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Speaker 1: What's happening everybody. Welcome in to a Friday edition of

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Speaker 1: Texasile Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: John Harris, Football on the Sideline Reporter, and we are

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Speaker 1: less than forty eight hours away from being back at

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Speaker 1: Energy Stadium, taken on the Washington Commanders. Maybe with Chase Young,

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Speaker 1: maybe without be a factor in the game. We'll find out.

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Speaker 1: But we got plenty to talk about with this game

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Speaker 1: this evening. We are going to hear Mike Key's a

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Speaker 1: littlelater in the show. We're also gonna have my predictions

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Speaker 1: where I picked games straight up and against the spread.

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Speaker 1: Far fun for fun, That's a good way to talk

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Speaker 1: about games going on in the NFL. We're also gonna

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Speaker 1: have Anthony Armstrong from the Belief Sports podcast network. He

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Speaker 1: was a former Washington Redskins receiver and he will go.

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Speaker 1: He will be our behind Enemy Sidelines interview with Dpcity

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Speaker 1: this week. We're also going to have a Drew's Dozen

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Speaker 1: with Christian hair As. Yeah, they played Jenga. Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: played Jenga, and I am very jelly, or I guess

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Speaker 1: that's as the kids say, very jelly. I'm nvs. I

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Speaker 1: wish I could be there for that. Walston the last

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Speaker 1: word to Drew Doherty Love later in the show, and

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Speaker 1: walso here from later in the show. Oba o'karaquo, who

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Speaker 1: market I had a chance to catch up with earlier

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Speaker 1: this week. However, we start off each and every Friday

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Speaker 1: show or the last show before our game with the

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Speaker 1: head coach of your Houston Texans. Lovey Smith jumped into

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Speaker 1: the hot seat to talk to Mark vanim Here. Let's go, coach.

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Speaker 1: It's your third straight matchup against an NFC East team

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Speaker 1: and they all seem to have these tough defensive fronts.

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Speaker 1: In comment, tell me about dealing with what Washington brings

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Speaker 1: to the table in that department. Well, it does seem

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Speaker 1: like that. It seemed like he's as far back as

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Speaker 1: I can remember. Each week we're talking about a defensive

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Speaker 1: front and way would make some special First, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's always about the inside out. Both that are interior guys.

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Speaker 1: You know, I have two first round players inside and

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Speaker 1: they play that way. They're excellent against run, strong athletic

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Speaker 1: when moved to the outside again, they've invested in their

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Speaker 1: it Chase Young plays or not, this is about as

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Speaker 1: good a defensive line as we'll play. All right, let

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Speaker 1: me put your tight end group in the spotlight here.

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Speaker 1: No matter how you set it up personnel wise, pass blocking,

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Speaker 1: run blocking or pass receiving, which is more important? I

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Speaker 1: would imagine the answer is yes. So tell me about

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Speaker 1: that and how it goes into game planning. Well, it does.

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Speaker 1: First off, we we like to run the football, so

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Speaker 1: you know, having a tie someone in that traditional wide role,

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Speaker 1: which says that you can do both well and maybe

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Speaker 1: far as inline tight end blocking, we feel like we

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Speaker 1: have that intiguing but nowadays eventually you need to be

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Speaker 1: and we think we have good matchups whether it beatiguing.

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Speaker 1: Jar Nakins has been outstanding. He's a tough matchup versus

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Speaker 1: Oj gives you a combination of both. And Brevin also

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Speaker 1: at the tight end position he can play. He can

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Speaker 1: also back up Troy at the fullback position too, along

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Speaker 1: with me in a tight end when you're dealing with

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Speaker 1: their offense. They have Taylor Heineke. But how much Wentz

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Speaker 1: they might do to you offensively or try to do

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Speaker 1: you mean, they've been playing our best football right now

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Speaker 1: and he's been leading them. So we have history with

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Speaker 1: Wentz and most of the guys that would be playing

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Speaker 1: Heineken most of the time. What about the way they

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Speaker 1: it matches up well with a good passing attack. Last

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Speaker 1: second half of the season, there have been a lot

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Speaker 1: of good things we've done putting a complete game together

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Speaker 1: most of the times when you haven't. The best place

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Speaker 1: have been outstanding thing. And I can't wait to see

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Speaker 1: the hump. All right, Mark, good stuff with Lovey Smith,

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Speaker 1: head coach of your Houston Texans, and Mark, I'm not

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm for a football coach, right, and football

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Speaker 1: coaches are the greatest thieves. I mean that in the

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Speaker 1: nicest way, though, but we're always borrowing from what other

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Speaker 1: people do, right. A thief doesn't borrow, a thief doesn't

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Speaker 1: give back. Well, okay, we're the greatest borrowers. How about that?

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's maybe that's a little bit better. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna borrow just one little thing that I've heard,

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Speaker 1: John Lopez and Landry Locker, led by Figgy in the

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Speaker 1: Loop does this segment where they have lunchtime confessions. I

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Speaker 1: am ready to confess one saying. I didn't think I

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Speaker 1: you to tell me whether I'm completely off base or

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Speaker 1: or what you really like the Cults. WHOA, you're close.

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Speaker 1: You really like the Titans. Okay, it's not that I

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Speaker 1: like the Titans. You respect the Titans. There's my confession.

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Speaker 1: I have come to this realization that I absolutely, totally

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Speaker 1: and how they go about their business. Last night against

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Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers, they had no Taylor lu Wan

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Speaker 1: massive they moved Brewer, who's two hundred and seventy five pounds,

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Speaker 1: I have been trying to deny the Titans. Man, they're

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Speaker 1: And they won the game on Thursday night against the

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Speaker 1: Tannehill threw four three hundred thirty three yards behind that

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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry just had eighty seven. But they found a

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Speaker 1: I am just done fighting it. I'm done fighting it.

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Speaker 1: I have fought it. I have fought a good fight forever.

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Speaker 1: gonna lose big games. I'm done doing it. My Vrabel

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Speaker 1: game otherwise, Johnny, you know, they become they become the Colts.

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Speaker 1: now to the rest of the AFC South, John Robinson,

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Speaker 1: you talk about Rabel, John Robinson, Johnny, that GM gets

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Speaker 1: there in twenty sixteen, they go winning season, winning season

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Speaker 1: down the line. Now, they haven't had tremendous playoffs success

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Speaker 1: anybody else, a record amount like seventy seven players, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the field? One? Can you name him? On the old

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Speaker 1: line old line commanders against the Texans D line, Can

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Speaker 1: you name the one first rounder. Who those nine fifty

428
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Speaker 1: five double nickel Jerry Hughes. We always forget that because

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Speaker 1: Jerry went late in the first round. Oh, you were

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Speaker 1: saying on the Texans side. Over you go to the

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Speaker 1: other side, rifling through their line to find a first rounder. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Jerry here, they don't have one on their line. But

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Speaker 1: if you go two teams, if you go Commanders front

434
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Speaker 1: versus Texans O line, seven of nine first rounders, If

435
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Speaker 1: you go Commander's offensive line versus Texans front collectively only one.

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Speaker 1: That's really interesting. Yeah, it's it's wild to think about,

437
00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:21,720
Speaker 1: how you know, I, you know me, I always like

438
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Speaker 1: to see how teams are built. But potentially in potentially

439
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Speaker 1: out we'll find out more. That's probably gonna be one

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Speaker 1: of those game time things we find out it Sunday

441
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Speaker 1: at nine o'clock. Quick thought on this Kenyon Green facing

442
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:37,480
Speaker 1: all these fire breathing dragons at defensive tackle, so he

443
00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 1: faces another one this week? Does it or could it

444
00:23:41,400 --> 00:23:44,880
Speaker 1: help that he's seen so many tough players that week

445
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Speaker 1: by week, Hey, I think I need to do this

446
00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,199
Speaker 1: instead of that and maybe this will help. Does he

447
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Speaker 1: get better within the course of the season. In this

448
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Speaker 1: Murderers row run or is that too much to ask. No,

449
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's too much to ask. I think

450
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Speaker 1: it's too much to ask for him to be pristine, perfect,

451
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,320
Speaker 1: But I do think he will have learned something. And

452
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 1: the thing with Pain and Allen inside is they're both different.

453
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Speaker 1: Pain is kind of a poor man's Dexter Lawrence. He's

454
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Speaker 1: not quite as big as Dexter, but he has sort

455
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Speaker 1: of the same playing style. And then you have John Allen,

456
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Speaker 1: who when he's coming out of Alabama, he's playing defensive end,

457
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Speaker 1: and then when they rush him on the inside, now

458
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Speaker 1: he's just a full on defensive tackle given the fact

459
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:26,639
Speaker 1: they have sweat and they have Chase Young, so he

460
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:31,440
Speaker 1: doesn't really go outside much, but he's so stout and strong.

461
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Speaker 1: So they're all a little bit different. So even when

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Speaker 1: you think you've learned something going against Dexter Lawrence, all

463
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, the you face with John Allen, and

464
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Speaker 1: so now you want to attack him in a different way.

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Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, John Allen hits you

466
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Speaker 1: with that hump move, the Reggie White hump move, which

467
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Speaker 1: he's perfected, which is nearly I don't know how a

468
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Speaker 1: man pulls it off. But Jonathan Allen does it perfectly,

469
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Speaker 1: so he's gonna try that. I would imagine on Kennyan Green.

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Speaker 1: But again you go back to you run the ball,

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Speaker 1: and if you run it effectively, then you have an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to slow them down just a little bit on

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Speaker 1: the pass rush. Now they're not just you know, ears

474
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Speaker 1: pinned back and they're giving you the best rush moves.

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Speaker 1: They actually have got to work to know, Okay, was

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Speaker 1: that pass rush or not? And you just need a

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Speaker 1: half second sometimes split seconds as an interior guy going

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Speaker 1: against some of those guys. So either way, I think

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Speaker 1: he's gonna learn something and I think he is gonna

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Speaker 1: having Again I said, I used to Dwayne Brown situation.

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Speaker 1: Dwayne had to go against all these pass rushers. He

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Speaker 1: learned and he got better doing it. I think Kenyan

483
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Speaker 1: will would all pay off in one game where we

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Speaker 1: go that's it, the light went on. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if we have that, but I do think we'll see

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Speaker 1: a few moments maybe the light is a dimmer and

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Speaker 1: you can just turn it up at least a little bit,

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Speaker 1: have an improved performance and make some hay. I like

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Speaker 1: making hay, and we'll make more hay. On the other side,

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Speaker 1: as I give you the exact keys to the game

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Speaker 1: for win against these Commanders right here in Texas all Access.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna dive into my keys to the game here

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Speaker 1: in just a second, but I gotta get some props

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Speaker 1: these keys to the game against the Washington Commanders. I

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Speaker 1: do meet you in every Friday right here in this

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Speaker 1: particular segment. It's not a team that we face a

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Speaker 1: lot face the very four years now. We could face

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Speaker 1: them again in a couple of years, but that remains

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Speaker 1: to be seen. We face Thember four years eight years

510
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,959
Speaker 1: in between trips, and so it's been eight years since

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Speaker 1: the team formerly known as the Redskins. Twenty fourteen, they

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Speaker 1: came here as the red Skins. Head coaches Jay Gruden,

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks Robert Griffin. The third they come here at twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two and they are the Washington Commanders. To name

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Speaker 1: changes since to head coaching changes since it's now Ron

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Speaker 1: Rivera and the quarterback is Taylor Heineke, who used to

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Speaker 1: quarterback the Texans for a very short time in twenty

518
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Speaker 1: seventeen on Christmas Night against the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's how

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Speaker 1: much things have changed since the Commanders have been here.

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Speaker 1: So let's dive into my keys. Give me my music

521
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 1: because I got I thrived with my music going, and

522
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:34,359
Speaker 1: let's talk about facing this commander's offense. Now, there is

523
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Speaker 1: nothing about this Commander's offense that you look at the

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Speaker 1: numbers and go whoa, oh boy, we're in trouble. When

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00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,640
Speaker 1: we get to the individual talent, there are some elite

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Speaker 1: players on this offense, but as a group, they are

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Speaker 1: not very The average one hundred and twelve yards per

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Speaker 1: game on the ground, that's twentieth in the NFL. They

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Speaker 1: throw for two eleven point seven. That's twenty six, twenty

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Speaker 1: second in the NFL. Pull offense three and twenty four

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Speaker 1: yards per game, it's twenty fifth in the NFL. They've

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Speaker 1: turned the ball over thirteen times now. That has been

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Speaker 1: more with Carson Wentz's been with Taylor Heneke. But as

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Speaker 1: I heard a Commander's analysts say this week, he will

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Speaker 1: throw you one, you better capitalize on it. So it's

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Speaker 1: Taylor Heneke, running backs, Brian Robson, junior rookie Antonio Gibson,

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Speaker 1: and then the wide receivers Curtis Samuel, Terry McLaren, Johan Dotson.

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Speaker 1: Dino Vassal, secondary coach, said that might be well, he

539
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Speaker 1: said it's the best tree. He didn't say it might be,

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Speaker 1: he just said it is. It's probably the best that

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Speaker 1: we faced up to this date, up to date. So

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Speaker 1: gonna have their hands full, and they're gonna have their

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00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: hands full without Derek Stingley. Derek Stingley is out of

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Speaker 1: this game to dealing with that hamstring and became more

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Speaker 1: of an issue on Wednesday. I don't know that I've

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Speaker 1: seen him in a building this week. I know he's

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00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: been there, but I just haven't seen him he's just

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Speaker 1: getting rehabbed and get ready to go, and he is

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Speaker 1: out for this game. Now. On the other side, the

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Speaker 1: Commanders have out Coole Holkom, Jenny McKissick, two key pieces,

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Speaker 1: one on defense, one special teams in third down situations.

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Speaker 1: So those three players are out of this game. So

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Speaker 1: that's gonna make it that much more problematic, especially when

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Speaker 1: we get to key number two, and we'll get to

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Speaker 1: that in just a second. So start at key number one.

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Speaker 1: Three yards and a cloud of wins. Now you know

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Speaker 1: the phrase three yards in a cloud of dust, right,

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00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: it was coined way back in the sixties, probably to

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Speaker 1: describe Vince Lombardi's offense. Three yards and a cloud of dust. Well,

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Speaker 1: you get three yards on four downs, you get first downs,

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00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: you move the chains. And that's exactly what the Commanders

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Speaker 1: did against the Philadelphia nothing special. They ran for just

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Speaker 1: over three yards of carry, but they ran it forty

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Speaker 1: nine times. They just kept moving the sticks. Eagles kept

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Speaker 1: killing the wall back and Kevin moving the sticks. With

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Speaker 1: Robinson and Gibson, now they're a little different running backs.

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Speaker 1: Robinson is a he's a hammerhead. He is just going

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Speaker 1: to keep charging forward. He creates his own holes with

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Speaker 1: his power and his run through abilities. Antonio Gibson was

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Speaker 1: a former receiver in college, but he has running back

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Speaker 1: skills and so they kind of use them in a

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Speaker 1: lot of different ways. But between the two, I think

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Speaker 1: they combined for forty carries, so three yards in a

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Speaker 1: cloud of wins. That's how they're winning winning games. They're

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Speaker 1: controlling the ball, they're keeping opposing offenses on the sideline,

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Speaker 1: and then they're bludgeoning a defense. And like we've talked

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Speaker 1: about a million times, this Texans defense is one that's

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Speaker 1: been bludgeoned. Now the flip side of that is the

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Speaker 1: Texans run defense was good at times against the Giants.

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Speaker 1: Notice I said at times. Then there were times Sakewa

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Speaker 1: Barkley ripped off some chunks. I bet if you took

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Speaker 1: and I didn't do the math on this, but if

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Speaker 1: you took the top three or four runs and took

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Speaker 1: them out, that left thirty one thirty two carries for Barkley,

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Speaker 1: and I guarantee it was for on one hundred yards.

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Speaker 1: So there were times they were doing a really good

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Speaker 1: job against the run. They're gonna have to be that

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00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 1: and better against the Commanders. That's the only thing the

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Speaker 1: Commanders want to do. Now it's really the only thing

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Speaker 1: the Giants wanted to do. But Gibson and Robinson are

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00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: not say Quon Barkley, but they're equally difficult to tackle.

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Speaker 1: Number two Scary Terry. Now scary Terry becomes even more scary.

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Speaker 1: Now he's not scary for the Commanders, he is scary

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Speaker 1: for all opponents. He has one of the most impressive

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Speaker 1: dudes you're gonna meet off the field. He's a captain

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Speaker 1: Ohio State, even though he was number four wide receiver there.

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Speaker 1: He's coming to the league and better superstar. He's scary

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Speaker 1: for opponents. So how did the Texas account for him?

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Speaker 1: They catches one hundred twenty eight yards against Eagles, and

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Speaker 1: Taylor Honeken looks him up about three to four times

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Speaker 1: more than he looks up any other past catcher on

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Speaker 1: his team with no Stingley, How did they go about

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Speaker 1: slowing down Terry McLaren? Do they let him get his

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00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: just try and keep him from getting all the deep ball?

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00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: So maybe like a six four ninety kind of game,

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Speaker 1: but no touchdowns and everybody else gets very minimal targets

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Speaker 1: and receptions. Maybe that's the way you go about it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you fully account for him, whether

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Speaker 1: it's you put Steven Nelson on him give help, or

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Speaker 1: whether it's Desmond King and you give help. Either way,

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00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: you do have to give some help to whomever is

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Speaker 1: covering Terry McLarin. He's that good. Now. John Dotson's got

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Speaker 1: his thing, but Heinekee doesn't love going to anybody else

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Speaker 1: other than Terry McLaren. How will they get the ball

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Speaker 1: to Curtis Samuel And that's a that's a different kind

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Speaker 1: of ball of wax. And I would imagine they're gonna

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Speaker 1: find ways to get the ball to Curtis Samuel in

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Speaker 1: different ways. But it's McLarin he's the problem. And with

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Speaker 1: no Stingley, now you've got a situation of well, how

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Speaker 1: do we account for this guy? Who do we put

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Speaker 1: on him? And how do we account word in man?

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Speaker 1: The hope is, and my hope is that they do

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Speaker 1: so well against the run that they can bring blitz

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Speaker 1: is like they did in the third quarter against the Giants.

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00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: They just have to be tighter and man coverage such

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Speaker 1: that they don't give up something to Darius Slayton, who

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00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,120
Speaker 1: then is got room to run and he runs for

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Speaker 1: fifty four yards of touch that they can't do that

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Speaker 1: because mcclarin would do the same thing to them that

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Speaker 1: Slayton did, and McLaren is that much better. Last one

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Speaker 1: on offense, gritty gutting a playmaker, and that is Taylor Heneken.

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00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: Now at twenty seventeen, he was with Texas for a

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Speaker 1: little bit, only saw him for a handfull of plays

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Speaker 1: because he end up getting hit taking a concussion, and

635
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: then he wasn't back here in twenty eighteen and since

636
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Speaker 1: then he's been on an odyssey. Well, he ended up

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Speaker 1: in Washington twenty twenty late in the year and he's

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Speaker 1: started the playoff game. It looked very, very good, but

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Speaker 1: it says if the Commanders management didn't really you know,

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Speaker 1: we got Taylor, but we'll get another guy. We got Taylor,

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Speaker 1: but we'll get another guy. Well, this might be the

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Speaker 1: last of we need to get another guy, because Taylor

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Speaker 1: Heneke might be locking down that face of the franchise

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Speaker 1: position going forward because it isn't Carson Wentz. I really

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Speaker 1: wish we were facing at Carson Wentz. We're not. Heineck

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Speaker 1: finds a way and that might be the best asset

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Speaker 1: he has and it's a damn good one. He finds

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Speaker 1: a way. The throws aren't always perfect, the runs aren't

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Speaker 1: always perfect, but he finds a way to win a

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Speaker 1: ball game. He finds a way to make that throw

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Speaker 1: at that time when the commander's really needed. Mccolts had

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Speaker 1: them beat the Colts, had them beat sixteen ten, Commanders

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Speaker 1: hadn't move the ball all game long. What does what

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Speaker 1: does Heineck do? Finds mccuarin deep ball, They get down

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Speaker 1: into one, Heineke sneaks it in. They win the game

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Speaker 1: seventeen sixty, and that's where got the winning street going

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Speaker 1: for them. Heineck is a playmaker. Those guys at quarterback

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Speaker 1: are very, very tough to stop. And in that way,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of a case Keenum esque where nothing is perfect,

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Speaker 1: but man, you trust that guy. I mean, had commanders

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00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 1: were putting on a bunch of chains and give him

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Speaker 1: a bush light the other night on the way home

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Speaker 1: from the win against the Eagles. He's that guy and

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Speaker 1: he's got a he's got a confidence and arrogance. So

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Speaker 1: how did the text and shake that up? How do

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Speaker 1: they get to him and rattle him? And that is

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Speaker 1: going to be a big key they can't do that.

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Speaker 1: It's a long afternoon. But if they can, maybe he

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Speaker 1: throws them not only one, but maybe throws him a couple,

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Speaker 1: and maybe that's enough to change what I think is

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Speaker 1: going to be a very close game either way. No

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Speaker 1: matter who wins, Taylor Heineke gonna be tough. Now'll throw over.

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Speaker 1: The defense are giving up one hundred and eleven point

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Speaker 1: three yards per game, that's twelfth in the league. They

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Speaker 1: give up two hundred and thirteen yards per game three

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Speaker 1: the year, that's fifteenth in the league. And they allowed

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Speaker 1: three hundred twenty four yards per game that's tenth in

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Speaker 1: the league. This is a salty defense. Why well, let's

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Speaker 1: get to key number one, Chasing Young. Now, let's talk

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Speaker 1: about this Chase Young situation. Mark and I mentioned earlier.

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Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport put out a tweet earlier in the morning

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Speaker 1: on Friday saying that they weren't quite sure that Chase

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Speaker 1: Young was going to be ready to go. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: because in this situation, Chase Young really could have just

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Speaker 1: played pass rusher and that's it, and that would have

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Speaker 1: made him ultra ultra dangerous. So if there is no

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Speaker 1: Chasing Young, can the Texans get away with doing some

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Speaker 1: things against James Smith Williams, who's played oh on the

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Speaker 1: outside for Chase Young. Can they do some things in

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Speaker 1: that direction? Chase Young would have created a ton of problems. There,

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Speaker 1: No Chase Young, thank you. Now they're still a thought.

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Speaker 1: I'm not seeing anything to date saying that he has

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Speaker 1: been activated, that he is being added to the roster.

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Speaker 1: That hasn't happened. And if that doesn't happen on Saturday,

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Speaker 1: which typically is when it happens, Chase Young won't play.

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Speaker 1: And that man as a huge cide, relig huge because

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Speaker 1: I get in the key number two. The Texans still

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Speaker 1: have to face that interior, and the interior of On

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Speaker 1: Payne and Jonathan Allen is maybe the best duo they've faced.

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Speaker 1: Fletcher Cox, Javon Hargrave, Dexter Lawrence, Leonard Williams, Jeffrey Simmons,

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Speaker 1: Tier Tart. They have faced as many good duos in

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Speaker 1: the last four games as they could possibly want to face. Well,

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Speaker 1: this one's the best. That's my opinion. I think it's

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Speaker 1: a lot of people's opinion, actually, But Jonathan Allen and

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Speaker 1: Dron Payne caused nightmares for the interior. Now it probably

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Speaker 1: would have been key number one, had Chase Young. Have

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Speaker 1: we known about Chase Young earlier in the week Because

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Speaker 1: of the way those interior defenders that I've mentioned, John

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Speaker 1: Hargrave had three sacks against the Texas Dexter Lawrence had

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Speaker 1: five quarterback hits in a sack and a half and

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00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: dominated the game. Jeffrey Simmons and Tierra Tart just weren't

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Speaker 1: going to be blocked that day. They just weren't allowing

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Speaker 1: themselves to get blocked. So, but Texans not only have

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Speaker 1: faced really difficult interiors, they have struggled with those interiors.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know what the best way of going

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Speaker 1: about blocking two guys, but you have three guys in

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Speaker 1: the interior, and you've got to find a way to

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Speaker 1: block those two guys effectively. And at some point in

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Speaker 1: the passing game, they're going to get guard center guard

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Speaker 1: one on one, and I would I would bet that

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Speaker 1: after watching film, they want the rookie Kenyon Green, and

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Speaker 1: Kenyon's got some room to work. There's no doubt Keny

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Speaker 1: would tell you that. Everybody tells you that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's evident he has room to grow. But this

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Speaker 1: would be a great time for Kenyon to step up

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Speaker 1: and take on those two monsters and drawn Payne and

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Allen and stand up and say, man, I got this.

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Speaker 1: You might have to give him some help. Now. The

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Speaker 1: one of the things it's hard to do is give

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Speaker 1: an interior player help from some other position, tight end,

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Speaker 1: running back. Those guys are always helping the outside. I

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Speaker 1: don't think the Texans tackles needed, But how do you

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Speaker 1: use running backs on the inside. That's going to be

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Speaker 1: the hard part. Then. I don't know how you go

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Speaker 1: about doing that, but the Texans may have to do that.

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Speaker 1: Belichick did that with JJ Watt. He had a running

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Speaker 1: back help out the guard and put the guard one

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Speaker 1: on one, but then use the running back to go

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Speaker 1: help on JJ. And what the running back would do

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Speaker 1: was get JJ's hands down. Well, I don't care how

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Speaker 1: you use the running back or what you fullback. I

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00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: don't care what you do, but those guys have got

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Speaker 1: to help the interior to block Jonathan Allen and Tron

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Speaker 1: Payne or it's gonna be a long freaking day. Last

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Speaker 1: it's certainly not least who covers Nico. Now, this could

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Speaker 1: be a battle of former Michigan Wolverine twenty seventeen recruits.

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Speaker 1: Benjamin Saint Juice six three two hundred pounds actually matches

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Speaker 1: up size wise with Nico. They were in the same

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Speaker 1: Michian Wolverine recruiting class. Saint Juice was there for a

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Speaker 1: year in seventeen, then he transferred eighteen to Minnesota. They

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Speaker 1: never played again at each other after that, but they

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Speaker 1: definitely have faced each other in practice. Now. I bring

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Speaker 1: that up because Nico and faced favorite Moreau in practice,

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Speaker 1: so he had some knowledge of how Moreau would handle things,

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Speaker 1: and he used that against him on the goal line

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Speaker 1: touchdown that he had. That was a beautiful route. What

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Speaker 1: does Nico know about Saint Jus and how can he

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Speaker 1: use that against the Washington Commander's best corner on Sunday?

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Speaker 1: Keeping one on that battle twenty five v. Twelve and

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Speaker 1: hope that number twelve, Nico Collins is the better of

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Speaker 1: that matchup. All right, when we get back, let's go

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Speaker 1: round the NFL. Just a couple of news and notes

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Speaker 1: that you need for your fantasy teams. Next right here

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Speaker 1: a Texas All Access Welcome Back Friday issue of Texas

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Speaker 1: All Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: John Harris football analyst side of the reporter for your

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans. Let's go around in the NFL. Hit a

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Speaker 1: couple of news and notes here quickly before we go

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Speaker 1: to our second hour. The Chiefs are down not one,

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Speaker 1: but two wide receivers. One got put on injured reserving Thursday.

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Speaker 1: That's Mikole Hardman, Juju Smith Schuster is out due to

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Speaker 1: a concussion he suffered last week in Week ten against

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Speaker 1: d Jacksonville Jaguars. Now the Chiefs stone Egy, cryin in

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Speaker 1: your beer. But those are probably two players on a

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Speaker 1: lot of people's fantasy teams. So Mikole Hardman, ir Juju

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Speaker 1: Smith Schuster out dealing with the concussion. The Bills are

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Speaker 1: dealing with one hell of a storm, Holy smokes. Friday's

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Speaker 1: practice was canceled due to the weather, with players and

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Speaker 1: coaches set to meet virtually now. The Bills planned to

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Speaker 1: travel to Detroit on Saturday, but coach Sean McDermot said

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Speaker 1: Friday the details are obviously TBD at this point. McDermott

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Speaker 1: told reporters, we want to head out as close to

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Speaker 1: the normal time as possible. However, again, seeing what's happening

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Speaker 1: around us right now, I just want to make sure

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Speaker 1: that all the staff and players families are safe and

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Speaker 1: dug out before we want to try to get out

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Speaker 1: of here, just so everyone's mind is in the right

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Speaker 1: spot knowing that their families are all safe. The game

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Speaker 1: will take place on Sunday in Detroit, Bills v. Browns,

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Speaker 1: and we need the Bills to win, so hopefully they

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Speaker 1: can get up there and play that game, and then

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Speaker 1: they have to return back there to play the Lions

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Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving. So wild stuff going on right now in Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: And if you have seen Orchard Park, oh my goodness,

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Speaker 1: holy smokes, it's crazy. All right, It's not crazy? Is

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Speaker 1: going behind enemy sidelines? Andrews doesn't. That's all next right

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Speaker 1: here in Texans All Access. We got one hour down,

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Speaker 1: one hour left to go. Right here on a Friday

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Speaker 1: issue of Texans All Access. I'm John Harris football and

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Speaker 1: a sideline reporter for your Houston Texans, and it's time

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Speaker 1: to go behind enemy sidelines. And nothing like getting a

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00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 1: former commander, former Redskin Anthony Armstrong, who was a wide

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00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:00,879
Speaker 1: receiver for the Redskins back in day and now he's

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Speaker 1: part of the Believe Sports podcast network, and he caught

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00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:07,839
Speaker 1: up with Deepe to talk about this matchup against the Commanders,

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Speaker 1: We're going behind enemy Sidelines with former Washington wide receiver

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Speaker 1: Anthony Armstrong, now a co host on the Believed Commanders podcast. Anthony,

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Speaker 1: welcome in. Have you recovered from the Monday night game

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Speaker 1: that I think really caught the entire country by surprise? Oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm still living. I'm still living live off of that one.

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Speaker 1: Deep in a great mood. I mean that one. Usually

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Speaker 1: you have to stay up late and sometimes you get

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Speaker 1: let down. That was a good reason to stay up

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Speaker 1: late past my bed tech. Yeah, big win. They defeat

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Speaker 1: the undefeated, previously undefeated Eagles. I mean, you cover the

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Speaker 1: team every single week. How surprised are you at the

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Speaker 1: fact that Washington win in there, two touched on underdogs

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Speaker 1: and we're able to come out with the win on

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Speaker 1: the road. I'm really not that surprised at all, simply

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Speaker 1: because that was a different team than what Philly faced

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Speaker 1: in week three. I mean week three, you had Carson Wentz,

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Speaker 1: you didn't have Brian Robinson, and frankly, you know, Carson

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Speaker 1: hadn't settled it into that offense and no, so now

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Speaker 1: when you had Taylor Heineck show up, there is a

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Speaker 1: guy who's very seasoned in Scott Turner's offense, and you

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Speaker 1: could see the way that the team responds to him

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Speaker 1: being at quarterback, and that team has a different attitude

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Speaker 1: with Brian Robinson carrying the ball as well. It's a

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Speaker 1: totally different Washington team, much more dangerous now than they

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Speaker 1: were a week three. Well, we saw Taylor Heineke back

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Speaker 1: in Houston in twenty seventeen very briefly, and now I

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Speaker 1: am watching the celebratory videos on the plane. He's wearing

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Speaker 1: all the chains, all the necklaces, all the glasses, all

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Speaker 1: the jewelry. The Commanders have gone three and one with

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Speaker 1: Heineke and now with Carson Wentz possibly coming off of

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Speaker 1: ir has Heineck's done enough to just really solidify himself

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Speaker 1: as a starting quarterback here for the rest of the season.

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Speaker 1: I think that he has, especially if you look at

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Speaker 1: the fact that the entire NFC East does have a

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Speaker 1: chance to make it into the playoffs. You have to

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Speaker 1: give yourself a chance to actually go for that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm a guy that says winning fixes all ales, right,

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00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,239
Speaker 1: so no need to try to lose and get up

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Speaker 1: up the up and down the draft board win some

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Speaker 1: ball games. See what he can do. You can obviously

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Speaker 1: see the way this team responds with him at quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And if you heard Terry mclorin's monologue after the game

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Speaker 1: talking to Scott Van Pell, I mean he was going

849
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: on for about thirty forty five seconds and he did

850
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 1: mention Carson Wentz. So he definitely said the right thing,

851
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 1: but you could tell how he feels about Taylor Heineke.

852
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:25,320
Speaker 1: And if I'm Ron Rivere, I'm listening to my captain,

853
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 1: I'm listening to Terry mclaurin'. I'm gonna let for riot.

854
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 1: I'm glad you rob up Terry McLaurin because I can

855
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: see why he's happy. His usage, his numbers, everything's gone

856
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: up with heine in the lineup. He's emerged as just

857
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 1: his favorite target's averaging sixteen yards a catch. What does

858
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 1: he do well as a top receiving threat? And did

859
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: you see his usage change once Heineck was in the lineup. Oh,

860
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 1: usage has definitely increased. The past four games with Taylor

861
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:53,719
Speaker 1: Heineke has been eight targets minimum per game. Last game

862
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 1: he had eleven total, so that's definitely been a huge us.

863
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:59,160
Speaker 1: Has he only had that happened one time earlier in

864
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Speaker 1: the season, and he's had two one yard games with

865
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Speaker 1: Taylor Heineke under center, so I know he's enjoying that.

866
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Speaker 1: But the thing that I liked the most about Terry

867
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Speaker 1: McLaurin is he's extremely humble and he's patient. Yeah, you

868
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 1: hear a lot about receivers being divas and they want

869
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 1: to get the ball in their hands early and often.

870
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:17,280
Speaker 1: Earlier in the season, he didn't touch the ball early

871
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 1: and a lot of times he had to make a

872
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,320
Speaker 1: late catch and he showed up as if he was

873
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:23,919
Speaker 1: getting the ball all throughout the game and basically having

874
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 1: to suffer through that for lack of a better word.

875
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 1: He's deserving this moment to show up and get the

876
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: ball early and often to make an impact with this team.

877
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 1: It really opens up the offense and makes it easier

878
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 1: on everybody else on the field. Well, that Commander's offense.

879
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 1: I mean, they just dominated in that Monday night game.

880
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: I felt like every time I looked at the TV,

881
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:43,239
Speaker 1: it was the Commander's offense on the field. We didn't

882
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:45,840
Speaker 1: see much of Jalen Hurtson and Billy's offense, and a

883
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:47,359
Speaker 1: big part of that was just what they were able

884
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 1: to do on the ground. We saw Brian Robinson and

885
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: Antonio Gibson get a rushing touchdown. They also had Courtis

886
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:55,479
Speaker 1: Samuel getting carries. It seems like there's wide receivers playing

887
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:58,440
Speaker 1: running back, running backs playing wide receivers. You know what's

888
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: the toughest part for opposing defense is when facing that

889
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 1: commander's offense and all these skill players. You know, I

890
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:07,680
Speaker 1: think that the versatility that comes with Washington's offense is

891
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: what's going to give any defense trouble. You talk about

892
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:13,240
Speaker 1: receivers playing running back. Antonio Gibson was a college receiver,

893
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 1: and then you flip via versus that Curtis Samuel was

894
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:18,240
Speaker 1: a running back initially when he got the Ohio States.

895
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 1: So being able to run routes from the backfield creates

896
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,320
Speaker 1: a lot of different matchups. It allows Scott Turning to

897
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 1: get extremely creative and find different ways to get guys

898
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: into spaces. I mean, you have linebackers that have to

899
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,439
Speaker 1: cover people that were former receivers. So it just puts

900
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 1: a lot of strain on defenses and you can't sit

901
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: back and rely on the old school tactics of hey,

902
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: just go hit. They got carrying the ball because that

903
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: guy might run a route right, run an option route

904
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: and RPOs and there's just so much creativity nowadays that

905
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:47,839
Speaker 1: guys have to be way more versatile and how they

906
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 1: can move around playing the run and try to play

907
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: the bass. All Right, that defense has allowed just seventeen

908
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 1: point three points per game during the last four games.

909
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: So what's been the key for that front to get

910
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 1: so much pressure on a post quarterbacks? And that's been

911
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:03,480
Speaker 1: all without Chase Young so far as well. You know,

912
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 1: I feel like once they parted ways with their you know,

913
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 1: Sam Mills junior, he was the defensive line coach. They

914
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:15,320
Speaker 1: brought Ryan Carrigan in elevated Scott Skanina that that defensive

915
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:18,320
Speaker 1: line has really just grown and elevated throughout the season.

916
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 1: That anchored by John Allen and Duran Payne, those two

917
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 1: guys caused so much havoc upfront, and it allows the

918
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 1: other guys f e Obada's and just the ridgeways that

919
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: have come in. Those guys can just work as one

920
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:33,200
Speaker 1: total unit. Montes sweat a name that you forget with

921
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:35,359
Speaker 1: so many people out here, you don't even have Chase

922
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 1: you you mentioned that and he could show back up,

923
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 1: and when him coming back into the into the fold,

924
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 1: it could be dangerous. It could be very dangerous. I mean,

925
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: the unit's really really performing well. They've been the foundation

926
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:50,439
Speaker 1: of that defense, the really stronghold that sets the tone

927
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: for what the defense wants to do. All right, Chase Young,

928
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 1: I mean we've seen the news that he could come

929
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,919
Speaker 1: back here in Week eleven against the Chexans. He hasn't

930
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 1: played in about a year or so, coming off an

931
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 1: acal injury. When a guy hasn't played in that long,

932
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: you know, what are your expectations for when he does

933
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,320
Speaker 1: come back. If he does come back against the Texans,

934
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:09,800
Speaker 1: would you expect he'd be on a snap count? And

935
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,279
Speaker 1: you know how much rust could you expect from a

936
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 1: guy like that. Yeah, I would expect a snap count.

937
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:17,800
Speaker 1: And I have to applaud the Washington training staff and

938
00:49:17,960 --> 00:49:21,439
Speaker 1: coaching staff. They've handled injuries very well, you know. Now

939
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 1: with Curtis Samuel and with Chase Young, I think they

940
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:25,480
Speaker 1: have those guys on the right path, taking their time

941
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:27,600
Speaker 1: to get them back on the field. But the first

942
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 1: thing I'm paying attention to with Chaise Young is just

943
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: that first time of impact where he has to deal

944
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 1: with you know, a pulling guard or a tight end.

945
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:36,600
Speaker 1: I mean, they have a lot of you know rules

946
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:40,839
Speaker 1: now that help protect defensive lineman's knees. So somebody's gonna

947
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:42,840
Speaker 1: throw a block at him and you call it what

948
00:49:42,920 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 1: it is. That's just how the league is. You're gonna

949
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: see what do you think about your knee? Are you

950
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 1: confident in it? Because if he's not confident in it,

951
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:51,319
Speaker 1: then there's gonna be a lot of Damian Pierce that's

952
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:53,839
Speaker 1: going to run right over that side. And they don't

953
00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 1: want to have that happen with Washington. So I think

954
00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:59,360
Speaker 1: he'll be able to snap count. But I'm excited to

955
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,920
Speaker 1: see his loosenness, trying to see, you know, how much

956
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 1: speed does he have off the edges. He still had

957
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:06,760
Speaker 1: that reactiveness, that change in direction that makes him so dangerous.

958
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they should just give him another

959
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 1: couple of weeks to rest. I mean, just like, let

960
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:12,759
Speaker 1: him rest a little bit more and then just take

961
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 1: his time coming back. It's not a problem to do that.

962
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: I mean, that's not there's no there's nothing, there's no

963
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 1: reason to just say we need to rush him back. Yeah,

964
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:22,440
Speaker 1: and then you have a bye week in week fourteen,

965
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 1: you know, so if Taylor is able to continue to

966
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:27,799
Speaker 1: put a couple of wins together, I think Washington can

967
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,359
Speaker 1: win these next two games. You know, maybe you don't

968
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: need to throw Chase Young back out there, give him

969
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:34,359
Speaker 1: a few more weeks, like you're saying, and yeah, then

970
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 1: you have to build them by a week and now

971
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:38,360
Speaker 1: you have a fresh Chase Young heading into the end

972
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:40,800
Speaker 1: of the season. That's something that's very dangerous. I like

973
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:42,799
Speaker 1: how you're thinking. I mean, I was just selfishly saying

974
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 1: that so the Texans wouldn't have to see him in

975
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:48,440
Speaker 1: this first game back. But as as a former, as

976
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:50,600
Speaker 1: a former wide receiver yourself, I don't know if you've

977
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:53,399
Speaker 1: ever done this, but back to back games on the road,

978
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 1: going from Monday night and then a Sunday noon game.

979
00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:00,080
Speaker 1: How tough is that for the players? I mean, do

980
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 1: you how do you manage recovery between two very quick

981
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:06,320
Speaker 1: games together and both on the road with all that

982
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,399
Speaker 1: travel in between. Well, you kind of have to lose

983
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 1: a day on the front end and on the back end,

984
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:13,719
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna probably take an extra day out

985
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 1: of the middle of the week, so you get it.

986
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 1: It's almost similar to that, you know, Sunday to Thursday

987
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 1: schedule that teams have, it's gonna be a very truncated schedule.

988
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: That's that ends up being a tough part because you're

989
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 1: not I say you truncated schedule, truncated playbook. You know,

990
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:28,440
Speaker 1: maybe you don't get to add in as many wrinkles

991
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: that you as you normally would, but there's a lot

992
00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:33,400
Speaker 1: more mental reps. You know, hopefully at this part of

993
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 1: the season, teams don't need a lot of physical clips

994
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:38,840
Speaker 1: to get out there and go through things. Physically. You

995
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:41,320
Speaker 1: should be able to sync up and say, hey, we

996
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: ran this play before, we're going to run it again

997
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 1: as everybody good, let's walk through it. Those type of things.

998
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 1: So coaches will be able to adjust. But it shouldn't

999
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 1: be that much of a problem. But you'll probably see

1000
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 1: more people's bread and butter all rights coming up. Sunday.

1001
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 1: Washington at Houston Salute to Service game. Appreciate the time

1002
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 1: former Washington wide receiver Anthony Armstrong, and you can listen

1003
00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:02,600
Speaker 1: to him on the Bee Leave Commander's podcast. You can

1004
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:07,320
Speaker 1: also follow him at mister Armstrong thirteen on Twitter. Anthony,

1005
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:09,800
Speaker 1: thank you so much for the time. Really appreciate it. Indeed,

1006
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 1: thank you deep thanks for having me man. I hope

1007
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 1: those Twitter handles are important come Tuesday morning, but it

1008
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:17,440
Speaker 1: might not be for any of us, which will be

1009
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:20,759
Speaker 1: sort of weird, but say I love you if that's

1010
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:22,040
Speaker 1: what it is. And we have to move on to

1011
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:27,399
Speaker 1: some other social media app Instagram, master, don chess piece,

1012
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:29,520
Speaker 1: I don't know whatever. It's all out there right now,

1013
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 1: so it'll be weird though, because Twitter has been a

1014
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 1: huge part of all wild lives. Now. Another person who

1015
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 1: is part of all of our lives and it's a

1016
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 1: great thing is Drew Doherty. And he played Jenga while

1017
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: they did a Jews dozen with Christian Harris. Take a listen.

1018
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 1: Today's competitor was born and raised in Baton Rouge. She's

1019
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: a graduate of You High and then he went on

1020
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 1: to Alabama where he was a star for the Crimson Tide.

1021
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:56,400
Speaker 1: He made grown men hug the day he was drafted

1022
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:58,839
Speaker 1: by the Houston Texans in the third round. Those grown men,

1023
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: of course his head coaches general manager. But we're talking

1024
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 1: about Christian Harris. You've been starting the last three games

1025
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:06,160
Speaker 1: or so, You've got four games under your belt, and

1026
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:08,359
Speaker 1: now you got a Jinga contest finally. Yeah, we got

1027
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 1: a little Yeah, I'm ready, I'm ready, all right to

1028
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:12,520
Speaker 1: recap the rules. You can't take anything off the top

1029
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 1: three and you can only pull a block and put

1030
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,279
Speaker 1: it on with one hand. So your first All right,

1031
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: what's your favorite game to play? Oh? No, for sure,

1032
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 1: we pull out the cards. I'm never losing. Do you

1033
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:23,920
Speaker 1: still play at all? I mean with with my family allowed,

1034
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:25,800
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie like or we'll play the my

1035
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:28,319
Speaker 1: message games now. Oh yeah, you know you can play

1036
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:30,960
Speaker 1: that play pool on there. If you were a dog,

1037
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:33,439
Speaker 1: what type would you be? What type of dog would

1038
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:35,320
Speaker 1: you be? If you're adult, I'd probably say a Doberman.

1039
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 1: I just really wanted Doberman, so yeah, and then yeah,

1040
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 1: I just like Doberman. So that's really I think you're

1041
00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 1: gonna remember put on top. You think you're gonna get

1042
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:44,920
Speaker 1: a Doverman sometime soon, hopefully in the offseason. Yeah, I

1043
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:46,799
Speaker 1: can't write nowe at no time. So yeah, man, it's

1044
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:48,759
Speaker 1: been a world. Yeah, that's a lot going on right now,

1045
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 1: but probably in the off season for sure. Okay, Doberman.

1046
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:53,200
Speaker 1: Did you grow up with Doberman's at all? I actually

1047
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 1: had a toggle lab that was my players dog. Okay,

1048
00:53:56,160 --> 00:53:57,960
Speaker 1: that was your first dog was a chocolate lab. What

1049
00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 1: is your zodiac sign though, Capricorn? Capricorn, yeah, January. Who

1050
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 1: is your celebrity looking like? I don't like this? What's wrong?

1051
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:09,400
Speaker 1: Everybody tell me I look like little Yadi because I

1052
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 1: got little braids and stuff. It's a yes. And don't

1053
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:13,960
Speaker 1: go look up that picture. I won't. Yeah, I don't

1054
00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:17,320
Speaker 1: do that. You have my vow? Oh? What's your go

1055
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 1: to karaoke song? I haven't no karaoke recently, like in

1056
00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,440
Speaker 1: a long time, but trying to throw out any random

1057
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:26,680
Speaker 1: song if there's any Michael Jackson all days, like, I'll

1058
00:54:26,719 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 1: probably be able to, you know, get that out of

1059
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:30,720
Speaker 1: my system. You got a favorite? Michael Jackson's probably Thriller.

1060
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:34,240
Speaker 1: It's just you can't miss. It's always good around Halloween.

1061
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 1: I mean it's good all the time, but perfect time. Really.

1062
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,520
Speaker 1: What is your most used emoji? What's the one that

1063
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: you're like thinking and you're like this looking up? Yeah,

1064
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 1: I just I'm always sitting that Okay, Yeah, I'm always

1065
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: sitting out that's the one. Yeah, I guess we'll go too,

1066
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:50,280
Speaker 1: for sure. That is a good one. What's your guilty

1067
00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:53,440
Speaker 1: pleasure song? It comes on in the car and you're

1068
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 1: by yourself and you start singing it. But if you

1069
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:57,799
Speaker 1: were in the car with other people, you might turn

1070
00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:00,800
Speaker 1: the channel or you might not sing it. Where's that

1071
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:03,680
Speaker 1: is it? There goes my baby by Usher? I think

1072
00:55:03,719 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 1: that's a song. It used to be on my dad's

1073
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: ring tone from my mom, and it's just like a

1074
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 1: song that's like always in my head. Every time I

1075
00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 1: hear it, I get to blurding that out. Okay, I'm

1076
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:13,600
Speaker 1: not saying that around nobody. I got you, but that

1077
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 1: is a nice memory. It's what your parents and there.

1078
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:17,839
Speaker 1: Let's that's cool. That's what I can't see that around.

1079
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:20,880
Speaker 1: Nobody get it. That one thing I wouldn't put here

1080
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:22,800
Speaker 1: to do that. Oh what other sport could you be

1081
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:25,440
Speaker 1: a pro at? I played basketball and track when I

1082
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:28,719
Speaker 1: was little. My height me being six one, I don't

1083
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:31,759
Speaker 1: know if basketball would be I probably say track. What events?

1084
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:34,680
Speaker 1: Did you run a track? One? Two hundred? All right?

1085
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:36,800
Speaker 1: Yeah the whole time? The good stuff? Did you do

1086
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:38,840
Speaker 1: any field events? No? I was all my brother. I

1087
00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 1: had a bigger brother. Yeah, he did all of those things.

1088
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:43,360
Speaker 1: What did he do? So? I put this kid's javelin,

1089
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:45,239
Speaker 1: she's a big guy. Yeah, they made him run the

1090
00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:47,440
Speaker 1: four hundred for fun or he wanted to for fun. Man,

1091
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:49,719
Speaker 1: he should have run needed tocathon. If you could run

1092
00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 1: the four and do all the field events, hey, man, athlete,

1093
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:54,960
Speaker 1: I can. I'm doing no field events that I'm a screen.

1094
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:58,720
Speaker 1: What's your first memory as a kid. My first memory,

1095
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:00,400
Speaker 1: I don't want to relate it to football, but it

1096
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:02,920
Speaker 1: is probably more related to football. My favorite moment, it

1097
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:05,120
Speaker 1: was like my first year playing football. I was playing

1098
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:07,160
Speaker 1: with the South bat Rood DRAMs. Okay, I was like

1099
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 1: playing running back, so it's flag football and I had

1100
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 1: a play in the so one player. I was just

1101
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:13,920
Speaker 1: wondering one way and then I got on my tippy

1102
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 1: toes and like change direction. It was like got my

1103
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 1: first touchdown. So it's like a big moment for me

1104
00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:22,600
Speaker 1: and my family. That's all five six and we're really

1105
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:24,479
Speaker 1: four or five. Yeah, that's when I first started playing.

1106
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:27,160
Speaker 1: So putting on a move, that's awesome. So I'd be

1107
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:31,759
Speaker 1: like Reggie Bus which teammate is the best hype man?

1108
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:34,280
Speaker 1: I like that one best hype man. I like Willow,

1109
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:36,920
Speaker 1: Garrett Willow. He just always has energy and he's like

1110
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:39,600
Speaker 1: Louisiana guy. Too, So he gotta just already turns me

1111
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 1: up every time I see him. So, yeah, there's a

1112
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 1: crew of you guys from Louisiana. Yeah met him staying

1113
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:47,279
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure. So and it's like closer areas Ben

1114
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:49,880
Speaker 1: Rouge is like forty five minutes I think from New Orleans.

1115
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:52,400
Speaker 1: So I mean, yeah, we got a good little connection

1116
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 1: going on. It's not bad. He was a hype man.

1117
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:57,319
Speaker 1: Who which of your teammates calms you down the most?

1118
00:56:57,680 --> 00:56:59,759
Speaker 1: So anybody that does that, it meets do that, or

1119
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 1: I'd probably say, I mean, I do it myself trying

1120
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 1: to call myself down. But if I's like looking up

1121
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:07,239
Speaker 1: to it, probably be older guys. Okay, yeah, just like

1122
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:09,839
Speaker 1: you know, you get to asking questions. They called me down, Like, yeah,

1123
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:12,000
Speaker 1: Kirko is like a mentor for me here basically, so

1124
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 1: he helped me out. Seems like a wise guy. You know,

1125
00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:18,080
Speaker 1: God's out of knowledge. What would your superpower be if

1126
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:20,480
Speaker 1: I could choose just be the fastest, like flash as

1127
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:23,480
Speaker 1: fast as possible, like speed of light. What's your favorite

1128
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 1: cheat meal? You guys all eat pretty darn well these days,

1129
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 1: but what when you kind of let yourself go out?

1130
00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: What is it I'd much rather go home if it

1131
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 1: was like for a cheap meal and bad roots, and

1132
00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 1: it'll be like crawfish at you with some like fry fish,

1133
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:40,200
Speaker 1: fry shrimp. Nice. Yes, to get that, my mom. They

1134
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:45,280
Speaker 1: always you're making me, you're making me hung of course

1135
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:48,400
Speaker 1: I have. It's delicious. Who is your favorite teammate to

1136
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:51,120
Speaker 1: sit next to on the plane? Probably Sting? Now I

1137
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 1: sitting next to Sting already, but I mean that's just

1138
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:55,520
Speaker 1: my boy. We're joking around all the time on the

1139
00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:57,880
Speaker 1: way there on the way back, So yeah, probably for

1140
00:57:57,960 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 1: sure Sting. So he's pretty quiet when he's talking with

1141
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:02,840
Speaker 1: the media and folks like that. But not a quiet guy.

1142
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:05,560
Speaker 1: Huh No, I mean he's he's a jugster for sure.

1143
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:06,920
Speaker 1: I mean he'll probably be a little side of you

1144
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 1: first meeting him, but you know, once you get to

1145
00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:10,720
Speaker 1: know him, he's pretty hilarious. And you guys have known

1146
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 1: each other for a while. You'll played seven on seven.

1147
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 1: I think, Yeah, you guys have been around for a

1148
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:23,400
Speaker 1: long time together. That's pretty cool. Before we go, would

1149
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 1: you want brunch with jay Z or five hundred thousand

1150
00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 1: dollars brunch with jay Z? I would love to pick

1151
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:31,720
Speaker 1: his brain. Okay, you want the knowledge of cash. Yeah,

1152
00:58:31,800 --> 00:58:34,760
Speaker 1: the cash it for me. Well with me, you just

1153
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:37,200
Speaker 1: get a victory. So this has been fun. Christian Harris

1154
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:42,680
Speaker 1: appreciate time Drew goes down, Down goes Dorty. Dorty loses

1155
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 1: to Christian Harris. A good job, Christian, way to take

1156
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:48,680
Speaker 1: on Drew. Now this weekend, a lot of games going

1157
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 1: on in the NFL. I'm going to pick them, talk

1158
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:54,520
Speaker 1: about key storylines and everything going on with the NFL

1159
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:58,560
Speaker 1: neck straight up and against it spread, for fun, for fun.

1160
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:02,200
Speaker 1: I pick it all the games right here in text access. Oh,

1161
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:05,440
Speaker 1: we've reached my favorite part of the show, where I

1162
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:09,480
Speaker 1: John Harris Football and a Southern reporter for your Houston Texans.

1163
00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 1: Get well, I get competitive here because it's time for

1164
00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 1: my picks. I make every pick pick in every game

1165
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:19,600
Speaker 1: on Sunday and Monday, straight up and against the spread,

1166
00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:23,480
Speaker 1: for fun, for fun. I am required by legal to

1167
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:26,440
Speaker 1: say that because it is for fun. It's always fun

1168
00:59:26,520 --> 00:59:29,640
Speaker 1: to just talk about NFL teams NFL games, right, So

1169
00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:33,360
Speaker 1: let's go get me my music and let's rock and

1170
00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:37,400
Speaker 1: start in Atlanta where the Bears are taking on the Falcons.

1171
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:41,280
Speaker 1: Justin Fields has been all kinds of awesome running the football.

1172
00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:44,200
Speaker 1: But the Falcons are favored by three at home, and

1173
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:47,520
Speaker 1: I'm taking the Falcons to win. They're not gonna slow

1174
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:50,880
Speaker 1: down justin fields, but the Bears defense won't slow down

1175
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:53,880
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota and the Falcons to camp. I just said

1176
00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:56,520
Speaker 1: that Marcus Mariota and the Falcons will not be stopped

1177
00:59:56,520 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 1: by the Bears. Yeah, I just said that again. So

1178
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 1: taking Lanta to win and to cover that three point

1179
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:07,440
Speaker 1: spread the Browns. The Bills will play at Ford Field.

1180
01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:12,040
Speaker 1: They will not play in the snow gasm that is

1181
01:00:12,120 --> 01:00:15,080
Speaker 1: going on right now in Orchard Park, So removing that

1182
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:17,680
Speaker 1: game to Detroit and hopefully the Bills can get there.

1183
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:20,920
Speaker 1: Buffalo's favorite by eight. I don't know if I love that.

1184
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:23,200
Speaker 1: I think the Bills has got to do whatever possible

1185
01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:25,160
Speaker 1: to get a win. I think they will, but the

1186
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:29,560
Speaker 1: Browns We're gonna get inside that eight Bills win, Browns

1187
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:33,320
Speaker 1: get inside the eightian Eagles are taken on the Colts

1188
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:39,959
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis, Philadelphia, the seven point favorite at Indie after

1189
01:00:40,120 --> 01:00:42,120
Speaker 1: playing on a Monday night where they got beat. Now,

1190
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:47,160
Speaker 1: I don't think things are completely fixed in Indianapolis, but

1191
01:00:47,600 --> 01:00:51,720
Speaker 1: I think the competitive Jones is absolutely there for them. Now.

1192
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 1: I don't think Coats win. I think Eagles will win,

1193
01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:58,760
Speaker 1: but the Colts, with Matt Ryan back as the starting quarterback,

1194
01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 1: will keep this thing within seven. Let's go Eagles twenty

1195
01:01:03,560 --> 01:01:07,680
Speaker 1: nine twenty five. It's a weird score. Let's go thirty

1196
01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:10,760
Speaker 1: one twenty seven. That's a little bit more standard. Eagles win,

1197
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 1: but the Colts will cover that seven. Jets are going

1198
01:01:14,880 --> 01:01:17,240
Speaker 1: to the Patriots. Man, this might be one of the

1199
01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:19,000
Speaker 1: better games of the day. Now, it won't be a

1200
01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:21,080
Speaker 1: lot of scoring. They over under for this is thirty eight.

1201
01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:24,960
Speaker 1: Patriots are favorite by three and a half. I still

1202
01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:27,960
Speaker 1: think there's a little bit of Fougaysy with the Jets.

1203
01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:29,360
Speaker 1: Not all the way and I was pumping up the

1204
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:32,400
Speaker 1: Jets coming into the season, but I think there's just

1205
01:01:32,520 --> 01:01:37,200
Speaker 1: a little bit there. Zach Wilson still not white there yet,

1206
01:01:37,760 --> 01:01:41,040
Speaker 1: hasn't put a team on his back going against the Patriots.

1207
01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:43,920
Speaker 1: I think they'll frustrate him again. They frustrated him in

1208
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:45,520
Speaker 1: a match him a few weeks ago. I think the

1209
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:49,160
Speaker 1: Patriots get to sweep and covered the three and a

1210
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:52,480
Speaker 1: half against the Jets. The Rams are taken on the Saints.

1211
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:57,320
Speaker 1: The Saints are a three point favorite in the Dome. However,

1212
01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:01,800
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford is off the injury list. He is ready

1213
01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:05,240
Speaker 1: to go, and for that reason, I'm given the road

1214
01:02:06,480 --> 01:02:11,800
Speaker 1: underdog a straight up win against the Saints. I do

1215
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:16,760
Speaker 1: not trust the Saints at all at all, not like

1216
01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:21,520
Speaker 1: I trust his Rams. But put it this one. If

1217
01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:23,640
Speaker 1: the Rams were to lose and the Texans would have win,

1218
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:26,400
Speaker 1: the Rams would have the same number of losses as

1219
01:02:26,440 --> 01:02:30,240
Speaker 1: the Texas. Think about that for a second, not one

1220
01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:34,120
Speaker 1: loss separating them now, So I don't think that's gonna happen.

1221
01:02:34,120 --> 01:02:36,400
Speaker 1: I do think the Texas are gonna win, but the

1222
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:41,560
Speaker 1: Rams will pull the upset on the road against the Saint.

1223
01:02:41,600 --> 01:02:43,960
Speaker 1: Saints are two and four at home. I think the

1224
01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:45,800
Speaker 1: Rams are gonna get them. Let's go to this game.

1225
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:47,840
Speaker 1: I think this game is gonna be. This one's all

1226
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:50,080
Speaker 1: kinds of interesting, and it gave me probably the biggest

1227
01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:55,640
Speaker 1: level of additive if you will. Lions going to take

1228
01:02:55,720 --> 01:03:00,600
Speaker 1: on the Gyman. Now, the Lions from one two in

1229
01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: a row. That it's called a wintry. The Giants are

1230
01:03:04,360 --> 01:03:08,080
Speaker 1: only favored by three, And I'm telling you, if we

1231
01:03:08,160 --> 01:03:11,040
Speaker 1: had had any bit of fire shown, any bit of

1232
01:03:11,080 --> 01:03:13,880
Speaker 1: firepower in the first quarter and not turn the ball

1233
01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:16,360
Speaker 1: over in the fourth quarter two times in the red zone.

1234
01:03:17,080 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 1: We would have beaten the Giants last week and probably

1235
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:23,600
Speaker 1: beat him by a touchdown. For that reason, I'm picking

1236
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:28,040
Speaker 1: the Giants to win by more than three. The Lions

1237
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:30,480
Speaker 1: are talented, but two in a row it stops. The

1238
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:33,040
Speaker 1: Giants are favored by three. I'm picking the Giants to

1239
01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:38,880
Speaker 1: get that win over the Lions in MetLife Stadium. Giants

1240
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:41,160
Speaker 1: are formed one at home. Lions did get that win

1241
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:43,320
Speaker 1: last week on the road to They're one in three

1242
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 1: because they got that against Chicago, They'll have a little

1243
01:03:46,120 --> 01:03:50,240
Speaker 1: bit easier time. Lions will stopping the Giants because there's

1244
01:03:50,320 --> 01:03:53,520
Speaker 1: no justin fields. But Daniel Jones can't get loose. But

1245
01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:57,640
Speaker 1: the Giants find ways to win. Panthers Ravens now. The

1246
01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:03,160
Speaker 1: Panthers are struging. Thirteen is a tough number, though I

1247
01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:07,240
Speaker 1: think the Ravens at home. Favored by thirteen, I think

1248
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:09,160
Speaker 1: the Panthers will get inside that number. I do think

1249
01:04:09,160 --> 01:04:11,520
Speaker 1: the Ravens win this game, but give the Panthers a

1250
01:04:11,600 --> 01:04:14,480
Speaker 1: cover inside that thirteen. I don't know how, but they're

1251
01:04:14,520 --> 01:04:18,440
Speaker 1: gonna find a way. Afternoon games. Raiders take it on

1252
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:20,760
Speaker 1: the Broncos. The Broncos two and a half point favorites

1253
01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:23,640
Speaker 1: at home. They'll get a measure revenge against the Raiders.

1254
01:04:23,680 --> 01:04:26,520
Speaker 1: One of the two Raiders wins against the Broncos, the

1255
01:04:26,600 --> 01:04:29,400
Speaker 1: other one Boar, you know, Broncos are gonna win this one,

1256
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:31,920
Speaker 1: though I don't know how because the Broncos are just

1257
01:04:32,280 --> 01:04:34,400
Speaker 1: treading on life support right now. I don't know how

1258
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen, but Broncos are gonna win at home

1259
01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:39,360
Speaker 1: and cover that two and a half. Cowboys take on

1260
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:44,840
Speaker 1: the Vikings in Minnesota eight one Minnesota. Dallas is at

1261
01:04:44,880 --> 01:04:46,920
Speaker 1: one point five, one and a half point favorite in

1262
01:04:47,000 --> 01:04:50,600
Speaker 1: no way. Vikings, with that win over Buffalo, continue on

1263
01:04:50,680 --> 01:04:53,920
Speaker 1: the ascent. They beat Dallas in Minnesota and definitely do

1264
01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:55,960
Speaker 1: it by more than one and a half. Bengals taken

1265
01:04:56,040 --> 01:04:58,240
Speaker 1: on the Steelers. The Steelers are just not a good

1266
01:04:58,280 --> 01:05:00,640
Speaker 1: football team right now. In the bank Goals will beat

1267
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:04,280
Speaker 1: them and cover that four points spread and then Sunday

1268
01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:07,400
Speaker 1: Key News here for the Chargers. They will get Mike

1269
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:09,960
Speaker 1: Williams and potentially Key now and back. The Chiefs lost

1270
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 1: to wide receivers. The Chiefs are favored by only five.

1271
01:05:13,640 --> 01:05:15,959
Speaker 1: We're still taking the Chargers to get inside that number,

1272
01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:18,520
Speaker 1: but the Chiefs will still find a way to win.

1273
01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 1: And the forty nine Ers taken on the Cardinals in

1274
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:23,840
Speaker 1: Mexico City, Semansco's favorite by eight. I'm gonna get the

1275
01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:25,600
Speaker 1: Cardinals to cover, but it's the Niners will go get

1276
01:05:25,640 --> 01:05:28,240
Speaker 1: the win in Mexico City. All right, when we get back,

1277
01:05:28,520 --> 01:05:31,600
Speaker 1: Obo coron Quo, Drude Ordy's final work. That's next on

1278
01:05:31,680 --> 01:05:35,880
Speaker 1: Texas Access. We got one final segment of this Friday

1279
01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:38,960
Speaker 1: issue of Texans All Access. Si'm your host, John Harris's

1280
01:05:38,960 --> 01:05:41,000
Speaker 1: football analysts, and we got a lot to do. In

1281
01:05:41,080 --> 01:05:45,440
Speaker 1: this segment. We got Drew's final word with Christian Harris.

1282
01:05:46,160 --> 01:05:48,840
Speaker 1: But we're gonna kick it off with Mark and I

1283
01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:53,440
Speaker 1: catching up with Obo okron Quo. This is fun. He

1284
01:05:53,560 --> 01:05:56,000
Speaker 1: went to a Leaf Taylor, And so a Leaf Taylor

1285
01:05:56,120 --> 01:05:57,880
Speaker 1: is not too far away from where I lived for

1286
01:05:57,920 --> 01:06:00,280
Speaker 1: the last ten eleven years, and now I live in

1287
01:06:00,280 --> 01:06:03,160
Speaker 1: a different spot of town. But I know a leaf

1288
01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:05,680
Speaker 1: seemingly pretty well. Well, I was going to high school.

1289
01:06:05,800 --> 01:06:07,440
Speaker 1: It's not a leaf, but we used to play a leaf.

1290
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:09,920
Speaker 1: Elsick and Hastings and Ali Taylor didn't exist. It does

1291
01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:14,360
Speaker 1: now in one of their graduates, Zobo Cono, this is fun,

1292
01:06:14,640 --> 01:06:16,480
Speaker 1: all right, joining us right now in the Hunday Texans

1293
01:06:16,600 --> 01:06:21,040
Speaker 1: Radio studio Albonia Ocarnquo. Welcome, Obo, Hello, thanks for having me.

1294
01:06:21,160 --> 01:06:26,200
Speaker 1: All right, so I got the correct pronunciation of your well, okay,

1295
01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:29,200
Speaker 1: that's good. Sorry, Obo, I'm going straight Obo, I can

1296
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:32,040
Speaker 1: do that, all right. Well, yeah, we during the game

1297
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:33,680
Speaker 1: when I'm doing the play by play, I just say

1298
01:06:33,760 --> 01:06:36,240
Speaker 1: Obo because we're in the heat of battle there and

1299
01:06:36,280 --> 01:06:38,600
Speaker 1: I don't want to screw it up. But I've got it.

1300
01:06:38,760 --> 01:06:41,560
Speaker 1: It's good. And we have Daria on the show also tonight,

1301
01:06:41,600 --> 01:06:44,080
Speaker 1: so this is great. And you guys are cousins right

1302
01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:49,320
Speaker 1: or not? Really? Oh? Are we outing you right now?

1303
01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:56,160
Speaker 1: We're cousins. Quotation marks marks That Nigerian connected is strong. Well,

1304
01:06:56,200 --> 01:07:00,240
Speaker 1: you've had participation in the NFL camp in Africa, right, yes,

1305
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:02,960
Speaker 1: sir with us seeing those guys very nice. What does

1306
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:04,840
Speaker 1: that like for you to go over there? It was

1307
01:07:04,920 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 1: really cool. It was an honor to be able to

1308
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:08,720
Speaker 1: go to Africa and you know, do the first like

1309
01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:11,240
Speaker 1: a real official American football there, you know, go and

1310
01:07:11,320 --> 01:07:13,720
Speaker 1: throw that combine. It was really cool. How often had

1311
01:07:13,720 --> 01:07:15,280
Speaker 1: you been over there, was the first time you've done

1312
01:07:15,280 --> 01:07:16,800
Speaker 1: something like that? That was the first time I've done

1313
01:07:16,840 --> 01:07:18,520
Speaker 1: something like that there? Would you go back and do

1314
01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:20,600
Speaker 1: it again? And what was what was the most rewarding

1315
01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:22,840
Speaker 1: part of going over there and doing that? I'll definitely

1316
01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:24,520
Speaker 1: go back. In the most rewarding part, I think it

1317
01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:26,440
Speaker 1: was just giving those guys who wouldn't have got the

1318
01:07:26,480 --> 01:07:29,400
Speaker 1: opportunity otherwise, you know, opportunity to really show what they

1319
01:07:29,440 --> 01:07:31,760
Speaker 1: could do. So when you're sitting over there and you're trying,

1320
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:34,720
Speaker 1: I mean, were these were these individuals that had never

1321
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:37,920
Speaker 1: seen football, had played other sports? Well, what was kind

1322
01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:39,920
Speaker 1: of the situation for you when you went over there?

1323
01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:42,120
Speaker 1: Did they know anything about football? They knew something, but

1324
01:07:42,160 --> 01:07:45,040
Speaker 1: a lot of them were basketball players, so translated really well, yeah,

1325
01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:48,240
Speaker 1: and so pretty good athletes, very good athletes. How was

1326
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:50,680
Speaker 1: it to teach the game to people that really didn't

1327
01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:53,760
Speaker 1: know it? Um? It was. It was interesting because you know,

1328
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:56,680
Speaker 1: throughout all rules that they knew of the sports that

1329
01:07:56,760 --> 01:07:59,160
Speaker 1: they regularly played, you know, so so it was cool.

1330
01:07:59,160 --> 01:08:01,400
Speaker 1: It was like just uh, I guess playing with like

1331
01:08:01,840 --> 01:08:04,200
Speaker 1: like a blank canvas. Yeah, yeah, just being able to

1332
01:08:04,320 --> 01:08:06,640
Speaker 1: like give them all their foundations to the game. It

1333
01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:11,480
Speaker 1: was cool, very cool. Well, in Senegal, there's an NBA academy, right,

1334
01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:14,080
Speaker 1: do you foresee a day where we'll have an NFL

1335
01:08:14,120 --> 01:08:19,320
Speaker 1: academy something more permanent over there in Africa's goal Africa.

1336
01:08:20,040 --> 01:08:23,320
Speaker 1: When this I s and done, you know, have an

1337
01:08:23,439 --> 01:08:26,519
Speaker 1: academy with a pipeline. There already is a pipeline. Will

1338
01:08:26,600 --> 01:08:29,880
Speaker 1: just get a lot bigger, bigger pipe. Yeah, no doubt.

1339
01:08:29,920 --> 01:08:33,240
Speaker 1: And there obviously has been a significant connection here in Houston.

1340
01:08:33,280 --> 01:08:34,800
Speaker 1: You grew up, you went to a Leaf Taylor. I

1341
01:08:34,920 --> 01:08:37,920
Speaker 1: was sharing this beforehand. Um, I'm so old that when

1342
01:08:37,960 --> 01:08:40,040
Speaker 1: I went to high school the Market Soliday, we didn't

1343
01:08:40,040 --> 01:08:42,160
Speaker 1: even play Taylor. We played else like in Hastings because

1344
01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:45,880
Speaker 1: Taylor didn't even exist. Back when you were playing you

1345
01:08:46,240 --> 01:08:47,760
Speaker 1: you had a few, You had a few players on

1346
01:08:47,880 --> 01:08:49,640
Speaker 1: your roster at a Leaf Taylor. Did you not when

1347
01:08:49,680 --> 01:08:51,680
Speaker 1: you were growing up? Who did you have on your

1348
01:08:51,760 --> 01:08:53,360
Speaker 1: roster that ended up? I want to say, you had

1349
01:08:53,360 --> 01:08:55,040
Speaker 1: an NFL player in that roster? Who do you have that?

1350
01:08:55,360 --> 01:08:57,080
Speaker 1: I just played him a couple of weeks ago. Joshua

1351
01:08:57,160 --> 01:09:01,280
Speaker 1: Kaloo Oh Joshua for the Tennant See Titans. He was

1352
01:09:01,320 --> 01:09:05,439
Speaker 1: on my roster he he played returners, safety, quarterback. He

1353
01:09:06,200 --> 01:09:08,240
Speaker 1: was just an athlete for US Okay, So I'm asking

1354
01:09:08,280 --> 01:09:09,600
Speaker 1: a question. I'm sure a lot of people in the

1355
01:09:09,640 --> 01:09:11,840
Speaker 1: state of Texas would want to know, why did you

1356
01:09:11,920 --> 01:09:15,320
Speaker 1: pick Oklahoma instead of maybe a school in Texas because

1357
01:09:15,360 --> 01:09:19,719
Speaker 1: it's a Texas school basically it is. Oh, I'm sorry.

1358
01:09:20,000 --> 01:09:22,639
Speaker 1: Was it a tough decision to go to Oklahoma? When?

1359
01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:24,800
Speaker 1: I mean when I visited, I knew I wanted to

1360
01:09:24,840 --> 01:09:27,519
Speaker 1: go there. I feel like they had everything I needed

1361
01:09:27,560 --> 01:09:29,120
Speaker 1: and they were going to get me to the next level.

1362
01:09:29,160 --> 01:09:31,679
Speaker 1: So what was the biggest thing that sold John Oklahoma?

1363
01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:33,720
Speaker 1: Was Coach Stoops still there when he there? I think

1364
01:09:33,720 --> 01:09:37,320
Speaker 1: it was Coach Stops just the way he's able to

1365
01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:39,840
Speaker 1: connect with his players. You know it was you knew

1366
01:09:39,960 --> 01:09:42,360
Speaker 1: you were going into a family to family or ento team.

1367
01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:44,200
Speaker 1: You know, it's a nice campus too. A lot of

1368
01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:47,479
Speaker 1: people don't realize how nice it is there. Uh So,

1369
01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:50,360
Speaker 1: tell me about the story of you taking up football

1370
01:09:50,360 --> 01:09:52,920
Speaker 1: as a sport, right. Did your father not want you

1371
01:09:53,000 --> 01:09:55,960
Speaker 1: to play? I thought i'd read something like that. I

1372
01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:57,880
Speaker 1: wouldn't say he didn't want me to play, but he

1373
01:09:57,920 --> 01:10:00,400
Speaker 1: didn't want me to play for like, for you know,

1374
01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:02,160
Speaker 1: you didn't want me to just play just to play.

1375
01:10:02,200 --> 01:10:05,160
Speaker 1: You wanted me to focus on school. Okay, So when

1376
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:08,040
Speaker 1: I started playing, um, I guess I didn't tell them,

1377
01:10:08,600 --> 01:10:10,680
Speaker 1: you know, right, because I didn't want them to like

1378
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:13,960
Speaker 1: stop it before it started, you know. So I only

1379
01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:16,920
Speaker 1: started playing because one of my coaches, who's also my

1380
01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:19,560
Speaker 1: health teacher, thought I should play, you know, and I

1381
01:10:19,680 --> 01:10:23,120
Speaker 1: was just like, mmm, I'll give it a trial. You know,

1382
01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:27,040
Speaker 1: were you doing other sports before that? Now? You know?

1383
01:10:27,200 --> 01:10:29,720
Speaker 1: I was. I was a little artsy kid. Okay, what

1384
01:10:29,880 --> 01:10:33,160
Speaker 1: kind of art? Tell us? I liked writing, I love music,

1385
01:10:33,360 --> 01:10:36,280
Speaker 1: I liked taking pictures. Um but I was doing stuff

1386
01:10:36,320 --> 01:10:39,160
Speaker 1: like that. I'll skateboard a little bit too. And your

1387
01:10:39,200 --> 01:10:42,240
Speaker 1: health teacher says, you know what football? Yeah, and I

1388
01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:46,519
Speaker 1: was just like, m all right, I'll give it a shot.

1389
01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:49,559
Speaker 1: That's pretty amazing. Like give it a shot, all right,

1390
01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:51,599
Speaker 1: and you just go to the NFL with it. I mean,

1391
01:10:52,360 --> 01:10:55,599
Speaker 1: that's taking and doing the best with your particular shot. Okay,

1392
01:10:55,640 --> 01:10:59,400
Speaker 1: So my asses, because you said you're I've got a

1393
01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:01,760
Speaker 1: number of My wife is an our teacher, wasn't our

1394
01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:03,800
Speaker 1: teacher should artist? My daughter's an artists and acting and

1395
01:11:03,840 --> 01:11:05,760
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. So when you get on

1396
01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:08,680
Speaker 1: the field, where do you where do you have to

1397
01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:12,400
Speaker 1: go mentally to kind of find that football violence that

1398
01:11:12,520 --> 01:11:14,680
Speaker 1: you need to have out in the field, Like what

1399
01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:17,120
Speaker 1: where did that come from? To be able to find

1400
01:11:17,240 --> 01:11:19,800
Speaker 1: that and be that successful on the defensive side of

1401
01:11:19,880 --> 01:11:22,720
Speaker 1: the ball for not having played growing up? I think, Um,

1402
01:11:23,560 --> 01:11:26,120
Speaker 1: I think when I play, that's like it's like my

1403
01:11:26,240 --> 01:11:29,840
Speaker 1: old TiO ego, you know, because that's so busy. Yeah, hunt,

1404
01:11:29,840 --> 01:11:33,160
Speaker 1: because in real life I'm super I'm self spoken, I'm

1405
01:11:33,160 --> 01:11:35,640
Speaker 1: not really too loud, you know, but but when I'm

1406
01:11:35,680 --> 01:11:38,640
Speaker 1: on the field, I'm running around screaming and you know,

1407
01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:40,519
Speaker 1: I don't even know who that guy is on Sunday.

1408
01:11:40,640 --> 01:11:43,160
Speaker 1: But you didn't start playing until relatively late in high school.

1409
01:11:43,240 --> 01:11:45,760
Speaker 1: So was it a surprise to you when that came

1410
01:11:45,800 --> 01:11:49,080
Speaker 1: out between the lines, that side of your personality. Yeah

1411
01:11:49,200 --> 01:11:51,640
Speaker 1: it was, Yeah, it definitely was. And as I got

1412
01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:54,200
Speaker 1: more comfortable, it got a little it got a little crazier,

1413
01:11:54,280 --> 01:11:56,599
Speaker 1: you know, So it was it was fun to meet

1414
01:11:56,640 --> 01:11:58,519
Speaker 1: that side of me, I guess. But if you're an

1415
01:11:58,600 --> 01:12:02,240
Speaker 1: ARTSI and you're into ing, and I'm not saying you're

1416
01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:05,200
Speaker 1: putting on an act because obviously been pretty successful. But

1417
01:12:05,439 --> 01:12:07,240
Speaker 1: it's almost like you're stepping out of your body. You're

1418
01:12:07,240 --> 01:12:09,200
Speaker 1: going into a different role, is it not. Yeah, yeah,

1419
01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:11,400
Speaker 1: you can say that for sure. That's interesting. I mean

1420
01:12:11,439 --> 01:12:13,920
Speaker 1: I never never really thought about that because you just

1421
01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:16,160
Speaker 1: see guys that go on in the field, and especially

1422
01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:18,840
Speaker 1: on defense when they're defensively dominant, like man, you see

1423
01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:21,960
Speaker 1: the violent hands, you see everything, and you would think, Okay,

1424
01:12:21,960 --> 01:12:24,240
Speaker 1: that guy grew up playing the game. And then obviously

1425
01:12:24,320 --> 01:12:26,040
Speaker 1: it's not when did you When did you start as

1426
01:12:26,040 --> 01:12:29,320
Speaker 1: a senior junior year? That's when you first was it

1427
01:12:29,400 --> 01:12:31,320
Speaker 1: the first time you had played football? Heard you dabbled

1428
01:12:31,360 --> 01:12:34,559
Speaker 1: it in before, it like, but just wasn't It wasn't

1429
01:12:34,600 --> 01:12:36,439
Speaker 1: really I didn't really think it was for me. And

1430
01:12:36,600 --> 01:12:40,479
Speaker 1: so no football coaches walked the hallway, were like come on, man,

1431
01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:42,639
Speaker 1: come on, they weren't in your ear at all, because

1432
01:12:42,640 --> 01:12:44,080
Speaker 1: I know a lot of football coaches that would have

1433
01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:45,760
Speaker 1: been in your ear a long time before that. And him,

1434
01:12:45,800 --> 01:12:48,360
Speaker 1: my gross bred until like end of sophomore. Yeah you know,

1435
01:12:48,479 --> 01:12:50,599
Speaker 1: so then I like shot up to like six one,

1436
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:52,680
Speaker 1: six two, and then it was like, okay, who's this

1437
01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:55,200
Speaker 1: guy walking through the hallways? You know? Yeah, at a

1438
01:12:55,360 --> 01:12:58,640
Speaker 1: leaf tailor. They're like, hey, so you go to Oklahoma

1439
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:01,960
Speaker 1: and did you think NFL right away or did you

1440
01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:04,720
Speaker 1: think this could happen or were you just trying to

1441
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:07,519
Speaker 1: get acclimated to college. I was still trying to get

1442
01:13:07,520 --> 01:13:09,880
Speaker 1: acclimated to the ball in general. So I think I

1443
01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:12,920
Speaker 1: learned most of my like my football knowledge in Oklahoma,

1444
01:13:13,040 --> 01:13:15,080
Speaker 1: you know, playing there, and I think after the first

1445
01:13:15,080 --> 01:13:17,360
Speaker 1: couple of years I saw the NFL was like definitely

1446
01:13:17,439 --> 01:13:21,000
Speaker 1: like a possibility, you know. So that's amazing to think

1447
01:13:21,040 --> 01:13:23,439
Speaker 1: about your game the other day against the Giants. I

1448
01:13:23,560 --> 01:13:26,759
Speaker 1: told coach after the game, because I'm always I'm always

1449
01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:28,640
Speaker 1: in march here talking to him, even though if I'm

1450
01:13:28,680 --> 01:13:29,920
Speaker 1: not on the air, I'm still talking to him, so

1451
01:13:29,960 --> 01:13:31,800
Speaker 1: I kind of help him with who's making tackles, who's

1452
01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:35,040
Speaker 1: making place I said, your name a bunch against the Giants.

1453
01:13:35,040 --> 01:13:36,920
Speaker 1: It felt like it was the most impactful game you've had.

1454
01:13:37,400 --> 01:13:39,800
Speaker 1: Was there something that clicked or just that was your

1455
01:13:39,920 --> 01:13:41,640
Speaker 1: that was your day? What's been kind of been going on?

1456
01:13:41,720 --> 01:13:43,479
Speaker 1: Because that was probably your best performance. I felt like

1457
01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:45,280
Speaker 1: this year old bow I would just trusting the scheme,

1458
01:13:45,520 --> 01:13:49,479
Speaker 1: you know, just playing hard and um just trying to

1459
01:13:49,680 --> 01:13:52,000
Speaker 1: empty the tank, you know, but within the guidelines of

1460
01:13:52,080 --> 01:13:54,800
Speaker 1: what the defense is asking for. You know, Um, the

1461
01:13:54,960 --> 01:13:57,080
Speaker 1: defense is like it's made for us for like a

1462
01:13:57,200 --> 01:13:59,320
Speaker 1: D line. Yeah, you know, make a bunch of plays

1463
01:13:59,360 --> 01:14:01,200
Speaker 1: behind the line, im you know if you put us

1464
01:14:01,200 --> 01:14:04,000
Speaker 1: in position too. So you said something right away that

1465
01:14:04,160 --> 01:14:08,920
Speaker 1: I always think about trust the scheme. How how tough

1466
01:14:09,080 --> 01:14:11,280
Speaker 1: is that for players to be like, Okay, coaches wanted

1467
01:14:11,320 --> 01:14:13,280
Speaker 1: me to do this, but my natural instinct says this,

1468
01:14:13,760 --> 01:14:15,760
Speaker 1: but you know what, I gotta trust me. How tough

1469
01:14:15,920 --> 01:14:19,000
Speaker 1: is that to trust the scheme? I mean, yeah, it's tough,

1470
01:14:19,120 --> 01:14:22,080
Speaker 1: you know, because I feel like everybody feels like they

1471
01:14:22,080 --> 01:14:24,519
Speaker 1: see they see something, you know. But it's like if

1472
01:14:24,560 --> 01:14:26,240
Speaker 1: you if you just trust the scheme, you know, and

1473
01:14:26,360 --> 01:14:28,400
Speaker 1: you do it consistently more times than not, like good

1474
01:14:28,439 --> 01:14:31,360
Speaker 1: things will happen for you. Oh oknqua with us. All right?

1475
01:14:31,400 --> 01:14:33,120
Speaker 1: So you were a Big twelve defensive Player of the

1476
01:14:33,240 --> 01:14:35,200
Speaker 1: Year and now oh you is going to go into

1477
01:14:35,240 --> 01:14:38,439
Speaker 1: the SEC. Do you have feelings or a reaction about that.

1478
01:14:39,320 --> 01:14:41,040
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna dominate this, see, just like we

1479
01:14:41,120 --> 01:14:44,479
Speaker 1: dominated the Big twelve. All right. Well that's why this

1480
01:14:44,640 --> 01:14:46,280
Speaker 1: here is a little bit of a down year. You

1481
01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:50,840
Speaker 1: know he got this, we got faith in Brent ventiable?

1482
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:53,160
Speaker 1: What's Brent there when you were there? Or he was artist?

1483
01:14:53,240 --> 01:14:54,799
Speaker 1: I mean I missed him on his way to Clayea,

1484
01:14:54,800 --> 01:14:58,360
Speaker 1: you missed him on about what about Stoops filling in

1485
01:14:58,439 --> 01:15:00,559
Speaker 1: as the interim after a Lincoln ride He left last

1486
01:15:00,600 --> 01:15:02,599
Speaker 1: year during Bowl season. That was kind of cool. Yeah,

1487
01:15:03,760 --> 01:15:06,680
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys. Uh, you can you can

1488
01:15:06,680 --> 01:15:08,679
Speaker 1: call him off the couch and he can go clutching

1489
01:15:08,920 --> 01:15:11,080
Speaker 1: and the Rose both if if acts two? You know

1490
01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:13,920
Speaker 1: I played that you played that Rose Ball? Was that

1491
01:15:14,360 --> 01:15:16,800
Speaker 1: that was your finally twenty seven team? Was your final season? Right?

1492
01:15:17,040 --> 01:15:20,280
Speaker 1: That was my last Folle game? So how often do

1493
01:15:20,280 --> 01:15:26,439
Speaker 1: you think back to that night? Uh? Yeah? Why ask

1494
01:15:26,560 --> 01:15:29,000
Speaker 1: because you remember the great wins and the great sacks

1495
01:15:29,040 --> 01:15:31,040
Speaker 1: and the great plays, but that one, the one that

1496
01:15:31,120 --> 01:15:34,479
Speaker 1: got away? Yeah? And the Rose Bowl. Can you just

1497
01:15:34,600 --> 01:15:36,240
Speaker 1: see plays over and over again as you look back

1498
01:15:36,760 --> 01:15:39,320
Speaker 1: last play? Oh, Like, I see that play all the time.

1499
01:15:39,360 --> 01:15:41,400
Speaker 1: Every time I see a toss crack, I think about

1500
01:15:41,439 --> 01:15:43,600
Speaker 1: that play. That was the play they ran. Yeah, that

1501
01:15:43,680 --> 01:15:46,160
Speaker 1: was the last player man. And we see toss crack

1502
01:15:46,240 --> 01:15:49,160
Speaker 1: this year few times too. Oh my goodness, Oh boy,

1503
01:15:49,160 --> 01:15:51,360
Speaker 1: you were part of a Super Bowl team last year, right,

1504
01:15:51,439 --> 01:15:53,920
Speaker 1: so here you are with the Houston Texans and a

1505
01:15:54,040 --> 01:15:56,840
Speaker 1: lot of young players. It's a struggle right now. Got

1506
01:15:56,920 --> 01:15:59,160
Speaker 1: eight games left in the regular season. What do you

1507
01:15:59,160 --> 01:16:01,000
Speaker 1: say to the young players? You're a leader on this team.

1508
01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:02,880
Speaker 1: What do you say to the young players about hanging

1509
01:16:02,920 --> 01:16:05,360
Speaker 1: in there and keep pushing and keep doing your best

1510
01:16:05,400 --> 01:16:07,400
Speaker 1: and the good times will start coming at at some

1511
01:16:07,520 --> 01:16:09,519
Speaker 1: points as long as as a shot, Like we need

1512
01:16:09,600 --> 01:16:11,000
Speaker 1: to just you know, play as hard as we can.

1513
01:16:11,120 --> 01:16:13,720
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of talent, a talent, a

1514
01:16:13,800 --> 01:16:15,519
Speaker 1: lot of young talent. You know, these guys are gonna

1515
01:16:15,520 --> 01:16:17,320
Speaker 1: be really good players for a long time. You know,

1516
01:16:17,360 --> 01:16:20,000
Speaker 1: I just tell them right now, like like just just

1517
01:16:20,120 --> 01:16:23,439
Speaker 1: try to like trust and trust everything. Trust everybody, play

1518
01:16:23,479 --> 01:16:25,280
Speaker 1: as hard as you can, and like good things will happen.

1519
01:16:25,400 --> 01:16:28,240
Speaker 1: You know. We work really hard every day I practice,

1520
01:16:28,280 --> 01:16:32,400
Speaker 1: you know, so like eventually something something, you know, if

1521
01:16:32,439 --> 01:16:34,920
Speaker 1: we stay consistent, something has to do that's to go

1522
01:16:35,040 --> 01:16:37,000
Speaker 1: in our favorite you know, and that's all we try

1523
01:16:37,000 --> 01:16:40,920
Speaker 1: to appreciate them. Okay, let's get to the actual real question.

1524
01:16:41,320 --> 01:16:44,000
Speaker 1: How did you feel when you open the ring box

1525
01:16:44,080 --> 01:16:48,840
Speaker 1: and saw your Super Bowl ring? That pretty good day. Yeah.

1526
01:16:49,479 --> 01:16:51,320
Speaker 1: It blow you away when you open up and look

1527
01:16:51,400 --> 01:16:53,479
Speaker 1: at it. Yeah, it did. It did. And when I

1528
01:16:53,520 --> 01:16:56,000
Speaker 1: saw how big it was, I was just like wow,

1529
01:16:56,160 --> 01:16:58,600
Speaker 1: like is it even wearable? Oh? Bo? I mean is

1530
01:16:58,640 --> 01:17:02,000
Speaker 1: it the size of us small hand? Yeah, it's like

1531
01:17:02,200 --> 01:17:08,040
Speaker 1: it's like an egg. It's like what I can't remember it.

1532
01:17:08,040 --> 01:17:09,840
Speaker 1: Does it twist off? Does it pop off? Yeah? It

1533
01:17:09,960 --> 01:17:13,120
Speaker 1: twists off, and it shows inside of a sofa stadium

1534
01:17:13,160 --> 01:17:15,840
Speaker 1: where we actually won the game, So which is at

1535
01:17:15,880 --> 01:17:18,760
Speaker 1: your home. I would imagine for everybody thinks about Super Bowl,

1536
01:17:18,760 --> 01:17:20,200
Speaker 1: they go to a different location, but you actually are

1537
01:17:20,200 --> 01:17:22,439
Speaker 1: playing your home stadium. What was that like? No? Super cool?

1538
01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:25,360
Speaker 1: You know, after the game, like we're already with our families. Yeah,

1539
01:17:25,520 --> 01:17:28,320
Speaker 1: you know, to just go to dinner. It was cool.

1540
01:17:28,360 --> 01:17:30,360
Speaker 1: It was really It was a really nice night. That

1541
01:17:30,680 --> 01:17:33,640
Speaker 1: is really interesting. You're with your families, you get to

1542
01:17:33,680 --> 01:17:36,439
Speaker 1: sleep in your own bed. You know, you want your finger.

1543
01:17:37,520 --> 01:17:39,080
Speaker 1: You don't get the egg that night, Yeah, you don't

1544
01:17:39,080 --> 01:17:41,160
Speaker 1: get it at night. But still. Yeah. You guys like

1545
01:17:41,240 --> 01:17:43,640
Speaker 1: Donald showed everybody he had he had his thoughts. I

1546
01:17:43,680 --> 01:17:45,200
Speaker 1: mean that was the first thing he thought about was

1547
01:17:45,439 --> 01:17:47,600
Speaker 1: I made a sack, I get a ring, I mean

1548
01:17:47,680 --> 01:17:49,080
Speaker 1: it was that simple. He did the math. You get

1549
01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:51,280
Speaker 1: it later on. Ohbo message for the fans here, because,

1550
01:17:51,320 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 1: like we said, eight games to go, you get a

1551
01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:55,240
Speaker 1: home game this Sunday against Washington, a team that won

1552
01:17:55,320 --> 01:17:58,600
Speaker 1: on Monday Night football against Philly, previously undefeated. And I

1553
01:17:58,680 --> 01:18:00,920
Speaker 1: know you're familiar with that team, so familiar with the tape.

1554
01:18:01,040 --> 01:18:02,280
Speaker 1: What do you have to say to the fans as

1555
01:18:02,320 --> 01:18:05,400
Speaker 1: we get ready for Sunday? We're really close, this team

1556
01:18:05,560 --> 01:18:08,559
Speaker 1: is really competitive. We got a lot of fighting us.

1557
01:18:08,600 --> 01:18:10,360
Speaker 1: There's a lot of a lot of season left, you know,

1558
01:18:10,520 --> 01:18:12,599
Speaker 1: so you know, just stayed of course with us. We're

1559
01:18:12,640 --> 01:18:14,320
Speaker 1: gonna get it together, all right. Thanks a lot for

1560
01:18:14,439 --> 01:18:16,760
Speaker 1: joining us. Good luck, Obo, Thank you. I thought last

1561
01:18:16,800 --> 01:18:19,479
Speaker 1: week against the Giants was Obo's best game. Played to

1562
01:18:19,560 --> 01:18:22,680
Speaker 1: run extremely well. I told him about that obviously during

1563
01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:25,559
Speaker 1: the interview. I think he had a really solid ball game.

1564
01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:28,120
Speaker 1: So hopefully he gets more quality. Raps is able to

1565
01:18:28,280 --> 01:18:30,479
Speaker 1: do his thing on Sunday against the Commanders and the

1566
01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:33,880
Speaker 1: Texans can walk out with a victory. Now, to get

1567
01:18:33,880 --> 01:18:39,559
Speaker 1: a victory, this next guest needs to have himself another

1568
01:18:39,680 --> 01:18:41,599
Speaker 1: ball game like he's had the last couple and that's

1569
01:18:41,680 --> 01:18:45,120
Speaker 1: Christian Harris, rookie linebacker. I'll tell you this quick story

1570
01:18:45,240 --> 01:18:49,479
Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Giants. Giants first drive and then

1571
01:18:49,520 --> 01:18:52,880
Speaker 1: moving the ball, okay, and they run sae Quon Barkley

1572
01:18:53,040 --> 01:18:55,920
Speaker 1: away from Christian Harris, so it's to the offenses left,

1573
01:18:56,040 --> 01:18:59,479
Speaker 1: defense is right, and Christian was on the defensive left,

1574
01:18:59,520 --> 01:19:03,520
Speaker 1: so he's all the way away from the play. I'm

1575
01:19:03,600 --> 01:19:06,439
Speaker 1: telling you. Barkley started off to the left side, and

1576
01:19:06,439 --> 01:19:09,479
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, he's got something. And then all of

1577
01:19:09,520 --> 01:19:11,000
Speaker 1: a sudden, I could see how the corner of my

1578
01:19:11,120 --> 01:19:16,160
Speaker 1: eye could see this blur and Christian Harris was flying

1579
01:19:16,280 --> 01:19:20,840
Speaker 1: from the other side and wam he hit Barkley right

1580
01:19:21,280 --> 01:19:26,240
Speaker 1: in the helmet. And I heard it through my headphones.

1581
01:19:27,439 --> 01:19:30,200
Speaker 1: Now that's pretty tough. It MetLife, which is a pretty

1582
01:19:30,240 --> 01:19:33,200
Speaker 1: loud environment. I gotta have Mark and Andre turned up

1583
01:19:33,280 --> 01:19:37,160
Speaker 1: pretty loudly in my ears. So I hear the hit

1584
01:19:37,520 --> 01:19:41,360
Speaker 1: as Mark's calling the play, and I just immediately went, WHOA,

1585
01:19:42,600 --> 01:19:45,280
Speaker 1: I could, hell, I could. I heard Mark kind of

1586
01:19:45,439 --> 01:19:48,519
Speaker 1: hesitate for a second because he didn't quite know why

1587
01:19:48,560 --> 01:19:50,720
Speaker 1: I said that to him, and then I was like,

1588
01:19:50,920 --> 01:19:52,280
Speaker 1: and then, of course I'm always in his ear, I

1589
01:19:52,320 --> 01:19:55,040
Speaker 1: said Christian Harris, and he said, oh okay, because then

1590
01:19:55,040 --> 01:19:56,960
Speaker 1: he saw the replay and he got it because Christian

1591
01:19:57,000 --> 01:20:00,680
Speaker 1: Harris blasted Sae Kwon Barkley. Need more of that from

1592
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:04,120
Speaker 1: this guy and Drew Doherty's final word with Christian Harris

1593
01:20:04,479 --> 01:20:07,439
Speaker 1: Linebacker Christian Harris is the guest now on the player

1594
01:20:07,560 --> 01:20:10,880
Speaker 1: pregame special Christian. Great to be with you. Four games

1595
01:20:10,920 --> 01:20:12,799
Speaker 1: in now, because you missed some time because of the injury.

1596
01:20:12,840 --> 01:20:15,000
Speaker 1: Put four games in you get the bulk of the

1597
01:20:15,040 --> 01:20:17,600
Speaker 1: snaps at first one you've started the last three. How

1598
01:20:17,720 --> 01:20:19,719
Speaker 1: much have you grown? What have you learned in that span?

1599
01:20:19,880 --> 01:20:22,000
Speaker 1: I mean, I've learned a lot really, honestly. I think

1600
01:20:22,040 --> 01:20:23,360
Speaker 1: one of the biggest things for me is to just

1601
01:20:23,479 --> 01:20:25,280
Speaker 1: you know, slow my tempo down and trust my pace,

1602
01:20:25,439 --> 01:20:27,760
Speaker 1: trust my preparation that I put in going into these

1603
01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:29,720
Speaker 1: weeks for these games. I mean, I know stage is

1604
01:20:29,720 --> 01:20:31,760
Speaker 1: a lot bigger people can say that with you know,

1605
01:20:31,920 --> 01:20:34,640
Speaker 1: just better players and it being an NFL, But you know,

1606
01:20:34,680 --> 01:20:36,760
Speaker 1: I think the concept of football stays the same. It's

1607
01:20:36,760 --> 01:20:39,759
Speaker 1: still the child's game. So continuously finding ways to remind

1608
01:20:39,800 --> 01:20:41,439
Speaker 1: myself for that or have guys do that for me

1609
01:20:41,560 --> 01:20:43,719
Speaker 1: help me out a lot so with all that in mind,

1610
01:20:44,040 --> 01:20:46,040
Speaker 1: what is something that you like that you've done, and

1611
01:20:46,120 --> 01:20:48,160
Speaker 1: what's something that you want to get better at. I'm

1612
01:20:48,200 --> 01:20:50,559
Speaker 1: liking how I'm able to utilize my speed, saying yo,

1613
01:20:50,600 --> 01:20:52,240
Speaker 1: how I can make players with that. But I think

1614
01:20:52,320 --> 01:20:55,519
Speaker 1: just from a physicality standpoint, I think I want to

1615
01:20:55,560 --> 01:20:57,519
Speaker 1: do better with that and using my hands a little

1616
01:20:57,560 --> 01:20:59,880
Speaker 1: more more, trusting myself with my reads and just when

1617
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:01,479
Speaker 1: I'm seeing, just so I can play a lot faster.

1618
01:21:01,640 --> 01:21:03,280
Speaker 1: You know, you're one of many rookies both sides of

1619
01:21:03,280 --> 01:21:05,080
Speaker 1: the ball, whether you were drafted or not, that have

1620
01:21:05,280 --> 01:21:08,400
Speaker 1: started and contributed so far the season of the Texans.

1621
01:21:08,479 --> 01:21:09,960
Speaker 1: Is there kind of a kinship, kind of a bond

1622
01:21:10,080 --> 01:21:11,920
Speaker 1: with you guys that are first your players right now?

1623
01:21:12,120 --> 01:21:13,760
Speaker 1: Most definitely, I think a lot of it comes from

1624
01:21:13,800 --> 01:21:15,960
Speaker 1: just us being in the SEC played against Austin, like

1625
01:21:16,080 --> 01:21:18,479
Speaker 1: I played against DP, and I know guys like Staying

1626
01:21:18,560 --> 01:21:21,200
Speaker 1: so we already I mean I trained with Petrie Exos

1627
01:21:21,280 --> 01:21:23,880
Speaker 1: for the combine, so I got a chance to already

1628
01:21:23,880 --> 01:21:26,720
Speaker 1: build a relationship with these guys coming in, so we

1629
01:21:26,800 --> 01:21:28,680
Speaker 1: all blend in pretty well. With that. You want to

1630
01:21:28,720 --> 01:21:30,519
Speaker 1: win now, you want to win this game one every

1631
01:21:30,560 --> 01:21:32,600
Speaker 1: single week but for the future, that's got to be

1632
01:21:32,680 --> 01:21:35,240
Speaker 1: kind of cool knowing that you all are part of something, right, yeah,

1633
01:21:35,320 --> 01:21:36,840
Speaker 1: one percent. I mean it is good to be part

1634
01:21:36,880 --> 01:21:38,479
Speaker 1: of something. And I mean, you know, hopefully you know,

1635
01:21:38,520 --> 01:21:40,360
Speaker 1: bring some more wins to this organization. And I mean

1636
01:21:40,400 --> 01:21:41,920
Speaker 1: it really starts right now. Like I said, we're trying

1637
01:21:41,920 --> 01:21:43,519
Speaker 1: to win now. So it's just a matter of attacking

1638
01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:45,400
Speaker 1: that right now. You guys, as a defense, you want

1639
01:21:45,400 --> 01:21:47,120
Speaker 1: to stop the run better. What are some ways that

1640
01:21:47,320 --> 01:21:49,479
Speaker 1: can happen? You know, physicality, think you know on the

1641
01:21:49,520 --> 01:21:52,519
Speaker 1: second level with linebackers, me and myself personally, just doing

1642
01:21:52,560 --> 01:21:54,040
Speaker 1: better with my hands and when it comes to the

1643
01:21:54,080 --> 01:21:56,160
Speaker 1: point of attack, just trying to be more consistent with that.

1644
01:21:56,360 --> 01:21:58,599
Speaker 1: I think, you know, as a whole collectively, if we're

1645
01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:01,479
Speaker 1: more consistent on defense, so in that same energy from

1646
01:22:01,520 --> 01:22:03,959
Speaker 1: first or fourth quarter will be a lot better. Washington

1647
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:06,240
Speaker 1: is the opponent this weekend. You see a familiar face

1648
01:22:06,439 --> 01:22:09,040
Speaker 1: and Brian Robinson across the way. As a team they

1649
01:22:09,160 --> 01:22:11,360
Speaker 1: rate at forty nine times on Monday night. What's a

1650
01:22:11,439 --> 01:22:14,759
Speaker 1: challenger with Robinson's has he has he done anything differently

1651
01:22:14,800 --> 01:22:16,720
Speaker 1: than what you were accustomed to see him back in

1652
01:22:16,720 --> 01:22:18,519
Speaker 1: Tusca Louson. I mean I see him, you know, I

1653
01:22:18,600 --> 01:22:20,360
Speaker 1: see him play his game and just do a lot

1654
01:22:20,439 --> 01:22:22,040
Speaker 1: better with that. I mean, just run it even harder

1655
01:22:22,080 --> 01:22:24,200
Speaker 1: than he did at Alabama. You know, you're getting a

1656
01:22:24,240 --> 01:22:26,599
Speaker 1: lot faster, good vision. So he's a great all around back.

1657
01:22:26,680 --> 01:22:28,559
Speaker 1: I mean it's a great challenge for me. I'm excited.

1658
01:22:28,640 --> 01:22:30,600
Speaker 1: So and what is quarterback Taylor Heide? What does he

1659
01:22:30,680 --> 01:22:33,479
Speaker 1: present to you guys? He's more elusive than I think

1660
01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:36,680
Speaker 1: people would think, making extent plays, and he runs, you know,

1661
01:22:36,760 --> 01:22:38,800
Speaker 1: he does his job fitting in their scheme, I mean

1662
01:22:38,920 --> 01:22:40,840
Speaker 1: pretty well. Like I think all other players do that

1663
01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:42,599
Speaker 1: pretty well. And I mean they did this last weekend

1664
01:22:42,760 --> 01:22:44,680
Speaker 1: coming off a big w so yeah, I mean they all.

1665
01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:46,840
Speaker 1: Like I said, it'll present pretty good challenges for us.

1666
01:22:46,960 --> 01:22:48,519
Speaker 1: When you get ready for a game. What time you

1667
01:22:48,560 --> 01:22:50,519
Speaker 1: wake up in the morning for a noon contest, probably

1668
01:22:50,520 --> 01:22:53,160
Speaker 1: around like seven thirty seven. Yeah. Are you able to

1669
01:22:53,200 --> 01:22:55,000
Speaker 1: eat much before the game? Yeah, I mean I'll eat

1670
01:22:55,040 --> 01:22:56,439
Speaker 1: around like eight or nine. I mean we don't play

1671
01:22:56,560 --> 01:22:58,080
Speaker 1: till twelve, so I have enough time to you know,

1672
01:22:58,240 --> 01:23:00,559
Speaker 1: eat and get it all digested to get high and stuff,

1673
01:23:00,560 --> 01:23:02,160
Speaker 1: so I'll be ready for it. Anything you're listening to

1674
01:23:02,320 --> 01:23:04,360
Speaker 1: before the game gets going. In the morning, I wake

1675
01:23:04,439 --> 01:23:06,680
Speaker 1: up with like a this morning praise, like I got

1676
01:23:06,760 --> 01:23:08,880
Speaker 1: this little gospel playlist I got my mom sent me,

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01:23:09,280 --> 01:23:11,880
Speaker 1: and then was after that. It's mainly probably gonna a

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01:23:11,920 --> 01:23:14,759
Speaker 1: little young young boy, young boy closer to the field.

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01:23:14,960 --> 01:23:17,519
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's about it. You ramp things up, I mean, yeah,

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01:23:18,200 --> 01:23:20,320
Speaker 1: start off. We're hoping you ramp it up to wins.

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01:23:20,560 --> 01:23:22,880
Speaker 1: We appreciate the time, Christian Harris, test of luck and

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01:23:23,000 --> 01:23:25,880
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you again. Appreciate that. The pride of

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01:23:25,920 --> 01:23:29,600
Speaker 1: bad ruge right there, Christian Harris, I'm gonna play a

1684
01:23:29,680 --> 01:23:33,400
Speaker 1: big role in this one. Another reminder, Christian Harris grew

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01:23:33,479 --> 01:23:35,519
Speaker 1: up with a gun name Derek Stingley. Sting will not

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01:23:35,760 --> 01:23:39,960
Speaker 1: play on Sunday. He is ruled out deal with the hamstring.

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01:23:40,600 --> 01:23:43,160
Speaker 1: Cole Holcom and Jady McKissick are both out on the

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01:23:43,240 --> 01:23:46,960
Speaker 1: Commander's side, So we'll find out this weekend whether Chase

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01:23:47,040 --> 01:23:51,559
Speaker 1: Young is officially inner out. What we heard this morning

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01:23:51,760 --> 01:23:55,280
Speaker 1: was that more than likely not going to be ready

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01:23:55,360 --> 01:23:57,800
Speaker 1: to go, which you know, we'll see how that plays

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01:23:57,840 --> 01:23:59,599
Speaker 1: out for the commanders. But time to get a dub

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01:23:59,720 --> 01:24:03,720
Speaker 1: at all. It's been a while how long. December twenty six,

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01:24:03,920 --> 01:24:07,320
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. That's how long it's been. So let's

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01:24:07,320 --> 01:24:09,840
Speaker 1: go get this dub at home against Heineken and the

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01:24:09,920 --> 01:24:12,160
Speaker 1: boys and have a good time and a big thanks

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01:24:12,439 --> 01:24:15,720
Speaker 1: to so many people that participated in this show. You

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01:24:15,800 --> 01:24:20,360
Speaker 1: heard Christian Harris JR. Doherty, Dpcity, Anthony Armstrong, Mark Vanimir,

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Speaker 1: Lovey Smith and all of you guys out there for

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01:24:23,880 --> 01:24:27,320
Speaker 1: listening my guys back at sports Radio six ten. You

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01:24:27,400 --> 01:24:30,000
Speaker 1: guys are very special. You make it all worth it.

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01:24:30,240 --> 01:24:34,679
Speaker 1: We'll see you on Sunday, bright and early kicks at noon,

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01:24:34,840 --> 01:24:36,640
Speaker 1: getting your seats be loud. Let's go get a win

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01:24:36,720 --> 01:24:39,839
Speaker 1: over Washington and as always, go Texans.