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Speaker 1: Happy Friday. Everybody, Welcome into Texans All Access. I say

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Speaker 1: Friday because it's hard to imagine it's Friday. It feels

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Speaker 1: so much like a Thursday. It has not felt like

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Speaker 1: a Friday, even though we are playing on Monday. So

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Speaker 1: Friday is supposed to feel like a Thursday because we're

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Speaker 1: playing on Monday when we regularly play on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: You got all that. That's a Mark Vanmer special.

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Speaker 3: There, and now you know why I do it, Johnny,

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Speaker 3: and today it's really hitting us hard, hard, but it's

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Speaker 3: just us. Everybody else is like, dude, it's Friday. I'm

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Speaker 3: pumped up for the weekend. Okay, I've got the Cougars tonight,

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Speaker 3: I've got the Aggies Tomorrow. Longharms are playing somebody right,

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Speaker 3: but they have tip. Oh they have you tip. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's right, they have you Tip. I was actually offered

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Speaker 3: tickets by my buddy and sorry I can't go, but

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Speaker 3: appreciate the offer. Thank you. No, I mean they're playing

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Speaker 3: you tap and I've got things and whatever. I know

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Speaker 3: I would be here tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Canell. We forget practice. That's why I keep forgetting. You're

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Speaker 1: coming in tomorrow.

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Speaker 4: Van.

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Speaker 1: I'm interviewing to meek. Saturday is a Friday exactly.

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Speaker 3: It's our regular Friday, so we're working tomorrow. But it's

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Speaker 3: fun because it's week two. And Matt Burke, who's gonna

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Speaker 3: be on later, talked about this with us. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 3: nice to have the extra day, but we kind of

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Speaker 3: want to play just to get the taste out of

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Speaker 3: our mouths. That's the hardest. I think we all feel

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Speaker 3: that way. You want to get a dubbed so badly.

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Speaker 3: I wish it was Jacksonville because they deliver so well

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Speaker 3: so often. And as I say this next week, they're

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Speaker 3: probably gonna use it as bulletin board material. But it's

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Speaker 3: the Buccketeers. Got to find a way to get it, Johnny.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no question. You got to find a way

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Speaker 1: to get it on Monday night. And again we said

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Speaker 1: this at the beginning of the week. We would say

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Speaker 1: this in every show, every time that we could remind

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Speaker 1: you of six pm, Monday night, we're going to so

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Speaker 1: a wear white after Labor Day, which apparently is some

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Speaker 1: sort of fashion faux po which I never understood. It's

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Speaker 1: in the North, it's Texas. It's fine. You could do whatever,

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Speaker 1: wear white, wear white and be in your seat by

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Speaker 1: five forty five. Yeah, that'd be nice. Be the difference

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Speaker 1: in the game. Oh, I like that, be the be

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Speaker 1: the difference.

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Speaker 3: Sohnny, you just came up with our marketing slogan together,

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Speaker 3: the difference. Be the difference. You can make a difference,

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Speaker 3: you can use I'll let you use it. Thank you.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go upstairs and tell me Frolman, who's also

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Speaker 3: going to be on the show tonight, YEP, that we

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Speaker 3: have come up with a great slogan, be the difference,

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Speaker 3: because it does mean a lot to the guys, and

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Speaker 3: they do have a tremendous show plan for you around

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Speaker 3: the game. And I still feel like I joked about

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Speaker 3: it earlier this week, people are going to open up

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Speaker 3: their app at three o'clock. Oh my gosh, the games

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Speaker 3: at seven. But yeah, that's no joke because a lot

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Speaker 3: of people, not everybody and certainly not the listeners of

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Speaker 3: this program, because you're all die hard fans, but a

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Speaker 3: lot of people come to the games. A certain percentage.

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Speaker 3: They're not following it inch by inch the way we

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Speaker 3: are and the way a lot of the die hards are.

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Speaker 3: They're like, yeah, I'd like to go to the game

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Speaker 3: somebody gave me tickets, or I bought tickets or whatever.

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Speaker 2: It's a night game.

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Speaker 3: It's Monday Night football that starts at seven twenty seven something.

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Speaker 3: I'll just show up at seven something. No, you won't

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Speaker 3: because it'll be halftime. Let's get there at five forty five.

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Speaker 1: Yes, forty five, and just make sure it's six o'clock.

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Speaker 1: There are probably a few people on the radio crew

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Speaker 1: we need to talk to about six o'clock kickoff.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, you're right. I just thought of that.

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Speaker 1: Wait what we probably need to remind some people like, hey,

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Speaker 1: six o'clock Monday night.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I thought it was seven six a clock.

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Speaker 3: What's one that I football doing at six o'clock? Who

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Speaker 3: am I? Who am I imitating?

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Speaker 1: What is Monday night football doing at six o'clock?

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Speaker 5: Get off my lawn?

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Speaker 2: Exact.

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Speaker 1: It's a double header with the Chargers and the Raiders,

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Speaker 1: but we get the good Monday Night crew. In fact,

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Speaker 1: when I drove in this morning, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: many trucks are out there Mark ten, Well, I don't

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Speaker 3: This game, I feel like Amazon brings more because they

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Speaker 3: have money to burn. Yeah, Amazon, Eh, what is it?

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Speaker 3: What's another three hundred grand for another truck and a

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Speaker 3: full crew exactly? So what listen, I know what these

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Speaker 3: it's this the production I'm going to estimate this, Johnny,

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Speaker 3: between Joe Buck and Troykman, who are a huge percentage

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Speaker 3: of this. And who's doing the sideline? Is it Lisa

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Speaker 3: Salters or Monday Night? I think it's Lisa.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Lisa.

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Speaker 3: What is Aaron Andrews these days? She's a shot Fox.

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Speaker 3: He's on sure Fox. Anyway, I still look at Joe

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Speaker 3: Buck and I think Fox. It's he's so well branded.

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Speaker 3: I think the baseball too. That's why I think about Joe.

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Speaker 1: I think about him doing baseball, so I think about

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Speaker 1: I think about the Fox aspect of that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, of course, But anyway, I think the production bill

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Speaker 3: on a game like this is at least five million,

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Speaker 3: five million to produce Monday Night Football Man, So that

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Speaker 3: shows you how important it is to the Disney people. Now,

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Speaker 3: the Amazon people, I'm sure they are somewhat concerned with

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Speaker 3: profitability for this, but especially the first year. They're like,

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Speaker 3: let's just spend what it takes and we'll figure it

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Speaker 3: out later.

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Speaker 2: They've got better games.

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Speaker 1: Last night's game, oh it was Commander's Packers was a

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Speaker 1: good It was a very entertaining game. And obviously there's

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Speaker 1: some there's some Texans' eyes that wanted to see what

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Speaker 1: a certain left tackle was going to do last night

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Speaker 1: for the Washington Commanders, and then he satisfied all those

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Speaker 1: don't want to overreact to one game, because that's one

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Speaker 1: thing I preach against all the time. You never overreact

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Speaker 1: to one game. But they played two games now again

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Speaker 1: both of them are at home. But the Packers defense

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Speaker 1: is on a different level. And I know when you

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Speaker 1: had Michael Parsons that should happen, but he sometimes the

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Speaker 1: right piece gets dropped in the right defense and all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, all the pieces now fit perfectly. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's what Parsons has done for them, is

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Speaker 1: that now the piece is off, they're not asking Rashaun

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Speaker 1: Lucas Vans and then there's Parsons and Laraimy did not

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Speaker 1: have a great game, which was kind of interesting to watch.

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Speaker 1: I don't want I don't want it to be that.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to root against Laramie. Laramie was was

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Speaker 2: Larimer, I don't want to do that.

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Speaker 1: But you know, for those people, especially up in Washington,

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Speaker 1: I find it interesting. Sean was talking about this morning

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Speaker 1: that as soon as Laramie had to false start and

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Speaker 1: couple of Washington DC radio hosts.

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Speaker 3: Oh really, yeah, Oh is this why you traded him?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I heard him say that this morning and I

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Speaker 2: was driving. I just trom off the road laughing.

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Speaker 1: So I was like, yeah, that's that's that's what happens

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Speaker 1: like yesterday, yesterday, or day before Buffalo Bill signed Cam Johnston.

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Speaker 3: Yes they did. Yeah, I noticed that.

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Speaker 1: And so I got a text from Sall like, hey man,

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Speaker 1: what can you tell me about Cam? And I was like,

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Speaker 1: love Cam. You guys will love Cam. He he bombs

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Speaker 1: it like hits it. I mean that guy is in

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Speaker 1: a good athlete. I remember him being I think his

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Speaker 1: them all that and so so I was like, oh man, great, okay, cool.

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Speaker 1: And it's like, you know, you share notes, you know,

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Speaker 1: round the league. So the radio sharing notes last night

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Speaker 1: I thought was was pretty interesting. But the Packers didn't

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Speaker 1: lose Jayden Reid. They're Jaden Reid, not our Jaden Reid.

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be out for if not the season, for

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Speaker 1: a while for a while. But they've got plenty I

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Speaker 1: think of receiving weapons. Stucker Craft played really well. I

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Speaker 3: Going to be a tough out and the Washington's got

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Speaker 3: some injury issues Austin Eckler Keeley's and slow down on

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Speaker 3: the Jade and Daniels sophomore slump thing, all right, because

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Speaker 3: we know how that feels here. Yeah, let things play

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Speaker 3: our chests out about anything after another point offensive output

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Speaker 3: in the last game. And it is weird that the

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Speaker 3: entire league will play before we see the Texans again

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Speaker 3: on Monday Night, except for the Chargers and the Raiders.

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Speaker 3: It is kind of a weird phenomenon. But that's what

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's what happens when we'll play on Monday night.

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Speaker 1: The last time that we played on Monday night here

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Speaker 1: in this building. In fact, I went back and I

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Speaker 1: was I started in the silence at twenty fourteen. I

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Speaker 1: remember when you first brought me along. I remember you

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Speaker 1: saying to me, this is a really cool job. You

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Speaker 1: night football and all. And I was like, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I had already processed all that, but it was like

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Speaker 1: hearing you say it was like, really really cool. Been

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Speaker 1: on the sidelines for twenty seven games since twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 1: twenty seven night games. Twenty seven twenty seven night game

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Speaker 2: It sounds like a lot.

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Speaker 1: But over the course of this is you know, my

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Speaker 1: twelfth year, so a couple of years.

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Speaker 2: Oh kind of makes sense.

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Speaker 1: For a while, we always had a Thursday game, and

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Speaker 1: then there were years where we had three or four

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Speaker 1: you know, night games over that stretch from twenty fourteen

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Speaker 1: home were away? Favorite night favorite night game home were

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Speaker 1: Away that entire stretch. My favorite night game was probably

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Speaker 1: at the Bengals in twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, ten to six victory when they were when we

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Speaker 3: were left for dead and they were undefeated. That is

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Speaker 3: an unforgettable game. That is absolutely the Bob McNair tribute game,

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Speaker 3: you know, is my favorite call with the Lamar Miller

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Speaker 3: ninety seven yard touchdown run and that night was magical

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Speaker 3: honoring mister McNair. But I think my favorite one, the

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Speaker 3: one I'll remember forty years from now, when I'm thirty

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Speaker 3: years from now, the one I'll remember is that Cincinnati game.

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Speaker 3: I think. I think the game itself, I always remember

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Speaker 3: that McNair moment forever, but the game itself that up

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Speaker 3: against it, the season's over. Oh wait a minute, no,

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Speaker 3: it's not. Because we held the Bengals to six points

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Speaker 3: in their building. They were undefeated at the time.

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Speaker 2: You know, the night game that we tend to forget.

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Speaker 3: three things to watch in this one. You mentioned Beata Vea,

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, the more I've thought about this offensive line, mark

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Speaker 1: Two years ago, they didn't move him at all, and

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Speaker 2: And then they had a lot of success throwing it.

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Speaker 3: the Falcons that kept going. Robinson at great game catching

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Speaker 3: what you were gonna say, But that's really important trying

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Speaker 3: If he's able to run around, he can really hurt you.

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Speaker 1: And what I worry about with Baker and especially quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: do that at all. Develop him the well and you

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Speaker 2: I've slowing him now.

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Speaker 3: Will and Danil got to set the edge do their thing.

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Speaker 1: My third thing is essentially the edge protection. The two tackles,

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Speaker 1: He made great throws, he made accurate throws. Give him

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Speaker 3: I've got an honorable mention thing to watch. I think

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Speaker 3: it's very important third down offense and it's related to

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Speaker 3: least fifty percent in this game on third downs. Quick game.

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Speaker 3: Whoever's available to catch a pass, please do it quickly

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Speaker 1: Can I do another honorable mention on top of that,

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Speaker 1: The kick return game has got to be much better.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Mattress Firm, sleeper of the game. Mattress Firm, the

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Speaker 5: Who do you have?

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Speaker 1: Well as we got we got on a plane on Sunday,

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Speaker 3: of the ball. That's your game preview Texans and Bucks Monday,

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Speaker 3: and I don't forget six pm early start time and

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Speaker 2: Coming up next defensive coordinator Matt.

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Speaker 1: graduate of Brown University. And I say that because our

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Speaker 1: next guest is not and he thinks his Ivy League

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Speaker 1: university is better than mine. I'll let him have it

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Speaker 1: because he's a defensive coordinator and a good friend of ours,

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Speaker 1: and that is Matt Burke. Coach Sat down with us

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Speaker 1: in studio today and gave us his thoughts about week

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Speaker 1: one to week two what he's seen from Henry TOA

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Speaker 1: toa in this game against the Buccaneers.

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Speaker 3: Defensive coordinator Matt Burke joining us in the hun Day

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Speaker 3: Texans Radio studio. Coach, Welcome to the New Digs.

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Speaker 5: Thanks you man, This is this is impressive in here.

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Speaker 5: You guys are upgrading.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know you feel like we didn't invite

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Speaker 3: you in here soon enough, but it's only week two, so.

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Speaker 5: Here you are.

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Speaker 2: We did watch you last week and you had things.

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Speaker 5: To do, appear save your big guns.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, what's it like having an extra day to prepare

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Speaker 3: and it's only week two, but you could use the

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Speaker 3: extra day following the opening day full game of activity

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Speaker 3: because you had preseason training camp, preseason games. But the

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Speaker 3: guys don't play a full game.

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Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, no, sure, And you know everyone always says

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Speaker 7: like the biggest leap in the seasons between week one

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Speaker 7: and week two. You know, you kind of finally put

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Speaker 7: it out there, played a full game, seeing kind of

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Speaker 7: what it is, and then you know, hopefully making big

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Speaker 7: big steps as you kind of move forward into the

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Speaker 7: rest of the season. So have an extra day to

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Speaker 7: kind of work through some of that stuff and things

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Speaker 7: that popped up. You know, on the flip side of it,

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Speaker 7: it can get you know, you're chomping at the bit,

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Speaker 7: especially after a tough loss to get back out there

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Speaker 7: and you want to kind of get get it, get

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Speaker 7: a chance to get it going again. So a little

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Speaker 7: double sided coin there, but nice to have the opportunity

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Speaker 7: to really like work through everything and and and be

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Speaker 7: focused on on some of the stuff we need to

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Speaker 7: get better at.

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Speaker 2: Coach, how much do you take out of two years

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Speaker 2: ago facing them?

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Speaker 1: I you know, I know it's a different offensive coordinator,

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Speaker 1: so a new guy calling things. It's game two, but

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Speaker 1: not the same offensive personnel. In a sense, how much

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Speaker 1: can you take out of a game from a couple of.

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Speaker 7: A little bit, you know, a little I wouldn't say

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Speaker 7: a ton. You know, there's some carryover from scheme, carry

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Speaker 7: out from some personnel. So I mean, I think there's

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Speaker 7: just it's you know, we look at stuff like that.

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Speaker 7: I feel like it's informational as much as anything of

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Speaker 7: just like okay, hey little reminder, Oh maybe that's something

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Speaker 7: that you know, they like that worked against us, or

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Speaker 7: something that we like that worked against them or you know,

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Speaker 7: I don't know that again with there were two play

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Speaker 7: callers past that, right, and again some different personnel on

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Speaker 7: both sides of the ball. So uh but you know

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Speaker 7: I said this, I think last week, you know, when

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Speaker 7: we're preparing week one and you have all that information

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Speaker 7: from the year before, history of those things, like, you know,

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Speaker 7: there's a fine line between information overload and but just

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Speaker 7: like having some awareness. So I think like as we

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Speaker 7: dig into trying to gather as much information and be

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Speaker 7: as uh, you know, make this game as predictable as

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Speaker 7: we can in whatever sense that is that you know,

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Speaker 7: you try to take in all those things for sure.

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Speaker 3: How do you handle the look team because whoever was

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Speaker 3: imitating Matthew Stafford last week, okay, good, now you have

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Speaker 3: to be Baker Mayfield, so you have another acting job

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Speaker 3: to do. How do you handle all that code?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think those are like there's again another fine

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Speaker 7: line of just not being too silly with it and

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Speaker 7: trying to like be too specific and just you know,

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Speaker 7: our guys understanding sort of the types of plays that

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Speaker 7: we're going to see and the looks that we're gonna get,

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Speaker 7: and you know, our our coaches and scouts do a

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Speaker 7: great job. Scout team guys do a great job of

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Speaker 7: trying to give us, you know, the proper looks and

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Speaker 7: you know you're never gonna be perfect on mannerisms or style,

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Speaker 7: and especially you know those two guys that are like

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Speaker 7: such great off schedule quarterbacks and you know, no look

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Speaker 7: throws and those sort of things. That's that's hard to

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Speaker 7: really like accurately depict some of that stuff. But as

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Speaker 7: long as the structure things are right and our defense

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Speaker 7: is seeing the looks that they need to see, I

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Speaker 7: think that's what we're trying to get done.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned earlier, coach, from week one to week two,

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Speaker 1: that's usually where the biggest change or leap is made.

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Speaker 1: If there's one thing that you wanted to see with

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Speaker 1: your defense, absolutely, without question, no doubt, this happens moving

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Speaker 1: forward into week two.

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Speaker 2: What would you want it to be?

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Speaker 7: I think it's the same that we've been preaching. Is

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Speaker 7: the precision, you know. I think we have a very

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Speaker 7: talented defense. I do, and I think our separation is

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Speaker 7: just the precision of the fine lines of like can

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Speaker 7: we be on our details? Like I would be highly

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Speaker 7: surprised if anyone questions, our effort in our physicality and

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Speaker 7: the style that we play. Now it's like, okay, can

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Speaker 7: you for sixty plays, seventy plays, whatever the number is,

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Speaker 7: can you focus and be on it, like on your

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Speaker 7: details to the finest extreme for the whole game, and like,

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Speaker 7: let's see what that looks like. So I think that's

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Speaker 7: been really the messaging of just okay, let's just knock

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Speaker 7: out these however many plays. That is, you know, again,

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Speaker 7: you can play great for fifty plays, but if there's

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Speaker 7: eight ten plays that you're a little bit off on

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Speaker 7: something or maybe that's the play right. And again, you

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Speaker 7: know last week was an NFL game. Those are two

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Speaker 7: good teams that are playing against each other in a

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Speaker 7: good environment. It's the same this week. Right, We're gonna

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Speaker 7: have a good team coming in here on Monday night football,

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Speaker 7: Like those five or six plays can be the difference.

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Speaker 7: So like, can we can we lock in and be

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Speaker 7: focused on the details of your responsibility and your job

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Speaker 7: for that whole stretch and then see what that looks like.

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Speaker 3: How hard is that to coach? Though? Do you have

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Speaker 3: them do that part? Because it's the Lawrence Taylor Craze

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Speaker 3: Dogs thing. You want them to be like that. You

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Speaker 3: mentioned you want them to be precise as well. There

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Speaker 3: is a fine line. How do they handle that?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think, I just I think you can be both,

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Speaker 5: you know what I mean.

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Speaker 7: We never want to take you know, we talk about

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Speaker 7: we don't want to put seatbelts on the guys like

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Speaker 7: we want to play with the seatbelts off and flying.

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Speaker 7: I mean, that's our style and that's our brand of football.

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Speaker 7: But can you do it, you know, in the proper

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Speaker 7: leverage or can you do it with the eyes in

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Speaker 7: the right place and not? Again, we don't feel like

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Speaker 7: we have to cheat to make plays, like the players

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Speaker 7: are going to come to you if we're all working

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Speaker 7: together and in the right right position. So I think

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Speaker 7: the precision part comes from being in know doing your responsibility,

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Speaker 7: knowing whatever the call is and what your job is,

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Speaker 7: and then doing it in the right manner. Am I

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Speaker 7: in the right leverage, am my eyes in the right place?

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Speaker 7: Am I looking at the right thing whatever that may be.

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Speaker 7: Then that allows your swarm to come out and allows

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Speaker 7: your teeth to come out, because then when you're confident

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Speaker 7: and you know you're in the right spot and you

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Speaker 7: know what you're doing, now you can go play fast

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Speaker 7: and go play physical, and go run and hit. So

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Speaker 7: I don't think they're mutually exclusive.

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Speaker 2: Well, Anderson Junior and his growth in year three, coach,

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Speaker 2: what have you seen from him?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel I get a little Anderson question every

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Speaker 7: every time in front of any sort of mic.

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Speaker 5: I mean, as you should should No, I mean I

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Speaker 5: think just.

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Speaker 7: He's a guy that, for I would I would consider

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Speaker 7: already a great player to really focus, to have the

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Speaker 7: focus to want to get better at things, and not

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Speaker 7: just you could roll the ball out right there tomorrow

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Speaker 7: and will say I'm a good player.

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Speaker 5: I can go play ball. But that's not how he

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Speaker 5: approaches things.

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Speaker 7: And so to me to see his growth and how

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Speaker 7: he's really trying to refine his pass rush, I've said

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Speaker 7: this in the past.

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Speaker 5: I think he's already an elite edge setter.

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Speaker 7: As a defensive end in the run game, and you know,

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Speaker 7: for him to really spend a lot of time his

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Speaker 7: off season really focus on again the precision in his

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Speaker 7: past rush and really refining some moves and some change

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Speaker 7: ups from how he was rushed in the past, I think, uh,

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Speaker 7: that's really shown to me throughout training camp and everything else.

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Speaker 7: And obviously had production last week with a sack and

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Speaker 7: hopefully that that keeps going. But I think there's just

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Speaker 7: been a lot of growth of his focus and working

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Speaker 7: on his past.

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Speaker 3: Rush. Well, we always hear about Will being a great example.

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Speaker 3: Do what he does and you're doing it right. I

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Speaker 3: gotta think Daniil is like that too. Maybe not a

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Speaker 3: vocal I don't know what he's like behind the scenes coach,

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Speaker 3: but it seems like he doesn't say a whole lot,

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Speaker 3: but he does a whole lot. He's been playing at

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Speaker 3: a very high level for so long.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 3: It's uh.

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Speaker 7: And I would say frankly like I think I know

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Speaker 7: people know who he is, but I think he probably

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Speaker 7: goes underrecognized because he's not a big personalities he. I mean,

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Speaker 7: he literally could go whole practice not really say much.

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Speaker 7: He just shows up, but he works every day. I

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Speaker 7: don't know if he's ever missed a practice since I've

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Speaker 7: been here, you know, so he just show up day

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Speaker 7: in and day out, works his craft. I do think

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Speaker 7: that's rubbed off on Will a little bit, Like I

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Speaker 7: think those guys sort of feed off each other. And

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Speaker 7: I said this again and at other times this year,

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Speaker 7: like I think.

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Speaker 5: For a guy whatever.

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Speaker 7: This year he is in the league now, nine ten

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Speaker 7: years whatever, it's been like, he got better this offseason.

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Speaker 7: He's a better run player for us than he was

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Speaker 7: last year. And the techniques we play like are unique

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Speaker 7: to some of the things we do, and so I

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Speaker 7: think last year he was growing into that. But like

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Speaker 7: I've seen him get better in certain areas too. So

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Speaker 7: I thought he rushed really well last week to production essay,

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Speaker 7: wasn't there there was you know, they were trying to

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Speaker 7: mitigate our rush obviously up front, which a lot of

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Speaker 7: teams do. But man, for guy that just let me,

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Speaker 7: you know, talk about a lunch pail guy. He doesn't

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Speaker 7: say anything. It just shows up to work every day.

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Speaker 7: I mean he epitomizes that. And so really really fortunate

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Speaker 7: to have a few guys like that in that room.

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Speaker 1: Coach feels like the more we watch Henry TOA TOA,

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Speaker 1: you not only see him, but you feel his presence.

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Speaker 1: I mean you talk about being physical, Like the first

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Speaker 1: person that flashes the mind is Henry with how he

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Speaker 1: was flying around. What's the growth you see him going back?

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Speaker 1: What he I remember him telling us you's sitting right there.

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Speaker 1: He's like you know, man, I was a fifth round pick.

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Speaker 1: I played with a chip on my shoulder all the time,

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Speaker 1: and it feels like that's just continued. But it feels

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Speaker 1: like he's getting to be a better linebacker. Kind of

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Speaker 1: the things that you guys wanted to see. What have

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Speaker 1: you seen from h Yeah this year for sure, I

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Speaker 1: would start with that.

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Speaker 7: I mean, you know, and he's Pepper throughout his career here,

653
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Speaker 7: even he's had some ups and downs from an injury standpoint,

654
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 7: he's miss time, he's been in and out. So like,

655
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Speaker 7: I think it's cool this this offseason to have that

656
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Speaker 7: just continuous growth as he came back in camp, I

657
00:28:30,119 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 7: would say he's molded himself in a pretty complete linebacker

658
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 7: again a third year in our system. From a mental

659
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 7: and knowledge standpoint, he plays multiple spots for us.

660
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 5: But that part of it that you.

661
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,959
Speaker 7: Talked about, I would say, you know, you look at

662
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 7: our defense and everyone's always gonna say, you know, A

663
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 7: Z's from a physical standpoint and Kamar, you know, with the.

664
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Speaker 5: Front, all the guys up front.

665
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 7: But I would say, like, Henry's really mold himself to

666
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Speaker 7: one of our more physical players at that position and

667
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Speaker 7: really on the defense in general. So I think that

668
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Speaker 7: I think he's had a really really steep growth curve honestly,

669
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Speaker 7: even sort of from training camp to this point, and

670
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Speaker 7: he's really become a fully complete linebacker in my opinion.

671
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Speaker 3: All Right, you talked about week one to week two

672
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Speaker 3: and CJ. Gardner Johnson. Here's week one to week two

673
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Speaker 3: with him and the band. It's like he got a

674
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Speaker 3: new saxophone player. And how's it going to be that

675
00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 3: transition into week two now that you've had a little

676
00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 3: water under the bridge there.

677
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 5: Yeah, same, And he missed some of that time in camp,

678
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Speaker 5: you know what I mean.

679
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 7: So again, just really trying to like get him up

680
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 7: to speed on on everything, you know what I mean.

681
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Speaker 7: I think we've tried to pick some spots to help

682
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Speaker 7: him out some, but you know, he's a gamer, so

683
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Speaker 7: like I feel like just when it shows up, when

684
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 7: the lights come on, and that's sort of when ceed shines.

685
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Speaker 7: So it was good to see him get out there

686
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Speaker 7: and do some of those things for so. I think, again,

687
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Speaker 7: the more just sort of reps he gets under his belt,

688
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Speaker 7: the more he's going to grow.

689
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Speaker 5: And grow and grow into the system for sure.

690
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Speaker 1: As you prep for the Bucks kind of mini scouting

691
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 1: report coach, But as you get there, their offensive line

692
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: is kind all over the place because you don't know

693
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Speaker 1: if Works is going to play. Maybe he practiced a

694
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Speaker 1: little bit, but he hasn't played yet. Then you've got Godwin.

695
00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 1: He started practice, but you don't know yet. How do

696
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Speaker 1: you kind of prep for a team when you've got

697
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Speaker 1: guys that are key to their offense but you don't

698
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Speaker 1: know they're questionable or they're limited in practice. How do

699
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Speaker 1: you kind of go about that as you're prepping for

700
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Speaker 1: a team.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you can't totally concern yourself with that, you know

702
00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:19,400
Speaker 7: what I mean? And you know, they didn't have worse

703
00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 7: last week, and they played well up front, and I

704
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 7: would say they do a really good job as a unit.

705
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 7: You can see the coordination and communication upfront. So weather

706
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Speaker 7: worse lies in there. I mean, he's a good player,

707
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Speaker 7: so I wouldn't discount that. But I think just as

708
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Speaker 7: a whole, from like an operation standpoint, that it was

709
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 7: pretty smooth for them last week, and so I don't

710
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Speaker 7: think anything of that. I mean, you can't go chasing ghosts,

711
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 7: you know, So I think whoever it is, receivers linemen,

712
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 7: like we just got to you know, we're looking at

713
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Speaker 7: the scheme and if something comes up when we know

714
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 7: we know, like what's ever happening on Monday, that we'll

715
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Speaker 7: have plans for all those guys.

716
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Speaker 5: But I think, you know, you just can get.

717
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 7: Down a rabbit hole chasing ghosts and trying to speculate

718
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 7: on what's going to happen. Like at the end of

719
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Speaker 7: the day, like we're going to play our style and

720
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Speaker 7: play our techniques and whoever lines up across from us.

721
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Speaker 5: What they do is what they do and they get

722
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Speaker 5: to deal with us too.

723
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Speaker 3: So coach Johnny was talking trash about Liverpool before he

724
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Speaker 3: got in here, so I don't want to.

725
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 2: I was not because I was not talking about I was.

726
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 3: I was not kidding. I'm kidding big acquisition though, right

727
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:17,880
Speaker 3: for for your guys.

728
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 7: Yeah, we'll see, we'll see you get we got we

729
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 7: actually have JJ Watts Club on Sunday.

730
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Speaker 5: We got Burnley.

731
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Speaker 1: I haven't talked to Jay yet about it, but well

732
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Speaker 1: there's probably no trash talking now because he knows what's

733
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Speaker 1: about that.

734
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Speaker 3: Unfortunately for interesting Monday night football.

735
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Speaker 1: Ye how, because there are a lot of young dudes

736
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 1: in that locker room, they're like, no Sunday night football.

737
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's what they grew up with, but a

738
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:41,719
Speaker 2: lot of us grew up with.

739
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Speaker 8: No.

740
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Speaker 2: Monday Night was like the premiere night.

741
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Speaker 1: How cool is it for for you guys to be

742
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: playing on Monday Night and your estimation.

743
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 5: My story time, we got time. Of course.

744
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 7: My first Monday night game was my my friend date myself.

745
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 7: My firste of league was four. I was with the

746
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,680
Speaker 7: Tennessee Titans, and my first Monday night game was at

747
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 7: Lambeau no way, and yeah, it was like week four

748
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 7: or five. Uh, and I never forget. I walked out

749
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 7: there and two things.

750
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Speaker 5: It was. It was Madden and.

751
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 7: Some are all, well, still doing Monday night football. So

752
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 7: there on the little sideline, I saw John Madden for

753
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 7: the first time, and I know this is gonna this

754
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 7: is what's gonna date me. It was the first time

755
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:17,560
Speaker 7: I'd ever seen the skycam.

756
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 5: They were only using.

757
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 3: It like the wild camp.

758
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 7: Yeah, and so I walked out and I was like,

759
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:23,880
Speaker 7: what the hell is that thing? And then John Madden's

760
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 7: over there. I meant Lambeau for the first time, Like

761
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 7: it was. I'll never forget that my whole life. We

762
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 7: actually think you have to look this up. I think

763
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 7: we picked far off like four times or something.

764
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Speaker 5: That game we end up had a pretty big win.

765
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's cool.

766
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 7: I mean, it's it's it's such like a confluence of

767
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 7: events here with obviously with the home opener two here,

768
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 7: you know, so I know that's gonna be like a thing,

769
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 7: and it's the first time we get to really put

770
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 7: on in front of front of each town. And then

771
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 7: having the Monday Night and the lights, I mean, the

772
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 7: trucks are already starting to pull up out here. So uh,

773
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 7: you know, you can downplay it all the time, which

774
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 7: we do. It's another game and we get to focus

775
00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 7: on what we need to do, but uh, really anticipate

776
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 7: the pretty live atmosphere. It's always cool to you know.

777
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 7: And again, you know, like when we're here, like last week,

778
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 7: we're in the office prepping for this week, and everyone

779
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 7: puts Monday Night on on the TVs in the building,

780
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 7: and so you know a lot of people are watching

781
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 7: and hopefully our guys show out.

782
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 3: Outstanding coach, thanks a lot, good luck, pressure, guys.

783
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Speaker 1: It certainly is not a segment with Matt Burke unless

784
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: he's poking at the bear. The brown bear that is

785
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 1: me and I'm a man City guy. He's a Liverpool guy.

786
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: It's way it goes. He's a Dartmouth grad. I'm a

787
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: Brown grad. So we don't really agree on much other

788
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: than the fact that we both want to see this

789
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: team do very, very well. I was sitting right next

790
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Speaker 1: to him during the interview, and when I asked him

791
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 1: that question about Henry toit too, I could see his

792
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 1: eyes kind of light up, and I thought that was

793
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: really cool. I just feel like Henry has made more

794
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: strides than almost every player I've seen from year one

795
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:51,880
Speaker 1: to year two to year three. I mean, he was

796
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: flying around on Sunday, had the sack. I think he

797
00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: had seven eight tackles, and he just probably a really

798
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: good ballgame, I thought. And now keeping everybody integrated at that,

799
00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 1: you know, at linebacker position with Christian HARRISJ Speed, et cetera.

800
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:08,839
Speaker 1: But you gotta get the bucks in third and long

801
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 1: to be able to kind of use all your linebackers

802
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 1: on a lot of different spots and different things.

803
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 2: So we'll see what the Texans are able to do.

804
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 6: Now.

805
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: A guy that could play a role in all that

806
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,399
Speaker 1: is a rookie, but he's a fun rookie to watch.

807
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: That's Jalen Smith, Jay Rock from La played his first

808
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: game out in La Man with a smile that brightens

809
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: up any room, joins us next right here at Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access.

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Speaker 2: What's happened everybody?

812
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 1: Welcome back to a Friday edition of Texans All Access

813
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Speaker 1: from the Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris,

814
00:34:40,520 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 1: football analyst, satheline reporter for your Houston Texans Draft night.

815
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Speaker 1: Friday night, Day two, Texans got a third round pick

816
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: cornerback USC Jalen Smith. And I know there are a

817
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 1: lot of people happy about that selection. I was happy

818
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 1: about that selection. Frank Ross was happy about that selection,

819
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: the defensive staff. And then you got a chance to

820
00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: meet Jalen Smith here and what an absolute sweetheart, just

821
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,839
Speaker 1: a really easy going guy. But out on the field man,

822
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: he plays with his heart on his sleeve. Good friends

823
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: with Kaylen Block and now gotten to be good friends

824
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: with Kamari last Dar. He goes through all of that

825
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 1: with us right here. Jalen Smith's first time with us

826
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,320
Speaker 1: on Texans All Access in this season.

827
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Speaker 2: Here's Jay Rock with market myself here.

828
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Speaker 3: On the hun day Texans Radio Studio. Jalen Smith joining us.

829
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Speaker 3: The rookie not a rookie anymore? Do you still feel

830
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 3: like a rookie one game in? You've been here all

831
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Speaker 3: throughout the offseason. How do you feel, Jaalen.

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00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,719
Speaker 9: I still feel like a rookie, I'll tell you that day,

833
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 9: you know, but I feel like I'm settling in really well.

834
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 9: The team has embraced me, you know, with open arms,

835
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 9: coaching staff, you know, everybody. So it's been great. But

836
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 9: I'm getting a little older into the system. Note, So

837
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 9: it's been good. I'm getting real comfortable.

838
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 2: Did it help a little bit?

839
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: Let's say you're kind of a little cheat, but you

840
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: had Kaylin here, Kaylyn and kind of going through and

841
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: been here that kind of helped you a little bit

842
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: each other.

843
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:05,839
Speaker 4: So well, one hundred percent with Kaylin Solomon Byrd.

844
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's right, a couple of guys that you know

845
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 9: have been in the system already that can kind of

846
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 9: give me some nuggets to kind of you know, pick

847
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 9: up the defense and pick up the special teams and

848
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 9: everything like that.

849
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:14,399
Speaker 4: So it's been good.

850
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 6: Yeah.

851
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 3: How is it out there Sunday against the Rams versus

852
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:20,880
Speaker 3: say preseason action? Because everyone talks about, well you have

853
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 3: practice to the preseason games and that speed change and

854
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 3: then you have preseason games to the regular season games.

855
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 3: How was that transition for you, Jail?

856
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,400
Speaker 9: Oh man, it was great. It's it's a great experience

857
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 9: for me. I say, just the stages are getting a

858
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 9: little bit bigger, a little bit brighter, speeds obviously getting faster.

859
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:38,760
Speaker 9: You know, a lot of good guys on the field

860
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 9: running at the same speed at the same time. So

861
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 9: it's been great though, you know, good experience, you know,

862
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 9: watching my older guys, you know, show them, show me

863
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Speaker 9: how it's done.

864
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 4: And so I think that's just been.

865
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Speaker 1: The key first game of your NFL career. And you

866
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,839
Speaker 1: go back home. What was that experience like? And oh,

867
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: by the way, we end up staying at your rivals campus.

868
00:36:57,680 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 1: Basically what was out of How is it we get

869
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: from that standpoint?

870
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 4: Roller coaster of emotions? You know what I'm saying. You know,

871
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 4: we was over there with the baby Blue Bruins.

872
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:08,359
Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying. It was it was cool

873
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:09,839
Speaker 9: to you know, get back home. You know what I'm saying.

874
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 9: I've seen my family, see my you know, my friends

875
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 9: and everything like that. It was good man, It's a

876
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 9: dream come true, you know what I'm saying. You you know,

877
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 9: make it to the next level and you obviously get

878
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,439
Speaker 9: to come back home with in front of your family

879
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 9: and your friends.

880
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 2: It's great.

881
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 4: It's a good experience, man, something that I dreamed of.

882
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,919
Speaker 1: So in Texas high school football here when it gets

883
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 1: to the playoffs, there's a weekend where they play like

884
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: four or five games in this building. They play championship,

885
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,399
Speaker 1: they play it in Jerry World. Had you ever played

886
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 1: in so Far? Did you ever get to a point

887
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: where you got to play in so Far?

888
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 2: Was the first time?

889
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 4: That was my first time?

890
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 6: Yeah?

891
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 9: Yeah, first time, And that was my first time actually

892
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 9: being in so Far really yeah, yeah, so it was.

893
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 9: It was a surreal moment for me.

894
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 3: That first time, for a lot of people. In fact,

895
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 3: what is practice like for you now that we're in

896
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,360
Speaker 3: the regular season, Because we've seen the training camp practices,

897
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,720
Speaker 3: Iron sharpens, Iron ones against the ones, twos against the twos,

898
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,320
Speaker 3: But during the regular season it's different. You have scout team,

899
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 3: you have you have to get ready for the opponent,

900
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 3: what they look like on the field. What is it

901
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:03,839
Speaker 3: like for you, jailing.

902
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 9: Man, showing up every day doing my job man, at

903
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 9: the best I can, and that's you know, bringing full effort,

904
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 9: bringing full attention, you know, being communicative and being a

905
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 9: sponge as well. You know what I'm saying, understanding what

906
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 9: you know, what coach wants and what he wants us

907
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 9: to you know, succeed for the for that following game.

908
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 9: I think that's the main key for me, is keeping

909
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 9: the clean slate, focusing on the task at hand, and

910
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:24,760
Speaker 9: that's just getting the job done.

911
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 3: You say you say clean slate, so they grade you

912
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 3: throughout practice, right, Do you mean that, don't make those

913
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 3: errors in practice and take that to the field for

914
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:36,480
Speaker 3: game day? Is that the idea when you mean when

915
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:37,320
Speaker 3: you say clean.

916
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 9: Slate, Well, no, I say, I say clean slate, you know,

917
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 9: just off my mindset. So that's like, you know, anything

918
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,840
Speaker 9: happens good or bad, you know, good plays, bad plays.

919
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,440
Speaker 9: I'm always just gonna be levelheaded and I'm okay, I'm

920
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:48,959
Speaker 9: gonna stay right in the middle, you know what I'm saying,

921
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 9: Never get too high and never get too low on

922
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 9: myself knowing that you know what I'm saying.

923
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:53,400
Speaker 4: We all got a job at hand.

924
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 3: Right, Chila.

925
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 1: There's one thing to learn defensive scheme, et cetera. But

926
00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 1: then all the different special teams groups that you're on Yeah,

927
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: now you play a lot of special teams that at

928
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: C but now you've got to prepare I would imagine

929
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 1: for the special teams in addition to getting ready for

930
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:08,760
Speaker 1: the defense.

931
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:10,879
Speaker 2: How how I don't say, how tough is that?

932
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: But you got to do two different things where some

933
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: guys will only study defense.

934
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 2: What's it been like for you?

935
00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 1: Kind of getting prepared, making sure that you're solid and

936
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:20,959
Speaker 1: all your special teams, put all your defensive assignments as well.

937
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 4: Right, I think it's been a good challenge for me.

938
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:24,840
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. Coaches put a lot of

939
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 4: stuff on my plate, and that's that's great for me.

940
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 2: That's a good thing.

941
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 9: Yeah, I love it, you know what I'm saying. It's

942
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 9: coming in as a rookie. You know, you want to

943
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 9: just make an impact, and that's wherever so just coming in.

944
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:34,839
Speaker 9: I just want to make an impact us as fast

945
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 9: as I can, as quick as I can. Coaches did

946
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 9: a good job as far as you know, keeping me

947
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 9: up to speed and you know, keeping everything you know smooth.

948
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:44,160
Speaker 3: We talked about call and who else has been an

949
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 3: influence on you, helpful to you, whether it be in

950
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 3: your position group or not. Maybe it's somebody from another

951
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 3: position group, maybe somebody on offense. What can you tell us?

952
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 4: I'll give you about I can give you a list

953
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 4: of guys. I started with.

954
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 9: Will Will be in my locker, my locker buddy. He's always,

955
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 9: you know, checks on my mental every day every morning.

956
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 9: You know, you're doing good, a little bro, you're doing

957
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:05,720
Speaker 9: like just little things like that, you know, different different

958
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:07,319
Speaker 9: position group, different body type.

959
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:08,839
Speaker 4: So's it's just a lot.

960
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 9: Of it's a confidence booster, you know. You know, you

961
00:40:10,400 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 9: got guys in the in the room like that. Obviously

962
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 9: d Stings like my big bro man since I got here,

963
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 9: since the day I got the call. He was the

964
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,399
Speaker 9: first person to text me. So that's probably the guy

965
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 9: I say like mostly is he's took me in and

966
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 9: kind of just like helped me, you know, throughout this whole,

967
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 9: this whole process, and you know, I give kudos to

968
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,240
Speaker 9: him for sure. And then obviously Kamari, you know, Kamarai

969
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,400
Speaker 9: and Kaitlin, those are the guys that I kind of

970
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:35,840
Speaker 9: you know, surround myself with h and they kind of

971
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 9: just helped me, you know, show me exactly what the

972
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:39,839
Speaker 9: ropes are and how to how to become a pro.

973
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 9: And I think that's been you know, my group for sure.

974
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 9: Shout out to Scoop too, the schools my guy too. Okay, yeah, Scoop,

975
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:48,399
Speaker 9: that's right, that's right. You mentioned Will?

976
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 1: Is it for you when you sit next to him

977
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 1: and you're talking him just like we're talking and we're

978
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: having a discussion.

979
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 2: You're talking to Will Anderson Junior.

980
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: But then you get on the field and you're like, Yo,

981
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:58,879
Speaker 1: that ain't the guy sitting next to man, That dude

982
00:40:58,960 --> 00:40:59,879
Speaker 1: is at a different level.

983
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 2: That's the terminator. That's what Landerson Jr. But that's the

984
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 2: terminator over there.

985
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 4: Story of my life.

986
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 6: Man.

987
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 4: You go out there and you be like, man, this

988
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 4: is the this is the league. Man, this is the NFL.

989
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 9: You know you got guys that's that's have soft spoken,

990
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 9: that's super soft spoken off the field, and you know,

991
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 9: you would never you would never expect him to go

992
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 9: across and you know, look at him and he's hitting

993
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 9: the quarterback in his face every play. So it's just

994
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 9: you know, that type of that type of Swiss Man's,

995
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 9: super humble, super huber.

996
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 3: God had promised this is the last time I'm going

997
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 3: to ask you about the Snoop Dog. First of all,

998
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:32,760
Speaker 3: You've probably answered as many questions about this as USC

999
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 3: or the NFL or anything else right throughout.

1000
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 2: Your career for sure.

1001
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 9: And I say, man, Coach Snoop Man, it was he

1002
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 9: was like a great a great leader for me, a

1003
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 9: great role model. I think he kind of helped me

1004
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 9: becoming pro before becoming a pro and before knowing what

1005
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:48,080
Speaker 9: the pro was.

1006
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

1007
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:50,920
Speaker 9: Coach Snoop just he done a great job as far

1008
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 9: as putting his sports, putting everything in line, and for me,

1009
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:57,840
Speaker 9: it kind of showed me how to carment, like like

1010
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 9: put everything in in space. Like I can focus on school,

1011
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 9: I can focus on football, I can focus on being

1012
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:04,439
Speaker 9: a family guy.

1013
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:06,719
Speaker 4: Like It's just how coach newp did. It was. It

1014
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:08,720
Speaker 4: was tremendous And I definitely give.

1015
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:12,800
Speaker 1: Them those speaking of your guys back at USC to

1016
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: an over to start the year and putting up some points.

1017
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 1: How you feel about your Trojans this year in the

1018
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 1: Big Ten? How weird was that to be in the

1019
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: Big Ten after all those years of playing in the

1020
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: West Coast and all of a sudden you're playing Nebraska

1021
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 1: and IO won all these different What was that kind

1022
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: of like.

1023
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 4: Man, my first year.

1024
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 3: It was.

1025
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 4: It was crazy.

1026
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 9: It was a change, I'll tell you that, man, just

1027
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 9: you know in four hour five hour flights. Yeah, yeah,

1028
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 9: I think that was the biggest change for me. And

1029
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 9: then just offensive styles. Man, They're like, you go from

1030
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 9: the fact twelve, this is a lot of air raid.

1031
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 9: They're gonna try to they're gonna try to throw the

1032
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 9: ball off. And then you're going against like the cam Wards.

1033
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:46,560
Speaker 9: And each week you got the cam Ward, you got

1034
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 9: your door. Then you go back and you play against

1035
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 9: DJ like just all in one league. So I mean,

1036
00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 9: go from that, and then you go for a heavy

1037
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:56,399
Speaker 9: run pass like a heavy run league, and you gotta

1038
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 9: like unlock them the past almost like if you don't

1039
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:00,479
Speaker 9: stop the run, run.

1040
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 1: It for all four quarters.

1041
00:43:01,400 --> 00:43:04,760
Speaker 9: And so that was the biggest difference for me otherwise

1042
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:05,800
Speaker 9: than just the traveling.

1043
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:09,360
Speaker 1: I remember you guys playing Michigan at Michigan and they

1044
00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 1: must have run like fifty times that game.

1045
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't even think the guy through them.

1046
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 9: I remember one play I'll lined up and press and

1047
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 9: I'm like, yo, it was about the third quarter.

1048
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,399
Speaker 4: No pass attempts yet anything. I'm like, you guys gonna

1049
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:22,839
Speaker 4: throw the ball.

1050
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:24,879
Speaker 9: He's like dude, we're at the University of Michigan. I

1051
00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 9: was like, oh, now that, No, that explains it.

1052
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 3: That kind of help through it. I get through it

1053
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 3: all that game. It's got to help you for the NFL.

1054
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 3: I mean, Damica wants you to tackle hard, be physical

1055
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 3: as a corner. So that's got to help you prepare.

1056
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 9: Yea, and being like the type of guy I love

1057
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 9: to tackle. I like to be physical. I like to

1058
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:45,279
Speaker 9: put my put my nose in it. And you know

1059
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 9: what I'm saying, make plays for sure.

1060
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 3: All Right, Houston, so far, this is something I will

1061
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 3: ask you because as you live here longer, you're gonna

1062
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:55,839
Speaker 3: get to know the city better, have different impressions. It's

1063
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 3: gonna build. How's it been so far for you being

1064
00:43:57,920 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 3: in h town?

1065
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 4: Man, I got no complaints.

1066
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 9: Man, it's been great, great vibes, man, over all, the people,

1067
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 9: the environment, you know, the food obviously, I mean I've

1068
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 9: been eating.

1069
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 6: So good here.

1070
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:12,320
Speaker 4: But nah, man, it's a great environment.

1071
00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 10: Man.

1072
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:13,239
Speaker 4: The people were great.

1073
00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: Man.

1074
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,359
Speaker 9: It's super A lot of support around the team and man,

1075
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 9: this has been great man for sure.

1076
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 3: All right, Jell and thanks a lot for joining us.

1077
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 4: Good luck, man, Thank you, appreciate you having me.

1078
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: I hope that young man remade the Texan for a very,

1079
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:26,240
Speaker 1: very long time. Of course, we always love the guys

1080
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 1: that give us good content, but we like the guys

1081
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 1: to combine giving us good content and giving us good

1082
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:33,399
Speaker 1: play out on the field. Be interesting to see how

1083
00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 1: the Texans attack the wide receivers for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

1084
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: More than likely you know, Chris Godwin, but likely for sure,

1085
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 1: likely a Mecca Buka and Mike Evans, also Sterling Shepherd.

1086
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a good match up with the Texans

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00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:51,319
Speaker 1: corners against the Tampa Bay wide receivers. And of course

1088
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 1: don't forget Kate Aughton who had that touchdown that gave

1089
00:44:54,760 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: them the lead two years ago, right before CJ went

1090
00:44:57,239 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 1: down to hit Tank for the winner. Kate I made

1091
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: one hell of a catching zone, which hopefully he doesn't

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Speaker 1: do again. I'd rather not see Kate otten, but got

1093
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 1: a feeling we're going to. But is there a possibility

1094
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 1: of not seeing some guys.

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00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 2: In this game.

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Speaker 1: Well, let's take a look at the injury report from today.

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00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 1: Let's look to your Texans first, same three guys dnps.

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Speaker 2: One piece of good news.

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Speaker 1: Outside of that, Jake Andrews, Braxtonberio as Christian Kirk did

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00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 1: not participate, not expecting to see them on Monday night.

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00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:30,319
Speaker 6: But Ed Ingram, who had been.

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Speaker 1: Very very good at training camp missed the last game

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00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:38,279
Speaker 1: against La Rams. He was a full participant in practice today.

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00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: That is great news. Now the news on the other

1105
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:48,479
Speaker 1: side for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Now we knew about

1106
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 1: Tristan Wurf's way back when it was not thought that

1107
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 1: he was going to play in this game. He is

1108
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 1: practicing in a limited capacity. Don't know if that leads

1109
00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 1: to him playing. I don't think so. Bubb find out

1110
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 1: a little bit more during the week. He's limited participate

1111
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 1: in practice. Mike Evans had a rest day today. But

1112
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin, who is working back from the dislocated ankle

1113
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 1: from last year, missed practice today. So he had been

1114
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 1: limited on Wednesday or Thursday. Excuse me, but he was

1115
00:46:17,239 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: DNP on Friday. My guess would be and Ian Rappaport

1116
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: retweeted or tweeted this on earlier this week that they

1117
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 1: don't expect Chris Godwin to be ready to week five

1118
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:28,760
Speaker 1: or six.

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00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 2: Well, this is week two. Now here's the other one.

1120
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Speaker 1: To keep an eye Luke get a Key, and I

1121
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:37,600
Speaker 1: know I'm saying that wrong, but they're starting right tackle, very.

1122
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:38,280
Speaker 2: Very good player.

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00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,959
Speaker 1: He has not participated in practice either of the first

1124
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 1: two days with a foot issue. If that's the case,

1125
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: Ann Wurf's is out, more than likely they will play

1126
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:52,319
Speaker 1: their starting center, Graham Barton had left tackle. They will

1127
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 1: play Charlie Heck allegedly at right tackle. This is definitely

1128
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:00,720
Speaker 1: something to keep in mind for the Buccaneer their issues

1129
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 1: that tackle, going against Will Anderson Junior and Daniil Hunter

1130
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 1: and not having Chris Godwin apparently, but we'll let that

1131
00:47:08,160 --> 00:47:12,800
Speaker 1: play out. But that was your injury report for today's practice. Again,

1132
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 1: you've got Braxton Bario's, Christian Kirk, and Jake Andrews. I

1133
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 1: don't expect to see any of those, so really no

1134
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: surprises there, but a good sign that ed Ingram was

1135
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:27,200
Speaker 1: back at practice fully and they had pads on today,

1136
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 1: so made it through the practice in fuls. That was

1137
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,120
Speaker 1: good to see. The Bucks are dealing with some injury issues,

1138
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,799
Speaker 1: especially on their offensive line, so it's time for those

1139
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 1: guys up front to eat all game long and show

1140
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: them what Texas football is all about, all right, let's

1141
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: get into the second hour, and we're gonna kick it

1142
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 1: off with the pres The man himself, Mike Towman, joined

1143
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: Mark and I in studio. You won't want to miss

1144
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 1: It's got a lot of things to say about week one,

1145
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:58,960
Speaker 1: about the Liberty white out, everything happening with the night

1146
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: game of Monday Night football.

1147
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 2: Oh, Mike Toman joins us next right here on Texans

1148
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:02,360
Speaker 2: All Access.

1149
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:04,319
Speaker 1: All right, we got one our down, one hour left

1150
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 1: to go. Right here on a Friday edition of Texans

1151
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:10,759
Speaker 1: All Access, which kind of feels like a Thursday, which

1152
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:12,640
Speaker 1: is gonna make Saturday feel like a Friday.

1153
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 2: That's all It happens.

1154
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: You move a day, move a game one day from

1155
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: Sunday to Monday, and man, it just messes up everything

1156
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: in a good way, I think. But man, it's gonna

1157
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:25,440
Speaker 1: be electric on Monday Night. I know Mark and I

1158
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:28,239
Speaker 1: are really excited about that. We talked about that at nauseum.

1159
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 1: But I know one guy who is truly ready for

1160
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:34,319
Speaker 1: Monday Night, and that is Mike Toman, president of your

1161
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: Houston Texans. Mike was kind enough to step in the

1162
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: studio with Mark and myself, and that interview is right

1163
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 1: for you now.

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00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:44,800
Speaker 3: In the Honday Texans Radio studio with us Mike Toman,

1165
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 3: president of your Houston Texans. Welcome Mike, Hey, thank you, Mark,

1166
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 3: good morning. What do you think of our studio? This

1167
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:52,720
Speaker 3: is your first visit to the new digs.

1168
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 10: I uh, it had this great energy when it walked in.

1169
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 10: I thought it was just you guys, but it looks

1170
00:48:58,560 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 10: like it's the Redo.

1171
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 3: It's not us, that's the surroundings, Mike, it is it is.

1172
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 3: How excited are you Monday Night Football for the home opener?

1173
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 3: This is very special?

1174
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 10: It is I can't think of a better way to

1175
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 10: kick off this season. We feel really good. There's a

1176
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:16,160
Speaker 10: special energy I think in Houston. And to have our

1177
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 10: home opener be on Monday Night Football nationally to bring

1178
00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 10: everyone back to NRG, I don't think you could line

1179
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 10: it up better.

1180
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: Now, Marke and Iron are in a little different age demographic.

1181
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: Monday night football was it when we were growing up,

1182
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:30,919
Speaker 1: Like Monday night Football. You want to be a Monday

1183
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 1: n football. Sunday football was not quite there. It got there,

1184
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 1: but Monday night football was it when you were growing up.

1185
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 1: Was Monday Night football that special? Like, hey man, I

1186
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:40,839
Speaker 1: got to see at least part of this game before

1187
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 1: you had to go to bed.

1188
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:43,920
Speaker 3: That young, I mean, he's young. I know.

1189
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 8: I thought he was saying he was younger than you.

1190
00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 8: I was trying to understand where he was.

1191
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:51,319
Speaker 1: I am younger than him, I am younger than him,

1192
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:53,800
Speaker 1: but you're younger than both of us. That said Monday

1193
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: Night Football to you, how special was it when you

1194
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:56,359
Speaker 1: were growing up?

1195
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Speaker 8: There's nothing bigger? There is literally nothing bigger.

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00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,520
Speaker 10: I mean I think when you look at how special

1197
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:04,279
Speaker 10: it is won this game to the beginning of the

1198
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:07,320
Speaker 10: season and then three Monday Night football, Monday Night football

1199
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Speaker 10: has always been the event, not only of the week,

1200
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Speaker 10: it's what you look forward to during the season.

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Speaker 6: All right.

1202
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 3: So I wanted to ask you, now that you've lived

1203
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 3: through training camp and everything like that, saw the fans

1204
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 3: out there preseason games, how was that for you? What

1205
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:26,239
Speaker 3: was your reaction to Texans fandom coming together with the

1206
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 3: team all of that.

1207
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Speaker 10: Mike, I mean, I think we just have such a

1208
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 10: special situation here in Houston. We have such a special

1209
00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 10: fan base, and I think what's going on with coach

1210
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 10: in the locker room, I think it's really resonating and

1211
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 10: it was great to see it all come together to

1212
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:44,120
Speaker 10: see the fans get to interact with the team as

1213
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 10: we were going through training camp, and you really look

1214
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 10: at that as a big indicator for special things to

1215
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 10: come this season. It was fantastic from my perspective.

1216
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm sure you've been pretty busy shaking hands,

1217
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:58,320
Speaker 1: meeting people, getting out there Texans fan base, et cetera.

1218
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 1: But Monday night's going to be pretty darn cool. Let's

1219
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 1: reiterate six o'clock. Let's reiterate six o'clock. And by the way,

1220
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,799
Speaker 1: get in your seats well before six o'clock. I know

1221
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:15,000
Speaker 1: I'm saying something that is very important to everybody, but

1222
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 1: six o'clock kickoff, because you know there are gonna be

1223
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 1: some people looking, gone, well, I thought it was setting.

1224
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 2: No, it's six o'clock.

1225
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:22,399
Speaker 8: It's six o'clock, John. I appreciate you saying that.

1226
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:24,239
Speaker 10: One of the things that we talk about a ton

1227
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,759
Speaker 10: is how do we find our competitive advantage?

1228
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:29,719
Speaker 8: Like where is our competitive advantage?

1229
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:30,479
Speaker 5: And one of the.

1230
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:34,400
Speaker 10: Most unique things about Houston is it's the fans. I

1231
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 10: think the players talk about a coaches talk about it.

1232
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 10: For NRG to have everybody in their seats at kickoff,

1233
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:45,640
Speaker 10: not after kickoff, not like a couple, like to have

1234
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 10: them in there before kickoff.

1235
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 8: The players feel it, we can get it rocking. And

1236
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:53,320
Speaker 8: at the end of the day, we want to win championships.

1237
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,319
Speaker 8: That is our charge. That is what we do. It's

1238
00:51:56,440 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 8: deliver a world.

1239
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 10: Class fan experience and focus in on trying to win championships. Now,

1240
00:52:02,040 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 10: we got to win football games first. I gotta win

1241
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:07,880
Speaker 10: Monday night and that's the focus. Step by step. The

1242
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:11,840
Speaker 10: key for the fans to be here early. And just

1243
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 10: all I can express is it matters, like it's not

1244
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 10: like here's a bumper sticker. We need our fans. It

1245
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 10: really matters. That's our competitive advantage. So as we all

1246
00:52:20,640 --> 00:52:23,799
Speaker 10: know Houston traffic five o'clock like plan accordingly.

1247
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:24,279
Speaker 2: Yes.

1248
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 10: And the other thing I would say are the NRG

1249
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:29,920
Speaker 10: parking lots are big. So if you're sitting in there

1250
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 10: and you're having a great time tail gating, which we love,

1251
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:34,239
Speaker 10: getting ready to come into the game, and you're like, oh,

1252
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:36,560
Speaker 10: kickoffs in five minutes, I can make it in the

1253
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 10: next five minutes, you probably cannot unless you're already ticketed

1254
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 10: through the gate. So please come early. It means a ton.

1255
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:46,319
Speaker 10: That is our competitive advantage. We're kinding on you to

1256
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:49,720
Speaker 10: be in early, to be in your white, to be loud,

1257
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 10: and to really really put the pressure on the Buccaneers.

1258
00:52:53,520 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 3: I already promised us of coach, so you too, You'll

1259
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 3: write a note for anybody who needs to get out

1260
00:52:57,680 --> 00:52:59,800
Speaker 3: of work early, Right, we'll do that, Mike Toman I

1261
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:02,359
Speaker 3: got I have that shot, and I know you're gonna

1262
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 3: be pulled in a lot of different directions before the game.

1263
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 3: How will you spend the couple of hours before the game?

1264
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:11,239
Speaker 3: You're gonna go outside bud Light Plaza, the boulevard. How

1265
00:53:11,239 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 3: are you gonna do this? Mike?

1266
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:14,279
Speaker 10: Well, one of the things I love is, you know,

1267
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 10: I really believe we have some of the best teammates

1268
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:20,320
Speaker 10: in our organization. So I love walking before our fans

1269
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 10: arrive to see the preparation that's in place.

1270
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:25,359
Speaker 8: So I will be doing that. I will be out

1271
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:26,320
Speaker 8: on bud Light Plaza.

1272
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:28,880
Speaker 10: I'm gonna spend some time out on the tailgating as well.

1273
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:31,680
Speaker 10: I know the McNair's are going to make a visit also,

1274
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:36,280
Speaker 10: and then and then coming into the stadium and getting ready,

1275
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 10: getting ready to receive everybody.

1276
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:39,959
Speaker 8: That's really what I enjoy.

1277
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 10: Getting my steps in Mark I get my steps in

1278
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:43,879
Speaker 10: on game day.

1279
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:46,920
Speaker 1: You also like to I know you like ball because

1280
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,840
Speaker 1: you like to watch pregame. Two do you like to

1281
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,320
Speaker 1: be down on the sidelines and watch pregame? So let's

1282
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 1: go during a game. During a game, I would say,

1283
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 1: how frustrating is it that you want to watch a game,

1284
00:53:58,280 --> 00:53:59,800
Speaker 1: but people want to talk to you, They want to

1285
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 1: meet you, they want to learn about you. Do you

1286
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 1: get a chance to watch the game while it's going on?

1287
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 8: Yeah?

1288
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 10: No, So John, as you know, love being down on

1289
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:12,919
Speaker 10: the field with the team and watching and watching pre game.

1290
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:15,120
Speaker 10: I think you get a good sense. And it's such

1291
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:18,439
Speaker 10: a special, special sport we have here, and so that's

1292
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 10: also a good reminder of we have a special team.

1293
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:23,920
Speaker 10: It's a special moment that we get to share with

1294
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:26,040
Speaker 10: everybody in the city. And so I do like to

1295
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 10: be down there in the beginning. But I enjoy seeing

1296
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:30,920
Speaker 10: our partners and I enjoy seeing our fans, and so

1297
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 10: spending time with them in this atmosphere is fantastic. I'll

1298
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:38,240
Speaker 10: sneak some views and try to make sure we're watching,

1299
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:40,840
Speaker 10: and then certainly as we get down towards the end

1300
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 10: of the game, always want to be on the field

1301
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:47,799
Speaker 10: with Cal and Hannah being able to see the last

1302
00:54:47,800 --> 00:54:49,759
Speaker 10: plays of the game and being able to be in

1303
00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:52,920
Speaker 10: that spot where you can focus and and be and

1304
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 10: be supportive of what the guys are doing on the field.

1305
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 3: We are looking for a liberty white out. So I'm

1306
00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 3: curious about the fit, Mike, because this is very importan.

1307
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:02,719
Speaker 3: You know, I've got a semi white jacket that I

1308
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 3: can wear, and I know you've got some jackets that

1309
00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:07,960
Speaker 3: I'm very envious of. So what do you How are

1310
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 3: you gonna fit for Monday night? What are you gonna wear?

1311
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:13,680
Speaker 8: Yeah, so I feel like this is a setup.

1312
00:55:13,719 --> 00:55:15,400
Speaker 10: I feel like there's been two setups, you say, this

1313
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 10: demo thing and this coat thing. I am excited to

1314
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:25,239
Speaker 10: try to live up to some expectations. Some some of

1315
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 10: my expectations I don't think can be reached by you, Mark,

1316
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 10: but I'm gonna try.

1317
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:31,959
Speaker 8: We're going I'm gonna support, We're gonna be in white,

1318
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:36,319
Speaker 8: white shirt, white coat. That's about as far as I've

1319
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:37,239
Speaker 8: thought in life right now.

1320
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:41,840
Speaker 10: I don't blame, but excited to support absolutely the white out.

1321
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:45,080
Speaker 1: For people that didn't get into the stadium for the

1322
00:55:45,120 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 1: Panthers preseason game, what can people look forward to them

1323
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:49,439
Speaker 1: might be.

1324
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:50,960
Speaker 2: New this year at Energy Stadium.

1325
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 10: I'm really excited for those who haven't been yet. I

1326
00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:58,080
Speaker 10: think it will be a full sensory experience. You will

1327
00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 10: have a better visual experience with our upgraded video boards. Oh,

1328
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 10: it will have a different level of visibility and formatting

1329
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 10: and content that will ultimately make.

1330
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:14,279
Speaker 8: The experience better. I think people will be able to

1331
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:14,759
Speaker 8: notice that.

1332
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 10: Also excited for the sound of it, as you know, John,

1333
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:24,400
Speaker 10: the fidelity, the christness, and you know, the unique piece

1334
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 10: is how we've situated that it is to make sure

1335
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:30,960
Speaker 10: that there is level sound at every level of the stadium,

1336
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:35,720
Speaker 10: so you're getting the same sound experience at every portion

1337
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:37,000
Speaker 10: of the venue.

1338
00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 8: And the other piece.

1339
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:42,000
Speaker 10: That we always like there, we've upgraded the subwarffers and

1340
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:45,279
Speaker 10: so those big moments not only will you hear them,

1341
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:48,080
Speaker 10: but you'll feel them as we go through it. And

1342
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:51,520
Speaker 10: then you know, of course when you come to the experience,

1343
00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 10: you can't leave out food and beverage, and so you know,

1344
00:56:55,480 --> 00:56:58,720
Speaker 10: we have over one hundred and twenty new menu items

1345
00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:01,879
Speaker 10: through our great partners at air Mark that people will

1346
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 10: be able to try and get into. We're keeping our

1347
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:08,560
Speaker 10: fan friendly pricing on our key items. I always like

1348
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:11,760
Speaker 10: to say beer and soda, keeping keeping the fan friendly

1349
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:14,719
Speaker 10: pricing on that. So we're really excited for everyone to

1350
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 10: experience energy.

1351
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 8: We've been waiting for this moment.

1352
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:19,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody's all excited about the food except me.

1353
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:20,200
Speaker 2: I don't get any of it.

1354
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:22,280
Speaker 8: Why do you say that I see these all the

1355
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:23,400
Speaker 8: time when you're.

1356
00:57:23,240 --> 00:57:25,480
Speaker 1: Talking about Donald's sidelines during the game, I mean a

1357
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:25,919
Speaker 1: hot dog.

1358
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 2: I'm fired. I listen to these guys.

1359
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 8: I do not see them meeting.

1360
00:57:30,200 --> 00:57:33,320
Speaker 2: So I don't know, cheese hanging out of my mouth.

1361
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:34,600
Speaker 2: I'm trying to interview to Miko.

1362
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:37,480
Speaker 3: This is very good, Mike. Over the course of the

1363
00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:39,919
Speaker 3: spring and summer, there were articles out and you talking

1364
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 3: about facilities and other things, stadium improvements, that kind of thing.

1365
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 3: And I know we talked about improvements for Monday Night

1366
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 3: football and the rest of it as this season progresses,

1367
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 3: with the sound system, the video board and everything. But

1368
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 3: bigger picture, is there anything else to share with the fans,

1369
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 3: with the listeners, with the viewers about where the Texans

1370
00:57:55,920 --> 00:57:56,880
Speaker 3: are headed in the future.

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00:57:57,320 --> 00:57:59,320
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, I think the great thing is that

1372
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:01,400
Speaker 10: there's a common read between all this and everything that

1373
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:04,000
Speaker 10: we've talked about. It is about making sure we find

1374
00:58:04,040 --> 00:58:07,960
Speaker 10: our competitive advantage, and it is about making sure that

1375
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:10,520
Speaker 10: we're part of the community and we're delivering a world

1376
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 10: class fan experience. Like you can count on us to

1377
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:15,400
Speaker 10: be consistent and driving those things. And so you know,

1378
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 10: when we're thinking about a training facility, we've had some

1379
00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 10: great conversations, we have some mature conversations, and that's at

1380
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 10: the focus of it is can we get a competitive

1381
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:27,720
Speaker 10: advantage for our team and our organization to perform at

1382
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 10: the highest levels. Can we be a part of the community,

1383
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 10: Can we make the community better, inspire hope in Houston

1384
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:37,560
Speaker 10: and the way that we Ultimately because we do those things,

1385
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:40,520
Speaker 10: we're helping to deliver or putting ourselves in a position

1386
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:44,040
Speaker 10: to deliver a world class fan experience. So we've been

1387
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:45,920
Speaker 10: spending a lot of time on those things. We've been

1388
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:48,160
Speaker 10: spending a lot of time on those things to make

1389
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:49,920
Speaker 10: sure we hit all those marks.

1390
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 8: And I'd say we're making great progress.

1391
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:55,600
Speaker 10: Not only with the training facility as well as you

1392
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 10: know what the future of energy part can be.

1393
00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:00,480
Speaker 8: We have some great partners with the Row Video. We're

1394
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:02,360
Speaker 8: really excited to approach us together.

1395
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:05,840
Speaker 10: We have great partners with the county, and we've had

1396
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:07,600
Speaker 10: some really productive conversations.

1397
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 8: I'm really excited about what the future could be.

1398
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:12,320
Speaker 3: That's awesome, great stuff to share. Mike, thanks a lot

1399
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 3: for joining us. We look forward to Monday night where

1400
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 3: your white be here.

1401
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:18,520
Speaker 8: Early competitive advantage, Go Texan.

1402
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:21,600
Speaker 1: Like I said earlier in the show, my slogan, be

1403
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:22,480
Speaker 1: the difference.

1404
00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:24,280
Speaker 2: Be the difference.

1405
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:27,480
Speaker 1: You have a chance of sitting in that crowd being

1406
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:30,720
Speaker 1: as loud as possible, making life miserable in Baker Mayfield.

1407
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,440
Speaker 1: After the game, Todd Bowles and Baker Mayfield need to

1408
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 1: mention how loud this crowd is every time they go

1409
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:38,560
Speaker 1: under center.

1410
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 2: Be the difference.

1411
00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 1: I came up with that. I came up with that.

1412
00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:45,160
Speaker 1: That's my slogan. All right, Coming up next, let's talk

1413
00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 1: a little college football. My man, David Fletcher, GM of

1414
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:51,880
Speaker 1: Long Star Sports Entertainment, executive director of the Kinders Texas Bowl,

1415
00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:56,240
Speaker 1: will join me. Saw college football. Just put in my veins, man,

1416
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:58,800
Speaker 1: give me some college football. That's next, the Texas All Access.

1417
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:01,920
Speaker 1: I know, Friday night that is typically reserved high school football,

1418
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:05,840
Speaker 1: but a big one over at TDCU. Koog's taking on

1419
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 1: Colorado coach Brianantown to take on head coach Willie Fritz.

1420
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:10,600
Speaker 4: Big game.

1421
01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:13,480
Speaker 1: Our guy Andre Ware is on that call on ESPN

1422
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 1: this evening. So really cool stuff going on in college football.

1423
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:20,280
Speaker 1: So let's talk some college football. My man, David Fletcher

1424
01:00:20,360 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 1: GM of Lone Star Sports Entertainment and also the executive

1425
01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:26,880
Speaker 1: director of the Kinders Texas Bowl.

1426
01:00:27,120 --> 01:00:28,920
Speaker 2: It's time talking a little college football? Is do it

1427
01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:29,320
Speaker 2: right now?

1428
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:32,800
Speaker 1: GM, a Lone Star Sports Entertainment executive director of the

1429
01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:37,000
Speaker 1: Kinders Texas Bowl. In fact, he's wearing a hoodie that

1430
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 1: if that's an extra large I might have to fight

1431
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:42,240
Speaker 1: him for it. On the way outs, my man, David

1432
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:43,640
Speaker 1: Fletcher fletch, how are you doing.

1433
01:00:43,440 --> 01:00:43,760
Speaker 2: My friend?

1434
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:46,040
Speaker 11: The fight is on. Johnny ain't getting this bad boy.

1435
01:00:46,120 --> 01:00:49,840
Speaker 11: But good news, my man, stay tuned. You know, I'm

1436
01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:53,760
Speaker 11: just not gonna reveal any secrets, but we may have

1437
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:55,800
Speaker 11: heard from the masses that you're not alone and we

1438
01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:56,880
Speaker 11: need to help the staff out there.

1439
01:00:56,920 --> 01:00:58,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you need to help him saying you need

1440
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 1: to help the staff out speak looking of the Kinders

1441
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:03,160
Speaker 1: Texas Bowl. How about the fact that this is the

1442
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:07,600
Speaker 1: twentieth anniversary of the Kinders Texas Bowl.

1443
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 2: Hawesme is that.

1444
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:13,920
Speaker 11: It's an amazing accomplishment and it's directly a result of

1445
01:01:14,040 --> 01:01:17,840
Speaker 11: the support from this community here in Houston, college football hotbed,

1446
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:22,120
Speaker 11: a community that gives back so much, and we're really

1447
01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:27,200
Speaker 11: proud to be honoring our twentieth year, twenty years of

1448
01:01:28,080 --> 01:01:30,840
Speaker 11: Bigger in Texas and that's really the way that the

1449
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:34,920
Speaker 11: only way to describe this game. Bigger attendance, bigger crowds,

1450
01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:39,400
Speaker 11: bigger energy, and bigger moments have occurred and that's something

1451
01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 11: that we know we're going to carry on into December twenty.

1452
01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:44,840
Speaker 5: Seventh, a Saturday night primetime game.

1453
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:47,000
Speaker 11: When this year's Kinder's Texas Bowl takes place right here

1454
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 11: at NRG Stadium.

1455
01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:51,840
Speaker 1: Fletch, what's been And I'm trying to remember the exact year,

1456
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:55,760
Speaker 1: but I remember when you announced it that the conference

1457
01:01:55,840 --> 01:02:00,600
Speaker 1: partners were the Big Twelve in the SEC. It feels

1458
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 1: like that marriage has been frankly awesome.

1459
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:07,160
Speaker 2: To have those two conferences meeting in this game here.

1460
01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:11,760
Speaker 11: It's been transformational for our organization and for our community.

1461
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:14,240
Speaker 11: To say the least, I mean Big Twelve and SEC

1462
01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:18,920
Speaker 11: to the biggest conferences in college football geographically, we're right

1463
01:02:18,960 --> 01:02:23,480
Speaker 11: at the epicenter of those institutions, and for Houston. The

1464
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:26,680
Speaker 11: first matchup came in twenty fourteen, also was the first

1465
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:28,960
Speaker 11: year that I got to sit in this chair and

1466
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 11: have got to watch the impact, and the impact has

1467
01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:36,200
Speaker 11: been immense on Houston. You look at it since that,

1468
01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 11: we're the most attended Bowl game in the country outside

1469
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:43,760
Speaker 11: of the playoff games. We're a top ten game in

1470
01:02:43,840 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 11: terms of visibility. Our broadcast partners at ESPN have done

1471
01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 11: a tremendous job putting us in windows, mostly in prime

1472
01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:55,520
Speaker 11: time that really showcase Houston to a national stage. And

1473
01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:57,920
Speaker 11: the experience we've been able to create with our two

1474
01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 11: partners has been incredibly impactful from a philanthropic side, over

1475
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:06,440
Speaker 11: almost three million dollars raised for Depelching Children's Center. But

1476
01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:09,320
Speaker 11: I think the thing that's been most exciting is you

1477
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:12,160
Speaker 11: look at the quality of the teams, the players that

1478
01:03:12,200 --> 01:03:15,400
Speaker 11: have come through an RG stadium around the game since

1479
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 11: that matchup came together. And I mean the litany of

1480
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:23,000
Speaker 11: first round picks number one overall picks like Miles Garrett,

1481
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:26,800
Speaker 11: you know, longtime NFL stars. You know, I think back

1482
01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:30,800
Speaker 11: to the twenty fifteen game, in particular Texas Tech LSU.

1483
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:33,720
Speaker 11: You get six first round picks, a little guy number

1484
01:03:33,760 --> 01:03:36,200
Speaker 11: fifteen up in Kansas City, and Patrick Mahomes who's had

1485
01:03:36,200 --> 01:03:38,760
Speaker 11: a pretty good career. On the other side, Leonard Fournette,

1486
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:42,280
Speaker 11: Jamal Adams just a key part and key.

1487
01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:46,520
Speaker 1: Yeah gotshaw yeah shoe team was Tredavius White was a

1488
01:03:46,560 --> 01:03:49,440
Speaker 1: corner on that Tim White team was jacking.

1489
01:03:49,440 --> 01:03:52,200
Speaker 11: On the Texas tech side, you had Mahomes, Jaquem Grant.

1490
01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:54,640
Speaker 11: So you know, just you know that that is one

1491
01:03:54,680 --> 01:03:58,480
Speaker 11: example of many. Going back to last year's game LSU

1492
01:03:58,520 --> 01:04:01,720
Speaker 11: and Baylor, I mean, the the quality of talent. Arguably

1493
01:04:01,760 --> 01:04:04,880
Speaker 11: two of the best quarterbacks in the country this year

1494
01:04:05,520 --> 01:04:07,560
Speaker 11: played in that game last year and in what was

1495
01:04:07,560 --> 01:04:09,320
Speaker 11: a really really close and competitive game.

1496
01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:12,760
Speaker 1: I mean, take it a step further, the Week one hero,

1497
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:15,240
Speaker 1: if you will of college football is Gary Nutsmeyer yep

1498
01:04:15,480 --> 01:04:18,480
Speaker 1: against Clemson. And then Week two you got to come

1499
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 1: back up in Dallas with Zawyer Robertson. And for what

1500
01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:28,000
Speaker 1: I love, there's a term that's used for you know,

1501
01:04:28,080 --> 01:04:32,040
Speaker 1: on social media when a game gets a little crazy nowadays,

1502
01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 1: they say a game is drunk in some sense, and

1503
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 1: that actually is a good thing because you're seeing things

1504
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:42,480
Speaker 1: in a game that just have your attention. And I've

1505
01:04:42,480 --> 01:04:44,120
Speaker 1: done the last three years up in the booth with

1506
01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:46,840
Speaker 1: Brett Dolan in every single one of those games. The

1507
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:50,040
Speaker 1: game seemingly kind of gone sideways at some point, but

1508
01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:52,920
Speaker 1: it's become competitive is all get out. Where it was

1509
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:56,240
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State and A and him that, it was Texas

1510
01:04:56,240 --> 01:04:58,360
Speaker 1: Tech and Ole Miss, and then it last year was

1511
01:04:58,440 --> 01:05:02,960
Speaker 1: Lshue Baylor. Every game I had a moment where You're like, huh,

1512
01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 1: what's happening. I can't take my eyes off of this game.

1513
01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:09,800
Speaker 1: And the talent has been absolutely fantastic. Jackson Dart was

1514
01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:11,320
Speaker 1: a guy that played in this game. That's right, a

1515
01:05:11,360 --> 01:05:13,600
Speaker 1: few years ago. Marcel Reid, who will play a big

1516
01:05:13,680 --> 01:05:16,400
Speaker 1: role in the game against Notre Dame that's coming up

1517
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:19,760
Speaker 1: this weekend. He comes into the game on the second play,

1518
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:21,840
Speaker 1: and it's funny because a lot of A and M people.

1519
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:24,080
Speaker 1: I'm watching that game and I'm thinking, are we sure

1520
01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:25,840
Speaker 1: that that guy that was in that got hurt in

1521
01:05:25,840 --> 01:05:28,760
Speaker 1: their first play should have been in before Marcell Reid

1522
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:30,840
Speaker 1: because that dude was tremendous.

1523
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:33,040
Speaker 5: And that was the twenty three game against Oklahoma States.

1524
01:05:33,120 --> 01:05:37,200
Speaker 11: So yeah, and that's what those two conference partners have

1525
01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:40,360
Speaker 11: been able to do for us is consistently create an

1526
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:44,840
Speaker 11: incredible atmosphere, a competitive game on the field, and showcase

1527
01:05:44,880 --> 01:05:47,800
Speaker 11: Houston as a destination for the sport. We're excited to

1528
01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:49,640
Speaker 11: be able to do that again for our twentieth year

1529
01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:51,880
Speaker 11: and twenty more plus going forward.

1530
01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:53,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, very very cool.

1531
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:56,800
Speaker 1: Now you said Dayton Time, and there's a little burro

1532
01:05:56,840 --> 01:05:59,560
Speaker 1: up my saddle about this one as it sits now.

1533
01:05:59,760 --> 01:06:01,760
Speaker 1: But Dayton Time give it to the people again.

1534
01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:06,760
Speaker 11: Yeah, we're back in primetime. Are eleven time in thirteen years,

1535
01:06:06,840 --> 01:06:10,080
Speaker 11: So you know, for us, that's always fantastic. The biggest

1536
01:06:10,160 --> 01:06:13,360
Speaker 11: day of college football, actually the biggest day of football Saturday,

1537
01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:16,840
Speaker 11: December twenty seventh here at NRG Stadium where the capper

1538
01:06:16,920 --> 01:06:19,520
Speaker 11: to eleven football games that day.

1539
01:06:19,880 --> 01:06:21,560
Speaker 5: And I know why you're a little upset, Johnny.

1540
01:06:21,560 --> 01:06:24,160
Speaker 11: I know we are a little upset Texans and Chargers

1541
01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:27,760
Speaker 11: somewhere in that calendar as well. But for our college

1542
01:06:27,760 --> 01:06:30,960
Speaker 11: football fans, and really for football fans in general, couldn't

1543
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:34,160
Speaker 11: ask for a better window a Saturday. I can tell

1544
01:06:34,200 --> 01:06:36,840
Speaker 11: you right now without getting too many details, you'll have

1545
01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:38,760
Speaker 11: to go to Kinders Texas Bowl dot com to figure

1546
01:06:38,800 --> 01:06:40,880
Speaker 11: it out here and we'll keep you posted, but we

1547
01:06:40,920 --> 01:06:43,440
Speaker 11: are really working on making a true celebration of the

1548
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:47,520
Speaker 11: sport all day long here at NRG Stadium to culminate

1549
01:06:47,600 --> 01:06:50,800
Speaker 11: with this game. We think it's the perfect atmosphere, a

1550
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:53,000
Speaker 11: great environment around the holidays to come and have some

1551
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:53,640
Speaker 11: fun out here.

1552
01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:57,919
Speaker 1: It's the one thing, you know. I love my job

1553
01:06:57,920 --> 01:07:00,760
Speaker 1: on the sidelines. I love it, but when we have

1554
01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:03,840
Speaker 1: like this was, Oh, we were in Kansas City last

1555
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:06,920
Speaker 1: year and we're playing Kansas City and that was the

1556
01:07:06,960 --> 01:07:11,640
Speaker 1: first weekend of the college football playoff. Now those games

1557
01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:15,800
Speaker 1: turned into absolute I mean they were complete duds, but

1558
01:07:16,240 --> 01:07:18,800
Speaker 1: you had all this great college football going on, and

1559
01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:19,720
Speaker 1: I got a quote.

1560
01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:23,080
Speaker 2: Unquote work that day in Kansas City.

1561
01:07:23,080 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 4: It was just a little cold.

1562
01:07:24,360 --> 01:07:25,120
Speaker 2: It's the same thing.

1563
01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:28,600
Speaker 1: I love being on sidelines and I love facing the Chargers,

1564
01:07:29,080 --> 01:07:32,160
Speaker 1: but that day of that much football is going to

1565
01:07:32,200 --> 01:07:34,360
Speaker 1: be I mean, we'll see some of it well, and

1566
01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:35,960
Speaker 1: then again, we don't even know what we're playing that day,

1567
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:38,840
Speaker 1: so we'll see. But unfortunately I won't be here at

1568
01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:42,280
Speaker 1: Texas Ball. But it's been such a great game over

1569
01:07:42,280 --> 01:07:44,640
Speaker 1: the years. Fletch, do you have a game or two

1570
01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:47,080
Speaker 1: that stand out to you where you're like, man, this.

1571
01:07:47,040 --> 01:07:47,720
Speaker 2: Is pretty cool.

1572
01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:48,160
Speaker 4: I know.

1573
01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:51,840
Speaker 1: The one for me is probably twenty fifteen because I

1574
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:56,760
Speaker 1: was when I wasn't called Texas LSU Texas Tech, and

1575
01:07:56,920 --> 01:07:58,600
Speaker 1: when I wasn't calling a game, I was doing video

1576
01:07:58,600 --> 01:08:00,360
Speaker 1: board stuff with Drew, and so I would come down

1577
01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:01,800
Speaker 1: and I would stand on the sideline that would go

1578
01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:04,000
Speaker 1: to each sideline, watch a little bit from the end

1579
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:05,960
Speaker 1: zones whenever they got close. But I would watch from

1580
01:08:05,960 --> 01:08:09,080
Speaker 1: each sideline throughout the first half, and then I would

1581
01:08:09,120 --> 01:08:10,600
Speaker 1: pick a side and kind of stay the rest of

1582
01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:13,920
Speaker 1: the game. So I started off on the Texas Tech side,

1583
01:08:14,080 --> 01:08:16,960
Speaker 1: kind of right near their bench, and so it's the

1584
01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:21,040
Speaker 1: third possession. Texas Tech did absolutely nothing the first two possessions.

1585
01:08:21,120 --> 01:08:23,439
Speaker 1: Third possession and it's like a third down and I'll

1586
01:08:23,439 --> 01:08:26,479
Speaker 1: never forget it. Mahomes takes a snap and he starts

1587
01:08:26,520 --> 01:08:28,160
Speaker 1: to move out of the pocket to the left towards us,

1588
01:08:28,240 --> 01:08:30,439
Speaker 1: like he's running to his left, he's getting chased, He's

1589
01:08:30,520 --> 01:08:32,920
Speaker 1: running nearly right at me, and all of a sudden,

1590
01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:36,080
Speaker 1: he stops and doesn't stop. He just kind of like

1591
01:08:36,120 --> 01:08:38,519
Speaker 1: he's throwing the ball from short over the first side,

1592
01:08:38,600 --> 01:08:41,840
Speaker 1: arms it and he hits of all people, Kiki QT

1593
01:08:42,360 --> 01:08:47,200
Speaker 1: across the middle in stride about twenty five yards downfield,

1594
01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:51,679
Speaker 1: back to his right, and I just went, what did

1595
01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:56,559
Speaker 1: I see? So a year later, when he is up

1596
01:08:56,560 --> 01:09:01,120
Speaker 1: for draft discussion, I put him as I was at

1597
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:02,320
Speaker 1: the time. I was writing a little bit for the

1598
01:09:02,360 --> 01:09:05,160
Speaker 1: Washington Post. I did mock draft, and so at number

1599
01:09:05,160 --> 01:09:07,400
Speaker 1: two to San Francisco forty nine Ers, number one, I

1600
01:09:07,400 --> 01:09:10,120
Speaker 1: had Miles Garrett going to Cleveland, YEP. Number two to

1601
01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:13,400
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears, I had Deshaun Watson. I'm sorry. To

1602
01:09:13,439 --> 01:09:16,200
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers. I had Deshaun Watson, which made sense.

1603
01:09:16,280 --> 01:09:19,800
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan nobody, okay. Number three to the Chicago Bears,

1604
01:09:19,800 --> 01:09:23,320
Speaker 1: I had Patrick Mahomes and it was based on watching

1605
01:09:23,360 --> 01:09:26,360
Speaker 1: him up close that day and seeing him like this,

1606
01:09:26,439 --> 01:09:27,240
Speaker 1: dude's special.

1607
01:09:27,280 --> 01:09:30,320
Speaker 2: I don't know what y'all are seeing, but that dude

1608
01:09:30,320 --> 01:09:30,960
Speaker 2: doing those things.

1609
01:09:31,240 --> 01:09:33,320
Speaker 1: I don't see that, and I was seeing it with

1610
01:09:33,320 --> 01:09:35,680
Speaker 1: the same eyes I would watch NFL quarterbacks down on

1611
01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:36,599
Speaker 1: the sidelines right.

1612
01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:38,520
Speaker 2: It was ridiculous.

1613
01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:41,439
Speaker 1: And I remember my editor emailed me back that night

1614
01:09:41,439 --> 01:09:43,240
Speaker 1: and said, you have Mahomes number three?

1615
01:09:43,280 --> 01:09:45,080
Speaker 2: You sure about this? I'm like, yep, print it.

1616
01:09:45,479 --> 01:09:48,920
Speaker 1: February twenty fifth, I think it was they printed that

1617
01:09:49,360 --> 01:09:51,559
Speaker 1: and it was like a surprise at number three Chicago

1618
01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:55,519
Speaker 1: Bears draft Patrick Mahomes and a lot of people were like, Oh,

1619
01:09:55,560 --> 01:09:57,160
Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen. That's not going to do that.

1620
01:09:57,240 --> 01:09:59,840
Speaker 1: And I was like, just watch and he's become who's

1621
01:09:59,840 --> 01:10:02,000
Speaker 1: be in. A large part of that was just standing

1622
01:10:02,040 --> 01:10:03,760
Speaker 1: on the sidelines. Is that game in twenty fifteen.

1623
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:04,840
Speaker 11: Well, I think that was one of his coming out

1624
01:10:04,840 --> 01:10:06,760
Speaker 11: parties for sure. I mean had a national stage. That

1625
01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:10,519
Speaker 11: was a firecracker matchup. I mean, Texas Tech had a chance.

1626
01:10:10,560 --> 01:10:12,200
Speaker 11: They were going back and forth. They were going back

1627
01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:15,920
Speaker 11: and forth for full three quarters. Holmes throws an interception

1628
01:10:16,120 --> 01:10:19,400
Speaker 11: in the end zone end of the third quarter, and

1629
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:22,479
Speaker 11: then and then the four net train turned on all

1630
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:25,920
Speaker 11: three touchdowns on the fourth quarter. The game looked lopsided,

1631
01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:31,840
Speaker 11: but was such an incredible matchup throughout and and honestly,

1632
01:10:32,320 --> 01:10:33,840
Speaker 11: you know, we've had so many of those. I don't

1633
01:10:33,840 --> 01:10:35,320
Speaker 11: know if I could pick a favorite. But you mentioned

1634
01:10:35,320 --> 01:10:37,240
Speaker 11: the Miles Garrett. You know, the next year, Miles Garrett

1635
01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:39,639
Speaker 11: played in this game. In the game, played in this game,

1636
01:10:39,720 --> 01:10:41,880
Speaker 11: despite the fact that everybody knew he was gonna be

1637
01:10:41,880 --> 01:10:44,759
Speaker 11: the number one pick and I remember talking to Miles

1638
01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:47,080
Speaker 11: about it. I remember talking to coach someone at the time.

1639
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:49,840
Speaker 11: You know, it was important for him to be there

1640
01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:52,640
Speaker 11: for his teammates. It's important for him to take to

1641
01:10:52,760 --> 01:10:55,240
Speaker 11: be here in what I would call, you know, the

1642
01:10:55,240 --> 01:10:57,400
Speaker 11: home area right A and M right down the road,

1643
01:10:57,680 --> 01:11:01,479
Speaker 11: great institution up ninety miles away. And you know, that's

1644
01:11:01,520 --> 01:11:04,320
Speaker 11: what these games are about. They're an opportunity, the last

1645
01:11:04,360 --> 01:11:08,479
Speaker 11: opportunity in many cases, whether it's because of graduation, transfer,

1646
01:11:09,000 --> 01:11:11,720
Speaker 11: you know, situational, it's a lot of times the last

1647
01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:14,479
Speaker 11: time these guys will play YEP, play together, and it

1648
01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:16,760
Speaker 11: means something and it will continue to mean something even

1649
01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:19,960
Speaker 11: with the evolution going on with college football. This game,

1650
01:11:20,200 --> 01:11:23,720
Speaker 11: these games, college football, postseason, bold season matters, and we're

1651
01:11:23,760 --> 01:11:27,120
Speaker 11: excited that Houston has embraced this over the last twenty

1652
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:30,840
Speaker 11: years so much. We're really thankful, I mean to say

1653
01:11:30,880 --> 01:11:34,360
Speaker 11: the least, the Texans organization and you and many others

1654
01:11:34,360 --> 01:11:37,080
Speaker 11: have helped to make that story for the teams and

1655
01:11:37,120 --> 01:11:38,639
Speaker 11: the fans that come in a great one.

1656
01:11:39,160 --> 01:11:41,600
Speaker 5: And we get another opportunity to do that here this December.

1657
01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:44,280
Speaker 11: And I can promise you I know from my chair,

1658
01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:47,679
Speaker 11: but certainly feel it for everybody else. Everybody's excited about

1659
01:11:47,680 --> 01:11:50,320
Speaker 11: it and we can't wait to bring this one back.

1660
01:11:50,640 --> 01:11:55,120
Speaker 1: Early thoughts, we're two weeks in. Got games tonight, you

1661
01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:56,840
Speaker 1: got klrad or you vased. I think it's gonna be

1662
01:11:56,840 --> 01:11:59,439
Speaker 1: a fantastic game, But just kind of your early thoughts.

1663
01:11:59,479 --> 01:12:02,639
Speaker 1: Two weeks into what we've seen. We've seen some good football.

1664
01:12:02,680 --> 01:12:05,479
Speaker 1: We've seen some teams that, you know, kind of a

1665
01:12:05,520 --> 01:12:08,720
Speaker 1: little shaky, and maybe they'll get there. Everybody thought Arch

1666
01:12:08,800 --> 01:12:11,320
Speaker 1: Banning was gonna be everything his uncle's were.

1667
01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:12,360
Speaker 2: He's not quite that.

1668
01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:15,040
Speaker 1: Maybe yet, we'll see, but would have been kind of

1669
01:12:15,080 --> 01:12:15,920
Speaker 1: your early thoughts.

1670
01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:17,599
Speaker 2: A couple of weeks in the COLLG football season.

1671
01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:19,720
Speaker 11: I think everybody's feeling the impact of the new era

1672
01:12:19,760 --> 01:12:24,960
Speaker 11: of college football, right transfers Nio. The the reality that

1673
01:12:25,920 --> 01:12:28,320
Speaker 11: this universe is very different than it was even two

1674
01:12:28,400 --> 01:12:29,000
Speaker 11: or three years ago.

1675
01:12:29,120 --> 01:12:29,280
Speaker 6: Yep.

1676
01:12:29,479 --> 01:12:31,519
Speaker 11: A lot of moving parts, a lot of things that

1677
01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:36,280
Speaker 11: are different. Teams accordingly, are trying to get their feet

1678
01:12:36,320 --> 01:12:36,880
Speaker 11: underneath them.

1679
01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:39,040
Speaker 5: I hear. I think. I think the reality is it's

1680
01:12:39,040 --> 01:12:39,639
Speaker 5: a long season.

1681
01:12:39,880 --> 01:12:40,240
Speaker 6: You know that.

1682
01:12:40,320 --> 01:12:42,479
Speaker 5: That's another one that stands out to me. You mentioned Arch.

1683
01:12:42,520 --> 01:12:44,639
Speaker 11: Look, I'm in the University of Texas alum, a huge,

1684
01:12:44,720 --> 01:12:48,120
Speaker 11: huge fan of of what we're doing in Austin. But

1685
01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:53,120
Speaker 11: you know, the reality is that game was was an opportunity,

1686
01:12:53,280 --> 01:12:58,160
Speaker 11: but it's not the only opportunity, and it didn't go

1687
01:12:58,240 --> 01:13:02,120
Speaker 11: the way that Texas fans wanted, but it didn't push

1688
01:13:02,240 --> 01:13:04,160
Speaker 11: Texas off their ultimate goals.

1689
01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:06,400
Speaker 5: And that's the case for a lot of teams.

1690
01:13:07,200 --> 01:13:09,559
Speaker 11: And what's happening in this early season, with the playoff

1691
01:13:09,560 --> 01:13:14,040
Speaker 11: expanded and with the realities of the new college football structure.

1692
01:13:14,560 --> 01:13:17,440
Speaker 11: I think the last thing is the energy, the excitement,

1693
01:13:17,800 --> 01:13:20,639
Speaker 11: and the fervor is as big as it's ever been.

1694
01:13:21,120 --> 01:13:25,200
Speaker 11: And you see that reflective not only in the on

1695
01:13:25,360 --> 01:13:28,559
Speaker 11: field product, but certainly in the ratings and very much

1696
01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:32,080
Speaker 11: so in the business of football. So for all its flaws,

1697
01:13:32,320 --> 01:13:36,559
Speaker 11: for all its craziness, college football is here to stay

1698
01:13:36,640 --> 01:13:39,360
Speaker 11: and stay in a big way. And I think that

1699
01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:42,280
Speaker 11: the season that we have ahead of us has got

1700
01:13:42,320 --> 01:13:45,879
Speaker 11: a lot of really interesting twists and turns ahead, including

1701
01:13:45,960 --> 01:13:47,320
Speaker 11: like you said, hey.

1702
01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:50,120
Speaker 5: Look down the road tonight over at a U of H.

1703
01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:53,040
Speaker 11: Boy, Willie Fritz got that team off to a two

1704
01:13:53,120 --> 01:13:55,519
Speaker 11: and oho start, got that team thinking about the right

1705
01:13:55,600 --> 01:13:57,880
Speaker 11: things in a very competitive Big twelve.

1706
01:13:58,000 --> 01:13:59,360
Speaker 5: You know you would have said that a year ago.

1707
01:14:00,320 --> 01:14:02,000
Speaker 5: That but you know, great coach.

1708
01:14:02,479 --> 01:14:04,920
Speaker 11: Certainly an opportunity there, and that's the case in many

1709
01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:07,920
Speaker 11: many other programs where you get the right mix of things.

1710
01:14:07,960 --> 01:14:10,479
Speaker 5: It's early on. Teams are starting to see a path

1711
01:14:10,520 --> 01:14:12,160
Speaker 5: and that's fun for everybody involved.

1712
01:14:12,200 --> 01:14:14,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is one heck of a weekend. Obviously, Texas

1713
01:14:14,439 --> 01:14:16,639
Speaker 1: A and M goes through their dame. You got Florida

1714
01:14:16,680 --> 01:14:19,799
Speaker 1: taken on LSU Florida after losing last week to a really,

1715
01:14:19,840 --> 01:14:24,280
Speaker 1: really good USF team, got Tennessee taken on Georgia. Tennessee's

1716
01:14:24,280 --> 01:14:27,320
Speaker 1: lost the last eight in a row to Georgia. Now

1717
01:14:27,360 --> 01:14:29,200
Speaker 1: they get him a Knoxville. So this is one heck

1718
01:14:29,479 --> 01:14:31,759
Speaker 1: of a college weekend. And who knows of those teams

1719
01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:35,599
Speaker 1: we might see here at the Kinders Texas Bowl December

1720
01:14:35,600 --> 01:14:38,320
Speaker 1: twenty seventh, Prime time Saturday night.

1721
01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:40,799
Speaker 2: It is a glorious Saturday of football.

1722
01:14:40,800 --> 01:14:42,920
Speaker 1: Hopefully the Texas will get a win over the Chargers

1723
01:14:42,960 --> 01:14:44,759
Speaker 1: and then we can celebrate with all the college football

1724
01:14:44,800 --> 01:14:47,000
Speaker 1: going on. My man David Fletcher will be right in

1725
01:14:47,000 --> 01:14:48,719
Speaker 1: the middle of everything you talked about, all the people

1726
01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:51,599
Speaker 1: that are important to this Fletch. This doesn't go if

1727
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Speaker 1: you're not here. This game goes because you make it

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Speaker 1: as such. And I know you downplay that. I will

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01:14:58,120 --> 01:15:01,599
Speaker 1: not because you do everything. You got a great team

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01:15:01,600 --> 01:15:03,719
Speaker 1: around you, but you do everything to make this game

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01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:06,519
Speaker 1: the game that it is. So appreciate you, brother, Thank

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01:15:06,520 --> 01:15:07,960
Speaker 1: you so much for talking to college football.

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Speaker 5: Johnny always appreciate it.

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Speaker 11: Kinderstexas Bowl dot Com for the latest info we'll see

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Speaker 11: on December twenty seventh, and Johnny at checks in the

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Speaker 11: mail for that great endorsement.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate you, bet, of course.

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Speaker 2: Brother.

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Speaker 6: There you go.

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Speaker 1: One of my favorite people in this building right there,

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Speaker 1: David Fletcher, GM Lotzar Sports Entertainment, also the executive director

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Speaker 1: of the Kinder's Texas Bowl, and he is the main

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01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:30,880
Speaker 1: driver why this bowl game works. Man, he is unbelievable

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01:15:30,880 --> 01:15:32,599
Speaker 1: at his job. I love that dude. I love talking

1745
01:15:32,600 --> 01:15:35,080
Speaker 1: to some college football with him. That was really fun. Now,

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01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:37,720
Speaker 1: one of my other favorite people in this building is

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01:15:37,760 --> 01:15:41,559
Speaker 1: Damika Ryans. And when I'm not feeling great, he sits

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01:15:41,600 --> 01:15:43,799
Speaker 1: down next to us on a Monday or Tuesday whenever

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01:15:43,840 --> 01:15:45,720
Speaker 1: we get a chance to him postgame, and we just

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01:15:45,720 --> 01:15:48,559
Speaker 1: start chatting about the game about football, ball life. I

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01:15:48,640 --> 01:15:52,639
Speaker 1: feel better. So it's a feel good Friday. That means

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01:15:52,640 --> 01:15:56,360
Speaker 1: we close the show down with Demko Ryans. Got to

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01:15:56,520 --> 01:15:57,840
Speaker 1: it's the only way you can do it. We do

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Speaker 1: it next right here in Texas All Access. We're go

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Speaker 1: one final segment this edition of Texans All Access from

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Speaker 1: the Honday.

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Speaker 2: Texans A Radio studio.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter for

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01:16:08,439 --> 01:16:13,679
Speaker 1: your Houston Texans In every Friday before a weekend game,

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01:16:14,960 --> 01:16:16,040
Speaker 1: we'd like to feel good.

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01:16:16,040 --> 01:16:17,360
Speaker 2: We'd like to feel good vibes.

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01:16:18,120 --> 01:16:21,840
Speaker 1: And so I started playing Demico Ryans interview with Mark

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01:16:21,840 --> 01:16:24,600
Speaker 1: and myself back in the twenty twenty four season at

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01:16:24,640 --> 01:16:26,320
Speaker 1: some point, and we ended up winning. So it kind

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01:16:26,320 --> 01:16:29,559
Speaker 1: of became kind of routine slash superstition, and so I'm

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Speaker 1: not stopping now. Here's Demiko Ryans chatting and talking about

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01:16:35,840 --> 01:16:38,800
Speaker 1: the loss at LA, how to get better and things

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01:16:38,840 --> 01:16:43,520
Speaker 1: to look forward to this week against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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Speaker 3: In the Hyundai Texans Radio studio with head coach Demiko Ryans.

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Speaker 6: Coach.

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Speaker 3: Great to see it, thanks for beving me.

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Speaker 6: You guys.

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01:16:48,520 --> 01:16:50,679
Speaker 3: All right here we go into week two with Tampa

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01:16:50,680 --> 01:16:53,639
Speaker 3: Bay coming up just wrapping up the Rams game, which

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01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:55,880
Speaker 3: was a couple of days ago. As we do this,

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01:16:56,560 --> 01:16:58,800
Speaker 3: is there something you could take with with you? I

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01:16:58,880 --> 01:17:00,439
Speaker 3: know there have to be a few things that you

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01:17:00,640 --> 01:17:02,479
Speaker 3: liked that you saw that you want to use in

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01:17:02,479 --> 01:17:04,040
Speaker 3: week two, and there's a lot you want to improve

1780
01:17:04,080 --> 01:17:04,479
Speaker 3: as well.

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Speaker 12: For sure, our team definitely did some really good things

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01:17:07,160 --> 01:17:09,880
Speaker 12: all three phases. Guys did some nice, nice things, made

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01:17:09,920 --> 01:17:12,880
Speaker 12: some nice plays. The takeaway is, hey, we're there in

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01:17:12,880 --> 01:17:15,320
Speaker 12: the fourth quarter with a chance and opportunity to go

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Speaker 12: win the ball game. As bad as it may seem

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01:17:17,880 --> 01:17:21,240
Speaker 12: as if we didn't play well or whatever, that looks

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01:17:21,320 --> 01:17:22,520
Speaker 12: like we had an opportunity.

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Speaker 6: And that's the NFL. Right.

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Speaker 12: Eleven games last week came down to one score games, right,

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Speaker 12: And so when you look at it that way, like,

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01:17:30,320 --> 01:17:33,280
Speaker 12: how are you gonna make the plays necessary to put

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Speaker 12: yourself in a winning seat when you're in that fourth quarter?

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Speaker 12: That's what I take from it. And the main thing

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01:17:39,479 --> 01:17:42,599
Speaker 12: for us is how can we control the controllables? How

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01:17:42,600 --> 01:17:45,960
Speaker 12: do we control those things that's tempo in and out

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01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:47,880
Speaker 12: of the huddle to make sure we're at the line

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01:17:47,880 --> 01:17:49,920
Speaker 12: of scrimmage we can make the right calls, checks, we

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01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:52,040
Speaker 12: need to make we control that right.

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Speaker 6: The penalt hands too high or your paths are not

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Speaker 6: low enough.

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Speaker 12: We control that right if we control those things that

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01:17:58,960 --> 01:18:01,800
Speaker 12: mitigate some of the penalties that we were making that

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01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:04,360
Speaker 12: kind of shot ourselves in the foot. And now we're

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01:18:04,720 --> 01:18:07,080
Speaker 12: in second and long, third and long, and those are

1805
01:18:07,160 --> 01:18:09,160
Speaker 12: uphill battles that you just don't want to be in

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01:18:09,200 --> 01:18:11,400
Speaker 12: in the game. So if we can come out this week,

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01:18:11,439 --> 01:18:14,479
Speaker 12: control the controllables and just put ourselves in a position

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01:18:14,520 --> 01:18:17,719
Speaker 12: and have a chance to compete, then let's see what happens.

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Speaker 2: I knew we talked about this a lot.

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Speaker 1: Coach of physicality defensively, was there What did you think

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01:18:22,479 --> 01:18:24,840
Speaker 1: when you went back and watch a film offensively from

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Speaker 1: a physicality standpoint, there were a couple of times where

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Speaker 1: I was like, WHOA, that looked really good.

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01:18:29,400 --> 01:18:31,400
Speaker 2: Would you think when you went back and looked at it?

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Speaker 6: Overall?

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01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:34,040
Speaker 2: Just the physicality of your team in general?

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01:18:34,240 --> 01:18:36,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, our team plays physical.

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01:18:36,320 --> 01:18:38,639
Speaker 12: You putting the tape on. You talked about the defense.

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01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:40,639
Speaker 12: I mean, guys are hitting. I don't want to play

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01:18:40,680 --> 01:18:45,120
Speaker 12: against our defense, but I mean the way Kamari comes

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01:18:45,200 --> 01:18:47,960
Speaker 12: up and his has a corner, I mean, it's no

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01:18:48,520 --> 01:18:51,960
Speaker 12: one better doing it. Henry playing physical Z like with

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Speaker 12: all our guys playing fields up front, offensive line thought

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01:18:54,800 --> 01:18:57,360
Speaker 12: Titans playing physical. He had some nice finishes on some

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01:18:57,400 --> 01:19:00,240
Speaker 12: play as well. Of course Kay was strained and then

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01:19:00,240 --> 01:19:03,080
Speaker 12: playing physical as well. Unfortunate, you know, we'll miss him

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Speaker 12: for a little bit. But there there are glimpses of

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Speaker 12: physicality all throughout our tape, right, and that's how we

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01:19:10,280 --> 01:19:13,000
Speaker 12: should play. That's what Texans football look like. Now. We

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01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:15,400
Speaker 12: just got to clean up some of the other little

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01:19:15,640 --> 01:19:18,439
Speaker 12: finer details and we'll be off in rolling.

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Speaker 3: And you have two good defenses playing clutch ball at

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01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:24,080
Speaker 3: the end because you got the ball out with diseases

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01:19:24,200 --> 01:19:27,280
Speaker 3: hit and through the challenge flag didn't get that call,

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01:19:27,360 --> 01:19:29,360
Speaker 3: so you had to throw the flag and you've probably

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01:19:29,360 --> 01:19:31,720
Speaker 3: felt pretty confident about that at the time, got the

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01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:34,000
Speaker 3: ball back, able to get it into scoring range. I

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01:19:34,040 --> 01:19:36,120
Speaker 3: know it didn't work out ultimately, but you had to

1839
01:19:36,120 --> 01:19:37,759
Speaker 3: feel good about that defensive takeaway.

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Speaker 6: I felt outstanding.

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Speaker 12: That was the one thing we talk about throughout the week,

1842
01:19:42,120 --> 01:19:44,120
Speaker 12: like this game is going to come down to the ball,

1843
01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:46,720
Speaker 12: right and we have to take the ball away. And

1844
01:19:46,760 --> 01:19:49,240
Speaker 12: I'm always I'm on the the mic. I'm always talking

1845
01:19:49,280 --> 01:19:51,599
Speaker 12: to the disease before the serious Hey, rememinder, we got

1846
01:19:51,600 --> 01:19:53,120
Speaker 12: to get the ball, gotta get the ball, gotta get

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01:19:53,160 --> 01:19:55,280
Speaker 12: the ball. Came down to that one. But we got

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01:19:55,320 --> 01:19:58,000
Speaker 12: it at the right time, at a critical moment. And

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01:19:58,040 --> 01:20:00,840
Speaker 12: then you see how the ball goes same for them

1850
01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:04,439
Speaker 12: and their defense. Like the corner man now standing play.

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01:20:04,520 --> 01:20:06,759
Speaker 12: Higgins goes up, he has the ball in his hands,

1852
01:20:06,800 --> 01:20:09,720
Speaker 12: God takes the ball away. Great play by him. And

1853
01:20:09,800 --> 01:20:13,719
Speaker 12: then their linebacker, I mean Dary is going down.

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01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:14,240
Speaker 6: To the ground.

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01:20:14,360 --> 01:20:16,920
Speaker 12: The ball is a little loose, he punches it exactly,

1856
01:20:17,080 --> 01:20:20,519
Speaker 12: I mean at the pinpoint accuracy, like the outstanding play

1857
01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:23,439
Speaker 12: by him. But that's the game. You have to protect

1858
01:20:23,439 --> 01:20:25,160
Speaker 12: the ball, you have to attack the ball. And that's

1859
01:20:25,200 --> 01:20:26,880
Speaker 12: always our main emphasis coach.

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Speaker 1: When that play happened, that bootleg not talked about by anybody,

1861
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:33,160
Speaker 1: But Will Anderson shuts down the first guy going to

1862
01:20:33,200 --> 01:20:35,760
Speaker 1: the flat. They forced him to go to Parkinson, so

1863
01:20:35,840 --> 01:20:38,280
Speaker 1: he gets the ball. The ball comes out. The line

1864
01:20:38,360 --> 01:20:41,559
Speaker 1: judge in front of us is waving incomplete, incomplete. From

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01:20:41,600 --> 01:20:44,479
Speaker 1: that point to the point that you threw the challenge flag,

1866
01:20:44,880 --> 01:20:46,559
Speaker 1: what was kind of going because I look to see

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01:20:46,560 --> 01:20:48,440
Speaker 1: whether you're going to do it, and I saw your eyes.

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Speaker 5: First go up.

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01:20:49,960 --> 01:20:52,320
Speaker 1: What was kind of the process of you deciding to

1870
01:20:52,360 --> 01:20:54,200
Speaker 1: go ahead and throw the flag at that point?

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01:20:54,280 --> 01:20:57,680
Speaker 12: Yeah, it was an interesting play because as I see it,

1872
01:20:57,720 --> 01:21:00,519
Speaker 12: you know, the ball is out, everyone is excited, and

1873
01:21:00,600 --> 01:21:03,640
Speaker 12: I see as the line is coming, he waited for

1874
01:21:03,680 --> 01:21:08,840
Speaker 12: a minute, right, he did it immediately say incomplet so

1875
01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:11,400
Speaker 12: he was So I talked to him and that like,

1876
01:21:11,400 --> 01:21:14,120
Speaker 12: what's your process? What are you right? And then he

1877
01:21:14,240 --> 01:21:16,360
Speaker 12: was like he had to replay it in his mind

1878
01:21:16,720 --> 01:21:18,519
Speaker 12: and that and I'm trying to look up on the screen.

1879
01:21:18,680 --> 01:21:21,040
Speaker 12: Let me see if I get a replay, which obviously

1880
01:21:21,080 --> 01:21:25,479
Speaker 12: you're in the away stadium get into replay and then man,

1881
01:21:25,640 --> 01:21:28,160
Speaker 12: just from the guys upstairs also asking them, hey, what

1882
01:21:28,160 --> 01:21:31,080
Speaker 12: did you guys see or can you guys see a replay?

1883
01:21:31,560 --> 01:21:32,679
Speaker 6: Like can you guys? Man?

1884
01:21:33,000 --> 01:21:36,120
Speaker 12: I mean, at that point in the game, time outs

1885
01:21:36,120 --> 01:21:39,519
Speaker 12: didn't matter, like we needed to We needed that ball.

1886
01:21:39,840 --> 01:21:42,479
Speaker 12: And the main thing also is you throw the challenge

1887
01:21:42,479 --> 01:21:47,960
Speaker 12: flag there, because Daniel Hunt also that's the that's the play, Daniel.

1888
01:21:48,560 --> 01:21:51,240
Speaker 12: If you watch the play again, Daniel is he's probably

1889
01:21:51,280 --> 01:21:54,120
Speaker 12: the furthest guy from our sideline. He comes over and

1890
01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:56,439
Speaker 12: he gets down, he gets the ball. So for us

1891
01:21:56,520 --> 01:22:00,240
Speaker 12: having a clear recovery by our defense, we have to

1892
01:22:00,320 --> 01:22:00,840
Speaker 12: challenge that.

1893
01:22:00,760 --> 01:22:02,240
Speaker 3: Way, right, Yeah, you have to make sure you get

1894
01:22:02,280 --> 01:22:02,639
Speaker 3: that part.

1895
01:22:02,720 --> 01:22:04,720
Speaker 2: Yes, sure we had ball, but you don't.

1896
01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:05,599
Speaker 3: When I saw you.

1897
01:22:05,520 --> 01:22:07,840
Speaker 1: Look up at the board, I was like, man, I

1898
01:22:07,880 --> 01:22:09,960
Speaker 1: know I want to say this.

1899
01:22:09,920 --> 01:22:15,640
Speaker 3: But I got that FI. Yeah, that was amazing stuff. Okay, offensively,

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01:22:16,000 --> 01:22:17,920
Speaker 3: we saw some good things running the football. You were

1901
01:22:17,920 --> 01:22:20,200
Speaker 3: able to get a good yard per carry number in

1902
01:22:20,240 --> 01:22:21,720
Speaker 3: the game. I know you want it to be better

1903
01:22:21,720 --> 01:22:24,320
Speaker 3: on third down though, so you get more of those opportunities, right.

1904
01:22:24,240 --> 01:22:24,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure.

1905
01:22:24,920 --> 01:22:28,040
Speaker 12: I think Chub ran the ball really well. We tried

1906
01:22:28,080 --> 01:22:30,639
Speaker 12: to mix it up with the back, so got Woody

1907
01:22:30,760 --> 01:22:33,559
Speaker 12: some touches. Damian, Well, we're gonna try to lean in

1908
01:22:33,560 --> 01:22:34,679
Speaker 12: with Chubb a little bit more.

1909
01:22:34,760 --> 01:22:35,720
Speaker 6: I think he deserves it.

1910
01:22:35,800 --> 01:22:38,400
Speaker 12: He's shown that he continues to He continued to get

1911
01:22:38,439 --> 01:22:40,759
Speaker 12: better as the game went on. He saw him running stronger,

1912
01:22:41,080 --> 01:22:44,120
Speaker 12: finishing plays in a physical manner. So we gotta get

1913
01:22:44,200 --> 01:22:45,960
Speaker 12: him going a little bit more, right, and I think

1914
01:22:46,040 --> 01:22:47,920
Speaker 12: he can. He can really help us. CJ did a

1915
01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:51,720
Speaker 12: nice job helping that rushing average by scrambling a little bit.

1916
01:22:51,960 --> 01:22:54,280
Speaker 12: Such a nice drive there before the two minute, I

1917
01:22:54,280 --> 01:22:56,720
Speaker 12: mean during the two minute at half, he did a

1918
01:22:56,720 --> 01:22:59,559
Speaker 12: really nice job scrambling to put usself in a position

1919
01:22:59,640 --> 01:23:02,400
Speaker 12: to get points there. So I think offensive line just

1920
01:23:02,479 --> 01:23:05,160
Speaker 12: stay after with our double teams being a hat on

1921
01:23:05,160 --> 01:23:07,599
Speaker 12: a hat, that won't change. We're always want to get

1922
01:23:07,640 --> 01:23:09,479
Speaker 12: a hat on the hat in a run game and

1923
01:23:09,560 --> 01:23:13,439
Speaker 12: really emphasize our wie receivers getting in blocking and support players,

1924
01:23:13,439 --> 01:23:15,800
Speaker 12: and that'll help our run game continue to thrive.

1925
01:23:16,040 --> 01:23:17,919
Speaker 2: Coach, you always said this about teams.

1926
01:23:17,960 --> 01:23:20,040
Speaker 1: If they're good at the end of half's end of games,

1927
01:23:20,080 --> 01:23:21,639
Speaker 1: that's a that's a really good coaching staff.

1928
01:23:21,840 --> 01:23:23,200
Speaker 2: Well, you know how I feel about you. I think

1929
01:23:23,240 --> 01:23:24,120
Speaker 2: you're great at what you do.

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01:23:24,280 --> 01:23:27,280
Speaker 1: But the fact that you give up the touchdown, which

1931
01:23:27,320 --> 01:23:29,920
Speaker 1: I know bothered you because you had guys there to

1932
01:23:29,920 --> 01:23:32,200
Speaker 1: make a play. But the way you responded in that

1933
01:23:32,320 --> 01:23:35,120
Speaker 1: last two minute drill and then the way you responded

1934
01:23:35,360 --> 01:23:37,200
Speaker 1: I think you got the ball just under four minutes

1935
01:23:37,280 --> 01:23:39,479
Speaker 1: or at four minutes, and what you did to kind

1936
01:23:39,479 --> 01:23:42,519
Speaker 1: of move the ball forward in that part. You work

1937
01:23:42,560 --> 01:23:45,120
Speaker 1: on situations all the time at training camp and preseason.

1938
01:23:45,600 --> 01:23:47,640
Speaker 1: Did you kind of feel like all that work you

1939
01:23:47,680 --> 01:23:50,000
Speaker 1: saw in those two kind of last part of the

1940
01:23:50,040 --> 01:23:52,920
Speaker 1: half and last part of the game drives from CJ

1941
01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:53,599
Speaker 1: and the offense.

1942
01:23:53,680 --> 01:23:56,760
Speaker 12: You definitely see it, and in those moments, you just

1943
01:23:56,800 --> 01:24:00,400
Speaker 12: want to see your guys just have the confidence, been

1944
01:24:00,439 --> 01:24:03,920
Speaker 12: here before, done it, know what to expect, and just

1945
01:24:03,960 --> 01:24:06,679
Speaker 12: seeing our guys operate with confidence. Seeing our offense start

1946
01:24:06,680 --> 01:24:09,080
Speaker 12: to drive down the field with even more confidence in

1947
01:24:09,080 --> 01:24:12,080
Speaker 12: those two minute situations than some of the other moments

1948
01:24:12,160 --> 01:24:15,400
Speaker 12: in the game is very encouraging to see what we're

1949
01:24:15,439 --> 01:24:18,160
Speaker 12: capable of. We just have to put it together for

1950
01:24:18,200 --> 01:24:21,679
Speaker 12: sixty minutes. But you're now very proud of our coaching

1951
01:24:21,680 --> 01:24:24,519
Speaker 12: staff and our coaches for having our guys, you know,

1952
01:24:24,680 --> 01:24:27,479
Speaker 12: being confident in those situations.

1953
01:24:27,080 --> 01:24:30,880
Speaker 3: Right CJ running the football coach, he makes plays that way,

1954
01:24:31,000 --> 01:24:32,559
Speaker 3: made the play to get you in the field goal

1955
01:24:32,640 --> 01:24:34,080
Speaker 3: range at the end of the half. I know you

1956
01:24:34,080 --> 01:24:35,720
Speaker 3: don't want to see it all the time, but it

1957
01:24:35,760 --> 01:24:38,280
Speaker 3: is a valuable weapon selectively.

1958
01:24:37,880 --> 01:24:39,759
Speaker 6: Yeah, it is a very great weapon.

1959
01:24:39,800 --> 01:24:42,439
Speaker 12: I mean when he does it the right way, like

1960
01:24:42,520 --> 01:24:45,759
Speaker 12: stepping up in the pocket escaping, it unlocks a defense.

1961
01:24:45,920 --> 01:24:48,240
Speaker 12: Right now, he's put on tape several times that he

1962
01:24:48,280 --> 01:24:50,800
Speaker 12: will run, he can gain the first down. So what

1963
01:24:50,840 --> 01:24:53,120
Speaker 12: do you do as a coverage player. Are you staying

1964
01:24:53,200 --> 01:24:56,120
Speaker 12: back and coverage? Are you coming up to get the quarterback?

1965
01:24:56,240 --> 01:24:59,120
Speaker 12: That's the part that you put defenders in a buying

1966
01:24:59,240 --> 01:25:01,120
Speaker 12: if you want to come up now. He still has

1967
01:25:01,160 --> 01:25:05,679
Speaker 12: the capability LA Chargers playoff game right, get it scrambled

1968
01:25:05,720 --> 01:25:09,240
Speaker 12: and throw it down field as well. So him continuing

1969
01:25:09,280 --> 01:25:12,640
Speaker 12: to work those where he can escape the pocket and

1970
01:25:12,760 --> 01:25:15,880
Speaker 12: make you pay down field, that that thread is it's

1971
01:25:15,880 --> 01:25:18,439
Speaker 12: hard to stop. So I encourage him to continue to

1972
01:25:18,800 --> 01:25:21,000
Speaker 12: do whatever it takes for us to win games.

1973
01:25:21,160 --> 01:25:23,680
Speaker 1: Coach, rus are the guys on defense. We're guys that

1974
01:25:23,720 --> 01:25:26,400
Speaker 1: were here last year for the most part. And then

1975
01:25:26,600 --> 01:25:29,599
Speaker 1: CJ gets hurt and so he missed the preseason game,

1976
01:25:29,680 --> 01:25:31,519
Speaker 1: so this is really the first time having CJ on

1977
01:25:31,560 --> 01:25:35,120
Speaker 1: the field. What was that like with just communication movement?

1978
01:25:35,160 --> 01:25:36,680
Speaker 1: I saw there was one play trying to remember which

1979
01:25:36,720 --> 01:25:38,840
Speaker 1: one it was where CJ was on the fly like

1980
01:25:38,880 --> 01:25:41,559
Speaker 1: pointing at Kaitlin because motion was going that way for

1981
01:25:41,640 --> 01:25:43,800
Speaker 1: him to get up and CJ was going back. How

1982
01:25:43,920 --> 01:25:46,120
Speaker 1: was kind of that communication with CJ that first game?

1983
01:25:46,160 --> 01:25:47,960
Speaker 1: Would you think of the way you played the communication?

1984
01:25:48,360 --> 01:25:50,759
Speaker 12: It was solid. It was a couple of good moments

1985
01:25:50,840 --> 01:25:53,120
Speaker 12: I'm not so great moments. Things we have to improve

1986
01:25:53,160 --> 01:25:56,240
Speaker 12: on with our communication and just how we're operating in

1987
01:25:56,240 --> 01:25:59,080
Speaker 12: the back end. So we got to see more improvement

1988
01:25:59,240 --> 01:26:00,880
Speaker 12: from our from our secondary guys.

1989
01:26:01,320 --> 01:26:04,080
Speaker 3: What about the kickoff game? Coach Fairban had great day

1990
01:26:04,200 --> 01:26:05,960
Speaker 3: kicking field goals and he was on his way to

1991
01:26:06,040 --> 01:26:08,680
Speaker 3: AFC Special Teams play over the week. Maybe in that category,

1992
01:26:08,720 --> 01:26:10,720
Speaker 3: but I know you want to see better performances out

1993
01:26:10,720 --> 01:26:12,880
Speaker 3: of kickoffs and fielding the ball. But it is weird

1994
01:26:13,160 --> 01:26:15,760
Speaker 3: with this landing zone and bad hops and do I

1995
01:26:15,800 --> 01:26:17,439
Speaker 3: field it or not? And that kind of thing. How

1996
01:26:17,439 --> 01:26:18,160
Speaker 3: do you address that?

1997
01:26:18,240 --> 01:26:20,000
Speaker 6: I think the NFL we got what we want right.

1998
01:26:20,040 --> 01:26:20,800
Speaker 6: You gotta play that.

1999
01:26:20,840 --> 01:26:23,280
Speaker 12: You have to put your eyes on now because who

2000
01:26:23,360 --> 01:26:26,400
Speaker 12: knows what will happen That ball hits the ground bouncing

2001
01:26:26,439 --> 01:26:27,360
Speaker 12: all over the place.

2002
01:26:28,120 --> 01:26:28,320
Speaker 6: Man.

2003
01:26:28,360 --> 01:26:30,840
Speaker 12: We first off, as a kick return unit, we have

2004
01:26:30,960 --> 01:26:33,719
Speaker 12: to feel the ball better. I think we put ourselves

2005
01:26:33,720 --> 01:26:36,280
Speaker 12: in a negative spot too many times.

2006
01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:37,920
Speaker 6: By allowing the ball to roll in the end zone.

2007
01:26:37,920 --> 01:26:40,120
Speaker 12: He takes the touch back. Now we're at the twenty

2008
01:26:40,200 --> 01:26:43,479
Speaker 12: yard line. So their kicker did a really nice job

2009
01:26:43,520 --> 01:26:44,280
Speaker 12: of hitting some kicks.

2010
01:26:44,280 --> 01:26:46,160
Speaker 6: I have to give him that. Given credit, he had

2011
01:26:46,240 --> 01:26:47,800
Speaker 6: some nice kicks. They were difficult.

2012
01:26:47,840 --> 01:26:51,559
Speaker 12: I'm not saying it's easy by any means, but we

2013
01:26:51,600 --> 01:26:53,400
Speaker 12: got to just continue to work on that. And from

2014
01:26:53,400 --> 01:26:56,400
Speaker 12: the kickoff perspective, like once the ball hits the ground,

2015
01:26:56,560 --> 01:26:59,600
Speaker 12: we can take off. So our eyes we have to

2016
01:26:59,640 --> 01:27:01,559
Speaker 12: be locked the loaded, ready to see. Once the ball

2017
01:27:01,640 --> 01:27:03,240
Speaker 12: hits you got to take off. And we got to

2018
01:27:03,280 --> 01:27:05,920
Speaker 12: do a better job of just avoiding blocks. We allowed

2019
01:27:05,920 --> 01:27:08,640
Speaker 12: the play to get out, the big, big return, we

2020
01:27:08,680 --> 01:27:12,080
Speaker 12: allowed it to get out. Luckily Darray drew a holding penalty,

2021
01:27:12,240 --> 01:27:14,360
Speaker 12: but we still we can't allow that. Everybody got to

2022
01:27:14,360 --> 01:27:16,920
Speaker 12: get all blocks and play faster and finished at the ball.

2023
01:27:16,960 --> 01:27:18,960
Speaker 3: Garrea, I'm not going to say you're an old school player,

2024
01:27:19,080 --> 01:27:21,240
Speaker 3: but when you did play, the touchback was at the

2025
01:27:21,240 --> 01:27:22,800
Speaker 3: twenty yard line. It's got to be weird for you

2026
01:27:22,840 --> 01:27:24,640
Speaker 3: that now the twenty feels like I'm in my own

2027
01:27:24,760 --> 01:27:25,200
Speaker 3: end zone.

2028
01:27:26,120 --> 01:27:27,280
Speaker 2: The thirty thirty five.

2029
01:27:27,600 --> 01:27:28,240
Speaker 3: It's crazy.

2030
01:27:28,360 --> 01:27:30,960
Speaker 6: Yeah, it does, old school player.

2031
01:27:31,400 --> 01:27:34,280
Speaker 1: Tell you what, when you see from behind the kicks

2032
01:27:34,280 --> 01:27:38,240
Speaker 1: that Cardi made for the Rams, he looks like, who's

2033
01:27:38,280 --> 01:27:39,720
Speaker 1: a modern day knuckleballer?

2034
01:27:40,080 --> 01:27:40,640
Speaker 2: I don't even know.

2035
01:27:40,680 --> 01:27:42,360
Speaker 1: I'd go to Joe Nicro That's why I would go

2036
01:27:42,360 --> 01:27:44,440
Speaker 1: to that ball was moving all.

2037
01:27:44,479 --> 01:27:46,280
Speaker 2: Over the place and then boom it hits and you're like,

2038
01:27:46,400 --> 01:27:47,200
Speaker 2: you got no idea.

2039
01:27:47,400 --> 01:27:49,400
Speaker 1: I mean even you played short stuff back in the day,

2040
01:27:49,439 --> 01:27:51,200
Speaker 1: you have no idea where that ball is going once

2041
01:27:51,240 --> 01:27:51,599
Speaker 1: it hits.

2042
01:27:51,640 --> 01:27:53,160
Speaker 2: I mean it was. It was incredible.

2043
01:27:53,200 --> 01:27:56,200
Speaker 1: Coach, you mentioned CJ and his ability to scramble, get

2044
01:27:56,200 --> 01:27:58,679
Speaker 1: out of the pock, and do those things. The quarterback

2045
01:27:58,720 --> 01:28:00,479
Speaker 1: we face Monday Night can do that a little bit too.

2046
01:28:00,720 --> 01:28:03,280
Speaker 1: We saw him a couple of years ago in Baker Mayfield.

2047
01:28:03,320 --> 01:28:04,880
Speaker 1: I know you probably not all the way into your

2048
01:28:04,880 --> 01:28:07,920
Speaker 1: bucks prep at this point, but just from what you remember,

2049
01:28:07,960 --> 01:28:10,640
Speaker 1: facing Baker and a guy just that has that mobility,

2050
01:28:10,840 --> 01:28:13,040
Speaker 1: that has those guts in the two minute drill to

2051
01:28:13,080 --> 01:28:15,600
Speaker 1: go down to make a play, there's a challenge on

2052
01:28:15,600 --> 01:28:16,920
Speaker 1: Monday Night facing a guy like Baker.

2053
01:28:16,920 --> 01:28:17,880
Speaker 2: What are your early thoughts.

2054
01:28:18,240 --> 01:28:19,840
Speaker 6: Baker is playing the best of his career.

2055
01:28:20,040 --> 01:28:23,040
Speaker 12: He keeps their team in games because of his ability

2056
01:28:23,120 --> 01:28:27,000
Speaker 12: to scramble and make plays down the field Passing wise,

2057
01:28:27,080 --> 01:28:30,479
Speaker 12: They have arguably one of the best receivers to do

2058
01:28:30,600 --> 01:28:34,439
Speaker 12: it in Mike Evans. He's he's productive every year.

2059
01:28:34,479 --> 01:28:34,880
Speaker 6: Every year.

2060
01:28:34,920 --> 01:28:37,240
Speaker 12: Every year he's making plays and he's still doing that.

2061
01:28:37,320 --> 01:28:39,759
Speaker 12: To add the young kid a Buka from Ohio State.

2062
01:28:40,200 --> 01:28:42,400
Speaker 12: He pops off the tape and he made some nice

2063
01:28:42,400 --> 01:28:46,840
Speaker 12: plays versus Atlanta on on yesterday, So it's it's gonna

2064
01:28:46,880 --> 01:28:49,439
Speaker 12: be a fun challenge. Well, Baker is a guy. We

2065
01:28:49,479 --> 01:28:51,320
Speaker 12: got to find a way with a defensive line. You

2066
01:28:51,320 --> 01:28:52,960
Speaker 12: gotta find a way to keep him in the pocket,

2067
01:28:53,200 --> 01:28:56,240
Speaker 12: make him uncomfortable, right, make it difficult for him to see.

2068
01:28:56,320 --> 01:28:58,320
Speaker 12: Make sure we're getting our hands up because he does

2069
01:28:58,360 --> 01:29:01,320
Speaker 12: have a low trajectory throw, but we got to make

2070
01:29:01,320 --> 01:29:03,439
Speaker 12: sure recover them and that starts a a week and

2071
01:29:03,560 --> 01:29:06,680
Speaker 12: improve defensively from her last week to this week. Is

2072
01:29:06,760 --> 01:29:08,920
Speaker 12: our eyes have to be right. We have to play

2073
01:29:08,920 --> 01:29:11,639
Speaker 12: with great eye discipline. When we when we got loose

2074
01:29:11,680 --> 01:29:14,760
Speaker 12: on some plays against the Rams, our eye, our eye

2075
01:29:14,760 --> 01:29:17,160
Speaker 12: discipline was not on. So if we play that the

2076
01:29:17,240 --> 01:29:19,840
Speaker 12: right way, make it as challenging as possible with our

2077
01:29:19,920 --> 01:29:22,120
Speaker 12: d line getting at the Baker and we'll be in

2078
01:29:22,120 --> 01:29:22,760
Speaker 12: a really good spot.

2079
01:29:22,920 --> 01:29:25,519
Speaker 3: It's a big contrast from week one. They're both really

2080
01:29:25,560 --> 01:29:29,040
Speaker 3: good quarterbacks, but Stafford doesn't move around as much. He

2081
01:29:29,080 --> 01:29:31,880
Speaker 3: does have that lightning rod delivery though, but Baker has

2082
01:29:31,880 --> 01:29:32,920
Speaker 3: a pretty good arm as well.

2083
01:29:32,880 --> 01:29:35,240
Speaker 12: Yeah, Baker has a great arm, but that's the we

2084
01:29:35,320 --> 01:29:38,240
Speaker 12: have to be ready. Now Stafford's is standing back in

2085
01:29:38,240 --> 01:29:43,000
Speaker 12: the pocket like statue. Now we got a squirrel running

2086
01:29:43,040 --> 01:29:45,280
Speaker 12: all over the place. We gotta be able to be

2087
01:29:45,320 --> 01:29:47,759
Speaker 12: able to get him down. But I'm confident in our guys.

2088
01:29:48,280 --> 01:29:51,400
Speaker 12: Played them before. He made some nice plays versus us.

2089
01:29:51,439 --> 01:29:53,639
Speaker 12: We were able to bounce back and make some plays

2090
01:29:53,680 --> 01:29:55,680
Speaker 12: versus them. It's gonna be a good battle. Todd does

2091
01:29:55,720 --> 01:29:58,080
Speaker 12: a really good job. He's done a great job his

2092
01:29:58,240 --> 01:30:01,120
Speaker 12: entire coaching career of mix up the pressure is making

2093
01:30:01,160 --> 01:30:04,639
Speaker 12: it difficult for offenses. And you know they they've kept

2094
01:30:04,680 --> 01:30:08,760
Speaker 12: some continuity. Although they lost Liam Cohen last year, they

2095
01:30:09,200 --> 01:30:12,400
Speaker 12: just moved up Josh Grizzard and he's running the insame

2096
01:30:12,520 --> 01:30:13,599
Speaker 12: offense right.

2097
01:30:13,640 --> 01:30:15,040
Speaker 6: He knows what Baker likes.

2098
01:30:15,040 --> 01:30:18,080
Speaker 12: You can tell they're doing similar things. It will be

2099
01:30:18,120 --> 01:30:20,080
Speaker 12: a little different with the run game. We'll see more

2100
01:30:20,120 --> 01:30:22,960
Speaker 12: gap scheme runs than we've seen before. A lot of

2101
01:30:22,960 --> 01:30:25,680
Speaker 12: offensive linemen pulling all right, So we got to be

2102
01:30:25,720 --> 01:30:27,920
Speaker 12: ready to fit those runs. That'll be a little different

2103
01:30:27,920 --> 01:30:30,280
Speaker 12: for us, and they just got to be sound in

2104
01:30:30,320 --> 01:30:31,360
Speaker 12: your coveragees.

2105
01:30:31,040 --> 01:30:33,520
Speaker 1: Cut, you mentioned it with Todd bowles and pressure packages,

2106
01:30:33,960 --> 01:30:35,960
Speaker 1: and we know that you want to be successful on

2107
01:30:36,000 --> 01:30:38,719
Speaker 1: first and second down so that you're not third and twelve.

2108
01:30:38,920 --> 01:30:40,759
Speaker 2: Do you not have penalties those kind of things.

2109
01:30:41,880 --> 01:30:44,920
Speaker 1: Is it that much more important because of how Todd

2110
01:30:44,960 --> 01:30:47,760
Speaker 1: calls the defense and the pressure packages he brings to

2111
01:30:47,840 --> 01:30:50,760
Speaker 1: be that much more on it, so you're not third

2112
01:30:50,800 --> 01:30:52,040
Speaker 1: and twelve, you're third and two.

2113
01:30:52,120 --> 01:30:53,200
Speaker 2: If anything else, we.

2114
01:30:53,200 --> 01:30:55,639
Speaker 12: Have to have a heightened sense of urgency to make

2115
01:30:55,680 --> 01:30:58,599
Speaker 12: sure that when that picture changes, because I spoken about

2116
01:30:58,640 --> 01:31:01,559
Speaker 12: he does a really good job of really disguising the

2117
01:31:01,600 --> 01:31:04,040
Speaker 12: blitzes so you don't know who's coming when they're coming.

2118
01:31:04,040 --> 01:31:05,679
Speaker 12: But when that picture change, we have to be ready

2119
01:31:05,720 --> 01:31:08,960
Speaker 12: to react and make the proper adjustments so we can

2120
01:31:09,160 --> 01:31:12,639
Speaker 12: play on schedule. We can stay on track, get out man,

2121
01:31:12,720 --> 01:31:15,479
Speaker 12: second and medium, right, third and medium. That's where we

2122
01:31:15,520 --> 01:31:18,160
Speaker 12: want to operate, and that's where we'll thrive, and we'll

2123
01:31:18,400 --> 01:31:21,200
Speaker 12: be able to sustain drives and we get longer drives.

2124
01:31:21,280 --> 01:31:22,479
Speaker 6: It's going to lead to points.

2125
01:31:22,680 --> 01:31:24,880
Speaker 3: Coach. Two years ago, we had noon start, noon start,

2126
01:31:24,920 --> 01:31:28,080
Speaker 3: noon start every week. It was very routine. This year,

2127
01:31:28,080 --> 01:31:30,760
Speaker 3: you start out West Coast, late game, get back late.

2128
01:31:30,800 --> 01:31:33,280
Speaker 3: Now you have Monday night football and that's what happens

2129
01:31:33,280 --> 01:31:35,360
Speaker 3: when you're a good team. You have these primetime games.

2130
01:31:35,400 --> 01:31:37,080
Speaker 3: So how do you handle this week? We know you

2131
01:31:37,080 --> 01:31:39,680
Speaker 3: gave the guys maybe a Monday breather of sorts, but

2132
01:31:40,000 --> 01:31:42,360
Speaker 3: going through the week, you got to push everything back

2133
01:31:42,400 --> 01:31:44,280
Speaker 3: a day to simulate a regular game week.

2134
01:31:44,320 --> 01:31:46,120
Speaker 12: Right now, we try our best when we have the

2135
01:31:46,120 --> 01:31:49,479
Speaker 12: opportunity to simulate a regular game week right where we

2136
01:31:49,520 --> 01:31:53,280
Speaker 12: have our Wednesday, Thursday, Friday practice model and then we

2137
01:31:53,320 --> 01:31:55,719
Speaker 12: have a day before game. So we gave the guys

2138
01:31:55,760 --> 01:31:58,320
Speaker 12: an extra day on Monday. Now we'll just we pushed

2139
01:31:58,320 --> 01:32:01,120
Speaker 12: the week back so everything feels until the guys. Guys

2140
01:32:01,160 --> 01:32:04,080
Speaker 12: should be rested and recovered from the from the west

2141
01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:07,880
Speaker 12: coast trip and having these games at different times and

2142
01:32:08,080 --> 01:32:10,920
Speaker 12: different days. Just tell when the ball is kicked off,

2143
01:32:12,000 --> 01:32:14,640
Speaker 12: let's go, let's go play. It really doesn't matter you

2144
01:32:14,680 --> 01:32:16,960
Speaker 12: try to get on this time schedule or it's a

2145
01:32:17,000 --> 01:32:18,639
Speaker 12: little different, it's gonna be different.

2146
01:32:18,680 --> 01:32:20,320
Speaker 6: It's like, but you're.

2147
01:32:20,160 --> 01:32:23,360
Speaker 12: Playing football, right, Let's say, don't forget keep the main thing,

2148
01:32:23,439 --> 01:32:24,000
Speaker 12: the main thing.

2149
01:32:24,200 --> 01:32:25,240
Speaker 6: Let's go play football.

2150
01:32:25,280 --> 01:32:28,200
Speaker 12: Great, whenever it's kicked off, whatever day is on, let's

2151
01:32:28,240 --> 01:32:29,880
Speaker 12: go handle it the right way.

2152
01:32:29,680 --> 01:32:32,200
Speaker 1: And You know more than anybody having played defense in

2153
01:32:32,280 --> 01:32:36,679
Speaker 1: this building, that this crowd can be your twelfth man

2154
01:32:36,800 --> 01:32:39,240
Speaker 1: getting it, getting a hype, making Baker have to really

2155
01:32:39,320 --> 01:32:42,240
Speaker 1: work to get communication. How important does the crowd become

2156
01:32:42,640 --> 01:32:43,760
Speaker 1: jacked up on Monday night?

2157
01:32:43,920 --> 01:32:44,040
Speaker 5: Man?

2158
01:32:44,160 --> 01:32:47,160
Speaker 12: We need it big time, right especially defense, right man,

2159
01:32:47,200 --> 01:32:51,200
Speaker 12: we can have our crowd loud, making it uncomfortable, making

2160
01:32:51,240 --> 01:32:54,280
Speaker 12: it difficult for them to communicate. It's always an advantage.

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Speaker 12: There's always that twelfth man advantage. So we need that

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Speaker 12: always from our fans. We're here at home, got a

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Speaker 12: a lot of opportunities here at home to help the

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Speaker 12: team in a positive way.

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Speaker 6: So we're looking forward to our fans doing that.

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Speaker 3: For when the game starts at six six o'clock, I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna say the clamera, all right, coach, watch it there early.

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Speaker 3: He'll give you a notes, he can leave work early.

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Speaker 3: There you go. Sorry, made that promise for you, coach,

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Speaker 3: But along the lines of you saying, hey, when they

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Speaker 3: kicked the ball, we just got to be ready, right.

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Speaker 3: You were talking about injuries this way. You have some injuries,

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Speaker 3: no doubt you dealt with injuries. Week one this year

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Speaker 3: went into the game with some issues and more issues

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Speaker 3: creep up all the time in the NFL, but you

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Speaker 3: made the point you got to be ready to go.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. I mean when you played here, you

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Speaker 3: were part of the next man up season of twenty eleven.

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Speaker 3: And you've had some next man up situations here already

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Speaker 3: in your first two years. And here we go again.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure. And that's that's what the NFL is

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Speaker 6: all about.

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Speaker 12: And so many great stories of guys who took advantage

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Speaker 12: of their opportunity.

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Speaker 6: When a guy went down, right, and.

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Speaker 12: Tom Brady guy goes down, like there he is, like

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Speaker 12: you get your opportunity. And you know the other part

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Speaker 12: is you have so many they on this team. You

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Speaker 12: talk about practice squad guys or the second team guys,

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Speaker 12: like every guy believes they should be starting. Yeah, right,

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Speaker 12: and every guy believes they can do it. And I

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Speaker 12: just want my chance. So that's what the room is

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Speaker 12: made of. So it's so many guys that I can't

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Speaker 12: wait to see, Like what do you do with that opportunity?

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Speaker 6: And when you get it, don't look back, like make.

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Speaker 12: It yours, take that job, make it yours, and impact

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Speaker 12: the team in a positive way to make it better.

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Speaker 3: All right. The Amagy Bank ask coach question of the week.

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Speaker 3: A listener wants to know, is there anybody you could

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Speaker 3: share with us that you talk to outside of the building,

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Speaker 3: A mentor of yours from time to time, whether it's

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Speaker 3: to get coaching advice or just life advice for coaching,

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Speaker 3: or however it would relate to the question.

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Speaker 12: Coach coaching mentor is Johnny Holland Johnny Texas A and

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Speaker 12: m Aggie. So he's a guy who he coached me

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Speaker 12: here when I was with the Texans, and he's always

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Speaker 12: been a great friend, a great guy can talk to anytime. Always,

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Speaker 12: I mean you talk about life advice, coaching advice.

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Speaker 6: He's the guy that I rely on.

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Speaker 3: The most excellent coach. Thanks a lot for joining us.

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Speaker 3: Good luck you guys.

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Speaker 1: Nothing makes me feel better than hear it from coach.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be all good. That's that's what he makes

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Speaker 1: me feel. It's gonna be all good. And the show

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Speaker 1: was all good. Big thanks to Miko Ryans, gm Aloon,

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Speaker 1: Star Sports Entertainment, Executive Director of the Kinders, Texas Bolt,

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Speaker 1: David Fletcher, President of Texas, Mike Toman, Jalen Smith, Defense Coordinator,

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Speaker 1: Matt Burke, My Man Mark vandermir All, you guys back

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Speaker 1: at Sports Radio six' ten everybody, listening thank you so.

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Speaker 1: Much wear white game at six being there be, loud

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Speaker 1: AS i, said be the difference we'll see On, monday

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Speaker 1: and as, always Go, texans