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Speaker 1: Welcome in Texans radio players. Addition, I'm a little excited

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Speaker 1: today as we're celebrating another, yet another AFC South championship.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I flex on that.

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Speaker 1: Some people feel like it's not worth celebrating, but trust me,

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Speaker 1: it is so hard to win in this league. You

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Speaker 1: celebrate that. You don't want to miss this. Mark and

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Speaker 1: Johnny catching up with defensive tackle Tim Settle, one of

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Speaker 1: our faves.

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Speaker 3: Tim Settle quickly becoming one of my favorite all time Texans.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what this is, Jim. I think you

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Speaker 3: know you're making plays. You're great to visit with in studio.

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Speaker 3: We do hokey hotline too. It's all good. So since

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Speaker 3: we last caught up, more plays made and division clinched.

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Speaker 4: What's your reaction to all that?

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Speaker 5: I mean, I feel like, you know, season alone, you

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Speaker 5: know you have your upsener Downalds, but it's all about

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Speaker 5: what you do towards this part right here. It's all

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Speaker 5: about durability, who's available, you know, it's all about God

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Speaker 5: stepping up, and it's all about making plays, you know.

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Speaker 5: And I feel like we've been taking in one week

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Speaker 5: at a time and when you look back, it's like

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Speaker 5: dang Okay, but then when you look at where we're at,

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Speaker 5: you know, I feel like we achieve what we want to.

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Speaker 5: Now it's time to chief the next day.

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Speaker 4: So Tim, you guys win the division, but you you

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Speaker 4: don't know that when you're in the locker room. So

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Speaker 4: on Sunday afternoon, as the Colts and Broncos are playing,

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Speaker 4: are you watching it? Are you not watching? You're not

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Speaker 4: paying attention? You hang with family, hanging with friends. How

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Speaker 4: do you guys kind of communicate amongst one another? You

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Speaker 4: guys want a division championship?

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Speaker 6: I definitely I had a game one with my family.

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Speaker 5: You know, football is uh we prob for my family

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Speaker 5: with football, so you know, obviously you know, whatever situation,

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Speaker 5: the team, I'm on, my family's behind and.

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Speaker 6: They're just as locked in as a team.

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Speaker 5: So you know, it was good just being able to

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Speaker 5: see that, and it was just kind of it was

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Speaker 5: easy to tell we clinched it. I mean later and

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Speaker 5: later on watching that game. But yeah, you know this

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Speaker 5: is all about us now from he don't up.

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Speaker 4: Tim Settle joining us?

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Speaker 3: All right, nine defensive linemen we're active for Sunday's game.

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Speaker 3: I'm looking down, I'm thinking one, two, three, So nine

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Speaker 3: you guys rotate a lot, you play a ton obviously,

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Speaker 3: what is the ethic like among you guys, it's who

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Speaker 3: going to make the next play? Is it a sort

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Speaker 3: of internal competition push at each other to succeed?

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Speaker 4: How does that work for you?

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Speaker 5: I feel like we have a high competition in our room,

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Speaker 5: you know. Obviously we got a guy like de Jyne

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Speaker 5: Will you know Edge, you know, and we got guys

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Speaker 5: like me Rio, we got Nigo, So everything's a competition,

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Speaker 5: you know. And I feel like our coach does a

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Speaker 5: good job telling it, like who's gonna pop it off?

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Speaker 5: And you know, I feel like this is a competition

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Speaker 5: the whole time.

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Speaker 6: Like even like if if we get pressure on a quarterback.

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Speaker 5: Or if somebody get a sacking and I was winning

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Speaker 5: or something like that, it's a race at the quarterback.

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Speaker 5: So it's a big competition every day, and practice is

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Speaker 5: a big competition every week during the games.

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Speaker 4: So one of the things that Dimiko said to us

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Speaker 4: and I thought it was, I think, Nick, we're talking

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Speaker 4: about how you guys played the screens on Sunday. Because

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Speaker 4: Miami's a big screen team, they don't run it exceptionally well.

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Speaker 4: So they throw that little little slip screen to a

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Speaker 4: chan and then he goes and a lot of teams

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Speaker 4: he's had success against the lineman's run field and they're

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Speaker 4: just lazy. And then they stopped playing. You guys recognized

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Speaker 4: screen the other day and took off running, and that

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Speaker 4: seemed to be a massive focus. How did that kind

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Speaker 4: of go throughout the week because you guys were talking

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Speaker 4: about a tim and how did you guys put that

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Speaker 4: into practice in the game on Sunday.

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Speaker 5: Obviously BAM was a heavy screen team. You know, I

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Speaker 5: think they had eleven screens the game before us. You know,

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Speaker 5: that's that's fairly hot. Wow, I feel like that's more

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Speaker 5: than double the usual team. The run screens or you

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Speaker 5: don't see you don't see screens, Like that's like amount

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Speaker 5: of screens you see in like three weeks worth of playing.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Uh so we were prepping for it real well.

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Speaker 5: And you know, I feel like coaches emphasized, you know,

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Speaker 5: trust your keys, and you know they're they're they weren't

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Speaker 5: really like physical blocking, you know, they're more more blocking

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Speaker 5: for screens, perimeter runs, the position blocking, just getting in

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Speaker 5: the way. And like when I'm talking about the keys

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Speaker 5: were like like the keys were keys and like they

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Speaker 5: were keying like the keys was like everything was on.

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Speaker 5: Like we get off the rock, they don't, They're not

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Speaker 5: their screen. Yeah, it was just it was just simple

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Speaker 5: to the point where it's like the more we was

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Speaker 5: getting off the ball and the more we was feeling

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Speaker 5: their presence, the more we weren't feeling their presence's new

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Speaker 5: or something different.

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Speaker 3: How hard is it as a d lineman tim to

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Speaker 3: be physical but recognize those things and keep your head

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Speaker 3: on a swivel, be intellectual and physical at the same time,

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Speaker 3: because it's got to be tough. You have to think

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Speaker 3: quickly and act quickly and viciously.

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Speaker 5: Really yeah, well it's crazy because, uh, the line tells

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Speaker 5: you where the ball is going every time. So like

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Speaker 5: I feel like like with our defense, if you're steal

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Speaker 5: way they block, like obviously they're going to take you

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Speaker 5: to the ball.

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Speaker 2: And when you.

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Speaker 5: Got everybody playing at a high level, when everybody swarming

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Speaker 5: to the ball, like the players that people are not

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Speaker 5: supposed to make their making just because of stuff like that,

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Speaker 5: swarming to the ball, getting gods to cut back right,

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Speaker 5: getting give giving guys another chance to be able to

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Speaker 5: pursue the rock tim.

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Speaker 4: We played on basically every night possible, and now we

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Speaker 4: get to play on Saturday, which makes you feel like

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Speaker 4: college play every game on Maybe Hoki's played some on

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Speaker 4: Thursday night. You played a lot of games in college

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Speaker 4: on Saturday. And I know it's different college because you're

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Speaker 4: playing every Saturday. Now you're playing Sunday, Saturday. She got

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Speaker 4: one last day, but you are playing on a day.

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Speaker 4: That's really really cool. What are your thoughts about playing

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Speaker 4: on Saturday and then playing in Kansas City. I'm sure

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Speaker 4: you've played there before. What's it like playing in Arrowhead?

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Speaker 4: And what's it like playing on Saturday.

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Speaker 5: I love any kind of game that's under other than Sunday,

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Speaker 5: cause I feel like in the NFL is.

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Speaker 6: A prom tongue game.

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Speaker 5: You know, if people are watching, Yeah, I feel like

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Speaker 5: if somebody cut a TV on this NFL game and

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Speaker 5: you're gonna watch it, yeah, you know.

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Speaker 6: I feel like.

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Speaker 5: This like this, this game right here is this, This

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Speaker 5: is this is the next one. You know's nothing bigger

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Speaker 5: than and it's nothing bigger than the last one. It's

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Speaker 5: not nothing bigger than the next one's coming up, But

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Speaker 5: this is a hostile environment. You know, their fans are

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Speaker 5: really into him. You know, this is a really good

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Speaker 5: team that we're going against. They got an elite quarterback.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 5: I feel like their fans are They're really involved in

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Speaker 5: the defensive, especially being loud.

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Speaker 6: You know, I feel like.

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Speaker 5: They stay in the game the whole game, and they

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Speaker 5: know like this off the past, like that. They're in

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Speaker 5: the game every game. So you definitely feel that energy

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Speaker 5: from them. But that's nothing to hit some money in

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Speaker 5: them off, Tim settle with us.

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Speaker 3: Tim, you've been in the league a while, but you're

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Speaker 3: still only only twenty seven years old.

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Speaker 4: So you've talked about this a little bit before.

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Speaker 3: But you continue to rise, you continue to ascend in

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Speaker 3: your personal game.

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Speaker 4: What does that take for you? You work on that.

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Speaker 3: I know you guys are a team, you're all brothers

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Speaker 3: on the team, but you're out to improve yourself.

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Speaker 4: So how do you do that?

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Speaker 5: Well, it's crazy because I feel like I bring their

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Speaker 5: energy to this team every day. Like when I walk

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Speaker 5: in the locker room if we're practicing that day, I

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Speaker 5: got somebody blowing airhorn every morning when I walk in,

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Speaker 5: and I yell as well as I can, and everybody

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Speaker 5: know that I'm in a building, you know, And I

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Speaker 5: try to say as consistent as I can, so only

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Speaker 5: on practice days I do that. But you can ask anybody.

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Speaker 5: I'm yelling and screaming. I feel like I get things going,

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Speaker 5: you know. And another thing that, you know, this whole organization,

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Speaker 5: the state, you know, this team, my teammates and coaches.

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Speaker 6: I honestly feel like they believe in me.

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Speaker 5: And when you got somebody that's that bleeds in you

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Speaker 5: and in every behind you, this guy is a limit,

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Speaker 5: you know that. And I I'm not even looking at

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Speaker 5: what I'm doing, you know, I'm just living in a moment,

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Speaker 5: you know. Uh. I definitely look at myself as one

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Speaker 5: of the best defensive line inside in the league, you know.

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Speaker 5: And I feel like everybody's behind me when I when

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Speaker 5: I say that, when I wrap and when I talk

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Speaker 5: my trash, I feel like everybody's like, okay, yeah, And

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Speaker 5: I'm not hesitant to back it up. I don't like

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Speaker 5: talking a lot of trash, but y'all gonna know about me.

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Speaker 5: Y'all gonna feel me every week, no matter what, no

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Speaker 5: matter how it is. If I gotta take on a

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Speaker 5: double team for sixty players, I don't mind doing that

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Speaker 5: right if you go out, if you're going one on

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Speaker 5: one block me, I'm embarrass you if you if y'all

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Speaker 5: want to do it and you run the ball to me,

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna make the play like if you run away

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Speaker 5: from him and try to get to you. But I mean,

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Speaker 5: but it's all about this, the this, this the energy

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Speaker 6: The whole organization, you know.

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Speaker 5: I just I feel the presence of like, you know,

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Speaker 5: like what you're gonna do today, Like how you going,

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Speaker 5: how you coming about it?

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Speaker 6: And I love that.

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Speaker 5: I'm up for the competition, and it's I'm taking this

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Speaker 5: game personal, this game personal to me.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's got to be my beliefs and me and

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Speaker 4: so that makes me feel good to Tim. So that's

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Speaker 4: that's how I get my best talking on the mic

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Speaker 4: with that. For sure. Kent's city pretty good. On the interior,

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Speaker 4: They've been around, They've seen some things. Have you faced

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Speaker 4: this combination of what they have inside and how difficult

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Speaker 4: a task is it for you guys? Tim with especially

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Speaker 4: there are three guys inside.

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Speaker 5: Last year I've played against him when I was in

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Speaker 5: Buffalo and I was in past face. Yeah, I got

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Speaker 5: a couple quarterback hits. All right, a quarterback here, I

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Speaker 5: didn't play that much. Yeah, but this inside knows on you,

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Speaker 5: and they know that. I know that, they know you're

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Speaker 5: looking forward that challenge. I'm going at anybody, anybody. I

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Speaker 5: don't care if you if you're getting paid eighteen million,

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Speaker 5: I don't care if you your contract year. I don't

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Speaker 5: care if you just gotta pull it up what you're

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Speaker 5: gonna do, because when I'm past, come on, So when

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Speaker 5: you look at the film, right and I'm not worried

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Speaker 5: about what nothing I gotta do. They gotta they gotta

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Speaker 5: block me, they gotta block us. It's true, all right.

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Speaker 3: Right, chunky soup hot takes here. So tell me Christmas?

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Speaker 3: You're playing on Christmas after the Chiefs game. You have

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Speaker 4: How do you handle this?

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Speaker 6: I'm pretty much knocking all the Christmas stuff out now.

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Speaker 6: It's my first Christmas game.

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Speaker 5: Y'all might see me dress up as saying, you might

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Speaker 4: Okay. So Christmas dinner, Christmas dinner. What one thing do

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Speaker 5: So when I was a Virgidach, we put any camera

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Speaker 5: I walked in there. I had a bag of gifts.

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Speaker 6: I like that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Tim, it's always great to visit with you.

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Speaker 1: That's Mark and Johnny with Tim Settle. Quick time out

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio. This is Player's edition. Don't touch that dial.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back Texans Radio Players Edition. I am indeed he

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Speaker 1: is Mark john on the other side of me and

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Speaker 4: Doing great?

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Speaker 3: And I don't think that an AFC South Championship is

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Speaker 4: Always go back to the preseason predictions. You know, I

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Speaker 4: healthy when you go into the playoffs and we'll see

437
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Speaker 4: who you play. The thing about it was and I

438
00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:07,040
Speaker 4: was driving today and Indy, I was thinking about this

439
00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:10,639
Speaker 4: live in Houston for a long time. The teams that

440
00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:18,400
Speaker 4: are in are in the playoffs Kansas City, Buffalo, Baltimore, Pittsburgh.

441
00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:22,600
Speaker 4: The City of Houston has like bad moments in all

442
00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:26,240
Speaker 4: four of those in the playoffs. Throw Denver in there

443
00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:29,720
Speaker 4: with the moments with John Elway back in the early nineties.

444
00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:33,119
Speaker 4: Like the city of Houston has bad moments where with

445
00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:37,159
Speaker 4: all of those in a playoff situation. So bring them

446
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Speaker 4: all on. It doesn't matter. You got to you gotta somehow,

447
00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,159
Speaker 4: you know, get over the hump against you know, and

448
00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:46,360
Speaker 4: put those things in the rear view because you're probably

449
00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:48,560
Speaker 4: at some point you take care of business here at

450
00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:50,320
Speaker 4: the wild card round, you're gonna go to one of

451
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Speaker 4: those places where you lost a twenty four to nine

452
00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:56,520
Speaker 4: in lead. The former Houston team that was here in

453
00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:59,080
Speaker 4: the Houston fans suffered too thirty five to three of

454
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Speaker 4: a comeback. You know, you lost two AFC championships up

455
00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:05,760
Speaker 4: in Pittsburgh. The only time is this City has ever

456
00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:10,720
Speaker 4: had your AFC championship visits. Baltimore has been a house

457
00:19:10,760 --> 00:19:12,480
Speaker 4: of horrors for us in the playoffs for how many

458
00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:14,640
Speaker 4: every years? And the division games we lost there?

459
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Speaker 2: How many?

460
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Speaker 6: What?

461
00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:17,840
Speaker 4: How many division games we lost there? Eleven in this

462
00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:18,360
Speaker 4: past year?

463
00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:18,639
Speaker 2: Just two?

464
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Speaker 6: Yeah?

465
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Speaker 4: Two?

466
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Speaker 3: But that's it's too too many significant because you've only

467
00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:25,040
Speaker 3: been five times, right, So two of the five there too,

468
00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:29,199
Speaker 3: another two of the five at New England and then

469
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Speaker 3: where's the other one again? Because New England twice, Baltimore twice.

470
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Speaker 4: Kansas City? Am I You know?

471
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Speaker 3: That's that shows you that's a mental block right there.

472
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Speaker 3: It's a total mental that is called PTSD. And I've

473
00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:46,000
Speaker 3: locked out that chiefs twenty four to nothing. You just

474
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Speaker 3: mentioned it and I forgot it.

475
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Speaker 4: I mean the last time that I was on the

476
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Speaker 4: sidelines for a game in Kansas City that well, I

477
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Speaker 4: mean I was up in the stands for the COVID game. Oh,

478
00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:57,760
Speaker 4: the COVID game. Yeah you were. Last time I was

479
00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:00,399
Speaker 4: down on the sidelines was that playoff game. You couldn't

480
00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:01,960
Speaker 4: be on the sideline for the COVID game. Could be

481
00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:03,600
Speaker 4: on the sideline for the COVID guy comes on the

482
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Speaker 4: sideline was for this, for this, the playoff game in

483
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Speaker 4: twenty nineteen.

484
00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,000
Speaker 3: Gosh, we were so stupid with COVID, but you know,

485
00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:10,320
Speaker 3: nobody knew and whatever.

486
00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,040
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah it's all over. But it's just like going

487
00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:16,400
Speaker 4: walking around Arrowhead, walking around the field. It's gonna be like, oh,

488
00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:19,200
Speaker 4: this is weird. Last time we were here was that game,

489
00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:22,040
Speaker 4: and you know it's the organizations are different. They have

490
00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:25,440
Speaker 4: three championships. Since we have sort of righted the ship

491
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Speaker 4: and hopefully we're moving towards championships. But I still think

492
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Speaker 4: I think this is going to be I just like

493
00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:36,280
Speaker 4: this matchup on on Saturday. I just I like it.

494
00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:39,640
Speaker 4: I just like going and like, all right, let's measuring

495
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Speaker 4: stick this thing. Let's see where we are facing a

496
00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:45,040
Speaker 4: really really good defense. We don't know about my homes

497
00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:47,280
Speaker 4: have no idea what whether he's gonna play or not,

498
00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:49,320
Speaker 4: or how they're gonna look at it. But they need

499
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Speaker 4: to gain. They need to win two or three to

500
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Speaker 4: maintain that one season. They're up against it. Yeah, they're

501
00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,919
Speaker 4: up against it. Andy, how much is that buy important

502
00:20:56,359 --> 00:21:00,000
Speaker 4: for the playoffs? Back when when you were playing the first,

503
00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,560
Speaker 4: first and second team, got it? Now? You used to

504
00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:04,080
Speaker 4: have the first, the teina fishes first. How important is

505
00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:05,520
Speaker 4: that by going into the playoffs.

506
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Speaker 2: It depends on the injuries.

507
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Speaker 1: You know, you brought up Kansas City and with Mahomes

508
00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:11,880
Speaker 1: having that high ankle spring. I had that, and those

509
00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,000
Speaker 1: take a long time. I mean, sometimes it's better to

510
00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:17,400
Speaker 1: break your ankle than to have a high ankles. That's

511
00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,159
Speaker 1: what the doctor told me when I suffered mine, you know,

512
00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:22,679
Speaker 1: back in my playing day. So I say that to

513
00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:25,280
Speaker 1: say Kansas City would definitely want to have that first

514
00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:26,440
Speaker 1: round by to give him that.

515
00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:28,120
Speaker 2: Expers if he's truly suffering.

516
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Speaker 1: I will say this, when there's a team that maybe

517
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Speaker 1: doesn't start off fast and they're fighting to get in

518
00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:36,480
Speaker 1: the playoffs, then they have that nice run of five

519
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,960
Speaker 1: or six games, they don't like that buy because they

520
00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:39,880
Speaker 1: want to keep that momentum.

521
00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:41,639
Speaker 2: They want to keep the momentum going. Even the players.

522
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Speaker 1: I've been in a situation where we weren't upset that

523
00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:46,440
Speaker 1: we had a bye, but we're like, man, we sure

524
00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,359
Speaker 1: wouldn't mind playing the next week and keep this thing moving.

525
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Speaker 1: So I really believe it depends on what you're suffering,

526
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Speaker 1: what your team suffering, who has certain injuries, and whether

527
00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,840
Speaker 1: or not they could come back, but it's always good

528
00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:00,879
Speaker 1: to get that rest that late in the season. Ultimately,

529
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Speaker 1: the ninety percent of the players will say, yes, I

530
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Speaker 1: will take I will take that by Yeah.

531
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Speaker 3: You know, I got to get a Houston Methodist minutes

532
00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:10,080
Speaker 3: on high ankle sprains because doctor David Shaw was on

533
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Speaker 3: serious XMNFL radio and he was talking about Mahomes injury,

534
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:15,840
Speaker 3: and he said, sometimes, you know, you sprain your ankle

535
00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 3: a lot, and it just the ligaments are so stretched

536
00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:21,159
Speaker 3: out already. It kind of comes back quick, but you're

537
00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,399
Speaker 3: gonna sprain it again, but it comes back quick. And

538
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,480
Speaker 3: people who have played basketball and done this a lot,

539
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:26,760
Speaker 3: I think can relate to that.

540
00:22:27,119 --> 00:22:28,439
Speaker 4: And he talked about Steph Curry.

541
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Speaker 3: Steph Curry sprained both ankles a ton of times and

542
00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 3: he still does it, but then it kind of comes

543
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,199
Speaker 3: back fast, which is a weird thing. I wouldn't think

544
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Speaker 3: that would be the case. But as long as you

545
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:42,600
Speaker 3: don't rip or tear anything. Look, I'm not a doctor

546
00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 3: I play with on the radio, but there was something

547
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Speaker 3: to that he thought. And we saw Mahomes and what

548
00:22:48,160 --> 00:22:49,840
Speaker 3: was a twenty twenty two win, a Super Bowl and

549
00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:52,280
Speaker 3: a bad ankle? Yeah, yeah, yeah, he was still out

550
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,600
Speaker 3: running guys and clearly hobbling along, So I don't put

551
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Speaker 3: it past him to play, to be effective, to do anything. However,

552
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:03,560
Speaker 3: if I with them, I would I know they're chasing

553
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:07,320
Speaker 3: the one seat, Johnny, but without Mahomes, what are you know?

554
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:08,240
Speaker 4: Can you risk it.

555
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,920
Speaker 3: As long as you don't risk further injury. I guess

556
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 3: you could play them, but if you're risking having them

557
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 3: out for the postseason, you cannot afford that risk.

558
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Speaker 4: That's how I feel.

559
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Speaker 3: If I'm achieved, Carson Wentz, Baby, he can hurt Carson Wentz.

560
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Speaker 4: I mean, it was it last year, two years ago.

561
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Speaker 4: It was two years ago when Mahomes hurt that ankle

562
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Speaker 4: and Chad Hanny had to go in the game, and

563
00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:33,320
Speaker 4: Chad Hanny made place for them. Yeah, I don't know

564
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 4: that trust Carson Wentz to make place for them. But

565
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Speaker 4: if I'm the Chiefs, just me. It's not because I

566
00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:42,200
Speaker 4: don't really want to face Mahomes. I love watching games

567
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,000
Speaker 4: with Mahomes. I just don't like when he beats us.

568
00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,159
Speaker 4: He's just that good the things that he does. I

569
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Speaker 4: remember twenty two when we played him here, but stand

570
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Speaker 4: in the back of the end zone because we had

571
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Speaker 4: pinned him down deep. They were in the back of

572
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Speaker 4: the end zone and he makes a throw on the

573
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Speaker 4: right side. He kind of got pushed out to the

574
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Speaker 4: right side and he's literally parallel to the ground and

575
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Speaker 4: he's firing at forty five yards down the field for

576
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Speaker 4: a completion.

577
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Speaker 2: I'm like, that.

578
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Speaker 4: Dude's not human. But I think it would behoove Kansas

579
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Speaker 4: City to get Carson Wentz some reps just in case. Yes, absolutely,

580
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 4: just in case. Chad Henny was the kind of guy

581
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 4: you could throw in there, and Chad Henny was like

582
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,080
Speaker 4: he was ready at any time. It was like he's

583
00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:22,439
Speaker 4: like he's a relief pitcher and he's got that rubber arm.

584
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 4: It's just like, just go to him anytime. He's fine,

585
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:25,439
Speaker 4: he's got the right demeanor.

586
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Speaker 6: He's good.

587
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Speaker 4: I don't think Wentz is that way. I think Wentz

588
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 4: needs to have some reps.

589
00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 2: Now.

590
00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 4: Nick Foles is that way. Nick Foles is that way,

591
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Speaker 4: not Wetz. Yeah, not Wentz. If I were them, I'd

592
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Speaker 4: get Wentz. I'd get Wentz some reps. I kind of

593
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 4: feel like he's got some juice though.

594
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Speaker 3: Nd if they have him, I trust that organization and

595
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 3: making the right decisions. Unfortunately, if they have him, I

596
00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:46,159
Speaker 3: think he's got something left, but I don't know.

597
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Speaker 1: I'll say this, when you look at the Chiefs, and

598
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,200
Speaker 1: obviously Patrick Mahomes, he's one of those players you don't

599
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,600
Speaker 1: just that watch because he shows his magic in other ways.

600
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 1: But the last four games he only threw for over

601
00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,960
Speaker 1: three hundred yards once, so again not taking anything away

602
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Speaker 1: from him. So my point is this has been team victories.

603
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:07,280
Speaker 1: That point alone makes me, if I'm on the Kansas

604
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 1: City side from their point of view, want to say,

605
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Speaker 1: you know what, let's throw Carson Wentz in there. Let's

606
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Speaker 1: give him a whole week of practice and see if

607
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: we can still win games where we don't have you

608
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 1: know this fantastic stat line from the quarterback position. I

609
00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 1: would do it. And then obviously you're the big benefit.

610
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,439
Speaker 1: You're giving Patrick Mahomes another week of rest. But again

611
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Speaker 1: this is from the Kansas City point of view. Could

612
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Speaker 1: you imagine if you rest Mahomes and somehow he go

613
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 1: out a victory with Carson Wentz and against the Houston

614
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Speaker 1: sext This is.

615
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Speaker 4: What I don't want to see that that.

616
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Speaker 1: Would be great for Kansas City and obviously a tough

617
00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:41,440
Speaker 1: flaws for the Houston Texas.

618
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Speaker 4: So I kind of have this. I don't know, maybe

619
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Speaker 4: it's it's kind of weird, weird football illness. I have

620
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 4: a hard time looking at a unit or a team

621
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Speaker 4: or a player that for a long time was not

622
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:57,880
Speaker 4: real good and then accepting the fact that, oh, yeah,

623
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:00,640
Speaker 4: that dude, that team, that unit is really really good.

624
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,119
Speaker 4: And that's the Kansas City defense. For me, like, I

625
00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 4: look over at the Kansas City defense and I and

626
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 4: for years I was like, you know, Mahomes was kind

627
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 4: of pulling them by the bootstraps. But then Spags comes

628
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,240
Speaker 4: along and he's changing the picture on quarterbacks, He's doing

629
00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,159
Speaker 4: different things. It's taken me a long time to really

630
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 4: accept the fact that, and maybe Kansas City too, this

631
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:26,439
Speaker 4: team is driven by his defense. Absolutely, that defense is

632
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 4: phenomenal all three levels. Bold's incredible at inside linebacker, Justin

633
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 4: is playing really well at safety. McDuffie I loved McDuffie

634
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 4: coming out. He's a Bosco kid, he went to Washington.

635
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 4: I loved him. And Chris Jones is like he's tearing

636
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,840
Speaker 4: it up because he lines up pretty much anywhere and

637
00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 4: everywhere on the field and you have to count for

638
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 4: him wherever wherever he goes, and if he lines up

639
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 4: inside against us, We've had struggles against guys that are

640
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,439
Speaker 4: really really good on the interior. But it's taken me

641
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 4: kind of a long time to really accept, Yeah, that's

642
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:02,000
Speaker 4: a legit top five defense and that that defense is

643
00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:06,159
Speaker 4: really carrying that team. And there are some people that

644
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 4: would say that about this this team. You know, the

645
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 4: offense has been kind of you know, fits and starts,

646
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 4: but that defense with Will and d'aneil on the outside

647
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 4: and the guys that they play on the edge, the

648
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 4: guys in the interior I think have been better. I've

649
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,399
Speaker 4: seen so many mock drafts they keep giving us interior

650
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 4: defensive tackles and I'm like, I don't know, aren't defensive

651
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:27,119
Speaker 4: tackles played really well this year? Really really well. The

652
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 4: linebackers Christian was really good the other day. Now he's back.

653
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 4: When you get his e's back in a couple of games,

654
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Speaker 4: holy count. Now you've got talent and depth and speed

655
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 4: bullocks coming along at safety, like really well, like they're

656
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:42,679
Speaker 4: very very similar teams in that the offense kind of

657
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 4: you know, but the Chiefs have done that in playoff games.

658
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:51,439
Speaker 4: They've done that in those big key situations, and I

659
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 4: think this one Saturday is a big key situation for

660
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 4: this offense to see how responds against Chris Jones and

661
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 4: those guys. But it's just taking me a long time.

662
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,080
Speaker 4: Y'all have that where you watch something for so long

663
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 4: and you're like, nah, nah, it's not true, that's not true.

664
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Speaker 4: But then you like, yeah, this moment of like like,

665
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,160
Speaker 4: oh yeah, that defense is really that good.

666
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Speaker 1: You guys have that absolutely because of the way they've

667
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 1: played in the past. And you still think Patrick Mahomes,

668
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: you know, you still want to credit the offense. You

669
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Speaker 1: still want to credit that off of that awesome quarterback.

670
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: But you're absolutely right. When you watch the games, throw

671
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,520
Speaker 1: the stats out all three levels of that defense. You're saying, wow,

672
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,400
Speaker 1: did you see that play? Wow did you see that play?

673
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:27,680
Speaker 4: Yeah?

674
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Speaker 3: Well, Buffalo, right, how's the defense now compared to the

675
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 3: way it used to be? It is good, right, right,

676
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 3: But they're scoring a lot of points. They scored over

677
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 3: forty and that lost to the Rams. So everyone's really

678
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 3: high on Buffalo right now. But you know in the

679
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 3: postseason you have to stop some people too, and you

680
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 3: go cold for a couple of possessions in the second

681
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 3: half and all of a sudden row, we're gonna lose

682
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,960
Speaker 3: again at home, right, and it could happen. You know,

683
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 3: I don't is there any team in this league that

684
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Speaker 3: has you fully, fully believing in them in the postseason.

685
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 4: The Chiefs have the track record.

686
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 3: They've won the big games home and road now after

687
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Speaker 3: last year, and you have faith, I guess, or confidence

688
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:13,480
Speaker 3: in their ability to get it done. Buffalo, all right, fine,

689
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 3: but I don't know until I see it. Detroit, they're

690
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 3: losing guys left and right. I'm not so sure about

691
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 3: Detroit anymore. Philly is not even sneaky hot. They're just hot. Yeah, right,

692
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 3: Philly's the closest, and they got arguments on the sideline.

693
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 3: And the coach is despised by the fan. And I

694
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:30,080
Speaker 3: shouldn't say despised, but a lot of fans don't like

695
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 3: the coach and maybe the player.

696
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:32,080
Speaker 4: I don't know how they feel.

697
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 3: But the thing is they're winning games, and they have

698
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 3: the longest winning streaking franchise history going right now the Vikings.

699
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 3: But do you really believe in the postseason that they

700
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 3: can't flame out just like anybody else.

701
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 4: That's the beauty of one and done.

702
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,640
Speaker 3: It's like the NCAA tournament, you get a really great team,

703
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 3: but you get to the regional final or the Sweet

704
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 3: six team, all of a sudden boom, they're out, and

705
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 3: now you've got a different team replacing them. Here we

706
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:55,959
Speaker 3: go last year Buffalo, Hey, we got the Chiefs at home.

707
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 3: We're gonna be good. Now, Nope, you're not. And what

708
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 3: are the media? What does everybody call Buffalo one man show?

709
00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 3: Josh Allen greatest show on Earth. He's unbelievable. He could

710
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 3: make every kind of play imaginable. Yet they're not stopping

711
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 3: people right now. We'll see how that goes. And Detroit

712
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 3: is a tough team to stop. Rams are a tough

713
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 3: team to stop, I get it, but they're gonna have

714
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 3: to stop people in the playoffs.

715
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Speaker 4: You're a team that I would I would throw in

716
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,840
Speaker 4: that mix from way outside. Okay, I don't think anybody's

717
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,400
Speaker 4: considering him right now, but it's one of the hottest

718
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 4: teams in the league, and they've got enough defensive pieces

719
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 4: when they're all healthy. And that's the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

720
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 4: The Bucks could be. They could be a son of

721
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 4: a buck because if Mike's healthy and Baker's throwing the

722
00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 4: ball the way that he is, and the defense is

723
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 4: really starting to rise up. They went to running back.

724
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 4: The running backs are incredible, between Bucky Irving and Rashad White.

725
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 4: I mean those two, that's a one to two punch.

726
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 3: That that that hurts Yet yet Johnny, they have not

727
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 3: clinched day, not even no. And it's it's tough because

728
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 3: Atlanta winning on Monday night.

729
00:30:58,680 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 4: So what does Atlanta have left?

730
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 2: You know?

731
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 3: This is, by the way, I've complained about the scheduling

732
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,640
Speaker 3: glitch that does not have the Texans playing the Colts late.

733
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 3: I know the Colts are done now, but the Texans

734
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 3: should have a date with the Colts in the final

735
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 3: three games. Work it out somehow, give us the last

736
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 3: one again, because that would have been cool. As far

737
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 3: as the division goes, you have some possible drama in

738
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 3: the division. Believe me, I'm glad it's wrapped up right now.

739
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 3: But the Falcons do not play the Buccaneers. I could

740
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 3: have told you coming in it's the Bucks and the

741
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 3: Falcons for the division. I picked the Bucks, and I

742
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 3: think you did too, Johnny. A lot of people were

743
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 3: high in Atlanta, but I said, hey, don't sleep on

744
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 3: the Bucks. They have a one game lead, but they

745
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 3: lost the tiebreaker because they got swept. So the Falcons

746
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 3: have the Giants, Commanders and Panthers. Okay, I feel confident

747
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,479
Speaker 3: two out of three of those, and the Commanders will

748
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 3: see if they need that one. In week seventeen, let's

749
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 3: go to the Buccaneers situation, as they have to stay ahead.

750
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 3: They cannot end up at a tie. They've got the

751
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,280
Speaker 3: Cowboys on the road. You never know, that could be

752
00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 3: really tough. Panthers are okay, they've beaten people, but it's

753
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 3: the Panthers. You got them at home and you get

754
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 3: the Saints at home. So if they get through this

755
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:04,200
Speaker 3: Cowboy game, you feel pretty good about the Bucks. But again,

756
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 3: it's the NFL. Weird things happen all the time.

757
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: And we talked about the three big leagues, you know

758
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: in American sports. I think what we're discussing is why

759
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 1: the NFL is still so popular. Were this late in

760
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: the season and you have no idea who who's going

761
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: to even get to the Super Bowl where? And this

762
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: isn't a shot against the other leagues. But in the NBA,

763
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,479
Speaker 1: yes it is a shot. It's all about the NFL.

764
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 1: But in the NBA, this late in the season, and

765
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: they're starting to have a little bit more parody than

766
00:32:30,520 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 1: we've seen in the past. If you had four guesses,

767
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: you would feel confident that you're going to guess two

768
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: of the teams that are going to be in the

769
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 1: NBA Championship. I feel right now, if I guessed NFC,

770
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: AFC and I was able to choose two teams from

771
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: each conference, I wouldn't be surprised if I was wrong

772
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: on all four picks. You know, if you said that

773
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: my top two right now NFC teams, my top two

774
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 1: AFC teams, I wouldn't be surprised if neither one of

775
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 1: those four teams actually makes the Super Bowl because of

776
00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 1: the payer.

777
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Speaker 4: You go, oh for four, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, and

778
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 4: I hope I'm not absolutely. I feel like I'm like,

779
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 4: you know, could you see a scenario where the Broncos

780
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 4: found a way to the FC Championship game and played

781
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 4: I'm gonna throw up, yeah, I mean, but that's my point.

782
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 4: It's like, could you see it? Yeah? You could. You

783
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 4: can make a case for that. Broncos are playing pretty well,

784
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 4: they get a couple of upset wins, and away you go.

785
00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 4: Then there's that other side of You're like, nah, you

786
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 4: know Shock's gonna prevail. It's got it's got to just

787
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 4: look at this team, look at Lamar. I mean, the

788
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 4: most dangerous team might be the five seed.

789
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:35,080
Speaker 3: If that's the Baltimore Ravens, because they've got Lamar Jackson.

790
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 4: But yet that team has been flawed all year long.

791
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 4: So I'm with you. I mean, I've thought about, like, Okay,

792
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 4: who who could I see think NFC?

793
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: So we don't you know, we're not bias for our

794
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 1: a Like if we said Detroit and Philly, like that

795
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: would be my top two NFC team.

796
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 3: But I feel competent one of those teams is making

797
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:59,360
Speaker 3: it to the Super Bowl, to the NFC Championship, and I'm.

798
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: Saying, like one of the wouldn't be over surprised.

799
00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 3: The thing is is they might not be the number

800
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 3: one seed, right Minnesota might knock off Detroit in a

801
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 3: finale by Detroit, Philly might get knocked off, and all

802
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 3: of a sudden, you got a fifteen to two Minnesota

803
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 3: team who is the number one seed.

804
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 4: And I promise you I do not believe in them

805
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 4: more than I believe in Detroit two years ago.

806
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 3: You know how many would they have thirteen wins with Cousins,

807
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 3: and they lost to the Giants in the in that building,

808
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 3: in that building, which is hillatious. It's a tough place

809
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 3: to play. So I'll bring it back to now. Demiko

810
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 3: Ryans nd year two wins the division again back to

811
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,760
Speaker 3: back to start his Texans head coaching career.

812
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 4: This is great stuff.

813
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 3: We are living in the Demico Ryans era, and I

814
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,879
Speaker 3: think that if he gets this team where we all

815
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 3: wanted to go, I think he can do it. And

816
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 3: when he does it, he'll be the most beloved head

817
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 3: coach in the history of this city and replace some

818
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 3: really high profile iconic figures. But you know, we still

819
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 3: have some work to do here. I just think what

820
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 3: I thought when they hired him. He's the right guy.

821
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,759
Speaker 3: So far, so very good. I know this is not

822
00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 3: a perfect football team right now, don't get me wrong,

823
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 3: but I'm excited not only for this postseason, but for

824
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 3: the entire future of the organization with Demiko Ryans as

825
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 3: the head coach.

826
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: And you're excited, and mainly because we didn't have to

827
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 1: wait when they first hired Demiko. I remember a bunch

828
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 1: of us former players who played with Demiko. We're all

829
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 1: sitting around and said, Okay, let's be realistic. Even though

830
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,200
Speaker 1: he's our guy, even though we love him, he's probably

831
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 1: going to be year three, you know, before they win

832
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 1: AFCN style, before they win the division. Like that was

833
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 1: an actual conversation. And now in his first two years,

834
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,320
Speaker 1: he's won it two years in a row. So the

835
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: thought of super Bowl, super Bowl, but just imagine, with

836
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: the type of player that he was for the Houston Texas,

837
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: the type of person he is off the field, if

838
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,359
Speaker 1: he can get this team to the super Bowl. I mean,

839
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,800
Speaker 1: we've had some great head coaches, we added some great

840
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 1: general managers here, but bum Phillips, you know all coach kobiek,

841
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 1: they're all taking a back seat to Dimiko, putting the

842
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:58,879
Speaker 1: cart way ahead of the horse. Right now, we still

843
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 1: got a win it this year and winning the first

844
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 1: playoff game to get to the next one. But he's

845
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:07,919
Speaker 1: bringing that excitement back to the city. There wouldn't be

846
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 1: anyone surprised with how great this defense is playing this

847
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:13,720
Speaker 1: year bringing it back to this year. If CJ. Stroud

848
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: picks up and has some c. J. Stroud type games

849
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: and you have a nice run in the playoffs like that,

850
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: that's my hope where this offense is consistent, the defense

851
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: stays with the way they've been playing this season, and

852
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:27,480
Speaker 1: we just see an explosion of the offense in the playoffs.

853
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: That's when things get real exciting. All right, quick time out.

854
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to continue this talk.

855
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: Talk a little Texan offense and what needs to be

856
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 1: done to win these games. Coming up, Welcome back, Texans

857
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 1: Radio Players Edition. Johnny, you have some interesting takes on

858
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,359
Speaker 1: that great Baltimore raven team that won it all.

859
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 4: I thought about this a lot. I remember Brian Billick

860
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 4: saying this. Every year NFL Network would do the America's

861
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 4: Game for teams that won the championship, and when they

862
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 4: did the two thousand Ravens, I remember Brian Billick saying this.

863
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 4: Billick could come from Minnesota where they had all kinds

864
00:36:57,320 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 4: of you know, high flying offense. A ninety eight team

865
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 4: he was off coordinator for. That team won a lot

866
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 4: of points. This team right now is winning with its

867
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 4: with its defense. And I'm not sure really the right

868
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,840
Speaker 4: way to ask this, but because it's winning with his

869
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 4: defense and the offense is kind of slugging through some

870
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 4: do you think that this team is perceived as not

871
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 4: doing what it should have been doing, Like the expectations

872
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 4: are so high for this team, and then they lost

873
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 4: Diggs and now that obviously was a big one. Lost

874
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 4: Brevin Jordan, who I saw today. It was great to

875
00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 4: see Brev. Do you think it's perceived differently if they

876
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:34,439
Speaker 4: win with defense first and the offense is just we're

877
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 4: gonna take advantage of what the defense gives us, and

878
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 4: kind of the way we've been playing lately. Do you

879
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 4: think it's perceived differently if the defense is the dominant

880
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,839
Speaker 4: unit and not the offense like it's kind of been

881
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 4: this year.

882
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: The casual fan and I'm not saying casual and derogatory

883
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 1: manner that they want to see the points. And then

884
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 1: on top of that, with CJ. Stroud being the offensive

885
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 1: rookie of the year, having the great year that he

886
00:37:57,360 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: had last year, and I still think he's having a

887
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 1: very good year. I think just what you said, the

888
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:05,439
Speaker 1: casual fans like, oh, we're winning, but it's not pretty. Yeah,

889
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: you know, we're not seeing the big stats. We're not

890
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: seeing the thirty forty points. But it's the NFL. Take

891
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:13,520
Speaker 1: a win however you can get it. I don't care

892
00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 1: who you're playing. I don't care what the score is.

893
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 1: If it ends in a dub A W, then you

894
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: move on to the next week. If you look. I

895
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: know it's not the case now, but I came up

896
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 1: in an era where you win championships on defense and

897
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: the running game. I still feel like you can win

898
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,480
Speaker 1: that way. So yes, it's being perceived like, oh, what's

899
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:32,919
Speaker 1: wrong with the Texas. You know what's going on. We're

900
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: so focused on what appears to be the weakness of

901
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: the offense that people aren't remembering and reminding themselves how

902
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: tough it is to win in this league. And you've

903
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:45,879
Speaker 1: are They've sewed up the AFC South with three games

904
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:48,840
Speaker 1: ago or two games ago, sorry, three games ago, So

905
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,480
Speaker 1: with three games to go, like that's big. Yeah, And

906
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:53,440
Speaker 1: I understand you can say, oh, well, the rest of

907
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 1: the teams aren't playing well whatever, that's the division that

908
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 1: you're in. With three games to go, you can literally

909
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: I know he won't do it, but he could go

910
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: on preseason mode and just say, hey, we don't care

911
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,880
Speaker 1: where we play in the first week of the playoffs.

912
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna rest guys, and you have three weeks to

913
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 1: make those decisions.

914
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:14,799
Speaker 3: That's big, yeah, and I think, yeah, the perception, Yeah, well,

915
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 3: three NFL weeks or whatever, however they fall because next

916
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 3: week is going to be four days, four days.

917
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 4: Because that's what Billock's point was. He was like the

918
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 4: two thousand Ravens. There was a stretch into two thousand

919
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:28,400
Speaker 4: season for the Ravens where they didn't score a touchdown

920
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 4: for five weeks. They did not score an offensive touchdown

921
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 4: for five five weeks, but they were winning, right, was

922
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 4: that after they replaced Banks or before, well, that was

923
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 4: in the midst of They then replaced Banks with Dilfer

924
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 4: and they were scoring some points with Banks, but they

925
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 4: were throwing picks too, right, and then the scoring stopped.

926
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 4: Then they eventually went to dilferd then won another game

927
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:51,320
Speaker 4: or two with not scoring offensive touchdown, and then eventually

928
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 4: the offense started to kind of fight itself a little bit.

929
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 4: And I just remember Billick saying, you know, when you

930
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 4: win with defense, it's you're perceived as kind of thug

931
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 4: and not as not as good as the other teams

932
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 4: that have come before you, because the fans want to

933
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 4: see the points, they want to see the sexinessts, and

934
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 4: it's like, I don't care about sexyists, just you know,

935
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 4: give me the w yes, you know. And that's obviously

936
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,720
Speaker 4: what the Ravens got to with Ray Lewis and that defense.

937
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 4: And look, I'm not saying the Texan defenses of the

938
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 4: two thousand Ravens caliber, that's a Hall of Fame defense

939
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 4: of all time. But I'm saying that's the way the

940
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,439
Speaker 4: Texans are winning games right now. That's how they won

941
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 4: that game the other day against the Dolphins. Now, could

942
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 4: they have if the offense picked it up a little

943
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:34,799
Speaker 4: bit and the defense wasn't as sharp, I don't know.

944
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 4: But the defense that I saw on that and I

945
00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 4: watched it on again on film on Monday night, Holy snap.

946
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 4: Those guys were flying to the football, flying to the football.

947
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,399
Speaker 4: It was as fast as on defense as I've seen

948
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,000
Speaker 4: since I've been here. It's amazing.

949
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,319
Speaker 3: It feels like in all these games, not all, but

950
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 3: a lot of the games that they've won or lost

951
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,760
Speaker 3: where the offense hasn't had the point total that they want,

952
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,839
Speaker 3: Like they had the drop on Sunday that could again

953
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 3: a touchdown would have changed everything, right. They had this

954
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 3: situation at Detroit where CJ just couldn't get anything on

955
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 3: the ball, or didn't whatever. It couldn't find Tank Dell.

956
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 3: That would have made a huge difference in that game

957
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:11,960
Speaker 3: would have been a win. And you have more second

958
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,439
Speaker 3: half points and stuff like that. So there's a lot

959
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:15,239
Speaker 3: to consider here.

960
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 1: I also think my last thought on this that there's

961
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: this feel that playing great defense isn't as sustainable as

962
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:24,399
Speaker 1: playing great offense. Like there's just this feel that even

963
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: if you have a great defense, there's gonna be those

964
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 1: games where you give up thirty forty points, and that's

965
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:30,200
Speaker 1: what makes people nervous.

966
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:31,719
Speaker 2: That's just my thought.

967
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 1: That's just like, that's why when you're winning with defense,

968
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: it's like everyone's waiting to have that week where you

969
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,280
Speaker 1: don't hold your team, you don't hold the opponents are twenty,

970
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: you know, or something.

971
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:41,919
Speaker 3: But there's also and we'll keep it going here, because

972
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 3: there's also those games where the offense does explode. Like

973
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 3: if this offense can catch I'm not even talking about,

974
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 3: you know, spontaneously combust in a positive way.

975
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 4: I'm just talking about catch a little bit of fire.

976
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 3: All Right, they got the pilot light on, they got

977
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 3: they got the stove on, but like you know, put

978
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,919
Speaker 3: on a couple of more burn you know, and get

979
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:04,840
Speaker 3: it going. Just up the point total five to seven

980
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 3: points per get, which is a lot, I know, but

981
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 3: over the course of two three weeks, that's not a ton.

982
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:11,120
Speaker 3: So let's see if they can do that. Make some

983
00:42:11,239 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 3: improvements here, get to the postseason and c J. Stroud

984
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 3: is still CJ Stroud. I was really encouraged by the

985
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,760
Speaker 3: way he played. I think we all were on Sunday

986
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 3: after some rest. Gotta protect them. We all know the

987
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 3: same things we've been saying all year long. I just

988
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 3: don't know. This is a mystery to me.

989
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 4: Why.

990
00:42:29,440 --> 00:42:32,320
Speaker 3: Never mind the passing game, the running game with Mixing

991
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,879
Speaker 3: is either feast or famine, and it's not Mixing's fault.

992
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 3: I just think that sometimes, hey, it's not there today.

993
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 3: I guess we're not running the ball today. It's strange

994
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 3: and it's tough to take for them. I know they

995
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 3: feel this way. They got to figure out a way

996
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 3: to get him some lanes because you don't need to

997
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 3: give them much daylight, and Mixing is gonna be able

998
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 3: to take advantage of it. And I'm not talking about

999
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 3: you don't have to rush for one hundred and twenty

1000
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:55,879
Speaker 3: five yards a game, seventy eighty yards would be big

1001
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 3: if it's those sustained runs by your running backs and

1002
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,439
Speaker 3: you're getting get done that way. I know they mixed

1003
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 3: in the tank Dell fifteen yard carry, and obviously Dary's

1004
00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 3: number has figured into the rushing total the other day,

1005
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 3: But I'm talking.

1006
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 4: About eighty to one hundred yards.

1007
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 3: By the backs traditionally, and then add whatever you can

1008
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 3: add and maybe that's enough to get it going well.

1009
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:16,520
Speaker 4: This is one thing I want to bring Indian discussion

1010
00:43:16,719 --> 00:43:19,319
Speaker 4: is the old line changes, moving Titus over to left

1011
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 4: guard and moving Blake fish Share out to right tackle.

1012
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 4: And I think it was Dre who mentioned this. You know,

1013
00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 4: you got two things going on. You're moving a guy

1014
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 4: from tackle to guard. Then you're moving him from the

1015
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 4: right side to the left side. So you got a

1016
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 4: couple of things going on with Titus making that move,

1017
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 4: and then Blake steps in it right tackle where he's

1018
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 4: comfortable where he played at Notre Dame the majority of

1019
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 4: his career at right tackle. I feel like that's the

1020
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,839
Speaker 4: best combination you could have right now with Juice being

1021
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 4: banged up still, that's the best combination that you can

1022
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 4: have with Titus moving in. I feel like if you

1023
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:52,840
Speaker 4: give that a week or two to kind of gel

1024
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 4: I think you might have something there to just let

1025
00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 4: that group. I thought Titus was I guard, thought he

1026
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 4: held his own. There were a couple of times where

1027
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 4: they ran some stunts that once on in particular, that

1028
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 4: kind of continues to give the Texans some issues. But

1029
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 4: I feel like if you let that group kind of

1030
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 4: continue on, then I think there's a chance that you

1031
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,439
Speaker 4: could run the ball a little bit more consistently. Andy,

1032
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 4: would you think about that oli configuration and whether you

1033
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 4: like that going forward.

1034
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 1: I like it if you continue and you get consistency

1035
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 1: out of it. More so for Blake Fisher, because look,

1036
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 1: I'm not saying anything about guard play, and I'm never

1037
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 1: going to use the word easy. Yeah, but it's easier

1038
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:35,399
Speaker 1: to play guard than it is tackled. So I think

1039
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: Titus Howard bumping, especially a guy like Titus Howard who's

1040
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:41,359
Speaker 1: very versatile, you know, he's played multiple positions for him

1041
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: to go from tackle to guard where you have that

1042
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:45,400
Speaker 1: help on both sides of you, yeah, and you're not

1043
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: on that island. I think that's easier than throwing in

1044
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 1: a rookie to go at tackle and start playing on

1045
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:52,760
Speaker 1: an island against some of these edge rushers.

1046
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,360
Speaker 2: So if they're able to give him multiple weeks.

1047
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:57,839
Speaker 1: In a row getting used to the speed getting beat,

1048
00:44:58,080 --> 00:44:59,959
Speaker 1: you know, and figuring out how he's going to adapt

1049
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:01,799
Speaker 1: to getting beat, I think it could be.

1050
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:03,800
Speaker 2: Good as you get deeper into the playoffs.

1051
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 4: And then you face different rushers like he faced Chop

1052
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,719
Speaker 4: Robinson the other day, and Chop is a blur like

1053
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 4: off the edge, she's as quick as anybody have studied

1054
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 4: the last four or five years in the draft. But

1055
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 4: then he might face a mena who this week and

1056
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 4: a mana who can touch you from where I am.

1057
00:45:18,719 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 4: He's got size fifty five inch arms, So now you

1058
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:23,480
Speaker 4: got to deal with a guy with length, So how

1059
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 4: do you handle that? Then he faced Klay's Campbell a

1060
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 4: little bit the other day six eight, three ten. You

1061
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 4: know who's got length and size and power. So I

1062
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 4: think that's also part of it too, is when you're

1063
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:38,479
Speaker 4: out of tackle, you're gonna face those guys. You're gonna

1064
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 4: face any you know, there are five different styles of

1065
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:44,239
Speaker 4: rushers you could possibly have out there, and how do

1066
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:45,120
Speaker 4: you attack all that?

1067
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:45,719
Speaker 6: You know?

1068
00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:48,479
Speaker 4: Do you anchor against some? You know, Jackson Carmen learned

1069
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 4: that Jackson Carmen's playing right tackle. I know you saw

1070
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:54,800
Speaker 4: this on the sack that d Neil Hunter has. Jackson

1071
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 4: Carmen tries to jump set him, which I'm like, no, no, no,

1072
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 4: no, no no. Daniel spun on him inside and it's a

1073
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:05,239
Speaker 4: six spin move. I mean he's spun on him inside

1074
00:46:05,400 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 4: and then spun and then work back out so he

1075
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 4: could get contained on two and two is like, what

1076
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:12,479
Speaker 4: do I do? And so that's the kind of thing

1077
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 4: that as a young like Carmen found out he didn't

1078
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:18,120
Speaker 4: play right tackle much. He found that out. Daniel worked him,

1079
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Speaker 4: absolutely worked him. It didn't have to be that way.

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Speaker 4: So Blake, he's got to learn some of those lessons.

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Speaker 4: And going against Chopp was tough because of the speed.

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Speaker 4: Now he's gonna see a man who's gonna see Carl

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Speaker 4: Loftus who's got a lot of power. Chris Jones might

1084
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Speaker 4: pop out there, you never know. So just seeing different

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00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:36,399
Speaker 4: styles of rushers I think is going to be really

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Speaker 4: good for him to get adapted, to adapt to that

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Speaker 4: going forward. But I liked what I saw it. You know,

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Speaker 4: for the most part in that game, there were a

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Speaker 4: couple of things at the end that you kind of

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Speaker 4: feel like, all right, you know, if he had more

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Speaker 4: reps throughout the year when he had a little bit

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Speaker 4: better time with Chopp. But CHOP's good. CHOP's gonna put

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Speaker 4: a lot of people in the blender pretty soon.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: He's not gonna might see Chris Jones. He will see

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Speaker 1: Chris Jones, trust me. Chris Jones is going to Decornerd saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: put me on the young guy.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: As always, we appreciate you being part of the show. Tonight.

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access Players Edition, Go Texans.