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Speaker 1: you with us. And let's play Who's better? Johnny? I

447
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,719
Speaker 1: know you're ready for this one. Oh, let's go. All right?

448
00:26:30,760 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 1: Here we go. Who's better? As far as home field mistique,

449
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 1: Denver or Seattle? Denver with the mile high altitude, loud,

450
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 1: rowdy fans, Seattle, the twelves, they were going nuts on

451
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:51,719
Speaker 1: Monday night. So those two played each other. Obviously they

452
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 1: both have great home field mistique. I don't use the

453
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 1: word advantage. It is an advantage, but it's a mistique

454
00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:01,080
Speaker 1: about going to these particular places. There are other places

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00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 1: in the league that have a mystique. But I'm comparing

456
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: these two right now. Who's better, Johnny? Oh boy, that's tough.

457
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:14,399
Speaker 1: I think Denver's altitude issue. I know people kind of

458
00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:18,399
Speaker 1: scoff at it like it's gonna be fine. There's not

459
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: an alto issue. All I know is I used to

460
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 1: watch a humilage, one one of the most conditioned athletes

461
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: all the time, go play the Nuggets and have that

462
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 1: dag um gas mask on his face. As he was

463
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,680
Speaker 1: trying to get oxygen. So I thought it was kind

464
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:34,639
Speaker 1: of like, all right, you know, maybe it happens to

465
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: some people. And I didn't take heed to it much

466
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:41,080
Speaker 1: when we went out there in twenty fourteen, when we

467
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:47,479
Speaker 1: went to practices, when we moved our location into downtown Denver,

468
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:52,400
Speaker 1: I couldn't sleep at all twenty the night before the game.

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00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: Twenty sixteen, we stayed in Denver, I couldn't sleep the

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00:27:55,880 --> 00:28:01,000
Speaker 1: night before the game. Same exact thing. Twenty eighteen, same

471
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 1: exact thing. I have a huge problem going out there.

472
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: I don't know whether I'll sleep on Saturday night or not.

473
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna go with Denver because I can deal

474
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: with noise. I got hand signals, I got all that.

475
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 1: I can deal with noise. But the added noise plus

476
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: altitude to me, gives the edge to Denver. Yeah. I

477
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: think it's a good point and they'll be going nuts

478
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 1: there on Sunday. But I think also this could happen.

479
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 1: They haven't made the playoffs since twenty fifteen. I know

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00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: you played my interview with Dave Logan yesterday, and yep,

481
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 1: I just got a feeling that if things get rough, Look,

482
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 1: they want the Broncos to window matter what, even if

483
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: they get down, they'll be pulling for a big comeback

484
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 1: in a big, rousing victory. But and the Denver fans

485
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: are polite compared to a lot of other places. But

486
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: I gotta feel in they're gonna turn on them if

487
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 1: things don't go extremely well for them, right, I think,

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00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 1: I think you're exactly right. And I can't remember. I

489
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,160
Speaker 1: think it was Landry I was listening to today. He

490
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 1: brought that up about how big this game is for

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00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: the Broncho goes, how much pressure is on them, and

492
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: if the Texans go in there and beat them, then

493
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:06,720
Speaker 1: the Broncos are an eight or a nine point dog

494
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: or a favorite. When the Texans going to beat them,

495
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: and they're owing two to start the year against the

496
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: Seahawks and the Texans, oh boy, oh boy. And then

497
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 1: they just handed Russell Wilson a big contract. I mean, Mark,

498
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 1: you're dead on this thing could turn and turn quickly. Yes,

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00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: I'm hoping it does. I think if it's another twenty

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Speaker 1: to three situation, Texans have that kind of lead, it's

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00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 1: gonna be rough on the Broncos with their home fans,

502
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:36,200
Speaker 1: no doubt about that, all Right, who's better better situation

503
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: with a missing defensive player as far as the opponent

504
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: being to Houston Texans, the Cults who are missing Shack

505
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: Leonard last week, or Denver missing Justin Simmons, better situation

506
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 1: for the Texans cause which one? I think it will

507
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: be Justin Simmons missing. And it's not just because that's

508
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: the game on the schedule, but I feel like to

509
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 1: take this offense to a different level, they've got to

510
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: get some big plays. I mean, they hit the one

511
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,000
Speaker 1: obviously to Brandy Cooks off the flea flicker, but they've

512
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 1: got to hit some big plays. And in that Vic

513
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: Fangio style defense, they're reading on the run. They're reading things.

514
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: And if you can complicate the issue for Caden Sterns,

515
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: former University of Texas safety that who is presumably going

516
00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 1: to fill in for Justin Simmons, then maybe maybe you

517
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: get a cheap one or two over the top where

518
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 1: he is going after a dig route when he should

519
00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: have been going deep with the seam route. Now the

520
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 1: seam route's wide open. Now you know Kareem's back there,

521
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: then we know Kareem is one of the smarter football

522
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 1: players in the NFL. He knows his stuff and he's

523
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 1: fitting too that defense really well. But Kareem gets aggressive

524
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: and if he looks over there and he realizes the

525
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 1: Sterns isn't doing it, he's gonna try and step in

526
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,280
Speaker 1: and make sure it gets right, there's another opportunity. So

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00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: I think Simmons being out and look being a shack

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Speaker 1: Lennard being out, the ability to knock the ball way

529
00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 1: and punch it out, that was huge. That was huge

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Speaker 1: to not have him on that side. But they replaced

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00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: Shaquille Leonard was one of the fastest guys in the

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Speaker 1: field and EJ. Speed, and that came into play in

533
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: that game. And Speed made a number of plays. I

534
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: was showing you a run play that he made. I'm

535
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: not sure Shaquie Leonard makes that play. I was just

536
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:24,959
Speaker 1: gonna say, I mean it was incredible. So from that standpoint,

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00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: I think, I mean they they missed Shaquie Leonard. I

538
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,479
Speaker 1: think they felt like their their soul was missing. Because

539
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 1: I was standing down everybody the Colt's warm up, the

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00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: whole warm up, and I'm just watching him. He's talking

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Speaker 1: to everybody. I mean, Mark, He's talking to everybody. He

542
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: at one point looked at me, and I thought it

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00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: was talking. I thought he was talking to me, and

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00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,840
Speaker 1: I kind of looked at him and he was just

545
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: kind of singing a song or something. I have my

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00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 1: headphones on. I'm like, what's he talking trash to me? For?

547
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: What am I gonna do? Go hit him with the mic?

548
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: So he was talking everybody. Justin Simmons isn't that guy,

549
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: But Justin Simmons is the heartbeat for that defense. He's

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Speaker 1: the guy that communicates from the back to the front.

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00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: And that's That's also another part that's different about this

552
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 1: Denver defense in just reading and listening to how Vic

553
00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: Fangio and Brandon Staley kind of put together their defenses

554
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: out of a very similar scheme. They think back to front.

555
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: So a guy in the back with that much say so,

556
00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,480
Speaker 1: with that much leadership and Justin Simmons not being there

557
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 1: is a huge problem. And I have the Texans just

558
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: have to take advantage of it. It can't be well,

559
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: there's no Justin Simmons back there. That's great, but then

560
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: you don't take advantage of it. You gotta be able

561
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: to take advantage of it. Gotta be able to do it.

562
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: And it's it's a great point you bring up about

563
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 1: his leadership and defensive quarterbacking, if you will, all right,

564
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 1: continuing to play who's better better chance to win this weekend?

565
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: The Jags hosting the Cults or the Titans visiting the Bills.

566
00:32:54,360 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: Better chance to win Jags. The Bills are not gonna

567
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: step on themselves at home. I don't think they understand

568
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: the Titans last year. It's funny because going into the season,

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00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: I'm not thinking the Titans are that good. I just

570
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: I just haven't felt that way. I felt the loss

571
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 1: a J. Brown was just too much. They were gonna

572
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 1: be hurting from, you know, lack of Roger Saffold, lack

573
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: of a J. Brown, And that came to fruition of

574
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,880
Speaker 1: the day. They really didn't move the buther relying on

575
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 1: a rookie slot receiver UCLA Kyle Phillips, who actually is

576
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: very very good, but you put him with a J. Brown,

577
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: now you're cooking. But they just didn't have that. So

578
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: I didn't think the Tits were that good anyways. But

579
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: the Bills, just reading our Buddy sALS tweets and just

580
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: seeing what's coming out of Buffalo, they are not taking

581
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 1: that one four granted at all. I think they want

582
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: to bury the Titans. I mean burying for good. A

583
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: win puts them up two and a half games over

584
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Speaker 1: the team that was number one in the AFC last

585
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: year saw the Bills. I think will not be caught

586
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: with the proverbial pants down. The Colts have gone to

587
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and lost many many times in a row. I

588
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: do think. I do think that the Jaguars will not

589
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: win that game, even though they won that one last year.

590
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,399
Speaker 1: I think the Colts will wake up enough to get

591
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,399
Speaker 1: that win. But I think that is an ugly win,

592
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: kind of like you want to call last week's an

593
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 1: ugly tie. It'll be an ugly win, and it'll be

594
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 1: seventeen sixteen, it'll be nineteen twelve. It won't be pretty,

595
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 1: but the Colts will finally get that win in Duval

596
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: County and move forward from that point, and then their

597
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:39,879
Speaker 1: schedule gets really tough. But I'll tell you this mark,

598
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,319
Speaker 1: If the Colts don't get that win and go to

599
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: oh one and one after playing the Texans and the

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00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 1: Jaguars and then we three kicks in, it's the Chiefs,

601
00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: who we could be a long year in Indian. Yeah,

602
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,720
Speaker 1: they always seem to start badly though that right this ship.

603
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: You know they've got all the elements you need to

604
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 1: get your season going when you can start pounding it

605
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: with Jonathan Taylor, and I think for their cause last week,

606
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:08,400
Speaker 1: they didn't run it often enough, early enough. They should

607
00:35:08,400 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: have done that a little bit more. Stop trying to

608
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: get Matt Ryan going. He'll get going. Run the ball.

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00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 1: That's what I would have done if I were them,

610
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: and they got off to that sluggish start. The Texans

611
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 1: had a lot to do with that. So give the

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00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: Texans a ton of credit building that twenty to three advantage.

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00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 1: Unfortunately it didn't hold, as we all know. We'll see

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00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 1: what happens from here, all right. Continuing Who's better? We

615
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: mentioned the McLean movies? What's the better McClean movie? And

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00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go to the ones where he

617
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: has the big speaking parts. I'll go to the ones

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00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:42,240
Speaker 1: where he barely appears. He's a media member in The Rookie,

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Speaker 1: The Longest Yard, Secretariat, and Invincible game Plan also with

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00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:48,800
Speaker 1: the Rock, but I won't even count that one among

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Speaker 1: those four Johnny Invincible, Secretariat, Longest Yard, and The Rookie.

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00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 1: What's the best movie? McLean was in Okay, I knew

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Speaker 1: I'll get Steward for this. First of all, I haven't

624
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 1: seen Secretariat, so that's on me that would win it. Yeah,

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00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean that I've always heard that's

626
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 1: a really good film, but I'm not I'm not doing that.

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00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: I always loved The Longest Yard, and I didn't think

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00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 1: I would like the remake. But I cackled at the remake.

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Speaker 1: I just thought it was just funny. I thought what

630
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,920
Speaker 1: they did, how they captured the new Longest Yard, I

631
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 1: thought was really really good. So I'm gonna go with

632
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 1: The Longest Yard. I'm gonna go with the Rookie. I

633
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: love the Rookie. It's a true story. The way they

634
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:36,359
Speaker 1: do it, the stadium appearance of Jim Morris at the end,

635
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:38,919
Speaker 1: it's just terrific. I didn't like the stuff about his father.

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00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 1: We don't need that. Just you know, they add some

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00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 1: stories to shows and movies, some storylines you just don't need.

638
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: But maybe they felt like it was necessary. Obviously they

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Speaker 1: was pretty good too, Secretariat. You want a better horse movie,

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Speaker 1: Sea Biscuit, better horse movie, then Secretariat, Sea Biscuit with

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Speaker 1: Jeff Bridges and what's his name? Toby maguire. Okay, every

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Speaker 1: about Toby McGuire. Oh my gosh, don't start, yeah, la stories. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I will say he's been very, very nice to my daughter,

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Speaker 1: m Garner, So I'm very you know, I can be

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Speaker 1: a Toby maguire fan, but I've heard some other bad stories.

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Speaker 1: But he was very sweet when my daughter worked with

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Speaker 1: him and met him. So you're so plugged into that

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Speaker 1: hollywoods Okay, I've got a question. I'm putting you on

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Speaker 1: the Spot next about the twenty twenty one quarterback class, Johnny.

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Speaker 1: We returned to Texans Radio, Yes we do, Mark Vandamaron,

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Speaker 1: John Harris with you okay? Johnny clasped of twenty one quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: Davis Mills among them, third round pick, and he throws

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Speaker 1: two touchdown passes. Last week Texans tie the Indianapolis Colts.

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Speaker 1: More the more I look at it, you know, it

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Speaker 1: was too bad that the offense struggled those last few

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Speaker 1: possessions in the second half, in in overtime. One more

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Speaker 1: throw would have gotten it done. You know, one more throw,

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Speaker 1: maybe at any particular time, might have gotten it done.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not putting that all on him. I'm saying

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Speaker 1: the whole offense, you know, to keep one more pass, play,

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Speaker 1: one more big play and you can get it the

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Speaker 1: field goal range, get that big three points to put

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Speaker 1: you over the top. Would have been awesome. But I

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Speaker 1: thought all at all, I mean, you throw two touchdown passes,

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Speaker 1: no picks. I know you had the sack fumble, but

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Speaker 1: those things happen as well. What do you make of

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Speaker 1: the criticism, if you will, of Trey Lance, because I

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Speaker 1: know you're high in his abilities and it was a

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Speaker 1: rice patty they were playing on it. Soldier Field, Texans

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Speaker 1: will be up there next week, by the way, folks,

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Speaker 1: So I hope that field heals up a little bit

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Speaker 1: for Houston. What do you make of that? And maybe

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Speaker 1: a general comment on the class as a whole, Well,

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Speaker 1: it's a class that definitely is struggling, and it's unfortunate.

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Speaker 1: I mean in some ways. I mean, Davis has been

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Speaker 1: the one that's really stood out of those six quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: and I think, I mean, it's so hard with Trey Lance.

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Speaker 1: You played in a monsoon now before and it was

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Speaker 1: a monsoon before the game, and it turned into a

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Speaker 1: monsoon in the fourth quarter. But they really weren't doing

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Speaker 1: a whole lot. But then again, pull forty nine ers,

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Speaker 1: vibe was off, Debo fumbled, They couldn't come up with

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Speaker 1: big plays in the fourth quarter. Justin Fields was the

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Speaker 1: one that made those plays. And somebody asked me, and

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Speaker 1: I can't remember Mark of as you or somebody asked

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Speaker 1: you about which one of these quarterbacks do you think

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Speaker 1: could step out? And I was like, I think justin

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Speaker 1: Fields could. He's a guy that he's always got the

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Speaker 1: ability to run. That's he's always got that, and he's

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Speaker 1: not scared to do that and he's got just enough. Um,

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Speaker 1: what's the right way of saying, hootspot if you will

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Speaker 1: to be the guy to say, yeah, man, I might

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Speaker 1: throw for one hundred and thirty yards, stay, but I

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Speaker 1: don't find a way to get my team a win.

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Speaker 1: And he made a couple of heathrows in that game.

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Speaker 1: He had Dante Pettis on the fifty one yard for

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Speaker 1: a touchdown, sixty one yard or whatever it was. So

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Speaker 1: justin Fields and I mean Zach Wilson can't get on

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Speaker 1: the field because he's been injured. So we'll see what

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Speaker 1: Zax able to do. But Trevor's the one to me

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Speaker 1: that had to be great, and that's it's not there yet.

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Speaker 1: It isn't. But I go back to this often, it's

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Speaker 1: a year in a game can make a real good

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Speaker 1: assessment on that. If we did that after a year

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Speaker 1: in a game, there have been a lot of great

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks that never got the opportunity to continue going like

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Speaker 1: we've seen enough. It's a year in a game gone.

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Speaker 1: You got gotta give some guys some time. But I

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Speaker 1: know how we are as a football society that we

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Speaker 1: want to see it now. See it now now, Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes did it now? Josh Allen it took two three years.

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Speaker 1: Remember Josh Allen as a rookie, I know you do.

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Speaker 1: Martin as rookie twenty eighteen, it was a mess. He

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Speaker 1: was all over the place. By twenty nineteen you started

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Speaker 1: seeing it come together a little bit. In the playoff game,

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Speaker 1: he saw a little bit of everything. By year three,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, oh boy, he got himself a receiver and

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Speaker 1: he was ready to take off. So I don't want

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Speaker 1: to give up on any of these guys. Just from

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Speaker 1: an animal standpoint, I don't give up any of these

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Speaker 1: guys until they get through a good couple of years.

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Speaker 1: Like at the end of this year, I think you

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Speaker 1: can look up and go no or yeah, there's something there.

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Speaker 1: Let's stick with this guy. The one that I worry

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Speaker 1: about just because of what he's got around is Matt Jones.

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Speaker 1: I just I'm not buying Matt Patricia's a play caller,

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Speaker 1: being able to step in never called offensive plays before,

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Speaker 1: and just all of a sudden, you're gonna call plays

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Speaker 1: against the Miami defense that is, you know, throwing the

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Speaker 1: kitchen seek at Mac Jones and he's getting the you

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Speaker 1: know what beat out of him. Ah. I feel for Mac.

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00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 1: I feel for him in that situation. So I think

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Speaker 1: Max's the one that really could be a struggle. And

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Speaker 1: he's the one that made the Pro Bowl last year.

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Speaker 1: But just the situation he's in this year, I think

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Speaker 1: is really really tough. I think Trey will work things

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Speaker 1: out if he doesn't. He doesn't and I've missed, but

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Speaker 1: I think he's got a lot of talent playing quarterback

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Speaker 1: that if he's given some time and he's not playing

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Speaker 1: him monsoon, I think you get that thing turned around

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Speaker 1: and turned around rather quickly. Okay, well, I like monsoons

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Speaker 1: when they affect you know. Again, I'm not I'm not

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Speaker 1: sitting here hoping that Trey Lance is successful. I know,

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Speaker 1: but I want Mills to be the best one. That's

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Speaker 1: all I'm gonna say. Yes, all right, that's just how

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Speaker 1: I look at things. So give me a sneak peek,

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Speaker 1: Johnny Friday night, you come out with your keys to

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Speaker 1: the game, A lot of people wait for that, for

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Speaker 1: the John Harris Key to the game. Nobody watches more

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Speaker 1: tape than you do. So give me one little nugget

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Speaker 1: here of what we're gonna get tomorrow night. As far

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Speaker 1: as a key factor, a key element of a Texans

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Speaker 1: victory on Sunday at Mile High, we'll give me two

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Speaker 1: of them. One I will give credit to Ted winnrets

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Speaker 1: for the athletic and it goes sort of hand in

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Speaker 1: hand with the one that I had realized, and that

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Speaker 1: is Russell Wilson does not love to throw the ball

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Speaker 1: in the middle of the field. Russell Wilson throws the

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Speaker 1: ball outside the numbers. He wants to throw the ball

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Speaker 1: outside the numbers. Some of that is bootleg stuff, some

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00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: of that is just his getting out of the pocket stuff.

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Speaker 1: He wants to throw the ball outside the numbers. The

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Speaker 1: one I'll give credit to Ted four is he went

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Speaker 1: and he found a few things Seattle did, and he

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Speaker 1: found this number. And I think it came from PFF

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00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 1: rolling to his left and moving to his left. The

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Speaker 1: last couple of years, Russell Wilson has been awful. So

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna have success against Russell, make him throw

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Speaker 1: it in the middle of the field. Or push him

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Speaker 1: left with your pass rush. If he goes right, you

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Speaker 1: got issues. Push him left with your pass rush and

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Speaker 1: make him throw that way and he's not had as

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Speaker 1: the middle of the field, condense it and make sure

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Speaker 1: he doesn't get balls to the outside. It's got to

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Speaker 1: between the seams. That's where you want him to throw

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Speaker 1: the football. Because he has struggled doing that the last

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Speaker 1: couple of years. Let's get after him. Let's see what

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Speaker 1: happened Sunday, Texans at Denver three twenty five kick remember

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Speaker 1: late afternoon kick for that one, live right here, Johnny.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Looking forward to tomorrow night's show as we'll

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