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Speaker 1: Well, come in, everybody to a Friday edition of Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access from the Honday of Texans Radio Studio. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, John Harris foot play and on a sideline reporter.

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Speaker 1: As we are forty eight hours, we're less than forty

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Speaker 1: eight hours away. It's a noon game in Nashville against

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Speaker 1: the Titans. It's the forty eighth overall meeting. Mark Vanderman,

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Speaker 1: the Voice of Texas, can you tell me what the

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Speaker 1: record is in the forty seven that we've already played

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Speaker 1: with the Titans?

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Speaker 2: You know what?

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Speaker 3: I usually have this memorized, but I will obviously for

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Speaker 3: the broadcast on Sunday. But we're down like two or

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Speaker 3: something like we're down one, we're down one, twenty four

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Speaker 3: to twenty three.

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Speaker 2: This is gonna even it up.

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Speaker 1: This will even it up if we get a week

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, the long road back forty eight meetings against

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Speaker 1: the Titans.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: And if you sat down with both of us, you

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Speaker 1: know you just sat down and want to just talk

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Speaker 1: Texas because we have people that do that, Like some

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Speaker 1: of our younger employees was coming here and they'll just

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Speaker 1: kind of sit and chat. We had that happen a

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Speaker 1: couple couple weeks ago, and it was like, hey, wait,

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Speaker 1: what's your favorite game?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 1: And I often think about how my favorite game or

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite games ends up, including the Tennessee

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Speaker 1: Titans in a lot of them. Like if I start

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Speaker 1: rattling off games, I realized I'm rattling off a lot

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Speaker 1: of games against the Titans.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely well, you play a lot of games against yes, right,

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Speaker 3: and the Colts and the Jags, so that would figure.

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Speaker 3: I agree, And I think about all the Titans teams

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Speaker 3: we've seen and how tough it was to beat them

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Speaker 3: in the early years, you know, and four was when

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Speaker 3: you got your first win. So you went through two

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Speaker 3: and o three with no wins. But those Titans teams

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Speaker 3: were really good two and three oh four they started

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Speaker 3: to slip, right, But McNair Steve McNair was co MVP

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Speaker 3: of the league in two thousand and three, and then

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Speaker 3: you had that really good top overall seed team in

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Speaker 3: what twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty one, twenty one.

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Speaker 1: One is when they had the top Nineteen was the

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Speaker 1: year that they obviously made the run. They had to

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Speaker 1: we didn't need it, so We've got kind of our

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Speaker 1: AJ was playing. AJ did a pretty good job in

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Speaker 1: that game, and there was a point in which we

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Speaker 1: got to seventeen thirteen. And what I remember most about

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Speaker 1: that game was Taiwan Jones. Taiwan Jones did pretty well

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Speaker 1: running the football that day, and I remember Bill O'Briant

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Speaker 1: good things. We go to the playoff game the next week,

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Speaker 1: Taiwan Jones gets a few reps and he ends up

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Speaker 1: having that reception from Deshaun that got it in the

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Speaker 1: field goal territory beat the Bills in the playoffs. But

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Speaker 1: it was in that week nineteen game against the Titans.

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Speaker 1: But I remember the most about that game was Henry

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Speaker 1: just remember they were celebrating in hoot and hollering on

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Speaker 1: just get them one more time on our field, it

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Speaker 2: And we almost did.

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Speaker 3: We almost did in the AFC Champion twenty four and

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Speaker 3: the Chiefs. No, now, they had that win over New

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Speaker 1: You and I watched that game with I believe we

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Speaker 3: At that restaurant in Kansas City the night before. We thought,

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Speaker 1: We win and we play at home against the Titans.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 3: Well, look, we'd all love to have that situation pop

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Speaker 3: is going to be a monster game next week. But

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Speaker 3: don't look ahead, folks, right it's the NFL. It's eleven

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Speaker 3: look att year. We talked about this, Will Levis. You

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Speaker 2: Be ready.

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Speaker 3: The Jets took a seven to nothing lead on New

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Speaker 3: But they played a kind of close ish game. You know,

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Speaker 2: You never know.

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Speaker 1: There are so many lessons from two games that you

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Speaker 1: into this game. Number one, last year's game in which

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So, Johnny, how do you prevent that? I like

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Speaker 3: to meet O Ryans this year? Demiko Ryans as a

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Speaker 3: been happening, and you have a real emotional win. I mean, Johnny,

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Speaker 3: the fan reaction to that victory last week. I don't

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Speaker 3: to keep it going. So there's pressure in multiple ways.

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Speaker 3: There's always pressure in the league. But you're already dealing

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Speaker 3: an enormous amount of pressure. I think we talked about

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Speaker 2: It's terrible, but at least you're six and four.

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Speaker 3: Right here, you have an opportunity to get the five

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was the second game, the two games

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Speaker 1: put up Week twelve, twenty twenty four Titans thirty two,

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Speaker 2: Because that, to me is the other lesson you take out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, boxing match, and I always, I always feel like

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Speaker 2: And I always love sporting events that do that.

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Speaker 2: Michael Chang won.

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Speaker 1: And eventually whatever he whatever ailed him, he was able

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Speaker 2: And these two games tell that once the worry for this.

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Speaker 3: Game against these guys, yeah, you have to keep going

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Speaker 3: I'm hoping that the emotion doesn't affect them negatively in

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Speaker 3: all victories and not aside even the Denver game. I

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Speaker 3: the offense is showing you some things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they are improving as the year goes on.

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Speaker 3: They're showing you some improvement in certain areas, moving the

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Speaker 3: line of scrimmage, ursery, growing up. That's a big part

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Speaker 3: Now it's week ten. Let's go week eleven, Week eleven

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Speaker 2: It's always so confusing.

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Speaker 1: He's got some thunder yeah, Oh, he'll knock you on

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Speaker 1: They're freshmen, they're fresh freshman in life. I mean, they're

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Speaker 1: You want a number, give me a number. Forty four

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Speaker 1: We have eighteen touchdowns this year, okay, which we need

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Speaker 1: eighteen touchdowns, eighteen offensive touchdowns this year. Geez okay, eighteen

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Speaker 3: Well, and Ursery gets a little tiny percentage of all

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, forty four point four percent. Woody has four.

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Speaker 1: He leads the team in total touchdowns of four, Nico's

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Speaker 1: three and Jalen Nole has won. So you're talking eight

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Speaker 2: That's forty four point four percent.

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Speaker 3: Do you think this is a question for you? I'm

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Speaker 2: Twenty six? Nothing? Right that you played with the toe?

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Speaker 3: Do you think they're talking about it? Yes, like whispering

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Speaker 1: Promise you, I promise you that has Maybe not it's not.

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Speaker 1: They don't sit there around the round table for a

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Speaker 1: And how many teams have two shutouts? How many defenses

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Speaker 3: I don't have to look, Johnny. It doesn't happen very

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Speaker 3: Yeah, to get two against one team in your division?

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Speaker 2: Ouch, I fire the coach that team too. They already

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Speaker 1: The only person who would probably be happier than you

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Speaker 3: It's been in four weeks since you played a road game.

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Speaker 3: What's important to remind your team about playing away from

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Speaker 5: When you play away?

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Speaker 6: The most important things understand, we have to bring our

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Speaker 6: the only ones there that's supporting us, So that's all

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Speaker 3: What about their return game with Deck k whatever else

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Speaker 6: to do an outstanding job of swarming the football, covering

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Speaker 6: and we have to tackle better. Improvement has to happen

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Speaker 6: carry we'll do a great job of getting them down

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Speaker 3: You have Matthew Wright again, and these days it's not

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Speaker 3: just how you kick field goals, it's how you kick off, right,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, kicking off is huge and Matt I think he

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Speaker 3: What's it gonna take to get up to a great

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Speaker 6: Offensively, it's gonna start with, man, how are we displacing

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Speaker 3: You gotta love the way your backs were really good

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I really love the compliment. I think it's a

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Speaker 5: Wood he did a really.

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Speaker 6: Nice job on the perimeter runs, showcasing his speed cut

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Speaker 6: I'm excited to see that one two.

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Speaker 3: Punch continue another game without jail. What are we looking

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Speaker 6: Yeah, defensively, we're looking at Miles coming in again playing

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Speaker 6: Miles is just a guy you can count on. Right,

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Speaker 6: So we'll see more Nickel, may see some more base.

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Speaker 6: We'll try to mix up our personnel groups as best

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Speaker 5: For what that situation dictates.

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Speaker 3: What else is important here? I imagine ball control, ball

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Speaker 5: Yeah, ball security is always number one for us.

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Speaker 6: We have to once we have the football, we have

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 6: We changed the game last week by taking taking the

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Speaker 2: Allowed him to go score coach, Thanks a lot, good luck.

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Speaker 5: Thanks Mark.

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Speaker 1: Great stuff is always from Demico and Mark. Greg Bailey

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Speaker 1: ABC thirteen. He had a lengthy discussion with Sheldon Rankins

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Speaker 2: For the mere mortal.

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Speaker 7: She will never know what it's like to run into

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Speaker 2: What kind of moment is that?

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Speaker 5: Very surreal? Things slowed down.

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Speaker 8: I remember once our cross turned around and I saw

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Speaker 7: Looking down at you as this happened. From the press box,

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Speaker 7: I couldn't help but think of the journey you've been

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Speaker 7: that part of it. How satisfying. How satisfying is it

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Speaker 8: So yeah, man, to to kind of go through what

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Speaker 8: allow me to continue to live out my dream as

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Speaker 8: being a really good football player and impacting the team

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Speaker 8: not only uh, statistically on the field, but within the

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Speaker 8: locker room. Just being able to still help my guys,

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Speaker 8: whether it's life, whether it's football scheme, whatever it is, Uh,

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Speaker 8: just being able to be in here and and and

448
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Speaker 8: be a light you know to these guys, has has

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Speaker 8: been truly refreshing again.

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Speaker 7: The Neil Hunter has this monster game and instantly gives

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Speaker 7: the defensive tackles a ton of credit. What are you

452
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Speaker 7: guys doing so well as a group to kind of

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Speaker 7: set the table for the defense? Your teammates love to

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Speaker 7: call it the engine.

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Speaker 5: Of the defense.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, just making sure you know, when that quarterback you know,

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Speaker 8: sees them coming off the edge and seems like a

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Speaker 8: blink of an eye most times, making sure he has

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Speaker 8: nowhere to go, making sure he there's there's no middle

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Speaker 8: lanes for him to run through, making sure we're collapsing

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Speaker 8: the pocket, and and making sure it's complimentary rushing, you know,

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Speaker 8: where we're allowing those guys on the edge kind of

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Speaker 8: cut it loose and be the game records they are.

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Speaker 8: And for us up the middle, just being able to

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Speaker 8: play with power, play with a precision, play with vision,

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Speaker 8: and being able to collapse that pocket and and and

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Speaker 8: just just kind of close it in on the quarterback

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Speaker 8: and suffocate him in a sense. So yeah, you know,

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Speaker 8: it's as much praise as as he would give to us.

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Speaker 8: You know, we give that praise, right back to to

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Speaker 8: him and Will and those edge guys because they've done

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Speaker 8: a tremendous job all season.

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Speaker 7: Million another question, just building on what you did so

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Speaker 7: well to take over that game defensively carry it forward

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Speaker 7: against the Titans.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it all comes down to execution, and

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Speaker 8: I think, you know, for us, we feel like when

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Speaker 8: we execute, when we do the simple things very well,

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Speaker 8: nobody can beat us. You know, no, no, nobody can

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Speaker 8: move the ball on us. We feel like we can

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Speaker 8: impact a game for four quarters and suffocate anyone. So

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Speaker 8: for us, it's back to basics always, you know, back

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Speaker 8: to fundamentals, back to lock in on doing what it

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Speaker 8: is we've done from day one and continue to do

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Speaker 8: those things that I love.

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Speaker 7: It's always great to see you man enjoy yourself.

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Speaker 5: You see you too, Man, appreciate it all right.

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Speaker 1: Titans Texans second meeting in Nashville, Mark and I sat

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Speaker 1: down to give you the best game preview you're gonna

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Speaker 1: find anywhere now.

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Speaker 3: Game preview the Houston Texans and Tennessee Titans, the second

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Speaker 3: matchup of the season series. We meet again for the

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Speaker 3: first time since Week four. Johnny, the Titans. Are they

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Speaker 3: different with Mike McCoy. I think that's a question. And

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Speaker 3: also what kind of boost, if any, do they get

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Speaker 3: coming out of their buy well, I think.

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Speaker 2: Oh, handle the buye first.

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Speaker 1: I do think just getting a chance to reset, especially

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Speaker 1: with the rookie quarterback, step back, look at and teams

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Speaker 1: that we always say self scout. They're self scouting all

501
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Speaker 1: the time, but just the opportunity to step back, everybody

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Speaker 1: gets a chance to just breathe. Okay, what is it

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Speaker 1: we do well, cam Ward? What are some of the

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Speaker 1: things we thought we would do well?

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Speaker 2: We don't. Let's get rid of those.

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Speaker 1: What are some of the things that we probably aren't

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Speaker 1: doing well but we could improve and I think we

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Speaker 1: need to. Okay, let's focus on those in practice a

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Speaker 1: little bit more. I think coming out of the buy

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Speaker 1: we'll see a fresh Titans team. But it's also a

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Speaker 1: team that from the time we saw in the Week

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Speaker 1: four they've traded away a couple of key pieces Raymond Jones,

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Speaker 1: Roger McCreary. So they've also got a couple pieces back too,

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Speaker 1: so we'll see and they've got a couple of guys

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Speaker 1: hurt that could really be advantageous for the Texans if

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Speaker 1: guys like Jeffrey Simmons does not play, and I recommend rest, yes,

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Speaker 1: rest for Jeffrey Simmons. That is the rest mark cow

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Speaker 1: Bell and rest.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 3: This is the twenty fifth rank defense in the NFL,

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Speaker 3: the Tennessee Titans, and against the run, they're twenty seventh.

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Speaker 3: The Texans ran the ball better last week. You know,

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Speaker 3: Demiko ryans to run the rock, no matter who's playing quarterback,

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Speaker 3: run the ball. Shorten this game to two and a

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Speaker 3: half hours, get out of there with a workman like win.

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Speaker 2: That's got to be one of the goals.

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Speaker 3: You know, don't leave the outcome in such doubt heading

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Speaker 3: into the fourth quarter. But the last time the Titans

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Speaker 3: played a game, it was with the Chargers at home.

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Speaker 3: They lost the game, but it was a three point

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Speaker 3: game going into the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 2: So you better be ready for anything.

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Speaker 5: No doubt.

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Speaker 1: And Graham Mertz's teammate and good friend Sumray dk punt

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Speaker 1: return against the Chargers. Those are the Parker Washington last

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Speaker 1: week a punt return against the Texans. So if you

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Speaker 1: let them have one of those touchdowns. We talked about

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Speaker 1: it when we got ready for Week four. We went

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Speaker 1: back to twenty eighteen in that game when the tits

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Speaker 1: that a lot of guys hurt, how do they put

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Speaker 1: points on the board. Well, Dan krunk shank with a

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Speaker 1: fake punt reception for sixty nine yards and a touchdown.

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Speaker 1: It was a three point game. Take away that fake punt.

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Speaker 1: We win a game, but you gave it up. DK

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Speaker 1: is the kind of guy that can make a play

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Speaker 1: that way. But this it's a defense that Titans defense

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Speaker 1: that when it's going well, the linebackers can play well. Said,

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Speaker 1: Gray has become a better and more interesting factor for

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Speaker 1: the defense. Whether Simmons plays or not. Sweat inside. You know,

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Speaker 1: they've got a lot of guys that.

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Speaker 2: Can make it problematic for you to run the ball.

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Speaker 1: I think the biggest question, and to go with that

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Speaker 1: key running the ball, is what does your offensive line

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Speaker 1: look like?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: How does that? How is that reconfigured? Either way?

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Speaker 1: That fourteen play drive against the Jaguars doesn't happen at

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Speaker 1: the end if that offensive line doesn't punch the Jacksonville

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Speaker 1: Jaguars pretty solid defensive line right in the mouth. There

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Speaker 1: were I think five runs maybe more maybe I think

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Speaker 1: it was a six or seven maybe, but every run

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Speaker 1: was a positive run and they moved people off the ball. Now,

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Speaker 1: maybe Jacksonville is just trying to give ground a little

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Speaker 1: bit and not trying to give a touchdown whatever, but

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Speaker 1: it felt like they were physical taking over the game.

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Speaker 1: And that's the way I know Demiko Ryance wants this

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Speaker 1: offensive line to play. So we'll see how it's reconfigured

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Speaker 1: or configured for Sunday against the Titans. But you got

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Speaker 1: great play out of Arianta erschwhere you got really good

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Speaker 1: play out of Trent Brown. Two scrugs did some really

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Speaker 1: good things. You saw some of the power he hail

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Speaker 1: erk harpistend out of there. So how is that five

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Speaker 1: configured on Sunday against the Titans. Regardless of how it's configured,

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Speaker 1: it's got to come off the ball and hit them

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Speaker 1: in the mouth and let the run games.

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Speaker 2: Speak for itself. Another thing to watch out for.

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Speaker 3: I want to be polite here, but this is a

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Speaker 3: team A lot of people from the outside say, oh,

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Speaker 3: they're going for a high draft choice whatever, But this

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Speaker 3: is not the kind of draft where there's this golden

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Speaker 3: pot at the end of the rainbow or whatever. You

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Speaker 3: have to think about Mike McCoy, the way they're going

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Speaker 3: to approach this thing. I think they're very interested in

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Speaker 3: being highly competitive, especially against the Houston Texans. We know

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Speaker 3: how ownership feels of the Tennessee Titans, and they want

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Speaker 3: to get this done.

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Speaker 2: This is the first time in let's see three.

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Speaker 3: Years that you will play them up there where they

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Speaker 3: are not wearing the oiler uniform. Sure, I think some

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Speaker 3: of that it's not a factor, but they want this

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Speaker 3: one badly and they're going to sell out to do it.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned some pieces are gone, that kind of thing,

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Speaker 3: but they want to be competitive.

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Speaker 2: And Mike McCoy did some good things.

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Speaker 3: With the Chargers, went to the playoffs, had the number

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Speaker 3: one offense in the league.

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Speaker 2: As a coordinator in Denver, he had Peyton Manning. Okay,

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Speaker 2: we have to have full disclosure there, but he did

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Speaker 2: do that. He's a pretty good coach, pretty talented guy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're going to want to be competitive this one,

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Speaker 1: especially against US. I mean, aby Adam Strunk is going

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Speaker 1: to demand that it's competitive against.

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Speaker 2: US, and so we just have to go in there.

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Speaker 1: And I think, first of all, you have to remember

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Speaker 1: what they did you last year in Week twelve, they

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Speaker 1: came into this building and we were coming off the

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Speaker 1: Monday and night win I believe against the Cowboys.

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Speaker 2: I believe that's we were coming off that win and

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Speaker 2: played flat.

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Speaker 1: And we were flat even though Damian runs the ball back,

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Speaker 1: Kate Stover catches a touchdown on the first play, and

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Speaker 1: you're like, we're up seven, not that we're gonna run

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Speaker 1: these dudes out the building. And then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: we gave up big throws, we relax in the secondary.

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Speaker 1: Will Levis carved us up like four times and it

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Speaker 1: was kind of feast or family. It was like Levis

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Speaker 1: deep ball, Levis sack and we just got caught in

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Speaker 1: not playing very well at all. And then the defense

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Speaker 1: just completely melted down when Chiga Konkoi just ran right

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Speaker 1: to our secondary untouched, basically, and that was the That

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Speaker 1: was it.

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Speaker 2: That was the game. And you look up and you're like,

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Speaker 2: we just we lost the Titans.

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Speaker 1: We lost the Titans, really, and I would guarantee you

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Speaker 1: Dimiko Ryans that's the first thing he he he said

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Speaker 1: to them, because everybody in Houston all week is like,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, we're getting to five hundred. It's the Titans.

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Speaker 1: We're getting a five hundred this week. We'll be five

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Speaker 1: and five after this game. It's like, remember that Week

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Speaker 1: twelve game. You can't tiptoe into that game. You can't

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Speaker 1: get comfortable. Oh we got a seven to nothing leader,

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Speaker 1: we got a fourteen to nothing lead. No, you gotta

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Speaker 1: pour it on and they gotta make them want to leave.

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Speaker 3: And then show them what Miami did to Buffalo last week,

636
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Speaker 3: because Buffalo goes into Miami thinking we're gonna get well here,

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Speaker 3: no problem, and bam the Dolphins not only one, they

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Speaker 3: won convincingly.

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Speaker 2: Sleeper of the game.

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Speaker 3: I've got Jayden Higgins to have another big game, had

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Speaker 3: a nice outing against the Jacksonville Jaguars. He's really coming around.

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Speaker 3: Nico Collins, attracts a lot of attention. Dalton Schultz, Oh

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Speaker 3: my gosh, they have to worry about him, Higgins. No,

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Speaker 3: these guys can make hey here, especially Jayden, who's coming

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00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 3: off a really nice game.

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Speaker 2: I like it.

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Speaker 1: I like it, you know, defensively, there's so many stars.

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Speaker 1: So when you look at you like, well, it's that

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00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 1: guy really kind of a sleeper of the game. And

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Speaker 1: so I'm like hmm. And then I remember last year

651
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, ah, Derek Barnett, Yeah, this is one

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Speaker 1: of those games.

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Speaker 2: I feel like that kind of like last year.

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Speaker 1: You know, I don't think people we were in charge

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Speaker 1: most of that game, but it really wasn't until Barnett

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Speaker 1: got a touchdown where we kind of put the capra

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Speaker 1: on him.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 2: But with the way Will and Danill play.

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Speaker 1: Every single week, they can't play fifty sixty seventy plays.

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Speaker 1: And Derek Barnett has been giving him some really good reps.

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Speaker 1: He had that really nice tackle for a loss in

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Speaker 1: the backfield. He's done some really good things since the Texas.

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Speaker 2: Acquired him in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: I think this is one of those games where he's

666
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Speaker 1: gonna end up making a play, having a sack, something

667
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Speaker 1: that ends a drive. They gotta settle for a fuel

668
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Speaker 1: goal instead of a touchdown, or they got a punt

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Speaker 1: instead of go for it on fourth down.

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Speaker 2: And Derek Barnett is gonna make a player too.

671
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Speaker 1: And he's going back to Tennessee where he played his

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Speaker 1: college ball, so there's always motivation there. But when thinking

673
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Speaker 1: about a sleeper, there aren't many sleepers on the defense,

674
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Speaker 1: but I think Derek Barnett kind of falls in that category,

675
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Speaker 1: and he always tends to make big plays at key time.

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Speaker 2: So I think Derek Barnett's gonna be my sleep.

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Speaker 5: I like that.

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Speaker 3: Plus you began the week without knowledge of CJ, but

679
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Speaker 3: also knowing that Mills played there last year, didn't start

680
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Speaker 3: the game, but played the bulk of the game, and

681
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Speaker 3: you won the game, and that was good Tysons and Titans.

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Speaker 1: If it turns out, if it turns out that CJ

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Speaker 1: doesn't play in this game against the Titans, that'll be

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Speaker 1: three trips to Nashville and he will have played two series.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's interesting. That's it. So it's gonna be uh,

686
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Speaker 2: you know, be interesting. Last time Davis was there as

687
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Speaker 2: a starter. What happened.

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Speaker 1: We started the game an hour late in the colt

689
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Speaker 1: and came home with a win. In twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: I'm Christmas. That's it. Game preview, Texans Titans Go Texans.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's a really good game preview, if I

692
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Speaker 1: should say so myself. The best you're gonna find anywhere.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: A position that's gonna have to step up because bodies

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Speaker 1: you don't know is tight end tight ends. Coach Jake

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Speaker 1: Moreland stepped in the studio with Mark. It is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Why that for you? Next right here on Texans All Access,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to this Friday edition of Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you being with me, John Harris, football analyst, sideline

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Speaker 1: reporter for your Houston Texans. It's time to catch up

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Speaker 1: with tight Ends coach Jake Moreland. Now, I had the

702
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Speaker 1: sock put on the proverbial broadcasting door for the one.

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Speaker 1: So it's Mark with Jake, which I'm always a little

704
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Speaker 1: bit envious. I love having Jake in studio with us,

705
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Speaker 1: but they do a great job talking about all things

706
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Speaker 1: impacted at tight Ends.

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Speaker 2: And of course, you know, the former.

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Speaker 1: Voice of Central Michigan was gonna have to catch up

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Speaker 1: with a former Western Michigan bronco. So take a listen

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Speaker 1: as Mark and Jake catch up right.

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Speaker 2: Here joining us.

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Speaker 3: Now, Jake Moreland, tight Ends coach for your Texans coach,

713
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Speaker 3: how's it going going very well?

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Speaker 5: All right?

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Speaker 3: So practice this time of year? How is it different

716
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Speaker 3: in general? I mean, you've been a player, so you

717
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 3: know the grind changes as you get deeper in the

718
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Speaker 3: double digit weeks.

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Speaker 2: We're here in week eleven.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 9: You get into these middle weeks in a little bit,

722
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Speaker 9: it's you can't see the forest from the trees, you know,

723
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 9: kind of a thing, and so you know, the thing

724
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 9: that we talk about in our room is just trying

725
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Speaker 9: to keep the main thing the main thing, and just

726
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Speaker 9: trying to concentrate on one day at a time, what

727
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Speaker 9: is the one thing that we're trying to work on today,

728
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Speaker 9: or what is this one thing that we just really

729
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Speaker 9: need to hone in on and get right and see

730
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Speaker 9: if we can get that right and just keep really

731
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Speaker 9: good momentum going.

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Speaker 3: It's been a big year for Dalton Schultz so far, coach,

733
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Speaker 3: Can you talk about his performance?

734
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's he's been great.

735
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Speaker 9: I mean, to be perfectly honest with you, you know,

736
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Speaker 9: I think after last year, sitting down with him, you know,

737
00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 9: he kind of expressed and I kind of expressed we

738
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 9: kind of met in the middle where it wasn't exactly

739
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 9: the year that we thought he might have, and so

740
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 9: expressed some challenges that I wanted him to try and

741
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Speaker 9: go at, you know, And it really started in OTAs

742
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Speaker 9: you know, I mean, he showed up in great spirits,

743
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,479
Speaker 9: a great attitude, great body of work that he had

744
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Speaker 9: already put together, and so he's really just been building

745
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 9: week to week until again it goes back to the

746
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 9: just trying to keep the main thing, the main thing,

747
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Speaker 9: try and go out in concert on one thing a

748
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Speaker 9: day to get better at and then you know it

749
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Speaker 9: shows up on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Maybe a rhetorical question, how big was that play he

751
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Speaker 3: had on third and ten?

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Speaker 9: Oh my gosh, it's right where we wanted him third

753
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Speaker 9: and ten. I mean, that's exactly how we draw it up.

754
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Speaker 9: You know, they never see it coming.

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Speaker 2: He's been.

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Speaker 9: I mean, he has such a feel for the passing game,

757
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Speaker 9: you know, and obviously with him and Davis being in

758
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Speaker 9: there together, you know, they've got a history together and

759
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 9: being at Stanford, you know, and those kinds of things.

760
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Speaker 9: So you know, again it's just it's trying to do

761
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 9: the same thing over and over and give the quarterback

762
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Speaker 9: confidence that we're going to be in the right place

763
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Speaker 9: at the right time.

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Speaker 5: And it worked out in that play.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 3: The Stanford history is one thing. But CJ often talks

767
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Speaker 3: about Dalton and their relationship and how they help each

768
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Speaker 3: other out. How much of a help Dalton's been two Siejs? Sure,

769
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Speaker 3: what about now as pros with Davis and Dalton and

770
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Speaker 3: Dalton being able to be the He's not an elder states,

771
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Speaker 3: but he's not that old, but he does have experience

772
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Speaker 3: in this league.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no question.

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Speaker 9: And I think you know, if you asked around to

775
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Speaker 9: most of the teams, I think most quarterbacks would say

776
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Speaker 9: that the tight end is a little bit of there

777
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 9: will be right. They're a little bit of the comfort

778
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Speaker 9: blanket and the security blanket. And Dalton is a fixer,

779
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 9: you know. And that's one thing that we talk about

780
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Speaker 9: a lot again in our room, is we need to

781
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Speaker 9: be fixers. If something is broken, or something is wrong,

782
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 9: or something isn't matching up exactly right, how can we

783
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Speaker 9: fix it so that the quarterback doesn't have to Let's

784
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 9: try and let the quarterback do the things that he does.

785
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 9: He's got an awful lot on his plate, and let's

786
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Speaker 9: see if we can pick up the slack a little bit.

787
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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 9: Fortunately for us, most of the time, we're all on

789
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Speaker 9: the same page.

790
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Speaker 5: Everything is right.

791
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Speaker 9: But Dalton is a smart guy, and he knows football,

792
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 9: and he has a really good feel for this doesn't

793
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 9: feel right. Let's do this, this, and this, make it

794
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,800
Speaker 9: right and survive the down if we have to coach.

795
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 3: Injuries are part of the game, no doubt, but you

796
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:16,040
Speaker 3: lost two guys who are so incredibly important. Brevin Jordan

797
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 3: in the preseason, and we won't see Brev again after

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Speaker 3: the year. But Kate Stover early on and Johnny and

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Speaker 3: I often wonder what would the season be like if

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00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 3: you had both of those guys. But you have to

801
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,840
Speaker 3: adapt no matter what, like everybody does. Can you discuss

802
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,399
Speaker 3: kid Stover and as he ramps back up, what he

803
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,280
Speaker 3: can bring to the table to this offense?

804
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Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure.

805
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Speaker 9: I mean a number one, he brings death, you know.

806
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 9: I mean at our position, you know, really at everybody's position.

807
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:41,880
Speaker 9: When you get in the middle part of the season,

808
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 9: most guys are banged up, Most segments are banged up,

809
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 9: and so when you can get guys that come back,

810
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 9: that give you a little bit of juice.

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Speaker 5: And Kate's got a lot.

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Speaker 9: Of juice, you know, especially from not being you know,

813
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 9: in practices and in games for the last few weeks

814
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 9: and things like that. He's really excited to get on

815
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 9: the field and get gone. And I think that infusion

816
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 9: will be come infectious, you know, and I think guys

817
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 9: will really respond to that and kind of rally around it,

818
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 9: and hopefully that kicks it into another gear that we're

819
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 9: able to go to.

820
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Speaker 3: How tough is it to coach the full back part

821
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 3: of the game because occasionally we'll see a tight end

822
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 3: at full back, h back, whatever the case may be.

823
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:16,360
Speaker 3: You and Danny Barrett have to get together on that

824
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 3: kind of thing we do.

825
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 9: You know, in my career for being in the tight

826
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 9: end role, every time that we've had a full back,

827
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Speaker 9: the fullback has always been in my room. And the

828
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 9: reason is because I cross train the tight ends all

829
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 9: the same way everybody learns every position, because unfortunately, you're

830
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,359
Speaker 9: one broken shoelace away from having to go in and

831
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 9: play somebody else's spot. So that's how we train, that's

832
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,879
Speaker 9: how we learn, that's how we coach, and so having

833
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,359
Speaker 9: the fullbacks in the room is just an extension of

834
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 9: what the let's call them the whys. You know, your

835
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 9: your typical tight end that lines up next to the tackle.

836
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 9: Those guys a lot of times, like Cade has been

837
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 9: in the backfield, Brevan has been in the backfield, Shoe

838
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 9: Dalton has been in the backfield. You know, everybody's had

839
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:57,360
Speaker 9: a turn to be able to get back there and

840
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:58,759
Speaker 9: do the things that are necessary. And that's at the

841
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:00,360
Speaker 9: end of the day, that's really all we're trying to do,

842
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 9: is you know, give this offense whatever it needs to

843
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 9: be successful.

844
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Speaker 3: It feels like at tight end, the difference between being

845
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 3: a pass catcher and a blocker is pretty extreme relative

846
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:15,360
Speaker 3: to some other position groups where you coach receivers, for instance,

847
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 3: I don't we have slot and outside guys and that

848
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,399
Speaker 3: kind of thing, but it's it's very different what tight

849
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 3: ends do.

850
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 9: It is very different what tight ends do. I mean,

851
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 9: we're asked to block like three hundred pound offensive linemen

852
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 9: and we're asked to run routes and catch balls like

853
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 9: you know, one hundred and eighty two hundred pound wide receivers.

854
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 5: You know.

855
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:30,879
Speaker 9: But that's the fun of it, you know, And that's

856
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,359
Speaker 9: that's the thing that guys get a lot of joy

857
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:34,959
Speaker 9: out of being in the room, is that we're asked

858
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 9: to do so many things so that you're able to

859
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 9: put and showcase everything that you have, all of your athleticism,

860
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 9: all of your mental capacity. I mean, think about how

861
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 9: much these guys have to know, and how much they study,

862
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:47,720
Speaker 9: and how much they're into it. You have to really

863
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 9: love football to be able to play tight end with

864
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 9: the Texans. You know, they're asked to do a lot.

865
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 9: They're demanded to do a lot, and when they're not,

866
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 9: actually they get a little upset. They'd rather have it

867
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 9: that way and they want a lot on their play.

868
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Speaker 3: Coach, going down the road this week, what is it

869
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 3: like being on the road the night before a game

870
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 3: with your position group and just being part of the team,

871
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 3: team meeting. How you handle the night before and maybe

872
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 3: the day of? Can you take fans inside that a

873
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 3: little bit?

874
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 4: Sure?

875
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Speaker 9: Yeah? For me, you know, I know, I go back

876
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:17,840
Speaker 9: to being a player a little bit. And I you know,

877
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:19,400
Speaker 9: when we get that close to the game, you know,

878
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 9: you're within twenty four hours or so when we leave

879
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,000
Speaker 9: the facility here, maybe I should back it up. We come,

880
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:25,839
Speaker 9: we show up to the facility that morning and we'll

881
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 9: have meetings, we'll have a walk through, and it's kind

882
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,320
Speaker 9: of our final prep. There'll be a few meetings that

883
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 9: happened at the hotel the night before, but really those

884
00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:35,280
Speaker 9: meetings are really just kind of hey, check this box,

885
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 9: check this box, check this box for us. We have

886
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 9: a test that we do, so we go over the test.

887
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:41,800
Speaker 9: We make sure that we have all of our questions answered.

888
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 9: But I go back to being a player, and when

889
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 9: I get that close to the game, I just kind

890
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 9: of want to be in my own element, and I

891
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 9: think my guys, I kind of try to be as

892
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 9: hands off as I possibly can and just let them

893
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 9: go through their process because everybody is a little bit

894
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 9: different for how they prepare, and so I want to

895
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:57,919
Speaker 9: be there and let them know that if you need

896
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 9: me for something, I'm here to answer questions, here to

897
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 9: help you prepare if you need it. But it's really

898
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 9: kind of on you at this point. I'm really just

899
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,719
Speaker 9: trying to help make sure that everything is moving forward

900
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 9: the way that it's supposed to.

901
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 3: When did you feel like you had the coaching bug?

902
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:12,120
Speaker 3: Because you and I have often talked about you being

903
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 3: an original Texas back in two thousand and two offseason

904
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 3: and everything, But what was the impetus really for being

905
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:19,479
Speaker 3: a coach in this league?

906
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 9: Yeah, to be perfectly honest with you, I never wanted

907
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,959
Speaker 9: to be a coach. I tried everything that I could

908
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 9: to not be a coach, and I love being a coach. Okay,

909
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 9: So but I have to preface it with that. I

910
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 9: look back now and I realized that when I was

911
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 9: a player, all the way back at Western Michigan, I

912
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 9: was holding meetings with the tight end segment before our

913
00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 9: actual meetings to make sure that everybody was squared away

914
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:42,600
Speaker 9: with everything that we had. I did the same thing

915
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 9: when I got into the pros when I was in

916
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 9: New York. Even when I was here, I was holding

917
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 9: meetings with the guys before the actual meetings started, and

918
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 9: I never really put it together that this is what

919
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 9: I'm supposed to do. So I'm thankful and grateful for

920
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 9: one of my best friends who's the offensive coordinated at

921
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 9: Iowa now.

922
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,279
Speaker 5: He asked me to.

923
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,280
Speaker 9: Come and coach ty ends for him in two thousand

924
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 9: and three, and shoot twenty five years later. However, man,

925
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 9: however long it's been now, I mean, I just completely

926
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 9: enjoy coaching. I can't see myself doing anything else.

927
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,160
Speaker 3: Okay, I see you working out hours before the game

928
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 3: at the stadium sometime running the steps and that kind

929
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 3: of thing. How do you keep your energy level up,

930
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 3: keep healthy and keep energetic really as you coach this

931
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 3: team and have so many things to do throughout the

932
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 3: course of the week.

933
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 9: Yeah, on game day, if I don't do something there

934
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 9: is I have too much just nervous energy that's going on.

935
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 9: So that's part of the reason why I'm running the

936
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 9: stairs the other part is Greg Knapp. The Greg Nap

937
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 9: Foundation is something that I'll be on the going on

938
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 9: my cleats here in a little bit, trying to raise

939
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 9: awareness for distracted driving. But he used to run the stairs,

940
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 9: and so he was with me, or I should it

941
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 9: say I was with him in twenty twenty one. Unfortunately

942
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 9: he passed away that spring, but he used to run

943
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 9: the stairs, and so now I kind of do that

944
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 9: a little bit to honor him. But it's really just

945
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,840
Speaker 9: for me to get some nervous energy out. And you

946
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:01,840
Speaker 9: got to stay active with these guys, you know, because

947
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 9: these guys also they learn by visualization, right, So when

948
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 9: I'm teaching, I don't just stand there and tell them

949
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 9: what I want. I try to show them what I

950
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 9: want with footwork, with hand placement, with route running. Obviously

951
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 9: I can't do it the way that I used to,

952
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 9: but I like to get in there and get involved

953
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:19,320
Speaker 9: and be active as active as I can.

954
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:21,960
Speaker 3: I probably have asked you this before, but I want

955
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 3: you to explain to the listeners how big a rivalry

956
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:28,799
Speaker 3: Western Michigan Central Michigan is. Because people talk about Auburn Alabama,

957
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, that's nothing compared to the Chip

958
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,240
Speaker 3: Awas and the Broncos in Michigan.

959
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:35,840
Speaker 5: That's right, huge rivalry.

960
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 9: I'm happy to say that Western has a hold of

961
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 9: the Cannon Trophy yet again. All right, coming out with

962
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 9: a victory last this past Saturday. But you know, rivalries

963
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 9: are awesome and it's a huge part of what college

964
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 9: football is. And to be fertently honest with you, this

965
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 9: game this Sunday is actually a pretty big rival for

966
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 9: us too, right, going up to Tennessee and being able

967
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 9: to get that done and so you know, being able

968
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,240
Speaker 9: to go on the road and have a rivalry game

969
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 9: that means an all lot for both teams, you know,

970
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 9: is pretty a big deal.

971
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 3: One more, does it blow your mind this nil era

972
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 3: where if somebody's playing a school like Western or Central

973
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 3: and they do well, they might be gone the followers

974
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 3: ques because there are amazing offers for them.

975
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:13,919
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no question.

976
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:15,400
Speaker 9: And you know, to be honest, so I've been in

977
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 9: this is my fifth year in the NFL, and I

978
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 9: will say the college game has changed so much just

979
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,840
Speaker 9: in the five years that that I was in college football,

980
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 9: and the Nile has a lot to do with it,

981
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 9: you know, I not to say get you know, I'm not.

982
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 9: I don't want to be the get off my long guy,

983
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 9: but I was. I went to Western Michigan because of

984
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 9: the people that I met there and because of the

985
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 9: education that I wanted to get. And we went through

986
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 9: a coaching change and guys were talking about leaving, and

987
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 9: nobody left. We all stayed, and you know, we ended

988
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:40,359
Speaker 9: up making it the MAC Championship when I was when

989
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,800
Speaker 9: I was a senior and those kind of things. But unfortunately,

990
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 9: I think those days might be over. You know, when

991
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 9: you go to a school because of the education and

992
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 9: because of the bonds that you make with the guys,

993
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:51,360
Speaker 9: and unfortunately now it's a little bit more about the

994
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,439
Speaker 9: money than it is about the bonds. And I'm still

995
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 9: in for the bonds, you know. I still that's why

996
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:58,360
Speaker 9: I got into coaching, is to be a positive influence

997
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 9: on young people, on young men in partic you know.

998
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 9: And I just I'm fortunate that I get to be

999
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 9: an organization that allows me to do that.

1000
00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 2: Outstanding coach, Thanks a lot, good luck, Thank you dude

1001
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 2: right there, Jake Morland, love having him here.

1002
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:16,240
Speaker 1: Tight ends coach might get a tight end back this weekend.

1003
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:19,399
Speaker 1: What's going on with the tight end position? Well, one

1004
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,400
Speaker 1: of them we know is out. What about the others.

1005
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 1: We'll get to that next when we reveal the status

1006
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: report for Sunday's game against the Tennessee Tits. What about

1007
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons on the Titan side. We'll answer that question

1008
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:36,839
Speaker 1: next right here in Texans All Access. All right, here

1009
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:41,359
Speaker 1: we go, Happy Friday, everybody. Welcome back to this edition

1010
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: of Texans All Access. I'm your host, John Harris, Football

1011
00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:49,080
Speaker 1: and all the sideline reporter for your Houston Texans game

1012
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: less than forty eight hours away. So who is in?

1013
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 1: Who is out? What is the plan? So let's go

1014
00:42:57,080 --> 00:43:00,120
Speaker 1: back to Thursday. Miko Riant stepped to the podium when

1015
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:03,800
Speaker 1: they swapped days. Miko went on Thursday. Usually goes on Wednesday,

1016
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: but on Thursday. The first words out of his mouth,

1017
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 1: and I'm paraphrasing, but pretty close, c J. Stroud, Jalen Petrie,

1018
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: Kimate Fairbairn will all be out of this game. So

1019
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,319
Speaker 1: we got a little bit of a heads up of

1020
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,439
Speaker 1: what was going to be on the status report. Now

1021
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: they are not alone. Jake Moreland was on with us

1022
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 1: in that previous segment. His tight ends have gone through

1023
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:34,040
Speaker 1: it this year. Brevin Jordan, Dalton Keene season not even

1024
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: season ending injuries. Season ending injury for Brevin Jordan, but

1025
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 1: back to back days we lost them.

1026
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 2: Then in Week one it was caged over.

1027
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz has been banged up, Harrison Bryant's been banged up.

1028
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 1: Harrison Bryant would be out of this one. So another

1029
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: tight end out. However, if there's good news, Dalton Schultz

1030
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:59,319
Speaker 1: is a full participant today in practice. He has no designation,

1031
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: so he is. I am in for Sunday and that

1032
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 1: is great news. So Harrison Bryant, Fairbeard, Petrie, Stroud, and

1033
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: unfortunately Damon Arnette.

1034
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:09,840
Speaker 2: So this must have.

1035
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 1: Happened today in practice, because I don't see him. He

1036
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: was new, he was new to the injury reports. So

1037
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 1: maybe happened on Thursday, maybe happened early on Friday. But

1038
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,880
Speaker 1: Damon Arnette is also out, which I hate seeing because

1039
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: he had just done some good things moving up to

1040
00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:26,840
Speaker 1: the game day roster.

1041
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 2: But he is out of this one. So five Texans out.

1042
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: Stroud, Petrie Fairbaron, Harrison Bryant, Damon Arnett. Ed Ingram has

1043
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: been practicing in a limited capacity throughout the week with

1044
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: that knee issue.

1045
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 2: He's questionable.

1046
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:48,240
Speaker 1: Also questionable is Jakab Johnson still working his way back

1047
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: from the hamstring.

1048
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 4: Now.

1049
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:53,399
Speaker 1: Yakub was a full participant throughout practice, but he's still

1050
00:44:53,400 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: listened as questionable. And finally cade Stover. He started the

1051
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: week as a limited participant. He was limited on Thursday,

1052
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 1: he was full on Friday. He is listed as questionable.

1053
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:16,200
Speaker 1: Now there would have to be a corresponding transaction if

1054
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:19,919
Speaker 1: Kate is then activated and brought to the fifty three

1055
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 1: man roster. So it definitely is something worth following because

1056
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:30,800
Speaker 1: there's no Harrison Bryant. If Kad doesn't play, that leaves

1057
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 1: one tight end that's not Blake Fisher, who has been

1058
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:40,319
Speaker 1: the sixth offensive lineman slash extra tight end, So we'll

1059
00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:40,839
Speaker 1: follow that.

1060
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 2: We'll see if Yakab is ready to go.

1061
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: Obviously, when they're using fullback lately, they've been using British Brooks,

1062
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: but they can use Jakab in that role. They can

1063
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,800
Speaker 1: use Yakab at tight end, depending on how they want.

1064
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 2: To do it.

1065
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,759
Speaker 1: I am completely totally fine with Blake Fisher playing tight end.

1066
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 1: I don't care if they don't throw it to him.

1067
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:58,879
Speaker 1: It is helped in the run game. It has helped

1068
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:03,240
Speaker 1: in pass protection. It's using him has helped all around,

1069
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: but having cag Stover there just adds some different wrinkles. Obviously,

1070
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 1: I said the beginning of the year, I thought he

1071
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:12,399
Speaker 1: was on a breakout year. So we'll keep an eye

1072
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: on Kate. So again, five players out, three questionable. Three

1073
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:21,400
Speaker 1: questionable are ed Ingram, Yakub, Johnson Cage Stover. Because Yakub

1074
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,120
Speaker 1: and Kate are coming off ir like I said, you'd

1075
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:26,320
Speaker 1: have to have a corresponding transaction, so we'll see exactly

1076
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: what that might mean.

1077
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:28,399
Speaker 5: Now.

1078
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 1: On the Titan side, Xavier Woods starting safety, he is out.

1079
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:37,399
Speaker 1: Khalil Mullings he is out. They were just activating him

1080
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 1: in the twenty one day window.

1081
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 2: He's out.

1082
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:42,840
Speaker 1: Bryce Oliver is also out. I think he's missed another

1083
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:46,439
Speaker 1: Texans game. So those three are out. Notice I didn't

1084
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:50,840
Speaker 1: say the name Jeffrey Simmons. Simmons is questionable along with

1085
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:54,840
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley, CJ. Ravenel and arden Key Key.

1086
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:55,520
Speaker 2: Ridley.

1087
00:46:55,680 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: Simmons hugely important to that Titans offense and defense. My

1088
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:03,839
Speaker 1: guess is we will see them play. They're coming off

1089
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 1: of bye week. My guess is we'll see at least

1090
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 1: three of them play. If not all four of their

1091
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 1: listen as questionable. So in review, Damon Arnette Harrison, Bryant

1092
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 1: Kemmi Fairbarer, Jalen Petrick and C. J. Stroud all out

1093
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: for your Texans, questionable at Ingram Yakub, Johnson, Cape Stover

1094
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 1: for your Titans, your Titans. For the Titans, Xavier Woods

1095
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Speaker 1: starting safety, Khalil Mullings running back, and Bryce Oliver receiver.

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Speaker 1: Those three out questionable, Arden Key, CJ. Ravenel, Calvin Ridley,

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons. Everybody else is in. And that is your

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Speaker 1: status report. Now with that information, let's talk to Jonathan

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Speaker 1: Alexander the Houston Chronicle.

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Speaker 2: He's always got good nuggets for us.

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Speaker 1: Let's get his thoughts about Davis Mills starting for the

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Speaker 1: second time taking on the Titans. We'll do all that

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Speaker 1: next right here on Texans all accent.

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Speaker 2: We got one hour down, one hour.

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Speaker 1: We have to go right here on a Friday ed

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Speaker 1: issue of Texans all access less than forty eight hours

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Speaker 1: from Texans vi Titans.

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Speaker 2: For the forty eighth time at.

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Speaker 1: Texans win even the series at twenty four, twenty four,

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Speaker 1: and most importantly, it will put the Texans at five

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Speaker 1: and five. Just a few days before they take on

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills on Thursday night back at NRG Stadium.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you being with me this evening.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter for

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Speaker 1: your Houston Texans. It's now time to talk to Jonathan Alexander,

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Speaker 1: Houston Chronicle's own Jonathan Alexander.

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Speaker 2: He does a great job. Let's dive in right here.

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Speaker 3: Jonathan Alexander from the Houston Chronicle joining us. Okay, Ja,

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Speaker 3: here we go with Davis Mills again against the Titans.

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Speaker 2: What is the follow up performance going to be like?

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Speaker 2: In your opinion?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, usually that second game tends to be

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Speaker 10: tough for a lot of backup quarterbacks. But fortunately Davis

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Speaker 10: Mills playing the Tennessee Titans, who have been among the

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Speaker 10: worst teams in the NFL all year. And you know,

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Speaker 10: one of the positives and what helps Davis Mills out

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Speaker 10: is he's a guy who stays even kill, doesn't let

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Speaker 10: too much bother him, doesn't let many things excite him.

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Speaker 10: And that's gonna be important for this game because it's

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Speaker 10: a crucial game that Texans are gonna have to win.

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Speaker 2: To do that, it's Tuck offensive line here.

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Speaker 1: That offensive line's got to play like it did last week,

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Speaker 1: and we saw an offensive line start, then we saw

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Speaker 1: an offensive line change, and then we saw the offensive

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Speaker 1: line really kind of thrive in the second half. In particular,

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Speaker 1: what kind of offensive line do you expect to see

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Speaker 1: against potentially Simmons, potentially sweat.

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Speaker 2: We don't know.

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Speaker 1: We didn't see sweat last time, but we saw Simmons

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Speaker 1: this time. We might be see sweat, but no Simmons.

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Speaker 1: What do you think about the offensive line? What kind

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Speaker 1: offensive line do you see? And how do you think

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Speaker 1: it's going to be made up on Sunday?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, that'll be interesting because obviously Simmons really wrecked the

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Speaker 10: game early the first time these two teams played, and

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Speaker 10: then you saw last week Trent Brown had a really

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Speaker 10: good game. I think allowed only one pressure all game.

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Speaker 10: So I know Demiko Ryan's philosophy is to have the

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Speaker 10: best five offensive lineman out there. So I wouldn't be

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Speaker 10: surprised if maybe you saw the Texans move Titus Howard

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Speaker 10: to left guard if Ingram's available, have him at right

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Speaker 10: guard and Trent Brown at right tackle. Now, I love

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Speaker 10: the way Titus is playing at right tackle. He's playing

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Speaker 10: at a Pro Bowl level. I might see what Jared

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Speaker 10: Patterson can do. But I think both of those, you know,

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Speaker 10: probabilities or both of those scenarios are on the table.

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Speaker 3: We had Arianta Rasiri on the air earlier this week.

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Speaker 3: What is the narrative on him this week? And I

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Speaker 3: say that way, Jonathan, because he's a rookie, and rookies,

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Speaker 3: we would have said one thing about what he marks

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Speaker 3: week one, and now we're gonna say something else. We'll

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Speaker 3: talk about him, but what about the progress adversary.

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Speaker 2: In your mind? What you're seeing.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think he's improving significantly. Like early on, he

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Speaker 10: had some struggles. I thought he got beat by Josh

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Speaker 10: Haines Allen in that first Jaguars game, but he's really

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Speaker 10: proven to be much improved now. Of course, he's got

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Speaker 10: to improve on the pre snap penalties. Occasionally you'll see

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Speaker 10: a false start. I know he struggled with that against

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Speaker 10: the Seattle Seahawks. But you love the mindset that he has.

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Speaker 10: He loves to get out in the run game and

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Speaker 10: really just take out linebackers and cornerbacks, which is ideal

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Speaker 10: and what you want to see. And I think that's

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Speaker 10: what the Texans were looking for all offseason guy who

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Speaker 10: had the mindset to really dominate his opponents.

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Speaker 1: So let's talk touches and how the touches get spread around.

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Speaker 1: Last week, Davis threw forty five times, Niko got a

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Speaker 1: third of those targets, Schultz got eleven of those targets,

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Speaker 1: and then the rest were split up. The majority of

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Speaker 1: the rest were Jalen Noel, Jaydon Higgins. Running wise, Nick

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Speaker 1: Chubb had five carries and I think they all came

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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. Maybe there might have been one

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Speaker 1: or two earlier, but he had three or four of

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Speaker 1: them on that final drive. Wood, you got the lion's

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Speaker 1: share the carriers. Mark and I were talking about a

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Speaker 1: note we saw from the NFL that Texas are three

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Speaker 1: and oh Wood he has eighty plus scrimmage yards. So

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Speaker 1: is that a recipe? Do you think Jonathan for the

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Speaker 1: touches the rest of the year. How do you like

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Speaker 1: that mix? Did you think it worked? I mean, they

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Speaker 1: did finally get it together in the fourth quartery off,

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Speaker 1: it started really kind of clicking at that point. How

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Speaker 1: do you feel the touches are kind of dispersed amongst

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Speaker 1: the group that they have healthy right now?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think when dealing with the running back room,

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Speaker 10: I think you have to have what he Marks have

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Speaker 10: more touches than Nick Chubb simply because he can do

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Speaker 10: a little bit more, whether that's running in out of

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Speaker 10: the backfield or catching it. He's also more of an

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Speaker 10: explosive player. But I do think Nick Chubb does have

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Speaker 10: a benefit absolutely, and like you saw last week, even

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Speaker 10: when he played, he has some really good runs. He

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Speaker 10: was critical on that last drive as well, or it

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Speaker 10: was the second to last drive. But I do believe

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Speaker 10: that Woody Marks will probably continue to get the lion's

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Speaker 10: share of the carries, but they'll still implement Nick Chub.

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Speaker 11: I don't think he'll have five touches.

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Speaker 10: I think that was a little bit low for him,

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Speaker 10: but Woody Marx will still probably outgain him.

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Speaker 1: Let me throw another wrinkle into that, because Kate Stover

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Speaker 1: has returned to practice. Now, we don't know if we'll

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Speaker 1: see him Sunday, we'll see him Thursday, the following Sunday.

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Speaker 2: We don't know when we're going.

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Speaker 1: To see Kate Stover, but it does appear that we're

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Speaker 1: going to see Kate Stover.

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Speaker 2: Where do you think he kind of.

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Speaker 1: Fits not only amongst the touches, But what's his kind

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Speaker 1: of value to the offense when he comes back.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, they've been missing a solid tight end outside of

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Speaker 10: Dalton Shows all season, so I think he gives them

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Speaker 10: another blocking threat. He's one of their best run blocking

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Speaker 10: tight ends, probably their best. And then he also has

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Speaker 10: made strides in the receiving game, and he could be

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Speaker 10: another safety blanket for them. And the guy gives you

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Speaker 10: another option out there. So you know, he served as

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Speaker 10: a lead blocker sometimes during his rookie season, So he's

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Speaker 10: a do it all guy, and wherever you need him

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Speaker 10: to play, he's willing to do that. So you know,

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Speaker 10: I expect case Over probably to be all over the

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Speaker 10: place when he's.

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Speaker 11: Ready to play.

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Speaker 3: Jonathan and Alexander from The Chronicle joining us Jonathan nick Kelly,

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Speaker 3: we've seen progress. He called a good game against the

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Speaker 3: Jacksonville Jaguars, no doubt with Davis Mills hadn't started the

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Speaker 3: game in almost three years, all of that stuff. So

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Speaker 3: is this learning on the fly somebody who's never been

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Speaker 3: a play caller before, just getting better as the season

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Speaker 3: goes on, knowing what he has to work with, getting

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Speaker 3: used to things.

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Speaker 2: How do you see it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 11: And he talked about that.

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Speaker 10: You know, he's getting more reps, so that helps him

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Speaker 10: get acclimated. It was always gonna he was always going

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Speaker 10: to have growing pains as a first time play caller,

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Speaker 10: you know. I you know, initially thought that the Texans

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Speaker 10: were going to probably lean on somebody a little bit

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Speaker 10: with more experience after Bobby Slowock. But you know, they

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Speaker 10: chose Nick Kelly because they felt like he was, you know,

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Speaker 10: the best candidate for them. And you know, if they

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Speaker 10: do exercise patience, which it seems like that might be

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Speaker 10: the direction they're going, you can only expect Nick Kayley

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Speaker 10: to get better as the season goes on. That would

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Speaker 10: be better if he had all of his weapons, his

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Speaker 10: best players, but right now they have to play with

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Speaker 10: what they have.

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Speaker 1: Ironically, the Texans gave up their most points defensively, said

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Speaker 1: it air quotes to the Jacksonville Jaguars. But they got

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Speaker 1: a field going a short field after a turnover, they

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Speaker 1: got a seven on a after a fumble on a kickoff,

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Speaker 1: they got a seven on a punt return, So technically

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Speaker 1: they gave up about fifteen points. I think is where

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Speaker 1: I settled on defensively. And then Danielle Hunter showed up. Yeah, Jonathan,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I've seen a defensive end and

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Speaker 1: this an edge player in this building do what he

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Speaker 1: did on Sunday. You're not gonna He's not gonna get

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Speaker 1: three and a half sacks every single weekend. He's been

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Speaker 1: playing well, he just hasn't had that sack day like

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Speaker 1: he had the other day. But if he gets playing

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Speaker 1: at that level and he's producing the sacks and you

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Speaker 1: got Will on the other side, where is this? Where

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Speaker 1: can this defense go? Bill's Chiefs their upcoming How important

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Speaker 1: does the Niels play become with obviously this we against

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Speaker 1: the Titans, not till too far ahead, but then games

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Speaker 1: Bill's Colts Chiefs, how important is it that he plays

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Speaker 1: at that high level sack level against them?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean it's critical.

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Speaker 10: And this is an ideal game that you want to

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Speaker 10: pay play before leading up to that Bills game because

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Speaker 10: cam Moore does tend to hold on to the ball,

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Speaker 10: so they will be opportunities for sas there. But you know,

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Speaker 10: before these last few games, the Texans hadn't had many sacks.

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Speaker 10: They were middle of the road type of team in sacks,

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Speaker 10: which was, you know, down from where they were last year.

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Speaker 10: I think they were top three in the league last

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Speaker 10: year in sacks. So you know, it's almost kind of

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Speaker 10: like what Davis Mill said, you know, shoot or shoot,

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Speaker 10: and once you get a couple of baskets in, like

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Speaker 10: Danil got a couple of sex in. He was you know,

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Speaker 10: he just started, he took off and he was on fire.

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Speaker 10: And I think that that's gonna have to continue to

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Speaker 10: happen if the Texans want to continue, you know, to

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Speaker 10: beat these top teams because a lot of these teams

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Speaker 10: have a lot of offensive firepower. Got some MVP candidates

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Speaker 10: coming up in Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes and Jonathan Taylor,

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Speaker 10: So yeah, they're gonna Danil Hunter and Will Anderson are

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Speaker 10: gonna be necessary.

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Speaker 2: Jonathan.

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Speaker 3: The playoff picture, I hate to bring it up because

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Speaker 3: we got a long way to go, but you'd love

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Speaker 3: to be part of this picture. Texans in the hunt

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Speaker 3: right now, and if the playoffs began this weekend, the Chiefs, Texans,

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Speaker 3: Ravens would all be out. But what are your thoughts

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Speaker 3: on the playoff prospects here coming down the stretch and

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Speaker 3: the Colts, who have eight wins going into the by

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00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 3: If the Texans win this game Sunday. They're three behind

1308
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 3: in D and they play them twice. So you're saying

1309
00:57:57,320 --> 00:57:59,520
Speaker 3: as a chance, But what are your thoughts on the

1310
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:01,400
Speaker 3: division in the playoffs in general?

1311
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:03,360
Speaker 2: Let's just project and have some fun.

1312
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:06,080
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean a lot of those teams in the

1313
00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 10: playoff hunt had some really good starts. And while I

1314
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:12,720
Speaker 10: see the Jaguars falling out of the hunt, I don't.

1315
00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:14,800
Speaker 10: I don't believe they'll make the playoffs. I think the

1316
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 10: Chiefs will usurp them. It's gonna be tough process, and

1317
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:20,080
Speaker 10: I think the Texans have to win a lot of

1318
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 10: these games to catch up to these teams like the Chargers,

1319
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 10: you know, I think have six wins already. You know,

1320
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:31,880
Speaker 10: I see the Broncos winning their division. Somebody's gonna win

1321
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 10: the AFC North, whether that's the Ravens or the Steelers.

1322
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:38,880
Speaker 10: So it's gonna be tough, you know, trying to get

1323
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 10: into that playoff race, and the Texans is going to

1324
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:44,560
Speaker 10: have to win these critical games down to stretch against

1325
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 10: the Bills, Chiefs and the Colts if they want to

1326
00:58:46,880 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 10: make it. And you know, I think, if you know,

1327
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 10: Davis Mills is holding them above water right now as

1328
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:55,720
Speaker 10: he should. He's certainly capable of that. But you're gonna

1329
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 10: need your best weapons like CJ. Stroud down the stretch

1330
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:00,520
Speaker 10: if you want to pull off somebody wins.

1331
00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:05,640
Speaker 1: So right now, the Colts lead the South, the Patriots

1332
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:11,040
Speaker 1: lead the East, the Steelers lead the North, the Broncos

1333
00:59:12,160 --> 00:59:17,240
Speaker 1: lead the West. Of those four right now, how many

1334
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:20,720
Speaker 1: of them would you say will end up winning the

1335
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 1: division that they lead at this point, at essentially the

1336
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:25,240
Speaker 1: halfway mark of the season.

1337
00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think three of them will win. The Coles

1338
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:32,840
Speaker 10: are gonna They're too far ahead right now for anybody

1339
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:36,320
Speaker 10: to really catch up to them, or anybody realistic. I

1340
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 10: think the Steelers are gonna bottom out like they normally

1341
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:40,880
Speaker 10: do towards the end of the one. And now you

1342
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 10: got a healthy Lamar Jackson, who is you know playing well?

1343
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 10: They got what three game winning street yep uh so,

1344
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:50,680
Speaker 10: and the others. I think the Broncos, you know, I

1345
00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:53,880
Speaker 10: think the Chargers are good. I don't think that they're

1346
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:56,280
Speaker 10: better than the Broncos, though, and they're dealing with some

1347
00:59:56,320 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 10: really major injuries over there, so yeah. But and I

1348
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:03,240
Speaker 10: think the Patriots are going to surprise the Bills. I

1349
01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:06,320
Speaker 10: think they're gonna keep they have easy schedule obviously, and

1350
01:00:06,400 --> 01:00:09,640
Speaker 10: I think they're going to keep that AFC North No.

1351
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 11: East lead over the Bills, I.

1352
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:13,280
Speaker 2: Mean the Patriots.

1353
01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 1: I'm sorry the Bills have got the Bucks this week

1354
01:00:16,200 --> 01:00:17,560
Speaker 1: then US on a Thursday night.

1355
01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:21,800
Speaker 2: I mean, it could be two l's for the Bills. Yes,

1356
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:25,440
Speaker 2: let's hope that's the case. Jonathan doing what you do.

1357
01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:29,040
Speaker 3: I'm thinking of AJ Brown and if you cover the Eagles,

1358
01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 3: I mean you have to be at his locker every

1359
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 3: time he's there talking, right, you have to be there.

1360
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 3: Give me a couple of Texans who are the best

1361
01:00:36,560 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 3: quotes on this team, maybe at their locker, not at

1362
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:43,200
Speaker 3: the podium necessarily, but you feel like, oh so and

1363
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:43,920
Speaker 3: so is talking.

1364
01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:45,160
Speaker 2: I better be over there.

1365
01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:47,440
Speaker 3: And look, AJ Brown is a unique case because you

1366
01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:50,040
Speaker 3: know it's gonna be something negative. Maybe let's go to

1367
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:53,360
Speaker 3: Jameis Winston in New York starting for the Giants. He

1368
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:56,440
Speaker 3: might sing Hamilton. You never know, So give me a

1369
01:00:56,440 --> 01:00:58,320
Speaker 3: texted or two that you don't want to miss. When

1370
01:00:58,320 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 3: you're in the locker room.

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01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:02,640
Speaker 10: You definitely know I want to miss Easel because you

1372
01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:05,200
Speaker 10: know whatever he's gonna say is gonna be profound. I mean,

1373
01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:08,240
Speaker 10: he might not give you like trash talking fodder. But

1374
01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:11,840
Speaker 10: whatever he says, it means something because he definitely has

1375
01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:14,480
Speaker 10: a post to this team, very thoughtful in his words.

1376
01:01:14,720 --> 01:01:16,720
Speaker 10: Somebody who might talk a little trash that might give

1377
01:01:16,720 --> 01:01:19,880
Speaker 10: you a little something. It's tim subtle Junior. Okay, yeah, yeah,

1378
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:25,320
Speaker 10: he has that personality. Hell, he has confidence in his

1379
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:28,560
Speaker 10: teammates and everybody around him. And then last, I think

1380
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 10: if you can catch him, is Kamari Lassiter. I think

1381
01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 10: he's a really good quote machine, and you know when

1382
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:37,680
Speaker 10: he's talking, you want to catch him as well.

1383
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:38,160
Speaker 2: And C. J.

1384
01:01:38,280 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 3: Gardner Johnson no longer with the team, otherwise he would

1385
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:40,960
Speaker 3: have been on the phone.

1386
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:45,320
Speaker 10: Oh absolutely absolutely. He's in that same treat with AJ Brown.

1387
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:48,560
Speaker 1: Okay, so you've covered you cover the Panthers for a

1388
01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:52,080
Speaker 1: little bit. Who would you say, just throughout your career,

1389
01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:54,560
Speaker 1: who would you say is the all time best athlete

1390
01:01:54,560 --> 01:01:57,280
Speaker 1: that you've had an opportunity to cover as it pertains

1391
01:01:57,280 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 1: to dealing with the media, dealing with you.

1392
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:03,200
Speaker 11: Oh like, who's like the most accessible player.

1393
01:02:03,920 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 3: Just over the years, Who's that one person you're looking

1394
01:02:06,240 --> 01:02:08,880
Speaker 3: for the juiciest cut or something.

1395
01:02:09,680 --> 01:02:13,720
Speaker 11: I would say like Johnathan Gernard real JG. Yeah, JG.

1396
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:14,479
Speaker 11: He was great.

1397
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:19,120
Speaker 2: You know he was I mean still live, he was

1398
01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:20,960
Speaker 2: what he was here well, I mean he's in Minnesota.

1399
01:02:21,040 --> 01:02:21,920
Speaker 2: It's hard to know.

1400
01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:24,479
Speaker 10: He was always gonna tell the truth, always give the real,

1401
01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:28,720
Speaker 10: always accessible. He was probably the best. But there's some

1402
01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:31,160
Speaker 10: close guys in here, like because he's as close too.

1403
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 11: But JG definitely.

1404
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:35,080
Speaker 2: Jonathan, What do you have going on? In the chronicle for.

1405
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:39,919
Speaker 10: Us recently wrote a story on Justin Britt obviously played

1406
01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:43,200
Speaker 10: here twenty two and two and his journey back and

1407
01:02:43,280 --> 01:02:47,600
Speaker 10: how he found peace after his bout with depression at

1408
01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:49,240
Speaker 10: the latter part of his NFL career.

1409
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:51,280
Speaker 11: Okay, so a story on mental health.

1410
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:54,640
Speaker 2: It's very nice to check it out. Thanks a lot

1411
01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:55,920
Speaker 2: for joining us, Thanks for having me.

1412
01:02:56,120 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 1: I haven't had a chance to read that article yet,

1413
01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:01,040
Speaker 1: but man, it sounds absolutely amazing. I think a lot

1414
01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:03,560
Speaker 1: of people have questions about what happened to Justin, and

1415
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:06,360
Speaker 1: so this story will be fantastic to read to catch up.

1416
01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:10,240
Speaker 1: I've I can't remember where I saw that there was

1417
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:13,240
Speaker 1: something about Justin. Maybe it was an article, maybe it

1418
01:03:13,280 --> 01:03:16,200
Speaker 1: was a podcast or something. Just recently so he kind

1419
01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:18,680
Speaker 1: of alluded to this and so Jonathan Alexander taking it

1420
01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:21,320
Speaker 1: a step further. I think this is absolutely a fantastic

1421
01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:24,600
Speaker 1: story to tell about guys that I think a lot

1422
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:29,120
Speaker 1: of times we think about as can you know, just Superman,

1423
01:03:29,240 --> 01:03:32,440
Speaker 1: they can handle everything, depression, mental health issues.

1424
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:35,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, they're humans too, man.

1425
01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:36,520
Speaker 1: I could promise you there have been a lot of

1426
01:03:36,520 --> 01:03:39,200
Speaker 1: guys over the years that have dealt with issues similar

1427
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:40,840
Speaker 1: to what Justin did, but they didn't get to help.

1428
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 1: And hopefully Justin got the help. And that'll be a

1429
01:03:43,600 --> 01:03:47,000
Speaker 1: great article to read by Jonathan Alexander. Okay, coming up

1430
01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:50,760
Speaker 1: next Chris Myers. He's gonna call the game on Fox.

1431
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:53,600
Speaker 1: He is one hell of a story. Mark caught up

1432
01:03:53,640 --> 01:03:56,680
Speaker 1: with him and talked about his broadcasting career about the

1433
01:03:56,680 --> 01:03:58,560
Speaker 1: game on Sunday. There's a lot of great stuff here

1434
01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:02,440
Speaker 1: with Chris Myers from Fox. Up next on Texans All

1435
01:04:02,440 --> 01:04:07,080
Speaker 1: Axis on Sunday afternoon, Fox Sports will be calling the

1436
01:04:07,120 --> 01:04:11,160
Speaker 1: Titans Texans matchup in Nashville, and that means you'll get

1437
01:04:11,200 --> 01:04:16,120
Speaker 1: analysts Mark Schlaret and play by play man Chris Myers.

1438
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:20,960
Speaker 1: Myers has done so much in his career and Mark

1439
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:23,400
Speaker 1: had an opportunity to sit down and chat with him.

1440
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:26,000
Speaker 1: About this game, some of the things he's done, some

1441
01:04:26,040 --> 01:04:28,320
Speaker 1: good stuff with Chris Myers right here from Fox.

1442
01:04:28,960 --> 01:04:31,640
Speaker 3: Chris Myers with us on Texans Radio. On the Call

1443
01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:35,560
Speaker 3: on Fox with Mark Schleret on Sunday afternoon Texans Titans. Chris,

1444
01:04:35,760 --> 01:04:39,280
Speaker 3: I want to start here everything you've done in the business,

1445
01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:42,640
Speaker 3: all your accomplishments, Emmys, et cetera. How is it for

1446
01:04:42,720 --> 01:04:46,000
Speaker 3: you calling NFL games on Fox on a Sunday afternoon.

1447
01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:50,040
Speaker 4: Well, that's the rush. I have to tell you. This

1448
01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:53,000
Speaker 4: is no reflection on any of the other sports, because

1449
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:57,280
Speaker 4: I'm a year round sports junkie as a fan, and

1450
01:04:57,320 --> 01:04:59,480
Speaker 4: that's kind of how I grew up at a certain age.

1451
01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:02,320
Speaker 4: But the was what was in my roots. I mean,

1452
01:05:02,320 --> 01:05:05,360
Speaker 4: that's the first thing that really caught my attention as

1453
01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:08,600
Speaker 4: a child on television and really kind of turned my

1454
01:05:08,720 --> 01:05:13,480
Speaker 4: world into hey boy, there's the competition, the fandom part

1455
01:05:13,520 --> 01:05:16,800
Speaker 4: of it. So that's where it all began for me

1456
01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:19,400
Speaker 4: and that has never left me. And even though I've

1457
01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:21,280
Speaker 4: had to do a lot of different things from years

1458
01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:24,200
Speaker 4: of ESPN to now Fox and then locally having worked

1459
01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:26,960
Speaker 4: in Miami and New Orleans before, but it was always

1460
01:05:27,480 --> 01:05:31,200
Speaker 4: NFL driven covering a team there, and so that's the

1461
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:34,520
Speaker 4: rush for me. And I've covered seventh games of World

1462
01:05:34,640 --> 01:05:37,600
Speaker 4: Series and the Indy five hundred, hosting that in the

1463
01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:41,720
Speaker 4: Daytona five hundred, But to call, you know, and obviously

1464
01:05:41,800 --> 01:05:43,600
Speaker 4: keep being a reporter on a Super Bowl, a number

1465
01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:46,000
Speaker 4: of Super Bowls at Fox, including the Tom Brady great

1466
01:05:46,040 --> 01:05:49,400
Speaker 4: comeback against Atlanta and being on that sideline and bringing

1467
01:05:49,400 --> 01:05:52,320
Speaker 4: it to the country, to the nation watching. But still

1468
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:54,680
Speaker 4: nothing beats And it doesn't even matter if what the

1469
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:57,280
Speaker 4: teams are. They can be both undefeated, they could be

1470
01:05:57,320 --> 01:05:59,920
Speaker 4: both winless. But the rush of calling an NFL game,

1471
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:02,000
Speaker 4: It's a long winded answer, Mark, but I think it

1472
01:06:02,360 --> 01:06:05,720
Speaker 4: still excites me as much as anything in sports to

1473
01:06:06,080 --> 01:06:08,160
Speaker 4: do that after all these years, and I hope it

1474
01:06:08,200 --> 01:06:11,720
Speaker 4: never leaves me because you can prepare and you can

1475
01:06:11,800 --> 01:06:13,880
Speaker 4: have your own thoughts, but then it plays out and

1476
01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:16,480
Speaker 4: it's always so unpredictable, at least for the most part,

1477
01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:17,480
Speaker 4: and that makes it exciting.

1478
01:06:17,880 --> 01:06:19,640
Speaker 3: Okay, that being said, give us one or two of

1479
01:06:19,640 --> 01:06:22,920
Speaker 3: the best games you've seen this year in person.

1480
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:24,720
Speaker 4: Well that's a good Well, I did you know most

1481
01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:27,920
Speaker 4: recently we went in saying, ah, this doesn't look look

1482
01:06:28,040 --> 01:06:31,920
Speaker 4: like much. It was the Jags playing the Raiders in Vegas,

1483
01:06:31,960 --> 01:06:34,160
Speaker 4: and you know, the Raiders were struggling, but it was

1484
01:06:34,160 --> 01:06:37,880
Speaker 4: the return of Brock Hours and he had an incredible

1485
01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:41,600
Speaker 4: game over one hundred yards the Raiders. We had a

1486
01:06:41,640 --> 01:06:45,040
Speaker 4: record sixty eight yard field goal NFL record by Cam Little.

1487
01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:48,640
Speaker 4: Raiders came back. Jacks came back actually to tie the

1488
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:51,640
Speaker 4: game and force overtime. And in overtime, the Raiders move

1489
01:06:52,280 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 4: downfield and get the touchdown and instead of playing for

1490
01:06:56,080 --> 01:06:58,400
Speaker 4: the tie with just a few minutes left in overtime,

1491
01:06:59,120 --> 01:07:01,680
Speaker 4: they go for two and Gino Smith his pass is

1492
01:07:01,760 --> 01:07:03,800
Speaker 4: bad and he had he had Tyler Lockett, one of

1493
01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:06,560
Speaker 4: their newer additions, a receiver open in the end zone

1494
01:07:06,600 --> 01:07:07,040
Speaker 4: for the win.

1495
01:07:07,560 --> 01:07:07,760
Speaker 2: Uh.

1496
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:10,760
Speaker 4: And so that's the kind of excitement, uh that that

1497
01:07:10,840 --> 01:07:12,320
Speaker 4: you go into a game, you know, think you know,

1498
01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:14,440
Speaker 4: this will happen, that will happen. And to me that

1499
01:07:14,640 --> 01:07:16,360
Speaker 4: it was just you know, it was a wild ride

1500
01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:18,960
Speaker 4: and the first half was practically scoreless. It was one

1501
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:21,680
Speaker 4: of those one of those kinds of games. But you had,

1502
01:07:21,920 --> 01:07:25,160
Speaker 4: you know, some stars step up, Max Crosby and and

1503
01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:28,640
Speaker 4: obviously in Jacksonville, Trevor Lawrence had some key plays. So

1504
01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:30,720
Speaker 4: those that that that's the kind of thing I think

1505
01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:32,360
Speaker 4: that that gives me a rush. So that was that

1506
01:07:32,480 --> 01:07:35,520
Speaker 4: was recent, and then I'm trying to think of, uh,

1507
01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:37,560
Speaker 4: some of the others. You know, we had a game

1508
01:07:38,160 --> 01:07:42,840
Speaker 4: play they kind of you know, run together recent recently

1509
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:45,680
Speaker 4: calling I've had some Seattle games. We had we had

1510
01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:48,760
Speaker 4: a Seattle game with Jacksonville, uh, and and got to

1511
01:07:48,840 --> 01:07:52,240
Speaker 4: look at that that defense in in Seattle and that's

1512
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:54,920
Speaker 4: when the Jags were rolling a little bit earlier. Seems

1513
01:07:54,920 --> 01:07:56,720
Speaker 4: like that I did have a coach game too, where

1514
01:07:56,720 --> 01:07:58,720
Speaker 4: they I gotta I gotta look at there. Even though

1515
01:07:58,720 --> 01:08:01,760
Speaker 4: it was a lopsided game, I think the I was

1516
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:05,480
Speaker 4: so impressed with how that team came together behind Daniel Jones. So,

1517
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:07,360
Speaker 4: you know, those are the kinds of things through the

1518
01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:10,000
Speaker 4: course of the season. I think that's what I mean.

1519
01:08:10,120 --> 01:08:12,840
Speaker 4: And our broadcast crew teases me because they say, Chris,

1520
01:08:12,880 --> 01:08:14,760
Speaker 4: you always root for overtime, and said, well, yeah, but

1521
01:08:14,880 --> 01:08:17,640
Speaker 4: guess that means that we had a close game, that

1522
01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:19,920
Speaker 4: both both teams were in it, their fan base are

1523
01:08:19,960 --> 01:08:22,240
Speaker 4: in it, and then and then somebody ends up winning it.

1524
01:08:22,280 --> 01:08:24,160
Speaker 4: And I had this corny slogan mark that I I've

1525
01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:26,160
Speaker 4: had ever since I got into the business. And you know,

1526
01:08:26,240 --> 01:08:27,920
Speaker 4: every night it's the Super Bowl. And by that, I

1527
01:08:27,960 --> 01:08:30,040
Speaker 4: you know, whether whether it was covered a high school story,

1528
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:33,679
Speaker 4: locally on a football team, or or calling an NFL game,

1529
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:36,040
Speaker 4: it's important to the people who were there, who were

1530
01:08:36,040 --> 01:08:38,280
Speaker 4: in it, who were watching it, and and that that's

1531
01:08:38,360 --> 01:08:41,720
Speaker 4: kind of what keeps me excited about whatever the matchup is.

1532
01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:44,600
Speaker 3: Chris, give us some of your background information. I know

1533
01:08:44,680 --> 01:08:48,080
Speaker 3: you worked in South Florida at w k AT radio.

1534
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:49,320
Speaker 3: Are you from down there?

1535
01:08:49,920 --> 01:08:52,599
Speaker 4: Yes, I was born in North Miami. He actually grew

1536
01:08:52,640 --> 01:08:56,160
Speaker 4: up in Hollywood, Florida, and went to Shamanad which is

1537
01:08:56,320 --> 01:09:00,479
Speaker 4: now Shamanad Madonna. It's a very now prominent private school.

1538
01:09:00,479 --> 01:09:02,680
Speaker 4: I was not much of an athlete, backup quarterback, but

1539
01:09:03,080 --> 01:09:05,799
Speaker 4: I went to school. In my class and we were friends,

1540
01:09:05,960 --> 01:09:09,479
Speaker 4: was Dave Shula, who was the son, one of the

1541
01:09:09,479 --> 01:09:12,679
Speaker 4: sons along with Mike Shula, of the great Dolphin coach

1542
01:09:12,760 --> 01:09:16,599
Speaker 4: Don Shula, who later Dave went on to coach the Bengals.

1543
01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:18,919
Speaker 4: And so that's you know that that kind of fueled

1544
01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:23,040
Speaker 4: my NFL passion. When I got into radio as a teenager,

1545
01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:25,599
Speaker 4: I was actually fifteen and had my own sports talk

1546
01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:27,960
Speaker 4: show on Saturdays at age sixteen while I was still

1547
01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:30,240
Speaker 4: still at high school. So that's kind of where the

1548
01:09:30,320 --> 01:09:33,760
Speaker 4: roots began. And then I got into local television, and

1549
01:09:34,400 --> 01:09:36,639
Speaker 4: you know, you go from there to try to try

1550
01:09:36,680 --> 01:09:39,120
Speaker 4: to keep keep fueling your sports passion.

1551
01:09:39,479 --> 01:09:43,400
Speaker 3: Dave went on to run their steakhouse empire, right, Yes, yeah.

1552
01:09:43,160 --> 01:09:45,240
Speaker 4: He used to. He just stepped away from that, and

1553
01:09:45,280 --> 01:09:49,200
Speaker 4: I think he's with the Dartmouth alumni where he obviously

1554
01:09:49,280 --> 01:09:52,679
Speaker 4: went to college, whether he's assisting on the coaching staff

1555
01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:57,160
Speaker 4: or in the athletic department. But his son, Chris Shula,

1556
01:09:57,280 --> 01:10:01,479
Speaker 4: has become a very good defensive court nator of the

1557
01:10:01,479 --> 01:10:05,639
Speaker 4: Los Angeles Rams for Sean McVeigh, and that's that's wild

1558
01:10:05,680 --> 01:10:08,200
Speaker 4: to maybe. So he's the grandson, of course of Don Shula,

1559
01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:10,280
Speaker 4: and I think Chris Shula, believe it or not, has

1560
01:10:10,680 --> 01:10:12,840
Speaker 4: has some real skills to become even though he's on

1561
01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:15,519
Speaker 4: the defensive side of the ball now a future head

1562
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:16,559
Speaker 4: coach in the NFL.

1563
01:10:17,160 --> 01:10:20,559
Speaker 3: Did I read somewhere that you once interviewed Muhammad Ali

1564
01:10:20,640 --> 01:10:21,320
Speaker 3: tell us about that.

1565
01:10:21,720 --> 01:10:24,759
Speaker 4: Yes, that was my very one of the very first

1566
01:10:24,800 --> 01:10:30,040
Speaker 4: interviews as kind of an assistant in high school to

1567
01:10:30,120 --> 01:10:33,120
Speaker 4: the sports director of w k AT radio and in

1568
01:10:33,200 --> 01:10:37,080
Speaker 4: Miami and Muhammed Ali was having a press conference this

1569
01:10:37,120 --> 01:10:39,519
Speaker 4: is a very late seventies at the Fountain Blue Hotel

1570
01:10:39,560 --> 01:10:41,880
Speaker 4: in Miami Beach, and I was I was, I think

1571
01:10:41,880 --> 01:10:46,240
Speaker 4: in my humanities class in Hollywood, Florida, Shamanada. And so

1572
01:10:46,400 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 4: they got word to me on my lunch break because

1573
01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:50,920
Speaker 4: she didn't have, you know, cell phones at that time,

1574
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:52,679
Speaker 4: but they were like, hey, could you call the office.

1575
01:10:52,720 --> 01:10:56,000
Speaker 4: I checked with the sports director. I said, hey, we

1576
01:10:56,080 --> 01:10:58,120
Speaker 4: you know, we need somebody over to the press conference

1577
01:10:58,160 --> 01:10:59,280
Speaker 4: where Muhammad Ali is.

1578
01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:00,360
Speaker 5: Can you go over there?

1579
01:11:00,360 --> 01:11:02,080
Speaker 4: And I said, well, I'm in school, but the teacher

1580
01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:04,800
Speaker 4: let me out early. Uh, And I drove over with

1581
01:11:04,840 --> 01:11:07,519
Speaker 4: my big tape recorder and as a long haired, you know,

1582
01:11:07,640 --> 01:11:10,560
Speaker 4: teenager in the seventies, uh jumped in and had a

1583
01:11:10,600 --> 01:11:15,120
Speaker 4: few questions with him about his his upcoming fight and uh,

1584
01:11:15,520 --> 01:11:18,400
Speaker 4: he you know, he joked. Of course, she said, you know, uh,

1585
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:20,519
Speaker 4: you know, you're no fool. You should be in school,

1586
01:11:20,560 --> 01:11:22,200
Speaker 4: and you're not as dumb as you look. You know,

1587
01:11:22,240 --> 01:11:23,880
Speaker 4: he had he had the crowd working. It was one

1588
01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:25,920
Speaker 4: of those kinds of things. But it was a great

1589
01:11:25,960 --> 01:11:28,360
Speaker 4: experience because after that I thought, Wow, and then I

1590
01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:30,800
Speaker 4: realized at the moment, you know who we were, who

1591
01:11:30,840 --> 01:11:32,640
Speaker 4: we were talking to, and they ran the interview on

1592
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:35,880
Speaker 4: the on the radio, his sports director's radio show. It's

1593
01:11:35,920 --> 01:11:39,920
Speaker 4: eventually what got me the weekend show, UH later doing

1594
01:11:40,040 --> 01:11:43,240
Speaker 4: doing radio and w K at Camp the ky and

1595
01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:45,479
Speaker 4: in Miami. So after that and then of course you

1596
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:47,920
Speaker 4: know anybody else I interviewed, was like, okay, well if

1597
01:11:47,920 --> 01:11:50,280
Speaker 4: I if you talk to the greatest right that I think,

1598
01:11:50,360 --> 01:11:52,160
Speaker 4: I think you could, you should be able to handle

1599
01:11:52,160 --> 01:11:55,120
Speaker 4: anybody after that. It was a really crazy experience when

1600
01:11:55,120 --> 01:11:57,200
Speaker 4: I look back at it, and Mark, I do talk

1601
01:11:57,240 --> 01:11:59,519
Speaker 4: about not to plug my book, but it's it's called

1602
01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:02,160
Speaker 4: that deserves a while, and it talks a little bit

1603
01:12:02,200 --> 01:12:05,120
Speaker 4: about me becoming and I've spoken for some colleges and

1604
01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:08,880
Speaker 4: broadcast universities about this with students becoming a broadcaster and

1605
01:12:08,880 --> 01:12:10,960
Speaker 4: then covering some of the events that I think that

1606
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:14,000
Speaker 4: you've you've asked about. And I think we're all shaped,

1607
01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:17,479
Speaker 4: even Hugh calling games by our background in terms of yes,

1608
01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:20,519
Speaker 4: we have a professional code, but certain influences help us

1609
01:12:20,520 --> 01:12:23,840
Speaker 4: handle certain situations, and that certainly was one of them.

1610
01:12:24,160 --> 01:12:25,880
Speaker 1: That was awesome to catch up with Chris Myers. He

1611
01:12:25,880 --> 01:12:28,920
Speaker 1: has done so much in his career. Mike Mark gets

1612
01:12:28,960 --> 01:12:30,920
Speaker 1: into a lot of that. So check out our podcast

1613
01:12:30,960 --> 01:12:33,880
Speaker 1: page you can hear that full interview with Chris Myers.

1614
01:12:33,880 --> 01:12:36,640
Speaker 1: Would be good to hear him once I watched the

1615
01:12:36,680 --> 01:12:39,280
Speaker 1: game back, because you know who's gonna be calling the game,

1616
01:12:39,320 --> 01:12:41,559
Speaker 1: because we're gonna be busy, Mark, Andre and myself take

1617
01:12:41,600 --> 01:12:44,080
Speaker 1: the broadcast for you starting at noon. You got Sean

1618
01:12:44,120 --> 01:12:46,120
Speaker 1: and Seth kicking off the pre game at nine. Then

1619
01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:48,880
Speaker 1: you got Clinton Sean after we finished the game and

1620
01:12:48,920 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 1: hopefully were talking about win.

1621
01:12:49,920 --> 01:12:52,439
Speaker 2: Number five for your Texas.

1622
01:12:52,520 --> 01:12:55,400
Speaker 1: Now to get there, one man plays a huge role,

1623
01:12:55,479 --> 01:12:58,360
Speaker 1: and that of course is Demiko Ryans. And well, I

1624
01:12:58,360 --> 01:13:00,320
Speaker 1: want a feel good on a Friday, and that we

1625
01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:02,080
Speaker 1: need to catch up with the Miko on a feel

1626
01:13:02,160 --> 01:13:06,360
Speaker 1: good Friday next on Texans All Access. We got one

1627
01:13:06,400 --> 01:13:09,000
Speaker 1: final segment this Friday edition of Texans All Access from

1628
01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:12,000
Speaker 1: the Hundai Texans Radio studio. I'm your host, John Harris

1629
01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:15,120
Speaker 1: Football and on the sideline reporter for your Houston Texans,

1630
01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:17,400
Speaker 1: and we all want to feel good on a Friday, right,

1631
01:13:17,920 --> 01:13:21,840
Speaker 1: less than forty eight hours away from Titans me Texans right, Well,

1632
01:13:21,920 --> 01:13:23,680
Speaker 1: there's one way to do it, and that is with

1633
01:13:23,840 --> 01:13:27,680
Speaker 1: our guide to Meco Ryans to feel good Friday with

1634
01:13:27,800 --> 01:13:31,200
Speaker 1: the head coach himself to meet go Ryans right here.

1635
01:13:31,600 --> 01:13:34,840
Speaker 2: In studio with US head coach Tamiko Ryan's coach. Congratulations,

1636
01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:35,439
Speaker 2: great to see.

1637
01:13:35,360 --> 01:13:36,800
Speaker 5: Him, Great to see you guys. Thank you.

1638
01:13:37,080 --> 01:13:40,120
Speaker 3: Big week with the Titans coming up. But let's review

1639
01:13:40,160 --> 01:13:42,280
Speaker 3: everything about the win over Jacksonville. Do you have two

1640
01:13:42,360 --> 01:13:45,559
Speaker 3: or three hours? Maybe we don't have that long, but

1641
01:13:45,680 --> 01:13:48,439
Speaker 3: that was a sensational win. Can you just talk about

1642
01:13:48,479 --> 01:13:52,160
Speaker 3: the comeback trail a little bit. Everybody's spirits lifted with

1643
01:13:52,280 --> 01:13:53,559
Speaker 3: each play that went down.

1644
01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:54,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure.

1645
01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:57,960
Speaker 6: It was so many guys making some impact plays in

1646
01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:00,800
Speaker 6: the game. And I think the play there in the

1647
01:14:00,840 --> 01:14:03,679
Speaker 6: fourth court that sparked it for us when Davids connected

1648
01:14:03,720 --> 01:14:07,040
Speaker 6: with Jaden Higgins in the end zone. Like to see

1649
01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:09,240
Speaker 6: our guys get in the end zone again. I think

1650
01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:13,320
Speaker 6: that just uplifted our entire team and that confidence there, no, Okay,

1651
01:14:13,680 --> 01:14:16,639
Speaker 6: we can go score and we can go score again.

1652
01:14:16,680 --> 01:14:20,360
Speaker 6: And we did it with confidence. We were really driving

1653
01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:23,759
Speaker 6: the ball all day on their defense, so I felt

1654
01:14:23,760 --> 01:14:25,080
Speaker 6: confident in what we were doing.

1655
01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:26,559
Speaker 5: Thought Davis did a nice job.

1656
01:14:26,600 --> 01:14:29,640
Speaker 6: We ran the ball well, but it was just that

1657
01:14:29,640 --> 01:14:31,080
Speaker 6: that little dark cloud.

1658
01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:33,000
Speaker 5: Hovered over us of are they gonna score in the

1659
01:14:33,040 --> 01:14:33,639
Speaker 5: ret zone?

1660
01:14:34,200 --> 01:14:34,439
Speaker 4: Right?

1661
01:14:34,560 --> 01:14:36,640
Speaker 6: And we were able to do that right, and not

1662
01:14:36,680 --> 01:14:39,040
Speaker 6: only do it one time, but to do it, you know,

1663
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:43,400
Speaker 6: four times there with not after they play the Higgins,

1664
01:14:43,439 --> 01:14:46,920
Speaker 6: but Dalton making a huge I mean with a catch

1665
01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:48,639
Speaker 6: and for him to be able to get his feet

1666
01:14:48,680 --> 01:14:50,680
Speaker 6: in Nico on a two point convert. It was just

1667
01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:54,160
Speaker 6: so many big plays happening there in the end zone

1668
01:14:54,280 --> 01:14:58,640
Speaker 6: that were you know, that sparked our entire team to

1669
01:14:58,800 --> 01:15:01,920
Speaker 6: see that confidence. Then when the defense when they see

1670
01:15:01,960 --> 01:15:05,160
Speaker 6: the offense go score and I was like, okay, well we

1671
01:15:05,240 --> 01:15:07,040
Speaker 6: got to just get it three and out or take

1672
01:15:07,080 --> 01:15:09,400
Speaker 6: the ball, like just get it to them again, like

1673
01:15:09,439 --> 01:15:12,160
Speaker 6: they're rolling, they're hot, Like let's get the ball back

1674
01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:14,800
Speaker 6: to them. And the defense went out and they made

1675
01:15:14,880 --> 01:15:17,439
Speaker 6: plays at the critical times that it needed to make plays.

1676
01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:21,200
Speaker 1: Defense faced nine plays in the fourth quarter and the

1677
01:15:21,280 --> 01:15:23,880
Speaker 1: Jaguars game that much one yard.

1678
01:15:24,200 --> 01:15:27,200
Speaker 2: I mean, that's pretty impressive. So along those lines was incredible.

1679
01:15:27,200 --> 01:15:29,640
Speaker 1: So after they do all of that, you get the

1680
01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:31,200
Speaker 1: ball back at twenty nine to twenty four, you have

1681
01:15:31,280 --> 01:15:32,720
Speaker 1: that drive I want to go to the end of

1682
01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:35,800
Speaker 1: the drive and just ask you what you're feeling, what

1683
01:15:36,520 --> 01:15:40,559
Speaker 1: you're seeing. When Davis takes off in runs on third

1684
01:15:40,600 --> 01:15:43,479
Speaker 1: and goal from the fourteen, you still got to time out.

1685
01:15:44,200 --> 01:15:45,880
Speaker 1: I remember as he took off, I'm like, okay, he

1686
01:15:45,920 --> 01:15:47,599
Speaker 1: doesn't get in, Like, oh, it's going through my head.

1687
01:15:47,840 --> 01:15:49,720
Speaker 1: Well you don't get in, Okay, Well get bank time out,

1688
01:15:49,760 --> 01:15:50,599
Speaker 1: we'll see where we are.

1689
01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:52,519
Speaker 2: But then he gets in. What are you thinking when

1690
01:15:52,520 --> 01:15:53,519
Speaker 2: he takes off of that ball.

1691
01:15:54,240 --> 01:15:56,600
Speaker 6: I saw them drop in coverage, so it was like

1692
01:15:56,640 --> 01:15:59,880
Speaker 6: a max coverage. They were dropping off only rush four

1693
01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:02,880
Speaker 6: so and then they massed Woody as running back, and

1694
01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:05,240
Speaker 6: so the backer ended up running with him and he

1695
01:16:05,320 --> 01:16:07,200
Speaker 6: took off, and I was saying touchdown.

1696
01:16:07,479 --> 01:16:07,879
Speaker 5: Okay.

1697
01:16:08,040 --> 01:16:10,320
Speaker 6: I was saying, he's gonna get in, because when I

1698
01:16:10,360 --> 01:16:12,599
Speaker 6: seen the back or match Woody, it is like there's

1699
01:16:12,680 --> 01:16:15,080
Speaker 6: no one else got back to it left over there,

1700
01:16:15,160 --> 01:16:17,880
Speaker 6: and so I was just like, come on, please get in.

1701
01:16:18,320 --> 01:16:20,680
Speaker 6: And you know, for Davis that that was such a

1702
01:16:20,680 --> 01:16:24,360
Speaker 6: great decision by Davis just to not try to force

1703
01:16:24,400 --> 01:16:27,800
Speaker 6: the ball anywhere in that moment, to make the best

1704
01:16:27,840 --> 01:16:30,439
Speaker 6: decision and the best decision at that time. And it's

1705
01:16:30,439 --> 01:16:33,080
Speaker 6: always good in the red zone when the quarterback can scramble.

1706
01:16:33,439 --> 01:16:35,080
Speaker 6: There's not a great answer for that.

1707
01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:38,240
Speaker 3: Defensively, Mills is faster than a lot of people think,

1708
01:16:38,400 --> 01:16:40,720
Speaker 3: right because as he starts to run, I'm thinking, is

1709
01:16:40,720 --> 01:16:41,280
Speaker 3: he gonna make it?

1710
01:16:41,320 --> 01:16:43,320
Speaker 2: He's gonna make it. He dove for it. So what

1711
01:16:43,400 --> 01:16:45,080
Speaker 2: about mills speed? What have you seen there?

1712
01:16:45,120 --> 01:16:46,560
Speaker 5: Coach? Yeah, Davis is athletic.

1713
01:16:46,640 --> 01:16:49,280
Speaker 6: I mean I feel like he moved very well for

1714
01:16:49,320 --> 01:16:51,800
Speaker 6: a quarterback, and he did a great job of just

1715
01:16:51,840 --> 01:16:53,559
Speaker 6: on the keepers when we were getting him on the

1716
01:16:53,640 --> 01:16:56,720
Speaker 6: edge and QB movement plays. He's always done a great

1717
01:16:56,800 --> 01:16:58,960
Speaker 6: job with that, you know, in my mind, and you know,

1718
01:16:59,040 --> 01:17:02,040
Speaker 6: quarterbacks don't have to be extremely fast, just have to

1719
01:17:02,040 --> 01:17:02,800
Speaker 6: be fast enough.

1720
01:17:03,439 --> 01:17:03,679
Speaker 5: Right.

1721
01:17:03,840 --> 01:17:06,200
Speaker 3: It's backup quarterback kind of a weird job in that

1722
01:17:06,360 --> 01:17:09,040
Speaker 3: you have to prepare every week as if you're playing

1723
01:17:09,160 --> 01:17:11,840
Speaker 3: and you might never see the field. In fact, more

1724
01:17:11,880 --> 01:17:14,120
Speaker 3: often than not, you'll never see the field. So what

1725
01:17:14,200 --> 01:17:16,200
Speaker 3: about that mentality coach that goes into it?

1726
01:17:16,280 --> 01:17:19,559
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean backup quarterback, you're a coach, Like, really,

1727
01:17:19,640 --> 01:17:22,640
Speaker 6: you are a coach that can possibly get in we

1728
01:17:22,640 --> 01:17:26,519
Speaker 6: don't want to coach get it in the backup quarterback.

1729
01:17:26,600 --> 01:17:29,760
Speaker 6: You talk about preparation, like how much you have to

1730
01:17:29,800 --> 01:17:33,400
Speaker 6: be on it because you know you're not getting those

1731
01:17:33,439 --> 01:17:36,280
Speaker 6: reps in practice. You want the starting quarterback to get

1732
01:17:36,320 --> 01:17:39,720
Speaker 6: all the reps to make sure everything's in sync. And

1733
01:17:39,760 --> 01:17:42,639
Speaker 6: so you're over you're doing scout team reps. You're trying

1734
01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:45,559
Speaker 6: to make those work, make them as realistic as possible,

1735
01:17:45,760 --> 01:17:49,280
Speaker 6: but to actually go through the huddle, calls, the cadence, commands,

1736
01:17:49,760 --> 01:17:52,200
Speaker 6: changing protections at the line of scrimmage. It's a lot

1737
01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:55,600
Speaker 6: as a backup quarterback. You don't get the reps in

1738
01:17:55,680 --> 01:17:57,600
Speaker 6: the week, and then you're thrust into a game and

1739
01:17:57,640 --> 01:17:59,360
Speaker 6: you're expected to go do a great job.

1740
01:17:59,560 --> 01:17:59,680
Speaker 4: Well.

1741
01:17:59,680 --> 01:18:02,960
Speaker 6: I think that's where Dave is truly benefited from having

1742
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:05,439
Speaker 6: the week of preparation, and that's what I kind of

1743
01:18:05,439 --> 01:18:07,640
Speaker 6: talked about last week. Him having a full week of

1744
01:18:07,640 --> 01:18:10,800
Speaker 6: preparation allowed him to be in a position right to

1745
01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:12,080
Speaker 6: go and play a good game for us.

1746
01:18:12,120 --> 01:18:13,800
Speaker 1: I know we've talked a lot about Davis coach, but

1747
01:18:13,840 --> 01:18:15,800
Speaker 1: I said this to Mark today and get your thoughts

1748
01:18:15,840 --> 01:18:18,760
Speaker 1: on this. They punt us at twenty nine to twenty four,

1749
01:18:19,439 --> 01:18:20,719
Speaker 1: I think we have to ball out to seven.

1750
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:22,879
Speaker 2: So we went ninety three yards. Yes, we're at ball.

1751
01:18:22,800 --> 01:18:26,360
Speaker 1: To seven and third down and ten, he's got to

1752
01:18:26,400 --> 01:18:28,160
Speaker 1: back up into the end zone and he's got a

1753
01:18:28,160 --> 01:18:30,920
Speaker 1: couple guys bearing down and he hits Dalton on.

1754
01:18:30,760 --> 01:18:32,240
Speaker 2: That on that over route.

1755
01:18:32,920 --> 01:18:34,880
Speaker 1: I felt like when I told Mark, I said, I

1756
01:18:34,880 --> 01:18:36,960
Speaker 1: felt like at that point, like, Okay, something's in the

1757
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:39,680
Speaker 1: water today like that that play right there, getting us

1758
01:18:39,680 --> 01:18:43,120
Speaker 1: out of the shadow of our goalpost with time, I

1759
01:18:43,160 --> 01:18:44,639
Speaker 1: think we can do it right now.

1760
01:18:44,720 --> 01:18:46,439
Speaker 2: That seemed to be a big play to big throw

1761
01:18:46,680 --> 01:18:47,200
Speaker 2: your thoughts.

1762
01:18:47,040 --> 01:18:48,680
Speaker 6: About that third I was saying, I don't know if

1763
01:18:48,720 --> 01:18:50,400
Speaker 6: I said I think that's the play of the game.

1764
01:18:51,680 --> 01:18:54,559
Speaker 6: I mean, because we had two plays there that we

1765
01:18:54,600 --> 01:18:58,280
Speaker 6: didn't get any any cars and for us, that third

1766
01:18:58,320 --> 01:19:00,800
Speaker 6: down played to Dalton, that was the play of the game,

1767
01:19:01,160 --> 01:19:04,519
Speaker 6: really get us going, get the drive moving. And I

1768
01:19:04,560 --> 01:19:06,720
Speaker 6: had to look back at it again this morning. I

1769
01:19:06,760 --> 01:19:10,240
Speaker 6: was like, Okay, it was six minutes left on the clock.

1770
01:19:10,320 --> 01:19:12,000
Speaker 6: I was, man, we chewed up a lot.

1771
01:19:11,880 --> 01:19:13,200
Speaker 5: Of clock on that drive.

1772
01:19:13,360 --> 01:19:16,840
Speaker 6: Like that was an outstanding drive by our offense, and

1773
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:20,160
Speaker 6: it all started right with that third down play by Dalton.

1774
01:19:20,240 --> 01:19:21,760
Speaker 6: Then we were able to get a couple of really

1775
01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:25,160
Speaker 6: good runs in from Woody, from Chubb and it was

1776
01:19:25,600 --> 01:19:26,679
Speaker 6: we were all off and moving.

1777
01:19:26,920 --> 01:19:30,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, that really stuck with me, coach, the fact that

1778
01:19:30,040 --> 01:19:32,320
Speaker 3: you were able to run the ball on that drive.

1779
01:19:32,400 --> 01:19:34,439
Speaker 3: It wasn't a hurry up drive, but you knew you're

1780
01:19:34,479 --> 01:19:36,320
Speaker 3: running out of time, but you wanted to take the

1781
01:19:36,360 --> 01:19:37,639
Speaker 3: time too, if you possibly could.

1782
01:19:37,680 --> 01:19:39,719
Speaker 2: You knew it was win or lose on that drive. Probably.

1783
01:19:39,840 --> 01:19:42,080
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's easy to kind of panic right when you're

1784
01:19:42,080 --> 01:19:43,960
Speaker 6: in this it's like, oh, we gotta go score, we

1785
01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:47,360
Speaker 6: gotta but you gotta remember and just reminding, guys, let's

1786
01:19:47,400 --> 01:19:49,920
Speaker 6: just get back to what's worked for us.

1787
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:50,519
Speaker 5: Like we've had.

1788
01:19:50,640 --> 01:19:52,760
Speaker 6: We had a ton of positive plays. Thought the O

1789
01:19:52,920 --> 01:19:56,599
Speaker 6: line blocked it well, our backs were finishing forward a lot,

1790
01:19:56,680 --> 01:19:58,240
Speaker 6: they played physical.

1791
01:19:58,080 --> 01:20:01,280
Speaker 5: And so the run game was there. We utilized it.

1792
01:20:01,360 --> 01:20:04,720
Speaker 6: We utilized it our advantage and in that moment when

1793
01:20:04,880 --> 01:20:08,320
Speaker 6: people are probably thinking more heavy pass as the defense

1794
01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:10,360
Speaker 6: and you pop a couple of runs in there, you're

1795
01:20:10,400 --> 01:20:11,559
Speaker 6: able to get some big gains.

1796
01:20:12,160 --> 01:20:15,200
Speaker 1: Coach, two point conversions. I'm asking you from coaching standpoint

1797
01:20:15,200 --> 01:20:18,000
Speaker 1: and then from a defensive standpoint, because I feel like

1798
01:20:18,040 --> 01:20:21,400
Speaker 1: as a defender, if you stop the two and going

1799
01:20:21,439 --> 01:20:23,479
Speaker 1: for two can happen a lot different stots, But it

1800
01:20:23,520 --> 01:20:24,639
Speaker 1: always feels like when you.

1801
01:20:24,640 --> 01:20:26,759
Speaker 2: Stop the two, it just takes a little bit.

1802
01:20:26,600 --> 01:20:29,719
Speaker 1: Of that momentum way from what they just did scoring

1803
01:20:29,760 --> 01:20:32,759
Speaker 1: a touchdown. The flip side of that is when Nico

1804
01:20:32,920 --> 01:20:35,840
Speaker 1: catches that ball, it's an incredible catch, which you talked about.

1805
01:20:36,920 --> 01:20:40,200
Speaker 1: Now you've got even more momentum offensively because you've gotten

1806
01:20:40,479 --> 01:20:42,639
Speaker 1: the two, especially when you're trying to climb back into

1807
01:20:42,720 --> 01:20:44,599
Speaker 1: the ball game. How do you look at both from

1808
01:20:44,640 --> 01:20:47,600
Speaker 1: a coaching standpoint of making the two and as a

1809
01:20:47,600 --> 01:20:49,519
Speaker 1: defender of getting the stop like you did when it

1810
01:20:49,560 --> 01:20:50,320
Speaker 1: was twenty nine to ten.

1811
01:20:50,720 --> 01:20:52,599
Speaker 2: You got to stop on the two. You didn't think

1812
01:20:52,640 --> 01:20:54,240
Speaker 2: it down to nineteen. Is this going to matter?

1813
01:20:54,320 --> 01:20:56,320
Speaker 1: It ends up mattering because you stopped the two there,

1814
01:20:56,439 --> 01:20:58,080
Speaker 1: But how do you look at it from both perspectives?

1815
01:20:58,120 --> 01:20:59,000
Speaker 2: The two point conversion?

1816
01:20:59,080 --> 01:21:01,559
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a lot of mixed feelings on the two point.

1817
01:21:01,680 --> 01:21:04,800
Speaker 6: Like if you're on the defensive side, it's like, man,

1818
01:21:04,840 --> 01:21:06,840
Speaker 6: we let him get in the end zone. So it's

1819
01:21:06,880 --> 01:21:10,160
Speaker 6: that let down and then the two point conversion happens. Okay,

1820
01:21:10,200 --> 01:21:13,679
Speaker 6: we gotta stop. It's like okay, good, good job, right,

1821
01:21:13,800 --> 01:21:17,479
Speaker 6: But then offensively it's like you scored a touchdown. Same

1822
01:21:17,520 --> 01:21:20,439
Speaker 6: thing like that Nico catches day it's like, oh my good,

1823
01:21:20,560 --> 01:21:24,519
Speaker 6: like outstanding play. Try again, and you don't get like

1824
01:21:24,840 --> 01:21:26,960
Speaker 6: that's okay, we just score it though we're good like

1825
01:21:27,160 --> 01:21:30,080
Speaker 6: it were still good. So you have those, you know,

1826
01:21:30,200 --> 01:21:33,600
Speaker 6: different feelings that happen on the two point plays. But offensively,

1827
01:21:33,680 --> 01:21:36,040
Speaker 6: knowing you just got an end zone and got six,

1828
01:21:36,439 --> 01:21:37,839
Speaker 6: that's the most important thing.

1829
01:21:37,920 --> 01:21:40,120
Speaker 3: All right, maybe for both of you. What's the best

1830
01:21:40,200 --> 01:21:43,439
Speaker 3: Stingly pick you've ever seen? Because that has to be

1831
01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:46,040
Speaker 3: right up there, never mind the context of the game

1832
01:21:46,120 --> 01:21:47,920
Speaker 3: because Miami last year.

1833
01:21:47,960 --> 01:21:49,120
Speaker 2: I mean that was at the end of the game.

1834
01:21:49,240 --> 01:21:50,559
Speaker 2: That was a tremendous interception.

1835
01:21:50,680 --> 01:21:52,679
Speaker 3: Two years ago he had that one against Denver where

1836
01:21:52,680 --> 01:21:54,600
Speaker 3: he came from out of nowhere and reached across his

1837
01:21:54,680 --> 01:21:58,639
Speaker 3: body or whatever. How how does that one yesterday stack

1838
01:21:58,760 --> 01:22:00,599
Speaker 3: up to some of the others you've seen, Coach.

1839
01:22:00,439 --> 01:22:03,800
Speaker 5: Wow, man I put that one.

1840
01:22:03,840 --> 01:22:07,240
Speaker 6: I mean, that was probably the best Cats one hit

1841
01:22:07,439 --> 01:22:10,000
Speaker 6: like that was probably the best Cats of the interception

1842
01:22:10,160 --> 01:22:13,559
Speaker 6: I've seen him that and the Denver one. Like over

1843
01:22:13,640 --> 01:22:16,080
Speaker 6: he always catches the ball like that Denver, So I

1844
01:22:16,160 --> 01:22:18,519
Speaker 6: think that was the best catch he had yesterday, the

1845
01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:21,240
Speaker 6: one handed. But to me, the one that I love

1846
01:22:21,320 --> 01:22:23,880
Speaker 6: the most is the Miami one because it's just to

1847
01:22:24,120 --> 01:22:26,479
Speaker 6: end the game, like they're trying to come back on

1848
01:22:26,520 --> 01:22:30,320
Speaker 6: our sidelines. Just him going up making that play, I

1849
01:22:30,479 --> 01:22:32,720
Speaker 6: was just I was losing my mind on that one.

1850
01:22:32,760 --> 01:22:35,720
Speaker 6: That was the insane play just when it happened the

1851
01:22:35,720 --> 01:22:37,120
Speaker 6: critical moment in the game.

1852
01:22:36,960 --> 01:22:39,639
Speaker 1: Against Tyreek too. And this is and this is why

1853
01:22:39,800 --> 01:22:42,760
Speaker 1: I love Staying. I said to him, I've said this

1854
01:22:42,960 --> 01:22:44,280
Speaker 1: since he's been here. I was like, he's got the

1855
01:22:44,320 --> 01:22:46,720
Speaker 1: best hands on the team. I've said, Mark, I think

1856
01:22:46,720 --> 01:22:48,639
Speaker 1: he's got the best hands on the team. I can't

1857
01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:50,840
Speaker 1: tell you what I said when he picked off that

1858
01:22:50,960 --> 01:22:52,919
Speaker 1: pass because I'm always in Marksier.

1859
01:22:53,160 --> 01:22:53,840
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe.

1860
01:22:53,880 --> 01:22:55,920
Speaker 1: I was like, he just stuck his paw and it

1861
01:22:56,080 --> 01:22:59,479
Speaker 1: just stuck in there that I think that's the best

1862
01:23:00,240 --> 01:23:02,640
Speaker 1: physical play that he's made. Like the other ones may

1863
01:23:02,640 --> 01:23:04,400
Speaker 1: have been maybe maybe a little bit more important, but

1864
01:23:04,680 --> 01:23:05,679
Speaker 1: it did save three points.

1865
01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:06,160
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was.

1866
01:23:06,240 --> 01:23:07,479
Speaker 2: It was. It was pretty important.

1867
01:23:07,640 --> 01:23:07,840
Speaker 4: Man.

1868
01:23:07,960 --> 01:23:10,439
Speaker 6: We needed that at that moment, right knowing their field

1869
01:23:10,479 --> 01:23:13,120
Speaker 6: goal kickers range, like we said, you get it at

1870
01:23:13,160 --> 01:23:14,200
Speaker 6: the fifty yard line.

1871
01:23:14,240 --> 01:23:16,200
Speaker 5: This guy is, he's live and.

1872
01:23:16,160 --> 01:23:18,240
Speaker 6: He's ready to kick so for us to get that

1873
01:23:18,280 --> 01:23:21,559
Speaker 6: pick in that moment to stop their momentum like that

1874
01:23:21,760 --> 01:23:23,120
Speaker 6: was a big play in the game.

1875
01:23:23,200 --> 01:23:26,320
Speaker 1: What I love about Sting though, is I went up

1876
01:23:26,320 --> 01:23:27,600
Speaker 1: to him after the game. I said, Man, that's the

1877
01:23:27,600 --> 01:23:30,960
Speaker 1: best interception I think you made, and he immediately said, yeah,

1878
01:23:30,960 --> 01:23:33,679
Speaker 1: I gotta quit dropping the other one like that's immediately

1879
01:23:33,760 --> 01:23:35,720
Speaker 1: what he thought about was the one in the forehands

1880
01:23:35,720 --> 01:23:38,120
Speaker 1: on the far side that he had that went through

1881
01:23:38,160 --> 01:23:39,519
Speaker 1: his hands, that could have stopped the scoring.

1882
01:23:39,600 --> 01:23:41,559
Speaker 3: Driving At that point, Coach, we all to talk about

1883
01:23:41,640 --> 01:23:43,240
Speaker 3: with the running game, stick with it.

1884
01:23:43,320 --> 01:23:45,200
Speaker 2: Eventually, it'll work. You gotta be patient.

1885
01:23:45,439 --> 01:23:48,559
Speaker 3: But defensively, early on they had some runs, but you're

1886
01:23:48,560 --> 01:23:51,639
Speaker 3: stuck with your defense, and you started to slow them

1887
01:23:51,760 --> 01:23:53,760
Speaker 3: down at the end ETN three and a half per

1888
01:23:53,760 --> 01:23:56,400
Speaker 3: carry whatever, you really put the brakes on the Jags

1889
01:23:56,400 --> 01:23:57,600
Speaker 3: as the game war on.

1890
01:23:57,760 --> 01:23:59,000
Speaker 2: What about that side of things?

1891
01:23:59,080 --> 01:24:00,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was he was.

1892
01:24:00,240 --> 01:24:02,839
Speaker 6: That was the main key for us defensively, like building

1893
01:24:02,840 --> 01:24:04,760
Speaker 6: that wall up front, stopping the run.

1894
01:24:04,880 --> 01:24:06,240
Speaker 5: We knew that was gonna be the key.

1895
01:24:06,240 --> 01:24:07,679
Speaker 6: We knew they were going to try to stay after

1896
01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:11,040
Speaker 6: but if we stopped them, like we wanted to put

1897
01:24:11,040 --> 01:24:13,360
Speaker 6: the ball in the quarterback's hand and make him beat us,

1898
01:24:13,400 --> 01:24:15,680
Speaker 6: make him drop back and have to beat us. And

1899
01:24:15,720 --> 01:24:20,240
Speaker 6: so it took man Tommy again. Tommy told yat Inside

1900
01:24:20,800 --> 01:24:23,679
Speaker 6: so many plays that he made in the run game,

1901
01:24:23,760 --> 01:24:26,880
Speaker 6: our edges. Daniel did a great job playing in the

1902
01:24:26,960 --> 01:24:29,360
Speaker 6: run game. One of his better games was setting the edge,

1903
01:24:29,439 --> 01:24:32,599
Speaker 6: coming off, making plays. It was it was really a

1904
01:24:32,600 --> 01:24:35,559
Speaker 6: collective effort from stopping the run. The guys did a

1905
01:24:35,680 --> 01:24:39,360
Speaker 6: really good job of staying with it right and not

1906
01:24:39,360 --> 01:24:41,280
Speaker 6: not letting, not letting down at all.

1907
01:24:41,360 --> 01:24:43,000
Speaker 5: Like we knew we had to stay with it. They

1908
01:24:43,040 --> 01:24:45,679
Speaker 5: did that. They tackled well, and that was the key

1909
01:24:45,760 --> 01:24:46,080
Speaker 5: to us.

1910
01:24:46,760 --> 01:24:49,360
Speaker 1: You mentioned Hunter, That's exactly where I wanted to go.

1911
01:24:50,120 --> 01:24:56,680
Speaker 1: I'm basically just gonna ask Dan Hunter, how could Hunter go?

1912
01:24:57,360 --> 01:24:59,720
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's I mean, one of the best games I've

1913
01:24:59,720 --> 01:25:03,160
Speaker 6: seen playing since he's been a texta and it's you know,

1914
01:25:03,200 --> 01:25:05,240
Speaker 6: it started for me in the run game when I

1915
01:25:05,240 --> 01:25:06,960
Speaker 6: saw the way he was set in the edge in

1916
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:09,360
Speaker 6: a run game like That's what sparked it for me.

1917
01:25:09,479 --> 01:25:12,000
Speaker 6: And then when he was rushing like he was, he

1918
01:25:12,200 --> 01:25:15,839
Speaker 6: was getting off the ball, he was playing explosive, violent

1919
01:25:15,960 --> 01:25:19,120
Speaker 6: and the tackle had no chance and so you know,

1920
01:25:19,200 --> 01:25:21,759
Speaker 6: for him to get the plays he made me also,

1921
01:25:21,800 --> 01:25:24,240
Speaker 6: he had one he had a two play sequence late

1922
01:25:24,280 --> 01:25:26,679
Speaker 6: in the game where he goes underneath the tackle, gets

1923
01:25:26,680 --> 01:25:28,960
Speaker 6: a tackle for loss and then he gets a huge

1924
01:25:29,000 --> 01:25:32,760
Speaker 6: set mars and saw that was such a huge two

1925
01:25:32,760 --> 01:25:35,439
Speaker 6: play sequence in the game to knock them back, and

1926
01:25:35,680 --> 01:25:37,040
Speaker 6: it was it was big.

1927
01:25:37,080 --> 01:25:38,880
Speaker 5: I mean, Daniel, he's outstanding.

1928
01:25:38,920 --> 01:25:42,639
Speaker 6: And we challenged them all week right to really crust

1929
01:25:42,680 --> 01:25:44,200
Speaker 6: the pocket and he did that.

1930
01:25:44,920 --> 01:25:46,960
Speaker 3: It's strange that he does it well, really cool that

1931
01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:50,000
Speaker 3: he does it with JJ Watt calling the game on television, right,

1932
01:25:50,040 --> 01:25:52,559
Speaker 3: because it was what like in that way, it's very clutch,

1933
01:25:52,680 --> 01:25:55,160
Speaker 3: clutch moment he comes up big with that stop.

1934
01:25:55,360 --> 01:25:57,679
Speaker 6: Yeah, when I mean, that's why you have those guys

1935
01:25:57,680 --> 01:25:59,160
Speaker 6: on your team.

1936
01:25:59,560 --> 01:26:01,360
Speaker 3: Along the those lines, what's it like to be in

1937
01:26:01,360 --> 01:26:04,479
Speaker 3: those TV production meetings with JJ Watt coach? You've done

1938
01:26:04,479 --> 01:26:06,800
Speaker 3: it twice? Now, what is that like for you? Former

1939
01:26:06,840 --> 01:26:08,680
Speaker 3: teammate of yours on national television?

1940
01:26:08,840 --> 01:26:09,880
Speaker 5: So it's always fun.

1941
01:26:09,880 --> 01:26:13,280
Speaker 6: It's easy when I'm in there with JJ and his crew.

1942
01:26:13,320 --> 01:26:13,640
Speaker 5: They do it.

1943
01:26:13,760 --> 01:26:15,640
Speaker 6: I feel like they do a really great job. It's

1944
01:26:15,720 --> 01:26:18,200
Speaker 6: just again I'm talking to one of my teammates. I

1945
01:26:18,200 --> 01:26:20,680
Speaker 6: can I probably share a little bit more than I

1946
01:26:20,720 --> 01:26:25,120
Speaker 6: need to with him, but I can just be open, honest,

1947
01:26:25,200 --> 01:26:28,120
Speaker 6: just talk to him. That's my that's my old neighbor,

1948
01:26:28,280 --> 01:26:29,880
Speaker 6: my teammate, Like, that's my guy.

1949
01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:32,519
Speaker 5: JJ is my guy. So he's done a great job.

1950
01:26:32,560 --> 01:26:35,800
Speaker 6: We keep it professional, but they just want to know, like,

1951
01:26:36,520 --> 01:26:38,439
Speaker 6: you know, the kind of the pulse of the team

1952
01:26:38,560 --> 01:26:41,280
Speaker 6: and where we are, Like what's been the messaging all

1953
01:26:41,320 --> 01:26:43,840
Speaker 6: week with the guys. And I feel like when I

1954
01:26:43,840 --> 01:26:45,840
Speaker 6: started talking the message to him, I feel like I'm

1955
01:26:45,880 --> 01:26:47,719
Speaker 6: talking to, you know, my teammates.

1956
01:26:47,760 --> 01:26:48,439
Speaker 5: So it's kind of like.

1957
01:26:48,439 --> 01:26:51,799
Speaker 6: I'm delivering my message and I'm pumping him up, pumping

1958
01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:53,840
Speaker 6: the team up. So he gives me a little a

1959
01:26:53,880 --> 01:26:56,040
Speaker 6: little practice from my Saturday night speech.

1960
01:26:56,479 --> 01:26:59,840
Speaker 2: So coach, we want it to your Sunday. I'm sure

1961
01:26:59,840 --> 01:27:00,120
Speaker 2: you know.

1962
01:27:00,360 --> 01:27:03,679
Speaker 1: Offensive line a little different, mad some changes during the game,

1963
01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:06,160
Speaker 1: but then you look up. They up two sacks, one

1964
01:27:06,160 --> 01:27:08,160
Speaker 1: of them I think was when Davis ran out of bounds,

1965
01:27:08,479 --> 01:27:10,439
Speaker 1: So there's really only one sack that.

1966
01:27:10,479 --> 01:27:15,320
Speaker 2: Eric Armstead got. Other than that a couple quarterback hits.

1967
01:27:15,760 --> 01:27:17,320
Speaker 1: They've said to move a little bit of a time,

1968
01:27:17,479 --> 01:27:19,400
Speaker 1: But how'd you feel like the offensive line held up?

1969
01:27:19,479 --> 01:27:20,360
Speaker 2: Especially in protection.

1970
01:27:20,560 --> 01:27:22,720
Speaker 6: Yeah, overall and protection, I thought they did a really

1971
01:27:22,840 --> 01:27:26,880
Speaker 6: nice job. David's had time all day, you know. Starting off,

1972
01:27:26,960 --> 01:27:30,559
Speaker 6: we had to get some things corrected. It wasn't up

1973
01:27:30,600 --> 01:27:33,000
Speaker 6: to our standards, so we had to make changes get

1974
01:27:33,000 --> 01:27:36,400
Speaker 6: it fixed. And once we got those fixed, I feel

1975
01:27:36,439 --> 01:27:38,720
Speaker 6: like the guys did a really good job of battling.

1976
01:27:39,600 --> 01:27:42,080
Speaker 6: Still things to clean up, but for overall, man, I

1977
01:27:42,120 --> 01:27:44,600
Speaker 6: thought Tay Trent did a really nice job on the

1978
01:27:44,720 --> 01:27:48,559
Speaker 6: edges protecting it well. We had a couple of zero

1979
01:27:48,680 --> 01:27:51,040
Speaker 6: pressures that kind of got us. We got to communicate

1980
01:27:51,120 --> 01:27:54,160
Speaker 6: better on our mic points in those things, make sure

1981
01:27:54,160 --> 01:27:57,200
Speaker 6: everybody's on the same page. But overall, you talk about

1982
01:27:57,200 --> 01:28:00,759
Speaker 6: a game protection wise versus a real good front.

1983
01:28:01,760 --> 01:28:03,120
Speaker 5: Our guys did a great job.

1984
01:28:03,360 --> 01:28:05,519
Speaker 3: All right, So you played nine games, we're over the

1985
01:28:05,520 --> 01:28:08,200
Speaker 3: halfway point of the season, which was I guess halftime

1986
01:28:08,240 --> 01:28:11,160
Speaker 3: in this past game. But the rookies, coach, are they

1987
01:28:11,200 --> 01:28:13,800
Speaker 3: no longer rookies? When you talked about ursery and then

1988
01:28:13,840 --> 01:28:16,439
Speaker 3: you talk about your past catchers and Woody Marks, what

1989
01:28:16,560 --> 01:28:17,360
Speaker 3: about the rookies?

1990
01:28:18,080 --> 01:28:18,920
Speaker 5: No more rookies?

1991
01:28:19,120 --> 01:28:22,200
Speaker 6: Like, like, let's go like wood He's doing a great job.

1992
01:28:22,280 --> 01:28:25,200
Speaker 6: We got to continue to feed him more Higgins on

1993
01:28:25,240 --> 01:28:28,439
Speaker 6: the outside we got everybody sees like this guy's catch

1994
01:28:28,520 --> 01:28:31,520
Speaker 6: radius is insane, Like put the ball in his vicinity,

1995
01:28:31,600 --> 01:28:34,040
Speaker 6: He's gonna go and get it. You need a big play.

1996
01:28:34,120 --> 01:28:37,880
Speaker 6: Who shows up on fourth? Now is Jalen Knowle showing up?

1997
01:28:38,240 --> 01:28:41,160
Speaker 6: And we needed it most to make that play. So

1998
01:28:41,280 --> 01:28:44,680
Speaker 6: these guys are are not rookies. They're making plays in

1999
01:28:44,800 --> 01:28:48,559
Speaker 6: the critical times of a game, crunch time we needed most.

2000
01:28:48,640 --> 01:28:51,200
Speaker 6: We're counting on the rookies. Tay, It's done a great

2001
01:28:51,280 --> 01:28:54,600
Speaker 6: job there left tackle, like continuing the battle down and

2002
01:28:54,840 --> 01:28:57,720
Speaker 6: down out. He's getting better as the season is going on.

2003
01:28:57,920 --> 01:29:02,200
Speaker 6: So yeah, the rookie name played is all. This is like,

2004
01:29:02,360 --> 01:29:04,840
Speaker 6: let's go and how can we finish this season the

2005
01:29:04,880 --> 01:29:05,360
Speaker 6: right way?

2006
01:29:05,479 --> 01:29:07,040
Speaker 1: Coach, you mentioned the pulse of the team, and it

2007
01:29:07,040 --> 01:29:09,280
Speaker 1: made me think about it because when it was seventeen

2008
01:29:09,320 --> 01:29:13,760
Speaker 1: to nothing, I was kind of looking for, especially offensively,

2009
01:29:14,600 --> 01:29:16,120
Speaker 1: is there somebody that's.

2010
01:29:15,920 --> 01:29:18,559
Speaker 2: Gonna in honestly, rally the troops that doesn't.

2011
01:29:18,400 --> 01:29:21,200
Speaker 1: Maybe the right word, but just kind of be a

2012
01:29:21,479 --> 01:29:23,519
Speaker 1: be a voice of hey, foll I mean, let's go.

2013
01:29:23,600 --> 01:29:25,639
Speaker 2: And I looked out and I saw Nico. Now Nico

2014
01:29:25,680 --> 01:29:26,920
Speaker 2: doesn't say a whole lot.

2015
01:29:27,120 --> 01:29:29,080
Speaker 1: And I saw Nico as guys would run to the

2016
01:29:29,120 --> 01:29:31,760
Speaker 1: huddle for the drive after it was seventeen nothing, he

2017
01:29:31,840 --> 01:29:34,160
Speaker 1: was like slapping fives of guys, you know, kind of

2018
01:29:34,160 --> 01:29:36,599
Speaker 1: getting them back in a huddle. How important were those

2019
01:29:36,640 --> 01:29:39,639
Speaker 1: things yesterday, Nico? Just the little things kind of keeping

2020
01:29:39,680 --> 01:29:42,760
Speaker 1: guys going to Saul will Anderson really kind of you know,

2021
01:29:43,040 --> 01:29:45,160
Speaker 1: keeping guys together, like, hey, keep.

2022
01:29:45,120 --> 01:29:46,799
Speaker 2: Up the spirits, let's go, We're good.

2023
01:29:47,120 --> 01:29:49,519
Speaker 1: How important is that when you come back from nineteen

2024
01:29:49,560 --> 01:29:51,920
Speaker 1: at your leaders, no matter how they do it, whether

2025
01:29:51,960 --> 01:29:55,200
Speaker 1: it's vocal, whether it's quiet, that those guys step up

2026
01:29:55,320 --> 01:29:57,320
Speaker 1: and say, hey, follow me, let's go.

2027
01:29:57,600 --> 01:29:59,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was my message to our guys all week.

2028
01:30:00,320 --> 01:30:03,639
Speaker 6: Man, Let's make sure, like we hate bring positive energy

2029
01:30:03,800 --> 01:30:06,680
Speaker 6: this entire game. I don't care what the game looks like,

2030
01:30:06,720 --> 01:30:10,040
Speaker 6: but we need positive energy from everybody on our sideline.

2031
01:30:10,280 --> 01:30:11,240
Speaker 5: Like, no matter if a.

2032
01:30:11,200 --> 01:30:14,240
Speaker 6: Bad play happens, a bad drive happens, that's not the

2033
01:30:14,360 --> 01:30:15,040
Speaker 6: end of the game.

2034
01:30:15,360 --> 01:30:17,519
Speaker 5: So how do we come back? Hey, let's do a

2035
01:30:17,520 --> 01:30:18,000
Speaker 5: great job.

2036
01:30:18,080 --> 01:30:21,679
Speaker 6: Let's keep going, like, keep encouraging each other, keep bringing

2037
01:30:21,720 --> 01:30:25,439
Speaker 6: positive energy, positive juice, because I totally god, nothing great

2038
01:30:25,920 --> 01:30:29,200
Speaker 6: has been done without positive energy. Right, So let's do it.

2039
01:30:29,280 --> 01:30:31,759
Speaker 6: Let's not hang our head if we throw a pig,

2040
01:30:32,520 --> 01:30:35,000
Speaker 6: we give up a run, or like, let's not hang

2041
01:30:35,080 --> 01:30:38,360
Speaker 6: our head, Like, let's just keep battling no matter what happens.

2042
01:30:38,360 --> 01:30:40,639
Speaker 6: And that's what the guys did and kept encouraging each other.

2043
01:30:41,040 --> 01:30:44,360
Speaker 6: It just it increases that belief factor amongst your team.

2044
01:30:44,439 --> 01:30:46,640
Speaker 6: When everybody's up encouraging you, even though you know you

2045
01:30:46,720 --> 01:30:49,640
Speaker 6: had a bad play. It's like, oh, okay, well man,

2046
01:30:50,080 --> 01:30:51,240
Speaker 6: it's gonna be okay.

2047
01:30:51,439 --> 01:30:51,599
Speaker 2: Right.

2048
01:30:51,680 --> 01:30:53,840
Speaker 6: My teammate support me and they got my back, so

2049
01:30:54,080 --> 01:30:56,240
Speaker 6: I'm gonna keep going. I'm gonna keep giving my best.

2050
01:30:56,600 --> 01:30:59,479
Speaker 3: Coach, I know this is personal and private, but everyone

2051
01:30:59,560 --> 01:31:02,439
Speaker 3: saw give you a game ball the passing of Earl Cochran,

2052
01:31:02,600 --> 01:31:05,400
Speaker 3: great friend of yours, and N. D. Kalud told us

2053
01:31:05,439 --> 01:31:07,679
Speaker 3: a story in the second half, a lot of the

2054
01:31:07,720 --> 01:31:11,120
Speaker 3: Texans legends texting each other saying, it's Earl. When the

2055
01:31:11,160 --> 01:31:13,880
Speaker 3: comeback was on, when the team was climbing back into it,

2056
01:31:13,960 --> 01:31:17,160
Speaker 3: taking the lead, it's Earl. What about that element of

2057
01:31:17,200 --> 01:31:18,200
Speaker 3: the game, Coach.

2058
01:31:18,280 --> 01:31:20,160
Speaker 5: Man, I can't say enough about that.

2059
01:31:20,280 --> 01:31:20,439
Speaker 1: Man.

2060
01:31:20,520 --> 01:31:24,920
Speaker 6: It's such a difficult time, you know, losing such a

2061
01:31:24,920 --> 01:31:28,439
Speaker 6: close friend. I've known Earl since elementary school, like we're

2062
01:31:28,439 --> 01:31:32,640
Speaker 6: from the same hometown, so to be from the same hometown.

2063
01:31:32,760 --> 01:31:34,960
Speaker 5: And to be an Earl was few years older.

2064
01:31:35,000 --> 01:31:38,160
Speaker 6: But then when he had an opportunity to come back

2065
01:31:38,160 --> 01:31:40,519
Speaker 6: from NFL Europe, he told us to come to Houston

2066
01:31:40,560 --> 01:31:42,960
Speaker 6: because I was here in Houston, and we connected from

2067
01:31:42,960 --> 01:31:45,800
Speaker 6: that moment in two thousand and six and really did

2068
01:31:45,880 --> 01:31:50,680
Speaker 6: life together as adults, you know, marriage, kids, like we

2069
01:31:50,680 --> 01:31:54,160
Speaker 6: were family and so he's and also he was my coach.

2070
01:31:54,360 --> 01:31:57,280
Speaker 6: He was the guy withould lean on giving me advice,

2071
01:31:58,000 --> 01:32:02,000
Speaker 6: Like in the background after every game, he would give

2072
01:32:02,040 --> 01:32:07,160
Speaker 6: me a whole a long text message of hey, why'd

2073
01:32:07,200 --> 01:32:09,840
Speaker 6: you do this? Why did you make this third day call?

2074
01:32:10,000 --> 01:32:12,320
Speaker 6: You need to do this some offense. He had the

2075
01:32:12,520 --> 01:32:15,320
Speaker 6: entire playing down, no matter win or loss. He was

2076
01:32:15,360 --> 01:32:18,280
Speaker 6: always there to support me. Great friend, and I knew

2077
01:32:18,320 --> 01:32:21,320
Speaker 6: he was. He was smiling down on us yesterday, coach.

2078
01:32:21,400 --> 01:32:26,960
Speaker 12: The value of having somebody that can tell you because

2079
01:32:26,960 --> 01:32:29,200
Speaker 12: it's easy for market I say here and could coach,

2080
01:32:29,200 --> 01:32:32,240
Speaker 12: you're great yesterday, you're great, you know, but for somebody

2081
01:32:32,280 --> 01:32:36,040
Speaker 12: to say, your coach, Miko, that wasn't that wasn't great.

2082
01:32:36,080 --> 01:32:37,479
Speaker 2: You guys can be doing this better.

2083
01:32:37,760 --> 01:32:39,920
Speaker 1: Yet you know it's coming from a place of love

2084
01:32:40,080 --> 01:32:42,519
Speaker 1: from somebody, Like how important was it to have somebody

2085
01:32:42,800 --> 01:32:43,160
Speaker 1: like that.

2086
01:32:43,080 --> 01:32:43,559
Speaker 5: In your life?

2087
01:32:43,600 --> 01:32:47,200
Speaker 6: Man, I don't know what I'm gonna do without having that. Man,

2088
01:32:47,240 --> 01:32:50,080
Speaker 6: it was so huge, Like if we you know, I

2089
01:32:50,200 --> 01:32:51,880
Speaker 6: always tell you if I if we went on.

2090
01:32:52,320 --> 01:32:54,439
Speaker 5: Away trip or something, or you lose a game.

2091
01:32:54,680 --> 01:32:56,920
Speaker 6: Like when you lose a game, you don't get any

2092
01:32:56,920 --> 01:33:01,160
Speaker 6: text messages, but I would always have three my mom,

2093
01:33:02,040 --> 01:33:03,240
Speaker 6: jamilave my wife.

2094
01:33:03,320 --> 01:33:05,200
Speaker 5: They have to because they don't have a choice.

2095
01:33:05,960 --> 01:33:07,920
Speaker 6: And the other message I knew I was gonna get

2096
01:33:07,920 --> 01:33:09,920
Speaker 6: it was from Earl and he was gonna tell me

2097
01:33:10,000 --> 01:33:14,400
Speaker 6: about Hey, the game plan, Hey, great decision here, Hey

2098
01:33:14,479 --> 01:33:20,120
Speaker 6: think about this. It was just always wisdom, always from

2099
01:33:20,120 --> 01:33:24,000
Speaker 6: a place of love. Now, win, loss, it didn't matter,

2100
01:33:24,120 --> 01:33:25,759
Speaker 6: like he truly truly cared.

2101
01:33:25,880 --> 01:33:30,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's tremendous, coach, big opportunity on Sunday, Tennessee Titans

2102
01:33:30,479 --> 01:33:32,400
Speaker 3: going back on the road for the first time in

2103
01:33:32,400 --> 01:33:34,120
Speaker 3: a while. Feels like it's been a while because it

2104
01:33:34,200 --> 01:33:37,639
Speaker 3: has three consecutive home games behind us. What about taking

2105
01:33:37,680 --> 01:33:39,200
Speaker 3: on the Titans in the matchup?

2106
01:33:39,479 --> 01:33:43,160
Speaker 6: Yeah, another division opponent. We know how important these division

2107
01:33:43,200 --> 01:33:46,360
Speaker 6: games are man, so we know they're going to bring

2108
01:33:46,400 --> 01:33:48,240
Speaker 6: their best and we got to bring our best.

2109
01:33:48,280 --> 01:33:50,920
Speaker 5: Like, can we build off of what just happened right

2110
01:33:50,960 --> 01:33:51,479
Speaker 5: off the wind?

2111
01:33:51,560 --> 01:33:54,439
Speaker 6: We just had such great momentum, such great energy in

2112
01:33:54,520 --> 01:33:57,080
Speaker 6: our building. Can we go out clean up the things

2113
01:33:57,080 --> 01:33:59,439
Speaker 6: we need to clean up because there are still things

2114
01:33:59,439 --> 01:34:01,320
Speaker 6: to clean up even in a big win.

2115
01:34:01,840 --> 01:34:02,680
Speaker 5: Can we do that?

2116
01:34:03,040 --> 01:34:06,519
Speaker 6: And can we just remain level headed, like not allow

2117
01:34:06,600 --> 01:34:10,320
Speaker 6: the past win to hey, allow guys walk around with

2118
01:34:10,360 --> 01:34:12,920
Speaker 6: the big head or like we've arrived, Like, no, can

2119
01:34:12,960 --> 01:34:14,760
Speaker 6: we get back to work and can we do the

2120
01:34:14,800 --> 01:34:16,839
Speaker 6: things that we need to do to go to Tennessee

2121
01:34:17,240 --> 01:34:19,360
Speaker 6: and get a win important game for us.

2122
01:34:19,840 --> 01:34:20,799
Speaker 5: We gotta go get.

2123
01:34:20,600 --> 01:34:21,200
Speaker 2: It all right.

2124
01:34:21,240 --> 01:34:24,200
Speaker 3: The Amergy Bank asked coach question of the week. We're

2125
01:34:24,200 --> 01:34:27,240
Speaker 3: going to music city and nationalists all kinds of music,

2126
01:34:27,360 --> 01:34:30,680
Speaker 3: so this applies. It's a hypothetical situation. Coach, you have

2127
01:34:30,720 --> 01:34:33,840
Speaker 3: to sing a karaoke song. We're gonna put you up there. Oh,

2128
01:34:33,920 --> 01:34:35,559
Speaker 3: we're not really gonna do this, but if we did,

2129
01:34:36,120 --> 01:34:38,360
Speaker 3: what song would you pick? What would be your go

2130
01:34:38,560 --> 01:34:39,880
Speaker 3: to karaoke song?

2131
01:34:40,760 --> 01:34:46,439
Speaker 5: That's so hard, Let's go go to karaoke. Let's do yeah.

2132
01:34:46,680 --> 01:34:52,000
Speaker 6: By user Okay, yeah, that'll get it. Karaoke a lot

2133
01:34:52,040 --> 01:34:57,080
Speaker 6: of energy, no matter crowd to start singing after about

2134
01:34:58,000 --> 01:34:58,759
Speaker 6: a couple of words.

2135
01:34:59,400 --> 01:35:02,440
Speaker 3: Words every a good strategy.

2136
01:35:02,479 --> 01:35:04,360
Speaker 2: Coach, Thanks selected, Thank.

2137
01:35:04,120 --> 01:35:07,080
Speaker 1: You guys, all right, that's gonna do it. Appreciate coach

2138
01:35:07,120 --> 01:35:12,960
Speaker 1: for being here. Appreciate Jonathan Alexander, Chris Myers, Jake Morland,

2139
01:35:13,360 --> 01:35:17,080
Speaker 1: my Man, Mark Vandmuir, of course, Greg Bailey, Sheldon Rankins,

2140
01:35:17,800 --> 01:35:18,759
Speaker 1: all of you for listening.

2141
01:35:18,760 --> 01:35:20,240
Speaker 2: We thank you so much. We'll see you next time

2142
01:35:20,280 --> 01:35:21,639
Speaker 2: and as always, go Texans.