: Jay Taylor, he's been gone for Walt, So it's it's

892
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 2: basically Woody Darry Damien.

893
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:03,479
Speaker 6: Yeah.

894
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 3: And another thing about British, if you need British, I

895
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 3: like that. I might think about British getting a few

896
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 3: more touches right in this one, and not just as

897
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 3: a full back because who knows, you know, maybe you

898
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 3: can bludgeon them a little bit. You're gonna have to

899
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,680
Speaker 3: figure that out. The other thing about this game is

900
00:37:20,719 --> 00:37:25,800
Speaker 3: no fair baron right, fairbairn out with some kind of injury.

901
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 3: So it's like a quad okay, and that's not ideal

902
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 3: for a kicker. A kicker, and you got Matthew Wright,

903
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 3: who's a mercenary. I mean, this guy has I've lost

904
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,399
Speaker 3: count how many teams he's been on and how many

905
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:40,879
Speaker 3: times the Texans might have faced him five or six times.

906
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 1: It just feels like.

907
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 2: That, Okay, one, two, three, four, five, some repetition seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven.

908
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:54,479
Speaker 3: Texans make twelve twelve teams, but some double visits there

909
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 3: like Steelers twice.

910
00:37:55,840 --> 00:38:00,439
Speaker 1: I think Chiefs twice. So he started in twenty.

911
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 2: Mind you, this isn't going back in twenty twenty Steelers

912
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one Jacks. That was the most he had

913
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,880
Speaker 2: fourteen games with the Jags. He was twenty one of

914
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 2: twenty four that year. I mean, if you honestly, if

915
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 2: you look at his numbers mark over his six years,

916
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 2: he's fifty six of sixty four.

917
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 1: That's pretty darn good.

918
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:27,719
Speaker 2: I mean, he's his lowest percentage of made kicks was

919
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,479
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two Kansas City. He was three of four

920
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:35,479
Speaker 2: seventy five percent, but four four twenty one of twenty four,

921
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 2: fifteen of eighteen three or four twelve of fourteen, fifteen

922
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 2: of sixteen, then three of three, eight of nine, four

923
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 2: four one on one, one on one. So he's already

924
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:50,360
Speaker 2: kicked for Tennessee this year. And I'm trying to remember

925
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,520
Speaker 2: which game that actually woul did he face us? He

926
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 2: made that field goal against US? No, he couldn't have

927
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 2: because we shut out Tennessee, so it could have been US.

928
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 2: But uh, he he's well from from I mean, fifty

929
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 2: six and sixty four throughout your career is eighty seven

930
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 2: point five percent.

931
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 3: Career long fifty nine And what's my next question? About him,

932
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 3: Johnny that I don't know the answer to. Really, how

933
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 3: is he at these kickoffs?

934
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 1: Yeah?

935
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 3: That in the bat's a big one in the landing

936
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 3: zone doing what Frank wants, which is it sounds like

937
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 3: Frank wants to kick the ball between the five and

938
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:24,839
Speaker 3: the goal line. Yep, and prept closer to the goal

939
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 3: line without going over the goal line and forcing the

940
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:29,280
Speaker 3: thirty five yard line touchback.

941
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 1: This is.

942
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,320
Speaker 2: I mean, Kymie, We've gotten so used to having Kaymie

943
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:36,320
Speaker 2: here is almost like having John Weeks. You know, Kymie's

944
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 2: been kicking since seventeen and.

945
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: But he's been relieved a few times.

946
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, different times, you know, Joey Sly, Yeah, because you

947
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 2: know Kymie got banged up few times.

948
00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: Joey Sly. Madame Mendola made the game win kick against Cincinnati,

949
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 1: there you go.

950
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:51,920
Speaker 2: And then against the Jags from fifty nine he hit

951
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 2: the crossbar.

952
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 1: Oh I still see that fifty nine. That was fifty nine.

953
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 2: It was a bly I think it was fifteen to

954
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:00,920
Speaker 2: fifty eight or fifty nine, Okay, and it hits the

955
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 2: I mean I see it. It's one of those where

956
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 2: it looks like he made this. We're going overtime and

957
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:09,879
Speaker 2: then it just died. He just bang and you're like, oh,

958
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 2: I oh, which game was this?

959
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 3: People were cheering too much out of the bullpen section

960
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:14,839
Speaker 3: pushed the ball back.

961
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,240
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, kind of like the helicopters and the Buffalo

962
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 2: Bill's Super Bowl many many eons ago.

963
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 1: I was watching it was it was a Bears. I

964
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 1: think it was a game.

965
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 2: I can't remember what it was, but there was a

966
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:28,759
Speaker 2: game and they have you know, they've got mics all

967
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 2: over the place, and there was a kick that hit

968
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 2: that doint. You know most time you kind of hear

969
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 2: a doint. It's just like, I think this one was

970
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 2: a full on dog. I mean, it shook.

971
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 1: They sound like dogs and they do it's like they

972
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: put them on, they pick up everything.

973
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 2: So Kaymi looks like he is not It looks like

974
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 2: he is going to be out for this one. So

975
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 2: Matthew Wright signed a practice squad. Now here's the important

976
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 2: part here. You get three practice squad call ups, so

977
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 2: you can leave Matthew right on the practice squad. If

978
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 2: something were to happen to Kaymie Fairbaron, then more like you,

979
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. If we're going to extend beyond three four weeks,

980
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 2: you're probably gonna put Kaymie on IR, which hasn't happened yet,

981
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 2: So you can just use the three call ups for

982
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,640
Speaker 2: Matthew right as your kicker, But that takes up one

983
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,360
Speaker 2: of the two you have from a standard elevation for

984
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 2: your practice squad, so that kind of hamstrings you too.

985
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: This is a question for Nick probably.

986
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 3: But let's say you have an injury and you sit

987
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:33,319
Speaker 3: that week, but the next week it's even worse and

988
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 3: you feel like it's not getting any better, to the

989
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,280
Speaker 3: point where now we got to put you on IR.

990
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 3: In baseball, you get the retroactive thing with the injury

991
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 3: list once. You don't want get that with the NFL.

992
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 3: So if you put up on IR next week, not

993
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 3: that you will. I'm just hypothesis for player X. When

994
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 3: that guy goes on the IR, that's when it starts.

995
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 3: That's when the clock starts taking. You don't get that

996
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 3: game in hand.

997
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:54,600
Speaker 6: Nope.

998
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, it sounds like.

999
00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 3: It's going to be a temporary kind of thing, and

1000
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 3: Matthew is here to kick fingers.

1001
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 1: Cross it is.

1002
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 2: But Matthew Wright being a guy that has made some

1003
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 2: field goals and done a pretty good job, and look, the.

1004
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 3: Texas team kicks field goals, Johnny, this team needs a

1005
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 3: field goal kicker to make remind me, yes, don't remind me.

1006
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:16,919
Speaker 3: I prefer to finish these drives. I'd prefer these kicks

1007
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:19,359
Speaker 3: to be ones and not threes. But that's the way

1008
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:22,720
Speaker 3: it's been. And you better buckle up because Matthew Wright's

1009
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 3: gonna be heard from.

1010
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 6: Yeah.

1011
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:26,799
Speaker 2: Now, don't get me wrong, Matthew right, glad he's here.

1012
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 2: But maybe kind of like Camp Tampa Bay game in

1013
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:35,840
Speaker 2: two twenty twenty three. Yeah, when Kayimi went down during

1014
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 2: the game, Darry was the backup kicker, which I'm assuming

1015
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 2: darr is the backup kicker in a situation again, but

1016
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 2: Demiko was a little hesitant to how do we use him?

1017
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: Do we not? So they went for it.

1018
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 2: And remember they threw that fourth down touchdown in the

1019
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:52,919
Speaker 2: south end zone to Dalton Schultz on fourth down.

1020
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 3: They went for it because they didn't have fair bear.

1021
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,720
Speaker 3: Maybe it forces your hand a little bit, well, maybe

1022
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 3: it makes you more aggressive at like the thirty five

1023
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 3: Maye Right, we don't want to try a fifty five fifty.

1024
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: Three yarder here, Let's go for fourth, fourth and three.

1025
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, so your go for a distance increases at least

1026
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 3: slightly here. Instead of fourth and one or whatever it

1027
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 3: was gonna be, now it's fourth and three or fourth

1028
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:15,879
Speaker 3: and four.

1029
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 1: We're gonna go for in that end of the field

1030
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:19,720
Speaker 1: now without CJ. Stroud.

1031
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:21,880
Speaker 2: Okay, that's a that's definitely a big one. We'll keep

1032
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:24,720
Speaker 2: our eyes this week on ed Ingram, Titus Howard.

1033
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 6: Uh.

1034
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 2: They were also out Nick Chubb, Jalen Peatree was banged up.

1035
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:32,240
Speaker 1: I saw Jalen the last play of the game.

1036
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 2: He was a little slow getting up and I thought, oh,

1037
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 2: I didn't like that at all. So that is definitely

1038
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 2: one to keep an eye. Nobody's gonna cry in their

1039
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:45,600
Speaker 2: beer in Jacksonville for the Texans being injured. They're dealing

1040
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:49,400
Speaker 2: with Travis Hunter being out at practice. Brian Thomas Junior

1041
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 2: did not practice today. Uh, they just got Jakobe Myers

1042
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 2: from Las Vegas to be brown Diami. Brown was in

1043
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 2: a red jersey. Okay, so a non contact red jersey,

1044
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 2: so practicing, but in a red jersey. They did have

1045
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 2: Tim Patrick practicing, so that was a step in the

1046
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 2: right direction. But they've got a couple of their big

1047
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 2: weapons out. Jordan Lewis, who had the big pick of

1048
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 2: CJ in that game. He did not practice. So oh

1049
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 2: that's encouraging. This is that time of year where you're

1050
00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 2: you're looking at your roster building and you're going, Okay,

1051
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:23,879
Speaker 2: we put this thing together for games like this. This

1052
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 2: is our depth being stretched, this is our talent being stretched.

1053
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,319
Speaker 2: How do we get through the game and do it

1054
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 2: in a positive man?

1055
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 3: We not in this way, but sometimes I like these

1056
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:36,640
Speaker 3: when everybody has to bond together and just rise to

1057
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:40,080
Speaker 3: the occasion. Circle the wagons, thiche.

1058
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: I'm with you.

1059
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:43,400
Speaker 2: I like doing that when we're six and two or

1060
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 2: five and three. Yeah, I know, not one or three

1061
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 2: and five, but I'm with you.

1062
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:47,680
Speaker 1: I like these kind of games.

1063
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:49,919
Speaker 2: I like to see guys step up that maybe haven't

1064
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,360
Speaker 2: before and make a play. It's always fun. Now, the

1065
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 2: rest of the injury report, it is long. It is lengthy.

1066
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 2: We'll do that next right here in Texas All Access.

1067
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:02,360
Speaker 2: All right, here we go ooh wednesdayntion of Texans All Access,

1068
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 2: welcome back.

1069
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: Appreciate you being with me.

1070
00:45:04,239 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 2: John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter for your Houston Texans.

1071
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 2: I said we would get to injury report, and I

1072
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:19,400
Speaker 2: really I don't want to because this one is ugly.

1073
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 2: We went from being one of the healthiest teams in

1074
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:29,399
Speaker 2: the league to being one of the most banged up

1075
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 2: I think in the league.

1076
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:33,360
Speaker 1: This is amazing. I don't know that I've ever seen this.

1077
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:37,720
Speaker 2: I'm only seeing an injury report with this many guys,

1078
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 2: especially in the DMP category. Twenty seventeen, Week two, we

1079
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 2: had a Thursday night game against Cincinnati. We're coming off

1080
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:52,239
Speaker 2: the opener against Jacksonville. They sacked everybody that played quarterback.

1081
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 2: It was ridiculous. They started claiming themselves to be Saxonville

1082
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 2: and then they went on a run that year at

1083
00:45:59,080 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen.

1084
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:01,359
Speaker 1: That game, we got beat up.

1085
00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:04,040
Speaker 2: In that game, we had twenty one players on the

1086
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 2: injury report, twenty one. Now there are only fourteen, but

1087
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 2: my goodness.

1088
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:13,400
Speaker 9: They're.

1089
00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:18,439
Speaker 2: It's a lot of starters, so bear with me. Here

1090
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 2: dnp's ten from today's practice. Denico Autry dealing with knee,

1091
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 2: Will Anderson Junior dealing with a quad injury, Harrison Bryant

1092
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 2: a shoulder, Nick Chubb with a foot, Kimie Fairbairn we

1093
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:39,200
Speaker 2: talked about looks like he will be out with a quad.

1094
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 2: Christian Harris was also banged up in the game. He's

1095
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 2: got a shin. Titus Howard went out with a concussion.

1096
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 2: We talked about that. Ed Ingram was dealing with a

1097
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:50,640
Speaker 2: knee issue. Now he went back in the game on

1098
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:54,799
Speaker 2: Sunday against the Broncos, but that knee in issue. Did

1099
00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:58,720
Speaker 2: not practice today. Jalen Petree another one I was worried about.

1100
00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 2: He also is in and get cush your protocol.

1101
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:01,880
Speaker 1: CJ.

1102
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 2: Stroud We've talked about throughout the show. He will not

1103
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 2: play against the Jaguars on Sunday. That's ten blockfield goal,

1104
00:47:12,320 --> 00:47:14,880
Speaker 2: one of the best edge rushers in the league, second

1105
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 2: tight end, starting running backs, starting kicker, key special teamer,

1106
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 2: starting right tackle, starting right guard, starting nickel, and your

1107
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 2: starting quarterback. Ten dnps limited but at practice at least

1108
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 2: and doing some things. Braxton Barrios, Dalton Schultz. That was

1109
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:39,720
Speaker 2: good full participation. Dylan Horton, Yakob Johnson. Boy, that's a mouthful.

1110
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:44,280
Speaker 2: Keep in mind that on Sunday typically there are five

1111
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 2: to seven players inactive.

1112
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 1: Ten dnps.

1113
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 2: Hopefully we can see some movement going in the right

1114
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 2: direction with those but dnps, those injuries all make taking

1115
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 2: a toll on your tea. Now, the Jaguars don't have

1116
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 2: as many, but they've already lost Travis Hunter to IR.

1117
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:09,760
Speaker 2: That was middle of last week. Today, starting guard Ezra

1118
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 2: Cleveland did not participate. Jordan Lewis, who picked off CJ

1119
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 2: in the game of Jacksonville at a key time in fourth quarter,

1120
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 2: did not participate. He's missed I think a couple of

1121
00:48:18,680 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 2: games now. Hunter long tight end Brian Thomas Junior deal

1122
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 2: with the ankle, did not participate, So let's Travis Hunter

1123
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 2: out already in IR. Brian Thomas Junior, DMP Diami Brown

1124
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 2: did participate. He got a cushion in the previous game.

1125
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 2: But he did participate in a limited capacity. Dennis Gardeck

1126
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 2: was wearing a red jersey at practice. He was there

1127
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:45,400
Speaker 2: but limited. Devon Hamilton, who had the big play at

1128
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 2: the end of the game, he was limited. Jack Kaiser

1129
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 2: limited Devin Lloyd back at practice. That was a big one.

1130
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:54,319
Speaker 2: Back full. He's missed a few games. Ventro Miller does

1131
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 2: a good job. Nick talked about that earlier in the show.

1132
00:48:57,040 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 2: He does a great job. In fact, Week four last year,

1133
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 2: I thought Ventro Miller was one of the two best

1134
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 2: defensive players in a game on either side. He was incredible,

1135
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 2: but Devin Lloyd back. He was big against us the

1136
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:12,759
Speaker 2: first time, so miss injury report is not pretty. But

1137
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 2: it's Wednesday, so maybe there'll be some movement. But we

1138
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:19,799
Speaker 2: already know CJ. Stroud not gonna play with that concussion,

1139
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:23,240
Speaker 2: and we already know that Kaymie Fairbairn not gonna play Sunday.

1140
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 2: Matthew Wright was added to the practice squad to be

1141
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 2: able to kick on Sunday for the Texans.

1142
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:31,760
Speaker 1: Jaguars not immune.

1143
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 2: They've got guys that are banged up as well, some

1144
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 2: key guys Jordan Lewis in particular, Brian Thomas junior. But

1145
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 2: Devin Lloyd back at practice was a great sign for

1146
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:43,319
Speaker 2: the Jaguars. And then I'll make it really really tough

1147
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 2: if they've got Olakun and Lloyd back in the lineup together.

1148
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 2: They are very very good together. Speaking of the Jags,

1149
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 2: let's remember behind the mics. Next, it's the voice of

1150
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 2: the Jaguars, Frank FRANGI, longtime friend of mine and the

1151
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 2: voice of the Texans. My radio partner, were my great friends,

1152
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 2: Mark Van. Those two get together and talk Jaggs Texans.

1153
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 2: Next right here in Texans All Access, Welcome back, everybody

1154
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 2: to Wednesday. In this year at Texans All Access. Appreciate

1155
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 2: you being with me John Harris Football on a sideline

1156
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 2: reporter for your Houston Texans Now, way way back in

1157
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:18,160
Speaker 2: the day. And I tell the story every time we

1158
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:22,759
Speaker 2: play Jacksonville Jaguars. I grew up as a football coach

1159
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:24,960
Speaker 2: in Jacksonville. One of the guys I'd love to listen

1160
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:27,600
Speaker 2: to the afternoons man by the name of Frank Frjie.

1161
00:50:27,600 --> 00:50:30,719
Speaker 2: He is now the play by play voice of the

1162
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:35,480
Speaker 2: Jacksonville Jaguars. So I always love when Mark vandermir and

1163
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:38,080
Speaker 2: Frank get together to my favorite people on the face

1164
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 2: of the earth. They I call it men behind the mics,

1165
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 2: the two men that'll call the game on Sunday for

1166
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 2: the respective organizations. Mark for the Texans, Frank for the Jaguars.

1167
00:50:47,560 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 2: They meet up to talk a little bit about the Jags.

1168
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 3: Right here joining us now, Frank Franjie, voice of the

1169
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 3: Jacksonville Jaguars, And Frank, how's that winning thing going for you?

1170
00:50:57,719 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 3: Because it's been a while for the Houston Texans to

1171
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,399
Speaker 3: have a winning record. Last year, as a matter of fact,

1172
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 3: that the Jags at five and three and here they

1173
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:08,279
Speaker 3: come into NRG Stadium, how you doing, my friend.

1174
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 7: I'm doing great, Mark, thanks for having me on. Everything

1175
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 7: is good here, and yeah, it's been an interesting season here. Boy.

1176
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:15,759
Speaker 7: That was a big one on Sunday, the Jags and

1177
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 7: the Raiders, as you know, went to overtime. Both teams

1178
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:21,399
Speaker 7: scored a touchdown. The Jags scored first, the Raiders scored

1179
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 7: went for two, and we knocked it down and held on.

1180
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:27,440
Speaker 7: And this team needed that. It's been an emotional kind

1181
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 7: of eight nine months. Mark. The coach gets fired, then

1182
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 7: the general manager gets fired. Then they hired Tony Boselli.

1183
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 7: Then they hired you know, the whole grill. Then they

1184
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:37,600
Speaker 7: hired the new coach in the new GM, who are

1185
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 7: really terrific by the way, and then they get off

1186
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 7: to a good start and beat the Chiefs on a

1187
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:43,479
Speaker 7: Monday night and the city's going crazy. Then they lose

1188
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 7: two games the up and down. The team really needed

1189
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 7: an off week, got the off week, and then found

1190
00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:49,920
Speaker 7: a way to get a win last week. So yeah,

1191
00:51:49,920 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 7: they're a good place here and it's been a while

1192
00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:54,439
Speaker 7: since it felt like this around here. It's five and three,

1193
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:55,919
Speaker 7: it's not eight to zero, but I think they feel

1194
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:56,399
Speaker 7: pretty good.

1195
00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:59,719
Speaker 3: I was listening to you because we were done and

1196
00:51:59,760 --> 00:52:01,480
Speaker 3: it was it's a late window. So I heard you

1197
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:04,399
Speaker 3: on Sirius Exam and it sounded great. It sounded really

1198
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:08,760
Speaker 3: exciting and edge of the seat kind of stuff in Vegas.

1199
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: And I want to go right here.

1200
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 3: What was the discussion because I missed this part the

1201
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:17,520
Speaker 3: discussion in the broadcast booth about Liam Kohane taking the

1202
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 3: ball in overtime, having the option and he takes the

1203
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 3: ball first.

1204
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 1: What were your thoughts?

1205
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 7: You know, the funny thing about that is people are

1206
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 7: still trying to figure that out, as you know. That's

1207
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:28,359
Speaker 7: what we talked about. Jeff Logerbrunner is a great color

1208
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:32,360
Speaker 7: guy and I always worked together the whole time. The

1209
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:35,440
Speaker 7: paradigm's changed obviously, until now you had to take the

1210
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 7: ball to the team's course first wins in the regular season.

1211
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:40,720
Speaker 7: This is the first year that they've had to figure

1212
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:42,239
Speaker 7: that out. So I don't think people have figured it

1213
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 7: out yet. The two previous overtime games before this one,

1214
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:48,480
Speaker 7: the team kicked off, figured they'd have the ball last

1215
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 7: and know what they have to do, just like the

1216
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:52,240
Speaker 7: college guys do in the NFL. I don't think people

1217
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:54,360
Speaker 7: quite figured it out. So we talked about that. We

1218
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,400
Speaker 7: talked about what do you even before the coin, so

1219
00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:59,399
Speaker 7: what do you wind up doing? So when Liam took

1220
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 7: the ball, we all thought, okay, if you take it,

1221
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:04,919
Speaker 7: you better score. You know the reason people haven't taken

1222
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 7: the ball to the other two if you don't. But

1223
00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 7: he was confident, he said, he came out and said

1224
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 7: even yesterday when he talked to the media again, he said,

1225
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 7: listen to My thinking was if it was fifteen minutes,

1226
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:15,760
Speaker 7: I probably wouldn't have taken the ball. But that regular

1227
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 7: season overtime, that's ten minutes. So if you hold the

1228
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 7: ball seven eight, nine minutes and score, and that's what

1229
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:24,160
Speaker 7: they did. They scored with three minutes left. The problem

1230
00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:27,000
Speaker 7: is the Raiders ran the kickoff back sixty yards to

1231
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 7: the deg to the plus forty. So I think the

1232
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:32,719
Speaker 7: thing we're I think we're all still to point mark,

1233
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:35,200
Speaker 7: all of us figuring out what these guys are going

1234
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 7: to do, and I don't think they know yet. In college,

1235
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:39,719
Speaker 7: you know, right, it's twenty five yard line. If you

1236
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 7: win the toss, you play defense first, so you know

1237
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 7: what you have to do. It looks like that's the

1238
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 7: way the NFL is headed, But I don't think everybody's

1239
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:48,200
Speaker 7: totally figured it out. And that was our conversation in

1240
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:51,239
Speaker 7: the broadcast booth is, let's see what winds up being

1241
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:53,879
Speaker 7: the norm, because I don't think anybody knows the norm yet.

1242
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:54,840
Speaker 1: What would you do?

1243
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:57,800
Speaker 3: Do you have any ideas, Frank, of solving overtime because

1244
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:00,359
Speaker 3: they clearly need another tweak or two before where this

1245
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 3: thing is done.

1246
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know they're trying to save wear and tear. Okay,

1247
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 7: if they're going to keep it the way it is now,

1248
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:09,160
Speaker 7: ten minutes isn't long enough. I know the reason they

1249
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 7: did it is is it's a brutal game. But I

1250
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 7: don't think ten minutes isn't long enough. I don't I

1251
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:19,279
Speaker 7: like the college rule. Now, I'm like you, Mark, I

1252
00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 7: did an awful lot of college football before I was

1253
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 7: doing the NFL. Okay, I like the college rule. I

1254
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:26,799
Speaker 7: don't love it from the twenty five. I might put

1255
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:28,880
Speaker 7: it at midfield or the forty five, so you're not

1256
00:54:28,960 --> 00:54:32,160
Speaker 7: automatically in scoring position. Of course, with NFL's kickers today,

1257
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:34,040
Speaker 7: I guess you are, but you know my point. I

1258
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:38,319
Speaker 7: might I like the college rule, but I wouldn't start

1259
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:40,959
Speaker 7: at the twenty five. I'd put that make the team

1260
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:42,680
Speaker 7: have to score and make at least a two first

1261
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 7: downs here to be in a reasonable scoring position. But

1262
00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:47,720
Speaker 7: with the rule the way it is in the NFL.

1263
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:50,320
Speaker 7: Now back to your first question. If it's ten minutes,

1264
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 7: which it is in the regular season, and if you

1265
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 7: have to and if both teams are guaranteed a possession,

1266
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:57,399
Speaker 7: which they should be by the way that was there

1267
00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 7: never should have been, you can score. It does team

1268
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 7: in football. So they got that part right. I might

1269
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:03,360
Speaker 7: take the ball. I might take the ball into it.

1270
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 7: Liam Cohen did, and I think you're going to see

1271
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 7: teams do both is with ten minutes. With fifteen minutes,

1272
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 7: everybody would play defense.

1273
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:09,919
Speaker 6: First.

1274
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 7: We all know that, right, everybody would play defense. With

1275
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 7: ten minutes, I think you're going to see some people

1276
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:17,120
Speaker 7: take the ball. It'll be fun to watch these continue

1277
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:20,160
Speaker 7: on with and again remember in the playoffs is fifteen minutes,

1278
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 7: but in the regular season with the ten minutes, it'll

1279
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:23,239
Speaker 7: be interesting to see what people do.

1280
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 1: Well, it's funny you brought it up.

1281
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 3: I mean, if the Jags are at the fifty, you

1282
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:31,359
Speaker 3: can make a field goal from there. Now it's scientifically

1283
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:34,960
Speaker 3: proven with Cam Little hitting the sixty eight yarder and

1284
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 3: hitting the seventy yarder in the preseason. This has been

1285
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 3: a fun ride so far with this young kicker. Frank

1286
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:41,799
Speaker 3: tell Us.

1287
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:44,319
Speaker 7: Let me tell Mark, let me tell you something. He's

1288
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:47,840
Speaker 7: not barely making these. It's not like it's not like

1289
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:52,040
Speaker 7: that sixty eight yarder barely crossed the crossbar with like

1290
00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 7: it almost hit the crossbar. I don't know. I'm sure

1291
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,919
Speaker 7: you saw it. That thing's good from that thing's good

1292
00:55:56,920 --> 00:56:00,239
Speaker 7: from seventy five. I mean we watched it and the

1293
00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 7: seventy yard or in the preseason, Mark those things was Again,

1294
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:06,400
Speaker 7: he's not barely making You know, sometimes you'll see a

1295
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 7: field goal kicker they kick a little higher and you

1296
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 7: don't know if it's going to get there or not

1297
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:12,760
Speaker 7: not as much anymore cannon legs, but over the years,

1298
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,359
Speaker 7: and it would barely cross the crossbard. It might hit it.

1299
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 7: He might scrape it or hit it. This guy's clear

1300
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:20,120
Speaker 7: and I think about five six seven yards on the

1301
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:22,399
Speaker 7: sixty eight seven yard field. Well, that's where the game

1302
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:25,319
Speaker 7: is now. The Dallas kicker is going to kick one

1303
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 7: of these. There's kickers in the lake that are going

1304
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 7: to kick these. It's amazing. It's amazing how strong their

1305
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 7: legs are and it really is.

1306
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:34,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, Dallas had a shot on Monday night to get

1307
00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:37,760
Speaker 3: it well between that between these kickers with the long

1308
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 3: range and then field position being what it is with

1309
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:41,680
Speaker 3: the kickoff rule.

1310
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: What's your review?

1311
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:45,280
Speaker 3: You and I talked earlier in the season, but now

1312
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:47,400
Speaker 3: we've got some water under the bridge here with the

1313
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 3: touchback at the thirty five. It is crazy town with

1314
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 3: these kickoffs. You see a lot of different situations, some turnovers,

1315
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:57,480
Speaker 3: and you know, some botched attempts to you know, do

1316
00:56:57,560 --> 00:56:58,560
Speaker 3: I bring it out or not?

1317
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:02,080
Speaker 1: What should I do? Special teams is more important than ever.

1318
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:04,799
Speaker 7: And let me tell what they're all trying to do now,

1319
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 7: because I've asked about this. First, I thought, okay, you

1320
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 7: don't what you don't want to do? You don't want

1321
00:57:09,239 --> 00:57:10,400
Speaker 7: to kick it in the end zone because then they

1322
00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 7: started the thirty five. So that's that's the one that

1323
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:15,320
Speaker 7: you know want Okay, So what people were doing was

1324
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:18,479
Speaker 7: pooching these high kicks and have them come down around

1325
00:57:18,520 --> 00:57:21,360
Speaker 7: the five. Well, the problem with that is, but the

1326
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:23,600
Speaker 7: special team's coaches will tell you Mark is then the

1327
00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:25,680
Speaker 7: guy gets a running start, he starts in the middle

1328
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 7: of the end zone and he gets this running start

1329
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:30,120
Speaker 7: and he catches it on the run and then those

1330
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:32,440
Speaker 7: are good returns. So now what people are trying to

1331
00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 7: do is they're trying to kick line drives that land

1332
00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 7: in there. Well, but if you mishit it and it

1333
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:40,000
Speaker 7: bounces before the twenty, it comes up to the forty,

1334
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 7: So it's harder than ever for the kicker. You know

1335
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 7: what I would have done. I thought about this, you

1336
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 7: know what I was instead of all this rules and

1337
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:48,840
Speaker 7: landings on this and landings on this, and the kickers

1338
00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:51,120
Speaker 7: as these strong leg he go off from the ten,

1339
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 7: he go off from the twenty. Right, if one if

1340
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:55,480
Speaker 7: these guys are kicking off from the twenty yard line,

1341
00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:56,919
Speaker 7: let them kick it as far as they want. They're

1342
00:57:56,920 --> 00:57:59,480
Speaker 7: not kicking those balls in the end zone, right, I

1343
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 7: might have might have backed it up to the twenty

1344
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 7: and just let it, let it fly. I think that's

1345
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 7: probably what I looked at.

1346
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:06,640
Speaker 3: Johnny's idea was to make the landing zone even bigger,

1347
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:09,360
Speaker 3: or get rid of it altogether and just let them rip,

1348
00:58:09,560 --> 00:58:11,880
Speaker 3: you know, so see what happens then. But you know,

1349
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 3: then we might have some real craziness. I think it

1350
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:16,280
Speaker 3: has to go beyond a certain yard line. Like the

1351
00:58:16,320 --> 00:58:19,600
Speaker 3: thirty five because that's where the wave of return men

1352
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:23,680
Speaker 3: and coverage guys are. Anyway, So what do you think

1353
00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 3: of the Jaguar offense right now? Because the Jags are

1354
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 3: dealing with a lot of injuries and we don't know

1355
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:30,720
Speaker 3: who's in and who's out with some of the stars.

1356
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 3: You know, Travis Hunter is obviously on IR right now,

1357
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 3: but with some of the injuries you had, certain guys

1358
00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:38,840
Speaker 3: had to step up, and Trevor Lawrence did a good

1359
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:41,320
Speaker 3: job against the Raiders and he needs to continue to

1360
00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:41,560
Speaker 3: do that.

1361
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:43,880
Speaker 1: Your thoughts, Frank, think.

1362
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 7: About this mark when the season started and when every

1363
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 7: game has started until the injury started. This was their

1364
00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:52,040
Speaker 7: their eleven personnel, which is you know, is one running back,

1365
00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 7: one tight end, three wide, which is what everybody runs.

1366
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:57,760
Speaker 7: This is the lineup. Briton Strains the tight end, and

1367
00:58:57,800 --> 00:59:01,200
Speaker 7: the three wide receivers were Brian Thomas Junior or Deammy Brown,

1368
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:04,280
Speaker 7: and Travis Hunter. That was the four guys right. None

1369
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 7: of them finished the game and none of them finished

1370
00:59:06,280 --> 00:59:10,240
Speaker 7: the game in data zero. Okay, Strange is on IR now,

1371
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:13,200
Speaker 7: Travis Hunter's on IR. Brian Thomas Junior and Diammy Brown

1372
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 7: both got hurt. In the game, so none of the

1373
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:18,800
Speaker 7: four finished the game. So they had two guys that

1374
00:59:18,840 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 7: they called up from the practice squad the day of

1375
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:23,680
Speaker 7: the game that finished the game as the starting receivers,

1376
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:25,840
Speaker 7: and God lets Trevor. He took him down the field

1377
00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 7: with that. So he did a great job working with

1378
00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 7: backup guys that he hasn't repped very much with it.

1379
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:32,200
Speaker 7: It's not just that they're not as good as the starter,

1380
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:34,600
Speaker 7: as you know, it's also they haven't had they haven't

1381
00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 7: any reps with the quarterback and timing and everything in

1382
00:59:37,240 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 7: the NFL. So he did a really good job this week.

1383
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:41,840
Speaker 7: They're not gonna have Strange and they're not gonna have

1384
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:46,000
Speaker 7: Travis Hunter. So Brian Thomas Junior and Demmy Brown both

1385
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 7: were hurt, and then Geommy's in the concussion protocol. Brian bumped.

1386
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:52,360
Speaker 7: He had a shoulder injury and he kind of reinjured

1387
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:54,760
Speaker 7: in a little bit. I don't know who's playing. I

1388
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:57,480
Speaker 7: don't think any as we sit here on Tuesday, I

1389
00:59:57,480 --> 00:59:59,959
Speaker 7: don't think anybody has any idea who's playing that game

1390
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:03,320
Speaker 7: in the receiver. So that's how bizarre the situation is.

1391
01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:04,920
Speaker 7: Before we head to Houston, at least for today.

1392
01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:05,080
Speaker 10: Now.

1393
01:00:05,080 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 7: Maybe there'll be more clarity when we get to Wednesday

1394
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:09,960
Speaker 7: or even Thursday. But as we see her today, Mark,

1395
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:12,000
Speaker 7: I don't think we have any ideas playing well.

1396
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:15,360
Speaker 3: Devin Lloyd's another one that has been missing and may

1397
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 3: or may not be back. We were really impressed with him, Frank,

1398
01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:20,280
Speaker 3: in the game in North Florida between the Texans and

1399
01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 3: the Jags, and the Jags defense as a whole, forcing turnovers,

1400
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:26,680
Speaker 3: making life really tough for the Texans who had the

1401
01:00:26,720 --> 01:00:29,600
Speaker 3: ball in scoring range multiple times but turned it over

1402
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:30,880
Speaker 3: a bunch in the fourth quarter.

1403
01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:33,440
Speaker 1: What about that side of the football in general, Frank.

1404
01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:36,160
Speaker 7: Yeah, they were great at getting takeaways. But they and

1405
01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 7: again I sound like I'm making excuses, but they've been

1406
01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:41,520
Speaker 7: decimated too. Trayvon Walker has been playing with the club

1407
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:43,240
Speaker 7: on his hand and then got injected from throwing a

1408
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:45,640
Speaker 7: punch last game. Devin Lloyd hadn't played, as you know,

1409
01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:49,440
Speaker 7: in three games. Jordan Lewis, a terrific free agencygee from Dallas,

1410
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:51,760
Speaker 7: got hurt in the game. Eric Murray, who you know

1411
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:53,840
Speaker 7: very well, the safety who was in Houston all those years,

1412
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:55,640
Speaker 7: who's played very well when he got here. Now Mark,

1413
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,720
Speaker 7: he's now on ir so that's four more starters. That's

1414
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:00,280
Speaker 7: for on the defensive side of the ball. He went

1415
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:01,960
Speaker 7: to all the guys on the offensive side of the ball.

1416
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:05,959
Speaker 7: The defense went healthy's pretty good. The tackles haven't played great,

1417
01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:09,080
Speaker 7: h the ends have been pretty good. The back seven

1418
01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:11,440
Speaker 7: has been very good. And so but you got you

1419
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:13,760
Speaker 7: gotta have guys that are healthy. That's that's the biggest concern.

1420
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:16,440
Speaker 7: Devin Lloyd had four interceptions and then got hurt. He

1421
01:01:16,520 --> 01:01:19,479
Speaker 7: hurt his calf. It practiced a week. They've been very

1422
01:01:19,480 --> 01:01:21,960
Speaker 7: cautious with that. Played a little bit the first game

1423
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:24,240
Speaker 7: after that, but he wasn't himself. They did not take

1424
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 7: him to London, held him out of that game. Then

1425
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:28,200
Speaker 7: they had the off week. We thought he traveled to

1426
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:30,920
Speaker 7: He traveled to Las Vegas. He traveled to see if

1427
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:32,640
Speaker 7: he could go, so they thought we thought they might play.

1428
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:34,960
Speaker 7: But then he was an active day off, in active,

1429
01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:37,520
Speaker 7: healthy scratched or not healthy, scratch but scratched the day up.

1430
01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:39,840
Speaker 7: And I don't think he's ever being very carey. It's

1431
01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:43,080
Speaker 7: the calf. And you know in sports today, mark these

1432
01:01:43,120 --> 01:01:45,960
Speaker 7: calves become achilles, become gone for the year, gone for

1433
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:49,000
Speaker 7: a year, and so people are very careful about not

1434
01:01:49,040 --> 01:01:52,680
Speaker 7: even letting these cast injuries turn into these Achilles injuries.

1435
01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 7: The Pacers guy draught up Blake on the name of

1436
01:01:55,160 --> 01:01:57,200
Speaker 7: the basketbllayer for the Pacer same thing. Remember, had the

1437
01:01:57,240 --> 01:01:59,520
Speaker 7: bad calf, wanted to play because it was the finals

1438
01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 7: and blew the Achilles and al Gonker a lot of

1439
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:03,960
Speaker 7: this year, and so I think they're being very careful

1440
01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:07,120
Speaker 7: with him. My guess would be he's fifty to fifty

1441
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:08,920
Speaker 7: and again they'll tell us later in the week, but

1442
01:02:09,040 --> 01:02:11,000
Speaker 7: my guess is they want Devin Lloyd back where they want.

1443
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:13,439
Speaker 3: To be very careful in their cap Frank Francie, Voice

1444
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 3: of the Jaguars with us, Frank, we have something in

1445
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:18,880
Speaker 3: common here with our teams. They both have two games

1446
01:02:18,880 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 3: with the Colts down the stretch. Colts just lost to Pittsburgh,

1447
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:25,600
Speaker 3: turned the ball over a bunch six cough ups in

1448
01:02:25,640 --> 01:02:28,080
Speaker 3: that game after only four heading in. What do you

1449
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 3: think of them? Obviously when they've got it going on,

1450
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:33,160
Speaker 3: they're very good, But what about the Colts overall?

1451
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 7: Frank, Well, I'll say this, give Shane stike In credit.

1452
01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:39,600
Speaker 7: Give that operation credit. When you get to seven and one,

1453
01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:42,439
Speaker 7: it's not a Fluke. Now they haven't played as tough

1454
01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:44,960
Speaker 7: as schedule. The Texans have a brutally tough schedule all

1455
01:02:45,040 --> 01:02:47,520
Speaker 7: year long. That first place schedule that you guys drew

1456
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:50,360
Speaker 7: first play schedule is always tough at it. God bless

1457
01:02:50,400 --> 01:02:52,720
Speaker 7: the Texans. The Texans have a really hard schedule from

1458
01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:56,160
Speaker 7: start to finish. The Colts had a very easy schedule

1459
01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:58,880
Speaker 7: to start the season, and it's about to get tougher.

1460
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:01,440
Speaker 7: But I almost hate to say that mark because it

1461
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:03,920
Speaker 7: diminishes what they've done a little. I mean, then you're

1462
01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:05,720
Speaker 7: seven and one, you're pretty dang good, you know that

1463
01:03:06,040 --> 01:03:07,640
Speaker 7: or whatever. They're seven to two now, but you start

1464
01:03:07,680 --> 01:03:10,240
Speaker 7: seven to one, you're pretty dang good. Daniel Jones seems

1465
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:13,000
Speaker 7: to find himself. You ever thought about how many quarterbacks

1466
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:17,160
Speaker 7: in this league find themselves after the first place, whether

1467
01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:19,920
Speaker 7: it's Baker Mayfield or Sam Donold, look out he's playing.

1468
01:03:20,240 --> 01:03:24,560
Speaker 7: And now Daniel Jones, it's almost like the pressure's off, right,

1469
01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:28,160
Speaker 7: the pressure to save the franchise is gone. Now you're

1470
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:29,440
Speaker 7: just you're almost a journeyman.

1471
01:03:29,480 --> 01:03:29,680
Speaker 10: Now.

1472
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:31,920
Speaker 7: You're always a good player, or you wouldn't have had

1473
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:34,280
Speaker 7: that pressure in the first place. But the pressure's gone.

1474
01:03:34,360 --> 01:03:36,919
Speaker 7: You relax a little bit. And I think Daniel Jones

1475
01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:38,680
Speaker 7: is playing well. And I think Jonathan Tale is one

1476
01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:40,240
Speaker 7: of the best backs in the league. I really do.

1477
01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:42,400
Speaker 7: He maybe be past back in the league, and so

1478
01:03:42,960 --> 01:03:45,120
Speaker 7: I think what they're doing is legit. But the schedules

1479
01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 7: are about to get harder. They have had a little

1480
01:03:47,360 --> 01:03:51,360
Speaker 7: uneasier schedule, so it'll be interesting that that's even as

1481
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:53,920
Speaker 7: much as this our franchise has struggled here. You know,

1482
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:56,960
Speaker 7: the Colts haven't won a game in Jacksonville since twenty fourteen.

1483
01:03:57,120 --> 01:03:57,840
Speaker 7: Did you realize that?

1484
01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:00,840
Speaker 1: I did know that two thousand fourteen.

1485
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:03,919
Speaker 7: And they've been they've been to better franchise these last

1486
01:04:03,920 --> 01:04:06,080
Speaker 7: ten twelve years, but they haven't won a division and

1487
01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:07,800
Speaker 7: they haven't won here. So it's been a strange. It's

1488
01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:10,040
Speaker 7: a strange series when the deed by the Cults, for sure.

1489
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 3: It's kind of a strange year in the AFC South

1490
01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:15,320
Speaker 3: in general because the Texans having the struggles they're having

1491
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:17,000
Speaker 3: right now, and there's a long.

1492
01:04:16,880 --> 01:04:17,320
Speaker 1: Way to go.

1493
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:19,760
Speaker 3: We'll see how it all plays out. Frank Francis, Voice

1494
01:04:19,760 --> 01:04:22,160
Speaker 3: of the Jaguars, joining us right now. Every week John

1495
01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:24,440
Speaker 3: Harris plays this game with us on the radio. What's

1496
01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:26,480
Speaker 3: the best team in the league, because every week it

1497
01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:29,320
Speaker 3: feels different. What is your thought this week, Frank on

1498
01:04:29,400 --> 01:04:32,280
Speaker 3: the best team in the NFL, because it's very difficult

1499
01:04:32,320 --> 01:04:34,160
Speaker 3: to pinpoint that you know a.

1500
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:35,840
Speaker 7: Week or two good. How do you not say it's

1501
01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:38,640
Speaker 7: the Colts because of their record? But I don't believe it.

1502
01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:40,640
Speaker 7: Probably is if I was betting my money on who's

1503
01:04:40,640 --> 01:04:43,160
Speaker 7: going to win the whole thing? To me, boy, the

1504
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:45,520
Speaker 7: Seahawks looked good. I saw them up close in personal Now,

1505
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:48,280
Speaker 7: so the Seahawks would get a lot of vote. They're

1506
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:50,760
Speaker 7: really marked, They're really good. But I would have a

1507
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:52,959
Speaker 7: hard time not picking the Bills or the Chiefs until

1508
01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:55,280
Speaker 7: someone proves to me it's not them. I mean, if

1509
01:04:55,320 --> 01:04:57,480
Speaker 7: I'm betting my money, I'd rather bet your money, by

1510
01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:01,120
Speaker 7: the way, something been betting your money. I would, I would.

1511
01:05:01,240 --> 01:05:05,320
Speaker 7: I would probably say Bills are Chiefs. The boy the Seahawks.

1512
01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:07,280
Speaker 7: We saw the Seahawks Rams up close in Purple, I

1513
01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:10,560
Speaker 7: will say this. And we had a stretch of four

1514
01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:14,920
Speaker 7: consecutive games that Jaggs did where they at San Francisco

1515
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:19,360
Speaker 7: home against the Chiefs, home against Seattle, and then the

1516
01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:21,800
Speaker 7: Rams in London. Now that's four pretty tough games now,

1517
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 7: all right, four tough games. And we said before beforehand,

1518
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:27,720
Speaker 7: if you'd go to and doing those games, you feel

1519
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:29,760
Speaker 7: pretty good. Well, you want the first two, but then

1520
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:31,440
Speaker 7: you didn't feel as good about the two and two. Right,

1521
01:05:31,440 --> 01:05:33,280
Speaker 7: That's kind of how it worked. So but it'll be

1522
01:05:33,280 --> 01:05:35,880
Speaker 7: interesting to see one other point. By the way, and

1523
01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 7: I'm not saying just because I'm talking to you on

1524
01:05:38,040 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 7: this interview, because I said this on my air yesterday,

1525
01:05:41,240 --> 01:05:43,720
Speaker 7: the Texans are better than that record that we all

1526
01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:45,760
Speaker 7: know that. I mean c J. Stroud got knocked out

1527
01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:48,680
Speaker 7: of the game. The Texans are the team. Keep an

1528
01:05:48,720 --> 01:05:50,440
Speaker 7: eye on the dang Texas. We've all been saying that

1529
01:05:50,520 --> 01:05:52,640
Speaker 7: around here, just like I said the same thing about

1530
01:05:52,640 --> 01:05:54,400
Speaker 7: the Ravens. When the Ravens get their players back, I

1531
01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:55,960
Speaker 7: still think they're going to win the r I said

1532
01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:57,320
Speaker 7: that even when they were one and five. I just

1533
01:05:57,320 --> 01:05:59,320
Speaker 7: believe they had the best team. Keep an eye on

1534
01:05:59,360 --> 01:06:01,560
Speaker 7: the Houston text. Nobody, I promise you, nobody in this

1535
01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:04,880
Speaker 7: city has any any misgivings about how good the Texans are.

1536
01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:07,400
Speaker 7: It's been a tough start, but it's a long season.

1537
01:06:07,920 --> 01:06:10,160
Speaker 7: If CJ. Stroud comes back, and obviously that's a big

1538
01:06:10,200 --> 01:06:11,840
Speaker 7: part of it. Now, you know you know that story

1539
01:06:11,920 --> 01:06:14,200
Speaker 7: better than I do. But I think the Texans have

1540
01:06:14,240 --> 01:06:15,640
Speaker 7: a pretty good football team. I really do.

1541
01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:16,480
Speaker 1: Well.

1542
01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:19,680
Speaker 3: It's wild that in college football it's kind of winding

1543
01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:21,720
Speaker 3: down in the NFL as far as the Texans go,

1544
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:24,480
Speaker 3: because they're there by early, still have nine games to

1545
01:06:24,520 --> 01:06:28,240
Speaker 3: play here, So it's a whole season basically that you

1546
01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:31,640
Speaker 3: have to navigate through. Frank, And speaking of college football,

1547
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:34,000
Speaker 3: University of Florida job is open. I know you host

1548
01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:35,920
Speaker 3: a talk show and everything and have a lot of

1549
01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:40,280
Speaker 3: college football conversation. How good is the Florida job versus

1550
01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:43,120
Speaker 3: some of the other open jobs in the SEC or

1551
01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:47,560
Speaker 3: beyond Virginia Tech, Penn State, UCLA, you name it.

1552
01:06:47,760 --> 01:06:48,360
Speaker 1: You tell me.

1553
01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:51,760
Speaker 7: I've we got to chuckle around here, Mark, because the

1554
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:54,160
Speaker 7: LSU and Florida people are arguing with each other about

1555
01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:57,000
Speaker 7: who's got the better job. And here's what I think.

1556
01:06:57,360 --> 01:07:07,880
Speaker 7: I think there's probably eight to ten jobs in America Florida, Georgia, Alabama, LSU, Texas, Oklahoma,

1557
01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:11,560
Speaker 7: Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State. They're all the same. You know,

1558
01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:14,080
Speaker 7: you can say, Okay, the southern jobs are better because

1559
01:07:14,080 --> 01:07:16,240
Speaker 7: they're closer to the players, and there's some truths to that.

1560
01:07:16,440 --> 01:07:17,880
Speaker 7: You don't have to go very far to recruit a

1561
01:07:17,960 --> 01:07:21,240
Speaker 7: national championship team. But those are great jobs. I would

1562
01:07:21,240 --> 01:07:24,440
Speaker 7: say Florida, LSU, and Penn State all being open at

1563
01:07:24,480 --> 01:07:28,320
Speaker 7: the same time are blue blood I mean completely blue

1564
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:31,040
Speaker 7: blood jobs, blue blood as it gets in my opinion,

1565
01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:33,800
Speaker 7: and I think they're all really good jobs. By the way,

1566
01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:34,840
Speaker 7: if you're going to ask me who I think the

1567
01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:37,040
Speaker 7: next Florida coach is going to be, I know I'm

1568
01:07:37,080 --> 01:07:39,280
Speaker 7: taking the shalk here. I'll tell you right now, and

1569
01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:40,600
Speaker 7: you can tell me what a dummy I am. If

1570
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:43,400
Speaker 7: I was wrong, I would be roundly surprised if Lane

1571
01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:46,160
Speaker 7: Kiffin's not the Florida coach. I think I think the

1572
01:07:46,280 --> 01:07:49,520
Speaker 7: job he's I think he's enamored by it. He's said

1573
01:07:49,520 --> 01:07:52,080
Speaker 7: in his documentary, however, he wears the visor because he

1574
01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:54,000
Speaker 7: always idolized the Burrier and that's why he's kind of

1575
01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:57,200
Speaker 7: chirpie and why he wears the visor. He told Molly

1576
01:07:57,280 --> 01:07:59,720
Speaker 7: McGrath right before the game that the Swamp of a

1577
01:07:59,720 --> 01:08:03,440
Speaker 7: special place and that's where he met his then wife Layla,

1578
01:08:03,520 --> 01:08:06,760
Speaker 7: and I would I'll go write me down for that

1579
01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:08,360
Speaker 7: and then tell me what it put me on freezing

1580
01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:10,240
Speaker 7: cold takes or whatever it is if I get it wrong.

1581
01:08:10,680 --> 01:08:13,919
Speaker 7: But I would be. I think Kiffen wants the job, Mark,

1582
01:08:14,560 --> 01:08:17,360
Speaker 7: I think, and I think. I think he believes in

1583
01:08:17,360 --> 01:08:19,120
Speaker 7: ole Miss and he loves what ole Miss has done

1584
01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:20,800
Speaker 7: for him, and I think he has a romantic tie

1585
01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:22,599
Speaker 7: to it. He'll be able to statue for him there

1586
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:24,439
Speaker 7: because I think he's gonna have in the playoffs this

1587
01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:26,679
Speaker 7: year for the first time. But I think he wants

1588
01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:28,559
Speaker 7: the Florida job, and I think Florida's gonna want him.

1589
01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:31,120
Speaker 7: I would be. I would be moderately surprised if he's

1590
01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:33,120
Speaker 7: not the next Florida coach's That's that's how I feel

1591
01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:33,720
Speaker 7: about that job.

1592
01:08:34,520 --> 01:08:37,320
Speaker 3: That aside, Frank, do you feel like in today's world

1593
01:08:37,320 --> 01:08:41,000
Speaker 3: of college football you can win a national championship from

1594
01:08:41,080 --> 01:08:44,960
Speaker 3: a lot of different directions. Take Kenny Dillingham at Arizona State.

1595
01:08:45,280 --> 01:08:48,040
Speaker 3: He's going to be popular with some of these openings,

1596
01:08:48,080 --> 01:08:50,360
Speaker 3: but he's from there and the family and all that,

1597
01:08:50,400 --> 01:08:53,200
Speaker 3: and why not just stay because it's all about your

1598
01:08:53,400 --> 01:08:56,519
Speaker 3: money supply anyway, for the nil funding to get the

1599
01:08:56,560 --> 01:08:59,639
Speaker 3: good athletes there, and you can still be competitive your thoughts.

1600
01:09:00,880 --> 01:09:03,439
Speaker 7: There's four guys that they're alma mater, that are that

1601
01:09:03,520 --> 01:09:04,800
Speaker 7: are going to be, that are going to be in

1602
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:08,679
Speaker 7: the car and Carosel mentioned Jeff Brahm at Louisville, Brent

1603
01:09:08,800 --> 01:09:12,759
Speaker 7: Key at Georgia Tech, Clark Lee at Vanderbilt, and Kenny

1604
01:09:12,760 --> 01:09:14,760
Speaker 7: Dillingham in Arizona State. All four guys are at their

1605
01:09:14,760 --> 01:09:19,080
Speaker 7: alma mater, all four A risers in this whole carousel world.

1606
01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:22,880
Speaker 7: I think you can get to the playoffs and deepen

1607
01:09:22,920 --> 01:09:25,559
Speaker 7: the playoffs at a lot of places. That's your point.

1608
01:09:25,920 --> 01:09:27,920
Speaker 7: You didn't used to be now with twelve teams are

1609
01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:30,920
Speaker 7: about to go to sixteen teams recruiting and the portal

1610
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:33,320
Speaker 7: allows you to build your roster quicker than ever before.

1611
01:09:34,120 --> 01:09:36,360
Speaker 7: I don't know that you can win national championships in

1612
01:09:36,400 --> 01:09:39,240
Speaker 7: all those places, because eventually you're going to run into

1613
01:09:39,280 --> 01:09:41,880
Speaker 7: Ohio State, and you're going to run into Georgia, who

1614
01:09:41,920 --> 01:09:45,240
Speaker 7: probably has more good players than YouTube. So I don't

1615
01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:47,680
Speaker 7: know that you can win national championships anywhere. I think

1616
01:09:47,720 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 7: you can get to the playoffs. I think you can

1617
01:09:49,920 --> 01:09:51,960
Speaker 7: get deep into play Indiana will be a great exam.

1618
01:09:52,120 --> 01:09:55,519
Speaker 7: Indiana will will prove or dispute this because if Indiana

1619
01:09:55,640 --> 01:09:58,240
Speaker 7: is really good and it's freaking Indiana, if Indiana are

1620
01:09:58,240 --> 01:10:00,719
Speaker 7: ole miss win the national championship, then if who's your theory,

1621
01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:03,560
Speaker 7: I have no doubt you can get to the playoffs,

1622
01:10:03,760 --> 01:10:06,120
Speaker 7: but I don't know that you can win the whole

1623
01:10:06,160 --> 01:10:08,160
Speaker 7: thing very often if you're not in one of those

1624
01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:11,120
Speaker 7: blue buns, which is why all four of those guys

1625
01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:14,120
Speaker 7: that are at Alma maters. I think. I think if

1626
01:10:14,160 --> 01:10:17,120
Speaker 7: you're Kenny Dillingham and Penn State calls you, I think

1627
01:10:17,160 --> 01:10:20,160
Speaker 7: he's probably taken the job. That's I may be wrong.

1628
01:10:20,400 --> 01:10:22,640
Speaker 7: I think if you're Clark Lee and Auburn calls you,

1629
01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:25,120
Speaker 7: you're probably taking I might be wrong, but that's kind

1630
01:10:25,160 --> 01:10:26,840
Speaker 7: of those are my expectations.

1631
01:10:27,240 --> 01:10:30,360
Speaker 3: Fair point, Frank, great stuff. As always, we look forward

1632
01:10:30,360 --> 01:10:32,480
Speaker 3: to seeing you on Sunday at NRG Stadium.

1633
01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:34,360
Speaker 7: Look forward to it, Mark, I always do. Thanks for

1634
01:10:34,360 --> 01:10:35,479
Speaker 7: having me on. Take care Man.

1635
01:10:35,880 --> 01:10:38,479
Speaker 2: Two of the best people you are ever going to meet,

1636
01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:43,160
Speaker 2: Mark Vandermuir and Frank Franjie, another guy that we have

1637
01:10:43,960 --> 01:10:46,879
Speaker 2: a lot of fun with whenever he walks in studio.

1638
01:10:47,520 --> 01:10:50,720
Speaker 2: Love having him around. He is a tremendous dude, and

1639
01:10:50,760 --> 01:10:56,960
Speaker 2: that is Mario Edwards Junior. He was saluted this week

1640
01:10:57,240 --> 01:11:01,280
Speaker 2: for his work with veterans. Will discuss that, will congratulate

1641
01:11:01,360 --> 01:11:02,760
Speaker 2: him for that, and then we'll talk some ball with

1642
01:11:02,840 --> 01:11:03,719
Speaker 2: Mario Edwards Junior.

1643
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:05,120
Speaker 1: Next right here at Texans All Access.

1644
01:11:06,720 --> 01:11:09,040
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, welcome back to this Wednesday istion of Texans

1645
01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:12,120
Speaker 2: All Access. John Harris, your host football ANALSILID reporter for

1646
01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:17,040
Speaker 2: your Houston Texans time. Catch up with Mario Edwards Junior,

1647
01:11:17,479 --> 01:11:18,719
Speaker 2: and we do that right here.

1648
01:11:19,120 --> 01:11:22,400
Speaker 1: Mario Edwards Junior joining us. Since studio, Mario, how's it going?

1649
01:11:22,439 --> 01:11:24,639
Speaker 6: Great to see you going good? Thanks for having me all.

1650
01:11:24,560 --> 01:11:28,440
Speaker 3: Right, So before we go anywhere, Salute to Service Award nominee.

1651
01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:29,960
Speaker 1: What does that mean to you, Mario?

1652
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:31,479
Speaker 6: It means a lot.

1653
01:11:32,200 --> 01:11:34,479
Speaker 11: My sister was in the Army, so I know kind

1654
01:11:34,520 --> 01:11:36,479
Speaker 11: of first hand how it is to support people and

1655
01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:39,400
Speaker 11: support them during their time of service, and it's fun

1656
01:11:39,439 --> 01:11:42,400
Speaker 11: to be able to support her and veterans and first responders.

1657
01:11:42,960 --> 01:11:45,680
Speaker 2: Mark had a great question that he's been asking a

1658
01:11:45,720 --> 01:11:49,400
Speaker 2: lot of the guests, and Jake Hansen had a good answer.

1659
01:11:49,479 --> 01:11:51,479
Speaker 2: He said air force. And then when he said air force,

1660
01:11:51,800 --> 01:11:53,439
Speaker 2: we asked him what his call signed would be and

1661
01:11:53,479 --> 01:11:56,200
Speaker 2: he just said he would. He would be called jugs,

1662
01:11:56,520 --> 01:11:59,280
Speaker 2: you know, like hangman or Maverick. So if you were

1663
01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:02,439
Speaker 2: to be in in one of the military branches, Now

1664
01:12:02,520 --> 01:12:04,960
Speaker 2: your sister was in your army, so maybe you're you're biased,

1665
01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:06,840
Speaker 2: But if you were to be in any one of

1666
01:12:06,880 --> 01:12:10,240
Speaker 2: the five major ones Army, Navy, air Force, Marines, coach guard,

1667
01:12:10,400 --> 01:12:11,320
Speaker 2: which one would you be in?

1668
01:12:11,360 --> 01:12:13,160
Speaker 6: Real I have to go Army like my sister.

1669
01:12:13,360 --> 01:12:16,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, nice, all right, going for that. That's nice?

1670
01:12:16,680 --> 01:12:18,880
Speaker 3: That like because a lot of people pick air Force

1671
01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:20,960
Speaker 3: because they think top gun or yeah, Navy.

1672
01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:23,080
Speaker 2: Okay, So I'll ask you if you were top gun,

1673
01:12:23,120 --> 01:12:24,160
Speaker 2: what would your call sign be?

1674
01:12:24,200 --> 01:12:29,720
Speaker 1: Would be? Actually Navy I juggernaut, Juggernaut, juggling. I like that.

1675
01:12:29,960 --> 01:12:30,599
Speaker 10: I like that.

1676
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:33,680
Speaker 1: We've got jugs and juggernaut. I like it. That's very nice. Hey,

1677
01:12:33,680 --> 01:12:34,120
Speaker 1: you did that.

1678
01:12:34,439 --> 01:12:36,360
Speaker 3: And we'll get to the football stump in a moment here.

1679
01:12:36,400 --> 01:12:38,679
Speaker 3: But this is flag football because you did the Salute

1680
01:12:38,720 --> 01:12:42,800
Speaker 3: to service showdown, you and the rookies and what was

1681
01:12:42,840 --> 01:12:44,599
Speaker 3: the first responders playing flag football?

1682
01:12:45,120 --> 01:12:47,080
Speaker 1: How was that? Was that pretty cool to coach them?

1683
01:12:47,280 --> 01:12:48,280
Speaker 6: It was pretty cool.

1684
01:12:48,320 --> 01:12:51,479
Speaker 11: It was I understand a little bit of how the

1685
01:12:51,479 --> 01:12:53,479
Speaker 11: coaches feel sometimes trying to get them to run certain

1686
01:12:53,520 --> 01:12:55,000
Speaker 11: places and it's not going through.

1687
01:12:55,760 --> 01:12:58,120
Speaker 1: So so did it make you?

1688
01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:00,639
Speaker 2: You know what when coach Rod says something, Okay, I

1689
01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:02,760
Speaker 2: understand how you gotta give you a new respect a

1690
01:13:02,760 --> 01:13:03,559
Speaker 2: little bit for the coaches.

1691
01:13:03,640 --> 01:13:05,559
Speaker 11: We went out there and drew it up, and they

1692
01:13:05,680 --> 01:13:09,200
Speaker 11: just winged it what they wanted to do, got picked

1693
01:13:09,200 --> 01:13:10,599
Speaker 11: two picks in a row and everything.

1694
01:13:10,640 --> 01:13:12,040
Speaker 6: I'm like, that's not what we drew up.

1695
01:13:12,680 --> 01:13:15,719
Speaker 3: You know, what did your dad tell you that really

1696
01:13:15,760 --> 01:13:18,200
Speaker 3: helped you out as a professional football player?

1697
01:13:18,200 --> 01:13:19,679
Speaker 1: I mean here you are a decade in the league.

1698
01:13:19,760 --> 01:13:21,960
Speaker 3: Okay, so you know what's going on, But what helped

1699
01:13:21,960 --> 01:13:24,559
Speaker 3: you early on that you said throughout your career?

1700
01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:28,400
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's right, no question h. I'll probably say, go

1701
01:13:28,439 --> 01:13:31,160
Speaker 11: to work, to go to work, m h. You know,

1702
01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:34,080
Speaker 11: if you're gonna be here, same thing he would tell

1703
01:13:34,120 --> 01:13:35,479
Speaker 11: me in school, If you're gonna be there for so

1704
01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:37,439
Speaker 11: many hours a day, you might as well take advantage

1705
01:13:37,439 --> 01:13:39,280
Speaker 11: of it and get good grades and things like that,

1706
01:13:39,760 --> 01:13:42,720
Speaker 11: and just always being early. So I try to be

1707
01:13:42,720 --> 01:13:44,599
Speaker 11: in the building as early as possible. Just do an

1708
01:13:44,600 --> 01:13:47,360
Speaker 11: extra The more you can do, the more extra you do,

1709
01:13:47,439 --> 01:13:48,439
Speaker 11: the longer you stick around.

1710
01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:51,799
Speaker 3: Has that changed as you've evolved throughout your career, because

1711
01:13:51,880 --> 01:13:54,760
Speaker 3: you know, you're not a young football player anymore. You're

1712
01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:57,200
Speaker 3: not as old as a person, but as a football player,

1713
01:13:57,280 --> 01:13:58,800
Speaker 3: you know you've been around a little bit here.

1714
01:13:58,840 --> 01:13:59,879
Speaker 1: So how's that changed?

1715
01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:02,920
Speaker 11: Oh, not really changed. I think it kind of stayed true.

1716
01:14:03,040 --> 01:14:04,920
Speaker 11: I think the older I've got and I've kind of

1717
01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:08,200
Speaker 11: created my own kind of routine that helps me feel

1718
01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:11,000
Speaker 11: good and I get in in the morning. I can't

1719
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:13,840
Speaker 11: really sleep past six thirty or seven, so I'm up

1720
01:14:13,880 --> 01:14:16,360
Speaker 11: pretty early. So being up early always gives me a

1721
01:14:16,400 --> 01:14:17,439
Speaker 11: little bit ahead of the game.

1722
01:14:17,640 --> 01:14:19,120
Speaker 2: Mario, is that like, is it that way in the

1723
01:14:19,120 --> 01:14:21,880
Speaker 2: off season? Two can't sleep past six thirty seven o'clock?

1724
01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:24,599
Speaker 2: Or do you allow yourself, Okay, I'm gonna sleep till

1725
01:14:24,600 --> 01:14:27,120
Speaker 2: seven thirty today or is it just kind of ingrained

1726
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:27,360
Speaker 2: to you.

1727
01:14:27,479 --> 01:14:29,400
Speaker 1: That's just you just get up and you start working.

1728
01:14:29,760 --> 01:14:32,120
Speaker 11: I'll be up, but I'll just be watching TV or

1729
01:14:32,439 --> 01:14:34,719
Speaker 11: moving around stuff like that. But I can't really sleep

1730
01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:36,960
Speaker 11: past yeah, about thirty six o'clock at.

1731
01:14:36,800 --> 01:14:39,280
Speaker 1: This point of the season. What are we in week ten?

1732
01:14:39,720 --> 01:14:42,639
Speaker 1: From week ten, how's the body feel?

1733
01:14:43,280 --> 01:14:46,639
Speaker 2: Because the car crashes, I don't know that people really

1734
01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:49,960
Speaker 2: truly understand that you're down in it. You're down in

1735
01:14:49,960 --> 01:14:53,639
Speaker 2: the trenches, and there are numerous plays in the game

1736
01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:57,240
Speaker 2: where you've got two guys three hundred pounds each.

1737
01:14:57,479 --> 01:14:59,920
Speaker 1: Back back and then another one back back.

1738
01:15:00,760 --> 01:15:03,080
Speaker 2: The body's got to be feeling it, Mario, at this

1739
01:15:03,080 --> 01:15:05,639
Speaker 2: point of the year, is it? How's the body really feel?

1740
01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:07,599
Speaker 2: How long does it take you to kind of recover

1741
01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:08,760
Speaker 2: as the season goes on.

1742
01:15:08,840 --> 01:15:11,559
Speaker 11: At this point, I think the body is feeling about

1743
01:15:11,600 --> 01:15:14,160
Speaker 11: like any everybody else in the season around week ten.

1744
01:15:14,600 --> 01:15:16,360
Speaker 11: But I think this is where your routine kind of

1745
01:15:16,439 --> 01:15:19,439
Speaker 11: kicks in, and the more you stay preventative to prevent

1746
01:15:19,479 --> 01:15:21,800
Speaker 11: things from happening, you kind of get a jump start

1747
01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:24,320
Speaker 11: on your body from all the aches. So the more

1748
01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:26,280
Speaker 11: I get in here earlier and do my cold tubs,

1749
01:15:26,280 --> 01:15:30,160
Speaker 11: hot tubs, red light bed, stretching, getting my adjustments and

1750
01:15:30,240 --> 01:15:32,160
Speaker 11: just staying on top of things, it helps the body.

1751
01:15:32,200 --> 01:15:34,280
Speaker 1: Wait did you say red light bed?

1752
01:15:34,920 --> 01:15:35,120
Speaker 6: Wait?

1753
01:15:35,120 --> 01:15:36,479
Speaker 1: Wait, explain that.

1754
01:15:37,040 --> 01:15:39,880
Speaker 11: It kind of looks like a tanning bed. Okay, but

1755
01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:42,960
Speaker 11: you have so many different options you can choose from

1756
01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:46,639
Speaker 11: your muscles. You can do it for energy, you can

1757
01:15:46,680 --> 01:15:48,120
Speaker 11: do it for a different type of things. So I

1758
01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:49,679
Speaker 11: just make sure I get in there at least fifteen

1759
01:15:49,720 --> 01:15:51,760
Speaker 11: to twenty minutes and get my muscles back.

1760
01:15:51,920 --> 01:15:52,240
Speaker 1: Wow.

1761
01:15:53,160 --> 01:15:56,760
Speaker 3: Interesting the red light therapy. Red light, that's a popular thing,

1762
01:15:56,800 --> 01:16:00,000
Speaker 3: So that stuff works all right. Mario Edwards Junior joining

1763
01:16:00,120 --> 01:16:02,280
Speaker 3: us facing some of these running backs. You guys have

1764
01:16:02,360 --> 01:16:06,960
Speaker 3: done a tremendous job Derek Henry, Chris McCaffrey, Christian McCaffrey,

1765
01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:09,679
Speaker 3: and last week at JK. Dobbins did a good job

1766
01:16:09,720 --> 01:16:12,479
Speaker 3: on him overall, even Travis Etn in the first meeting

1767
01:16:12,479 --> 01:16:13,200
Speaker 3: with the Jaguars.

1768
01:16:13,200 --> 01:16:15,639
Speaker 1: What's the secret to that? Because you have Etn again

1769
01:16:15,720 --> 01:16:16,280
Speaker 1: this week.

1770
01:16:16,800 --> 01:16:18,320
Speaker 11: I don't really think it's a secret, man. I think

1771
01:16:18,360 --> 01:16:20,360
Speaker 11: it's just kind of what coach Demko says. Man, you

1772
01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:21,800
Speaker 11: just do your job, you know, as long as you

1773
01:16:21,800 --> 01:16:23,960
Speaker 11: do your one eleventh and you're making sure that you're

1774
01:16:24,120 --> 01:16:25,680
Speaker 11: there for your brother and you're supposed to be in

1775
01:16:25,720 --> 01:16:28,439
Speaker 11: this gap, supposed to hold this block. We kind of

1776
01:16:28,439 --> 01:16:30,960
Speaker 11: play all together. So I think that's really the secret,

1777
01:16:31,080 --> 01:16:32,800
Speaker 11: or that's the sauce, is just doing your job.

1778
01:16:33,240 --> 01:16:35,559
Speaker 2: Mark, what's the what's it like being in a room

1779
01:16:35,640 --> 01:16:39,360
Speaker 2: with Rod Right Frank Okam, two defensive line coaches, you know,

1780
01:16:39,360 --> 01:16:41,360
Speaker 2: you've been around Rod for a few years. Frank comes

1781
01:16:41,360 --> 01:16:43,080
Speaker 2: in this year. But what's it like with those two

1782
01:16:43,160 --> 01:16:44,120
Speaker 2: guys as your leaders.

1783
01:16:44,439 --> 01:16:45,280
Speaker 6: Oh, it's great man.

1784
01:16:45,560 --> 01:16:48,400
Speaker 11: With Frank being able to play six seven years in

1785
01:16:48,400 --> 01:16:51,760
Speaker 11: the league, Rod as great as well, just always being

1786
01:16:51,840 --> 01:16:54,840
Speaker 11: honest and always giving us the extra tips and extra

1787
01:16:54,920 --> 01:16:57,080
Speaker 11: things that we need to be out there. So having

1788
01:16:57,080 --> 01:16:59,519
Speaker 11: both of those two guys together has been great this year.

1789
01:16:59,560 --> 01:17:02,519
Speaker 3: What about this group of guys, because, like we said,

1790
01:17:02,560 --> 01:17:04,280
Speaker 3: you've been on a few teams, You've been around a

1791
01:17:04,280 --> 01:17:07,040
Speaker 3: lot of different D linemen. What's special about this group

1792
01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:09,360
Speaker 3: because it seems special you could just see it from

1793
01:17:09,400 --> 01:17:11,599
Speaker 3: the outside looking at I think a lot.

1794
01:17:11,439 --> 01:17:15,120
Speaker 11: Of people feel like their room is different, or their

1795
01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:17,439
Speaker 11: room has a lot of talent, or their dogs as

1796
01:17:17,439 --> 01:17:19,640
Speaker 11: we say. But I think of me being in the

1797
01:17:19,720 --> 01:17:22,360
Speaker 11: year eleven, this is probably the room that I would

1798
01:17:22,360 --> 01:17:24,560
Speaker 11: say there is no drop off. You can kind of

1799
01:17:24,600 --> 01:17:27,160
Speaker 11: plug anybody in and you know they can play and

1800
01:17:27,200 --> 01:17:29,240
Speaker 11: handle the ball, I mean handle their job very well.

1801
01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:31,800
Speaker 11: And I would say the second thing is where this

1802
01:17:31,880 --> 01:17:33,240
Speaker 11: group is very selfless.

1803
01:17:33,280 --> 01:17:35,000
Speaker 6: There's no selfishness in the room, right.

1804
01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:37,599
Speaker 11: We're always trying to help someone as soon as even

1805
01:17:37,600 --> 01:17:40,400
Speaker 11: if we're jogging off the field and someone did something's like,

1806
01:17:40,400 --> 01:17:42,120
Speaker 11: hey man, maybe you should use your hands like this

1807
01:17:42,240 --> 01:17:44,400
Speaker 11: or look at this. And we always try to give

1808
01:17:44,439 --> 01:17:46,599
Speaker 11: each other, you know, hints and things to get better.

1809
01:17:47,040 --> 01:17:49,519
Speaker 1: Mario, we think it you may have been Folly.

1810
01:17:49,560 --> 01:17:53,080
Speaker 2: We were talking about this in the offseason mini camp

1811
01:17:53,120 --> 01:17:56,719
Speaker 2: Ota time and Shelling Ranks came back into the fold

1812
01:17:57,040 --> 01:17:59,720
Speaker 2: and I remember it was a U or full He said, yeah, yeah,

1813
01:18:00,080 --> 01:18:03,759
Speaker 2: we've all really played together with one another. How important

1814
01:18:03,840 --> 01:18:06,040
Speaker 2: has that been that you guys have had chemistry even

1815
01:18:06,040 --> 01:18:08,920
Speaker 2: before you got here to Houston and now you're playing

1816
01:18:08,960 --> 01:18:10,639
Speaker 2: again with some of the same guys, Like you're playing

1817
01:18:10,640 --> 01:18:12,360
Speaker 2: with Settle for the second year. You know, you're playing

1818
01:18:12,360 --> 01:18:14,360
Speaker 2: with Foley for a second year. We getting back healthy?

1819
01:18:14,600 --> 01:18:16,960
Speaker 2: What's that? What's that been like to have kind of

1820
01:18:17,720 --> 01:18:19,880
Speaker 2: previous camaraderie that's kind of carried over here.

1821
01:18:19,880 --> 01:18:20,599
Speaker 1: How's that helped them?

1822
01:18:20,640 --> 01:18:22,120
Speaker 6: It kind of just feels like a fanily reunion.

1823
01:18:22,160 --> 01:18:23,880
Speaker 11: Man, when you get to see your cousins again or

1824
01:18:23,920 --> 01:18:25,599
Speaker 11: you know you've been you've been going for so long,

1825
01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:27,599
Speaker 11: you get to go hang out with them in the summer.

1826
01:18:27,840 --> 01:18:30,479
Speaker 11: So just being with Rank with the with the Saints

1827
01:18:30,479 --> 01:18:33,120
Speaker 11: and being with Foley with the Jags. Just kind of

1828
01:18:33,160 --> 01:18:35,800
Speaker 11: knowing those guys as individuals, but also knowing how they

1829
01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:37,919
Speaker 11: play is a big is a big advantage.

1830
01:18:38,200 --> 01:18:40,320
Speaker 3: This is an important question because had a couple of

1831
01:18:40,320 --> 01:18:43,000
Speaker 3: olne injuries in the last game. So if it was

1832
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:45,599
Speaker 3: an emergency and one of the d linemen had to

1833
01:18:45,600 --> 01:18:48,559
Speaker 3: play on the offensive line, Mario, would you want to

1834
01:18:48,600 --> 01:18:50,800
Speaker 3: do that? Who else would be good at that on

1835
01:18:50,880 --> 01:18:54,160
Speaker 3: the defensive line? Who could just switch over during a game?

1836
01:18:54,200 --> 01:18:55,880
Speaker 3: You got to get in there, get in the trenches.

1837
01:18:58,800 --> 01:19:02,000
Speaker 11: I think it's a half of man. I wouldn't be uh,

1838
01:19:02,080 --> 01:19:04,519
Speaker 11: I would do it. I think I think Timmy can

1839
01:19:04,560 --> 01:19:06,559
Speaker 11: do it. I think Tommy could do it. I think

1840
01:19:06,680 --> 01:19:11,320
Speaker 11: gg being six eight three forty yeah, I think I

1841
01:19:11,320 --> 01:19:13,120
Speaker 11: had a handful of us could do it for sure.

1842
01:19:13,320 --> 01:19:15,160
Speaker 1: Somorrow. When you were in high school, what positions did

1843
01:19:15,160 --> 01:19:15,599
Speaker 1: you play?

1844
01:19:16,560 --> 01:19:19,800
Speaker 11: I played receiver chuckle wait wait wait, wait you why

1845
01:19:19,920 --> 01:19:23,559
Speaker 11: you chuckle? Because I was two fifteen my freshman year,

1846
01:19:23,640 --> 01:19:27,479
Speaker 11: six one two forty my sophomore year, two seventy five junior,

1847
01:19:27,520 --> 01:19:30,639
Speaker 11: and two eighty five my senior year. So my first

1848
01:19:31,000 --> 01:19:33,479
Speaker 11: two years I was receiver in d N and then

1849
01:19:33,520 --> 01:19:35,519
Speaker 11: my third year, I was d N and tight end

1850
01:19:35,560 --> 01:19:38,599
Speaker 11: and then I just committed to defense after that.

1851
01:19:38,720 --> 01:19:41,759
Speaker 2: At that point, Wow, So you started at two fifteen

1852
01:19:41,800 --> 01:19:42,479
Speaker 2: as a freshman.

1853
01:19:43,200 --> 01:19:44,240
Speaker 1: Holy smoked.

1854
01:19:44,320 --> 01:19:47,080
Speaker 3: So, Mario, you played at Florida State. You still follow

1855
01:19:47,120 --> 01:19:48,679
Speaker 3: college football pretty closely.

1856
01:19:50,280 --> 01:19:52,320
Speaker 11: I followed them when they beat Bama, and I was

1857
01:19:52,400 --> 01:19:55,439
Speaker 11: really really excited, and then I think I got too

1858
01:19:55,520 --> 01:19:59,320
Speaker 11: excited because they lost to Miami, and you know, but

1859
01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:01,120
Speaker 11: I try to watch it as much as possible.

1860
01:20:01,280 --> 01:20:02,839
Speaker 1: What do you think of the game today?

1861
01:20:03,040 --> 01:20:05,880
Speaker 3: With all the nil and guys transferring around, I mean,

1862
01:20:05,880 --> 01:20:09,000
Speaker 3: and the coaches. It's just crazy right now with all

1863
01:20:09,000 --> 01:20:10,080
Speaker 3: these buyouts going on.

1864
01:20:10,920 --> 01:20:14,000
Speaker 11: I think I think we're taking away a little bit

1865
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:16,840
Speaker 11: of a hunger. I think a lot of kids probably

1866
01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:18,519
Speaker 11: now just going to college because they know they can

1867
01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:21,719
Speaker 11: get paid. And I feel like when I was in college,

1868
01:20:22,240 --> 01:20:24,320
Speaker 11: you were busting your butt with that little nine hundred

1869
01:20:24,360 --> 01:20:28,599
Speaker 11: and thirty bucks in just busting your butt, praying for

1870
01:20:28,640 --> 01:20:30,679
Speaker 11: your draft days so that you know what you could get.

1871
01:20:30,680 --> 01:20:33,240
Speaker 11: But when these kids are getting half a million to

1872
01:20:33,280 --> 01:20:35,519
Speaker 11: a million, two million dollars in college, it kind of

1873
01:20:36,160 --> 01:20:38,000
Speaker 11: takes the hunger away a little bit. I mean, even

1874
01:20:38,040 --> 01:20:41,280
Speaker 11: watching some of the combines. They you just got to

1875
01:20:41,280 --> 01:20:43,720
Speaker 11: hear them say finish this, finish, finish, finish, finish, where

1876
01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:46,280
Speaker 11: back in the day you tell one person to finish

1877
01:20:46,280 --> 01:20:48,160
Speaker 11: and then if it was locked in, just the combines

1878
01:20:48,160 --> 01:20:49,799
Speaker 11: look different, the play looks a little different.

1879
01:20:49,800 --> 01:20:52,600
Speaker 1: Interesting. I never heard it from that perspective.

1880
01:20:52,120 --> 01:20:54,799
Speaker 2: Before, no doubt, Martin. What was the experience like playing

1881
01:20:54,840 --> 01:20:56,680
Speaker 2: at Florida State? Mark used to be the voice of

1882
01:20:56,680 --> 01:20:59,560
Speaker 2: the Canes, so we always hear about Miami, and I

1883
01:21:00,160 --> 01:21:02,000
Speaker 2: live in Jacksonville, so I got to see the Gators

1884
01:21:02,040 --> 01:21:03,880
Speaker 2: play a lot. But I also got to hear from

1885
01:21:03,880 --> 01:21:06,760
Speaker 2: my friends that were also big Seminoles fans, and I

1886
01:21:07,080 --> 01:21:10,719
Speaker 2: went to one game in for Florida State nineteen ninety six.

1887
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:12,800
Speaker 2: It was one versus two. It was a big game.

1888
01:21:12,880 --> 01:21:14,559
Speaker 2: Floorcea stated the winning that game, it was crazy. It's

1889
01:21:14,600 --> 01:21:17,120
Speaker 2: crazy environment. But what was it like playing in Tallahassee

1890
01:21:17,200 --> 01:21:18,000
Speaker 2: and playing for the Nose?

1891
01:21:18,600 --> 01:21:19,400
Speaker 6: It was great, man.

1892
01:21:19,840 --> 01:21:21,760
Speaker 11: There's nothing like running out of that tunnel and you're

1893
01:21:21,760 --> 01:21:25,360
Speaker 11: hearing that war chain and yeah, the dope is just rocking.

1894
01:21:25,439 --> 01:21:28,120
Speaker 11: And then you know when you actually get a chance

1895
01:21:28,120 --> 01:21:30,559
Speaker 11: of watching it on TV, like nothing's lit up in

1896
01:21:30,600 --> 01:21:34,320
Speaker 11: Tellassic but Dope so just knowing that everybody in that town,

1897
01:21:34,400 --> 01:21:36,320
Speaker 11: that city is shut down to come and watch you,

1898
01:21:36,800 --> 01:21:38,599
Speaker 11: and uh man, it was fun.

1899
01:21:38,760 --> 01:21:41,559
Speaker 2: What's it like when Osteola puts that spear in the ground?

1900
01:21:41,800 --> 01:21:44,360
Speaker 2: I mean, is that just like a goose bumps?

1901
01:21:44,400 --> 01:21:47,519
Speaker 6: Got Yeah, that's that's that's that was fun.

1902
01:21:47,560 --> 01:21:47,720
Speaker 7: Man.

1903
01:21:47,760 --> 01:21:51,320
Speaker 11: That's kind of just like that last little almost all

1904
01:21:51,360 --> 01:21:53,760
Speaker 11: the butterflies in your stuff, like it goes away once that,

1905
01:21:53,920 --> 01:21:55,200
Speaker 11: once that spear goes in the ground.

1906
01:21:55,360 --> 01:21:58,200
Speaker 1: That is one of the greatest positions. It is so cool.

1907
01:21:58,400 --> 01:21:58,720
Speaker 6: All right.

1908
01:21:58,760 --> 01:22:01,000
Speaker 3: So, as a guy who's lived in Oakland and New

1909
01:22:01,080 --> 01:22:05,080
Speaker 3: York and Chicago and Seattle, you're in Houston. Now, what

1910
01:22:05,160 --> 01:22:07,960
Speaker 3: do you think of Houston as a city versus all

1911
01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:09,599
Speaker 3: those other places that you've lived.

1912
01:22:11,160 --> 01:22:12,800
Speaker 6: I think Houston is great. Man.

1913
01:22:12,840 --> 01:22:15,800
Speaker 11: It's great because I live in Dallas. But it's also

1914
01:22:15,840 --> 01:22:18,360
Speaker 11: great because, you know, before I came back to Houston,

1915
01:22:18,400 --> 01:22:21,160
Speaker 11: I was on the West coast, North and all that stuff,

1916
01:22:21,200 --> 01:22:24,080
Speaker 11: and I got away from that Southern hospitality. So to

1917
01:22:24,120 --> 01:22:26,080
Speaker 11: get back here in Houston and get a little closer

1918
01:22:26,120 --> 01:22:29,160
Speaker 11: to home and get that good Southern food, that Southern

1919
01:22:29,200 --> 01:22:30,840
Speaker 11: hospitality was definitely great.

1920
01:22:30,960 --> 01:22:33,280
Speaker 1: Okay, we won't tell load this we won't tell this

1921
01:22:34,400 --> 01:22:34,760
Speaker 1: right now.

1922
01:22:35,439 --> 01:22:38,320
Speaker 2: We won't tell lot what's the cheap meal when you

1923
01:22:38,400 --> 01:22:41,400
Speaker 2: gotta sit down, like your season's over, you gotta worry

1924
01:22:41,400 --> 01:22:43,920
Speaker 2: about wade or anything like that. If you got to

1925
01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:47,240
Speaker 2: what's the one meal that you gotta have your cheap meal?

1926
01:22:47,400 --> 01:22:50,200
Speaker 2: Once it's all said, Lads, like in the review mirror,

1927
01:22:50,200 --> 01:22:52,000
Speaker 2: you're driving away, what's that meal you want?

1928
01:22:52,240 --> 01:22:55,040
Speaker 11: I'm a wings guy. I'm kind of control of the

1929
01:22:55,360 --> 01:22:57,719
Speaker 11: wings for the away trips. I get about two hundred

1930
01:22:57,760 --> 01:22:59,960
Speaker 11: wings from wingstoff realizing all that stuf.

1931
01:23:00,080 --> 01:23:02,240
Speaker 6: Uh, but I was.

1932
01:23:02,280 --> 01:23:04,160
Speaker 11: I can eat wings any any time of the day.

1933
01:23:04,200 --> 01:23:06,559
Speaker 11: But I think being here in Houston, my favorite two

1934
01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:09,360
Speaker 11: restaurants that I've been ordering from a lot has been

1935
01:23:09,400 --> 01:23:12,839
Speaker 11: donal Letti's and Willie Gee's. Yeah, so I'm an Oyster's

1936
01:23:12,840 --> 01:23:14,439
Speaker 11: got too, so I love the oysters at WILLI g.

1937
01:23:14,640 --> 01:23:18,479
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, all right, char grilled, I do both?

1938
01:23:18,600 --> 01:23:19,439
Speaker 6: I do both?

1939
01:23:19,439 --> 01:23:20,720
Speaker 1: Okay, sure, why not?

1940
01:23:20,880 --> 01:23:21,280
Speaker 6: Variety?

1941
01:23:22,080 --> 01:23:24,160
Speaker 1: Light o?

1942
01:23:24,400 --> 01:23:24,719
Speaker 6: Gotcha?

1943
01:23:24,760 --> 01:23:26,280
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, good, I'm hungry.

1944
01:23:26,360 --> 01:23:26,639
Speaker 6: Okay.

1945
01:23:26,840 --> 01:23:28,960
Speaker 1: Mario, thanks a love for joining us. Good luck this week.

1946
01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:29,679
Speaker 6: Thank you, Thank.

1947
01:23:29,600 --> 01:23:32,800
Speaker 1: You the best, absolutely love Mario Edwards Junior.

1948
01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:37,760
Speaker 2: Appreciate him stopping my congratulations again his work with with

1949
01:23:37,960 --> 01:23:41,000
Speaker 2: veterans in the armed forces being saluted for that this week.

1950
01:23:41,120 --> 01:23:46,439
Speaker 2: Congratulations Mario. Awesome stuff. Okay, Demiko Ryans went to the podium.

1951
01:23:46,479 --> 01:23:51,560
Speaker 2: He had a lot of things that he needed to discuss.

1952
01:23:51,320 --> 01:23:52,040
Speaker 1: With the media.

1953
01:23:52,200 --> 01:23:53,920
Speaker 2: We'll have that for you next right here in Texans

1954
01:23:53,960 --> 01:23:57,000
Speaker 2: All Access. We got one final segment of this edition

1955
01:23:57,040 --> 01:24:00,320
Speaker 2: to Texans All Access from the Honday Texans Radio studio

1956
01:24:00,600 --> 01:24:04,400
Speaker 2: before we turn over to Area forty five. They'll carry

1957
01:24:04,439 --> 01:24:07,080
Speaker 2: you through the rest of the evening. But before we

1958
01:24:07,160 --> 01:24:09,559
Speaker 2: turn it over to them, it's time to hear from

1959
01:24:09,600 --> 01:24:13,040
Speaker 2: Demico Ryans. He met with the media today and there

1960
01:24:13,080 --> 01:24:15,519
Speaker 2: are a number of different nuggets.

1961
01:24:15,560 --> 01:24:17,720
Speaker 1: We've talked about a lot of them thus far. The

1962
01:24:17,760 --> 01:24:18,599
Speaker 1: status of CJ.

1963
01:24:18,760 --> 01:24:21,960
Speaker 2: Stroud, the injuries that the Texans are kind of going

1964
01:24:22,040 --> 01:24:24,760
Speaker 2: through right now. And look, every team at this point

1965
01:24:24,800 --> 01:24:26,320
Speaker 2: of the year is beat up a little bit into

1966
01:24:26,360 --> 01:24:29,360
Speaker 2: Texans got beat up a bit in that Denver Broncos game.

1967
01:24:29,479 --> 01:24:33,160
Speaker 2: So here's coach meeting with the media. Being first asked

1968
01:24:33,439 --> 01:24:35,320
Speaker 2: about injuries being part of the game.

1969
01:24:35,520 --> 01:24:39,000
Speaker 12: Injuries are per football person injury rate in the game,

1970
01:24:39,080 --> 01:24:42,479
Speaker 12: But do you feel like you're particularly named up more

1971
01:24:42,479 --> 01:24:45,639
Speaker 12: so than other weeks. We have a few guys who

1972
01:24:46,120 --> 01:24:49,400
Speaker 12: know unfortunately has some injuries throughout the game. Again, it

1973
01:24:49,520 --> 01:24:53,280
Speaker 12: happens as the season goes along. It happens. It's what

1974
01:24:53,439 --> 01:24:56,160
Speaker 12: a great opportunity for a lot of guys to step

1975
01:24:56,240 --> 01:24:59,000
Speaker 12: up and showcase what they can do. You think you'll

1976
01:24:59,040 --> 01:25:02,360
Speaker 12: be able to have stro or Howard this weekend? H

1977
01:25:02,479 --> 01:25:05,080
Speaker 12: for where we are right now with the concussion protocol

1978
01:25:05,120 --> 01:25:06,920
Speaker 12: to not see CJ playing this week?

1979
01:25:07,280 --> 01:25:10,519
Speaker 9: When you uh a nigga, So we're discussing things on

1980
01:25:10,640 --> 01:25:13,160
Speaker 9: yestidation and trade dead Why yeah? What made you all

1981
01:25:13,200 --> 01:25:15,320
Speaker 9: decide to stay where you all are as far as

1982
01:25:15,320 --> 01:25:17,000
Speaker 9: the rosters and say, look, when it comes to the

1983
01:25:17,040 --> 01:25:20,800
Speaker 9: trade deadline, it's because that transaction did not happen.

1984
01:25:20,840 --> 01:25:23,479
Speaker 12: It is not from a lack of effort. And of

1985
01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:25,920
Speaker 12: course we tried to do several things. Just did it

1986
01:25:26,320 --> 01:25:27,560
Speaker 12: paying out.

1987
01:25:28,040 --> 01:25:29,360
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I I couldn't.

1988
01:25:29,120 --> 01:25:31,280
Speaker 10: R Yeah, CJ.

1989
01:25:31,439 --> 01:25:31,759
Speaker 7: CJ.

1990
01:25:31,920 --> 01:25:33,040
Speaker 10: Stroud will be out this week.

1991
01:25:34,920 --> 01:25:38,040
Speaker 12: But the you you guys go with Davis, with CJ

1992
01:25:38,200 --> 01:25:40,679
Speaker 12: down and grandmothers Gonula be the backup I would gainst

1993
01:25:40,720 --> 01:25:41,320
Speaker 12: you yep.

1994
01:25:42,560 --> 01:25:45,760
Speaker 9: Going up against the Jacksonville Jaguars team for the second time,

1995
01:25:45,840 --> 01:25:48,479
Speaker 9: they added a wide receiving Chakobe Myriers from the Raiders

1996
01:25:48,479 --> 01:25:51,000
Speaker 9: on yesterday. When you're watching him, what do you see

1997
01:25:51,320 --> 01:25:51,920
Speaker 9: into the game to.

1998
01:25:51,880 --> 01:25:54,720
Speaker 12: Speak, Yeah, when I when I watched Jacksonville and what

1999
01:25:54,800 --> 01:25:57,479
Speaker 12: they what they've done. Think it all everything starts for

2000
01:25:57,600 --> 01:25:59,439
Speaker 12: me with the running game, Like they've done a great

2001
01:25:59,520 --> 01:26:02,360
Speaker 12: job of running the football. Would show they ranting a

2002
01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:05,360
Speaker 12: lot in their last game and they were successful at

2003
01:26:05,400 --> 01:26:06,040
Speaker 12: it and they done.

2004
01:26:05,880 --> 01:26:06,599
Speaker 10: A really good job.

2005
01:26:06,680 --> 01:26:09,200
Speaker 12: So we have to put our focus first and foremost

2006
01:26:09,200 --> 01:26:11,439
Speaker 12: on stopping the run. Knowing that they add it or

2007
01:26:11,520 --> 01:26:15,880
Speaker 12: receiver Myers, smart player they plays in this league before

2008
01:26:15,920 --> 01:26:18,759
Speaker 12: it can move all across the formation, play different spots.

2009
01:26:18,760 --> 01:26:21,360
Speaker 12: So you know, we just have to really play our defense.

2010
01:26:21,400 --> 01:26:23,719
Speaker 12: We're not focusing in on one player. It's just about

2011
01:26:23,800 --> 01:26:26,120
Speaker 12: us playing our defense the right way. And when it

2012
01:26:26,160 --> 01:26:28,800
Speaker 12: comes to their their defense are these guys do a

2013
01:26:28,840 --> 01:26:31,719
Speaker 12: good great job of you know, just flying to the football,

2014
01:26:31,840 --> 01:26:33,920
Speaker 12: attacking the ball. They've done a great job of turning

2015
01:26:33,920 --> 01:26:36,960
Speaker 12: the ball over, playing physical and of course their edge

2016
01:26:36,960 --> 01:26:39,320
Speaker 12: guys are held two of the best edge guys in

2017
01:26:39,320 --> 01:26:41,880
Speaker 12: the league. So we have really good matchups there where

2018
01:26:41,880 --> 01:26:43,120
Speaker 12: we have to win on the edges.

2019
01:26:43,600 --> 01:26:45,599
Speaker 13: How different are they or are they different from when

2020
01:26:45,600 --> 01:26:47,320
Speaker 13: you guys faced them earlier in the season.

2021
01:26:47,840 --> 01:26:50,240
Speaker 12: I don't see much difference in the team I see,

2022
01:26:50,360 --> 01:26:52,479
Speaker 12: you know, where a team is more committed to running

2023
01:26:52,479 --> 01:26:55,479
Speaker 12: the football probably l if you wanna say that's the difference,

2024
01:26:55,479 --> 01:26:56,680
Speaker 12: that's probably where I will see it.

2025
01:26:57,200 --> 01:26:59,679
Speaker 6: Big chub Uh practice as well.

2026
01:27:00,000 --> 01:27:01,960
Speaker 12: If you anticipate him having a shot to play out

2027
01:27:02,000 --> 01:27:04,160
Speaker 12: Sunday or is this another one that might be more

2028
01:27:04,200 --> 01:27:04,920
Speaker 12: long term.

2029
01:27:04,920 --> 01:27:06,880
Speaker 10: I will see what happens as the week goes on.

2030
01:27:07,439 --> 01:27:11,400
Speaker 2: Coach, can you take us through how your involvement this

2031
01:27:11,560 --> 01:27:16,960
Speaker 2: season has kind of evolved in in the offense yea end.

2032
01:27:16,920 --> 01:27:19,880
Speaker 12: Day and for me UH as a head coach, I've

2033
01:27:19,880 --> 01:27:24,320
Speaker 12: been involved in all phases of our team, where it's defense, offense,

2034
01:27:24,320 --> 01:27:29,200
Speaker 12: special teams. Is UH being able to lean and give

2035
01:27:29,240 --> 01:27:32,120
Speaker 12: my advice where where where needed, So it's trying to

2036
01:27:32,160 --> 01:27:34,240
Speaker 12: help everybody out. At the end of the day, everything

2037
01:27:34,280 --> 01:27:38,400
Speaker 12: falls on me, you know what we're doing. Everything is offense, defense,

2038
01:27:38,400 --> 01:27:40,719
Speaker 12: special teams, all falls on me as the head coach.

2039
01:27:40,800 --> 01:27:43,599
Speaker 12: So now we've done a thought, we've done a good job.

2040
01:27:43,760 --> 01:27:46,240
Speaker 12: You know, collectively, I've been able to help out in

2041
01:27:46,240 --> 01:27:49,720
Speaker 12: a lot of different areas, but overall, you know, we've

2042
01:27:49,840 --> 01:27:52,040
Speaker 12: we've dropped some games. I feel like we should have

2043
01:27:52,120 --> 01:27:54,800
Speaker 12: had that. We just gotta go out. We gotta coach better,

2044
01:27:54,840 --> 01:27:57,439
Speaker 12: we gotta play better. All start with me, Allen Broud,

2045
01:27:57,600 --> 01:28:00,280
Speaker 12: You still feel confident in Nick and turn the owner

2046
01:28:00,360 --> 01:28:02,600
Speaker 12: and finding that game plan that you want and have

2047
01:28:02,760 --> 01:28:05,760
Speaker 12: him having him play, uh call plays this because.

2048
01:28:05,680 --> 01:28:08,000
Speaker 10: We all, we all gotta do better.

2049
01:28:08,200 --> 01:28:10,800
Speaker 12: It's it's all encompassing and it's not one person, is

2050
01:28:10,840 --> 01:28:14,240
Speaker 12: not one coach, it's everybody collectively involved in this together.

2051
01:28:14,520 --> 01:28:15,760
Speaker 10: We gotta do a better job.

2052
01:28:16,600 --> 01:28:17,000
Speaker 7: Though.

2053
01:28:17,520 --> 01:28:19,840
Speaker 13: Can you talk about Davison what you expect from him

2054
01:28:19,960 --> 01:28:22,920
Speaker 13: before we could knowing he's gonna be starting on this weekend.

2055
01:28:23,560 --> 01:28:25,640
Speaker 12: Yeah, what I expect from Davis is to, you know,

2056
01:28:26,160 --> 01:28:28,599
Speaker 12: do what he's done in the past. He's he started

2057
01:28:28,760 --> 01:28:31,920
Speaker 12: games in his league before, so it's nothing new for him. Uh,

2058
01:28:31,960 --> 01:28:34,400
Speaker 12: but it is a benefit for him being able to

2059
01:28:34,560 --> 01:28:37,720
Speaker 12: get the reps, get the get the reps throughout practice,

2060
01:28:38,240 --> 01:28:40,559
Speaker 12: getting the walk through, getting every single rep that he

2061
01:28:40,600 --> 01:28:43,280
Speaker 12: can get, you know, getting on the same page with

2062
01:28:43,320 --> 01:28:47,080
Speaker 12: the receivers, getting the the huddle, getting the snapcot, all

2063
01:28:47,120 --> 01:28:50,360
Speaker 12: those little things right, getting the operation down the proper way.

2064
01:28:50,479 --> 01:28:52,519
Speaker 12: He's done a good job of that. Today he did

2065
01:28:52,560 --> 01:28:55,559
Speaker 12: our standing job. UH thought we were efficient in and

2066
01:28:55,560 --> 01:28:57,799
Speaker 12: out of the huddle. Uh at the line of scrimants,

2067
01:28:57,800 --> 01:29:01,080
Speaker 12: he did a great job of communicating. So I'm excited

2068
01:29:01,120 --> 01:29:02,959
Speaker 12: to see, you know, David's go play.

2069
01:29:03,000 --> 01:29:03,800
Speaker 10: Follow up on that.

2070
01:29:04,560 --> 01:29:07,160
Speaker 12: What will you expect your offense to look the same

2071
01:29:07,160 --> 01:29:09,320
Speaker 12: with him there? Or do you think it will change

2072
01:29:09,320 --> 01:29:10,760
Speaker 12: a lot or will it not change at all?

2073
01:29:10,840 --> 01:29:11,599
Speaker 7: What you're doing?

2074
01:29:11,720 --> 01:29:14,320
Speaker 12: Well, what we do, we're gonna We're gonna do whatever

2075
01:29:14,360 --> 01:29:16,240
Speaker 12: we need to do to try to move the football.

2076
01:29:16,960 --> 01:29:18,920
Speaker 6: I know we focus on the quarterback, especially you know

2077
01:29:19,040 --> 01:29:22,160
Speaker 6: Davis coming in. How much will it be? How import

2078
01:29:22,200 --> 01:29:22,800
Speaker 6: will be put the.

2079
01:29:22,720 --> 01:29:25,760
Speaker 11: Other guys around Davis un necessarily the legate they played,

2080
01:29:25,760 --> 01:29:27,040
Speaker 11: but make sure that they're.

2081
01:29:26,760 --> 01:29:29,679
Speaker 9: Doing what they gotta do to make life easier for Davis.

2082
01:29:30,080 --> 01:29:31,519
Speaker 10: Everybody just has to do their job.

2083
01:29:31,640 --> 01:29:34,720
Speaker 12: Nobody needs to expect or try to step up and

2084
01:29:34,760 --> 01:29:37,160
Speaker 12: do something different. If that's the case, what you've been

2085
01:29:37,280 --> 01:29:39,439
Speaker 12: what if you been holding back? So I never look

2086
01:29:39,520 --> 01:29:41,799
Speaker 12: at a game as, oh, y'all gotta do something different

2087
01:29:41,840 --> 01:29:45,400
Speaker 12: because we have a new quarterback, and know if if

2088
01:29:45,400 --> 01:29:47,080
Speaker 12: that's the case, then why are you out there? So

2089
01:29:47,200 --> 01:29:49,680
Speaker 12: everybody just go out and play their game. Do what

2090
01:29:49,720 --> 01:29:50,439
Speaker 12: they've been doing.

2091
01:29:50,880 --> 01:29:53,600
Speaker 10: Play with everything that you have, do your job, do

2092
01:29:53,680 --> 01:29:54,240
Speaker 10: it really well.

2093
01:29:54,520 --> 01:29:57,200
Speaker 14: Because how have you seen Davis progress? You guys have

2094
01:29:57,360 --> 01:29:59,360
Speaker 14: extended him to keep him here or be.

2095
01:29:59,280 --> 01:29:59,640
Speaker 4: A part of this.

2096
01:30:00,080 --> 01:30:02,599
Speaker 14: How do you see him progress in your time here?

2097
01:30:03,280 --> 01:30:05,400
Speaker 14: Command of the offense, huddle overs thing.

2098
01:30:05,800 --> 01:30:08,639
Speaker 12: I've seen Davis grow and truly get better just playing

2099
01:30:08,640 --> 01:30:11,360
Speaker 12: the position, being able to take his time going through his.

2100
01:30:11,400 --> 01:30:14,439
Speaker 10: Reads, Uh, going through it the proper way. I think.

2101
01:30:14,479 --> 01:30:15,800
Speaker 10: I I've seen growth in that.

2102
01:30:15,920 --> 01:30:19,800
Speaker 12: Where he's really protected the football more, made better decisions

2103
01:30:19,840 --> 01:30:22,839
Speaker 12: throughout training camp. I just like the like the progression

2104
01:30:22,920 --> 01:30:25,080
Speaker 12: that I saw from where we were our first year

2105
01:30:25,160 --> 01:30:26,080
Speaker 12: to where he is now.

2106
01:30:26,320 --> 01:30:27,400
Speaker 7: You go, you.

2107
01:30:27,320 --> 01:30:32,640
Speaker 15: Obviously decided to keep your roster as is? Why was

2108
01:30:32,680 --> 01:30:34,920
Speaker 15: that case in in when it came to you all

2109
01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:37,280
Speaker 15: decided that. Were you in agreement with Nick on that

2110
01:30:37,479 --> 01:30:38,160
Speaker 15: on that decision?

2111
01:30:38,800 --> 01:30:43,120
Speaker 10: We just we just talked about that. Sorry, but yeah, agreement.

2112
01:30:42,840 --> 01:30:43,559
Speaker 7: With him on that.

2113
01:30:44,560 --> 01:30:49,040
Speaker 12: I'm I'm I'm sorry, I'm missing on what you said.

2114
01:30:49,080 --> 01:30:51,080
Speaker 15: Were you in agreement with the decision to keep the

2115
01:30:51,160 --> 01:30:51,920
Speaker 15: roster as is?

2116
01:30:52,360 --> 01:30:52,559
Speaker 10: Yeah?

2117
01:30:52,560 --> 01:30:55,960
Speaker 12: I said earlier, like It's not from a lack of trying.

2118
01:30:56,560 --> 01:30:58,639
Speaker 12: It's the repeat I've said it, not from a lack

2119
01:30:58,680 --> 01:31:01,120
Speaker 12: of trying that we didn't try to they trained or anything.

2120
01:31:01,600 --> 01:31:03,479
Speaker 10: Unfortunately, nothing panned out.

2121
01:31:03,360 --> 01:31:07,639
Speaker 5: For us for another repeater to well Neck call plays

2122
01:31:07,680 --> 01:31:08,200
Speaker 5: this weekend?

2123
01:31:08,560 --> 01:31:10,160
Speaker 10: Why would he not call players?

2124
01:31:10,760 --> 01:31:13,519
Speaker 13: Take me what about when we when want talking about

2125
01:31:13,600 --> 01:31:14,639
Speaker 13: DJ for the past few years?

2126
01:31:14,760 --> 01:31:15,600
Speaker 4: What tell us?

2127
01:31:15,760 --> 01:31:18,960
Speaker 13: What is it about uh Davis that maybe people don't

2128
01:31:19,000 --> 01:31:20,640
Speaker 13: know or what do What is it about him that

2129
01:31:20,720 --> 01:31:23,599
Speaker 13: makes you super confident in him leading the teams?

2130
01:31:23,600 --> 01:31:26,439
Speaker 12: FU Davis is a He's a super super smart guy,

2131
01:31:26,640 --> 01:31:29,519
Speaker 12: sharp guy. Just seeing how he operates in a huddle

2132
01:31:29,520 --> 01:31:32,080
Speaker 12: and they just seeing how he can fix things when

2133
01:31:32,120 --> 01:31:34,880
Speaker 12: we're not all the way right. When guys are coming

2134
01:31:34,920 --> 01:31:37,120
Speaker 12: out of the huddle, they have questions, Davis gets it

2135
01:31:37,160 --> 01:31:41,200
Speaker 12: fixed very quickly. Uh articulates it very well in the huddle.

2136
01:31:41,320 --> 01:31:43,880
Speaker 12: And now it's about post snap. Like post snap, can

2137
01:31:43,920 --> 01:31:46,200
Speaker 12: we go through, can we make the proper reason, can

2138
01:31:46,240 --> 01:31:48,280
Speaker 12: we get to the right spot with the football, and

2139
01:31:48,360 --> 01:31:51,160
Speaker 12: can we just execute right what our l Davis doesn't

2140
01:31:51,160 --> 01:31:53,400
Speaker 12: have to do too much right. We just all have

2141
01:31:53,520 --> 01:31:55,680
Speaker 12: to do our job. Nobody has to step up do

2142
01:31:55,720 --> 01:31:58,679
Speaker 12: anything different. Everybody just has to execute and do their job.

2143
01:31:58,760 --> 01:32:01,240
Speaker 12: What they're what they're here for is to go out

2144
01:32:01,320 --> 01:32:03,559
Speaker 12: and play good football. And that's all we're expecting them

2145
01:32:03,560 --> 01:32:03,920
Speaker 12: to do.

2146
01:32:03,880 --> 01:32:06,479
Speaker 10: This Sunday, and start.

2147
01:32:06,720 --> 01:32:10,320
Speaker 13: With Matt right here in terms of having an insurance policy,

2148
01:32:11,000 --> 01:32:13,160
Speaker 13: and Kamey says what he tells us about pay.

2149
01:32:13,000 --> 01:32:14,200
Speaker 10: Me and what do you know about Matt?

2150
01:32:14,560 --> 01:32:16,960
Speaker 12: Yeah, Kyami is dealing with uh a quad injury right now.

2151
01:32:17,040 --> 01:32:19,160
Speaker 12: We'll see how he progresses. Right now, we have Matt.

2152
01:32:19,200 --> 01:32:22,320
Speaker 12: Matt's been in the league, He's kicked ton of games.

2153
01:32:22,479 --> 01:32:23,599
Speaker 10: Uh, very good kickers.

2154
01:32:23,640 --> 01:32:25,599
Speaker 12: So we're excited to be able to get a guy

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Speaker 12: his caliber here.

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Speaker 10: Uh, knowing that Amy will be down.

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Speaker 16: So late turnovers decided plast game against the guyguars. What's

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Speaker 16: kind of the key this week to prevent those when

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Speaker 16: they've been able to turn the ball out over.

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Speaker 7: So many times.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, the kids always to just protect the football a right.

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Speaker 12: You have to be conscious of where these guys are,

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Speaker 12: especially you know, their back of twenty three does a

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Speaker 12: really good job of, you know, finding a way to

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Speaker 12: punch out the ball. So guys just have to be

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Speaker 12: conscious just making sure we're securing the ball all the

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Speaker 12: way to the ground and just having an awareness. Right,

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Speaker 12: it's most of the time when the ball is lost,

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Speaker 12: it's when guys aren't aware of their surroundings. We always

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Speaker 12: got to anticipate. These guys are coming after the football

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Speaker 12: every single snap. No one can let up or ease up.

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Speaker 12: We gotta finish every play with the ball.

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Speaker 4: You've only faced him once as a head coach.

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Speaker 5: Do you notice anything about maybe an identity of Liam

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Speaker 5: Cohen's as a as a play caller and his football team.

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Speaker 12: Oh, look, Liam has done a great job of how

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Speaker 12: they call it and having multiple plays at the line

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Speaker 12: of scrimmage, uh, trying to get into the.

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Speaker 10: The proper look.

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Speaker 12: You'll see a lot of alerts where you know whether

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Speaker 12: it's one high too high. They have their alert package

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Speaker 12: there and they've they've done it a good job. But

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Speaker 12: think Trevor's done a really good job at the line

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Speaker 12: of scrimmage, really communicating getting the offense and the best

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Speaker 12: play UH possible.

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Speaker 10: So they're there.

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Speaker 12: You can see, you know, Liam's imprint on the offense.

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Speaker 12: You can see how he's helped Trevor and you can

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Speaker 12: see how they're moving the football scoring points.

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Speaker 10: When when CJ is cleared whenever that may be.

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Speaker 15: How do you factor in a guy's history with concussions

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Speaker 15: when deciding whether to put him back.

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Speaker 7: On the field.

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Speaker 12: Well, when every guy is, you know different when it

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Speaker 12: comes to the concussion sins. I'm always sensitive to the

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Speaker 12: fact that it's a it's a serious injury. So I

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Speaker 12: don't think there is never a rush to get a

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Speaker 12: guy back. It's whenever he's capable, whenever he's ready to

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Speaker 12: be back. We're gonna be as smart and as diligent

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Speaker 12: as possible to make sure his health and safety is first.

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Speaker 12: For first and foremost topic.

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Speaker 10: Is Titus Howard out for this week.

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Speaker 6: Two to do the conusion program?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, Titus is still in the concussion protocol. We'll see

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Speaker 12: see how that goes.

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Speaker 1: Just to clarify, you said Kami will be down.

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Speaker 4: If I heard you correctly, do you anticipate him not playing.

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Speaker 10: Then or no, I do not.

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Speaker 16: There's been some animosity between these two teams over the

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Speaker 16: past two matchups. Just kind of what do you feel

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Speaker 16: the the reason is for that? And also like, how

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Speaker 16: do you make sure that those extracurricular activities kind of

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Speaker 16: aren't going on?

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Speaker 12: I don't I don't feel any animosity unless you know

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Speaker 12: I'm missing something. Uh, But we're going out. We're going

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Speaker 12: out to play our game. We're gonna play a tough,

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Speaker 12: physical game. That's who we are. We don't change it

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Speaker 12: just because of who we play. Doesn't ramp up because

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Speaker 12: of the opponent. Like we have a style of play

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Speaker 12: here in Houston, how we play, and that's what we'll

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Speaker 12: do every time we step on the grass.

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Speaker 10: It doesn't matter where we play. All right, Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Guys, no doubt about it. Coach is right. Just gotta

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Speaker 2: go play whatever you got. We'll figure it out. I

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Speaker 2: remember nicking Dimiko said that all of twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 2: and they did.

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Speaker 1: They figured it out. They're gonna have to figure it

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Speaker 1: out on Sunday. They will.

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Speaker 2: I got the trust in them and hopefully they will

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Speaker 2: get a win over the Jacksonville Jaguars. A big thanks

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Speaker 2: to Dimico, to Mario Edwards Junior, to Frank Franjie, to

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Speaker 2: Mark Vandermier, to all you for listening. We thank you

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Speaker 2: so very much that we can be here and talk

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Speaker 2: some football talk about the Texans. Thank you again for listening.

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Speaker 2: Tell my guys back at Sports Radio six to ten.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Area forty five. Like I said,

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Speaker 2: is up next. Keep it locked right here on Sports

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Speaker 2: Radio six to ten. We'll see tomorrow, Buddy, and as always,

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Speaker 2: go Texans.