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Speaker 1: Hi, Get Everybody. I Dan Hord and thanks for downloading

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Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth Podcast. The Keep Roll and Roll and

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Speaker 1: Roll and Rolling addition, as the Bengals look to extend

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Speaker 1: their winning streak to five straight as they host the

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Speaker 1: four and four Houston Texans. Coming up, I'll talk to

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Speaker 1: Cam Taylor Britt about facing rookie quarterback c J. Stroud

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Speaker 1: and we'll find out what teammate he avoids when he

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Speaker 1: cruises around the locker room with a camera after wins.

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Speaker 1: After a big night for the tight Ends last week,

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Speaker 1: I'll discuss it with the best tight End in franchise history.

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Speaker 1: And this week's no the Faux segment, we'll get the

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Speaker 1: lowdown on the Texans from the radio voice Mark Vandermere.

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Speaker 1: the greatest thing since Striping the Jungle. I've got to

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Speaker 1: hand it to everybody in attendance last Sunday night at

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Speaker 1: pay Course Stadium, Striping the Jungle in alternating sections of

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Speaker 1: orange and black looked absolutely incredible in person and on

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Speaker 1: national TV. In fact, they're already selling panoramic photos of

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Speaker 1: the tiger striped stadium at the Bengals Pro shop. I've

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Speaker 1: also seen an amusing meme for what the Bengals should

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Speaker 1: try next. Somebody made an image for the upcoming home

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Speaker 1: game against Pittsburgh that shows most of the fans wearing

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Speaker 1: black except for the ones that spell out Steeler suck

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Speaker 1: in Org. Well done, sir. This week's opponent is Houston,

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Speaker 1: a team that only won three games last year and

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Speaker 1: already has four wins this year, thanks in large part

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Speaker 1: to rookie quarterbacks.

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Speaker 2: C J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud, the second pick in the draft out of Ohio State,

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Speaker 1: is fourth in the league in passer rating, has the

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Speaker 1: best ratio of touchdown passes to interceptions in the NFL

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Speaker 1: at fourteen to one, and through for a rookie record

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Speaker 1: four hundred and seventy yards last week in a last

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Speaker 1: second win over Tampa Bay. It's a major challenge for Cam,

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Speaker 1: Taylor Britt and the Bengals secondary and I caught up

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Speaker 1: with Cam this week.

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Speaker 2: Cam.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that many of us now look

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Speaker 1: forward to after Bengals wins is the Cam Taylor Britt.

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Speaker 1: Dubcam typically shows you walking around the locker room dancing

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Speaker 1: with teammates who walk in and out of the frame.

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Speaker 1: How did the dubcam get started?

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Speaker 3: Honestly, I think you started. I don't know what win

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Speaker 3: did we get, but it was last year when I,

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Speaker 3: uh think I went on live on my Instagram and

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Speaker 3: they kind of just blew up and everybody was like, oh,

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Speaker 3: we need to see this every time. And I think

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Speaker 3: after that game, uh, you know, that's when we you know,

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Speaker 3: it was just started streaking and every game, you know,

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Speaker 3: it was cams cam, the dub cam, you know, and

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Speaker 3: I take it on. You know, sometimes I forget, you know,

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Speaker 1: I should clarify when you say streaking, you mean winning streak,

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Speaker 1: in last week's dub cam, Brian Callahan made a cameo appearance.

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Speaker 3: I think most of my teamers are, you know, kind

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Speaker 3: It said proud to Trey Hendry say, you know he

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Speaker 1: When I asked coaches about you, one of the first

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Speaker 1: things that they always mention is your confidence. Of all

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Speaker 3: I feel like you that should be a number one thing.

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Speaker 1: You've been making a lot of big plays lately. You've

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Speaker 1: that because at the college level teams were reluctant to

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Speaker 1: What's your biggest area of improvement from rookie year to

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Speaker 3: My preparation, you know, just preparing for the next team,

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Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, I've axed out some things

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Speaker 3: So most definitely. I did talk to events last year,

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Speaker 1: I think you've played in twenty one games, including the

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Speaker 1: For chatting Cam Taylor Bread. I look at the secondary room.

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Speaker 3: Most definitely, I think a lot of people says that

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Speaker 1: Every cornerback is going to get beaten from time to time.

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Speaker 1: It happens. When it happens to you, what goes to

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Speaker 3: It's like I replayed quickly, you know, back through my head.

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Speaker 3: No what I did wrong for them to catch that ball.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't anything spectacular that they did. You know, I

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Speaker 3: You know, like you know it's gonna be all right,

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Speaker 3: You know, it's just you know, I kind of know

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Speaker 1: Was the relmost significant welcome to the NFL moment for you?

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Speaker 3: I think I said it last year, the Terrence Marshall one.

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Speaker 3: I believe I still should have made a play on

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Speaker 1: So you faced the Texans this week and a rookie

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Speaker 3: You know, I I don't think a lot of people,

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Speaker 3: that's that's the guy he's turned into right now that

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Speaker 3: You know, we gotta be ready to stop him.

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Speaker 1: He's one rookie that's doing well, and wide receiver Tank

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Speaker 3: We got something for everybody, and on the back end,

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Speaker 1: Final topic for Cam Taylor Brett. I was checking out

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Speaker 1: Camtaylor brit dot com looking at the merchandise. Got some

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Speaker 1: good gear on that website. Your nickname is Juice or

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Speaker 1: Cam Juice or some Juice shirts and hoodies and stuff

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Speaker 1: like that. But I want to ask you about the

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Speaker 1: logo because the logo is great. It's a juice box

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Speaker 1: with the letter C in it. Obviously Cam Juice who

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Speaker 4: With the logo.

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Speaker 3: Shout out to my dog Aura Gharsht. He Me and him,

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Speaker 3: you know, kind of went back and forth with ideas,

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Speaker 3: just trying to figure out what my logo would be.

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Speaker 3: Back in college. We were kind of the first one

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Speaker 1: Now time for this week know the Faux Segment. Mark

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Speaker 1: Vandermere is the radio voice of the Texans, and he

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Speaker 1: joined Lapping Me this week on the Bengals Game Plan show.

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Speaker 1: I asked him if he's surprised by the teams four

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Speaker 1: and four start well.

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Speaker 2: Dan, you know, I'm a little surprised, I guess about

440
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Speaker 2: the proficiency of the passing game with CJ. Stroud being

441
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Speaker 2: this good this quickly, I'm not surprised they're winning some

442
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Speaker 2: games here. But we'll see where it all ends up, right,

443
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Speaker 2: because we all know in this league sometimes the team

444
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Speaker 2: will have a good first half not a good second half,

445
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Speaker 2: vice versa. We'll see where it all goes. And I'm

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Speaker 2: hoping the Texans get stronger, obviously, And I think the

447
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Speaker 2: big surprise here is Stroud and the passing game, because

448
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Speaker 2: I thought he'd be okay, and he's a rookie quarterback.

449
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Speaker 2: I didn't think they had the weaponry that is being displayed,

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Speaker 2: at least statistically right now. I thought they had some assets.

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Speaker 2: Dalton Schultz looks good, Damian Pierce, Devin Singletary. I knew

452
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Speaker 2: the receivers were okay at the very least, but man,

453
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Speaker 2: they're putting on a show right now. And I credit

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Speaker 2: the whole organization here, the mcnares for reaching out and

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Speaker 2: hiring Demico Ryans, Nick Catherio, the GM. They've put together

456
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Speaker 2: a nice group here and they've got four wins, so

457
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Speaker 2: that's a pretty good start through eight games.

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Speaker 7: Man the game that he had last week against Tampa Bay,

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Speaker 7: completing seventy one point four percent of his passes, four

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Speaker 7: hundred and seventy yards, five touchdowns, quarterback rating one four

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Speaker 7: to seven point eight, no interceptions. I mean, rookie record

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Speaker 7: for yards and for touchdowns, youngest to throw for four

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Speaker 7: hundred and fifty yards more six quarterback in NFL history.

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Speaker 7: I mean, that's just crazy watching him. He is so

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Speaker 7: on time with his intermediate throws, and boy does he

466
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Speaker 7: have an extremely accurate deep ball. He drops dimes on

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Speaker 7: those deep balls.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is really impressive. We all know how hard

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Speaker 2: it is for quarterbacks to come into the league and

470
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Speaker 2: throw to a window and there's nobody there yet. Right,

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Speaker 2: even the touchdown pass that won the game last week,

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Speaker 2: you know when he releases the ball, tank Dell is

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Speaker 2: not in the area yet, but he knows he's going

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Speaker 2: to be there. At least he hopes he's going to

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Speaker 2: be there, and he's right. And Dell had that one

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Speaker 2: where he caught it at the fifteen yard line to

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Speaker 2: set up the winning play. That's a beautiful throw and

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Speaker 2: catch as well. Stroud has the timing accuracy. It's funny

479
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Speaker 2: because when he began training camp, you know, OTAs, let's

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Speaker 2: go back there. He progressed really nicely because from where

481
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Speaker 2: he started to where he finished, he improved a lot

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Speaker 2: when camp began. If you told me day one, day

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Speaker 2: two that he would do this in week nine, I'd

484
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Speaker 2: say really. But and again it wasn't I doubt that

485
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Speaker 2: he could be good. But he got off to a

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Speaker 2: little bit of a slow start. And he's a rookie.

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Speaker 2: You got to expect those things. And we always say this, right,

488
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Speaker 2: everybody has to improve, everybody's got to get better. The

489
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Speaker 2: rookies come into this league. I don't care where you played,

490
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Speaker 2: if it's Alabama or wherever. You got to get better

491
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Speaker 2: from where you started. And that's what he's doing. He's

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Speaker 2: dedicated to it. He wants to be great. He's putting

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Speaker 2: in the time and you're seeing the results.

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Speaker 1: We began our show tonight, Mark by talking about the

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Speaker 1: Bengals potential injury situation. Jamar Chase didn't practice today, Sam

496
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Speaker 1: Hubbard was out, t Higgins was limited. Then we received

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Speaker 1: the Texans injury report. I've never seen one this long

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Speaker 1: in my life. Eleven guys didn't practice, nine guys were

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Speaker 1: listed as limited. I imagine most of these guys are going

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Speaker 1: to be able to play. But of the key players

501
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Speaker 1: on the roster, which guys do you have your eye

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Speaker 1: on his possible concerns for Sunday?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking at that injury report. It's easier to

504
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Speaker 2: just read the Houston phone book. You know, there's so

505
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Speaker 2: many names on it that you start to wonder, Wait

506
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Speaker 2: a minute, because when you have a Wednesday did not practice,

507
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Speaker 2: sometimes that's all right, You've got something right. There's an

508
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Speaker 2: injury listed, But is it a day of rest for

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Speaker 2: that injury or rehab for that injury? I think the

510
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Speaker 2: key day turns out to be Thursday. You know, it's

511
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Speaker 2: PGA equivalent of moving day on a Saturday. Thursday is

512
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Speaker 2: when you got to make that move. Are you limited

513
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Speaker 2: on Thursday or are you still at DNP Because you know,

514
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Speaker 2: I watched Will Anderson limp a bit at the end

515
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Speaker 2: of that game, and I thought, uh oh, and we

516
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Speaker 2: saw a number of guys we thought uh oh. But

517
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Speaker 2: John nettually had a practice today and he had a

518
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Speaker 2: rib injury, so he hasn't really done everything yet that

519
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Speaker 2: you hoped he would do when you drafted him. But

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Speaker 2: he's on the rise. I think the key ones though.

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Speaker 2: You know, obviously you look at Steven Nelson, you hope

522
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Speaker 2: that he can play at corner. They had Derek Stingley

523
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Speaker 2: Junior out of practice today, which was good. He was limited.

524
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Speaker 2: He's coming back from a hamstring that put him on

525
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Speaker 2: IR So we got a lot of guys that we

526
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Speaker 2: had to wait and see, and this is a tough

527
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Speaker 2: week to wait and see. But hey, this team has

528
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Speaker 2: had so much injury adversity already, particularly on the O line,

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Speaker 2: and at times when you think it's gonna be at

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Speaker 2: its hardest, they come up with a great performance. They

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Speaker 2: had Michael Dieter in there at center on Sunday. This

532
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Speaker 2: is their fourth center since the start of training camp,

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Speaker 2: and he has center starting experience with the Miami Dolphins.

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Speaker 2: But still, you know, they're playing together as a group

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Speaker 2: for the first time, and somehow they put together enough

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Speaker 2: pass protection to throw for four to seventy So you

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Speaker 2: never know how injuries are going to play into it.

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Speaker 2: I just hope everybody can go.

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Speaker 7: When I watched a little bit of tape that I've seen,

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Speaker 7: I see a heavy forty nine er influence. I mean,

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Speaker 7: it looks like San Francisco, Part two to me when

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Speaker 7: I'm watching the offense and defensive schematic and makes sense.

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Speaker 7: I mean, Demiko was obviously heavily influenced forty nine Ers.

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Speaker 7: Bobby Slowick is a disciple of Shanahan as well. You

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Speaker 7: have a defensive coordinator that's been around, but it's his

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Speaker 7: first year. You know, with this organization, it seems like

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Speaker 7: it's very forty nine or ish am I seeing things?

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Speaker 7: Or am I correct in that assessment?

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Speaker 2: No? I think you see a lot of that because

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Speaker 2: Demiico Ryans obviously, like you pointed out, with that organization,

551
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Speaker 2: and last year the forty nine Ers were number one

552
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Speaker 2: of the in defense in yards and points for the

553
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Speaker 2: first time in the history of that franchise, which started

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Speaker 2: in what nineteen forty six, So that said something about

555
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Speaker 2: not just the players, but his ability to coach them.

556
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Speaker 2: And now he's here, He's got Jimmy Ward and you know,

557
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 2: they bring in Ridgeway, they're bringing in some people from there,

558
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Speaker 2: some of the other coaches. But he also reached out

559
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Speaker 2: from across the board, you know, not just forty nine

560
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Speaker 2: Er guys. Now Slowick was there and he is a

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Speaker 2: disciple of that system. Slowik is interesting to me because

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Speaker 2: Dimiko takes a chance on a new offensive coordinator. But

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Speaker 2: he's got a lot of brains. He was with Pro

564
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Speaker 2: Football Focus for a number of years, which I don't

565
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Speaker 2: think necessarily makes you a better coach, but it's interesting

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Speaker 2: how that affects things and his evaluation of players and

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Speaker 2: how to use them. And what I see from him

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Speaker 2: is the ability to adjust, because they definitely want to

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Speaker 2: run the football, but they have not been able to

570
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Speaker 2: run the football at all the way you want to

571
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Speaker 2: as a forty nine er type offense. So look what

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Speaker 2: happened on Sunday. Look, let's just go throw it. We

573
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Speaker 2: got to go throw it. We got a great quarterback here,

574
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Speaker 2: a great young quarterback. Let's see what he can do.

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Speaker 2: And they're making the most of it. So the ability

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Speaker 2: to adjust, and Dimko has got to do it too

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Speaker 2: with the injuries they've had on defense. The positive effect

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Speaker 2: of Demico, the vibe in the building is so strong,

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Speaker 2: so good, so uplifting. He wants everybody to be energetic,

580
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Speaker 2: have fun, work hard. You just feel it. Even if

581
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Speaker 2: you're not involved with the team, you feel it. And

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Speaker 2: it's such a breath of fresh air at NRG Stadium.

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Speaker 2: It's so good to have him as the head coach.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned the Houston is four and four. Those wins

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Speaker 1: include a twenty point win over Jacksonville. I don't think

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars have lost since that game. And how about

587
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Speaker 1: a thirty to six win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. We

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Speaker 1: love that as Bengals fans. Did those wins show you

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Speaker 1: just how legitimate the Texans are at this early stage

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Speaker 1: of the season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think one thing to point out about those

592
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Speaker 2: wins defense relatively healthy. They had some guys out, but

593
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Speaker 2: relatively healthy, and they were on fire at Jacksonville. That

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Speaker 2: was Week three. They were coming off the loss and

595
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Speaker 2: they really torched them. I mean, they really took it

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Speaker 2: to them. I don't know if the Jags were overlooking

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Speaker 2: or whatever, but it was wonderful to see the kind

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Speaker 2: of performance they put together. They picked off Trevor Lawrence,

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Speaker 2: CJ looked really good, big third down play at the

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Speaker 2: end for a dagger touchdown pass. And against the Steelers

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Speaker 2: that was the day they retired JJ Watt. Well, they

602
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:45,920
Speaker 2: didn't retire as Jersey, but they put them in the

603
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Speaker 2: Ring of Honor and it was a great ceremony and everything.

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Speaker 2: I think everybody was pumped up. There were a lot

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Speaker 2: of Steeler fans in the building. You all know how

606
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Speaker 2: they travel, and I think it pumped up the Texans

607
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 2: to see the terrible towels in the building. But they

608
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Speaker 2: performed well. I think what happened is coming on. They

609
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Speaker 2: lost to Atlanta, then they come back to beat the Saints,

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Speaker 2: then they lose to Carolina after the buy their kids,

611
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Speaker 2: and they don't know how to win yet consistently. And

612
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Speaker 2: it's tough of this league to win consistently no matter

613
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Speaker 2: who you are. So they've got to learn these lessons.

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Speaker 2: But I can tell you this, the Bengals will have

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Speaker 2: their undivided attention. I mean, if they were playing Carolina

616
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Speaker 2: this week for instance, who knows what happens, but the

617
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Speaker 2: fact that you're playing the Bengals, which yeah, this is

618
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Speaker 2: a team as good as any team in the league,

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Speaker 2: they'll be certainly ready for this one.

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Speaker 7: I look at this defensive football team as a former

621
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Speaker 7: old lineman, though, and Will Anderson man, this kid for

622
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Speaker 7: a rookie is fundamentally sound. His use of his hands

623
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Speaker 7: is like very very exceptional. I mean he's extraordinary that way.

624
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Speaker 7: Malik Collins the three technique. This dude is disruptive. I mean,

625
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Speaker 7: he really causes issues up there. This is good football

626
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 7: team up front. Cashman you know, makes plays at linebacker.

627
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Speaker 7: I mean, it's a it's a good front seven. It's

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Speaker 7: it's nothing, nothing to sneeze at. But you don't feel

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Speaker 7: like they're playing at the level they were playing at

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Speaker 7: earlier in the season when they knocked off the division

631
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Speaker 7: leader Jacksonville and Pittsburgh back to back weeks.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think in some ways they have this pass

633
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:18,480
Speaker 2: game not as much because obviously you look at thirty

634
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 2: seven points on the board, you're thinking, Okay, they gave

635
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 2: up some points to Baker Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Carolina,

636
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Speaker 2: they held them to a low point total, but they

637
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:29,840
Speaker 2: gave up the game winning field goal drive when they

638
00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 2: had them pinned at the nine yard line Atlanta. They

639
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 2: had a chance to close them out, but Atlanta drove

640
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 2: for a game winning field goal. So they lost those

641
00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 2: two games, Carolina and Atlanta at the Buzzer. But the defense,

642
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 2: they've been holding teams to relatively low point totals other

643
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Speaker 2: than this past week. They came into the game tied

644
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Speaker 2: for six in the NFL and points per game allowed.

645
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Speaker 2: So I do like that there's some bend but not break.

646
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Speaker 2: And they are good against the run, and you pointed

647
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Speaker 2: out Will Anderson fundamentally Sam the leak, You've got Jonathan Grenard,

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Speaker 2: and you've got good players up front. Demico cites them

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Speaker 2: setting the edge as a key reason or one of

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Speaker 2: the reasons why they're good against the run. They don't

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Speaker 2: let you get to the outside. They stuffed the middle.

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Speaker 2: They've been playing to run relatively well, but in the

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Speaker 2: passing game they've given up some things from time to time,

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Speaker 2: and they got to shore that up. Well. Look, it's

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Speaker 2: like I said, it's a young team. They're learning. And

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Speaker 2: you know, I don't know how you guys feel, but

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Speaker 2: I always look around the league and I say, man,

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Speaker 2: it's all about are you ready to go at noon

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Speaker 2: on Sunday noon Central one Eastern and whatever the case

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Speaker 2: may be. Are you at your best at that point?

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Speaker 2: And what are the coaches and players need to do

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Speaker 2: to make sure that happens? Because too many good teams

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Speaker 2: go win one lose one, right, and too many bad

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Speaker 2: teams win games. Maybe they're quote not supposed to. Why

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Speaker 2: It just feels like some teams maybe aren't ready or

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Speaker 2: maybe everybody's that even that good. The differences are so minute, no.

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Speaker 7: Doubt in the real quick the run, like you pointed out,

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Speaker 7: only allowing ninety seven yards a game on the ground,

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Speaker 7: that's top ten in the NFL. Three point five yards

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Speaker 7: per rush, third best in the NFL. Last year they

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Speaker 7: gave up for franchise record one hundred and seventy point

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Speaker 7: two yards a game. I mean, was worse than the league,

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Speaker 7: our franchise worst. Tamika Ryan said, no more of that.

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Speaker 7: We're handling the running game.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because there's nothing more demoralizing, right when you're giving

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Speaker 2: up gashes on the ground. Last year that was really

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Speaker 2: tough to take. And last year, look, they were in

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Speaker 2: a lot of games. They had the Chiefs deep in

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Speaker 2: overtime and actually stopped Mahomes and overtime. I felt like

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Speaker 2: putting up a banner in the stadium. We stopped Mahomes

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Speaker 2: and overtime. They were right there with the Cowboys first

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Speaker 2: and goal late with a chance to put the game away,

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Speaker 2: couldn't score. They had games like that last year and

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Speaker 2: we all know they won the last one against the Colts,

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Speaker 2: which turned out to be the biggest blessing ever because

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Speaker 2: they got CJ. Stroud with the number two pick in

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Speaker 2: the draft, and you guys know, when you have the quarterback,

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Speaker 2: food tastes better, the air smells cleaner, life is better,

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Speaker 2: and we'll see where it takes them.

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