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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome into a Wednesday edition at Texans All Access from

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Speaker 2: the Today Texas Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris,

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Speaker 2: football analyst, sideline reporter for your Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: So glad to be with you.

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Speaker 2: This evening because it's bonus radio time. That's right, when

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Speaker 2: the season's over, we go dark on radio. But the

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Speaker 2: season is not over, so we stay alive. We stay

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Speaker 2: alive as the team stays alive. So glad to be

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Speaker 2: with you. We'll take you up to eight o'clock and boyd,

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Speaker 2: we have plenty for you this evening. But a bit

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Speaker 2: of news first, and that is Kymie Fairbear named Special Teams.

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Speaker 1: Player of the Week.

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Speaker 2: Back to back weeks specialists for the Texans named Special

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Speaker 2: Teams Player of the Week Week seventeen against the Chargers,

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Speaker 2: it was Tommy Townsend Week eighteen. It is Kayimi Fairbairn.

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Speaker 2: Six field goals fifty one, forty eight, forty four, forty three,

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Speaker 2: forty three to twenty nine and a game winner with

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Speaker 2: about twelve seconds left. That forty three yard gave them

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Speaker 2: the win. It also a six field goal is giving

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Speaker 2: him forty four in a season. Now, I will not

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Speaker 2: sit here and tell you, I'm very happy with forty

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Speaker 2: four field goals, but the fact that we have a

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Speaker 2: guy that can kick that field goal when you need

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Speaker 2: it anywhere, anytime, I'll take it. And Kymie Fairbairn can

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Speaker 2: do that. He has been Special Teams Player.

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Speaker 3: Of the Week Week two and twenty twenty four, Week

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Speaker 3: five in twenty twenty four, Week fifteen in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 3: so and then all the way back to twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 3: Week fifteen in twenty eighteen, So if my math is correct,

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Speaker 3: that's four plus this new one.

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Speaker 2: Is five five times AFC Special Teams Player of the Week.

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Speaker 2: Kayami fair Baron, congratulations, Kymi, great stuff. All right, let's

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Speaker 2: get to it with our first guest of the evening

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Speaker 2: and you know who it is, Wednesday Night, General manager,

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Speaker 2: Executive vice president, your Houston Texans, Nick Casario. We always

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Speaker 2: have a blast stay tuned for the scout and reporting

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Speaker 2: the Steelers because I have played Steelers, so it's kind

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Speaker 2: of new to us, but Nick knows it all and

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Speaker 2: he gives it to you right here.

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Speaker 4: In studio with us now.

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Speaker 5: Executive vice president and general manager Nick Cassario.

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Speaker 4: Nick, good to see it. How's it going good to.

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Speaker 6: See you go to still be talking. I means we're

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Speaker 6: still playing.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, we're still doing this and it's an awesome thing.

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Speaker 5: Onto the postseason and let's just put a bow on

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Speaker 5: the game against the Colts to wrap up the regular season.

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Speaker 5: What you see in that one that you liked and

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Speaker 5: things that the coach and you and the whole organization

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Speaker 5: want to see go better moving forward.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, the good part was able to finish the game

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Speaker 7: in a positive manner. Kind of went back and forth

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Speaker 7: there a little bit in the second half. The first

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Speaker 7: half was really about the explosive plays. You know, gave

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Speaker 7: up a number first third down, gave up a sixty

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Speaker 7: six hour touchdown pass appears offensively, we were able to

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Speaker 7: move the ball, score points, you know, and put ourselves

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Speaker 7: in the position you know, we played. The game, was competitive,

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Speaker 7: ended up playing a number of players once kind of

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Speaker 7: it's just trying to figure out how we manage the game.

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Speaker 7: But you still want to go out there and try

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Speaker 7: to win, and the players are we're on the field

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Speaker 7: at the end. You know, we did as much as

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Speaker 7: the winning field goal, and riab blexcut and then finished

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Speaker 7: it off there with you know, Tommy's play at the end.

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Speaker 6: They kind of put a bow on it. So nice

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Speaker 6: way to do it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely a nice way to do it. Nick, I

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Speaker 2: want to ask you about a couple of players. Well,

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Speaker 2: I'll start with one player that really nobody had seen

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Speaker 2: all year long. You hadn't played a lot his rookies,

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Speaker 2: Elijah Hussey? Would you guys see in the draft process?

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Speaker 2: And what do you like about how he's progressed here?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean interesting story.

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Speaker 7: I mean, he obviously had a pretty good career there

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Speaker 7: he really he attacked the rehab, did a great job

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Speaker 6: On a roster there at the end.

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Speaker 7: That's saying this time of year, you have a little

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Speaker 7: practice squads or even reserve future type players. So put

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Speaker 7: the game at corner. But smart kid, really instinctive, was

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Speaker 7: has a bright future. So we're glad he's here.

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Speaker 5: The Colts were making some plays the other day, but

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Speaker 5: the Texans made the plays to win. How important is

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Speaker 5: that despite thirty points on the board, or whatever happened defensively, offensively, whatever,

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Speaker 4: At the end.

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Speaker 5: How important is that just mentally, psychologically, whatever.

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Speaker 7: Sure At the bottom line is it's do you make

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Speaker 7: the winning players or do you not? And you will

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Speaker 7: talk about the Steelers and the playoffs here in a minute,

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Speaker 7: but the playoffs are ultimately about It's not the best team,

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Speaker 7: it's a team that executes the best and do you

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Speaker 7: make enough winning plays to at the end of the

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Speaker 7: it applies to the preseason. But our players have done

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Speaker 7: two to three months being able to finish game regardless

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Speaker 6: When it gets to the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 7: Do we do enough, Can we execute the right way,

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Speaker 7: play with the right technique, make good decisions and ultimately

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Speaker 7: our players has done a pretty good job of that

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Speaker 2: There's always something about big guys carrying the ball that

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Speaker 2: everybody gets excited about. I remember when you were with

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Speaker 1: It's been a highlight for years.

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Speaker 2: What was it like seeing Tommy ramble with that ball

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Speaker 2: to the end zone and then the reaction from everybody.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, pretty fitting.

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Speaker 7: You know, there's a guy literally doesn't say much at all,

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Speaker 6: So to see a player.

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Speaker 7: Get rewarded with something like that, and you could see

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Speaker 7: the outpour of emotion and support from essentially the entire sideline,

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Speaker 7: it was because really about it was about scoring, but

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Speaker 7: really it was about Tommy and kind of what he's about,

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Speaker 7: and it kind of is a microcosm of our team

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Speaker 6: So nobody's worked harder than Tommy. He's had a really

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Speaker 7: He's really helped our team, he's helped our defense, and

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Speaker 7: more fortunate that we have him here.

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Speaker 5: Nick what changes in the postseason as far as maybe intensity,

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Speaker 5: level headed, keep the routine and just get fired up

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's funny to mekh I were talking about this.

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Speaker 7: The reality is you don't all of a sudden do

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Speaker 7: anything magically different. Everybody understands what's at stake. Everybody understands it's,

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Speaker 7: you know, win or go home. So in the end,

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Speaker 7: you have to execute more plays for the duration of

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Speaker 7: because you have some lapses in any of the game,

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Speaker 7: there's no next week. So it really comes down to

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Speaker 7: the teams that execute the best consistently.

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Speaker 6: Over the course of four quarters.

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Speaker 7: Are you doing the right things that correspond to winning.

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Speaker 7: That's what the focus is. So everybody can talk about

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Speaker 7: the reality is none of that matters. What matters is

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Speaker 7: how you play in the moment, and you really literally

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Speaker 7: have to play each play with the utmost focus and

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Speaker 2: So there's a chance we could have played in any

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Speaker 2: number of teams in the playoffs. We've been rematches with

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Speaker 2: a lot of them, but now it's Pittsburgh, which makes.

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Speaker 1: This question that much more fun to ask.

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Speaker 2: The scouting report on the Pittsburgh Steelers and a guy

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Speaker 2: quarterback that a lot of people know, but there are

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Speaker 2: a lot of names that people don't know, especially some

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Speaker 2: got some guys that do some work, some dirty work,

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Speaker 2: especially on the inside on defense. Nick, give us a

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Speaker 2: scouting report on this week's playoff opponent, Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 7: Sure say, first off is probably one of the most

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Speaker 7: storied programs in the history of sports. I mean, you're

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Speaker 7: talking about a team that's had three head coaches over

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Speaker 7: over the last twenty years, Honestly, it's probably gonna be

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Speaker 7: harder to duplicate that. I mean, he's a great coach.

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Speaker 7: He gets his teams ready to play. They're as consistent

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Speaker 6: But they won the North. They beat a number of.

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Speaker 7: Good teams offensively, I mean everything starts with Aaron. They

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Speaker 7: obviously brought him in the offseason for a reason to

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Speaker 7: play in games like this, to play in games like

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Speaker 7: they did Sunday night.

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Speaker 6: I'd say he's still.

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Speaker 7: Playing at you know, a really good level, and you're

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Speaker 7: talking about a Hall of Fame quarterback that's probably as

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Speaker 7: smart as an instinctive as any quarterback that's played in

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Speaker 7: the history of our game. I don't think he's strung

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Speaker 7: been like six to seven games, so it's the history

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Speaker 7: accurate as hell, smart as hell you gotta be. I mean,

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Speaker 6: No, it absolutely does.

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Speaker 7: a it's a cat and mouse game you're playing, all right, ok,

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Speaker 7: give them one thing, make him think it's one thing,

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Speaker 6: That's part of playing a position.

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Speaker 7: This isn't like college, where you know, it's just everybody

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Speaker 6: I mean, there's some other dynamics that are involved.

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Speaker 7: So I mean, again, Aaron is as smart and instinctive

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Speaker 1: Nick.

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Speaker 2: You mentioned Cam Hayward, and he's a guy that he's

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Speaker 1: And obviously he's older than he's ever been.

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Speaker 2: But it feels like he's as much as people want

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Speaker 2: It feels like it all revolves around Cam Hayward ninety seven.

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Speaker 7: You're not wrong, Johnny, and I'd say not that she.

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Speaker 7: I mean he's a high volume tackler, which is a

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Speaker 7: Klayus Campbell kind of the same things. This guy's been

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Speaker 5: Currently, you have a quarterback that's making his fifth playoff start.

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Speaker 5: The value of that, plus the fact that you've been

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's all part of the calculus.

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Speaker 7: I mean, anytime you have done something, you know, not

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Speaker 7: back to how well do you play that game and

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Speaker 7: For sure, let me throw Metcalf and then I say

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Speaker 6: I don't know what he's listed as, but.

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Speaker 5: Nick, the Texans running game, how do you feel about

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Speaker 6: Yeah, overall we've heard him moments.

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Speaker 7: This is a tough front to run against. So but

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Speaker 4: Nigga.

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Speaker 2: It was interesting as I was driving in today, I

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Speaker 1: It's still interesting to see CJS the second.

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Speaker 2: Youngest quarterback in the playoffs and yet he's been through

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm sure it's something you know, probably ask him about.

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Speaker 7: But anytime you do something you know more than once

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Speaker 7: from some of the previous situations. You know, I'm sure

439
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Speaker 7: if you ask him, he'll probably say, here's some things

440
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Speaker 7: that you know we did well. Here's some things that

441
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Speaker 7: it certainly can improve on. You're always gonna have to

442
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Speaker 7: deal in this particular case with the environment. I mean,

443
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Speaker 7: we're gonna be playing on the road, so communication is

444
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Speaker 7: going to be of the utmost important. So just making

445
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Speaker 7: sure that the communication is as clean as possible will

446
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Speaker 7: definitely be I would say a key a key ingredient here.

447
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Speaker 5: You mentioned playing Pittsburgh in the playoffs. There, Now, you

448
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Speaker 5: grew up in the Cleveland area. Nick, was there a

449
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Speaker 5: better villain than the Steelers? I mean, that is it, right,

450
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Speaker 5: it's Cleveland versus Pittsburgh.

451
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Speaker 1: John Elway, Well, I know, but I'm just thinking.

452
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Speaker 5: In terms of the division and day to day, year

453
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Speaker 5: to year stuff.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure.

455
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Speaker 7: I mean you've had some of the most imposing defenses

456
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Speaker 7: and you know Greg Lloyd's and you know, even honestly,

457
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Speaker 7: probably more irrelevant when we were you know, I was

458
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Speaker 7: in New England. Yeah, played against them, James Harrison and Ferrier,

459
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Speaker 7: and I mean they've played good defense there for a

460
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Speaker 7: number of years. So I mean they were a Steel

461
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Speaker 7: Curtain defense in the seventies and eighties for a reason

462
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Speaker 7: because they had multiple Hall of Famers there. But yeah,

463
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Speaker 7: they kind of play that mantra on that mindset up.

464
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Speaker 7: But when you walk into stadium, the one thing you

465
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Speaker 7: see is all the names. They're kind of hall of

466
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Speaker 7: fame if you will, right, I mean you're talking about

467
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Speaker 7: some players that are in the NFL Pro Football Hall

468
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Speaker 7: of Fame, you know, not only the Steelers Hall of Fame.

469
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Speaker 7: So yeah, the whole Cleveland Pittsburgh was a rivalry to

470
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Speaker 7: a point maybe, But then I think the Steelers probably

471
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Speaker 7: got the upper hand on that.

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Speaker 1: I know how people in Cleveland feel.

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Speaker 2: When we drove we drove from Cleveland to Pittsburgh for

474
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Speaker 2: that preseason game last year. We left from Cleveland, We're

475
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Speaker 2: going to Pittsburgh, and we got into the city limits

476
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Speaker 2: of Pittsburgh. Our bus driver hasn't set a word, hasn't

477
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Speaker 2: set a word the whole time.

478
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Speaker 1: And we get to the city limits and she.

479
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Speaker 2: Goes, welcome to bleeps Bird and it's a word that

480
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Speaker 2: rhymes with Pitts And I just iBOT fell out on

481
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Speaker 2: my chair.

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Speaker 1: So I'm know not how Cleveland people feel about Pittsburgh.

483
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Speaker 1: For sure.

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Speaker 2: You you mentioned his name, Nick, but we haven't talked

485
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Speaker 2: about it too much. And that's DK Metcalf returning. We

486
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Speaker 2: know how valuable DK is to that offense. But one

487
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Speaker 2: of the things you alluded to, which I think is

488
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Speaker 2: really important, is DK after the catch. Because he's a

489
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Speaker 2: six four and twenty pound monster runs four to three.

490
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Speaker 2: What kind of problems does he present, especially coming off

491
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Speaker 2: of two game break suspension, whatever you call it, where

492
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Speaker 2: he's not taking hits on his body, where he's going

493
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Speaker 2: to be fresh on Monday night.

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Speaker 1: How tough an issue is DK Metcalf.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, he's a significant problem. I mean, you don't receivers

496
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Speaker 7: don't grow on trees like that look like that. I mean,

497
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Speaker 7: he's he's big, he's strong, he's fast. Asked when he

498
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Speaker 7: gets a ball in his hand to talk about tackling,

499
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Speaker 7: I mean he's hard to get to the ground, and

500
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Speaker 7: he has a big play element, which he's certainly added

501
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Speaker 7: to their offense. I'm going to go back to the

502
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Speaker 7: Baltimore game, not the last week here, but a few

503
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Speaker 7: weeks ago. I mean, I think he had one hundred

504
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Speaker 7: and fifty sixty yards receiving. And you know, Aaron's not

505
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Speaker 7: afraid to give players an opportunity to make a play

506
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Speaker 7: on the ball, like we saw that even going back

507
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Speaker 7: to the last year with the Jets and when he

508
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Speaker 7: put the ball up there to Garrett Wilson, and Garrett

509
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Speaker 7: made the play there in the end zone against Kamari.

510
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Speaker 7: So when you have a guy like d k and

511
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Speaker 7: you're thinking, well, I'm gonna give my guy an opportunity

512
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Speaker 7: to make a play on the ball, and once he

513
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Speaker 7: gets a ball in his hand, like we're gonna have

514
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Speaker 7: to tackle him. So no, he's a big part of

515
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Speaker 7: their offense, and I'm sure they're excited to have him

516
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Speaker 7: back for our game.

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Speaker 5: This attack that you're dealing with with the Steelers operated

518
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Speaker 5: by Aaron Rodgers, how different is it from the Jets

519
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Speaker 5: offense that we saw last year in the primetime game.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, there's some elements that are specific to Aaron. Arthur

521
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Speaker 7: Smithy offensive coordinator. Arthur's you know, a really good coordinator,

522
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Speaker 7: does a really good job, very versatile, flexible, presents a

523
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Speaker 7: lot of different looks. He was that way in Atlanta,

524
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Speaker 7: even going back to when he was in Tennessee. So

525
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Speaker 7: it's kind of a combination of the two. The things

526
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Speaker 7: that Aaron does well there likes to do, and then

527
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Speaker 7: the kind of foundation philosophically based on, you know, what

528
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Speaker 7: Arthur has done over the course of his career. But

529
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Speaker 7: you know, typically you're trying to do things that you

530
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Speaker 7: think the quarterback does well and it's comfortable with and

531
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Speaker 7: looks like they've tried to incorporate some of those elements

532
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Speaker 7: here in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 5: Is there anything about playing a Monday night playoff game

534
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Speaker 5: other than the extra day. I know we'll deal with

535
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Speaker 5: next week next week, but the Monday night playoff game

536
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Speaker 5: week one of the playoffs.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it means we're not playing in our customary Saturday afternoon,

538
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Speaker 7: So yeah, I mean another extra day of preparation kind

539
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Speaker 7: of how we structure the week and handle the week.

540
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Speaker 7: You understand it's going to be a long week, and

541
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Speaker 7: if we have we're fortunate enough to win, then it'll

542
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Speaker 7: be a short week on the other end. But all

543
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Speaker 7: the focuses on doing everything we can to get ready for,

544
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Speaker 7: you know, for a good team Monday night.

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Speaker 4: All right, I have one more for you here.

546
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Speaker 5: And the kids are going back to school this week,

547
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Speaker 5: Nick are and everybody's grateful for that. So I think

548
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Speaker 5: just about everybody is grateful for that. Maybe not the teachers,

549
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Speaker 5: some of them, but it harkens back to your school

550
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Speaker 5: days and what was your favorite subject? And also give

551
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Speaker 5: me a favorite teacher, a teacher that stands out in

552
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Speaker 5: your memory. This is the old thing where it's hard

553
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Speaker 5: to recite the last five Masters champions, although I'm sure

554
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Speaker 5: you could do it, but you know every teacher you

555
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Speaker 5: had in elementary school, still you can recite that.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll give you a couple of different answers here.

557
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Speaker 7: So I've always kind of been partial to math, so

558
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Speaker 7: I enjoyed that shocker shocking, But two of my favorite

559
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Speaker 7: teachers were actually from high school, kind of on the

560
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Speaker 7: history foreign language front. So in high school, I'm my

561
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Speaker 7: freshman year Spanish teacher, Senior Plo. I absolutely loved him.

562
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Speaker 7: He had energy about him and he was a great teacher.

563
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Speaker 7: And then in some of my Civics kind of history classes,

564
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Speaker 7: I had another teacher got my name, Doctor Robert Thomas.

565
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Speaker 7: Was as demanding and tough a teacher as I've ever

566
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Speaker 7: been around, but also very fair and he really challenged me.

567
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Speaker 7: So I'd say I loved math and that's probably was

568
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Speaker 7: my foundation, but like two of my best teachers were

569
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Speaker 7: kind of outside of math. So that's kind of a

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Speaker 7: twofold answer for you.

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Speaker 5: There got it all covered, all right, Nick, thanks a lot,

572
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Speaker 5: good luck, Thanks fellas Man.

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Speaker 2: I've had so many good teachers over the years. Missus Falan,

574
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Speaker 2: I know you're listening. Fantastic. It's funny because I was

575
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Speaker 2: always a math guy like Nick, but it was my

576
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Speaker 2: English teachers that I remembered probably more than any others,

577
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Speaker 2: and Miss Morris, Miss Falan, and the one that I

578
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Speaker 2: had cherish more than any other is Ms Bowers, and

579
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Speaker 2: she was the only one to give me a bee

580
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Speaker 2: in high school, but I still loved her because she

581
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Speaker 2: pushed my ass every single day.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, X marks the spot.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Xavier Hutchinson joined us right here on Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: All Right, here we go.

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Speaker 2: Wednesday and intion of Texans All Access from the day

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Speaker 2: Texans Radio Studio. I am John foot Playals Southound reporter

587
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Speaker 2: for your Houston Texans, and it's time to catch up

588
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Speaker 2: with one of our favorites. We love it when he

589
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Speaker 2: walks in studio, and he's the absolute best third year

590
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Speaker 2: player grown each and every year.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to look at what he's done.

592
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Speaker 2: And he was a six round pick and he has

593
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Speaker 2: just continued to get better and contribute even.

594
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Speaker 8: More and more.

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Speaker 1: And I thought he was going to complete a pass

596
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Speaker 1: this year.

597
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Speaker 2: There was a reverse pass called I thought we were

598
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Speaker 2: gonna get a touchdown throw from Xavier Hutchinson, but it

599
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Speaker 2: didn't happen. But I'd love to see a guy that

600
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Speaker 2: improves every single year, and he started showing some of

601
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Speaker 2: that improvement last year, especially the playoff game. But he's

602
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Speaker 2: gone from eight receptions to twelve receptions to thirty five.

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Speaker 2: You know, they're tripling it this year with three touchdowns too,

604
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Speaker 2: those against Baltimore. Xavier Hutchinson, he is the man. He

605
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Speaker 2: joined us in studio.

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Speaker 5: Joining us in studio, Xavier Hutchinson, X how's it going

607
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Speaker 5: good to see you?

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Speaker 9: It's going good, man, it's going good. Victory Monday, so

609
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Speaker 9: it's always good to wake up.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, we catch up on a victory Monday. You

611
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Speaker 5: had a nice game against the Colts in the regular

612
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Speaker 5: season finale. How did it feel to get out there

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Speaker 5: and make those big plays?

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Speaker 10: Man, it always feels good. It feels good to make plays.

615
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Speaker 9: Feels good to you know, be in that spot and

616
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Speaker 9: be trusted and to you know, capitalize on your opportunities.

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Speaker 2: Okay, take me through the crosser, because you caught that ball,

618
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Speaker 2: you had some momentum. It looked like you were about

619
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Speaker 2: to pull away and then by them just got a

620
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Speaker 2: little bit of your jersey. If you just said your

621
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Speaker 2: feet you were scored. I know you're faster than maybe

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Speaker 2: people think you are, but man, you you're feeling on

623
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Speaker 2: that run?

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Speaker 11: No?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, no, man, for sure my forty yard dash time.

626
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Speaker 9: Told to lie, I'm game speed type of person. But honestly,

627
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Speaker 9: though we've worked at all year and that's something that

628
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Speaker 9: I've worked at.

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Speaker 10: Really give a lot of credit.

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Speaker 9: To ben On, you know, the things that we do,

631
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Speaker 9: you know, during the week and throughout the season for

632
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Speaker 9: cross courting is what we call it. For what I did,

633
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Speaker 9: but really just you know, something I wanted to get

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Speaker 9: better at some that I knew we had an emphasis

635
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Speaker 9: on for this game was you know, we were gonna

636
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Speaker 9: have rack opportunities, you know, to just make the most

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Speaker 9: of them, because you know you can make some big

638
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Speaker 9: plays out there.

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Speaker 5: Is it rack or yack or both because yards after

640
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Speaker 5: the catch, run after the catch doesn't matter, right.

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Speaker 10: It's X.

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Speaker 5: You mentioned game speed, and that is important because the

643
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Speaker 5: greatest receiver ever, Jerry Rice, ran something like a four

644
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Speaker 5: to seven or something and he's the greatest receiver ever.

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Speaker 5: So being fast on the field in pads, there's a

646
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Speaker 5: big difference, right.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, there's a big difference.

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Speaker 9: I mean football isn't like when are you gonna always

649
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Speaker 9: just be able to run straight line speed? I mean,

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Speaker 9: you know maybe besides like a go ball or like

651
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Speaker 9: being a gunner or something like that. Half the time,

652
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Speaker 9: you know you have to make little you know, little

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Speaker 9: steps or a little fraction of you know, something that

654
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Speaker 9: takes off your speed. So being able to just like

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Speaker 9: continuously being able to build that speed up and not

656
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Speaker 9: lose steps is you know where I feel like it

657
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:54,479
Speaker 9: really matters X.

658
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 2: You play every receiver position, you line up everywhere. There's

659
00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 2: so much that you can do, and obviously there's a

660
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,439
Speaker 2: lot cerebrally that you've got to like take in. But

661
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 2: it feels like in year three, it feels like watching

662
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 2: the game is slowing down for you.

663
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: Do you feel that too?

664
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not talking where it goes from your

665
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 2: JV down rookie, but it just feels like what you

666
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 2: need to know, you know, and you get to your spots.

667
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:23,439
Speaker 2: Do you feel like the game is slowing down for

668
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 2: you in a sense?

669
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 9: Yeah, one hundred percent. I'm starting to get a better

670
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:31,480
Speaker 9: grasp of everything. I'm starting to, you know, see defenses better. Obviously,

671
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 9: you know, I know my position is a lot better.

672
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 9: I know what I have to do on every h

673
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:39,040
Speaker 9: you know, every down, you know, basis, And it's really

674
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 9: just been like more just being more comfortable and being

675
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 9: more confident and uh, you know, knowing that I know it,

676
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 9: so you know, just going out there and proving that

677
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 9: I know it. Uh, but you know I would definitely

678
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 9: say that the game is slowing down for me, and uh,

679
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 9: it feels really good to you know, get to this

680
00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 9: point in year three.

681
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 5: How hard is it to catch a ball and know

682
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 5: that you are gonna get hit hard and you have

683
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:00,560
Speaker 5: to concentrate. I gotta hang out out of this thing.

684
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 5: I want the rack, yeah, but I gotta hang on

685
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 5: to it otherwise no rack. What are your thoughts on that?

686
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 5: How do you go about that?

687
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 12: Yeah?

688
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 9: Uh, you know, my dad told me a long time

689
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 9: ago when I was very young. You know, you play football,

690
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 9: you're gonna get hit, right, So you're always gonna be

691
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,680
Speaker 9: in a predicament where you're gonna get hit right, So

692
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 9: you'd rather catch the ball and get hit then drop

693
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 9: the ball and get hit. It feels a little bit

694
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 9: better when you catch the ball and get hit. So

695
00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 9: that's always just been, you know, like kind of my mindset.

696
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 9: It's football, I'm gonna get hit. I might as well

697
00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 9: catch the ball and get hit, you know, and maybe

698
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 9: get a little first down celebration in there too.

699
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 2: That that is true. You definitely got the first down

700
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 2: celebrations for sure. You ioy state guys, you got that

701
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,320
Speaker 2: little arrow points. I mean there you know there's there's

702
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 2: something there. Maybe it's not just Iowa State guys, but

703
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 2: I Wowa stay it has contributed a lot to this

704
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 2: team with you you three at wide receivers. Do you

705
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 2: guys hear from Iowa State community and how proud they

706
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:54,880
Speaker 2: are of you? Do you see like the tweets and

707
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 2: posts they have of our games, of what you're doing

708
00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 2: and that, yeah, hey, we're proud of you. If you

709
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:01,160
Speaker 2: do you see the those things from the Iowa State

710
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:02,680
Speaker 2: fans and folks, Yeah.

711
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 10: I definitely do.

712
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 11: Uh.

713
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 9: They always continue to show love and they're probably one

714
00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 9: of the most loyal fan bases out there. And you know,

715
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 9: it's a they have a very soft spot in my heart.

716
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 9: They'll always be there, uh, And it's always good to

717
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 9: you know, even though I'm not playing there anymore and

718
00:30:17,240 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 9: I'm not like contributing to their success on the field,

719
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 9: but to just see, you know, the love that they.

720
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 10: Give me, uh, while.

721
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 9: You know I'm here on a different adventure, you know,

722
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 9: new chapter of my book. Man, It's always love and uh,

723
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 9: I greatly appreciate it, and I'm blessed to have spent

724
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 9: you know, my three years there.

725
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 4: Iowa State reaction to coach Campbell moving on.

726
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 9: Yeah, man, it hurts. It hurts, of course. You know

727
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 9: I was there with them. You know, he decided, you know,

728
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,560
Speaker 9: go to Penn State, and I wish him all the best,

729
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 9: of course, and you know, whoever goes there, I wish

730
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 9: him all the best. But uh, you know, Iowa State,

731
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 9: it's always been a team that's going to bounce back,

732
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 9: and they've always been resilient. So I'm excited to see

733
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 9: what they can do this next year.

734
00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 10: In the coming years.

735
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,440
Speaker 9: Uh, you know, it's always gonna be go Cyclones and always,

736
00:30:57,520 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 9: you know, never the team out East.

737
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 10: We don't like those. We don't like these guys.

738
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 2: Okay, So at a point in the game yesterday was

739
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 2: after Henry recovered the funbele that the Neil forced.

740
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 1: Tommy's in the huddle. So two questions.

741
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 2: One, what are you guys thinking offensively when Tommy's in

742
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 2: the huddle.

743
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 4: Two?

744
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 2: If we flip the script, I don't think you'd go

745
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 2: play defensive tackle. But if you had to go play dB,

746
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 2: I think you go do it on a Sunday for

747
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:26,720
Speaker 2: ten plays.

748
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 9: For ten plays, maybe, yeah, I got a good ten plays.

749
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 9: I'll tell you what. I'm not gonna get beat over

750
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 9: the top. I'll be thirty yards off.

751
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 10: The line of scrimmage and I'll get in the front.

752
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 9: I'll keep everything in front, and I'll be a bin

753
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 9: but don't break a type of player if they ever

754
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 9: needed me to go out there. But you know, I

755
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 9: won't be a Kamario or a Sting, that's for sure.

756
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 2: How about how was it when Tommy I don't know

757
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 2: if you were in a huddle at that point, what

758
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,959
Speaker 2: was like when you guys saw Tommy go in the

759
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 2: game potentially for a touchdown as he's played fullback.

760
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 9: Yeah, man, it was cool. I wasn't in on that play,

761
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 9: but I knew it obviously because we went over it

762
00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 9: on Friday. Yeah, you know, we got some revs in,

763
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 9: so I knew when Tommy went in there he had

764
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 9: a chance to score.

765
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 10: Obviously.

766
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 9: You know, everyone knows it didn't play out like that,

767
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 9: but you know, good karma always comes back, and he

768
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 9: got in in the end. But man, it was cool

769
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 9: to see him back there though, just you know, the

770
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 9: excitement that we had around it, the excitement that you

771
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 9: kind of saw from the defensive players whenever he went

772
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 9: in was something that you know, I thought kind of

773
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 9: stood out because you know, that's just the type of

774
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 9: team that we are.

775
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,480
Speaker 10: Man, We're gonna always roof for each other, no matter what.

776
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 4: X the team is.

777
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 5: Back of the playoffs, you have made one of the

778
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 5: best plays in the history of the Texans playoffs. When

779
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 5: I look at the catch you had last year with CJ.

780
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 5: Was improvising and you noticed that and made the most

781
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 5: of it in the victory of the Chargers. That's a

782
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 5: top five Texans postseason play. What is it about the

783
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 5: playoffs that needs to be different? If anything, tell us

784
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 5: about the intensity and what goes into getting ready for

785
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 5: a playoff game.

786
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 9: Yeah, there's nothing like a playoff game. You're a competitor,

787
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 9: so you lift for those moments. You lift for that,

788
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 9: you know, those bright lights, and when it's all just

789
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 9: the best teams in the league going against each other,

790
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 9: you know, you can't really ask for any more. But

791
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 9: you know, as far as for us, man, it's really

792
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 9: just got to execute better. You know, those playoff games

793
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,560
Speaker 9: come down to you know, who can play the simplest

794
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 9: things the best, and you know who's laid the foundation

795
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 9: for their fundamentals early on in OTAs, who are all

796
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 9: doing the right things leading up to this point, and

797
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 9: you know, I feel like that's really what the playoffs

798
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 9: come down to. And obviously you're gonna have to make plays,

799
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 9: but like it's it's really just the small things in

800
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 9: football that win you. The games come come time in

801
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 9: the playoffs.

802
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 2: Now with the playoffs, they're not overlapping games, so seemingly

803
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 2: every game is alone, standalone game at that point. But

804
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 2: Monday night, the only game in town is our game

805
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 2: against Pittsburgh. Do you guys sense that?

806
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: Do you?

807
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 2: Do you hear from more people as you're going into

808
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 2: that game that everybody's got one football game to watch

809
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 2: and it's you and your teammates going against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

810
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 2: Do you kind of get a response from friends, family

811
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:08,879
Speaker 2: more so because you've got that one game and how

812
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,800
Speaker 2: exciting is that to play the one game that everybody

813
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 2: is watching around the country and around the world.

814
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think it's huge.

815
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:15,839
Speaker 12: Man.

816
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:17,959
Speaker 9: You know, of course you'll get, you know a little

817
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 9: bit more excitement from the fans and families. You know,

818
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 9: your family members are friends. Of course, you know they'll

819
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 9: hit you up, but you know, to us, like it's

820
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 9: just another game, and you know, it's a fantastic opportunity

821
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 9: for us to display you know, what the Texans are

822
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 9: about on Monday. And you know, honestly, I couldn't think

823
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 9: of a better way for us to start the playoffs

824
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,800
Speaker 9: than to play on Monday, you know, battling through everything

825
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 9: that we've battled through and then you know, just end

826
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 9: up in that point to start the playoffs. Man, I

827
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 9: feel like that's huge and that's a testimony to you know,

828
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 9: who we are as a team. And it also you know,

829
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:52,320
Speaker 9: it bes playing on those Saturdays.

830
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 5: Right, how much does it help that you've been to

831
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,000
Speaker 5: the playoffs a couple of times already? This squad, most

832
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 5: of this group, right, you want a cold weather game

833
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 5: earlier at Kansas City just a few weeks ago, and

834
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 5: you've won big games on the road anyway this year

835
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 5: in addition to that, how much does all of that

836
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:11,399
Speaker 5: help as you get ready for Pittsburgh.

837
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, each environment's different. Cold games, warm games,

838
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 9: they're all kind of the same. You gotta go out there,

839
00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 9: you gotta play football. I can't really you know, the weather,

840
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 9: The weather will be the weather, right, the weather won't change.

841
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 9: It's really just you know, it's just amazing to be

842
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 9: in that opportunity and to be able to go out

843
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 9: there one last time with our group sure and get

844
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 9: one extra game that we get to play together. And

845
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 9: you know, obviously it helps that you know, we've been

846
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 9: in these circumstances before as a team or most of

847
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 9: the team, so you know, it's nothing.

848
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,000
Speaker 10: New to you. You've been there before.

849
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 9: It might, you know, be a different stadium, a different team,

850
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 9: but all together, you've been there before. So now it's

851
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,720
Speaker 9: just about you know, just going out there and doing

852
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 9: what you know you can do.

853
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 2: Okay, So during a cold game, you an advantage over

854
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 2: me and that you get to run around, you get

855
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 2: to make plays, you get to kind of warm yourself.

856
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:05,359
Speaker 1: Up that way.

857
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 2: I don't so I'm gonna ask you in a cold game,

858
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 2: so obviously you played something in college, what is the

859
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 2: one tip you would give to me and to others

860
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 2: that would be in that stadium that are cold.

861
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: What's one thing that keeps you warm during a game?

862
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:20,280
Speaker 10: Yeah?

863
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 2: Or one thing you have to do for a ground game?

864
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:23,800
Speaker 2: Yea other than a run.

865
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,280
Speaker 9: I get lucky because we have those those warmer seats,

866
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 9: So I would I would have loved to have said.

867
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 4: That how warm are Yeah?

868
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 10: Those get pretty warm.

869
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 1: Actually, you actually careful of those.

870
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 9: You actually have to get up quite a while sometimes

871
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 9: because you might get it might get a little too

872
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 9: hot for you. But honestly, for me, what I would

873
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 9: say is like the first thing that goes for me

874
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 9: are like my feet, So being able to keep my

875
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 9: toes warm. So our equipment staff and you can probably

876
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 9: get them anywhere, I would assume, uh, but we get

877
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 9: these like little wool socks. They're like a little thicker

878
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:53,720
Speaker 9: wool socks.

879
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 10: Yea, and man they're nice.

880
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 9: So I what I like to do personally is I

881
00:36:57,560 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 9: like to put on just a regular pair of socks

882
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 9: and then over them, I put the wool socks on.

883
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 4: They fit in that cleat.

884
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, the cleat will be a little tight.

885
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 9: Yeah, but you won't complain about it because your feet

886
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:08,879
Speaker 9: will stay you know, semi warm.

887
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 2: But good tight cleats are good. You don't want your

888
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,319
Speaker 2: cleach to be loose. I mean, that's good. My feet

889
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,760
Speaker 2: is that's a good one because my feet are always

890
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 2: to they always go on me in the fourth quarter,

891
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:18,760
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's.

892
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 6: A good one.

893
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 5: Xavier, you were at Blend before Iowa State and a

894
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 5: lot of people listening watching they can relate because a

895
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,240
Speaker 5: lot of people want to go to Aggie Land filter

896
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 5: through Blend at other places, but you went to Iowa State.

897
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 5: How helpful was that blend experience for you? What was

898
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 5: it like being there?

899
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 12: Yeah?

900
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 10: Man, it was it was everything.

901
00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 9: That was kind of the moment where you know, I

902
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 9: turned from a kid to you know, maturing and really

903
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 9: turning into you know, an adult and really learning, you know,

904
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 9: what my priorities were in life. Because when you go Juco,

905
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 9: you know, you have obviously your family members around you,

906
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 9: but when you go to junior college, man, it's really

907
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:57,359
Speaker 9: about you. Like it's just how your mindset is, and

908
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 9: you know, what are you willing to do to get

909
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 9: out of that predicament. So, you know, it really just

910
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 9: taught me what to put, you know, first in my

911
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 9: life and really just how many distractions that there can

912
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 9: be around be around you that you know you'll have

913
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 9: to avoid and you'll have to figure out. But really

914
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 9: it just it just taught me, like just to double

915
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,279
Speaker 9: down on myself and you know, never lose faith or

916
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 9: belief in myself. You know, wherever you start, you know,

917
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 9: isn't where you'll finish.

918
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 5: Very good stuff, all right, Thanks, So much for joining us.

919
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 5: Best of luck.

920
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:29,839
Speaker 10: Yes, I appreciate you, guys, man, thank you.

921
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,960
Speaker 2: That dude is fantastic. Love having him in studio. It's

922
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:37,839
Speaker 2: got such a great read on life and just being

923
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 2: with this organization whatever he's got to do. And I've

924
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 2: said this many many times about Acts. One of the

925
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 2: things that I love about him is he can't play

926
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 2: every single position on the field. In fact, I've watched

927
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 2: so many times in Ota stating back to this rookie

928
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 2: year where he's the guy that lines everybody up. No, no, no,

929
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 2: you're here, I'm here, no stop. I see this in

930
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 2: the game a lot, like sometimes when they come out

931
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 2: for a formation and he's on one side.

932
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:02,359
Speaker 1: And this happened the other day.

933
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 2: I think it was one of the tight ends and

934
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:06,920
Speaker 2: he looked out there and the tight end wasn't quite

935
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 2: sure whether he should be on or off, and X.

936
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 1: Said get on.

937
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 2: And then he got Ciga's attention and told him to

938
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 2: calm down for a second, let him get set. He

939
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 2: backed up, and then he kind of gave his finger

940
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,080
Speaker 2: like okay, go ahead. He wanted to make sure there

941
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,720
Speaker 2: was no illegal procedure, no illegal information.

942
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:26,839
Speaker 1: All that X is that guy.

943
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,320
Speaker 2: Man He is the guy you want to have because

944
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 2: you can go to him for everything. You need him

945
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 2: as a gunner, blocker, You need him as a gunner,

946
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 2: you need him on special teams, you need him a

947
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 2: third downs, you need him on a big play that

948
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 2: turns the game. Xavier Hutchinson gives that to you. All Right,

949
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 2: we get back. We'll go around the NFL. We got

950
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 2: plenty to hit. Things are happening in the coaching realm,

951
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 2: including the Commanders changing coordinators, both of them. Oh man,

952
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 2: we'll get to that next on tech. All right, here

953
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 2: we go Wednesday, Nation of Texans, All Access.

954
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: Come still.

955
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,760
Speaker 2: I'm your host, John Harris, Football Analyst, side live report

956
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 2: of love being with you this evening because it means

957
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:10,719
Speaker 2: that the Texans are still playing football, and that is

958
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:11,760
Speaker 2: really really good stuff.

959
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 1: Because I owen three.

960
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 2: There are a lot of people thinking, well, they weren't

961
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 2: gonna be playing football, but winning twelve of the next

962
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 2: fourteen games, playing at a very high level all phases. Obviously,

963
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 2: the defense has played an incredible level all season long,

964
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:28,880
Speaker 2: but they got a big challenge against the Pittsburgh Steelers

965
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,879
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers. Texans have not beaten Aaron Rodgers since two

966
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 2: thousand and eight. In fact, at twenty twelve, he tore

967
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 2: them to shreds. In twenty sixteen up at Lambeau, playing

968
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:40,759
Speaker 2: with a bad hamstring, pulled that game out with a

969
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,280
Speaker 2: couple of just beautiful throws, one to Jordan Nelson beating

970
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 2: Charles James. Twenty twenty, he toyed with the Texans all day.

971
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 2: It was just it was sad to see. And then

972
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 2: last year with the Jets, he made two throws to

973
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,440
Speaker 2: Garrett Wilson. Now Wilson made a couple of tremendous catches,

974
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 2: but point being, he got it done that night. He

975
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 2: made a great Devontae Adams and sealed the deal. So

976
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 2: Texans have not beaten the an Aaron Rodgers led team

977
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:12,359
Speaker 2: since two thousand and eight when Namiko Ryans played as

978
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:15,680
Speaker 2: a linebacker on that team. So big challenge up ahead

979
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 2: against the Pittsburgh Steelers. All right, let's get to some news

980
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:22,400
Speaker 2: around the NFL and this there's all kinds of news.

981
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 2: There's draft news, there's injury news, there's coaching news. Now,

982
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 2: if you missed it yesterday, and we hit this during

983
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 2: the show, and it's been still a talking point today.

984
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 2: John Harbaugh fired by the Baltimore Ravens, and as shocking

985
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:45,200
Speaker 2: as it is to hear, once you start hearing reasons

986
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 2: and you start hearing well it's this, well, it's that

987
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 2: you start to realize that eighteen years is a long

988
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 2: time for somebody to be in charge. And at that

989
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 2: point the relationships start to wear thin, especially if you've

990
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:02,359
Speaker 2: won champapionships or not. They just get to a point

991
00:42:02,360 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 2: where you've been around each other, you have differing philosophies

992
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,319
Speaker 2: and you're like, man, I just need a break. It's

993
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:11,799
Speaker 2: like a lot of relationships. I mean, Belichick with the

994
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,760
Speaker 2: New England Patriots differ twenty years. Harball was in Baltimore

995
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 2: for eighteen they have gone their separate ways. And as

996
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 2: soon as that was announced, John Harbaugh's agent was inundated

997
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 2: with phone calls, not only with teams with openings, but

998
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 2: teams that don't have an opening currently, where coaches are

999
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 2: kind of.

1000
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:37,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you're our guy, but you know something

1001
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:39,879
Speaker 1: better comes along. You know I'm gonna jump on that. Well.

1002
00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 2: I don't know which team or teams it's been, but

1003
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 2: after about forty five minutes to an hour after he

1004
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:48,120
Speaker 2: was fired, his agents said, yeah, I got calls from

1005
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 2: like seven or eight teams. Well, there are only six

1006
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 2: openings other than the Ravens at that point. Now news

1007
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 2: the Ravens opening former Texan and a former Texan coach,

1008
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 2: Anthony Weaver is going to interview for that Ravens head

1009
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 2: coaching job. Now I am on record as saying a

1010
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 2: Anthony Weaver is one of my favorite people on the

1011
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:08,919
Speaker 2: face of the earth.

1012
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:10,720
Speaker 1: I love Weave.

1013
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 2: When we started radio Sean Pendergast and I back in

1014
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 2: two thousand and seven, Weave was our weekly guest and

1015
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 2: he would pop in every Monday, no matter he had

1016
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 2: a bone hanging out of his leg, he had a concussion,

1017
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,800
Speaker 2: it didn't matter. He was there with us. He was great.

1018
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 2: He is a tremendous leader of men. He has been

1019
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 2: the defense coordinatord out of Miami. He had been defensive

1020
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 2: line coach with the Texans. Weave would be a hell

1021
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 2: of an option for the Baltimore Ravens, a hell of

1022
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,759
Speaker 2: an option. So is a part of me that doesn't

1023
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 2: want him to get it, because I think the Ravens

1024
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 2: will take another step with Weave as head coach. But

1025
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:48,359
Speaker 2: him being a good friend of mine, I want him

1026
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:50,959
Speaker 2: to get that job, So Anthony Weaver will interview.

1027
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: For that job.

1028
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 2: John Harbaugh. Now the hardcore press is coming from the

1029
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 2: New York Giants. Apparently the Giants are all about John Harbaugh.

1030
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 2: And apparently Harbaugh has said, yeah, I got no issues

1031
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 2: with Joe Shane. So if we gotta do it Joe

1032
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 2: Shane and I, let's do it in New York. That

1033
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:12,840
Speaker 2: would be fascinating. Fascinating list of interviewees with the Tennessee Titans.

1034
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: Matt Naggi gonna be one of those guys.

1035
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:18,320
Speaker 2: Not surprising, you know, is Mike Burgonzi from the Kansas

1036
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 2: City Chief Days. There will be Mike McCarthy getting interview.

1037
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 2: There also will be a Jason Garrett interview, and I

1038
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 2: hope to God that happens. I hope it happens. I

1039
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 2: don't think it's any way it's going to, but be

1040
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 2: really nice. Chris Shula will get an interview from the

1041
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 2: Rams the Titans. I know Chris Shula will get a

1042
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 2: lot of run, not just the Titans this year. If

1043
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 2: he doesn't get a head coaching job, he'll stay with LA.

1044
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 2: He'll get one in the next two three years, no

1045
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 2: questions asked. He's going to be a really really good

1046
00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 2: head coach. Obviously grandson of Don Shula, defense coordinator for

1047
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,319
Speaker 2: mcvay's Rams. He does one hell of a job with

1048
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:59,879
Speaker 2: the Rams. So those are definitely ones to watch. Brian Ful,

1049
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 2: it's going to take an interview with the Arizona Cardinals

1050
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:05,839
Speaker 2: money Austin Fort. The GM spent a lot of time

1051
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:09,240
Speaker 2: with the Patriots, so he and Flores are very familiar

1052
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 2: with one another, and I think that's one thing that

1053
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:15,960
Speaker 2: organization needs maybe right now, is a little bit firmer hand.

1054
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 2: So we'll see Arizona Cardinals is going to interview Brian Flores,

1055
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:24,640
Speaker 2: the defense coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings, and a very

1056
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 2: good one at that. The Washington Commanders and Cliff Kingsbury

1057
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 2: offensive coordinator going to part ways after just two years now.

1058
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 2: It doesn't sound like it was a quote unquote firing,

1059
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:39,800
Speaker 2: but they've just decided to go separate ways.

1060
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: Same with Joe Witt.

1061
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 2: Now, Joe Witt had play calling yanked away from him

1062
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 2: by Dan Quinn, so you kind of could see that

1063
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:51,880
Speaker 2: one coming. Rumor has it in Washington that that was

1064
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 2: not dan Quinn's decision. Dan Quinn would have loved for

1065
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 2: Cliff Kingsbury to stay, but there are some people higher

1066
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:04,440
Speaker 2: up the front office that really wanted dan Quinn to

1067
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 2: make a different decision. That is interesting. One of the

1068
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 2: comments that I read, I actually know I was a

1069
00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 2: tweet I read, so it's actually from February of twenty

1070
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:20,239
Speaker 2: twenty four. Ben Johnson, who now is head coach of

1071
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:22,399
Speaker 2: the Bears, doing great job, candid for Coach of the Year,

1072
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 2: went up for his interview in Washington and one of

1073
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 2: the things he apparently told one of the Nugget Hussies

1074
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 2: was that there are a bunch of basketball guys that

1075
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 2: think they know football. That's Josh Harris, the owner. That's

1076
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:40,760
Speaker 2: Magic Johnson, one of the minority owners. So interesting stuff

1077
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 2: when you put it all together. What's going on in

1078
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 2: Washington with dan Quinn. Ty Simpson quarterback you were ce

1079
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 2: Alabama said he's had enough.

1080
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:49,720
Speaker 1: He's going to the NFL Draft.

1081
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 2: That is going to be an interesting interesting few months

1082
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 2: for ty Simpson and teams looking to add a quarterback.

1083
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:02,320
Speaker 2: Carnell Tait, high state wide receiver, also declaring for the draft,

1084
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:03,879
Speaker 2: had an excellent careert Ohio State.

1085
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 1: He will be a first rounder.

1086
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 2: And following the lines of numerous Ohio State first rounders,

1087
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:15,280
Speaker 2: Jackson Smith and Jigba Chrys o'lave, Garrett Wilson, Marvin Harrison Junior,

1088
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 2: just a litany of first round picks at Ohio State.

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Speaker 1: And Carnell Tate will be the next one.

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Speaker 2: All right, coming up next and Decalou Yes, one of

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Speaker 2: our faves.

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Speaker 1: He's on with us next on Texans All Access. All right,

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Speaker 1: we got one hour down and one hour left to go.

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Speaker 2: Right here on Texans All Access will take you up

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Speaker 2: to Area forty five at the top of the hour

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Speaker 2: at eight o'clock. I am your host this evening, John

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Speaker 2: Harris Football and a sideline reporter with some extra radio,

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Speaker 2: and I love it.

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Speaker 1: We've always done it this way.

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Speaker 2: When the season's over, we do that last Texans Monday

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Speaker 2: and we do that evening show. The coaches showed the

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Speaker 2: Evening show kind of signing off, closing. You'll put a

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Speaker 2: cap on the season and then that's it and then

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Speaker 2: we go dark until the Monday after the Super Bowl. Now,

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Speaker 2: my goal has always been, and our goal has always been,

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Speaker 2: that we're doing radio that entire time and there is

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Speaker 2: no break, because that would mean we've gone to the

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl and hopefully won that game and brought rings

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Speaker 2: back to the city of Houston. Not there yet, but

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Speaker 2: we do have extra radio as it sits right now,

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00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 2: so appreciate you guys being with me. We have extra

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Speaker 2: radio to do. That means Indy klu comes through in

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Speaker 2: the clutch for us. It's always fun to talk to Andy.

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00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 2: We had a really good conversation with Dy and it

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Speaker 2: hits right.

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Speaker 5: Here all right, and d here we go into the

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Speaker 5: postseason and want to get your reaction to a few things.

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Speaker 4: Let's go first of.

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Speaker 5: All, playing on a Monday night, you're out of that

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Speaker 5: Saturday early window and now you're on a Monday night

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Speaker 5: and it feels kind of weird to be there, but

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Speaker 5: that's what the schedule is.

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Speaker 4: Your thoughts on that, you know what.

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Speaker 8: I love the night game, especially for a playoff game.

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Speaker 8: You're gonna have the lights on, so you love that atmosphere.

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Speaker 8: But man, I guess I haven't really been paying attention

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Speaker 8: as much lately because when I did see playoff game

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Speaker 8: on Monday night, Mark, I had to do a double

1129
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Speaker 8: take and I was like, wait, hold on, what am

1130
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Speaker 8: I missing? I know, we definitely didn't have any playoff games,

1131
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Speaker 8: you know, on Monday night back when I played. So

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Speaker 8: it's kind of cool, and I like it for the

1133
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:19,640
Speaker 8: Texas because the running joke is that their first playoff

1134
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Speaker 8: game is always a twelve o'clock Central game, So this

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Speaker 8: is cool to have that Monday night pheel and the

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Speaker 8: playoff atmosphere.

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Speaker 2: And he as a player playing on Monday night, you

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Speaker 2: get an extra day of rest and then obviously play

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Speaker 2: at night, so you get a few more hours you

1140
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Speaker 2: can actually sleep in on Monday. And I know a

1141
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Speaker 2: lot of people are routine basically might get up and

1142
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Speaker 2: do whatever they got to do. But how valuable is

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00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 2: a full day of rest for both teams heading into

1144
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Speaker 2: a playoff game.

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Speaker 11: So I'll say this, it's valuable, But at the same time.

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Speaker 8: I don't know if it's appreciative or appreciated I should

1147
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Speaker 8: say because and it's you know, you ask different guys

1148
00:49:56,960 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 8: this question, you may get some different answers. But myself,

1149
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 8: a lot of people I've played with, a lot of

1150
00:50:01,960 --> 00:50:04,920
Speaker 8: the current players that I still talk to, they love

1151
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:08,320
Speaker 8: the idea of playing Monday night or any night game.

1152
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Speaker 11: Primetime, but they hate the process of waiting around.

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Speaker 8: Because you just mentioned it that there's a process and

1154
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Speaker 8: most of your games are going to be in the

1155
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Speaker 8: afternoon or that first game, so part of your process

1156
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Speaker 8: is just waking up, getting your day started.

1157
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Speaker 11: When you're sitting around and marinating your anxious state of

1158
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Speaker 11: mind and you're thinking about it all day, it kind

1159
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Speaker 11: of gets taxing on you mentally.

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Speaker 8: So I think for the body and for reasons that

1161
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 8: the current players might not appreciate the extra day.

1162
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Speaker 11: Playing at night definitely helps with recovery.

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Speaker 8: But man, you know, sitting around after watching the whole

1164
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Speaker 8: weekend of other playoff games and then having to wait

1165
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Speaker 8: till seven pm APM. I think a lot of those guys,

1166
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Speaker 8: you know, they're too anxious during that time.

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Speaker 13: M D.

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Speaker 5: Speed and intensity. We talk about it from training to preseason,

1169
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Speaker 5: from preseason to regular season. Now we're going regular season

1170
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Speaker 5: to the postseason. How much of a factor is that

1171
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 5: everybody turning it up A not your three heading into

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Speaker 5: the playoffs thoughts.

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Speaker 8: I don't know how many gears are in supercars and

1174
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 8: ferraris and a beanis, but yeah, yeah, this is when

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Speaker 8: you put it in the final gear. And it's amazing

1176
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Speaker 8: because any player will tell you they're going all out.

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Speaker 11: They're given one hundred percent. During the regular.

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Speaker 8: Season, and to feel you actually feel the intensity and

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00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 8: the fans feeling too. I've talked to a lot of

1180
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:35,920
Speaker 8: fans mark where they just discussed the energy in the

1181
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 8: room between compared from a regular season game to a

1182
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:42,799
Speaker 8: playoff game. So it's there. It gets faster, the hits

1183
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:44,720
Speaker 8: get harder, and it gets a little bit more intense.

1184
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Speaker 2: And then you face a guy like Aaron Rodgers. Indeed,

1185
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:50,279
Speaker 2: the one side of it is you know where he's

1186
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:52,920
Speaker 2: going to be in the pocket. He ain't going really

1187
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:55,400
Speaker 2: really far now. He can move a little bit, but

1188
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 2: he's not like he used to be. He might have

1189
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:01,719
Speaker 2: one scramble here there to be careful in some regards.

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Speaker 2: But I'm asking this, how important are your ears on

1191
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:07,720
Speaker 2: Monday night when you face a guy like Aaron Rodgers

1192
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,239
Speaker 2: because all the different checks he'll make, and maybe you

1193
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,200
Speaker 2: catch something earlier in the game because he's moving a

1194
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 2: protection or he's changing something, and you're like, hey, I

1195
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:16,760
Speaker 2: heard a word mayonnaise.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what does mayonnaise mean? Well, you use it later

1197
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Speaker 1: in a game.

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Speaker 2: And oh, I remember, how important are your ears for

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Speaker 2: a defensive lineman to try and maybe hear something that

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Speaker 2: Rogers changes or changes too in a game that you

1201
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Speaker 2: can apply to your game that gives you maybe a

1202
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Speaker 2: hint or a tip or is that just too much?

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Speaker 1: You just got to play what you see.

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Speaker 11: No, that's not too much. I mean that's what the

1205
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Speaker 11: pros do. John.

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Speaker 8: So, I think it's huge when you talk about a

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Speaker 8: guy like Aaron Rodgers. He has the experience. You know,

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Speaker 8: he does a lot of talking, he has the checkdowns,

1209
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:50,719
Speaker 8: and if you can get a beat on that, that's

1210
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Speaker 8: part of what makes him great. So if you can

1211
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Speaker 8: get a lead on what he's hinting at with what

1212
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:59,359
Speaker 8: he's saying, I think that's huge because in this game

1213
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:01,960
Speaker 8: you're gonna need every advantage that you can get, especially

1214
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:03,480
Speaker 8: when you're playing against the first.

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Speaker 11: Ballot Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, what about guys like this, I asked Nick Cassario,

1217
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Speaker 5: this ND guys like Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady when he

1218
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Speaker 5: played Peyton Manning.

1219
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 4: You have Matthew Stafford.

1220
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 5: Now we saw with Philip Rivers a bit who can

1221
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:18,040
Speaker 5: stand at the line of scrimmage say a whole lot.

1222
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 5: To me, it's you're saying a whole lot of stuff

1223
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 5: and it has meaning. But what about that as a

1224
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 5: defensive player when you're in your stance, and you have

1225
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:29,320
Speaker 5: to decipher what is going on with these wily veterans

1226
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Speaker 5: like Rogers.

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00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 8: The further you go back in the defense, the further

1228
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 8: those guys have to decipher, or the more they have

1229
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:38,800
Speaker 8: to decipher with all the talking. As a d lineman,

1230
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 8: you just want to know, Okay, what's the snap count,

1231
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:43,040
Speaker 8: what's the cadence, what's the feel.

1232
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 11: Then with the linebackers, you do want to pay a

1233
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,320
Speaker 11: little bit more attention to the verbiage. Am I tipping something?

1234
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:52,000
Speaker 8: Am I noticing the same call when I'm lined up

1235
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 8: in a certain stance over a certain gap. So it

1236
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 8: means more than obviously for the defensive backs, anything you

1237
00:53:57,680 --> 00:54:00,360
Speaker 8: can hear that might help you with cover or the

1238
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 8: rount's going to be that much more important. So again,

1239
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 8: this is the playoffs. You win and you go to

1240
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 8: the next round, you lose and go home. I think

1241
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 8: any of it is an advantage if you can get

1242
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:13,840
Speaker 8: some kind of tip, especially when you played with these older,

1243
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:14,800
Speaker 8: savvy veterans.

1244
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, and the Texans have faced Rogers before, but how

1245
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:20,760
Speaker 5: important do you think it is in practice for Mills

1246
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 5: or Mertz or whoever is impersonating Rogers to do all

1247
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:27,760
Speaker 5: those dummy counts or I know you're not coming. Yeah,

1248
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 5: this guy's not going anywhere. This guy's staying down. He

1249
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:32,520
Speaker 5: does stuff like that the other night. It was really

1250
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:35,799
Speaker 5: interesting during that Sunday night broadcast. You could hear what

1251
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 5: he was saying at the line, and often he's trying

1252
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:40,279
Speaker 5: to tell his own teammates. I know what all these

1253
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:42,839
Speaker 5: guys are doing, whether he does or not. But how

1254
00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:45,400
Speaker 5: intimidating is that as a defensive player And would it

1255
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:48,040
Speaker 5: help for them to hear that kind of crap. I'll

1256
00:54:48,040 --> 00:54:51,239
Speaker 5: call it crap in practice because some of it is

1257
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:53,759
Speaker 5: I want to get after him, and I want these

1258
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:55,719
Speaker 5: guys to be immune to that kind of talk at

1259
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:56,280
Speaker 5: the line.

1260
00:54:56,760 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 8: Now, anything you can do to simulate the quarterback you're

1261
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 8: playing against, and it's not just about simulation when you

1262
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 8: play an athletic quarterback, so you put a receiver understand them.

1263
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:09,360
Speaker 8: But anything whether it's movements, body language, how long he

1264
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:12,600
Speaker 8: takes in the huddle, that's only going to help your team,

1265
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:14,680
Speaker 8: and it's only going to help the defense kind of

1266
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:16,359
Speaker 8: already get into the groove.

1267
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:19,439
Speaker 11: Of how this thing's gonna look and feel. But yeah,

1268
00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:20,240
Speaker 11: that's big.

1269
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Speaker 8: And I'll also say this with many of the dummy calls,

1270
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Speaker 8: you know, when the legit cadence is being said, Like

1271
00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:29,839
Speaker 8: a lot of times, they'll go up there and there

1272
00:55:29,880 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 8: isn't any rhythm to it and it just start to hut.

1273
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 8: Then they start calling people out. Then they pause and

1274
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 8: do it again, and that's when you know, Okay, this

1275
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:40,280
Speaker 8: is the snack count that truly matters.

1276
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Speaker 2: Indeed, nobody will I think that we'll talk to you

1277
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 2: this week. We'll be able to appreciate what Cam Hayward

1278
00:55:47,719 --> 00:55:51,280
Speaker 2: has done for the Steelers more than you, because you've

1279
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:54,480
Speaker 2: played in the trenches. You've been in there a decade

1280
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:58,320
Speaker 2: plus in the league. This guy has played double digit

1281
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:04,239
Speaker 2: games for four thirteen of his fifteen seasons fourteen to

1282
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 2: fifteen seasons. He had an eleven game season in twenty

1283
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,640
Speaker 2: twenty three, and he had a seven game season at

1284
00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:14,520
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. Every other year he has played fifteen, sixteen,

1285
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:20,880
Speaker 2: or seventeen games. It fascinates me that the probably the

1286
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:24,440
Speaker 2: most important player on the field, maybe on both sides,

1287
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:29,359
Speaker 2: is a thirty six year old interior defensive lineman who

1288
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:33,480
Speaker 2: leads the Steelers and leads defensive tackles. I'm sorry, defensive tackles.

1289
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:38,879
Speaker 2: In tackles. He has seventy eight this year. How impressive

1290
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:42,799
Speaker 2: is what Cam Hayward is doing as the focal point

1291
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:45,800
Speaker 2: of that defense as a thirty six year old man.

1292
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:48,640
Speaker 8: I'm so glad you gave him his flowers. Like you mentioned,

1293
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:52,319
Speaker 8: I played twelve years. Most of those years, you know,

1294
00:56:52,360 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 8: I was a role player while come in on certain packages.

1295
00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:58,800
Speaker 8: And after twelve years, my body was was just done.

1296
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 8: And for Cam Hayward to be thirty six years old,

1297
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:06,239
Speaker 8: you know, it's consistently on the field. It's not like

1298
00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 8: you see a bunch of seasons where he missed X

1299
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:11,640
Speaker 8: amount of games like you mentioned. For him to still

1300
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:14,799
Speaker 8: be in it and still be as active and productive

1301
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 8: as he is, that's amazing. And with guys like this,

1302
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 8: and I talked about it about Bruce Matthews, when they're

1303
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:24,600
Speaker 8: in the trenches and they're playing consistently, their starters and

1304
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 8: they play these they have these fourteen to fifteen year careers.

1305
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:31,400
Speaker 8: To me, that's more important than the quarterback, or it's

1306
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 8: more impressive, I should say, not important, impressive than the

1307
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:38,680
Speaker 8: quarterback who plays eighteen nineteen years. Because you got five

1308
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:41,880
Speaker 8: six guys you know, who are tasked just to protect you.

1309
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 8: So no, it's gonna be fun watching Cameron Hayward. But

1310
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:48,120
Speaker 8: hopefully after this game he'll be contemplating whether or not

1311
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:49,120
Speaker 8: he's gonna retire.

1312
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:49,440
Speaker 11: Or come back.

1313
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 5: Okay, and d it's playoff time and I know you

1314
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:56,160
Speaker 5: love Will Anderson Junior and Danielle Hunter is on the

1315
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:59,000
Speaker 5: other side. So you have terminator in Cyborg. I'm gonna

1316
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:02,960
Speaker 5: throw this at you as a tandem. Since the Texans

1317
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 5: have come into existence, there have only been five duos

1318
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:09,600
Speaker 5: to get double digit sacks, both of them on each side,

1319
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 5: and the others are James Harrison, Lamar Woodley in two

1320
00:58:13,520 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 5: thousand and eight they won the Super Bowl, Kalaiis Campbell

1321
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 5: and Yannick and Gokway.

1322
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:20,240
Speaker 1: How about that?

1323
00:58:20,520 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 5: How about that of the Jaguars in twenty seventeen, but

1324
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:26,760
Speaker 5: they went to an AFC championship game twenty nineteen, Preston Smith,

1325
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:28,840
Speaker 5: Zadarias Smith, Green Bay, they went.

1326
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:30,360
Speaker 4: To an NFC championship game.

1327
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 5: And you've got the one that didn't go that far,

1328
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:37,560
Speaker 5: Mario Williams and Marcel Tarius twenty fourteen, Buffalo. All right,

1329
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 5: so that's the outlier. But your thoughts on having a

1330
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:42,680
Speaker 5: duo like this now we get to see them eat

1331
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 5: in the playoffs along with the rest of the guys.

1332
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 8: Oh it's huge because when you talk about the great quarterbacks,

1333
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 8: you're gonna see the deeper you go into the playoffs.

1334
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 8: How do you beat those guys? You put pressure on them,

1335
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:57,240
Speaker 8: you sacked them, make sure they're not comfortable. And I

1336
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,800
Speaker 8: think that's why you see the teams had success with

1337
00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 8: the duo of double digit sack tandem. So I think

1338
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 8: it's very important and this is actually the reason. And

1339
00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:09,880
Speaker 8: I want to make sure I don't say anything that

1340
00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 8: becomes you know that you can throw in my face

1341
00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:14,400
Speaker 8: after the game. But this is part of the reason

1342
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:17,480
Speaker 8: why I was a little bit more excited about the

1343
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:20,720
Speaker 8: Packers winning for the Texans matchup, because I just get

1344
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:24,800
Speaker 8: the sense that Will Anderson Danielle Hunter are going to

1345
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:28,400
Speaker 8: pressure and affect Aaron Rodgers more so than they would

1346
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 8: have done with Lamar Jackson with.

1347
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 11: The designed to run. So I'm very excited about the

1348
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:36,680
Speaker 11: impact of those two guys. And trust me, Aaron Rodgers

1349
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:38,280
Speaker 11: is going to feel it early and off.

1350
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:40,480
Speaker 5: You said Packers, and I know you meant Steelers, but

1351
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 5: we're all doing it.

1352
00:59:42,040 --> 00:59:44,320
Speaker 1: I'm doing it too well.

1353
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:46,040
Speaker 2: I think it goes to prove a point, and that

1354
00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:50,120
Speaker 2: is there are places and there are teams that because

1355
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:53,440
Speaker 2: when we grew up, that just resonate with us in

1356
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:54,000
Speaker 2: the playoffs.

1357
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:56,000
Speaker 1: And the Packers and the Steelers are two though, So

1358
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:56,520
Speaker 1: I ask.

1359
00:59:56,360 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 4: You this because Aaron Rodgers, yeah, Aarons branded.

1360
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:04,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, But there are also places that just scream playoffs,

1361
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 2: teams that scream playoffs.

1362
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:07,640
Speaker 1: I remember twenty sixteen we played the Raiders.

1363
01:00:08,080 --> 01:00:10,280
Speaker 2: That felt like a playoff game, even though the Raiders

1364
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:12,280
Speaker 2: stunk at that point, it was like, it's.

1365
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:13,640
Speaker 1: The Raiders in the playoffs.

1366
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 2: Was there a place or a team for you, indeed,

1367
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:18,720
Speaker 2: when you were in the playoffs where it's just like

1368
01:00:19,160 --> 01:00:23,480
Speaker 2: this just screams playoff football. The team you're playing, the

1369
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:26,320
Speaker 2: place you're playing. Was there any place or team like

1370
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:27,760
Speaker 2: that when you were playing.

1371
01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:32,640
Speaker 8: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, you know with Warren Sap, Yeah, Ronde

1372
01:00:32,800 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 8: Barber and that was our Accusties Hill. For whatever reason,

1373
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 8: even when we were the higher seed we were hosting them,

1374
01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:45,280
Speaker 8: they just felt like they were supposed to be there

1375
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:48,080
Speaker 8: because we're so used to seeing them in the playoffs

1376
01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:50,480
Speaker 8: that have the success similar to what you mentioned, and

1377
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 8: why besides Aaron Rodgers.

1378
01:00:52,160 --> 01:00:53,880
Speaker 11: You know, I'm thinking of the Packers right now.

1379
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:56,160
Speaker 8: And it's funny because we're seeing that changing up the

1380
01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:59,800
Speaker 8: guard now because you know, some of these teams aren't

1381
01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:03,040
Speaker 8: in Kansas City Chiefs Joe Burrow and Ivy team that

1382
01:01:03,040 --> 01:01:04,720
Speaker 8: we just expected to be in the playoffs.

1383
01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:07,120
Speaker 11: It's a different team. So I like that we're seeing

1384
01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:07,840
Speaker 11: that transition.

1385
01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:10,720
Speaker 5: And Dee, I know you talk to a lot of

1386
01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:12,640
Speaker 5: people as you're doing a lot of business. You do

1387
01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:15,600
Speaker 5: a lot of business in the Houston community, but everybody's

1388
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 5: asking you about the Texans, and one of the biggest

1389
01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 5: questions are most often asked questions you get I'm betting,

1390
01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:24,480
Speaker 5: is what about this offense?

1391
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:27,440
Speaker 4: Can they do it? Can they do what they need to.

1392
01:01:27,440 --> 01:01:30,440
Speaker 5: Do along with the defense to get the Texans to

1393
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:33,040
Speaker 5: advance repeatedly in the postseason.

1394
01:01:33,360 --> 01:01:35,480
Speaker 4: What is your answer to that question?

1395
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:39,360
Speaker 8: I feel like it's a very simple answer. And Cija

1396
01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 8: Stroud has to continue continue these improvements that we've seen

1397
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:47,600
Speaker 8: over the weeks because you have to have that big

1398
01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:52,160
Speaker 8: forty point thirty point game on offense to allow your

1399
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:54,200
Speaker 8: defense not to have to be perfect every time. So

1400
01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:56,840
Speaker 8: I just think it and ce Jason Gott when I

1401
01:01:56,840 --> 01:01:59,360
Speaker 8: say falls on his shoulders is because you still have

1402
01:01:59,400 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 8: an offensive line that you need to work with. You're

1403
01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:04,160
Speaker 8: still trying to figure out who you're running back is.

1404
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:06,480
Speaker 8: You do know what Nico Collins cann do. But I

1405
01:02:06,520 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 8: just think with CJ. Stratt, if he plays to his ceiling,

1406
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:13,120
Speaker 8: it can get very very interesting and all aspects of

1407
01:02:13,160 --> 01:02:14,440
Speaker 8: the offense will improve.

1408
01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:17,160
Speaker 2: Indeed, we got to see our guy, British Brooks run

1409
01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:21,920
Speaker 2: the ball on Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts. Now, Mark

1410
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:24,080
Speaker 2: and I've talked about this is pressing in a sense

1411
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:25,120
Speaker 2: for this kind.

1412
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 1: Of week eighteen.

1413
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:27,320
Speaker 2: Hey, you get some carries sort of thing and it

1414
01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:30,320
Speaker 2: turns into playoff production. That was Taiwan Jones back in

1415
01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:34,120
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen. I know the Texans could potentially have all

1416
01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:37,480
Speaker 2: guys healthy at the running back position, but what you're

1417
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 2: able to see from British.

1418
01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:40,240
Speaker 1: Was pretty impressive.

1419
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:42,400
Speaker 2: Do you think that maybe earns him a few more

1420
01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:46,600
Speaker 2: carries and maybe even just certain short yardage situations on

1421
01:02:46,640 --> 01:02:47,920
Speaker 2: Monday Night against the Steelers.

1422
01:02:48,640 --> 01:02:51,439
Speaker 8: I would love to see that and maybe, Look, your

1423
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:53,640
Speaker 8: production is fresh in the mind of the coaches, so

1424
01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:56,640
Speaker 8: when they're sitting there and putting their packages together a

1425
01:02:56,680 --> 01:02:59,120
Speaker 8: short down package. Yeah, I'm sure they're going to think

1426
01:02:59,120 --> 01:03:02,000
Speaker 8: about the five yards a pop he seems to average

1427
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:05,040
Speaker 8: and the fact that he was running the way he looks.

1428
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:08,520
Speaker 8: This is what we expected from him in preseason. Yep,

1429
01:03:09,080 --> 01:03:12,720
Speaker 8: you just didn't really get that opportunity to get the Carris.

1430
01:03:12,760 --> 01:03:15,560
Speaker 8: But I'm with you, don because right now you want

1431
01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:18,440
Speaker 8: to do something a little bit different and you're going

1432
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:21,240
Speaker 8: to be remembering what we saw the British Brooks. So

1433
01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:24,200
Speaker 8: when you had that big package in the game, you know,

1434
01:03:24,320 --> 01:03:25,959
Speaker 8: his name could be front of lines and that would

1435
01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:27,280
Speaker 8: be very, very fun to watch.

1436
01:03:27,640 --> 01:03:30,240
Speaker 5: So Andy, I've been throwing this one out there that

1437
01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:34,520
Speaker 5: you have won games on the road this year that

1438
01:03:34,600 --> 01:03:38,680
Speaker 5: were big games, Chargers, Colts and the Chiefs in the cold,

1439
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:42,000
Speaker 5: and stay with me on this because I think getting

1440
01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 5: over that hump was huge and maybe inspirational and helpful

1441
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:48,600
Speaker 5: as you face the Steelers on a cold night, cold

1442
01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:50,840
Speaker 5: for Houstonians anyway, for the Steelers, they might be in

1443
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:53,680
Speaker 5: beach weather mode for their fans, I don't know, but

1444
01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:56,640
Speaker 5: you know, thirty two, maybe twenty five, whatever the temp

1445
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:59,160
Speaker 5: is going to be. And then you look at the

1446
01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:02,120
Speaker 5: fact that they outside of the postseason before, haven't won,

1447
01:04:02,520 --> 01:04:04,880
Speaker 5: but they've been there, so they know what they're dealing with.

1448
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:08,280
Speaker 5: They have experience. And look, not everybody because teams change

1449
01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:10,880
Speaker 5: year to year, but the bulk of these guys, a

1450
01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:14,240
Speaker 5: core group of these players have experienced this. How much

1451
01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:16,960
Speaker 5: does that help them as they take on the Steelers

1452
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:17,480
Speaker 5: Monday night?

1453
01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:21,240
Speaker 8: That really helps because when you're talking to the young

1454
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:25,080
Speaker 8: guys and you're trying to explain to them and convince

1455
01:04:25,160 --> 01:04:27,439
Speaker 8: them that hey, it gets faster, it gets a little

1456
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:30,360
Speaker 8: bit more intense. This is how you prepare for a

1457
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:33,880
Speaker 8: playoff game, not just when you're at the facilities.

1458
01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:35,680
Speaker 11: But when you go home, like you have to truly

1459
01:04:35,760 --> 01:04:36,400
Speaker 11: be all in.

1460
01:04:36,840 --> 01:04:39,000
Speaker 8: I think it's big to have guys with that experience

1461
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:41,520
Speaker 8: mark because it's not just on game day. It's not

1462
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:43,840
Speaker 8: just kind of keeping them calm and ready to go

1463
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:46,680
Speaker 8: on game day. It's really getting them know how to

1464
01:04:46,920 --> 01:04:49,400
Speaker 8: prepare for it, how to prepare for the extra weeks

1465
01:04:49,440 --> 01:04:51,800
Speaker 8: that you want to be playing again. So it's big

1466
01:04:51,840 --> 01:04:54,280
Speaker 8: to have that kind of experience all the team, mainly

1467
01:04:54,320 --> 01:04:56,760
Speaker 8: to guy, the young guys and the guys that haven't

1468
01:04:56,800 --> 01:04:57,680
Speaker 8: had that experience.

1469
01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:03,120
Speaker 2: Indeed, what playoff game still to this day resonates you,

1470
01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:06,160
Speaker 2: good or bad. Which playoff game for you that you

1471
01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:09,360
Speaker 2: played in still resonates, whether you want or you lost.

1472
01:05:09,920 --> 01:05:11,960
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of times guys remember losses.

1473
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:14,720
Speaker 2: They stick in their head because man, or something, we

1474
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:17,280
Speaker 2: were so close to this and that what playoff game

1475
01:05:17,360 --> 01:05:17,960
Speaker 2: is it for you?

1476
01:05:18,040 --> 01:05:18,600
Speaker 1: That does that?

1477
01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:24,280
Speaker 8: The NFC Championship game against the Carolina Panthers when they

1478
01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 8: upset us the Philadelphia Eagles and went to the Super Bowl,

1479
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:30,720
Speaker 8: and the Super Bowl was played in Houston. In Houston,

1480
01:05:31,120 --> 01:05:33,640
Speaker 8: and I heard from the guys playing in the Super Bowl.

1481
01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:35,960
Speaker 11: Man, we're practicing at Rice University there.

1482
01:05:36,320 --> 01:05:41,000
Speaker 8: Oh, that would really hurt because we were favored.

1483
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:42,000
Speaker 11: To win in that game.

1484
01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:45,080
Speaker 8: I was having, me personally, one of my best seasons

1485
01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:48,120
Speaker 8: as a starter, and for whatever reason, we just laid

1486
01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:50,800
Speaker 8: an egg against the Carolina Panthers. And I just feel

1487
01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:54,520
Speaker 8: like that should have been me, you know, selfishly practicing

1488
01:05:54,520 --> 01:05:57,000
Speaker 8: and getting ready for the Super Bowl at Rice University.

1489
01:05:57,960 --> 01:06:00,080
Speaker 5: You know, it's funny that that jumped out to you.

1490
01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:03,120
Speaker 5: And you've been in some winning games too, no question

1491
01:06:03,120 --> 01:06:05,200
Speaker 5: about it now with the Texans, but with the Eagles

1492
01:06:05,560 --> 01:06:06,640
Speaker 5: now I.

1493
01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:09,840
Speaker 4: Want to go here. Do losses stay with you? More

1494
01:06:09,960 --> 01:06:10,760
Speaker 4: than wins.

1495
01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:16,080
Speaker 5: The high highs are awesome and they're part of your DNA.

1496
01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:18,480
Speaker 4: Really, But I'll give you an example.

1497
01:06:18,520 --> 01:06:20,959
Speaker 5: I was watching the Catholics and Convicts thirty for thirty

1498
01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:23,800
Speaker 5: with the Miami Hurricanes and Notre Dame, and they're interviewing

1499
01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:26,400
Speaker 5: Jimmy Johnson and all these Kanes that participated in that game.

1500
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:29,840
Speaker 5: These guys won championships, but they're so bitter about that loss.

1501
01:06:30,040 --> 01:06:32,240
Speaker 5: They carry it with them forever. It's like they were

1502
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:35,080
Speaker 5: reliving it as they were talking about it. How do

1503
01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:39,120
Speaker 5: you feel about losses versus wins staying with you long term?

1504
01:06:39,760 --> 01:06:41,960
Speaker 8: No, for whatever reason. And I just think that's how

1505
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:45,600
Speaker 8: we're wired as humans. You know, we tend to gravitate

1506
01:06:45,640 --> 01:06:50,040
Speaker 8: towards the bad news, the negativity. But as john was

1507
01:06:50,120 --> 01:06:52,880
Speaker 8: asking that question before he even finished, because and he

1508
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:56,960
Speaker 8: specified good or bad, that Carolina game is just what

1509
01:06:57,160 --> 01:07:00,600
Speaker 8: jumped out. And I guess there's a few of what

1510
01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:04,320
Speaker 8: could have been that stronger than Okay, we know what

1511
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:07,840
Speaker 8: happened when we did win. Because now that you asked

1512
01:07:07,840 --> 01:07:10,600
Speaker 8: that question, I'm thinking, Okay, quit being a negative Nancy.

1513
01:07:10,880 --> 01:07:17,160
Speaker 8: There are some, you know, enjoyable memories I have from

1514
01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:19,280
Speaker 8: many playoff wins.

1515
01:07:19,640 --> 01:07:21,800
Speaker 5: All right, I've got another one for you, and this

1516
01:07:21,840 --> 01:07:23,600
Speaker 5: one hurts a bit. It hurts me a bit, but

1517
01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:26,200
Speaker 5: it really shouldn't and I'm trying to just digest it

1518
01:07:26,240 --> 01:07:30,960
Speaker 5: properly because it really doesn't matter. But the Texans don't

1519
01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:33,600
Speaker 5: have the number one scoring defense in the league. Fewest

1520
01:07:33,600 --> 01:07:37,840
Speaker 5: points allowed belongs to the Seahawks. Points per game allowed.

1521
01:07:38,280 --> 01:07:42,320
Speaker 5: They allowed two tenths of a point less average per game,

1522
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:45,880
Speaker 5: two tenths of a point less than the Texans. So

1523
01:07:45,920 --> 01:07:48,880
Speaker 5: the Seahawks win the number one slot, Texans number two,

1524
01:07:49,240 --> 01:07:51,760
Speaker 5: number one in total yards. How much do you think

1525
01:07:51,880 --> 01:07:54,760
Speaker 5: the team is upset about this? And how much would

1526
01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:57,640
Speaker 5: you be upset about that? Because everyone talks about legion

1527
01:07:57,640 --> 01:08:00,520
Speaker 5: to boom and historic defense and gosh, been great to

1528
01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:02,800
Speaker 5: get that number one up there, even though it really

1529
01:08:02,840 --> 01:08:04,640
Speaker 5: doesn't matter. You have to win to the postseason. Who

1530
01:08:04,640 --> 01:08:06,680
Speaker 5: cares if you're fifteenth or first. As long as you

1531
01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:10,120
Speaker 5: play well in the next four games, that's what matters most.

1532
01:08:10,320 --> 01:08:11,880
Speaker 5: But what do you think of what I just said?

1533
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:16,080
Speaker 8: Oh, the guys were very, very ticked off. Like you guys,

1534
01:08:16,320 --> 01:08:20,280
Speaker 8: they're competitors. There's something to be said regardless of how

1535
01:08:20,360 --> 01:08:22,680
Speaker 8: your season ends when you can say I was part

1536
01:08:22,720 --> 01:08:26,160
Speaker 8: of the number one defense in the entire NFL on

1537
01:08:26,520 --> 01:08:29,320
Speaker 8: any given year, that means a lot. And for them

1538
01:08:29,360 --> 01:08:32,559
Speaker 8: to lose it, especially with that margin that you just mentioned,

1539
01:08:32,800 --> 01:08:35,200
Speaker 8: and all year it just felt like it was the

1540
01:08:35,240 --> 01:08:37,479
Speaker 8: Houston Texans who were going to finish number one in

1541
01:08:37,520 --> 01:08:41,360
Speaker 8: that very important stat box. I know they might give

1542
01:08:41,400 --> 01:08:44,559
Speaker 8: you the you know, the correct answer, Oh, it's all

1543
01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:47,599
Speaker 8: about the team and we only care if we can

1544
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:49,920
Speaker 8: win a Super Bowl. But no, those guys on defense

1545
01:08:50,040 --> 01:08:52,920
Speaker 8: is obvious by the way that they play. I know

1546
01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:55,000
Speaker 8: more than half of them are a little bit upset

1547
01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:57,760
Speaker 8: that Seattle's holder the number one spot dn D.

1548
01:08:58,360 --> 01:09:03,080
Speaker 2: The last couple of weeks, I've seen people, I say people,

1549
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:08,439
Speaker 2: media people, other people, football nerds, whatever, but like, oh, yeah,

1550
01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:11,080
Speaker 2: but the Texans defense, they gave up big chunk plays.

1551
01:09:11,080 --> 01:09:13,920
Speaker 2: They gave up big chunk plays. But they gave up

1552
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:17,000
Speaker 2: chunk plays with guys that aren't going to be starters.

1553
01:09:17,560 --> 01:09:21,040
Speaker 2: But is that a concern about giving up big chunk plays,

1554
01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:23,600
Speaker 2: especially in the passing game. I know they gave up

1555
01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:25,080
Speaker 2: to a couple of runs or the one run to

1556
01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:27,040
Speaker 2: gent and then the long past the Gent and that

1557
01:09:27,400 --> 01:09:30,200
Speaker 2: obviously featured a starter who then played very very well

1558
01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:32,599
Speaker 2: the next week Henry to Ata. But do the chunk

1559
01:09:32,600 --> 01:09:36,080
Speaker 2: plays and the explosive plays worry you when the full

1560
01:09:36,120 --> 01:09:37,120
Speaker 2: group is together?

1561
01:09:38,600 --> 01:09:42,400
Speaker 8: No, not with this group, you know, if we're specifying

1562
01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:45,920
Speaker 8: this group, because I get the sense that Demico Rans

1563
01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:49,519
Speaker 8: is doing what a lot of the great defensive minds do.

1564
01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:53,320
Speaker 8: When you have those chunk plays, regardless of who's in,

1565
01:09:53,960 --> 01:09:56,920
Speaker 8: whether it's a backup thir string or a starter, usually

1566
01:09:56,960 --> 01:09:59,400
Speaker 8: that means it was more of an ny you know,

1567
01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:03,200
Speaker 8: mental era, and I like those going into the playoffs

1568
01:10:03,200 --> 01:10:06,519
Speaker 8: when you have a good mature team, because you're showing like, hey,

1569
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:09,840
Speaker 8: something in our system broke down. It doesn't matter if

1570
01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 8: it's stingly, doesn't matter if it's its backup or if

1571
01:10:12,479 --> 01:10:15,040
Speaker 8: it's backup backup. The fact that we had this NDE

1572
01:10:15,200 --> 01:10:18,040
Speaker 8: means that we're not all on the same pagementally. So

1573
01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:20,840
Speaker 8: I don't want to say I like a bunch of them, yeah,

1574
01:10:20,920 --> 01:10:23,000
Speaker 8: but I like that you have that to coach up on,

1575
01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:25,599
Speaker 8: and when you have a good mature team, then you're

1576
01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:27,200
Speaker 8: not making the same mistakes twice.

1577
01:10:27,439 --> 01:10:30,120
Speaker 4: How about my take on this what Johnny just said?

1578
01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:33,599
Speaker 5: Arizona the Raiders and the Colts three of the last

1579
01:10:33,640 --> 01:10:36,559
Speaker 5: four down the stretch. I'm not saying these weren't important games,

1580
01:10:36,680 --> 01:10:39,200
Speaker 5: especially Arizona and the Raiders. You had to win those games.

1581
01:10:39,479 --> 01:10:42,440
Speaker 5: It just wasn't the same as far as the competition.

1582
01:10:42,560 --> 01:10:45,559
Speaker 5: And I think this defense got up for the Charger

1583
01:10:45,640 --> 01:10:47,880
Speaker 5: game the way you want to see them up for

1584
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:50,800
Speaker 5: a game, and they took care of their business in

1585
01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:51,400
Speaker 5: that one.

1586
01:10:51,880 --> 01:10:53,920
Speaker 4: And d is there's some human nature to that.

1587
01:10:54,120 --> 01:10:56,800
Speaker 5: When you're playing the Raiders and Cardinals, it's like eh,

1588
01:10:56,840 --> 01:10:58,840
Speaker 5: and then the Colts the last game of the regular season,

1589
01:10:58,880 --> 01:10:59,800
Speaker 5: you don't really need it.

1590
01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:00,640
Speaker 4: I'd like to get it.

1591
01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:02,320
Speaker 5: You know, you're gonna sit if you're a starter at

1592
01:11:02,320 --> 01:11:04,599
Speaker 5: some point, probably if the Jags have the big lead.

1593
01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:06,960
Speaker 5: Is there some human nature coming into play there?

1594
01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:10,600
Speaker 8: I think so, And it's not something that you're controlling.

1595
01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:13,559
Speaker 8: Is just like you mentioned, its human nature. You want

1596
01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:15,320
Speaker 8: to get up for every game. You want to get

1597
01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:18,559
Speaker 8: up because it's monoly mono. It's you against that guy

1598
01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:20,240
Speaker 8: in front of you, so you want to get up

1599
01:11:20,280 --> 01:11:23,800
Speaker 8: for that. But especially when you get the sense that

1600
01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:28,759
Speaker 8: coaches are having more of your backups, your reserves playing,

1601
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:31,760
Speaker 8: they're having more of rotation because even in their mind,

1602
01:11:31,800 --> 01:11:33,680
Speaker 8: they're just trying to get through the game. Yeah, it

1603
01:11:33,720 --> 01:11:36,360
Speaker 8: does kind of bring that stinger down, but that's when

1604
01:11:36,360 --> 01:11:39,120
Speaker 8: you expect and hope that the guys who typically don't

1605
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:42,120
Speaker 8: play getting that extra playing time, they keep the intensity

1606
01:11:42,240 --> 01:11:43,639
Speaker 8: level behind Andy.

1607
01:11:44,040 --> 01:11:46,160
Speaker 2: How important is it for the Texans to jump out

1608
01:11:46,200 --> 01:11:48,839
Speaker 2: to an early lead, Well, it's three nothing to seven nothing, whatever.

1609
01:11:49,240 --> 01:11:52,680
Speaker 2: How important is it that they land the first haymaker,

1610
01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:54,280
Speaker 2: land the first big blow?

1611
01:11:55,439 --> 01:11:55,599
Speaker 13: Oh?

1612
01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:56,040
Speaker 11: I like that.

1613
01:11:56,320 --> 01:11:58,800
Speaker 8: I think it's very important, especially with the Texans being

1614
01:11:58,840 --> 01:12:02,520
Speaker 8: on the road and especially playing against the Steelers, and

1615
01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:05,080
Speaker 8: we all know about that fan base. If you can

1616
01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:08,479
Speaker 8: hit them early, If Danil Hunter, will Anderson, whoever it

1617
01:12:08,520 --> 01:12:11,439
Speaker 8: may be, can can make a big play and a

1618
01:12:11,479 --> 01:12:14,160
Speaker 8: big hit on Aaron Rodgers early, that just sucks the

1619
01:12:14,200 --> 01:12:17,400
Speaker 8: wind out of their cell. They're still gonna be waving

1620
01:12:17,439 --> 01:12:20,120
Speaker 8: their yellow towels and getting hype. But if you can

1621
01:12:20,479 --> 01:12:22,720
Speaker 8: show them early like hey, this is the defense you've

1622
01:12:22,720 --> 01:12:25,280
Speaker 8: read about, that's when that doubt starts to set into

1623
01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:27,920
Speaker 8: the fans mind and then you filled the energy and

1624
01:12:27,960 --> 01:12:30,840
Speaker 8: even some of the players, you know, the offensive tackle

1625
01:12:30,880 --> 01:12:32,360
Speaker 8: is going to be like you know what I saw

1626
01:12:32,439 --> 01:12:35,439
Speaker 8: this Danil Hunter will end just in a film. But

1627
01:12:35,840 --> 01:12:37,559
Speaker 8: now I'm starting to feel it. It's gonna be a

1628
01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:40,000
Speaker 8: long day. So the earlier you can do that, the

1629
01:12:40,040 --> 01:12:41,920
Speaker 8: better it is, especially.

1630
01:12:41,520 --> 01:12:42,000
Speaker 11: On the road.

1631
01:12:42,360 --> 01:12:44,559
Speaker 5: And Dy, here's my kicker question of the week on

1632
01:12:44,600 --> 01:12:48,120
Speaker 5: the way out. Kids are back in school this week. Good,

1633
01:12:48,520 --> 01:12:53,679
Speaker 5: So give me a teacher and a subject, a subject

1634
01:12:53,720 --> 01:12:56,120
Speaker 5: you loved and we're really good at. And a teacher

1635
01:12:56,160 --> 01:12:59,000
Speaker 5: that you also loved. Because I've been saying, you always

1636
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:01,759
Speaker 5: remember the names of your tea years later. You remember

1637
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:04,040
Speaker 5: them like they were heroes in your life. Or maybe not,

1638
01:13:04,160 --> 01:13:06,400
Speaker 5: maybe they weren't your heroes, but you remember the name.

1639
01:13:06,600 --> 01:13:08,519
Speaker 5: So you tell me what comes to mind.

1640
01:13:09,439 --> 01:13:14,200
Speaker 8: Mister Quigg, San Antonio, John Marshall High School, I was

1641
01:13:14,240 --> 01:13:16,439
Speaker 8: having one of my better academic years.

1642
01:13:16,479 --> 01:13:17,400
Speaker 11: I was all excited.

1643
01:13:17,439 --> 01:13:20,200
Speaker 8: I was gonna make all a's and b's, but I

1644
01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:23,639
Speaker 8: had a C in pre Cow and for whatever reason,

1645
01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:26,560
Speaker 8: I was just having trouble with a couple of tests,

1646
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:29,840
Speaker 8: and I remember mister Quick came up to me and said, hey,

1647
01:13:29,840 --> 01:13:32,400
Speaker 8: I know your goal for this semester and he told

1648
01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:34,240
Speaker 8: me if you get a I had to get like

1649
01:13:34,280 --> 01:13:37,160
Speaker 8: a ninety two to get a B for the six weeks.

1650
01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:40,519
Speaker 8: So long story short, he helps me, tutors me study,

1651
01:13:40,840 --> 01:13:45,800
Speaker 8: We study. Then I'm practicing before we play Houston All

1652
01:13:45,920 --> 01:13:49,400
Speaker 8: Team before we go to state, and we're having this

1653
01:13:49,439 --> 01:13:51,800
Speaker 8: big practice. We're playing the number one team in the nation,

1654
01:13:51,920 --> 01:13:55,960
Speaker 8: and mister Quig runs onto the football field and I'm thinking, oh, crap,

1655
01:13:56,000 --> 01:13:59,160
Speaker 8: what did I do in trouble And he has a

1656
01:13:59,200 --> 01:14:00,000
Speaker 8: paper in his hand.

1657
01:14:00,320 --> 01:14:00,840
Speaker 11: And keep in.

1658
01:14:00,800 --> 01:14:04,400
Speaker 8: Mind, he's breaking up a practice, you know, and we

1659
01:14:04,520 --> 01:14:06,519
Speaker 8: have a coach. He's taking his team to state, so

1660
01:14:06,600 --> 01:14:08,960
Speaker 8: this is a big deal in Texas. And he runs

1661
01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:11,559
Speaker 8: up to me and says, you got a ninety six

1662
01:14:11,600 --> 01:14:13,720
Speaker 8: on the test. Congratulations, you got to be And I

1663
01:14:13,800 --> 01:14:16,080
Speaker 8: was like, that just stuck with me. I was sixteen

1664
01:14:16,120 --> 01:14:18,280
Speaker 8: at the time. I'm fifty now. That's always stuck with

1665
01:14:18,320 --> 01:14:21,000
Speaker 8: me that he respected my mind so much. It was like,

1666
01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:24,000
Speaker 8: screw football. I want to congratulate you on you know

1667
01:14:24,040 --> 01:14:27,160
Speaker 8: what you accomplished, that obstacle that you had in pre cal.

1668
01:14:27,360 --> 01:14:29,559
Speaker 5: But based on what you've told me about your family

1669
01:14:29,600 --> 01:14:33,440
Speaker 5: and your household, a B is a khalu f right.

1670
01:14:34,960 --> 01:14:35,920
Speaker 11: Exactly a B.

1671
01:14:36,280 --> 01:14:38,519
Speaker 8: So I think I had to see at the time,

1672
01:14:38,600 --> 01:14:41,800
Speaker 8: So I'm more nervous about taking that home to my

1673
01:14:41,880 --> 01:14:47,000
Speaker 8: parents than playing on Tessa Permium and ran out on

1674
01:14:47,040 --> 01:14:49,160
Speaker 8: that field. I just remember how good I felt and

1675
01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:51,000
Speaker 8: went out there and had one of my best games.

1676
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:54,720
Speaker 8: So shout out to mister Bill Quigg and San Antonio.

1677
01:14:54,800 --> 01:14:57,559
Speaker 5: Wait, get getting a c might have been a subconscious thing,

1678
01:14:57,760 --> 01:14:59,880
Speaker 5: an effort to get to Alabama instead of getting a

1679
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:01,840
Speaker 5: of rice like your dad wanted you to go.

1680
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:07,439
Speaker 8: I tried that because back then the dream schools Oklahoma, Oh, okay, they.

1681
01:15:07,280 --> 01:15:11,439
Speaker 4: Were great stuff. Eddie, thanks a lot for joining us.

1682
01:15:11,720 --> 01:15:17,200
Speaker 2: All right, love that man in d Kulou. All right,

1683
01:15:17,240 --> 01:15:20,600
Speaker 2: it's time for Men behind the Mics now. For a

1684
01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:23,799
Speaker 2: long time, Steelers play by play man was Bill Hillgrove

1685
01:15:24,080 --> 01:15:27,320
Speaker 2: and that voice was so distinctive. Well, the man calling

1686
01:15:27,360 --> 01:15:32,080
Speaker 2: the action on Sunday evening against the Ravens was Rob King,

1687
01:15:32,760 --> 01:15:35,240
Speaker 2: the new play by play man of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

1688
01:15:35,280 --> 01:15:36,040
Speaker 1: He sits with.

1689
01:15:35,960 --> 01:15:39,800
Speaker 2: Mark next Men behind the Mics on Texans All Access.

1690
01:15:40,280 --> 01:15:42,759
Speaker 2: Welcome back to this Wednesday edition of Texans All Access

1691
01:15:42,880 --> 01:15:46,800
Speaker 2: from Honday, Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris,

1692
01:15:46,800 --> 01:15:50,720
Speaker 2: football analyst, sideline reporter for your Houston Texans. Who will

1693
01:15:50,760 --> 01:15:54,040
Speaker 2: take on the Pittsburgh Steelers. Why will we take on

1694
01:15:54,040 --> 01:15:55,040
Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers.

1695
01:15:55,280 --> 01:16:01,040
Speaker 1: Well, this happened on Sunday evening. Loop Ready, here's the snap,

1696
01:16:01,120 --> 01:16:03,920
Speaker 1: here's the hole, here's the boot by Loop and that kick.

1697
01:16:03,840 --> 01:16:16,000
Speaker 14: Is right listing senior Pittsburgh Steelers are hec North chimpions.

1698
01:16:17,640 --> 01:16:20,120
Speaker 2: That's Rob King with the play by play. It's my

1699
01:16:20,200 --> 01:16:23,920
Speaker 2: guy Max Stark's on the color. He was pretty excited. Man,

1700
01:16:23,960 --> 01:16:26,160
Speaker 2: that was some good stuff. Now I play that call

1701
01:16:26,240 --> 01:16:29,080
Speaker 2: because Rob kings with us right now. It's Memmi I

1702
01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:31,200
Speaker 2: the mic, so Mark van Meir, Mark and Rob caught

1703
01:16:31,240 --> 01:16:34,599
Speaker 2: up and talked about this one on Monday Night with us.

1704
01:16:34,479 --> 01:16:35,800
Speaker 4: Now on Texans Radio.

1705
01:16:35,960 --> 01:16:40,400
Speaker 5: Rob King voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Okay, Rob, year

1706
01:16:40,479 --> 01:16:42,439
Speaker 5: two in the books for you is the voice of

1707
01:16:42,479 --> 01:16:45,640
Speaker 5: the Steelers, and you picked a good time to join up.

1708
01:16:45,680 --> 01:16:47,400
Speaker 5: This has been a nice campaign, I know, a little

1709
01:16:47,400 --> 01:16:50,040
Speaker 5: frustrating at times, but you have to feel good about

1710
01:16:50,040 --> 01:16:54,160
Speaker 5: the Steelers winning the division onto the postseason with Aaron Rodgers.

1711
01:16:54,160 --> 01:16:55,880
Speaker 4: Your thoughts, Yeah.

1712
01:16:55,640 --> 01:16:58,720
Speaker 13: It's it's uh, thanks Mark, it's been great. It's been

1713
01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:01,200
Speaker 13: a lot of fun. And you know, the two years

1714
01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:04,759
Speaker 13: I think are easily contrasted because last year the Steelers

1715
01:17:05,160 --> 01:17:07,439
Speaker 13: lost born are all going into the playoffs. There wasn't

1716
01:17:07,439 --> 01:17:11,360
Speaker 13: a great deal of optimism. It felt almost ominous going

1717
01:17:11,400 --> 01:17:13,840
Speaker 13: into the playoffs, and it turned out to be the case,

1718
01:17:13,840 --> 01:17:16,280
Speaker 13: as they lost to the Ravens in Baltimore in a

1719
01:17:16,320 --> 01:17:18,960
Speaker 13: game that really wasn't that close. And then you know,

1720
01:17:19,040 --> 01:17:21,560
Speaker 13: this year they've won four or five going into the

1721
01:17:21,600 --> 01:17:25,040
Speaker 13: playoffs and they're getting DK Metcat back. Remember the first

1722
01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:28,360
Speaker 13: of those two losses without DK. So you get him

1723
01:17:28,400 --> 01:17:31,479
Speaker 13: back and you're playing much better football. You have Aaron

1724
01:17:31,560 --> 01:17:35,679
Speaker 13: Rodgers who knows postseason success, and so I think there's

1725
01:17:35,960 --> 01:17:38,479
Speaker 13: a different deal about what the students are capable of

1726
01:17:38,520 --> 01:17:41,040
Speaker 13: accomplishing this year compared to a year ago.

1727
01:17:42,120 --> 01:17:43,680
Speaker 4: Well, tell me about Rogers.

1728
01:17:43,720 --> 01:17:45,880
Speaker 5: How you think it's going and where do you think

1729
01:17:45,920 --> 01:17:49,120
Speaker 5: it can go with him at the controls. Everybody watched

1730
01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:52,240
Speaker 5: Sunday Night and some of these games that showcase the

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Speaker 5: Steelers nationally.

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Speaker 4: What are your thoughts watching him week to week?

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Speaker 13: You know, it's been I think the biggest takeaway I've got.

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Speaker 13: You know, there's a lot of stuff that swirls around

1735
01:18:02,479 --> 01:18:05,920
Speaker 13: Aaron Rodgers because he's not afraid to share his opinions,

1736
01:18:06,320 --> 01:18:08,959
Speaker 13: and I'm not going to talk about his opinions outside

1737
01:18:08,960 --> 01:18:10,920
Speaker 13: of the realm of football because people have their own

1738
01:18:10,920 --> 01:18:14,120
Speaker 13: opinions on that. But you know, I think the perception

1739
01:18:14,200 --> 01:18:15,640
Speaker 13: that comes with that as well, what kind of a

1740
01:18:15,640 --> 01:18:17,320
Speaker 13: teammate is well, I'll tell you right now. First of all,

1741
01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:21,160
Speaker 13: he's great teammate. His teammates love him, they revere him,

1742
01:18:21,760 --> 01:18:25,760
Speaker 13: and I think that part of the journey on this

1743
01:18:25,920 --> 01:18:29,800
Speaker 13: team has been, you know, allowing him more and more

1744
01:18:29,840 --> 01:18:32,559
Speaker 13: to be the leader of the team. He is clearly

1745
01:18:33,120 --> 01:18:36,320
Speaker 13: to me the leader, or certainly one of the leaders.

1746
01:18:36,360 --> 01:18:38,479
Speaker 13: Cam Hayward and others t J. Watte have been around,

1747
01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:41,280
Speaker 13: but he is ascended to that role and the team

1748
01:18:41,640 --> 01:18:43,680
Speaker 13: has kind of climbed up the mountain with him, and

1749
01:18:43,680 --> 01:18:45,880
Speaker 13: I think that's a big part of their success. The

1750
01:18:45,920 --> 01:18:49,479
Speaker 13: other thing is that, Okay, so nobody is the same

1751
01:18:49,520 --> 01:18:51,880
Speaker 13: at forty two as they are at twenty eight, but

1752
01:18:51,960 --> 01:18:54,160
Speaker 13: he still has you know, people talk about the savvy

1753
01:18:54,200 --> 01:18:56,479
Speaker 13: and what he does pre snap and all that stuff

1754
01:18:56,600 --> 01:18:59,439
Speaker 13: is true. He still has a lot of talent left.

1755
01:18:59,439 --> 01:19:02,040
Speaker 13: I mean, he'll move, he doesn't move like he did

1756
01:19:02,040 --> 01:19:04,840
Speaker 13: when he was twenty eight, but he's got still has

1757
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:08,400
Speaker 13: great arm talent better than you would expect from a

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01:19:08,400 --> 01:19:11,280
Speaker 13: forty two year old. I can't think of one. You know,

1759
01:19:11,320 --> 01:19:13,400
Speaker 13: a guy in his forties. A lot of time guys

1760
01:19:13,400 --> 01:19:15,720
Speaker 13: are you know, maybe they can't throw that deep out

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01:19:15,800 --> 01:19:18,320
Speaker 13: anymore or can't really fling at it, you know, down

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01:19:18,360 --> 01:19:22,200
Speaker 13: the field. He still has a lot of skill to

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01:19:22,280 --> 01:19:25,400
Speaker 13: go with that savvy. So I think he's a big

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01:19:25,439 --> 01:19:28,000
Speaker 13: reason that the Steelers and see this fans will have

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01:19:28,040 --> 01:19:29,640
Speaker 13: optimists and heading into the playoffs.

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Speaker 5: Rob King joining us, voice of the Steelers, what about

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01:19:32,800 --> 01:19:35,960
Speaker 5: having dk Metcalf back? What's that going to mean for

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01:19:36,040 --> 01:19:40,240
Speaker 5: the Steelers? We've seen this offense without him? What about

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01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:41,599
Speaker 5: with him? What will he bring?

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Speaker 13: Well, he's it's a totally different thing. And you know,

1771
01:19:45,120 --> 01:19:48,160
Speaker 13: they really had kind of a similar situation last year

1772
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:51,080
Speaker 13: in that George Pickens was a clear number one and

1773
01:19:51,080 --> 01:19:54,000
Speaker 13: there really wasn't a number two. And this to this

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01:19:54,120 --> 01:19:56,240
Speaker 13: four game losing streak. The first two of those games,

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01:19:56,280 --> 01:19:59,440
Speaker 13: Pickens wasn't there and they had a hard time adjusting

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Speaker 13: without him. And you know, you talk about a team

1777
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Speaker 13: like the Texans that have great cover corners, you better

1778
01:20:07,080 --> 01:20:10,960
Speaker 13: have great receivers who can you know, maybe beat that

1779
01:20:11,040 --> 01:20:13,080
Speaker 13: kind of coverage once in a while. He is there

1780
01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:17,280
Speaker 13: absolute number one deep threat down the field, and so

1781
01:20:17,880 --> 01:20:19,960
Speaker 13: you know he can stretch the defense a little bit.

1782
01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:22,880
Speaker 13: He's a willing and capable blocker when they when they

1783
01:20:22,920 --> 01:20:24,639
Speaker 13: try to run the football, and I suspect they will

1784
01:20:24,640 --> 01:20:27,120
Speaker 13: try to run the football against the Texans, so he's

1785
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Speaker 13: a Having him back is a huge impact for the

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Speaker 13: Steelers offense.

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Speaker 5: Well, tell me about the running game, Warren gain Well,

1788
01:20:34,040 --> 01:20:36,160
Speaker 5: however they put it together, I know they want to

1789
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Speaker 5: get that done. At times, it's been a struggle for

1790
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Speaker 5: the Steelers. What are you expecting? What are we looking

1791
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Speaker 5: for on Monday Night?

1792
01:20:42,720 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 13: Well, I think one of the things, Mark, is that

1793
01:20:45,280 --> 01:20:48,240
Speaker 13: the Steelers feel like they're trending in the right direction,

1794
01:20:48,400 --> 01:20:50,360
Speaker 13: you know, and I think that there's a lot of

1795
01:20:50,360 --> 01:20:52,519
Speaker 13: things that point to that. You know, the Texans at

1796
01:20:52,520 --> 01:20:54,799
Speaker 13: one nine in a row. We know that nobody's trending

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01:20:54,840 --> 01:20:57,559
Speaker 13: in the right direction more than the Texans. But the

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01:20:57,560 --> 01:21:00,320
Speaker 13: Steelers aren't that in my opinion, are not that far

1799
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Speaker 13: behind it. They've got quality wins, you know, two wins

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Speaker 13: over the Ravens, win over the Detroit Lions, you know,

1801
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Speaker 13: win over the Dolphins when they were hot, and came in.

1802
01:21:10,280 --> 01:21:13,080
Speaker 13: And two things that have happened, especially since the first

1803
01:21:13,200 --> 01:21:15,840
Speaker 13: Ravens game in which the Studers did not run the football, well,

1804
01:21:16,240 --> 01:21:19,120
Speaker 13: they've stopped the run much much better. If you look

1805
01:21:19,160 --> 01:21:22,160
Speaker 13: at their overall statistics, it's not great against the run.

1806
01:21:22,520 --> 01:21:25,240
Speaker 13: It has been terrific against the run, elite against the

1807
01:21:25,320 --> 01:21:29,240
Speaker 13: run over the last four or five games of the season, well,

1808
01:21:29,320 --> 01:21:32,080
Speaker 13: really the last four the first Ravens game, the Ravens

1809
01:21:32,080 --> 01:21:33,400
Speaker 13: were pretty successful.

1810
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Speaker 11: On the ground.

1811
01:21:34,040 --> 01:21:36,120
Speaker 13: The other thing is that they've run the ball better.

1812
01:21:36,439 --> 01:21:38,519
Speaker 13: All that has allowed them to have a better time

1813
01:21:38,560 --> 01:21:41,519
Speaker 13: of possession. That's been something that obviously the Texans are

1814
01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:43,479
Speaker 13: great at. I think they're fourth in the league, the

1815
01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:46,160
Speaker 13: Texans in time of possession. Well, the Steelers over the

1816
01:21:46,200 --> 01:21:50,040
Speaker 13: last four games are fourth or fifth somewhere in there

1817
01:21:50,320 --> 01:21:52,280
Speaker 13: in time of possession. And a lot of that is

1818
01:21:52,320 --> 01:21:56,439
Speaker 13: because they've run the ball successfully. Now they've got two

1819
01:21:56,520 --> 01:21:59,720
Speaker 13: very good running backs in Warren and game Well. We're

1820
01:22:00,120 --> 01:22:04,519
Speaker 13: litting duties, you know, fairly even league Game Well has

1821
01:22:04,560 --> 01:22:07,360
Speaker 13: been is the team's leading receiver. Warren is the team's

1822
01:22:07,400 --> 01:22:11,240
Speaker 13: leading rusher. It's an excellent one to two punch, you know.

1823
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Speaker 13: I'm always of the belief that if you had seventy

1824
01:22:14,640 --> 01:22:17,240
Speaker 13: five plays and ran it seventy four times, he still

1825
01:22:17,280 --> 01:22:20,599
Speaker 13: didn't run it enough. So how much they'll run it,

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Speaker 13: I don't know. You know, you want Aaron Rodgers to

1827
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Speaker 13: have the capability and the abilities to line the scrimmage

1828
01:22:27,080 --> 01:22:28,920
Speaker 13: to get out of plays he is and think's gonna

1829
01:22:28,960 --> 01:22:32,360
Speaker 13: work and get them into into other plays. That sometimes

1830
01:22:32,400 --> 01:22:35,160
Speaker 13: means perhaps or maybe it's the game plan a little

1831
01:22:35,240 --> 01:22:38,120
Speaker 13: less running and some people might want to see. But

1832
01:22:38,640 --> 01:22:40,880
Speaker 13: the running game has been effective. And you've got a

1833
01:22:40,960 --> 01:22:44,880
Speaker 13: quarterback who's he's going into the postseason having not having

1834
01:22:44,880 --> 01:22:48,320
Speaker 13: done an interception, and what half a dozen games are thereabout?

1835
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Speaker 13: So I think there's a lot of reasons to like

1836
01:22:51,400 --> 01:22:54,360
Speaker 13: where this Tearers are trending offensively, and as you mentioned Mark,

1837
01:22:54,400 --> 01:22:57,840
Speaker 13: with DK coming back, DK metcap, there's a lot of

1838
01:22:58,000 --> 01:23:01,240
Speaker 13: there's a lot of positives going against going for the students,

1839
01:23:01,240 --> 01:23:03,439
Speaker 13: but again they're going against the number one defense in

1840
01:23:03,479 --> 01:23:06,800
Speaker 13: the NFL, So no one's suggesting it's going to be easy.

1841
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Speaker 5: On Monday night, Rob King joining us Voice of the Steelers,

1842
01:23:10,479 --> 01:23:13,479
Speaker 5: what about the front You just got TJ. Watt back,

1843
01:23:13,640 --> 01:23:15,920
Speaker 5: what about what they bring to the table and what

1844
01:23:15,960 --> 01:23:18,599
Speaker 5: the Texans should be concerned about there, Rob.

1845
01:23:19,680 --> 01:23:24,200
Speaker 13: Yeah, and you know, I think that, to me, more

1846
01:23:24,240 --> 01:23:29,439
Speaker 13: than almost anything, is a really intriguing matchup because you know,

1847
01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:34,000
Speaker 13: you're talking about you know, strikes right like c J.

1848
01:23:34,160 --> 01:23:36,800
Speaker 13: Stroud is hard to sack. You know, that offensive line

1849
01:23:36,840 --> 01:23:39,680
Speaker 13: has done a good job protecting it. The interior of

1850
01:23:39,680 --> 01:23:43,439
Speaker 13: the defensive line for the Steelers, led by Cam Hayward,

1851
01:23:43,479 --> 01:23:46,240
Speaker 13: but also the rookie first rounder Derek Harmon. You know

1852
01:23:46,280 --> 01:23:48,240
Speaker 13: they took Piano Venton in the second round a couple

1853
01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:51,920
Speaker 13: of years ago. That's another ascending unit for the Steelers.

1854
01:23:52,160 --> 01:23:54,640
Speaker 13: And getting t J. Watt back, you know, you have

1855
01:23:54,800 --> 01:23:57,600
Speaker 13: what you have high Smith, and then you know that

1856
01:23:57,680 --> 01:24:01,240
Speaker 13: allows a guy like a Nick Herbig to come in

1857
01:24:01,320 --> 01:24:05,040
Speaker 13: and spell those guys, and he's also an effective pass rusher.

1858
01:24:05,479 --> 01:24:08,760
Speaker 13: But again c J. Stroud is hard to sack, and

1859
01:24:09,439 --> 01:24:11,360
Speaker 13: so the Steelers. You know, one of the things that

1860
01:24:11,439 --> 01:24:13,839
Speaker 13: the Steelers usually have an edge on going into games

1861
01:24:14,320 --> 01:24:19,160
Speaker 13: is turnovers, causing turnovers and sacking the quarterback. Well, Detexans

1862
01:24:19,240 --> 01:24:22,040
Speaker 13: take care of the football and they don't allow c. J.

1863
01:24:22,160 --> 01:24:26,240
Speaker 13: Stroud to get sacked. It's a really intriguing strength on

1864
01:24:26,360 --> 01:24:28,280
Speaker 13: strength matchup for me rob.

1865
01:24:28,320 --> 01:24:30,960
Speaker 5: When things don't go well for the Steelers, say the

1866
01:24:30,960 --> 01:24:34,479
Speaker 5: Cleveland game or whatever, pick one, what happens. What is

1867
01:24:34,520 --> 01:24:38,000
Speaker 5: the tough or worst case scenario for this football team?

1868
01:24:38,680 --> 01:24:41,640
Speaker 13: I think I think it would be two things that

1869
01:24:41,640 --> 01:24:44,520
Speaker 13: have happened over the course of the year and Cleveland.

1870
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Speaker 13: Even in that game, a lot of things happen. A

1871
01:24:47,240 --> 01:24:50,080
Speaker 13: lot of trends continued in that game. You know, the

1872
01:24:50,080 --> 01:24:54,960
Speaker 13: Steelers had gone until the fourth to last game of

1873
01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:58,000
Speaker 13: the season. The Steelers have not run more plays than

1874
01:24:58,000 --> 01:25:01,920
Speaker 13: their opponents once, not once all season long. They were

1875
01:25:01,920 --> 01:25:04,559
Speaker 13: on pace to have their defense to play three more

1876
01:25:04,640 --> 01:25:09,519
Speaker 13: games in their offense by smackcount. They've rectified that. But

1877
01:25:09,720 --> 01:25:13,200
Speaker 13: if if the Texans can do what the Texans have

1878
01:25:13,280 --> 01:25:15,840
Speaker 13: done very well, which is control of the clock. I mean,

1879
01:25:15,880 --> 01:25:18,000
Speaker 13: the running game is you know, for the Texans, it

1880
01:25:18,040 --> 01:25:21,120
Speaker 13: hasn't been remarkable, but they stuck with it and it's

1881
01:25:21,160 --> 01:25:25,120
Speaker 13: been effective in helping them grind teams down and win

1882
01:25:25,200 --> 01:25:29,040
Speaker 13: the time possession. The Ravens did that early in the

1883
01:25:29,080 --> 01:25:32,120
Speaker 13: game and then the students reverse that on Sunday night.

1884
01:25:32,200 --> 01:25:34,639
Speaker 13: You know, the Ravens were controlling the clock. I think

1885
01:25:34,720 --> 01:25:41,240
Speaker 13: that when the opposition controls the clock and begins to

1886
01:25:41,960 --> 01:25:44,320
Speaker 13: make the students a little bit more one dimensional. It

1887
01:25:44,320 --> 01:25:48,839
Speaker 13: begins to wear down that defense that that is fast

1888
01:25:48,920 --> 01:25:51,080
Speaker 13: and wants to put the other team in a one

1889
01:25:51,120 --> 01:25:53,920
Speaker 13: dimensional situation. And let's face it, you have great pass

1890
01:25:53,960 --> 01:25:56,600
Speaker 13: rushers as the Texans do. You'd love to get a

1891
01:25:56,640 --> 01:25:59,040
Speaker 13: team one dimensional. If you like to get third and eight,

1892
01:25:59,080 --> 01:26:00,960
Speaker 13: you'd like to be up by who score. You'd like

1893
01:26:01,040 --> 01:26:03,800
Speaker 13: to force them to do what you want them to do,

1894
01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:06,760
Speaker 13: and that's throw the football. So I think that, you know,

1895
01:26:06,760 --> 01:26:09,240
Speaker 13: if you look at time of possession, who's controlling the

1896
01:26:09,280 --> 01:26:12,240
Speaker 13: tempo of the game. If the Steelers aren't, that's gonna

1897
01:26:12,240 --> 01:26:14,040
Speaker 13: make things a lot more difficult for them.

1898
01:26:14,720 --> 01:26:14,920
Speaker 1: Rob.

1899
01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:16,080
Speaker 4: How surprised were you?

1900
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Speaker 5: I want to go division here for a moment, because

1901
01:26:18,360 --> 01:26:21,679
Speaker 5: that was a really thrilling, intense game between the Steelers

1902
01:26:21,680 --> 01:26:24,559
Speaker 5: and the Ravens on Sunday night. How surprised were you

1903
01:26:24,600 --> 01:26:28,000
Speaker 5: that John Harbaugh got dismissed shortly after that game?

1904
01:26:29,040 --> 01:26:32,919
Speaker 13: Yeah? I mean I think that, you know, first of all,

1905
01:26:32,720 --> 01:26:35,479
Speaker 13: we just you know, I was on a doing a

1906
01:26:35,520 --> 01:26:38,400
Speaker 13: radio show with my buddy Max Starts, and the expectations

1907
01:26:38,439 --> 01:26:40,479
Speaker 13: for the Ravens were really high. We went back and

1908
01:26:40,520 --> 01:26:43,920
Speaker 13: looked at the power rankings for the teams. We were

1909
01:26:43,920 --> 01:26:45,720
Speaker 13: looking at the NFL dot Com. By the way, they

1910
01:26:45,720 --> 01:26:48,120
Speaker 13: had text detections, I think right in the middle of

1911
01:26:48,160 --> 01:26:50,840
Speaker 13: the pack, even though they were the favorite to win

1912
01:26:50,840 --> 01:26:54,160
Speaker 13: the division. They had the Ravens as number two, and

1913
01:26:54,200 --> 01:26:55,920
Speaker 13: I think a lot of teams did they were. The

1914
01:26:56,000 --> 01:26:59,200
Speaker 13: perception was and has been that the Ravens are legit

1915
01:26:59,320 --> 01:27:01,559
Speaker 13: Super Bowlkan they haven't been able to get over the hump,

1916
01:27:01,840 --> 01:27:08,400
Speaker 13: and they've been They've been a very steady organization. Frankly,

1917
01:27:08,439 --> 01:27:10,719
Speaker 13: I wouldn't be surprised if he gave the truth Saram

1918
01:27:10,760 --> 01:27:12,840
Speaker 13: if they said they try to emulate what this ye

1919
01:27:12,880 --> 01:27:15,160
Speaker 13: others are doing, which is, you know, putting the right

1920
01:27:15,200 --> 01:27:18,720
Speaker 13: people in place and allowing them, uh, you know, to

1921
01:27:18,800 --> 01:27:22,080
Speaker 13: continue doing a good job through the ets and cloths

1922
01:27:22,280 --> 01:27:26,320
Speaker 13: of a season and season after season. And for Harball,

1923
01:27:26,479 --> 01:27:28,639
Speaker 13: he was the second longest tenured coach in the NFL,

1924
01:27:28,720 --> 01:27:33,439
Speaker 13: only to Mike Tomlin. And it's gonna be strange because

1925
01:27:34,040 --> 01:27:36,559
Speaker 13: you know, it was it was Billock, and then it's Harball,

1926
01:27:36,720 --> 01:27:40,599
Speaker 13: and it's Cower, and then it's and it's Mike Tomlin.

1927
01:27:40,640 --> 01:27:43,760
Speaker 13: And that's been better than a quarter century that we've

1928
01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:46,439
Speaker 13: just seen so few coaches. It's gonna be weird not

1929
01:27:46,520 --> 01:27:49,160
Speaker 13: to see him on the sideline for the Ravens. But

1930
01:27:49,640 --> 01:27:53,559
Speaker 13: evidently they feel like, you know whatever, this window is

1931
01:27:53,600 --> 01:27:55,680
Speaker 13: open and they they need a new way to go,

1932
01:27:55,880 --> 01:27:59,240
Speaker 13: so interesting decision. It's gonna be strange not to see

1933
01:27:59,280 --> 01:27:59,960
Speaker 13: him coaching again.

1934
01:28:00,160 --> 01:28:04,800
Speaker 5: Students, One more for you, Rob, describe Pittsburgh as a

1935
01:28:04,840 --> 01:28:08,799
Speaker 5: sports town. You work with the Pirates broadcasts as well.

1936
01:28:09,040 --> 01:28:13,040
Speaker 5: It's very special, the three pro teams with the same colors,

1937
01:28:13,080 --> 01:28:16,679
Speaker 5: all of that, and an area of the country that's unique,

1938
01:28:16,840 --> 01:28:17,959
Speaker 5: the cities unique.

1939
01:28:18,000 --> 01:28:19,120
Speaker 4: How would you describe it.

1940
01:28:20,280 --> 01:28:23,840
Speaker 13: It's it's phenomenal. And for years, for twenty or so years,

1941
01:28:23,880 --> 01:28:26,200
Speaker 13: I also was the three game show and post game

1942
01:28:26,240 --> 01:28:29,240
Speaker 13: show host for the Penguins and intermission. Oh so I

1943
01:28:29,240 --> 01:28:32,639
Speaker 13: saw them, you know, winning three Stanley Cups as well.

1944
01:28:33,160 --> 01:28:37,920
Speaker 13: You know, it's a town that just it loves its

1945
01:28:37,960 --> 01:28:40,800
Speaker 13: sports for sure. You know, you see that a lot.

1946
01:28:40,840 --> 01:28:43,160
Speaker 13: I think in that the cities that aren't you know,

1947
01:28:43,439 --> 01:28:46,000
Speaker 13: huge cities where there's so much to do and there's

1948
01:28:46,000 --> 01:28:48,920
Speaker 13: a lot of transient people, people moving in from out

1949
01:28:48,920 --> 01:28:51,240
Speaker 13: of town to take jobs. And you know, this is

1950
01:28:51,280 --> 01:28:53,080
Speaker 13: a town where a lot of people were born and

1951
01:28:53,160 --> 01:28:57,360
Speaker 13: raised in Pittsburgh, and you know, their attachment to their

1952
01:28:57,400 --> 01:29:02,680
Speaker 13: teams is extremely strong, and their attachment to the Steelers,

1953
01:29:02,800 --> 01:29:06,280
Speaker 13: to football, high school football is massive here in Mustern, Pennsylvania.

1954
01:29:06,960 --> 01:29:10,240
Speaker 13: You know, the Steelers are the clear number one, but

1955
01:29:10,360 --> 01:29:14,680
Speaker 13: they love football. It's it's a blue collar town that

1956
01:29:14,800 --> 01:29:18,640
Speaker 13: appreciates hard work. I think only in a town like

1957
01:29:18,680 --> 01:29:23,160
Speaker 13: Pittsburgh can defense be as valued and lauded. And that,

1958
01:29:23,360 --> 01:29:25,479
Speaker 13: you know, I mean they love the guy in hockey,

1959
01:29:25,520 --> 01:29:29,040
Speaker 13: who's the hard hitter, who's the who's the guy who

1960
01:29:29,120 --> 01:29:31,040
Speaker 13: you know will do the dirty work. Those guys are

1961
01:29:31,040 --> 01:29:35,040
Speaker 13: applauded in this town. You know, those tackles in Pittsburgh

1962
01:29:35,040 --> 01:29:37,719
Speaker 13: are heroes. You know, It's just that kind of a town.

1963
01:29:38,080 --> 01:29:42,840
Speaker 13: It's an awesome city and and they really really love

1964
01:29:42,920 --> 01:29:46,120
Speaker 13: their sports and they really really love their Steelers. I

1965
01:29:46,120 --> 01:29:50,320
Speaker 13: think we can expect a fantastic crowd on Monday night.

1966
01:29:50,280 --> 01:29:52,880
Speaker 5: At aftersure, do you think that there's no doubt we

1967
01:29:52,920 --> 01:29:55,559
Speaker 5: see a priest sprinkling holy water in the end zone?

1968
01:29:55,560 --> 01:29:55,840
Speaker 11: Again?

1969
01:29:56,120 --> 01:29:58,479
Speaker 4: Has that happened before? Or is that gonna happen?

1970
01:29:59,000 --> 01:30:01,040
Speaker 13: The thoughts that was hilarious?

1971
01:30:01,160 --> 01:30:01,439
Speaker 4: Was it?

1972
01:30:01,479 --> 01:30:03,719
Speaker 13: And that's the end zone in which he missed a kick.

1973
01:30:05,240 --> 01:30:09,200
Speaker 13: I would, you know, those things are those things are

1974
01:30:09,240 --> 01:30:13,040
Speaker 13: beyond me. You know, I get to I get to

1975
01:30:13,160 --> 01:30:16,240
Speaker 13: just you know, uh and we get to Mark, you know,

1976
01:30:16,720 --> 01:30:19,559
Speaker 13: concentrat on our teams and the matchups and the and

1977
01:30:19,640 --> 01:30:22,200
Speaker 13: the games and that sort of thing I have. You know,

1978
01:30:22,280 --> 01:30:23,720
Speaker 13: that was news to me that he was going to

1979
01:30:23,800 --> 01:30:26,720
Speaker 13: do that. I would I would be hard pressed to

1980
01:30:26,800 --> 01:30:30,120
Speaker 13: think that Father Max wouldn't be out there again, maybe

1981
01:30:30,160 --> 01:30:32,519
Speaker 13: doing that before the game on Monday night.

1982
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Speaker 5: Rob, thanks so much of the time. We appreciate it

1983
01:30:35,360 --> 01:30:37,600
Speaker 5: and look forward to seeing you on Monday.

1984
01:30:37,360 --> 01:30:38,840
Speaker 13: Night, looking forward to my friends to you.

1985
01:30:38,960 --> 01:30:39,080
Speaker 8: Then.

1986
01:30:39,479 --> 01:30:42,960
Speaker 1: What a great conversation with Mark and Rob King.

1987
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Speaker 4: All right.

1988
01:30:43,400 --> 01:30:45,679
Speaker 1: I thought about this last night.

1989
01:30:46,120 --> 01:30:49,880
Speaker 2: I was doing my Ultimate eleven Special Teams Plays of

1990
01:30:49,920 --> 01:30:53,040
Speaker 2: the Year and I always try and rank him as

1991
01:30:53,040 --> 01:30:55,400
Speaker 2: close as I possibly can, and it gets hard, especially

1992
01:30:55,439 --> 01:30:58,320
Speaker 2: this season when have been so many, many, many good moments,

1993
01:30:59,120 --> 01:31:01,920
Speaker 2: and I thought, you know what, there might be some

1994
01:31:02,080 --> 01:31:04,400
Speaker 2: that I rank as Oh, these were the best. I

1995
01:31:04,479 --> 01:31:07,640
Speaker 2: thought about what would be my three favorite? So I

1996
01:31:07,680 --> 01:31:10,479
Speaker 2: figured why not last segment of the show my three

1997
01:31:10,920 --> 01:31:15,200
Speaker 2: favorite moments of the twenty twenty five regular season, coming

1998
01:31:15,280 --> 01:31:19,800
Speaker 2: up next. All right, welcome back Texans All Access from

1999
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Speaker 2: the Honday Texans Radio studio. I'm your host, John Harris,

2000
01:31:23,080 --> 01:31:26,760
Speaker 2: football analyst, sideline reporter. I do show every Tuesday night

2001
01:31:27,160 --> 01:31:30,559
Speaker 2: called Texans All Access Matchup Edition, and it's a lot

2002
01:31:30,560 --> 01:31:33,160
Speaker 2: of looking back. I like to play the calls, I

2003
01:31:33,240 --> 01:31:35,320
Speaker 2: like to rank the plays that happened, and what I

2004
01:31:35,400 --> 01:31:37,760
Speaker 2: call the ultim eleven. So the last three weeks I've

2005
01:31:37,760 --> 01:31:40,639
Speaker 2: been doing Ultimate eleven Offensive Plays of the Year, Ultimate eleven

2006
01:31:40,680 --> 01:31:43,760
Speaker 2: Defensive Plays of the Year, and Ultiple eleven Special Teams

2007
01:31:43,880 --> 01:31:46,559
Speaker 2: Plays of the Year. Now I ranked those kind of best.

2008
01:31:47,320 --> 01:31:49,160
Speaker 2: I try and rank him in order as best I could.

2009
01:31:49,200 --> 01:31:51,200
Speaker 2: But then I thought, what are my favorite?

2010
01:31:51,240 --> 01:31:51,760
Speaker 1: Which are the.

2011
01:31:51,720 --> 01:31:54,400
Speaker 2: Ones that resonate with me more than any other? And

2012
01:31:54,439 --> 01:31:56,519
Speaker 2: this this was hard. This is really hard to kind

2013
01:31:56,560 --> 01:31:58,240
Speaker 2: of narrow it down. But then I start thinking about,

2014
01:31:58,280 --> 01:32:03,680
Speaker 2: like why I picked these three. So let's start and

2015
01:32:03,840 --> 01:32:06,880
Speaker 2: really no particular order. So I mean, let's start right here.

2016
01:32:07,640 --> 01:32:12,160
Speaker 2: And it's against the Buffalo Bills on Thursday night. It

2017
01:32:12,320 --> 01:32:16,280
Speaker 2: is a defensive performance for the Ages. The Bills have

2018
01:32:16,400 --> 01:32:19,400
Speaker 2: gotten it close after a hooking ladder and I thought,

2019
01:32:19,479 --> 01:32:21,120
Speaker 2: oh my god, they're gonna pull us out. But they

2020
01:32:21,160 --> 01:32:24,840
Speaker 2: didn't because the man of the hour, Kaylin Bullock, makes

2021
01:32:24,840 --> 01:32:28,479
Speaker 2: this interception and the place goes absolutely nuts.

2022
01:32:29,040 --> 01:32:32,080
Speaker 5: Fourth down at six at the Houston twenty two yard line,

2023
01:32:32,200 --> 01:32:36,519
Speaker 5: Alan shotgun Ty Jackson to his right, bunch formation alright,

2024
01:32:36,600 --> 01:32:39,920
Speaker 5: watside of the field. On fourth and six at the

2025
01:32:40,040 --> 01:32:44,080
Speaker 5: Houston twenty two orbit motion Shakir Alan back to throw

2026
01:32:44,240 --> 01:32:45,720
Speaker 5: Allan airing it out.

2027
01:32:45,840 --> 01:32:47,760
Speaker 4: Alan picked off by pull up.

2028
01:32:48,080 --> 01:32:49,719
Speaker 1: It's over the Texans.

2029
01:32:49,720 --> 01:32:50,519
Speaker 10: A're gonna do it.

2030
01:32:52,680 --> 01:32:54,640
Speaker 4: There's a flagged out of the secondary.

2031
01:32:55,439 --> 01:32:56,679
Speaker 1: It's against the Bills.

2032
01:32:57,160 --> 01:33:01,360
Speaker 12: The Texans pull it off. They're gonna knock off Buffalo tonight.

2033
01:33:02,000 --> 01:33:05,000
Speaker 2: My second one. I love to see redemption stories, and

2034
01:33:05,040 --> 01:33:08,800
Speaker 2: I feel like Davis Mills returned to the lineup and

2035
01:33:08,920 --> 01:33:12,559
Speaker 2: the three games he played getting wins, but mainly this

2036
01:33:12,640 --> 01:33:16,120
Speaker 2: one against the Jacksonville Jaguars when he won it his

2037
01:33:16,160 --> 01:33:18,080
Speaker 2: fourteen yard scrambled.

2038
01:33:17,960 --> 01:33:20,720
Speaker 5: Thirty seven seconds to go twenty nine to twenty four.

2039
01:33:20,800 --> 01:33:26,120
Speaker 5: Texans trailing third and goal at the fourteen, Mills shotgun

2040
01:33:26,240 --> 01:33:27,120
Speaker 5: marks to his left.

2041
01:33:27,120 --> 01:33:28,680
Speaker 4: Two receivers watchside right.

2042
01:33:28,720 --> 01:33:32,000
Speaker 5: Here's the snap, Davis looking, Davis stepping.

2043
01:33:31,640 --> 01:33:32,080
Speaker 4: To his left.

2044
01:33:32,160 --> 01:33:35,200
Speaker 5: Davis on the run ten Davis Fox Davis to the corner.

2045
01:33:35,600 --> 01:33:41,479
Speaker 12: Davis touchdown Houston. The Texans take the lead on the

2046
01:33:41,560 --> 01:33:58,920
Speaker 12: Mills scramble. Amazing demails gets it done.

2047
01:33:55,560 --> 01:34:00,960
Speaker 5: Thirty seconds to go and Houston leads by one.

2048
01:34:01,160 --> 01:34:04,200
Speaker 2: And finally, one of my favorite Texans of all time

2049
01:34:04,920 --> 01:34:10,000
Speaker 2: finally gets an interception. Aziz al Shire catches it off

2050
01:34:10,040 --> 01:34:12,920
Speaker 2: the hands of Travis Kelce to seal the deal against

2051
01:34:12,960 --> 01:34:13,479
Speaker 2: the Chiefs.

2052
01:34:13,640 --> 01:34:15,479
Speaker 5: Mahomes of the gun on second and ten from the

2053
01:34:15,560 --> 01:34:19,720
Speaker 5: Chiefs eight to one back, it's hunch Mahomes to throw

2054
01:34:19,880 --> 01:34:25,000
Speaker 5: four man rush. Mahomes unloads downfield and tipped and intercepted

2055
01:34:25,360 --> 01:34:30,000
Speaker 5: as these ol Shire has it off the deflection, another pick,

2056
01:34:30,200 --> 01:34:35,280
Speaker 5: third of the game for Houston. Wow, Kelsey could not

2057
01:34:35,479 --> 01:34:39,519
Speaker 5: hang on his ease, got it hot potato pick and

2058
01:34:39,640 --> 01:34:42,879
Speaker 5: the Texans have the ball in Chiefs territory again.

2059
01:34:43,200 --> 01:34:45,080
Speaker 2: There are so many more, but those are three of

2060
01:34:45,120 --> 01:34:48,000
Speaker 2: my favorites right there. Appreciate you guys listening this evening.

2061
01:34:48,000 --> 01:34:49,839
Speaker 2: We'll see tomorrow and as always, go Texans.