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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody, Welcome into a Wednesday. It is

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Speaker 1: should have Texans All Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: I'm yours, John Harris, Football analysts, southline reporter for your

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans and it is Titans Week, Yes, Tennessee on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: And a reminder three oh five local time kick for

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Speaker 1: the third year in a row. It's wait third year

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Speaker 1: in a row, fourth year in a row. I think

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Speaker 1: it's the fourth year in a row. I think nineteen

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Speaker 1: was also that to nineteen. Twenty twenty one, and twenty

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Speaker 1: two all have taken place in the afternoon for whatever reason.

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Speaker 1: Twenty nineteen and a need to I guess the Tides

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Speaker 1: were trying to get into playoffs. I had to move

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Speaker 1: that game. Twenty twenty got moved. I think for the

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Speaker 1: same reason twenty twenty one. They moved it because the

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Speaker 1: Tides are up for them one seed and this game

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Speaker 1: has just been scheduled at three or five for whatever reason.

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Speaker 1: But it's three or five on Sunday, So getting your

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Speaker 1: seats gives you a little extra time, like three hours

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Speaker 1: worth to tailgate a little bit more, but in your

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Speaker 1: hated Titans four and tune. This shows you a little

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Speaker 1: bit of how weird the season has been. I was

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Speaker 1: looking back at the standings and one of the things

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Speaker 1: in the standings is they show point differential points four

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Speaker 1: points against. The Titans are minus thirteen point differential on

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Speaker 1: the year, minus thirteen. They're four and two. The Texans

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Speaker 1: are minus thirty one. They're one four and one. Hector

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Speaker 1: Jaguars are the only team in the division that are

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Speaker 1: that are positive point differential over their opponents. They're two

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Speaker 1: and five. It's a really weird division, which is good

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Speaker 1: and bad depending on well where you sit on Oh

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Speaker 1: well we're in a division or not, I don't know

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Speaker 1: either way. Texas gotta take on the Titans. Four and two.

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Speaker 1: Titans team a top the AFC South. They have two

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Speaker 1: wins against the Cold and this will be the first

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Speaker 1: time the Titans are taking on either the Jags or

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Speaker 1: the Texans, and that will take place on Sunday at

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Speaker 1: three oh five at NRG Stadium on Halloween Eve, yes

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Speaker 1: October thirtieth. All Right, on the show this evening, we

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Speaker 1: are going to have Mark Vannimer's gonna stop by, well

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Speaker 1: of him we'll also have Jordan Aikins for a deep

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Speaker 1: slant interview of the week. We are also gonna have

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Speaker 1: one of our favorites, Mike Keith, the voice of the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans, will have a little bit of in the lab.

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Speaker 1: But you know, every Wednesday, how it goes. We kick

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Speaker 1: it off. The general manager of your favorite football team,

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans General manager Nick Cassario, sat down marking myself

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Speaker 1: when we talked about progress for the offense. Defense needs

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Speaker 1: to step it up, and then of course, you know

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Speaker 1: we had to dive in the Nick scouting report on

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. Here we go, joining us now on

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Speaker 1: the Hunday Texans Radio Studio Texans the general manager Nick Caserio. Nick,

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Speaker 1: right to see you. Hello's good to be here, all right,

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Speaker 1: coming out the Raider game and a game in which

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Speaker 1: you kind of exploded offensively in certain areas. Obviously fourth

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Speaker 1: saw on the road coming back from the bye. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it made some progress in some areas, played decent for

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Speaker 1: but it really wasn't I think it was. There were

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Speaker 1: some other things that happened in addition to that, but

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Speaker 1: anytime they scored on defense so offensively able to move

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Speaker 1: So you know, Raiders are a good team. We knew

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Speaker 1: So we just we just got to pull full game

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Speaker 1: I remember in the summer or the offseason when Chandler

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Speaker 1: So each game is going to present its own challenges.

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Speaker 1: protections as a group was probably one of our better efforts.

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Speaker 1: You know, for the year, Nick offensively had several plays

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Speaker 1: So I think Phil's a professional. It does a lot

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Speaker 1: it's been now. Obviously the physical skill goes a certain way,

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Speaker 1: your games. It was we looked at Tennessee here a

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Speaker 1: see more progress offensively nick defensively the run. Look, the

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Speaker 1: and Josh Jacobs, and there were a number of yards

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Speaker 1: a head coach. Yeah, Mike was one of the smartest

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Speaker 1: football players that we had on a team and had

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Speaker 1: in the building for a long period of time. So,

433
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Speaker 1: and Mike took a lot of pride in what he did.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I've got a lot of respect personally and

435
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Speaker 1: professionally for Mike. You know, what he did as a

436
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Speaker 1: player and what he's done as a coach. I don't

437
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Speaker 1: think anybody's surprised. Mike is one of the most intellectually

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Speaker 1: astute players and people that there are. I mean, he's

439
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Speaker 1: very smart, he's instinctive. The fact that he played offensively

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Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, tight end, played outside linebacker,

441
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Speaker 1: and then there was a year we had to play

442
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Speaker 1: him an inside linebacker when he never played inside linebacker.

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Speaker 1: But he has an overall i'd say awareness and understanding

444
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Speaker 1: and I think the level of mental and physical toughness

445
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Speaker 1: of Mike, and then that transcended kind of rest of

446
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Speaker 1: the group because in the end, and we've talked about

447
00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:36,840
Speaker 1: this as well, when you're on the field, it's about

448
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Speaker 1: the people next to you and holding each other accountable.

449
00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:41,080
Speaker 1: There's only so much a coach can do at that point.

450
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Speaker 1: So the standard was a certain level. They held each

451
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Speaker 1: other accountable in that standard, and Mike pushed the envelope.

452
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Speaker 1: I mean he, you know, gave Brady a hard time

453
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Speaker 1: and he go back there as a scout team free

454
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Speaker 1: safety in practice and he'd be on a look team

455
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Speaker 1: and trying to give a look at the opposing defense

456
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Speaker 1: just to kind of harass Brady look. But it was

457
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Speaker 1: all in the vein, trying to make him better, trying

458
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Speaker 1: to challenge him, and that was Mike's mentality, that was

459
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Speaker 1: his mindset. Rodney Harrison was that way, Tom was that way,

460
00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:09,080
Speaker 1: Bruskie was that way. I mean, you going down the line.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think anybody's surprised, but the success that

462
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Speaker 1: Mike has had, He's earned it. He's worked very hard

463
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Speaker 1: to get to this point. They have a really good program,

464
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Speaker 1: and I think between him and John, they've been able

465
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Speaker 1: to cultivate something, you know, pretty special there, and the

466
00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,480
Speaker 1: results kind of speak for themselves. So did he politic

467
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Speaker 1: to get on offense or did you guys see something

468
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Speaker 1: in him to put him on offense. I was just

469
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Speaker 1: a low level assistant, so I don't remember exactly what

470
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Speaker 1: those but I think it's funny actually. So he would

471
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Speaker 1: go out and warm up before the game. You know,

472
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Speaker 1: players go out, they have their routine. So Mike would

473
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Speaker 1: go out and he'd catch passes. I would actually throw

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Speaker 1: passes to Mike, and he'd always joke, you know, my

475
00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:46,360
Speaker 1: hands are as good as hines Ward, you know, kind

476
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Speaker 1: of tongue in cheek, but I think you really believe that.

477
00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:51,119
Speaker 1: And then when you're trying to however many players you

478
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Speaker 1: have at the game, who can we use, whether it's situationally,

479
00:19:53,440 --> 00:19:55,560
Speaker 1: whether it's in goal line. So the more things a

480
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Speaker 1: player can do, it just enhances overall value to the team.

481
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Speaker 1: So Mike had really good hand. I don't think anybody's

482
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Speaker 1: gonna question his hands. So the fact that he has

483
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Speaker 1: ten receptions and ten touchdowns is like he would tell

484
00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:08,600
Speaker 1: you like he's not surprised. Maybe some others would, but

485
00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:10,879
Speaker 1: he had supreme confidence to what he was doing and

486
00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:15,320
Speaker 1: overall understanding of what he needed to do in those roles. Nick,

487
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Speaker 1: A day after you play the Titans, is Halloween a holiday?

488
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you're super pumped for and I'm gonna run

489
00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,119
Speaker 1: every kid's dream of my least favorite holiday. My kids

490
00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:29,119
Speaker 1: love Halloween, yea. Their father absolutely despises Halloween, so I

491
00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:31,280
Speaker 1: can't remember the last time to put a costume on.

492
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Speaker 1: So so you don't attacks their candy bags when they

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Speaker 1: come back, No, I don't they When they bring the

494
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Speaker 1: candy home, I say, all right, you have a few

495
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Speaker 1: things because you're not keeping all this, and then we'll

496
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Speaker 1: distribute it to somebody that needs it more than they.

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Speaker 1: You are forced to eat one Halloween candy like recy

498
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Speaker 1: Snickers hershey bar. I mean, what would it be, Nick,

499
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Speaker 1: You have to eat it. You have to have it.

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Speaker 1: You can't say like a cliff bar or anything like, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I guess I would say I have one piece of

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Speaker 1: a candy corn or whatever for that little orange yellow

503
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:07,840
Speaker 1: whatever corn is the most controversial. Either love it or

504
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Speaker 1: you hate it. I'll take a bite of one of those. Maybe. Okay,

505
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Speaker 1: thanks a lot, Dad, good luck, Thanks guys. Okay, there's

506
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Speaker 1: no way that I had any thought that candy corn

507
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Speaker 1: was gonna be on that list. None, but I was glad.

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Speaker 1: I'm a candy corn guy. I know candy corner is polarizing,

509
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,240
Speaker 1: very polarizing. I'm a candy corn guy. I don't care

510
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Speaker 1: whether you are or not. I love candy corn. Love it.

511
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Speaker 1: Gonna see how much I can consume as we get

512
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Speaker 1: closer to Halloween. Now, coming up next, it's our Deep

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Speaker 1: sl Interview of the Week. Deep City sits down with

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Speaker 1: Jordan Nakins right here in Texans All Access. Welcome back

515
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Speaker 1: this Wednesday, they sh Texans All Access. I am John

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Speaker 1: Harris Football on a sideline reporter. My good friend Deep

517
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Speaker 1: City had a chance to catch up with Jordan Nakins

518
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Speaker 1: for her Deep Slant Interview of the Week. Let's go.

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Speaker 1: It's a deep sent one on one presented by Xfinity.

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Speaker 1: My guest this week Jordan Aikins tight End and Jordan.

521
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Speaker 1: I mean, the world series is upon us, so I

522
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Speaker 1: gotta ask you if you've been watching the Astros. Since

523
00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 1: you got back, I have been watching some games, Okay, yeah,

524
00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:04,760
Speaker 1: for sure. All right, we know that you played a

525
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Speaker 1: little bit of baseball yourself. I looked up how many

526
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Speaker 1: you played in three D and twenty one minor league games.

527
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Speaker 1: I did. Okay, So you've hit some home runs back

528
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Speaker 1: in the day. You've caught some touchdowns. Which one is harder? Wow,

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Speaker 1: I've never been asked that I would say, Uh, hitting

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Speaker 1: hitting a home run is harder than catching a touchdown? Why?

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Speaker 1: For sure? Because I mean catching tesnown you kind of

532
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:31,240
Speaker 1: can control you know, well, you kind of know where

533
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Speaker 1: the ball is going to be. You can you know, expect,

534
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,040
Speaker 1: like what kind of coverage it is and all that.

535
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Speaker 1: You can gather information before you actually make the play.

536
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Speaker 1: And baseball is just a split second, like you don't

537
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Speaker 1: know if it's fastball or anything. So you just gotta

538
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:46,960
Speaker 1: be ready, just tom and everything. So baseball is definitely harder.

539
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Speaker 1: It is mental. Okay. So what's the better celebration? Would

540
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Speaker 1: you rather get home run or would you rather catch

541
00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:56,399
Speaker 1: a touchdown? Better celebration? Touchdowns? For sure? Touchdowns a better celebration. Okay,

542
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Speaker 1: I hopefully we see more of them. We saw you

543
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Speaker 1: in your first game back, you got a touchdown. We

544
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Speaker 1: were talking about you and traveling because obviously travel a

545
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Speaker 1: lot with NFL teams, but I imagine traveling in the

546
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:09,359
Speaker 1: minor leagues is it's different. It's a different experience, a

547
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Speaker 1: little bit rougher. Yeah, it was horrible traveling. The traveling

548
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 1: and minor leagues was horrible. Okay, you guys go by bus.

549
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Speaker 1: I would have said, yeah, we go about bus. Sometimes

550
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,960
Speaker 1: we'll take fourteen hour trips. Chose to be so long

551
00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,120
Speaker 1: that you wouldn't even have time to stretch you We'll

552
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:23,640
Speaker 1: just get off the bus and you know, just after

553
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 1: fourteen street hours. Yeah, have the fourteen start out some songs.

554
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Speaker 1: We just have to get out and go. It depends

555
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Speaker 1: on if you have doubleheaders or not. You know. Yeah,

556
00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:32,960
Speaker 1: it was not it man. I mean the NFL, you

557
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Speaker 1: just you know, get on a plane, travel about two

558
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Speaker 1: three hours, you know, and you know you settle in

559
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,399
Speaker 1: by the day so you get some rest. But on

560
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Speaker 1: that bus, man, anything goes on that on that Yeah,

561
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Speaker 1: what was the longest trip you evertook? Say about fourteen

562
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Speaker 1: fourteen sixteen hours? Yeah? Where was that too? That was

563
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Speaker 1: from North Carolina to Lakeland New Jersey, Oh wow? Or

564
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Speaker 1: lake Wood. I want to say lake Wood, you've traveled

565
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Speaker 1: the country. Then by Bush Yeah it sounds like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, So we see you back here in Houston.

567
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Speaker 1: I remember I saw you the away like right after

568
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Speaker 1: you sign. It feels like you've been gone a long

569
00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,439
Speaker 1: time and yet you really haven't. What was it like

570
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:08,119
Speaker 1: to sort of rejoin this team in Houston? Things had changed,

571
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 1: coaching stuff had changed a bit. But what was it

572
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Speaker 1: like to sort of rejoin the Texans again this year?

573
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Speaker 1: For you? Um? I mean it was great, you know

574
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:19,000
Speaker 1: to see familiar faces and people that's been around. I've

575
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Speaker 1: been around the past years and you know who's coaching

576
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Speaker 1: me and also my brothers who have been going to

577
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Speaker 1: World with for the previous years. So you know, it

578
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Speaker 1: was an honor to come back, and you know, I'm

579
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Speaker 1: looking forward to, you know, continue to contribute to the

580
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,360
Speaker 1: team any kind of way. You know, I can offensively,

581
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:36,679
Speaker 1: especial teams, anyway I can. Man, Like I said, I'm

582
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 1: glad to be back, and you know I'm ready to

583
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Speaker 1: play some ball. You started off on the practice squad,

584
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Speaker 1: you worked your way back up to the active roster.

585
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Speaker 1: Was that a different experience for you because we saw

586
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Speaker 1: you get drafted and you know you were on the

587
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Speaker 1: active roster all along, but to come back and have

588
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Speaker 1: to sort of work your way up, what was that

589
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Speaker 1: experience like for you? Um, it was definitely humbling. You know,

590
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Speaker 1: it challenged me mentally as well as physically. Used to

591
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Speaker 1: just being a workhorse, you know, special team's offense, two

592
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Speaker 1: men and just going all the time to go in

593
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:06,879
Speaker 1: and trying to make a team, not really getting a

594
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Speaker 1: lot of opportunities, and you know, so it was you know,

595
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Speaker 1: it was a test for me. Definitely a big test

596
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Speaker 1: for me. But you know, overcame in and you know,

597
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Speaker 1: I ended back up in Houston thinks, well, we saw

598
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Speaker 1: you get activated a few times, and I think a

599
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:20,439
Speaker 1: lot of us were wondering, Okay, so when is he

600
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 1: going to make the active roster because it seemed like

601
00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 1: you just sort of came in and picked up where

602
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Speaker 1: you left off. But I was starting to o J

603
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Speaker 1: Howard and he said that you were one of the

604
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Speaker 1: guys that he sort of leaned on when he got

605
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Speaker 1: here because you guys were both trying to learn this offense. Definitely,

606
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Speaker 1: and I didn't really even think about it like that.

607
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,680
Speaker 1: But was it a big adjustment for you to come

608
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 1: back and pick up this playbook? It definitely was a challenge.

609
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Speaker 1: I mean, you come in, well, you first, I left

610
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:46,600
Speaker 1: and went to New York Giants and their playbook is

611
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,480
Speaker 1: extremely difficult, so you know, kind of program my brain

612
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: to that. And then leaving there and coming here, you know,

613
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,280
Speaker 1: it's a totally new offense. You know, it's not the

614
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Speaker 1: same as when I first was here. So it was

615
00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 1: a challenge. But you know, I love challenge, and you know,

616
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Speaker 1: like like like oh said, I mean, we kind of

617
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:05,439
Speaker 1: leaned on each other, you know, like won't be out

618
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,160
Speaker 1: there on that field, especially when we first got here

619
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Speaker 1: like we was, you know, talking basically, you know, you

620
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:11,480
Speaker 1: know what you got, you know what you got. You

621
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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. We look at meals, meals look

622
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 1: at us like, Okay, I see that kind of loss,

623
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Speaker 1: you know. But um, now you know we got things

624
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,879
Speaker 1: rolling and we're feeling good, we're very comfortable, and then

625
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 1: we're playing fast. Yeah, what's the toughest part of making

626
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 1: that adjustment? Because I would think you're tight end? How

627
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,879
Speaker 1: different can a tight end role be leaving Houston and

628
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: coming back and then you've you've played with Mills before

629
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Speaker 1: as well, So what do you think was the biggest

630
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Speaker 1: part of the adjustment process for you? The adjustment process,

631
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Speaker 1: it was just grasping that playbook terminology. It's terminology, hands down,

632
00:26:40,359 --> 00:26:44,360
Speaker 1: it's terminology. All offenses in the NFL is basically kind

633
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 1: of simple. You know, I'm not simple, but kind of similar, sure,

634
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 1: but it's the terminology, like you said, so, um, it

635
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 1: was just a lot of studying. You know, I have

636
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Speaker 1: two kids, so going home, you know, daddy, Daddy had

637
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Speaker 1: to like, you know, kind of getting that. Yeah. Yeah,

638
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,159
Speaker 1: they didn't really like that, but you know, had to

639
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:03,919
Speaker 1: what I had to do. And now I'm starting to

640
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: catch up, so you know, and play fast. How old

641
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,800
Speaker 1: are the kids? Two and five? Oh? Okay, just turned two,

642
00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 1: so they probably want a little bit of your attention

643
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,919
Speaker 1: when you know all the time. Yeah, thanks, time to play.

644
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:15,760
Speaker 1: I was talking to Brev and Jordan. He said after

645
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 1: the season that you and him, you guys had gone

646
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 1: to Tuloom and now you come back. He's in a

647
00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,199
Speaker 1: second season. What have you seen from him? Because he

648
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 1: was a rookie when you're here last year. But I

649
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: know he's dealt with some injuries this year. But what

650
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:28,680
Speaker 1: about his growth? What have you seen from him in

651
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 1: the tight end room? Our standing growth man, just understanding schemes,

652
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 1: coverage and putting his skill on the field. I mean,

653
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,919
Speaker 1: last year Brad was a lot of like you know,

654
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 1: I feel like he was a little hesitant just because

655
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:42,440
Speaker 1: he didn't want to mess up. You know, now he's

656
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,359
Speaker 1: full speed and if he mess up, he launched from me.

657
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 1: He doesn't make the same mistakes, which has been a pro.

658
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,359
Speaker 1: And he's gonna be special. Man's special kid. He has

659
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: a bright future. How about Davis Mills meals man, that's

660
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 1: my guy, meals may so nach less, so chill, lay back.

661
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 1: He's really calm all the time. He is man, He's

662
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 1: really He's pretty funny too, you know, yeah, the meals

663
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 1: is pretty funny. He's cracking jokes with you guys. Or

664
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 1: what sort of sense of humor does David's mild? Yeah,

665
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: he had his web cracking jokes. You know, Mills just walked.

666
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 1: Why I can't give you a certain look, I'll bust

667
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 1: out laughing or I messed with him, you know the

668
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 1: way you talk and stuff like that. But you know

669
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 1: we have we have a good chemistry. How cool was

670
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:17,520
Speaker 1: it for you to be able to come back here?

671
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 1: It seems like a more tight end friendly offense. I

672
00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: know you said you were just honored to be able

673
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: to come back and be a part of it, But

674
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:24,360
Speaker 1: to be be able to come back and sort of pick

675
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 1: up it kind of seems like where you left off.

676
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 1: You know, how cool is that this whole experience been

677
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 1: for you? And what do you hope to build on

678
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,960
Speaker 1: here moving forward? I'm after going through what I went through,

679
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: you know, mentionally and physically, you know, the challenges, and

680
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: coming back I felt great. I definitely wanted more opportunity,

681
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: which Testons gave me more opportunity, just to prove my

682
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: talent and just to show that, you know, I still

683
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:47,400
Speaker 1: can play, I still can make plays, and I have

684
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: so much more to give than what I have. So,

685
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 1: like I said, as the honor to always come back

686
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: and put on his blue and white, and I'm always

687
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 1: honored to just you know, make plays for his team.

688
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: All right. I've asked about everyone else being different from

689
00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: last year to this year, but I got to ask,

690
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 1: how are you different from last year to this year?

691
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: Just I'm playing with revenge man. That's what I always

692
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: said Um, I've never really been cut, so you know

693
00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: after being cut your whole career here, Yeah, it's I

694
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 1: opened my eyes and you know, it just it just

695
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,800
Speaker 1: showed me like basically, I took it as like God

696
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: could give you everything, he could take it away that fast.

697
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:20,480
Speaker 1: So I'll humble myself. And you know, I just played

698
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:21,800
Speaker 1: with a chip on my shoulder. So every time I

699
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: touched the ball, I feel like, you know, nothing can

700
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 1: stop me. I'm running through anything, well in the balls

701
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 1: and I'm coming down with it. So I say, it

702
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 1: just built my confidence honestly in a way. All Right,

703
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:32,920
Speaker 1: love to see it. We'll hope to see many more

704
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 1: touchdowns from you for the rest of year. Jordan. Thanks,

705
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Thank you having what a story. Jordan

706
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,480
Speaker 1: Nakins has banded twenty twenty two. All right, we get

707
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: back in the lab, gets a little weird next right

708
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 1: here on Texans All Access. Yeah, sir, welcome back to Wednesday.

709
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Speaker 1: This shear Texans All Access from the Honday Texans Radio studio.

710
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: It's John Harris, your host Football an Old Side of

711
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:57,080
Speaker 1: the Reporter, and it's time to get a little weird

712
00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: on in the lab with Drew Doughty. But it's got

713
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 1: very important question to start this off. How do you

714
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: beat these guys, because hey, you were in this position

715
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 1: the first time you played them last year you win

716
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 1: into Tennessee and you got a victory. How does that

717
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 1: happen this Sunday? Well, I think, first and foremost, I'm

718
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: going to repeat myself from last week. Okay, just take

719
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,640
Speaker 1: out Josh Jacob's name and put in Derrick Henry. That's

720
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:28,200
Speaker 1: all you have to do. Stop him now. Sounds easy, right, right?

721
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:32,520
Speaker 1: I mean, hey, just stop Josh Jacobs. Just stop there, Kenry.

722
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: Not that easy with this run defense playing the way

723
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 1: that it has. Losing Malik Collins was a massive blow.

724
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: Not having John Grenard out on the edge allowed the

725
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,000
Speaker 1: Raiders to do some things in the run game that

726
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 1: that shouldn't shouldn't have happened, and it wasn't as if

727
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,080
Speaker 1: you know, when I watched the take the forty nine ers,

728
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:56,040
Speaker 1: for instance, they do some pretty unique things running the ball.

729
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 1: The Eagles have and we'll see the Eagles here in

730
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: a little bit, but the Eagles have a lot of

731
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: zone read type things built in. They run some split zone.

732
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: The Raiders ran pin and pole toss. They ran isolation,

733
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,959
Speaker 1: and they ran a little bit of counter. Those are

734
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 1: plays you learned back in sixth grade. I mean that's

735
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: you know, thirty four thirty five counter. I mean we

736
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: ran out of the affirmation pin and pole toss. I

737
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: mean we we called it Scot right Scot left, which

738
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: is actually a nomenclature for West Coast pass protection, but

739
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 1: that's what we call his toss right toss left. They

740
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,560
Speaker 1: just you know, add in some pin and pole concepts

741
00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 1: because it makes the angles I'm blocking easier. The Texans

742
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: didn't get off blocks, they were not as violent as

743
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: they needed to be against the run. So now here

744
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 1: comes twenty two and in the last four games that

745
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: he has seen the Texans. He didn't play in twenty

746
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 1: twenty one, so I saw him twice in twenty twenty

747
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: and just blew them up. He had over twenty percent

748
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 1: of his yardage, which was over two thousand yards in

749
00:31:56,560 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 1: twenty twenty against the Texans. So think about that as

750
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 1: right there, twenty percent plus YEP of two thousand yards

751
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: YEP in just two games. And then in twenty nineteen

752
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: he had a little bit of a hamstring and the

753
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,720
Speaker 1: first time we faced him and held him under a hundred.

754
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:16,760
Speaker 1: But in twenty nineteen when he's facing the you know

755
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:18,959
Speaker 1: JV squad if you will, because it was week seventeen,

756
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: seventeen down it was an AJ McCarron joint in the

757
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: Texans hung in there. McCarron had them in the game

758
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 1: a little bit. Think it was twenty one seventeen at

759
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: one point, but Henry went off. He had a fifty

760
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:33,560
Speaker 1: yard run, touchdown, run at clinched, rushed title, clinch clinched

761
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 1: the playoff spot for them. So the last three times

762
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 1: he's seen the Texans, he's done basically what he's wanted to.

763
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: And after you watched Josh Jacobs and you think, okay,

764
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: now it's Derek Henry. Oh, the Titans will do it

765
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 1: a little differently. Probably gonna be a little bit more

766
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: duo where Henry can can read things on his own.

767
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 1: It might be a little bit more zone with split zone.

768
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: There might be some different ways that the Titans are

769
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: gonna attack in the run game than the Raiders did.

770
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: But the Texans right now are really struggling with all

771
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: facets of it. I mean, Clil Herbert, I will say

772
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 1: on Monday Night Football, Drew watching the Patriots struggle with

773
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,720
Speaker 1: Khalil Herbert. I'm like, hey, all right, maybe the Bears

774
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: are a little bit better running the ball than we thought.

775
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: I thought they were good, but man, maybe they're beyond good.

776
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 1: Maybe it's really really good. So they've faced some good

777
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: running backs too. I mean, look, Javonte Williams, Jonson Taylor,

778
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: I mean Herbert stepping in for David Montgomery. You face

779
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: you know, you didn't give up a lot of rushing yard,

780
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,560
Speaker 1: saw snackler excipt the receiving yards, which was a killer.

781
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: Then you faced the Twins down which I guess they're

782
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: solo now, but yeah, James Robinson, A Travis Etn. And

783
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: then you face coming out of the body, you face

784
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: Josh Jacob. You face some of the better running backs

785
00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: in the league. But there's no excuse. I could see

786
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: if he just broke tackles all day if you're guys

787
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: in position. But you didn't really have guys in position

788
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: all day. So stop, Derek Henry please. I don't care

789
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 1: what you gotta do. Trip him, snatch him, I don't know,

790
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: make googly eye faces at him. I don't know where

791
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: Halloween costume lasso m rope. I don't care Are you

792
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: gonna wear a Halloween costume? No, not at all. M hmm, okay,

793
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 1: no you yeah, I mean you have kids, So I'm

794
00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: gonna be Maverick. My wife is gonna be Penny Benjamin. Nice.

795
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: Kids are gonna be all the different, all the different

796
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 1: young young young f eighteen pilots. So there you go. Yeah, um, hey,

797
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: off topic. Okay, how about that entertainment at Allegiance Stadium

798
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,800
Speaker 1: on Sunday now to give you an idea of things.

799
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: They liked that Eternal Flame the end Zone with Apollo Creed,

800
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: the original Apollo Creeds. Yeah, that was cool. I like

801
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 1: that because he's a former Rader. That was awesome. I

802
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: still haven't told my son about that. I forgot about

803
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 1: that when his when they showed his face up on

804
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: the screen. I was standing next to Anthony Simmons, who's

805
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 1: played linebacker. He's from on North Carolina, and he was

806
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: the uniforms are every every game there's a guy that

807
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 1: because like uniform violations and all that, and so he's

808
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,399
Speaker 1: that guy, and usually it's a former player. And so

809
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 1: I was standing next to him, and I have my

810
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 1: headphones on, so I'm listening to market Andre and I

811
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:11,719
Speaker 1: look up and I see Carl Weather's picture and I

812
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: just went and so I must have done it loud enough.

813
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: He turned around, He's like what and I pointed. I

814
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: was like, Creed what And it's like Apollo Creed. And

815
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,919
Speaker 1: then they started showing Apolo Creed, you know, like snapshots

816
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:28,480
Speaker 1: from from rocket. He turned in and looked at me.

817
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 1: That's a Polo Craus like, guys, what I just told you?

818
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 1: So yeah, that was cool, and then Jojo sings in Nashville. Yeah, now,

819
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: some of you out there going huh who, But up

820
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 1: in the press box, it's an open air press box,

821
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 1: so there's no glass. If it's if it's closed air,

822
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:49,240
Speaker 1: meaning there's glass up, it's like you're in a library journey.

823
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and you can kind of hear the rumble

824
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: of the crowd. But this was an open air crowd,

825
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,239
Speaker 1: so it was loud. It was very loud press box.

826
00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 1: But Jojo, who had a hit bike around two oh

827
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: three oh four with something like get out, leave right now.

828
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: It's not like a cat like weren't you like in

829
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:06,879
Speaker 1: between with some of the but it was a big

830
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 1: hit back then. It kind of stuck with you, which

831
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 1: she sang the National anthem and she sang it very well.

832
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: It is beautiful radition. She sang the national anthem. And

833
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 1: then Little John was there. They interviewed him at a

834
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,439
Speaker 1: time out. Yeah, he hit him with hit the crowd

835
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 1: with a good yaya. Yeah. So we love Little John

836
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:23,800
Speaker 1: because he had to turn down for Watt song that

837
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 1: you know, kind of was adopted here right of course

838
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 1: the Glory Days. And then at the half Iggy Azalia

839
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: just did like a three fourth song medley and I

840
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 1: was like, what what was this? Really it was it

841
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: was Iggy Azalia doing her thing. So that was that

842
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: was pretty pretty fun stuff on Sunday, Yeah, it was.

843
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:43,839
Speaker 1: And then they've got that platform where, like you said,

844
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: where the flame is, Yeah, that's where it's basically just

845
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 1: a performers. Does he get the Raider House band plays

846
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 1: there during between breaks. Yeah, And they had a woman

847
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 1: named a Rachel Platin. Okay, she did kind of the

848
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: pre game. She did a couple of pre game songs

849
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: or songs in pregame. There was just there was music

850
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:07,720
Speaker 1: always going. Yeah, it was. It was really I didn't

851
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,719
Speaker 1: know what to expect. I really, I really didn't left

852
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 1: with a very favorable impression in that place. Yeah. I

853
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: walked out of there. First of all, you don't. I mean,

854
00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,440
Speaker 1: it's it's Raiders crowd, you know, how's it gonna be.

855
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,720
Speaker 1: I felt like that place was as loud as any crowd,

856
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe louder, and it really didn't hit because

857
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,280
Speaker 1: for the first half the Texans really kind of bobbed

858
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 1: and wove its way through. There was really not an

859
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: opportunity for the Raiders fans to kind of get really jack.

860
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: When Mac Collins caught that touchdown, yeah, I was like, whoa, Wow,

861
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,399
Speaker 1: there's places this is loud. And then of course the

862
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the second half, that place went nuts to

863
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:47,799
Speaker 1: pick six. Holy smokes um. One of the interesting one

864
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:52,439
Speaker 1: of the interesting parts I thought of that game was

865
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:58,320
Speaker 1: it happened with Iggy Azalea. So at halftime. To Sean Reid,

866
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: who covers the for The Athletic Great, he tweets out

867
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: the combination of alleged stadium trying to make barbecue and

868
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 1: Iggy Azalea performing at halftime is gonna make me depressed.

869
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:19,399
Speaker 1: So Iggy Azalea sees this and tweets if you think

870
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: you're depressed now, I'll spare the tears you'd cry knowing

871
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: what my paycheck was to come and jiggle a little backside,

872
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: but she used the word nod. He did it the

873
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: next day because she didn't see the tweet until then

874
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: got it. I missed. I missed her halftime performance because

875
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,480
Speaker 1: I went in, I interviewed Lovey, then I went in

876
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:42,280
Speaker 1: and I had to get all ready for the second half,

877
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 1: and so I missed it. When I came back out,

878
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 1: they're about three and a half four minutes left, so

879
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 1: I caught like the tail end of the performance. The

880
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 1: pun attended and I looked up and I was like, whoa,

881
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:55,800
Speaker 1: she's right, you know, she's right there. But the scoreboard

882
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: was right in front of me as I was walking,

883
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:58,920
Speaker 1: so I just kind of walked and looking at I

884
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 1: was like he was the other thing that stood out.

885
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: A lot of the crowd was still in seat. Yeah,

886
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,520
Speaker 1: they really didn't go for halftime snacks or whatever. A

887
00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 1: lot of the crowd was still in the seat, just

888
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: didn't join a concert at halftime. I thought that was

889
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: really cool because how many places do you go where

890
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 1: the fans take off they're at the I mean, my

891
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:20,720
Speaker 1: famous story, My famous story is my wife at halftime

892
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: and the first game she came to twenty fourteen against Buffalo.

893
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,240
Speaker 1: What's the one thing you remember about twenty fourteen against Buffalo?

894
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:30,360
Speaker 1: J eighty yard interception? Right, whatever it was. She was

895
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 1: standing in line because for halftime she didn't know she'd

896
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: been to my games. In my high school games, those

897
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: high school halftimes like twenty five thirty minutes. Colleges are twenty.

898
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 1: It feels like an eternity. It's twelve. It's twelve. It's

899
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: enough to get inside, go to the bathroom, maybe get

900
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: a drink, say something, come back out, and you gotta

901
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 1: get ready for the second half. And so to see

902
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 1: all of them in their seats, I thought was really

903
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 1: impressive to see as alien too. So from a performance,

904
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: everything stadium was very well laid out. So far, it's

905
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: terribly laid out. I couldn't I mean so far you

906
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 1: couldn't figure out where you were going anywhere, like where's this?

907
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:10,839
Speaker 1: Where's it? And then of course the people there were

908
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: of no help. The people, the security people. I think

909
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: it was safe, safe. I think that was our security crew,

910
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: the best people I have dealt with. Well makes sense,

911
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: super cool, Ustomer Service Entertainment Hub. They were fantastic and

912
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 1: I've said that a couple people not to exactly what

913
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,200
Speaker 1: you said, that that if they weren't, it would be

914
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: but super cool now super nice. I saw this also

915
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: about the barbecue. Yeah, I didn't know about the barbecue.

916
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: There was barbecue in the press box. You need to

917
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 1: have a level of expectation going in. Yeah, Now when

918
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 1: you go to a press box, are you going to

919
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 1: eat the finest Southern barbecue of or finest Kansas City

920
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: or the finest North Cure. It's it's a catering company

921
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,919
Speaker 1: at me. So it's funny that he said that any

922
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 1: lumped a shot at it. Yeah, because I got to

923
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: play to barbecue. I went back to my press box

924
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 1: seat and I did a little since I'd never been

925
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: to this stadium before, I did a little video and

926
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 1: I started kind of on my name card. Yeah. Yeah,

927
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: but you saw my plate of food very briefly, like

928
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 1: less than a second, and I kind of pan up

929
00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,919
Speaker 1: and you see the view the press box view. Yeah.

930
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 1: Somebody responded to me on Twitter and said, is that

931
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 1: an attempt at barbecue? And so I responded back with

932
00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: like the you know, laughing, I said, take it easy, man,

933
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: it was fine, which he responded back with yeah, I

934
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:36,760
Speaker 1: bet it probably was. I'm sure I would have gotten

935
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 1: seconds myself. So, like listen, was the barbecue the best ever? No,

936
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:42,800
Speaker 1: it was fine, it was good. I mean, I just

937
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 1: don't understand like the need to take shots and I

938
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 1: totally agree with Drew somebody trying to be funny and

939
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,799
Speaker 1: well they got clapped back on by Iggy Azalia And

940
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that was one heck of an environment

941
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas. Man, I mean, it was just it

942
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: was a show. They told, really get it, Las Vegas

943
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 1: is a show, and they're gonna put on a show

944
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 1: for the Raiders. Just absolutely incredible stuff going forward. But

945
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:11,359
Speaker 1: gotta go beat the Titans on Sunday. And the two

946
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:14,280
Speaker 1: men calling the game, well, they're gonna meet up next.

947
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: Mike Keith, our good friend for the tensee Titans, sits

948
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 1: down with Mark vandermir Next men behind the mic, some

949
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:23,799
Speaker 1: Texans All Access. Let's go, We're got one our now,

950
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: one hour left to go. Right here on a Wednesday

951
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,840
Speaker 1: edition the Texans All Access. Glad to be with you.

952
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 1: I'm John Harris football and a sideline reporter. It's time

953
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: for me to hand the ball off to my very

954
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:36,839
Speaker 1: abled partner. Who can run with it as he does

955
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,759
Speaker 1: in our Men behind the Mics segment each and every week,

956
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: and that is Mark Vandamir. And the man on the

957
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 1: other side is someone we've gotten to know very very well,

958
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 1: one of the best in the business and gotta be

959
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 1: a really good friend. That's Mike Keith, the Tennessee Titans.

960
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: Mark and Mike Men behind the Mics. Actually it's got

961
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: some alliteration. Let's do it well. It's always wonderful to

962
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 1: visit and you and I catch up with the combine

963
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: and whenever the Texans and Titans play, which is twice

964
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: a year, haven't met in the playoffs yet. Would love

965
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: to see that happen at some point. But tell me

966
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 1: what's the difference lately for the Titans, who got off

967
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,959
Speaker 1: to a bit of a rocky start opening day loss

968
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: against the Giants. I know things weren't exactly going according

969
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 1: to plan, but now they are with the winning stream.

970
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 1: What's happening, Mike. It's been very interesting, Mark, from the

971
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:24,840
Speaker 1: standpoint that we left Buffalo taking quite a beating there,

972
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 1: and a physical beating as well with some injuries, and

973
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,480
Speaker 1: you know, being in a situation at that moment in time,

974
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 1: that we had to come back and reevaluate where we were,

975
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: and you know, Mike Vrabel and the staff and John Robinson,

976
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: the general manager, and everybody who runs this thing sat

977
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: down and said, Okay, here's who we are right now,

978
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 1: here's what we can do. Let's do these things and

979
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 1: let's try to do them well. And so that's what

980
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:55,400
Speaker 1: the Titans have done in the last four games is

981
00:43:55,560 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 1: they have focused on playing mistake free, winning the kick game,

982
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 1: using Derrick Henry Moore, trying to be better on defense,

983
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:08,840
Speaker 1: taking advantage of what matchups they might have in certain games,

984
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: utilizing personnel in very different ways. You know, some guys

985
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 1: defense play one game and then don't play much the

986
00:44:17,120 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: next game because it's it's a matchup type thing that

987
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:25,319
Speaker 1: they're going with. So it's been mix and match overall,

988
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 1: very basic football. And the Titans have found ways to

989
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,840
Speaker 1: win three close games, or I should say four close

990
00:44:33,920 --> 00:44:36,479
Speaker 1: games in a row, and they're at four and two.

991
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody feels like they're everything it's solved,

992
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 1: because the injury thing continues to be a massive problem

993
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 1: for this ball club. But at the same time, their

994
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 1: feeling is we're going to be able to compete if

995
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 1: we can make it our sort of game, and that's

996
00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: what they've been trying to do over the last month,

997
00:44:57,239 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 1: and for the most part, I've done pretty well. Mike

998
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,799
Speaker 1: Keith with US, Voice of the Tennessee Titans. Okay, Mike,

999
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:05,120
Speaker 1: we know that Tannehill leap the stadium in a walking boot,

1000
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 1: and there was optimism about him earlier in the week.

1001
00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 1: You and I are recording us early in the week.

1002
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 1: But tell me something about Malik Willis. If Malik Willis

1003
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 1: has to play, if he eventually does play, what are

1004
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: you seeing out of him in practice? And I know

1005
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:21,879
Speaker 1: in training camp preseason games we saw some electric play.

1006
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:24,360
Speaker 1: So your thoughts on the rookie. What we saw in

1007
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: training camp was he wasn't ready, that was the bottom line.

1008
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: But what I liked about him, Marcus, he knew he

1009
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:34,600
Speaker 1: wasn't ready, and so he has worked hard in the

1010
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:40,120
Speaker 1: regular season running the show team in practice to try

1011
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:43,839
Speaker 1: to drive the first teamers crazy. And you know, that's

1012
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 1: what a good practice player does when they're not in

1013
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 1: the lineup. And you know that's how a lot of

1014
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 1: guys get into the lineup is they have the opportunity

1015
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: to practice against the first string and if they can

1016
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 1: make some plays, they get confidence and they get noticed.

1017
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: Malik has done that very well over the past two months.

1018
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: He has taken the show team. He has made the

1019
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: periods more competitive. He's tried to make things happen, but

1020
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 1: fundamentally he's gotten better. You know, when the Titans took

1021
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:16,960
Speaker 1: him in the draft in the third round, they knew him,

1022
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: but Mark nobody thought he would be there in the

1023
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 1: third round, and the Titans never thought they would really

1024
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 1: have a shot to draft him. They had vetted him,

1025
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: but they had not vetted him in a way that

1026
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 1: you normally do. You know, they had not taken that,

1027
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 1: you know, that deep dive that you go into a

1028
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: with a player. So they're still learning about him. What

1029
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:44,760
Speaker 1: they've been impressed with is his approach. He's a quarterback.

1030
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 1: He knows he's a quarterback. He knows he has to work,

1031
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 1: he understands what he's up against, and he is a

1032
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:56,680
Speaker 1: phenomenal athlete, all right, if he's healthy. Ryan Tannehill twenty

1033
00:46:56,760 --> 00:47:01,080
Speaker 1: twenty two version Sam Ryan Tannehill. He's not a young

1034
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: man anymore, but he's not really oldie there. He's just

1035
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 1: a little bit more elderly in NFL. Terms doesn't run

1036
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 1: as much as he once did, but he's not afraid

1037
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 1: to run. He has managed this team incredibly well, and

1038
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 1: I think that's what you don't appreciate about Tannehill unless

1039
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 1: you're around it every day. The calls that he makes it,

1040
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: the line, the way. He's very involved in the game

1041
00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 1: planning because he is thirty four and he's seen a

1042
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 1: couple of things, right, So I mean, this is a

1043
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 1: guy who will make his one hundred and forty third

1044
00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:41,440
Speaker 1: start counting playoffs, and he's seen some football, So you're

1045
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:45,040
Speaker 1: looking at a guy who can really be a difference maker.

1046
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 1: Between he and Ben Jones, there's so much cerebral that

1047
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:52,280
Speaker 1: goes on at the line of scrimmage between those two

1048
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:57,919
Speaker 1: that really help a very inexperienced offensive line and help

1049
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 1: get Derrick Henry running the right way. Tanny Hill hasn't

1050
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 1: thrown it a lot because the Titans lost Trailing Burkes

1051
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:10,439
Speaker 1: to injury. They've lost Kyle Phillips to injury, two guys

1052
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 1: that they were going to count on is part of

1053
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:15,800
Speaker 1: their top four with the loss of Taitor to one,

1054
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 1: and then what's happened with Nate Davis the last two

1055
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 1: games and the fact that they lost two starters from

1056
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 1: last year. They've had to mix and match and help

1057
00:48:24,360 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: the offensive line, so they have not been able to

1058
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 1: just drop back and humm it like you know a

1059
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: lot of teams like to do at certain points. They're

1060
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:36,200
Speaker 1: having to play the game very differently, and so it's

1061
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 1: hard to know statistically, but I think he's done a

1062
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:43,239
Speaker 1: very good job overall running the show, which is what

1063
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:47,200
Speaker 1: he does really really well. Mike Keith voiced the Tennessee

1064
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 1: Titans with us and Mike were over five minutes into

1065
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 1: this thing, and I've resisted the temptation to automatically go

1066
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 1: to Derrick Henry. But here we are, and here he is.

1067
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: And I know last year the Texans didn't see them,

1068
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 1: but they're certainly going to see Sunday afternoon at a

1069
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 1: RG stadium. So I don't know what else there is

1070
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:05,879
Speaker 1: to say about him except he's the best running back

1071
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: in the league. When he's out there healthy, it's awfully good.

1072
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 1: He's awfully good with his hands on the football, and

1073
00:49:11,800 --> 00:49:14,840
Speaker 1: they have found ways to get him the ball. In

1074
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 1: the last four games, mark he's had one hundred thirteen

1075
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: total touches, and so he's getting his carries, but they're

1076
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:25,839
Speaker 1: also finding the way to throw him the ball. They're

1077
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 1: snapping it directly to him. You know, it's like the

1078
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 1: basketball analogy. When somebody's your best player, get him the

1079
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:35,719
Speaker 1: ball and let him shoot. He's the best player. He's

1080
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:40,359
Speaker 1: the guy that even when he's not getting all the

1081
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:43,840
Speaker 1: holes up front, he can still make something happen. Teams

1082
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: are keying on him. They know he's coming. It's no secret.

1083
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:50,319
Speaker 1: We're not giving away the game plan. Everybody knows who

1084
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:52,919
Speaker 1: he is and they know what he's all about. He's

1085
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 1: running very well right now too. You see him at

1086
00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: times get into a groove. He was not in that

1087
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:03,759
Speaker 1: group in Game one. He was rusty, and now he's

1088
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 1: gotten into that groove where he's been very close to

1089
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:10,719
Speaker 1: popping a long run. So he's played well. But I

1090
00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: think the thing that you like so much about him

1091
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 1: is he is such a non diva from the standpoint

1092
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:22,320
Speaker 1: that even when he understands the other team knows he's coming,

1093
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:25,719
Speaker 1: he's still gonna run it up in there and get

1094
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:28,319
Speaker 1: his two or three yards the best he can. A

1095
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: lot of the big star guys don't like to do that,

1096
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 1: you know, they want the home run runs and he

1097
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 1: does too, but he's willing to do the work. On

1098
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 1: Sunday's broadcast late in the game, we were having a

1099
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:44,280
Speaker 1: discussion off there about it was an AFC Central Eddie

1100
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 1: George type performance that he was giving in the twenty

1101
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:51,720
Speaker 1: seven carries for eighty nine yards whatever, And I actually

1102
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 1: referred to him on the areas Eddie George accidentally, and

1103
00:50:56,320 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 1: that's how old I'm getting. But the point was it

1104
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: it was that type of performance a game that the

1105
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:08,759
Speaker 1: stats don't necessarily say, hey, this is fantastic, but what

1106
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 1: it does say is there's no way you win this

1107
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:13,719
Speaker 1: game without him. And that's what he's been giving this

1108
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: team right now. Yeah, a long run of twenty four

1109
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:19,759
Speaker 1: so far. So that's interesting with one hundred and thirty

1110
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:22,360
Speaker 1: four carries. So we'll see him Sunday afternoon. Mike, what

1111
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,880
Speaker 1: about the new stadium for the Titans. I happen to

1112
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:28,800
Speaker 1: like the setting right across the river from downtown Nashville.

1113
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:31,760
Speaker 1: In the current situation, I know you've needed a new building,

1114
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:34,839
Speaker 1: so tell us what's coming. Well, what was interesting, Mark

1115
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,919
Speaker 1: is we started this process with the idea because we're

1116
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 1: like you, we love where we are, love downtown Nashville

1117
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:44,759
Speaker 1: easy to get to right off the interstate. People can

1118
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:48,480
Speaker 1: walk across the pedestrian bridge and you know, have a

1119
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 1: good time in downtown Nashville and then come over and

1120
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: enjoy the game. It's it's really a cool setting. So

1121
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:57,919
Speaker 1: the Titans were totally set on renovating Nissan Stadium. Well,

1122
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 1: when they got into the process, the renovation was going

1123
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:05,840
Speaker 1: to cost at least double what they had immediately figured

1124
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:11,760
Speaker 1: because building materials and requirements in terms of codes and whatever,

1125
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:16,319
Speaker 1: they have changed so much that suddenly the price ballooned

1126
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:18,759
Speaker 1: well over a billion dollars. It's like, well, you know,

1127
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 1: if we're going to do that, why don't we just

1128
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 1: build a new one? Because everybody had been on board

1129
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 1: with the renovation, and the Titans never came to the

1130
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 1: table with the idea, we need a new stadium. So

1131
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:35,439
Speaker 1: they investigated the process of can we put a new

1132
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:40,399
Speaker 1: stadium in what are the front three parking lots of

1133
00:52:40,440 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: the current building and those are the lots closest to

1134
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:48,640
Speaker 1: the interstate. And so the new stadium, the proposed stadium,

1135
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 1: will be built in lots A, B and C closer

1136
00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:55,840
Speaker 1: to the Interstate. Eventually we'll be able to play in

1137
00:52:56,000 --> 00:53:00,279
Speaker 1: Nissan Stadium as long as it's needed. Eventually and we

1138
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:03,360
Speaker 1: moved to the new place, Nissan Stadium would be demolished

1139
00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:07,680
Speaker 1: and that property would be used for you know, residential,

1140
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:11,359
Speaker 1: commercial park, all kinds of fun things that are being

1141
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 1: talked about. But this building, which is going to have

1142
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:18,799
Speaker 1: a roof, is going to give us the ability as

1143
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 1: a city to host more and bigger events. And you know,

1144
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 1: Houston's been a big place for a long long time.

1145
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 1: Nashville has exploded, is continuing to explode, and I think

1146
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:32,279
Speaker 1: everybody's pretty excited about what this building is going to

1147
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 1: give this community an opportunity to do, not the least

1148
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:39,879
Speaker 1: of which is give the Titans a home that I

1149
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:42,880
Speaker 1: think will be a lot like Alleged Stadium in Las Vegas.

1150
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:47,760
Speaker 1: The same the same architecture firm they've done the plans

1151
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:51,399
Speaker 1: on the proposed new stadium that did Alleged Well. We

1152
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 1: were just there and it was magnificent, no question about that.

1153
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:57,799
Speaker 1: And they had Carl Weather's aka Apollo Creed letting the

1154
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 1: big Al Davis torch. So you can get Carl Weatherston Nashville,

1155
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 1: that would be big. I'd love to get him here

1156
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 1: as well. Mike anyway, Mike Keith with this voice at

1157
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:10,319
Speaker 1: the Titans. I know you're an occasional thespian yourself, so

1158
00:54:10,360 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 1: I thought i'd just bring that. I like how you

1159
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 1: did that, not in a boxing movie, though I'm not

1160
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: getting near a boxing ring. Do you like the Creed movies.

1161
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 1: I do like the Creed movies. I like Michael B. Jordan,

1162
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 1: and I like the idea of all of it. And

1163
00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:26,239
Speaker 1: I think the new one looks very exciting. Yeah, I

1164
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:28,239
Speaker 1: think it. They've done an amazing job keeping that thing

1165
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:31,560
Speaker 1: going all right. AFC South A couple of things, a

1166
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:33,440
Speaker 1: couple of stories this week. I want to get your

1167
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:37,879
Speaker 1: reaction to the Matt Ryan situation, as they've declared Sam

1168
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:40,759
Speaker 1: Ellinger the starter for the rest of the way, and

1169
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 1: it's not just that he's starting, Mike. I was surprised

1170
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:46,080
Speaker 1: they declared him the starter for the rest of the season.

1171
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:49,800
Speaker 1: Your thoughts on that changeover at quarterback for the Colts,

1172
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 1: because the Titans had a big hand in what went

1173
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: down afterwards. We've actually been fortunate enough to beat the

1174
00:54:57,200 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 1: Colts five straight times in six of the seven and

1175
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 1: their owner Jim Earsay has made a very big deal

1176
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:07,680
Speaker 1: about that privately and it got very public, and he

1177
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:10,880
Speaker 1: wasn't much like the Daniel Snyder thing. He was not

1178
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 1: scared to talk about how public or how he was

1179
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 1: so upset about losing to the Titans. Before the first

1180
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:22,920
Speaker 1: game up there on October second, he went to social

1181
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:26,800
Speaker 1: media a lot about the game. It was very surprising.

1182
00:55:26,880 --> 00:55:29,920
Speaker 1: I'd never seen an owner do it before. And then

1183
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:31,680
Speaker 1: the Titans go up there and win the game, and

1184
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:35,720
Speaker 1: obviously he's not amused by that. When they lost on Sunday,

1185
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 1: they went back and had a long discussion he and

1186
00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:41,360
Speaker 1: the GM Chris Ballard, the head coach, Frank Reich, and

1187
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 1: the owner and came out of that with the idea

1188
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:47,000
Speaker 1: that Elligar would be the guy the rest of the way.

1189
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:52,759
Speaker 1: Elliger two weeks ago took over as the full time

1190
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 1: backup from Nick Foles. And so here we go. And

1191
00:55:57,480 --> 00:55:59,799
Speaker 1: I think the thing about Elligar what he is going

1192
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:04,640
Speaker 1: to give them his mobility and with the offense they're

1193
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:06,560
Speaker 1: trying to run. And you saw him in week one.

1194
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 1: I thought all along when they went for Matt Ryan,

1195
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 1: I did not think it would work because he has

1196
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:20,000
Speaker 1: no mobility left zero, and that when I saw him

1197
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:21,960
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, I mean he still throw the ball. He's

1198
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 1: still smart. I think he's a great guy to come

1199
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 1: off the bench, But I think they just want that

1200
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 1: mobility because with their run game, I think his mobility

1201
00:56:31,600 --> 00:56:34,480
Speaker 1: can add a lot to what they do. Now, can

1202
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:37,799
Speaker 1: he make good enough decisions in the passing game, I

1203
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 1: don't know, And I mean he does not have Matt

1204
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 1: Ryan's arm or his experience, so we'll see. But no,

1205
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:47,800
Speaker 1: we were not surprised, based on our experience with their owner.

1206
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:51,759
Speaker 1: I was not surprised they made a quarterback change. What

1207
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 1: about the Jags and the trade of James Robinson to

1208
00:56:55,520 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 1: the New York Jets. I was surprised they didn't get more,

1209
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 1: but it is what it is. You're thoughts on that

1210
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 1: just getting him out of there To begin with, Well,

1211
00:57:04,920 --> 00:57:09,880
Speaker 1: he's on my all DeAndre Hopkins team. If DeAndre Hopkins

1212
00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 1: played every game against the Tennessee Titans, he would have

1213
00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:19,280
Speaker 1: like four to five thousand catches. So James Robinson was

1214
00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 1: always way against us as well. He's played great against

1215
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:25,720
Speaker 1: the Titans. Oh good, we don't play the Jets this year.

1216
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 1: Get him out. But I think ETN has shown that

1217
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:32,200
Speaker 1: he can carry the load and that they have other

1218
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 1: backs and they have other things that they want to do,

1219
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:38,440
Speaker 1: taking the personal biased out of it. Because I think

1220
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:42,160
Speaker 1: Robinson is a really good player. I understand why they

1221
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:44,120
Speaker 1: did it, and they're trying to pile up some more

1222
00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:47,440
Speaker 1: late round picks. It sounds like that can easily become

1223
00:57:47,480 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 1: an extra five. If you're the Jets, you've got to

1224
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 1: do something with Breeze Hall having the knee injury. Some

1225
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 1: mee total sense to me, Mark Mike. One more for you.

1226
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 1: Here are the Texans and the Titans again. And it's

1227
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:03,280
Speaker 1: been very hard for the Texans to beat the Titans lately.

1228
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:07,360
Speaker 1: They did get the one up there last year in Nashville,

1229
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:10,160
Speaker 1: but all these games seem to be close. Your thoughts

1230
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 1: on the matchup this week? And I know the Texans

1231
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:15,760
Speaker 1: don't have a good record right now, but for some reason,

1232
00:58:16,080 --> 00:58:18,920
Speaker 1: the vision game whatever, these seem to go down to

1233
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:22,320
Speaker 1: the wire. Well, the Texans have better overall stats than

1234
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:25,200
Speaker 1: the Titans do. I mean, if you look at it

1235
00:58:25,280 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 1: straight up, maybe the defensive numbers aren't quite as good,

1236
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 1: but the Titans defensive numbers aren't wildly good either. What

1237
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,440
Speaker 1: Davis Mills has been able to do in the passing game,

1238
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: the running backs are very comparable in terms of what

1239
00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:43,800
Speaker 1: they've had. You look at turnover ratio. The Texans are

1240
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:47,080
Speaker 1: better on penalties. They've been graded a kicking game. The

1241
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:50,480
Speaker 1: Titans know what they're in for. And it's also where

1242
00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:55,120
Speaker 1: the Titans are right now, understanding that this is not

1243
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:59,439
Speaker 1: a dominant team. They're already ahead of pace this year

1244
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:04,120
Speaker 1: in terms of number of players played to break their

1245
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:07,680
Speaker 1: NFL record from twenty twenty one, when Tennessee had to

1246
00:59:07,680 --> 00:59:10,240
Speaker 1: play ninety one guys. You know, we thought we thought

1247
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:14,800
Speaker 1: we'd start this season with Taylor Lawe and Harold Landry

1248
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 1: and treyln Burkes and Kyle Phillips and on and on

1249
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 1: and on, and you know those guys aren't here, and

1250
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 1: so that changes the overall makeup of your team. And

1251
00:59:26,520 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 1: the Titans know they're going to be in for a

1252
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:32,000
Speaker 1: fight every single week, and they certainly know that they're

1253
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:34,000
Speaker 1: going to be in for a fight from the Texans

1254
00:59:34,040 --> 00:59:36,680
Speaker 1: this Sunday at three oh five. They have it. Men

1255
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:40,120
Speaker 1: Beina Mike's Mike Keith and Mark VanderMeer. I think both

1256
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:44,760
Speaker 1: expecting a close game no matter what. Last four have

1257
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 1: been incredible. Three points a total of three points separate

1258
00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:54,440
Speaker 1: these two teams in the last four games and all season.

1259
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:56,880
Speaker 1: It's been that way for these two teams, so expect

1260
00:59:56,920 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 1: the same on Sunday. Hopefully the good guys the Texans

1261
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:03,080
Speaker 1: will come out on top. Mark sticks with me in

1262
01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:05,480
Speaker 1: the next segment as we talk about this matchup and

1263
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:07,560
Speaker 1: everything going on round the NFL. That's next right here

1264
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 1: in Texas, Alexis. Welcome back this Wednesday edition of Texans

1265
01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:13,320
Speaker 1: All Access, the Voice to the Texans. Mark Vanimer stas

1266
01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:16,440
Speaker 1: with me, John Harris, Football and a sideline reporter Mark Good.

1267
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:19,680
Speaker 1: Evening was good to catch up with Nick. I love

1268
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:24,320
Speaker 1: talking with Nick about the other team getting the scouting

1269
01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:27,520
Speaker 1: report for your next eyes, because I mean, that's what

1270
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:29,400
Speaker 1: he's been for a lot of his career. He's been

1271
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 1: in scouting, whether it's college scouting, pro scotting me. He

1272
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:36,160
Speaker 1: knowing them inside and out. And yet even at that point,

1273
01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:38,960
Speaker 1: these guys are so different from what we saw in

1274
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:41,640
Speaker 1: Week seventeen last year. They are different, but it's like

1275
01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:44,480
Speaker 1: a lot of NFL teams, Johnny, if you have the stars, right,

1276
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:46,400
Speaker 1: if you have the stars out there, and we didn't

1277
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:48,680
Speaker 1: see Henry in Week seventeen last year. He played in

1278
01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:50,360
Speaker 1: the playoffs, we all know how that went for them.

1279
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:52,280
Speaker 1: But if you have Tannehill out there and a few

1280
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:54,920
Speaker 1: other key guys, it seems like the same team. But

1281
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:56,720
Speaker 1: you and I look within, and a lot of people

1282
01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:59,640
Speaker 1: listening look within, you see like, oh, this team's really different.

1283
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 1: You know. I was examining the Derrick Henry and we

1284
01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:06,360
Speaker 1: talked about it with Nick. The Derrick Henry chronology here

1285
01:01:06,760 --> 01:01:09,520
Speaker 1: of him coming into the league and first year he's

1286
01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:13,120
Speaker 1: behind Murray, they do that exotic smash mount anybody remember

1287
01:01:13,160 --> 01:01:16,160
Speaker 1: that term. And then seventeen, a little bit more than eighteen,

1288
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:18,280
Speaker 1: he turns into Derrick Henry and we saw the wild

1289
01:01:18,360 --> 01:01:22,360
Speaker 1: Henry and he started to become who we know him

1290
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:25,200
Speaker 1: as now, which is the best running back in the NFL,

1291
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 1: the MVP of this division, league MVP candidate when he's

1292
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:32,000
Speaker 1: going full I know this year the numbers aren't exactly

1293
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:34,840
Speaker 1: up to Henry standards, but they're still pretty good. And

1294
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 1: the year is young as far as that kind of

1295
01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:44,400
Speaker 1: thing is concerned, and he's facing his favorite opposing defense. Yeah,

1296
01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:46,320
Speaker 1: it's do you want me to give you the facts? Here?

1297
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:49,240
Speaker 1: Are you ready for the facts? Facts? By the facts

1298
01:01:49,240 --> 01:01:52,000
Speaker 1: of this three games against the Texans of two hundred

1299
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:55,480
Speaker 1: plus and two touchdowns plus. That is the top number

1300
01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:58,880
Speaker 1: against any opponent for anybody in the last seventy two years.

1301
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:02,800
Speaker 1: They don't measure prior to nineteen fifty for whatever reason.

1302
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:04,520
Speaker 1: But do we really need to go back prior to

1303
01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:07,800
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty Johnny, before television was in people's homes. I

1304
01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:11,440
Speaker 1: mean really, So let's just call it dominance. And he's

1305
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:15,600
Speaker 1: got five such games in that in his career, which

1306
01:02:15,680 --> 01:02:18,920
Speaker 1: is way more than anybody else in that amount of

1307
01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:21,040
Speaker 1: time in the seventy two years that I just mentioned.

1308
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:24,320
Speaker 1: So in other words, Henry has good games against the

1309
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:26,600
Speaker 1: Houston Texans, And the last time the Texans played a

1310
01:02:26,600 --> 01:02:30,120
Speaker 1: good game against him was that twenty eighteen match up

1311
01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:38,280
Speaker 1: up there right, twenty nineteen. Rather up there you hold,

1312
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:40,680
Speaker 1: If you hold him below ninety, you feel like, oh

1313
01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:43,360
Speaker 1: my gosh, break out the party hats. We held Henry

1314
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:47,120
Speaker 1: below ninety, which is saying something considering what he means

1315
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:50,080
Speaker 1: to this offense. But you still have to stop Tannehill

1316
01:02:50,200 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 1: or whoever throwing the football for them, and we'll see

1317
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:55,640
Speaker 1: how it goes. I think this is fascinating because it

1318
01:02:55,680 --> 01:03:00,520
Speaker 1: went from it went from famine to feast. Here starts

1319
01:03:00,520 --> 01:03:03,640
Speaker 1: at twenty sixteen against the Texas. First game ever, three carries,

1320
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:07,400
Speaker 1: nine yards. Last game of the year in that game

1321
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:13,439
Speaker 1: the brock Savage concussion game fifteen for sixty five. Next game,

1322
01:03:13,760 --> 01:03:17,200
Speaker 1: six carries for seven. Then he had one hundred nine

1323
01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:19,040
Speaker 1: yards against US at seventeen because you remember it did

1324
01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:21,880
Speaker 1: seventy five yard run. Yeah, but he really didn't do much.

1325
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:24,480
Speaker 1: Take that out there, and you're talking about ten carries

1326
01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:27,560
Speaker 1: for thirty four yards. Then we get to eighteen. He

1327
01:03:27,680 --> 01:03:30,800
Speaker 1: has that wild Henry game, fifty six yards rushing. It's

1328
01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:33,560
Speaker 1: all he had that game yea. Then and the Monday

1329
01:03:33,600 --> 01:03:38,080
Speaker 1: night game here eight for thirty twenty nineteen. He then

1330
01:03:38,160 --> 01:03:42,880
Speaker 1: goes for eighty six twenty one carries, twenty one carries

1331
01:03:42,920 --> 01:03:46,840
Speaker 1: eighty six yards, and then it starts thirty two for

1332
01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:50,240
Speaker 1: two eleven and three touchdowns. The last game of nineteen

1333
01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:54,960
Speaker 1: twenty twenty was the game which the Texans JVC was playing. Yes,

1334
01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:58,240
Speaker 1: but then the varsity squad showed up in twenty twenty,

1335
01:03:58,320 --> 01:04:01,120
Speaker 1: I think twenty two carries for two hundred twelve yards,

1336
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 1: two receptions for fifty two yards. That hurt a lot

1337
01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:08,800
Speaker 1: that recept the receptions were killed. Then it was last

1338
01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:12,240
Speaker 1: week of the season, thirty four carries, two hundred and

1339
01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:17,160
Speaker 1: fifty yards, two touchdowns. That was a rough year. That

1340
01:04:17,240 --> 01:04:19,959
Speaker 1: was twenty twenty, of course, and the one up there,

1341
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:24,280
Speaker 1: the game up there in twenty twenty was an overtime shootout,

1342
01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:28,480
Speaker 1: and I'll never forget the Titans needing that last drive

1343
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:32,160
Speaker 1: of regulation and Henry off the field because this was

1344
01:04:32,200 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 1: a hurry up kind of situation, right, So Tannehill leads

1345
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:39,040
Speaker 1: them down field, they tie the game, going to overtime,

1346
01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:43,360
Speaker 1: Henry dominates. They scored a touchdown opening drive, and that's

1347
01:04:43,400 --> 01:04:47,280
Speaker 1: all she wrote. I think, what what does bother me about?

1348
01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:51,520
Speaker 1: In each of those games? I remember in the twenty

1349
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:56,160
Speaker 1: eighteen game where we're playing him last week of the

1350
01:04:56,240 --> 01:04:59,440
Speaker 1: year was at right, twenty nineteen game, he breaks a

1351
01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:03,439
Speaker 1: fifty yard run in the game. In twenty twenty up there,

1352
01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:07,280
Speaker 1: he broke a ninety four yard run. Twenty seventeen, he

1353
01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:10,920
Speaker 1: had a seventy five yard run that clinched it. It

1354
01:05:10,960 --> 01:05:13,160
Speaker 1: was seventeen fourteen, and then he clinched it with that,

1355
01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:16,520
Speaker 1: and then making it I think twenty three fourteen, whenever

1356
01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:18,640
Speaker 1: the case might be, but he clinches I mean, all

1357
01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:20,840
Speaker 1: these games he's got these long runs, but he's also

1358
01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:27,800
Speaker 1: got games against us where it's just eight, ten, five, twelve, seventeen, five,

1359
01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:31,880
Speaker 1: four twenty, where he doesn't have that eighty yards seventy

1360
01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:35,120
Speaker 1: five yard run. But yet he's just picking up chunks

1361
01:05:35,120 --> 01:05:38,080
Speaker 1: of yards and then he's six four, so he falls

1362
01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:41,760
Speaker 1: forward and that's another two yards. And so when we

1363
01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:46,520
Speaker 1: have had success against him, as simple as it sounds,

1364
01:05:46,920 --> 01:05:49,760
Speaker 1: it has been the tackling is at a premium. Yea.

1365
01:05:49,880 --> 01:05:52,480
Speaker 1: I remember now Henry's teammate Zach cutting him. I remember

1366
01:05:52,520 --> 01:05:55,360
Speaker 1: cutting him having good games against him because cutting him

1367
01:05:55,360 --> 01:05:58,480
Speaker 1: would form tackle him and Boom just shut him down

1368
01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:01,160
Speaker 1: on the spot, right, let him get going, right, don't

1369
01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:03,760
Speaker 1: let him get that downhill, and then hit him. Boom

1370
01:06:04,520 --> 01:06:08,240
Speaker 1: just stuffed him. But that's not what our recent defenses

1371
01:06:08,280 --> 01:06:10,280
Speaker 1: have done. They're just trying to hit and hang on.

1372
01:06:10,400 --> 01:06:13,840
Speaker 1: And at that point he's brushing them off, or he's

1373
01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:18,760
Speaker 1: he's running past everybody, stiff arming people, and then of

1374
01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:20,560
Speaker 1: course you're trying to chase the guy. This still runs

1375
01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:25,400
Speaker 1: four five. I wanted to watch Henry, and I went

1376
01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:27,960
Speaker 1: to watch Henry. I wanted to see, Okay, he's lost

1377
01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:33,919
Speaker 1: something in the tank. Right, he's lost, he's lost something, right, right, right? No,

1378
01:06:34,560 --> 01:06:37,400
Speaker 1: I kept thinking he's no. The second play of the

1379
01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:39,760
Speaker 1: game they put him out. Why then they shifted him back.

1380
01:06:40,120 --> 01:06:44,040
Speaker 1: They ran duo, and duo's just essentially running backs. They've

1381
01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:46,360
Speaker 1: they've got a few few double teams up front if

1382
01:06:46,360 --> 01:06:48,960
Speaker 1: they can get them. But it's opportunity for a running

1383
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:51,880
Speaker 1: back to kind of examine things and then find your hole.

1384
01:06:52,200 --> 01:06:54,480
Speaker 1: Ride the wave and get out wide, bounce it and

1385
01:06:54,520 --> 01:06:57,600
Speaker 1: get into a hole. And he there's there's a hole there,

1386
01:06:57,640 --> 01:07:00,760
Speaker 1: and he shoots that hole and I'm like, forget it,

1387
01:07:01,120 --> 01:07:03,720
Speaker 1: good night. Coal linebacker takes the wrong he jumps in

1388
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:06,479
Speaker 1: the wrong gap and he's throw there and he got

1389
01:07:06,480 --> 01:07:10,040
Speaker 1: tripped up. Somebody got a finger on a shoelace and

1390
01:07:10,440 --> 01:07:12,160
Speaker 1: he I thought he was going to take it to

1391
01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:14,080
Speaker 1: the house, and somebody got a foot, got a foot

1392
01:07:14,120 --> 01:07:16,480
Speaker 1: on him, and away you go. This guy has had

1393
01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:18,520
Speaker 1: Now he didn't, like we said, he didn't play in

1394
01:07:18,560 --> 01:07:22,840
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, but he's had one thousand, five hundred

1395
01:07:23,080 --> 01:07:29,040
Speaker 1: thirty five rushing attempts in ninety two games in nine

1396
01:07:29,080 --> 01:07:31,160
Speaker 1: two games, one thousand, five hundred and thirty five. Now,

1397
01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:33,640
Speaker 1: the majority of those have come in the last four years,

1398
01:07:33,720 --> 01:07:35,600
Speaker 1: because his first couple of years he didn't get the

1399
01:07:35,640 --> 01:07:37,920
Speaker 1: ball as much. Twenty eighteen they started to give it

1400
01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:39,240
Speaker 1: to him a little bit more. He was the full

1401
01:07:39,240 --> 01:07:42,240
Speaker 1: time starter now and then in twenty nineteen, three hundred

1402
01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:45,000
Speaker 1: and three rushes, twenty twenty, three hundred and seventy eight,

1403
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:48,200
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, he was on pace for over four

1404
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:52,800
Speaker 1: hundred touches, four hundred carries. That's a lot. Yeah, you

1405
01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:54,840
Speaker 1: don't want to keep doing that. And he's on pace

1406
01:07:54,880 --> 01:07:58,280
Speaker 1: again this year for just under four hundred carries. He's

1407
01:07:58,280 --> 01:08:01,280
Speaker 1: all day, got JOHNNYI there and noleted it. Receiver Tannehill's

1408
01:08:01,360 --> 01:08:05,720
Speaker 1: not exactly lighting the world on fire here, but Henry's

1409
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:09,200
Speaker 1: long run of the year is twenty four yards. There

1410
01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:12,040
Speaker 1: hasn't been that seventy eighty yard run this year. He

1411
01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:14,360
Speaker 1: had a ninety nine yard run in twenty eighteen, not

1412
01:08:14,400 --> 01:08:16,799
Speaker 1: against the Texans, but I remember that because when Lamar

1413
01:08:16,840 --> 01:08:19,439
Speaker 1: Miller at his ninety seven, I thought, well, no one's

1414
01:08:19,479 --> 01:08:22,360
Speaker 1: gonna beat that in the vision, but Henry did with

1415
01:08:22,400 --> 01:08:24,040
Speaker 1: a ninety nine yard run I think the next week

1416
01:08:24,160 --> 01:08:26,800
Speaker 1: or something. Here's what he's playing with upfront. His right

1417
01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:30,640
Speaker 1: tackles a rookie Nicholas petite Ferrer. His right guard is

1418
01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:33,000
Speaker 1: a second year guy who was a tackle at India

1419
01:08:33,040 --> 01:08:36,519
Speaker 1: issue North Dakota State. Ben Jones is at center and

1420
01:08:36,600 --> 01:08:39,439
Speaker 1: still doing Ben Jones things, but Ben is banged up

1421
01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:43,600
Speaker 1: pretty badly. Left guard is six one, two hundred and

1422
01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:47,479
Speaker 1: seventy five pound Aaron Brewer, and his left tackle used

1423
01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:50,320
Speaker 1: to be Taylor luan all pro pro bowler, is now

1424
01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:54,400
Speaker 1: Dennis Daley, who has been a journeyman, has bounced around.

1425
01:08:54,880 --> 01:08:57,479
Speaker 1: That's what he ran behind against the Colts for one

1426
01:08:57,520 --> 01:08:59,719
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty eight yards. It's also why he ended

1427
01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:03,559
Speaker 1: up doing it on thirty carries, but he still got

1428
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:06,680
Speaker 1: to over one hundred and twenty and allows the Titans

1429
01:09:06,720 --> 01:09:09,479
Speaker 1: to control the clock. Let Tanny Hill not have to

1430
01:09:09,520 --> 01:09:12,799
Speaker 1: throw the ball a ton. Bobby Trees ak Robert Woods

1431
01:09:12,880 --> 01:09:15,280
Speaker 1: is not doing a ton butt. That seems to be

1432
01:09:15,360 --> 01:09:17,760
Speaker 1: Tanny hills go to guy. But every now and again

1433
01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:20,559
Speaker 1: you see Cody Hollister make a catch, like, wait, who

1434
01:09:20,840 --> 01:09:25,320
Speaker 1: who's Cody Hollister? Like, I mean, I know who he is,

1435
01:09:25,360 --> 01:09:27,160
Speaker 1: but I know fans are like Cody Hollister, Yeah, he

1436
01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:29,240
Speaker 1: made a big third down catch on a drive that

1437
01:09:29,360 --> 01:09:31,760
Speaker 1: got them in field goal position in the first half

1438
01:09:31,760 --> 01:09:33,679
Speaker 1: against the Colts. Like, what would they be without Henry

1439
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:40,160
Speaker 1: right now, right now? Without Henry? Nothing, They'd lose to Georgia. Yeah,

1440
01:09:40,200 --> 01:09:43,080
Speaker 1: they would, seriously because based on the old line. Yeah,

1441
01:09:43,240 --> 01:09:45,840
Speaker 1: based on everything you just said, Robert Woods is their

1442
01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:51,920
Speaker 1: leading receiver. He has twenty catches. That's their leading receiver, right, Yeah,

1443
01:09:51,920 --> 01:09:55,720
Speaker 1: do I have that right? Ch twenty catches leads the

1444
01:09:55,800 --> 01:10:01,120
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans in receptions. That is highly unused usual. Shall

1445
01:10:01,160 --> 01:10:03,680
Speaker 1: we compare that to the Texans situation. It's not like,

1446
01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:06,479
Speaker 1: you know, people are lighting the world on fire here.

1447
01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:09,759
Speaker 1: But Cook says twenty eight. You've got Birkehead with twenty

1448
01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:13,559
Speaker 1: three catches. You have Nico with eighteen catches. After last week,

1449
01:10:13,880 --> 01:10:18,800
Speaker 1: Pierce has seventeen catches. Their leading receiver has twenty and

1450
01:10:18,840 --> 01:10:22,120
Speaker 1: the next guy has thirteen. That would be Derrick Henry.

1451
01:10:22,360 --> 01:10:24,960
Speaker 1: That's how little they're throwing the football right. Here's the

1452
01:10:25,000 --> 01:10:28,719
Speaker 1: thing too, with the Titans. Even if Henry were banged

1453
01:10:28,760 --> 01:10:32,360
Speaker 1: up like last year, I still think Dontre Hilliard and

1454
01:10:32,439 --> 01:10:36,200
Speaker 1: Hassan Haskins they wouldn't. They're not as scary as Henry.

1455
01:10:36,479 --> 01:10:39,280
Speaker 1: But We saw Dontro Hilliard and Jante Foreman last year

1456
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:43,679
Speaker 1: and those two were a massive problem. Yeah, massive. Foreman's

1457
01:10:43,720 --> 01:10:46,320
Speaker 1: pretty good. You saw good. You had a good game

1458
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:48,679
Speaker 1: the other day for the Panthers too, right, exactly for Carolina.

1459
01:10:48,800 --> 01:10:51,599
Speaker 1: Right now, he's doing some things. No, McCaffrey, he's the guy.

1460
01:10:52,040 --> 01:10:53,639
Speaker 1: You know that he can carry it for a while.

1461
01:10:53,680 --> 01:10:57,200
Speaker 1: The Tennessee Titans people told me last year when Henry

1462
01:10:57,280 --> 01:10:59,280
Speaker 1: was out and Foreman was playing, well, this is when

1463
01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:02,400
Speaker 1: we were up there and the Texans had the upset victory.

1464
01:11:02,439 --> 01:11:05,679
Speaker 1: They said, look, Foreman's good, there's no question, but certain

1465
01:11:05,760 --> 01:11:08,360
Speaker 1: runs of Foreman runs for twelve, Henry would have had

1466
01:11:08,360 --> 01:11:11,439
Speaker 1: twenty Foreman runs for fifteen. Henry might have scored it.

1467
01:11:11,760 --> 01:11:14,080
Speaker 1: That kind of thing. Nothing against Foreman, but Henry is

1468
01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:16,200
Speaker 1: that elite at the running back position. But yeah, they

1469
01:11:16,200 --> 01:11:18,080
Speaker 1: were finding ways to get it done. But to your point,

1470
01:11:18,080 --> 01:11:20,000
Speaker 1: the old line is different. So I think it's a

1471
01:11:20,080 --> 01:11:22,280
Speaker 1: very different situation. I don't know how you do it.

1472
01:11:22,640 --> 01:11:27,479
Speaker 1: From Romeo Cornell, Bill O'Brien, David Culley, Lovey Smith, they

1473
01:11:27,479 --> 01:11:29,800
Speaker 1: all say the same thing. Nick just said in our visit.

1474
01:11:30,160 --> 01:11:32,840
Speaker 1: You've got to get him before he gets going. Downhill

1475
01:11:32,880 --> 01:11:35,240
Speaker 1: once he gets ahead of steam. For it's not like

1476
01:11:35,320 --> 01:11:37,559
Speaker 1: other guys. He's not light where you can sort of

1477
01:11:37,600 --> 01:11:40,799
Speaker 1: derail him. He's gonna go down. He's a freight train

1478
01:11:41,160 --> 01:11:43,559
Speaker 1: when he gets running, and it's very difficult to bring

1479
01:11:43,640 --> 01:11:45,400
Speaker 1: him down. He could brush you off like a mosquito.

1480
01:11:45,560 --> 01:11:49,000
Speaker 1: I think what's been interesting this year? You think about

1481
01:11:49,040 --> 01:11:51,639
Speaker 1: what the Texans, and I know the Texas run defense

1482
01:11:51,680 --> 01:11:54,040
Speaker 1: has not been good. I'm definitely not making excuses for that.

1483
01:11:54,040 --> 01:11:58,919
Speaker 1: That group has been awful. But Jonathan Taylor, Chavante Williams,

1484
01:11:59,560 --> 01:12:02,800
Speaker 1: weeks three clear, Herbert steps in for David Montgomery and

1485
01:12:03,400 --> 01:12:06,280
Speaker 1: lights you up. Week four, Austaker to run for a lot,

1486
01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:08,040
Speaker 1: but it was in the receiving game where he ended

1487
01:12:08,120 --> 01:12:09,559
Speaker 1: up getting you. And then the next week he went

1488
01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:11,639
Speaker 1: for one eighty six or whatever it was Eckler did.

1489
01:12:12,640 --> 01:12:15,360
Speaker 1: Then you had James Robinson, Travis etm We gotta get

1490
01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:17,400
Speaker 1: to that in a second, um and et and had

1491
01:12:17,400 --> 01:12:18,840
Speaker 1: a few plays with the second half. You sort of

1492
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:20,800
Speaker 1: slow a bit down and then you faced Jacobs, then

1493
01:12:20,800 --> 01:12:24,160
Speaker 1: you face Derick Henry, then you face Miles Sanders, then

1494
01:12:24,160 --> 01:12:27,400
Speaker 1: after Miles Sanders to face Saquon Barkley. I mean it

1495
01:12:27,479 --> 01:12:30,080
Speaker 1: doesn't and then Brian Robinson's coming from the Commanders the

1496
01:12:30,120 --> 01:12:32,960
Speaker 1: week after that. I mean, you don't get a break

1497
01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:37,160
Speaker 1: against any running back at all. I mean you're facing

1498
01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:39,840
Speaker 1: you're I mean, I haven't even looked at the stats

1499
01:12:39,880 --> 01:12:44,960
Speaker 1: to see what level of um what level you're you're facing,

1500
01:12:45,040 --> 01:12:47,680
Speaker 1: but it seems like and it feels like, all right,

1501
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:50,160
Speaker 1: here the player stats thus far here the top ten.

1502
01:12:50,400 --> 01:12:52,360
Speaker 1: So the text here's numb one nick numbe was chick

1503
01:12:52,479 --> 01:12:55,160
Speaker 1: nick chup. Will play him, sae Quon Barker's two, will

1504
01:12:55,160 --> 01:12:58,519
Speaker 1: play him. Three is Josh Jacobs, We played him. Four

1505
01:12:58,640 --> 01:13:03,960
Speaker 1: is Derrick Henry. We'll see him twice. Uh, let's see

1506
01:13:03,960 --> 01:13:06,720
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders is eight, we face him. Clere Herbert is

1507
01:13:06,840 --> 01:13:13,040
Speaker 1: ninth in the league. We'll face we face We faced him. Yeah, gosh,

1508
01:13:13,040 --> 01:13:15,519
Speaker 1: he's ninth in rushing. Ezekiel it is thirteenth in the

1509
01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:19,160
Speaker 1: league in rushing. We face him. So that's one, two, three, four,

1510
01:13:20,040 --> 01:13:25,439
Speaker 1: h and Damien six. So he's in that group two, five, six, seven,

1511
01:13:25,560 --> 01:13:27,360
Speaker 1: seven in the top thirteen over half of him. We

1512
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:30,000
Speaker 1: will we will face any and Trevesi tan Is is

1513
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:34,519
Speaker 1: tied for fifteenth. Yeah, I mean you're facing this last year.

1514
01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:37,080
Speaker 1: It was a couple of years ago. It's the quarterbacks.

1515
01:13:37,120 --> 01:13:41,400
Speaker 1: You're facing every good quarterback Jackson, You're face all the

1516
01:13:41,640 --> 01:13:44,599
Speaker 1: right quarterbacks, Aaron Rodgers all in that one year. Now

1517
01:13:44,640 --> 01:13:46,760
Speaker 1: it feels like you're facing all the great running backs

1518
01:13:47,080 --> 01:13:51,639
Speaker 1: all in one year and it's not coinciding. Like had

1519
01:13:51,640 --> 01:13:54,840
Speaker 1: that happened in twenty eighteen, I would have been like, fine, Yeah,

1520
01:13:54,960 --> 01:13:57,160
Speaker 1: that's like when people say, hey, you're facing Max Crosby

1521
01:13:57,200 --> 01:14:01,479
Speaker 1: and Chandler Jones. I really I don't have a huge

1522
01:14:01,479 --> 01:14:03,759
Speaker 1: proble with that because I'm like, well, Larry and Titus

1523
01:14:03,840 --> 01:14:06,560
Speaker 1: will be just fine. Mills hasn't been sacked much. He

1524
01:14:06,600 --> 01:14:09,160
Speaker 1: hasn't sacked. He's gotten some pressure, but Max Crosby and

1525
01:14:09,240 --> 01:14:11,320
Speaker 1: Chandler Jones didn't affect the game the other day all

1526
01:14:11,360 --> 01:14:13,880
Speaker 1: that much. Randy Gregory had one play in the fourth quarter.

1527
01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:16,280
Speaker 1: That's pretty much. That was pretty much. It's a big play,

1528
01:14:16,360 --> 01:14:18,080
Speaker 1: but it was the one play that he had in

1529
01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:23,000
Speaker 1: that game. Chubb radit. Chubb did really nothing. So when

1530
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:25,240
Speaker 1: they have a good matchup that way, like all these

1531
01:14:25,280 --> 01:14:27,559
Speaker 1: running backs face in our twenty eighteen defense would have felt, yeah,

1532
01:14:27,560 --> 01:14:31,479
Speaker 1: we'll be all right, we'll be okay, but facing this defense. Man,

1533
01:14:31,560 --> 01:14:33,479
Speaker 1: I'm watching it against the Raiders and I was texting

1534
01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:37,840
Speaker 1: you throughout and I just it's at one point it'll

1535
01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:41,599
Speaker 1: be breakdowns in technique, jumping in a gap when they shouldn't.

1536
01:14:42,160 --> 01:14:45,120
Speaker 1: Then when they play everything perfectly, then a guy almost tackle.

1537
01:14:45,920 --> 01:14:48,479
Speaker 1: And it's the thing I know a lot of people.

1538
01:14:48,479 --> 01:14:50,240
Speaker 1: I heard John McLean say this morning. He's like, you know,

1539
01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:53,120
Speaker 1: on that front Steven, the front seven and look, it's

1540
01:14:53,120 --> 01:14:56,800
Speaker 1: a collective effort. It is a collective effort. It's got

1541
01:14:56,800 --> 01:15:00,000
Speaker 1: to be from corners, safeties, live backers and d line.

1542
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:02,840
Speaker 1: It's everybody. Everybody has got a piece in this run

1543
01:15:02,880 --> 01:15:06,040
Speaker 1: defense not playing exceptionally well. The tackling hasn't been great

1544
01:15:06,080 --> 01:15:09,600
Speaker 1: in the secondary, The response to crack blocks has not

1545
01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:12,919
Speaker 1: been great in the secondary. The linebackers are at sometimes

1546
01:15:12,960 --> 01:15:16,360
Speaker 1: chasing ghosts or making false reads and then making a

1547
01:15:16,360 --> 01:15:19,400
Speaker 1: false read, then they're getting they're getting blocked. So anyhow,

1548
01:15:19,560 --> 01:15:24,760
Speaker 1: the run defense, I think, even though there might not

1549
01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:27,800
Speaker 1: be a DJ reader and there's not a Vince will work.

1550
01:15:27,840 --> 01:15:29,519
Speaker 1: I mean in sixteen we had both those guys. I mean,

1551
01:15:29,520 --> 01:15:31,519
Speaker 1: how did you block them? Oh my god, linebackers just

1552
01:15:31,600 --> 01:15:33,360
Speaker 1: ran the ball day because you had three and four

1553
01:15:33,400 --> 01:15:37,360
Speaker 1: guys had to block those. Clowney and Merciless. Clowney is

1554
01:15:37,360 --> 01:15:39,760
Speaker 1: a great run defender. I know he's never racked up

1555
01:15:39,800 --> 01:15:42,479
Speaker 1: the sacks, but he can defend against the run, yes,

1556
01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:45,120
Speaker 1: And he was so good against the run, so good.

1557
01:15:45,160 --> 01:15:48,840
Speaker 1: And our defensive vans have got to play the run better.

1558
01:15:48,880 --> 01:15:51,000
Speaker 1: And not only when I say they've got to play

1559
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:54,519
Speaker 1: the run better, it's not even so much setting the edge.

1560
01:15:54,760 --> 01:15:58,559
Speaker 1: But the Raiders did some The Raiders did some stuff

1561
01:15:58,560 --> 01:16:00,920
Speaker 1: against them that was just kind of Day one stuff

1562
01:16:01,280 --> 01:16:04,479
Speaker 1: they did. They did pin and pull toss and wide

1563
01:16:04,479 --> 01:16:08,160
Speaker 1: receivers were cracking on defensive ends and instead of turning

1564
01:16:08,160 --> 01:16:10,000
Speaker 1: and seeing that it was tossed because Chandler this is

1565
01:16:10,000 --> 01:16:12,640
Speaker 1: what happened one time with Chandler Jones. We tried that

1566
01:16:12,720 --> 01:16:16,240
Speaker 1: same thing, going towards towards y'all. Y'all are in the

1567
01:16:16,280 --> 01:16:19,040
Speaker 1: opposite side of me, so going towards the Raider's sideline,

1568
01:16:19,680 --> 01:16:21,400
Speaker 1: and they tried to do that. It was either Nico,

1569
01:16:21,479 --> 01:16:24,120
Speaker 1: I think it was Nico, and Chandler Jones is like, oh,

1570
01:16:24,160 --> 01:16:26,240
Speaker 1: you're on a pin and pule toss, okay, fine, and

1571
01:16:26,360 --> 01:16:28,639
Speaker 1: he just ran or right through Nico and took him

1572
01:16:28,880 --> 01:16:31,160
Speaker 1: back down the line of scrimmage instead of taking him

1573
01:16:31,240 --> 01:16:34,480
Speaker 1: up the field where there could maybe be a seam

1574
01:16:34,520 --> 01:16:36,719
Speaker 1: and the running back could go or could go round.

1575
01:16:37,400 --> 01:16:40,040
Speaker 1: That's what we were doing. Our guys wouldn't take those

1576
01:16:40,080 --> 01:16:42,000
Speaker 1: receivers on. They were just kept going up the field. Well,

1577
01:16:42,040 --> 01:16:44,000
Speaker 1: Jacobs is fast enough to get around him, and now

1578
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:47,240
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's pinned inside and everybody's kind

1579
01:16:47,240 --> 01:16:49,240
Speaker 1: of running into that trash and they're not able to

1580
01:16:49,240 --> 01:16:53,120
Speaker 1: make tackles. I guarantee you they ran toss maybe I

1581
01:16:53,200 --> 01:16:56,240
Speaker 1: think nine ten times the Raiders did. Yeah, and every

1582
01:16:56,320 --> 01:16:59,360
Speaker 1: single run when they ran taught just pin and pule.

1583
01:16:59,360 --> 01:17:05,479
Speaker 1: Toss was effective. And the other one was a drop play. Yeah,

1584
01:17:05,720 --> 01:17:08,639
Speaker 1: simple drop play wide open up the middle right, because

1585
01:17:08,800 --> 01:17:11,559
Speaker 1: our d n's get passed. They get a pass technique

1586
01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:15,280
Speaker 1: from the they get a pass rush from the tackles,

1587
01:17:15,400 --> 01:17:18,320
Speaker 1: so they're rushing pass. They're gonna up the field, and

1588
01:17:18,479 --> 01:17:20,080
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the linebackers got to sit there

1589
01:17:20,080 --> 01:17:21,880
Speaker 1: and read like do you drop because it looks like

1590
01:17:21,880 --> 01:17:24,280
Speaker 1: a pass. Well, all of a sudden, the defensive ends

1591
01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:26,639
Speaker 1: all the way up the field and now the interior

1592
01:17:26,720 --> 01:17:28,960
Speaker 1: offensive line shooting out, they got no chance and you

1593
01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:32,479
Speaker 1: got a back like Jacob's. Well sort they see all

1594
01:17:32,479 --> 01:17:34,680
Speaker 1: this so a good thing that Lovey Smith has time

1595
01:17:34,720 --> 01:17:36,719
Speaker 1: to make some of these corrections correct and they're gonna

1596
01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:37,840
Speaker 1: have to be a whole lot better. And now I

1597
01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:40,080
Speaker 1: think they will be at home, Johnny, but a whole

1598
01:17:40,120 --> 01:17:42,599
Speaker 1: lot better against Derrick Henry could mean, hey, you held

1599
01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:44,800
Speaker 1: them below one thirty, right, you know, you might have

1600
01:17:44,840 --> 01:17:46,160
Speaker 1: to give that up. It could be one of those

1601
01:17:46,200 --> 01:17:48,799
Speaker 1: games like a basketball game where hey, their star player

1602
01:17:48,840 --> 01:17:51,320
Speaker 1: had thirty thirty five points, but we won the game

1603
01:17:51,360 --> 01:17:53,800
Speaker 1: anyway because we did this, this, and this. I don't

1604
01:17:53,840 --> 01:17:55,479
Speaker 1: know if it's gonna play out that way, but I

1605
01:17:55,479 --> 01:17:58,080
Speaker 1: think it could. If you win at the end of

1606
01:17:58,120 --> 01:17:59,920
Speaker 1: the day, I don't think it's because you held Henry

1607
01:18:00,120 --> 01:18:02,800
Speaker 1: eighty yards or seventy five yards. And if that's the case,

1608
01:18:03,160 --> 01:18:05,559
Speaker 1: then it means the Texans offense is cooking and the

1609
01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:08,000
Speaker 1: Titans are in a catch up game, Which sign me

1610
01:18:08,120 --> 01:18:10,839
Speaker 1: up for that, because then you can come after Tannehill.

1611
01:18:10,880 --> 01:18:12,360
Speaker 1: They might have to take Henry out of the game

1612
01:18:12,640 --> 01:18:16,280
Speaker 1: and we'll see what Tannehill's health situation is. Is willis

1613
01:18:16,439 --> 01:18:19,519
Speaker 1: That's a big deal. That's let's get to that wrinkle. Yeah,

1614
01:18:19,520 --> 01:18:21,600
Speaker 1: what if it's not Taniel. Taniel did me at the

1615
01:18:21,600 --> 01:18:25,800
Speaker 1: media and he was talking about it, and Malik Willis

1616
01:18:25,880 --> 01:18:30,519
Speaker 1: was actually interviewed as well. That's a whole different wrinkle.

1617
01:18:30,680 --> 01:18:33,880
Speaker 1: It is a big difference, and we'll see how they

1618
01:18:33,920 --> 01:18:36,400
Speaker 1: handle it. Now, here's here's where this is. I don't

1619
01:18:36,439 --> 01:18:40,200
Speaker 1: want to say it's an advantage, but here's where some

1620
01:18:40,280 --> 01:18:44,360
Speaker 1: work this week against Malik Willis. We'll get you ready

1621
01:18:44,400 --> 01:18:47,519
Speaker 1: for the next week against Jalen Hurts because how you're

1622
01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:50,599
Speaker 1: gonna play the zone read stuff that they probably want

1623
01:18:50,600 --> 01:18:52,920
Speaker 1: to do. Look, tanniell does it too. Taniel had a

1624
01:18:53,000 --> 01:18:56,120
Speaker 1: run against the Colts where yannickn Goquay slides down the

1625
01:18:56,160 --> 01:18:58,759
Speaker 1: line and thinks it's a handoff and a little slide

1626
01:18:58,760 --> 01:19:00,360
Speaker 1: a hand and tannie Hill pulls it out of there

1627
01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:02,840
Speaker 1: and in Goquay's chasing Henry and tannie Hill turns it

1628
01:19:02,880 --> 01:19:04,479
Speaker 1: up the field for a first down. All right, Wait,

1629
01:19:04,960 --> 01:19:08,160
Speaker 1: now we have to say it though, you're contractually obligated

1630
01:19:08,240 --> 01:19:13,800
Speaker 1: by the National Football League to say the following about Tannehill. No,

1631
01:19:14,160 --> 01:19:18,240
Speaker 1: he used to be a receiver. Receivers, Okay, that's every announcer.

1632
01:19:18,400 --> 01:19:20,240
Speaker 1: He used to be a receiver, so he's got the speed.

1633
01:19:20,280 --> 01:19:22,759
Speaker 1: And yes, we've seen that. But now we can sign

1634
01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:26,040
Speaker 1: this and pass it along to Yes, human resources. Yes,

1635
01:19:26,040 --> 01:19:28,280
Speaker 1: we're good. We satisfied that. I'm glad. I'm glad you

1636
01:19:28,320 --> 01:19:32,360
Speaker 1: said that. Yes, former former wide receiver Aggie Ryan Tannehill

1637
01:19:32,360 --> 01:19:34,120
Speaker 1: throw the Aggie part in there. I met legal not

1638
01:19:34,240 --> 01:19:38,120
Speaker 1: human resources, by the way, thank you. But they run

1639
01:19:38,160 --> 01:19:39,840
Speaker 1: some Zoe read with him, but they're gonna run it

1640
01:19:39,880 --> 01:19:42,360
Speaker 1: a lot with Molik Willis. If Willis is in the game,

1641
01:19:42,360 --> 01:19:45,040
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised at all, no matter how Danniehill's feeling,

1642
01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:48,400
Speaker 1: if we see Willis for that reason, and that's gonna

1643
01:19:48,439 --> 01:19:50,679
Speaker 1: help us get ready for the Eagles, because we're gonna

1644
01:19:50,680 --> 01:19:53,439
Speaker 1: see a ton of it from the Eagles. Now. I'd

1645
01:19:53,439 --> 01:19:55,400
Speaker 1: like to get ready for the Eagles with a win. Yes,

1646
01:19:55,439 --> 01:19:57,280
Speaker 1: I would too, And I want to force Willis to

1647
01:19:57,360 --> 01:19:59,920
Speaker 1: throw it. And I might end up regretting saying that,

1648
01:20:00,280 --> 01:20:02,960
Speaker 1: but I would like to see it happen because I

1649
01:20:02,960 --> 01:20:04,960
Speaker 1: would be good for the time. Way he watched him

1650
01:20:04,960 --> 01:20:08,320
Speaker 1: in warm ups, Oh he just got a cannon. Yeah,

1651
01:20:08,360 --> 01:20:11,000
Speaker 1: I mean it's one of those where you're like whoa,

1652
01:20:11,720 --> 01:20:17,439
Speaker 1: oh cow. He throws it soul flipping heart And the

1653
01:20:17,439 --> 01:20:19,559
Speaker 1: thing I liked about him was the fact that he

1654
01:20:19,720 --> 01:20:23,559
Speaker 1: did have He did show a little bit of touch,

1655
01:20:23,680 --> 01:20:26,719
Speaker 1: especially at the Senior Bowl, but man, he could spray

1656
01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:28,920
Speaker 1: it to I mean, he was new cluse, especially as

1657
01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:31,240
Speaker 1: a junior. As a senior at Liberty, he was a

1658
01:20:31,280 --> 01:20:33,200
Speaker 1: little bit better. He kind of rained in a little bit,

1659
01:20:33,280 --> 01:20:35,320
Speaker 1: but when he got to the Senior Bowl, he was

1660
01:20:35,720 --> 01:20:37,639
Speaker 1: he was starting to leave that new clu lose stuff behind.

1661
01:20:37,720 --> 01:20:41,160
Speaker 1: He was much more accurate, his acumen was better thrown

1662
01:20:41,200 --> 01:20:43,720
Speaker 1: and not everything was one hundred miles an hour. I

1663
01:20:43,720 --> 01:20:46,559
Speaker 1: would bet we're gonna see Malique Willis. I would bet

1664
01:20:46,640 --> 01:20:50,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna see something from him, even maybe he's on

1665
01:20:50,320 --> 01:20:52,640
Speaker 1: the field with Tannehill. I don't know. There are a

1666
01:20:52,680 --> 01:20:55,320
Speaker 1: lot of different scenarios. I could see Malique Willis getting

1667
01:20:55,320 --> 01:20:58,720
Speaker 1: in this ball game and doing something with Henry and

1668
01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:03,920
Speaker 1: you know, in his own read situation, doing some different things.

1669
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:06,559
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if they broke some of that

1670
01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:09,519
Speaker 1: out to give Tannehill a break. And we don't even

1671
01:21:09,560 --> 01:21:10,920
Speaker 1: know if Tannehill is going to be able to play

1672
01:21:11,040 --> 01:21:15,160
Speaker 1: given his injury situation. Mine thought is that he met

1673
01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:17,960
Speaker 1: with the media, he's probably gonna be He'll probably available

1674
01:21:18,120 --> 01:21:20,439
Speaker 1: good enough to play, and at that point he doesn't

1675
01:21:20,479 --> 01:21:23,479
Speaker 1: have to do a ton but one zone read catches

1676
01:21:23,479 --> 01:21:27,559
Speaker 1: our defensive ends diving inside, and that's all that he

1677
01:21:27,600 --> 01:21:29,720
Speaker 1: needs to do, just one of those to keep everybody honest,

1678
01:21:29,760 --> 01:21:31,360
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, defensive end has to sit

1679
01:21:31,400 --> 01:21:34,000
Speaker 1: there and play it. And then Henry goes in a way,

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Speaker 1: he goes, Mark, appreciate you being here. Coming up next,

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Speaker 1: we'll get at the injury report and anything else we missed.

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Speaker 1: Next on Texans All Access, Welcome back to one final

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Speaker 1: segment on this Wednesday at issue Texans All Access. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, John Harris, Football analyst, sideline Reporter's time for

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Speaker 1: the Schlumberget status challenge. And this one's very simple. It

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Speaker 1: is sixty as in sixty percent third down conversion percentage

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Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Raiders nine of fifteen. That is

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Speaker 1: by far the best the Texans have done on third

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Speaker 1: down game winning touchdown drive. They had three key third

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Speaker 1: down conversions against Jacksonville second half of that game. They

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Speaker 1: were five of eight over sixty percent. In that game,

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Speaker 1: they were sixty percent for the full game against the Raiders.

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Speaker 1: Now the Texas are starting to get third downs. It

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Speaker 1: starts to change the picture of what they can do offensively.

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Speaker 1: They just now have to continue at that rate. They

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Speaker 1: can't be at twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven percent,

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Speaker 1: which they were for the season prior to that game.

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Speaker 1: They are now moving up sixty percent third down conversion

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Speaker 1: for the offense. That is a very good number and

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Speaker 1: that number is brought to you by Schlumberge. To take

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Speaker 1: the Schlumberge Stats challenge, go to Houston Texans dot com.

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Speaker 1: All right, hit this injury report from Wednesday's practice. Four

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Speaker 1: DMPs for pretty big names for the Texans, Bleek Collins

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Speaker 1: with a chest, Nico Collins with a groin, and then

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Speaker 1: two rest days for veterans Brandy Cooks, Jerry Hughes, limited participants,

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Speaker 1: Kenyan Green with a shoulder who went out with that

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Speaker 1: injury came back in the game against the Raiders, and

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Speaker 1: also Justin McCrae dealing with a hand for the Titans.

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Speaker 1: This is pretty extensive DMPs. Fullback Tory Carter neck, Jeffrey

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Speaker 1: Simmons ankle, Ryan Tannehill ankle, Rashad weaver back. Weaver is

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Speaker 1: one of those guys that Nick Kossario pointed out now

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Speaker 1: playing on the edge came out a pit a lot

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Speaker 1: of pass rush ability for Rashad Weaver. But those also

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Speaker 1: for pretty big names for the Titans. Tory carters to

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Speaker 1: play a ton, but when they want to go twenty

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Speaker 1: one twenty two personnel, they put that fullback in front

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Speaker 1: of number twenty two and it is on he will

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Speaker 1: blast you. So those are big limited participants. Starting guard

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Speaker 1: Aaron Brewer, Dylan Cole with a hamstring, Morgan Cox the

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Speaker 1: longstaff of the ankle, Nate Davis the foot, he's had

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Speaker 1: that problems with that. Starting guard Bud Dupree hamstring, Ben

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Speaker 1: Jones been dealing a number of things, but this is

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Speaker 1: a knee. David Long with a groin and he has

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Speaker 1: played fantastic for the Tits of linebacker and a full

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Speaker 1: participant Joe Jones, but also Zach Cuttingham Zax missed the

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Speaker 1: last few games with an elbow. He was a full

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Speaker 1: participant back in practice. I expect to see number forty

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Speaker 1: one out on the field looking for a little bit

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Speaker 1: of retribution, revenge, however you want to look at it.

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Speaker 1: After leaving the Texans and do what he can for

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. Last week, Dad to go with Joe

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Speaker 1: Schobert off the practice squad and Loeu of Joe Lou

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Speaker 1: of Zach Cuttingham. They could have Zach Cuttingham and David Long.

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Speaker 1: That's a pretty formidable linebacker duo. All right, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: do it for the show. Big thanks to Mark, to

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Speaker 1: Nick Kissario, Jordan Aikins, DP Sitter, Drew Doherty, Mike Keith,

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Speaker 1: and all of you for listen. Thanks so much, will

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Speaker 1: see you next time. And has always go Texans,