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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome to the program that gets you

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Speaker 1: inside NRG Stadium. Mark Van Tamer with you. I'm Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access this evening across the half on the locker room.

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Speaker 1: John Harris is with us as well. All right, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: let's get right to this tonight. I've been waiting to

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Speaker 1: get on the air and talk about some of these things,

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Speaker 1: and in no particular order. Let's start out with the

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Speaker 1: playoff format of the National Football League and let's change

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Speaker 1: it for the better, shall we? Because the MLB playoffs,

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Speaker 1: there's talk about them expanding dramatically. Have you heard about this?

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Speaker 1: Possibly fourteen teams. That's a ton in baseball and going

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Speaker 1: with seven and seven and one gets a buy and

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Speaker 1: then you have the six team square off in so

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Speaker 1: called wild card three games series with the home team

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Speaker 1: hosting all three games. You're not gonna the higher seed

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Speaker 1: rather hosting all three games, and then you go into

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Speaker 1: a final four in each league, and then you go

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Speaker 1: ahead to the World Series. I don't know if that's

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Speaker 1: gonna work or not, but you know, I find it

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Speaker 1: interesting that they would expand the NFL. A lot of

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Speaker 1: talk about possible expansion there to fourteen teams, out of

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Speaker 1: the thirty two. Still less of a percentage than what

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Speaker 1: you'd have in baseball, and certainly less of a percentage

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Speaker 1: than what you'd have or what you do have in

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Speaker 1: the NBA, which is over fifty percent of the league

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Speaker 1: making the postseason. Your initial thoughts, let's first talk about baseball,

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Speaker 1: because I think this does have an effect on the

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Speaker 1: other leagues. Yeah, first of all, I have to step

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Speaker 1: out of my traditionalist baseball hat. It's funny because baseball

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Speaker 1: is one where I'm very traditionalist based, but I like,

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Speaker 1: I'm listening to going wait, hold on, you're gonna do

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Speaker 1: what now? Hey, kind of sec guy moment, like wait

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Speaker 1: what now? You got this guy in that and you know,

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Speaker 1: and the drafting of the team, or if you could

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Speaker 1: pick your opponent in one scenario, that whole thing, that's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Let's just put that away, right. Sean and Seth we're

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Speaker 1: talking about it, and it sounded like they were actually

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Speaker 1: for that element. No, no, no, no, you will not

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Speaker 1: pick your opponent and under any circumstances. That's Sean's love

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Speaker 1: of WWE coming forth. That seems like something that that

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Speaker 1: Vince McMahon would have come up with. You pick your

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Speaker 1: money in the bank upon it. I mean, that's what

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Speaker 1: it feels like in some sense, but it's it's also

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Speaker 1: got a world of dance feel. World dance does that

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Speaker 1: you get to the second round, you get to pick

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Speaker 1: your opponent if you're the higher ranked, and it's always

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Speaker 1: baseball where you can't go from the pendulum cannot swing back.

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Speaker 1: You want to add a couple more teams like I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that. I mind the the three games,

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Speaker 1: the three games all being at home for that team.

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Speaker 1: I'm okay, I'm okay with that. For it's no travel

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Speaker 1: so I mean, I I you know, the travel for

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Speaker 1: a three game series, to travel three like, No, that's

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Speaker 1: too tough. It's too tough. So why not just stay

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Speaker 1: in the in one park? And you know what if

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Speaker 1: you're the lower seed, Uh, tough to be you, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean. You weren't able to get a

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Speaker 1: good enough record to host. And last year the Nationals

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Speaker 1: won all four games and minimating the Astros won all

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Speaker 1: three games. Uh Nationals Park. Here's and this is where

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Speaker 1: I am a traditionalist in playoffs and all sports. I

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Speaker 1: didn't like it when the UIL went to three teams

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Speaker 1: from a district way in the playoffs. Then they went

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Speaker 1: to four teams in the district made the playoffs. I

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Speaker 1: don't like the NBA that has sixteen out of thirty

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Speaker 1: you've accomplished something. That alone should mean something, not that

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Speaker 1: I mean, I understand that you'd like to have Week sixteen,

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Speaker 1: weeks seventeen, and maybe if we move forward week eighteen

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Speaker 1: games that matter because that seventh team in the NFL

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Speaker 1: could possibly make it. Now that would be fourteen and

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Speaker 1: thirty two. You're still feeling like, Okay, that's as it's

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Speaker 1: a little higher percentage of teams that make the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: but it's not sixteen out of thirty, right. So I

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Speaker 1: just have always been on a mindset thee were that

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Speaker 1: fewer that make it the better. I've never been oh,

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Speaker 1: you should go all the way to thirty two teams,

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Speaker 1: you should go to sixteen teams. I just I think

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Speaker 1: because if they're part of FBS football, then they should

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Speaker 1: everybody's involved, right. I am always gonna side with fewer

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Speaker 1: teams the better. However, I understand that in the business

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Speaker 1: TV companies that are paying a lot of money professional

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Speaker 1: teams that they would like to see more playoff games.

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Speaker 1: And I'm selfish in some sense. I like watching playoff games.

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Speaker 1: I don't care the sport sport playoffs. It just goes

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Speaker 1: up to a different level. So, especially in the NFL

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Speaker 1: where it's one and done. Yeah, absolutely. And I got

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Speaker 1: playoff games. Yeah, there might be some really bad playoff games,

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Speaker 1: and there might be some teams that get in there

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Speaker 1: some sense. You might end up having a great playoff

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Speaker 1: game you didn't think you were gonna have. So let's

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Speaker 1: say this past year that you went to seven in

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Speaker 1: Now you got Kansas City having to play a game

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Speaker 1: in that week after week seventeen. Kansas City's got to

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Speaker 1: play what Pittsburgh probably I think it was so No,

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Speaker 1: Kansas City's got to play Pittsburgh, and Baltimore gets that bomb.

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Speaker 1: They don't get to buy because they're a two seed. Right,

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Speaker 1: So that's how it would go, folks. It would be

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Speaker 1: one team per conference getting a buy, six other teams

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Speaker 1: playing opening weekend. You'd have three games each day, Saturday

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Speaker 1: and Sunday on the first on that wild card weekend, right,

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Speaker 1: And so I that would be kind of cool to

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Speaker 1: have an extra playoff game. I mean, all right, that'd

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Speaker 1: be cool. That would be kind of I like that

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Speaker 1: when I think about it from that perspective. But I'm

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Speaker 1: like a man fourteen and thirty two. Yes, there's still

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Speaker 1: there are two times in Texans history where the Texans

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Speaker 1: would have made the playoffs. If it was seven and seven,

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Speaker 1: if it was fourteen total ten fourteen and two thousand

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Speaker 1: made it. Twenty fourteen, they would have made it. That

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Speaker 1: would have been cool to make it. And I think that,

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Speaker 1: all right, does that cheapen the play Obviously, if you

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Speaker 1: let more teams in, it does so called water it

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Speaker 1: it's more exciting, it's more money for the league. And

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Speaker 1: I think that since you're still well below fifty percent,

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Speaker 1: I think it still has a lot of juice to

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Speaker 1: the other thing I would change. I know that it's

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Speaker 1: not popular to say this in the league circles, but

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Speaker 1: if you win your division at eight and eight, I

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Speaker 1: don't think you should get the host if there's a

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Speaker 1: That's the other thing that you've got to I think

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Speaker 1: five is. Although, as I say that, what was Buffalo's record?

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Speaker 1: Were they ten and six or eleven and five, because

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Speaker 1: because Johnny, you would have been going to Western New York.

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Speaker 1: ten and six, all right, But I could see where

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Speaker 1: I could see that still make the playoffs. No one's like,

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Speaker 1: you should be rewarded for rewarding your division. Well, you

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Speaker 1: are rewarded. You're gonna make the postseason still over a

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Speaker 1: that flips, It goes to that team's place, It goes

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Speaker 1: to the wild cards. Play So if you're eight and eight,

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Speaker 1: the wild card. Baseball, do you like the one game

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Speaker 1: wildcard deal. I think baseball playoffs are always best in

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Speaker 1: the worst team in baseball might have the best pitcher,

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Speaker 1: So in a one game scenario, that guy can win

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Speaker 1: like that. I've never liked that one game. I liked

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Speaker 1: it the year the Astros beat the Yankees at Yankee Stadium.

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Speaker 1: That was awesome when it when it works to the

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Speaker 1: get too excited about this. Well, you're gonna lose. Also, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I thought that was fantastic. It didn't work to

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Speaker 1: the to the Astros, fair, I still would liked to

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Speaker 1: have seen a best of three. I liked best of

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Speaker 1: I like those. I'm fine with it. Um, shouldn't the

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Speaker 1: NBA Remember when the NBA first round was a best

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Speaker 1: of three? Yeah, and it was awesome. It enables like

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Speaker 1: on to the next round. The first round takes two

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Speaker 1: weeks and one verses eight. I know it's happened. I

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Speaker 1: know Golden State over Dallas before Golden State was really good. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I know about the Denver Nuggets and the Seattle SuperSonics.

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Speaker 1: I know about these things, but it doesn't really happen

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Speaker 1: that often. You know. I can't believe we finally have

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Speaker 1: a sixteam beating a one in seven games. Opening round

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Speaker 1: can have some good series, I'll give them that, but

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Speaker 1: the bad ones far away. Yeah, the bad series far away.

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Speaker 1: I just the seven games and it takes forever. So

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Speaker 1: it I because now, I mean there's there's so much

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Speaker 1: say it goes seven games. I mean, it's just you're

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Speaker 1: playing the thing for two weeks. How about if you

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Speaker 1: play the week game series all the way through, but

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Speaker 1: you have a loser's bracket. Now you can do Now

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Speaker 1: you could talk to me about a loser's bracket because

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite, one of my favorite playoff setups

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Speaker 1: a Tuesday night with John Harris, Mark Vantamer with you

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Speaker 1: do what he's been able to do. I've been a

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Speaker 1: huge fan of Case for the longest time and what

426
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Speaker 1: he's been able to do to have the season he

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Speaker 1: had with Minnesota and twenty seventeen, had that playoff win. Great,

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Speaker 1: But I think at this point it's I think he's

429
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Speaker 1: probably up. Yeah, he's gotten a match shop stage, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean probably yeah. Maybe he's played a lot of football.

431
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Speaker 1: He's close. Yeah, he's never that one season with Minnesota

432
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Speaker 1: was incredible, and he'll always have that miracle the Digs,

433
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Speaker 1: He'll always have that. He'll always have the win over

434
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Speaker 1: Baltimore here, He'll always have that. Yeah. I'm impressed though

435
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Speaker 1: that as an undrafted free agent and a guy who

436
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Speaker 1: is once upon a time running scout team here and

437
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Speaker 1: playing defensive back on the scout team, that he's had

438
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Speaker 1: a career and a law career. I mean, this has

439
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Speaker 1: been a significant career and teams have put trust in

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Speaker 1: him as a potential starter. Hasn't worked out for him,

441
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Speaker 1: but I think a lot of it isn't his fault. Obviously,

442
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Speaker 1: he's not a Hall of Famer, but good for him

443
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Speaker 1: having the career he's had. Ryan Tannehill McClean says no

444
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Speaker 1: question that he ends up back in Tennessee. I think

445
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Speaker 1: he has and that there are but like you said it,

446
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Speaker 1: there are other computers on the market. Do I do

447
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Speaker 1: I do I re up with this one? Or do

448
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Speaker 1: I get one of these other models. I've got Rivers. Potentially,

449
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Speaker 1: I don't think so, but you know, potentially, I've got

450
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Speaker 1: does Brady pop up there as an option? Alright? What

451
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Speaker 1: we faced Tannehill twice, we faced Brady, We faced Rivers.

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Speaker 1: We saw the three quarterbacks we'd rather face. Which is

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Speaker 1: that where you're going with this? We saw him all

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Speaker 1: in the field, we saw live out in the field.

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Speaker 1: In order, which ones would you want to face? Well,

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Speaker 1: I'd rather face Philip Rivers because Philip will throw us

457
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Speaker 1: some Honestly, Johnny, I'd rather see Tannehill. Okay, I mean me,

458
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Speaker 1: as far as quarterback, I'm gonna beat or I can

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Speaker 1: beat Tannehill. Tannehill. T give me Tannehill all day. Because

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Speaker 1: I'll put it this way, if Brady or Rivers ends

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Speaker 1: up signing with Tennessee, that means they're in good shape. Okay,

462
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:40,000
Speaker 1: that means they've they've been vetted physically that they can

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Speaker 1: still bring it at this age. And I don't want

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Speaker 1: to see those guys. I'd rather see Tannehill. Who I

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Speaker 1: know is you know he had a great run this year.

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Speaker 1: I mean, but as great as it was, he didn't

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Speaker 1: win weeks fifteen. He didn't win weeks seventeen when they

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Speaker 1: were back to back at home, And it's not all

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Speaker 1: on him, I get it, But back to back at

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Speaker 1: home with a chance to take control and and win

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Speaker 1: the division, perhaps they weren't able to do it. And

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Speaker 1: I know he played pretty well in the playoffs. He did,

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Speaker 1: he made some throws, but it was a Derreck Henry run.

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Speaker 1: This run as Derrick Henry's signature on it, no more

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Speaker 1: than Ryan Tannehills. I don't. I don't disagree with that

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Speaker 1: at all. I think there are two things, in fact,

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Speaker 1: two things I probably didn't consider it. Number one, one

478
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Speaker 1: of the reasons I like, on one hand, I like

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Speaker 1: facing Brady and Rivers is you know where they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be every single throw. You know they're gonna be five steps,

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Speaker 1: three steps or five steps right behind it offensive line.

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Speaker 1: Now where that makes the problematic is you put him

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Speaker 1: behind that offensive line, which was pretty darned good last year.

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Speaker 1: That's problematic. The and which kind of goes to my

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Speaker 1: point about Ryan Tannehill. If you do get pressure on

486
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Speaker 1: those two, you're going down right. You get pressure on Tannehill,

487
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Speaker 1: now the fun starts to begin. So I think it

488
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Speaker 1: and that's the thing about Tennessee having that offensive line

489
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Speaker 1: and being as good as it is, putting Rivers and

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Speaker 1: Brady behind it. Yeah, they can make something start. Now

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Speaker 1: I start to panic a little bit. Bryan Tannehill is

492
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Speaker 1: tough because he can get out of the pock and

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Speaker 1: do some things. All right, we'll continue with some of this,

494
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Speaker 1: some of the stuff going out around the league, and

495
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Speaker 1: also position group breakdown. What about the linebackers for the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans heading get to twenty twenty and what they

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Speaker 1: just did last season. It's Texans Radio. Two weeks from tonight,

498
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Speaker 1: we'll be coming to you from the Combine in Indianapolis,

499
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Speaker 1: and we always look forward to that trip as we'll

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Speaker 1: do three shows from there, maybe have a little audio. Leftovers,

501
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Speaker 1: some leftovers, okay, and sometimes leftovers are good. I usually

502
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Speaker 1: don't go for leftovers, but some things are better leftovers

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Speaker 1: that are better than when they first are cooked. Johnny

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Speaker 1: lasagna better. I think lasagna is better. I think it

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Speaker 1: kind of comes together. Certain soups, Chili. I think it's

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Speaker 1: soups absolutely. Jumbalaya Jumbalaya better. My wife love Rice absorbs

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Speaker 1: everything in there. Yeah, there's something about it. There's something

508
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Speaker 1: about jambalaya soups. Those are the ones in Chili. Everybody

509
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Speaker 1: like says, you gotta let chili give it time to

510
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Speaker 1: continue to marry. Absolutely, Okay. Some people say that Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I've I've gone on record about my

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Speaker 1: stance on turkey. I could do without turkey on Thanksgiving

513
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Speaker 1: and when my family was gone because we had to

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Speaker 1: stay here for the game against the Patriots. I was

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Speaker 1: here for Thanksgiving. I didn't have turkey. I did it

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Speaker 1: my way. You made what you got ham? I did.

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Speaker 1: I did a maple maple orange glazed ham. I'm very

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Speaker 1: impressed you did anything, because if I'm a bachelor for Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 1: I might just do what a burger or something. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: there it is. I didn't that time. I do kind

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Speaker 1: of like the Sandra lis semi homemade, like I get

522
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Speaker 1: certain things right and then I kind of doctor it

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Speaker 1: up and make it my own way. I'm impressed. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I might have made eggs. Okay. So I promised position

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Speaker 1: group breakdown, but I did want to highlight that. The

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Speaker 1: end the Lab podcast is up with you and Drew

527
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: and DP and I worked on something called Texans Coffee Talk.

528
00:27:05,680 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: No X is no ohs, just a cup of job,

529
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Speaker 1: which is which has nothing to do with football. Okay,

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Speaker 1: nothing at all, nothing I love. I mean, we mentioned

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Speaker 1: football players who happen to participate in the sport for

532
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Speaker 1: this football team, but it's really about everything but football anyway.

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Speaker 1: It's fun. So uh. But you did do the XFL

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Speaker 1: rule thing, and I haven't had a chance to discuss

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Speaker 1: this with you, but the one rule I want instantly, like,

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Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna give you a chance to adopt

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Speaker 1: one rule. I said mine in the lab. So I

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Speaker 1: want to let people go, Okay, here's mine. I want overtime.

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Speaker 1: I want their overtime. I freaking love it. I love

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Speaker 1: their overtime. And let me tell you this, I don't

541
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Speaker 1: like our overtime right now. And I've said this to

542
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Speaker 1: you before. I like sudden death. And here's what and people, well, Mark,

543
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Speaker 1: it's not fair. You're gonna get an extra position. Here's

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Speaker 1: the deal. Here's why I think that the NFL overtime

545
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Speaker 1: has got to change to something more like what the

546
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Speaker 1: XFL has, or go back to the old way of

547
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Speaker 1: sudden death. You must incentivize the teams to end the

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Speaker 1: game in regulation. If you tweak overtime again and say, listen,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get the ball no matter what. All right, Yeah,

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00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 1: you know you lose the coin toss, all right, So

551
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 1: they get it first. If they score the touchdown, you'll

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Speaker 1: get it. And I'm surprised they haven't done that already

553
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Speaker 1: based on what happened to the Chiefs in the AFC

554
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Speaker 1: Championship game prior to this season. But they didn't do it.

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00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: I need those coaches motivated to win the game in regulation.

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Speaker 1: If you do that, then it's just like another halftime.

557
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Speaker 1: It's like, well, I know I got overtime, and I

558
00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 1: know I'm gonna get the ball no matter what. In fact,

559
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: now maybe I want it second because like now I

560
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 1: know what I need. Like the college overtime, don't do that.

561
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Speaker 1: Don't don't reward them for not being aggressive. And regulation,

562
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Speaker 1: I want them aggressive. In regulation, you do this five

563
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Speaker 1: yard line thing. That's the way the XFL doesn't. By

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Speaker 1: the way, I think it's the five. So the five,

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Speaker 1: you get a shot from the five, they get a

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Speaker 1: shot from the five. You get it, and it's you

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Speaker 1: get two points for scoring. And once somebody has a

568
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 1: lead that's insurmountable. Uh, it's it's done, and I think

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Speaker 1: they get five four or five shots. Five shots on

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Speaker 1: the five. Yeah, it's it's like kicks in soccer. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I love this, and coaches won't want anything to do

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Speaker 1: with it. I don't want to go to those like

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Speaker 1: in soccer, coaches don't want to go to kicks. I

574
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Speaker 1: don't want to go to kicks. Kicks are ridiculous. I

575
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Speaker 1: want to win the game right now. So instead of eyes,

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Speaker 1: the NFL coaches for winning the game right now. And

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Speaker 1: if you're happy to go to overtime, Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: is that exciting. And it's fair because defense from the

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Speaker 1: five it's not like defense from the one or the two.

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Speaker 1: It's not like you're not your goal line at the

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Speaker 1: five right, you're not in your goal line defense. If

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Speaker 1: they're at the one, you're in your goal line defense.

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Speaker 1: Fifteen yards to work with, yea ends on me and

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Speaker 1: ten you got five. So you're gonna play some da

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Speaker 1: and you're gonna play and it's no easy. It's no

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Speaker 1: easy in from the five right, it's not a walker.

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Speaker 1: I think it's great. That's the best. It's even better

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Speaker 1: than the kickoff idea that they have. It becomes a whole.

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Speaker 1: You know what it becomes. It becomes a whole, another

590
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Speaker 1: piece that you've got to work on in practice, because

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Speaker 1: you got to work on your two point plays, right,

592
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 1: which are probably gonna be a little bit different than

593
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Speaker 1: your five yard overtime plays. Oh yeah, And I like

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Speaker 1: the fact that definitely you each get five shots. If

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Speaker 1: you're still tied after those five, then it's a one

596
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Speaker 1: it's a one off. Yeah, then it's sudden death at

597
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Speaker 1: that point. The only thing I don't like about it

598
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Speaker 1: just I don't know how quick you can make the

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Speaker 1: changeover is is that offense runs a play, then your

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Speaker 1: defense goes out there. Then they go back and forth

601
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Speaker 1: like that. Are you in yourself? Are you in the

602
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: same Yeah, you gotta be at the same end of

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Speaker 1: the field. Otherwise stay the same runs out here now

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Speaker 1: because you could have had the units there like a

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Speaker 1: joint practice like the two spot drill, you can't do

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Speaker 1: it that way. You gotta do the same man because

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Speaker 1: of the cameras, the reps, everything. So I'll give you

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Speaker 1: one that I like that I didn't talk about. And

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Speaker 1: I noticed this. I don't know, it's not so much

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Speaker 1: a rule, but it is something that I think would

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Speaker 1: help speed up the game a little bit. They have

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Speaker 1: one and I'll say this air quotes again, fingers are

613
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Speaker 1: up ref that all he does is spot the ball

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Speaker 1: all the spot. That's it. He spots the ball. That

615
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: guy spots the ball and that's all he does. He

616
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: doesn't throw flags. He just has the balls with him.

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Speaker 1: He goes up, spots it and they can move. I like,

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Speaker 1: I like that, you know that, like I So the

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Speaker 1: positioning of the spot is something I do complain about

620
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Speaker 1: in the national football Yes, sometimes I feel like the

621
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Speaker 1: world is against us. I like that was a horrible spot.

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Speaker 1: I think there are thirty one voices that feel the

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Speaker 1: same way. Well here, Yeah, I mean, I'm sure everybody

624
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: feels that way sometimes and and it you know, it

625
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 1: evens out. Yeah, but that's hidden yardage right there. There's

626
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Speaker 1: no like, you know, we get so enamored with like this,

627
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: not enamored focused on the length of the football. In

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00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: certain situations, measurement is over the goal line, is it not?

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Speaker 1: But so many different positions through the course of a

630
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Speaker 1: drive where a length of a football or a half

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Speaker 1: length here, they're add up to yards. Now, Sean Payton

632
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Speaker 1: talked about eventually they'll have the technology where I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, how will you have that technology when the

634
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Speaker 1: guys tackled like a beep, you know, buzzer goes off

635
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 1: and like that's exactly where it needs to go. The

636
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: GPS will be positioned at a exactly that latitude and longitude.

637
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: I don't know. Anyway, we can talk about this kind

638
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: of stuff all day. Linebackers, I want to talk about

639
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: that for the Houston Texans so this year, and it's

640
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: funny we talk about this defense and you know the

641
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: recency of it all. You remember what happened against the

642
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: Chiefs and that was terrible. But man like you look

643
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:54,640
Speaker 1: at the Buffalo Bills game and you did hold them

644
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: to nineteen okay, and I know they got that late

645
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: field goal, but they made some plays in that game.

646
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: They made some plays in the Tampa Bay game, they

647
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: the whole the entire defensive unit. You made some plays

648
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: on the Tennessee game up there where you had the

649
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 1: division on the line. This defense did do some things.

650
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: Now it's um under renovation, if you will, as as

651
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: far as coaching goes away from the top on down. Yeah,

652
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: and then you look at I'm sure they're gonna do

653
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 1: some things in the secondary, but the linebackers, the kind

654
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: of year they had when you look at those inside

655
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: guys in particular, let's start there. Well, I think I've

656
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: said this numerous times. You looked at me like I

657
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: had five heads when I said this, Okay, going into

658
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen season. Twenty eighteenth season, I said, not

659
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: only will Zach Cuttingham being one of the top five

660
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: defensive players on this team, he will be one of

661
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: the top five players on this team. Wow. And you

662
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: looked at me and you said this thing. You're like, what, oh,

663
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: you You're crazy? And that is what Zach Cuttingham has

664
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: turned into. Zach cutting him. I don't know if I

665
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: said it like that. He did not really, but it

666
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: made sense. He's coming off a rookie year. He still

667
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: really he kind of had the same body he had

668
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,160
Speaker 1: when he was at Vanderbilt. He was still sort of

669
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,400
Speaker 1: a thin and wiry, but he started to pack on

670
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: a little bit more weight. He's still not heavy by

671
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,880
Speaker 1: any means, but Zach cutting him could do everything on

672
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: a football field. Is interesting. When we were in La

673
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: Danna Jeremiah does the color analysis for the Chargers broadcast,

674
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 1: and so right before the game. It was probably about

675
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: ten minutes before we were doing our pregame. He walked

676
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: over and I saw him and the first person he

677
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: brought up. The first person that he brought up was

678
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 1: that cutting him. Wow, he goes, man, Johnny's that cutting

679
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: him is turning to a player. I'm like, DJ, I

680
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 1: was like, I know, I've been I've been streaming this

681
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 1: from the rooftops. He's a stud well about two weeks ago,

682
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: Ben Fennel, who does a lot of stuff in NFL films.

683
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: He works with ESPN. He does a lot of research

684
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 1: for them. He's a good film guy. And he was

685
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,359
Speaker 1: watching our game and I was trying to think who

686
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 1: he was, what he was watching somebody completely different. Oh,

687
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: he was watching Reader because he was studying some of

688
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 1: the understricted free agents. So he was watching Reader and

689
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: he tweeted I'm watching DJ Reader and I can't take

690
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 1: my eyes off Zach Cuttingham. This guy he's like, this

691
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 1: guy's making plays everywhere. And I said, Ben, thank you

692
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: for saying that. I was like, national guys need to

693
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,319
Speaker 1: get on board and realize what all Zach Cuttingham can do,

694
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: because to me, Zach Cuttingham is what an inside linebacker

695
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:32,040
Speaker 1: has to be in the NFL because Mark, how often

696
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 1: do we see him covering a running back, out wide,

697
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: covering a tight end, blitzing, playing the run on the inside,

698
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 1: rushing to quarterback when needed. He's all over the place.

699
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: He spies on some of the fast quarterbacks. He does

700
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: everything for this everything for this team. And the fact

701
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: that that Ben saw, I was like, thank you, and

702
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:56,399
Speaker 1: he wasn't even watching for Zach Cuttingham, but the fact

703
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: that he noticed, and that's what Zach does when you

704
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: watch you really, man, he is good. I know teams

705
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: have to look at Zach and think, boy, that guy's good.

706
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: And I know that teams are like, well, look, you know,

707
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: he's two hundred forty pounds, we'll just swallow him whole.

708
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: I don't even know IF's two hundred forty pounds at

709
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 1: the end of the season, you know, when you just

710
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: kind of shed weight, he's probably two thirty five. And

711
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 1: I'm sure they probably like, oh, we'll just swallow him

712
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 1: up with our blocking scheme. And then he runs around

713
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:24,799
Speaker 1: a blocker, he runs underneath the blocker, he runs through

714
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:28,239
Speaker 1: a blocker, and then goes and makes a tackle. He's

715
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: phenomenal to me, and I think Bernardrick is you know,

716
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: I got to ask this question by Clint when I

717
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: was on with them, I think it was last week,

718
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 1: and they said, you know, as Bernardrick the right guy

719
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 1: to have in this defense sent in paraphrasing, is he

720
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,760
Speaker 1: the right guy to have this defense? When the Kansas

721
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: City Chiefs that's the team you gotta beat to get

722
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl? I was like, yeah, you do

723
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 1: have to beat the Chiefs, but what about the Ravens.

724
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 1: Right Well, if you don't have a guy like Bmack

725
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: against the Ravens, you can just forget it up. You've

726
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 1: got to have a thumper, and I think they're a

727
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 1: really good combination. I think Benardrick's gotten better with his

728
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,800
Speaker 1: coverage since he's been here. I think he's really improved.

729
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 1: Are you surprised, though, You're probably not surprised based on

730
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 1: what you said, But I am a little surprised that

731
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,399
Speaker 1: Cunningham has led the team in the last two years

732
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 1: and tackle he's second in the league and solo tackles

733
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: in the league, well, not really twenty nineteen. The only

734
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 1: reason I say not really is because he ends up

735
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: having to make tackles more on tight ends. Down field. Everybody, Yeah, everybody.

736
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 1: You know Bernardrick not not that he's you know, Bernardrick

737
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: is if you're gonna make if Bernard is gonna make

738
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 1: a tackle and coverage, it's gonna be pretty much between

739
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: the hashes or between the numbers. Zach is going fully

740
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: side on the sideline. Now b mac is shown he

741
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: can run south on the sideline, but that's just not

742
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:44,840
Speaker 1: He's not asked to do that as much. And teams

743
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 1: aren't running the football as much on us for the

744
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,919
Speaker 1: most part. Um. They did a little bit more this year.

745
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: But I like to fit. I like to fit. And

746
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,400
Speaker 1: I know people have talked about, oh, pass rush, pass rusher,

747
00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 1: I'm Bernardrick's a really good pass rusher. He rushes from

748
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 1: the edge, he does some good things. So by doing that,

749
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: by having him on the field on third down, I

750
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: think you can use him in a blitz capacity. You

751
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 1: can use him in a rush capacity that you can

752
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 1: leave a lot of the same pieces out in the

753
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: field and just move the pieces around the chessboard and

754
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 1: come up with something a little bit more unique. And

755
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 1: that's obviously gonna be Anthony Weaver's charged to be able

756
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 1: to do that. But I just I like the combination

757
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:30,360
Speaker 1: because you've gotten better and improved coverage skills with Bernardric

758
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: You've got to do it all. Guy that can fly

759
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: next to him, you can stop the run, you can cover.

760
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,439
Speaker 1: I don't know that I look at them and think

761
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,319
Speaker 1: that they're deficient in any one way. I know, people say, well,

762
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,239
Speaker 1: what happened in Kansas City. I don't know that I

763
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 1: would put that on the linebackers. I don't know that

764
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: I would put that on those Look that was a

765
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 1: top to bottom kind of thing, Okay, I mean every

766
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:57,480
Speaker 1: phase went awry during that. Those moments when you're up

767
00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 1: twenty four to note thing and you lose by twenty,

768
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: don't remind me of that. I don't like. I say,

769
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: it's obviously it's always the one we're gonna look at

770
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: because that's the one that ended. In Sure, you gotta

771
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 1: look at everything leading up to it as well. Dylan

772
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: Colenna decide. I mean, you get him back next year,

773
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:16,799
Speaker 1: and you're so set with those three guys and inside lotback. Yeah,

774
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: I would think, Now, obviously you gotta see how the

775
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 1: rehab goes with Dylan. But we've seen guys and we

776
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: don't know. We just know you know, hurt through the

777
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 1: great funny towards a cl and and hopefully that's it.

778
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 1: If that's it, then he should be able to bounce

779
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: back hopefully, and we'll see him. I think that was

780
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: a loss. I think that was a bigger loss than

781
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:42,760
Speaker 1: than we all that on right because of the ability

782
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 1: to cover backside of the backfield special teams. He's such

783
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 1: a big piece there. But I've always said you can

784
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 1: put those three on the field, maybe run some more,

785
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: you know four three type concepts where you can get

786
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 1: all three of them on the field. But I thought

787
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: that was a bigger lot than when I thought back

788
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: to the season. I was doing different breakdowns earlier, Like

789
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,439
Speaker 1: right after the season was over, I was like, man,

790
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:09,799
Speaker 1: we missed Dylan Cole, didn't We Like we missed him

791
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,839
Speaker 1: a little bit more than maybe all of us led on.

792
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 1: So I think you've got a guy there as long

793
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 1: as he comes back healthy. I think you feel pretty

794
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 1: good about what you have an inside linebacker, which is

795
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 1: which is great but kind of goes back to our

796
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:26,920
Speaker 1: computer analogy earlier. I watched some of these inside linebackers

797
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: now and man, I see some guys I'm like, oh,

798
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: I would love that guy for this defense, right, but

799
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,000
Speaker 1: we have it, we have it. You know. I watched

800
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: this guy up at Wyoming. His name is Logan Wilson,

801
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh man, I love this guy. Like

802
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 1: we have it. We have is that cutting in. We

803
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 1: have Dylan Cole, We have guys that can run and

804
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 1: hit like him. We don't we don't need him. I

805
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 1: would love him, we don't need him. So it's it's

806
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: kind of interesting to watch the inside linebackers and these

807
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:53,840
Speaker 1: uh you know, as I start studying these draft prospects

808
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 1: and it's changed. The inside linebackers have changed significantly. You

809
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,319
Speaker 1: do not see you do not see a guy like

810
00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 1: Bernardric anymore. You do not see a guy two hundred

811
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: and fifty five pounds like him. Just going through my

812
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: list of guys, I don't know how many of them

813
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: are beyond two forty five, right, you just don't have

814
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 1: that anymore. I mean, Zach cutting End would be considered big.

815
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,800
Speaker 1: Well in the college game. You're doing so much absolutely

816
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 1: covering that kind of thing exactly, and we're seeing how

817
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 1: it's all filtering up too. You know, you kind of

818
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,399
Speaker 1: you've got to you gotta take what you get in

819
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:28,439
Speaker 1: some sense. You know, you're not getting two hundred fifty

820
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty five pound linebackers, so you're having

821
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 1: to adjust what you do, how you do certain things.

822
00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 1: And that's one that's one of the positions where things

823
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: are changing. Obviously, tight end we've talked about for a

824
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: long long time, how that's changed, That position's changed. We're

825
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,919
Speaker 1: seeing a little bit of a move back with tight ends.

826
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 1: There are a few more kind of why tight ends,

827
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: but you still see a lot of pass catching tight ends.

828
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:53,399
Speaker 1: Two hundred forty two and thirty five pounds that play

829
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:56,359
Speaker 1: tight end, they're gonna be basically big receivers. I don't

830
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 1: think we have time to be fair talking about outside linebackers,

831
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be a big topic this offseason because

832
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 1: pass rush and you know, what are you gonna get

833
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 1: next year? Where are you gonna get it from? You know,

834
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: obviously Whitney and Scarlett are there and you get do

835
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: get you four back, which is a nice thing because

836
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 1: we all want to see what he can do. And

837
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: as far as pass rush upfront with what with the

838
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 1: mena who I mean, you do have some guys here. Yeah,

839
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:23,320
Speaker 1: it's gonna be interesting to see how they feel about

840
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:27,240
Speaker 1: what they have versus what they might add in that department.

841
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 1: Is it young, is it a free agent? And you know,

842
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien probably not going to go nuts on the

843
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,760
Speaker 1: free agent market. I think he's always he said that publicly,

844
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 1: how he doesn't really want to have to do that.

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Speaker 1: Everybody wants to be able to build through the draft

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Speaker 1: and get home grown with these kinds of things. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no doubt, And I think to your point, I'm curious

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Speaker 1: what the public. The public's perception is going to be.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, you know, we're gonna talk about a

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Speaker 1: ton this entire offseason, and we'll continue to break down

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Speaker 1: position groups as these shows continue five nights a week,

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Speaker 1: six to seven on Sports Radio six ten and all.

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Speaker 1: So wherever you're listening in a podcast context, have a

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Speaker 1: great night. Everyone, Go Texans,