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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, Welcome to the show. We've got a lot

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Speaker 1: to discuss tonight. Oh my gosh, big one on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: NRG Stadium noon, the Dolphins in town. Let's go as

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Speaker 1: the three game stretch begins, and I'm falling into it too.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about this in a moment. Mark Vandermin and

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Speaker 1: John Harris with you. We're gonna have Chris Strausser on

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Speaker 1: in about thirty minutes or so, so the offensive line coach.

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Speaker 1: We will ask him about the pre snap stuff and

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Speaker 1: other things as well, So you want to stay tuned

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Speaker 1: for that, but certainly want to check you with the general.

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Speaker 1: John McClain, what is going on? Good evening, General, here

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Speaker 1: we go. Now I took the bait and talked about

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Speaker 1: three games instead of just keeping the focus. Did Dolphins

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Speaker 1: right into that trap? Coach is gonna be upset with me?

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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts as the Texans embark on this

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Speaker 1: Miami game Sunday.

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Speaker 2: I think if they lose to Miami, the Texans could

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Speaker 2: lose three in a row. Gosh, because they're going to

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Speaker 2: Kansas City and they're playing Baltimore. They've never beaten Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 2: Oh and four to zero. And five five game losing

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Speaker 2: streak to the Ravens. That's why they have to win

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Speaker 2: this game. If if they do lose three in a

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Speaker 2: row in eleven days, then they go to the Titans,

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Speaker 2: and that might be to win the division. Last year

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Speaker 2: when Jacksonville went to the Titans to win the division,

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Speaker 2: they couldn't do it, but that was with Mike Brabel.

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Speaker 2: And I'm pretty sure if any game I know the

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Speaker 2: Texans is gonna win, it's going to be getting revenge

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Speaker 2: on Tennessee for the worst loss of the season. But Miami,

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Speaker 2: the key is Texans have given up twenty six touchdown passes.

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Speaker 2: Nobody's given up more despite great, great pressure on the quarterback,

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Speaker 2: which just is weird. The Corners are playing well. That

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Speaker 2: stat from the thirty third team yesterday about Kamari Lassiter

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Speaker 2: and Derek Stingley Jr. First and third and opponents completion percentage,

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Speaker 2: So you go, corners are playing well. So why are

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Speaker 2: you giving up a twenty six touchdown passes? Eleven of

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Speaker 2: thirty or more, five of fifty or more? You know

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Speaker 2: how it SOEs? That means it's the safety play. So

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Speaker 2: I'm worried about the safety play because Jimmy Ward is

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Speaker 2: going to be playing slot like he did in place

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Speaker 2: of Jalen Petrie. He's very good at it, but boy,

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Speaker 2: that puts a lot of pressure on rookie Kayln Bullock

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Speaker 3: Okay, let's keep it positive here. In general, let's paint

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Speaker 3: the picture of a Texans win. What has to happen

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Speaker 3: to get that win over Miami.

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Speaker 2: They have to be able to run the ball and

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Speaker 2: throw a lot of short, quick passes which are substitutes

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Speaker 2: for the run. And Miami's seventh against the run. We

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Speaker 2: don't think about Miami having a great defense, but the

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Speaker 2: Dolphins are ninth in defense, seventh against the run, eleventh

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Speaker 2: against the pass. Texans are fifth, tenth against the run,

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Speaker 2: seventh against the pass. So really, this looks like a

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Speaker 2: battle between two top ten defenses to a ton of i.

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Speaker 2: Low has played very well, completing seventy three percent, and

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Speaker 2: he's got all those deep threats. John news Smith, who

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Speaker 2: we saw torchs the Texans every once in a while

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Speaker 2: when he was with Tennessee, has five touchdown catches. Von

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Speaker 2: Ah Chen or Devin h Chan whatever he's calling himself

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Speaker 2: any of their wide receivers, and I thought it was

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Speaker 2: unusual when I saw the Texans white outs with seven

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Speaker 2: combined seven touchdowns. That's what Miami's Whiteouts have combined four

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Speaker 2: seven touchdown passes. So I think you got to control

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Speaker 2: the ball. It's hard to get pressure on Two. It

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Speaker 2: gets through the ball quicker than anybody in the league.

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Speaker 2: But I can't see the Texans going without a sack

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Speaker 2: two games in a row because they're number two. They're

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Speaker 2: four from their all time record said last year when

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Speaker 2: he only gave up seventeen touchdown passes. So I think

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Speaker 2: they need to control the clock, try to keep Two

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Speaker 2: and his receivers on the field, use Joe Mixon as

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Speaker 2: a runner and a receiver. Throw to Nico Deep to

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Speaker 2: let them know it's going to happen, and mainly Boy

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Speaker 2: to protect Stroud from up the middle. With they got

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Speaker 2: injuries and they're still coming off their best game, but still,

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Speaker 2: if they could just give him an instant time to throw,

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Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, Johnny's keeping it a positive. I'm not necessarily

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Speaker 1: going negative here. I want to go Macro though, because

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Speaker 1: I want your thoughts and usually we would do this

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Speaker 1: later in the segment, but we got to talk about this.

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Speaker 4: We have to.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to give it energy, but we have

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Speaker 1: to acknowledge the possibility of the Colts defeating Denver on

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Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon late. Now, if that should follow what we

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Speaker 1: that would turn the pressure up to real stratospheric levels

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Speaker 1: here because the Colts have I don't want to call

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Speaker 1: it easy, but a much more palatable final three games.

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Speaker 5: It is easy the last three.

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Speaker 4: Games, Okay, go ahead and talk about it.

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Speaker 2: They play a dog schedule in which the three teams

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Speaker 2: they play out think of combined for eight wins. I

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Speaker 2: don't think they're going into Denver and win. Anything's possible,

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Speaker 2: I guess with Anthony Richardson. But the only team with

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Speaker 2: more SAX than Texans is Denver with forty seven. The

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Speaker 5: Bo Nicks is.

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Speaker 2: Playing well, so I'm thinking that that Denver will win.

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Speaker 2: But there's a good chance the Colts will win their

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Speaker 2: last three games now as possible. They blow one like

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Speaker 2: the Texans blew one to the Titans. But if both

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Speaker 2: of those teams the Texans have a three game league,

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Speaker 2: Thank goodness, they swept them, and if they could beat Miami,

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Speaker 2: you know, I think they're gonna win the division, no tiebreaker,

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Speaker 2: but boy, I'm not even considering them beating the Broncos.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all well, look, stranger things have happened. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: be there. Richardson could run wild, Yeah, to the Taylor

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Speaker 1: can go nuts. The Colts know.

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Speaker 4: This is their super Bowl right here.

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Speaker 1: They've got to knock off Denver because they have to

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Speaker 1: give They're also thinking while hard possibilities at six and seven,

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Speaker 1: as are the Dolphins, it's your playoffs for the Colts. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the playoffs as totally. And if you beat Denver, it's

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Speaker 1: not like you knock Denver out, but you're seven and

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Speaker 1: seven all of a sudden with those three games you

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Speaker 1: talked about. They have the Jags, Titans, and Giants, not

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Speaker 1: in that order, but they don't have a murderer's.

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Speaker 4: Row on the way out. So the Colts are very

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Speaker 1: But this is a big obstacle in the way going

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Speaker 1: a mile high to try to beat the Broncos.

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Speaker 2: Tell you what if a seventy two year old coach

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Speaker 5: Anything's possible, Well that is true.

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Speaker 3: I mean Kevin Garnett did say anything as possible when

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Speaker 3: he was trying to advertise for a data Anything is possible.

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Speaker 4: Let's go there, right now, Let's go there, right now.

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Speaker 4: What to Belichick? All right, all right, test conference today?

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Speaker 3: Okay, anything is possible, but there are many things that

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Speaker 3: are impossible. Belichick close to the impossible or possible at

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Speaker 2: I thought there was no way that that was going

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Speaker 2: he's gonna want their kid to come there. How many

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Speaker 2: high school kids know who Bill Belichick today is?

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Speaker 4: Today?

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Speaker 2: I think high school kids they don't care about Bill Belichick.

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Speaker 2: They know the Patriots won. At this point, them and

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Speaker 2: their parents want to get paid. And North Carolina's supposed

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Speaker 2: he wants to hire.

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Speaker 5: He didn't hire.

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Speaker 2: Mike Lombardi left and he didn't hire him back in

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Speaker 2: New England. Now he's hiring him for North Carolina. If

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Speaker 2: England who hadn't coached kids today with those offenses that

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Speaker 2: are high octane. They even have playbooks, they just look

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Speaker 2: and I hope it works out for Belichick because obviously

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Speaker 2: he wants to coach. But I'll be surprised if that

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Speaker 2: doesn't set their program back ten years. And maybe his

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Speaker 2: son when he takes over for him, will be a

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Speaker 2: great head coach. But he's only had one year away

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Speaker 2: from Daddy. That was this year with Washington. He did

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Speaker 2: a good job. If I'm Steve Belichick, I want to

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Speaker 2: do it on my own, improve myself on my own,

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Speaker 2: and not ride daddy's coattails.

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Speaker 4: Ooh ooh, okay, hotels.

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Speaker 1: What about the thought, and this was my initial thought,

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Speaker 1: that's what you're thinking here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he didn't take he didn't go to let's go

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Speaker 2: and inside the NFL and Pat McAfee to get a

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Speaker 2: agent check with them and they say, hey, we love

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Speaker 2: And it's not because he's seventy two. It's because of

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Speaker 2: My only teams showed the interest. They said Bob told

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Speaker 2: a lot of people don't like being told no. And uh,

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Speaker 2: I will I tweeted today, I start thinking about open

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Speaker 2: acts that the players get for a states that the

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Speaker 2: reporters get. Well, Bill, it says here in the Open

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Speaker 2: Records Act that you're paying this, this, this, or you

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Speaker 2: did that that that. What's he going to do?

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Speaker 1: Say on to Clemson, Yep, yeah, he probably is gonna

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Speaker 4: He probably is.

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Speaker 3: On a related note, I'm gonna read you a tweet

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Speaker 3: post x post, whatever you call it, and I want

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Speaker 3: you to on both y'aughto to chime in on this

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Speaker 3: general You go first, Former Tennessee Titans head coach. Mike Vrabel,

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Speaker 3: who's with the Browns right now, is seen as a

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Speaker 3: prime coaching candidate in the upcoming coaching cycle. The Dallas

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Speaker 3: Cowboys and the Las Vegas Raiders would be considered as

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Speaker 3: potential landing general your general gut reaction to that, Mark,

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Speaker 2: Agree when Mike Rabel is going to be a top prospect.

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Speaker 2: But usually you fire defensive coach, you go with an

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Speaker 2: offensive coach. I think the Raiders will do everything they

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Speaker 2: can to get a quarterback. They're gonna want an offensive

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Speaker 2: coach now. Mark Davis admits that his limited partner Tom Brady,

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Speaker 2: will be very involved. Brady and Vrabel are.

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Speaker 6: Very very close.

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Speaker 2: Night when we were in West Virginia watching joint practices

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Speaker 2: with the Patriots, those two were yucking it up before practice,

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Speaker 2: after practice. So maybe that's what would happen there. Cowboys

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Speaker 2: offensive Mike McCarthy. You know, Mike's a tough disciplinarian. He's

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Speaker 2: Raiders because of Brady. I don't see Mike in Jacksonville.

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Speaker 2: You know, could he go to the Jets, Sure, he

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Speaker 2: can handle the people up there. But Chicago, No, they

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Speaker 4: My reaction is, don't go to Jacksonville. Please.

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Speaker 4: Because he's a tough and that team could get a

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Speaker 2: I watched when Arizona did it. I watched every episode

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's an incredibly bad look. Your team is still.

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Speaker 1: Playing in Cleveland in the winter and you're out there

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Speaker 1: You have to understand Aaron Rodgers that the hot take

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Speaker 2: I thought it was interesting that he said everybody goes

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Speaker 4: He'll be around, though, he's still gonna do this.

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Speaker 4: So there's that. Well, here's here's the.

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Speaker 3: Thing of Rogers and watch them watch me tie this

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Speaker 4: Uh what he said.

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Speaker 3: This week about people going out on ESPN and making

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Speaker 5: Of course.

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Speaker 3: What do we make of Aaron Rodgers torching the Dolphins

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Speaker 4: How are we feeling at that point?

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Speaker 1: That's all it was gonna take a completion over the middle,

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Speaker 4: But how do we feel about that?

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Speaker 3: The fact that the Dolphins gave up three hundred and

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Speaker 4: Can they do that against CJ. Stroud?

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Speaker 2: he said, he said, two good games against the Texans

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Speaker 1: I think that General, two weeks from tonight, we will

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Speaker 1: how did it go?

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Speaker 1: The day after Christmas? How did it go? Was it Ebenezer?

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Speaker 1: Was it the Grinch? Or did Rudolph show up with

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Speaker 4: One way or another.

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Speaker 2: I think that if you guys go sit on Santa's

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Speaker 2: you want the Texans first victory over Lamar Jackson. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I cannot pick him to win that game, considering they've

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Speaker 5: But they're past defense.

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Speaker 2: They rank thirty second, They're great against the they can't

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Speaker 2: then they could do it to to a tongue of

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Speaker 2: aloa they could do it to Patrick Mahomes, and they

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Speaker 2: can't remember Texans having a tougher stretch against quarterbacks, and

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Speaker 1: But all right, here's a question for both of you.

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Speaker 1: And we asked this one. I think in Who's better

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Speaker 4: Here are your candidates. I'll eliminate Seth.

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Speaker 1: Hang on a second, yes you do. You need the Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: the Bengals, the Niners. Oh, they're six and seven. The Colts,

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Speaker 1: I'll just throw them in there because I hate them

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Speaker 1: so much. The Falcons with interception guy Kirk Cousin. All

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Speaker 1: put Dallas in there.

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Speaker 6: No way.

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Speaker 4: Too fully fully healthy.

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Speaker 1: Well, he's coming in here Sunday apparently healthy. So is

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Speaker 2: I think the dolp Bengals. It's not the Niners. They

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Speaker 2: Joe Burrow has been fantastic, and I saw a thing

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Speaker 1: Okay, I think if everybody's healthy with the Niners, that's

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Speaker 3: The Bengals have gone toe to toe with everybody. The

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Speaker 1: And on a neutral field, Dolphins Bengals.

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Speaker 3: I think Bengals, okay, but it'd be close. It'd be

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Speaker 3: The Bengals started the year losing the Patriots. They didn't

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Speaker 3: they lost to the Steelers. They've lost a ton of

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Speaker 4: I say Cincinnati. I'm with the general. Okay.

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Speaker 5: General row has been fantastic.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's he's been really good.

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Speaker 1: All right, So the Bills and Lions get together and

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Speaker 1: the Bills are ten and three coming out the loss

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Speaker 4: Were scored and the Bills, I mean they gave it up.

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Speaker 1: You got to acknowledge what happened there and the Rams

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Speaker 2: Yes they are should be high scorn, but I'm not

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Speaker 4: Good one Thursday night tonight, NFC West.

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Speaker 3: If people are paying attention, it's a big one out

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Speaker 3: General who you got.

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Speaker 2: I don't like picking against Kyle Shanahan, but watching what

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Speaker 5: I'm going with the Rams.

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Speaker 1: For those who think the Seahawks have this, and I

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Speaker 4: The way out.

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Speaker 1: This could get dicey for them. Let me ask you

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Speaker 1: about Steelers Eagles, the battle for the Keystone State in

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Speaker 1: the city of not so brotherly Love.

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Speaker 4: What do you think I think?

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Speaker 2: I read today that Steelers haven't won in Phillies and

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Speaker 2: sixty five something like that. Steelers are playing really well.

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Speaker 2: You know, Jalen Hurts is not Russell Wilson is. Both

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Speaker 2: of them can run the ball. Great.

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Speaker 5: I'm going with Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 4: We have buried the lead.

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Speaker 3: The game of the week will take place in Duval

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Speaker 3: County where the three and ten Jets. The three and

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Speaker 3: ten Jets are taking on the three and ten Jaguars. General,

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Speaker 3: I would ask you who you got who's the crew?

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Speaker 3: But how much will it take for the general to

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Speaker 3: watch this game on Sunday and give the fact that

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Speaker 3: it's being played at the same time the Texans are.

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Speaker 2: If it wasn't if the Texans had another bye week,

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't watch it.

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Speaker 5: I'm going with the Jets because they played a better game.

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Speaker 5: Even though the.

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Speaker 2: Jaguars have a one game winning streak. They beat the Titans.

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Speaker 2: Titans played great defense, Titans didn't score touchdown. How is

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Speaker 2: it Titans can come in here and jump all over

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Speaker 2: the Texans and then play the Jaguars at home. They

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Speaker 2: can't score a touchdown. It's just so aggravating. But I'm

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Speaker 2: going with a j E Tes Jets, Jets Jets.

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Speaker 5: By the way, Yeah, does.

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Speaker 2: Anybody give a damn about the thirty for thirty on

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Speaker 2: the New York Sack Exchange? I kind of Do anybody

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Speaker 2: think the Gastono far thing wasn't a setup to try

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Speaker 2: to get somebody interested in this thirty for thirty?

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Speaker 4: Am I that much of a sucker? Am I that gullible?

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Speaker 5: That a sucker? You've always been a sucker.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm gonna watch it general, just because it's

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Speaker 3: you know, NFL films thirty for thirty stuff. But when

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Speaker 3: I start hearing some of the quotes from Gastono about

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Speaker 3: a sack record, it makes me ill, like, I just wait,

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Speaker 3: You're not defined by your You shouldn't be defined by.

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Speaker 1: Do you think when you think of Gastono, do you

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Speaker 1: think of sack Exchange?

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Speaker 4: Or bring eat Nielsen more sack dance, that's sacatmore.

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Speaker 1: But general, I agree with Gastono, actually not the way

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Speaker 1: he approached that. If that is a real deal, or

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Speaker 1: even if it's a fake deal, I don't know with it,

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Speaker 1: But I don't agree with the approach, but I agree

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Speaker 1: with the overall complaint. You should never give a record

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Speaker 1: to somebody, and that's what Farv did. I agree straighthand

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Speaker 1: a record is earned. And who is the Yukon basketball

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Speaker 1: player who won? It was either the Nikeisha Sales or Sales.

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Speaker 1: And she had a bad knee and they put her

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Speaker 1: under the basket and just had her lay it up and.

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Speaker 4: I cried for that. That was awesome.

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Speaker 1: No, it was not awesome because whoever's record she broke?

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Speaker 1: Johnny I had to sit there and watch that, like, well.

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Speaker 4: My needn't blow up.

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Speaker 1: I set that record, Now you're gonna give it to her.

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Speaker 1: I don't agree with that at all. General thoughts, not.

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Speaker 2: On anybody that far might just not wanted to get

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Speaker 2: his clock clean by Stray who was bearing down on him.

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Speaker 2: There's a pass resurre named Watt who was on Pad Mac.

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Speaker 2: He's saying he said quarterbacks go down, not because they're

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Speaker 2: giving him sacks, because he's about to crush him.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, but don't I don't know if he

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Speaker 4: admitted that.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly what I guess I did that with Farv.

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Speaker 2: It is brilliant, but like a script written for WWE.

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Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna say he was a sucker, but

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Speaker 2: there's a reason P. T. Barnum said there's a sucker

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Speaker 2: born every minute.

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Speaker 1: But when they made sacks and official stat the Jets were,

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Speaker 1: were they the first celebrated?

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Speaker 3: Yes, they're back unit exactly, they were first sack united.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think there's some history here you could

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Speaker 1: talk about.

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Speaker 4: So I don't mind the thirty for thirty.

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Speaker 5: Does anybody care about the Jets? Though?

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Speaker 2: Outside the Jets, I'd rather see it thirty for thirty

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Speaker 2: on what a disaster Aaron Rodgers in this season have been.

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Speaker 5: I'm all in on that one.

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Speaker 4: You need a ten part series for that one. General

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Speaker 4: all right, So I think that's the next thing.

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Speaker 1: Though, you come up with thirty for thirty type stuff faster,

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Speaker 1: because you're right, I want to see that. I want

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Speaker 1: to see how that all went bad. I wouldn't mind

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Speaker 1: seeing at thirty for thirty. I don't know, you know

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Speaker 1: what the next thirty for thirty would be? What which

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Speaker 1: would be? Which would be a fascinating one. Antonio Brown's

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Speaker 1: meltdown How Antonio Brown went from All Pro receiver to

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Speaker 1: CTESPN or whatever he's doing now.

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Speaker 4: I think it would be.

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Speaker 3: It would be fascinating all the things that have transpired

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Speaker 3: between his days with Tomlin and then And by the way,

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Speaker 3: general speaking of Tomlin, I know he doesn't want to

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Speaker 3: do his hard knocks. He's coming out of this and

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Speaker 3: gonna come out of this looking like a superstar, solutely superstar.

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Speaker 2: Who's done a better job coaching right now than Mike Tomlin.

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Speaker 2: And the guy that should be number two is Author Smith.

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Speaker 2: The guy's calling the plays for Russell Wilson and coaching him.

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Speaker 2: Tomlin's getting all the credit and he should for sign

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Speaker 2: him and then saying these plays that we talked before.

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Speaker 2: If Arthur Smith had not signed off on this, they

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Speaker 2: wouldn't have made the move. And by the way, the

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Speaker 2: thirty for thirty that I'd like to see next to

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Speaker 2: se how the Houston Texans went from eight to five,

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Speaker 2: playing three games eleven days against powerhouse offenses and quarterbacks

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Speaker 2: and came through it and won their first Super Bowl

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Speaker 2: in their first appearance.

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Speaker 5: Hell yeah, I'm all four guys are so negative.

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Speaker 2: I'm thankful for positive.

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Speaker 4: I am for that. I'll do a five part series

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Speaker 4: on that, for sure.

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Speaker 1: All right, So I'll leave you with this question in general,

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Speaker 1: what do you think the buye does for this team?

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Speaker 1: Whatever they did the rest the self scout, of course

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Speaker 1: they didn't have days and days of working in the

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Speaker 1: office here. They took some time off, But how will

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Speaker 1: it help them as they embark on this stretch.

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Speaker 2: You hope that they come off rested and eager to

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Speaker 2: bounce back and play a consistent game from start to

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Speaker 2: finish on both sides of the ball, which we really

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Speaker 2: haven't seen yet against a good opponent. And you hope

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Speaker 2: this is it. Beat Miami like they did when Miami

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Speaker 2: was here the last time and they got pounded, and

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Speaker 2: beat Miami now like that, and then get ready for

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Speaker 2: the trip to the Chiefs, which you know would be

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Speaker 2: a close game because both of these teams play nothing

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Speaker 2: but close games.

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Speaker 1: Very good general, What do you have going on in

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans dot Com?

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Speaker 2: I have a column on the Texans defense and the

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Speaker 2: pass rush and the pressure and how great all that's been.

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Speaker 2: They've still given up more touchdown passes. Nobody's giving up

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Speaker 2: more touchdown passes. And then I'm riding one. It'll be

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Speaker 2: posted Friday. What I mentioned coming on my first football

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Speaker 2: game in Houston was a sixty three Blue Bonnet Bowl

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Speaker 2: against Baylor, and LSU are playing in the Kenders Texas Bowl.

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Speaker 5: Now, excited I am about it, but I'm going to

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Speaker 5: go to.

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Speaker 2: A little historical trip down memory lane about how little

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Speaker 2: I knew that that was the first to many football

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Speaker 2: games I was going to tend in Houston.

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Speaker 1: Kenders Texas Ball is New Year's Eve, LSU and Beckumbars

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Speaker 1: all right, and Texans Dolphins Sunday at noon. We're going

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Speaker 1: to talk with offensive line coach Chris Strasser next here

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Speaker 1: on Texans Radio. Jumping right back into the studio here

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Speaker 1: the Hundai Texans Radio Studio on Texansall Access.

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Speaker 4: John Harris and I.

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Speaker 1: We visit with assistant coaches from time to time, usually

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Speaker 1: around this time of week, and today we had a

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Speaker 1: chance to have a conversation with offensive line coach Chris

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Speaker 1: Strasser with us now in studio. Offensive line coach Chris Strasser, coach,

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Speaker 1: it's been a while.

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Speaker 4: How you doing.

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Speaker 7: I'm doing great. It has been a while. I feel

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Speaker 7: like the last time I came in here, I was

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Speaker 7: sweating a lot.

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Speaker 6: More So, I like this time of year. I like

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Speaker 6: this weather.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is football weather good?

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Speaker 3: Everybody says the football weather, it's snowing, it's all that.

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Speaker 3: It's like, no, no, no, no, it's like today it's

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Speaker 3: like forty five to fifty degrees suns out.

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Speaker 4: That's that's football weather.

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Speaker 3: Now, maybe not the offense line coaches, you guys like

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Speaker 3: a little grimy and gritty, but I would think that

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Speaker 3: weather is has been great. Coach, let's look back before

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Speaker 3: the bye, you guys played Jacksonville did a really nice job.

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Speaker 3: What did you think of the way that you guys

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Speaker 3: played against Jacksonville? How that was that five that started

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Speaker 3: that game came together and played.

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Speaker 6: I thought they competed well.

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Speaker 7: I thought the mindset was good, you know, very intent

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Speaker 7: on obviously doing a great job protecting our quarterback. I mean,

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Speaker 7: we've said it all. We feel like we got the

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Speaker 7: best guy in the league. And it's been a little

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Speaker 7: bit up and down this year, and we all acknowledge

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Speaker 7: that and have been on a mission to get better.

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Speaker 6: And you know, felt like we did that that day.

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Speaker 7: And you know, we know when we do our job

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Speaker 7: that he does his job, and so you know, felt

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Speaker 7: pretty good about that. And then obviously having a chance

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Speaker 7: to you know, seal a game with a four minute

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Speaker 7: drive and a nice run at the end of the game.

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Speaker 6: That brings a lot of joy to everybody.

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Speaker 1: Coach, you've really cut down on the pre snap stuff.

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Speaker 1: So how has that gone? What do you do to

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Speaker 1: remedy that? What have you done?

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Speaker 7: I mean, I think you know, I guess in general

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Speaker 7: over the years, we always say you get what you emphasize,

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Speaker 7: and so, you know, felt like it was something important

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Speaker 7: to us early on, but you know, as we were

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Speaker 7: putting the puzzle together, just wasn't as clean as we wanted,

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Speaker 7: and so just have made a bigger emphasis of it.

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Speaker 7: Guys have taken I would say, maybe a next level

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Speaker 7: just in pride and the fact that they know that

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Speaker 7: those are you know, really hard to win games when

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Speaker 7: you do a bunch of that, and so just tried

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Speaker 7: to step it up a little bit.

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Speaker 4: Coach, How has JP done at center? Moving back in? Started?

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Speaker 3: I think, what's seven games as a rook and then

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Speaker 3: comes back in after you know, there's some movement going

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Speaker 3: on and some injuries up front. How do you think

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Speaker 3: he's played and what do you think he's brought to

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Speaker 3: the offensive line?

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Speaker 6: He's done really well.

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Speaker 7: You know, one of the things I felt so good

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Speaker 7: about JP last year was his knowledge of just football

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Speaker 7: in general, but our offense. He did a great job

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Speaker 7: kind of mastering it. And then just the leader skip

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Speaker 7: ship skills in terms of I would say elite communication.

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Speaker 7: He's one of the best I've been around, and he's

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Speaker 7: such a young guy. It's only going to get better.

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Speaker 7: All that being said, what I feel best about what

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Speaker 7: he's doing right now, Like, I think his physical game

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Speaker 7: is caught up to where he was mentally and really

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Speaker 7: has done a nice job I think in both phases

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Speaker 7: of the game protection and run game. So, you know,

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Speaker 7: really happy with what JP's doing right now.

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Speaker 4: It seems like.

658
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 1: Every time you get something solidified, injury bug bites and

659
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: you have to reshuffle the deck. How do you go

660
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 1: about making those decisions? Because I got to think, in practice, yeah,

661
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: you're in pads sometimes, but it's hard to really tell it.

662
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 4: So you get into a game situation.

663
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 7: Right right, Well, we spend as much time as we

664
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 7: can early on in training camp moving guys around and

665
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 7: cross and really even as the season goes on, and

666
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 7: you know, we try and get guys, you know, trying

667
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 7: to have you know, four or five guys that are

668
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 7: capable of snapping the ball just in case. To your point,

669
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 7: they don't really get a ton of practice reps at

670
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 7: at this time of year. But I think, you know,

671
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 7: it's enough accumulated reps throughout when training camp started and

672
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 7: now that there's some challenges to jump into different spots.

673
00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 7: But I think guys are mentally prepared for it.

674
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 4: Coach.

675
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 3: With Joe running the football, you're different than than last year,

676
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 3: with Devin and Damien running the football majority of the time,

677
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 3: and the offensive line a lot of those you know,

678
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 3: those guys were there last year. Is it different blocking

679
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 3: for a guy like Joe because of Joe's style, the

680
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 3: fact that Joe's.

681
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 4: Going forward, There's not gonna be much.

682
00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,160
Speaker 3: Dancing, like you better get out the way you're gonna

683
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 3: get run over to Is there a difference in the

684
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,240
Speaker 3: way that you approach it and coaching it and the

685
00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 3: guys executing it because of the way Joe runs versus

686
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 3: maybe with the guys ran it last year.

687
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,000
Speaker 7: I would say really in terms of how we coach it,

688
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 7: know and how we really for the most part try

689
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 7: and block things. Know, I would say that our group

690
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 7: is very motivated by the way that Joe Mixon runs.

691
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 6: They get excited.

692
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 7: They know that if we can handle the first two levels,

693
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 7: that he's got a chance to do something being at

694
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 7: that next level.

695
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 6: And we're all aware.

696
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 7: Of the fact that not too many safeties are excited

697
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 7: about tackling him, and so I think our guys are

698
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 7: very motive motivated to get him to that safety level.

699
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 7: But really, I think, you know, in terms of the

700
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 7: technique stuff, it's the same as we did last year.

701
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 4: Offensive line coach Chris Strausser joining us.

702
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: So how do you coach everybody blocking because you have

703
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: the line the run at the end of the game

704
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: that's sealed the deal. The other day, well the other

705
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,000
Speaker 1: day against Jacksonville, the last time you were out there,

706
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: Robert Woods throws a block. So does he become an

707
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: honorary offensive lineman at that point? How do you go

708
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: about coaching that.

709
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 4: As a team?

710
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 6: Right? I mean, I think it's an emphasis.

711
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 7: Like you know, we start our training camp install talking

712
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 7: about the run game, and the very first thing we

713
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 7: say is our run game is going to be great

714
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 7: if our receivers are great in the run game. And

715
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,719
Speaker 7: our guys have taken tremendous pride in that, and nobody

716
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 7: more so than than Robert, Like what he's done for

717
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 7: us really all you know, just his leadership and all

718
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 7: this stuff. But really, as in the run game is

719
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 7: blocking is it's unbelievable. And again you talk about like

720
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 7: guys being other guys being motivated, like they see a

721
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 7: guy like that who has been an elite receiver for

722
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 7: a lot of years having that type of impact in

723
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 7: the run game. It excites everybody.

724
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 4: Coach.

725
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 3: One of the things that we talk about a lot.

726
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 3: We've talked about this with Tamiko. You get late in

727
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 3: the year, it's not all at practice time you put

728
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 3: into tackling because you just can't. I mean that's you know,

729
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 3: via the CBA, you just can't have contact all the time.

730
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 3: The linebackers, defensive front, those guys tackling and you guys

731
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 3: up front. It's the big part of what you guys do,

732
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 3: but you don't get as much opportunity to kind of

733
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 3: work on it as you would like. So with that

734
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 3: being said, how do you guys kind of work on

735
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 3: the physical aspect of stuff When you get late in

736
00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 3: the year like this.

737
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 7: It can be a real challenge, especially when you know,

738
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 7: like you said, we got to move guys around to

739
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,320
Speaker 7: different spots. But I think, you know, just the banked

740
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,399
Speaker 7: reps and like, really you think back to the off

741
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 7: season stuff and everybody like, ah, you know off season

742
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 7: and training camp and those reps are so important because

743
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 7: just what you said, we don't get the reps at

744
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 7: this time of the year, And so if guys really

745
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 7: have ingrained in them exactly what it needs to feel like,

746
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 7: then they're really in pretty good shape to show up

747
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 7: on Game D and be ready to roll.

748
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,799
Speaker 1: As the offensive line coach the line room, I know

749
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 1: there's a different ethic about the whole thing with this group,

750
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: which is the closest position group on the team with

751
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: all of football really, and I remember back in the

752
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:25,799
Speaker 1: day here, guys used to find each other for doing

753
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: interviews and fun stuff like that. Really, I think they

754
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 1: throw a party at the end of the year something.

755
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,879
Speaker 1: Is that something you let them handle? Do you kind

756
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: of guide them through those things? I mean, how do

757
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:35,319
Speaker 1: you go about that as the coach?

758
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,799
Speaker 7: I think it's different every year the two years that

759
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 7: I've been here, they've handled it pretty well. You know,

760
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 7: we've got guys in the room that like to run

761
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 7: the show. This year, Scott Quisinberry's in charge of it,

762
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,760
Speaker 7: and he does a great job and lets nothing slip

763
00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 7: at all, including myself.

764
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,880
Speaker 6: So but I've had years where I've had to.

765
00:35:54,880 --> 00:35:56,799
Speaker 7: Really kind of motivate them and remind them and keep

766
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 7: them going, and then they kind of figure it out

767
00:35:58,320 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 7: and enjoy it. And it really is It's a lot

768
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 7: of things. But one of the things is it really

769
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 7: is about accountability. And the second thing is just what

770
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 7: you mentioned in terms of like the tightness in the group,

771
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 7: Like we know that there is an element of us

772
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,439
Speaker 7: having to circle the wagons in our room, right nothing ever,

773
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 7: well very rarely is there going to be a lot

774
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 7: of stuff pointed out good that what we do it's

775
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:18,239
Speaker 7: going to be the opposite. And so we have to

776
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 7: have each other's back and trust each other and push

777
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 7: each other and hold each other accountable. But I think

778
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 7: there really is something to that room having to have tightness.

779
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:28,800
Speaker 4: I'll say a few names.

780
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 3: Coach, you just tell me your thoughts Zach Siler, Chlais Campbell,

781
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 3: the Miami Dolphins, your thoughts about facing Miami this week.

782
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 3: And one of the things I always always love to

783
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 3: ask off it's a lot of coaches. You see different

784
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,879
Speaker 3: fronts all the time. You see defensive fronts that are

785
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 3: constructed differently, Like that might be an even front, but

786
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:51,399
Speaker 3: they may have bigger guys up front. Then you know

787
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 3: what you're used to facing with even front teams, an

788
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 3: you might face not front, and then you get guys

789
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,240
Speaker 3: that look like Siler and Campbell. Your thoughts about facing

790
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 3: Miami this week? What kind of problems they present?

791
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean Calias Campbell. I can't tell you how

792
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 7: much respect I have for that guy. The length that

793
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 7: he's played, the way that he plays, what I constantly

794
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:12,879
Speaker 7: hear about him, like the impact he has on every

795
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 7: team he's on. And it's just mind bogging to me

796
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 7: to watch this guy just going out there and continually

797
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:20,279
Speaker 7: just doing his thing and making plays. Like you mentioned it,

798
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 7: I mean that this is a massive man, a long body,

799
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 7: and he knows how to use that to his advantage.

800
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:31,879
Speaker 7: And Zack Siler is playing extremely good football. He does

801
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 7: a lot of different things, but he's also a big body. Right,

802
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 7: These two guys inside, Yes, and really Campbell ends up

803
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,919
Speaker 7: playing in their sub package out on the edge quite

804
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 7: a bit as well.

805
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 6: So really impressed by those two guys.

806
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: Ye, all right, you coached a lot in college. What

807
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: do you think of the way it is now because

808
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,880
Speaker 1: it's crazy. Coach, you got the nil and you escape

809
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 1: just in time. It appears into the NFL. But now

810
00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: you're some NFL guys obviously one big name this going

811
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:02,359
Speaker 1: to college. What do you think of the college scene

812
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,359
Speaker 1: right now as you observe it from afar.

813
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:05,920
Speaker 7: Oh, I think it's wonderful. I'm so happy I'm not

814
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 7: part of it. I love to watch it. I love

815
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 7: to hear the complaints from all my friends that are

816
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 7: still doing it. I think it's you know, I think

817
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 7: it's gotten out of hand. And you know, I'm not

818
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 7: saying I don't know whose fault that is, but I

819
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 7: think they got to find a way to real this

820
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 7: thing back in And I trust me, I'm happy that

821
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 7: college kids are getting some money. I know when I

822
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 7: was there, they were getting a lot of money too.

823
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 7: I mean, I don't know what a college degree at

824
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 7: University of Washington was, but.

825
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 6: It's not cheap.

826
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 7: And they got a lot of food, and they got

827
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 7: a lot of stuff. They got a lot of money,

828
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 7: and so I think that's gotten a little bit out

829
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 7: of hand in terms of like Bill Bilischick going back,

830
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 7: I mean, I think that's awesome, I really do. I mean,

831
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 7: here's here is a just a true football coach, no nonsense.

832
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 7: He'll have someone on his staff that handles all that

833
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 7: kind of mechanics.

834
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,839
Speaker 6: But I think it's great for college football coach.

835
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 3: Do you see crossover more now than ever before of

836
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 3: something that teams are doing that well? You know that, man,

837
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 3: I've seen a lot of that in college, and now

838
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 3: it's coming to the NFL. Do you see kind of

839
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 3: more crossover now some of the fronts and schemes and

840
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 3: things that you're seeing that may have come from college

841
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 3: that you see more in the NFL. Or do you

842
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 3: still see them as you know, they're still pretty separate

843
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 3: from what they do.

844
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:18,800
Speaker 6: Let's say it.

845
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 7: You know, maybe a handful of things on the offensive

846
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 7: side of the ball. You know, of course, there's guys

847
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 7: in the game that has spent a lot of time

848
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,319
Speaker 7: in college, like I'm Cliff Kingsbury and some of these

849
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 7: guys that really spent a lot of time in college,

850
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 7: and some of that stuff shows up in the NFL.

851
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 7: But I think it, you know, just from my experience

852
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 7: being in college for twenty eight years, it really trickles

853
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 7: the other way a lot more.

854
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 1: Interesting Okay, So a couple of names I wanted to

855
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:43,720
Speaker 1: throw at you because we've talked a lot about Laramie

856
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: and Titus over the year and Shaq Mason.

857
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 4: But what about so Zach Thomas.

858
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: I see him out there sometimes and we're playing the Dolphins,

859
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna get very confused saying your name is

860
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: Zach Thomas. But this is the offensive lineman of the

861
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: Houston Texans, Zach Thomas, So give me something on him

862
00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:59,799
Speaker 1: and Blake fish are a little progress report on Blake

863
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: rookie season.

864
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:03,319
Speaker 7: Right, yeah, now, Zach were it's it was a great

865
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 7: pickup for us.

866
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 6: He's a guy that we feel like has a really

867
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 6: bright future.

868
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:09,880
Speaker 7: He's an athletic guy, ran four nine at the combine

869
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 7: that shows up on tape sometimes, which is fun to see,

870
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 7: you know. Smart guy, has great passion for the game,

871
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 7: tough guy, strong guy, all the stuff that you'd like

872
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 7: to see for really what still is a young guy

873
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 7: and so we're hoping to get a chance to get

874
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 7: him out there and play a little bit.

875
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,800
Speaker 6: And then Blake really has progressed nicely.

876
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 7: He's had the challenge of having to be the swing

877
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Speaker 7: tackle and as a rookie sometimes that's a challenge to

878
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Speaker 7: have to really try and master both spots, and a

879
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Speaker 7: lot of times the swing tackle is a more veteran

880
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 7: guy that maybe has passed his prime, but can go

881
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 7: filling in either spot. So I'm proud of Blake for,

882
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:45,839
Speaker 7: you know, really stepping up to the challenge and never

883
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 7: flinching at that coach.

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Speaker 3: This is a question I get from people all the time,

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00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 3: and you talk about Blake, and it triggered Blake being

886
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 3: a swing tackle. He's got to be able to play

887
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Speaker 3: right and left. How difficult can that be to learn

888
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,799
Speaker 3: both positions? Because if you think about footwork and hands

889
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 3: and all that kind of stuff, it's completely the opposite.

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Speaker 4: It's like working in a mirror in some sense.

891
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,920
Speaker 3: But how hard is that for a young dude in particular,

892
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Speaker 3: to learn both left and right tackle.

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Speaker 6: I think it's a real challenge.

894
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:14,759
Speaker 7: And again, like I said, you know, I'm proud of

895
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Speaker 7: the way Blake has embraced it because it's not easy.

896
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 7: He could very easily, you know, be frustrated and say

897
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Speaker 7: can I just not get good at one of these

898
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Speaker 7: and then go get good at the other.

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Speaker 6: It really is significantly different.

900
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Speaker 7: Some guys handle it better than others, yep, because they

901
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:28,359
Speaker 7: have a really good feel for.

902
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 6: The game and it doesn't phase them.

903
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 7: But there's a lot of guys that like I think

904
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Speaker 7: LT is one of the best, if not the best,

905
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Speaker 7: pass protecting left tackle in the NFL. If I went

906
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:37,840
Speaker 7: out to practice today and said, hey, you're on the

907
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Speaker 7: right side today, I'm not sure how that would look.

908
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Speaker 4: All right, coach, I've got one more for you.

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Speaker 1: This is your first time living in Houston, right, So

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Speaker 1: how do you like Houston? What do you think of

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00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 1: the city. What are your impressions. You've lived a lot

912
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Speaker 1: of places in your career.

913
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:53,240
Speaker 6: It's been great, really has been great.

914
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:56,319
Speaker 7: I would say that it's a better place to live

915
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 7: than visit, you know, because over the two years that.

916
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Speaker 6: I came here, i visited, I was like, yeah, I'm

917
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 6: not sure that this will be the spot for me.

918
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Speaker 7: But I moved here and had a chance to really

919
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,320
Speaker 7: take it in and embrace it, and it's been awesome.

920
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 6: You know.

921
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Speaker 7: The people are great. Obviously, the food's tremendous. I live

922
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Speaker 7: close to the stadium, so I don't even know what

923
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 7: the traffic is here. I don't deal with it. So

924
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Speaker 7: it's been a good place to live.

925
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is the that's the line. That's exactly it.

926
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Speaker 3: You gotta live here. You gotta live here.

927
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Speaker 4: You visit, you're like, eh, okay, no, but you live here,

928
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Speaker 4: and then you're like, oh okay, I get it now.

929
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lifestyle and if you could avoid the

930
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Speaker 1: traffic you want. Coaches, you at the lottery with that coach,

931
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Speaker 1: Thanks a love for joining us, good luck, Thank you, guys.

932
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Speaker 1: There's Chris Strasser, offensive line coach for your Texans. Now

933
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: coming up, some final thoughts on the day, some injury

934
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Speaker 1: thoughts used to methodist minutes. It's all happening here in

935
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Speaker 1: a final segment of Texans All Access. Some final thoughts

936
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Speaker 1: on the show tonight Texans All Access. Mark VanderMeer with you,

937
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:53,240
Speaker 1: and if you check out the media in Miami, here's

938
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Speaker 1: what they are talking about. The Dolphins are obviously the

939
00:42:56,920 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: road team. So the Dolphins on the road this year

940
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: lost to Green Bay, they lost at Buffalo.

941
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Speaker 4: They did get a.

942
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Speaker 1: Win at the Rams, and the Rams are just weird,

943
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 1: they're so up and down. Colts they lost there, New England,

944
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Speaker 1: they won there. They lost at Seattle. And that's it

945
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Speaker 1: for the road game so far for the Miami Dolphins.

946
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Speaker 1: Now with Tua, what is their only road win? It

947
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Speaker 1: would be at the La Rams. They lost at Buffalo

948
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Speaker 1: and they lost a home to the Cardinals in Tua's return.

949
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Speaker 1: But we've talked about it before that Tua since he's

950
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: returned fifteen touchdown passes, just one interception, and that Green

951
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 1: Bay game, what can you really learn from that? Two

952
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 1: three for over three hundred yards in that game, and

953
00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: completed eighty percent of his passes. But the Dolphins lost

954
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: and they only scored seventeen points. The weather was a

955
00:43:50,680 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: big factor in that one. Obviously, it will not be

956
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Speaker 1: a factor at NRG Stadium on Sunday. Tough matchup for

957
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Speaker 1: the Texans, no doubt about it. Tough matchup for you.

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Speaker 1: And holiday eating. How about that for a transition. It's

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Speaker 1: Houston Methodist minutes. And we started this off last week.

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Speaker 1: This is part two. Doctor Alicia Robashow talking about holiday

961
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Speaker 1: eating and I asked her about man all the available food.

962
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Speaker 1: I don't know about your office space or workspace whatever,

963
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Speaker 1: but there are goodies everywhere and you have to just

964
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Speaker 1: fend them off left and right.

965
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Speaker 4: What does she think?

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Speaker 8: I think one of the biggest things we recommend is

967
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Speaker 8: that plan to fail. And if you plan to fail

968
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Speaker 8: and you have some sort of backup plan, then at

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00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 8: least you won't fail as badly. So for me, I

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Speaker 8: normally have things like mince or jolly ranchers or jelly

971
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Speaker 8: beans that are easily accessible, that are not overly high calories,

972
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Speaker 8: and that can be used in a pinch when there's

973
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Speaker 8: cupcakes or takes or muffins or other things that are

974
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Speaker 8: going to be much more of a disaster if I

975
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Speaker 8: consume them. The other thing is candy canes are always easy,

976
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Speaker 8: and you don't have to eat twelve of them, you know,

977
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Speaker 8: So finding things that are smaller in portion and smaller

978
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Speaker 8: in calories is always is a good plan. And then

979
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Speaker 8: the other thing is if you really want something, eat

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Speaker 8: it for goodness sakes. Now you don't have to eat

981
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Speaker 8: two to three pieces of pie to enjoy it. You

982
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Speaker 8: can have a small piece and still enjoy it and

983
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Speaker 8: go for that walk or do that exercise plan we

984
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Speaker 8: talked about. But keeping food from yourself and just thinking

985
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Speaker 8: about it all day is not a pleasant process. So

986
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Speaker 8: I think the best answer is have small little portions,

987
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Speaker 8: allow yourself to fail, and if you're having a gathering

988
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Speaker 8: The best way to not over indulge and be that glutton,

989
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Speaker 8: which I agree, I'm in that group too, is to

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Speaker 8: put away the food. If you have food sitting out

991
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Speaker 8: all day long, you're gonna eat it, You're gonna graze,

992
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Speaker 8: You're gonna pick something. So if it's chips and dips

993
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Speaker 8: and high calorie foods, that's not your best choice. Leave

994
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Speaker 8: out carrots and celery and cucumbers, fruits and vegetables, things that,

995
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 8: if you are going to graze, are a better healthier choice.

996
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Speaker 8: So that if you are just kind of walking around

997
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:58,760
Speaker 8: and thinking you need to eat something, you're not eating

998
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Speaker 8: cupcakes or chips and dips, and that's always a safer

999
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Speaker 8: choice as well.

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Speaker 1: There's doctor Alisha Robashow of Houston Methodist, the official healthcare

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Speaker 1: provider of the Houston Texans, Houston Methodist leading Medicine, that's

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Speaker 1: going to do it for tonight. It's so great to

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Speaker 1: have you listening. As always. Tomorrow night, full three hour

1004
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Speaker 1: block of the program, Nick Cassio, Damiko Ryans, We're gonna

1005
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Speaker 1: rerun some other content we had this week that has

1006
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 1: been outstanding, like Kamari Lassiter. If you missed it last night,

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Speaker 1: we'll put it on the eight o'clock hour for you tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: so get ready for that, Get ready for Thursday night football,

1009
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Speaker 1: get ready for a big weekend. We want to thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening. Have a great evening, Go Texans.