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Speaker 1: What's happen everybody?

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

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Speaker 2: Texans Radio Studio. I am your host, John Harris, Football

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Speaker 2: and a sideline reporter for your Houston Texans, and boy, do

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Speaker 2: we have a loaded show for you tonight. I love

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Speaker 2: men behind the mics this evening because it's one of

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Speaker 2: our faves, one of my favorites, Paul Allen. We've got

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Speaker 2: to be good friends with Paul over the last few years.

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Speaker 2: I went on his show today. He'll be on my

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Speaker 2: show today along with Mark vandermir so we definitely have

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Speaker 2: that to look forward to.

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Speaker 1: Also in the lab with Drew Doherty. That's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a fun one.

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Speaker 2: A little later, we gotta go through the injury report

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Speaker 2: FOS show because it's well, it's in mid season form,

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Speaker 2: but a lot of things going on. Mark and I

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Speaker 2: will talk about that and then some a little later

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Speaker 2: in the show. But it's Wednesday, during the season. First segment,

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Speaker 2: right out of the shoot, and you know what that means.

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Speaker 2: Second Vice president and general manager of your Houston Texans,

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Speaker 2: Nick Casserio sat in with us and of course gave

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Speaker 2: us his scouty report for the vikings.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to miss that.

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Speaker 3: Let's go joining us now in studio Executive vice president

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Speaker 3: and general manager Nick Cassario.

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Speaker 1: Nick, great to see.

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Speaker 4: You, fellas morning.

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Speaker 3: Well tell us about this because that was an interesting

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Speaker 3: kind of game. You never know how a game is

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Speaker 3: going to play out. How important is it for the

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Speaker 3: team the program to be able to win different kinds

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Speaker 5: The bottom line in this sport is winning, So that's

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Speaker 5: the focus. However you do it, that's the main goal

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Speaker 5: and the main objectives. So took advantage of some of

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Speaker 5: our opportunities in this game. Played well defensively, made a

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Speaker 5: few plays in the kicking game, made enough plays offensively,

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Speaker 5: Probably can a little bit better job on third down,

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Speaker 5: eliminate the turnover. So there's a number of things that

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Speaker 5: you can always work on, especially earlier in the year,

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Speaker 5: those first handful of weeks, you're just looking for somewhat

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Speaker 5: of improvement in your team. You kind of your team

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Speaker 5: starts to declare a little bit more so we're in

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Speaker 5: a good position. But anytime you can learn by winning

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Speaker 5: and improve, improvement's going to come hopefully with winning. So

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Speaker 5: it was a great team winn I mean any time

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Speaker 5: that you can win at home and beat a good team.

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Speaker 4: So that's the goal and objective.

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Speaker 5: So we're certainly excited about what happens Sunday night and

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Speaker 5: looking forward to the opportunity that's in front of us

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Speaker 5: on Sunday, which will be significant.

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Speaker 1: Nick, there are two games.

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Speaker 2: You don't really, I guess, have an identity carved out

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Speaker 2: for your team, but you kind of see where it's going.

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Speaker 1: Do you kind of have a feeling of what this

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Speaker 1: team really is?

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Speaker 2: It's physical nature, how hard it plays, how fast it plays.

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Speaker 2: You kind of sense that through a few weeks or

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Speaker 2: does it take a little while for that to develop?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think defensively you've seen that the

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Speaker 5: last two years, like how we play, the speed, the urgency,

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Speaker 5: the competitiveness, the intensity. You know, there's no more embodiment

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Speaker 5: of the warm mentality or mindset than how we played defensively.

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Speaker 5: And we've had the same idea offensively as well. So

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Speaker 5: random ball effectively, Week one played physical controled a lone

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Speaker 5: of scrimmage good front that we played against Chicago. There

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Speaker 5: the run game was a little bit tough sledding. We're

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Speaker 5: able to pop a few runs there in the fourth quarters.

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Speaker 5: In the second half made some plays in a passing game,

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Speaker 5: had a few explosive plays. So each week's going to

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Speaker 5: take on its own identity, and what you have to

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Speaker 5: the fourth quarter. And we were ahead going into the

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Speaker 5: good situational football getting the fourth down stop.

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Speaker 3: You are right there near the top of the league

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Speaker 3: in sacks. And I know it's not all about sacks, pressures,

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Speaker 3: all of it figuring in, but it's coming from all

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Speaker 5: Yeah, defensive football is about eleven players, and rush and

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Speaker 5: coverage are always tied together. Dimiko talks about that, I

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Speaker 5: would say consistently. So good rush. Want to make sure

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Speaker 5: the coverage is tight, and when you watch some plays,

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Speaker 5: the rush is there, the coverage is tight. So if

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Speaker 5: very well done. There was a number of examples. We

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Speaker 5: But any time the leading rusher in the first two

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Speaker 5: which then you want to make sure that you're coordinating

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Speaker 5: a great job and the defensive staff's done a great

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Speaker 5: that are favorable, and we feel we have pretty good

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I'm contractually obligated to ask some sort

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Speaker 2: kind of time to two together. Past rush has been good,

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Speaker 2: pass rush has been really good. But having two guys

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Speaker 2: that have great ball skills, I mean, their hands are incredible.

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Speaker 1: So here's where I tied in when you're looking at.

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Speaker 2: ranking the things that you want to see from guys

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Speaker 4: John, it's certainly a component.

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Speaker 5: So when you look at defensive players in general, you're

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Speaker 5: looking for awareness, instinctiveness, tackling, the speed with which they play,

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Speaker 5: players aren't quite as natural. It's certainly a skill that

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Speaker 5: So depends on the type of coverage that you have

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Speaker 4: It's certainly something that goes into.

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Speaker 5: The evaluation and we grade the player whether it's good,

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Speaker 5: whether or not that player can actually improve that skill.

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Speaker 5: That's something that just takes a little bit of work.

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Speaker 3: Texans running game right into adversity with injuries and whatnot.

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Speaker 3: Not as smooth as week one, but you got the

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Speaker 3: job done. What about that phase of it, Nick, because

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Speaker 3: cam Akers comes in does pretty well. I know you

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Speaker 3: don't like the turnover, but there were some good things

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Speaker 5: Yeah, some of our better runs took place in the

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Speaker 5: fourth quarter, so there's a little bit more space. I mean,

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Speaker 5: the Bears did a great job of kind of setting

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Speaker 5: We really couldn't have We didn't have enough leverage on

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Speaker 4: So credit and then they did a good job on that.

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Speaker 5: But you're always just looking for ways that you can

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Speaker 5: challenging front to run against for different reasons this week

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Speaker 5: But at some point, you're gonna have to be able

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Speaker 2: You said something a second ago that hit me, Nick,

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Speaker 2: and he made me think about Henry Toto because we

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Speaker 2: talked about Henry last year as a rookie and said,

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Speaker 2: the fourth round, And I remember fifth round and you

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Speaker 2: said tackling. You said tackling was one of the things

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Speaker 2: that he probably could improve on, and you look out

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Speaker 2: the other night and this seems team wide, but just

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Speaker 2: Henry in particular, I remember you saying that he's improved

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Speaker 1: Has played at different level.

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Speaker 2: What do you thought about the way he's played it,

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Speaker 2: how he's improved that part of his game.

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Speaker 5: Yes, it worked really hard, very instinctive football player. He

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Speaker 5: was that way to your starter at Tennessee, to your

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Speaker 5: understand and tackling is something that you can actually work

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Speaker 4: So DR talks about this a lot.

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Speaker 5: It's about tracking angles, it's about your approach, and we

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Speaker 5: make sure that you shoot your shot, but you're leveraged

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Speaker 5: on a ball carrier or you're forcing it back to

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Speaker 5: your teammates, so aggressively attacking the ball. And there are

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Speaker 5: multiple instances of not only Henry but a number of players.

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Speaker 5: Petrie had a number of players there where he set

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Speaker 5: the edge of the defense and he closes space, maintained leverage,

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Speaker 5: or forced it back to the inside.

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Speaker 4: And we talked to the defensive line about running out

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Speaker 5: So when the ball goes to the perimeter, your job

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Speaker 5: is to turn, chase and run. So all of it

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Speaker 5: is tied together, which goes back to team defense. It

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Speaker 5: takes all eleven and there's a lot of different components

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Speaker 5: associated with that.

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Speaker 6: How about CJ.

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Speaker 3: Stroud's ability to not panic in the pocket, to create

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Speaker 3: and be able to get the ball launched properly. It

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Speaker 3: seems like he's really worked hard on that.

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Speaker 4: It's a very unique skill.

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Speaker 5: And sometimes it's about micro movements with quarterbacks, whether it's

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Speaker 5: Nick for better or worse, everything focuses and centers on

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Speaker 4: So every situation is different.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we drafted Kevin in two thousand and eight, so

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Speaker 5: been around Coach Petton, Coach Pettin's on their staff, has

438
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Speaker 5: experienced with coach McVeigh and his system. So a lot

439
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Speaker 5: of coaches they take elements of different systems. Kevin was

440
00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,560
Speaker 5: in Washington period of time. But Kevin's a great guy,

441
00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,879
Speaker 5: very smart, very bright, offensive coach. And you've seen some

442
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Speaker 5: of the coaches that have worked for Sean or work

443
00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:25,280
Speaker 5: with Kevin are littered throughout the league. But yeah, we

444
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Speaker 5: had Kevin in. We drafted him in a third round

445
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Speaker 5: in two thousand and eight.

446
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Speaker 3: What's it like here, Nick, with the continuity you've been

447
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Speaker 3: able to maintain with the coaching staff working through the

448
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Speaker 3: second year of the Demico Nick era, with CJ involved

449
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Speaker 3: in all the staff members as well.

450
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Speaker 4: The more time he's spent together, the better. Typically then

451
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Speaker 4: maybe not everybody feels that way, but you just have.

452
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Speaker 5: A better understanding of the flow of everything, schedule system,

453
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Speaker 5: how to practice, how to adjust, how do we want

454
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Speaker 5: to handle the game, the communication that goes on during

455
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Speaker 5: the course of the game. So anytime that you can

456
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Speaker 5: work collaboratively over the course of multiple weeks, months, years,

457
00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:04,880
Speaker 5: it's advantageous for everybody involved. So as long as you're

458
00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:07,760
Speaker 5: doing the right things and you're having some modicum of success,

459
00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:09,879
Speaker 5: then you want to try to keep it together. We

460
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Speaker 5: also understand this league is designed where people are gonna

461
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Speaker 5: move on. You're gonna lose people, So do you have

462
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Speaker 5: enough of an infrastructure in place that you can replace staff, coaches,

463
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Speaker 5: players as they leave. So there's a short term but

464
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Speaker 5: there's also a long term component as well that you're

465
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Speaker 5: certainly cognizant of.

466
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Speaker 4: Nick.

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Speaker 2: It's always talked about at some point where well, this

468
00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:33,560
Speaker 2: guy played for this team and now he's playing for

469
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Speaker 2: this other team. He's gonna face his old team. And

470
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Speaker 2: the Viking's got a number of guys that did play

471
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Speaker 2: for Houston. We've got a Viking that we got a

472
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Speaker 2: former Viking in that place for us? Is that overblown

473
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Speaker 2: where you have players that played in different places and

474
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Speaker 2: then also they're played against their former team. Does that

475
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Speaker 2: kind of get overblown like, Oh, they're gonna know what

476
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Speaker 2: they're doing because they played there last year.

477
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Speaker 5: It's probably more common than you realize. Players change teams often, right,

478
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Speaker 5: So typically you're gonna see a number of players that

479
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Speaker 5: we're in your building. They have another building, they're gonna

480
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Speaker 5: come through your building. Once you get into this season,

481
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Speaker 5: it's really about that week and the game plan specific

482
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Speaker 5: to that opponent. So is there some familiarity with our players?

483
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Speaker 5: There always is, But you've seen it. You see it

484
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Speaker 5: across the league. Like typically every team that you play

485
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Speaker 5: against probably somebody that you've either been with or coached

486
00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:25,520
Speaker 5: the same thing. On a coaching front, So familiarity, you

487
00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:29,560
Speaker 5: know there is there and exists, but sometimes there's probably

488
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Speaker 5: a little bit too much emphasis that's placed on frankflly.

489
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Speaker 3: A couple of other things on the way out here, Nick.

490
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Speaker 3: First of all, a couple of games in uniform review.

491
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Speaker 3: What are you thinking we're in the regular season, had

492
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Speaker 3: I'm asking you about this? What do you think of

493
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Speaker 3: those Bears orange uniforms? You don't have to get into that.

494
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Speaker 5: I thought it was pumpkin season, so now nobody should

495
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Speaker 5: ask me any questions fashion related, So I'm going to

496
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Speaker 5: stay away from the uniform discussion.

497
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Speaker 6: They look good. What'd you think of the environment the

498
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Speaker 6: other night?

499
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Speaker 4: Though?

500
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Speaker 5: That was great, cool atmosphere Sunday night. Roof was open,

501
00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,600
Speaker 5: hadn't happened in a long time, so fans were into

502
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Speaker 5: the game. So the more Houston fans we can have

503
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Speaker 5: in not opponent fans, always the better. But uh yeah,

504
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:12,119
Speaker 5: overall it was a very and the players felt that environment.

505
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Speaker 5: So Link Demika wanted to crowd in the game a

506
00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:15,760
Speaker 5: little bit more. Was just trying to hype up a

507
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Speaker 5: little kid and tell you us, yeah, that'll be the

508
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Speaker 5: next thing when we come home. In a couple of

509
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Speaker 5: weeks so to make sure the crowds into the game

510
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Speaker 5: for the full sixty minutes.

511
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Speaker 2: So when you go out scouting, not to say that

512
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Speaker 2: there's one hundred percent analogous situation out there, but what

513
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Speaker 2: are What's a place where you go out scouting where

514
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Speaker 2: you know, like, man, I'm gonna walk out of here

515
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Speaker 2: with a headache because this place is loud.

516
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Speaker 1: This place is really loud, and I know I'm gonna

517
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Speaker 1: have a headache.

518
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Speaker 5: Earlier in my career, I happened to see Oregon. It

519
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Speaker 5: was like a Thursday night or Friday night. Yeah, I

520
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Speaker 5: mean it was loud as hell. Yeah, that was like

521
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Speaker 5: a really cool environment. So and then the year forget

522
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Speaker 5: what year was LSU Georgia, Mettenberger, Jeremy hill Odell, back

523
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Speaker 5: Land Red, Yeah, and Georgia. They had a compliment of

524
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Speaker 5: players as well. It was packed and it was loud,

525
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Speaker 5: and it was like who's who on the sideline. It

526
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:04,840
Speaker 5: was like a swarm of people on the sideline. So

527
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Speaker 5: there's some pretty cool college environments, but I would say

528
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Speaker 5: those are a couple that kind of stand out.

529
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Speaker 3: Finally, Today's show did a feature on your Cafe on

530
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Speaker 3: the performance cafe workers the way they set everything up

531
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Speaker 3: for the players, individualize what's needed, what about that, what

532
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Speaker 3: goes into that, and how important is that for your

533
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Speaker 3: team's success.

534
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Speaker 5: Yeah, for them to be recognized and for them to

535
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Speaker 5: be profiled honestly with the more people to see that

536
00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,479
Speaker 5: the better, like how selfless, how committed they are to

537
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Speaker 5: the team, how they just want to serve the players

538
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Speaker 5: and the staff and to be able to have sort

539
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Speaker 5: of customized service, customized meals. Our job, as best we

540
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Speaker 5: can is to provide that we've talked about this is

541
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Speaker 5: provide as many resources of players as as much as possible,

542
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Speaker 5: give them the things that they need to be successful,

543
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Speaker 5: and with the support of ownership that they give us

544
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Speaker 5: the ability to a have high quality food.

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Speaker 4: The nutrition staff start.

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Speaker 5: With Latt Harris and their entire group aim you know, Jacob,

547
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Speaker 5: I mean, they're very invested in the team and the

548
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Speaker 5: players and what you fuel your body with makes a difference.

549
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Speaker 5: So for them to profile that and profile maybe some

550
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Speaker 5: people that aren't really talked about as much or aren't

551
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Speaker 5: in the public eye, just to show like how important

552
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Speaker 5: they are at the overall success.

553
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Speaker 4: The MICO has talked about this.

554
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Speaker 5: Everybody that's in our building has an impact and touches

555
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Speaker 5: the players at some point, and if they're doing it

556
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Speaker 5: in a way with the right attitude, with good energy,

557
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Speaker 5: on a consistent basis, the players appreciate that. So we

558
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Speaker 5: kind of have a fiduciary responsibility to provide that for them.

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Speaker 5: So that's cool that they were able to profile those folks.

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Speaker 3: As long as it passes your standard, we're good, right,

561
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Speaker 3: you can always find something eating that performance.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely all right, absolutely, Nick, thanks a lot, good luck,

563
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Speaker 5: Thanks fellas man.

564
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Speaker 2: If y'all have not seen that today's show segment, it

565
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Speaker 2: is really really good. It's about three and a half

566
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Speaker 2: four minutes. Excellent, excellent stuff. Do not miss that. Okay,

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Speaker 2: we get back. Mark's youre to join me discuss what's

568
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Speaker 2: on the table this weekend against the Vikings and how

569
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Speaker 2: to get past my PTSD of being tune.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, we'll discuss that next on Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Wednesday, Nation of Texans All Access from

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Speaker 2: them the Texans Radio Studio, John Harris alongside Mark vandermu or.

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Speaker 7: Mark.

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Speaker 2: We've never beaten the Vikings. Yes, that's it's a weird one.

576
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Speaker 2: There's some nevers this year. We already talked about never

577
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Speaker 2: being Dallas, in Dallas or Arlington, never beaten Lamar Jackson,

578
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 2: never won in Foxborough, but never beaten the Vikings own five.

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Speaker 3: Guess what this is like the end of The Godfather

580
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Speaker 3: Part one where we settle all the scores. It is

581
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Speaker 3: gonna beat the Cowboys on the road, gonna beat the

582
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Speaker 3: Vikings for the first time, going to beat Lamar Jackson,

583
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Speaker 3: Gonna take care of all of it. Johnny, you have

584
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Speaker 3: the opportunity here, what it up to go up there

585
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Speaker 3: and play them?

586
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Speaker 6: And this is a tricky one.

587
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Speaker 3: You know, we knew what the cults were kind of

588
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Speaker 3: maybe not Richardson, but we had a pretty decent idea.

589
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Speaker 6: Jonathan Taylor got to slow him down.

590
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Speaker 1: They did.

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Speaker 3: With the Bears, you felt like, stop that run, get

592
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Speaker 3: after him. You should be able to hold them down,

593
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Speaker 3: and they did. Although the Bears defense was probably a

594
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Speaker 3: little bit more productive than we thought, a little bit

595
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Speaker 3: more effective. And now with this one, this Brian Flores defense,

596
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Speaker 3: is the Darnald expiration date going to hit. You know,

597
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Speaker 3: we have a lot of questions going in. What about

598
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Speaker 3: the Texans' own health situation with Scruggs and Patterson and

599
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Speaker 3: who knows what else need to get healthy as possible,

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Speaker 3: but at least you have the week to prepare as

601
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Speaker 3: if certain guys aren't going to be available, so you're

602
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Speaker 3: ready for whatever happens.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's talk about that Texans injury situation, because today practice,

604
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Speaker 2: at least in the viewing window, we did not see

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Speaker 2: two running backs. We did not see at least in

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Speaker 2: practice to centers. And we got to notice before practice

607
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Speaker 2: that Brevin Jordan was going on IR. So let's take

608
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Speaker 2: them a reverse order. Brev going on IR sucks, thoughts. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's terrible.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, and Tmiko is up at the

611
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Speaker 3: podium saying that this is going to be a breakout

612
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Speaker 3: year for him and he doesn't get to have it now,

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Speaker 3: and you and I know we've visited with him many times.

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Speaker 6: I really like Brev.

615
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Speaker 3: The guys from twenty twenty one, there's a special bond.

616
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 3: We were all in the fox hole together, right, and

617
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Speaker 3: it just feels that way. I know we're not really

618
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Speaker 3: in there with him, but it just feels that way.

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Speaker 3: And that was a weird year because we were still

620
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Speaker 3: sort of separated with COVID and the tiers and the

621
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Speaker 3: protocols and all of that, and so Brev Nico Davis

622
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Speaker 3: Mills that class. You just feel the special bond with

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Speaker 3: those guys, and I hate seeing Brev have this happen

624
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Speaker 3: in a contract year. You know, Nico gets signed, but

625
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Speaker 3: obviously Brev wanted to do some things and needed to

626
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Speaker 3: do some things before he got a long term commitment

627
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Speaker 3: from here or anywhere else. So now he doesn't get

628
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Speaker 3: to show what he's got, and that makes me sad

629
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Speaker 3: for the player. But I know this is about winning

630
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Speaker 3: on Sunday in the football that is going to happen

631
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Speaker 3: in the next few weeks. I just think Brev was

632
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Speaker 3: going to have a really good year for this team.

633
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Speaker 3: And that doesn't mean sixty catches even necessarily, but maybe

634
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Speaker 3: forty or thirty or thirty five or something really effective,

635
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Speaker 3: plus some other plays.

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Speaker 6: Who knows how you work them into the equation.

637
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Speaker 2: Well, here's one of the things I don't think many

638
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 2: people were actually paying attention to, but I think actually

639
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,480
Speaker 2: had been true was and I thought this coming out

640
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 2: of Miami. I thought that brevn was a lot better

641
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 2: blocker than people thought. But I felt like his his

642
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 2: blocking was really improving, and so you could play Brev

643
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 2: at an inline why position, and that allowed you to

644
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 2: put Kate Stover at the fullback position, and then you

645
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 2: could then use Dalton wherever you wanted to use Dalton.

646
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Speaker 2: So I'm curious how this all plays out from a

647
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:45,120
Speaker 2: tight end, full back, h back? Why all that perspective?

648
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Speaker 2: How are you going to do it? Because you've got

649
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,680
Speaker 2: to run the football in some way, shape or form.

650
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Speaker 2: I don't think you have to go for two thirteen,

651
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:59,480
Speaker 2: but you have to have some success, especially against the

652
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 2: defense that you know. Look, the forty nine ers obviously

653
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,679
Speaker 2: didn't win a football game, but the forty nine ers

654
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 2: had success in the run games they were running, especially

655
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Speaker 2: getting the edge. Yeah, and that's where Brevan was doing

656
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 2: a nice job. So how are you going to go

657
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:17,000
Speaker 2: about replacing Brev? Do you use British brooks More in

658
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 2: some sort of capacity? Do you bring up recently signed

659
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:25,440
Speaker 2: Arv Smith junior, former Viking and do you use him

660
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 2: on Sunday as one of your practice squad call ups,

661
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 2: practice squad elevations.

662
00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:32,159
Speaker 1: You might need to, You might, you might have to.

663
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:36,680
Speaker 2: Absolutely, So I'm curious to see how that all goes down. Okay,

664
00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:41,400
Speaker 2: let's move the center. Juice started Game one injured during practice.

665
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 2: Jared Patterson moves up. He plays Game two. He's injured

666
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 2: at some point, I guess in the game or banged up.

667
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 2: Don't know what his status will be, but both of

668
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 2: them are on a side field today. I mean this

669
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 2: is kind of obvious, but when you don't have your

670
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 2: top two centers. A. We're used to seeing this because

671
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 2: we this before. B. What's the plan?

672
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 1: All right? What's the thought?

673
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,240
Speaker 3: So last year, Scotty Quisenberry gets hurt during training camp,

674
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 3: that's right early, and we know what happened. You know,

675
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 3: you went through all of them, right, You went through Juice,

676
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,320
Speaker 3: you went through Patterson. Eventually Dieters starting at center. Michael

677
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 3: Deeter's not walking through that door, by the way, to

678
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 3: quote quote Rick Betweeno and bend it, yep, because Michael

679
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,479
Speaker 3: Dieters in Miami. So he's there right Washington, Oh, Washington,

680
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 3: that's right, he went. He was started in.

681
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: Miami, then came here and then went to Washington.

682
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 3: Ah, my bad, Okay, so he's with the Commanders right now. Anyway,

683
00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,320
Speaker 3: Scotty Q coming back. I do like this, you know

684
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 3: how I feel that he might have been the starter

685
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 3: throughout the entire season last year. You never know how

686
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 3: that was going to play out had he stayed healthy.

687
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 3: And this is one of the things about being in

688
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 3: the building that I can say.

689
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 4: Now.

690
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 3: Yesterday I saw Scotty in the cafe and he had

691
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,000
Speaker 3: just gotten through a workout and I said, all right,

692
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 3: are we coming back? He said, I hope so, and

693
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 3: he's obviously coming back. And I said, say hello to David.

694
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 3: But then I realized I could do that myself on

695
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 3: Sunday because he's with the Vikings.

696
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 1: That's right, David is with the Vikings.

697
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's amazing when you look at David. This

698
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 3: is twenty twenty four, Johnny, David Kusenberry is drafted in

699
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 3: twenty thirteen. You don't have to recap the whole story.

700
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 3: But what a saga for him, believe. And he's still

701
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 3: in the NFL right now.

702
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 6: Good for him.

703
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 3: What a stud he is and he's turned out to

704
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 3: have a nice career for himself and started a lot

705
00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 3: of games actually in his career. I think it's center

706
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 3: here for the Houston Texans. They'll put it together. Look,

707
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 3: we talk about teams being strong up the middle. Well,

708
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 3: the guy in the middle here is the quarterback who

709
00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:32,120
Speaker 3: thank goodness, you have him and he's great. But when

710
00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 3: you talk about center, when you talk about losing what

711
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 3: Brev could do at full back although it was really

712
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 3: Stover's job more. And then you look at if you

713
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 3: don't have Pierce or Mixing in this game, what are

714
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 3: you doing up the middle here from the center? And

715
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 3: then you go to the backs and I like having

716
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:52,239
Speaker 3: cam Akers. You know that this game might be It

717
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 3: could be I'm not saying it will be. Could be

718
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 3: somebody like Kendrick Green at center and Cam Akers at back.

719
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 3: JJ Taylor could be up from the practice squad. He

720
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 3: could be in elevation. You talked about Arv Smith, maybe,

721
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 3: but maybe JJ Taylor because you need the extra back

722
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 3: if both Pierce and Mixing are unavailable. And then British

723
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 3: Brooks factors into the equation, either as a back and

724
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 3: or full back.

725
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 6: So there are a lot of.

726
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 3: Mysteries going into this one, and this is a big story.

727
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:18,959
Speaker 3: People look at the team as oh, the Houston Texans

728
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 3: coming to town. Believe me, and I know you know this.

729
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 3: The coaches are looking at this, Oh my gosh, well,

730
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 3: how are we going to put this together? How are

731
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:29,120
Speaker 3: we going to construct this thing? For this Sunday's game.

732
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 3: And this goes back to what you and I have

733
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 3: always talked about for years and Bill O'Brien and everything.

734
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 6: It's a week to week thing.

735
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 3: You're putting together the team for that week, seeing what

736
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 3: you can do.

737
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 2: I love it because one of my favorite shows on

738
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 2: Food Network is Chopped, and anybody that's watched Chop knows

739
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,560
Speaker 2: where it is. But essentially, it's a cooking competition and

740
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 2: you're giving this basket it's picnic basket, and you have

741
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,560
Speaker 2: no idea what's in a basket. You might have open

742
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 2: a basket and it's gummy bears, asparagus, pork tenderloin, and

743
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 2: ghee which is clarified butter, and you're like, all right,

744
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 2: you got to make something from that.

745
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 1: And you're like, okay, that's kind of what it is.

746
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: Almost every week.

747
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 2: Now you have a little bit better of an idea,

748
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:13,120
Speaker 2: but you still don't know. You don't know whether Juice

749
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 2: can play.

750
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: Now.

751
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 2: Coach Ryan's addressed that at this press conference, saying, look,

752
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 2: you really need to be able to practice in order

753
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 2: to play.

754
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 3: Jews can't just show up on Sunday. I'm good to go, right,

755
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:26,800
Speaker 3: It's got to know the calls against this defense. That's

756
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 3: especially this defense.

757
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 2: That's exactly right because there are so many different things

758
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,520
Speaker 2: that are going on. This is a very this is

759
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 2: cerebral week. This is where you've got to know what

760
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 2: you're looking at. You've got to be solid in your rules,

761
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 2: and you've got to be able to apply them. So

762
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 2: that makes the center position this week really interesting, not

763
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 2: that we want it to be. We'll see what the

764
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 2: status is of Jarrett and of Juice throughout the rest

765
00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 2: of the week, but my gut tells me that next

766
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 2: in line would be Kendrick. He's been around, he knows

767
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 2: the off. But moving over to center can be tricky,

768
00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 2: especially against you know, an odd front like you're gonna

769
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 2: see with a noseguard over your head almost every play.

770
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that ends up being tough. And then

771
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 2: at that point do the Vikings start making change. Oh,

772
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 2: this is a new center. Let's mug our linebackers, because

773
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,360
Speaker 2: now when you mug your linebackers, now you're you're anticipating

774
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 2: stepping one way or the other, and then because you're

775
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 2: stepping one way, you snap the ball and the snaps

776
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 2: aren't on our aren't on point in the shotgun. But

777
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 2: let's say that you don't have Juice and you don't

778
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 2: have Jarrett, it's Kendrick. And then after that, do you

779
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 2: have to bring Scottie up? Does he become one of

780
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 2: year practice squad elevation broker? Maybe can do it.

781
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,040
Speaker 3: Maybe, But we don't see what they're doing out there, folks,

782
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 3: we're not after thirty minutes.

783
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't see anything.

784
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 3: We don't watch the entirety of practice. And that's the

785
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 3: way they want it, and I think that's the right

786
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 3: thing to do. You know, there used to be a

787
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 3: day in the Kubiak era we'd watch all of practice.

788
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 3: But I think the teams deserve the right to some

789
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 3: privacy to work out their game plans.

790
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 6: I think that's what makes it fun.

791
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 3: And you see what they come out with on Sunday

792
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 3: and how it works and how it doesn't work. And

793
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 3: you're playing the chess game like you just described. The

794
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 3: Vikings know what's up here. They read, they read the newspaper.

795
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 2: I mean they're dealing with it too, because what's justin

796
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 2: Jefferson's status. You know, he's got the quiet issue now

797
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 2: apparently he was there at the walk through on Wednesday,

798
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 2: But you.

799
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 3: Put him, have to walk through it to make it

800
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 3: seem like he might play. We had that happen plenty

801
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 3: of times.

802
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,439
Speaker 2: That's right, and then you might have a situation where

803
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 2: he's fine all week, but then on Saturday they're going

804
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 2: through walk through and boo, he tweaked something like oh

805
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 2: he's not gonna play. And then you got to figure

806
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 2: it out. As a as a coach, you hate it

807
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:39,719
Speaker 2: because you're like, man, I want to be full, go,

808
00:34:40,120 --> 00:34:42,360
Speaker 2: I want my guys, I want my roster, but you

809
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 2: know in the NFL that's not going to be the case.

810
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,799
Speaker 2: And so the challenge of okay, let's open the chopp

811
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 2: basket and see what we got.

812
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely they have to handle it like that. I

813
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 3: think that with Jefferson. I go back to Nico last

814
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,399
Speaker 3: year at Tennessee. We were watching them work out before

815
00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,560
Speaker 3: the game. He looked great. But it's got to be right.

816
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 3: It's got to be right for those guys, especially they

817
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 3: are required to do some crazy things with their body,

818
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:11,240
Speaker 3: and you don't want to make anything that's happening worse

819
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 3: for the coming weeks. So yeah, there's a lot going

820
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 3: on on both sides here, and I don't know what

821
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 3: to make of the Vikings two and oh start and

822
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 3: I know we'll talk about this more tomorrow with the

823
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 3: general and you and I will talk about it. Record

824
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 3: this time of year, it's great to be two and oh.

825
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 3: You can't be fooled by record. You can't be overwhelmed

826
00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 3: or just snowed under by whatever somebody's record is. They're

827
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 3: two and zero. Great, You got to look deeply within.

828
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 3: How are you playing, who's healthy? What can you do

829
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 3: this week? It doesn't matter if if you lose this game,

830
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 3: you have so much football to play. You just get

831
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 3: ready for the Jags next week and take it from there.

832
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 3: If you're three and one after four, you're thinking, okay,

833
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 3: great total win to be three and one after the

834
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 3: first semi quarter of the season. But I want this one, Johnny, Yeah.

835
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 3: I want to beat the Vikings for the first time.

836
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,800
Speaker 3: Want to win in that building. Don't want to be behind,

837
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,360
Speaker 3: don't want to have that skull chant ringing in my

838
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:04,879
Speaker 3: arms all afternoon. Want to be able to take care

839
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:06,280
Speaker 3: of business on Sunday.

840
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: Now.

841
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 3: Luckily for you, the Texans, you have a great quarterback.

842
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 6: You have Sam.

843
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,839
Speaker 3: Darnold who looks good right now, but he's also thrown

844
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 3: a couple of picks, and you never know how that's

845
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 3: all going to play out.

846
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,919
Speaker 1: So Texans haven't been three and U since twenty twelve.

847
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 2: So here's yeah, that's a big deal. They've been two

848
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 2: to oh three times since. Yeah, two of them have

849
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 2: been on the sidelines for one not twenty thirteen start

850
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:36,839
Speaker 2: two to oh and finished with fourteen in a row.

851
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 2: The other way. I predict that does not happen this year.

852
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty fourteen. Yeah, started two to oh. Beat the

853
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 2: Raiders in game two, beat the beat the team four

854
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 2: llien Os, the Redskins, and the Raiders then flew across

855
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:54,280
Speaker 2: the country, took on a Giants team that we didn't

856
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,239
Speaker 2: think was all that good, but couldn't stop be Di

857
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,759
Speaker 2: Manning that day and ended up they end up winning

858
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 2: the game, hot win a division, but got to nine

859
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 2: and seven. Right twenty sixteen, do I need to remind

860
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 2: you what happened on a Thursday night in Foxboro, Massachusetts.

861
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,000
Speaker 2: Jacoby Brissett twenty seven and nothing, I think, twenty seven

862
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 2: to nine, and he's the third string quarterback. Garoppolo couldn't go,

863
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,080
Speaker 2: Brady suspended and you still lost. Anyway, we thought that

864
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 2: was going to be a good night, and it wasn't.

865
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:23,799
Speaker 2: It just proves that this league is so full of unknowns.

866
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 2: You don't know what you're going to be running into.

867
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 2: But this week they know what they're running into. Really

868
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 2: good defense, really complicated defense. Like you said, it's cerebral week,

869
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 2: and you're running into a team that, look, they want

870
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:37,280
Speaker 2: to get Donald going.

871
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 6: But Chandler Jones, these guys can run the football.

872
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:43,879
Speaker 2: SOI Chandler super fast, right, hy Chandler is a lot

873
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 2: better than people would even think. And I know you

874
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:48,280
Speaker 2: look at it, well, he's the backup. No, I don't

875
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 2: know that they look at it like that in Minnesota.

876
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 2: I think they look at it as one A, one B.

877
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,640
Speaker 2: WELLI ramcis fifty more yards than the starter.

878
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: That's right.

879
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 2: Chandler could come in the game and he gives you

880
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 2: problems because he is quick, extremely fast, and he and

881
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 2: Jones I think are a really good combination for what

882
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 2: they want to do offensively. You've got to shut that

883
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 2: down and take that away. And look, I know the

884
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 2: number one receiver in the entire league is out on

885
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 2: the perimeter or where they're gonna have where they're gonna

886
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 2: line him up you gotta know where he is.

887
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: So that to me is kind of the chess match.

888
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 2: Within the game, and that is you put Stingley on

889
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 2: him like you do like you did DJ Moore, Do

890
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 2: you double Justin Jefferson? Put Stingley on somebody else? The

891
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 2: old Belichick philosophy, which was, We're gonna take our number

892
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 2: two corner, put him on Hopkins, and then double Hopkins

893
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 2: all night and put our number one corner on your

894
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 2: number two receiver and shut him down one on one.

895
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:41,360
Speaker 2: I always love that philosophy from Belichick.

896
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 1: We'll see if you.

897
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 2: Know how how Dmika goes about it, because you know

898
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 2: what your number two corners pretty darn good.

899
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:48,720
Speaker 1: The rookie Kamario last.

900
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 6: Yer, Can I play Wayne Brady money Hall with you

901
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 6: right now?

902
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:51,160
Speaker 4: Yes?

903
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: Go ahead.

904
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 3: So the forty nine ers ran for one hundred and

905
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 3: two yards and the long run was twenty two, so

906
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:58,840
Speaker 3: it wasn't like a sixty yard I got from that

907
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 3: right that pad, So one hundred and two yards? Do

908
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:04,759
Speaker 3: you take it right now? Or will you take what's

909
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 3: behind door number two? I'll take it right now, you'll

910
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 3: take it right now.

911
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 2: I'll take one o two right now with kind of

912
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 2: the Upheople at running back with you don't know if

913
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 2: Joe's gonna be able to play, don't if Damien is

914
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:18,319
Speaker 2: going to be back for this one. I think that

915
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:22,280
Speaker 2: cam Akers minus the fumbles, showed you something on Sunday

916
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 2: night that he fits this system. Just got to hang

917
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 2: on to the football. You gotta have that trust of

918
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 2: your offense. I don't think it's the staff. I think

919
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:33,719
Speaker 2: he's gonna be okay. And of course when you play

920
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 2: your former team, you want to show him something. So

921
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:37,360
Speaker 2: you just got to settle in. I'll take one hundred

922
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 2: two yards rushing right now, one hundred and two yards rushing.

923
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: I promise you'll win. You'll tell okay, I promise you.

924
00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: The Texans Purdy threw for.

925
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 6: Three nineteen on them. Think about that.

926
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 3: He had a quarterback rating of one oh one, a

927
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 3: touchdown and a pick. I mean, Purdy put up some

928
00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 3: numbers against the Vikings. So we talk about this defense

929
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 3: and everything, but yeah, Debo going for eight catches killed

930
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 3: a seven I u k had four.

931
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,839
Speaker 1: What's the number in the interception column? One?

932
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 2: And he threw that deep in his territory and the

933
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 2: Vikings scored the next play to Jalen Naylor on a

934
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 2: play that the defense blew the blew the coverage.

935
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 6: It didnt Van Ginkle drop one in this game too?

936
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 2: I think Van Ginkle had one. It hit his hands

937
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 2: or it might have been picked. But the forty nine

938
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:22,240
Speaker 2: ers moved the ball.

939
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:23,439
Speaker 6: Yeah, they moved the ball.

940
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,439
Speaker 2: They moved the ball should be able to they couldn't score, Yeah,

941
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 2: they could score. And then Minnesota scored ninety seven yard

942
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 2: over the top to Justin Jefferson and they scored after

943
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 2: Perty threw his one interception. So knock on wood. CJ

944
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,439
Speaker 2: doesn't throw interceptions, hasn't thrown one in a while. Here's

945
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 2: your quiz question. The last time CJ threw an interception?

946
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 3: Is it the Jet Game? He didn't thrown interception in

947
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 3: the Jet Game? No interceptions in the Jet Game? When

948
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 3: was it?

949
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 2: He threw three interceptions? Last year he threw I'm sorry,

950
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,919
Speaker 2: threw five. Last year he threw one of the same. Right,

951
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 2: he threw three to the Cardinals, and then I believe

952
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 2: he threw one to the Broncos.

953
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:09,000
Speaker 3: Right, that is so the Brocos. He threw three in

954
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 3: one game, three to one game. That's incredible. And the

955
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 3: one he threw to the Raiders he got right back.

956
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:15,239
Speaker 3: Didn't they cost that one?

957
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:17,320
Speaker 2: But yeah, he got it right back because Zach Bond

958
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:19,439
Speaker 2: picked it off and then Nico went and punched it out.

959
00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 2: So yeah, he threw He threw five interceptions last year

960
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 2: and we won all three games. So I believe it

961
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 2: was the Broncos. I think the Broncos were the last

962
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 2: game that that he threw an interception. I'm trying to

963
00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,280
Speaker 2: remember exactly.

964
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 3: I think it was, and it was the same It

965
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 3: was the Cardinals because that game was after the Bengals game,

966
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:48,360
Speaker 3: so same Bengals. That's right, the Bengals and Cardinals Cardinals.

967
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:49,280
Speaker 6: So he picked.

968
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 2: So he hasn't thrown an interception. God, I can't believe

969
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 2: I'm saying this. He hasn't thrown an interception since November

970
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 2: nineteenth of twenty twenty three.

971
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,360
Speaker 3: That's incredible. That's incredible. Now, he could have roam one

972
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:01,720
Speaker 3: the other night, didn't happen.

973
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: Could throw one against the Colts, But that.

974
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:04,239
Speaker 6: Happens all the time.

975
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 3: You know, you get these would be picks, These could

976
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,280
Speaker 3: be picks, these could be touchdowns, would be big plays.

977
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,799
Speaker 3: It's just part of football. It evens out over time.

978
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 3: But it's just great that he's not turning the ball

979
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 3: over and don't fumble. There's a lot of pressure. We

980
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:18,560
Speaker 3: talked about this with Nick Cassario. Everybody heard the interview.

981
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:21,319
Speaker 3: The fact that he's got great pocket awareness and the

982
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 3: ability to move around in the pocket without coughing up

983
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 3: the rock that is key as well. So keep it

984
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:30,120
Speaker 3: going there and see what you can do against the bikes.

985
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 2: All right hand, if you're listening, we did not ye,

986
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:35,919
Speaker 2: we just spoke facts. We didn't see. He's not gonna

987
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 2: throw interception. We did not say that. Hen, we did

988
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,879
Speaker 2: not say that. So just we're being superstitious this way

989
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:41,200
Speaker 2: it goes.

990
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: Okay, the injury report, it's pretty important.

991
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 2: We'll go over that next and anything else happening around

992
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 2: the NFL right here in Texans All Access.

993
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: Okay, here we go.

994
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:55,319
Speaker 2: Ready said that's way Dak Prescott starts every single play.

995
00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 2: I like that he tells everybody that we're good and

996
00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 2: it's ready to go, because that's what we do here

997
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:02,600
Speaker 2: on Texans All. I'm your host, John Harris, football inside

998
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:06,640
Speaker 2: line reporter for your Houston Texans. Oh boy, this injury

999
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 2: report that came out today does not make me happy,

1000
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:13,320
Speaker 2: but it is Wednesday. We got what, I don't know,

1001
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:15,440
Speaker 2: ninety six hours or so. I don't know if I

1002
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:17,279
Speaker 2: can do the math you got Thursday, Friday, Saturday. You

1003
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 2: know it's about ninety six hours for the Texans. They're

1004
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 2: gonna kick it off against the Vikings, so you got

1005
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 2: plenty of time to see things change.

1006
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:27,240
Speaker 1: But Mark and I talked about two.

1007
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 2: Of the bigger ones, missing both your first second string

1008
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 2: running back, your first second string center.

1009
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: So you're missing both of those today, but you're also

1010
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 1: missing a few others.

1011
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:42,479
Speaker 2: So let's get to that on the Texans side first

1012
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 2: before you flip it over to the Vikings, because the

1013
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 2: Vikings are not in great shape either. It just happens

1014
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 2: in week three that teams start to get banged up.

1015
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:55,080
Speaker 2: But your dnps on Wednesday some significant names on there,

1016
00:43:55,160 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 2: Like we said the two running backs Joe Mixon with

1017
00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 2: the ankle, Damian Pierce for the hamstring, two centers Jew

1018
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 2: Scruggs who started in week one with the groin, Jared

1019
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 2: Patterson dealing with a calf. They were both out. So

1020
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 2: all four of those were out. Mark and I talked

1021
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 2: about that last segment, But three guys also did not practice.

1022
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 2: Chris Boyd on a side field dealing with a hip

1023
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 2: injury for Larunzo Patacasi dealing with his shoulder, and I

1024
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 2: just hate that for a guy that plays in the

1025
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 2: middle and that's all he's doing is just using his

1026
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 2: shoulders to fight off blockers and shed them and get

1027
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 2: to a quarterback. So hopefully Folly's gonna end up being okay.

1028
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 2: We'll see as the week goes on.

1029
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 1: Of course.

1030
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 2: And finally, oh god, I hated seeing this Nico Collins

1031
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:39,720
Speaker 2: dealing with a hip and a foot. I saw him

1032
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 2: during stretching, but he obviously did not participate in practice.

1033
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:47,359
Speaker 2: So hopefully the fact that he has Jersey with him,

1034
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 2: he has cleats on, didn't have his helping with him

1035
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,600
Speaker 2: is just hey, you need a day to kind of

1036
00:44:51,719 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 2: get through the bumps and bruises, And hopefully Nico's gonna

1037
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 2: be okay.

1038
00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:55,239
Speaker 1: He's been.

1039
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 2: I mean, you could make case he's been the best

1040
00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 2: text in the first two weeks. He could make a

1041
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 2: case for him for being that. So I would miss

1042
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 2: him limited participants as he's al Shire dealing with Shann Dolt,

1043
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 2: Schultz Ankle, MJ.

1044
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: Stewart.

1045
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 2: Who's good to see twenty nine back at practice today

1046
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 2: with a knee. He was at least in a limited participation.

1047
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 2: So those three good. It's not DMPs, but just Wednesday,

1048
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 2: got a couple more days, we'll see how it goes.

1049
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:22,319
Speaker 2: Now the Viking side, it's not pretty either. They have

1050
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 2: three key guys that did not participate. Jordan Addison with

1051
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 2: an ankle, wide receiver he didn't play.

1052
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:32,919
Speaker 1: Against the forty nine ers.

1053
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 2: Brian Turner right tackle, I'm sorry, Brian Turner, Brian O'Neal

1054
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:41,200
Speaker 2: right tackle with an elbow. Then you've got Dallas Turner,

1055
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 2: the rookie from Alabama who was on the opposite side

1056
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:45,399
Speaker 2: of Will Anderson for a couple of years. He dealing

1057
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 2: with a knee. Those three did not participate on Wednesday. Again,

1058
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 2: long time to Sunday, but worth keeping an eye on

1059
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 2: the big one here is Justin Jefferson deal with that

1060
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 2: quad issue. He left the game against the forty nine ers,

1061
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:01,840
Speaker 2: but he was in practice today at least in a

1062
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 2: limited capacity. But they had a number of guys in

1063
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 2: that limited capacity as well, deal with a knee issue.

1064
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:14,399
Speaker 2: Garrett Bradberry, Justin Jefferson, Aaron Jones, Ivan Pace, Andrew Van

1065
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 2: Ginkel full participants dealing with some ed Ingram with a

1066
00:46:18,040 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 2: triseb he starting guard Jalen Naylor the other wide receiver

1067
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 2: with an ankle. So from that perspective, both teams a

1068
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:28,760
Speaker 2: little bit banged up. It is worth noting what's going

1069
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 2: on in both places. So at that point we'll keep

1070
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 2: an eye on the injury report because you get to

1071
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 2: week three and beyond, it's gonna be pretty healthy. And

1072
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:39,839
Speaker 2: by healthy I mean guys that really aren't but are

1073
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 2: gutting through it as we go through. Okay, this matchup

1074
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 2: on Sunday features two of the best voices in the NFL,

1075
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 2: one of my great friends and a guy that's become

1076
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,360
Speaker 2: one of my new friends. Mark Vandermier, the Voice of

1077
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 2: the Texans, sits down with Paul Allen, the Voice of

1078
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 2: the Vikings. Next we call it Men Behind the Mics.

1079
00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 2: It's one of my favorite segments and it's only here

1080
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 2: on Texans All Access.

1081
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:01,720
Speaker 1: What's happened? Everybody?

1082
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 2: Welcome back to our second hour of Texans All Access.

1083
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: Hopefully you didn't miss anything.

1084
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 2: In the first hour we had Nick Cassario, Jami or Houston, Texans,

1085
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Speaker 2: Mark and I discussed what we thought about this weekend,

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Speaker 2: the struggles at two and oh the last eleven years.

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Speaker 2: The last time I've been three and oh was twenty twelve.

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Speaker 2: So we did all that in the first hour. If

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Speaker 2: you missed that, go to our podcast page. There's so

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Speaker 2: many podcasts that you can choose from, but definitely pick

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Speaker 2: our all access podcasts and get our in the Lab podcast, which,

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Speaker 2: by the way, you'll hear in the Lab here in

1093
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 2: our next segment. But kick off our second hour with

1094
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:39,760
Speaker 2: me hosting John Harris football and on the Sideline Reporter,

1095
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 2: it's our good friend from the Minnesota Vikings play by

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00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 2: play man Paul Allen. I love hearing Paul on our air.

1097
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 2: We've got to be good friends with Paul over the

1098
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:50,919
Speaker 2: years he got into the NFL. He was the play

1099
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 2: by play voice of the Vikings. I think the same

1100
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 2: year Mark was so pretty cool stuff. And with these

1101
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:58,439
Speaker 2: two get together, it is great. We call it man

1102
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:01,320
Speaker 2: behind the MIC's Mark me here the voice of the Texans

1103
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:03,400
Speaker 2: with the voice of the Vikings, Paul Allen.

1104
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 3: Do you know I guess right now it's the voice

1105
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 3: of the Minnesota vi gigs, Paul Allen. What a pleasure

1106
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 3: to have him on. Paul, how's it going to and oh?

1107
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 3: Feels pretty good?

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00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 7: Huh, Texans Box. Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of

1109
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 7: fun with your high flying Texans coming to US Bank

1110
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 7: Stadium to take on a team that just beat a

1111
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 7: team that went to the Super Bowl. And quite honestly,

1112
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 7: it was one of those strange occurrences. The Vikings are

1113
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:32,680
Speaker 7: underdogs at home. Okay, McCaffery doesn't play, but you know,

1114
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:36,840
Speaker 7: the Vikings were down some players too, and really I

1115
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 7: just never felt during the course of the game the

1116
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 7: Vikings were going to lose. That's kind of how they

1117
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:42,320
Speaker 7: handled the Niners.

1118
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 3: Wow, that's a great feeling, and it's great when it

1119
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 3: comes through for you. So down a few players, Let's

1120
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 3: go back to the JJ McCarthy injury, because if he

1121
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,840
Speaker 3: stays healthy, Paul, how long until he plays? And I

1122
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 3: guess if you start like this, he's not going to

1123
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:01,400
Speaker 3: play for a while. But had he been healthy, what

1124
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:03,439
Speaker 3: were your thoughts on when he was going to get

1125
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:04,280
Speaker 3: into the lineup?

1126
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:07,719
Speaker 7: Same thing I told you, or you and or John

1127
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 7: when I last shadowed with you guys on my radio

1128
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 7: show twenty twenty five. I mean, it's the confidence the

1129
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:18,600
Speaker 7: organization and the coaching staff had in Sam Darnold has

1130
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:20,919
Speaker 7: been there pretty much since Week three of organized team

1131
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 7: activities where they could just pick up on the fact

1132
00:49:23,640 --> 00:49:26,920
Speaker 7: that he's a quick study. Then Jefferson gets his contract

1133
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 7: situation handled, he comes in, he falls in love with Darnald,

1134
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 7: and what fans have seen with Sam Darnold the last

1135
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:38,919
Speaker 7: two games is what team members have seen the entire offseason,

1136
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 7: where he's following the plan. You know, it's a it's

1137
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 7: a high end passing system here that has a running

1138
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 7: game with Jones and Chandler that that is potent, where

1139
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:53,680
Speaker 7: it was an impotent running attack last year with Madison

1140
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 7: and Chandler only in his second year. So the answer

1141
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 7: is twenty twenty five unless things completely went wrong for

1142
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 7: darnd and I felt that was a long shot.

1143
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:04,319
Speaker 3: So now that you have Donald in the building, what

1144
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 3: are your thoughts on what's gone down in his career

1145
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 3: Because he's been around for a while now, the Jets

1146
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 3: would love to have had him play at this level

1147
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:14,080
Speaker 3: now coaching fit, I get it.

1148
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:15,200
Speaker 6: It all contributes.

1149
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:19,240
Speaker 3: We saw Donald week three in Houston with the Carolina

1150
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:22,439
Speaker 3: Panthers in twenty twenty one looked great. Obviously it didn't

1151
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:24,720
Speaker 3: continue that way throughout the year. What are your thoughts

1152
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 3: on Donald and what he's been through.

1153
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:26,319
Speaker 4: Paul.

1154
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 7: Okay, well, I mean just take a peek int like

1155
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 7: this Mark. You know, so Donald's third overall pick twenty

1156
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 7: eighteen for the Jets comes into a situation where the

1157
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:41,040
Speaker 7: coaching staff is not as offensively inclined as this staff

1158
00:50:41,040 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 7: here with the Vikings. This is a really, really good

1159
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:47,279
Speaker 7: coaching staff on offense and defense. Okay, so now now

1160
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 7: you take that to what's transpiring now in twenty twenty

1161
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,920
Speaker 7: four or even Peyton Manning and Troy Yikman, I mean

1162
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 7: a couple of hfs. They can join the conversation where

1163
00:50:57,200 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 7: Troy Yikman his rookie year, he went one in fifteen,

1164
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 7: Peyton Manning went three and thirteen. Bryce Young just got

1165
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 7: bench and it might be for the rest of the year.

1166
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:07,360
Speaker 7: You know, it's the second year. But he was terrible

1167
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 7: last year. Anthony Richardson's completion percentage is ridiculously bad. Daniels

1168
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:16,239
Speaker 7: for Washington super gifted. He's having his troubles. Bo Nix

1169
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:19,439
Speaker 7: is having his troubles. The long play here is it's

1170
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 7: super Well think David Carr with the Texans. I mean,

1171
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 7: it's so hard to jump into this thing and not

1172
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:29,839
Speaker 7: develop bad habits when things are going to miss, and

1173
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 7: I think that happened with Sam. So he gained confidence

1174
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:36,799
Speaker 7: with Carolina. He learned a lot by working with the

1175
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:40,239
Speaker 7: Shanahan group, and now he's empowered with the likes of

1176
00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 7: Jefferson Addison when he plays Hawkinson when he returns, Aaron Jones,

1177
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 7: and a play calling head coach who is very very good.

1178
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:54,320
Speaker 7: O'Connell is very very good at calling and scheming offense.

1179
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:56,280
Speaker 7: And that's all coming together for Sam.

1180
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 3: All right, what's going right defensively? What can you tell

1181
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:00,319
Speaker 3: us about that sound the ball?

1182
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:02,280
Speaker 7: It's the unpredictability.

1183
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:02,840
Speaker 8: You know.

1184
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 7: Brian Flores, the defensive coordinator, blitzed more than anybody in

1185
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:10,359
Speaker 7: the NFL last year. I have not added up the

1186
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:13,400
Speaker 7: the blitz count against the Niners, but he only blits

1187
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:16,480
Speaker 7: eleven times against the Giants and it completely caught him

1188
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:19,120
Speaker 7: off guard. I mean, they had protection set for blitzes

1189
00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:22,240
Speaker 7: from east, west, north and south and he only blits

1190
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 7: eleven times. Well, that opened up things for what's coming

1191
00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:31,160
Speaker 7: because the unpredictability of it is working now. It's it's

1192
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 7: clear to me the type of players that that Quasia

1193
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 7: Doopho Mensa, the general manager, identified in the off season

1194
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 7: or scholars of the game. Okay, and and there are

1195
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 7: a couple who came from the Texans. Now, Jonathan Grenard

1196
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 7: is super fast, and you know he's he's getting a

1197
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:49,880
Speaker 7: lot of attention off the line of scrimmage. Blake Cashman,

1198
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:53,360
Speaker 7: you know these players about whom you absolutely know inside.

1199
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Speaker 7: Now Cashman's the scholar of the game. And you told

1200
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 7: me this too when the Viking signing via free agency.

1201
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:03,800
Speaker 7: Just a very smart football player who maximizes what he has.

1202
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 7: He had thirteen tackles, three passes defense, He had a

1203
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:09,680
Speaker 7: tip that led to a pick and also a sack.

1204
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 7: You know, so Cashman is fitting in beautifully. Andrew Van

1205
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 7: Ginkol diagnoses plays at the line of scrimmage as well

1206
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:19,920
Speaker 7: as anybody I've seen on this team since Harrison Smith

1207
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:22,720
Speaker 7: and Angoine Winfield. And he should have had his second

1208
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 7: pick sick, but he dropped it. So then you got

1209
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 7: Now you've got the veteran Check Griffin and Stefan Gilmour

1210
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:30,840
Speaker 7: all right now they're on the second halves of their careers,

1211
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 7: but they're very smart and so therefore the the IQ

1212
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 7: of the defense has gone up and they're maximizing what

1213
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:44,560
Speaker 7: they have with deception and unpredictability and also some really

1214
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:45,080
Speaker 7: good talent.

1215
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 3: Well, it sounds like it's going swimmingly and the Texans

1216
00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 3: are heading into a buzzsaw here. What are your thoughts

1217
00:53:51,200 --> 00:53:53,840
Speaker 3: from Afar on what you're saying in Houston, Paul.

1218
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 7: Well, I mean Texans are favored here. You I've never

1219
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,800
Speaker 7: really watched Nico Collins that closely, and I mean, what

1220
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,440
Speaker 7: an absolute treat to call him every single game. The

1221
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:04,800
Speaker 7: kickers unbelievable. When you when you have when you have Daniel,

1222
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 7: and you have will Anderson, and then you got Jerry

1223
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 7: Hughes and and you got all that speed with a

1224
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 7: z z Al Shayir, who I remember from the Niners.

1225
00:54:13,239 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 7: I mean, it's just so much speed on the Houston defense,

1226
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:18,400
Speaker 7: only cow and and you have those Beefeaters on the

1227
00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:22,800
Speaker 7: offensive line, just a mauling, massive offensive line with maybe

1228
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:24,919
Speaker 7: one of the most powerful running backs in the last

1229
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:27,320
Speaker 7: ten years of the NFL and Joe Mix and he

1230
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 7: puts the hit on players like Adrian Peterson used to do. Uh,

1231
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:34,480
Speaker 7: it's a formidable task, you know. With with the Vikings defense,

1232
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:37,759
Speaker 7: you know they have eleven sacks and and they got

1233
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 7: a pick six from Ben Ginkel against the Giants, you know,

1234
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:42,840
Speaker 7: but but there still are things that that on on

1235
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:45,160
Speaker 7: on which they need to improve for sure. You know,

1236
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:48,400
Speaker 7: like in the Giants game tied in Daniel Bellinger and

1237
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 7: wide receiver Darius Layton, they had a couple of bad

1238
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:55,560
Speaker 7: drops and Daniel Jones missed misfired on what would have

1239
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:58,319
Speaker 7: been probably for first downs. Now, the Giants were never

1240
00:54:58,360 --> 00:54:59,799
Speaker 7: going to win that game, but they would have moved

1241
00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 7: the gains and gained some confidence. So it's kind of

1242
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:06,040
Speaker 7: a perfect scenario for coaches, as I'm sure you know,

1243
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:09,759
Speaker 7: when when coaches get to win and then they have

1244
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 7: things about which they can complain so they can teach

1245
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:15,480
Speaker 7: and keep the attention of undefeated teams, that's a perfect

1246
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 7: storm for coaches. And Dimico has it, Kevin O'Connell has it.

1247
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:22,880
Speaker 7: And to your question with the Texans, after what I

1248
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 7: said on defense, it's fun watching c J. Strout Man.

1249
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:28,479
Speaker 7: He's just chill. I mean, he's just you know, he's

1250
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:31,840
Speaker 7: just so composed and poised. This is going to be

1251
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:33,920
Speaker 7: a humdinger with digs In de Neil coming back to

1252
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:34,360
Speaker 7: the building.

1253
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:36,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to ask you about that because

1254
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:39,000
Speaker 3: the relationship with Diggs and the Vikings.

1255
00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 6: What's it like.

1256
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 3: He participated in what is it the greatest play in

1257
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:46,600
Speaker 3: Vikings history with the miracle, So what is that relationship like?

1258
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:49,120
Speaker 6: What will the reception be like for Stefan Diggs.

1259
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 7: Great question on the reception. Wow, that's a really good

1260
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:54,400
Speaker 7: question because he was on the right side of the miracle,

1261
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:58,560
Speaker 7: but the wrong side of reports and things said when

1262
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:03,200
Speaker 7: he left. That's a wonderful question. Minnesota generally is quite

1263
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:07,279
Speaker 7: receptive to those who have played for their teams and

1264
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:10,760
Speaker 7: or provided positive memory, So I would expect Stefan Digs

1265
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:12,880
Speaker 7: to get an ovation. You know, the one thing I

1266
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:16,239
Speaker 7: always loved about Steph was being on the field i'd

1267
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:18,479
Speaker 7: say two hours before the game and hanging out about

1268
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:21,279
Speaker 7: forty five minutes down there is Steph was always the

1269
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 7: one who would play catch with kids in the crowd

1270
00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:26,680
Speaker 7: and it was very important to it. And Steph was

1271
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:29,480
Speaker 7: just always very engaging with the fans. So I hope

1272
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 7: he gets a rousing ovation When it comes to like,

1273
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:33,719
Speaker 7: you know, what does step mean to the team or

1274
00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 7: the current regime. That's probably a fat zero, simply because

1275
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:40,360
Speaker 7: it's a complete new coaching staff. You know, the owners

1276
00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 7: if they see him, they'll embrace him. I'll embrace him

1277
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:46,080
Speaker 7: if I see him. But this is all business. Steph

1278
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:47,800
Speaker 7: wants to come in here and go for one seventy

1279
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:50,759
Speaker 7: five and three. Flores is going to work all week

1280
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:52,799
Speaker 7: to make sure he doesn't go for one seventy five

1281
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:55,239
Speaker 7: and three. But you can't forget about Nico. And if

1282
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:57,160
Speaker 7: you forget about Tank down the middle of the field,

1283
00:56:57,239 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 7: he'll probably catch the next one and go the distance.

1284
00:57:00,040 --> 00:57:03,080
Speaker 7: And it's all predicated off this powerful running back and

1285
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 7: the play action. So this this, this is going to

1286
00:57:05,239 --> 00:57:07,880
Speaker 7: be the toughest game of the season we've seen so far. H.

1287
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:11,000
Speaker 7: The forty nine ers very well may go to the

1288
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:13,680
Speaker 7: Super Bowl, but but yeah, they have they have some

1289
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:15,439
Speaker 7: as sooner or later they're going to have to pay

1290
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 7: the proverbial piper mark, you know, with all these big

1291
00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 7: deals they have. And we're starting to kind of see

1292
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 7: it now with some of these players they're filtering in.

1293
00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 4: Uh.

1294
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:26,040
Speaker 7: The Texans are not in that situation. Uh, And it's

1295
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 7: going to be great seeing them because it's a very

1296
00:57:28,200 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 7: good squad.

1297
00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 3: Paul Allen Voys of the Vikings with us, all right,

1298
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:34,280
Speaker 3: same question about reception for Daniel Hunter. Different kind of

1299
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 3: deal for Daniel.

1300
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 7: What do you think, Oh, Daniel was beloved here. I mean,

1301
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 7: he's as you and I'm sure no by now he's

1302
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 7: he's on the quiet side. But when you chat with

1303
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 7: Daniel and you get him going a little bit, you know,

1304
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 7: he has a wonderful, loving kind of personality. And on

1305
00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 7: the field he provided you know, outside of the season

1306
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:56,760
Speaker 7: and a half two seasons he missed with injury. You know,

1307
00:57:56,840 --> 00:57:59,479
Speaker 7: he there was a game they sacked Matt Staffer ten times.

1308
00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 7: I think he had four or five something like that.

1309
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 7: You know, So the fans loved danil I love Daniel man.

1310
00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:07,800
Speaker 7: He's just he's a wonderful, wonderful man. I'm really glad

1311
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 7: that he was able to get the deal he got.

1312
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:11,680
Speaker 7: But I also like the players that we got.

1313
00:58:11,680 --> 00:58:14,440
Speaker 3: Now, all right, So a few more questions here about

1314
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:17,640
Speaker 3: the division battle between the NFC North and AFC South.

1315
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 3: With Green Bay doing what they did to the Colts

1316
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:24,600
Speaker 3: this past weekend, what do you think Matt Lafleur as

1317
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 3: a coach, what he did with Malik Willis, It's pretty

1318
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 3: impressive stuff really that they put together a game plan

1319
00:58:29,520 --> 00:58:30,840
Speaker 3: like that and we're able to eke out a win.

1320
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 6: Against a really hungry team.

1321
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 7: No Laflour's high end.

1322
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:35,120
Speaker 1: Matt.

1323
00:58:35,160 --> 00:58:37,480
Speaker 7: Matt's one of the three to five best coaches in

1324
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:40,880
Speaker 7: the NFL, and really with what he did with Willis

1325
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:43,960
Speaker 7: and let discretion be the better part of valor by

1326
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:47,160
Speaker 7: running the way he did that obviously was smart. But

1327
00:58:47,200 --> 00:58:49,800
Speaker 7: when it comes to you to your division, I mean,

1328
00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 7: you know, I don't believe in Jinx's but I mean,

1329
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 7: you guys should win that thing in a walk.

1330
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:54,640
Speaker 4: You know, maybe I.

1331
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:57,160
Speaker 7: Haven't I haven't looked at Jacksonville closely enough, and maybe

1332
00:58:57,160 --> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 7: they give you problems. I don't know about Indian Apple

1333
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:02,840
Speaker 7: Plis with this quarterback. They just they have so many

1334
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:06,840
Speaker 7: things that need to be fixed Tennessee. How Tennessee did

1335
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 7: not beat Chicago Week one, that's unbelievable. How they didn't

1336
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 7: win that game and then they got beat again. So

1337
00:59:13,200 --> 00:59:16,760
Speaker 7: nothing's easy. I understand that. But like Lafleur, we'll think

1338
00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 7: about it. You know, he has a quarterback and Jordan

1339
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:21,920
Speaker 7: Love a very young quarterback. They go to Dallas, they

1340
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 7: almost get Mike McCarthy fired. They beat Dallas so badly.

1341
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 7: They go to San Francisco. They're going to beat the Niners.

1342
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:30,840
Speaker 7: If Love does not go out a body on the

1343
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:32,880
Speaker 7: final play of the game and throw it and throw

1344
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:36,360
Speaker 7: it to Drake Greenlaw because Love was following the Love

1345
00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:39,040
Speaker 7: is a system quarterback, just like Brock Birdy, just like

1346
00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:42,360
Speaker 7: Sam Darnold, just like Joe Montana. It's not bad being

1347
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:46,440
Speaker 7: a system quarterback. And the system was fuddling to the

1348
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:48,240
Speaker 7: forty nine ers and they were going to go down

1349
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:51,080
Speaker 7: and win the game, and then Love messed up, you know,

1350
00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:54,680
Speaker 7: so that was it. Well, now they've come back and

1351
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:57,440
Speaker 7: you know, they had to fight through some things in

1352
00:59:57,480 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 7: the Eagles game. The Eagles are tough to beat. That

1353
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:03,880
Speaker 7: game ill, but the Packers are good. The Lion's very good.

1354
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:06,000
Speaker 7: Our division is really really good.

1355
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:06,880
Speaker 1: Yeah it is.

1356
01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:09,200
Speaker 6: And the Bears defense is really really good. I can

1357
01:00:09,280 --> 01:00:10,200
Speaker 6: vouch for that.

1358
01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 3: What about their future because we talk about these young quarterbacks.

1359
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 3: You mentioned it Bryce young bench this week. Well, Caleb Williams,

1360
01:00:17,880 --> 01:00:20,440
Speaker 3: he's going to be really good, I think, but it's

1361
01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 3: going to take a while and it's hard to get

1362
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 3: through these moments of trying to learn.

1363
01:00:24,560 --> 01:00:28,520
Speaker 7: You're right about the Bears defense. I thought the Texans

1364
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:31,080
Speaker 7: made some things on the Bears a little easier than

1365
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:33,080
Speaker 7: they needed to be at times of the game, kind

1366
01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:35,000
Speaker 7: of like what the Vikings did with the Niners. I

1367
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:36,880
Speaker 7: ain't getting you, Mark. I mean, we were going to

1368
01:00:36,880 --> 01:00:39,120
Speaker 7: blow this team out by twenty five or more, but

1369
01:00:39,320 --> 01:00:41,480
Speaker 7: we like Aaron Jones is going to go into the

1370
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:44,160
Speaker 7: end zone on a screen and the Vikings are going

1371
01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:46,680
Speaker 7: to open up what's going to be a twenty point lead. Well,

1372
01:00:46,680 --> 01:00:49,280
Speaker 7: he dropped the ball at the two. The Niners got it.

1373
01:00:49,360 --> 01:00:51,760
Speaker 7: They went took them forever, but they went ninety eight

1374
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:54,720
Speaker 7: or ninety nine yards and scored a touchdown. They said

1375
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:57,480
Speaker 7: the Vikings were down by the twenty after a turnover

1376
01:00:57,720 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 7: Darnold ruined interception to Fred Warner to the Texans game

1377
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:04,840
Speaker 7: that Tank Dell play that I referenced. I mean, seriously,

1378
01:01:04,840 --> 01:01:07,680
Speaker 7: if they connect on that, I think it's lights out.

1379
01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:10,240
Speaker 7: I mean, because I don't think the Bears are constructed

1380
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:13,200
Speaker 7: to come back with from two to three scores with

1381
01:01:13,240 --> 01:01:17,440
Speaker 7: their quarterback in the current situation. So with Caleb, I

1382
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:19,840
Speaker 7: thought he took a step. I thought he improved to

1383
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:22,360
Speaker 7: a certain extent his game against the Titans. I walked

1384
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:25,360
Speaker 7: watched every single snap he missed Dj Moore for two

1385
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:28,080
Speaker 7: long tds. He missed Keenan Allen on a double move

1386
01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:30,280
Speaker 7: by the sideline that would have been a TD and

1387
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 7: he doesn't have a swivel. He just did not have

1388
01:01:32,720 --> 01:01:34,960
Speaker 7: a swivel. He looked at the one or two reads

1389
01:01:35,320 --> 01:01:38,120
Speaker 7: and then when receivers went hot, he knew where they

1390
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 7: would be. It's going to continue to get better for him.

1391
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:44,080
Speaker 7: But I am just not a fan of using rookie

1392
01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:48,200
Speaker 7: quarterbacks out of the gate unless you absolutely have to. Clearly,

1393
01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:51,080
Speaker 7: with the Texans, it worked, but I think that's an outlier.

1394
01:01:51,560 --> 01:01:53,480
Speaker 6: Still doing horse racing too, my friend.

1395
01:01:54,040 --> 01:01:56,600
Speaker 7: Yeah, we got four days left of the old racetrack

1396
01:01:56,720 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 7: and the racing and the Vandermere Classic. And you know what,

1397
01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:04,520
Speaker 7: at the age fifty eight, having called twenty three years

1398
01:02:04,560 --> 01:02:08,760
Speaker 7: of play by play for the Vikings Radio Network, calling

1399
01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:11,520
Speaker 7: races on a Saturday night until ten fifteen and then

1400
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:14,320
Speaker 7: wheeling back the next day for a football game, my

1401
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:16,360
Speaker 7: boys paid for origins. I'm going to make sure that

1402
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:17,800
Speaker 7: never happens again.

1403
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:19,439
Speaker 1: And down the stretch day come.

1404
01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:21,400
Speaker 3: Actually we're not even at the quarter pol yet of

1405
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 3: this season, but it'll be fun to catch up on Sunday.

1406
01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:25,360
Speaker 6: Paul can't wait.

1407
01:02:25,600 --> 01:02:27,480
Speaker 7: Yeah, I appreciate your brother can't wait to see you

1408
01:02:27,560 --> 01:02:29,760
Speaker 7: up here till John I say hi, and I'll chat

1409
01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 7: with you on my nine to new radio show on

1410
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:32,919
Speaker 7: KPEN very soon.

1411
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:35,160
Speaker 1: He's the man. Paul Allen is great.

1412
01:02:35,440 --> 01:02:37,480
Speaker 2: Was on his show this morning, and he returned a

1413
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:41,360
Speaker 2: favor being on our show this evening. Great dude, absolutely

1414
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 2: stood human being and can't wait to see him up

1415
01:02:44,480 --> 01:02:49,520
Speaker 2: at us Bank Stadium on Sunday kickoff at twelve Central.

1416
01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:53,720
Speaker 2: Speaking of absolute dudes and studs in real life, Drew Doherty,

1417
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:55,840
Speaker 2: is that one of my great friends in the lab.

1418
01:02:56,080 --> 01:02:58,360
Speaker 2: It's coming next right here on Texans All Axis.

1419
01:02:58,560 --> 01:02:58,959
Speaker 1: It's happen.

1420
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 2: Everybody walking back to this wine's initition of Texas All Access.

1421
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 2: I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter. As

1422
01:03:05,200 --> 01:03:10,880
Speaker 2: we now turn our attention to the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday,

1423
01:03:10,920 --> 01:03:13,080
Speaker 2: kickoff is at noon. They're on Central time too, so

1424
01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:15,680
Speaker 2: if you're at the game, Minneapolis is twelve noon, just

1425
01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:18,920
Speaker 2: like it'll be here when the Texans kickoff. Supposed to

1426
01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:24,880
Speaker 2: be great, great weather up in Minneapolis. My nephew lives

1427
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:28,040
Speaker 2: up there with his wife and they absolutely love it.

1428
01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:30,480
Speaker 2: But it does look like it's gonna be a little cloudy.

1429
01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:35,800
Speaker 2: But it's gonna be in the sixties, the sixties during kickoff,

1430
01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:38,320
Speaker 2: which will be pretty awesome, to say the least, kind

1431
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:39,720
Speaker 2: of like it was up in Indianapolis.

1432
01:03:39,760 --> 01:03:41,720
Speaker 1: Now in Minneapolis, they can open the doors.

1433
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:44,080
Speaker 2: They can't open the roof, they can open the doors,

1434
01:03:44,080 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 2: so we can look forward to that. Speaking of opening doors,

1435
01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:50,120
Speaker 2: Drew Doerty has opened many, many doors and we've done

1436
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 2: plenty of that on in the lab. So let's go

1437
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:53,960
Speaker 2: in the lab. But Drew Doerty and myself to get

1438
01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:55,040
Speaker 2: ready for this one against the.

1439
01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:57,320
Speaker 4: Vikings, John, can you believe it too?

1440
01:03:57,320 --> 01:04:01,640
Speaker 8: And zero Texans looking to go to three and and.

1441
01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 4: It's the three of us. It's you.

1442
01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 8: It's means you listening or watching. We appreciate you. This

1443
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:06,880
Speaker 8: is Texans in the lab.

1444
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:08,160
Speaker 1: But we were just.

1445
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:11,360
Speaker 8: Talking off air, and the Texans have never been three

1446
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:14,800
Speaker 8: and oh except in the year twenty twelve. They started

1447
01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:17,760
Speaker 8: out too and oh a few different times. But you know,

1448
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:19,920
Speaker 8: for whatever reason, they they lost before they got to

1449
01:04:19,960 --> 01:04:21,960
Speaker 8: that third game, or in some of the other playoff

1450
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:24,520
Speaker 8: years they started out oh and one or owing three

1451
01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:27,680
Speaker 8: and twenty eighteen, it just didn't work out. But heading

1452
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:31,680
Speaker 8: back to that territory, possibly if you pull off your

1453
01:04:31,680 --> 01:04:35,240
Speaker 8: first win ever against the Vikings, not just in Minnesota,

1454
01:04:35,240 --> 01:04:37,800
Speaker 8: but ever ever played them five times, you lost every

1455
01:04:37,800 --> 01:04:42,800
Speaker 8: single one. You could move to three and oh it's weird, man,

1456
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 8: it's weird that that's ever happened. It's weird that you're

1457
01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:46,680
Speaker 8: in this It's not weird that you're in the spot

1458
01:04:46,680 --> 01:04:49,080
Speaker 8: because we thought this was gonna be a very good team.

1459
01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:51,960
Speaker 8: We all know and say, they still haven't played their

1460
01:04:51,960 --> 01:04:54,320
Speaker 8: best ball, and we're gonna get into that talking about

1461
01:04:54,360 --> 01:05:01,000
Speaker 8: power rankings. Yeah, yep, the dirty pr words. But three

1462
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:02,919
Speaker 8: and oh, man, does it happen? What do you think?

1463
01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:09,720
Speaker 2: So I the last three times filthy you know, I

1464
01:05:09,760 --> 01:05:15,960
Speaker 2: like that dirty filthy pr words times that I can

1465
01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:19,240
Speaker 2: remember the Texans being two to nine. It's happened twice.

1466
01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:22,040
Speaker 2: This is the third time since I've been down on

1467
01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:24,360
Speaker 2: the sidelines. But the year before I got down on

1468
01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:26,520
Speaker 2: the sidelines is the one that a lot of people remember,

1469
01:05:26,600 --> 01:05:29,560
Speaker 2: twenty thirteen because you went two and oh it's just

1470
01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:31,400
Speaker 2: like you had the year before, and then you lost

1471
01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:34,880
Speaker 2: fourteen strait, which was a weird, weird year. But there's

1472
01:05:34,920 --> 01:05:38,960
Speaker 2: still PTSD from that eleven years ago. But twenty fourteen

1473
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:41,920
Speaker 2: went tun Oh, I beat the team formally known as

1474
01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:43,600
Speaker 2: the Redskins, and then beat the Raiders on the road,

1475
01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:46,320
Speaker 2: but then we had to go from coast to coast.

1476
01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:49,120
Speaker 1: We went to Oakland and then I had to fly

1477
01:05:49,240 --> 01:05:49,640
Speaker 1: to New York.

1478
01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:51,840
Speaker 2: Didn't play our best game and beat losing the Giants

1479
01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:54,640
Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen, and then twenty sixteen we started off

1480
01:05:54,680 --> 01:05:56,680
Speaker 2: with the Bears and then the Chiefs and kind of

1481
01:05:56,680 --> 01:06:00,040
Speaker 2: a revenge game sort of thing, beat those two, and.

1482
01:05:59,760 --> 01:06:01,320
Speaker 1: I know that Chiefs game took a little bit out

1483
01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:01,520
Speaker 1: of us.

1484
01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:02,960
Speaker 2: But then we had to play that Thursday night game

1485
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:06,680
Speaker 2: against New England Patriots, and Jacoby Brissette played and they

1486
01:06:06,760 --> 01:06:10,760
Speaker 2: beat the absolute fool out of us. Rookie Jacoby Brissett.

1487
01:06:10,760 --> 01:06:13,000
Speaker 2: We were on a bus for like eight thousand.

1488
01:06:12,720 --> 01:06:15,280
Speaker 4: From Waltamne, Massachusetts.

1489
01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:16,800
Speaker 2: A wall from trying to get there through traffic on

1490
01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 2: a Thursday night was a nightmare. So my PTSD from

1491
01:06:21,640 --> 01:06:24,200
Speaker 2: the last three two and oh's is like, oh boy,

1492
01:06:24,520 --> 01:06:26,880
Speaker 2: because twenty thirteen, I think it was that game three

1493
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:32,240
Speaker 2: was the Ed Reid returned to Baltimore and that game

1494
01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 2: didn't go that well. So the last three times the

1495
01:06:34,920 --> 01:06:38,960
Speaker 2: Texas have been two and oh They've gotten spanked basically

1496
01:06:39,040 --> 01:06:44,120
Speaker 2: on the road by three good teams. I think the

1497
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:47,400
Speaker 2: Ravens and twenty thirteen weren't great. They were good, but

1498
01:06:47,920 --> 01:06:50,280
Speaker 2: twenty fourteen out of the Giants weren't great. You know,

1499
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:52,480
Speaker 2: Odell Beckam junior did not playing that game. There were

1500
01:06:52,480 --> 01:06:54,720
Speaker 2: just so many different things that just led to that loss.

1501
01:06:54,960 --> 01:06:57,400
Speaker 2: And then twenty sixteen, the Texas ended up winning the division,

1502
01:06:57,840 --> 01:07:00,280
Speaker 2: but lost that game badly, and that became a team

1503
01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:05,400
Speaker 2: for that team losing horribly on the road, including a

1504
01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:07,760
Speaker 2: few weeks later after losing that game to New England,

1505
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 2: we went up to Minnesota and got punished. Yeah, and

1506
01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:14,720
Speaker 2: that Skull crowd went crazy. So you know, I think

1507
01:07:14,720 --> 01:07:16,720
Speaker 2: this team is different in a lot of different ways.

1508
01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:18,320
Speaker 2: And there are a lot of things that we talked

1509
01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:22,080
Speaker 2: about you before the season. You're previewing this season. You've

1510
01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:25,240
Speaker 2: never beaten the Vikings, You've never beaten the Dallas Cowboys

1511
01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:29,400
Speaker 2: in Dallas, you've never beaten Lamar Jackson. There are a

1512
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:34,480
Speaker 2: lot of nevers that you hope this team could be different.

1513
01:07:34,560 --> 01:07:37,800
Speaker 2: You hope this team could end up being the one

1514
01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:40,480
Speaker 2: that stood out and could get to three and oh

1515
01:07:40,520 --> 01:07:44,560
Speaker 2: could beat the Vikings and to the point you beat

1516
01:07:44,560 --> 01:07:46,880
Speaker 2: the Vikings, something you've never done, you'll get to three

1517
01:07:46,880 --> 01:07:49,080
Speaker 2: and oh, something you haven't done since twenty twelve. So

1518
01:07:49,200 --> 01:07:51,680
Speaker 2: there's a lot of barriers you can break through with

1519
01:07:51,720 --> 01:07:55,720
Speaker 2: a solid performance against a really well coached Kevin O'Connell team.

1520
01:07:56,080 --> 01:07:57,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll get into that in a little bit.

1521
01:07:57,920 --> 01:08:02,160
Speaker 8: But back to that filthy, dirty PR not public relations.

1522
01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:05,520
Speaker 8: We love the Texans PR department. They're awesome, Omar Everett,

1523
01:08:05,520 --> 01:08:08,240
Speaker 8: Lindsay Ryan to do a fantastic job.

1524
01:08:08,280 --> 01:08:08,640
Speaker 4: Some of the.

1525
01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:13,440
Speaker 8: Interns prs and power ratings, Power rankings, Power ratings. Yeah

1526
01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:16,680
Speaker 8: that works too. Say I've never put any stock in them.

1527
01:08:16,680 --> 01:08:19,400
Speaker 8: I've never cared about them. I don't put any value.

1528
01:08:19,439 --> 01:08:23,320
Speaker 8: I've not paid any attention to them. But now I've

1529
01:08:23,320 --> 01:08:26,960
Speaker 8: been told to because there's a fun new article and

1530
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:27,360
Speaker 8: I liked.

1531
01:08:27,360 --> 01:08:29,800
Speaker 4: I'm tongue in cheek.

1532
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:33,000
Speaker 8: Yeah, because the Texans have always been, you know, twenty

1533
01:08:33,000 --> 01:08:36,000
Speaker 8: seventh or twenty eighth until last year, but lately that

1534
01:08:36,160 --> 01:08:38,920
Speaker 8: the power rankings have not been kind to the Texans

1535
01:08:38,960 --> 01:08:41,800
Speaker 8: because the Texans have not been good over the previous

1536
01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:45,640
Speaker 8: before last season three seasons. But Texans are back, and

1537
01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:49,040
Speaker 8: the idea was, let's check out some of these power

1538
01:08:49,120 --> 01:08:50,960
Speaker 8: rankings and you know, throw some of them in an

1539
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:52,200
Speaker 8: article and see what what's going on.

1540
01:08:52,280 --> 01:08:54,439
Speaker 4: And I like, Okay, well, I'm betting they'll have them

1541
01:08:54,479 --> 01:08:55,759
Speaker 4: around eleventh or twelve.

1542
01:08:56,280 --> 01:08:58,879
Speaker 8: You know, it's the Texans, so they'll be fifteenth, sixteenth

1543
01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:04,400
Speaker 8: or something like that. Yeah, John, a little different, John, Yeah,

1544
01:09:04,439 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 8: So there's ten of them, kind of ten of the

1545
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:08,680
Speaker 8: It's sort of like the mock draft round up. I

1546
01:09:09,200 --> 01:09:13,960
Speaker 8: gathered the more notable ones, the trusted sources, the ESPNS,

1547
01:09:13,960 --> 01:09:17,479
Speaker 8: the Yahoo Sports, the Athletic so on and so forth.

1548
01:09:18,160 --> 01:09:19,960
Speaker 4: What do you think the worst power ranking was?

1549
01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:23,240
Speaker 8: Like, out of ten different entities, where do you think

1550
01:09:24,160 --> 01:09:26,559
Speaker 8: the power ranking that had the Texans ranked the lowest

1551
01:09:26,680 --> 01:09:29,960
Speaker 8: or the worst? What ranking do you think it was?

1552
01:09:30,080 --> 01:09:32,360
Speaker 8: Not the publication, but how low do you think they

1553
01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:33,120
Speaker 8: had the Texans?

1554
01:09:33,320 --> 01:09:36,960
Speaker 2: Well, I know I know two of them, and I

1555
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:41,240
Speaker 2: know those were really high, right and before I before

1556
01:09:41,280 --> 01:09:42,600
Speaker 2: I guess what the.

1557
01:09:42,400 --> 01:09:45,120
Speaker 8: And nobody had the Texans first. It's almost across the

1558
01:09:45,120 --> 01:09:47,880
Speaker 8: board's unilaterally the Chiefs and that the defending champs.

1559
01:09:47,880 --> 01:09:49,639
Speaker 2: No problem, and you'll get your shot at the Chiefs

1560
01:09:49,680 --> 01:09:52,519
Speaker 2: sure later in the season. But there'll be two different

1561
01:09:52,520 --> 01:09:54,280
Speaker 2: teams that I would imagine by then. But I think,

1562
01:09:54,280 --> 01:09:56,880
Speaker 2: what's fascinating before we get to what I What I

1563
01:09:56,920 --> 01:10:02,920
Speaker 2: guess is if you remember after Week two last year, yeah,

1564
01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:05,960
Speaker 2: oh too, punished by Anthony Richardson in the first two

1565
01:10:06,040 --> 01:10:08,600
Speaker 2: drives and then Gardner Minshew just thinking dunk all the

1566
01:10:08,600 --> 01:10:10,160
Speaker 2: way down the field. We end up losing that game,

1567
01:10:10,280 --> 01:10:14,120
Speaker 2: just getting crushed. And I just remember my spirit because

1568
01:10:14,160 --> 01:10:16,760
Speaker 2: I thought, I was like, man, okay, the Ravens, tough game,

1569
01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:18,920
Speaker 2: but let's rebound against the Colts. And then we didn't

1570
01:10:18,920 --> 01:10:20,679
Speaker 2: rebound against the Colts, and I was like, oh man,

1571
01:10:21,240 --> 01:10:24,679
Speaker 2: those power rankings had us no better than.

1572
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:29,200
Speaker 8: Thirty first John until October of last year, from essentially

1573
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:32,559
Speaker 8: from the day after the draft ended right through about

1574
01:10:32,560 --> 01:10:36,240
Speaker 8: October right all the mock drafts for twenty twenty four

1575
01:10:36,479 --> 01:10:39,040
Speaker 8: had US at number one. Had to take us picking first. Yeah,

1576
01:10:39,040 --> 01:10:41,320
Speaker 8: after they'd just taken CJ and they just taken Will.

1577
01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:45,439
Speaker 8: They're gonna they're gonna lose again. They're supposed to pick

1578
01:10:45,640 --> 01:10:49,040
Speaker 8: first again. So in a year's time, so I know

1579
01:10:49,160 --> 01:10:50,040
Speaker 8: one of them.

1580
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:54,360
Speaker 2: One of them was was the was Fox Sports?

1581
01:10:55,760 --> 01:10:58,639
Speaker 1: Fox Sports had US at number two. I know that. Yep,

1582
01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:00,360
Speaker 1: this year, this year, this week.

1583
01:11:00,400 --> 01:11:04,599
Speaker 2: So we in a year, a calendar year's time, thirty

1584
01:11:04,600 --> 01:11:08,200
Speaker 2: spots went from thirty first to second.

1585
01:11:08,320 --> 01:11:10,679
Speaker 1: And I think what that's gonna do.

1586
01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:16,200
Speaker 2: I think for a lot of NFL teams is teams

1587
01:11:16,240 --> 01:11:19,240
Speaker 2: are gonna want to put their organizations in the microwave,

1588
01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:21,439
Speaker 2: hit it thirty seconds and have it come out looking

1589
01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:25,200
Speaker 2: like the Texans. And I think where that's gonna end up,

1590
01:11:25,439 --> 01:11:29,000
Speaker 2: for many reasons being the wrong thing to do. Is

1591
01:11:29,120 --> 01:11:31,439
Speaker 2: if you look at the quarterbacks that have been drafted

1592
01:11:32,120 --> 01:11:36,679
Speaker 2: since twenty twenty one. Now, the twenty twenty classes ended

1593
01:11:36,760 --> 01:11:39,280
Speaker 2: up being pretty solid. You know, Joe went Joe Burrow

1594
01:11:39,360 --> 01:11:41,559
Speaker 2: goes first, and you know even the Bengals have even

1595
01:11:41,560 --> 01:11:42,800
Speaker 2: though the Bengals to start Zer and two he's got

1596
01:11:42,840 --> 01:11:44,120
Speaker 2: him to a super Bowl, he got him to another

1597
01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:46,519
Speaker 2: AFC Championship game. You know, I think Joe, there's no

1598
01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:49,840
Speaker 2: question Joe's a superstar in the league. Then after that

1599
01:11:49,880 --> 01:11:52,920
Speaker 2: he had to and unfortunately Tua has had the concussion issue.

1600
01:11:52,920 --> 01:11:55,439
Speaker 2: But when when he's been healthy, that Dolphin offense has

1601
01:11:55,720 --> 01:11:56,639
Speaker 2: been really really good.

1602
01:11:57,000 --> 01:11:59,320
Speaker 1: And then you had Justin Herbert and then you had

1603
01:11:59,360 --> 01:11:59,840
Speaker 1: Jordan Love.

1604
01:12:00,160 --> 01:12:04,120
Speaker 2: Those four go in the first round, they've all, you know,

1605
01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:06,679
Speaker 2: every one of them has gotten a second contract. That's

1606
01:12:06,680 --> 01:12:09,040
Speaker 2: just absolutely massive. But after that, if you look at

1607
01:12:09,040 --> 01:12:11,919
Speaker 2: the quarterbacks of twenty twenty one going forward that were drafted,

1608
01:12:12,840 --> 01:12:16,519
Speaker 2: really there's not been a lot there. You know, Trevor

1609
01:12:16,640 --> 01:12:19,200
Speaker 2: Struggled being the transcendent quarterback every thought he was going

1610
01:12:19,280 --> 01:12:21,320
Speaker 2: to be. Every other quarterback in twenty twenty one is

1611
01:12:21,360 --> 01:12:24,160
Speaker 2: on a second team, maybe even third team. Twenty twenty

1612
01:12:24,200 --> 01:12:27,240
Speaker 2: two is just Kenny Pickett and he's a backup in Philadelphia.

1613
01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:31,320
Speaker 2: Twenty twenty three, we've seen Bryce Young end up being

1614
01:12:31,360 --> 01:12:35,160
Speaker 2: benched after two games of a second year. Anthony Richardson

1615
01:12:35,240 --> 01:12:37,639
Speaker 2: had three interceptions the other day had won against us.

1616
01:12:37,920 --> 01:12:43,120
Speaker 2: Struggled has been up and down with injuries, so it's

1617
01:12:43,160 --> 01:12:45,439
Speaker 2: been a struggle. The one thing that we were able

1618
01:12:45,479 --> 01:12:47,960
Speaker 2: to do was hit on the quarterback and hit in

1619
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:51,320
Speaker 2: a big, big way on CJ. And that's a big

1620
01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:52,960
Speaker 2: feather in his cap that he was the one that,

1621
01:12:53,600 --> 01:12:55,879
Speaker 2: you know, in a feather in the cap of the organization.

1622
01:12:56,000 --> 01:12:57,599
Speaker 1: Naken Demko to make sure that they had the right

1623
01:12:57,640 --> 01:12:58,120
Speaker 1: guy at CJ.

1624
01:12:58,200 --> 01:13:00,840
Speaker 2: Stroud because he has been the right guy and he's

1625
01:13:00,920 --> 01:13:02,400
Speaker 2: obviously becoming.

1626
01:13:02,200 --> 01:13:03,200
Speaker 1: Better and better and better.

1627
01:13:03,840 --> 01:13:06,000
Speaker 2: So back to your point about power rankings, I think

1628
01:13:06,040 --> 01:13:08,960
Speaker 2: the lowest would probably be is maybe seven seven.

1629
01:13:09,320 --> 01:13:13,160
Speaker 8: That's why I say I think that's probably probably I

1630
01:13:13,160 --> 01:13:15,400
Speaker 8: don't think that's out of the realm of possibility. I

1631
01:13:15,439 --> 01:13:18,040
Speaker 8: would have gone eight or nine, you know, because because

1632
01:13:18,040 --> 01:13:20,320
Speaker 8: of the way the Texans have won. Yeah, and you

1633
01:13:20,320 --> 01:13:21,840
Speaker 8: would have been wrong, and I would have been wrong

1634
01:13:21,920 --> 01:13:25,439
Speaker 8: because the absolute lowest out of ten excuse me, ten

1635
01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:30,040
Speaker 8: power rankings, the majority of them or the most I

1636
01:13:30,080 --> 01:13:33,640
Speaker 8: shouldn't say the majority, but forty percent of them have

1637
01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:38,960
Speaker 8: the Texans ranked second in the entire NFL. Wow wow,

1638
01:13:39,360 --> 01:13:41,599
Speaker 8: sot me, and then a few others had him at third,

1639
01:13:42,240 --> 01:13:44,759
Speaker 8: and then the rest had him at fourth, no worse

1640
01:13:44,800 --> 01:13:47,000
Speaker 8: than fourth, and as high as second.

1641
01:13:47,200 --> 01:13:49,519
Speaker 2: So let me ask you this, Drewe, and to me,

1642
01:13:49,640 --> 01:13:53,720
Speaker 2: this is the question I've been asking myself because I

1643
01:13:53,760 --> 01:13:56,240
Speaker 2: think you I think you you alluded to it earlier.

1644
01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:59,920
Speaker 1: I think we're still waiting for for this team to play.

1645
01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:03,439
Speaker 2: It's a A to A plus game, and when it does, like,

1646
01:14:03,520 --> 01:14:08,880
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, what is it in your mind that

1647
01:14:09,040 --> 01:14:14,519
Speaker 2: you think the power rankers see in this team through

1648
01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:17,960
Speaker 2: the first two ball games that have them thinking this

1649
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:20,040
Speaker 2: is a top to top three team in the league.

1650
01:14:20,120 --> 01:14:22,920
Speaker 1: What do you And I'm not it's not a loaded question.

1651
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:25,280
Speaker 8: I'm just asking, like I think a lot of it

1652
01:14:25,320 --> 01:14:27,080
Speaker 8: is the memory of what we saw last year out

1653
01:14:27,080 --> 01:14:29,639
Speaker 8: of CJ. Stroud at such a young age, and really,

1654
01:14:29,760 --> 01:14:31,720
Speaker 8: you got to take that young age stuff out. Now,

1655
01:14:32,040 --> 01:14:34,320
Speaker 8: he's just doing stuff that most quarterbacks right, right, not

1656
01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:40,120
Speaker 8: most you most quarterbacks right. The accuracy downfield that was unbelievable, yep.

1657
01:14:40,520 --> 01:14:41,840
Speaker 1: You know, he was putting.

1658
01:14:41,560 --> 01:14:44,840
Speaker 8: Together stats and seasons that you know, only Dan Reno

1659
01:14:45,160 --> 01:14:47,960
Speaker 8: and Joe Montana had done before, stuff like that. So

1660
01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:49,840
Speaker 8: I think it's the memory of that. Yeah, And he's

1661
01:14:49,840 --> 01:14:52,200
Speaker 8: looked solid. He's been he's been excellent, you know through

1662
01:14:52,200 --> 01:14:55,160
Speaker 8: the first two games and then the pass rush that

1663
01:14:55,240 --> 01:14:59,439
Speaker 8: the Texans are seeing and knowing that they won both

1664
01:14:59,439 --> 01:15:04,559
Speaker 8: of these games and they didn't really blow you away

1665
01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:07,959
Speaker 8: like people remember from what we saw in the Cleveland

1666
01:15:08,240 --> 01:15:11,559
Speaker 8: playoff game. And I think there's also the idea that

1667
01:15:12,080 --> 01:15:14,360
Speaker 8: you got to dig deep here. And I don't know

1668
01:15:14,400 --> 01:15:17,600
Speaker 8: that the the power rankers are digging this deep, but

1669
01:15:18,520 --> 01:15:20,360
Speaker 8: you're still going to get de Nico Autry back in

1670
01:15:20,439 --> 01:15:24,240
Speaker 8: about a month half. Where's Christian Harris. He's gonna come

1671
01:15:24,240 --> 01:15:26,439
Speaker 8: back at some point too, And those are two really

1672
01:15:26,520 --> 01:15:28,760
Speaker 8: key pieces to this defense. And I think there's also

1673
01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:35,120
Speaker 8: the idea that Nico Collins still dominating and Stefan Diggs

1674
01:15:35,120 --> 01:15:37,759
Speaker 8: and Tank Dell, You're still gonna find ways to weave

1675
01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:40,080
Speaker 8: them in and do things. There's still so many options

1676
01:15:40,080 --> 01:15:43,519
Speaker 8: with Dalton Schultz has not exploded and had a massive game,

1677
01:15:43,520 --> 01:15:45,720
Speaker 8: but yeah, they're all helping these this team win. So

1678
01:15:45,760 --> 01:15:48,799
Speaker 8: I think it's that idea that you got this awesome quarterback,

1679
01:15:49,080 --> 01:15:50,720
Speaker 8: looks like the pass rush is a little bit better

1680
01:15:50,720 --> 01:15:54,360
Speaker 8: and fiercer, and they still haven't they haven't played their

1681
01:15:54,400 --> 01:15:55,960
Speaker 8: best game, but they still figured out a.

1682
01:15:55,960 --> 01:15:57,439
Speaker 4: Way to win, and that's what good teams do.

1683
01:15:57,760 --> 01:16:00,479
Speaker 2: So I feel like the one thing that I would

1684
01:16:00,479 --> 01:16:01,760
Speaker 2: say toad on top of that, because I think you

1685
01:16:02,040 --> 01:16:04,519
Speaker 2: hit all of them. I don't know how many of

1686
01:16:04,600 --> 01:16:07,120
Speaker 2: them ended up watching, you know, our game against the Colts,

1687
01:16:07,120 --> 01:16:09,720
Speaker 2: but it was pretty obvious against the Colts that our

1688
01:16:09,720 --> 01:16:10,760
Speaker 2: offensive line took over.

1689
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:13,280
Speaker 1: And I know maybe some people will discounted after.

1690
01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:14,680
Speaker 2: What the Packers were able to do, but either way,

1691
01:16:14,720 --> 01:16:17,559
Speaker 2: the Texans offensive line physically took over that game against

1692
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:21,720
Speaker 2: the Colts against the Bears, the Texans defensive line physically

1693
01:16:22,280 --> 01:16:24,680
Speaker 2: took over the game. And if there's one thing that

1694
01:16:24,760 --> 01:16:27,920
Speaker 2: stands out to me, it's probably it's probably that is

1695
01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:32,080
Speaker 2: that there's a ferocity on both the ferociousness of that

1696
01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:35,800
Speaker 2: pass rush of that front and then on the offensive

1697
01:16:35,880 --> 01:16:39,080
Speaker 2: line the other night not great, but look that Bears

1698
01:16:39,160 --> 01:16:42,120
Speaker 2: defensive line was pretty good, but just Texans not as clean.

1699
01:16:43,200 --> 01:16:47,360
Speaker 2: But that's to me what stands out when you when

1700
01:16:47,400 --> 01:16:49,559
Speaker 2: you throw that on top of what you said, just

1701
01:16:49,600 --> 01:16:52,280
Speaker 2: throw that little bit on top of the laundry, It's like, whoa,

1702
01:16:52,520 --> 01:16:53,599
Speaker 2: there's a lot of laundry there.

1703
01:16:53,640 --> 01:16:53,760
Speaker 1: Man.

1704
01:16:53,760 --> 01:16:55,960
Speaker 2: There's a lot of things to kind of unpack. They

1705
01:16:55,960 --> 01:16:58,519
Speaker 2: can beat you physically. They can beat you through the

1706
01:16:58,520 --> 01:17:01,360
Speaker 2: air if they need to. If you're a blitz team,

1707
01:17:01,439 --> 01:17:04,400
Speaker 2: they can beat man coverage. If you're a zone team,

1708
01:17:04,640 --> 01:17:07,200
Speaker 2: then CJ can pick your part in zone flip it

1709
01:17:07,240 --> 01:17:09,720
Speaker 2: over to the other side. If your offensive line is

1710
01:17:09,760 --> 01:17:13,360
Speaker 2: not great, they can. If you're say, your tackles are great,

1711
01:17:13,400 --> 01:17:15,559
Speaker 2: your in tiers not so good. The interior guys can

1712
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:19,160
Speaker 2: win a lot if your tackles are great or not great.

1713
01:17:19,400 --> 01:17:21,920
Speaker 2: But the interior guys are good, your outside guys can win,

1714
01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:26,160
Speaker 2: and then there's gonna come a point where hopefully you'll

1715
01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:29,519
Speaker 2: get Christian Harris back, You'll end up getting Nico Autry back,

1716
01:17:29,560 --> 01:17:32,160
Speaker 2: and it'll be really really fun to see what they're

1717
01:17:32,200 --> 01:17:33,960
Speaker 2: able to put together when they get all that back.

1718
01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:38,360
Speaker 2: I think what's fascinating it's the fact that we've never

1719
01:17:38,400 --> 01:17:41,559
Speaker 2: seen this team with the Niko Autry. But it's fun

1720
01:17:41,600 --> 01:17:44,000
Speaker 2: to think about what it will be like. But you

1721
01:17:44,160 --> 01:17:47,679
Speaker 2: almost forget the Niko Autri's on his team because okay,

1722
01:17:47,680 --> 01:17:49,639
Speaker 2: well he would rush from the outside. Maybe the inside.

1723
01:17:49,960 --> 01:17:53,920
Speaker 2: Those guys are all rushing really really great. Christian Harris, Yeah,

1724
01:17:53,960 --> 01:17:56,720
Speaker 2: we miss Christian Harris. There's no question Christian having him back.

1725
01:17:56,760 --> 01:18:00,200
Speaker 1: But Henry Tote has been bingo. You hit it. That's yeah.

1726
01:18:00,200 --> 01:18:02,280
Speaker 8: He was solid as a rookie, and he's even better now.

1727
01:18:02,479 --> 01:18:06,080
Speaker 8: He's looking more like he looked at Alabama. He's been fantastic.

1728
01:18:06,280 --> 01:18:07,400
Speaker 8: He's tackled really well.

1729
01:18:07,760 --> 01:18:12,879
Speaker 2: So where you have missed guys, you had other guys

1730
01:18:12,880 --> 01:18:14,880
Speaker 2: being able to step up in those roles, and not

1731
01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:19,639
Speaker 2: only just like be placeholders, they've stepped into those roles.

1732
01:18:19,920 --> 01:18:23,800
Speaker 2: They've burned into big time players and playmakers. And I

1733
01:18:23,840 --> 01:18:26,840
Speaker 2: was glad for Henry to play that game on a

1734
01:18:26,920 --> 01:18:29,920
Speaker 2: national stage because there are probably a lot of people watching.

1735
01:18:29,680 --> 01:18:32,400
Speaker 1: Going, hey, man, I remember Henry from Alabama. Look at this.

1736
01:18:32,840 --> 01:18:35,280
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I forgot they had Henry toatoa yeah.

1737
01:18:35,960 --> 01:18:38,040
Speaker 2: And then when it said, oh yeah, there are also

1738
01:18:38,120 --> 01:18:41,200
Speaker 2: missing Christian Harris, you're looking at going oh boy, man,

1739
01:18:41,200 --> 01:18:42,560
Speaker 2: when they get him back, what are they gonna do?

1740
01:18:42,600 --> 01:18:44,599
Speaker 2: And I think, you know, that's the one thing. When

1741
01:18:44,640 --> 01:18:46,439
Speaker 2: you get those two guys back, you're gonna have guys

1742
01:18:46,520 --> 01:18:48,400
Speaker 2: banged up. You know, they're gonna be some guys playing

1743
01:18:48,439 --> 01:18:50,599
Speaker 2: through some things, but you're also gonna lose some guys,

1744
01:18:51,280 --> 01:18:53,840
Speaker 2: so you're gonna have to have depth. And I think

1745
01:18:53,880 --> 01:18:57,120
Speaker 2: this team what it showed me in training camp was

1746
01:18:57,240 --> 01:18:58,759
Speaker 2: it it does have depth.

1747
01:18:58,960 --> 01:18:59,160
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1748
01:18:59,640 --> 01:19:02,840
Speaker 2: But the thing, the last thing to me that if

1749
01:19:02,880 --> 01:19:05,720
Speaker 2: I'm if I if I know football and I'm a

1750
01:19:05,720 --> 01:19:09,200
Speaker 2: power ranker, I can watch teams like I watched the Vikings,

1751
01:19:09,200 --> 01:19:10,800
Speaker 2: and I don't know where they have the Vikings righted,

1752
01:19:10,800 --> 01:19:12,240
Speaker 2: And I think it's a little bit lower than it

1753
01:19:12,280 --> 01:19:15,200
Speaker 2: should be because the Vikings are kind of like us.

1754
01:19:15,479 --> 01:19:18,439
Speaker 2: They're relentless defensively, like they they have guys that just

1755
01:19:18,479 --> 01:19:20,160
Speaker 2: fly around now a couple of those guys played here

1756
01:19:20,240 --> 01:19:20,719
Speaker 2: last year.

1757
01:19:20,960 --> 01:19:23,200
Speaker 8: Yeah, so I feel like and they're excited about Blake

1758
01:19:23,240 --> 01:19:24,320
Speaker 8: Cashman and Jonathan Genoa.

1759
01:19:24,400 --> 01:19:26,679
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and those guys are playing balls to the wall.

1760
01:19:26,720 --> 01:19:30,040
Speaker 2: I mean they're they're really playing fast and physical and

1761
01:19:30,040 --> 01:19:32,080
Speaker 2: so you see a lot of the same traits and

1762
01:19:32,160 --> 01:19:35,000
Speaker 2: so to me, that stands out. When you're playing that physical,

1763
01:19:35,840 --> 01:19:37,920
Speaker 2: especially on that side of the ball, you know you're

1764
01:19:37,960 --> 01:19:39,639
Speaker 2: gonna have you know you're gonna have a chance. And

1765
01:19:39,840 --> 01:19:42,200
Speaker 2: Ryan Flores, defensive coordinator, is gonna change some things up.

1766
01:19:42,200 --> 01:19:45,200
Speaker 1: He's gonna change the look for CJ. There're gonna be some.

1767
01:19:45,120 --> 01:19:49,200
Speaker 2: Things that he's CJ's gonna see on Sunday that whoa,

1768
01:19:49,280 --> 01:19:51,320
Speaker 2: I haven't seen that. Maybe it's not a coverage right,

1769
01:19:51,479 --> 01:19:54,839
Speaker 2: maybe it's not a scheme, but it's how the Vikings

1770
01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:59,280
Speaker 2: get to that scheme. You know, everybody, everybody can park

1771
01:19:59,320 --> 01:20:01,160
Speaker 2: a car in a garage, right right, but it's a

1772
01:20:01,160 --> 01:20:03,920
Speaker 2: matter of how you get the car to the driveway.

1773
01:20:04,120 --> 01:20:06,720
Speaker 2: And my point in that is everybody plays cover two

1774
01:20:07,120 --> 01:20:09,280
Speaker 2: in the league. At some point they play some version

1775
01:20:09,280 --> 01:20:11,920
Speaker 2: of that. The Vikings will play cover two. Watching the

1776
01:20:11,920 --> 01:20:13,800
Speaker 2: game against the Niners, they're playing a lot of Cover two.

1777
01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:17,640
Speaker 2: But it's a matter of how they get there is

1778
01:20:17,680 --> 01:20:20,640
Speaker 2: what changes things and changes they look for quarterbacks and

1779
01:20:20,680 --> 01:20:23,759
Speaker 2: where they are they're able to take advantage of mistakes.

1780
01:20:23,760 --> 01:20:25,120
Speaker 1: But they lead the league in sacks.

1781
01:20:25,160 --> 01:20:28,040
Speaker 2: Texans are right behind them, so you know, quarterbacks are

1782
01:20:28,080 --> 01:20:30,639
Speaker 2: probably gonna take a sack and you know, we'll see

1783
01:20:30,640 --> 01:20:32,600
Speaker 2: what happens. But I think to me, Drew, it's just

1784
01:20:32,640 --> 01:20:37,559
Speaker 2: a matter of you've played, you've played two physical games.

1785
01:20:38,040 --> 01:20:40,120
Speaker 2: Ch what you're gonna do in the NFL. But it's

1786
01:20:40,120 --> 01:20:42,880
Speaker 2: always that Week three game that you know, we've always

1787
01:20:43,120 --> 01:20:48,000
Speaker 2: we've tripped up on in thirteen, fourteen, and sixteen, but

1788
01:20:48,360 --> 01:20:51,400
Speaker 2: we haven't played well in any of those games in twelve,

1789
01:20:51,520 --> 01:20:54,320
Speaker 2: So hopefully yeah, not in twenty twelve, though not in

1790
01:20:54,320 --> 01:20:56,320
Speaker 2: twenty twelve. Who'd we beat in Week three of twenty twelve?

1791
01:20:56,360 --> 01:21:00,840
Speaker 4: Do you remember it was? You open with the Dolphins

1792
01:21:00,880 --> 01:21:02,439
Speaker 4: win at home, and.

1793
01:21:02,479 --> 01:21:05,599
Speaker 2: You beat the Colts, right, and you beat the Colts early?

1794
01:21:05,680 --> 01:21:07,600
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, you played Andrew Luck twice late in

1795
01:21:07,640 --> 01:21:11,280
Speaker 2: the year. Yeah, and he was a rookie point.

1796
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:12,800
Speaker 1: Being yeah, pointy, you got to take care of the

1797
01:21:12,800 --> 01:21:13,920
Speaker 1: football like you've been doing.

1798
01:21:14,240 --> 01:21:19,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you can't make And it is interesting

1799
01:21:19,280 --> 01:21:20,280
Speaker 2: because I saw I saw.

1800
01:21:20,160 --> 01:21:21,160
Speaker 1: Cam Akers in the locker room.

1801
01:21:21,200 --> 01:21:23,280
Speaker 2: He was kind of going around talking to guys like, man,

1802
01:21:23,280 --> 01:21:25,679
Speaker 2: it's not happening and not been again, which is good

1803
01:21:25,680 --> 01:21:27,400
Speaker 2: because I think Cam ran the ball and I hope

1804
01:21:27,720 --> 01:21:29,160
Speaker 2: he can, you know, earn back the trust. Can you

1805
01:21:29,240 --> 01:21:31,920
Speaker 2: fumble like that like the coaches are just I don't

1806
01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:33,160
Speaker 2: know if I can put him back in the game.

1807
01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:34,599
Speaker 8: Got to hold onto the ball. But to be fair

1808
01:21:34,600 --> 01:21:36,519
Speaker 8: to him, I mean he got he got it. He

1809
01:21:36,560 --> 01:21:38,599
Speaker 8: was he got face masks on the play, perty I mean.

1810
01:21:38,640 --> 01:21:39,559
Speaker 1: He got hammered. He had it.

1811
01:21:39,600 --> 01:21:41,240
Speaker 2: There was a double team there that should have been

1812
01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:44,120
Speaker 2: a lot better. If the double team stays solid. I

1813
01:21:44,120 --> 01:21:46,200
Speaker 2: think Cam walks in the end zone, maybe not walking

1814
01:21:46,240 --> 01:21:47,559
Speaker 2: in zone, but he gets in the end zone right

1815
01:21:47,600 --> 01:21:50,720
Speaker 2: and it's twenty six to ten, and now people look

1816
01:21:50,760 --> 01:21:54,760
Speaker 2: at it going that's a pretty solid win. So yeah,

1817
01:21:54,840 --> 01:21:58,000
Speaker 2: but two or three into Power rankings interesting spot to be,

1818
01:21:58,080 --> 01:22:00,000
Speaker 2: especially after being thirty one at this point last ye.

1819
01:22:00,240 --> 01:22:03,160
Speaker 8: And like I said at the beginning Power rankings, schmaour rankings,

1820
01:22:03,160 --> 01:22:05,360
Speaker 8: we don't care. They don't mean anything but cool. It's

1821
01:22:05,360 --> 01:22:08,559
Speaker 8: cool that they're they're there. So in honor of those

1822
01:22:08,600 --> 01:22:12,640
Speaker 8: power rankings. Let's raise a glass of Madelo to the

1823
01:22:12,680 --> 01:22:15,040
Speaker 8: Texans being as high as second and as low as

1824
01:22:15,160 --> 01:22:17,200
Speaker 8: fourth in the power rankings.

1825
01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:17,759
Speaker 4: It's good stuff.

1826
01:22:18,840 --> 01:22:22,040
Speaker 8: Now, let's move on and let's welcome in our good

1827
01:22:22,080 --> 01:22:25,000
Speaker 8: pal Randy Machamn Savage for a little cream of the

1828
01:22:25,040 --> 01:22:30,479
Speaker 8: crop the crop. Thank you, Mata Man and John. If

1829
01:22:30,479 --> 01:22:33,880
Speaker 8: the Texans come away with a victory in Minnesota on

1830
01:22:34,160 --> 01:22:39,479
Speaker 8: Sunday afternoon, it will be because this guy was our

1831
01:22:39,600 --> 01:22:42,320
Speaker 8: Cream of the Crop award winner, or my cream of

1832
01:22:42,360 --> 01:22:44,679
Speaker 8: the Crop award winner, and your cream of the Crop

1833
01:22:44,680 --> 01:22:50,920
Speaker 8: award winner the crop. I am gonna go with Tank Dell.

1834
01:22:51,120 --> 01:22:53,439
Speaker 8: I think he busts out a little bit. Ok There's

1835
01:22:53,439 --> 01:22:56,640
Speaker 8: gonna be a lot of focus on Nico Collins, deservedly so,

1836
01:22:56,720 --> 01:22:59,120
Speaker 8: because he's outstanding. There's gonna be a heck of a

1837
01:22:59,120 --> 01:23:01,400
Speaker 8: lot of focus on stuff on Diggs, one half of

1838
01:23:01,439 --> 01:23:04,280
Speaker 8: the Minneapolis miracle from twenty seventeen, going back to the

1839
01:23:04,320 --> 01:23:06,960
Speaker 8: team that drafted him, and I think Tank Dell is

1840
01:23:06,960 --> 01:23:07,719
Speaker 8: gonna get his.

1841
01:23:09,280 --> 01:23:10,840
Speaker 4: Look for it. Okay, just look forward.

1842
01:23:11,120 --> 01:23:12,920
Speaker 8: If it comes on the ground and through the air,

1843
01:23:13,720 --> 01:23:16,280
Speaker 8: maybe one or the other, but Tank Dell is gonna

1844
01:23:16,280 --> 01:23:19,400
Speaker 8: be the cream of the cropper for me. That's who

1845
01:23:19,400 --> 01:23:20,800
Speaker 8: I'm going with. Who are you going with? Who's your

1846
01:23:20,800 --> 01:23:21,360
Speaker 8: silling the crop?

1847
01:23:21,760 --> 01:23:25,400
Speaker 1: When you started with it's like dang, he's taking mine.

1848
01:23:25,439 --> 01:23:28,439
Speaker 2: Nope, And then you said Tank Dell's like, Okay, good one,

1849
01:23:29,280 --> 01:23:30,040
Speaker 2: mis Tye.

1850
01:23:29,840 --> 01:23:31,920
Speaker 1: Howard love it. He's gonna get tested.

1851
01:23:32,160 --> 01:23:36,880
Speaker 2: He's exactly, and he's gonna get tested in a in

1852
01:23:36,920 --> 01:23:40,720
Speaker 2: a big way. Because whether it's JG, who we know

1853
01:23:40,880 --> 01:23:43,920
Speaker 2: very very well, John's very good. Now they've seen each

1854
01:23:43,920 --> 01:23:46,040
Speaker 2: other in practice, so that's gonna probably help Titus. He's

1855
01:23:46,040 --> 01:23:48,200
Speaker 2: got a book and so does John. JG's got a

1856
01:23:48,200 --> 01:23:51,200
Speaker 2: book on Titus. Dallas Turner is a rookie. Get it

1857
01:23:51,280 --> 01:23:54,160
Speaker 2: off the edge. Here's the X factor off the edge, well,

1858
01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:58,360
Speaker 2: not really the X factor. They bring in Patrick Patrick Jones,

1859
01:23:58,479 --> 01:24:00,960
Speaker 2: who is ra shot Weaver, his teammate at pitt a

1860
01:24:00,960 --> 01:24:02,280
Speaker 2: few years ago, and he's playing very well.

1861
01:24:02,360 --> 01:24:03,680
Speaker 1: Number ninety one, But.

1862
01:24:05,360 --> 01:24:08,160
Speaker 2: Keep an eye on forty three Andrew Van Ginkle because

1863
01:24:08,240 --> 01:24:10,519
Speaker 2: Van Gyinkle can rush from the edge, he drops to

1864
01:24:10,600 --> 01:24:12,920
Speaker 2: a stackbacker at times. They do a lot of different

1865
01:24:12,960 --> 01:24:15,439
Speaker 2: things with him. He is a really interesting chess piece

1866
01:24:15,479 --> 01:24:18,400
Speaker 2: for that defense. But he's really difficult to block off

1867
01:24:18,400 --> 01:24:21,240
Speaker 2: the edge, and I think Titus might see him a

1868
01:24:21,240 --> 01:24:24,280
Speaker 2: little bit, and so Titus got to be really solid

1869
01:24:24,320 --> 01:24:27,559
Speaker 2: on that right side. I think he's played you know,

1870
01:24:27,560 --> 01:24:29,439
Speaker 2: Tityus got out to his natural position. He's playing right

1871
01:24:29,439 --> 01:24:31,240
Speaker 2: tackle where he probably should have been for the last

1872
01:24:31,280 --> 01:24:34,160
Speaker 2: how many ever years, And so yeah, everybody saw that

1873
01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:36,000
Speaker 2: hands of the face and it happens.

1874
01:24:36,040 --> 01:24:36,839
Speaker 1: It was a big penalty.

1875
01:24:36,880 --> 01:24:39,240
Speaker 2: But knowing Titus and if you go back and watch

1876
01:24:39,280 --> 01:24:41,439
Speaker 2: the game, throughout the game, he had some pretty good

1877
01:24:42,120 --> 01:24:44,800
Speaker 2: opportunities against Montes, Sweat kept him out of there, do

1878
01:24:44,920 --> 01:24:46,600
Speaker 2: a nice job, and I think he's got to do

1879
01:24:46,640 --> 01:24:49,759
Speaker 2: that again. But Minnesota throws you a lot of different

1880
01:24:49,880 --> 01:24:54,400
Speaker 2: looks and I think that's where he and the rest

1881
01:24:54,400 --> 01:24:56,720
Speaker 2: of the offensive line I got to be on point

1882
01:24:57,160 --> 01:24:59,920
Speaker 2: with those. We want final segment in this inition at Tech.

1883
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:02,439
Speaker 2: This is all Access from Monday Texans Radios. Do you

1884
01:25:02,520 --> 01:25:05,479
Speaker 2: I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter for

1885
01:25:05,600 --> 01:25:08,280
Speaker 2: your Houston Texans And last week we introduced you to

1886
01:25:08,840 --> 01:25:10,720
Speaker 2: a young lady who is going to be instrumental.

1887
01:25:11,120 --> 01:25:12,720
Speaker 1: She is in our social.

1888
01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:17,479
Speaker 2: Media networks and she does a tremendous job. Ari sits

1889
01:25:17,520 --> 01:25:19,800
Speaker 2: down with a player each and every week ask him

1890
01:25:19,840 --> 01:25:22,400
Speaker 2: some of those questions that she would ask on social

1891
01:25:22,439 --> 01:25:26,160
Speaker 2: And this week she sat down with Henry toea toa

1892
01:25:26,240 --> 01:25:30,000
Speaker 2: coming off a thirteen tackle performance, one sack, a TfL.

1893
01:25:30,040 --> 01:25:31,000
Speaker 1: He's all over the place.

1894
01:25:31,280 --> 01:25:35,240
Speaker 2: Here's Ari with Henry, presented by Exfinity.

1895
01:25:35,400 --> 01:25:38,599
Speaker 9: First home game this past weekend on Sunday Night Football.

1896
01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:39,640
Speaker 9: What was that experience?

1897
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:41,879
Speaker 4: Like, Oh my gosh, it was crazy.

1898
01:25:41,960 --> 01:25:44,600
Speaker 10: It was lit, the fans are out there having a

1899
01:25:44,600 --> 01:25:46,559
Speaker 10: great time, and you know, I feel like we put

1900
01:25:46,600 --> 01:25:47,320
Speaker 10: on the sow rom.

1901
01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:49,799
Speaker 9: He definitely did. It got loud at one point.

1902
01:25:50,080 --> 01:25:51,240
Speaker 4: It was so loud it was.

1903
01:25:51,320 --> 01:25:53,840
Speaker 10: I mean, even though the roof was open, and you know,

1904
01:25:53,880 --> 01:25:56,559
Speaker 10: sometimes having the roof closed, you know, the noises much louder.

1905
01:25:56,600 --> 01:25:58,680
Speaker 10: But the roof was open and it was still like

1906
01:25:59,160 --> 01:26:01,240
Speaker 10: I couldn't hear his ze and I had to echo

1907
01:26:01,320 --> 01:26:02,280
Speaker 10: calls to different guys.

1908
01:26:02,280 --> 01:26:03,400
Speaker 4: But yeah, it was it was jumping.

1909
01:26:03,560 --> 01:26:05,200
Speaker 9: Have you ever experienced a game like that?

1910
01:26:06,680 --> 01:26:08,760
Speaker 10: I think last year Cleveland when we played Cleveland, it

1911
01:26:08,760 --> 01:26:11,320
Speaker 10: was super loud. Obviously college you know, the college atmosphere

1912
01:26:11,360 --> 01:26:12,839
Speaker 10: is super loud and especially in the SEC.

1913
01:26:12,880 --> 01:26:15,200
Speaker 4: But I think this last game was one of my

1914
01:26:15,200 --> 01:26:17,479
Speaker 4: favorite Sunday night football roof open. I think that's one

1915
01:26:17,479 --> 01:26:17,920
Speaker 4: of my favorite.

1916
01:26:17,960 --> 01:26:21,920
Speaker 9: It's different, right what going to college? You played with

1917
01:26:22,040 --> 01:26:25,160
Speaker 9: Will and Christian at Alabama. What is it like now

1918
01:26:25,200 --> 01:26:28,800
Speaker 9: playing in the league with them, sharing the field with them?

1919
01:26:28,800 --> 01:26:31,519
Speaker 4: It's great, you know, it's very rare.

1920
01:26:31,520 --> 01:26:33,160
Speaker 10: You got to play with guys that you played with

1921
01:26:33,760 --> 01:26:35,160
Speaker 10: and you get to go out on the field every

1922
01:26:35,160 --> 01:26:37,519
Speaker 10: single day with them and grind. So having guys like

1923
01:26:37,560 --> 01:26:39,720
Speaker 10: that that have the same mindset as me, the same

1924
01:26:39,760 --> 01:26:42,120
Speaker 10: goals as me, just makes coming to work it, you know,

1925
01:26:42,160 --> 01:26:43,080
Speaker 10: so much more easier.

1926
01:26:43,360 --> 01:26:45,080
Speaker 9: And aren't you and Christian best friend?

1927
01:26:45,160 --> 01:26:46,120
Speaker 4: My best buddy right there?

1928
01:26:46,280 --> 01:26:47,800
Speaker 9: How did that friendship start?

1929
01:26:48,439 --> 01:26:50,120
Speaker 4: It started in high school.

1930
01:26:50,160 --> 01:26:52,320
Speaker 10: We met each other at the All American Game, and

1931
01:26:52,360 --> 01:26:54,840
Speaker 10: then ever since then, well I kind of lied to him.

1932
01:26:55,200 --> 01:26:56,720
Speaker 10: I told him I was going to go to Alabama,

1933
01:26:57,000 --> 01:27:00,840
Speaker 10: and then I committed to Tennessee, and then ever since

1934
01:27:00,880 --> 01:27:03,599
Speaker 10: that day, we just kept texting each other, messing each other,

1935
01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:05,760
Speaker 10: and then I ended up going to Alabama my last

1936
01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:07,680
Speaker 10: two years, and then ever since then, we were just

1937
01:27:07,960 --> 01:27:10,880
Speaker 10: best buddies. And everywhere he went, I went, everywhere I went,

1938
01:27:10,880 --> 01:27:13,479
Speaker 10: he went. We rode to class together. I picked him up,

1939
01:27:13,520 --> 01:27:16,000
Speaker 10: he picked me up. I slept over, he slept over.

1940
01:27:16,080 --> 01:27:16,920
Speaker 4: So it was like we never.

1941
01:27:16,840 --> 01:27:19,639
Speaker 9: Left each other side that dynamic duo.

1942
01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:21,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're great a dog.

1943
01:27:21,600 --> 01:27:23,160
Speaker 9: That's awesome. And now you guys play it on the

1944
01:27:23,160 --> 01:27:24,200
Speaker 9: same team in the NFL.

1945
01:27:24,360 --> 01:27:26,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's such a blessing.

1946
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Speaker 1: Right yea.

1947
01:27:27,080 --> 01:27:30,439
Speaker 9: So going into your college experience, you mentioned playing at

1948
01:27:30,439 --> 01:27:33,400
Speaker 9: Tennessee that's in Knoxville, and then you went to Tuscaloosa.

1949
01:27:33,680 --> 01:27:36,200
Speaker 9: You're from California, So what was it like going to

1950
01:27:37,360 --> 01:27:38,439
Speaker 9: country towns?

1951
01:27:38,520 --> 01:27:39,799
Speaker 4: Essentially, it was weird.

1952
01:27:39,960 --> 01:27:42,519
Speaker 10: It was so weird. I'm not a country guy. I'm

1953
01:27:42,560 --> 01:27:45,080
Speaker 10: a big I'm a city guy. Like I'm from Sacramento.

1954
01:27:46,160 --> 01:27:48,920
Speaker 10: I lived my parents live in Pittsburgh, so it's near

1955
01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:52,800
Speaker 10: San Francisco, so I'm around the city every single day

1956
01:27:53,160 --> 01:27:55,720
Speaker 10: growing up. And then I come go to Knoxville. It's

1957
01:27:55,760 --> 01:27:59,679
Speaker 10: like so much land, so much Southern hospitality. The people

1958
01:27:59,680 --> 01:28:03,519
Speaker 10: are great, the food's different, barbecue, but it's been great,

1959
01:28:03,680 --> 01:28:05,360
Speaker 10: and I think I kind of adjusted to the Southern

1960
01:28:05,479 --> 01:28:07,040
Speaker 10: hospitality and the culture.

1961
01:28:07,760 --> 01:28:08,400
Speaker 4: But I love it.

1962
01:28:08,720 --> 01:28:10,880
Speaker 9: How does it feel now be back in a big city.

1963
01:28:11,040 --> 01:28:12,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, it feels great. I love it. I love it.

1964
01:28:12,920 --> 01:28:15,320
Speaker 10: So my wife is from the country and she hates

1965
01:28:15,360 --> 01:28:17,400
Speaker 10: it now that we're in a big city, so we're

1966
01:28:17,479 --> 01:28:19,000
Speaker 10: kind of going back and forth about that. But I

1967
01:28:19,040 --> 01:28:21,000
Speaker 10: love being in the city and I think I'm gonna

1968
01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:21,920
Speaker 10: be a city board for life.

1969
01:28:22,080 --> 01:28:24,559
Speaker 9: Do you have any go to spots in Houston? Like

1970
01:28:24,640 --> 01:28:25,320
Speaker 9: food spots.

1971
01:28:25,920 --> 01:28:29,400
Speaker 10: I found a really good fuzz spot, fuff Fix. Really yeah,

1972
01:28:29,439 --> 01:28:33,600
Speaker 10: it's really really good. I get the beef rib and

1973
01:28:33,600 --> 01:28:36,599
Speaker 10: then I get the brisket and there's a one more

1974
01:28:36,640 --> 01:28:39,400
Speaker 10: meeting there. I think it's just regular beef that whatever

1975
01:28:39,439 --> 01:28:43,960
Speaker 10: they have in there, but I put sarracha, some soy sauce,

1976
01:28:44,160 --> 01:28:44,880
Speaker 10: a lot of chili.

1977
01:28:45,120 --> 01:28:46,080
Speaker 4: I try to make it spicy.

1978
01:28:46,160 --> 01:28:47,479
Speaker 9: So oh, that sounds so good.

1979
01:28:47,760 --> 01:28:49,479
Speaker 4: That's definitely my go too with all the veggies. Gotta

1980
01:28:49,479 --> 01:28:50,360
Speaker 4: have all the veggies.

1981
01:28:50,240 --> 01:28:52,200
Speaker 9: Right, and the brisket. I feel like brisket is so

1982
01:28:52,280 --> 01:28:52,679
Speaker 9: good here.

1983
01:28:52,680 --> 01:28:53,639
Speaker 4: It's good every time.

1984
01:28:53,920 --> 01:28:57,400
Speaker 9: Exactly, who is someone that you looked up to growing up?

1985
01:28:58,120 --> 01:29:00,000
Speaker 4: That's a great question I got to give to my parents.

1986
01:29:01,840 --> 01:29:04,519
Speaker 10: My parents. You know, my dad worked two jobs. My

1987
01:29:04,560 --> 01:29:07,559
Speaker 10: mom was a stay at home mom. My dad found

1988
01:29:07,560 --> 01:29:10,519
Speaker 10: a way to feed eight miles. There's eight of us,

1989
01:29:10,840 --> 01:29:12,960
Speaker 10: so I have seven siblings. He found a way to

1990
01:29:12,960 --> 01:29:15,200
Speaker 10: feed everybody in that house. Sometimes we had cousins. My

1991
01:29:15,240 --> 01:29:17,280
Speaker 10: grandma lived with us, My grandma and grandpa lived with us,

1992
01:29:18,360 --> 01:29:19,720
Speaker 10: so there was a time where my dad had to.

1993
01:29:19,680 --> 01:29:23,280
Speaker 4: Find a way to feed everybody. So he was definitely

1994
01:29:23,320 --> 01:29:24,040
Speaker 4: one of the big ones.

1995
01:29:24,040 --> 01:29:26,160
Speaker 10: And my mom was dropping me off at football practice,

1996
01:29:26,160 --> 01:29:28,479
Speaker 10: me and my brother football practice, taking my sister to

1997
01:29:28,560 --> 01:29:31,840
Speaker 10: whatever she had going on. She was really a superwoman

1998
01:29:31,880 --> 01:29:35,320
Speaker 10: and everything that she did, so I seeing her make

1999
01:29:35,479 --> 01:29:38,880
Speaker 10: things happen with one car, we had one car, nobody

2000
01:29:38,880 --> 01:29:43,559
Speaker 10: could drive. Seeing her make everything happen, it was truly special.

2001
01:29:43,600 --> 01:29:45,559
Speaker 10: So and she does that today. And I have younger

2002
01:29:45,600 --> 01:29:47,479
Speaker 10: siblings that are still in high school, still in middle school,

2003
01:29:47,520 --> 01:29:49,840
Speaker 10: in elementary and she finds a way to come to

2004
01:29:49,880 --> 01:29:52,680
Speaker 10: my games, go see my brother where he lives. And

2005
01:29:52,680 --> 01:29:54,640
Speaker 10: it's still take my siblings to all their activities. So

2006
01:29:55,400 --> 01:29:56,599
Speaker 10: big shout out to my parents.

2007
01:29:56,800 --> 01:29:58,439
Speaker 9: I feel like as we get older, we really have

2008
01:29:58,520 --> 01:30:01,360
Speaker 9: a different type of appreciation what our parents did.

2009
01:30:01,439 --> 01:30:03,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're so ungrateful for them.

2010
01:30:03,880 --> 01:30:06,040
Speaker 9: When we're young, we don't get it though, you know

2011
01:30:06,400 --> 01:30:10,120
Speaker 9: it's different. Are you the oldest, I'm the second, Okay,

2012
01:30:10,439 --> 01:30:12,679
Speaker 9: So you have an older brother or sister brother. That's

2013
01:30:12,760 --> 01:30:14,200
Speaker 9: very cool. Do they all come to your games?

2014
01:30:14,720 --> 01:30:16,720
Speaker 10: Oh, there's too much of them and I would have

2015
01:30:16,720 --> 01:30:18,639
Speaker 10: to pay for all of them to come, right, So

2016
01:30:19,720 --> 01:30:21,840
Speaker 10: to get that pick, they picked one game. They all

2017
01:30:21,840 --> 01:30:24,120
Speaker 10: get one game that they can come to. My parents

2018
01:30:24,120 --> 01:30:25,519
Speaker 10: come to as much as I can. You know, my

2019
01:30:25,560 --> 01:30:28,479
Speaker 10: parents deserve everything in this world for me to be here,

2020
01:30:28,479 --> 01:30:29,960
Speaker 10: So I try to spoil them as much as I

2021
01:30:30,040 --> 01:30:32,120
Speaker 10: can and have them here as much as they want

2022
01:30:32,160 --> 01:30:32,479
Speaker 10: to be here.

2023
01:30:32,600 --> 01:30:33,680
Speaker 9: Are they still in California?

2024
01:30:33,800 --> 01:30:34,160
Speaker 4: Yeah?

2025
01:30:34,200 --> 01:30:35,479
Speaker 9: Do you go back and visit often?

2026
01:30:35,560 --> 01:30:35,760
Speaker 7: Yeah?

2027
01:30:35,760 --> 01:30:37,439
Speaker 10: Every now and then I will go to Hawaiian visit

2028
01:30:37,479 --> 01:30:39,400
Speaker 10: my wife's family, So we try to split when we

2029
01:30:39,680 --> 01:30:41,600
Speaker 10: go visit family. Every now and then I get to

2030
01:30:41,600 --> 01:30:44,599
Speaker 10: go back, so hopefully is by a week later down.

2031
01:30:44,360 --> 01:30:45,439
Speaker 4: The road home?

2032
01:30:46,040 --> 01:30:48,600
Speaker 9: Right and maybe in the off season two. Yeah, I

2033
01:30:48,640 --> 01:30:51,320
Speaker 9: got to If you could play another sport, what sport

2034
01:30:51,360 --> 01:30:51,880
Speaker 9: would you play?

2035
01:30:52,800 --> 01:30:53,360
Speaker 4: Probably?

2036
01:30:54,600 --> 01:30:57,840
Speaker 10: Probably soccer. I grew up playing soccer when I was young.

2037
01:30:58,000 --> 01:31:00,920
Speaker 10: I wasn't good at it, I was the goalie, but yeah,

2038
01:31:00,960 --> 01:31:01,519
Speaker 10: probably soccer.

2039
01:31:01,520 --> 01:31:04,280
Speaker 9: A is there a soccer player that you look up

2040
01:31:04,280 --> 01:31:05,920
Speaker 9: to or I can't.

2041
01:31:05,720 --> 01:31:07,760
Speaker 10: Even name them, but all I remember is playing soccer,

2042
01:31:07,760 --> 01:31:10,240
Speaker 10: putting the shandguards on blocking some balls. I think that's

2043
01:31:10,240 --> 01:31:12,280
Speaker 10: why I got good at reacting because I played goalie

2044
01:31:12,320 --> 01:31:14,639
Speaker 10: trying to jump up here and there trying to stop

2045
01:31:14,640 --> 01:31:14,880
Speaker 10: the ball.

2046
01:31:15,000 --> 01:31:16,920
Speaker 9: So it's all about reaction times.

2047
01:31:17,360 --> 01:31:17,719
Speaker 4: Yeah.

2048
01:31:17,760 --> 01:31:20,760
Speaker 9: Literally, that's so funny. When is one place that you

2049
01:31:20,800 --> 01:31:22,160
Speaker 9: want to travel to in this world?

2050
01:31:22,439 --> 01:31:24,840
Speaker 10: I've never been out of country, so I think that's

2051
01:31:24,840 --> 01:31:28,320
Speaker 10: why it's so hard. I think Japan would be great cool, so,

2052
01:31:28,439 --> 01:31:30,479
Speaker 10: I like, I heard it's so clean there, So I

2053
01:31:30,520 --> 01:31:32,959
Speaker 10: think going to Japan and trying like the different foods

2054
01:31:33,000 --> 01:31:36,640
Speaker 10: and seeing the Japanese culture will be something really cool

2055
01:31:36,680 --> 01:31:37,719
Speaker 10: to see for sure.

2056
01:31:37,760 --> 01:31:42,040
Speaker 9: And they have the coolest Japanese gardens too. Yeah, I

2057
01:31:42,040 --> 01:31:43,200
Speaker 9: gotta go check it out.

2058
01:31:43,439 --> 01:31:45,639
Speaker 4: I don't even have a passport, really, yeah, I gotta

2059
01:31:45,640 --> 01:31:46,280
Speaker 4: get my passport.

2060
01:31:46,360 --> 01:31:49,960
Speaker 9: So that's that's first on the checklist. Yea one hey,

2061
01:31:49,960 --> 01:31:51,439
Speaker 9: but maybe this af season, you never know.

2062
01:31:51,680 --> 01:31:54,640
Speaker 10: I know, I'm a big like home guy though, I

2063
01:31:54,760 --> 01:31:56,679
Speaker 10: like going to see him, you know, going to Hawaii chilling.

2064
01:31:57,880 --> 01:31:58,559
Speaker 4: Yeah, hopefully I got.

2065
01:31:58,560 --> 01:32:02,040
Speaker 9: To get out the country in Hawai. You guys do chill.

2066
01:32:02,479 --> 01:32:05,040
Speaker 10: State till like we go to the beach, play a

2067
01:32:05,080 --> 01:32:07,960
Speaker 10: lot of pickleball or my wife family is really really

2068
01:32:07,960 --> 01:32:09,800
Speaker 10: get u pickleball. So we go play pickball a lot

2069
01:32:11,040 --> 01:32:12,599
Speaker 10: and then just chill at her mom's house.

2070
01:32:12,720 --> 01:32:14,559
Speaker 4: You don't have They have a big, big yard, so.

2071
01:32:16,040 --> 01:32:18,679
Speaker 10: Have every all our friends come over, have a cookout,

2072
01:32:19,040 --> 01:32:20,639
Speaker 10: have some somores, and game night.

2073
01:32:20,840 --> 01:32:21,880
Speaker 4: So it's super chill.

2074
01:32:21,960 --> 01:32:23,479
Speaker 9: That is so fun. I feel like that is such

2075
01:32:23,479 --> 01:32:24,479
Speaker 9: a wholesome time.

2076
01:32:24,680 --> 01:32:26,040
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's a good getaway.

2077
01:32:26,160 --> 01:32:27,720
Speaker 9: What games do you guys play for game night?

2078
01:32:28,880 --> 01:32:29,240
Speaker 4: We do.

2079
01:32:29,800 --> 01:32:32,519
Speaker 10: It's stupid. I can't even I don't even want to

2080
01:32:32,520 --> 01:32:36,679
Speaker 10: tell you. It's just another fun, just another fun. It's yeah,

2081
01:32:36,680 --> 01:32:38,639
Speaker 10: they're kind of embarrassing, but they're fun.

2082
01:32:38,920 --> 01:32:41,240
Speaker 9: That's good. That's awesome. Well, thank you so much for

2083
01:32:41,280 --> 01:32:44,000
Speaker 9: your time, Henry for having me go eatun Man.

2084
01:32:44,000 --> 01:32:44,880
Speaker 1: It was great stuff.

2085
01:32:44,960 --> 01:32:49,280
Speaker 2: Alri Allen with Henry so brought to you by Exfinity

2086
01:32:49,360 --> 01:32:51,840
Speaker 2: and that's the show. A big thanks to Henry and Ari,

2087
01:32:52,040 --> 01:32:54,800
Speaker 2: to Drew Paul Allen, the voice of the Vikings, to

2088
01:32:54,920 --> 01:32:57,720
Speaker 2: Nick Cassario, to my man Mark Vandermuir, to everybody back

2089
01:32:57,760 --> 01:32:59,000
Speaker 2: at Sports Radio six ten.

2090
01:32:59,280 --> 01:33:01,960
Speaker 1: We appreciate so much. Will see tomorrow everybody, and as always,

2091
01:33:02,040 --> 01:33:02,719
Speaker 1: go Texans.