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Speaker 1: What's happened? Everybody.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to your Wednesday edition of Texans All Access from

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Speaker 2: the Monday Texans Radio studio. I am your host, John Harris,

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Speaker 2: Football and on a sideline reporter for your Houston Texans.

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Speaker 2: Glad to be with you. Got plenty to do tonight.

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Speaker 2: We got Kurt Heine Stephen's tackle for Houston Texans. Gonna

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Speaker 2: join us a little later in the show. We got

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Speaker 2: in the lab of my man Drew Doherty, Dan Miller

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Speaker 2: to play by play voice of the Detroit Lions, who's

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Speaker 2: called some great games already this year, last year, but

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Speaker 2: he's had some great ones. We Dan Miller with our

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Speaker 2: men behind the Mike's Series. But we kick off every

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Speaker 2: Wednesday show with the man himself, executivevice president jar manager

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Speaker 2: of your Houston Texans, Nick Caserio. And you'll hear in

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Speaker 2: this interview I refer to the trade deadline as a

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Speaker 2: certain term. I didn't know whether I could use on

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Speaker 2: the radio, but I guess I was able to use

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Speaker 2: on the radio, and it kind of aptly in my

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Speaker 2: mind describes the trade deadline.

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Speaker 1: It really does.

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Speaker 2: So we talked to Nick on Tuesdays and we play

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Speaker 2: this for you on Wednesdays, so this is before the

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Speaker 2: trade deadline, but we kind of a feeling that we

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Speaker 2: weren't going to see a ton of movement, and we

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Speaker 2: didn't and for good reason, and Nick explains that right

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Speaker 2: here in our discussion me Mark and Nick Cassio.

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Speaker 1: Joining us in studio.

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Speaker 3: Executive vice president and general manager Nick Cassario.

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Speaker 1: Nick, great to see.

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Speaker 4: You, that it was good to be here.

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Speaker 3: A huge week with the Detroit Lions in town. I

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Speaker 3: know we'll get into all that, but you're over the

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Speaker 3: halfway point of the season. There's no true halfway point

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Speaker 3: with seventeen games, but give us your thoughts on where

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Speaker 3: you've been so far. Where you're at at six and

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Speaker 3: three in first place in the division.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, in a decent spot.

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Speaker 5: Put ourselves in a decent position, have eight games in

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Speaker 5: front of us here, So it's one week at a time,

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Speaker 5: but the big thing will just trying to play our

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Speaker 5: best football each week and just executing.

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Speaker 4: On a consistent basis.

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Speaker 5: So had our moments really in all three phases done

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Speaker 5: some good things individual players, number of things collectively on

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Speaker 5: each side of the ball, including the kicking game as well.

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Speaker 5: So we're a good spot. So but we're only guarantee

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Speaker 5: the next opportunity in front of us. So it's going

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Speaker 5: to take really good football, and as you get later

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Speaker 5: into the year, you want to be playing your best football.

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Speaker 5: So try to improve in some of the areas where

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Speaker 5: we maybe struggle a little bit, try to build on

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Speaker 5: some of the things that we've done well, put ourselves

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Speaker 5: in a position, and then whatever we have to do

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Speaker 5: that week against a particular opponent.

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Speaker 4: That's what the focus is.

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Speaker 2: Nick, do want to spend too much time going back,

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Speaker 2: because it feels like a Thursday game was like a

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Speaker 2: year ago now. But some things that you saw that

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Speaker 2: maybe you were couraged by, maybe some things that you

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Speaker 2: think got to be cleaned up going forward.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd say very similar to a lot of games

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Speaker 5: we've talked about this on the show typically come down

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Speaker 5: to a handful of plays in whichever team makes those plays,

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Speaker 5: the team ends up winning a football game. So really

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Speaker 5: that game came down to a couple of missfield goals,

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Speaker 5: turn the ball over there in a ready area on

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Speaker 5: the eleven and they converted you know, a couple of

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Speaker 5: third down plays there and the fourth down play as well.

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Speaker 5: So those games, those plays kind of swayed the result

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Speaker 5: of the game there a little bit, so had our moments,

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Speaker 5: didn't execute probably as well as needed to collectively in

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Speaker 5: the end as a team, and you know, which is

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Speaker 5: why we didn't win a football game. So, but opportunity

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Speaker 5: to learn and try to figure out some things that

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Speaker 4: We've had, you know, our moments just about in every game.

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Speaker 5: So you know, certainly disappointed in the result, but that

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Speaker 5: we can do about it and now we can change

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Speaker 5: it other than to kind of turn a page and

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Speaker 3: Well, in that game, you had one hundred yard receiver

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Speaker 3: with Tank, one hundred yard rusher with Joe, But I

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Speaker 3: know you still want more consistency on offense, pass protection,

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Speaker 1: What about that side of the football?

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Speaker 5: Nick, Yeah, just overall as a team, and you know,

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Speaker 5: DR talk to the team about this, just about improvement

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Speaker 4: We put in place there in training camp.

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Speaker 5: So the game comes down to be able to execute

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Speaker 5: your fundamentals and the techniques that you worked on in

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Speaker 5: training camp, so it don't try to do anything different,

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Speaker 5: don't try to do anything outside of the scope of

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Speaker 5: and put yourself in a position where you can go

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Speaker 5: out there and execute on a consistent basis, play after play,

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Speaker 5: understanding that each play you don't really know what play

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Speaker 5: but each play is as important as a next and

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Speaker 5: so you have to approach it.

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Speaker 2: Nick, as we went into the mini By, fly home,

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Speaker 2: we get home early Friday morning and then it's Friday,

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Speaker 2: Saturday Sunday, of like, okay, what do we do?

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Speaker 1: We're not playing on Sunday. It's just kind of a

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Speaker 2: But for you is it kind of disconcerting, Like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I gotta be doing something.

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Speaker 1: I'm working on something.

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Speaker 2: How'd you kind of handle the mini by to kind

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Speaker 4: Really no different.

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Speaker 5: I think after the game you always go through the

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Speaker 5: previous game, make your notes, and then once you put

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Speaker 5: that game in the books, then you're onto the next opponent.

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Speaker 5: So a lot of it is sorr put the previous

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Speaker 5: to get started on your preparation maybe a day or

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Speaker 5: two earlier. Had an opportunity to go over the Houston

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Speaker 5: Kansas State game, you know, for a little bit before

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Speaker 5: it was delayed, So kind of go through your process

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Speaker 5: really nothing different.

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Speaker 4: Sunday is probably the one day where you don't really.

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Speaker 5: Have anything specifically because normally had the game, so but

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Speaker 5: treat it like a normal I would say a normal weekend.

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Speaker 2: Mark and I and Audre we always text on the

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Speaker 2: day of a bye week like it's weird, it's our

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Speaker 2: our body feels like we should be somewhere else. Do

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Speaker 2: you kind of have a moment on Sunday where you're

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Speaker 2: like you just the moment of like, wait's Sunday, I

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Speaker 1: Nah.

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Speaker 5: I probably just end up staying to my routine, just

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Speaker 5: make sure doing things that normally do on Sunday, go

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Speaker 5: to church, breakfast, work out, do whatever. So understanding up

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sure that'd be good.

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Speaker 3: Call a game, broadcast, phantom game, but nick a normal

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Speaker 3: buye a regular buy. People talk about self scout and

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Speaker 3: things like that. You don't really have time to do

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Speaker 3: you want to give some people some time off as well.

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Speaker 5: Right, it's really an ongoing thing in terms of evaluating

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Speaker 5: have nine games in the books, so it's accumulation of

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Speaker 5: bye week, whenever it's situated. So, is there anything new

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Speaker 5: are some things that we can maybe implement for the

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Speaker 5: So just try to stay consistent, try to stay true

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Speaker 5: to your process, don't do anything different. It is good

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Speaker 5: for everybody to kind of get out of the building

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Speaker 5: good to kind of refresh and recharge. And I mean

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna ask this. Can I say popcorn fart

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Speaker 2: on the radio? Because I think I'm about to because

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Speaker 2: it feels like it feels like the trade deadline is

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Speaker 1: There's so much talk about are your buyers? Are your sellers?

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Speaker 1: There's sellers, no their buyers. This guy's moving this and

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Speaker 2: It feels like the trade deadline comes down to like

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Speaker 2: three or four trades and then that that's really it.

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Speaker 2: How do you kind of how do you perceive Tuesday's

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Speaker 5: And not to be too contrite, but I mean it's

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Speaker 5: usually much ado about nothing. So essentially, a lot of players,

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Speaker 5: you're a lot of players that get moved. A are

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Speaker 4: But you're kind of looking at your team.

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Speaker 5: If there's an opportunity to add a player that you

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Speaker 5: have a specific, defined role for, great, If not, it's

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Speaker 4: To do something just to do something, just to create

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Speaker 4: It's there for teams.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think half the league voted to move

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Speaker 5: where it is, So whenever it is, we'll prepare accordingly.

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Speaker 5: We always contact teams throughout the course of the fall

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Speaker 5: look for opportunities. So once you kind of get through

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Speaker 5: the trade the only thing that's different from the trade

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Speaker 5: deadline is after Tuesday, everybody has to go through the

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Speaker 5: waiver wire, including the vested players, so it's not as

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Speaker 5: simple as you terminate a player. And if you want

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Speaker 5: to flip into the practice squad, there's a twenty four

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Speaker 5: hour period where they have to go through. So some

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Speaker 5: of them just roster mechanics and roster logistics, but any end,

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Speaker 5: it's it's probably much ado about nothing and it's everybody

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Speaker 5: just test to do what they think is best for

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Speaker 5: their football team and just try to make good decisions.

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Speaker 3: Well, we've seed some moves, but as it's moved later,

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Speaker 3: it's in this era of having the extra players on

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Speaker 3: the practice squad and veterans on the practice squad. So

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Speaker 3: practice squads of other teams and your own team are

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Speaker 1: Used to be as far as usable players on game day.

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Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, once you get through it, kind of through

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Speaker 5: this deadline, the next group of players that will probably

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Speaker 5: matriculate on and off teams or to other teams will

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Speaker 1: Nick, I can't think of this happening.

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Speaker 3: But it also happens where they might join a fifty three,

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of cycling.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Sunday Night, which is kind of nice. Troit Lions

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Speaker 2: not very nice coming to town. Very talented roster. As Nick,

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Speaker 1: Pro bowler, pro bowler, all pro, hell of a defensive coordinator.

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Speaker 1: Let's get scout of reporting Detroit Lions through your eyes.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you're gonna be hard pressed to find a better

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Speaker 4: So it starts to the top.

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Speaker 5: Really good coaching staff, great front office with Brad executive

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Speaker 5: And offensively as efficient as an offense there is in

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Speaker 5: He's presented one of the best young tight ends the

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Speaker 4: They're on you.

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Speaker 5: They don't give you a lot of space. Even though

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Speaker 4: As well as any defense league know.

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Speaker 5: They acquired Zadarius here, it's just going back to the

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Speaker 3: Energy, Absolutely, Nick, Probably nothing surprises you in this league

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Speaker 3: But with Jared Goff, a lot of people from the

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Speaker 5: Sure, whatever reasons. Sometimes players just needed a change of scenery.

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Speaker 5: And then they've married it with Ben's system and he's

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Speaker 5: So sometimes there's some narratives that are out there about

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Speaker 5: he's gonna make a good recovery, but he's been a

441
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Speaker 5: tremendous asset to the program and in their city.

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Speaker 3: In general, psychological factor, you want the team playing at

443
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Speaker 3: peak proficiency every single week, but people talk about, well,

444
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Speaker 3: you're playing a really good team, so you're gonna be

445
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Speaker 3: on top of your game even.

446
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Speaker 1: More than ever. What is there about that, Nick?

447
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Speaker 3: What can you tell us about that dynamic with the

448
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Speaker 3: game week to week, regardless of team an opponent.

449
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Speaker 5: I think one thing we've all learned and you probably

450
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Speaker 5: have seen, this is as competitive as professional sports league

451
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Speaker 5: as there is in a world. So each week there's

452
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Speaker 5: an opportunity if it doesn't matter really.

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Speaker 4: What the records are.

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Speaker 5: I mean, records are what the records are, but ultimately

455
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Speaker 5: it comes down to how do you perform that particular Sunday,

456
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Speaker 5: because once the ball is kicked off, nobody really knows

457
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Speaker 5: what the records are. That's all you're going to rely

458
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Speaker 5: on is do we execute, do we make the plays

459
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Speaker 5: that are conducive to winning, or do we not? So

460
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Speaker 5: it's no different from a mindset standpoint. There'd be a

461
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Speaker 5: few more eyeballs on the game because it's Sunday night,

462
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Speaker 5: but in terms of your preparation, in terms of your focus,

463
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Speaker 5: in terms of how you go about your week, there's

464
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Speaker 5: really no difference or no change. Understanding we're playing a

465
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Speaker 5: good opponent. The margin of era may be maybe a

466
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Speaker 5: little bit smaller, but it doesn't necessarily change our overall

467
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Speaker 5: mindset and overall thought process. Understand what the keys are,

468
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Speaker 5: go out there and play with the right mindset and

469
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Speaker 5: the right mentality, and if you play with the right style,

470
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Speaker 5: then you put yourself in a position to hopefully have

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Speaker 5: a chance to win a football game. So week to week,

472
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Speaker 5: that's never gonna change, regardless of who the opponent is,

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Speaker 5: regardless of what the record says.

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Speaker 2: I think I kind of fascinating a few years ago

475
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Speaker 2: when the Bengals had to make a decision in the

476
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Speaker 2: draft because they were sitting there looking at we got

477
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Speaker 2: to protect Joe Burrow there's been a school out there,

478
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Speaker 2: or do we go get ja Mark Chase who broke

479
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Speaker 2: a throwt to I think we find it. We're finding

480
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Speaker 2: out that the Bengals were not going to miss you

481
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Speaker 2: the way Millions then ended up taking Sewel because the

482
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Speaker 2: Bengals take Chase.

483
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Speaker 1: Ay, how good really is Seool and be?

484
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Speaker 2: What does he and his presence allow them to do

485
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Speaker 2: offensively that maybe other tackles you wouldn't be able to

486
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Speaker 2: do with.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Seol's really good. I mean, any way you cut.

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Speaker 5: It, physical, athletic, strong, equally proficient, past protector is he

489
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Speaker 5: is a run blocker, very easily kept playing left tackle.

490
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Speaker 5: But they have a good left tackle and decker, so

491
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Speaker 5: you're talking about two good tackles. He just plays with

492
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Speaker 5: a certain mentality, certain mindset, and really that's their overall team.

493
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Speaker 5: They play with a very so that his I would say,

494
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Speaker 5: attitude and mindset mirrored what they want in their program

495
00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:11,240
Speaker 5: to reflect on the field, and you see that in

496
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Speaker 5: their tape.

497
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Speaker 4: Just about it.

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Speaker 1: On every snap Nick Joe mixed it.

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Speaker 3: We talked about him earlier, but we interviewed Kid Stover

500
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Speaker 3: and he figures into the blocking component of things. What

501
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Speaker 3: about the tight ends and their role along with the

502
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Speaker 3: offensive line to help open up holes for Joe and

503
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Speaker 3: and Stover maybe as a rookie being able to do

504
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Speaker 3: some of the things he's doing because he moves around

505
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Speaker 3: a lot.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the tight ends are a huge part of the

507
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Speaker 5: running game. So don't really have a full back kind

508
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Speaker 5: of on the roster. So if you're going to use

509
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Speaker 5: some two back runs, probably have to use a tight

510
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Speaker 5: end at fullback, or if you're in twelve personnel, you

511
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Speaker 5: have two tight ends on the end line of scrimmage

512
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Speaker 5: or if you overload the formation.

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Speaker 4: Kind of a why wise set. So, but Kate's done

514
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Speaker 4: a really good job.

515
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Speaker 5: Kayden Dalton and even Teagan you know, we talked about

516
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Speaker 5: Teaking a little bit earlier, so we've kind of a

517
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Speaker 5: used them all at different points. But Kate's very smart,

518
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Speaker 5: He's very instinctive, is very tough. He typically doesn't make

519
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Speaker 5: the same mistake twice. He's been a huge asset to

520
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Speaker 5: our team, made an impact in the kicking game as well.

521
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Speaker 5: He's a Special Teams Player of the Week whenever it

522
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Speaker 5: was a few weeks ago. Made him Tacklee pun coverage.

523
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Speaker 5: So kay does a number of things. Well, he's a

524
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Speaker 5: young player that continues to improve. He's only going to

525
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Speaker 5: get better, we hope. But he's been a good asset

526
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Speaker 5: to the team. We're glad he's here.

527
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Speaker 2: You know, I'm contractually upgraded to ask, so I'm gonna ask,

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Speaker 2: So I'll ask it this way half later.

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Speaker 1: Question Semi.

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Speaker 2: We mentioned Kate Stiver, but we've seen Kamari start, We've

531
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Speaker 2: seen Kaylen start. We've seen Blake get in there and

532
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Speaker 2: play some you know, significant number of reps. Uh, Kate

533
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Speaker 2: has played at number He's lined up in a number

534
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Speaker 2: of different spots, done a number of different things. How

535
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Speaker 2: do you feel and what do you feel you've gotten

536
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Speaker 2: from this rookie class, Because I know a lot of

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Speaker 2: people we went into the draft, like, you know, you

538
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Speaker 2: traded for Diggs when I got Hunter. You know, where's

539
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Speaker 2: the spot for the rookies. But your rookies have stepped

540
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Speaker 2: up and made some plays.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they've been productive with their opportunity.

542
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Speaker 5: Cloon Jamal Hill, we've taken into the game a few

543
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Speaker 5: times and played in the kicking game.

544
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Speaker 4: So it was a good young group.

545
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Speaker 5: We felt like they were players that could help our

546
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Speaker 5: football team, not only this year but hopefully in the future.

547
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Speaker 5: But the big thing with the overall group, great attitude,

548
00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:04,640
Speaker 5: great mindset, approach their work in a very professional fashion.

549
00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:08,600
Speaker 5: They're young, but they're mature and they understand what's expected

550
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Speaker 5: on a weekly basis. So it's a credit to them.

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Speaker 5: It's a credit to the coaches for believing in them

552
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Speaker 5: and give them the opportunity and getting them ready to play.

553
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Speaker 5: And we felt that these were players that in some

554
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Speaker 5: capacity we're going to be able to help us. So

555
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Speaker 5: you need a combination of younger players throughout the course

556
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Speaker 5: of a number of years, combined with veteran players. So

557
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Speaker 5: we felt like when we put the team together that

558
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Speaker 5: we had a mixture of both. So those players that

559
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Speaker 5: you mentioned, number of those young players. So we're glad

560
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Speaker 5: that we're hit, they're here and now they have a

561
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Speaker 5: lot in front of them. It's funny, I mean, from

562
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Speaker 5: their perspective, including a pretins, I've already played thirteen games,

563
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Speaker 5: so they've played a full college season already. We still

564
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Speaker 5: have eight games remaining plus a bye week, so you're

565
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Speaker 5: talking about nine weeks of football. So I'd say your

566
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Speaker 5: mental toughness and just your consistency week to week that

567
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Speaker 5: will be important to maintain, stay in your routine so

568
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Speaker 5: that you're prepared for the rigors of what each week

569
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Speaker 5: is going to.

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Speaker 1: Present next Sunday night.

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Speaker 3: It's a huge atmosphere, really, I mean, this might be

572
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Speaker 3: the biggest one we've had in a long time outside

573
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Speaker 3: of the playoffs, maybe even including the playoff game last year.

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Speaker 1: Battle Red debut.

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Speaker 3: Your thoughts on those uniforms maybe versus the H Town

576
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Speaker 3: or home Deep Steel Blue.

577
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Speaker 4: Are you contractually obligated to ask that?

578
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Speaker 1: No, I just want to know it's uniform top. We

579
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Speaker 1: love it.

580
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Speaker 5: The uniforms are for the players, so I'm not going

581
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Speaker 5: to wear any battle Red uniform. Nobody wants to see

582
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Speaker 5: me in a battle Round uniform. So I'm sure the

583
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Speaker 5: players will be excited. They'll have the stews, the tape,

584
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Speaker 5: the corresponding towel. Everything's got a media and it's going

585
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Speaker 5: to come down to how well you play football and

586
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Speaker 5: not how good you look. So anybody can look good

587
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Speaker 5: put a uniform on. So I'm the wrong person to

588
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Speaker 5: ask any fast statements, as hopefully you've learned at John Carroll.

589
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Speaker 3: When you put on the whatever they were, I'm sure

590
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Speaker 3: you had one that you liked more than the other one.

591
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Speaker 4: At home, you didn't have too many choice.

592
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Speaker 5: We had a home on the Whites or the Navies,

593
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Speaker 5: and the pants were the same, so once in a

594
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Speaker 5: while they kind of mixed in mass. It wasn't anything

595
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Speaker 5: too exotic. We got a budget for that.

596
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

597
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Speaker 2: Back in our day, we weren't changing uniforms all that much. We,

598
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Speaker 2: thankfully organ started changing things or not.

599
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Speaker 5: Thankfully, Organ is as good as anybody in the country.

600
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Speaker 5: Nobody has more than Organ.

601
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Speaker 1: Nobody to keep track of. There.

602
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Speaker 3: That's crazy pockets out there, Nick, thanks a lot, good

603
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Speaker 3: luck this week.

604
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Speaker 4: Thanks ellas.

605
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Speaker 2: All right, we get back Mark and I gotta chop

606
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Speaker 2: it up talk about the Lions and everything going on

607
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Speaker 2: with this game on Sunday. Next right here on Texans

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Speaker 2: All Access. Welcome back, everybody to a Wednesday edition of

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Speaker 2: Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: John Harris alongside Mark vandermir Mark.

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Speaker 2: I was doing the map on this as I was

612
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Speaker 2: driving into the stadium today. He's Wednesday, Yeah it is.

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Speaker 2: You know what we were doing last Wednesday? We were

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Speaker 2: flying We're in New York. Yeah, we were flying New York,

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Speaker 2: and I started thinking about that we're actually in New

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Speaker 2: York by now. Yeah, we were in New York by now,

617
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Speaker 2: and I was in an uber on the way to

618
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Speaker 2: my dad's. Yeah, I was in Jersey traffic, which is

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Speaker 2: not pleasant.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 2: I listen, there are places where traffic is there's nowhere

622
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Speaker 2: the traffic is pleasant. But when it comes to New Jersey,

623
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Speaker 2: New York, LA ridiculous. I don't know how people drive

624
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Speaker 2: in New York. You'll tell you what. I got a

625
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Speaker 2: couple of cabs and I was fearing for my life.

626
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Speaker 3: We know people are listening who are in it right now.

627
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Speaker 3: It's getting rough out there. It's getting worse. I've lived here,

628
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Speaker 3: only here twenty two years, right, I've noticed the difference.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 3: COVID changed everything because it was all right and all

631
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Speaker 3: of a sudden not much traffic, and it took about

632
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Speaker 3: a couple of years really to get back to quote normal.

633
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Speaker 3: But now we're getting beyond normal because I lived down

634
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Speaker 3: in Sugarland and they just keep building out right past

635
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Speaker 3: there and going all along ninety nine and Richmond Rosenberg

636
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Speaker 3: and development after development. So obviously those cars are not

637
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Speaker 3: all but many want to come into the city medical

638
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Speaker 3: center wherever you're committing to, and you notice the difference.

639
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Speaker 1: So when I grew up Richmond, Rosenberg Congrove.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of the back the probably the I

641
00:25:55,760 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 2: don't know the southern part of Richmond, and so to

642
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Speaker 2: get anywhere, we would go ninety to six to fifty nine.

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Speaker 1: So at the corner of fifty nine and six during

644
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Speaker 1: sugar Land, oh yeah, there was nothing right. There was

645
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Speaker 1: virtually nothing out. Now there's everything.

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Speaker 2: So the other night, when I was driving back from Galveston,

647
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Speaker 2: I was moving all day and i'd drive back and

648
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Speaker 2: I had I told the story last week about how

649
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Speaker 2: Dre saved my phone. So in turn, I brought back

650
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Speaker 2: his a couple of goods that he bought in New York.

651
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Speaker 2: So I brought him back because he was going straight

652
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Speaker 2: down to Fort Lauderdale for the game FAU and USF

653
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Speaker 2: last week last Friday, so he didn't want to take

654
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Speaker 2: down on a commercial flight, which didn't blame him, so

655
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Speaker 2: I took it home.

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Speaker 1: But then I had to meet him.

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Speaker 2: So driving from Galveston, I get to the stadium because

658
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Speaker 2: I had left to hear they let me in even

659
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Speaker 2: though I was driving a U haul. So I was

660
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Speaker 2: sitting in the whole Foods parking lot over there and

661
00:26:55,400 --> 00:27:00,159
Speaker 2: realizing none of this, none of it was there. Nothing.

662
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 2: There wasn't a thing over there at fifty nine and six.

663
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 2: It was just a connector to take you on into Houston. Nothing,

664
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 2: And it's just it's incredible how it's how it's grown up. Also,

665
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,160
Speaker 2: last year, I did a game with Randy McAvoy on

666
00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 2: KPRC and we went down to and I can't remember

667
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 2: the stadium, but it's in the Alvin isd and it's

668
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 2: the most incredible high school stadium I think I've seen.

669
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: Is it Alvin Stadium or is it a different stadium.

670
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:28,200
Speaker 2: It's Alvin, I sed it's not Alvin Stadium, but it's

671
00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 2: the Alvin as he of the stadium.

672
00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:31,400
Speaker 1: I can't remember what it's called.

673
00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,920
Speaker 2: Anyways, I just remember as I was driving out, there

674
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 2: was all fields and to your point, it's just like

675
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,360
Speaker 2: everything just keeps getting pushed out, pushed out and further out. So, Yeah,

676
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:44,520
Speaker 2: there's traffic. Long story short, there's traffic breaking everywhere.

677
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:48,880
Speaker 3: Thanks so you could, Well, you're welcome fans for us

678
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 3: telling you this valuable information.

679
00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:51,440
Speaker 1: That's right.

680
00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 3: There was traffic at practice today. Yeah, got disease back

681
00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,760
Speaker 3: at practice. I know he practiced a bit last week,

682
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,119
Speaker 3: but now much more hopefully he's gonna play since this

683
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,919
Speaker 3: is week two, if you will back at practice, and

684
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 3: Jimmy Ward as well.

685
00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:04,680
Speaker 1: Let's hope for the best.

686
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 2: Now there's no Nico Collins today, Noel Anderson and Demiko

687
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 2: Ryans was asked and I think Demika Ryans gave the

688
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:15,719
Speaker 2: best answer that I've heard any coach give to anything

689
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:16,840
Speaker 2: when asked about injuries.

690
00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 1: Doing great, We'll see how it goes.

691
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the one answer that you got as a

692
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 2: kid whenever you you'd ask your parents something and they

693
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,160
Speaker 2: would just say, we'll see how it goes.

694
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see how it goes. It was so frustrating

695
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:31,120
Speaker 1: to get the answer as a kid.

696
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 3: He'd always nobody anything on these injuries as far as information,

697
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 3: when is Nico back, when his will back, give estimates whatever.

698
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 3: Look he gave you the Diggs is out for the season, Yeah,

699
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 3: because Diggs was out for the season. But these guys

700
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 3: are obviously not out for the season. There was a

701
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 3: report that he goes doing a lot better. We'll see

702
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 3: what the truth is. Injury reports throughout the week. Wednesdays

703
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 3: doesn't mean as much as Thursday Friday, of course, and

704
00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 3: there's nothing like game time.

705
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:02,520
Speaker 2: So let's get into that because I've I've mentioned this

706
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 2: a few times and I thought it was interesting that

707
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 2: CJ today as presser, talked about the other side of

708
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 2: things that we've talked about. You guys had mentioned it

709
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 2: during the game, and the three of us had talked

710
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 2: about this prior to the game against the Colts, and

711
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 2: then during the game against the Colts, Remember you and

712
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 2: Dre had mentioned something was off, and I said to

713
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 2: you guys, I think like they're not there's no joy.

714
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 2: They don't look like they're having fun. And CJ talked

715
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,320
Speaker 2: about having fun, But I also feel like getting a

716
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 2: ziz Al Shier back and Jimmy Ward back. Now we

717
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 2: don't know what their injury status will be. They were

718
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,959
Speaker 2: just back at practice again. It's a good sign. They

719
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,160
Speaker 2: were back at practice the end of last week, but

720
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 2: just not enough to get ready for the Jets. They're

721
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 2: back at practice today, which hopefully means they've got Thursday, Friday,

722
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 2: Saturday to get all the way to Sunday and be

723
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 2: ready to play. And I think having those two guys

724
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 2: back is huge. What do you think, Mark, Why I'm

725
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 2: not saying you read my mind, but I feel like

726
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 2: it's huge, a is it and if so, what is it?

727
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 2: Ab Having those two guys back, that's probably the most

728
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 2: useful versus the most exciting thing to have AZ's in

729
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 2: Jimmy back potentially an Sunday night.

730
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 3: Those are the two most elder statesman leader types on

731
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 3: the entire defense. Now, Will's in year two, and I

732
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 3: like Will's leadership as well. But Will didn't practice on Wednesday,

733
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 3: so there's that. I think, Jimmy Ward, no doubt, disease,

734
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 3: no doubt those guys back at practice. You know, even

735
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 3: if they play half the snaps in a game, their

736
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 3: mere presence means so much to the production of the defense.

737
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 3: And I think, and look, we have Kurt heinishan tonight.

738
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,320
Speaker 3: I think heine getting back up to speed. You know,

739
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 3: a few games in Deniko Autry a few games in.

740
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 1: They really need these guys.

741
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 3: They need that D line rotation really flowing, get a

742
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 3: lot of fresh legs out there consistently constantly. But to

743
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:55,040
Speaker 3: have AZ's back, Johnny, to have Jimmy Ward making noise,

744
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 3: this is going to be very valuable for this defense

745
00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 3: facing maybe the best offense in the league.

746
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: However, you wanted to find it.

747
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,560
Speaker 3: I mean, this is a juggernaut offense you are facing

748
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 3: on Sunday, so you need all hands on deck to

749
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:06,160
Speaker 3: beat it.

750
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: So I've looked at.

751
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 2: This offense and I'm working on my know your faux article,

752
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 2: which hopefully will be up on Thursday morning. But I'm

753
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 2: looking at this roster, just looking at this offense, and

754
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,560
Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure out what is it about this

755
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 2: offense that scares me the most? And then because in

756
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 2: my head, I'm going, okay, well, Jared Goff is highly efficient.

757
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: He still can pull off explosive plays.

758
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 2: They get Jamison Williams, one of the best deep threats

759
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 2: in the NFL. Back after a two game suspension or whatever,

760
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 2: he's out for one of the best receivers in the league,

761
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 2: Alma Ross Saint Brown catches anything anywhere, tough, competitive chip

762
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 2: on his shoulder. Off It's a line that is just nasty,

763
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 2: with two bookend tackles that are studs, one of the

764
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 2: best centers in the league, a duo at running back. Man,

765
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 2: if you're Demiko Ryans, what would you absolutely go into

766
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 2: the game and attempt to take away like we've got

767
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 2: to take away this deep plays run game. What do

768
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 2: you think it is that they've got to absolutely, without question,

769
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 2: takeaway Tavis Chances.

770
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: You've got to.

771
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 3: Plug the holes for Gibbs in Montgomery. You have to

772
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 3: slow down this running game. Jared Goff has been winning

773
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 3: games throwing twenty two passes. Literally, you can't have this.

774
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 3: You need golf throwing at thirty thirty five times because

775
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 3: the more Golf has to throw it.

776
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: That means they're down. That means they're in a game.

777
00:32:27,520 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 3: And if Gof's gonna throw it more, then there's an

778
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 3: extra opportunity or two for you to pick off a pass.

779
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: And I know they have got great weapons.

780
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 3: People are listening, but Mark Laporta, Aman Ross, Saint Brown,

781
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 3: all these receivers. I love that guy, all these weapons

782
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 3: they have. Yes, yes, they've got all of that. But

783
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 3: I'd rather have GoF beat me than those backs because

784
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 3: if the backs are beating me, Gof's beating me.

785
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: Anyway.

786
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 3: They compliment each other so well, and it all starts

787
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 3: with the O line.

788
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:55,600
Speaker 1: Johnny.

789
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 3: You know how I love to bring up band analogies

790
00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 3: and how on ensembles like the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac,

791
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 3: how that should apply to everything, because you want everybody

792
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 3: contributing this is really that these are Fleetwood Mac, these

793
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 3: offensive players, they are the Eagles because no one's gonna

794
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 3: call golf even a top five quarterback in this league.

795
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,040
Speaker 3: Well maybe they will now if they keep marching out,

796
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 3: but you know what I'm saying, not too many people

797
00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 3: are gonna do that. But golf is another complimentary piece

798
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 3: to this offensive attack with the old line, with the

799
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 3: backs who are so good, both of them, and the

800
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 3: tight end and the receipt. My gosh, it goes on

801
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 3: and on and on, and you just don't want to

802
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 3: even see them. And they're making noise on special teams.

803
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 3: On defense, they're blowing people out. But I got to

804
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 3: stop that running game. To answer your question, I got

805
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 3: to force golf to try to beat me. And maybe

806
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 3: you can still do it, but I want them in

807
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 3: these long down and distance I'll take my chances with

808
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 3: Jared Goff rather than those backs gashing me.

809
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 2: I find it fascinating they have They've had two hundred

810
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 2: and fifty eight Is that right?

811
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 1: How many games do they played? Doesn't seem right.

812
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 2: They've got two hundred and fifty eight plays. That wouldn't

813
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 2: be right because they've got they've got more than that.

814
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 2: But they've only turned the ball over five times.

815
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,320
Speaker 1: That's crazy. Five times.

816
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 2: So if you want kind of a gauge, if you

817
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 2: want to see how teams are doing in a particular year,

818
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 2: just look at turnovers number one team in the league

819
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:31,839
Speaker 2: and turnovers number one with three three and it would

820
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 2: shock you in a sense.

821
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 3: The Washington Commanders have not turned the ball over three

822
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,799
Speaker 3: with a rookie quarterback, two interceptions, one fumble lost.

823
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,760
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Well that's like CJ last year. Yeah, record

824
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: seven to two. Number two.

825
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 2: The LA Chargers have four. They're tied with the Bills.

826
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 2: Chargers and Bills have four each. The Chargers have one,

827
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:57,200
Speaker 2: Herbert's throwing one interception and they lost three fumbles. The

828
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 2: Bills have thrown two interceptions, two fumbles. And then you've

829
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:05,480
Speaker 2: got the Steelers and the Lions next with five. The

830
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 2: Steelers have five. They've only thrown one interception. That's crazy,

831
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 2: with two quarterbacks and four fumbels lost. The Lions have

832
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,359
Speaker 2: thrown four interceptions. Golf has thrown four, and then they've

833
00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 2: had one fumble lost. If you want to compare, the

834
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 2: Texans have nine turnovers, four interceptions, five fumbles, so almost

835
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 2: double the amount of turnovers that Texans have had. But

836
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 2: the majority of teams have nine or more turnovers, right,

837
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 2: it's just the Lions they have five.

838
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: And so I was looking at I was looking at that.

839
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 2: The other thing is this these guys, it's pretty what

840
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:48,919
Speaker 2: they've done lately is just is jarring. Since they beat

841
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 2: they went to Arizona and they won by a touchdown.

842
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,760
Speaker 2: So they started off the year and it looks janky.

843
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 2: They beat the Rams twenty six to twenty. They lose

844
00:35:58,640 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 2: to the Buccaneers twenty to sixty.

845
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, big game in Detroit, that's right.

846
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 2: They lose that one. So they won and wanted to

847
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 2: go out to Arizona. They only win that thing twenty

848
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 2: to thirteen.

849
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: And then.

850
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:15,240
Speaker 2: They go forty two against the Seahawks and win bye week.

851
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 2: They come out of the bye week they score forty

852
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 2: seven at Dallas, thirty one at Minnesota, fifty two against Tennessee.

853
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, that hurts a lot just listening to that. Then

854
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,319
Speaker 3: the Green Bay game and then they in Green Bay,

855
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:31,759
Speaker 3: they had twenty four to so I think it was

856
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:34,000
Speaker 3: a twenty four to three lead, and then they ended

857
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:35,960
Speaker 3: up winning twenty four to fourteen. They kind of just

858
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 3: in the rain. They just kind of that cannot held

859
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 3: them all. You cannot be down twenty one to three,

860
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 3: twenty one to six, something like that. You cannot let

861
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,280
Speaker 3: them get off to that great start. You know, second

862
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 3: halves has been tough for this team offensively. I don't

863
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 3: have to tell you that. In Houston, Texas. They got

864
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 3: to correct that. But you cannot rely on that on

865
00:36:54,560 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 3: that comeback ability of no multiple scores down. But that's

866
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,760
Speaker 3: what Detroit does to people. They get up more ultiple scores.

867
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,399
Speaker 3: So buckle up. This is going to be intense. And

868
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 3: there is no way I heard Dan Campbell talking about

869
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 3: the Texans it was more than coach speak. There's no

870
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 3: way they're overlooking this team. No, they know what's happening here.

871
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:14,359
Speaker 3: They know this team has been going through some things.

872
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,919
Speaker 3: But they have all the firepower they need to mount

873
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:18,720
Speaker 3: a serious challenge to Detroit.

874
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. I mean.

875
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,720
Speaker 2: When you see this Detroit defense without Aiden Hutchinson, there'll

876
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 2: be a time where you go, I'm not really sure

877
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 2: I'm comfortable or I'm not really sure. I know these

878
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 2: guys from Detroit's defense, man, I'm telling you, these guys

879
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 2: will get after you. I think they might have the

880
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:38,600
Speaker 2: best pair of tackles. I remember in twenty sixteen when

881
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 2: we had Reader and wil Fork with together, it was

882
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 2: like you couldn't run on us. You just couldn't number

883
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 2: one defense in the league. Now they've got McNeil and Reader.

884
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 2: It's kind of flipped Now Readers the VET and McNeil's

885
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 2: the younger guy.

886
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 1: Readers in Detroit. I know he's in Detroit.

887
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,800
Speaker 2: Those two togethers, it's gonna be tough, there's no question.

888
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 2: Now they bring into Darius Smith and we'll see kind

889
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 2: of where he is. He didn't practice on Wednesday. They

890
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 2: call it a personal day. I mean, I don't know

891
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:05,840
Speaker 2: just in the move or whatever, but I would imagine

892
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 2: we'll see Sadarius Smith now how much we see him,

893
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 2: don't know.

894
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,840
Speaker 1: A handful of reps Johnny. I think we're going to

895
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 1: see him in past rush situations.

896
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 3: For Sean Simon, when the Texans stripped him up in

897
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:17,400
Speaker 3: that week before they played the Colts on a Thursday night,

898
00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 3: just sort they didn't have one real practice heading into

899
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 3: a Thursday night, and he was able to make some plays,

900
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:23,439
Speaker 3: had a sack in that game.

901
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 2: You remember doing a rable that night and I was like,

902
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 2: how did y'all do that, And he was like every

903
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 2: time he came with the sidelines, like I would tell

904
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 2: him what to do on that play, then send him

905
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:31,919
Speaker 2: in a game.

906
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then he'd, you know, go make a play.

907
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 1: So yeah.

908
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 2: I think we'll see Zadarius as he gets with the

909
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 2: Detroit Lions, which kind of he's like the Denico Autry

910
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 2: of the NFC North. Zidarius was with the Packers, then

911
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 2: he's with the Vikings, and now he's with the Detroit Lions.

912
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 2: He just hasn't hit one team in the NFC North,

913
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 2: that being the Bears. But I think this defense is

914
00:38:54,680 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 2: probably not gotten the acclaim it deserves. I feel like

915
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,360
Speaker 2: this defense led by Aaron Glenn, I know you know

916
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 2: ag very very well.

917
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 1: I think this defense flies under the radar.

918
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 2: And I think this safety Tannem of Kirbie Joseph Brian Branch,

919
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 2: we got to be careful of those two guys because

920
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 2: I think they are absolutely I think Demico said or

921
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 2: Nick said it, they might be the best safety duo

922
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 2: in the league. And I don't even know if it's close.

923
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 2: I don't even know whether it's safety Tantem. I would

924
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 2: put next to it that that group is really really good.

925
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 2: And Brian Branch when he came in with it. The

926
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:30,720
Speaker 2: fact that the Lions got Brian Branch it picked forty

927
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 2: five or whatever it was in the twenty twenty three

928
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 2: draft makes me sick.

929
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 1: Makes me sick.

930
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm happy for the Lions and it's great,

931
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 2: and I like to see the Lions do well.

932
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:41,320
Speaker 1: That's one of those organizations.

933
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:43,000
Speaker 2: I'd like to see them win a championship at some

934
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:46,560
Speaker 2: point this year, but not this year, and not against

935
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,320
Speaker 2: not until agains too, not against US well.

936
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 3: Jared Goff back to him for a moment we had

937
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 3: Nick on. I asked Nick about the Goff tail. Is

938
00:39:56,200 --> 00:40:00,359
Speaker 3: this an inspirational tale for players? It's funny because Goff

939
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 3: is a number one overall pick. Formerly, Yes, it doesn't

940
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 3: feel like it. It feels like he's this left for

941
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 3: dead guy who went to Detroit and it feels more

942
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 3: like second round pick Nick Foles, somebody like that went

943
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:14,800
Speaker 3: to a Super Bowl, Foals won a Super Bowl. Golf

944
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 3: lost it with the La Rams against the Patriots in

945
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 3: that dreadful thirteen to three affair, and they felt like

946
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:22,720
Speaker 3: they weren't going to get over the hump with Jared

947
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:24,359
Speaker 3: goff and actually win a championship.

948
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: And now look at him.

949
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 3: Now Detroit hasn't won anything yet, and they'll be the

950
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 3: first to tell you that that these are lofty expectations

951
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:36,479
Speaker 3: they have. They're handling them well. But we'll see again.

952
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 3: I go back to golf being not the biggest threat

953
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 3: at quarterback you've ever seen, but the whole thing collectively

954
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 3: is frightening.

955
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: And back to the defense here.

956
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 3: They give up a lot of yards through the air,

957
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 3: but I wonder if that's because they're up on teams.

958
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 1: You're throwing it.

959
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,879
Speaker 3: You're getting chunky yardage plays because all right, we have

960
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,280
Speaker 3: to throw it. They do happen to make some plays,

961
00:40:57,480 --> 00:40:59,480
Speaker 3: you know, because clearly the record speaks for itself.

962
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: An one.

963
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 2: We've got to go in there and we gotta we

964
00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 2: gotta land some punches early.

965
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:07,360
Speaker 1: We gotta land punches early. We got to steal a

966
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:08,240
Speaker 1: couple of rounds.

967
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:10,720
Speaker 2: We got to get after it, kind of like George

968
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:14,319
Speaker 2: Foreman would steal a couple of rounds, just land some haymakers, uh,

969
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:16,439
Speaker 2: and then get after it. How about this, Listen, listen

970
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 2: to this. I've thought about this when we when you

971
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 2: mentioned golf in twenty twenty one. McVeigh wanted Stafford out

972
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 2: in LA. So they make the deal. And the deal

973
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:33,240
Speaker 2: was a couple of first round picks. There's three, there's

974
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 2: three draft picks that turned into a fourth draft pick.

975
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:39,760
Speaker 1: And Jared Goff.

976
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 2: Jared Goff was thrown in to make the salary kind

977
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 2: of work thing. And then everybody thought, well, god's just

978
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 2: getting thrown in. Well, they wanted to get rid of

979
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 2: his contract, right, they want to get rid of his contract.

980
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 2: So the Rams or the Lions end up taking golf

981
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,080
Speaker 2: and we'll take your draft capitol. We'll take your draft capitol.

982
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 2: We'll play golf in the meantime. Yeah, Bridge quarterback to somebody.

983
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 3: Else, although you'll Dan miller on later. He doesn't like

984
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 3: that term. I guess a Bridge quarterback. Of people thought

985
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:07,359
Speaker 3: Bridge quarterback, but you know, I'm thinking no, people did

986
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 3: think Bridge quarterback, and I'm sure the organization did too.

987
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 3: There's no way they could have known that Goff would

988
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 3: have played this well.

989
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 2: For that's right, here's how this trade turned out. They

990
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:19,280
Speaker 2: got Jared Goff for Matt Stafford. They got Jared Goff,

991
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 2: who isn't quite Matt Stafford, but he's playing at that

992
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:23,440
Speaker 2: particular level.

993
00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 3: He's doing better in Detroit than Stafford did. Listen to

994
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 3: these four draft picks that they ended up with.

995
00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, if youat to malafon Wu defensive back who just

996
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:33,759
Speaker 2: practiced today, who is on ir.

997
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: So I have another name to learn. How to pronounce this.

998
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 2: Is easy though, Just pronounce it as it looks. If

999
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 2: you got to malafon Wu, you'll get it now. We

1000
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 2: don't know whether it's gonna be activated or not, but

1001
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:48,839
Speaker 2: he was back. He's been a great, great player for them. Jamison, Williams,

1002
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:53,280
Speaker 2: oh Boy, Jamiir Gibbs, and Sam Laporta.

1003
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 1: That's and goff for Stafford.

1004
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 3: Okay, Laporta is interesting because remember when they did they

1005
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 3: try eight T. J.

1006
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: Hockinson to the Vikings. It's a deviational trade. It sounds like.

1007
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 3: White flag waved. You're trading Hawkinson to the Vikings. Ha ha.

1008
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 3: You'll never be anything good again. It'll take years. But

1009
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 3: they bounce right back and they get Laporta, who is

1010
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:18,839
Speaker 3: every bit of Hockinson.

1011
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:22,360
Speaker 1: He's amazing. Hackinson's a really good player.

1012
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 3: But they don't miss a beat and they've got young players,

1013
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 3: first contract players and all that draft capital. So Jamison

1014
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 3: Williams Laporta, and who else, Jamiir Gibbs.

1015
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:38,320
Speaker 2: Gosh, they got four studs, so they Goff and Golf.

1016
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:39,280
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a trade.

1017
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 2: You know, we're going to talk about here in Houston,

1018
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 2: Deshaun Watson trade and what that all led to. Now

1019
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 2: years it's not as easy to track all the different

1020
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 2: tentacles of trades because of all that Nick.

1021
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:51,840
Speaker 1: Made, because Nick gets very busy.

1022
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 2: Yes, so will Anderson was included in that tank, Dells

1023
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 2: included in that, so it all had relation to that

1024
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:01,799
Speaker 2: show wants a trade. But in Detroit, this is the

1025
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 2: one they talk about. We got Jared Goff and they

1026
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 2: loved Jared Goff there in Detroit. He loves Detroit, and

1027
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 2: I love that for them. But that's a hell of

1028
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 2: a trade. They got Stafford in la It was Goff,

1029
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 2: a third round pick in twenty twenty one, a first

1030
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 2: round pick in twenty twenty two, and a first round

1031
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:21,839
Speaker 2: pick in twenty twenty three. Then they flipped it because

1032
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 2: they traded back in twenty twenty three and that's when

1033
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:28,360
Speaker 2: they got They got Gibbs and Laporta, and then they

1034
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 2: ended up getting a defensive lineman named Broderck Martin as well,

1035
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 2: who I sold who I liked a lot.

1036
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 3: Part of the initial deal with three ones or two

1037
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 3: to ones two ones initially. Okay, so Stafford aging quarterback

1038
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 3: because this kind of helped set the market for the

1039
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:47,240
Speaker 3: Watson deal later. That's right, right, that's exactly Watson worthmore

1040
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:51,120
Speaker 3: at the time because younger. Okay, you got them fresher

1041
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 3: and his contract is done. You like the contract, although

1042
00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 3: you're gonna have to redo the contract. This turns out

1043
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 3: Cleveland because that's what he wanted. So there you go.

1044
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 1: Remember when they were trading Watson.

1045
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 3: This is just a side note and we started to

1046
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 3: hear rumblings about he wants a new contract too.

1047
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he just signed. We'll sign one. Yeah, but

1048
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 1: he'll get another one. We'll get another one. I mean,

1049
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,280
Speaker 1: business of sports. I guess he's done pretty well.

1050
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 3: So interest See Barry out of Cleveland today said I

1051
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 3: don't want to reflect just yeah, yeah, not just yet,

1052
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 3: you know, reflecting, don't look back, look forward.

1053
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 1: That's what I say.

1054
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:28,720
Speaker 2: Look forward, and right now, looking forward means the Detroit

1055
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 2: Lions on Sunday night. Also, looking forward means we'll go

1056
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 2: around the NFL. We get back right here on Texans

1057
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 2: All Access.

1058
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 1: SEP and everybody.

1059
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 2: We got a few minutes left here to end our

1060
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 2: first hour and Wednesday, edisue of Texans All Access.

1061
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:42,840
Speaker 1: I'm your host. John Harrits, football analyst.

1062
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 2: Sideline reporters take a look at the injury report from today.

1063
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,360
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of talk since practice today.

1064
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 2: Noble Anderson Junior, no Nico Collins, and there's been some

1065
00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 2: talk about whether Nico could be back for this game.

1066
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,319
Speaker 1: So we'll see, uh what that is.

1067
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 2: Listen, as far as it pertains with Taniko, I just

1068
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 2: want him one hundred percent when he gets back.

1069
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 1: So if that takes another week, fine, don't.

1070
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 2: I don't care. I don't care. I want him to

1071
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:11,279
Speaker 2: be one hundred percent when he comes back. Same with

1072
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 2: will Anderson Junior. Deal with ankle, but he was a

1073
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:16,879
Speaker 2: DMP today. A few the other DMPs at defensive ends.

1074
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:17,760
Speaker 1: It's rough.

1075
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 2: Willie Anderson, Derek Burnett dealing with a calf in his shoulder.

1076
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 2: Dylan Horton was sick and so he did not practice. Also,

1077
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 2: DMPs fully Foughtakassi, Kenny Green, Damian Pierce. They've not put

1078
00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 2: Kenny Green on IR. Don't know what status will be.

1079
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 2: I know he has announced that he's gonna miss the rest

1080
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 2: of the year, but we'll see what that is going

1081
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 2: to be for the Lions. Nobody of consequence other than

1082
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,320
Speaker 2: Zadarias Smith missed for personal reasons.

1083
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:44,320
Speaker 1: He's been traded from Cleveland to Detroit.

1084
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,680
Speaker 2: So this was supposed to be a walk through and

1085
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 2: practice participation was based on estimation.

1086
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:52,440
Speaker 1: But notice Zadarias Smith.

1087
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 2: But imagine we'll see him in practice on Thursday Friday

1088
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 2: and be ready for Sunday. Now, two key ones for

1089
00:46:58,120 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 2: them to keep an eye on if you have to.

1090
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Speaker 2: Mel and Emmanuel Moseley, two dbs that had been an IR.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: They were full participants in practice on Wednesday, so we'll

1093
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 2: see if they are brought off of IR to play

1094
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 2: on Sunday against the Texans. Texans also made a transaction.

1095
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 2: They claimed the following playoff of waivers, so he goes

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00:47:16,719 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 2: to the fifty three min roster. Zach Thomas offensive lineman

1097
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 2: at San Diego State. I was a fan of Zach.

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00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 2: Now listen at tackle. I want to say that I've

1099
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:27,960
Speaker 2: seen him play both tackle and guard. But uh, she's

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00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 2: trying to go on to wayback machine. Uh, based on

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Speaker 2: his draft report. But I remember watching at San Diego

1102
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Speaker 2: State thinking, man, there's something there with this guy.

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00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 1: So we'll see if Zak Thomas can add to the mix.

1104
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 2: But he has claimed off of waivers, which means he

1105
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 2: goes to the fifty.

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Speaker 1: Three man roster immediately.

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00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:45,839
Speaker 2: Zach Thomas, not Texas Tech red Raider, Zach Thomas, San

1108
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 2: Diego State as Tech Zach.

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00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:48,800
Speaker 1: Thomas offensive lineman.

1110
00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:50,759
Speaker 2: All right, it's time to go met me Hig to

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00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 2: Mike's that's next, Dan Miller.

1112
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:53,320
Speaker 1: Played by play voice.

1113
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 2: All the Detroit Lions will sit down with our good

1114
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 2: pal Mark Vanmer. Next right here when Texans all access.

1115
00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 2: It's time for the Stats Challenge, brought to you by

1116
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 2: s l B. Yes, love doing the stats challenge, dude,

1117
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 2: every single Wednesday. Today's stat is the number thirty three.

1118
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:13,920
Speaker 2: It's kind of like a by the number stats challenge

1119
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 2: in a sense. It's thirty three. No, it's not Larry

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Speaker 2: Bird's number. It is Darya Goombally's number. It is Larry

1121
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 2: Bird's number. But that's not where I'm going with this.

1122
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 2: You guys know, after Thursday night, thirty three pressures on CJ.

1123
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:32,960
Speaker 2: Stroud is thirty three too much? Now during the game,

1124
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:35,520
Speaker 2: you're gonna get up two or three, but thirty three

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00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 2: is way too much for any quarterback, much less our

1126
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 2: favorite son CJ.

1127
00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: Stroud.

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Speaker 2: So we gotta get that cleared up against the Detroit Lions.

1129
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 2: And speaking of the Lions, it's time for a men

1130
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:51,840
Speaker 2: behind the Mike segment when Mark Vannimier sits down with

1131
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 2: the great play by play voices of the league, and

1132
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 2: this week it's Dan Miller of the seven to one

1133
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 2: Detroit Lions.

1134
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 3: Mark Takeaway joining us right now, Dan Miller, or the

1135
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:02,760
Speaker 3: voice of the Detroit Lions, Dan, how's.

1136
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:03,879
Speaker 1: It going excellent? Mark?

1137
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:04,439
Speaker 7: How you doing?

1138
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: I'm doing great.

1139
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 3: Looking forward to the matchup on Sunday, I think, well,

1140
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 3: I know it's gonna be a tough game for the Texans,

1141
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 3: but it's a tough game for everyone facing the Lions.

1142
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,799
Speaker 3: And what strikes me, Dan, is the Lions tend to

1143
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 3: not only win, but blow people out. How are you

1144
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 3: seeing the season and defining it so far?

1145
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 7: Well, I mean, what we do and have really going

1146
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 7: back to the second half of twenty twenty two, have

1147
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 7: a pretty high powered offense, and sometimes you know a

1148
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 7: team can get behind, you get a takeaway and all

1149
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 7: of a sudden it's two score lead, three score lead,

1150
00:49:37,880 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 7: and those things can start to get away. So there's

1151
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 7: no doubt that we've been on a bit of a heater.

1152
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 7: Jerk Goff has been incredibly efficient and incredibly productive, and

1153
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:51,319
Speaker 7: they've been maximizing, you know, their possessions if you go

1154
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 7: back a couple of weeks ago, at five drives of

1155
00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:57,760
Speaker 7: twenty six yards or less. So it's offense, defense, special teams,

1156
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,839
Speaker 7: it's returns, it's takeaways. Everything's kind of adding up to

1157
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 7: that offense. But it's also fueled by the fact that

1158
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 7: that offense has a lot of weapons and is really productive.

1159
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 3: So Jared Goff, when you got him with the Lions,

1160
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people felt this is not

1161
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 3: going to work. But it's working so well, why do

1162
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,800
Speaker 3: you think that is it's such a phenomenal story.

1163
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 7: Well, I think most people didn't think it was going

1164
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 7: to work, and most people thought that it was a

1165
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 7: bridge quarterback. But I will say, you know two people

1166
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:31,120
Speaker 7: that certainly didn't were Brad Holmes and Ray Agnew, who

1167
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 7: had been on that staff in the front office in

1168
00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:36,880
Speaker 7: LA with the Rams, and they had a feel for

1169
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 7: him and they thought if they surrounded him with the

1170
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:42,839
Speaker 7: right players that he could be the guy again. And

1171
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Speaker 7: that's what they've done. I mean they have. Look, Jared's

1172
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 7: a really good quarterback, and I don't want to take

1173
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 7: anything away from him, but you have one of, if

1174
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,799
Speaker 7: not the best offensive lines in football. You have two

1175
00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 7: explosive running backs, you have an outstanding receiver Nomena Ross

1176
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 7: Sating Brown, an explosive receiver in James Williams, a great

1177
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:04,480
Speaker 7: tight end and a young one in Sam Laporta. So

1178
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 7: I mean, it's it's all right there. And Jared has

1179
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:10,359
Speaker 7: been a master at just kind of directing this thing

1180
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:13,880
Speaker 7: and taking whatever defense is give him. And he's talked

1181
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:16,319
Speaker 7: about the fact that, you know, in particular this year

1182
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,759
Speaker 7: where his completion percentage has been through the roof, He's

1183
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:22,279
Speaker 7: setting all sorts of records through games for you know what,

1184
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,239
Speaker 7: the production that he's had, he said a lot of

1185
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:27,239
Speaker 7: times it's just checking down. But when you're checking down

1186
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 7: to Jamir Gibbs or Sam Laporta or one of these

1187
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 7: other explosive guys David Montgomery, check could become significantly more

1188
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 7: than that. So I think, look, Jared would be the

1189
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 7: first to tell you that he has matured, he has

1190
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 7: gotten better he told us. You know, we talked to

1191
00:51:46,680 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 7: him before this season. He said, I'm stronger than I

1192
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:50,480
Speaker 7: ever knew that I was, and that's what I learned

1193
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:54,000
Speaker 7: in Detroit and can face down more than I ever have.

1194
00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 7: And he's been terrific, exactly what this team needed. And

1195
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 7: they've surrounded him with the right piece. So it's just

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00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 7: it's a great mix together him and this team.

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Speaker 3: Dan Miller, voice of the Detroit Lions, joining us on

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Speaker 3: Texans Radio. The offensive line discussed the construction the identity

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Speaker 3: because like you said, this is one of the best,

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Speaker 3: if not the best, in the NFL.

1201
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 7: Well, look, for years here, since Barry Sanders retired, they

1202
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 7: tried to build an offensive line in a running game

1203
00:52:23,680 --> 00:52:26,880
Speaker 7: and it never worked. I mean, they tried drafting guys,

1204
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:30,160
Speaker 7: they tried you know, high priced free agents. They tried

1205
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:32,480
Speaker 7: everything to put it together and it just didn't work.

1206
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 7: And now you know, this thing has come together and

1207
00:52:35,440 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 7: it's they've put a lot of assets into it. I mean,

1208
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 7: Looknase Sewell is a high number one draft pick. Taylor

1209
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 7: Deckers is a number one draft pick, Frank Radnow is

1210
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 7: a number one draft pick. Graham Glasgow is a guy

1211
00:52:46,120 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 7: that was a third round pick was here, then lefts

1212
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 7: and came back. And you know, Kevin Zeidler was a

1213
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:53,279
Speaker 7: Pro bowler last year and they signed him to a

1214
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:56,800
Speaker 7: one year contract this year. So this isn't by accident.

1215
00:52:56,840 --> 00:53:00,360
Speaker 7: They've put a lot into it and really lead that

1216
00:53:00,520 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 7: that's the face of this football team. Mark That is

1217
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 7: the group that when everybody looks over at those five

1218
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 7: guys walking on the field, it gives them confidence because

1219
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 7: they believe whether it's pouring green or green in Green

1220
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 7: Bay like it was last week, or you know, in

1221
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:17,759
Speaker 7: indoor field where they play most of their games, when

1222
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:20,879
Speaker 7: they play three outdoor games all year, those guys are

1223
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 7: able to control the game, whether it's running, pass protection,

1224
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:27,680
Speaker 7: or whatever it is. And they've kind of been the

1225
00:53:27,719 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 7: engine of this team since this turnaround. And I think

1226
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 7: that's the way that Brad Holmes and Dan Campbell had

1227
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:36,520
Speaker 7: visited it. They've talked about wanting to build a team

1228
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:38,839
Speaker 7: that can play in December and play in January and

1229
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 7: playing elements, and certainly I think last week is a

1230
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 7: good example that they've been successful in doing that, and

1231
00:53:46,239 --> 00:53:50,920
Speaker 7: these guys they relish being the group that this team

1232
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:52,799
Speaker 7: leans on when times are tough.

1233
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:55,720
Speaker 3: Dan Miller Voice of the Lions, whe us the culture

1234
00:53:55,760 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 3: with Dan Campbell. How does it all fit together? Obviously

1235
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 3: very well? But when it started, what were your thoughts

1236
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:04,520
Speaker 3: And obviously it's one of those how it started, how

1237
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 3: it's going, it's going very well, but your first impressions

1238
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:09,840
Speaker 3: did you think it was going to work?

1239
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:11,800
Speaker 1: What were your feelings at the time.

1240
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 7: Let me go back a little bit further. When Sheila

1241
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 7: hamp the owner, decided to fire Bob Quinn and Matt Patricia,

1242
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:24,400
Speaker 7: she could have gone out and just hired GM and

1243
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:26,520
Speaker 7: hired a head coach, which is what people have done

1244
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 7: here for years, and more often than not people said, hey,

1245
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:30,719
Speaker 7: theres are good hires than they ended up not working out.

1246
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:34,279
Speaker 7: But to her credit, she brought in Chris Bielman, who

1247
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 7: was a former Lion and one of the you know,

1248
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:40,239
Speaker 7: most respected guys ever in the franchise, and they did

1249
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 7: a deep dive into the organization and found out that

1250
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 7: it was not a good place to work. They found

1251
00:54:46,640 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 7: out that people weren't happy, that they didn't feel like

1252
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:51,880
Speaker 7: they were part of anything that that previous regime that

1253
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:54,719
Speaker 7: had been here, you know, it was either football or

1254
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:57,239
Speaker 7: you kind of didn't matter, and that's the way they

1255
00:54:57,239 --> 00:54:59,359
Speaker 7: were made to feel and they needed to change that

1256
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:02,880
Speaker 7: before they hired anybody. So the word you used culture

1257
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:07,440
Speaker 7: really started with them and them deciding what they wanted

1258
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 7: to be and is an organization. And I think that

1259
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 7: set the course and then whatever they were going to

1260
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 7: do at GM and head coach, they were going to

1261
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:18,400
Speaker 7: be people that were collaborative and that were going to

1262
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 7: make everybody feel like they're part of something. And they

1263
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 7: found that with Brad Holmes and Dan Campbell. Look from

1264
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 7: the moment Dan Campbell walked in the door, he's been

1265
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:28,800
Speaker 7: the right guy. And I know that his initial press conference,

1266
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:31,719
Speaker 7: which was ninety minutes, everybody pulled out thirty seconds about

1267
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 7: biting kneecaps. And I will tell you Mark that I'm

1268
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 7: on a thread with a bunch of writers and you know,

1269
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 7: guys that don't always have great opinions and things. And

1270
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:43,359
Speaker 7: we've seen a lot of coaching press conference here because

1271
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:45,960
Speaker 7: we've got a lot with the Red Wings, with the Tigers,

1272
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 7: with the Pistons, and with the Lions and pretty much

1273
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 7: everybody after that Dan Campbell initial press conference, introductory press

1274
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:55,799
Speaker 7: conference said that's about the best one we've ever seen.

1275
00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 7: He hit every right note. He said exactly what the

1276
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 7: fans needed to hear. He didn't sell many you know, smoke,

1277
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 7: and told him what this was going to be, how

1278
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 7: long it was going to take. Basically there wasn't going

1279
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 7: to be a quick fix, but that they had to

1280
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 7: do it the right way. And the unfortunate thing was

1281
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:12,839
Speaker 7: everybody pulled the thirty seconds out. That kind of made

1282
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 7: him look, you know however you want to say that

1283
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 7: made him look, but that was only a small part

1284
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 7: of it. And he has been the perfect guy for Detroit.

1285
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:23,759
Speaker 7: He knew about Detroit because he played here. He's been

1286
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 7: the perfect coach for these players. They love playing for him.

1287
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 7: And we've been through a lot of guys here in Detroit,

1288
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 7: but nobody that has fit the city or the organization

1289
00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:35,359
Speaker 7: the way that Dan Campbell has.

1290
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:39,680
Speaker 3: I love the kneecap comment, but that's me Aaron Glenn,

1291
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 3: an original Houston Texan and he went on a Pro

1292
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:45,479
Speaker 3: Bowl with the Texans in their inaugural season of two

1293
00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:48,319
Speaker 3: thousand and two. Give me a take on him as

1294
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:51,479
Speaker 3: the defensive coordinator. Obviously it's going very well this year.

1295
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:54,239
Speaker 7: Yeah, no doubt. And let me say this about the

1296
00:56:54,320 --> 00:56:56,799
Speaker 7: kneecap take it is exactly who this team is. You

1297
00:56:56,840 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 7: go back and listen to that. You can knock him down,

1298
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:01,960
Speaker 7: but they will get it back up. And that is

1299
00:57:02,080 --> 00:57:04,399
Speaker 7: that is the attitude that Dan Campbell wanted and that's

1300
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:07,960
Speaker 7: what he's got. Look ag, he has had a couple

1301
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,000
Speaker 7: of years where he did not have much to work with.

1302
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:13,480
Speaker 7: He was going out there shorthanded, did not have a

1303
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:16,480
Speaker 7: ton of talent. I was playing with you know, practice

1304
00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:19,919
Speaker 7: squad guys a lot of times. And finally I think

1305
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 7: this year they gave him the type of guys that

1306
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:25,440
Speaker 7: he wanted to have, that he could work with, that

1307
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 7: he could implement his system and play the way he

1308
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 7: wanted to play. Now, unfortunately, they've lost eight guys to

1309
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:33,960
Speaker 7: injuries that we're going to play key roles on this team,

1310
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 7: tops of which, of course Aidan Hutchinson, Davenport Barnes, guys

1311
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 7: that helped them up front. Acquiring Za Darius Smith obviously

1312
00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 7: is a nice guest for this team. It gives him

1313
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:48,120
Speaker 7: another pass rusher. That's the big question right now is

1314
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:50,840
Speaker 7: can this team generate a pass rush Since Aiden Hutchinson

1315
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:53,440
Speaker 7: has gone out. They really have it and they've had

1316
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 7: to manufacture it with blitzes and trying to just do

1317
00:57:56,880 --> 00:58:00,080
Speaker 7: other things on defense, and that's gonna be really the

1318
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:02,480
Speaker 7: question going forward is can they do that because their

1319
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:05,880
Speaker 7: secondary is much better. They got ballhawks back there, especially

1320
00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 7: at safety, where you know you got one guy with

1321
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 7: six interceptions and one guy with four. They just have

1322
00:58:11,960 --> 00:58:14,800
Speaker 7: guys that know how to find the football, and in particular,

1323
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 7: if you get a quarterback a little bit rushed and

1324
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 7: throwing it before he wants to, they can make big plays.

1325
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:22,280
Speaker 7: But there is a question with the number of guys

1326
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:25,280
Speaker 7: that they've lost, guys that they depended on to really

1327
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 7: collapse that pocket, whether or not they're going to be

1328
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 7: able to do that going forward. And I think that's

1329
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:30,680
Speaker 7: something that we're all watching.

1330
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:33,680
Speaker 3: Dan Miller, Voice of the Lions with us something on

1331
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 3: Detroit here. Dan, I work with Andre Ware, former Lion,

1332
00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:41,280
Speaker 3: and he's been back to do games there Mid American

1333
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:44,320
Speaker 3: Conference Championship, that sort of stuff, and he said Detroit

1334
00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:47,960
Speaker 3: is unrecognizable. It's really nice right now with all the

1335
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:51,520
Speaker 3: four sports teams down there. The city's been transformed. Tell

1336
00:58:51,600 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 3: us about that a little bit.

1337
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:56,600
Speaker 7: Yeah, Look, it has not been a short trip. It's

1338
00:58:56,640 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 7: been a battle and going through bankruptcy and having people

1339
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:02,360
Speaker 7: kind of look at Detroit with the kind of the

1340
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:05,280
Speaker 7: same old stereotypes that they had for years about not

1341
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 7: a place that you want to be. I mean, we

1342
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:09,400
Speaker 7: still hear it, you know, from people now, but I

1343
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:14,080
Speaker 7: think anybody that has seen the transformation or anybody that

1344
00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 7: just comes in understands that this is a much different

1345
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:21,840
Speaker 7: city than it was twenty or thirty years ago. It's

1346
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:24,400
Speaker 7: a live downtown. As you said, all four teams are

1347
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 7: right there now, right around the block from each other.

1348
00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 7: It is full of restaurants, full of places to go, people,

1349
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 7: night life, life, It's vibrant when you hit it at

1350
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 7: the right time, and there's people down there, and you know,

1351
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:40,440
Speaker 7: it's not so cold that people don't want to walk

1352
00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:43,960
Speaker 7: on the street. But it's it's it has changed. I've

1353
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 7: been here for going on thirty years, and I have

1354
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 7: seen so many changes myself, and credit to the people

1355
00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 7: behind it that have really dug into the ground and

1356
00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:56,080
Speaker 7: made this thing work and really you know, transformed buildings

1357
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:59,760
Speaker 7: and built new buildings and you know, brought commerce down

1358
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:02,919
Speaker 7: there and made it a place that people want to live.

1359
01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:05,640
Speaker 7: And now it's you know, it's a hip place to live.

1360
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:07,840
Speaker 7: And it's tough to find an apartment down there, and

1361
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:12,600
Speaker 7: if you do, they're expensive. So it's look, it's there's

1362
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:16,240
Speaker 7: still work to be done. There's still infrastructure and things

1363
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:18,480
Speaker 7: like that that need to be handled. There's still people

1364
01:00:19,080 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 7: living in Detroit that aren't feeling that this thing has

1365
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:24,840
Speaker 7: completely turned the corner yet, and those efforts are going

1366
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:27,840
Speaker 7: on all the time. But big picture, Detroit is a

1367
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:31,680
Speaker 7: much different place, much better place, much more welcoming place

1368
01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:35,000
Speaker 7: then maybe it was to people you know, twenty or

1369
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:38,120
Speaker 7: thirty years ago. But I will tell you anybody that's

1370
01:00:38,160 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 7: got kind of that same old opinion of it, it's

1371
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:43,880
Speaker 7: based on, you know, days gone by, really should come

1372
01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:45,680
Speaker 7: back here and take a look. It's a cool place.

1373
01:00:46,080 --> 01:00:48,920
Speaker 7: Anybody that comes through here, I think they feel that,

1374
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:52,240
Speaker 7: and it's it's a source of pride for a lot

1375
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:53,440
Speaker 7: of people, and it really should be.

1376
01:00:53,680 --> 01:00:56,400
Speaker 3: If the Lions are the number one team there, and

1377
01:00:56,440 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 3: correct me if they are not, who's second in Detroit?

1378
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:00,480
Speaker 1: The four?

1379
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:03,680
Speaker 7: You know, I think, and you live this life, I

1380
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:06,080
Speaker 7: think it's just that NFL shield. NFL is kind of

1381
01:01:06,080 --> 01:01:09,360
Speaker 7: a king, So I would say, look pro football, it's

1382
01:01:09,360 --> 01:01:12,880
Speaker 7: a baseball and a football town. I mean people love

1383
01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 7: the Tigers. There's so much history with that team. It's

1384
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:19,000
Speaker 7: every night during the summer, whether you're watching on TV

1385
01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:21,720
Speaker 7: or going down to the ballpark, whatever it is. And look,

1386
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:25,320
Speaker 7: we've had phenomenal times with the Red Wings and their

1387
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 7: Cup runs and the Pistons with their championships that they've

1388
01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:32,360
Speaker 7: had with the two groups that won it in the

1389
01:01:32,440 --> 01:01:34,520
Speaker 7: late eighties, early nineties and then again at oh four.

1390
01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 7: So it's we've had runs with the other clubs. But

1391
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:41,400
Speaker 7: I think when you get right down to it, just

1392
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 7: the power of the NFL kind of pushes the Lions

1393
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 7: into that number one spot. You felt it last year

1394
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:48,840
Speaker 7: when they finally broke through and beat the Rams and

1395
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:52,560
Speaker 7: then beat the Bucks at home in playoff games. And look,

1396
01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:54,800
Speaker 7: we've felt it when the Tigers reached the World Series

1397
01:01:54,840 --> 01:01:57,160
Speaker 7: a couple of times. They haven't won it since eighty four,

1398
01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 7: but they've been there and you felt that electricity in

1399
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 7: the streets. And I think it's I think, really just

1400
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:05,520
Speaker 7: on a grand scale, it's those two and then it's

1401
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:08,160
Speaker 7: basketball and hockey and whatever order you want to put

1402
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:11,280
Speaker 7: it in. But it's a great sports town. It's one

1403
01:02:11,320 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 7: that you know, I grew got an appreciation for very quickly.

1404
01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:17,400
Speaker 7: And it's the roots that people have here. It's the

1405
01:02:17,480 --> 01:02:20,680
Speaker 7: fact that you know, it's not a tremendously transient area,

1406
01:02:20,720 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 7: but it's one where people were born and they stay

1407
01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:25,920
Speaker 7: and they root for the same teams that their parents

1408
01:02:25,920 --> 01:02:28,000
Speaker 7: did and their grandparents did, and there's just a lot

1409
01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:31,040
Speaker 7: of tradition here and a lot that people hand down

1410
01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:31,720
Speaker 7: through the years.

1411
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:34,680
Speaker 3: Why I sed Toll live there in the nineties and

1412
01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:38,160
Speaker 3: I live in Texas now. Obviously, I think behind Texas

1413
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:41,280
Speaker 3: this has the most state pride in the country. Michigan.

1414
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:43,840
Speaker 3: I think Texas is number one. To me, Michigan is

1415
01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:44,400
Speaker 3: number two.

1416
01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:47,600
Speaker 7: Yeah, I you know, I can't speak to Texas, never

1417
01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:49,880
Speaker 7: lived there, but I you know, look, I came from

1418
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:53,400
Speaker 7: d C, where very transient area. You know, people move

1419
01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:56,320
Speaker 7: in and out depending upon political parties, and sometimes you know,

1420
01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:58,760
Speaker 7: every four to six years things change. And you know,

1421
01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:00,440
Speaker 7: I kind of I worked in the met when I

1422
01:03:00,440 --> 01:03:02,120
Speaker 7: was in VC, and it was you were kind of

1423
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:04,560
Speaker 7: you were kind of an outlier when you were somebody

1424
01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:07,520
Speaker 7: who grew up there and then worked there. But very

1425
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:10,320
Speaker 7: quickly I saw the difference here and it it is.

1426
01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:13,640
Speaker 7: It's a cool thing. It's just just how deep it

1427
01:03:13,760 --> 01:03:17,240
Speaker 7: runs and how passionate people are. And you know, one

1428
01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:20,400
Speaker 7: of the things that stuck out to kind of exemplify

1429
01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 7: that and amplify that is, you know, when the Lions

1430
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 7: won that playoff game last year against the Rams. I mean,

1431
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:30,080
Speaker 7: I can't tell you how many people said, this is

1432
01:03:30,320 --> 01:03:32,040
Speaker 7: one of the greatest moments in my life. But I

1433
01:03:32,120 --> 01:03:34,400
Speaker 7: wish that my dad was here. I wish that my

1434
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:37,200
Speaker 7: grandfather was here because I used to watch these games

1435
01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:39,040
Speaker 7: all the time and we only had heartbreak, and I

1436
01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:42,400
Speaker 7: wish they were here to experience this. There was so

1437
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 7: much of that last year when they finally got that

1438
01:03:45,840 --> 01:03:47,800
Speaker 7: taste of success, and that kind of drove it home

1439
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:51,160
Speaker 7: even more. Just the shared experiences that people have. And

1440
01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:54,080
Speaker 7: you know, whether it's the Tigers or the Red Wings,

1441
01:03:54,120 --> 01:03:57,240
Speaker 7: or the Pistons or the Lions, it is cool when

1442
01:03:57,320 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 7: you have that, and as you alluded to, it does

1443
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 7: lead to a great sense of pride in your city,

1444
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:06,840
Speaker 7: in your state, and in you know, the people that

1445
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:08,320
Speaker 7: you share these experiences with.

1446
01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:11,560
Speaker 1: One more for you, Dan, pardon my ignorance.

1447
01:04:11,880 --> 01:04:16,640
Speaker 3: What's the difference between Detroit style pizza Chicago New York?

1448
01:04:16,760 --> 01:04:18,840
Speaker 1: What's the difference? All Right?

1449
01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 7: New York a little bit thinner, crispy or crust. Detroit,

1450
01:04:24,040 --> 01:04:26,360
Speaker 7: you get the tomato sauce kind of on top of

1451
01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:29,960
Speaker 7: the pizza, and it's it kind of runs across in

1452
01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:33,920
Speaker 7: two lines. If you get a square one, it's deep.

1453
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:36,360
Speaker 7: It's I wouldn't say it's the deepest of deep dishes,

1454
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:40,280
Speaker 7: and certainly not as deep at Chicago. Chicago, that big, round,

1455
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:43,440
Speaker 7: thick pie where you could eat about two slices and

1456
01:04:43,440 --> 01:04:46,040
Speaker 7: then you're good for two days. And look, I love

1457
01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 7: all of them. I love Detroit style pizza. I love

1458
01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:52,000
Speaker 7: New York style pizza. I love Chicago style pizza. I'm

1459
01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:53,920
Speaker 7: not a snob. I'm not going to be provincial and

1460
01:04:53,960 --> 01:04:56,520
Speaker 7: tell you one's definitely better than the other. I love

1461
01:04:56,560 --> 01:05:00,280
Speaker 7: them all, but they definitely are different. But there's a

1462
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:02,360
Speaker 7: place at my table for every single one of them.

1463
01:05:02,680 --> 01:05:05,080
Speaker 3: Sounds great, dam Well, there's a place in the broadcast

1464
01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:07,160
Speaker 3: booth for you on Sunday here at NRG Stadium.

1465
01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:08,160
Speaker 1: Look forward to seeing you.

1466
01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:10,960
Speaker 7: Can't wait, Thanks Louch, look forward to it.

1467
01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:13,280
Speaker 1: Dan Miller, great dude, great broadcaster.

1468
01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:16,479
Speaker 2: I love the fact that they will be here Sunday night,

1469
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:20,920
Speaker 2: Big Sunday night, Sunday night, football game on NBC KPRC

1470
01:05:21,120 --> 01:05:24,160
Speaker 2: is going to be perfect. Well, if the Texans win,

1471
01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:28,120
Speaker 2: it'll be perfect, and we're hoping that happens. Coming up next,

1472
01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:33,480
Speaker 2: Kurt Heinish, formerly of Notre Dame, third year defensive tackle.

1473
01:05:33,640 --> 01:05:36,680
Speaker 2: He's seen some things, but man, every game, every year

1474
01:05:36,720 --> 01:05:37,720
Speaker 2: he gets better and better.

1475
01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 1: Kurt Heinish with us.

1476
01:05:39,120 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 2: On the mic next right here on Texas All Access.

1477
01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:43,280
Speaker 2: This segment is brought to you by Mattress Firm. It's

1478
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:46,000
Speaker 2: their best sale of the year, getting matched to your

1479
01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:49,960
Speaker 2: dream bed today at Mattress Firm, the official sleep partner

1480
01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:56,040
Speaker 2: of the Houston Texans. Now it wasn't quite a Mattress

1481
01:05:56,080 --> 01:06:00,240
Speaker 2: Firm Mattress that Kurt heinis talked about helping him him

1482
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:03,480
Speaker 2: in recovery as he sat with myself, John Harris would

1483
01:06:03,480 --> 01:06:05,480
Speaker 2: playing outside the reporter and Mark vanderm Me the voice

1484
01:06:05,480 --> 01:06:09,160
Speaker 2: of the Texans, and discussed his recovery from a calf injury.

1485
01:06:09,720 --> 01:06:11,280
Speaker 2: But we sat down and talked to him. This is

1486
01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:12,040
Speaker 2: fascinating stuff.

1487
01:06:12,120 --> 01:06:14,800
Speaker 1: Kurt Heinish, with Mark and myself.

1488
01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:17,160
Speaker 3: Joining us, said studio here, it's Texans Radio. KURK, great

1489
01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:18,000
Speaker 3: to see. How's it going.

1490
01:06:18,080 --> 01:06:19,680
Speaker 6: It's great man, happy to be back.

1491
01:06:19,880 --> 01:06:21,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great to have your playing.

1492
01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:23,960
Speaker 3: And I wanted to ask you during the recovery process,

1493
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:26,080
Speaker 3: you're not out there, you know how lonely is that

1494
01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:27,760
Speaker 3: we see around the building. But it's got to be

1495
01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:30,240
Speaker 3: tough on you. You want to be out there grinding, and

1496
01:06:30,280 --> 01:06:32,520
Speaker 3: you're grinding and recovery instead of on the field.

1497
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:38,560
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, I had a unique experience. You know,

1498
01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:41,440
Speaker 8: I was doing the hyperbaric chamber every day. You know,

1499
01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 8: I was kind of on my own schedule. But around

1500
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 8: the building you kind of just feel so useless because

1501
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:47,800
Speaker 8: you don't really doing much for the team other than

1502
01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:51,840
Speaker 8: just recovering, you know, So it was definitely mentally it

1503
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:53,680
Speaker 8: was It was definitely hard because you just want to

1504
01:06:53,680 --> 01:06:55,080
Speaker 8: be out there, you know what I'm saying, the games,

1505
01:06:55,080 --> 01:06:56,120
Speaker 8: You just want to be out there.

1506
01:06:56,360 --> 01:06:58,360
Speaker 2: Was that the first time, Kurt, you've had anything like that?

1507
01:06:58,480 --> 01:07:00,400
Speaker 2: I try to remember back to your Notre Dame. I

1508
01:07:00,440 --> 01:07:02,360
Speaker 2: couldn't really remember you missing games.

1509
01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:03,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, high school?

1510
01:07:03,880 --> 01:07:07,560
Speaker 8: That was the first, Like yeah, I mean, thank god,

1511
01:07:07,640 --> 01:07:10,640
Speaker 8: that was the first soft tissue injury, Yeah, that I've

1512
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:13,520
Speaker 8: ever had that sidelined me from playing football in my

1513
01:07:13,720 --> 01:07:14,280
Speaker 8: entire life.

1514
01:07:14,640 --> 01:07:17,200
Speaker 2: So what was what kind of got you through what

1515
01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:18,680
Speaker 2: was kind of the biggest thing for you that got

1516
01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:20,640
Speaker 2: you through that time period? And then once you get

1517
01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:23,200
Speaker 2: back on the field, what was that feeling like to

1518
01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:24,680
Speaker 2: get back on the field start playing ball again.

1519
01:07:24,760 --> 01:07:27,720
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, you got you gotta remember, like anytime

1520
01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:30,120
Speaker 8: you're going through it a tough time or dark time,

1521
01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:33,640
Speaker 8: you always got to remember, like this can't last forever,

1522
01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:35,920
Speaker 8: you know what I'm saying, Like it's not gonna like this,

1523
01:07:36,960 --> 01:07:38,920
Speaker 8: you know, like you just gout that the loneliness, like

1524
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:40,680
Speaker 8: the yeah, you know, I just felt useless.

1525
01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:42,880
Speaker 6: It doesn't last forever.

1526
01:07:43,240 --> 01:07:44,760
Speaker 8: Just gotta put your head down and keep going forward,

1527
01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:46,480
Speaker 8: you know what I'm saying, And eventually you'll feel better,

1528
01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:49,520
Speaker 8: you know. Just you're down and keep going forward. Day

1529
01:07:49,520 --> 01:07:52,360
Speaker 8: by day gets stronger and you know, do what you can.

1530
01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:53,880
Speaker 8: You know, control what you can control.

1531
01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:57,240
Speaker 6: Uh. When I got back out on the field, it

1532
01:07:57,240 --> 01:07:57,680
Speaker 6: felt great.

1533
01:07:57,800 --> 01:07:57,960
Speaker 2: Game.

1534
01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:00,760
Speaker 6: The game was a little fast basically, yeah, yeah.

1535
01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:03,000
Speaker 8: You know, because I was I missed whatever, I got

1536
01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:05,400
Speaker 8: hurt the third preseason game we had four, I missed

1537
01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:07,680
Speaker 8: the last round, I missed the RAMS game, and then

1538
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:08,640
Speaker 8: I was out for five weeks.

1539
01:08:08,720 --> 01:08:13,240
Speaker 6: Yeah, so it was like you know, yeah, yeah, for sure,

1540
01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:14,479
Speaker 6: So what.

1541
01:08:14,480 --> 01:08:17,080
Speaker 3: Is it We talk about getting into football shape during

1542
01:08:17,120 --> 01:08:19,679
Speaker 3: training camp, but what is it like being or getting

1543
01:08:19,680 --> 01:08:21,880
Speaker 3: into football shape when you're coming back from an injury

1544
01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:23,360
Speaker 3: and coming off I R and all of that.

1545
01:08:24,600 --> 01:08:29,880
Speaker 8: I give all the credit to our RTF guys, Ryan

1546
01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:34,000
Speaker 8: Grubbs and Ethan Gold. They They're both incredible and they

1547
01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:37,799
Speaker 8: made me stronger than I was while I was playing.

1548
01:08:39,360 --> 01:08:44,000
Speaker 8: They made me faster, obviously made me more resilient. So

1549
01:08:44,040 --> 01:08:46,240
Speaker 8: I give all the credit to those two guys. They're

1550
01:08:46,280 --> 01:08:51,360
Speaker 8: brilliant tag team. With Tyler Roll in the training room,

1551
01:08:51,640 --> 01:08:54,240
Speaker 8: he's kind of been my guy in there, So I

1552
01:08:54,280 --> 01:08:57,840
Speaker 8: attribute all that to them. And they really you really

1553
01:08:57,920 --> 01:08:59,600
Speaker 8: dive deep with them and you really get after it

1554
01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:02,880
Speaker 8: with them. And like I said, me and Grubbs and

1555
01:09:02,920 --> 01:09:04,760
Speaker 8: me and Ethan on the field, we were we were

1556
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:07,120
Speaker 8: getting after. People used to joke around and they're like,

1557
01:09:07,640 --> 01:09:09,400
Speaker 8: you're in that Fresh Lakes and you come back, you know,

1558
01:09:09,479 --> 01:09:13,640
Speaker 8: joking around and I'm like, no, I'm not, No, I'm not.

1559
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:14,640
Speaker 6: Yeah.

1560
01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:17,720
Speaker 1: So how do you feel being back in how's it

1561
01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:19,040
Speaker 1: the past few weeks?

1562
01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:21,680
Speaker 2: Do you feel I'll say, your game coming back to you,

1563
01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:24,960
Speaker 2: but do you feel I mean somewhat fresh come back in.

1564
01:09:25,040 --> 01:09:26,800
Speaker 2: How's the body feel at this point, and how do

1565
01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:28,839
Speaker 2: you feel kind of your playing recently?

1566
01:09:29,439 --> 01:09:32,280
Speaker 8: Initially I was sore when I came back. Yeah, my

1567
01:09:32,360 --> 01:09:34,080
Speaker 8: first week, you know, because I say we were I

1568
01:09:34,120 --> 01:09:36,240
Speaker 8: was out for so long. Yeah, I was sore. I

1569
01:09:36,280 --> 01:09:38,080
Speaker 8: was so sore when I first came back. And then

1570
01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:40,559
Speaker 8: the Colts game, I really settled in and I felt

1571
01:09:40,560 --> 01:09:42,280
Speaker 8: a lot better. So I kind of found my footing

1572
01:09:42,320 --> 01:09:43,800
Speaker 8: last game, and I've been feeling great.

1573
01:09:43,880 --> 01:09:45,639
Speaker 2: And then you had to play two games in five days.

1574
01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:47,920
Speaker 2: And we talk about this with players all the time.

1575
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:50,599
Speaker 2: Like some guys they like the two games in five days,

1576
01:09:51,360 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 2: they like the mini buy at the at the end

1577
01:09:53,160 --> 01:09:54,759
Speaker 2: of it, it's there's something that don't.

1578
01:09:54,640 --> 01:09:58,519
Speaker 8: Yeah, I personally like. The only time I didn't. I

1579
01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:00,640
Speaker 8: don't like it is when you have to when you

1580
01:10:00,640 --> 01:10:02,800
Speaker 8: have the when they come to you, because that's just

1581
01:10:02,840 --> 01:10:04,840
Speaker 8: another day of doing stuff. You know what I'm saying, Like,

1582
01:10:05,080 --> 01:10:06,680
Speaker 8: if you don't have to travel, it's all right. You know,

1583
01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:08,519
Speaker 8: you got a couple of days to recover, Like you

1584
01:10:08,600 --> 01:10:10,000
Speaker 8: have that extra day to recover because you have an

1585
01:10:10,040 --> 01:10:12,320
Speaker 8: extra day. When you're traveling. You don't have that extra day.

1586
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:13,400
Speaker 8: You know what I'm saying, you gotta get on a

1587
01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:14,000
Speaker 8: plane and fly in.

1588
01:10:14,240 --> 01:10:14,360
Speaker 2: Right.

1589
01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 8: So we played. We didn't have a Thursday game last year,

1590
01:10:17,360 --> 01:10:18,800
Speaker 8: but we have on my rookie year and we played

1591
01:10:18,840 --> 01:10:21,799
Speaker 8: the the Eagles and it was a quick turnaround. And regardless,

1592
01:10:21,800 --> 01:10:23,880
Speaker 8: you're gonna be sore when you play anyways. Yeah, so

1593
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:26,040
Speaker 8: it doesn't really make that big of a difference. You

1594
01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 8: attack recovery, you know, just a little bit more that week,

1595
01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:29,479
Speaker 8: and you know you felt good when you got there,

1596
01:10:29,479 --> 01:10:30,800
Speaker 8: and you play, and then you have the next three

1597
01:10:30,840 --> 01:10:31,439
Speaker 8: or four days off.

1598
01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:34,280
Speaker 3: Kurt heinis with us. I promise I won't ask anything

1599
01:10:34,280 --> 01:10:38,639
Speaker 3: else about injuries. But hyper barrack Chamber tell the listeners

1600
01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:40,080
Speaker 3: what it's like to be in one of those and

1601
01:10:40,080 --> 01:10:40,559
Speaker 3: what it does.

1602
01:10:41,080 --> 01:10:46,040
Speaker 8: The hyperbaric chamber, so what it does. There's a guy

1603
01:10:46,280 --> 01:10:48,360
Speaker 8: his name, his name is rich and I'd like to

1604
01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:50,559
Speaker 8: shot him out if he's listening to the radio. It

1605
01:10:50,680 --> 01:10:53,639
Speaker 8: was me and George Foreman and the Hyperbaric Chamber together.

1606
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:56,240
Speaker 8: So I got to meet George Foreman and we spent

1607
01:10:56,360 --> 01:10:59,560
Speaker 8: a couple months together and wow, and uh, he's in

1608
01:10:59,800 --> 01:11:02,439
Speaker 8: incredible boxer and he is even more incredible human being.

1609
01:11:02,560 --> 01:11:03,200
Speaker 1: That's awesome.

1610
01:11:04,160 --> 01:11:05,960
Speaker 8: So what they do is it's a big chamber if

1611
01:11:05,960 --> 01:11:07,519
Speaker 8: you can imagine what a submarine looks like.

1612
01:11:08,080 --> 01:11:11,439
Speaker 6: And it takes you to uh I believe we dove

1613
01:11:11,520 --> 01:11:12,479
Speaker 6: down to it.

1614
01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:16,639
Speaker 8: Just it pressurizes the chamber, so it simulates your whatever

1615
01:11:16,760 --> 01:11:20,720
Speaker 8: thirty feet underneath the water. And since it's pressurized, they

1616
01:11:20,760 --> 01:11:24,760
Speaker 8: pump oxygen. They make they make you wear like space helmets.

1617
01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:25,679
Speaker 1: Wow.

1618
01:11:26,640 --> 01:11:28,160
Speaker 6: And it's kind of clutched you how big at first?

1619
01:11:28,200 --> 01:11:28,400
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1620
01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:29,760
Speaker 6: Yeah, uh, but.

1621
01:11:29,720 --> 01:11:31,200
Speaker 8: You get used to it and then you know, just

1622
01:11:31,280 --> 01:11:34,000
Speaker 8: getting there and sleep because the oxygen as actually because

1623
01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:37,439
Speaker 8: it's pressurized, it's like quadrupled, and so it's really.

1624
01:11:37,320 --> 01:11:38,519
Speaker 6: Good for you. So it's really good.

1625
01:11:38,560 --> 01:11:40,479
Speaker 8: It gets into your your your body, and it gets

1626
01:11:40,520 --> 01:11:42,880
Speaker 8: into your blood and now its repair your muscles faster.

1627
01:11:43,280 --> 01:11:46,599
Speaker 8: It's extremely beneficial for you. There are stories of guys

1628
01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:48,599
Speaker 8: like t O sleeping and a hypbridic chamber two weeks

1629
01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:50,000
Speaker 8: before the Super Bowl to get over whatever.

1630
01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:53,320
Speaker 2: I know, we did his best, but his ankle Okay,

1631
01:11:53,360 --> 01:11:55,599
Speaker 2: they have broken leg, broken ankles something like that.

1632
01:11:55,640 --> 01:11:58,919
Speaker 1: Do you notice it right away? The oxygen benefit you.

1633
01:11:58,960 --> 01:12:01,439
Speaker 8: So my foot first week there, I would just get

1634
01:12:01,439 --> 01:12:04,760
Speaker 8: really tired afterwards because this in the oxygen because of

1635
01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:09,360
Speaker 8: it you are getting it's you're wearing a mask. Imagine

1636
01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:11,880
Speaker 8: a space helmet. It's just the helmet and you have

1637
01:12:12,120 --> 01:12:13,920
Speaker 8: ex scrubs on and then the helmet there's like a

1638
01:12:13,920 --> 01:12:17,400
Speaker 8: little coding that covers your neck to the aircanic escape.

1639
01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:19,120
Speaker 6: So there's an in tube and out tubes.

1640
01:12:19,120 --> 01:12:22,080
Speaker 8: So when you breathe that, it sucks the CO two

1641
01:12:22,080 --> 01:12:25,479
Speaker 8: out and pumps the oxygen in. Oh and it's just

1642
01:12:25,600 --> 01:12:28,360
Speaker 8: pure oxygen that's pressurized. And you know, we got we

1643
01:12:28,360 --> 01:12:30,559
Speaker 8: have we watched movies every day inside of it because

1644
01:12:30,560 --> 01:12:31,040
Speaker 8: there's TV.

1645
01:12:32,120 --> 01:12:32,240
Speaker 2: Uh.

1646
01:12:32,880 --> 01:12:35,000
Speaker 8: It would make you really tired because it's pure oxygen,

1647
01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:37,200
Speaker 8: so it relaxes you a lot. So you'd just be

1648
01:12:37,240 --> 01:12:39,280
Speaker 8: watching the movie and the next thing, you know, you

1649
01:12:39,479 --> 01:12:40,599
Speaker 8: we used to have to sit in there for two

1650
01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:42,760
Speaker 8: and a half hours. Oh, so you'd sit in there

1651
01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:44,320
Speaker 8: for two and a half hours and you would you'd

1652
01:12:44,439 --> 01:12:46,080
Speaker 8: start watching the movie and then all of a sudden,

1653
01:12:46,400 --> 01:12:47,760
Speaker 8: he'd wake up and I'd look at the guy and

1654
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:48,040
Speaker 8: he'd be.

1655
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:50,120
Speaker 6: Like, yeah, he got like fifteen minutes left, but.

1656
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:51,000
Speaker 4: He just crashed.

1657
01:12:51,800 --> 01:12:52,040
Speaker 6: Yeah.

1658
01:12:52,080 --> 01:12:53,800
Speaker 8: I mean, it wasn't like you're being put under it,

1659
01:12:53,840 --> 01:12:55,559
Speaker 8: but it was like it definitely relaxed.

1660
01:12:56,240 --> 01:12:56,439
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1661
01:12:56,439 --> 01:12:57,000
Speaker 6: Absolutely.

1662
01:12:57,520 --> 01:12:59,120
Speaker 2: You played in a lot of big games in Notre Dame.

1663
01:12:59,120 --> 01:13:00,479
Speaker 2: You played a lot of big play. There's a lot

1664
01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:04,760
Speaker 2: of big environments. A Sunday night came. How cool is that?

1665
01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:04,880
Speaker 5: Now?

1666
01:13:04,880 --> 01:13:06,080
Speaker 2: I know you didn't get a chance to play in

1667
01:13:06,120 --> 01:13:08,919
Speaker 2: the Bears game on Sunday night, But getting the opportunity

1668
01:13:08,960 --> 01:13:11,880
Speaker 2: to play Sunday against the Lions on a Sunday night

1669
01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:15,120
Speaker 2: here at Energy Stadium and wearing the battle red jerseys

1670
01:13:15,160 --> 01:13:17,679
Speaker 2: with the chrome red mask and a new horn logo

1671
01:13:17,720 --> 01:13:19,920
Speaker 2: on the side, what do you think about playing an

1672
01:13:19,960 --> 01:13:21,960
Speaker 2: environment like that and and getting a chance to play

1673
01:13:21,960 --> 01:13:22,439
Speaker 2: on nighttime?

1674
01:13:22,600 --> 01:13:25,840
Speaker 8: It's awesome And I hope that, uh, I hope that

1675
01:13:25,880 --> 01:13:27,439
Speaker 8: it's cool enough we can open the roof how they

1676
01:13:27,479 --> 01:13:28,760
Speaker 8: did for the Bears to you like that?

1677
01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:29,400
Speaker 1: You like the roof.

1678
01:13:29,439 --> 01:13:31,200
Speaker 6: I haven't played in here since the roof was opening

1679
01:13:33,240 --> 01:13:33,760
Speaker 6: the first time.

1680
01:13:33,840 --> 01:13:36,439
Speaker 8: Yeah, right, so, I mean other than the preseason game

1681
01:13:36,439 --> 01:13:38,040
Speaker 8: where half of it was opening because of the hurricane.

1682
01:13:38,120 --> 01:13:39,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, not the same.

1683
01:13:39,240 --> 01:13:41,799
Speaker 6: Yeah, but uh I'm excited.

1684
01:13:42,080 --> 01:13:42,200
Speaker 9: Uh.

1685
01:13:42,560 --> 01:13:45,400
Speaker 8: I mean I'm more excited because my Fummer roommate is

1686
01:13:45,439 --> 01:13:47,960
Speaker 8: one of their tight ends brock right, Oh yeah, yeah,

1687
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:49,680
Speaker 8: he's one of the one of their tight ends.

1688
01:13:49,960 --> 01:13:50,120
Speaker 1: Good.

1689
01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:50,439
Speaker 5: Uh.

1690
01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:53,160
Speaker 8: I never stood across the field from him. I just

1691
01:13:53,160 --> 01:13:54,800
Speaker 8: think it's gonna be It's gonna be funny, man. You know,

1692
01:13:54,880 --> 01:13:56,000
Speaker 8: we used to be on the same threat. It's to

1693
01:13:56,000 --> 01:13:57,559
Speaker 8: be roommates, and now we're going across from each other,

1694
01:13:57,600 --> 01:14:01,720
Speaker 8: so it's gonna be cool. I'm excited, man. I love

1695
01:14:02,520 --> 01:14:06,360
Speaker 8: I love night games. I love the lead up to them.

1696
01:14:06,400 --> 01:14:08,479
Speaker 8: I just think it's it's cool. It's like, you know,

1697
01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:11,519
Speaker 8: and especially since primetime, you guys are the game on

1698
01:14:11,600 --> 01:14:14,040
Speaker 8: TV to watch and all eyes on you and let's go.

1699
01:14:14,160 --> 01:14:17,160
Speaker 3: Yep, let's talk about some of your defensive tackle brethren

1700
01:14:17,200 --> 01:14:20,120
Speaker 3: here because we visited with Tim Settle. Really enjoy that

1701
01:14:20,760 --> 01:14:24,040
Speaker 3: and fully really enjoy that. Mario as well. We haven't

1702
01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:26,120
Speaker 3: talked to Taniko yet, but I've talked to him in

1703
01:14:26,160 --> 01:14:28,280
Speaker 3: the hallway. He seems like a pretty intense human being.

1704
01:14:28,280 --> 01:14:31,080
Speaker 3: I mean, you guys are pretty intense walking around the

1705
01:14:31,080 --> 01:14:32,960
Speaker 3: halls and on the field especially.

1706
01:14:33,040 --> 01:14:34,080
Speaker 1: So what about that group.

1707
01:14:35,160 --> 01:14:38,400
Speaker 6: I you know, Rod Wright and Nate Ali.

1708
01:14:38,479 --> 01:14:41,240
Speaker 8: They do a great job with us, and those two

1709
01:14:41,320 --> 01:14:44,479
Speaker 8: are always bringing energy anytime we're in meetings, anytime we're

1710
01:14:44,520 --> 01:14:47,920
Speaker 8: on field. It doesn't matter what we're doing like night

1711
01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:51,080
Speaker 8: before the game, like serious. They're brand energy, you know

1712
01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:53,720
Speaker 8: what I'm saying. They do a great job of interstowing

1713
01:14:53,720 --> 01:14:58,320
Speaker 8: that in us so that we're always energetic, we're always pumped,

1714
01:14:58,360 --> 01:14:59,920
Speaker 8: we're always on it, and we're always trying to get after.

1715
01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:03,280
Speaker 8: We got great leaders in that room, and uh, we

1716
01:15:03,360 --> 01:15:05,240
Speaker 8: got vets in that room to give, you know, give

1717
01:15:05,240 --> 01:15:06,680
Speaker 8: out great advice. And we got young guys in that

1718
01:15:06,760 --> 01:15:08,559
Speaker 8: room that you can get advice from as well. So

1719
01:15:09,240 --> 01:15:10,920
Speaker 8: it's a great group. I love being around him every

1720
01:15:10,920 --> 01:15:12,960
Speaker 8: single day and it's it's a pleasure, Kurt.

1721
01:15:13,439 --> 01:15:16,759
Speaker 2: Last year twenty twenty three got a really good rotation

1722
01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:19,240
Speaker 2: where Sheldon and Malik would start and then you and

1723
01:15:19,280 --> 01:15:21,639
Speaker 2: Khalil will go in. And I know, you guys spend

1724
01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:23,479
Speaker 2: a lot of time next to one another. Kalile gets

1725
01:15:23,520 --> 01:15:25,360
Speaker 2: traded a couple of days ago or a day ago.

1726
01:15:25,560 --> 01:15:28,160
Speaker 2: I know that's the business of the NFL, but it

1727
01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:29,880
Speaker 2: is something that we see a lot. But it is

1728
01:15:29,920 --> 01:15:31,559
Speaker 2: somebody that you were in that room with and you

1729
01:15:31,560 --> 01:15:33,680
Speaker 2: played a lot of snaps next to What are your

1730
01:15:33,720 --> 01:15:35,960
Speaker 2: thoughts about seeing Khalil go off to San Francisco?

1731
01:15:36,400 --> 01:15:39,519
Speaker 8: Hey, I was in my head. I was like man,

1732
01:15:40,479 --> 01:15:42,760
Speaker 8: since I've been here there everyone that I get close to,

1733
01:15:42,760 --> 01:15:45,120
Speaker 8: everyone that I love, just goes and joins the NFC West.

1734
01:15:45,160 --> 01:15:49,599
Speaker 8: Between Troy Lopez and now Khalil, it's like everywhere, all

1735
01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:51,320
Speaker 8: my boys are leaving me go to the NFC West.

1736
01:15:51,400 --> 01:15:51,599
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1737
01:15:51,880 --> 01:15:54,599
Speaker 8: Uh, you know, he's in a good spot for him

1738
01:15:54,640 --> 01:15:57,320
Speaker 8: and he's back with Malik and the Nebraska boys out there.

1739
01:15:57,360 --> 01:16:00,840
Speaker 8: So you know, I show I'm a sexy yesterday and

1740
01:16:00,840 --> 01:16:02,439
Speaker 8: I'm sure he has a lot going on, so you know,

1741
01:16:02,479 --> 01:16:03,720
Speaker 8: I'll probably call him later this week.

1742
01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:04,960
Speaker 6: But yeah, that's my dog man.

1743
01:16:05,040 --> 01:16:07,320
Speaker 8: I you know, I love them forever, and we had

1744
01:16:07,479 --> 01:16:09,120
Speaker 8: got a great time here together and hopefully we see

1745
01:16:09,120 --> 01:16:10,559
Speaker 8: each other on the same team again in the future.

1746
01:16:10,920 --> 01:16:11,599
Speaker 1: What more for you?

1747
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:14,160
Speaker 3: If the season ended today, Notre Dames in the playoffs,

1748
01:16:14,640 --> 01:16:15,439
Speaker 3: what are we thinking here?

1749
01:16:15,520 --> 01:16:16,240
Speaker 1: Down to stretch?

1750
01:16:19,240 --> 01:16:20,840
Speaker 8: And I think it was announced the way they would

1751
01:16:20,840 --> 01:16:23,920
Speaker 8: play Penn State Round one in Happy Valley at Penn State.

1752
01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:26,160
Speaker 3: You'll take that, right, Those are the two schools you

1753
01:16:26,160 --> 01:16:27,160
Speaker 3: were considering, right, Yeah?

1754
01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:28,320
Speaker 6: I like Notre Dame in that one.

1755
01:16:28,439 --> 01:16:31,160
Speaker 1: You never you never you got play at Penn State,

1756
01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:31,479
Speaker 1: did you?

1757
01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:33,519
Speaker 8: We never played at Penn State. I never played against

1758
01:16:33,520 --> 01:16:35,920
Speaker 8: Penn State, but if Notre Dame goes to Happy Valley,

1759
01:16:36,560 --> 01:16:39,400
Speaker 8: I got Notre Dame walking out of there. You know,

1760
01:16:39,479 --> 01:16:41,800
Speaker 8: I think Penn State six squad, But yeah, Notre Dame

1761
01:16:41,840 --> 01:16:43,120
Speaker 8: is a good squad too. You know, they're starting to

1762
01:16:43,120 --> 01:16:45,400
Speaker 8: really come together. And you know they had that lost

1763
01:16:45,439 --> 01:16:48,400
Speaker 8: earlier in the season too. Niu is so you know

1764
01:16:48,439 --> 01:16:49,000
Speaker 8: it goes a flick.

1765
01:16:49,040 --> 01:16:49,439
Speaker 6: But whatever.

1766
01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:52,840
Speaker 2: We got all kinds of uniforms this year. I always

1767
01:16:52,880 --> 01:16:54,960
Speaker 2: think that Notre Dames are the most classic, but then

1768
01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:57,680
Speaker 2: they throw in the greens. They're throwing the green uniforms.

1769
01:16:57,920 --> 01:16:59,880
Speaker 2: How did players at Notre Dame like wearing a green

1770
01:17:00,040 --> 01:17:03,120
Speaker 2: of fours versus wearing their their uh normal white or

1771
01:17:03,120 --> 01:17:03,599
Speaker 2: their navy.

1772
01:17:04,280 --> 01:17:06,479
Speaker 1: For me, it was I.

1773
01:17:06,400 --> 01:17:07,280
Speaker 6: Really didn't like.

1774
01:17:07,880 --> 01:17:10,160
Speaker 8: It was definitely cool, like, you know, the tradition like

1775
01:17:10,160 --> 01:17:13,680
Speaker 8: we're in green jersey's just sweet. But for me, like

1776
01:17:14,800 --> 01:17:16,720
Speaker 8: you only wear them one time a year, and then

1777
01:17:16,760 --> 01:17:19,160
Speaker 8: you get outside of wearing the normal blue and the

1778
01:17:19,200 --> 01:17:23,080
Speaker 8: normal white, so they're so tight. The jerseys are so

1779
01:17:23,120 --> 01:17:26,120
Speaker 8: tight because they're not broken in there, you know, so

1780
01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:28,240
Speaker 8: you wear them and it's like, go, I wish I

1781
01:17:28,240 --> 01:17:29,080
Speaker 8: wasn't wearing this thing.

1782
01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:32,360
Speaker 1: You know, it's suctioning your gut and you just a

1783
01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:34,960
Speaker 1: larger size. It doesn't work that way.

1784
01:17:35,320 --> 01:17:37,479
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's just well then you know, if you creeping

1785
01:17:37,479 --> 01:17:38,880
Speaker 8: to get in a larger size, you're more just have

1786
01:17:38,920 --> 01:17:39,679
Speaker 8: to to get held.

1787
01:17:40,160 --> 01:17:41,479
Speaker 6: So you don't want to do that either.

1788
01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:43,760
Speaker 1: That's good, Kurt, thanks a lot for.

1789
01:17:46,040 --> 01:17:48,160
Speaker 2: That was a blasket a chance to talk with Kurt.

1790
01:17:48,560 --> 01:17:50,840
Speaker 2: He is talking a little bit of everything right there,

1791
01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:54,439
Speaker 2: talking Domers, Domers, Penn State potential playoff game.

1792
01:17:54,479 --> 01:17:55,599
Speaker 1: That'd be really really cool.

1793
01:17:55,880 --> 01:17:57,840
Speaker 2: So we got plenty of cool stuff coming up next.

1794
01:17:58,120 --> 01:18:01,240
Speaker 2: Because Drew Doherty, the King of We'll be here for

1795
01:18:01,320 --> 01:18:04,400
Speaker 2: In the lab Our final segment on a Wednesday edition

1796
01:18:04,439 --> 01:18:06,120
Speaker 2: of Texas All Access. Keep it right where you are

1797
01:18:06,280 --> 01:18:08,559
Speaker 2: we want final segment in this edition of Texas All

1798
01:18:08,600 --> 01:18:10,920
Speaker 2: Axis from I'm not a Texas Radio studio. I am

1799
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:13,160
Speaker 2: John Harris Football on a side of the Reporter, one

1800
01:18:13,200 --> 01:18:17,519
Speaker 2: half of the In the Lab podcast crew. Here's my man,

1801
01:18:17,640 --> 01:18:21,200
Speaker 2: Drew Doherty, bring us up for in lab this week,

1802
01:18:21,600 --> 01:18:25,160
Speaker 2: featuring the game against the Detroit Lions.

1803
01:18:25,160 --> 01:18:29,120
Speaker 9: Here we go, Welcome to In the Lab presented by Exfinity.

1804
01:18:29,240 --> 01:18:33,280
Speaker 9: Drew Doherty Here inside an RG Stadium, John, the Texans

1805
01:18:33,560 --> 01:18:37,280
Speaker 9: got a big one this Sunday night. They're all big ones.

1806
01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:39,280
Speaker 10: But when you're playing on Sunday Night football, when.

1807
01:18:39,120 --> 01:18:42,280
Speaker 9: It's battle Red Day, when you're playing one of the

1808
01:18:42,320 --> 01:18:46,800
Speaker 9: hottest teams in the NFL, right now, huge Now, last

1809
01:18:46,840 --> 01:18:50,760
Speaker 9: time out, it was ugly, just things right here, it

1810
01:18:50,800 --> 01:18:55,439
Speaker 9: was ugly. But I have a sense of calm about

1811
01:18:55,439 --> 01:18:59,719
Speaker 9: this upcoming matchup. That sense of calm comes from knowledge

1812
01:18:59,720 --> 01:19:01,640
Speaker 9: of his I know every team's different and this is

1813
01:19:01,640 --> 01:19:04,519
Speaker 9: a new team, but this happened last year. The Texans

1814
01:19:04,560 --> 01:19:07,120
Speaker 9: went up to New York, got blasted, but then rebounded

1815
01:19:07,280 --> 01:19:09,320
Speaker 9: and did okay after that. I kind of have the

1816
01:19:09,360 --> 01:19:12,479
Speaker 9: same sense. I think that some of the past protection

1817
01:19:12,680 --> 01:19:16,640
Speaker 9: issues are going to be ameliorated to a degree. I

1818
01:19:16,680 --> 01:19:18,920
Speaker 9: don't think it's going to be like that. I kind

1819
01:19:18,960 --> 01:19:21,679
Speaker 9: of get the sense that the big fellow number twelve

1820
01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:22,880
Speaker 9: will be back in the fold.

1821
01:19:23,240 --> 01:19:23,960
Speaker 10: I don't know anything.

1822
01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:26,400
Speaker 9: I'm just guessing this as of early Wednesday morning, before

1823
01:19:26,400 --> 01:19:28,519
Speaker 9: we've seen any practice reports. But I just got a

1824
01:19:28,520 --> 01:19:31,120
Speaker 9: good sense of calm about Sunday night football?

1825
01:19:31,520 --> 01:19:32,080
Speaker 10: Am I wrong?

1826
01:19:32,160 --> 01:19:32,439
Speaker 1: John?

1827
01:19:32,680 --> 01:19:35,200
Speaker 10: Should I not be this calm or should I be panicking?

1828
01:19:36,720 --> 01:19:39,040
Speaker 2: Well? No, I think there's definitely some in between.

1829
01:19:39,080 --> 01:19:44,360
Speaker 1: There. I know you're not saying that you're calm like eh,

1830
01:19:44,560 --> 01:19:46,000
Speaker 1: I was good all as well.

1831
01:19:46,080 --> 01:19:48,519
Speaker 9: No, no, no, you're not saying that we don't have the

1832
01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:49,479
Speaker 9: eighty five Bears here.

1833
01:19:49,560 --> 01:19:51,240
Speaker 10: But you know, I think this team is good.

1834
01:19:51,800 --> 01:19:51,920
Speaker 1: No.

1835
01:19:52,720 --> 01:19:54,799
Speaker 2: You know, it's funny because the one thing that everybody

1836
01:19:54,840 --> 01:19:56,839
Speaker 2: brings up when you talk about the eighty five Bears.

1837
01:19:57,400 --> 01:20:00,320
Speaker 2: And I'll tie these conversations together, let's talk about that defense.

1838
01:20:00,360 --> 01:20:04,200
Speaker 2: And the defense was was tremendous. They had a stud

1839
01:20:04,320 --> 01:20:08,080
Speaker 2: offensive line. They were incredible, Keith Van Horne, Jimbo Kovert,

1840
01:20:08,479 --> 01:20:12,320
Speaker 2: they were really really good on the offensive line.

1841
01:20:12,360 --> 01:20:14,720
Speaker 10: With the greatest running back ever, Walter Paid.

1842
01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:15,280
Speaker 1: Absolutely.

1843
01:20:15,360 --> 01:20:19,880
Speaker 2: So from that standpoint, it's you know, that's and and

1844
01:20:19,920 --> 01:20:24,640
Speaker 2: that's the discussion point. Are we going to feel calm

1845
01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:27,840
Speaker 2: when CJ goes back to pass on Sunday night?

1846
01:20:28,080 --> 01:20:28,200
Speaker 10: Uh?

1847
01:20:28,400 --> 01:20:30,920
Speaker 1: That has got it's got to change.

1848
01:20:31,760 --> 01:20:34,880
Speaker 2: And my my worry and I and I said this

1849
01:20:34,920 --> 01:20:37,560
Speaker 2: to Mark the other day against the Vikings and the Packers,

1850
01:20:38,640 --> 01:20:45,720
Speaker 2: those two teams got to CEJ by some magic. They used,

1851
01:20:45,720 --> 01:20:50,360
Speaker 2: their schemes, they used, they used different kinds of sim pressures.

1852
01:20:51,200 --> 01:20:54,679
Speaker 2: They did a lot of things that aren't normally seen

1853
01:20:55,439 --> 01:20:59,000
Speaker 2: from an NFL defense, there was more college.

1854
01:20:59,120 --> 01:21:00,759
Speaker 1: It was almost more defense.

1855
01:21:01,400 --> 01:21:04,040
Speaker 2: You're seeing more of those concepts kind of filter up,

1856
01:21:04,400 --> 01:21:06,000
Speaker 2: but you just don't see it that much. And then

1857
01:21:06,040 --> 01:21:10,559
Speaker 2: you combine some pretty athletic fronts and front sevens with

1858
01:21:10,680 --> 01:21:12,840
Speaker 2: some smart safeties in.

1859
01:21:12,920 --> 01:21:18,000
Speaker 1: Both Minnesota and Green Bay, and you got I don't say.

1860
01:21:17,840 --> 01:21:20,920
Speaker 2: Out thought, but it was it was a it was

1861
01:21:20,960 --> 01:21:22,360
Speaker 2: a problem.

1862
01:21:22,680 --> 01:21:23,920
Speaker 1: Well worries me a little bit.

1863
01:21:23,960 --> 01:21:27,240
Speaker 2: The other night against the Jets was that was just

1864
01:21:27,320 --> 01:21:30,160
Speaker 2: kind of one on one we beat you. Now, there

1865
01:21:30,160 --> 01:21:33,160
Speaker 2: were some twists and some stunts that they ran, but

1866
01:21:34,000 --> 01:21:38,759
Speaker 2: will McDonald, Hassan Reddick, Cornyn Williams, Solomon Thomas, Michael Clements.

1867
01:21:39,760 --> 01:21:42,519
Speaker 2: That's as good a pass rush, just pure one on

1868
01:21:42,520 --> 01:21:44,599
Speaker 2: one pass rush as you're gonna find.

1869
01:21:45,439 --> 01:21:47,640
Speaker 1: And it's really good on the interior.

1870
01:21:47,880 --> 01:21:50,200
Speaker 2: Now, for as good as the Lions are up front,

1871
01:21:50,200 --> 01:21:51,439
Speaker 2: they don't have quite that.

1872
01:21:51,600 --> 01:21:54,439
Speaker 9: Now they did add I was gonna say, let's let's

1873
01:21:54,479 --> 01:21:58,360
Speaker 9: compare this front that the Texans are gonna go against

1874
01:21:58,600 --> 01:22:01,360
Speaker 9: with what we saw out of Green Bay, out of

1875
01:22:02,080 --> 01:22:04,040
Speaker 9: out of the New York Jets. Because we got our

1876
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:05,200
Speaker 9: old pal DJ.

1877
01:22:05,120 --> 01:22:05,960
Speaker 10: Reader up there.

1878
01:22:06,520 --> 01:22:09,160
Speaker 9: He's getting about fifty percent of the snaps looking at

1879
01:22:09,160 --> 01:22:12,960
Speaker 9: his snapcounts. Roughly, they just added Zadarius Smith. He's an

1880
01:22:13,040 --> 01:22:15,680
Speaker 9: edge rusher. But what do you think about it? They

1881
01:22:15,720 --> 01:22:18,479
Speaker 9: don't have Aden Hutchinson. This is a different This is

1882
01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:20,560
Speaker 9: still an excellent, excellent you know, you don't get to

1883
01:22:20,600 --> 01:22:22,760
Speaker 9: seven to one if you're not doing things right on

1884
01:22:22,760 --> 01:22:24,599
Speaker 9: the defensive quest especially up front.

1885
01:22:24,760 --> 01:22:27,080
Speaker 2: I think this line is a little bit more like

1886
01:22:27,760 --> 01:22:31,040
Speaker 2: the Packers, where I feel like the Packers were.

1887
01:22:30,960 --> 01:22:32,160
Speaker 1: Really really good.

1888
01:22:32,400 --> 01:22:35,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought their stud was Rashan Gary. I thought

1889
01:22:35,520 --> 01:22:38,679
Speaker 2: Kenny Clark was very difficult to block, but block a bowl.

1890
01:22:40,600 --> 01:22:42,479
Speaker 2: I think they're more like that because you have a

1891
01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:44,640
Speaker 2: Lee McNeil DJ reader. It's gonna be really hard to

1892
01:22:44,720 --> 01:22:48,040
Speaker 2: run the ball against them because those two guys against

1893
01:22:48,040 --> 01:22:50,920
Speaker 2: the run are really good. There's no Hutchinson, but Zarias

1894
01:22:50,920 --> 01:22:52,880
Speaker 2: Smith coming along. You know, we'll see how much he

1895
01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:55,800
Speaker 2: plays what you know, how they kind of try and

1896
01:22:55,880 --> 01:22:56,479
Speaker 2: fit him in.

1897
01:22:56,520 --> 01:22:57,920
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be kind of interesting.

1898
01:22:57,920 --> 01:22:59,960
Speaker 2: You know, Zdaria is a great game last year in December,

1899
01:23:00,120 --> 01:23:02,280
Speaker 2: but then in the playoff game he really got shut down.

1900
01:23:02,960 --> 01:23:05,639
Speaker 2: So I'm curious to see how we go about this

1901
01:23:06,680 --> 01:23:10,120
Speaker 2: on Sunday. So I think the Lions defensive front is

1902
01:23:11,560 --> 01:23:15,080
Speaker 2: probably I think it's a little bit better than the Packers,

1903
01:23:15,240 --> 01:23:17,759
Speaker 2: but I don't think it's as good as the Jets,

1904
01:23:17,800 --> 01:23:21,400
Speaker 2: because I think the Jets everyone across the front can

1905
01:23:21,439 --> 01:23:24,160
Speaker 2: beat you one on one. Quintin Williams could take over

1906
01:23:24,200 --> 01:23:26,240
Speaker 2: a game. Now, I think, Lilily McNeil, did your reader

1907
01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:27,880
Speaker 2: are good? I don't think it take over a game.

1908
01:23:27,960 --> 01:23:30,320
Speaker 2: Quinnin took over the game the other night. But then

1909
01:23:30,360 --> 01:23:33,920
Speaker 2: you had Reddick combined with will McDonald and you sitting

1910
01:23:33,920 --> 01:23:36,760
Speaker 2: there going, well, dang, this record's probably not three and

1911
01:23:36,800 --> 01:23:39,960
Speaker 2: six if Reddick had showed up on time and they

1912
01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:44,080
Speaker 2: could have had Reddick and McDonald going with Clemens, with Williams,

1913
01:23:44,320 --> 01:23:48,000
Speaker 2: with Solomon Thomas all at the same time. And so

1914
01:23:48,080 --> 01:23:49,720
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people are gonna I think

1915
01:23:49,720 --> 01:23:53,600
Speaker 2: we're gonna look back at that Jets loss later in

1916
01:23:53,640 --> 01:23:58,600
Speaker 2: the year and go, dang, that's actually it was frustrating

1917
01:23:58,640 --> 01:24:01,080
Speaker 2: at the time, and it was frustrating play well, it

1918
01:24:01,120 --> 01:24:03,559
Speaker 2: was frustrated because you missed two field goals and then

1919
01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:06,719
Speaker 2: you fumbled on the eleven yard line and you still

1920
01:24:06,760 --> 01:24:11,439
Speaker 2: got beat because Garret Wilson made two incredible catches that

1921
01:24:12,040 --> 01:24:14,679
Speaker 2: probably aren't made by anybody in the same game again.

1922
01:24:15,479 --> 01:24:18,000
Speaker 9: So yeah, he said hold on there, hold on there,

1923
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:21,200
Speaker 9: hold hold on. One second, when the air Jordan catch

1924
01:24:21,280 --> 01:24:24,080
Speaker 9: happened in real time, I was like, that's a touchdown.

1925
01:24:24,400 --> 01:24:26,880
Speaker 9: That's I had no doubt it was gonna get overturned.

1926
01:24:27,120 --> 01:24:29,920
Speaker 9: That's a touchdown. But that other one, that was a

1927
01:24:29,960 --> 01:24:33,439
Speaker 9: remarkable catch and run, I mean, and it got swallowed

1928
01:24:33,520 --> 01:24:36,559
Speaker 9: up by the air Jordan one. Like he had himself

1929
01:24:36,600 --> 01:24:39,840
Speaker 9: a damned game with just those two catches alone.

1930
01:24:40,200 --> 01:24:41,800
Speaker 2: I mean, he ended up losing by You end up

1931
01:24:41,840 --> 01:24:43,640
Speaker 2: losing by eight, and you missed two field goals and

1932
01:24:43,640 --> 01:24:44,879
Speaker 2: you fumbled the ball at the eleven.

1933
01:24:45,200 --> 01:24:46,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Jets eleven.

1934
01:24:47,000 --> 01:24:51,360
Speaker 2: And so look, I also think there was a level

1935
01:24:51,360 --> 01:24:54,080
Speaker 2: of fatigue that set in for for everybody. I think

1936
01:24:54,120 --> 01:24:56,080
Speaker 2: you could see it on everybody's face. I mean, to

1937
01:24:56,120 --> 01:24:58,960
Speaker 2: take the second longest trip of the year on a

1938
01:24:59,400 --> 01:25:02,280
Speaker 2: Wednesday to play on a Thursday night, it was tough,

1939
01:25:02,360 --> 01:25:04,400
Speaker 2: And you know, I think that's kind of why they

1940
01:25:04,479 --> 01:25:06,760
Speaker 2: just ran out energy in the second half. Now, they've

1941
01:25:06,760 --> 01:25:10,160
Speaker 2: got plenty of energy taking on a team that's explosive

1942
01:25:10,200 --> 01:25:13,640
Speaker 2: and really really good, but they do miss Aiden Hutchinson

1943
01:25:13,960 --> 01:25:17,360
Speaker 2: let's be clear about that. They miss him. Zadarius will help,

1944
01:25:17,439 --> 01:25:21,120
Speaker 2: there's no question. But in all honesty to that end,

1945
01:25:21,800 --> 01:25:24,760
Speaker 2: I don't want to. I'm not minimizing or poopooling the

1946
01:25:24,760 --> 01:25:28,640
Speaker 2: Detroit Lions front. This is about our front. This is

1947
01:25:28,640 --> 01:25:31,960
Speaker 2: about our offensive line. Those five guys, whoever they may

1948
01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:35,040
Speaker 2: be on Sunday night, that have got to start taking

1949
01:25:35,080 --> 01:25:38,720
Speaker 2: some pride in protecting CJ. Stroud no matter what. And

1950
01:25:39,240 --> 01:25:41,840
Speaker 2: they were just getting one on one beat the other night.

1951
01:25:42,680 --> 01:25:46,600
Speaker 2: And that's not I mean, if you think about it,

1952
01:25:46,600 --> 01:25:48,360
Speaker 2: it isn't a bunch of day three guys up there

1953
01:25:48,400 --> 01:25:51,080
Speaker 2: just trying to piece it together. So the highest paid

1954
01:25:51,120 --> 01:25:53,200
Speaker 2: left tackles in the game, it's a first round pick

1955
01:25:53,280 --> 01:25:55,880
Speaker 2: at left guard. It's a second round pick you traded

1956
01:25:56,000 --> 01:25:58,240
Speaker 2: up for to go get it center. It's a guard

1957
01:25:58,320 --> 01:25:59,960
Speaker 2: that you brought in and then paid a bunch of

1958
01:26:00,160 --> 01:26:01,880
Speaker 2: money to a right guard. That's the right tackle that

1959
01:26:01,960 --> 01:26:03,360
Speaker 2: you gave a lot of money to as a former

1960
01:26:03,400 --> 01:26:06,479
Speaker 2: first round you put a lot of resources into the

1961
01:26:06,520 --> 01:26:10,000
Speaker 2: offensive line. That group doesn't need to go out there

1962
01:26:10,439 --> 01:26:11,639
Speaker 2: and play that way.

1963
01:26:11,920 --> 01:26:15,080
Speaker 1: It doesn't. And we can talk about scheme this and

1964
01:26:15,080 --> 01:26:15,360
Speaker 1: all that.

1965
01:26:15,479 --> 01:26:17,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe against the Packers and the Vikings, but not

1966
01:26:17,439 --> 01:26:19,840
Speaker 2: the other night. That was just straight up, we're gonna

1967
01:26:19,840 --> 01:26:23,080
Speaker 2: twist once here, We're just gonna go one on one here,

1968
01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:25,800
Speaker 2: And it was thirty three pressures and that shouldn't happen.

1969
01:26:25,800 --> 01:26:28,639
Speaker 2: I don't care how good the Jets offensive line happens

1970
01:26:28,680 --> 01:26:31,880
Speaker 2: to be or defensive line happens to be, so that

1971
01:26:32,000 --> 01:26:34,040
Speaker 2: to me is going to be the biggest thing.

1972
01:26:34,080 --> 01:26:36,559
Speaker 1: Now here's here's the thought.

1973
01:26:36,560 --> 01:26:39,520
Speaker 2: Okay, well maybe it's just not a good pass protecting

1974
01:26:39,640 --> 01:26:40,559
Speaker 2: offensive line.

1975
01:26:40,680 --> 01:26:43,120
Speaker 1: Okay, Now, Bobby.

1976
01:26:42,880 --> 01:26:44,800
Speaker 2: Slokan, the offensive staff, I got to say, all right,

1977
01:26:44,840 --> 01:26:46,400
Speaker 2: we just can't protect this.

1978
01:26:47,439 --> 01:26:49,839
Speaker 1: So how do we change it? Do we move the pocket?

1979
01:26:49,880 --> 01:26:50,559
Speaker 1: Do we boot?

1980
01:26:50,600 --> 01:26:53,400
Speaker 2: Do we keep run keepers and boots? Do we slide

1981
01:26:53,479 --> 01:26:56,080
Speaker 2: the pocket somewhere? Do we run our quick game? What

1982
01:26:56,120 --> 01:26:59,800
Speaker 2: can we take advantage of that's quicker? And the thing

1983
01:26:59,920 --> 01:27:02,559
Speaker 2: is Drew. When I went back and I watched the game,

1984
01:27:02,600 --> 01:27:03,360
Speaker 2: I know people were.

1985
01:27:03,280 --> 01:27:04,839
Speaker 1: Like, well, it's not all about pass protection.

1986
01:27:04,960 --> 01:27:08,160
Speaker 2: Well, there were at least five plays that I saw

1987
01:27:08,160 --> 01:27:09,839
Speaker 2: when I went back and watched the full game.

1988
01:27:09,640 --> 01:27:11,840
Speaker 1: At least five where.

1989
01:27:13,160 --> 01:27:16,800
Speaker 2: CJ's got pressure so fast that it in negates a

1990
01:27:16,920 --> 01:27:21,679
Speaker 2: significant game at a key time. A number of times

1991
01:27:22,240 --> 01:27:25,880
Speaker 2: that plays that CJ has hit in the past, plays

1992
01:27:25,880 --> 01:27:28,400
Speaker 2: that CJ has hit this year, that if he just

1993
01:27:28,600 --> 01:27:31,240
Speaker 2: has a half second more time to hang in there,

1994
01:27:31,479 --> 01:27:33,840
Speaker 2: he can because he's got such a quick release. He

1995
01:27:33,840 --> 01:27:36,240
Speaker 2: can zip the sale route to Dalton on the sideline.

1996
01:27:36,280 --> 01:27:38,400
Speaker 2: He can hit the circle route to Joe Mixon that

1997
01:27:38,520 --> 01:27:40,639
Speaker 2: was open. You know, he could hit the dig route

1998
01:27:40,680 --> 01:27:44,000
Speaker 2: to X, who's made up on a linebacker and everybody wants, well,

1999
01:27:44,120 --> 01:27:46,880
Speaker 2: X can't get open. X can't get open because all

2000
01:27:46,880 --> 01:27:48,400
Speaker 2: they're looking at O their targets. But if you watch

2001
01:27:48,439 --> 01:27:51,720
Speaker 2: the film, X was open, but the rush is there

2002
01:27:51,800 --> 01:27:54,559
Speaker 2: so fast and so he doesn't need how to target

2003
01:27:55,080 --> 01:27:58,000
Speaker 2: even though he's open and got five yards of separation. So,

2004
01:27:58,400 --> 01:28:00,519
Speaker 2: you know, I think things get kind of lost and

2005
01:28:00,560 --> 01:28:05,559
Speaker 2: they get kind muddied, and you know, unclear when you

2006
01:28:05,640 --> 01:28:07,720
Speaker 2: face the Vikings and you face the Packers because of

2007
01:28:07,800 --> 01:28:09,599
Speaker 2: things that they do. But the other night, it was

2008
01:28:09,720 --> 01:28:12,720
Speaker 2: just it was whip city, and that's got to be

2009
01:28:12,720 --> 01:28:16,280
Speaker 2: better this week. And as we're talking, I just my

2010
01:28:16,400 --> 01:28:18,200
Speaker 2: Twitter is up and it just so happens that there

2011
01:28:18,280 --> 01:28:20,879
Speaker 2: is some cut up so the Washington Commanders offensive line

2012
01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:23,599
Speaker 2: and I'm just watching out there protecting and giving Jade

2013
01:28:23,680 --> 01:28:24,320
Speaker 2: Daniels time.

2014
01:28:24,360 --> 01:28:26,559
Speaker 1: And I'm like, if CJ had that time, he carved

2015
01:28:26,600 --> 01:28:28,840
Speaker 1: dudes up. It's simple as that. And he could do

2016
01:28:28,880 --> 01:28:29,479
Speaker 1: that Sunday night.

2017
01:28:29,520 --> 01:28:31,559
Speaker 9: If he has the time, Let's give him some time.

2018
01:28:31,680 --> 01:28:33,960
Speaker 9: Let's give him some time. And let's move now to

2019
01:28:34,120 --> 01:28:35,320
Speaker 9: our cream of the crop.

2020
01:28:35,680 --> 01:28:36,920
Speaker 6: The cream of the crop.

2021
01:28:37,160 --> 01:28:39,800
Speaker 9: Thank you, Randy much a man savage. So we had

2022
01:28:39,840 --> 01:28:42,000
Speaker 9: some pretty good cream of the crop picks. Last week.

2023
01:28:42,280 --> 01:28:45,439
Speaker 9: I had Tank Dell. Tank Dell caught a touchdown pass. Yeah,

2024
01:28:45,479 --> 01:28:47,519
Speaker 9: you wanted the offensive line to play together. I thought

2025
01:28:47,560 --> 01:28:50,400
Speaker 9: that was a great choice. Didn't work out, and that's,

2026
01:28:50,600 --> 01:28:52,519
Speaker 9: you know, one of the reasons why we didn't have

2027
01:28:52,560 --> 01:28:58,200
Speaker 9: a Texans victory. So if the Texans come away victorious

2028
01:28:58,240 --> 01:29:01,200
Speaker 9: and topple the seven and one Detroit Lions and send

2029
01:29:01,280 --> 01:29:04,160
Speaker 9: him to seven and two, what's gotta happen? Who is

2030
01:29:04,200 --> 01:29:06,679
Speaker 9: gotta be your cream of the cropper? And I'm gonna

2031
01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:11,880
Speaker 9: go first, and I am gonna go with Deniko Autry. Okay,

2032
01:29:11,960 --> 01:29:14,439
Speaker 9: I chose him as my sleeper and something else last

2033
01:29:14,439 --> 01:29:15,559
Speaker 9: week hit two sacks.

2034
01:29:15,960 --> 01:29:16,640
Speaker 10: You're gonna need it.

2035
01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:19,680
Speaker 9: And because we don't know yet about Will Anderson, but

2036
01:29:19,880 --> 01:29:21,799
Speaker 9: you know he's gonna be banged up at the very best.

2037
01:29:22,080 --> 01:29:24,160
Speaker 9: You know, if he's able to play. He's got a

2038
01:29:24,200 --> 01:29:26,920
Speaker 9: banged up lower leg. Hopefully he's gonna be fining he's

2039
01:29:26,920 --> 01:29:30,479
Speaker 9: out there. But Deniko looks like he's settling in just nicely.

2040
01:29:30,920 --> 01:29:34,160
Speaker 9: Got two sacks. Get gets to the quarterback. You need

2041
01:29:34,160 --> 01:29:37,519
Speaker 9: to make life tough on Jared Goff. Imagine the roof.

2042
01:29:37,760 --> 01:29:40,160
Speaker 9: There's a decent chance it's gonna be open Sunday night

2043
01:29:40,400 --> 01:29:42,320
Speaker 9: because it's a nighttime game. It's not gonna be hot

2044
01:29:42,400 --> 01:29:45,240
Speaker 9: or cold. So he doesn't do as well in outdoor games.

2045
01:29:45,240 --> 01:29:47,160
Speaker 9: Although that's I'm saying that with a tongue in cheek,

2046
01:29:47,479 --> 01:29:50,960
Speaker 9: but uh, give me, give me the Deniko autry is

2047
01:29:51,000 --> 01:29:53,720
Speaker 9: my Cream of the Crop award winner. I love that

2048
01:29:53,720 --> 01:29:56,880
Speaker 9: that addition when the Texans made it this offseason because

2049
01:29:56,920 --> 01:30:00,160
Speaker 9: he used to whip the absolute you know what out

2050
01:30:00,160 --> 01:30:02,920
Speaker 9: of the Texans over his career. I think he had

2051
01:30:02,960 --> 01:30:06,120
Speaker 9: something like sixteen sacks and you know, nineteen games against

2052
01:30:06,200 --> 01:30:08,479
Speaker 9: US whatever. I don't have the right numbers, but he

2053
01:30:08,560 --> 01:30:10,320
Speaker 9: got he got his what do He played the Texans

2054
01:30:10,320 --> 01:30:12,840
Speaker 9: and now he's not playing the Texans. He's played for US.

2055
01:30:12,880 --> 01:30:16,080
Speaker 9: So let me go with Deniko. Who is your cream

2056
01:30:16,080 --> 01:30:17,240
Speaker 9: of the Crop award winner?

2057
01:30:17,360 --> 01:30:18,120
Speaker 10: Gonna be John?

2058
01:30:18,880 --> 01:30:21,920
Speaker 2: Well, there's one guy I want to pick, but I'm

2059
01:30:21,960 --> 01:30:24,799
Speaker 2: not totally sure of his availability, and it's not Nico

2060
01:30:25,479 --> 01:30:29,479
Speaker 2: right now, I'm not sure his availability either. Yeah, so

2061
01:30:29,520 --> 01:30:33,080
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pick a different guy as a result.

2062
01:30:33,120 --> 01:30:34,960
Speaker 1: Now. The guy I'm thinking of his disease al Shire,

2063
01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:35,599
Speaker 1: because I just.

2064
01:30:35,560 --> 01:30:39,559
Speaker 2: Think I think this team needs its compass back and

2065
01:30:40,080 --> 01:30:42,880
Speaker 2: I think that I think the disease is the compass.

2066
01:30:43,240 --> 01:30:47,599
Speaker 9: He's been a very quiet omission in the last few weeks.

2067
01:30:47,640 --> 01:30:49,800
Speaker 10: Not enough people have talked about it, you know.

2068
01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:55,080
Speaker 9: And the guys behind him always yeah yeah, and he's take.

2069
01:30:54,920 --> 01:30:57,280
Speaker 10: Away from play. Yeah, they're not as easy.

2070
01:30:58,280 --> 01:31:01,840
Speaker 2: Neville has played great, I mean for what's expected of him,

2071
01:31:02,360 --> 01:31:06,280
Speaker 2: but a disease is just a different type of leader

2072
01:31:06,960 --> 01:31:09,960
Speaker 2: and just communicating with the front and the back and

2073
01:31:10,000 --> 01:31:13,200
Speaker 2: making sure that everybody is aligned where they need to be,

2074
01:31:13,680 --> 01:31:16,760
Speaker 2: on the same page. But I'm not sure of his availability.

2075
01:31:16,800 --> 01:31:20,120
Speaker 2: I'm not sure of Nico's availability. I'm pretty sure of

2076
01:31:20,200 --> 01:31:24,400
Speaker 2: Daniel Hunter's availability, and so I'm gonna go with Daniel Hunter.

2077
01:31:24,439 --> 01:31:26,439
Speaker 2: And I think there are a couple of things Dannil

2078
01:31:26,479 --> 01:31:28,320
Speaker 2: has faced this offensive line before.

2079
01:31:28,439 --> 01:31:31,160
Speaker 1: Now that also means they faced him before.

2080
01:31:32,200 --> 01:31:35,200
Speaker 2: And I know it's a different system that he's in,

2081
01:31:36,080 --> 01:31:41,800
Speaker 2: but when you have that understanding of what the opponent does.

2082
01:31:41,680 --> 01:31:43,320
Speaker 1: Or likes to do, it helps.

2083
01:31:43,600 --> 01:31:46,000
Speaker 2: So Taylor Decker and Pinney Sewell know Daniel Hunter a

2084
01:31:46,040 --> 01:31:49,760
Speaker 2: little bit, Danil knows them, and I think that makes

2085
01:31:49,800 --> 01:31:52,640
Speaker 2: for a really good matchup. So the question becomes that

2086
01:31:52,680 --> 01:31:54,640
Speaker 2: Will doesn't play or they're going to send help to

2087
01:31:54,720 --> 01:31:57,360
Speaker 2: whoever has got to face Danil. But I want to

2088
01:31:57,360 --> 01:32:01,439
Speaker 2: shake up Jared Goff in every way post because to me,

2089
01:32:02,240 --> 01:32:05,720
Speaker 2: as much as the run game has been great, it

2090
01:32:05,800 --> 01:32:07,920
Speaker 2: has been really really.

2091
01:32:09,160 --> 01:32:11,479
Speaker 1: Important for Detroit to have.

2092
01:32:11,360 --> 01:32:15,120
Speaker 2: That passing game as efficient as it is. Jared Goss's

2093
01:32:15,160 --> 01:32:19,000
Speaker 2: not throwing interceptions. Jared Goff's not throwing incompletions, he's not

2094
01:32:19,160 --> 01:32:22,120
Speaker 2: taking bad sacks, he's not making bad decisions, and I

2095
01:32:22,120 --> 01:32:26,360
Speaker 2: think the Texans have to force those bad decisions this week.

2096
01:32:26,400 --> 01:32:29,040
Speaker 2: And hopefully if Will is able to play, and you

2097
01:32:29,080 --> 01:32:31,920
Speaker 2: have Will and Denil going as best they possibly can,

2098
01:32:32,320 --> 01:32:34,959
Speaker 2: then you're putting some pressure, at least at a minimum

2099
01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:37,000
Speaker 2: on those tackles. And I think that's what you have

2100
01:32:37,080 --> 01:32:39,479
Speaker 2: to be able to do. And then Denil's got to

2101
01:32:39,479 --> 01:32:42,240
Speaker 2: set the edge against the run. And so when you

2102
01:32:42,240 --> 01:32:46,280
Speaker 2: add in Denico Autry and Dania Hunter, those two guys

2103
01:32:46,439 --> 01:32:49,000
Speaker 2: have to maybe not take the game over, but they

2104
01:32:49,040 --> 01:32:53,920
Speaker 2: have to significantly, significantly impact that game. So the lines

2105
01:32:54,280 --> 01:32:56,920
Speaker 2: Goth doesn't have one two three drop throw one two

2106
01:32:57,040 --> 01:32:59,960
Speaker 2: three throw, It's got to be one two three, Nope, nope,

2107
01:33:00,360 --> 01:33:01,000
Speaker 2: Oh sack.

2108
01:33:02,400 --> 01:33:04,400
Speaker 1: You gotta shake him up in some way, shape or form.

2109
01:33:04,479 --> 01:33:06,559
Speaker 2: He's in that kind of role and maybe if you

2110
01:33:06,600 --> 01:33:09,040
Speaker 2: start to shake him up and get his confidence off

2111
01:33:09,160 --> 01:33:11,519
Speaker 2: kilter a little bit, the better off you'll be in

2112
01:33:11,520 --> 01:33:12,240
Speaker 2: the second half.

2113
01:33:12,800 --> 01:33:17,759
Speaker 1: Where I mean, I almost made this. I thought about this, Drew.

2114
01:33:17,840 --> 01:33:20,160
Speaker 2: Thought about making the Creamy of the Cropper the Texans

2115
01:33:20,240 --> 01:33:23,439
Speaker 2: second half offense, because the second half offense has got

2116
01:33:23,439 --> 01:33:24,679
Speaker 2: to start putting points up on the board.

2117
01:33:24,880 --> 01:33:29,880
Speaker 9: It John, it's essentially I'm gonna be off by maybe

2118
01:33:29,880 --> 01:33:33,240
Speaker 9: one or two here, give or take eight field goals

2119
01:33:33,920 --> 01:33:37,440
Speaker 9: and eight touchdowns. Maybe nine field goals and eight touchdowns

2120
01:33:38,200 --> 01:33:41,000
Speaker 9: in nine games now in the second half combined. So

2121
01:33:41,080 --> 01:33:43,680
Speaker 9: that's about ten points combined in the second half that

2122
01:33:43,680 --> 01:33:44,120
Speaker 9: you're getting.

2123
01:33:44,160 --> 01:33:46,400
Speaker 10: You need more than that. You need more than that, absolutely,

2124
01:33:46,439 --> 01:33:47,120
Speaker 10: and a.

2125
01:33:47,040 --> 01:33:50,840
Speaker 9: Good chunk of that came in the win at New England,

2126
01:33:51,080 --> 01:33:52,680
Speaker 9: which was nice and you got that. But if you

2127
01:33:52,720 --> 01:33:55,479
Speaker 9: take that New England went out, it's more like down

2128
01:33:55,520 --> 01:33:58,080
Speaker 9: to six points a game in the second half. And

2129
01:33:58,160 --> 01:34:01,240
Speaker 9: all these in wins and losses, I'm saying, And so, yeah,

2130
01:34:01,280 --> 01:34:02,760
Speaker 9: you got to get better in the second half after

2131
01:34:02,800 --> 01:34:04,519
Speaker 9: the breakout of I don't know what's happened there. I

2132
01:34:04,560 --> 01:34:09,120
Speaker 9: don't know what that's all about, but you must surge

2133
01:34:09,400 --> 01:34:10,800
Speaker 9: after the intermission.

2134
01:34:11,200 --> 01:34:12,400
Speaker 10: I like your Cream of the Cropper.

2135
01:34:12,479 --> 01:34:14,880
Speaker 9: I think it's uh, it's a good one because it

2136
01:34:14,960 --> 01:34:16,639
Speaker 9: kind of dovetails nicely with mine.

2137
01:34:17,080 --> 01:34:20,160
Speaker 10: It's two dudes that are dudes.

2138
01:34:20,280 --> 01:34:23,439
Speaker 9: On the defensive line. You signed them for this reason

2139
01:34:23,479 --> 01:34:25,679
Speaker 9: because you want to come out and get after the quarterback.

2140
01:34:25,720 --> 01:34:27,760
Speaker 9: You want to you want to swarm on defense, and

2141
01:34:27,800 --> 01:34:31,679
Speaker 9: they're each one man swarms at times. So I like it, man,

2142
01:34:31,760 --> 01:34:33,720
Speaker 9: I like it, and I like you John, I like it,

2143
01:34:34,040 --> 01:34:40,200
Speaker 9: like Drew. Yeah, it's a it's a good thing. We'll

2144
01:34:40,240 --> 01:34:43,400
Speaker 9: be back after it next week, same time and place.

2145
01:34:43,479 --> 01:34:46,160
Speaker 9: But Sunday night football battle red, I can't wait.

2146
01:34:47,200 --> 01:34:49,200
Speaker 1: Don't wear this. Don't you see this color?

2147
01:34:49,400 --> 01:34:51,840
Speaker 2: Don't wear this because this is really close to Honolulu Blue,

2148
01:34:51,840 --> 01:34:53,360
Speaker 2: and I didn't realize that before we started this.

2149
01:34:53,439 --> 01:34:56,360
Speaker 1: Don't don't wear this collar on Sunday night. Red.

2150
01:34:56,400 --> 01:34:56,920
Speaker 10: It's all good.

2151
01:34:57,000 --> 01:34:57,479
Speaker 1: We're red.

2152
01:34:57,720 --> 01:34:59,599
Speaker 9: We're red, just like that, and it's you know, it's

2153
01:34:59,600 --> 01:35:01,200
Speaker 9: the first I will see those helmets too.

2154
01:35:01,280 --> 01:35:02,000
Speaker 10: That's gonna be fun.

2155
01:35:02,200 --> 01:35:03,599
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, the very.

2156
01:35:03,439 --> 01:35:07,640
Speaker 2: First helmet that we'll ever wear without the bullhead logo featured.

2157
01:35:07,240 --> 01:35:08,400
Speaker 1: On the sides. How about that?

2158
01:35:09,160 --> 01:35:11,639
Speaker 10: Well, second time, because remember we the h helmets.

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Speaker 2: Oh that's right, yea, yeah, you're right, second time, first time,

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Speaker 2: second time, Oh, the same thing. Look at the big

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Speaker 2: brain on Drew making sure that I do it right.

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Speaker 1: Nice chapter. Thank you very much and appreciate you being

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Speaker 1: on the show.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate Kurt Heinisch, Appreciate Nick Casserio, Appreciate Dan Miller, and

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Speaker 2: of course my man Mark Vandermiir and oh you for listening.

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Speaker 1: We thank you so much. We'll see you tomorrow and

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Speaker 1: as always, go Texans.