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Speaker 2: Everybody?

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Speaker 3: Welcome into a Friday edition of Texans All Access from

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Speaker 3: the Hyundai Texans Radio Studio. John Harris, your host, Football

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Speaker 3: on a slide reporter for your Houston Texans Jam packed

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Speaker 3: show for you this evening, and it always kicks off

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Speaker 3: on a Friday with the Voice of the Texans, Mark

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Speaker 3: vandermir Mark, Good evening, How are you doing.

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Speaker 1: How are you feeling about Sunday?

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Speaker 4: There's something about Friday night before a big football weekend

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Speaker 4: already in progress. Really with a huge game last night

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Speaker 4: that was so much fun to watch. Yeah, I thought

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Speaker 4: that was a great you know. Sean Pendergass called it

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Speaker 4: an appetizer for the weekend.

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Speaker 1: It was more like a meal in a way.

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Speaker 4: Even though I don't have a dog in the fight,

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Speaker 4: I like Mike Tomlin a lot. I really don't like

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Speaker 4: the Browns with you know who, but I think a

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Speaker 4: lot of teams. Somebody brought this up. Oh, Jay mcdeviit

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Speaker 4: digital czar here brought this up. He said, you know,

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Speaker 4: traditionally and meaning the last twenty years or so since

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Speaker 4: the Browns got back into the league, a lot of

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Speaker 4: people sort of were closet Browns fans.

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Speaker 5: They kind of.

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Speaker 1: Pulled for the Browns.

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Speaker 4: They want the Browns to do well, the little engine

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Speaker 4: that could you know, the Browns. Can the Browns please

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Speaker 4: do a little better than they've been doing. But once

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Speaker 4: they got you know who, a lot of people turned

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Speaker 4: on the Browns. And in this city, I feel that,

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Speaker 4: and I think in a lot of cities, a lot

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Speaker 4: of cities and ends. You know, we don't have to

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Speaker 4: get into all the dynamics of that. But last night,

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Speaker 4: Johnny I felt like that city of Cleveland that they're

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Speaker 4: moving on from there, you know, from that dynamic with

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Speaker 4: him and Jameis Winston out there playing his guts out,

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Speaker 4: turning the ball over.

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Speaker 5: Because Jamis is going to turn the ball over.

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Speaker 3: Jamus is going to it's death in taxas He's going

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Speaker 5: But the snow, the grittiness.

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Speaker 4: Amazon had their best broadcast as far as the shots went.

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Speaker 4: The video was fantastic, the overheads, the close ups, it

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Speaker 4: was great. Al Michaels, I can't believe everybody's still here.

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Speaker 4: Al do you understand the sport that you've been covering

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Speaker 4: and announcing and you're considered the best over the last

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Speaker 4: few decades. This is huge for them. I don't care

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Speaker 4: what the record is.

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Speaker 2: They're about to.

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Speaker 4: Beat the Steelers and it means something. They're gonna be

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Speaker 4: talking about this game for a long time. And they

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Speaker 4: just made the playoffs last year. They did with Joe

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Speaker 4: Flacco mostly they made the playoffs last year.

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Speaker 5: But this was a big night for them.

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Speaker 1: It was a moving on night.

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Speaker 4: It was something to celebrate within the course of a

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Speaker 4: dismal season for them. And I was kind of happy

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Speaker 4: for the Cleveland fans last night.

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Speaker 3: I was to now, Cleveland fans are kind of an

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Speaker 3: offshoot of a house state Buckeye fans and so Ohio

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Speaker 3: state Buckeye fans are pretty obnoxious, but it's almost like

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Speaker 3: when they put their browns gear on, they become this

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Speaker 3: different group. I told my story the other night about

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Speaker 3: driving from Cleveland to Pittsburgh and are bus driver who's

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Speaker 1: I thought she was absolutely hilarious. But I think there's

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Speaker 3: A couple things that that that kept hitting me as

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Speaker 3: I was watching that game last night. Number one and

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Speaker 3: you you mentioned a little bit. Jamis Winston is incredibly like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: he's just he's he's funny.

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Speaker 1: Like his pregame speech with Kaylee Hartongue was.

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Speaker 3: Really on point yep, but it really made me want

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Speaker 3: to cheer for him, like he's likable. Like dang he

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Speaker 3: threw then interception. I thought, God, dang it, they're gonna

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Speaker 3: lose this game. I want And obviously I wanted Pittsburgh

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Speaker 3: of stuff. I don't really have to I don't really

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Speaker 1: I like Mike Toma.

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Speaker 3: I think Mike Tom Mike Tom on to me when

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Speaker 3: he goes down to the senior ball. It's incredible to

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Speaker 3: like Mike. I like mikee a lot. But I wanted

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Speaker 3: Cleveland win that game last night, and so I really

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Speaker 3: I didn't get a chance to watch much the first half.

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Speaker 1: I kind of turn it on when.

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Speaker 2: It was so.

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Speaker 1: They went up twelve, so they were up twelve.

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Speaker 3: The wait, they were up ten six, they went for two,

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Speaker 3: they scored and went for two to eighteen to six,

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Speaker 3: and Jamis gets that touchdown on fourth down, and I

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Speaker 3: was just like, Yeah, they're gonna do this.

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Speaker 1: Jamis is the hero, and I really wanted to be the.

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Speaker 3: Hero and you cough, and Pittsburgh has the lead all

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Speaker 3: of a sudden, yeah, and then and then Jamis was

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Speaker 3: an interception like Okay, it's just not happening. But then

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Speaker 3: he gets the ball back, they go down and they score,

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Speaker 3: and the whole thing came back to me and I

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Speaker 3: I've thought about this when Deshaun went to Cleveland. You

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Speaker 3: said it. It wasn't just people in Houston. It wasn't

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Speaker 3: just Texans fans. There were people around the country that

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Speaker 3: just looked at him and the Browns and went, no,

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Speaker 1: They didn't like it. Doesn't I don't like it was any.

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Speaker 4: Grab because he originally told them exactly and they backed

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Speaker 4: up the brinks truck and I get it. You want

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Speaker 4: the money and this is nothing against him even it's

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Speaker 4: just that the fan base and the media and everybody

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Speaker 4: there had to say, well, it doesn't really matter what happened,

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Speaker 4: because come on, you don't want to have to be

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Speaker 4: like that, that's right and what And to me, on

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Speaker 4: a different level, it almost it was almost like being

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Speaker 4: a Rockets fan during the James Harden years like you

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Speaker 3: Almost had to defend a guy that you knew was

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Speaker 3: imminently unlikable and unlikable to a lot of people, not

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Speaker 3: only in this city, in our city, but throughout the NBA.

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Speaker 1: In his style of place stunk. It was not team.

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Speaker 4: Balls effective, it was it was effective. It was effective.

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Speaker 4: They were really good. I know they sold a lot

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Speaker 1: I know I didn't like the way that I liked

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Speaker 5: I understand way more likable McGrady or Harden.

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Speaker 2: McGrady.

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Speaker 4: I agree McGrady And it wasn't like McGrady was the

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Speaker 4: I'm not going to recite everything, but it's interesting you

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Speaker 4: pointed out that way and Harden they had good success, right,

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Speaker 4: it wasn't for the Warriors. It's kind of like the

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Speaker 4: Oilers bumping up against the Steelers back in the day.

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Speaker 4: If it wasn't for the Warriors, things would be a

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Speaker 3: But I watched the Rockets now as an example, and

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Speaker 3: Baul doesn't get sticky. They're exciting. I mean they're put

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Speaker 3: Did you watch so you in the last two years

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Speaker 3: you the Browns have replaced Deshaun Watson with Joe Flacco,

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Speaker 3: the thirty nine year old get up off the couch

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Speaker 3: after eating combos and.

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Speaker 4: Bugles and old guys are lovable. Yes, always. Who said it, Johnny?

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Speaker 4: Somebody said, Gosh, I can't remember who said it. They

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Speaker 4: love you when you're young in the middle, yeah, and

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Speaker 4: then late they love you again. They love you when

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Speaker 4: you're old xact. And Flacco is Joe Flacco. Elite doesn't

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Speaker 4: matter anymore. He's an old guy. He's just doing it right.

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Speaker 4: He was just doing it and he lit us up.

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Speaker 4: I mean it was rough. He had a rough playoff

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Speaker 3: But they went from happy having this this guy that

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Speaker 3: And we all knew why he was there. We talked

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Speaker 3: And he's inherently unlikable, and so you end up getting

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Speaker 1: But then you go back to this guy that A

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Speaker 3: B is just completely what you don't want to have

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Speaker 3: in that position. He is not Cleveland in any way,

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Speaker 3: shape or form, and he gets hurt. He set aside

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Speaker 3: and it's like, okay, let's go with Jameis Winston. And

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Speaker 3: this guy is a quote machine. He is beloved by

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Speaker 3: the Cleveland fans. He throws the ball, well, he's running

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Speaker 1: Just goes to show that Kevin Stefanski.

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Speaker 2: Knows what the hell he's doing. Yeah, he knows what

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Speaker 4: It's a weird dynamic with the whole number four thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's going to be over because it's basically over now

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Speaker 1: But that was fun last night. That was joy.

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Speaker 4: Was the perfect way to get the weekend rolling, and

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Speaker 4: it does help the Texans. Now the Steelers have three

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Speaker 4: losses on them and it's a good lesson. You and

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Speaker 4: I were talking about this. Cleveland defeated the Ravens and

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Speaker 4: the Steelers and they stake their three Those are two

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Speaker 4: So guess who you're playing this weekend and they don't

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Speaker 4: have anything going for themselves other than they want to

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Speaker 3: That's exactly right, embarrass you in your own building. That

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Speaker 3: is exactly what they want to do. And we're going

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Speaker 3: to talk a little bit about that. But one of

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Speaker 3: the men that will well, he's the main man who

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Speaker 3: will keep the Texans from having that happen to them.

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Speaker 3: In fact, on Friday, when he was speaking to the media,

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Speaker 3: he brought up that Cleveland Pittsburgh game because that's exactly

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Speaker 3: what I thought of last night watching Demiko Ryans has

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Speaker 3: firepower to go back to this team and say, look,

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Speaker 3: this can happen to you. Will you, Mister Vandermier sat

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Speaker 3: down with the head coach of your Houston Texans, Dimiko Ryans.

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Speaker 1: Here's Cap and Mark coach.

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Speaker 4: I know you want to come out with maximum intensity

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Speaker 4: every single game. What does that take is that the

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Speaker 4: players putting it upon themselves?

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Speaker 7: You?

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Speaker 1: Is it a combination of things and.

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Speaker 8: All stars with me and how I lead, and I

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Speaker 8: want to make sure I'm providing that energy intensity and

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Speaker 8: a guy see it from me first and foremost, and

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Speaker 8: then I always encourage guys. We got to get it

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Speaker 8: amongst each other. Right, It's always about players encouraging one another.

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Speaker 8: And you do that most importantly by doing your job.

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Speaker 8: When you execute the right way and you make big plays,

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Speaker 8: you make big hits, score touchdowns. That's gonna up the

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Speaker 8: intensity for our entire.

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Speaker 4: Team, Tennessee. Let's talk about the offense and what you're facing.

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Speaker 4: Because they can run the ball a little bit here

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Speaker 2: Though, yeah he can.

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Speaker 8: One thing about Levis is he probably throws one of

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Speaker 8: It is. Everybody's hungry for the ball, right, And you know,

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Speaker 8: It was Jalen Petrick this week. He took it away

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Speaker 1: All right, very cool.

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Speaker 4: Now, the Tennessee defense, we talk about them, they're highly rated.

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Speaker 5: What makes them good?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: What makes Tennessee defense good? It starts with their interior

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Speaker 4: I know how important field position is to you. Tommy's

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Tommy's done a great job of giving the defense

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Speaker 8: be consistent as he's doing. Our gunners has been doing

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Speaker 8: Like special teams always vital in that hitting yardage, and

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Speaker 8: it's going to be even more important this week for us.

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Speaker 8: This week, we want to see our return game right

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Speaker 8: it's our opportunity. This will be a big week for

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Speaker 1: Awesome, thanks a lot, coach, Good luck to you all right,

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Speaker 1: that's great stuff. As always.

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Speaker 3: Now, when we've talked to Miko Ryans in the past,

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Speaker 3: him and got the coach Jalen Petrie JP number five

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Speaker 3: set down with Drew Doherty to discussed this weekend's game

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Speaker 3: against the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 10: Safety Jalen Petree joins us right now. Jalen led the

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Speaker 10: way with nine tackles, a force fumble, and some vicious,

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Speaker 6: By the way.

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Speaker 10: We need to make note of that. But Jalen, it's

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Speaker 10: That's not the first time you've laid the lumber in

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Speaker 11: I love AT and T's always good vibes every time I,

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Speaker 11: you know, I play in Dallas, have a lot of

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Speaker 10: Yeah, you've made it your home there the last few

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Speaker 10: What's the mood of the team this week. It's a

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Speaker 12: Yeah, thankful.

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Speaker 11: I think we've been real thankful, great energy in the

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Speaker 11: forward and build on what we just did. Like you said,

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Speaker 11: we got to continue to put it on tape.

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Speaker 6: No doubt.

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Speaker 10: You know, at home this season, you guys have played

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Speaker 10: They're averaging just under fifty percent completion rate. You guys,

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Speaker 10: five times. You've had your ways with opposing quarterbacks. Why

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Speaker 10: is that? What's going on with this defense this year?

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Speaker 6: At home?

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Speaker 11: I think it starts with just a group of guys

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Speaker 12: You know, we have a great group of guys that

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Speaker 11: Playmakers that understand what it takes to win. Secondly, I

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Speaker 10: I know what's your job, and I know you're supposed

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Speaker 10: to do it, You're paid to do it. But how

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Speaker 12: I can only speak for myself.

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Speaker 11: I would honestly, I'm honestly having a lot of fun

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Speaker 12: Want to be doing. I got the best job in

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Speaker 6: Love to hear that.

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Speaker 10: And let's talk a little bit about this opponent of

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Speaker 10: He's been picked off eight times. He's also been sacked

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Speaker 11: I think it's important that we switched up the looks

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and he's got some weapons there.

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Speaker 10: And Calvin Ridley, that's someone we've known quite a bit

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Speaker 6: How has Ridley looked to you this year? He's leading

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Speaker 11: Really's a great receiver, can run every route in the

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Speaker 12: One. They also have Boyd and they also have Westbrook.

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Speaker 12: They have a solid little group there.

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Speaker 10: A lot is made of the rivalry in between the

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Speaker 6: Titans used to be the Houston Oilers. Do you buy

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Speaker 11: Honestly, I personally like I've been hearing that rivalry and

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Speaker 12: Knew that they were in the division.

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Speaker 11: And I understand that we've been planning for a long time,

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Speaker 6: All right, let's finish with this. We brought up Stafford.

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Speaker 10: You had a cooling, you know, less than twenty four

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Speaker 10: How much fun was that for you?

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Speaker 6: Love a Jalen. And last thing, what's on the perfect

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Speaker 12: Perfect burger? That's a good question. I like to keep

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Speaker 11: I'm gonna go lettuce and tomato, probably a little bit

446
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Speaker 11: of ketchup in male, definitely some cheese, and definitely some bacon.

447
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Speaker 12: Not too crispy, though.

448
00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,440
Speaker 11: I don't want it too crispy where it's like when

449
00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:14,240
Speaker 11: you bite it, it just start crumbling. But I don't want

450
00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,280
Speaker 11: it too soft to where it's just like chewy.

451
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Speaker 10: Just right, that's how you want it, right, yes, sir,

452
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Speaker 10: just right. Well, we hope you're just right. On Sunday

453
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Speaker 10: against the Tennessee Titans, Jalen Petree. We thank you so

454
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Speaker 10: much for the time.

455
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Speaker 13: Best of luck, appreciate.

456
00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:30,760
Speaker 3: You drew all right, mark some numbers for this one

457
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Speaker 3: against the Titans.

458
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Speaker 1: I was very impressed with this, I want to give you.

459
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Speaker 3: And I were talking off air, in fact, we were

460
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Speaker 3: out of practice, and I said, okay, let's see if

461
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Speaker 3: you know your history, it's been forty four contests against

462
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Speaker 3: the Titans. This will be number forty five Texans Titans.

463
00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:50,560
Speaker 3: What's the record. And you're like, oh, it's pretty close.

464
00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:53,439
Speaker 3: I think the Titans are maybe one or two. And

465
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Speaker 3: you're like, I was like.

466
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Speaker 1: Wow, you hit it. It's twenty three, twenty one Titans

467
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Speaker 1: right now.

468
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Speaker 5: Yep.

469
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Speaker 4: And people are thinking, well, wait a minute, don't we

470
00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:04,159
Speaker 4: always beat the Titans. Well in the early years, folks,

471
00:19:04,320 --> 00:19:06,919
Speaker 4: early years, they piled them up. It wasn't cult like,

472
00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:10,679
Speaker 4: but you didn't beat them until season three. Now, in

473
00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:13,200
Speaker 4: season three you swept them. Steve McNair, you go up there,

474
00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:15,520
Speaker 4: oh yeah, and you beat the late Steve McNair. Then

475
00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:17,640
Speaker 4: you beat them here again. That was awesome a lot. Now,

476
00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:19,600
Speaker 4: that was a pretty decent year for the Texans. They

477
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Speaker 4: had a chance to go five hundred. Last game of

478
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Speaker 4: the season, couldn't do it. Seven and nine the record,

479
00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,840
Speaker 4: but you know, over the course of that period of time,

480
00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:29,240
Speaker 4: think about that. Now, they had a thirteen and three

481
00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,800
Speaker 4: year in two thousand and eight with Kerry Collins, and

482
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Speaker 4: you split with them because you beat them thirteen to

483
00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,919
Speaker 4: twelve here on Monday Night, right. Yeah, remember it was

484
00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:38,879
Speaker 4: not Monday Night. Was after that because the Jacks were

485
00:19:38,920 --> 00:19:42,520
Speaker 4: the Monday night game lates. But there were other outings

486
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Speaker 4: where obviously Vince Young had success. You never beat Vince

487
00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,680
Speaker 4: Young as a Titans quarterback and that's too bad. But anyway,

488
00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:52,359
Speaker 4: they piled up some wins early and they've also gotten

489
00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:55,359
Speaker 4: some garbage wins. Twenty eleven season finale, you didn't need it.

490
00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:57,320
Speaker 4: It started Yates for one drive and then it was

491
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Speaker 4: Jake the loan the rest of the twenty sixteen tho.

492
00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:01,840
Speaker 4: You didn't need that game up there when.

493
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Speaker 3: Tom Savage gets a concussion game and brock and Brockett

494
00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,000
Speaker 3: at halftime, and trust me, anybody that doesn't think that

495
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Speaker 3: happens one hundred percent happened because I heard the whole thing.

496
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Speaker 1: Okay, twenty nineteen just said it.

497
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Speaker 4: Twenty nineteen didn't need it, and Jerrick Henry had one

498
00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:16,800
Speaker 4: thousand yards.

499
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Speaker 5: In that one game.

500
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Speaker 1: That was AJ mccerrn.

501
00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:22,080
Speaker 4: AJ mccahroon got the start. You actually scored on the

502
00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:24,480
Speaker 4: opening possession for the first time, the first time all year.

503
00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,320
Speaker 4: AJ mccaren let him down. That was also the start

504
00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:29,080
Speaker 4: of the run of two hundred yard games for Dereck

505
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Speaker 4: Henry against US.

506
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's where the Titans retook back over the

507
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Speaker 3: lead because from that game at the end of the

508
00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:40,440
Speaker 3: nineteen season, they swept twenty twenty. Yeah, split in twenty one,

509
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Speaker 3: and then the first game of twenty two they beat

510
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Speaker 3: US here. So they had won five out of six, okay,

511
00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,040
Speaker 3: and that helped them get over the top.

512
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Speaker 2: That's right.

513
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Speaker 4: But think about this, Johnny, you beat them in twenty

514
00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,920
Speaker 4: twenty one there with Tyron Taylor coming back. You beat

515
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Speaker 4: them in twenty twenty two, Davis Mills doing the damage

516
00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:00,680
Speaker 4: well as a team win twenty twenty three.

517
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Speaker 1: Obviously, Oilre's Union Norums case Kingdom.

518
00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,760
Speaker 4: So it's been a lot of fun going up there

519
00:21:06,119 --> 00:21:08,760
Speaker 4: these past few years. And they had some good teams

520
00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:10,199
Speaker 4: and you were able to knock them off, so that

521
00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,360
Speaker 4: was cool. Now they don't have a good team anymore

522
00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:14,879
Speaker 4: and We'll see how it goes. But we just said it.

523
00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,440
Speaker 4: You can't overlook anybody in this league. Last night was

524
00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:21,000
Speaker 4: definite proof of that. Get ready, buckle up. It's going

525
00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:23,159
Speaker 4: to be a division battle. Look, I hope it's a

526
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Speaker 4: lopsided victory. It would not surprise me if this is

527
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Speaker 4: a close game. It just wouldn't because it's the NFL.

528
00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:31,359
Speaker 4: Nothing should surprise you about games being close in this league,

529
00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,080
Speaker 4: which is designed this way.

530
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Speaker 1: It's an eight and Nate League. Brian, it is, Brian.

531
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Speaker 3: It's eight Nate League AFC South Champs, which hopefully we

532
00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:41,920
Speaker 3: can beat again this year.

533
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Speaker 1: You started down that road, but in December.

534
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Speaker 3: Of twenty nineteen we went up there for the first

535
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Speaker 3: of two games late in the year.

536
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Speaker 1: I think it was week fifteen.

537
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Speaker 3: We went up there, Yeah, and we beat them with

538
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Speaker 3: one the aforemention de Sean Watson.

539
00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:57,040
Speaker 2: Yeah.

540
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Speaker 3: The next time we beat them was twenty twenty one

541
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Speaker 3: in the rain in Nashville.

542
00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:02,600
Speaker 2: Yeah.

543
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Speaker 1: Quarterback was Tyrod Taylor.

544
00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:04,840
Speaker 2: Okay.

545
00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:08,719
Speaker 3: The next year we beat them in Nashville in the

546
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Speaker 3: cold game delayed because it was so cold in Nashville.

547
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Speaker 1: The quarterback was Davis Mills.

548
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Speaker 2: Very good.

549
00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 1: Last year we swept them. Yeah, beat him in Nashville with.

550
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Speaker 4: Case Keenum and then we won game two with uh

551
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Speaker 4: We won game too with CJ.

552
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Speaker 1: Stroud.

553
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

554
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:27,240
Speaker 3: Five wins over the Titans, the last five wins, five

555
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Speaker 3: different starting quarterbacks.

556
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Speaker 1: That's beautiful. That'slievable to think about.

557
00:22:31,359 --> 00:22:32,119
Speaker 5: What a great stat.

558
00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:34,480
Speaker 3: Now we get another one. Obviously CJ will start his

559
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Speaker 3: streak against the Titans. But yeah, five wins over the Titans,

560
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Speaker 3: five different starting quarterback.

561
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Speaker 4: Well, you could also have Stroud go back to back

562
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Speaker 4: and then possibly the final game of the regular season

563
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Speaker 4: up there.

564
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Speaker 3: You don't need it. Turn back over Davis. Yeah, turn

565
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Speaker 3: it back to Davis, have it. Yeah, absolutely, that would

566
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Speaker 3: kind of nice. I thought that that number sort of

567
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Speaker 3: stood out. Here's another number that stood out to me.

568
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Speaker 3: I saw this somewhere on the on the twitters or

569
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Speaker 3: the ex or whatever you want to call it, and

570
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,240
Speaker 3: I find this. I'll give you the number. Number is

571
00:23:05,320 --> 00:23:07,920
Speaker 3: zero point zero. If I told you that this is

572
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Speaker 3: a blue tarsky, you would know what that was, right, Yeah,

573
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:14,080
Speaker 3: very reference, very dated. Yeah, but it's animal house. It's

574
00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:17,359
Speaker 3: a great reference. Yeah, because Derek Stingley Junior threw a

575
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 3: blue Tarsky at the Dallas Cowboys. The passer rating when

576
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:26,119
Speaker 3: Derek Stingly was targeted in that game was zero point zero,

577
00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 3: zero point zero. He threw a blue Tarsky at the

578
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Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys.

579
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Speaker 1: But here's what I've known. You to tell him that

580
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Speaker 1: and see what he says. He will look at me

581
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Speaker 1: like like I got five heads.

582
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Speaker 4: Derek Stingley Senior. I've talked to him a few times.

583
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Speaker 4: I bet he gets that. He would probably get it.

584
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Speaker 4: I think he would probably get it.

585
00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 3: But anyways, zero point zero passer rating when Derek Stingley

586
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Speaker 3: was the nearest defender.

587
00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:51,400
Speaker 2: That's amazing.

588
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Speaker 3: But here's what I've what I've taken out of the

589
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Speaker 3: last few days. There has been a big Derek Stingley

590
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Speaker 3: Junior love fest, which I'm glad is happening, But it

591
00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:05,199
Speaker 3: feels like there are a lot of people that are

592
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 3: really late to the party because you and I have

593
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 3: been talking about how good sting has been since he

594
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 3: came back off the injury last year. Right, I think

595
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:16,639
Speaker 3: a lot of people forget he started the first two games,

596
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,240
Speaker 3: looked really good, then had this hamstring injury and missed

597
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:23,720
Speaker 3: seven or eight weeks, came back and then started picking

598
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Speaker 3: off everything left and right right. And I it was

599
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 3: at that point where I was like, that dude right there,

600
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:33,560
Speaker 3: that's distingly that I had rated ahead of Sauce Gardner.

601
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Speaker 1: That's that guy I think he is.

602
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 3: And I said to soft Sing, I said, I think

603
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Speaker 3: he is going to be at the end of the

604
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Speaker 3: year the best corner in the NFL. And I know

605
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Speaker 3: you kind of looked at me, like, well, you know,

606
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 3: let's let it play out, and you thought I was crazy.

607
00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 1: I was like, no, he's going to be the number

608
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Speaker 1: one corner in this league.

609
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Speaker 3: I think I'm as close to being right on that

610
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Speaker 3: one as I could possibly be.

611
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Speaker 13: Wow.

612
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because but I love hey, I love that.

613
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Speaker 3: There's kind of this love fest now. But I'm like,

614
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Speaker 3: where y'all Ben, He's been doing that all year.

615
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,080
Speaker 4: Well, it's kind of like the team itself, right, because

616
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 4: what happened is rookie year, he had a pick against Jacksonville.

617
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 4: You had Sauce Gardner playing well in New York and

618
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 4: I'm already made total defense, right. That defense was not

619
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Speaker 4: good to go necessarily, but they had they had Williams close.

620
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Speaker 5: They had both Williams at that point.

621
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Speaker 12: C J.

622
00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:21,200
Speaker 3: Mosley, Quinn, Williams Quincy I think had just gotten there.

623
00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:22,920
Speaker 1: Yeah they had Bryce Hoff.

624
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Speaker 2: Yeah that was a good defense.

625
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, so Sauce looked good and you know, Sauce a

626
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 4: good player too. But you know, it's not going so

627
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,399
Speaker 4: well for them now. A lot of it depends on

628
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,959
Speaker 4: team's success. It just your team's winning. Your defense is bawling.

629
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 4: Look at the Texans now, they're up to what third

630
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 4: and takeaways? I mean, they're really doing well here. And see,

631
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,119
Speaker 4: here's the thing. You want the entirety of the team

632
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,959
Speaker 4: to be peaking at the right time of year, and

633
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 4: they're you know, that game was nice the other night.

634
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Speaker 5: Is that part of the ascension here?

635
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Speaker 14: Yes?

636
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,600
Speaker 4: See, it continue to ascend, has to be because you're

637
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,919
Speaker 4: gonna get through the next two things we cannot discuss

638
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:03,600
Speaker 4: with the head coach. Then the bye and then the Gauntlet,

639
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 4: then Miami KC. Baltimore, which is just incredible that. I mean,

640
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 4: during the vibe, it's gonna be gearing up for that

641
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 4: trifecta of games.

642
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Speaker 1: With the Dolphins playing better.

643
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 4: I almost look, I root for everybody to fail miserably

644
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 4: other than the Texans.

645
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Speaker 5: I'm one of these easy as possible. I'm not one

646
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Speaker 5: of these.

647
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Speaker 4: If you want to be the best you have to No,

648
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Speaker 4: I want them to be horrible and I want to

649
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 4: start against their third string quarterback and let's go. Yeah,

650
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 4: but it's not going to happen that way. The Dolphins

651
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 4: are trending. We talked about this last night. They still

652
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 4: have visions of playoffs and dancing in their heads because

653
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,280
Speaker 4: if they play well, they can get there as a

654
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 4: seventh seed or maybe higher possibly, and that would be

655
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Speaker 4: a tough seven seed to have to face.

656
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Speaker 2: If you're the.

657
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Speaker 4: Two sit they're hot enough to get in, you definitely

658
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 4: don't want.

659
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Speaker 2: To face that team in particular.

660
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Speaker 3: There's no question to my point on Stingley, and I'm

661
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Speaker 3: not saying that this was sauce as a rookie. Sauce

662
00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 3: was a big reason that Jets defense was really, really good.

663
00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 3: Sting is a major reason why this defense is playing

664
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Speaker 3: with You're not just kind of riding the wave of

665
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 3: other guys or riding the capes of everybody else that

666
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Speaker 3: dude's putting on the cape every week and locking good

667
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 3: receivers down. I mean, ced got eight for ninety three,

668
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,879
Speaker 3: but they weren't they We noticed, We talked about it

669
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,840
Speaker 3: on the on the game broadcast. They would line CD

670
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,119
Speaker 3: up one place, Sting would line up on that side,

671
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,440
Speaker 3: then E would motion the other way to get away

672
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:28,160
Speaker 3: from twenty four.

673
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, and so.

674
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,919
Speaker 3: Sting's gonna have that opportunity this week against Calvin Ridley,

675
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,520
Speaker 3: another opportunity. Whether he's gonna shadow Ridley or not, we

676
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,400
Speaker 3: don't know. We'll we'll find out. But it's another opportunity

677
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:40,320
Speaker 3: for him to go against Ridley, who I think is

678
00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 3: playing better in Tennessee than you ever played in Jacksonville. Oh, Ridley,

679
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 3: we saw in Jacksonville. People talked about it. Oh he's

680
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 3: I'm like, I know, he had a good game against

681
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 3: us in WE twelve that last year with Jacksonville. It's

682
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 3: the best game he had in jackson I just didn't

683
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 3: think much of him.

684
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 4: But Johnny, why is that because he's got Trevor Lawrence.

685
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,880
Speaker 4: And I came up with my line when I talked

686
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 4: to Frank FRANGI next week, the whole is less than

687
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:05,080
Speaker 4: the sum of the parts.

688
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 2: In jackson I think you're exactly right.

689
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 4: You look at the talent, especially last year, the talent

690
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 4: they have around Lawrence.

691
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 1: He needs more talent. I'm like, he's got some talent.

692
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 4: Here, He's got a head coach who's won a Super

693
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,160
Speaker 4: Bowl and he's got him.

694
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 2: So what's the problem.

695
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:20,960
Speaker 1: Figure it out.

696
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,520
Speaker 4: You got a lot to work with. I mean, I'm

697
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,119
Speaker 4: not gonna say I feel bad for Shad Khan because

698
00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:29,959
Speaker 4: I don't why would I. But in a way, I'm thinking, gosh,

699
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,159
Speaker 4: he's got to be perplexed. I put all this together

700
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 4: and they still can't win me some game. I'm not

701
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 4: asking for much here. How about nine or ten? How

702
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 4: about a chance to get into the postseason and just

703
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 4: make my fans happy?

704
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 5: And it can't happen down there.

705
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 4: I didn't mean to hijack the topic with Jacksonville, but

706
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 4: you brought up Ridley and you're seeing him play better

707
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 4: with these quarterbacks.

708
00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: Huh.

709
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 3: I think there's two things that work here. Number One,

710
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 3: I feel like Ridley had been off for a year

711
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:57,840
Speaker 3: plus with the whole gambling thing, and then he was injured,

712
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 3: so he was he was out for a while.

713
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 1: So I feel like last year was a little bit

714
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 1: of kind of banging the.

715
00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 3: Rust off because the things that he does, you know

716
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 3: pretty well, he struggled with. He wasn't getting open like

717
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 3: he normally is a separatious route.

718
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: Those things weren't as clean.

719
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 3: He wasn't catching the ball clean, and that, to me

720
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 3: a lot of times has to do with the game

721
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 3: is a little faster than you want it to be,

722
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 3: and that's because you've been out well. Now he's in Tennessee,

723
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 3: they're paying him a lot of money, He's got a

724
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:26,640
Speaker 3: little bit more comfortable. I think Brian Callahan has a

725
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,480
Speaker 3: very receiver friendly offense. He's and he's making some plays,

726
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 3: and I think making some plays has led to making

727
00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 3: a few more plays, and I he's got some confidence,

728
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:39,959
Speaker 3: and he's just looked and played better in Tennessee than

729
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 3: he has in Jacksonville. And so is that gonna be

730
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 3: Derek Stingley Junior? Is he gonna travel with zero throughout

731
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 3: the game? I don't mind it. I don't I don't

732
00:29:49,480 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 3: mind it whatsoever if that's the way it ends up going,

733
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:55,680
Speaker 3: Because like I've said, I'm not backing down now for sure,

734
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 3: But I said Sting's gonna be the number one corner

735
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:58,760
Speaker 3: league at the end of the year when we look up,

736
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 3: is he going to be all yes, yes, yes to

737
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 3: all of it.

738
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 1: He's going to be that player.

739
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 3: And now I think because of that game of Monday Night,

740
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:08,800
Speaker 3: everybody got a chance to see it.

741
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 2: This dude is a real true baller.

742
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 3: Like, yes, that's the Derek Stingley that we all saw

743
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 3: back in twenty nineteen.

744
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 1: That's the Derek Stingley.

745
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 3: I came and sat in this seat, sat across from

746
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 3: you twenty nineteen and said, you know, we could really

747
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,840
Speaker 3: use Stingley from LSU. And you're like, well, is he

748
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:28,000
Speaker 3: going to be draftable in three years? Yes, that's what

749
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 3: it was. But we eventually drafted him, and now he

750
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 3: is becoming that guy. And it's interesting because I heard

751
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:36,880
Speaker 3: I heard Demko say this, and we talked to Dimiko

752
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 3: about this too. Having Derek Stingly gives him an opportunity

753
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 3: to look at the game differently that he's calling and

754
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,760
Speaker 3: how he's changing what he's calling. And I think that,

755
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 3: you know, one thing that I heard him say also was,

756
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 3: you know, defensive line has meant a lot to him

757
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 3: over his crease played Linebacker's played behind some good offensive

758
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 3: or defensive lines, but that and so that always like

759
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 3: triggered with him. But now he looks out there and

760
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 3: he's like, I got that dude. I could do some

761
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 3: stuff with that dude.

762
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: You know, And that gives you some opportunity to do

763
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: some things.

764
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 3: And we'll see how much of that we see on

765
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 3: Sunday against the Tennessee Titans. But I just think that

766
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 3: that Thursday night game you mentioned it, Steers.

767
00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,720
Speaker 1: Brown's you put that up there and go, this better

768
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 1: not be us.

769
00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 2: Guys.

770
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: This can have.

771
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 4: The winning formula us. Don't turn the ball over in

772
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 4: your own end.

773
00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 2: That's one.

774
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 4: Even if you turn it over in their end. I

775
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 4: don't like it, but look, they're not going to beat

776
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 4: you on a long field.

777
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 3: They're just not going to do it. Is the one

778
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 3: play levis ninety eight yard touchdowns. I'll give him one.

779
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 3: He's gonna have one, he might have two. It's not

780
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 3: gonna be enough to beat the Texans. If the Texans

781
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 3: don't screw it up with penalties or turnovers in their

782
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 3: own end, if they stay away from those, they're gonna

783
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 3: be fine on Sunday.

784
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this. I'll put it this way,

785
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:50,760
Speaker 1: two options.

786
00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:56,719
Speaker 3: The Titans can't beat the Texans, but the Texans can

787
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 3: beat the Texans.

788
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:01,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why it's all about us, because he knows

789
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 4: that the negative is true too. You can torpedo yourselves

790
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 4: your own submarine. Don't do it. Take care of your business.

791
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 4: You're gonna come out of there with the dub absolutely.

792
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,000
Speaker 3: Now we'll talk a little bit more about my keys

793
00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 3: to the game coming up next, we'll dive in what

794
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 3: do Tivandre Sweat, Jeffrey Simmons, Calvin Ridley, Will Levis's strong

795
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 3: right arm all have to have in common? Well, they're

796
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 3: part of the Keys this week. We'll do that next

797
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:27,360
Speaker 3: right here in Texans All Access.

798
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: All Right, here we go.

799
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Speaker 3: Yes, it's a Friday ed issue of Texans All Access

800
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 3: and Mark and I had a great time talking about

801
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 3: this game coming up against the Tennessee Titans. But as

802
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 3: I your host, John Harris Football and a sideline reporter teased,

803
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:48,360
Speaker 3: it's time for my Keys to a win over the

804
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 3: Tennessee Titans. So let's get a little music, because music

805
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 3: always gets me hyped, and start breaking this thing down

806
00:32:55,680 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 3: against the Tennessee Titans, if we haven't already. Now a

807
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 3: few interesting numbers, as I kind of threw out to Mark,

808
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 3: the fact that it's twenty three to twenty one in

809
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 3: the rivalry. The Texans finally beat the Titans at home

810
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 3: at Energy Stadium.

811
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: For the first time since twenty nineteen.

812
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 3: Last year, and the Texans have a three game winning

813
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 3: streak against the Tennessee Titans. A win obviously makes four,

814
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 3: it would make two straight at Energy Stadium. And those,

815
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 3: my friends, are what are called winning streaks, and they

816
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 3: are very very nice to have. Now the Titans are

817
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 3: a little bit of a mess right now. They're two

818
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 3: to eight. But a couple things to consider. They lost

819
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 3: to the Bears by seven. Levis through that game away.

820
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 3: They lost to the Jets twenty four to seventeen. The

821
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 3: next week, Levis threw that game away Green Bay Packers,

822
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:49,640
Speaker 3: they lost. Will Levis threw that game away. Then they

823
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 3: beat the Dolphins after Will Levis went out injured and

824
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:54,440
Speaker 3: Mason Rudolph came in.

825
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: They scored thirty one points on the game.

826
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Speaker 3: Then they had a bye week, came out of bye

827
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 3: week and you thought, okay, they got to beat the

828
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 3: Colts at home. They did not beat the Colts at home.

829
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 3: They've got to do something against the Bills. They got

830
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 3: the you know what beat out of them by the Bills.

831
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 3: Then the Lions put.

832
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:09,799
Speaker 1: It to them.

833
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:11,399
Speaker 3: But here's the thing about that game against the Lions.

834
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 3: It was fourteen to fourteen early in that game, and

835
00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 3: then the Lions went to a different stratusphere. And by

836
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 3: the way, the Lions beat the Titans and the Jaguars

837
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 3: combined one oh four to twenty in two games, like

838
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 3: an average of fifty two to ten. Holy smokes anyways,

839
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 3: But then they came back and beat the Patriots. Now,

840
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 3: those two wins came courtesy of one Mason Rudolph. Last

841
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 3: two weeks when Lewis has been back in the lineup,

842
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 3: they've averaged fifteen points a game. They lost both and

843
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 3: now to the two and eight and they come to Houston,

844
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:51,680
Speaker 3: where Levis and Ryan Tannehill were sacked six times last year.

845
00:34:51,760 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 3: So let's talk about this Titans offense and see if

846
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 3: things are any better there. Undred They average one hundred

847
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 3: and seventy yards per game on a ground that's eighteenth

848
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,640
Speaker 3: in the NFL. They're throwing for one hundred and seventy

849
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 3: eight yards per game, that's twenty ninth. That puts him

850
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 3: at two ninety five per game total offense.

851
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 1: That's twenty fifth in the NFL. But here's a big number.

852
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 3: They have lost eighteen turnovers, eighteen twelve interceptions, six fumbles lost,

853
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 3: and the majority of those have gone back for touchdowns.

854
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 3: Or set up short fields for touchdowns or points. That's

855
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,680
Speaker 3: where the Titans have been just getting obliterated.

856
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: Okay, let's get to my keys. Number one. Shots.

857
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 3: Everybody loves shots, right well, the Titans love him too.

858
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 3: Will love is probably more than anybody. He loves mayonnaise,

859
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 3: but he loves shots. He loves shot plays, and it

860
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 3: really is the only way that gets them going. Going

861
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 3: all the way back to this first start against the

862
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 3: Falcons back in twenty twenty three, when they were wearing

863
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 3: the oiler uniforms for the first time, he threw four touchdowns.

864
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 3: Of those, he threw the DeAndrea Hopkins deep through another one.

865
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 3: I think the Nick Westbrook kine. He wants to throw

866
00:35:59,040 --> 00:35:59,760
Speaker 3: the deep ball.

867
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: It is. He knows he is nukle loosh.

868
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:05,359
Speaker 3: He's got the one hundred and four mile on our

869
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 3: fastball and he's gonna show it off.

870
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,840
Speaker 1: So he throws. But he doesn't know how to pitch,

871
00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:11,440
Speaker 1: and that's kind of his issue.

872
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 3: But but but there's always a big butt. Last week,

873
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 3: they're dead in the water. I think it's sixteen to three.

874
00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 3: The Vikings are up on them. The defense is actually

875
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 3: keeping them in it. But how are they gonna score?

876
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: Two touchdowns.

877
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,919
Speaker 3: Well backed up the two yard line, Will Levis throws

878
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 3: a ninety eight yard rocket ship to Nick Westbrook.

879
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 1: A Kine goes in the end zone. It's now sixteen

880
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 1: ten and out.

881
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 2: It's a ballgame.

882
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:32,919
Speaker 1: Now.

883
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 3: The Vikings composed enough to stay like, Okay, that didn't

884
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 3: bother us.

885
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 1: We're good.

886
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 3: Score touchdown made it twenty three to twenty three ten.

887
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 3: I believe at the time Tyson the field one made

888
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 3: twenty three to thirteen. They just couldn't score enough to

889
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 3: get back in it. The Vikings couldn't score enough to

890
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 3: blow him out. But either way, Vikings get to win

891
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,840
Speaker 3: on the road. But it's that shot play that sticks

892
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 3: with me. Okay, number my number two key. Actually, as

893
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,879
Speaker 3: I know, your foe has got to change because there

894
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 3: will be no Tajay Spears. He will not play. That

895
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 3: is a big one. He had a concussion. I got

896
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 3: to think he got in the Vikings game. He sat

897
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 3: out of practice on Wednesday, Thursday. He was limited on Friday,

898
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 3: but ruled out for the game. Not Taja Spears. So

899
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Speaker 3: Tony Pollard is gonna take over as the running back

900
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 3: and he's got to do something and that's gonna be tough.

901
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 3: That's gonna be really tough behind an offensive line that

902
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 3: has had some issues. Now the left side is pretty static.

903
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 3: Jac Latham. I'll tell you this quick story about JAYC.

904
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 2: Latham.

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Speaker 3: We had Will and Anderson junior in studio and he

906
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 3: was back in the offseason and it was near the draft, and.

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Speaker 1: You know me, I want to get as many nuggets

908
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Speaker 1: as I can't. So I asked Will.

909
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 3: I said, hey, jac Latham is gonna be a pretty

910
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 3: high draft pick. Give me your scouting report. And he

911
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 3: kind of chuckled and he said, I'll tell you the story.

912
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 3: When he got there from high school, we just kind

913
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 3: of ran around him and did whatever we wanted to.

914
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 3: When he came back the second year, he put hands

915
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Speaker 3: on me. This is Will speak, and it was like

916
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Speaker 3: a whole different player. And Latham's got gotten better and better. Well,

917
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,839
Speaker 3: he's gonna see his buddy Will Anderson on Sunday. So

918
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Speaker 3: this offensive line with jac Lathan probably the best lineman

919
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Speaker 3: to left tackle Pierce Kronski, the drafticck left guard. He's

920
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,879
Speaker 3: had some struggles, Buddy's at least they're inconsistent, and then

921
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Speaker 3: the rest of it's a mess. Dylan Ray duns I

922
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Speaker 3: think is at one spot. Nicholas Petite Ferrara is that

923
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 3: right tackle. I believe they just have issues all over

924
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 3: to play. So we'll see hus steps in at the

925
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 3: center for Lloyd Cushionberry. How they put that together. But

926
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Speaker 3: that offensive line's got to do something for Tony Pollard

927
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 3: or this is going to be a blow for the Texans,

928
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Speaker 3: which I'm happy with. And finally get this defensive line

929
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 3: role in in particular Daniel Hunter. I mean, it's as

930
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 3: simple as that. I mean that dude is an absolute monster. Okay,

931
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Speaker 3: let's flip it over to this defense. This is a great,

932
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:51,880
Speaker 3: great defense. It's led by Fivan Ray Sweat, Jeffrey Simmons,

933
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 3: inside arden Key, Harold Landry or to the better edg

934
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,920
Speaker 3: rushers in the league. And that's really, if I'm being honest,

935
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 3: that is the key to this whole game. I can

936
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 3: give you all the keys, wants, best teams, offense, et cetera.

937
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 3: I'll ask Nick Assaria for his keys, But the whole

938
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 3: key to this game is how can the Texans effectively

939
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 3: block arden Key, Sebastian Joseph Day, Devandre Swet, Jeffrey Simmons,

940
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,280
Speaker 3: Harold Landry Third, How can they run the ball against

941
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 3: that front? How can they protect CJ. Stroud against that front?

942
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:26,879
Speaker 3: If they're able to do that, this should be I said,

943
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 3: a blowout, But it should be a blowout. But they've

944
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 3: got to do that. So what kind of blocking schemes?

945
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 3: How they change things up? Where do they use their

946
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,759
Speaker 3: tight ends and their backs in pass protection? Are they

947
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 3: gonna let Titus and Laramie go one on one and

948
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 3: the backs and tight ends help out on the interior guys,

949
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:43,880
Speaker 3: on Sweat and on Simmons.

950
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,959
Speaker 1: They might have to do that. Simmons is that good?

951
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 3: I've been speaking of Simmons since I had him at

952
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 3: number four in Harris one hundred back in twenty nineteen

953
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 3: stud but towards ACL in January, so he fell away

954
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,600
Speaker 3: to the Titans of nineteen. Mike Rabel, John Robinson grabbed him, said, hey,

955
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 3: well doesn't matter he missed the first ten games. We'll

956
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 3: have him for his career. And it's exactly what's happened

957
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 3: in Tennessee and it sucks. Sweat drafted number thirty eight overall,

958
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,879
Speaker 3: second round last year. As soon as they drafted him,

959
00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 3: I just remember thinking, oh boy, they've got the right idea.

960
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:20,399
Speaker 3: You win into trenches, and that's how Tennessee can win

961
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:24,400
Speaker 3: this game. If those guys take over, the Texans offense

962
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 3: is going to struggle to put points on the board.

963
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,000
Speaker 3: But if the Texans contained them and not allow them

964
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:30,799
Speaker 3: to get to CJ. Stroud to open up a few

965
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 3: holes in run game, then this has the opportunity and

966
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 3: the chance to be a blowout. And I am all

967
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 3: about that now. I mentioned tay J. Spear is going

968
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 3: to be out of this game. Who's in, who's out?

969
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 3: For both sides? We'll do that next right here in

970
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 3: Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: What's happened? Everybody?

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00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 3: Welcome back this Friday tion of the Texans All Access

973
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Speaker 3: from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I am your host, John Harris,

974
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 3: Football on a sideline reporter, getting ready for this one

975
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 3: against the Tennessee Titans. A reminder, this segment is brought

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Speaker 3: to you by Mattress Firm, the official sleep partner of

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00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:06,960
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982
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 3: as promised, this injury status report actually actually looks.

983
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: Pretty good considering what we've been up against.

984
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:31,680
Speaker 2: Now.

985
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:35,080
Speaker 3: Obviously we still miss Steph and he won't.

986
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 1: Play the rest of the year.

987
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 3: We know that, but I always think it's helpful to

988
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,279
Speaker 3: bring that up at this time because you know, look,

989
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 3: Steph was really really important for this team for the

990
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:44,959
Speaker 3: amount of time he played.

991
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:49,279
Speaker 1: Unfortunately got hurt against the Colts. But outside of.

992
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 3: Steph, this is probably the closest that I think we've

993
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 3: been to full health, about as good as we could

994
00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 3: possibly get, because we only have two guys that are

995
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 3: out for this game on Sunday, fully Fotakassi Blake fish Er.

996
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 1: Blake has that concussion.

997
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 3: It says foot for Foley, but I know he was

998
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 3: dealing with a couple other things before he got hurt

999
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 3: in the Lions game. I think it was when he

1000
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 3: went out we missed him. That guy is an absolute warrior.

1001
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 3: Those two are the only two that are out. Other

1002
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 3: than that, there's one questionable that's Dniko Autry. He didn't

1003
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 3: practice today. Neither of the three practice today. Deniko dealing

1004
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 3: with a knee and an oblique. He is questionable going

1005
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:37,280
Speaker 3: against his one of his former teams in the NFC South.

1006
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 3: So that's gonna stink if Deniko's not in. However, if

1007
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 3: there is good news and at some point we're gonna

1008
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 3: have Denico Autry and Will Anderson Junior Anthony Hunter in

1009
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 3: the field the same time, and it's gonna be glorious.

1010
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:52,920
Speaker 2: It won't be this.

1011
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 3: Well, it could be this week. It could be because

1012
00:42:56,160 --> 00:43:01,160
Speaker 3: Deniko is questionable. But Will Anderson Junior full participant in

1013
00:43:01,239 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 3: practice today, full participant today.

1014
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: That is such great news.

1015
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 3: And in the game status column it says nothing, so

1016
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 3: that means he's in.

1017
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: Also great news.

1018
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 3: Kamari Lassiter, he's been a full participant in practice all week.

1019
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:22,240
Speaker 1: The rookie from Georgia.

1020
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 3: Back this week against the Tennessee Titans as he's al Shire.

1021
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 3: Derek Stingley, they were full participants today in practice after

1022
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 3: being limited for the previous couple of days. Sting's been

1023
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 3: out there for media the entire time, and there's, like

1024
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 3: I said to Mark earlier, there's been a sting love fest,

1025
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 3: which I think is absolutely fantastic. Dude deserves it. I

1026
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 3: think he's the best corner in the league. He's got

1027
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 3: the best hands for a corner. He's incredible and been

1028
00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 3: incredible for this team. He'll get into the challenge, like

1029
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 3: you said with Calvin Ridley, as we talked about in

1030
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 3: our Keys.

1031
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 1: To the Game.

1032
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 3: But that all said, Sting's in, Kamar's in, will Is in,

1033
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 3: Aziz Al shier in. So that's as close to having

1034
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 3: the starting lineup together minus full On the defensive side,

1035
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 3: hopefully you have Deniko, but well that'll probably be a

1036
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:08,720
Speaker 3: game time decision. Now here's where it gets. I don't

1037
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,840
Speaker 3: ever say injury situation is good for a team, but

1038
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:15,800
Speaker 3: there are some things going on on the Tennessee Titans

1039
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 3: side that will release a little bit of pressure from

1040
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 3: the teapot did not participate today in practice. Jack Gibbons

1041
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 3: starting linebacker, Lugerius Sneid high priced corner, and Leroy Watson

1042
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,479
Speaker 3: tackle who started for a couple of games. Those three

1043
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 3: are all out of this game. All out.

1044
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: Gibbons, Sneid, Watson.

1045
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,840
Speaker 3: Now there's talk about and I haven't gone back to

1046
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:45,919
Speaker 3: look today to see whether they put them on. There's

1047
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,480
Speaker 3: we talk about those two Gibbons and sneed going on.

1048
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:51,360
Speaker 3: I are, but as of right now, they're still on

1049
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 3: the roster and they are out also out, And I

1050
00:44:55,120 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 3: thought this one was interesting. Taj Spears can cushion. He

1051
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,319
Speaker 3: had been DNP at the beginning of the week and

1052
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 3: for Wednesday and Thursday, but I thought, you know, cush

1053
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 3: you never know. And we've talked all about these two

1054
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 3: backs Pollard and Spears. Spears is the one that worries

1055
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 3: me so as that Tony Poler can't do anything. Tony

1056
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 3: Poler's a good back, and I think they're better in tandem.

1057
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:25,240
Speaker 3: But Taja Spears out of this game. Taj Spears out

1058
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:28,800
Speaker 3: of this game. With the Texans justin, Hardy Roger McCrary

1059
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 3: are both questionable. McCarry is one of their top corners,

1060
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 3: especially with Snead out. He's probably their top corner with

1061
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 3: Snead out, but Hardy McCrary questionable.

1062
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: Full participants stay in practice as expected.

1063
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Speaker 3: Jeffer Simmons, Calvin Ridley, Keith Murray, Sebastian Joseph Dai. Those

1064
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:48,399
Speaker 3: are four the better players. They will all be in

1065
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 3: for Sunday. I mean, they could come up injured between

1066
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 3: now and then, but as of right now, they have

1067
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Speaker 3: no game status designation, and so we will see one

1068
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 3: of the best fronts we're going to see with Sabastian

1069
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 3: Joseph de Jeffer Simmons and Devondre Sweat. We're gonna see

1070
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 3: one of the better receivers we've seen this year in

1071
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:08,879
Speaker 3: Calvin Ridley and Keth Murray has done some good things

1072
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 3: at linebacker. Elkins product I believe of the four Bend district.

1073
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 3: So looking forward to that. So Texans injury situation about

1074
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:20,400
Speaker 3: as good as it could be going into week twelve.

1075
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Speaker 9: Fully out, Blake Fisher out. That's it.

1076
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Speaker 3: Saw Blanke at practice on Thursday, so hopefully he's gonna

1077
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 3: be ramping up at some point.

1078
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Speaker 9: Hopefully we can get him back.

1079
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Speaker 3: Denico Autry questionable, Aziz Will Kamari Sting all in.

1080
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 9: Out for the Titans.

1081
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 3: Gibbons starting linebacker Snead, starting corner Spears, one of the

1082
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 3: two running backs, Leroy Watson, one of the two offensive linemen,

1083
00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:52,279
Speaker 3: Justin Hardy Roger McCurry are questionable.

1084
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 9: So there we go.

1085
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:57,360
Speaker 3: Okay, we talked a lot this week with various people.

1086
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Speaker 3: We now will talk with Jonathan Alexander from the Houston

1087
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Speaker 3: Chronicle and we'll discuss this game against the Tennessee Titans

1088
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Speaker 3: in full. Jonathan Alexander next, right here in Texas Access,

1089
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:11,840
Speaker 3: we got one of our down, one hour left to go.

1090
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Speaker 3: Right here on a Friday edition of Texans All Access.

1091
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Speaker 3: I'm your host, John Harris, football and asyline reporter for

1092
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 3: your Houston Texans. So glad to be with you on

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00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:25,120
Speaker 3: a wonderful Friday evening. Almost said Wednesday, my days are

1094
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 3: so screwed up. I thought all day Tuesday was Monday.

1095
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Speaker 3: I kept waiting for Monday Night football to come on,

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Speaker 3: and I'm like, why is it Monday if? Oh, that's right,

1097
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:38,359
Speaker 3: it's Tuesday, and today has felt like Thursday. So I'm

1098
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:40,800
Speaker 3: I'm all off. So hopefully I show up on Sunday

1099
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 3: for work.

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00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:42,839
Speaker 9: I will.

1101
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 3: I'll be there, Although Saturday will be a mess, but

1102
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 3: that's just life. Sunday should be fun as the Tennessee

1103
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:54,440
Speaker 3: Titans come to town with Will Levis at quarterback and

1104
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 3: a dynamic duo inside of defensive tackle Jeffrey Simmons nose

1105
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:01,879
Speaker 3: tackle to Andandre sweat side Sebastian Joseph Day. I think

1106
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 3: he gets overlooked a bunch. I think he's a heck

1107
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 3: of a player. In fact, a few years ago, I

1108
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:08,839
Speaker 3: was hoping that Texans would pick him up when they

1109
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 3: were making some acquisitions trying to fill out rosters and

1110
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:14,840
Speaker 3: things like that. Back at twenty one twenty two, Sebastia

1111
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:18,080
Speaker 3: Joseph Day a very very good football player. I'm gonna

1112
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 3: make life tough. Those two are gonna be tough in

1113
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 3: of itself. Simmons and Sweat, but Sebastian Joseph Day is

1114
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 3: right up there as well.

1115
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 1: Okay, each and every Friday, we.

1116
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 3: Get a chance to sit down and talk to one

1117
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,359
Speaker 3: of the more esteemed writers in the city. He writes

1118
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:36,920
Speaker 3: for the Houston Chronicle. He does a tremendous job. His

1119
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:41,720
Speaker 3: name is Jonathan Alexander, and he's got thoughts, and well,

1120
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 3: we've got thoughts, and so we ask a lot of questions.

1121
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 1: Jonathan gives a lot of answers, and it sounds something

1122
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:46,959
Speaker 1: like this.

1123
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 4: And with us in studio, his weekly visit from the

1124
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 4: Houston Chronicle, Jonathan Alexander, Jonathan has it going.

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00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:56,720
Speaker 15: I am doing good a little bit. You know again,

1126
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:59,800
Speaker 15: in these primetime games have just messed up my schedule.

1127
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 1: But.

1128
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, they messed up everybody's schedule. You look up, I

1129
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,759
Speaker 3: kept thinking all day. Tuesday was Monday, and so I

1130
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 3: don't know how many times on Tuesday I was like, oh, man,

1131
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:12,280
Speaker 3: who's on money at football tonight?

1132
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 2: Oh wait, no, that was last night. So it threw

1133
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:16,799
Speaker 2: me off for sure.

1134
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 4: Well, we're gonna have a lot of these in the

1135
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:20,839
Speaker 4: coming years, so buckle up, get used to it.

1136
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 5: I feel the same way. I don't even know what

1137
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:23,360
Speaker 5: date is anymore.

1138
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:26,800
Speaker 4: But anyway, Jonathan, let's wrap that one in a bowl.

1139
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 4: The victory over the Cowboys kind of cool. You're in

1140
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 4: the state, you're playing them. They get the job done

1141
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 4: in a big way. What were your thoughts on the performance.

1142
00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:40,320
Speaker 15: Yeah, I thought the Texans played a lot better, especially

1143
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 15: in the second half, than they had played in previous weeks.

1144
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 15: And even in the first half, I thought I went

1145
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 15: back and looked at the the players, I went back

1146
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 15: and looked at the film, and they look good in

1147
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 15: the first half of the world. Now, you would have

1148
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 15: like to see them put up a little bit more points,

1149
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 15: but I thought they were very a lot more efficient.

1150
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 15: I thought Bobby Sloyd called his best game. With the

1151
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 15: exception of CJ. Strove was one interception. I thought they

1152
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 15: were fairly clean. Of course, a couple of penalties kind

1153
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:08,719
Speaker 15: of hurt them, But I thought that Texans played their

1154
00:50:08,719 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 15: best offensive performance since Week six that went against the Patriots.

1155
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 3: Jonathan One of the things that they did to add

1156
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 3: to that, they don't give with one sack.

1157
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 5: Michael Parsons is out of his sack now.

1158
00:50:18,080 --> 00:50:21,640
Speaker 3: He was around in the area a few times and

1159
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:24,759
Speaker 3: CJ probably moved away from him a few times. But

1160
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 3: how important was it for them to only give up

1161
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 3: that one sack and for Titus Howard to play.

1162
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:29,799
Speaker 2: The way that he did.

1163
00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:33,320
Speaker 3: Mainly he was the one matched up on Michael Parsons

1164
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:35,400
Speaker 3: a lot of the game. He thoughts about what he

1165
00:50:35,440 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 3: did and what the offensive line was able to do.

1166
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:37,399
Speaker 14: Yeah.

1167
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 15: Absolutely, I think that gives them a ton of confidence,

1168
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:43,840
Speaker 15: especially for a guy like Titus Howard, especially for that interior.

1169
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,760
Speaker 15: You've seen the last couple of weeks where the Texans

1170
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:49,440
Speaker 15: offensive line has done a much better job communicating. You

1171
00:50:49,480 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 15: haven't seen the stunt issues that you saw previously. You

1172
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:56,040
Speaker 15: haven't seen a CJ. Stroud under durest as much. I

1173
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:59,239
Speaker 15: thought he looked as comfortable as he has in a

1174
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 15: long time, and he did a good job of avoiding

1175
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 15: those past rushed I thought Bobby Slowyd called some plays

1176
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:06,480
Speaker 15: to get the ball out of his hands a lot

1177
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 15: quicker and to avoid Michael Parsons as well as some

1178
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,799
Speaker 15: of the others. And the most important thing, and I

1179
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:15,360
Speaker 15: saw Casario talking about it with you guys, they didn't

1180
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:18,000
Speaker 15: have many negative plays, right yep. And I thought that

1181
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 15: was very critical. And I think that this was the

1182
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:24,360
Speaker 15: first step for them to move forward and continue to

1183
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,720
Speaker 15: improve on offense as they get to the tougher games

1184
00:51:27,719 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 15: which come in December.

1185
00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:31,360
Speaker 4: Well what do you make of what Joe Mixon is

1186
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 4: doing for this football team? Clearly the Bengals could still

1187
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 4: use him. A lot of teams could use Joe Mixon.

1188
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:37,879
Speaker 4: One of the very best backs in the league. He's

1189
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:38,920
Speaker 4: proven that on the field.

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00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 15: Yeah, you can't understand under a state what Joe Mixon

1191
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 15: has done, but he had three touchdowns against the Cowboys.

1192
00:51:47,239 --> 00:51:50,359
Speaker 15: I mean, he's just been a tremendous asset. And you know,

1193
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:53,439
Speaker 15: when Bobby Sloyk was hired, he kept talking about that.

1194
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:56,399
Speaker 15: He you know, they had to have a running game

1195
00:51:56,520 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 15: in order for this offense to truly flourish, and they

1196
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:03,239
Speaker 15: found that in Joe Mixon, who has not only been productive,

1197
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:07,080
Speaker 15: was six one hundred yard games in eight games total.

1198
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:08,360
Speaker 2: But he's been a.

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Speaker 15: Leader for them vocally and has shown that through his actions,

1200
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:16,800
Speaker 15: and to me, he's the identity of the offense, and

1201
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 15: the more productive he can be, the less pressure that

1202
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:23,480
Speaker 15: takes off c. J. Stroud to have to do everything,

1203
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 15: and I think that's going to be important down the line.

1204
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:28,720
Speaker 3: Jonathan a little less than half the snaps that Nico

1205
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 3: Collins played, but he played the first one and unfortunately

1206
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:35,759
Speaker 3: that one ends up getting called back. But I think

1207
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:38,719
Speaker 3: you saw the explosiveness back on the field and it

1208
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:41,719
Speaker 3: made me think about all the times that we've heard, Oh,

1209
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 3: this offense isn't doing this, offense isn't doing that, And

1210
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:47,439
Speaker 3: I'm like, well, yeah, because that guy wasn't there. Yeah,

1211
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:49,880
Speaker 3: And I don't know that it's that obvious, but it

1212
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:51,800
Speaker 3: seemed to be obvious on play number one that he

1213
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:53,359
Speaker 3: took that one to the house and he went, yeah,

1214
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:57,319
Speaker 3: they've been missing that. Your thoughts on a less than

1215
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:00,800
Speaker 3: half amount of plays performance from Nico Collins, Yeah.

1216
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 15: I think Nico his presence alone. You looked at how

1217
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 15: the Cowboys played, they played off on the Texans, so

1218
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:10,440
Speaker 15: that opened up the door for the Texans to run

1219
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 15: a lot of screens and quick passes, and I think

1220
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:16,759
Speaker 15: that's what's been missing. You know, opposing teams have been

1221
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 15: playing press coverage when Nico Collins hasn't enought, so that's

1222
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:23,360
Speaker 15: kind of prevented them from throwing those quick passes and

1223
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:26,400
Speaker 15: it's allowed other teams to get pressure. So Nico Collins

1224
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:29,839
Speaker 15: just really enhances teams have to really respect him and

1225
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,080
Speaker 15: what he's able to do. And you also saw a

1226
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 15: lot of the intermediate passes being open because you know,

1227
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:37,919
Speaker 15: they wanted to play off of him. So I think,

1228
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 15: you know, he only played those twenty snaps, and as

1229
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:44,680
Speaker 15: his numbers tick up, I think you're going to see

1230
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 15: c J. Stroud get a little more confident. I mean,

1231
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 15: he looked more confident out there, knowing he had his

1232
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:54,279
Speaker 15: best weapon, and that's going to only continue. And that

1233
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 15: just shows what Nico has meant to this offense this year.

1234
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 4: Jonathan alex Hander of the Houston Chronicle. Whether the Tennessee

1235
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:03,840
Speaker 4: Titans come in, they've got a much better defense than Dallas.

1236
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:06,239
Speaker 4: A lot of outsiders say, oh, this should be an

1237
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 4: easy walk, but it's a division game, and you know,

1238
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:10,400
Speaker 4: I don't want to sound like Lou Holtz here and

1239
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:13,120
Speaker 4: just totally talk up the Tennessee Titans with two victories.

1240
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:15,960
Speaker 4: But I've seen strange things happen. We talked about it

1241
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 4: last week with the twenty twenty two Houston Texans upsetting people,

1242
00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:22,719
Speaker 4: the twenty twenty one Houston Texans. That should be where

1243
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 4: you look, I think to find so called inspiration or

1244
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:29,719
Speaker 4: possibilities for these underdogs, and I don't want them to

1245
00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:30,360
Speaker 4: be inspired.

1246
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 5: But what do you think of the Titans here noon

1247
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:32,840
Speaker 5: on Sunday.

1248
00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:35,799
Speaker 15: Yeah, you bring up a great point because the El

1249
00:54:35,880 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 15: Twayne and two Texans surprising when they put off a

1250
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:40,400
Speaker 15: few of those wins because it wasn't a great team.

1251
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:43,799
Speaker 15: But I think Dimico talks about it a lot. You know,

1252
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 15: the margin of error in the league is so thin

1253
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:48,920
Speaker 15: you can't take a day off. The Texans made that

1254
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:53,360
Speaker 15: mistake last year when they played the Carolina Panthers and lost.

1255
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:56,759
Speaker 15: They're a better team than the Titans. I think the

1256
00:54:56,800 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 15: Titans have some issues, particularly on offense. Know Will Levis

1257
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 15: likes to hold on to the ball and that could

1258
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:07,360
Speaker 15: play tremendously in the Texans hands. But make one mistake.

1259
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 15: You know, the Titans have a really solid defense give

1260
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:13,040
Speaker 15: up the fewest passing yards per game in the NFL,

1261
00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:16,239
Speaker 15: have one of the top defenses in the league. They

1262
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 15: can't beat you with their defense if you're not on

1263
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:20,720
Speaker 15: your a game. But I think the Texans will be prepared.

1264
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:23,560
Speaker 15: I think they know that the Titans are a good

1265
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:26,880
Speaker 15: matchup and they have obviously they have familiarity with the Texans.

1266
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 15: But I do think the Texans defense is playing well

1267
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:31,920
Speaker 15: and they can make things difficult for Will Levis.

1268
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:34,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, Derrick Henry. That's worth noting.

1269
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:37,000
Speaker 3: It's the first time in a while that we have

1270
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 3: played the Titans and there's no twenty.

1271
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 5: Two feels so good.

1272
00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:41,359
Speaker 1: It does feel good.

1273
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:43,640
Speaker 4: They should have resigned him just for the fact that

1274
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 4: it feels good to us that he's not on the team,

1275
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 4: even though the Texans demolished him last year.

1276
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 2: Hey, that was a great weapon that.

1277
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 4: The Tennessee Titans had that you had to pay attention to. Now,

1278
00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:55,880
Speaker 4: I'm not saying they don't have weapons, but it's not

1279
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 4: the same. It's not even close to the same. If

1280
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:01,080
Speaker 4: it's a line that's really banged up and has been

1281
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 4: banged up. They lost Christian Berry. The right side has

1282
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:05,640
Speaker 4: been moving around a little bit. I don't know how

1283
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:09,680
Speaker 4: Nicholas Petite Ferrare is gonna handle Daniel Hunter. In fact,

1284
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:11,799
Speaker 4: that could go very badly, and I hope it does

1285
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 4: go very badly for the Titans. But you thought about

1286
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 4: their offensive line faces Daniel Hunter, the defensive line.

1287
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 15: Those two guys back, who both have seven and a

1288
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:22,880
Speaker 15: half sacks, among the top of the league in pressures,

1289
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:26,359
Speaker 15: it could spelled trouble for offensive line that is trying

1290
00:56:26,360 --> 00:56:31,440
Speaker 15: to piece together something. And again, I think that's the

1291
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 15: one Achilles Hill that the Titans have, along with the

1292
00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 15: fact that Will Levis loves to hold on to the

1293
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:38,800
Speaker 15: ball and extend plays, and that is something that Textans

1294
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:40,479
Speaker 15: are gonna have to worry about. You know, They're gonna

1295
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 15: have to, you know, play well back there and watch

1296
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 15: for the explosive plays. But you know, if he does

1297
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:49,640
Speaker 15: hold onto the ball, I think that plays well into

1298
00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 15: the Texans' hands because they their defensive line is getting

1299
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 15: healthy at the right time and they've been looking really good.

1300
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:55,279
Speaker 14: Now.

1301
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:58,560
Speaker 15: De Nico might not play he had the injury Monday night.

1302
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:01,560
Speaker 15: But aside Net, you know, you get Mario Edwards back,

1303
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 15: you're rotating guys in uh. This is a real good

1304
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:05,800
Speaker 15: sign for a Texans defense.

1305
00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 4: All right, I'm gonna skip the we're very concerned with

1306
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:12,000
Speaker 4: Jeffrey Simmons question and move right to the Jacksonville Jaguars,

1307
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:14,240
Speaker 4: next week's opponent, because they're at a bye right now.

1308
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 1: And are you surprised that they haven't.

1309
00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 4: Made any major changes yet after what they've been going through?

1310
00:57:20,040 --> 00:57:25,439
Speaker 15: Jonathan, Yeah, I thought the least was possibly bulky, could

1311
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:28,880
Speaker 15: have been fired. But yeah, after you get beat like

1312
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:32,440
Speaker 15: that fifty two to six, usually normally you see some

1313
00:57:32,600 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 15: changes happen. Yeah, but I think it's only inevitable. I

1314
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 15: guess it happens whenever con is ready to make a move.

1315
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 15: But it just seems like it's inevitable. You look at

1316
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:47,840
Speaker 15: the press conferences, you look at the chatter around the league,

1317
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:52,680
Speaker 15: around the organization. It's just gone downhill from here. But

1318
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:54,240
Speaker 15: it's gonna be something that Texan is gonna have to

1319
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 15: watch out for. You don't want to, Yeah, now take

1320
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:56,720
Speaker 15: them serious.

1321
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:58,480
Speaker 1: I'd rather carry them a few more years.

1322
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, try carry them a few more rounds.

1323
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:01,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's go, let's go.

1324
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:04,960
Speaker 4: Let them win the It's like Gordon Gecko trying to

1325
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:06,040
Speaker 4: manipulate a stock.

1326
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:06,560
Speaker 2: That's right.

1327
00:58:06,920 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 5: The Jags going here.

1328
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 2: Just do that?

1329
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:10,600
Speaker 3: Okay, So I'm gonna ask you that this is a

1330
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 3: Rubik's cube of a riddle. Cleveland played last night against

1331
00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 3: the Pittsburgh Steelers. What are the Browns do in the future. Yeah,

1332
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:20,240
Speaker 3: that's a tough question. I know, is the fancy gonna stay?

1333
00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 3: Does Andrew Berry stay? They put together a really good roster.

1334
00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:26,360
Speaker 3: De Shaun Watson situation's a mess. The Browns feel like

1335
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 3: a team that's got all kinds of talent and yet

1336
00:58:28,360 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 3: at that one position, it's a mess.

1337
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:31,720
Speaker 2: What do you think they do in the future?

1338
00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:35,840
Speaker 15: Answer a really good question. I don't think Stefanski will

1339
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 15: lose his jobs, coming off the Coach of the Year

1340
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:42,960
Speaker 15: last year where he upset Jamiko Ryans. You know, Barry,

1341
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:45,800
Speaker 15: you know, I think he seems to be a little

1342
00:58:45,800 --> 00:58:47,200
Speaker 15: bit safe for this this year. But they'll be on

1343
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 15: the hot seat next year. Yeah, I think they'll have

1344
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 15: one more chance to figure it out. And I think

1345
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:54,160
Speaker 15: they've got to find their quarterback in the future, because

1346
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:58,280
Speaker 15: obviously Deshaun Watson is not the answer, and he's They've

1347
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 15: given him opportunities to show that they spent so much

1348
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 15: money on him, and you can't do anything right now

1349
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:05,280
Speaker 15: with this contract. But I think they've got to find

1350
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:10,320
Speaker 15: that quarterback in the future and in the draft and

1351
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 15: and start over because the way they've operated now, it

1352
00:59:15,880 --> 00:59:17,440
Speaker 15: just hasn't worked with Deshaun Wison.

1353
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 2: Okay, so fill in the blank, phill the blank, both

1354
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:20,440
Speaker 2: of you.

1355
00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:25,760
Speaker 4: Deshaun Watson is a blank next year free agent.

1356
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 1: Oh good, good, way to get around it.

1357
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:30,920
Speaker 2: Nice, Jonathan.

1358
00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:32,680
Speaker 15: I think he's a free agent as well. I think

1359
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:34,360
Speaker 15: they figured how to way to part ways with them.

1360
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:34,680
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1361
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:38,760
Speaker 3: I think they They're gonna have some creative stuff going

1362
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:39,680
Speaker 3: on in Cleveland, for sure.

1363
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:41,680
Speaker 4: I know we're going to talk about this, not a lot,

1364
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:44,120
Speaker 4: but some in the coming months. I don't think they

1365
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:46,280
Speaker 4: can afford to put him back out there, just for

1366
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:51,000
Speaker 4: their fans, his health. I think it's best for everybody

1367
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:53,000
Speaker 4: that he goes. But who knows how they're gonna settle that.

1368
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:58,720
Speaker 4: What more, for you, Anthony Richardson, is this the Anthony

1369
00:59:58,800 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 4: Richardson that we're to get used to now, the one

1370
01:00:01,400 --> 01:00:04,160
Speaker 4: that played last week against the Jets that he played well,

1371
01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:07,560
Speaker 4: and my gosh, it was almost a revelation it kind

1372
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:09,800
Speaker 4: of was or was that just an aberration?

1373
01:00:09,880 --> 01:00:11,880
Speaker 5: And he's still going to turn back into Anthony Richardson.

1374
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:14,960
Speaker 15: No, I think this is the Anthony Richardson that you

1375
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:17,520
Speaker 15: hope to see for the future. He's going to have

1376
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 15: some good games and he's going to have some bad games.

1377
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:22,520
Speaker 15: I think as a Colt organization, they have to live

1378
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:24,720
Speaker 15: with that. You know, this is he was a guy

1379
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:27,400
Speaker 15: who hadn't had much experience in high school or college,

1380
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:29,360
Speaker 15: hadn't played many games. You got to ride through that.

1381
01:00:29,400 --> 01:00:31,800
Speaker 15: You gotta let him go through the ups and downs.

1382
01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:35,080
Speaker 15: But he has an extremely high ceiling. Like when he's

1383
01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 15: at his best, he's a dangerous player and is on

1384
01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:40,520
Speaker 15: the Colts organization to figure out how to unlock that

1385
01:00:40,800 --> 01:00:43,600
Speaker 15: to the fullest potential, and I think that means playing

1386
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:45,720
Speaker 15: more games. So they made the right decision by putting

1387
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:48,600
Speaker 15: him out there and starting him, and now they're reaping

1388
01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:49,280
Speaker 15: the benefits.

1389
01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:49,520
Speaker 2: Now.

1390
01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 15: He might not win this year, he might not win

1391
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:54,120
Speaker 15: the AFC South this year, but I think he is

1392
01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 15: their quarterback for the near future for sure.

1393
01:00:57,240 --> 01:01:00,440
Speaker 5: Okay, what do you have going on to the Chronicle, Jonathan, Yeah.

1394
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:03,960
Speaker 15: I'm gonna I'm gonna have a story on Derek Stingly

1395
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:07,560
Speaker 15: and whether he can reset the cornerback market with the

1396
01:01:07,560 --> 01:01:10,400
Speaker 15: way he's playing. His play phenomenal this year, and he's

1397
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:14,480
Speaker 15: gonna be a well played player after this season. And also,

1398
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 15: of course my Texans Insider newsletter, which last you all

1399
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:19,240
Speaker 15: have to check that out.

1400
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:20,040
Speaker 5: Wait, do you have to play?

1401
01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:22,040
Speaker 4: Do you have to pay corners going into year four?

1402
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:24,720
Speaker 4: If you have that year five option? Do you have

1403
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:25,160
Speaker 4: to do that?

1404
01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:27,240
Speaker 2: You don't have to. You don't have to. You can.

1405
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:30,400
Speaker 1: I know quarterbacks you do, but cornerbacks, I mean you can.

1406
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:33,240
Speaker 2: Any first round pick you can, any first round pick

1407
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:33,440
Speaker 2: you can.

1408
01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 5: I know you can't.

1409
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:35,760
Speaker 2: You can't. But will you?

1410
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:39,400
Speaker 5: It's gonna be a good question. Yeah, he's worth he's

1411
01:01:39,440 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 5: playing at that level.

1412
01:01:40,560 --> 01:01:41,080
Speaker 2: Put it that way.

1413
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:41,880
Speaker 1: He's at that level.

1414
01:01:41,920 --> 01:01:42,479
Speaker 2: It's the level.

1415
01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:45,000
Speaker 3: What did you you know? All along? I was a

1416
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:47,480
Speaker 3: sting guy all along. I was like man through some

1417
01:01:47,560 --> 01:01:49,960
Speaker 3: rough times early. But now it's proving out to be true.

1418
01:01:50,120 --> 01:01:52,960
Speaker 3: Here's my thought. What about sting on offense? I just

1419
01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:55,640
Speaker 3: thrown out there. He was gonna play offense at LSU

1420
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:57,520
Speaker 3: before he got hurt. He's gonna play a little bit.

1421
01:01:57,520 --> 01:01:57,960
Speaker 6: I don't know.

1422
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:00,600
Speaker 4: I can't afford to lose him on defense if he

1423
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:02,120
Speaker 4: gets hurt on offense.

1424
01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:03,960
Speaker 5: The whole staff should be fired.

1425
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:07,960
Speaker 1: Are you okay that idea? Jonathan, thanks a lot for

1426
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:08,920
Speaker 1: joining us, Thanks.

1427
01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:09,720
Speaker 2: For having me, man.

1428
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:12,840
Speaker 3: I'm telling you that Cleveland Brown situation is gonna be

1429
01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:16,880
Speaker 3: really wild to watch. I can't imagine that Sean Watson

1430
01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:18,840
Speaker 3: goes back Mark and I talked about that in the

1431
01:02:18,880 --> 01:02:19,480
Speaker 3: first segment.

1432
01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 1: I guess you bring back Jamis, you draft the young guy.

1433
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:26,760
Speaker 3: The thing is Jamis is gonna win a few more

1434
01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:29,480
Speaker 3: games and so may move you down the draft order,

1435
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:32,800
Speaker 3: especially if you are looking for your next quarterback. I

1436
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:36,440
Speaker 3: don't know what you do with Deshaun financially, I don't know.

1437
01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:39,520
Speaker 3: I just don't know what you're gonna do. You might

1438
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:41,320
Speaker 3: just have to say, we gotta bite the bullet. We

1439
01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:44,640
Speaker 3: gotta bite the bullet. We can't make any acquisitions for

1440
01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:47,280
Speaker 3: a year, maybe even two, and we just got a

1441
01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:49,480
Speaker 3: draft rookies to go with what we've already got and

1442
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:52,880
Speaker 3: see where it puts us, because I can't imagine them

1443
01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:55,760
Speaker 3: wanting Sean Watson back in their building, especially after what

1444
01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:59,320
Speaker 3: Joe Flacco has done, especially with what Jameis Winston has done.

1445
01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:02,120
Speaker 3: Hearing for the Browns last night for a number of reasons,

1446
01:03:02,560 --> 01:03:04,720
Speaker 3: but that was such a great, great win. But I'm

1447
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:07,040
Speaker 3: really curious to see what this offseason breaks for the

1448
01:03:07,080 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 3: Cleveland Browns, now the Brown Steelers.

1449
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:13,680
Speaker 1: One game that took place already this weekend.

1450
01:03:14,480 --> 01:03:17,640
Speaker 3: There's six teams on byes, so I should be able

1451
01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:19,640
Speaker 3: to get through my predictions pretty quickly, right.

1452
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:20,800
Speaker 1: Relatively quickly.

1453
01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:23,240
Speaker 3: All right, Well, either way, I'm gonna pick them straight

1454
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:24,200
Speaker 3: up and against the spread.

1455
01:03:24,200 --> 01:03:27,720
Speaker 1: Next right here on Texans All Access. All right, second segment,

1456
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:28,680
Speaker 1: second hour.

1457
01:03:28,920 --> 01:03:32,760
Speaker 3: Every Friday, it's time for my prediction, straight up and

1458
01:03:32,800 --> 01:03:35,760
Speaker 3: against the spread. I am John Harris, football analsideline reporter

1459
01:03:36,320 --> 01:03:37,320
Speaker 3: in football analysts.

1460
01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:39,720
Speaker 1: So you're Houston Texans in case you were wondering.

1461
01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:43,600
Speaker 3: Every Friday, I do this same segment straight up and

1462
01:03:43,640 --> 01:03:47,680
Speaker 3: against the spread for fun. For fun, I pick every

1463
01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:51,080
Speaker 3: game in the NFL. Now, what is helping me a

1464
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:54,640
Speaker 3: little bit this weekend is there are six teams on

1465
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:57,720
Speaker 3: buys and two of them played last night, which, well

1466
01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:01,160
Speaker 3: that's typical, right, you have that Thursday night game, but

1467
01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:04,680
Speaker 3: you've got six teams not play, so that's three fewer games.

1468
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 3: So that should help me breeze through. And you know,

1469
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:09,120
Speaker 3: I don't pick between my heart and my head for

1470
01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:13,080
Speaker 3: the Texans. So I'd never picked that game. So let's

1471
01:04:13,960 --> 01:04:16,520
Speaker 3: get it going with some music because it gets me hyped.

1472
01:04:16,680 --> 01:04:18,800
Speaker 3: And let's talk about these games starting Sunday. Here's your

1473
01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:24,720
Speaker 3: noon window games starting at MetLife Stadium, where Tommy DeVito

1474
01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:27,360
Speaker 3: is back. Yes, Tommy DeVito is back in our lives.

1475
01:04:27,760 --> 01:04:31,960
Speaker 3: He will take over. Uh, we're talking about Daniel Jones

1476
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:34,280
Speaker 3: being released today, Almost said Drew Jones. I almost said

1477
01:04:34,280 --> 01:04:37,960
Speaker 3: Andrew Jones, almost said Drew Locke. But it was Daniel

1478
01:04:38,040 --> 01:04:39,919
Speaker 3: Jones who was released today by the Giants. So Tommy

1479
01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:43,280
Speaker 3: DeVito will start, Drew Locke will back him up. Giants

1480
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:45,080
Speaker 3: are two and eight, Buccaneers four and six. I don't

1481
01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:47,080
Speaker 3: know if they'll get a little bit more from Tommy DeVito.

1482
01:04:47,160 --> 01:04:47,880
Speaker 1: I don't think so.

1483
01:04:48,400 --> 01:04:51,160
Speaker 3: I think the Bucks, favored by six, will actually win

1484
01:04:51,240 --> 01:04:53,720
Speaker 3: this game by lesson six, So the Giants will get

1485
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:56,320
Speaker 3: a little bit of juice, not enough to win, but

1486
01:04:56,480 --> 01:04:59,800
Speaker 3: enough to cover Bucks win, Giants cover. The Chiefs will

1487
01:04:59,840 --> 01:05:04,040
Speaker 3: take on the Panthers in Carolina and man with that

1488
01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:07,120
Speaker 3: be an upset win. It is not going to happen.

1489
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:09,480
Speaker 3: The question is can Kansas City cover ten and a

1490
01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:13,880
Speaker 3: half on the road? Yes, he wins by fourteen or

1491
01:05:13,920 --> 01:05:15,080
Speaker 3: at least by fourteen.

1492
01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:19,560
Speaker 1: So let's go thirty five seventeen Chiefs. I don't even know if.

1493
01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:22,120
Speaker 3: Panthers score that much. Let's go let's go thirty one

1494
01:05:22,160 --> 01:05:25,480
Speaker 3: to ten. That's more than ten and a half. Chiefs win.

1495
01:05:25,640 --> 01:05:27,920
Speaker 3: Chiefs win. On the road, they go to ten and one.

1496
01:05:28,080 --> 01:05:31,800
Speaker 3: Cowboys Commanders. We saw the Cowboys the other night. They're

1497
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:33,920
Speaker 3: kind of a mess. That's why the Commanders are favored

1498
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:38,520
Speaker 3: by ten and a half. At home. I think they.

1499
01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 2: Will cover that.

1500
01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:41,760
Speaker 3: The Commanders lost two tough ball games. They will win

1501
01:05:41,880 --> 01:05:44,080
Speaker 3: this game and cover that ten and a half. I'd

1502
01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:45,960
Speaker 3: like to see Cowboys win. Can't believe of saying that,

1503
01:05:46,920 --> 01:05:49,040
Speaker 3: just because there's so much buzz about the Commanders, and

1504
01:05:49,040 --> 01:05:50,880
Speaker 3: the Commanders are ranked ahead of the Texans and the

1505
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:53,880
Speaker 3: power rankings, like, let the Cowboys be the Commander's fall.

1506
01:05:55,600 --> 01:05:57,400
Speaker 3: But I don't think it's gonna happen. Commander's gonna win

1507
01:05:57,400 --> 01:05:59,560
Speaker 3: this thing. Cowboys are gonna keep it within ten and

1508
01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:03,160
Speaker 3: a half though. Patriots Dolphins game in Miami, Miami is

1509
01:06:03,160 --> 01:06:05,640
Speaker 3: starting to find itself. Patriots seven and a half point favorites,

1510
01:06:05,840 --> 01:06:08,320
Speaker 3: and that feels about right. I was thinking thirty one

1511
01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:11,560
Speaker 3: twenty four without looking at the spread. But I'm gonna

1512
01:06:11,560 --> 01:06:14,840
Speaker 3: give Miami a little bit more juice. Let's give them

1513
01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:17,240
Speaker 3: thirty four to twenty four as the Dolphins start to

1514
01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:21,200
Speaker 3: get a little bit heated up, of course, before they're

1515
01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:24,120
Speaker 3: gonna take on the Texans on December fifteenth. Dolphins win

1516
01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:26,360
Speaker 3: and they're gonna cover that seven and a half. Lions

1517
01:06:26,400 --> 01:06:29,400
Speaker 3: Colts this one in Indianapolis. Anthony Richardson coming off his

1518
01:06:29,440 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 3: best game as a cult, but Detroit's fired by seven

1519
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:33,480
Speaker 3: and a half. They're coming off one of their best

1520
01:06:33,560 --> 01:06:35,560
Speaker 3: victories fifty two to six over the Jags.

1521
01:06:35,560 --> 01:06:36,640
Speaker 1: That the Lions are gonna win this.

1522
01:06:36,720 --> 01:06:39,360
Speaker 3: The key is can Indianapolis get inside seven and a

1523
01:06:39,400 --> 01:06:44,040
Speaker 3: half No. Thirty one twenty one? At a minimum? Lions

1524
01:06:44,040 --> 01:06:47,360
Speaker 3: win and Lions cover. Vikings Bears. The Bears are just

1525
01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:49,600
Speaker 3: on a bleep streak, just can't get things to go

1526
01:06:49,680 --> 01:06:52,479
Speaker 3: their way. They lost the Commanders on a hil Mary.

1527
01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:54,800
Speaker 3: They lost to the Packers on a block kickfook better around.

1528
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:57,439
Speaker 3: They're six and four, but they're not. Vikings are gonna

1529
01:06:57,480 --> 01:07:01,960
Speaker 3: go into Chicago and upset by the Bears. That's right,

1530
01:07:02,040 --> 01:07:04,840
Speaker 3: the Bears are gonna win this thing outright. Broncos are

1531
01:07:04,880 --> 01:07:07,240
Speaker 3: taking on the Raiders in the first of our afternoon

1532
01:07:07,240 --> 01:07:10,640
Speaker 3: window games. Denver's favored by six in Las Vegas. Denver

1533
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:13,160
Speaker 3: will win this thing, but not by six. Raiders will cover,

1534
01:07:13,560 --> 01:07:16,080
Speaker 3: but the Bronco is a win. Forty nine Ers Packers

1535
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:19,720
Speaker 3: don't know the status of brock Purty. Packers are favored

1536
01:07:19,720 --> 01:07:22,520
Speaker 3: by five at home. I'm gonna give the Packers the win,

1537
01:07:23,400 --> 01:07:26,240
Speaker 3: but the forty nine Ers will stay close somehow. Cardinals

1538
01:07:26,240 --> 01:07:29,320
Speaker 3: Seahawks in Seattle, Arizona's favored by one.

1539
01:07:29,360 --> 01:07:30,680
Speaker 1: I think Seattle's gonna go in there.

1540
01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:32,480
Speaker 3: I mean, I think Arizona's gonna go in there, get

1541
01:07:32,520 --> 01:07:34,040
Speaker 3: the win and cover that one.

1542
01:07:34,080 --> 01:07:34,560
Speaker 1: Obviously.

1543
01:07:34,640 --> 01:07:38,800
Speaker 3: Eagles Rams out in La on Sunday night. Eagles are gonna.

1544
01:07:38,520 --> 01:07:41,800
Speaker 1: Go up there and get upset by the Rams. Rams

1545
01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:42,880
Speaker 1: are gonna get that win. At home.

1546
01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:47,120
Speaker 3: Ravens Chargers, the hardball ball go with John as the

1547
01:07:47,200 --> 01:07:49,760
Speaker 3: Ravens beat the Chargers and covered up three.

1548
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:50,520
Speaker 1: Okay, when we.

1549
01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:54,760
Speaker 3: Get back, it's a feel good Friday two times. Well,

1550
01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:56,240
Speaker 3: you see what I mean. Coming up next right here

1551
01:07:56,240 --> 01:07:59,600
Speaker 3: in Texans Auccess, we got one final segment this Friday

1552
01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:02,720
Speaker 3: is sh All Access Fro. I'm Texans Radio Studio. I'm

1553
01:08:02,720 --> 01:08:06,160
Speaker 3: your hoach, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter, and who

1554
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:09,960
Speaker 3: doesn't want to feel good on a Friday, Well, I've

1555
01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:15,000
Speaker 3: gotten not one, but two former SEC All American linebackers

1556
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:16,000
Speaker 3: to make you feel really good.

1557
01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:17,960
Speaker 1: Want to coach? Who you know?

1558
01:08:18,720 --> 01:08:20,920
Speaker 3: Want a player who are just getting to know? Well,

1559
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:23,200
Speaker 3: if you like me, been following for a while and

1560
01:08:23,240 --> 01:08:24,920
Speaker 3: I love me some Devin White. But we had a

1561
01:08:25,120 --> 01:08:28,360
Speaker 3: blast talking with Devin White, for sure. But it's a

1562
01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:31,240
Speaker 3: few good Friday So we're gonna check off that box

1563
01:08:31,520 --> 01:08:36,560
Speaker 3: by talking to Demico Ryans first, then our friend Devin White.

1564
01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:38,840
Speaker 4: Here in studio with head coach Demiko Ryan's coach here

1565
01:08:38,880 --> 01:08:42,000
Speaker 4: we are embedded in a short week getting ready for Tennessee.

1566
01:08:42,520 --> 01:08:45,040
Speaker 4: But first of all, let's relive a little bit about Dallas.

1567
01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:46,799
Speaker 4: Did you have a chance to enjoy the victory?

1568
01:08:47,320 --> 01:08:49,800
Speaker 8: Definitely had a chance to enjoy it. That was it

1569
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:51,840
Speaker 8: was a long time coming. They had a lot of

1570
01:08:51,920 --> 01:08:55,880
Speaker 8: difficult losses. They're tough losses. So anytime you get a win, man,

1571
01:08:55,880 --> 01:08:58,120
Speaker 8: it's a big sigh relief and it's a moment to

1572
01:08:58,320 --> 01:08:59,200
Speaker 8: celebrate that win.

1573
01:08:59,320 --> 01:09:02,160
Speaker 3: For those two four hours because you just mentioned what

1574
01:09:02,200 --> 01:09:04,479
Speaker 3: I was gonna ask you. Sometimes wins are side relief,

1575
01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:06,719
Speaker 3: like man, we got through that way, and then sometimes

1576
01:09:06,720 --> 01:09:08,599
Speaker 3: they're a true celebration. It felt like the other night

1577
01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:10,200
Speaker 3: was kind of a combination of both, kind of being

1578
01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:12,759
Speaker 3: in the locker room and seeing it on players faces

1579
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:15,640
Speaker 3: coming in that it was like, okay, we were like

1580
01:09:15,680 --> 01:09:19,439
Speaker 3: there was sure there was enjoyment seemingly with that win,

1581
01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:21,439
Speaker 3: not just the okay we got through that way.

1582
01:09:21,640 --> 01:09:24,919
Speaker 8: Yeah, for sure, our guys were. I mean they were excited,

1583
01:09:25,120 --> 01:09:27,519
Speaker 8: and they should be because they played really well. Right,

1584
01:09:27,640 --> 01:09:30,080
Speaker 8: When you play well, you execute the way they execute it.

1585
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:32,880
Speaker 8: And the thing I think everybody's excited about was how

1586
01:09:32,880 --> 01:09:35,320
Speaker 8: we finished in the second half. Right, there's been a

1587
01:09:35,360 --> 01:09:38,200
Speaker 8: hot topic for us. It's the second half and not

1588
01:09:38,280 --> 01:09:41,320
Speaker 8: scoring in the second half, defense giving up too many

1589
01:09:41,320 --> 01:09:43,360
Speaker 8: points in the second half. So for us to flip

1590
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:46,439
Speaker 8: the script there versus you know, our in state other

1591
01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:49,400
Speaker 8: opponent up there in Dallas, right, I think that was

1592
01:09:49,439 --> 01:09:51,960
Speaker 8: a it was a big deal for us, right to

1593
01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:54,360
Speaker 8: shut them out in the second half, finished seventeen zero,

1594
01:09:54,960 --> 01:09:57,479
Speaker 8: Like that was the big deal for us and our guys.

1595
01:09:57,720 --> 01:10:00,160
Speaker 8: They put in the word throughout the week so, and

1596
01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:02,559
Speaker 8: I just have to remind him again today of what

1597
01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:05,800
Speaker 8: we did last week was through the week, the preparation,

1598
01:10:06,320 --> 01:10:08,560
Speaker 8: how locked in. We were like, man, we have to

1599
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:11,439
Speaker 8: hit reset and start that again this week because it

1600
01:10:11,479 --> 01:10:14,200
Speaker 8: doesn't change going into versus the Titans.

1601
01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:17,760
Speaker 4: Coach your defensive line, no well, no Foley, and every

1602
01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 4: week it feels like different people step up, sometimes the

1603
01:10:20,280 --> 01:10:22,800
Speaker 4: same people. It's just a good mix of people in

1604
01:10:22,840 --> 01:10:23,799
Speaker 4: that entire rotation.

1605
01:10:24,080 --> 01:10:26,400
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean always talk about it with Nick just

1606
01:10:26,760 --> 01:10:29,320
Speaker 8: when we were struct building the team, building a roster,

1607
01:10:29,680 --> 01:10:32,720
Speaker 8: it's like, we cannot have too many defensive lines. So

1608
01:10:33,200 --> 01:10:36,320
Speaker 8: as many guys we can get, especially guys who uh

1609
01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:39,400
Speaker 8: shown in the passes they can rush, the rush the passer.

1610
01:10:39,439 --> 01:10:42,200
Speaker 8: And that's where you know, Darry Barnett added him back

1611
01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:45,200
Speaker 8: to our roster. Right, doesn't get a doesn't get a

1612
01:10:45,240 --> 01:10:47,840
Speaker 8: lot of pub on the outside, but he's just been

1613
01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:52,960
Speaker 8: a consistent, tough, hard nosed player that's always been reliable. Right,

1614
01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:55,880
Speaker 8: So it's man, it's fun working with Derek and he

1615
01:10:55,960 --> 01:10:59,599
Speaker 8: got Danil who's just been as consistent as ever, constant

1616
01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:02,960
Speaker 8: pressure on a quarterback, most pressures in the league. To

1617
01:11:03,040 --> 01:11:05,479
Speaker 8: get two sacks in that game, think it's probably like

1618
01:11:05,479 --> 01:11:09,559
Speaker 8: it's what a fifteenth time getting two sack games, like

1619
01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:12,599
Speaker 8: it's a multi sack game. I mean, it's just big time.

1620
01:11:12,680 --> 01:11:14,920
Speaker 8: And when you don't have to for me, as a

1621
01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:16,840
Speaker 8: play call, when you don't have to send a lot

1622
01:11:16,840 --> 01:11:20,000
Speaker 8: of pressure, right, you don't have to send multiple guys,

1623
01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:22,839
Speaker 8: five and six guys to have to pressure on the quarterback.

1624
01:11:22,840 --> 01:11:25,040
Speaker 8: When you can get after guys with four up front,

1625
01:11:25,479 --> 01:11:28,320
Speaker 8: it changes the landscape of what we can do defensively.

1626
01:11:28,560 --> 01:11:31,679
Speaker 8: So they what they're doing up front, and Coach Rod

1627
01:11:31,720 --> 01:11:34,519
Speaker 8: and Coach Nada's done a great job of continuing to

1628
01:11:34,560 --> 01:11:38,479
Speaker 8: work with our guys and they're continuing to build their

1629
01:11:38,600 --> 01:11:42,080
Speaker 8: arsenal moves and we're able to cover them in the

1630
01:11:42,120 --> 01:11:44,720
Speaker 8: back end. If we can rush with fourd cover them

1631
01:11:44,720 --> 01:11:46,800
Speaker 8: in the back end like that, that's to make it

1632
01:11:46,840 --> 01:11:47,839
Speaker 8: is a really good defense.

1633
01:11:47,920 --> 01:11:49,599
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going somewhere with this. You played how many

1634
01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:52,280
Speaker 3: years in the league? Ten, you've coached how many years

1635
01:11:52,280 --> 01:11:52,839
Speaker 3: in the league?

1636
01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:53,320
Speaker 8: Oh?

1637
01:11:53,520 --> 01:11:53,760
Speaker 2: Eight?

1638
01:11:54,240 --> 01:11:56,440
Speaker 1: Okay, so eighteen years in the NFL.

1639
01:11:56,720 --> 01:12:00,920
Speaker 3: As you watch film of just throughout the league, are

1640
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:03,080
Speaker 3: there players that you watch and go, wait, what did

1641
01:12:03,120 --> 01:12:03,880
Speaker 3: that guy just do?

1642
01:12:04,680 --> 01:12:05,439
Speaker 1: What did he do?

1643
01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:10,479
Speaker 3: Because there's a video floating around of Daniil's spin move.

1644
01:12:10,600 --> 01:12:12,599
Speaker 3: I guess we call it to get to the quarterback.

1645
01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:14,320
Speaker 3: I don't know if you maybe saw it live Mayby

1646
01:12:14,320 --> 01:12:16,600
Speaker 3: saw it on film. Are there moments coach where you

1647
01:12:16,680 --> 01:12:19,599
Speaker 3: watch and go, wait a second, what did I just see?

1648
01:12:19,680 --> 01:12:20,920
Speaker 2: I've never seen this before.

1649
01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:22,800
Speaker 3: Are there players that you've had in the past that

1650
01:12:22,920 --> 01:12:24,600
Speaker 3: when you were playing or you were coaching at in

1651
01:12:24,680 --> 01:12:27,280
Speaker 3: San Francisco or now before you got here, and now

1652
01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:29,120
Speaker 3: where you go, what did.

1653
01:12:28,960 --> 01:12:30,759
Speaker 2: I just see? I don't think I've seen that before.

1654
01:12:30,840 --> 01:12:33,040
Speaker 8: That's sewing up a lot more with Daniel than I've

1655
01:12:33,080 --> 01:12:35,519
Speaker 8: ever heard. Like some of the moves that he's able

1656
01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:38,640
Speaker 8: to do is just like, wait a minute, how I

1657
01:12:38,720 --> 01:12:41,800
Speaker 8: tell guys don't spend but you you spend inside and

1658
01:12:41,880 --> 01:12:44,599
Speaker 8: spend back outside and you're still able to get the sack.

1659
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:46,800
Speaker 8: Like it's just some of his play. He had a

1660
01:12:46,800 --> 01:12:50,000
Speaker 8: lot of wild plays that I've never seen before. The

1661
01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:53,599
Speaker 8: one play it wasn't a highlight, but man, I forget

1662
01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:55,600
Speaker 8: who we were playing, but we had a sift a

1663
01:12:55,680 --> 01:12:57,719
Speaker 8: tight end that's coming back behind a line of scrims

1664
01:12:57,720 --> 01:13:00,679
Speaker 8: that cut him and he jumps clearly over the guy

1665
01:13:00,680 --> 01:13:02,880
Speaker 8: and I'm like, wait a minute, I've never seen this

1666
01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:05,599
Speaker 8: who tries to jump over the guy that's cutting him.

1667
01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:07,559
Speaker 3: But it feels like there's one play like that game

1668
01:13:07,600 --> 01:13:10,720
Speaker 3: where you watch and go what am I watching here?

1669
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:13,519
Speaker 3: Like this is a different level of it is like

1670
01:13:13,640 --> 01:13:16,240
Speaker 3: different level of greatness to have a play like that.

1671
01:13:16,240 --> 01:13:17,040
Speaker 2: I've never seen.

1672
01:13:17,280 --> 01:13:19,920
Speaker 3: That spin move was incredible because it looks like he's

1673
01:13:19,960 --> 01:13:21,840
Speaker 3: gonna go outside, he's gonna get shipped and alsodden. He

1674
01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:24,720
Speaker 3: decides to spin back inside, still keeps containing and gets

1675
01:13:24,800 --> 01:13:25,280
Speaker 3: the quarterback.

1676
01:13:25,320 --> 01:13:27,080
Speaker 8: And that's the thing with the Knil, like even though

1677
01:13:27,080 --> 01:13:29,599
Speaker 8: he's spinning, he's still moving towards the quarterback. A lot

1678
01:13:29,600 --> 01:13:32,160
Speaker 8: of guys sometimes they're spending, but they're staying in place

1679
01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:35,479
Speaker 8: while they're spinning, and they're not, you know, still pursuing

1680
01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:39,120
Speaker 8: the quarterback. So I really I'm really learning a lot. Yeah,

1681
01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:40,840
Speaker 8: you know, as a young coach, I'm learning a lot

1682
01:13:40,880 --> 01:13:43,679
Speaker 8: with him. And it's only certain guys. And the Nill

1683
01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:46,439
Speaker 8: was just in a category by himself of things that

1684
01:13:46,479 --> 01:13:48,600
Speaker 8: he can do to get after the quarterback. That's just

1685
01:13:49,120 --> 01:13:51,599
Speaker 8: unbelievable to watch where you are sitting in the film room,

1686
01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:52,680
Speaker 8: hitting rewind a.

1687
01:13:52,600 --> 01:13:56,040
Speaker 4: Lot let's begin the Joe Mixon segment of the program, Coach,

1688
01:13:56,120 --> 01:13:59,519
Speaker 4: because it's certainly worth mentioning acknowledging the kind of night

1689
01:13:59,600 --> 01:13:59,920
Speaker 4: he has.

1690
01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:01,880
Speaker 1: The whole team's sort of feeding off of that.

1691
01:14:02,439 --> 01:14:06,479
Speaker 8: Joe again, exceptional night on the road for another game

1692
01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:09,320
Speaker 8: over one hundred yards on the road. He's just you know,

1693
01:14:09,360 --> 01:14:12,040
Speaker 8: even though when it's not all block well and it's

1694
01:14:12,040 --> 01:14:14,920
Speaker 8: not clean, like, Joe's gonna find a way to make

1695
01:14:14,960 --> 01:14:18,240
Speaker 8: a play, right, And I just think when he touches

1696
01:14:18,280 --> 01:14:22,040
Speaker 8: the football, you know one somebody's gonna get ran over.

1697
01:14:22,920 --> 01:14:26,559
Speaker 8: So everybody on the sidelines up watch, Oh Joe has

1698
01:14:26,560 --> 01:14:29,320
Speaker 8: the ball and saying, oh, oh my goodness. He's going

1699
01:14:29,360 --> 01:14:31,720
Speaker 8: on the edge versus a corner, lookout corner, and then

1700
01:14:31,720 --> 01:14:34,280
Speaker 8: he just see the corner just hitting the turf. So

1701
01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:37,120
Speaker 8: it's it's exciting. It's fun to watch it. Just when

1702
01:14:37,120 --> 01:14:39,559
Speaker 8: you think it's all about the physical moves from Joe

1703
01:14:40,080 --> 01:14:43,400
Speaker 8: right and him pounding the defenders, and then he just

1704
01:14:43,600 --> 01:14:46,000
Speaker 8: breaks a couple of tackles and he has the speed

1705
01:14:46,080 --> 01:14:49,000
Speaker 8: to take it to the house, right, And it's fun

1706
01:14:49,040 --> 01:14:51,719
Speaker 8: to watch. Fun to have a guy like Joe who

1707
01:14:52,439 --> 01:14:55,280
Speaker 8: he's just consistent, you know what, you're getting every single

1708
01:14:55,280 --> 01:14:58,280
Speaker 8: week with Joe, He's not surprising anybody. They know we're

1709
01:14:58,320 --> 01:15:01,360
Speaker 8: running the ball. We know we're running it. But you

1710
01:15:01,439 --> 01:15:04,599
Speaker 8: still believe in Joe And no matter what the look

1711
01:15:05,040 --> 01:15:07,479
Speaker 8: is on the defense, Like, still believe in Joe. We

1712
01:15:07,600 --> 01:15:09,559
Speaker 8: just get a hat on a hat, He'll find a

1713
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:11,120
Speaker 8: crease and he's gonna make someone pay.

1714
01:15:11,280 --> 01:15:13,439
Speaker 4: Is there something to that about being a coach and

1715
01:15:13,479 --> 01:15:15,640
Speaker 4: knowing you have that weapon and hey, you know what

1716
01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:17,960
Speaker 4: we're gonna do. Here we come, we give you our

1717
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:19,200
Speaker 4: best shot with Joe.

1718
01:15:19,760 --> 01:15:22,040
Speaker 2: Just enerject Hey Bobby, hey, run it again.

1719
01:15:23,160 --> 01:15:25,759
Speaker 8: You'll run it again, Like all right, all right, Yeah,

1720
01:15:26,000 --> 01:15:29,160
Speaker 8: let's keep you know, feeding Joe because I'm just watching him.

1721
01:15:29,200 --> 01:15:32,679
Speaker 8: The more touches he gets, like he gets stronger as.

1722
01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:33,200
Speaker 2: The game going.

1723
01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:36,519
Speaker 8: It's count It's that old school mentality with the running backs,

1724
01:15:36,520 --> 01:15:38,360
Speaker 8: when the backs used to get it thirty times a

1725
01:15:38,400 --> 01:15:41,120
Speaker 8: game and they just wear a defense out. Joe still

1726
01:15:41,160 --> 01:15:43,120
Speaker 8: brings that old school mindset to the run.

1727
01:15:43,200 --> 01:15:46,080
Speaker 3: Game cut You're always twisting turns in the game. Things

1728
01:15:46,120 --> 01:15:49,680
Speaker 3: happen and all this, but no nostradamis. But I had

1729
01:15:49,720 --> 01:15:51,800
Speaker 3: a feeling after the first drive of the game, like

1730
01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:54,599
Speaker 3: we're gonna be okay because you're score in the very

1731
01:15:54,600 --> 01:15:55,559
Speaker 3: first play of the game.

1732
01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:58,479
Speaker 1: It gets called back, and then how many times you've.

1733
01:15:58,320 --> 01:16:00,360
Speaker 3: Seen that where you're at this ultimate hot in a

1734
01:16:00,400 --> 01:16:03,280
Speaker 3: game like that Monday night football, we scoring the first play.

1735
01:16:03,479 --> 01:16:05,839
Speaker 3: We've done that before, right where Joe Buck and Troyckmann

1736
01:16:05,840 --> 01:16:07,200
Speaker 3: have been there. We've scored on the first play of

1737
01:16:07,240 --> 01:16:09,920
Speaker 3: a game like that's happened before, right every time. I think, so, yeah,

1738
01:16:09,920 --> 01:16:13,720
Speaker 3: we eight team, So that gets called back, but it

1739
01:16:13,760 --> 01:16:14,839
Speaker 3: didn't deter the offense.

1740
01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:16,800
Speaker 1: They just go right back down and then Joe hits

1741
01:16:16,800 --> 01:16:17,559
Speaker 1: the long run.

1742
01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:20,639
Speaker 3: I kind of felt like that said something about their

1743
01:16:20,680 --> 01:16:23,320
Speaker 3: focus that night, like, hey, all right, that one against us,

1744
01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:25,759
Speaker 3: we've lost two in a row. Could he very easily

1745
01:16:25,800 --> 01:16:28,519
Speaker 3: just drop the hit, but you didn't. You get getting

1746
01:16:28,520 --> 01:16:30,960
Speaker 3: first downs. John gets to catch for a first down

1747
01:16:31,040 --> 01:16:33,280
Speaker 3: and then Joe takes off. What did that first drive

1748
01:16:33,360 --> 01:16:35,639
Speaker 3: sort of tell you about the way, hey, the game

1749
01:16:35,720 --> 01:16:37,320
Speaker 3: was gonna go, but the way the offense kind of

1750
01:16:37,320 --> 01:16:39,800
Speaker 3: rebounded from that first play mistake.

1751
01:16:40,080 --> 01:16:42,439
Speaker 8: That first place told me everything I needed to know

1752
01:16:42,479 --> 01:16:46,679
Speaker 8: about that game, Like, is got Nico back and he's

1753
01:16:46,720 --> 01:16:51,439
Speaker 8: making an impact instantly, So to to get that right

1754
01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:53,920
Speaker 8: that play get called back. It was a play where

1755
01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:56,800
Speaker 8: typically I would get pretty upset like to get but

1756
01:16:56,960 --> 01:17:00,519
Speaker 8: I was like, okay, you know what, We're gonna score again, right,

1757
01:17:00,560 --> 01:17:03,040
Speaker 8: And that just changed my whole mindset for how we're

1758
01:17:03,080 --> 01:17:05,320
Speaker 8: gonna how I was going to operate in this game, Like,

1759
01:17:05,400 --> 01:17:08,439
Speaker 8: let's be as aggressive as possible and let's keep trying

1760
01:17:08,479 --> 01:17:10,320
Speaker 8: to score and get as many points as we can

1761
01:17:10,479 --> 01:17:12,960
Speaker 8: versus these guys. That's why you know I probably went

1762
01:17:12,960 --> 01:17:15,120
Speaker 8: forward on fourth down. People said I probably shouldn't have,

1763
01:17:15,160 --> 01:17:18,880
Speaker 8: but I give us another chance to go score again

1764
01:17:19,040 --> 01:17:21,439
Speaker 8: because I felt that confidence in our offense from the

1765
01:17:21,439 --> 01:17:22,360
Speaker 8: first playoff game.

1766
01:17:22,760 --> 01:17:24,680
Speaker 4: Well, we mentioned the twenty four hour rule. Then all

1767
01:17:24,720 --> 01:17:26,720
Speaker 4: of a sudden, you're halfway through week twelve and you

1768
01:17:26,800 --> 01:17:29,000
Speaker 4: got the Tennessee Titans coming into NRG Stadium.

1769
01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:30,240
Speaker 5: So what is this week like?

1770
01:17:30,360 --> 01:17:32,640
Speaker 4: Because you went through a short week earlier against the

1771
01:17:32,760 --> 01:17:35,000
Speaker 4: Jets with a Thursday night game, this is a day

1772
01:17:35,040 --> 01:17:37,160
Speaker 4: longer whatever, but it's still a short week.

1773
01:17:37,200 --> 01:17:38,000
Speaker 1: So how do you prepare?

1774
01:17:38,000 --> 01:17:42,240
Speaker 8: It's still a short week. So our first practice this week,

1775
01:17:42,280 --> 01:17:43,960
Speaker 8: we just go out in hats and we just do

1776
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:46,120
Speaker 8: a walk through just to get the guys lose get

1777
01:17:46,120 --> 01:17:49,519
Speaker 8: a moving around, So really have one like full practice

1778
01:17:49,520 --> 01:17:52,240
Speaker 8: on Thursday where we get after no pass. Just want

1779
01:17:52,320 --> 01:17:54,960
Speaker 8: the guys as fresh as possible so they can play

1780
01:17:54,960 --> 01:17:57,759
Speaker 8: fast on Sunday, and then we'll have our typical Friday

1781
01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:01,200
Speaker 8: and Saturday, so we're behind one day, but not as

1782
01:18:01,240 --> 01:18:04,280
Speaker 8: short as a Thursday night game. But we'll take that

1783
01:18:04,360 --> 01:18:07,680
Speaker 8: Monday night game every week if we can have a

1784
01:18:07,720 --> 01:18:08,599
Speaker 8: performance like that.

1785
01:18:09,200 --> 01:18:12,880
Speaker 3: Touch the Titans coach Division opponent Divisional pone we haven't seen.

1786
01:18:12,880 --> 01:18:13,840
Speaker 2: We're done with the Colts.

1787
01:18:13,880 --> 01:18:15,920
Speaker 3: We've seen the Jaguars once, we haven't seen the Titans

1788
01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:18,240
Speaker 3: yet on film. What do you see from these guys

1789
01:18:18,240 --> 01:18:19,040
Speaker 3: coming up on Sunday.

1790
01:18:19,240 --> 01:18:21,400
Speaker 8: Yeah, what I see from the Titans is a really

1791
01:18:21,400 --> 01:18:24,320
Speaker 8: good defense, right, starting with their defensive line. They really

1792
01:18:24,360 --> 01:18:26,559
Speaker 8: set the tone there with the two big guys in

1793
01:18:26,560 --> 01:18:29,600
Speaker 8: the middle, Simmons and Sweat. They make it hard to

1794
01:18:29,680 --> 01:18:33,479
Speaker 8: run the ball on the inside, right, So that being said,

1795
01:18:33,479 --> 01:18:35,120
Speaker 8: we got to find a way to get outside and

1796
01:18:35,160 --> 01:18:38,000
Speaker 8: make them run. Then in their passing game, they do

1797
01:18:38,080 --> 01:18:40,360
Speaker 8: a good job. They're gonna challenge our receivers. I know

1798
01:18:40,360 --> 01:18:43,360
Speaker 8: they're missing some corners, missing some guys in the back end,

1799
01:18:43,439 --> 01:18:45,960
Speaker 8: but philosophically, like they want to get up, they want

1800
01:18:45,960 --> 01:18:48,439
Speaker 8: to play press, they want to really challenge you. So

1801
01:18:48,479 --> 01:18:50,960
Speaker 8: we have to be able to beat press coverage, get

1802
01:18:50,960 --> 01:18:53,519
Speaker 8: off and make contested catches. Right, it's where Nico I

1803
01:18:53,520 --> 01:18:56,000
Speaker 8: think has thrived, or they got Tank, I think he'll

1804
01:18:56,040 --> 01:18:58,400
Speaker 8: thrive as well. We got to try to work the

1805
01:18:58,479 --> 01:19:01,040
Speaker 8: middle of the field. I think that's where they're susceptible

1806
01:19:01,439 --> 01:19:03,360
Speaker 8: on the defenses. Work in the middle of the field,

1807
01:19:03,439 --> 01:19:05,720
Speaker 8: and we have to work the intermediate passing game, and

1808
01:19:05,760 --> 01:19:09,200
Speaker 8: I think CJ can make a lot of plays there. Offensively,

1809
01:19:10,320 --> 01:19:12,880
Speaker 8: you put on the tape, it's goes to the running game.

1810
01:19:13,080 --> 01:19:16,679
Speaker 8: I think Pollard is a really good player. Always respect

1811
01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:20,240
Speaker 8: to him from his time in Dallas. He's an explosive player. Really,

1812
01:19:20,960 --> 01:19:23,160
Speaker 8: you may think he's a scatback, but he does a

1813
01:19:23,160 --> 01:19:26,480
Speaker 8: good job of playing with power and making guys mistackles.

1814
01:19:26,520 --> 01:19:29,000
Speaker 8: So the emphasis is going to be back again on

1815
01:19:29,160 --> 01:19:32,600
Speaker 8: the tackling like that's going to be very key. And schematically,

1816
01:19:32,680 --> 01:19:34,439
Speaker 8: they do a really good job in a run game

1817
01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:38,280
Speaker 8: of giving us different schemes, more scheme runs than we've

1818
01:19:38,320 --> 01:19:41,160
Speaker 8: seen before. So they'll do a good job of trying

1819
01:19:41,200 --> 01:19:45,080
Speaker 8: to run more gap runs where they're trying to trap

1820
01:19:45,120 --> 01:19:47,360
Speaker 8: our tackles or wear them right. So our guys just

1821
01:19:47,400 --> 01:19:50,200
Speaker 8: have to play a really good awareness upfront from the

1822
01:19:50,280 --> 01:19:53,840
Speaker 8: d line, and then the quarterback Levis he does a

1823
01:19:53,840 --> 01:19:55,640
Speaker 8: good job just man. He probably has one of the

1824
01:19:55,680 --> 01:19:58,880
Speaker 8: strongest arms in the league, similar to Anthony Richardson. This

1825
01:19:59,000 --> 01:20:00,800
Speaker 8: guy he can sling it right. He could throw the

1826
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:03,719
Speaker 8: ball very far and then still guy, it doesn't matter,

1827
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:06,680
Speaker 8: guy's covered uncovered. He's gonna throw the ball up and

1828
01:20:06,720 --> 01:20:09,000
Speaker 8: give his guys an opportunity to make a play. And

1829
01:20:09,080 --> 01:20:10,880
Speaker 8: the guy who he's trying to throw it to the

1830
01:20:10,880 --> 01:20:13,400
Speaker 8: most is Calvin Ridley, the right guy who played with

1831
01:20:13,439 --> 01:20:16,799
Speaker 8: the Jacksonville Jaguars in previous years. We've seen him before,

1832
01:20:17,200 --> 01:20:19,400
Speaker 8: but he's a challenge when it comes to the deep threat,

1833
01:20:19,439 --> 01:20:22,519
Speaker 8: and you know, we have to have play aggressive on him,

1834
01:20:22,520 --> 01:20:25,599
Speaker 8: get hands on him, challenge him and our defensive line

1835
01:20:25,760 --> 01:20:27,720
Speaker 8: for us to win this game. The kid is going

1836
01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:30,320
Speaker 8: to be our defensive line getting after their offensive line.

1837
01:20:30,560 --> 01:20:33,439
Speaker 8: I think that's been our strong suit this entire year.

1838
01:20:33,479 --> 01:20:35,840
Speaker 8: It's been a weakness for them, so we have to

1839
01:20:35,880 --> 01:20:37,080
Speaker 8: exploit that all right.

1840
01:20:37,120 --> 01:20:39,920
Speaker 4: Well more, the Amagy Bank asked coach question of the week.

1841
01:20:39,920 --> 01:20:43,200
Speaker 4: It's Salute to Service Day on Sunday, So thoughts on that.

1842
01:20:43,320 --> 01:20:46,599
Speaker 4: And also if you had to pick one to be Army, Navy,

1843
01:20:46,680 --> 01:20:50,280
Speaker 4: Air Force, Marines, some coast Guards, something else.

1844
01:20:50,320 --> 01:20:52,120
Speaker 1: If you had to pick one to do coach, what

1845
01:20:52,160 --> 01:20:52,639
Speaker 1: would it be?

1846
01:20:52,720 --> 01:20:55,519
Speaker 8: Oh, Man, I guess I'll probably pick Navy because my

1847
01:20:55,560 --> 01:20:58,559
Speaker 8: brother was brother was in the Navy. My dad probably

1848
01:20:58,560 --> 01:21:01,760
Speaker 8: give him. My dad was Air Force. So I have

1849
01:21:01,800 --> 01:21:04,640
Speaker 8: a lot of family who was in the service and

1850
01:21:04,680 --> 01:21:07,559
Speaker 8: serve their countries. Are really you know, thankful for them

1851
01:21:07,600 --> 01:21:10,880
Speaker 8: sacrificing and going out and serving the country to make

1852
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:14,400
Speaker 8: sure everybody's safe and everybody's you know, can have the

1853
01:21:14,439 --> 01:21:16,640
Speaker 8: freedoms that we're granted here in the United States. So

1854
01:21:16,680 --> 01:21:19,360
Speaker 8: I'm really thankful for all my mother in laws in

1855
01:21:19,400 --> 01:21:22,000
Speaker 8: the Air Force as well. I have a brother in

1856
01:21:22,080 --> 01:21:24,920
Speaker 8: law who's in the Army, so I have multiple people

1857
01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:28,000
Speaker 8: around me who've kind of hit every every branch of

1858
01:21:28,040 --> 01:21:32,160
Speaker 8: the service. So just really really thankful, And this day

1859
01:21:32,240 --> 01:21:33,760
Speaker 8: means a lot to a lot of people. So I'm

1860
01:21:33,760 --> 01:21:35,720
Speaker 8: happy that the NFL is the NFL. We get a

1861
01:21:35,800 --> 01:21:38,360
Speaker 8: chance to you know, do the Salute the Service day

1862
01:21:38,400 --> 01:21:41,519
Speaker 8: and really honor those who really you know, don't get

1863
01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:44,040
Speaker 8: a lot of credit, but they sacrifice a lot and

1864
01:21:44,040 --> 01:21:46,000
Speaker 8: they put a lot of hard work in things that

1865
01:21:46,040 --> 01:21:48,479
Speaker 8: we will never see or never know, but they put

1866
01:21:48,520 --> 01:21:51,400
Speaker 8: a lot on the line right for us to do

1867
01:21:51,439 --> 01:21:52,360
Speaker 8: what we do every day.

1868
01:21:52,479 --> 01:21:54,360
Speaker 5: Outstanding coach. Thanks a lot of good luck this week.

1869
01:21:54,400 --> 01:21:55,080
Speaker 8: Thank you guys.

1870
01:21:55,320 --> 01:21:58,000
Speaker 1: He absolutely hit that answer out of the park. That

1871
01:21:58,120 --> 01:21:59,240
Speaker 1: was fantastic stuff.

1872
01:21:59,240 --> 01:22:00,840
Speaker 3: Okay, I want to get you need to feel good,

1873
01:22:01,479 --> 01:22:04,880
Speaker 3: so let's get a little Devon White in the mix market.

1874
01:22:04,920 --> 01:22:07,439
Speaker 3: I had a chance to catch up with him earlier

1875
01:22:07,479 --> 01:22:09,880
Speaker 3: this week and we had a blast. It is our

1876
01:22:09,920 --> 01:22:11,920
Speaker 3: first time talking to him. And you talk about great

1877
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:14,559
Speaker 3: on the mic. Devin White is great on the mic.

1878
01:22:14,720 --> 01:22:16,320
Speaker 3: Here's Devin White with Mark and myself.

1879
01:22:16,800 --> 01:22:18,920
Speaker 1: Devin White joining us in the studio. Devin, great to

1880
01:22:18,960 --> 01:22:19,400
Speaker 1: have you with us.

1881
01:22:19,400 --> 01:22:19,920
Speaker 5: How's it going.

1882
01:22:19,960 --> 01:22:21,280
Speaker 2: It's going wonderful, all right.

1883
01:22:21,320 --> 01:22:23,599
Speaker 5: So, how has Houston been in general so far?

1884
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:25,479
Speaker 1: Team City the move.

1885
01:22:25,640 --> 01:22:27,920
Speaker 4: You're a pro, You've been through this kind of thing before,

1886
01:22:27,960 --> 01:22:30,240
Speaker 4: but this was really on the fly during the season.

1887
01:22:30,320 --> 01:22:32,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a very different transition for me.

1888
01:22:32,600 --> 01:22:35,040
Speaker 7: You know, I always been comfortable in one place, you know,

1889
01:22:35,400 --> 01:22:37,160
Speaker 7: having to come here live in a hotel for a

1890
01:22:37,240 --> 01:22:40,280
Speaker 7: couple of weeks was definitely the most challenging part because

1891
01:22:40,320 --> 01:22:42,559
Speaker 7: I'm just a guy of space, you know, everywhere I go,

1892
01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:44,439
Speaker 7: I always got a lot of space, can move around,

1893
01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:47,080
Speaker 7: you know, outside type of guy. As far as a team,

1894
01:22:47,160 --> 01:22:49,400
Speaker 7: I think everybody will welcome me with open arms, you know.

1895
01:22:49,439 --> 01:22:51,559
Speaker 7: I think that's just a credit to the person who

1896
01:22:51,640 --> 01:22:53,200
Speaker 7: I am. You know, just come in the locker room

1897
01:22:53,240 --> 01:22:55,160
Speaker 7: and just you know, tell them I want to help him.

1898
01:22:55,520 --> 01:22:58,559
Speaker 7: You know, I don't think nobody gonna reject reject help ever,

1899
01:22:58,960 --> 01:23:01,479
Speaker 7: you know. So I was in here with the mindset

1900
01:23:01,479 --> 01:23:03,760
Speaker 7: of I'm here to serve, you know, whatever y'all need

1901
01:23:03,760 --> 01:23:05,160
Speaker 7: me to do, I want to get it done.

1902
01:23:05,160 --> 01:23:06,720
Speaker 2: I want to help y'all win ball games. You know.

1903
01:23:06,760 --> 01:23:09,600
Speaker 7: I see how how fartest team can go, and I

1904
01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:11,960
Speaker 7: know I can add a little bit to it somewhere.

1905
01:23:12,120 --> 01:23:12,680
Speaker 2: Devin, did you have.

1906
01:23:12,640 --> 01:23:14,960
Speaker 3: Any connection with guys and another couple of LSU guys

1907
01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:16,840
Speaker 3: and I know you ls you guys are tight. Were

1908
01:23:16,840 --> 01:23:19,160
Speaker 3: there any were there any that guys that you had

1909
01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:21,400
Speaker 3: connections with when you first got here.

1910
01:23:21,560 --> 01:23:24,800
Speaker 7: Yeah, most definitely anybody that went to LSU, even from

1911
01:23:24,840 --> 01:23:27,080
Speaker 7: the Neil he's older than me. But we just keep

1912
01:23:27,160 --> 01:23:29,200
Speaker 7: up with each other around the league, and even when

1913
01:23:29,200 --> 01:23:31,240
Speaker 7: we go back and we might visit a game together,

1914
01:23:31,560 --> 01:23:33,160
Speaker 7: you feel like you've been knowing them forever, you know.

1915
01:23:33,240 --> 01:23:35,600
Speaker 7: Seeing obviously I was there when he came in. He

1916
01:23:35,760 --> 01:23:37,720
Speaker 7: en rolled early, so when we was there practice for

1917
01:23:37,800 --> 01:23:40,639
Speaker 7: Bowl prep, he was there getting in with us. So, man,

1918
01:23:40,840 --> 01:23:42,639
Speaker 7: just just go on and on. You know, I played

1919
01:23:42,680 --> 01:23:46,160
Speaker 7: with a couple of guys already, so it's just like.

1920
01:23:46,640 --> 01:23:48,400
Speaker 2: You've been in the league. You don't seen some people.

1921
01:23:48,439 --> 01:23:49,280
Speaker 2: You done did some things.

1922
01:23:49,320 --> 01:23:51,160
Speaker 7: And even if the people that I didn't play with,

1923
01:23:51,439 --> 01:23:53,360
Speaker 7: I played against them, so they know what type of

1924
01:23:53,720 --> 01:23:55,960
Speaker 7: opponent I was. You know what I brought because I

1925
01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:58,439
Speaker 7: played the Houston Texans last year. So the guys that

1926
01:23:58,520 --> 01:24:00,760
Speaker 7: was here, I played them. Me and Diase, we was

1927
01:24:00,760 --> 01:24:03,439
Speaker 7: the same draft class. He went undrafted. But can we

1928
01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:05,639
Speaker 7: keep up with each other because we played the same position.

1929
01:24:05,760 --> 01:24:08,600
Speaker 7: So just man, everybody, you know everybody. I feel like

1930
01:24:08,640 --> 01:24:09,840
Speaker 7: I already knew a lot of people.

1931
01:24:10,080 --> 01:24:12,080
Speaker 4: Well, you were in Tampa during a very good time

1932
01:24:12,120 --> 01:24:14,880
Speaker 4: in Buccaneers history, no doubt about it. And not to

1933
01:24:14,920 --> 01:24:17,120
Speaker 4: make too many comparisons here, but what are you seeing

1934
01:24:17,160 --> 01:24:19,719
Speaker 4: here with the vibe the culture, that kind of thing,

1935
01:24:19,960 --> 01:24:23,679
Speaker 4: the intangibles with this team. As we're still midway past

1936
01:24:23,680 --> 01:24:25,559
Speaker 4: the midway part of the season, a long way to go.

1937
01:24:25,600 --> 01:24:26,559
Speaker 5: But what are you seeing so far?

1938
01:24:26,600 --> 01:24:26,880
Speaker 2: Devin?

1939
01:24:27,360 --> 01:24:31,439
Speaker 7: I just see just you know, to compare the two situations. Obviously,

1940
01:24:31,439 --> 01:24:33,960
Speaker 7: it's very different. You know, we had the Goat over

1941
01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:35,880
Speaker 7: there and we got a young gold that here. Yeah,

1942
01:24:36,080 --> 01:24:39,120
Speaker 7: you know, but I think just the willing for the

1943
01:24:39,160 --> 01:24:42,400
Speaker 7: team to do things not so good, but not let

1944
01:24:42,479 --> 01:24:44,200
Speaker 7: it bring us all the way down, you know, to

1945
01:24:44,240 --> 01:24:46,960
Speaker 7: be able to bounce back from certain scenarios, you know,

1946
01:24:47,400 --> 01:24:51,200
Speaker 7: being called out, being held accountable, and having up your plate.

1947
01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:53,639
Speaker 7: You know, people don't remember when we won the Super

1948
01:24:53,680 --> 01:24:56,040
Speaker 7: Bowl there. I think we lost like four or five

1949
01:24:56,080 --> 01:24:58,160
Speaker 7: games in a row before the bye week, and we

1950
01:24:58,200 --> 01:25:00,439
Speaker 7: came back and with a whole different mind. But it

1951
01:25:00,520 --> 01:25:03,240
Speaker 7: was because of the people that we had in the building.

1952
01:25:03,439 --> 01:25:06,320
Speaker 7: You know, it was led from top bottom. Everybody was

1953
01:25:06,400 --> 01:25:08,479
Speaker 7: just like like on a chain, you know, just pulling

1954
01:25:08,560 --> 01:25:10,840
Speaker 7: together as a unit. And I think it's a lot

1955
01:25:10,840 --> 01:25:13,280
Speaker 7: of similarities in this team. You know, we had I

1956
01:25:13,320 --> 01:25:16,120
Speaker 7: came here, we won, you know, everybody like we rolling

1957
01:25:16,240 --> 01:25:18,360
Speaker 7: and we lose two and I feel like you know,

1958
01:25:18,720 --> 01:25:20,599
Speaker 7: one got away from us, but the last one we

1959
01:25:20,640 --> 01:25:22,960
Speaker 7: really really should have won. And it's like we know

1960
01:25:23,000 --> 01:25:24,800
Speaker 7: who we are, we know how good we can be,

1961
01:25:25,040 --> 01:25:26,000
Speaker 7: but we gotta do it.

1962
01:25:26,240 --> 01:25:26,400
Speaker 2: You know.

1963
01:25:26,439 --> 01:25:28,559
Speaker 7: We can't just you know, not put it together and

1964
01:25:28,600 --> 01:25:30,760
Speaker 7: say we're right there. We got to get over the hump.

1965
01:25:30,760 --> 01:25:33,439
Speaker 7: And I think last week was a testament to locking

1966
01:25:33,479 --> 01:25:36,080
Speaker 7: in and really being locked in and for four quarters

1967
01:25:36,080 --> 01:25:38,479
Speaker 7: and you've seen how we could dominate, and we just

1968
01:25:38,479 --> 01:25:40,200
Speaker 7: got to keep that going because once you put it

1969
01:25:40,240 --> 01:25:42,559
Speaker 7: out there, you set the standard of like you could

1970
01:25:42,560 --> 01:25:44,240
Speaker 7: do this every week, why can't.

1971
01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:46,320
Speaker 2: You and replicate what it against Dallas?

1972
01:25:46,360 --> 01:25:49,160
Speaker 3: For sure, Devin, you played on a defense, play next

1973
01:25:49,200 --> 01:25:52,559
Speaker 3: to Levante David. You had speed on that defense. You

1974
01:25:52,600 --> 01:25:54,599
Speaker 3: also had Vidavana and he's pretty fast for a big

1975
01:25:54,640 --> 01:25:56,840
Speaker 3: guy too. That must have been fun to play behind him.

1976
01:25:56,880 --> 01:26:00,160
Speaker 3: But it feels like just watching and you know, I'm

1977
01:26:00,200 --> 01:26:02,120
Speaker 3: on the side lines every week, so I see defenses.

1978
01:26:02,160 --> 01:26:06,360
Speaker 3: It feels like your unit plays at a faster speed

1979
01:26:06,439 --> 01:26:08,360
Speaker 3: than I can remember here in Houston in a long time,

1980
01:26:08,400 --> 01:26:10,160
Speaker 3: and it plays a lot faster than other defenses.

1981
01:26:10,160 --> 01:26:12,760
Speaker 1: Do you guys sort of not rely on that?

1982
01:26:12,800 --> 01:26:14,599
Speaker 3: But is that sort of kind of your calling card, Like, yeah,

1983
01:26:14,600 --> 01:26:16,120
Speaker 3: we're gonna play fast and we're gonna hit you.

1984
01:26:16,160 --> 01:26:17,479
Speaker 1: Is that kind of the way you guys look at it.

1985
01:26:17,680 --> 01:26:19,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you have to. You know, you gotta

1986
01:26:19,720 --> 01:26:20,639
Speaker 2: be fast and physical.

1987
01:26:20,720 --> 01:26:22,840
Speaker 7: You know, you gotta make put a lot of stress

1988
01:26:22,880 --> 01:26:24,439
Speaker 7: on the offense, like, hey, we got to get up

1989
01:26:24,439 --> 01:26:26,400
Speaker 7: to the second level. We gotta block those guys. Oh

1990
01:26:26,439 --> 01:26:28,439
Speaker 7: we get ahead on those guys. But other guys running

1991
01:26:28,439 --> 01:26:30,559
Speaker 7: to the ball. And I think that's just a swarm

1992
01:26:30,600 --> 01:26:33,680
Speaker 7: mentality here. I love it, Like it's easier, like what

1993
01:26:33,800 --> 01:26:35,640
Speaker 7: Domico on from you. He wants you to go hit

1994
01:26:35,680 --> 01:26:38,200
Speaker 7: the ball. Yeah, like if the ball carried out down,

1995
01:26:38,280 --> 01:26:40,639
Speaker 7: finish them. Like I love that attitude. It just make

1996
01:26:40,680 --> 01:26:43,000
Speaker 7: football fun, you know when you got a coasters that

1997
01:26:43,120 --> 01:26:46,320
Speaker 7: passionate about you know, obviously defense because he was a linebacker,

1998
01:26:46,320 --> 01:26:48,479
Speaker 7: but it's just that passionate about the game and just

1999
01:26:48,520 --> 01:26:51,479
Speaker 7: doing the little things right and not over over putting

2000
01:26:51,520 --> 01:26:53,720
Speaker 7: too much stress on you but allowing you to go

2001
01:26:53,800 --> 01:26:54,439
Speaker 7: play free.

2002
01:26:54,760 --> 01:26:55,440
Speaker 1: Absolutely.

2003
01:26:55,560 --> 01:26:59,519
Speaker 4: Well, tell me from Louisiana what a Louisiana people think

2004
01:26:59,600 --> 01:27:03,080
Speaker 4: of tech? What do you think of Texas? What is

2005
01:27:03,120 --> 01:27:05,599
Speaker 4: the dynamic really? Because I wasn't born here I got

2006
01:27:05,600 --> 01:27:07,280
Speaker 4: here as fast as I could. So you tell me

2007
01:27:07,280 --> 01:27:09,000
Speaker 4: about Texas and Louisiana.

2008
01:27:09,280 --> 01:27:12,120
Speaker 7: I don't think it's very much hate between Texas and Louisiana,

2009
01:27:12,240 --> 01:27:15,280
Speaker 7: but we do realize that everything is bigger in Texas,

2010
01:27:15,320 --> 01:27:17,639
Speaker 7: even from the even from the furniture in the house.

2011
01:27:17,680 --> 01:27:20,080
Speaker 7: You know, you go to Texans, you get those oversized furnitures,

2012
01:27:20,120 --> 01:27:23,200
Speaker 7: and we getting shipped to Louisiana. So you know, people

2013
01:27:23,240 --> 01:27:25,200
Speaker 7: come here for a good time. You know, it's a

2014
01:27:25,240 --> 01:27:27,920
Speaker 7: lot of more high end things. You know, we think

2015
01:27:27,960 --> 01:27:30,080
Speaker 7: of high end. You know, when I think of Texas,

2016
01:27:30,080 --> 01:27:33,600
Speaker 7: I always think of a livestock. Okay, that's big for me.

2017
01:27:33,720 --> 01:27:35,439
Speaker 7: You know, I think a livestock. But I think we

2018
01:27:35,520 --> 01:27:38,680
Speaker 7: think everything's bigger and better in Texas. Not that it

2019
01:27:38,720 --> 01:27:41,280
Speaker 7: ain't good in Louisiana because it's great, but you know,

2020
01:27:41,360 --> 01:27:43,320
Speaker 7: we like to skip, stay and have a lot fun.

2021
01:27:43,400 --> 01:27:45,840
Speaker 4: So livestock, I mean, I think of eating livestock. But

2022
01:27:46,160 --> 01:27:47,200
Speaker 4: what are you talking about.

2023
01:27:46,960 --> 01:27:49,760
Speaker 7: Here, like carry and cows and horses and you know,

2024
01:27:50,280 --> 01:27:55,160
Speaker 7: farm dolls, you know, blue hitalers and border college.

2025
01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:57,040
Speaker 2: You know, just being on the farm.

2026
01:27:57,760 --> 01:28:00,400
Speaker 3: What you had one of the best I've ever seen, Devin,

2027
01:28:00,720 --> 01:28:03,400
Speaker 3: when you left l s U. And your horse's name

2028
01:28:03,560 --> 01:28:06,280
Speaker 3: Daisy May, right, Yes, sir, and you had Daisy May

2029
01:28:06,720 --> 01:28:07,599
Speaker 3: in Death Valley.

2030
01:28:07,680 --> 01:28:09,760
Speaker 1: And I'm like, I'm not a big I'm not a

2031
01:28:09,760 --> 01:28:11,479
Speaker 1: big horse. I'm not a big horse guy. I'm not

2032
01:28:11,479 --> 01:28:12,320
Speaker 1: a big livestock guy.

2033
01:28:12,360 --> 01:28:14,200
Speaker 2: And I'm like, that's pretty cool.

2034
01:28:13,760 --> 01:28:16,519
Speaker 1: That's cool, because that's that's the side of you.

2035
01:28:16,560 --> 01:28:18,960
Speaker 3: Probably probably a lot of people don't know, but you are.

2036
01:28:19,040 --> 01:28:21,800
Speaker 3: You're big in a livestock. I mean, where are your

2037
01:28:21,800 --> 01:28:24,840
Speaker 3: horses now? Are you getting bringing with you? How do

2038
01:28:24,840 --> 01:28:25,479
Speaker 3: you kind of handle that?

2039
01:28:25,720 --> 01:28:28,800
Speaker 7: It's kind of funny because I have a trainer out here.

2040
01:28:29,520 --> 01:28:32,200
Speaker 7: It's named Daryl Wilson, and he takes a couple of

2041
01:28:32,200 --> 01:28:34,680
Speaker 7: my young horses. H I just sent another one of

2042
01:28:34,720 --> 01:28:37,120
Speaker 7: my horses out here with a buddy of my car. Right,

2043
01:28:37,439 --> 01:28:39,320
Speaker 7: he has one of my horses, the one I ordered

2044
01:28:39,360 --> 01:28:41,760
Speaker 7: the Super Bowl after the Super Bowl in Tampa Bay.

2045
01:28:41,840 --> 01:28:44,840
Speaker 7: She's out here right now because that's who I originally,

2046
01:28:44,920 --> 01:28:47,240
Speaker 7: you know, that's where she comes from. Yeah, So, man,

2047
01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:49,519
Speaker 7: I got horses everywhere. If you name a state that's

2048
01:28:49,560 --> 01:28:52,559
Speaker 7: a horse state, how many you have? And my mom

2049
01:28:52,600 --> 01:28:59,080
Speaker 7: and I listen, I can tell you I counted the

2050
01:28:59,120 --> 01:29:00,639
Speaker 7: other day I got fifty two horses.

2051
01:29:00,680 --> 01:29:04,280
Speaker 2: Whoa yeah, on did you learn to ride? Probably when

2052
01:29:04,280 --> 01:29:05,400
Speaker 2: I was like five years old?

2053
01:29:05,439 --> 01:29:07,920
Speaker 1: Really was it was that a family thing or just.

2054
01:29:07,800 --> 01:29:11,120
Speaker 7: Just a town thing from a town called Cotton Valley,

2055
01:29:11,160 --> 01:29:14,960
Speaker 7: five hundred people max. And it's like that's what people,

2056
01:29:15,560 --> 01:29:19,240
Speaker 7: that's what you do people around horses, like for will us. Yeah,

2057
01:29:19,280 --> 01:29:21,320
Speaker 7: And it's kind of like d thing. So I grew

2058
01:29:21,360 --> 01:29:22,599
Speaker 7: up That's what I grew up around.

2059
01:29:22,960 --> 01:29:23,160
Speaker 2: You know.

2060
01:29:23,200 --> 01:29:25,400
Speaker 7: I just see somebody riding up the street one day

2061
01:29:25,720 --> 01:29:28,320
Speaker 7: when I was young, and I was like stopping him. Hey,

2062
01:29:28,360 --> 01:29:31,000
Speaker 7: Like he was in a car. I'm flagging him down, Hey,

2063
01:29:31,040 --> 01:29:33,519
Speaker 7: let me ride. He asked my mom can he ride?

2064
01:29:33,600 --> 01:29:36,080
Speaker 7: She's like yeah. And ever since then, I've been hooked.

2065
01:29:36,479 --> 01:29:38,400
Speaker 7: Like it's an addiction. It's addiction.

2066
01:29:38,760 --> 01:29:43,519
Speaker 4: No wonder why you don't want to be in the hotel. Yeah,

2067
01:29:43,600 --> 01:29:44,719
Speaker 4: you need a lot of space.

2068
01:29:45,520 --> 01:29:47,280
Speaker 2: I need a lot of space. I need a lot

2069
01:29:47,320 --> 01:29:47,679
Speaker 2: of space.

2070
01:29:47,920 --> 01:29:50,360
Speaker 4: You mentioned disease some of the other guys, But give

2071
01:29:50,400 --> 01:29:52,960
Speaker 4: me a few that really stick out to you here,

2072
01:29:53,120 --> 01:29:55,720
Speaker 4: and guys that you're drawn to and friends with and

2073
01:29:55,760 --> 01:29:57,040
Speaker 4: that sort of thing in the locker room.

2074
01:29:57,080 --> 01:29:59,880
Speaker 5: Not that with friends like black people.

2075
01:30:00,120 --> 01:30:03,680
Speaker 7: Yeah, I like everybody, but obviously you know Steam just

2076
01:30:03,680 --> 01:30:08,559
Speaker 7: because of the connection. Yeah, uh kbuh me and him.

2077
01:30:08,560 --> 01:30:10,880
Speaker 2: We know some mutual people off the field.

2078
01:30:11,000 --> 01:30:13,000
Speaker 7: You know, I'm real friends with somebody who he grew

2079
01:30:13,080 --> 01:30:15,960
Speaker 7: up under, Chris Boyd for you know, I said kb

2080
01:30:17,160 --> 01:30:19,840
Speaker 7: LT been new him just you know, just being around

2081
01:30:19,840 --> 01:30:20,280
Speaker 7: the league.

2082
01:30:20,920 --> 01:30:21,519
Speaker 2: Shak Mason.

2083
01:30:21,560 --> 01:30:24,280
Speaker 7: I played with him in Tampa, so right, we was

2084
01:30:24,439 --> 01:30:29,160
Speaker 7: very close. The closest person that I think I got

2085
01:30:29,240 --> 01:30:33,800
Speaker 7: to ish JP me and him is I don't know.

2086
01:30:33,840 --> 01:30:36,599
Speaker 7: We just kind of kicked it off Jayleen Petrick obviously,

2087
01:30:36,880 --> 01:30:38,920
Speaker 7: and it's just it's an energy thing with us, like

2088
01:30:38,960 --> 01:30:41,080
Speaker 7: we want to see, you know, who gonna have the

2089
01:30:41,080 --> 01:30:43,000
Speaker 7: most energy, you know, how we feeling?

2090
01:30:43,280 --> 01:30:45,479
Speaker 2: You know if you see him, you know you see me.

2091
01:30:45,640 --> 01:30:46,800
Speaker 2: Like we always around.

2092
01:30:46,520 --> 01:30:50,000
Speaker 7: Each other, and I gravity toys a lot of the

2093
01:30:50,040 --> 01:30:53,000
Speaker 7: guys on the team, but man players that can do

2094
01:30:53,080 --> 01:30:55,040
Speaker 7: what he do, Like, hey, I want to be around

2095
01:30:55,120 --> 01:30:56,360
Speaker 7: him so they can rub off on me.

2096
01:30:56,600 --> 01:30:59,080
Speaker 3: So when you're making the decision, Devin, because you got here,

2097
01:30:59,080 --> 01:31:02,160
Speaker 3: I can remember what we could walk before the coach game. Yeah,

2098
01:31:02,200 --> 01:31:04,400
Speaker 3: so you got to make that. You gotta make a decision, right,

2099
01:31:04,400 --> 01:31:05,760
Speaker 3: do I want to go to Houston? Do I not

2100
01:31:06,360 --> 01:31:09,800
Speaker 3: how how tough a decision was that to kind of wait, shit,

2101
01:31:10,040 --> 01:31:12,080
Speaker 3: find the right move. Hey, if Houston's asking me, maybe

2102
01:31:12,120 --> 01:31:13,280
Speaker 3: there's other teams that want to know.

2103
01:31:13,640 --> 01:31:13,880
Speaker 2: Was it?

2104
01:31:13,920 --> 01:31:15,280
Speaker 1: Was it a tough decision or.

2105
01:31:15,400 --> 01:31:18,280
Speaker 3: Was it did you know that, Hey, look at this team,

2106
01:31:18,320 --> 01:31:19,720
Speaker 3: I think I could fit in here. I think I

2107
01:31:19,760 --> 01:31:21,479
Speaker 3: can make some place for them. How did that kind

2108
01:31:21,520 --> 01:31:22,720
Speaker 3: of decision make it go for you?

2109
01:31:22,920 --> 01:31:24,760
Speaker 7: I mean, it was pretty hard just coming out of

2110
01:31:24,760 --> 01:31:26,240
Speaker 7: the situation that I came out of.

2111
01:31:27,360 --> 01:31:28,519
Speaker 2: I was with a great team.

2112
01:31:28,760 --> 01:31:31,160
Speaker 7: Obviously, I put my best foot forward and it didn't

2113
01:31:31,160 --> 01:31:33,760
Speaker 7: work out in my favor. And you know, I never

2114
01:31:33,920 --> 01:31:36,840
Speaker 7: just like took the back roll, like, I just kept working,

2115
01:31:36,920 --> 01:31:39,519
Speaker 7: kept working. So when I was finally releasing, I was

2116
01:31:39,560 --> 01:31:41,240
Speaker 7: at home just still training and stuff.

2117
01:31:41,640 --> 01:31:41,760
Speaker 2: Like.

2118
01:31:41,840 --> 01:31:44,400
Speaker 7: I had plenty of opportunities come, but it was a

2119
01:31:44,400 --> 01:31:46,280
Speaker 7: lot of what else, like and I don't know if

2120
01:31:46,320 --> 01:31:49,600
Speaker 7: I should have took that approach, but I did. And

2121
01:31:49,840 --> 01:31:53,040
Speaker 7: when Houston called, you know, a couple of times, I'm like, Okay,

2122
01:31:53,040 --> 01:31:54,720
Speaker 7: this kind of serious, Like but.

2123
01:31:56,520 --> 01:31:57,560
Speaker 2: Is it temporary?

2124
01:31:57,720 --> 01:31:59,840
Speaker 7: Like like I come in and play one or two games,

2125
01:32:00,360 --> 01:32:00,960
Speaker 7: or I don't play.

2126
01:32:00,960 --> 01:32:03,400
Speaker 2: They just need a little depth. I don't know, the situation.

2127
01:32:03,600 --> 01:32:07,440
Speaker 7: But when you talk to Miko, and he's very straightforward

2128
01:32:07,479 --> 01:32:10,200
Speaker 7: and honest, I think that's what mattered the most. Like

2129
01:32:10,439 --> 01:32:12,760
Speaker 7: he told me, if you come here, you're legitimate, have

2130
01:32:12,840 --> 01:32:15,320
Speaker 7: an opportunity to help this team. And that's all I

2131
01:32:15,360 --> 01:32:17,800
Speaker 7: want to do. I just want to help somebody, you know.

2132
01:32:17,920 --> 01:32:20,960
Speaker 7: I just know my capabilities. God bless me, and I'm thankful.

2133
01:32:21,240 --> 01:32:24,280
Speaker 7: And I got a lot of tread left on these tied.

2134
01:32:24,400 --> 01:32:29,080
Speaker 7: The mutt tied right here. Yeah, you know the country

2135
01:32:29,120 --> 01:32:32,960
Speaker 7: boy four by four. We're going through it all. No, no,

2136
01:32:32,960 --> 01:32:35,639
Speaker 7: no horsepower. Right now, he's mutt tied. We'll talk about

2137
01:32:35,680 --> 01:32:38,800
Speaker 7: the tread. But he was just he was authentic and

2138
01:32:39,080 --> 01:32:41,200
Speaker 7: I can respect that. And when you're having a conversation

2139
01:32:41,320 --> 01:32:44,519
Speaker 7: with a man, you know when they're being serious and

2140
01:32:44,720 --> 01:32:46,640
Speaker 7: not just shooting just shooting.

2141
01:32:46,360 --> 01:32:48,559
Speaker 2: You know, just shooting, you just to be talking.

2142
01:32:49,000 --> 01:32:51,720
Speaker 7: And the minute I came here, I was, and I'm

2143
01:32:51,760 --> 01:32:52,720
Speaker 7: still doing it to this day.

2144
01:32:52,760 --> 01:32:54,240
Speaker 2: I'm coming in early, I'm leaving later.

2145
01:32:54,400 --> 01:32:56,840
Speaker 7: I'm learning everything because he wants stuff done a certain

2146
01:32:56,880 --> 01:32:58,800
Speaker 7: way and I'm trying to do it a certain way

2147
01:32:58,840 --> 01:33:00,800
Speaker 7: so he could trust me. And and I think it's

2148
01:33:00,880 --> 01:33:02,800
Speaker 7: going well. And I think we trending in the right

2149
01:33:02,800 --> 01:33:06,200
Speaker 7: direction with it, and anything that asks me to do,

2150
01:33:06,360 --> 01:33:07,880
Speaker 7: I try my best to do it to the best

2151
01:33:07,880 --> 01:33:08,559
Speaker 7: of my ability.

2152
01:33:08,640 --> 01:33:10,559
Speaker 4: All Right, it's not like you've played for two decades,

2153
01:33:10,600 --> 01:33:13,040
Speaker 4: but you're not a young guy either fresh out of

2154
01:33:13,080 --> 01:33:13,840
Speaker 4: college or young.

2155
01:33:14,280 --> 01:33:16,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're young. You're young, young enough, but you've gotten

2156
01:33:16,560 --> 01:33:17,000
Speaker 1: a little bit.

2157
01:33:17,040 --> 01:33:19,960
Speaker 4: But my point here, Dada is you've got experience, right,

2158
01:33:20,200 --> 01:33:23,080
Speaker 4: and you know that coming down the stretch here, there's

2159
01:33:23,160 --> 01:33:25,479
Speaker 4: so many important things because you got a lot of

2160
01:33:25,560 --> 01:33:27,639
Speaker 4: games left and you're in a good spot right now.

2161
01:33:27,680 --> 01:33:29,040
Speaker 2: What's important for these young.

2162
01:33:28,840 --> 01:33:31,760
Speaker 4: Guys to realize, these first second year type players in

2163
01:33:31,880 --> 01:33:34,040
Speaker 4: this situation, with the opportunities ahead of you.

2164
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Speaker 2: I think this is time.

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Speaker 7: You know, around Thanksgiving time is always when you want

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01:33:38,240 --> 01:33:40,200
Speaker 7: to start peaking. You want to start playing your best

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01:33:40,200 --> 01:33:43,040
Speaker 7: ball going into the money December to carry over into

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01:33:43,040 --> 01:33:45,600
Speaker 7: those playoff type of months. But you don't want to

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01:33:45,640 --> 01:33:46,840
Speaker 7: do it like you don't want to look ahead. You

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Speaker 7: want to do it one game at a time. And

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01:33:48,920 --> 01:33:51,320
Speaker 7: that's the thing that I tell them the row I

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01:33:51,360 --> 01:33:53,120
Speaker 7: sit on in the locker room and straight young guys

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01:33:53,120 --> 01:33:56,680
Speaker 7: that play you know CB out there, K three out

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Speaker 7: there and I just kind of tell them, like, man,

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01:33:58,479 --> 01:34:00,600
Speaker 7: stay locked in, stay having fun with it, and you

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01:34:00,760 --> 01:34:02,800
Speaker 7: just got to have that mindset every day you come

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01:34:02,840 --> 01:34:04,800
Speaker 7: to practice that you know, you're working to be the

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01:34:04,840 --> 01:34:07,080
Speaker 7: best and you're working to help your team, you know,

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01:34:07,320 --> 01:34:09,760
Speaker 7: win the football game every time, you know, because if

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01:34:09,760 --> 01:34:11,840
Speaker 7: you get bored with it, you know, And it's no

2181
01:34:11,920 --> 01:34:14,080
Speaker 7: wild for the Rookers in here because you know they

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01:34:14,160 --> 01:34:15,920
Speaker 7: it's a lot being asking them and they doing it

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01:34:15,920 --> 01:34:19,000
Speaker 7: at a high level. And that just just hass off

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01:34:19,040 --> 01:34:21,200
Speaker 7: to the coaches everybody that you know that's you know,

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01:34:21,560 --> 01:34:22,000
Speaker 7: teaching them.

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01:34:22,040 --> 01:34:23,360
Speaker 2: You know, they keeping them going.

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Speaker 7: So I feel like everybody know that their role is

2188
01:34:26,200 --> 01:34:28,120
Speaker 7: very you know, it means a lot to the team.

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01:34:28,240 --> 01:34:30,000
Speaker 7: So it's like just keep going, you know, and I

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01:34:30,040 --> 01:34:32,040
Speaker 7: kind of appreciate it every time, like, you know, coming

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01:34:32,080 --> 01:34:33,400
Speaker 7: while I just came from, I was sitting at the

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01:34:33,400 --> 01:34:35,439
Speaker 7: house for a couple of weeks, like, hey, it's a

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01:34:35,479 --> 01:34:37,760
Speaker 7: blessing to be here, Like I didn't take none of

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01:34:37,760 --> 01:34:40,559
Speaker 7: that for granted, and just kind of emphasizing like that

2195
01:34:40,720 --> 01:34:42,880
Speaker 7: this game can pass you by really fast. And I

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01:34:42,880 --> 01:34:44,680
Speaker 7: think that they kind of they I don't think I

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01:34:44,720 --> 01:34:47,479
Speaker 7: know they really bought in, Like even when K three

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01:34:47,479 --> 01:34:48,240
Speaker 7: got the concussion.

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Speaker 2: He was, man, I want to play.

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01:34:49,360 --> 01:34:50,920
Speaker 7: I want to play like he want to help the team,

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01:34:51,080 --> 01:34:53,160
Speaker 7: and it's like, hey, put yourself first and then come

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01:34:53,200 --> 01:34:55,080
Speaker 7: back and help us, and we're gonna we're gonna hold

2203
01:34:55,080 --> 01:34:55,920
Speaker 7: it down till you get back.

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Speaker 2: So I see bright, I see bright things.

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Speaker 1: Here outstanding Devin, thanks a love for joining uschol Oh.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I appreciate you.

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Speaker 3: Feel better, don't you. Yeah, that's what feel good Friday

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01:35:03,840 --> 01:35:06,160
Speaker 3: is all about. It big thanks to Devin, to Demiko,

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Speaker 3: to Jonathan Alexander, to my man Mark Vandermir, to all

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Speaker 3: you for listening, everybody back at Sports Radio six ' ten.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you on Sunday and as always, go Texans.

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Speaker 4: Hello Texans, Welcome to the bonus hour of Texans All

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01:35:22,640 --> 01:35:26,120
Speaker 4: Access to Friday Night Fun Hour, where we relive some

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Speaker 4: of the fine audio that we've had over the course

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Speaker 4: of the last week. And it's been a short week

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01:35:30,560 --> 01:35:34,080
Speaker 4: because of the victory over Dallas on Monday, Monday Night

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01:35:34,160 --> 01:35:37,280
Speaker 4: Football Extravaganza and Arlington.

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01:35:37,439 --> 01:35:38,400
Speaker 5: Man, that was fun.

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01:35:38,680 --> 01:35:41,960
Speaker 4: But here we are in another game weekend situation with

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01:35:42,040 --> 01:35:46,320
Speaker 4: the Tennessee Titans invading on Sunday, and let's kick off

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Speaker 4: this show with general manager and Executive vice president Nick Cassario.

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Speaker 1: He was on with us, He was on with Sean

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01:35:52,520 --> 01:35:52,960
Speaker 1: and Seth.

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Speaker 4: Well, here's some of our visit with the exec VP

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01:35:57,000 --> 01:35:59,960
Speaker 4: and GM. And it all started with a slight recap

2226
01:36:00,080 --> 01:36:03,160
Speaker 4: but Monday night and into some things that need to

2227
01:36:03,160 --> 01:36:05,680
Speaker 4: happen this week to keep this thing going, and went

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Speaker 4: back to back for the first time in a month.

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Speaker 16: Players responded, had a good week of preparation, A focus

2230
01:36:10,280 --> 01:36:13,120
Speaker 16: was there, and they took the coaching and the message

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01:36:13,160 --> 01:36:15,080
Speaker 16: that DR presented to the team, and of course the

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Speaker 16: week went out there and executing came out with a

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01:36:16,640 --> 01:36:16,960
Speaker 16: good win.

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Speaker 3: Nick, we talked about this obviously, Number eleven was going

2235
01:36:19,800 --> 01:36:20,280
Speaker 3: to be a problem.

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01:36:20,360 --> 01:36:22,360
Speaker 1: We talked about it last week in our interview.

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01:36:22,360 --> 01:36:24,479
Speaker 3: We talked about for the game, we knew eleven was

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01:36:24,479 --> 01:36:25,920
Speaker 3: gonna be a problem and he could, I mean he

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01:36:25,960 --> 01:36:26,920
Speaker 3: could play an He lined up with.

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Speaker 1: A lot different spots but held him sackless.

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01:36:29,520 --> 01:36:31,519
Speaker 3: He did create a few pressures at some point, but

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01:36:32,280 --> 01:36:33,400
Speaker 3: keeping them to one sack.

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01:36:33,479 --> 01:36:35,200
Speaker 2: How big was that in the win? Yeah?

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01:36:35,240 --> 01:36:37,960
Speaker 16: It was huge, And I think the offensive line tight

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01:36:38,040 --> 01:36:39,960
Speaker 16: ends are involved, but the offensive line is the main group.

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01:36:40,040 --> 01:36:42,200
Speaker 16: Took a lot of ownership and took a lot of

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01:36:42,200 --> 01:36:45,080
Speaker 16: pride in making sure that their best player didn't become

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01:36:45,080 --> 01:36:46,840
Speaker 16: a factor. And even on the sack, I mean, oh,

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01:36:47,200 --> 01:36:49,479
Speaker 16: kind of you made a nice move against Jews. But

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Speaker 16: for the most part, we were able to kind of

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01:36:51,160 --> 01:36:53,160
Speaker 16: control Micah and they move him around. They put him

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01:36:53,160 --> 01:36:55,280
Speaker 16: over the center, over the guard, and sometimes he's actually

2253
01:36:55,320 --> 01:36:58,120
Speaker 16: harder to block inside than he is outside. But to

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01:36:58,160 --> 01:37:00,200
Speaker 16: be able to limit a player of his caliber, it

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Speaker 16: just speaks to the offensive line, the preparation that went

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Speaker 16: into the course of the week. We ever to do

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01:37:04,880 --> 01:37:06,639
Speaker 16: some things, kind of mix of timing the passing game.

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01:37:06,640 --> 01:37:08,120
Speaker 16: There a little bits he's he did a good job

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01:37:08,200 --> 01:37:10,840
Speaker 16: making good decisions, and then you know, we were able

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01:37:10,840 --> 01:37:12,960
Speaker 16: to limit, you know, a really good player. I would

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01:37:12,960 --> 01:37:15,839
Speaker 16: say different problem, but we'll get when we get to Tennessee.

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01:37:15,920 --> 01:37:18,920
Speaker 16: It's going to be I would say similar, just in

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01:37:19,000 --> 01:37:20,439
Speaker 16: terms of where the guy lines up will be a

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01:37:20,439 --> 01:37:21,080
Speaker 16: little bit different.

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Speaker 4: Nick I renamed the broadcast last night, Mix It Night Football.

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01:37:24,920 --> 01:37:27,520
Speaker 4: So what about his performance with the three touchdowns?

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Speaker 13: Yeah, Joe has been really productive all year.

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01:37:29,520 --> 01:37:32,040
Speaker 16: I think his consistency just from week to week is

2269
01:37:32,080 --> 01:37:35,839
Speaker 16: really what stood out and He's just so strong, so durable.

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01:37:35,960 --> 01:37:38,200
Speaker 16: As a game goes on, he starts to wear on

2271
01:37:38,240 --> 01:37:40,760
Speaker 16: you a little bit the way he finishes runs, he

2272
01:37:40,840 --> 01:37:44,000
Speaker 16: delivers a blow. He plays with violence, he plays with physicality,

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01:37:44,040 --> 01:37:46,400
Speaker 16: he plays with the right mindset, and he's really a

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01:37:46,479 --> 01:37:48,640
Speaker 16: dual threat because he can make them be able to

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01:37:48,640 --> 01:37:51,080
Speaker 16: get him on a screen pass there, or a chunk play,

2276
01:37:51,080 --> 01:37:53,639
Speaker 16: even on the third down conversion going into the red

2277
01:37:53,680 --> 01:37:55,240
Speaker 16: air there a little bit third two whatever it was

2278
01:37:55,280 --> 01:37:57,880
Speaker 16: on a roll pass. But Joe's a really good football player.

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Speaker 16: It takes a lot of pride in what he does. LEADLeadership,

2280
01:38:00,520 --> 01:38:02,720
Speaker 16: his toughness, and when he was named the captain. We

2281
01:38:02,760 --> 01:38:05,280
Speaker 16: talked about this on the show a little bit. He's

2282
01:38:05,479 --> 01:38:08,120
Speaker 16: kind of taken that ownership of that position and run

2283
01:38:08,120 --> 01:38:09,879
Speaker 16: with it a little bit. And the players that responded

2284
01:38:09,920 --> 01:38:11,800
Speaker 16: has a really good pulse of kind of what's going

2285
01:38:11,840 --> 01:38:14,400
Speaker 16: on with the team. Can't say enough good things about

2286
01:38:14,439 --> 01:38:16,000
Speaker 16: what Joe is brought to his football team.

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Speaker 3: Nick I always I think about guys that play on

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01:38:19,400 --> 01:38:22,559
Speaker 3: special teams, and I always wonder because they know they

2289
01:38:22,600 --> 01:38:24,800
Speaker 3: want to play their their position offense, defense. You know

2290
01:38:24,840 --> 01:38:26,559
Speaker 3: they want to play that side of the ball. But

2291
01:38:26,560 --> 01:38:28,519
Speaker 3: then they get on special teams and you see some

2292
01:38:28,560 --> 01:38:30,519
Speaker 3: guys that you know, I kinda put their head down

2293
01:38:30,520 --> 01:38:32,200
Speaker 3: and don't do it. And I thought about that on

2294
01:38:32,240 --> 01:38:34,240
Speaker 3: a fake pot last night. Because John Metchi has been

2295
01:38:34,240 --> 01:38:36,360
Speaker 3: more involved on special teams and he makes that hit,

2296
01:38:36,439 --> 01:38:37,200
Speaker 3: I thought it was interesting.

2297
01:38:37,200 --> 01:38:39,960
Speaker 5: In the presser afterwards, Demiko mentioned.

2298
01:38:39,600 --> 01:38:43,000
Speaker 3: They showed his hit of Trey Dean on the interception

2299
01:38:43,320 --> 01:38:46,080
Speaker 3: back in the S Championship game, which I remember clearly,

2300
01:38:46,560 --> 01:38:48,519
Speaker 3: and John makes a hit like that. How big was

2301
01:38:48,520 --> 01:38:50,599
Speaker 3: that for not only John, but just a special teams

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01:38:50,600 --> 01:38:53,599
Speaker 3: to show you're not pulling that stuff on us tonight, No.

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01:38:53,439 --> 01:38:53,680
Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 16: It speaks to I'd say John his mindset and a

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01:38:56,880 --> 01:38:59,439
Speaker 16: big theme going to this week was just us playing

2306
01:38:59,439 --> 01:39:03,800
Speaker 16: with physicality and playing with violence, regardless of the side

2307
01:39:03,800 --> 01:39:05,920
Speaker 16: of the ball that you're on, regardless of the phase.

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Speaker 16: And one of the clips, like you mentioned once, John's

2309
01:39:09,280 --> 01:39:11,479
Speaker 16: hit in addition to a number of our players on

2310
01:39:11,520 --> 01:39:14,040
Speaker 16: the defensive side of the ball. So but I would

2311
01:39:14,040 --> 01:39:18,200
Speaker 16: say just John's ownership of that role and his willingness

2312
01:39:18,240 --> 01:39:21,519
Speaker 16: to embrace that role. It's a part of football and

2313
01:39:21,640 --> 01:39:24,639
Speaker 16: you have to be able to contribute in all three phases.

2314
01:39:24,680 --> 01:39:27,400
Speaker 16: In some capacity either started an offense, started on a defense,

2315
01:39:27,920 --> 01:39:29,559
Speaker 16: or you have some role in the kicking game.

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01:39:29,680 --> 01:39:32,160
Speaker 13: So credit to John. He's really I would say, come

2317
01:39:32,200 --> 01:39:32,439
Speaker 13: on here.

2318
01:39:32,439 --> 01:39:35,160
Speaker 16: Over the last few weeks and his mindset, his work ethic,

2319
01:39:35,240 --> 01:39:38,480
Speaker 16: the way he prepares, He's made some plays. His confidence

2320
01:39:38,640 --> 01:39:41,160
Speaker 16: I'm sure has improved. And to be able to make

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Speaker 16: that was a critical play in the game because if

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Speaker 16: we don't make that play, it's going to be a

2323
01:39:45,520 --> 01:39:47,639
Speaker 16: chunk play. They're going to retain possession of the ball

2324
01:39:47,880 --> 01:39:50,080
Speaker 16: and are probably going to be over midfield and who

2325
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Speaker 16: knows what happens.

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Speaker 4: Excellent, Well, Nick, what about spreading the ball around for

2327
01:39:54,240 --> 01:39:57,559
Speaker 4: CJ Stroud the group of receivers as a team as

2328
01:39:57,560 --> 01:39:58,920
Speaker 4: a unit, the job they did.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, I think there were eight different skill players that

2330
01:40:01,280 --> 01:40:03,639
Speaker 16: had at least one reception and it was a good

2331
01:40:03,720 --> 01:40:06,479
Speaker 16: illustration of CJ making the right decision getting the ball

2332
01:40:06,520 --> 01:40:08,519
Speaker 16: out of his hands and then the player doing something

2333
01:40:08,560 --> 01:40:10,360
Speaker 16: with it after the catcher. A number of catching run

2334
01:40:10,400 --> 01:40:12,479
Speaker 16: plays that involved it wasn't just we were launching a

2335
01:40:12,479 --> 01:40:15,400
Speaker 16: ball down the field. Even on Nico's screen that got

2336
01:40:15,439 --> 01:40:18,080
Speaker 16: called back. It was a two yard pass that turned

2337
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Speaker 16: into an eighty yard run hit the shung play to

2338
01:40:20,640 --> 01:40:23,200
Speaker 16: tank down a field, so mixing and Matt Bobby did

2339
01:40:23,240 --> 01:40:25,639
Speaker 16: a great job likes talking about, you know, the passing game,

2340
01:40:25,680 --> 01:40:28,000
Speaker 16: mixing the timing in the passing game, using all the

2341
01:40:28,040 --> 01:40:30,439
Speaker 16: skill players, and then when the first raad wasn't there,

2342
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Speaker 16: CJ just dumping the ball down. Even though some of

2343
01:40:32,960 --> 01:40:35,439
Speaker 16: the plays that he made decade, those are really good

2344
01:40:35,439 --> 01:40:38,599
Speaker 16: plays because they kept the ball moving forward and kept us.

2345
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Speaker 13: Out of a negative situation.

2346
01:40:40,280 --> 01:40:42,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, thinking about that, I don't know how many negative

2347
01:40:42,400 --> 01:40:44,920
Speaker 3: plays that we had last night. I mean we were

2348
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Speaker 3: in second and eight, second and seven, like almost all

2349
01:40:47,600 --> 01:40:50,120
Speaker 3: the time you talk about that first down production.

2350
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Speaker 16: We were able to minimize the zero to negative plays.

2351
01:40:53,280 --> 01:40:54,720
Speaker 16: I think maybe there was over run in there that

2352
01:40:54,840 --> 01:40:56,439
Speaker 16: might have gone for a zero yards, but for the

2353
01:40:56,479 --> 01:40:59,439
Speaker 16: most part it was a plus play. Take the penalties

2354
01:40:59,479 --> 01:41:01,400
Speaker 16: out of it. But anytime you can put yourself in

2355
01:41:01,439 --> 01:41:03,679
Speaker 16: those situations going to be advantageous for the offense.

2356
01:41:03,960 --> 01:41:06,400
Speaker 3: So I thought it was an interesting moment talking with

2357
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Speaker 3: coach after the game and we talked about Derek Barnett's

2358
01:41:09,439 --> 01:41:12,680
Speaker 3: play and we all heard the head slap and the

2359
01:41:12,880 --> 01:41:16,880
Speaker 3: sixty four yard field goal that Aubrey bombed Anyways, he

2360
01:41:16,880 --> 01:41:18,280
Speaker 3: gets a head slap, which I don't know the last

2361
01:41:18,280 --> 01:41:20,360
Speaker 3: time we've heard of headslap, but he gets that penalty

2362
01:41:20,920 --> 01:41:23,920
Speaker 3: and Coach told me after the game that Derek walked

2363
01:41:23,960 --> 01:41:25,400
Speaker 3: out to him and said, Coach, I owe you one.

2364
01:41:25,920 --> 01:41:26,919
Speaker 1: And I guess.

2365
01:41:26,760 --> 01:41:28,760
Speaker 3: He paid coach back with that play that he ended

2366
01:41:28,840 --> 01:41:31,719
Speaker 3: up making in spades. Is that one of the crazier

2367
01:41:31,760 --> 01:41:35,240
Speaker 3: plays you've seen, and be just your thoughts about Derek

2368
01:41:35,320 --> 01:41:37,240
Speaker 3: making that play at that point, just coming up big

2369
01:41:37,400 --> 01:41:38,360
Speaker 3: early in the fourth quarter.

2370
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Speaker 16: Yeah, I think that's a good example of Derek. Going

2371
01:41:40,600 --> 01:41:43,639
Speaker 16: back to last year. We were acquired him around this time.

2372
01:41:43,680 --> 01:41:46,200
Speaker 16: It was November ish and he came in. He provided

2373
01:41:46,240 --> 01:41:49,160
Speaker 16: a consistent level of play. Derek's a pro. He's been

2374
01:41:49,200 --> 01:41:50,680
Speaker 16: a good player for a long time. I mean, he

2375
01:41:50,720 --> 01:41:52,559
Speaker 16: was a first round draft pick for a reason, so

2376
01:41:53,000 --> 01:41:54,880
Speaker 16: he's kind of at a different phase of his career

2377
01:41:55,400 --> 01:41:57,320
Speaker 16: and he's got a good role. We play eight nine

2378
01:41:57,360 --> 01:41:59,759
Speaker 16: defensive linemen. He's a big part of that. He plays

2379
01:42:00,080 --> 01:42:02,479
Speaker 16: he plays physical, he plays strong, and he has a

2380
01:42:02,720 --> 01:42:05,599
Speaker 16: stinctiveness in a way to rush. Even a rush where

2381
01:42:05,600 --> 01:42:07,960
Speaker 16: he beat the left tackle there was able to get

2382
01:42:08,040 --> 01:42:09,519
Speaker 16: on the edge and he's able to stay tight and

2383
01:42:09,520 --> 01:42:11,599
Speaker 16: closed and then was able to knock the ball off

2384
01:42:11,640 --> 01:42:15,120
Speaker 16: and then you know Petrie's violence just getting the forcing

2385
01:42:15,200 --> 01:42:17,439
Speaker 16: the ball off a guit and then dB picking the

2386
01:42:17,439 --> 01:42:20,000
Speaker 16: ball up and going in. So he paid Demko back.

2387
01:42:20,040 --> 01:42:25,080
Speaker 4: No, Daniil, he knows what it means to play the Cowboys,

2388
01:42:25,120 --> 01:42:27,559
Speaker 4: to beat the Cowboys, grew up watching the Cowboys as

2389
01:42:27,680 --> 01:42:29,960
Speaker 4: the enemy and has that big night.

2390
01:42:30,040 --> 01:42:33,000
Speaker 16: What about his performance, Nick, Yeah, Daniel's a really good player.

2391
01:42:33,000 --> 01:42:35,479
Speaker 16: It's hard to block. He just presents so many different

2392
01:42:35,560 --> 01:42:39,360
Speaker 16: issues his length, his athleticism, and he just gains ground

2393
01:42:39,360 --> 01:42:41,680
Speaker 16: when he rushes. You know, he got a sack on

2394
01:42:41,720 --> 01:42:44,680
Speaker 16: the edge spin move, which we're not always a fan

2395
01:42:44,720 --> 01:42:46,680
Speaker 16: of the spin move, but he was able to get

2396
01:42:46,680 --> 01:42:49,559
Speaker 16: inside the tackle and at least disrupt the quarterbacks. So,

2397
01:42:50,360 --> 01:42:52,920
Speaker 16: I mean, he has fifty some odd pressures, seven and

2398
01:42:52,920 --> 01:42:55,000
Speaker 16: a half sacks, whatever it is. So he's been a

2399
01:42:55,120 --> 01:42:57,599
Speaker 16: very consistent, productive player over the course of his career.

2400
01:42:58,400 --> 01:43:00,240
Speaker 16: He's added a lot to the team without quiet, and

2401
01:43:00,320 --> 01:43:02,280
Speaker 16: he doesn't say the best thing about him. He doesn't

2402
01:43:02,280 --> 01:43:04,600
Speaker 16: say much. He just goes about his business. He just

2403
01:43:04,640 --> 01:43:07,599
Speaker 16: does his jobs. He lets his action speak for himself,

2404
01:43:07,640 --> 01:43:09,880
Speaker 16: and that's just who he is as a person and

2405
01:43:09,920 --> 01:43:10,560
Speaker 16: a professional.

2406
01:43:10,720 --> 01:43:12,479
Speaker 5: Wait, what's the problem with the spin move? I just

2407
01:43:12,520 --> 01:43:12,960
Speaker 5: need to know.

2408
01:43:13,360 --> 01:43:16,080
Speaker 16: Well, if you spin inside and you lose leverage on

2409
01:43:16,120 --> 01:43:20,000
Speaker 16: a rush and the quarterback bounces outside, then the integrity of.

2410
01:43:19,960 --> 01:43:21,440
Speaker 13: The rush is sort of disrupted.

2411
01:43:21,479 --> 01:43:23,800
Speaker 16: So if you're going to do it, you probably better

2412
01:43:23,840 --> 01:43:26,120
Speaker 16: get there because if you don't, then we probably don't.

2413
01:43:26,160 --> 01:43:27,880
Speaker 16: If we don't have a defender on the outside, then

2414
01:43:27,880 --> 01:43:29,439
Speaker 16: it's going to be difficult and de Miko is going

2415
01:43:29,479 --> 01:43:31,320
Speaker 16: to get because it kind of get upset.

2416
01:43:31,360 --> 01:43:33,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what coach made. What he says, guys aren't

2417
01:43:33,320 --> 01:43:34,880
Speaker 4: where they're supposed to be sometimes.

2418
01:43:35,000 --> 01:43:36,880
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, he threw a spin move and we

2419
01:43:36,880 --> 01:43:38,600
Speaker 3: didn't talk about this. He threw a spin move on

2420
01:43:38,680 --> 01:43:42,679
Speaker 3: Piney School and he hit Panay Seol and the ice pick.

2421
01:43:42,720 --> 01:43:44,040
Speaker 3: You know, Dwight Freene, you just talk about the ice

2422
01:43:44,080 --> 01:43:45,559
Speaker 3: pick when you go to spin and you take that

2423
01:43:45,600 --> 01:43:48,720
Speaker 3: inside elbow and you just he knocks Seool so far

2424
01:43:48,800 --> 01:43:51,439
Speaker 3: inside that Seol is almost able to get back to Hunter.

2425
01:43:51,880 --> 01:43:53,200
Speaker 1: It was an incredible spin move.

2426
01:43:53,520 --> 01:43:56,639
Speaker 16: Uh, and Freeney was as good as he was Funny buddy.

2427
01:43:57,000 --> 01:43:59,559
Speaker 16: He just did it so quickly and so violently. It's

2428
01:43:59,560 --> 01:44:01,080
Speaker 16: almost like you couldn't get a glove on him.

2429
01:44:01,120 --> 01:44:03,599
Speaker 3: And yeah, absolutely, Well I want to get a jugs

2430
01:44:03,640 --> 01:44:06,519
Speaker 3: machine going with the DBS because two of our guys

2431
01:44:06,560 --> 01:44:09,920
Speaker 3: with the best hands last night end up and I

2432
01:44:09,920 --> 01:44:11,760
Speaker 3: mean maybe they were disrupted a little bit, but no,

2433
01:44:11,840 --> 01:44:14,000
Speaker 3: I they said, Jess because Kaylen had that one in

2434
01:44:14,040 --> 01:44:16,240
Speaker 3: his hands and we all like, oh, he's taken down

2435
01:44:16,320 --> 01:44:17,920
Speaker 3: to the house. But the guy I want to talk

2436
01:44:17,920 --> 01:44:21,080
Speaker 3: about is Derek Stanley and just every single week that

2437
01:44:21,160 --> 01:44:23,760
Speaker 3: sting is out there and then we can all see

2438
01:44:23,760 --> 01:44:27,040
Speaker 3: it because he talked about in the presser him following

2439
01:44:27,080 --> 01:44:29,439
Speaker 3: CD LAMB and go with CD and the Cowboys tried

2440
01:44:29,479 --> 01:44:30,960
Speaker 3: to counter that with a lot of motion and moving

2441
01:44:31,000 --> 01:44:33,559
Speaker 3: him in his slot and all that. But Derek has

2442
01:44:33,600 --> 01:44:36,840
Speaker 3: a tremendous game last night, breakups the interception.

2443
01:44:38,200 --> 01:44:40,040
Speaker 2: Can you speak to what he's been able to do

2444
01:44:40,520 --> 01:44:41,240
Speaker 2: for this defense?

2445
01:44:41,320 --> 01:44:43,320
Speaker 13: Yeah, first for him and Bullock, we'll start with Lester

2446
01:44:43,360 --> 01:44:43,880
Speaker 13: Hayes stick.

2447
01:44:44,160 --> 01:44:46,000
Speaker 2: Yes, right, it's right, bring it back.

2448
01:44:46,520 --> 01:44:48,920
Speaker 16: But Derek takes a lot of pride in his job

2449
01:44:49,080 --> 01:44:51,320
Speaker 16: and how he goes about his business. It's similar to

2450
01:44:51,400 --> 01:44:53,599
Speaker 16: Daniel and a lot of respects doesn't really say much

2451
01:44:53,680 --> 01:44:55,120
Speaker 16: I mean, you guys have talked to him or tried

2452
01:44:55,120 --> 01:44:57,799
Speaker 16: to talk to him. He just lets his action speak

2453
01:44:57,880 --> 01:45:02,080
Speaker 16: for his play. But he's continued to improve. I mean,

2454
01:45:02,080 --> 01:45:04,200
Speaker 16: he's a good player, but he's continued to improve. I

2455
01:45:04,240 --> 01:45:06,080
Speaker 16: mean he's done a really good job. I'd say one

2456
01:45:06,120 --> 01:45:08,559
Speaker 16: of the underrated plays is probably the third down tackle.

2457
01:45:08,920 --> 01:45:12,120
Speaker 16: Oh yeah, we had blit zero call. They're run basically

2458
01:45:12,400 --> 01:45:14,160
Speaker 16: kind of get the ball to kind of a wall

2459
01:45:14,200 --> 01:45:16,439
Speaker 16: play to Lamb and he chased him down and makes

2460
01:45:16,439 --> 01:45:17,640
Speaker 16: a tackle and then we're off the field and he

2461
01:45:17,680 --> 01:45:19,920
Speaker 16: forced the punt. So Derek takes a lot of pride

2462
01:45:19,920 --> 01:45:21,479
Speaker 16: in what he does. He has a good sense and

2463
01:45:21,560 --> 01:45:23,320
Speaker 16: feel for how to play the ball. He gets his

2464
01:45:23,360 --> 01:45:26,080
Speaker 16: hands on the ball quite a bit. Typically finished him.

2465
01:45:26,080 --> 01:45:27,760
Speaker 16: He finished the one last night that they threw to him,

2466
01:45:27,800 --> 01:45:29,120
Speaker 16: and even the one down the field we got that

2467
01:45:29,200 --> 01:45:32,120
Speaker 16: the OPI he was in a good position. So each

2468
01:45:32,160 --> 01:45:33,680
Speaker 16: week's going to be a little bit different how he

2469
01:45:33,720 --> 01:45:36,920
Speaker 16: wanted to deploy the defense. But whenever that assignment comes,

2470
01:45:36,920 --> 01:45:39,679
Speaker 16: he's always prepared and he willingly takes it on because

2471
01:45:39,720 --> 01:45:42,680
Speaker 16: he wants a challenge. Which you want that mindset from

2472
01:45:42,720 --> 01:45:43,240
Speaker 16: your players.

2473
01:45:43,800 --> 01:45:45,960
Speaker 4: A good question for coach but also you nick to

2474
01:45:46,000 --> 01:45:49,479
Speaker 4: see so many battle red wearing Texans fans in the building,

2475
01:45:49,520 --> 01:45:51,400
Speaker 4: a lot of Texans fans. I had the fielding and

2476
01:45:51,439 --> 01:45:54,519
Speaker 4: I knew some Monday afternoon came or Monday morning they said,

2477
01:45:54,520 --> 01:45:56,120
Speaker 4: you know what, I'm going to go to the game tonight.

2478
01:45:56,160 --> 01:45:58,400
Speaker 4: Let's go for it. And the way the secondary market works,

2479
01:45:58,400 --> 01:45:59,000
Speaker 4: it's possible.

2480
01:45:59,040 --> 01:46:00,720
Speaker 16: What were your thoughts on, Yeah, No, when you come

2481
01:46:00,720 --> 01:46:02,000
Speaker 16: out for a warm ups, you kind of get a

2482
01:46:02,040 --> 01:46:04,120
Speaker 16: sense when they do the intros of kind of which

2483
01:46:04,120 --> 01:46:04,800
Speaker 16: way is going to go?

2484
01:46:04,880 --> 01:46:06,679
Speaker 13: But no, awesome for our fans will be there.

2485
01:46:06,760 --> 01:46:08,360
Speaker 16: I mean it was three and a half four hour

2486
01:46:08,479 --> 01:46:10,759
Speaker 16: trip if you drove, or you got on a plane

2487
01:46:10,800 --> 01:46:13,080
Speaker 16: and flew thirty forty minutes. But to have that support

2488
01:46:13,520 --> 01:46:15,720
Speaker 16: on the road, it means a lot. So you know,

2489
01:46:15,760 --> 01:46:18,400
Speaker 16: we appreciate their support. Hopefully you bring the same mindset

2490
01:46:18,439 --> 01:46:20,280
Speaker 16: here Sunday against Tennessee.

2491
01:46:20,479 --> 01:46:22,960
Speaker 2: All right, so let's do it. Cowboys win.

2492
01:46:23,120 --> 01:46:26,240
Speaker 3: Although it was just a short time ago, it's behind us,

2493
01:46:26,400 --> 01:46:30,880
Speaker 3: moving on back in the division. It's Tennessee Titans. And

2494
01:46:30,960 --> 01:46:33,760
Speaker 3: you can't look at the record. I had a lot

2495
01:46:33,760 --> 01:46:35,160
Speaker 3: of fans will and a lot of people will, but

2496
01:46:35,160 --> 01:46:36,479
Speaker 3: you can't look at the record, because they've got some

2497
01:46:36,479 --> 01:46:37,320
Speaker 3: really good football players.

2498
01:46:37,360 --> 01:46:38,639
Speaker 2: What's got a report of the Titans.

2499
01:46:38,760 --> 01:46:42,080
Speaker 16: Yeah, they certainly post significant challenges. Coach Callahan's first year

2500
01:46:42,120 --> 01:46:44,680
Speaker 16: is putting his program in place. You know, he kind

2501
01:46:44,680 --> 01:46:46,920
Speaker 16: of handles the offensive play calling. Then coach Wilson on

2502
01:46:47,040 --> 01:46:49,680
Speaker 16: defense side of the ball. Who's in Baltimore. But I

2503
01:46:49,680 --> 01:46:51,800
Speaker 16: would say, like starting defensively, like they're in the top

2504
01:46:51,840 --> 01:46:54,840
Speaker 16: five basically every category in the league defensively, so it's

2505
01:46:54,840 --> 01:46:57,360
Speaker 16: a really good defense that puts a lot of stress

2506
01:46:57,360 --> 01:47:00,920
Speaker 16: and really taxes the offense. And everything starts with their front.

2507
01:47:01,040 --> 01:47:02,680
Speaker 16: I mean they have as good of a front, just

2508
01:47:02,800 --> 01:47:05,599
Speaker 16: collectively as there's in the league. Obviously, starts with ninety eight.

2509
01:47:05,680 --> 01:47:08,920
Speaker 16: Starts with Jeffrey. He's just so disruptive and he does

2510
01:47:09,040 --> 01:47:12,439
Speaker 16: basically everything well. They put him inside a defensive tackle,

2511
01:47:12,439 --> 01:47:15,040
Speaker 16: they put him at defensive end, and so wherever he

2512
01:47:15,200 --> 01:47:17,280
Speaker 16: is you have to be at least aware of him

2513
01:47:17,320 --> 01:47:22,439
Speaker 16: because otherwise he can basically ruin the game. Switch Tavandre

2514
01:47:22,479 --> 01:47:24,400
Speaker 16: has done a good job there inside giving him a

2515
01:47:24,400 --> 01:47:25,000
Speaker 16: good presence.

2516
01:47:25,000 --> 01:47:25,719
Speaker 13: I mean big.

2517
01:47:25,800 --> 01:47:27,840
Speaker 16: I mean he's big, he's strong, he's long, he's hard

2518
01:47:27,840 --> 01:47:29,760
Speaker 16: to move in a run game, and then Landry and

2519
01:47:29,840 --> 01:47:33,599
Speaker 16: Key Key's he's Key's playing really really well and Landry

2520
01:47:33,600 --> 01:47:35,360
Speaker 16: compliments him on the other side, so they got a

2521
01:47:35,439 --> 01:47:38,160
Speaker 16: good front. They've kind of had some moving parts here

2522
01:47:38,160 --> 01:47:41,759
Speaker 16: a linebackers signed Keith murrany offseason who was with the Chargers,

2523
01:47:42,320 --> 01:47:44,040
Speaker 16: and now Gibbons has kind of taken over, and at

2524
01:47:44,080 --> 01:47:46,360
Speaker 16: Jones was there, Gibbons is there, so he's done a

2525
01:47:46,360 --> 01:47:49,120
Speaker 16: really good job. So two good linebackers, and at corner

2526
01:47:49,200 --> 01:47:51,080
Speaker 16: they've kind of had some guys in and out as well,

2527
01:47:51,120 --> 01:47:53,320
Speaker 16: but they got a really good slot corner mcquery the

2528
01:47:53,400 --> 01:47:55,519
Speaker 16: guy and brown Lee took in the fifth round. He's

2529
01:47:55,720 --> 01:47:58,400
Speaker 16: given them a really good level of play. And then

2530
01:47:58,439 --> 01:48:00,840
Speaker 16: the opposite corner, it's kind of been in now without Sneed.

2531
01:48:00,920 --> 01:48:03,240
Speaker 16: They signed Sneed in the off season. And then it's

2532
01:48:03,280 --> 01:48:07,920
Speaker 16: safety hookers are really steady, reliable, dependable player. Diggs got

2533
01:48:07,960 --> 01:48:10,479
Speaker 16: hurt there a few weeks ago, who was a good,

2534
01:48:10,479 --> 01:48:13,200
Speaker 16: big acquisition for them, so they kind of they've had

2535
01:48:13,200 --> 01:48:15,519
Speaker 16: to deal with some injuries. They kind of had had

2536
01:48:15,520 --> 01:48:17,400
Speaker 16: the players they had to play some players maybe they

2537
01:48:17,439 --> 01:48:19,599
Speaker 16: didn't think they were gonna have to play. But defensive,

2538
01:48:19,640 --> 01:48:20,960
Speaker 16: like I said, they put a lot of stress, and

2539
01:48:21,000 --> 01:48:24,560
Speaker 16: they really tax the offense, they make you beat them.

2540
01:48:24,640 --> 01:48:27,400
Speaker 16: And then offensively, I would say, like, really, it kind

2541
01:48:27,400 --> 01:48:30,200
Speaker 16: of starts with the run game. Pollard is really as

2542
01:48:30,240 --> 01:48:33,840
Speaker 16: good of a backers in the league. He's fast, he's elusive,

2543
01:48:34,520 --> 01:48:36,960
Speaker 16: and then they compliment him with spears. So two good backs,

2544
01:48:37,120 --> 01:48:39,519
Speaker 16: the tight ends. You know, Chick gives them some plays

2545
01:48:39,520 --> 01:48:41,679
Speaker 16: in a passing game. Van that's actually who had Nick

2546
01:48:41,720 --> 01:48:44,479
Speaker 16: here last year, and he's given them some reliable play.

2547
01:48:45,120 --> 01:48:46,120
Speaker 13: And then Ridley's a problem.

2548
01:48:46,160 --> 01:48:48,040
Speaker 16: Like wherever he is, he's hard to cover, he's quick,

2549
01:48:48,120 --> 01:48:49,640
Speaker 16: he's fast, he can get in an in and out

2550
01:48:49,640 --> 01:48:51,439
Speaker 16: of route. So i'd say similar to some of the

2551
01:48:51,479 --> 01:48:56,240
Speaker 16: issues we had with Lamb, but both equally productive players.

2552
01:48:57,360 --> 01:48:59,320
Speaker 16: And at a quarterback. You know, Will's been in there

2553
01:48:59,400 --> 01:49:01,640
Speaker 16: and then he missed a few games. Mason's played a

2554
01:49:01,680 --> 01:49:03,599
Speaker 16: little bit, but I think the big thing with Will.

2555
01:49:03,680 --> 01:49:05,519
Speaker 16: Will has the ability to push the ball down the field.

2556
01:49:05,560 --> 01:49:07,160
Speaker 16: I want to say it was opening drive against the

2557
01:49:07,240 --> 01:49:09,280
Speaker 16: Chargers where he launched one down there to Ridley for

2558
01:49:09,280 --> 01:49:12,479
Speaker 16: the opening drive touchdown. So he's big, strong, has a

2559
01:49:12,520 --> 01:49:14,600
Speaker 16: really big arm, and they've actually incorporated him into the

2560
01:49:14,640 --> 01:49:15,360
Speaker 16: running game as well.

2561
01:49:15,400 --> 01:49:16,760
Speaker 13: So we're gonna have to be cognitant of that.

2562
01:49:17,000 --> 01:49:19,599
Speaker 16: And the offensive line the left side has been kind

2563
01:49:19,600 --> 01:49:21,880
Speaker 16: of consistent with Latham, who they took in a first round,

2564
01:49:21,880 --> 01:49:24,120
Speaker 16: Skarnsi they took in a first round last year, and

2565
01:49:24,120 --> 01:49:26,000
Speaker 16: then they're center to the right side. They just had

2566
01:49:26,000 --> 01:49:28,000
Speaker 16: a lot of guys because of injuries that have been

2567
01:49:28,000 --> 01:49:29,840
Speaker 16: in there, so they're just trying to slidify that group

2568
01:49:29,880 --> 01:49:34,639
Speaker 16: so can run the ball. Coach Callahan Man Callahan Senior

2569
01:49:34,720 --> 01:49:37,280
Speaker 16: do a really good job in a running game schematically,

2570
01:49:37,320 --> 01:49:40,240
Speaker 16: so they certainly present some challenges. But it's a good

2571
01:49:40,240 --> 01:49:42,640
Speaker 16: football team. I mean, their record is what their record is,

2572
01:49:42,680 --> 01:49:45,200
Speaker 16: but they do a number of things well and if

2573
01:49:45,200 --> 01:49:47,240
Speaker 16: you're not prepared to handle them, then it could be

2574
01:49:47,280 --> 01:49:48,320
Speaker 16: potentially a long day.

2575
01:49:48,520 --> 01:49:52,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you're evaluating teams, I would imagine record doesn't

2576
01:49:52,120 --> 01:49:55,800
Speaker 4: even really come into play. You're looking at players, situations,

2577
01:49:56,320 --> 01:49:58,479
Speaker 4: how they do in certain parts of the game.

2578
01:49:58,640 --> 01:49:59,519
Speaker 13: It really doesn't mark.

2579
01:49:59,560 --> 01:50:01,280
Speaker 16: It's just so that you put on a sheet of paper,

2580
01:50:01,280 --> 01:50:03,280
Speaker 16: But once the ball is kicked off, it's just what

2581
01:50:03,320 --> 01:50:06,479
Speaker 16: are the issues, who are the problem players? What do

2582
01:50:06,560 --> 01:50:08,839
Speaker 16: we have to do that week to figure out to

2583
01:50:08,880 --> 01:50:10,800
Speaker 16: put ourselves in a position to win the football game.

2584
01:50:10,840 --> 01:50:13,599
Speaker 16: So that's the reality of the league. Every team faces it.

2585
01:50:13,840 --> 01:50:16,679
Speaker 16: Every opportunity that a team goes into on a Sunday,

2586
01:50:17,320 --> 01:50:20,200
Speaker 16: that's what's really at stake. So it comes down to execution.

2587
01:50:20,360 --> 01:50:23,240
Speaker 16: Whichever team executes the best typically is going to be

2588
01:50:23,240 --> 01:50:24,960
Speaker 16: the team that wins. And at the end of the day,

2589
01:50:25,000 --> 01:50:27,240
Speaker 16: you'll look up and whatever the scoreboard tells you is

2590
01:50:27,320 --> 01:50:28,720
Speaker 16: what the scoreboard is going to tell you.

2591
01:50:28,760 --> 01:50:32,639
Speaker 4: Did you find over all your years in NFL football?

2592
01:50:32,760 --> 01:50:34,600
Speaker 4: You look at what's happened with the Texans in the

2593
01:50:34,640 --> 01:50:39,080
Speaker 4: AFC South and tremendous matchups for this team, even before

2594
01:50:39,120 --> 01:50:42,280
Speaker 4: the Demico era gets started, Texans winning on the road

2595
01:50:42,320 --> 01:50:44,200
Speaker 4: in the division and sometimes with a team that did

2596
01:50:44,200 --> 01:50:46,400
Speaker 4: not have a good record. You take all that into

2597
01:50:46,439 --> 01:50:49,080
Speaker 4: account with division games, right, because there tends to be

2598
01:50:49,200 --> 01:50:51,759
Speaker 4: what is it nick less fear you see them more often.

2599
01:50:51,920 --> 01:50:54,799
Speaker 4: I gotta imagine what the Patriots, you had great challenges

2600
01:50:54,840 --> 01:50:56,920
Speaker 4: from some of these teams had a great record against them,

2601
01:50:56,920 --> 01:50:58,320
Speaker 4: but some of those games are pretty close.

2602
01:50:58,600 --> 01:51:01,720
Speaker 16: I mean, familiarity is great, but when you see a

2603
01:51:01,760 --> 01:51:04,360
Speaker 16: team twice a year, it's just hard because they have

2604
01:51:04,479 --> 01:51:08,000
Speaker 16: an understanding schematically, like, how do you who you're playing again,

2605
01:51:08,160 --> 01:51:10,320
Speaker 16: some of the personnel matchups, what do we do in

2606
01:51:10,360 --> 01:51:11,000
Speaker 16: the first game?

2607
01:51:11,040 --> 01:51:12,760
Speaker 13: All this work. Maybe a little bit less of this,

2608
01:51:12,880 --> 01:51:13,760
Speaker 13: a little bit more of that.

2609
01:51:14,400 --> 01:51:17,080
Speaker 16: So it always it's hard when you play a team

2610
01:51:17,120 --> 01:51:19,080
Speaker 16: twice during the course of the year, and then you know,

2611
01:51:19,120 --> 01:51:20,640
Speaker 16: if you play a team three times a year, if

2612
01:51:20,640 --> 01:51:22,080
Speaker 16: you're happy to be playing in a postseason.

2613
01:51:22,120 --> 01:51:25,280
Speaker 13: It's never easy. So everything starts with the division.

2614
01:51:25,400 --> 01:51:26,840
Speaker 16: So you have to do a really good job in

2615
01:51:26,880 --> 01:51:29,560
Speaker 16: your division to put yourself in a position for potentially

2616
01:51:29,560 --> 01:51:32,280
Speaker 16: bigger things. So, like we talked about, I mean, Tennessee

2617
01:51:32,520 --> 01:51:34,640
Speaker 16: poses significant challenges. So we're just gonna have to have

2618
01:51:34,640 --> 01:51:36,600
Speaker 16: a good week of preparation on a short week. But

2619
01:51:36,800 --> 01:51:38,559
Speaker 16: we can't really worry about that. All we can do

2620
01:51:38,600 --> 01:51:40,680
Speaker 16: is control our focus and preparation, the work that we

2621
01:51:40,760 --> 01:51:43,160
Speaker 16: put in, and hopefully be ready to go there on Sunday.

2622
01:51:43,240 --> 01:51:45,000
Speaker 3: Twenty twenty four is an election year. I vote for

2623
01:51:45,080 --> 01:51:48,160
Speaker 3: Jeffrey Simmons to not play on Sunday. I hope he doesn't, but.

2624
01:51:48,240 --> 01:51:48,800
Speaker 13: Not gonna happen.

2625
01:51:49,000 --> 01:51:51,839
Speaker 2: I know what makes him, what makes.

2626
01:51:51,720 --> 01:51:53,720
Speaker 3: Him the player that he is, Nick because he's a

2627
01:51:53,760 --> 01:51:55,680
Speaker 3: guy that when we talk about the Titans Mark, and

2628
01:51:55,720 --> 01:51:58,240
Speaker 3: Mark knows this every time we talk about the Titans.

2629
01:51:58,439 --> 01:52:00,360
Speaker 3: Before you got here, after you got here, we got

2630
01:52:00,400 --> 01:52:02,200
Speaker 3: a block ninety eight, got a block ninety eight, and

2631
01:52:02,240 --> 01:52:04,320
Speaker 3: a lot of times he struggled with block ninety eight

2632
01:52:04,320 --> 01:52:05,160
Speaker 3: because he is that good.

2633
01:52:05,240 --> 01:52:06,439
Speaker 2: But what do you see from Jefferys.

2634
01:52:06,880 --> 01:52:09,519
Speaker 16: He's obviously very talented, So he has a nique combination

2635
01:52:09,600 --> 01:52:13,400
Speaker 16: of size, strength, athleticism, quickness, power, leverage, and then he

2636
01:52:13,479 --> 01:52:17,920
Speaker 16: combined that with his mindset the way he plays. He

2637
01:52:18,080 --> 01:52:21,240
Speaker 16: basically has everything in one package, and he plays every

2638
01:52:21,320 --> 01:52:24,559
Speaker 16: play at full speed. So you have to be ready

2639
01:52:24,600 --> 01:52:28,120
Speaker 16: to match his energy, to match his skill and understand

2640
01:52:28,240 --> 01:52:30,599
Speaker 16: he can basically beat you a multitude of ways, which

2641
01:52:30,600 --> 01:52:33,200
Speaker 16: is why you have to try to allocate resources to

2642
01:52:33,280 --> 01:52:36,639
Speaker 16: that player, understanding he might be in some different spots.

2643
01:52:36,680 --> 01:52:38,759
Speaker 13: So we have a lot of respect for Jeffrey.

2644
01:52:38,880 --> 01:52:41,000
Speaker 16: I mean, there's a reason he was drafted where he was,

2645
01:52:41,120 --> 01:52:44,800
Speaker 16: and he was drafted coming off of an ecl and

2646
01:52:44,880 --> 01:52:48,920
Speaker 16: then he's turned himself into an elite defender. And it's

2647
01:52:48,960 --> 01:52:51,320
Speaker 16: a combination of things that makes him really really special.

2648
01:52:51,360 --> 01:52:55,200
Speaker 3: Okay, so watch me get my contractual obligation in and

2649
01:52:55,400 --> 01:52:57,840
Speaker 3: feeding off of that, because you beat me to it.

2650
01:52:58,600 --> 01:53:01,439
Speaker 3: He has an ACL tear in January is he's getting

2651
01:53:01,479 --> 01:53:04,800
Speaker 3: ready for the draft. He then probably falls a little

2652
01:53:04,800 --> 01:53:07,439
Speaker 3: bit until the Titans take him at number nineteen. And

2653
01:53:07,479 --> 01:53:09,840
Speaker 3: I'm sure that it's probably a case by case, but

2654
01:53:10,080 --> 01:53:14,040
Speaker 3: is an acel. It's a defensive linement when you're kind

2655
01:53:14,040 --> 01:53:16,559
Speaker 3: of evaluating things like that, especially in the first round

2656
01:53:16,800 --> 01:53:18,479
Speaker 3: with a guy that's had an injury history, you know,

2657
01:53:18,560 --> 01:53:22,360
Speaker 3: still had an injury history. How confident you have to

2658
01:53:22,400 --> 01:53:24,439
Speaker 3: feel like, Okay, the medicals are where they need to be.

2659
01:53:24,520 --> 01:53:26,160
Speaker 1: Kind of how do you go into something like that?

2660
01:53:26,280 --> 01:53:27,760
Speaker 13: Nick, Yeah, it's a part of the evaluation.

2661
01:53:27,880 --> 01:53:31,439
Speaker 16: You take the information and then whatever the assessment is, Okay,

2662
01:53:31,920 --> 01:53:35,000
Speaker 16: you're the comfortable with the player in his condition or

2663
01:53:35,040 --> 01:53:37,280
Speaker 16: you're not. So every case is going to be different,

2664
01:53:37,360 --> 01:53:40,000
Speaker 16: so it's one component of it. You have to be

2665
01:53:40,080 --> 01:53:43,400
Speaker 16: careful of just totally eliminating the player. You have to

2666
01:53:43,400 --> 01:53:46,320
Speaker 16: be cognizant of it and is a player going to recover?

2667
01:53:46,520 --> 01:53:48,839
Speaker 16: Is this something that's going to affect his long term

2668
01:53:48,960 --> 01:53:52,519
Speaker 16: prognosis and his overall health. So it's always case by case,

2669
01:53:53,000 --> 01:53:55,120
Speaker 16: but in the end, you're either comfortable with the total

2670
01:53:55,160 --> 01:53:56,240
Speaker 16: package or you're not.

2671
01:53:56,520 --> 01:53:59,160
Speaker 4: What can you share with us on how the analytics

2672
01:53:59,160 --> 01:54:02,320
Speaker 4: of injuries have evolved over the last decade or so,

2673
01:54:02,479 --> 01:54:05,080
Speaker 4: especially because with all the sports science and if so

2674
01:54:05,160 --> 01:54:07,600
Speaker 4: and so has a soft tissue injury, what were the

2675
01:54:07,600 --> 01:54:10,439
Speaker 4: circumstances leading up to that? Is all that analyzed and

2676
01:54:10,720 --> 01:54:11,439
Speaker 4: put through the mill.

2677
01:54:11,680 --> 01:54:14,200
Speaker 16: No, it's a great point. Mark, there's just more data

2678
01:54:14,240 --> 01:54:17,000
Speaker 16: that's available. You have more touch points, and I think

2679
01:54:17,040 --> 01:54:18,760
Speaker 16: each team is kind of a little bit different of

2680
01:54:18,800 --> 01:54:22,960
Speaker 16: how many resources that they allocate to that segment. We're

2681
01:54:23,040 --> 01:54:25,720
Speaker 16: fortunate that we've invested in that area. And what you're

2682
01:54:25,760 --> 01:54:28,479
Speaker 16: trying to do is just provide information to the player,

2683
01:54:28,560 --> 01:54:31,240
Speaker 16: number one, number two to the staff, so you have

2684
01:54:31,280 --> 01:54:34,440
Speaker 16: an understanding of maybe the why behind something and here's

2685
01:54:34,520 --> 01:54:37,840
Speaker 16: the path that we advise that you take with this

2686
01:54:37,920 --> 01:54:41,280
Speaker 16: particular player. So load management is a huge part of

2687
01:54:41,320 --> 01:54:43,600
Speaker 16: i'd say the league in general. How you practice, how

2688
01:54:43,640 --> 01:54:47,040
Speaker 16: much you practice, how much they run, the speeds with

2689
01:54:47,080 --> 01:54:49,760
Speaker 16: which they run, because the ultimate goal is to get

2690
01:54:49,760 --> 01:54:52,680
Speaker 16: the player to Sunday as healthy as he can be

2691
01:54:52,880 --> 01:54:56,440
Speaker 16: to optimize his performance. So it's becoming i'd say, more

2692
01:54:56,440 --> 01:54:58,760
Speaker 16: and more commonplace, and it's a big part of it,

2693
01:54:58,800 --> 01:55:01,880
Speaker 16: and it just provides you a data point and provides information,

2694
01:55:02,360 --> 01:55:04,360
Speaker 16: and our job is to assess the information and take

2695
01:55:04,400 --> 01:55:07,520
Speaker 16: the recommendation of the medical folks and then do any

2696
01:55:07,640 --> 01:55:08,920
Speaker 16: end what's best for the player.

2697
01:55:09,080 --> 01:55:10,880
Speaker 3: Speaking of injuries, Nick, how much do you think they

2698
01:55:10,880 --> 01:55:12,600
Speaker 3: missed Cushion Barry inside at center?

2699
01:55:13,040 --> 01:55:15,560
Speaker 16: Yeah, he's played really well. He was playing well, and

2700
01:55:15,640 --> 01:55:18,600
Speaker 16: he was a good player. You know in college he

2701
01:55:18,640 --> 01:55:20,600
Speaker 16: played a lot of football. He's a good player in Denver.

2702
01:55:20,720 --> 01:55:22,760
Speaker 16: So there's a reason that they signed him in free agency.

2703
01:55:22,840 --> 01:55:25,640
Speaker 16: So they've had to move some people around. Brunskill's been

2704
01:55:25,680 --> 01:55:28,000
Speaker 16: in there. They've had Levin in there, but Brunskill looks

2705
01:55:28,000 --> 01:55:30,280
Speaker 16: like is going to be the center. But he Cushion

2706
01:55:30,320 --> 01:55:32,000
Speaker 16: Barry is a good player, So I'm sure that they

2707
01:55:32,040 --> 01:55:34,880
Speaker 16: miss him, but they're figuring out ways to play without

2708
01:55:34,920 --> 01:55:35,920
Speaker 16: him and some other folks.

2709
01:55:36,320 --> 01:55:38,520
Speaker 5: Nick, I think we can really help the audience right now.

2710
01:55:38,520 --> 01:55:39,440
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you how.

2711
01:55:39,800 --> 01:55:41,800
Speaker 4: But you do strike me as somebody who might sleep

2712
01:55:41,840 --> 01:55:43,920
Speaker 4: three hours a night because you're always thinking and always

2713
01:55:44,000 --> 01:55:46,320
Speaker 4: up doing things. But what can you tell us Because

2714
01:55:46,320 --> 01:55:48,480
Speaker 4: you're a healthy individual, I know you think about this

2715
01:55:48,520 --> 01:55:51,920
Speaker 4: stuff about our audience getting a better night's sleep. What's

2716
01:55:51,960 --> 01:55:54,480
Speaker 4: the key because I know that this is so crucial

2717
01:55:54,520 --> 01:55:56,840
Speaker 4: to optimal performance for the entire team.

2718
01:55:57,160 --> 01:55:58,440
Speaker 5: So this must be discussed.

2719
01:55:58,560 --> 01:56:01,120
Speaker 4: And this comes to mind because earning from Monday night football,

2720
01:56:01,120 --> 01:56:02,839
Speaker 4: everybody's a little bit sleep deprived.

2721
01:56:03,360 --> 01:56:05,360
Speaker 16: I'm the wrong person to ask because I'm a lunatic,

2722
01:56:05,480 --> 01:56:11,120
Speaker 16: So there we go. But it's important, especially from an

2723
01:56:11,120 --> 01:56:12,000
Speaker 16: athlete standpoint.

2724
01:56:12,040 --> 01:56:14,800
Speaker 13: Sleep is a part of your recovery, so how your.

2725
01:56:14,720 --> 01:56:18,160
Speaker 16: Body responds, just your preparedness for the day. So we

2726
01:56:18,200 --> 01:56:20,720
Speaker 16: have checkpoints, we have different things that we do. You know,

2727
01:56:20,800 --> 01:56:22,720
Speaker 16: you have devices where you can kind of monitor some

2728
01:56:22,720 --> 01:56:24,120
Speaker 16: of that information, and.

2729
01:56:24,120 --> 01:56:25,160
Speaker 13: Sleep does make a difference.

2730
01:56:25,200 --> 01:56:29,080
Speaker 16: So sleep, hydration, nutrition, your recovery, what you do during

2731
01:56:29,080 --> 01:56:29,880
Speaker 16: the course of the week.

2732
01:56:30,400 --> 01:56:33,000
Speaker 13: So I'm kind of on the extreme end of it.

2733
01:56:33,120 --> 01:56:37,120
Speaker 16: So I'm not a big sleeper, but and I'm drinking coffee,

2734
01:56:37,200 --> 01:56:38,320
Speaker 16: so it's I want to say, I'm not I don't

2735
01:56:38,360 --> 01:56:41,560
Speaker 16: drink coffee, so try to balance it off. But you know,

2736
01:56:41,760 --> 01:56:43,880
Speaker 16: part of it is just have a lot of energy

2737
01:56:43,880 --> 01:56:45,960
Speaker 16: and enthusiasm trying to keep up with the Miko, so which.

2738
01:56:45,800 --> 01:56:46,240
Speaker 13: Is hard to do.

2739
01:56:46,640 --> 01:56:50,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's hard. We haven't even I can't believe

2740
01:56:50,000 --> 01:56:52,960
Speaker 3: we've gotten this far. But one more thing about Dallas.

2741
01:56:53,000 --> 01:56:55,800
Speaker 3: Last night, Nico returns, and you talk about a guy

2742
01:56:55,800 --> 01:56:58,520
Speaker 3: getting himself ready to play. He gets back up, he

2743
01:56:58,560 --> 01:56:59,560
Speaker 3: takes the first one.

2744
01:56:59,440 --> 01:56:59,840
Speaker 1: To the house.

2745
01:57:00,000 --> 01:57:00,600
Speaker 2: It's called back.

2746
01:57:00,640 --> 01:57:03,680
Speaker 3: But having Nico back, what was the impact that you saw,

2747
01:57:03,840 --> 01:57:06,400
Speaker 3: Nick of him being on the field. I mean, he

2748
01:57:06,440 --> 01:57:10,560
Speaker 3: didn't get twelve fifteen targets, but four for fifty four,

2749
01:57:10,600 --> 01:57:11,960
Speaker 3: but just being back on a field, what that meant

2750
01:57:11,960 --> 01:57:12,520
Speaker 3: for the offense.

2751
01:57:12,640 --> 01:57:14,880
Speaker 16: Yeah, Nico makes a difference, There's no question about it.

2752
01:57:14,920 --> 01:57:17,920
Speaker 16: And he worked really hard to get to this point.

2753
01:57:18,000 --> 01:57:20,320
Speaker 16: It's always when you're not on the field, there's frustration

2754
01:57:20,440 --> 01:57:22,440
Speaker 16: that's going to build up. But he worked really hard

2755
01:57:22,800 --> 01:57:24,440
Speaker 16: going back to kind of the data and some of

2756
01:57:24,520 --> 01:57:26,680
Speaker 16: the tracking. We just wanted to make sure that he

2757
01:57:26,840 --> 01:57:30,360
Speaker 16: was at his best so that we didn't put him

2758
01:57:30,680 --> 01:57:33,600
Speaker 16: in a position where he wasn't quite ready. But anytime

2759
01:57:33,600 --> 01:57:35,640
Speaker 16: that Nico's on the field, he certainly can help our offense.

2760
01:57:35,640 --> 01:57:38,160
Speaker 16: He's helped his team basically since we drafted him, since

2761
01:57:38,200 --> 01:57:39,640
Speaker 16: he's been here, So it's good to have him back

2762
01:57:39,640 --> 01:57:41,600
Speaker 16: and hopefully he can continue to make some employees for

2763
01:57:41,640 --> 01:57:42,680
Speaker 16: the offense moving forward.

2764
01:57:42,800 --> 01:57:44,920
Speaker 4: One more thing on Sunday, it's Salute to Service Day,

2765
01:57:44,920 --> 01:57:46,680
Speaker 4: and I know this is a special day for everybody

2766
01:57:46,720 --> 01:57:47,440
Speaker 4: of the organization.

2767
01:57:47,520 --> 01:57:48,400
Speaker 1: Your thoughts on that.

2768
01:57:48,800 --> 01:57:50,880
Speaker 16: Yeah, I think what those folks do. I mean, we

2769
01:57:50,880 --> 01:57:53,880
Speaker 16: wouldn't be able to do what we do without their selflessness,

2770
01:57:53,920 --> 01:57:56,640
Speaker 16: without their devotion and really putting their life on the line.

2771
01:57:56,720 --> 01:57:59,800
Speaker 16: So anything that we can do to recognize their efforts,

2772
01:58:00,680 --> 01:58:02,160
Speaker 16: you know, it is important to do. And I think

2773
01:58:02,160 --> 01:58:04,000
Speaker 16: the League has done a great job of supporting a

2774
01:58:04,080 --> 01:58:06,160
Speaker 16: number of different initiatives throughout the course of the year.

2775
01:58:06,640 --> 01:58:08,880
Speaker 16: And there's I would say, nothing more important than the

2776
01:58:08,920 --> 01:58:10,960
Speaker 16: military and what they do for our country and when

2777
01:58:10,960 --> 01:58:12,800
Speaker 16: you look around, what's kind of going on in the world.

2778
01:58:12,880 --> 01:58:15,480
Speaker 16: So to enjoy liberties and freedoms that we have on

2779
01:58:15,480 --> 01:58:17,680
Speaker 16: a day to day basis, wouldn't be able to do

2780
01:58:17,760 --> 01:58:19,640
Speaker 16: it without the folks that we're going to honor on Sunday.

2781
01:58:19,840 --> 01:58:22,240
Speaker 2: Well said one last thing before we go.

2782
01:58:23,360 --> 01:58:25,440
Speaker 3: I heard through the grape vine that you were deciding

2783
01:58:25,440 --> 01:58:26,720
Speaker 3: what uniforms were wearing this weekend.

2784
01:58:26,800 --> 01:58:27,880
Speaker 2: Is that true?

2785
01:58:28,960 --> 01:58:32,120
Speaker 16: No comment, No comment. Oh, I'm worried about John Carroll

2786
01:58:32,160 --> 01:58:33,960
Speaker 16: making the playoffs. That's not Are they going to make

2787
01:58:33,960 --> 01:58:34,400
Speaker 16: the playoffs?

2788
01:58:34,400 --> 01:58:35,440
Speaker 13: They didn't make a big win.

2789
01:58:36,240 --> 01:58:39,040
Speaker 16: They made it as an at lard, so they they

2790
01:58:39,440 --> 01:58:41,480
Speaker 16: they went from thirty two to forty teams, so they got.

2791
01:58:41,440 --> 01:58:42,280
Speaker 13: A name as an at lard.

2792
01:58:42,400 --> 01:58:43,200
Speaker 5: So are they playing?

2793
01:58:43,240 --> 01:58:43,360
Speaker 17: So?

2794
01:58:44,120 --> 01:58:46,640
Speaker 16: I think Mount Saint Joseph. So I forget exactly what

2795
01:58:46,640 --> 01:58:49,360
Speaker 16: they're playing. But the winner of that game plays Mount

2796
01:58:49,440 --> 01:58:50,400
Speaker 16: Union in the second round.

2797
01:58:50,440 --> 01:58:54,280
Speaker 4: Boy oh boy, that's a draw, Nick, But that's a

2798
01:58:54,280 --> 01:58:55,040
Speaker 4: big rivalry.

2799
01:58:55,240 --> 01:58:57,360
Speaker 1: Wait, they went to forty teams, I think so.

2800
01:58:57,400 --> 01:58:58,400
Speaker 13: I think they went to forty.

2801
01:58:58,480 --> 01:59:00,880
Speaker 5: That's awesome. That's what should happen.

2802
01:59:01,000 --> 01:59:02,320
Speaker 13: We have the college playoffs.

2803
01:59:02,360 --> 01:59:03,440
Speaker 1: I know, I love the playoffs.

2804
01:59:03,440 --> 01:59:05,160
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. We got twelve now.

2805
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Speaker 3: In the big schools, they're going to forty.

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Speaker 5: Everybody's going in.

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01:59:08,840 --> 01:59:09,640
Speaker 2: Everybody's getting in.

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01:59:09,840 --> 01:59:12,400
Speaker 4: All right, Well, good luck this weekend. Multiple fronts. Thanks Nick,

2809
01:59:12,440 --> 01:59:16,360
Speaker 4: Thanks fellas. There's executive vice president and general manager Nick Cassario.

2810
01:59:16,480 --> 01:59:19,280
Speaker 4: Now you can catch that interview on YouTube as well.

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01:59:19,360 --> 01:59:21,640
Speaker 4: In its entirety. We do that every week. It's fun.

2812
01:59:21,840 --> 01:59:24,160
Speaker 4: Demiko rans as well. We catch up with him every week.

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Speaker 4: You heard him earlier in the evening Tonight Texans Titans Sunday.

2814
01:59:28,960 --> 01:59:32,360
Speaker 4: Jake Morland coaches tight ends. Interesting guy, we'll get to

2815
01:59:32,440 --> 01:59:34,160
Speaker 4: him next here on Texans Radio.

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Speaker 5: Back into the studio, we go here.

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01:59:37,160 --> 01:59:40,919
Speaker 4: Texans All Access Friday Night Bonus Hour, all the material

2818
01:59:40,960 --> 01:59:42,480
Speaker 4: that you might have missed, not all of it, just

2819
01:59:42,520 --> 01:59:44,320
Speaker 4: some of it, some of the best that we've selected

2820
01:59:44,360 --> 01:59:49,080
Speaker 4: for you, including Jake Morland coaching tight ends. This guy

2821
01:59:49,280 --> 01:59:52,760
Speaker 4: was actually with the Texans during the inaugural off season

2822
01:59:53,280 --> 01:59:56,040
Speaker 4: and he spent some time with Chris Palmer in Cleveland,

2823
01:59:56,080 --> 01:59:59,000
Speaker 4: because remember Palmer was the original coach of the Browns

2824
01:59:59,000 --> 02:00:01,680
Speaker 4: when they came back into the league in nineteen ninety nine,

2825
02:00:02,080 --> 02:00:06,240
Speaker 4: eventually lost his gig there, became the offensive coordinator here.

2826
02:00:06,280 --> 02:00:09,680
Speaker 4: He brought in numerous guys, including Jake Moreland. Of course

2827
02:00:09,800 --> 02:00:13,200
Speaker 4: it was Jollie Cassley, hey see, I signed him. But anyway,

2828
02:00:13,360 --> 02:00:15,200
Speaker 4: Jake was part of that Hall of Fame game back

2829
02:00:15,240 --> 02:00:18,480
Speaker 4: in OH two. But more importantly, most importantly, he's currently

2830
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Speaker 4: on your staff as tight ends coach and a very

2831
02:00:21,240 --> 02:00:23,680
Speaker 4: interesting guy. And Johnny and I sat down with Jake

2832
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Speaker 4: Moreland in studio joining us now at studio it's Texans

2833
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Speaker 4: tight end's coach and original Texan and former Western Michigan

2834
02:00:31,200 --> 02:00:34,000
Speaker 4: bronco Jake Morland in the house how's it going coaching?

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02:00:34,080 --> 02:00:34,360
Speaker 2: Great?

2836
02:00:34,600 --> 02:00:36,920
Speaker 4: Well, it's always great to visit with you, and let's

2837
02:00:36,920 --> 02:00:39,480
Speaker 4: talk about your group a little bit here. Things always

2838
02:00:39,480 --> 02:00:43,160
Speaker 4: evolve and change in this league, and I want to

2839
02:00:43,200 --> 02:00:45,800
Speaker 4: start here because we had Cad Stover in here two

2840
02:00:45,920 --> 02:00:47,960
Speaker 4: three weeks ago or something. We were talking to him

2841
02:00:47,960 --> 02:00:50,880
Speaker 4: about playing some full back. Now he plays tight end,

2842
02:00:51,040 --> 02:00:52,920
Speaker 4: but he's got to play some fullback. So how does

2843
02:00:52,960 --> 02:00:55,560
Speaker 4: all that work when you're coaching up a rookie, especially

2844
02:00:55,600 --> 02:00:57,720
Speaker 4: in some key moments he's out there and he might

2845
02:00:57,760 --> 02:01:00,560
Speaker 4: not be catching the ball or whatever, but those blocks important.

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Speaker 17: Coach, Yeah, for sure, you know, Kay's doing a great job.

2847
02:01:03,240 --> 02:01:04,840
Speaker 17: I think the whole room is really doing a great job.

2848
02:01:04,880 --> 02:01:06,920
Speaker 17: But I think it's a testament to them as a room,

2849
02:01:07,120 --> 02:01:11,040
Speaker 17: and it's a way that I guess I teach. Okay,

2850
02:01:11,080 --> 02:01:14,080
Speaker 17: anybody who's in the tight ends room, they know that

2851
02:01:14,400 --> 02:01:16,400
Speaker 17: at any moment, they could be a wide receiver, they

2852
02:01:16,400 --> 02:01:19,520
Speaker 17: could be a fullback, they could be a regular hy

2853
02:01:19,640 --> 02:01:21,800
Speaker 17: tight end, you know, like people are accustomed to seeing.

2854
02:01:22,120 --> 02:01:24,880
Speaker 17: And unfortunately, I've actually been in some circumstances where the

2855
02:01:24,880 --> 02:01:26,320
Speaker 17: why tight end has had to go in as a

2856
02:01:26,360 --> 02:01:29,360
Speaker 17: tackle because we had so many injuries on the offensive

2857
02:01:29,360 --> 02:01:31,520
Speaker 17: line during a game that we're the only ones that

2858
02:01:31,600 --> 02:01:34,520
Speaker 17: knew what was happening and we had to have that happen.

2859
02:01:34,600 --> 02:01:38,880
Speaker 17: So it's a very fun and exciting place to be

2860
02:01:39,160 --> 02:01:41,160
Speaker 17: in this offense because you're asked to do a lot

2861
02:01:41,200 --> 02:01:43,800
Speaker 17: of things. And going back to your original question, what

2862
02:01:43,920 --> 02:01:46,320
Speaker 17: Kate has been able to do with putting together playing

2863
02:01:46,360 --> 02:01:49,160
Speaker 17: the why tight end and also being in the backfield

2864
02:01:49,200 --> 02:01:51,920
Speaker 17: as a fullback has been really really great coach?

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Speaker 3: Does that make it more I don't know if exciting

2866
02:01:54,000 --> 02:01:56,120
Speaker 3: is the right word, but more exciting for you in

2867
02:01:56,160 --> 02:01:57,960
Speaker 3: a sense that you got to know all the different

2868
02:01:58,000 --> 02:02:00,760
Speaker 3: protections as you know a pass block, you got to

2869
02:02:00,800 --> 02:02:03,000
Speaker 3: know all the different protections and blocking schemes.

2870
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Speaker 1: For the run, you got to all the different routes.

2871
02:02:05,040 --> 02:02:06,960
Speaker 3: It's kind of like you got your hand in everything

2872
02:02:07,000 --> 02:02:07,920
Speaker 3: at the buffet and his sens?

2873
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Speaker 1: Does that make it more fun to coach the position?

2874
02:02:09,560 --> 02:02:12,400
Speaker 17: That's exactly right, And that's actually exactly what I tell

2875
02:02:12,400 --> 02:02:14,320
Speaker 17: these guys, and I have to remind them sometimes that

2876
02:02:14,640 --> 02:02:16,400
Speaker 17: you know, in my opinion, we should be the second

2877
02:02:16,440 --> 02:02:19,720
Speaker 17: most informed person on the field behind the quarterback, because,

2878
02:02:19,760 --> 02:02:21,080
Speaker 17: like you said, we have to know the run game

2879
02:02:21,120 --> 02:02:23,440
Speaker 17: the pass game, the pass protection game, and all of

2880
02:02:23,440 --> 02:02:25,280
Speaker 17: the above, right, all the routes that go along with it.

2881
02:02:25,400 --> 02:02:27,920
Speaker 17: So because we have all of these things on our plate,

2882
02:02:27,960 --> 02:02:29,640
Speaker 17: our plate is full. But that's how we like it,

2883
02:02:29,920 --> 02:02:32,120
Speaker 17: you know. And so we cross train everybody because if

2884
02:02:32,200 --> 02:02:35,920
Speaker 17: kid breaks a shoelace and slow wants to call another

2885
02:02:36,360 --> 02:02:38,960
Speaker 17: formation with a tight end in the backfield, well somebody's

2886
02:02:38,960 --> 02:02:41,480
Speaker 17: got to go fill that role. So everybody gets cross trained.

2887
02:02:41,480 --> 02:02:43,120
Speaker 17: If you're in the room and I don't care, it's

2888
02:02:43,160 --> 02:02:46,080
Speaker 17: everybody from Troy Harriston all the way to Teague in Quatoriano,

2889
02:02:46,200 --> 02:02:48,760
Speaker 17: and everybody's getting cross trained in the backfield, on the

2890
02:02:48,800 --> 02:02:50,880
Speaker 17: line as a why and so on and so forth.

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Speaker 4: What's Tigan doing for you since coming back to the

2892
02:02:54,000 --> 02:02:54,919
Speaker 4: Texans organization?

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Speaker 17: Oh yeah, he's been a great addition. And you know

2894
02:02:56,760 --> 02:02:58,960
Speaker 17: the best part is that he has some familiarity, right,

2895
02:02:59,000 --> 02:03:01,400
Speaker 17: so he was with us, you know, before he got

2896
02:03:01,400 --> 02:03:02,880
Speaker 17: injured and all those kind of things, So there's a

2897
02:03:02,880 --> 02:03:05,000
Speaker 17: lot of familiarity that we don't have to start at

2898
02:03:05,040 --> 02:03:07,200
Speaker 17: square one. You know, we were able to say, hey,

2899
02:03:07,200 --> 02:03:09,080
Speaker 17: do you remember this, yes, coach, I remember that. Okay,

2900
02:03:09,080 --> 02:03:10,720
Speaker 17: now we can move on, and we were able to

2901
02:03:10,720 --> 02:03:12,560
Speaker 17: get him up to speed pretty quick. So he's been

2902
02:03:12,600 --> 02:03:13,200
Speaker 17: a great addition.

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Speaker 3: So at twenty twenty two when we played the Cowboys,

2904
02:03:15,640 --> 02:03:17,720
Speaker 3: last drive of the game for the Cowboys, Dalton Schultz

2905
02:03:17,720 --> 02:03:19,680
Speaker 3: was huge, and I just remember saying, I hate freaking

2906
02:03:19,760 --> 02:03:23,160
Speaker 3: Dalton Schultz. So he returned to AT and T Stadium

2907
02:03:23,200 --> 02:03:26,200
Speaker 3: the other night, and Dalton seems like a pretty chill,

2908
02:03:26,280 --> 02:03:28,720
Speaker 3: kind of quiet guy when you see him. But what

2909
02:03:28,840 --> 02:03:30,920
Speaker 3: were his emotions like going back? I saw him after

2910
02:03:30,920 --> 02:03:32,320
Speaker 3: the game and I was like, that one had to

2911
02:03:32,320 --> 02:03:34,760
Speaker 3: feel good. He's Dalwin felt good. How was that kind

2912
02:03:34,760 --> 02:03:36,600
Speaker 3: of managing that through the week for Dalton?

2913
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Speaker 2: Coach? Yeah, it was good.

2914
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Speaker 17: You know, he's a pro, right, He's been in the

2915
02:03:39,360 --> 02:03:40,840
Speaker 17: league for a long time, so he knows how to

2916
02:03:40,880 --> 02:03:43,920
Speaker 17: manage himself and things like that. And so I tried

2917
02:03:43,920 --> 02:03:45,440
Speaker 17: not to guess him up too much because I knew

2918
02:03:45,440 --> 02:03:47,960
Speaker 17: that he was already going to be feeling that, you know, individually,

2919
02:03:48,440 --> 02:03:50,160
Speaker 17: but he definitely had a different look in his eye,

2920
02:03:50,040 --> 02:03:51,760
Speaker 17: I will say that, And so I just kind of

2921
02:03:51,800 --> 02:03:53,880
Speaker 17: left it at that and just try to keep him

2922
02:03:53,960 --> 02:03:55,720
Speaker 17: encourage and pump him up and encourage him to keep

2923
02:03:55,720 --> 02:03:56,520
Speaker 17: on doing what he's doing.

2924
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Speaker 2: Because he's playing really good football.

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Speaker 17: You know, he hasn't been target maybe as much as

2926
02:04:00,880 --> 02:04:03,560
Speaker 17: he would like, But the fact of the matter is

2927
02:04:03,600 --> 02:04:05,960
Speaker 17: that when he is targeted, he is doing what he

2928
02:04:06,040 --> 02:04:07,520
Speaker 17: needs to do, and he's doing a great job in

2929
02:04:07,560 --> 02:04:09,800
Speaker 17: the run game, and he knows that when we ask

2930
02:04:09,920 --> 02:04:11,800
Speaker 17: him to do something, he's going to be there for

2931
02:04:11,920 --> 02:04:12,800
Speaker 17: and be able to deliver.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Jake Marlin coaches tight ends for the Texans. The

2933
02:04:15,960 --> 02:04:17,879
Speaker 4: point you just brought up, you'd love to be targeted

2934
02:04:17,920 --> 02:04:20,360
Speaker 4: all the time. Every player who is capable of catching

2935
02:04:20,400 --> 02:04:22,440
Speaker 4: a pass wants to catch all the passes. But you

2936
02:04:22,520 --> 02:04:24,360
Speaker 4: mentioned all the dirty work that you have to do

2937
02:04:24,600 --> 02:04:27,520
Speaker 4: that's utterly important. Is there a sense that or do

2938
02:04:27,560 --> 02:04:31,160
Speaker 4: you have to remind everybody that, hey, this is seen

2939
02:04:31,280 --> 02:04:33,960
Speaker 4: by all the important people in your career, right the

2940
02:04:34,040 --> 02:04:36,600
Speaker 4: other teams, this team, whether you end up another place

2941
02:04:36,720 --> 02:04:39,000
Speaker 4: or not. As you're coaching guys in training camp and whatnot,

2942
02:04:39,160 --> 02:04:41,280
Speaker 4: do you need to remind them of that sometimes.

2943
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Speaker 17: One hundred percent? I mean guy, I mean, of course, guys.

2944
02:04:43,320 --> 02:04:45,480
Speaker 17: You know, especially on this level. Everybody, Hey, guy, I'm

2945
02:04:45,560 --> 02:04:47,680
Speaker 17: open on every play. You're not open on every play,

2946
02:04:47,720 --> 02:04:49,280
Speaker 17: even though you think you're open on every play.

2947
02:04:49,400 --> 02:04:49,840
Speaker 2: I get it.

2948
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Speaker 17: But that's how competitive these guys are, right, So in

2949
02:04:52,400 --> 02:04:55,680
Speaker 17: order to keep on keep on fueling that competitive drive,

2950
02:04:55,960 --> 02:04:57,880
Speaker 17: you want to let them know that when you get

2951
02:04:57,960 --> 02:04:59,960
Speaker 17: your opportunity, you have to maximize it. And you know,

2952
02:05:00,000 --> 02:05:01,680
Speaker 17: I never know when that opportunity is going to come.

2953
02:05:01,880 --> 02:05:04,280
Speaker 17: It's like, you know, you play seventy plays in a game,

2954
02:05:04,440 --> 02:05:06,360
Speaker 17: and there's probably five or six of those plays that

2955
02:05:06,400 --> 02:05:08,640
Speaker 17: are really going to determine the outcome. The problem is

2956
02:05:08,680 --> 02:05:10,280
Speaker 17: you don't know when those players are going to show up.

2957
02:05:10,560 --> 02:05:13,640
Speaker 17: So if you're not able to perform on every single

2958
02:05:13,720 --> 02:05:16,600
Speaker 17: play that you're in, then you might miss your opportunity.

2959
02:05:16,680 --> 02:05:18,320
Speaker 17: And that's the thing that we talk about the most

2960
02:05:18,320 --> 02:05:21,560
Speaker 17: in our room is the progress is part of the process,

2961
02:05:21,800 --> 02:05:24,040
Speaker 17: right And as we continue to progress through the season,

2962
02:05:24,320 --> 02:05:27,080
Speaker 17: are we able to sustain everything that we need to

2963
02:05:27,080 --> 02:05:29,040
Speaker 17: do play in and play out? So because you never

2964
02:05:29,080 --> 02:05:30,800
Speaker 17: know when that one play is going to be the

2965
02:05:30,800 --> 02:05:31,480
Speaker 17: turning point in the.

2966
02:05:31,400 --> 02:05:33,560
Speaker 3: Game, coach, you almost feel like there should be some

2967
02:05:33,600 --> 02:05:36,680
Speaker 3: delineation at some point between using the word rookie and

2968
02:05:36,800 --> 02:05:40,120
Speaker 3: using the year first year guy, because I feel like

2969
02:05:40,120 --> 02:05:42,200
Speaker 3: they're no longer rookies because they've been playing a lot.

2970
02:05:42,800 --> 02:05:46,200
Speaker 3: What have you seen from Caid since he matured from

2971
02:05:46,240 --> 02:05:47,640
Speaker 3: a rookie to a first year player.

2972
02:05:47,960 --> 02:05:49,760
Speaker 1: He's lined up almost everywhere.

2973
02:05:49,800 --> 02:05:52,360
Speaker 3: He's done a little bit of everything, including being one

2974
02:05:52,360 --> 02:05:55,000
Speaker 3: of the Special Teams players of the week. What has

2975
02:05:55,000 --> 02:05:56,600
Speaker 3: he done as a rookie for you guys and what

2976
02:05:57,040 --> 02:05:58,280
Speaker 3: kind of growth have you seen in kid?

2977
02:05:58,560 --> 02:05:58,800
Speaker 2: Well?

2978
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Speaker 17: I think it starts with his approach the guy. He

2979
02:06:02,320 --> 02:06:04,600
Speaker 17: showed up in a professional kind of a manner, you

2980
02:06:04,640 --> 02:06:07,040
Speaker 17: know what I mean. Sometimes you have to kind of,

2981
02:06:08,040 --> 02:06:10,640
Speaker 17: let's say, coach guys into say hey, this is how

2982
02:06:10,680 --> 02:06:12,920
Speaker 17: we performed, this is how we study, these are the

2983
02:06:12,960 --> 02:06:14,400
Speaker 17: things that we have to do. And Kate was a

2984
02:06:14,400 --> 02:06:16,080
Speaker 17: pro as soon as he walked through the doors, right.

2985
02:06:16,360 --> 02:06:22,440
Speaker 17: So his mental ability to grasp the offense has been fantastic.

2986
02:06:22,440 --> 02:06:24,320
Speaker 17: That's why we're able to move him around and do

2987
02:06:24,360 --> 02:06:27,200
Speaker 17: the things that we're able to do. His physical presence

2988
02:06:27,600 --> 02:06:30,400
Speaker 17: has allowed him to also not only be in the offense,

2989
02:06:30,440 --> 02:06:33,080
Speaker 17: but also become a real live player for us in

2990
02:06:33,120 --> 02:06:33,720
Speaker 17: special teams.

2991
02:06:34,000 --> 02:06:34,160
Speaker 2: Right.

2992
02:06:34,200 --> 02:06:36,600
Speaker 17: And so when you're a tight end, especially in this level,

2993
02:06:37,160 --> 02:06:39,600
Speaker 17: you have to be able to perform both in special

2994
02:06:39,600 --> 02:06:42,720
Speaker 17: teams and on the offense for whatever that looks like

2995
02:06:42,800 --> 02:06:45,000
Speaker 17: for that particular week, and I think he's just really

2996
02:06:45,000 --> 02:06:47,440
Speaker 17: embraced his role. Whatever we ask him to do, he's

2997
02:06:47,440 --> 02:06:48,879
Speaker 17: going to do it to the best of his ability.

2998
02:06:49,040 --> 02:06:51,320
Speaker 17: And he's very coachable. He wants to be coached, he

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02:06:51,360 --> 02:06:53,200
Speaker 17: wants to be pushed, and he really wants to be

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02:06:53,240 --> 02:06:54,280
Speaker 17: the best at what he's doing.

3001
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Speaker 3: And I thought he was really open with us. We

3002
02:06:56,680 --> 02:06:58,920
Speaker 3: had him in here, what maybe three four weeks ago

3003
02:06:59,480 --> 02:07:01,840
Speaker 3: and actually brought it up. We didn't really want to

3004
02:07:01,880 --> 02:07:03,200
Speaker 3: go there, and he brought He was the one who

3005
02:07:03,240 --> 02:07:05,440
Speaker 3: brought up the Minnesota game, and he talked about the

3006
02:07:05,520 --> 02:07:08,960
Speaker 3: lessons he learned from that Minnesota game that he is

3007
02:07:09,040 --> 02:07:10,720
Speaker 3: then applying going forward.

3008
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Speaker 2: Did you see that same thing, Couch.

3009
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Speaker 3: I mean, that was a tough game for him, he

3010
02:07:14,200 --> 02:07:16,520
Speaker 3: had a tough time against John Gernard in particular.

3011
02:07:16,680 --> 02:07:18,280
Speaker 2: Did you kind of see that same thing from him.

3012
02:07:18,200 --> 02:07:20,280
Speaker 3: Because he talked about it very openly about how that

3013
02:07:20,400 --> 02:07:22,960
Speaker 3: was a real learning lesson for him that added kind

3014
02:07:22,960 --> 02:07:25,120
Speaker 3: of to his tool kit as he moved forward, exactly.

3015
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Speaker 17: And again I go back to these guys that are

3016
02:07:27,320 --> 02:07:30,320
Speaker 17: in my room. They are pros, and they really have

3017
02:07:30,360 --> 02:07:32,200
Speaker 17: a great approach to the game and they know that

3018
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Speaker 17: there are things even if we lose Okay, quote unquote lose,

3019
02:07:34,960 --> 02:07:36,920
Speaker 17: you lose a play, you lose a game, whatever that

3020
02:07:36,920 --> 02:07:38,640
Speaker 17: looks like, there's going to be lessons that you can

3021
02:07:38,680 --> 02:07:41,160
Speaker 17: derive from that, and then if you're able to apply

3022
02:07:41,280 --> 02:07:43,040
Speaker 17: it as you move on through the season. I think

3023
02:07:43,120 --> 02:07:45,160
Speaker 17: that's why we are where we are now. We went

3024
02:07:45,160 --> 02:07:47,240
Speaker 17: through some adversity over the last few weeks, not only

3025
02:07:47,240 --> 02:07:49,320
Speaker 17: going all the way back to Minnesota, but as a team,

3026
02:07:49,520 --> 02:07:53,200
Speaker 17: you know, everybody faces injuries. Get that, well, we probably

3027
02:07:53,200 --> 02:07:55,040
Speaker 17: lost a couple of games that most people think that

3028
02:07:55,080 --> 02:07:57,520
Speaker 17: we should have won, including us. Okay, fine, well, what

3029
02:07:57,640 --> 02:07:59,960
Speaker 17: can we learn from that and apply now as we

3030
02:08:00,040 --> 02:08:02,160
Speaker 17: continue to move on and we start getting into December,

3031
02:08:02,320 --> 02:08:04,240
Speaker 17: because that's when where we really need to be playing

3032
02:08:04,240 --> 02:08:04,720
Speaker 17: our best ball.

3033
02:08:04,800 --> 02:08:04,960
Speaker 2: Yep.

3034
02:08:05,040 --> 02:08:07,640
Speaker 4: Jake Morland, tight end's coach for the Texans. All right,

3035
02:08:07,680 --> 02:08:10,440
Speaker 4: so you played tight end, you played the position you

3036
02:08:10,480 --> 02:08:13,280
Speaker 4: played in the league, and then you started coaching. So

3037
02:08:13,400 --> 02:08:16,320
Speaker 4: when did that or how was that evolution for you?

3038
02:08:16,480 --> 02:08:19,520
Speaker 4: Where the satisfaction is I'm teaching somebody else and I

3039
02:08:19,560 --> 02:08:21,720
Speaker 4: see them do something well and it just lights a

3040
02:08:21,760 --> 02:08:24,840
Speaker 4: fuse for me. It really satisfies me and I want

3041
02:08:24,840 --> 02:08:25,680
Speaker 4: to pursue this forever.

3042
02:08:26,080 --> 02:08:28,400
Speaker 17: It was something that I did not want to do

3043
02:08:28,640 --> 02:08:30,520
Speaker 17: by one hundred percent. Did not want to be a coach.

3044
02:08:31,680 --> 02:08:33,960
Speaker 17: In fact, when I got done playing, I was completely

3045
02:08:33,960 --> 02:08:35,839
Speaker 17: done with football. Didn't want anything to do with football.

3046
02:08:36,120 --> 02:08:40,800
Speaker 17: And then I was asked to come and be part

3047
02:08:40,840 --> 02:08:43,920
Speaker 17: of a staff with one of my quarterbacks from college,

3048
02:08:44,240 --> 02:08:45,960
Speaker 17: and I said, I'm going to help you out for

3049
02:08:46,000 --> 02:08:47,960
Speaker 17: this fall, and that's it, and then I'm done. And

3050
02:08:48,000 --> 02:08:49,560
Speaker 17: from the first moment that I stepped on the field,

3051
02:08:49,560 --> 02:08:51,040
Speaker 17: I knew that this is what I was supposed to do.

3052
02:08:51,240 --> 02:08:54,120
Speaker 17: It was very hard for me at first to be

3053
02:08:54,160 --> 02:08:56,440
Speaker 17: able to articulate the things that I wanted my players

3054
02:08:56,480 --> 02:08:59,440
Speaker 17: to be able to do. For whatever reason, I had

3055
02:08:59,520 --> 02:09:02,040
Speaker 17: been able to to just do things naturally. I couldn't

3056
02:09:02,040 --> 02:09:04,200
Speaker 17: really explain to you why or how. I just knew

3057
02:09:04,520 --> 02:09:06,200
Speaker 17: how things needed to be done. Well, now I need

3058
02:09:06,200 --> 02:09:08,960
Speaker 17: to put it into a real, live English language to

3059
02:09:09,000 --> 02:09:11,240
Speaker 17: be able to articulate to somebody that they understand that

3060
02:09:11,280 --> 02:09:13,560
Speaker 17: they can go and perform. And so that was a

3061
02:09:13,680 --> 02:09:16,080
Speaker 17: very very hard thing for me to do early in

3062
02:09:16,120 --> 02:09:19,040
Speaker 17: my career, and as I've gone to different places, the

3063
02:09:19,080 --> 02:09:22,520
Speaker 17: Air Force Academy is the best example, because even though

3064
02:09:22,560 --> 02:09:25,200
Speaker 17: those guys are the smartest guys, they're the bravest guys.

3065
02:09:25,200 --> 02:09:26,560
Speaker 17: I mean all of the above. They're made up of

3066
02:09:26,600 --> 02:09:28,800
Speaker 17: all the right stuff, but you have a very small

3067
02:09:28,840 --> 02:09:30,880
Speaker 17: window that you have to get all the information to

3068
02:09:30,960 --> 02:09:33,800
Speaker 17: these guys in. And by the way, they're also worried about,

3069
02:09:33,960 --> 02:09:37,080
Speaker 17: you know, aeronautical engineering and protecting our country and all

3070
02:09:37,120 --> 02:09:39,560
Speaker 17: these other things. Football is you know, down the lists

3071
02:09:39,640 --> 02:09:42,200
Speaker 17: quite a bit for these guys. But it made me

3072
02:09:42,240 --> 02:09:44,640
Speaker 17: a better coach because I needed to be very concise

3073
02:09:44,680 --> 02:09:46,120
Speaker 17: in the information that I was giving them so that

3074
02:09:46,160 --> 02:09:48,160
Speaker 17: they could go out and make it perform. So everywhere

3075
02:09:48,160 --> 02:09:50,520
Speaker 17: that I've been, I've been able to learn different things,

3076
02:09:50,640 --> 02:09:53,280
Speaker 17: learn different techniques. And also you've got to figure out

3077
02:09:53,360 --> 02:09:55,680
Speaker 17: what pushes the guy's buttons and how do guys learn.

3078
02:09:55,720 --> 02:09:57,960
Speaker 17: Some guys learn through paper, some guys learn through video,

3079
02:09:58,040 --> 02:09:59,800
Speaker 17: some guys learn through walk through and so you have

3080
02:09:59,840 --> 02:10:02,680
Speaker 17: to able to manipulate all of those things so everybody

3081
02:10:02,720 --> 02:10:03,560
Speaker 17: can be on the same page.

3082
02:10:03,600 --> 02:10:04,240
Speaker 1: And as a coach.

3083
02:10:04,320 --> 02:10:07,200
Speaker 3: Now it's now technology, how do you you know with

3084
02:10:07,320 --> 02:10:09,760
Speaker 3: the new technology, because back when we were coaching, like

3085
02:10:09,920 --> 02:10:11,760
Speaker 3: you're drawing it up on pads, you know it was

3086
02:10:11,800 --> 02:10:13,320
Speaker 3: on paper is all you do. But I'm telling you

3087
02:10:13,320 --> 02:10:15,960
Speaker 3: that coaching bug hits man. When it strikes, it's like,

3088
02:10:16,120 --> 02:10:19,760
Speaker 3: holy cow, it's definitely strike. Okay, we got Thanksgiving coming up, coach,

3089
02:10:20,760 --> 02:10:27,080
Speaker 3: so you can you have to have this side at Thanksgiving?

3090
02:10:27,400 --> 02:10:28,400
Speaker 3: What sweet potatoes?

3091
02:10:28,440 --> 02:10:30,320
Speaker 1: Sweet potatoes growing with marshmallows or.

3092
02:10:30,240 --> 02:10:32,920
Speaker 17: No, no, well, yes, with marshmallows. But when I was

3093
02:10:32,920 --> 02:10:35,400
Speaker 17: growing up, this was my dad. My dad had to

3094
02:10:35,440 --> 02:10:37,880
Speaker 17: have sweet potatoes, like we could not start the meal

3095
02:10:37,960 --> 02:10:39,760
Speaker 17: unless the sweet potatoes were on the table.

3096
02:10:40,000 --> 02:10:42,160
Speaker 2: And that just kind of followed. And now that's that's

3097
02:10:42,360 --> 02:10:43,360
Speaker 2: I am that way. Now.

3098
02:10:43,480 --> 02:10:45,240
Speaker 17: I used to be bread. I used to be I'm

3099
02:10:45,240 --> 02:10:47,000
Speaker 17: a big bread guys to be bread. But now it's

3100
02:10:47,040 --> 02:10:48,000
Speaker 17: completely sweet potatoes.

3101
02:10:48,040 --> 02:10:51,200
Speaker 3: Okay, are you sweeptoto casse role? Just sweet potatoes with

3102
02:10:51,240 --> 02:10:53,240
Speaker 3: marshmallows or it just doesn't matter. It's got to be sweetatoes,

3103
02:10:53,240 --> 02:10:53,560
Speaker 3: don't matter.

3104
02:10:53,600 --> 02:10:57,120
Speaker 17: It has to be sweet potatoes, usually diced, okay, and

3105
02:10:57,120 --> 02:10:58,880
Speaker 17: and that's usually how how we get them. But I'm

3106
02:10:58,880 --> 02:10:59,520
Speaker 17: not that picky.

3107
02:11:00,760 --> 02:11:03,720
Speaker 3: Now, cut a dish, yes, weave a dish from the

3108
02:11:03,760 --> 02:11:04,880
Speaker 3: ths completely gone.

3109
02:11:05,000 --> 02:11:06,560
Speaker 2: Never want to see it.

3110
02:11:06,720 --> 02:11:10,720
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, your decision, coach, And yours alone.

3111
02:11:11,760 --> 02:11:15,360
Speaker 2: Holy col uh? Probably corn corn?

3112
02:11:15,800 --> 02:11:16,920
Speaker 5: Do people have corn?

3113
02:11:17,200 --> 02:11:17,640
Speaker 2: Do I make?

3114
02:11:17,680 --> 02:11:20,920
Speaker 3: I make like a crembrewle like Corntty Good.

3115
02:11:21,000 --> 02:11:23,360
Speaker 2: But I would replace that with the green bean cast role.

3116
02:11:23,520 --> 02:11:26,720
Speaker 3: Personally, you like to readmacastle with the Krispy Fried on

3117
02:11:26,760 --> 02:11:27,120
Speaker 3: is ap.

3118
02:11:27,280 --> 02:11:29,920
Speaker 2: Now, that's probably a Midwest thing, you know, I in Wisconsin.

3119
02:11:29,960 --> 02:11:32,160
Speaker 3: That's probably yeah. I mean I grew in Wisconsin. That

3120
02:11:32,280 --> 02:11:33,560
Speaker 3: was like that had to be on the table. That

3121
02:11:33,600 --> 02:11:35,080
Speaker 3: was the only way my mom got me the green

3122
02:11:35,080 --> 02:11:37,440
Speaker 3: bean coach. That's it, green bean cast role.

3123
02:11:37,520 --> 02:11:40,680
Speaker 4: Thanksgiving, get your vegetables coachkes a loft for joining us,

3124
02:11:40,680 --> 02:11:41,000
Speaker 4: Good luck.

3125
02:11:41,080 --> 02:11:41,560
Speaker 2: Thanks guys.

3126
02:11:41,720 --> 02:11:44,360
Speaker 4: There's our buddy tight ends coach Jake Moreland. Always fun

3127
02:11:44,440 --> 02:11:46,760
Speaker 4: to visit with him. Coming up, let's get a deeper

3128
02:11:46,800 --> 02:11:50,120
Speaker 4: look at the Tennessee Titans. What are they experiencing? Do

3129
02:11:50,200 --> 02:11:52,560
Speaker 4: we really need to go that deep? Well, Mike Keith

3130
02:11:52,640 --> 02:11:54,360
Speaker 4: is always fun to visit with. He's the voice of

3131
02:11:54,360 --> 02:11:56,280
Speaker 4: the Titans, so we'll get to him next. Here on

3132
02:11:56,320 --> 02:11:59,600
Speaker 4: Texans All Access, it's our final segment of the week

3133
02:11:59,720 --> 02:12:02,760
Speaker 4: and the bonus hour of Texans All Access. Some of

3134
02:12:02,800 --> 02:12:05,000
Speaker 4: the best audio of the week, and let's get to

3135
02:12:05,040 --> 02:12:08,720
Speaker 4: know the Titans better dig deep as we explore the

3136
02:12:08,720 --> 02:12:12,520
Speaker 4: world of Will Levis, who does mayonnaise commercials a sentence.

3137
02:12:12,560 --> 02:12:14,760
Speaker 4: I didn't think I'd be saying maybe a year and

3138
02:12:14,800 --> 02:12:17,280
Speaker 4: a half ago, but that's what we're doing here because

3139
02:12:17,280 --> 02:12:19,720
Speaker 4: he does have a mayonnaise endorsement and maybe that's a

3140
02:12:19,760 --> 02:12:21,400
Speaker 4: big reason why the team keeps him around as a

3141
02:12:21,400 --> 02:12:25,520
Speaker 4: starting quarterback. Kidding, they're obviously hoping he plays well. And

3142
02:12:25,640 --> 02:12:28,839
Speaker 4: let's talk with Mike Keith, voice of the Tennessee Titans,

3143
02:12:28,840 --> 02:12:32,200
Speaker 4: and start off with this is mid conversation. Really, do

3144
02:12:32,280 --> 02:12:35,400
Speaker 4: they want Levis to run with the football? Is that

3145
02:12:35,600 --> 02:12:36,880
Speaker 4: part of the game plan?

3146
02:12:37,440 --> 02:12:40,160
Speaker 14: Yeah, they do, Mark, I mean they want to see

3147
02:12:40,200 --> 02:12:42,920
Speaker 14: I mean, he's not a scrambler, but you know, he's

3148
02:12:42,960 --> 02:12:45,600
Speaker 14: six or four, he's two hundred and thirty pounds. He's

3149
02:12:45,760 --> 02:12:49,840
Speaker 14: very physical. So him being able to run, whether it's

3150
02:12:49,840 --> 02:12:53,000
Speaker 14: a designed run or just knowing when to take off

3151
02:12:53,120 --> 02:12:56,440
Speaker 14: based on the look he gets, they absolutely want him

3152
02:12:56,440 --> 02:12:58,120
Speaker 14: to do that. And that was one of the things

3153
02:12:58,120 --> 02:13:00,360
Speaker 14: in the Chargers game that he did in I doably

3154
02:13:00,480 --> 02:13:05,720
Speaker 14: well to extend drives. He doesn't mind that they had

3155
02:13:05,760 --> 02:13:09,000
Speaker 14: some designed runs for him in early in the ballgame.

3156
02:13:09,840 --> 02:13:13,640
Speaker 14: Last weekend. I mean the game against Minnesota, and you know,

3157
02:13:13,720 --> 02:13:15,840
Speaker 14: those things really showed up. Well. He didn't have a

3158
02:13:15,880 --> 02:13:19,760
Speaker 14: lot of big yards, but he certainly had some things

3159
02:13:19,880 --> 02:13:23,320
Speaker 14: that got him into a bit of a flow. So Mark,

3160
02:13:23,560 --> 02:13:26,160
Speaker 14: I don't think he's ever going to be a runner

3161
02:13:26,720 --> 02:13:29,960
Speaker 14: of the ilk of an Anthony Richardson or even a

3162
02:13:30,040 --> 02:13:33,800
Speaker 14: Josh Allen, but I do think the ability to run

3163
02:13:34,360 --> 02:13:37,440
Speaker 14: will give him an added dimension that can help this offense,

3164
02:13:37,480 --> 02:13:39,440
Speaker 14: and it's something he's very comfortable doing.

3165
02:13:39,680 --> 02:13:42,600
Speaker 4: Mike Keith, Voice of the Titans, joining us Tony Pollard

3166
02:13:43,040 --> 02:13:45,880
Speaker 4: Texans just played the Cowboys. Feels like the Cowboys could

3167
02:13:45,880 --> 02:13:48,920
Speaker 4: still use Tony Pollard. What about what he's adding to

3168
02:13:48,960 --> 02:13:49,440
Speaker 4: the equation?

3169
02:13:50,440 --> 02:13:54,880
Speaker 14: Done? Nice job, really nice job. He has had a

3170
02:13:54,880 --> 02:13:59,720
Speaker 14: couple of off games. I can't really say the Chargers

3171
02:13:59,760 --> 02:14:01,760
Speaker 14: game was an off game. He had nine carries for

3172
02:14:01,760 --> 02:14:05,200
Speaker 14: forty four yards. They used him less. He had thirty

3173
02:14:05,320 --> 02:14:09,440
Speaker 14: one touches a week before that and it went over

3174
02:14:09,520 --> 02:14:11,400
Speaker 14: New England, and they really don't want him to have

3175
02:14:11,480 --> 02:14:14,960
Speaker 14: thirty one touches. He's not that kind of back, so

3176
02:14:15,040 --> 02:14:17,400
Speaker 14: they you know, he got backed off with Tayse Spears

3177
02:14:17,400 --> 02:14:20,560
Speaker 14: coming back from injury a little bit this pass game,

3178
02:14:20,720 --> 02:14:24,400
Speaker 14: nine carries fifteen yards. He's a good pass catcher. He's

3179
02:14:24,560 --> 02:14:29,840
Speaker 14: outstanding as a pass protector. The difference with the Titans

3180
02:14:30,080 --> 02:14:34,560
Speaker 14: now and with Derrick Henry is with Spears, who's in

3181
02:14:34,640 --> 02:14:38,480
Speaker 14: concussion protocol right now, and Pollard, you have two three

3182
02:14:38,520 --> 02:14:42,400
Speaker 14: down backs, and they will have both backs on the

3183
02:14:42,440 --> 02:14:45,919
Speaker 14: field at the same time because both have the ability

3184
02:14:45,960 --> 02:14:49,520
Speaker 14: to catch the football. They just really scratched the surface

3185
02:14:49,760 --> 02:14:54,360
Speaker 14: of what they wanted to do because, honestly, Mark, they've

3186
02:14:54,400 --> 02:14:57,560
Speaker 14: been behind a great deal, and you know, when you're behind,

3187
02:14:57,960 --> 02:15:00,440
Speaker 14: you can't run your offense. You're just dropping back and

3188
02:15:00,520 --> 02:15:03,360
Speaker 14: throw it and trying to come back and trying to

3189
02:15:03,400 --> 02:15:07,120
Speaker 14: make something happen fast. In the games they've been able

3190
02:15:07,160 --> 02:15:12,160
Speaker 14: to run their offense. Pollard has been really really effective,

3191
02:15:12,840 --> 02:15:15,480
Speaker 14: and it's been kind of a lost year for Spears

3192
02:15:15,520 --> 02:15:18,680
Speaker 14: because of a hamstring injury and now a concussion. But

3193
02:15:18,880 --> 02:15:22,160
Speaker 14: when he plays, you can see what they want to

3194
02:15:22,240 --> 02:15:26,120
Speaker 14: do going forward with Pollard and Spears and again both

3195
02:15:26,160 --> 02:15:26,800
Speaker 14: backs together.

3196
02:15:27,640 --> 02:15:30,640
Speaker 4: Mike, let's talk about the Jaguars. How surprised are you

3197
02:15:30,960 --> 02:15:33,920
Speaker 4: as to what they are going through in twenty twenty four.

3198
02:15:34,240 --> 02:15:36,680
Speaker 4: I think we all expected bigger things from them. What

3199
02:15:36,760 --> 02:15:39,800
Speaker 4: are your thoughts. I know Trevor Lawrence is injured right now,

3200
02:15:39,880 --> 02:15:44,480
Speaker 4: but it just feels really bad considering the expectations and

3201
02:15:44,480 --> 02:15:46,000
Speaker 4: everything else going into the campaign.

3202
02:15:47,240 --> 02:15:51,720
Speaker 14: I'm shocked. I'm totally shocked. I thought they would be

3203
02:15:51,880 --> 02:15:55,640
Speaker 14: right there with the Texans contending for the division lead

3204
02:15:55,800 --> 02:16:00,400
Speaker 14: right now. That's a better team than what they're playing. Like.

3205
02:16:00,480 --> 02:16:03,920
Speaker 14: I mean, if you if you compare the rosters of

3206
02:16:03,960 --> 02:16:06,839
Speaker 14: the four teams in the division, you look at theirs

3207
02:16:06,840 --> 02:16:09,200
Speaker 14: and you say, man, that's a you know, they got

3208
02:16:09,200 --> 02:16:12,720
Speaker 14: some guys, and they've got some guys who've done different

3209
02:16:12,760 --> 02:16:16,600
Speaker 14: things at different points, and you know, some proven some

3210
02:16:16,760 --> 02:16:20,640
Speaker 14: proven winners and all star caliber players, and they're just

3211
02:16:20,680 --> 02:16:24,320
Speaker 14: playing poorly. I don't know what that is right now.

3212
02:16:24,400 --> 02:16:27,760
Speaker 14: You know, they were in a completely different situation than

3213
02:16:27,800 --> 02:16:31,760
Speaker 14: what we were in based on the thought process that

3214
02:16:31,880 --> 02:16:33,360
Speaker 14: you know, it was going to take us some time

3215
02:16:34,320 --> 02:16:37,280
Speaker 14: because to a certain extent we started over. They've been

3216
02:16:37,320 --> 02:16:41,200
Speaker 14: in this program now for three years, and so you

3217
02:16:41,320 --> 02:16:43,640
Speaker 14: thought they would begin to take off. Yeah, they had

3218
02:16:43,680 --> 02:16:47,800
Speaker 14: a little bit of a fallback last year because in

3219
02:16:47,879 --> 02:16:51,160
Speaker 14: twenty two they had no injuries, which was crazy. They

3220
02:16:51,200 --> 02:16:54,280
Speaker 14: had no injuries last year. They had to deal with

3221
02:16:54,320 --> 02:16:56,160
Speaker 14: some injuries, and they kind of fell off down the

3222
02:16:56,160 --> 02:16:59,560
Speaker 14: stretch and Houston got hot. And then this year you

3223
02:16:59,640 --> 02:17:01,920
Speaker 14: come in and then you say, you know, this could

3224
02:17:01,920 --> 02:17:06,520
Speaker 14: be a pretty good football team, and poof. I can't

3225
02:17:06,640 --> 02:17:09,840
Speaker 14: begin to tell you in watching them what I think's wrong.

3226
02:17:09,920 --> 02:17:13,360
Speaker 14: I'm not that smart, but certainly they should be better

3227
02:17:13,440 --> 02:17:15,440
Speaker 14: than two and nine at this moment in time.

3228
02:17:15,560 --> 02:17:17,760
Speaker 4: All right, similar question for the Colts. I don't know

3229
02:17:17,800 --> 02:17:20,879
Speaker 4: what your expectations were for them. I mentioned Anthony Richardson

3230
02:17:20,920 --> 02:17:23,360
Speaker 4: having a much better game last weekend against the New

3231
02:17:23,440 --> 02:17:27,760
Speaker 4: York Jets, but what about Indy here? Because it feels

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02:17:27,800 --> 02:17:29,879
Speaker 4: like it could go either way from here, and I'm

3233
02:17:29,920 --> 02:17:32,280
Speaker 4: talking about either way in the offseason. I have no

3234
02:17:32,400 --> 02:17:34,640
Speaker 4: idea what their plans are for twenty twenty five, and

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02:17:34,680 --> 02:17:37,280
Speaker 4: maybe they don't either, But what do you think of

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02:17:37,320 --> 02:17:38,960
Speaker 4: their twenty twenty four experience?

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Speaker 14: Mark? I think the problem that they had is last

3238
02:17:44,040 --> 02:17:48,279
Speaker 14: year they ended up playing Garner Minshew, and in playing

3239
02:17:48,320 --> 02:17:53,400
Speaker 14: Garner Minshew last year, they ended up being nine and eight,

3240
02:17:54,440 --> 02:17:56,920
Speaker 14: and they were better than what they would have been

3241
02:17:57,040 --> 02:18:00,680
Speaker 14: had they played Anthony Richardson the whole year. I didn't

3242
02:18:00,680 --> 02:18:04,080
Speaker 14: realize this until recently, Mark. But Anthony Richardson only played

3243
02:18:04,080 --> 02:18:08,840
Speaker 14: one hundred and seventy seven snaps last year, so in essence,

3244
02:18:09,120 --> 02:18:12,520
Speaker 14: he's a rookie this year. And then they get off

3245
02:18:12,560 --> 02:18:16,840
Speaker 14: to the uneven start, he has another injury. The thing

3246
02:18:17,000 --> 02:18:19,440
Speaker 14: happens where he caps out of the game, and that's

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02:18:19,480 --> 02:18:24,320
Speaker 14: not received well. What my understanding of all of it is,

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02:18:24,600 --> 02:18:27,720
Speaker 14: and it's something that in the process of looking at

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02:18:27,840 --> 02:18:31,160
Speaker 14: quarterbacks in twenty twenty three we were doing, and who knows,

3250
02:18:31,480 --> 02:18:35,840
Speaker 14: Houston might have had the same experience. In interviewing Anthony Richardson,

3251
02:18:36,440 --> 02:18:40,720
Speaker 14: I haven't met anybody who didn't say he's a wonderful kid.

3252
02:18:41,520 --> 02:18:44,360
Speaker 14: Just think the world of him and think that he

3253
02:18:44,600 --> 02:18:48,920
Speaker 14: has the leadership qualities and the skills to be successful.

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02:18:49,040 --> 02:18:52,320
Speaker 14: The problem with him, Mark is he hasn't played quarterback

3255
02:18:52,360 --> 02:18:57,760
Speaker 14: that much. He just hasn't. And you get guys who

3256
02:18:58,480 --> 02:19:00,959
Speaker 14: who played a lot of football, who'd taken a lot

3257
02:19:01,000 --> 02:19:05,000
Speaker 14: of snaps, who've thrown a thousand passes in college, who've

3258
02:19:05,000 --> 02:19:07,840
Speaker 14: done it in high school as well, and they've sort

3259
02:19:07,840 --> 02:19:10,760
Speaker 14: of come up through the ranks. They're just more ready

3260
02:19:10,800 --> 02:19:14,720
Speaker 14: to handle the whole quarterback thing. And I don't think

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02:19:14,760 --> 02:19:19,320
Speaker 14: this kid was. Now, the feeling is that he kind

3262
02:19:19,360 --> 02:19:22,440
Speaker 14: of understands what the responsibility of it is now. I

3263
02:19:22,440 --> 02:19:25,200
Speaker 14: don't think they're given up on him, I really don't.

3264
02:19:25,959 --> 02:19:27,760
Speaker 14: I think they felt like he needed to take a

3265
02:19:27,800 --> 02:19:31,080
Speaker 14: step back and now we're going to be able to

3266
02:19:31,120 --> 02:19:33,280
Speaker 14: see what he can do the rest of the way.

3267
02:19:33,760 --> 02:19:38,879
Speaker 14: The most unsurprising surprise to me, or the most surprising

3268
02:19:38,959 --> 02:19:41,800
Speaker 14: unsurprise is that he ran over a safety at the

3269
02:19:41,800 --> 02:19:45,320
Speaker 14: goal line and people went, look at that. That's safety

3270
02:19:45,360 --> 02:19:49,160
Speaker 14: couldn't bring him down. Mark. He weighs two fifty. That's

3271
02:19:49,200 --> 02:19:52,440
Speaker 14: why they wanted him. I mean, the guy is a

3272
02:19:52,520 --> 02:19:57,920
Speaker 14: phenomenal athlete. He's a freak, and this is what he

3273
02:19:58,160 --> 02:20:02,080
Speaker 14: potentially gives you. I just think they're dealing with a

3274
02:20:02,080 --> 02:20:04,440
Speaker 14: lot of inexperience there and they're going to have to

3275
02:20:04,480 --> 02:20:08,359
Speaker 14: live through it. And you know, you huddle for Shane Steten.

3276
02:20:09,120 --> 02:20:11,640
Speaker 14: That ownership is patient with that.

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02:20:12,640 --> 02:20:16,360
Speaker 4: Absolutely. Mike final thoughts here, AFC. We just saw the

3278
02:20:16,440 --> 02:20:20,199
Speaker 4: Chiefs lose to the Bills, the Ravens lose to the Steelers.

3279
02:20:20,400 --> 02:20:24,400
Speaker 4: Who knows what happens kind of handicap, if you could,

3280
02:20:24,520 --> 02:20:26,200
Speaker 4: for lack of a better way of putting it, what

3281
02:20:26,240 --> 02:20:28,240
Speaker 4: you're going to see in the playoffs here in the AFC.

3282
02:20:28,440 --> 02:20:30,680
Speaker 4: Is it all about the Chiefs and everybody else or

3283
02:20:30,720 --> 02:20:31,840
Speaker 4: do you like another team?

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02:20:32,640 --> 02:20:34,600
Speaker 14: Well, I think you have to like the Chiefs because

3285
02:20:34,600 --> 02:20:40,360
Speaker 14: of Patrick Mahomes, because he's that quarterback who has done

3286
02:20:40,480 --> 02:20:45,320
Speaker 14: what Brady and Manning did, done what Joe Montana did.

3287
02:20:45,680 --> 02:20:48,879
Speaker 14: I mean, you think about those guys, Mark you know,

3288
02:20:49,000 --> 02:20:53,400
Speaker 14: Kary Aikman did it with the Cowboys. You like those quarterbacks,

3289
02:20:53,560 --> 02:20:58,200
Speaker 14: Steve Young. You like those quarterbacks in those big situations

3290
02:20:58,400 --> 02:21:01,760
Speaker 14: and they can give you an avantage. That to me,

3291
02:21:02,120 --> 02:21:05,320
Speaker 14: is the different in the Chiefs at this moment. That said,

3292
02:21:07,080 --> 02:21:11,960
Speaker 14: Buffalo has improved dramatically. They've done a nice job. They

3293
02:21:12,040 --> 02:21:15,000
Speaker 14: retooled just a little bit, you know, with the trade

3294
02:21:15,000 --> 02:21:17,960
Speaker 14: of gigs to you guys and a couple other things

3295
02:21:18,040 --> 02:21:21,360
Speaker 14: they did on defense. They have retooled nicely and I

3296
02:21:21,360 --> 02:21:23,640
Speaker 14: think remade that team a little bit. They've come on

3297
02:21:23,760 --> 02:21:28,240
Speaker 14: faster than I thought they would. I think your team

3298
02:21:28,360 --> 02:21:31,280
Speaker 14: is fascinating to see what's going to go on the

3299
02:21:31,320 --> 02:21:32,520
Speaker 14: rest of the way. Had a little bit of a

3300
02:21:32,600 --> 02:21:34,600
Speaker 14: lull there for a couple of weeks. Now back on

3301
02:21:34,720 --> 02:21:37,600
Speaker 14: track with a good win over the Cowboys on Monday

3302
02:21:37,640 --> 02:21:40,880
Speaker 14: Night Football, so I think that's something to watch. The

3303
02:21:40,959 --> 02:21:46,039
Speaker 14: Steelers really piqued my interest because I didn't see them

3304
02:21:46,120 --> 02:21:49,760
Speaker 14: getting to this point, but look at Mike Tomlin knowing

3305
02:21:49,800 --> 02:21:54,119
Speaker 14: when to change quarterbacks and it's worked out brilliantly for him.

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02:21:55,200 --> 02:21:57,360
Speaker 14: The other team that I think is really fascinating is

3307
02:21:57,400 --> 02:22:02,000
Speaker 14: the Chargers because you see them and you think they're

3308
02:22:02,040 --> 02:22:05,119
Speaker 14: not that good. They never make a mistake. Mark they

3309
02:22:05,240 --> 02:22:10,440
Speaker 14: never make a mistake, and so you fool around with them,

3310
02:22:11,000 --> 02:22:15,840
Speaker 14: and they're physical and they'll get after you. All of

3311
02:22:15,879 --> 02:22:18,560
Speaker 14: a sudden, they've beaten me. I don't think they're as

3312
02:22:18,560 --> 02:22:21,160
Speaker 14: good as the Chiefs or even the Ravens, and we're

3313
02:22:21,160 --> 02:22:24,560
Speaker 14: not even really discussing the Ravens right now because they've

3314
02:22:24,560 --> 02:22:27,600
Speaker 14: had some issues. But I think it's anybody's ball game.

3315
02:22:27,800 --> 02:22:30,080
Speaker 14: I think of the teams that will end up being

3316
02:22:30,120 --> 02:22:35,200
Speaker 14: the top six seeds, absolutely none of them will surprise me.

3317
02:22:36,000 --> 02:22:39,360
Speaker 14: If they're able to go to the super Bowl won't

3318
02:22:39,360 --> 02:22:43,000
Speaker 14: surprise me in the least because I do feel like

3319
02:22:43,160 --> 02:22:47,800
Speaker 14: the Chiefs are somewhat vulnerable outside of who their quarterback is.

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Speaker 4: Outstanding material Mike, as always, I love visiting with you

3321
02:22:51,200 --> 02:22:54,360
Speaker 4: and can't wait to see on Sunday at at RG Stadium.

3322
02:22:54,600 --> 02:22:56,360
Speaker 14: Thanks Mark, look forward to seeing you too.

3323
02:22:56,520 --> 02:22:59,279
Speaker 4: All right, there's my friend Mike Teith of the Tennessee Titans.

3324
02:22:59,320 --> 02:23:01,280
Speaker 4: He does there play by play and he's been doing

3325
02:23:01,360 --> 02:23:04,360
Speaker 4: it since the oiler has moved to Nashville or actually

3326
02:23:04,400 --> 02:23:07,640
Speaker 4: even Memphis, so he picked up the job then and

3327
02:23:07,800 --> 02:23:10,440
Speaker 4: has been doing it ever since, which is very cool

3328
02:23:10,480 --> 02:23:13,280
Speaker 4: for him, and it'll be cool to get together on

3329
02:23:13,480 --> 02:23:17,920
Speaker 4: Sunday noon. Kick Texans Titans Salute to Service Day. Can't wait.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for listening all week long. Area forty five, Sean

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Speaker 4: and Patrick coming up next, Go Texans