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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody? Welcome in to a Wednesday edition

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Speaker 1: of Texans All Access from the Hyunday Texans Radio studio.

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Speaker 1: I am your host, John Harris, Football Else's sideline reporter,

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Speaker 1: fresh fresh off a return trip from London, England, the

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Speaker 1: UK where the Texans came home with a twenty six

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Speaker 1: to three win over the Jacksonville Jaguars. And what a

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Speaker 1: trip it was. I thought about this and when we

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Speaker 1: were flying back. Can you imagine if we were playing

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Speaker 1: a game on Sunday? Oh my goodness, I don't know that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I could do it now. I'm old.

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Speaker 1: A lot of us are old on that plane. I

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Speaker 1: know the players can probably bounce back a whole lot easier.

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Speaker 1: But man, and that's why the bye week is after

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Speaker 1: these London trips for these teams. But I think because

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Speaker 1: of that, because it is such a condensed travel situation

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Speaker 1: and it's a long it's a long It was a

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Speaker 1: ten hour flight back, so having a game on day

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Speaker 1: would have been. Oh. I'm just coming to grips with

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Speaker 1: the fact that it's Wednesday. I kept thinking, yesterday was

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Speaker 1: Wednesday and the day before that was Monday. That's how

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Speaker 1: weird my brain has bandoned. Everybody's brain is ben since

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Speaker 1: coming back. But the Texans on and off week just

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Speaker 1: like the Jacks. I would say there was one team

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Speaker 1: I can't remember who it was. Maybe it was the

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Speaker 1: Jacks play the game in London and decided not to

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Speaker 1: take the buye for the following week and I think back, think, oh,

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Speaker 1: forget that. Well, the Texans did get to buy in

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Speaker 1: week ten, just like last year, Just like last year,

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Speaker 1: sitting at six and three, but it feels different. I

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Speaker 1: think it feels different, especially a win like that last year.

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Speaker 1: I remember Week nine went to Denver, we just traded

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Speaker 1: for to Mary's. Thomas went back up there, Brandon McManus

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Speaker 1: pushed a field goal to the right. The Texans left

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Speaker 1: Denver with a nineteen seventeen win. Now, that was thrilling

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Speaker 1: and it was exciting, but it was not dominating, I

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Speaker 1: guess is the right way of saying it. Sunday was

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Speaker 1: a pretty thorough dominant win from beginning to end. Offense,

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Speaker 1: scoring in the red zone, defense, getting stops, holding the

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Speaker 1: Jaguars to a field goal that was without JJ Watt.

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Speaker 1: We broke all lot of this down on Monday. But

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Speaker 1: it's my first time to be with you solo, and

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Speaker 1: I just think it was one heck of a performance.

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Speaker 1: I think coach O'Brien the last couple of weeks and

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Speaker 1: his staff, what they've been able to do dealing with

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Speaker 1: the losses, personnel losses due to injuries, how they've bounced back,

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Speaker 1: and how they really just took over that game in

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Speaker 1: London from beginning to end. It was really really impressive.

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Speaker 1: Now you've got some time in the bye week to

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Speaker 1: get Gee healed up, get them good to go. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: coming out of that bye week, you'll go to Baltimore

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Speaker 1: as close to fully healthy as you can be. No

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Speaker 1: football team is ever fully healthy once you get beyond

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Speaker 1: Week one, just not gonna happen, but you hopefully can

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Speaker 1: get back your key pieces. Hopefully get back Laramie Tonsil,

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Speaker 1: Will Fuller, Bradley, Robie, Lonnie Johnson to Sean Gibson, those

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Speaker 1: guys come back into the fold. Now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you look at a secondary. Oh boy, you got let's say,

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Speaker 1: when Robe comes back, you got Robie, Conley, Lonnie and

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Speaker 1: j Joe. That's in addition to guys that have just

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Speaker 1: gotten some experience back there and Cornell Armstrong, Keian Crossing.

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Speaker 1: So now you've got a deeper situation at corner. At safety,

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Speaker 1: you get to Sean Gibson back, Jo Little Days played

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Speaker 1: some really good football. Mike Adams played very well against

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars in London, So now you've got a deep

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Speaker 1: situation at safety as well. It I don't want to

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Speaker 1: see injuries worked out for you, but because they never

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Speaker 1: an injuries never worked for you. But I think there's

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Speaker 1: some positives to take out of that at receiver with

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Speaker 1: Will Fuller out, can you still step back in made

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Speaker 1: some big plays, did some really good things. Deann Rick

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Speaker 1: Carter did some good things. Now that you get Will

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Speaker 1: into mix be even better at that position. Then hope

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Speaker 1: you'll get lt back at the left tackle, where I

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Speaker 1: think he is the best in the game. So you

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Speaker 1: get him back. You got Titus back last week, and

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Speaker 1: hopefully you can stay healthy on an offensive line and

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Speaker 1: let that group with the group that started with add

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Speaker 1: and Laramie left tackle. That's the group that we've seen

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Speaker 1: the most this year, with Laramie next to Max, Nick

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Speaker 1: group that has been the best this year for the

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Speaker 1: Texans by far. You get that group together, and who's

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Speaker 1: to say what you could have going down the road.

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Speaker 1: Now that's in the future. We're gonna take this bye week.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna enjoy it. Think about the Ravens and all

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Speaker 1: that next week. But tonight it's a chance to catch

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Speaker 1: up on a number of different things, and we will.

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Speaker 1: We'll catch up with Andre Ware, We'll catch up with

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Speaker 1: We also got some sound from the assistant coaches that

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Speaker 1: met with the media on Tuesday, so we've got all

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Speaker 1: all that for you on the show tonight. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: kick off the shows we always do with some hot

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Speaker 1: read actually is a visit that Mark and I had

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Speaker 1: with offensive coordinator Tim Kelly. Coach it's bye week, so

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Speaker 1: what do you do during bye week? We were talking

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Speaker 1: with coach O Brian a little bit about self scout

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Speaker 1: and you're still preparing for the Ravens. But what's your

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Speaker 1: routine like this week. Yeah, got to spend the next

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Speaker 1: couple of days here see what we can get better at, um,

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Speaker 1: and then really being able to go home and try

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Speaker 1: and help my wife on a little bit and take

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Speaker 1: some heat off of her. So but no, really, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, focusing on the different areas that we can

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Speaker 1: get better at offensively and you know, try to help

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Speaker 1: with coach Brian, so we talked to him about Colleen

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Speaker 1: and all that. But how tough is a life for

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Speaker 1: a football coach's wife is? How tough is it for her?

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Speaker 1: It is very It's a difficult job. It's a difficult

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Speaker 1: do what I can when I go home to try

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Speaker 1: and try and help out with the girls. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a very difficult job. It's it definitely

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Speaker 1: takes a special special lady to sign up for this,

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Speaker 1: that's for sure. Well, we're joking around with this with

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Speaker 1: coach O'Brien about this the unplugged thing. In the summer,

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Speaker 1: you're really unpluged because you have multiple weeks of really

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Speaker 1: just a weekend. Yeah, so even though you're at home,

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Speaker 1: to always trying to think how we're gonna help us

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Speaker 1: to get to. But uh, yeah, you're not really allowed

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Speaker 1: a little bit couch. You've been a run football your life,

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Speaker 1: with the leaves changing, you're on a sideline. Does that

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Speaker 1: make a bye week sort of disconcerting a little bit,

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Speaker 1: like your body kind of telling you I feel like

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Speaker 1: I should be somewhere. Yeah, the schedule says no. We

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Speaker 1: I feel like we should be somewhere at noon? Does

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Speaker 1: it's a game plan offense and everything, and you install

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Speaker 1: you go through it. So tell us about that process

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Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, I think, you know, for everyone

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Speaker 1: running the think it takes you a couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: to really find out you know what your identity is

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Speaker 1: Was it a little strange this year because look, you

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Speaker 1: had Lamar Miller going into training camp and running backs

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Speaker 1: of the questions you always ask him is every year

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Speaker 1: is a different year. And we've ast him, what kind

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Speaker 1: of what kind of team do you have? It says,

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Speaker 1: you know, you really don't know the type of team.

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Speaker 1: You haven't until Thanksgiving and we're getting near Thanksgiving? Do

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Speaker 1: you know what kind of offense that you have? Do

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Speaker 1: you kind of get its identity right now? Or do

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Speaker 1: you still think it's sort of shaping that way until

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Speaker 1: you get towards Thanksgivings. I still think it's still shaping

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Speaker 1: you know, um the games where everyone's been on the field,

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Speaker 1: think we'll truly get a better feel for for who

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Speaker 1: we are and what exactly our identity is. Is it

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Speaker 1: hard to practice with those situations in mind where oh

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Speaker 1: ready for that possibility. Not that you want to encourage that,

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Speaker 1: but those things happen and you've been able to adjust.

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Speaker 1: And coach O'Brien said that, you know, sometimes it's gotten

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Speaker 1: better than others, but that's got to be difficult because

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Speaker 1: all coaches feel like they don't get enough practice, so

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Speaker 1: you want to make the most of it. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: think it's a testament really to those to those position coaches,

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Speaker 1: Your locker is getting full of all the game balls

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Speaker 1: is again together and trying to make your work for

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00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:14,359
Speaker 1: the team whatever team needs. It's our job to do.

430
00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:17,119
Speaker 1: You've been through some adversity in your career. You're with

431
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Speaker 1: the O in sixteen team in Cleveland and one in

432
00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,280
Speaker 1: fifteen and here you are, And how nice is it

433
00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:25,520
Speaker 1: to be at this point of the season sitting with

434
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Speaker 1: the Texans right coming off some big road wins, big

435
00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,760
Speaker 1: roadwin in London. Obviously, Um, you know, what's the attitude

436
00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:34,159
Speaker 1: in the locker room? Does it feel strange? Does it

437
00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,040
Speaker 1: feel different? What does it feel like compared with what

438
00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:40,040
Speaker 1: you've expired, it's definitely different. Uh And And I think

439
00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:42,760
Speaker 1: the one woman that sticks out to me is we

440
00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,960
Speaker 1: had a Halloween get to get, like a Halloween party,

441
00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:48,640
Speaker 1: and all the guys came and hung Shahn Watson's party, Yes,

442
00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:53,399
Speaker 1: the Force party, And I dressed up. Never dressed up.

443
00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:55,680
Speaker 1: My family, my friends, they all call me to grinch,

444
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Speaker 1: which I understand why. But I dressed up, did a

445
00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:04,800
Speaker 1: little skit on Instagram, and everyone's trying to figure out

446
00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:08,440
Speaker 1: where's that coming from? Where was this the last five

447
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:10,840
Speaker 1: six years? And I think mentally, I'm in a different

448
00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:13,760
Speaker 1: place mentally, in a different a different place, I'm a

449
00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:17,639
Speaker 1: different space mentally. So where does that come from? Do

450
00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:20,160
Speaker 1: you think it's the winning. Do you think it's the

451
00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:22,640
Speaker 1: group that's around you, the players in the locker room?

452
00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:25,640
Speaker 1: How I think it's some of both. I think it's

453
00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:29,000
Speaker 1: mainly to win it because I think the group in Cleveland,

454
00:21:29,040 --> 00:21:31,239
Speaker 1: the group of guys in Cleveland that I had around me,

455
00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,359
Speaker 1: was some great guys that I love and I enjoy

456
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Speaker 1: being around. But I think it's the winning more than

457
00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:41,119
Speaker 1: it is the guys. The guys always play apart. But

458
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Speaker 1: I can't sit here and say the guys here are

459
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Speaker 1: different than the guys in Cleveland, because it's it's not.

460
00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,399
Speaker 1: It's the same group of guys that love each other,

461
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Speaker 1: that depends on each other, trust each other. But I

462
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:52,400
Speaker 1: think it's I think it's the winning. I think it's

463
00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:56,000
Speaker 1: everyone's locker room brought in. We all know what we want,

464
00:21:56,119 --> 00:21:58,679
Speaker 1: we're doing it, and we're all on one path. Uh,

465
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Speaker 1: And that's just something we got the try and keep

466
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Speaker 1: moving towards. It's winning and sticking together and playing for

467
00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:07,880
Speaker 1: one another one another, all right. So the important question

468
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Speaker 1: is what did you dress up as? I was actually

469
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Speaker 1: a character off the the TV show Martin. I was wrong, Okay,

470
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Speaker 1: so it was it was what was your skit? Was

471
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Speaker 1: it a scene for Martin? It was, That's exactly what

472
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:24,760
Speaker 1: it was, like a lip scene, so I kind of

473
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Speaker 1: lip sun getting had to plant in the bag. Okay.

474
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Speaker 1: So it was fun. It was different, and I think

475
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Speaker 1: at that moment I would realize I'm definitely different a

476
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Speaker 1: different space mentally than I was my previous four years.

477
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, yeah, yeah, how what what are you

478
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Speaker 1: like off the field? I hear that you're a pretty

479
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Speaker 1: good cook. Chef. I think a better picture taker than

480
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Speaker 1: I am. Chef. Picture taker of what you the food cooked? Yes,

481
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Speaker 1: oh you're an Instagram chef. The food has to look

482
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Speaker 1: good in order for the picture to kind of good. Yea,

483
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Speaker 1: I get. I get a lot of you know, a

484
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Speaker 1: lot of people saying that, you know, the food looks good,

485
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Speaker 1: it looks I can cook. I'm still working on. I'm

486
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Speaker 1: still learning. What sort of things do you cook? Really?

487
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Speaker 1: Some of everything I have. I have a shelf, Like,

488
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Speaker 1: what's your best recipe? Make the best thing? I wouldn't

489
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Speaker 1: really say it's the best. I just enjoy steak because

490
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Speaker 1: it's simple to cook it easy steak, chicken, pasta, they

491
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 1: are fairly simple. Okay, But we get creative and we'll

492
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Speaker 1: make something like I think we've made um, like a pizza.

493
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Speaker 1: It's like kind of like a piece of egg row situation. Okay.

494
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Speaker 1: I have a shelf and have an assistant, and we

495
00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 1: all get together. We've got a brainstore and creative things

496
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Speaker 1: to cook. Your you're you have a chef, but you

497
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Speaker 1: like to go in there and sometimes during during the season,

498
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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't like to cook A lot of course,

499
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Speaker 1: I don't know to cook on my off days. So

500
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Speaker 1: I need someone to still be cooking food and still

501
00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 1: apparently because I'm not gonna do it, so I have

502
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Speaker 1: her to help me out with that. But in the

503
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Speaker 1: off season, I try to cook three times a week.

504
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Speaker 1: When did you start cooking? Did you take lessons? How

505
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 1: did did you watch a cooking channel? Two years ago?

506
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,720
Speaker 1: I started cooking? Okay, and I just were you in

507
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:13,200
Speaker 1: a competition of some sort of TV. Okay, I'm confusing

508
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Speaker 1: you with someone else. Yeah, it was really big again

509
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Speaker 1: kind of offers to do it. I'm just timid. I'm

510
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Speaker 1: not really so you have gone offers to do it. Yeah,

511
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Speaker 1: I have offered to come on net rods and do

512
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:27,760
Speaker 1: cooking channels and cooking books and just kind what what

513
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Speaker 1: do you need to get to that line? I don't know.

514
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Speaker 1: I'm not I have no idea. I think it just

515
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Speaker 1: has to be a feeling for me. Just one day

516
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Speaker 1: I working back, you know what, Let's do it right now.

517
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Speaker 1: I'm still enjoying learning and enjoying doing it. Just still

518
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Speaker 1: and enjoying phase. All right. I was talking about Houston.

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Speaker 1: You said, the one thing that really surprised you about

520
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Speaker 1: Houston is how much it floods because you lived in

521
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Speaker 1: Miami where it rained a lot, but it didn't flood.

522
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Speaker 1: It rained too much. Your rains almost every other day

523
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Speaker 1: in Miami. Yes, okay, but it doesn't flood. Surprisingly, no

524
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Speaker 1: surprised to see. That's strange to me because here it

525
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Speaker 1: could rain for an hour and you have to watch

526
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Speaker 1: where you're going. You get stuck somewhere. I didn't get stuck,

527
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Speaker 1: but a lot of guys were talking about they may

528
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Speaker 1: get stuck, or you may have to get a truck

529
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Speaker 1: because if you have a car, you don't stand a chance.

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Speaker 1: It's good advice, that's great advice. What other sort of

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Speaker 1: things do you like to do in the offseas? I

532
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Speaker 1: know you haven't had a lot of free time while

533
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Speaker 1: you've been in Houston, but what are some of the

534
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Speaker 1: other things you like to do in your free time?

535
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Speaker 1: Bow I'm a movie and TV guy. Okay, what's the

536
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 1: binge watching thing that you're into these days? I think

537
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Speaker 1: the better question is what's the being watching the thing?

538
00:25:39,080 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 1: I'm not into it? Okay? What do you not literally

539
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 1: watching everything? Oh? You? Because everything anything? Everything? Right now?

540
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Speaker 1: I think the show that I'm most recently watching is

541
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Speaker 1: God Friend of Me. That's a show. Okay, it's a

542
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Speaker 1: lot of It's a lot of shows. The Blacklids have dramas.

543
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,160
Speaker 1: You're really in the dramas. Really watch anything anything Because

544
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Speaker 1: I'm a homebody. I enjoy being in the house, relaxing,

545
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:12,360
Speaker 1: watching TV. Music, listen a lot of music. What sort

546
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Speaker 1: of music? What's on your playlist for a game? Really?

547
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:22,399
Speaker 1: Either Jacole or it's an artist from Miami major na,

548
00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:25,479
Speaker 1: which is Chad Tummys. He plays for Cleveland. Now, okay,

549
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 1: so him or another guy from Miami. I try to

550
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Speaker 1: listen to Miami guy. Like, support your Miami guys, right,

551
00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 1: maybe we'll try some Houston guys too. I'll give you

552
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Speaker 1: like a list of guys you can support from getting

553
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,000
Speaker 1: girls too. I'm all for it, all right? What do

554
00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 1: you want for yourself for the second half of the season?

555
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:43,680
Speaker 1: How can you get better? I heard you talking in

556
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 1: the locker room that you really have just scratched the surface,

557
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:47,680
Speaker 1: and there's more that you can do to get better.

558
00:26:47,800 --> 00:26:49,400
Speaker 1: What do you want to get better at? I think

559
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Speaker 1: the biggest thing for me, my main thing and my

560
00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:56,840
Speaker 1: first priority is always to protect you for like, because

561
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Speaker 1: I kind of we know what kind of guy we

562
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:04,159
Speaker 1: have that quarterback, and I think he's gonna make his

563
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 1: miracle plays. He's gonna make the spectacular plays. We know

564
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:08,840
Speaker 1: he's gonna make those plays. But the plays that he

565
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,960
Speaker 1: should be clean and he should not be touched and

566
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 1: everyone should be perfect, and those two plays that we

567
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,639
Speaker 1: have to make sure that we keep keep going and

568
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,760
Speaker 1: keep moving forward towards more of those plays, because when

569
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Speaker 1: the players come for him to make a play, he's

570
00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 1: gonna make it. When he's clean, everything's perfect, that's easy

571
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Speaker 1: for him. So I think that's the main thing. For me,

572
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Speaker 1: it's protecting him and making every play I have, any play,

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Speaker 1: I have, any opportunity I get to make a play

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Speaker 1: for this team, whether it's pass protection, running the bar,

575
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Speaker 1: catching the ball, even if a special team is whatever

576
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 1: it is for me is it's all about making the play,

577
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: all right. And maybe you can get some more game

578
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:47,159
Speaker 1: balls for your mom. O. God, she has enough, she

579
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 1: needs more more, all right? One more question for it.

580
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 1: Let you go. When I was looking up stuff about you,

581
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 1: your name is Randy Johnson, but you go by Duke,

582
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: So tell me where you got Duke. It's Randy, Duke,

583
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 1: It's Randy. Quote Duke Johnson was Randy, So when did

584
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: you go. I legally changed my name last year. My

585
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: name just last year. Okay, So where did Duke come

586
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 1: from a family name? My mom's. She told me a

587
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:14,400
Speaker 1: story all the time. I think my mom's granddad name

588
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 1: was Duke. His name was Duke Coleman, and he loves sports,

589
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 1: and she just thought that she would name me after him.

590
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:25,400
Speaker 1: And once I started going by Duke, didn't get called

591
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Speaker 1: my first name. I just went ahead and legally changed it.

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Speaker 1: That was fun getting to know Duke Johnson of your

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Speaker 1: Houston Texas. All Right, he get back, It's time to

594
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Speaker 1: catch you up. But Dirty Red Clint Sterner joins us

595
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: each and every Wednesday at this time, talk about the

596
00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 1: trip to London, talk about what he sees from the

597
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 1: Shaw Watson and the quarterback. Next up on the Texans slate,

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Speaker 1: and that is Lamar Jackson right here at Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Wednesday nition to Texans All Access from

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Speaker 1: the Honday Texans Radio studio. I'm your host, John Harris.

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Speaker 1: Please be joined by our guest. You met him last

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00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: night at food Ruckers and now you're hearing him today.

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00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: You hear him every every weekday two to six on

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio six tenths. But my good friend Clint starting, Clint,

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Speaker 1: what's going on? Man? I was last night a flood Ruckers. Man,

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Speaker 1: it was awesome. Man. I can't thank you guys enough

607
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:15,640
Speaker 1: for allowing me to be a part of that show.

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Speaker 1: It was. It was really really cool man. The Texas

609
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 1: fans were great, obviously. The radio crew minus you is

610
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 1: uh was there and uh man, it was what a show.

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Speaker 1: What a good time. I got to dive back into

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Speaker 1: some of my Europe NFL Europe days and uh tell

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Speaker 1: some bye week stories and all that. Man. So again,

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Speaker 1: I'm thankful to be given the opportunity to do a

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Speaker 1: little work with you guys. Man. I enjoyed it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I get kicked out for those shows, Clint. I don't

617
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Speaker 1: know why. I don't know. If I don't know, I

618
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:48,080
Speaker 1: guess I've embarrassed them at food Ruckers before, whether it's

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Speaker 1: with my eating or my shows. So I get kicked

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Speaker 1: out on Tuesday night. But uh, you know, they they

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Speaker 1: bring into heavy hitters, and they brought you in last night.

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Speaker 1: So I was very very happy for that. Clint, you

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Speaker 1: mentioned the bye week when you were a play How

624
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: did you like the bye week. You know, some players

625
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: do obviously to get some rest, but I know some

626
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: but don't because if they're hot, they want to kind

627
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: of keep going with the hot streak. How did you

628
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 1: feel about having an off week, especially in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I loved it simply because it allowed me

630
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 1: to to to to just take a deep breath and

631
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 1: and really, you know, get get dialed back in. I mean,

632
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,560
Speaker 1: it's such a people don't realize how as soon as

633
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 1: the game's over on Sunday, a lot of times on

634
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: the flight back, you know, guys are evaluating film, and

635
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: then Monday you're getting the sweating and for the most part,

636
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: the guys are getting the first look at a at

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00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: a basic, basic game plan, the skeletons of a game plan,

638
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:42,240
Speaker 1: and maybe even catching some film work. And then you gotta,

639
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 1: you know, you revisit the game film with all the coaches,

640
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Speaker 1: and Tuesday's called the day off, but in reality it's not.

641
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 1: I mean, you're you're really getting more film and getting

642
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 1: deeper into the game planning than boom, another week hit.

643
00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 1: So you really don't have time to take a deep breath.

644
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Speaker 1: You don't have time to gather your thoughts, you don't

645
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: have time to self evaluate. Eight it's just onto the neck.

646
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: So a bye week is so so critical, John, particularly

647
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: when it falls mid year. Awesome, right in the middle

648
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: of the season, nine games in at a time when

649
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,040
Speaker 1: you need to get healthy. There's so many reasons why

650
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: this is such a big bye week, and the fact

651
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 1: that it's fallen right now, it's so big for the Texans.

652
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: Clint your overall thoughts. What you saw Sunday early breakfast

653
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Speaker 1: style here. It was such a weird concept that in

654
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 1: the third fourth quarter it was dark there and I

655
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: knew that basically the morning was just getting going back

656
00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: here in Houston while the Texans were playing full year.

657
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: Of all thoughts, it was good win in twenty six

658
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: to three, but obviously in victory there are things you

659
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 1: can't avoid, and obviously in defeat there's some still good

660
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: things happening. But overall, in this one, what you think

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00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: about what the Texans were able to do against Jacksonville, Well,

662
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: first of all, Romeo crenil Man, I tip my cap

663
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: to the guy, you know, I mean the fact that

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Speaker 1: he's been able to overcome the injuries that the Texans

665
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Speaker 1: have have had over the last three or four weeks.

666
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: Within the secondary, and then you had JJ Watton that mix,

667
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,440
Speaker 1: and then you go on the road and play in London,

668
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: with all the obstacles that come with playing in London,

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Speaker 1: you're able to put a defense out there and execute

670
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Speaker 1: at a level to where you hold an NFL opponent

671
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: to three points. That's awfully impressive. I mean, that's you

672
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: got every reason under the under the sun to have

673
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: an off day or maybe struggle schematically, or struggle up front,

674
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: or struggle in the secondary. And in reality, those guys

675
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: buckled down to put together, you know, with all things considered,

676
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Speaker 1: one of their better performances on the year. And then offensively,

677
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: the way that Deshaun Watson and Bill O'Brien and Kim Kelly,

678
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: the way that they commanded the entire game from the

679
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: game plan to the execution was absolutely big time, man.

680
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 1: I think that was the Shaun Watson's best game of

681
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Speaker 1: the year. When you talk about quarterback play, when you

682
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: talk about just playing the quarterback position at a high

683
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Speaker 1: level and putting your team or keeping your team in

684
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Speaker 1: a position to win and not making not making poor

685
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Speaker 1: decisions no matter how how attractive they maybe just do.

686
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,680
Speaker 1: Just play quarterback at a high level. He did that.

687
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: He was aware of the situation that the defense was

688
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,040
Speaker 1: was was injured. He was aware that they had only

689
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: given up three points and that you didn't need the

690
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 1: big plays. You needed to chew up clock. You needed

691
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Speaker 1: to convert the herd down. He did that, and man,

692
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 1: it was awfully impressive. Clinton. I heard you talking about

693
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Speaker 1: the secondary a little bit. I think it was yesterday.

694
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: I heard you talking about the secondary and Gary and

695
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: Connelly comes in. He's played two games for the Texans.

696
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 1: He's he's still probably in the category of a lot

697
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: of potential yet because we only see him for a

698
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: couple of games with him. But by the time this team,

699
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Speaker 1: and I don't know when it will happen, but when

700
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Speaker 1: they get Robie back and they get this time off,

701
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 1: so maybe Jjoe heals up a little bit more and

702
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: Lonnie Johnson can come back from the concussion. I don't

703
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: want to say it's a great problem to have, but

704
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: they've got four guys I think at corner you can

705
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 1: put out there and feel better about them. Maybe what

706
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Speaker 1: they had during training camp overall, what as you look

707
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Speaker 1: at the secondary and look at the corners in particular,

708
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Speaker 1: how do you assess that group and what you've seen

709
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 1: from Conley these first two weeks, does that Does that

710
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Speaker 1: give you a little bit of excitement going forward that

711
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 1: the secondary can do some better things and they're not

712
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Speaker 1: going to be facing Matt Ryan, I can be facing

713
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 1: Drew Brees, but they will face Jacoby Brissette and Tom

714
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Speaker 1: Brady and back to back weeks and of course Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 1: What do you think overall about the way the corners

716
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Speaker 1: kind of fit together going forward? Well, I mean, obviously,

717
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: if you can get everybody healthy, you're extremely deep. And

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Speaker 1: I don't think corners, I don't think corner is a

719
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:40,839
Speaker 1: problem of concern moving forward. I mean you got three

720
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Speaker 1: maybe four deep that you can depend on, and you've

721
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Speaker 1: got guys that bring some different things to the table.

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00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: Obviously j Joe's a wiley vetter and he can he

723
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:51,240
Speaker 1: plays a little deep different technique. I think Lonnie Johnson

724
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: and gary On Connley are very similar relative to being

725
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 1: long and fast and they really like to play man coverage.

726
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,239
Speaker 1: And then you've got Bradley Roby that that can do

727
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: at all and um man, it's real things are really

728
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: shaping up. So obviously, if you can get those guys healthy,

729
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: that would be a huge plus. But I tell you, man,

730
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 1: it's it's um garyon Conley moving forward. Um to me

731
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,280
Speaker 1: is a guy that's that's earned some strikes. He's earned

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Speaker 1: the right to to stay on the field and and

733
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Speaker 1: and and be at least be able to compete at

734
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: a high level with the guys that are in the house. Man,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think you know, you got Jjo coming

736
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Speaker 1: down the pipe and you're fourteen. If he retires, you're

737
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: not you need to go get a number. But you

738
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: got garyon Conley right there. So I mean, obviously they

739
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: made the move for him because they had to. But

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Speaker 1: the fact that it's worked out in a way that

741
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: you can depend on him for depth and you can

742
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Speaker 1: depend on him moving forward in the future is absolutely

743
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Speaker 1: icing on the cake. Man. I mean, um, you know,

744
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,919
Speaker 1: these are guys that that down this this back into

745
00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 1: the schedule. They see better defenses than they do offenses

746
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 1: as far as the Texans go, and so the offensive

747
00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 1: firepower is gonna be uh significantly less than what it

748
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: was with the exception of a couple of teams. And

749
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: and on top of that, if they can get healthy,

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00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: you know, you got a chance to be to be

751
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 1: hitting on all cylinders. Come playoff time, we're talking to

752
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: our buddy Clint Sterning. You could hear him every single

753
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 1: weekday two to six on our flagship sports Radio six ten.

754
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,800
Speaker 1: He covers Arkansas razorback football and Clint, I want to

755
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: kind of hit the college aspect of this as I

756
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 1: look forward to the Baltimore Ravens, because what you see

757
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: with Baltimore, I don't want to say it's a college offense.

758
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: I don't want to use that nomenclature, but a lot

759
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,680
Speaker 1: of the things you see with the Baltimore Ravens you

760
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: see a lot of teams using in college, running midline

761
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: option out of the gun, running just flat out speed

762
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 1: option out of the gun from under center. A lot

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00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 1: of the things that Baltimore does offensively is very very unique.

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Speaker 1: And then the guy pulling the trigger is extremely unique

765
00:36:55,440 --> 00:37:00,160
Speaker 1: and athletic, and that being Lamar Jackson. How big a

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00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,479
Speaker 1: challenge is this for the Texans just from the sheer

767
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 1: standpoint of you're seeing something so different from what you

768
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: see every week in the NFL. Well, you mentioned earlier

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Speaker 1: the bye week. I think this bye week is critical

770
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Speaker 1: for many reasons, but but one being you're gonna you're

771
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: gonna face an unorthodox opponent on the offensive side of

772
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,879
Speaker 1: the football coming out of this break. And so now

773
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 1: you've got two weeks to get a plan together and

774
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: to figure out how you want to attack this. Want

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00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:29,399
Speaker 1: to call it a college offense, that's fine, QB run heavy,

776
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: that's fine. It's unorthodox. It's not something that NFL coaches

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00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 1: have had to prepare against a ton of times in

778
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: the past, and so it's definitely an unorthodox It's it's

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00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: you're you're looking at two and we will. And it's

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00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: no disrespect they're they're they're very college as type offenses.

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Speaker 1: I think what Deshaun Watsons doing is now at a

782
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 1: lot more college type of style style of offense than

783
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: what the old pro style was. And so you're you

784
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: got you got a chance to see Lamar Jackson running

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00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 1: a heavy Q run the read the QB read game offense.

786
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 1: And then you've got to Shaun Watson, who is going

787
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: to run the true RPO um offensive game plan. I mean,

788
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: what an opportunity to get to see those two offenses

789
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 1: on the field at the same time. The I mean

790
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: the entertainment level on both sides of the field. But

791
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: either offenses on the field is gonna be super special.

792
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:26,879
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. It's the unorthodox what Baltimore does.

793
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: But the fact that the Techtans have two weeks to

794
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:33,720
Speaker 1: prepare could be the big difference maker. Yeah, I can't

795
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: I can't wait for this one. And it goes back

796
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: to the game at twenty sixteen when Louisville played Clemson

797
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:43,399
Speaker 1: at Clemson and it was magnetic all all night long.

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00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 1: Clinton want to go back to the Jacksonville game. From

799
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Speaker 1: from this standpoint, the Jags decide to go back to

800
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 1: Nick Foles and Doug Monrow made that decision yesterday and

801
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:56,520
Speaker 1: I saw Foles before the game working out on the

802
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 1: field and there was just something about it where I

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00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 1: went and I and I have thought I've said this publicly.

804
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: I felt like they would go back to Falls in

805
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 1: large part because Tom Coughlin and Dave carl Well spent

806
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 1: a lot of money to bring Nick Foles there and

807
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 1: they really haven't had a chance to take the Porsche

808
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,879
Speaker 1: out of the garage, if you will, So I felt

809
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 1: like they would eventually go back to Falls. And Sunday

810
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 1: was kind of the the last nail in that coffin.

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Speaker 1: If you will. What are your thoughts about Jacksonville going

812
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 1: back to falls for this coming weekend beyond? I think

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Speaker 1: it was a no brainer. I mean, you're talking about

814
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: a true old to old school pro style offense, run

815
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,760
Speaker 1: first offense, and when they run up against the defense

816
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: like the Texans, who can stop that run with the

817
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: front seven, then you've got to have the ability and

818
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,720
Speaker 1: you need some experience to throw into six and seven

819
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 1: man's own coverages. And you saw this past weekend that

820
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,320
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew was not seeing things clearly when the Texans

821
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: were able to drop into coverage on him, and it

822
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,080
Speaker 1: was they were missing throws, they were missing windows, and

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Speaker 1: therefore you end up you ended up not being able

824
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Speaker 1: to convert third downs, end up not being able to

825
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:02,879
Speaker 1: convert in the red zone, and those are all by

826
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Speaker 1: products of the quarterback not seeing things clearly. Minshew. Look, man,

827
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Speaker 1: he has earned himself some money in this league moving forward,

828
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Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. But there's no covering up

829
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 1: the fact that he's a rookie quarterback in this league

830
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Speaker 1: and he need Chemistry is so big with your receivers

831
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Speaker 1: when you get into must pass situations, which they did

832
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Speaker 1: Sunday and I just think that this team, that Jacksonville

833
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 1: team is much better with Nick Foles pulling the trigger

834
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Speaker 1: in those situations than they are Gardner Minshew. I know

835
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Speaker 1: it's fun to watch and know what was sexy watching

836
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Speaker 1: running out over the field the Minshew mustache. Many I

837
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Speaker 1: know all that stuff's fun. But at the end of

838
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:42,280
Speaker 1: the day, that the more experienced quarterback pro style quarterback

839
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Speaker 1: is who's gonna play in Jacksonville, and that's Nick Foles.

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Speaker 1: That will happen, not this coming week, with the following

841
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: week is the Jacks are on buy, just like the

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00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,440
Speaker 1: Texans Clinton. I'll ask you about one of the quarterback

843
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 1: because it's a team that's struggling, and it's a team

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Speaker 1: that everybody over the summer, and I say everybody, I

845
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: would say probably about eighty five to ninety percent of

846
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: people that cover the NFL, we're hyping this particular team

847
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: in this quarterback and that being to Cleveland Browns and

848
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, and they have run into a brick wall

849
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: each and every week. And whether it's execution, lack of execution,

850
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 1: or just getting pounded by some team, the Browns have

851
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: looked obviously different than they looked at twenty eighteen when

852
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield had taken over. He's a young guy's number

853
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:29,879
Speaker 1: one overall pick. He plays with a lot of confidence. Well,

854
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 1: when you're a quarterback and you're having these kind of

855
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,760
Speaker 1: games and you're not going well, there's so much placed

856
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 1: on your shoulders, the pressure obviously can be immense. In

857
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 1: your just your opinion, Clint, do you think Baker Mayfield

858
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: is a kind of guy that can handle that going forward?

859
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: Or do you feel like with the constant putting the

860
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 1: chip on his shoulder is eventually be something that is

861
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:56,200
Speaker 1: the undoing of him as a quality, big time NFL quarterback. Well,

862
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I think he can handle it. I

863
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,359
Speaker 1: think he's got to look himself in the mirror erstanding

864
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,279
Speaker 1: the way that he's done things at this point may

865
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 1: not be the best way to approach things. When when

866
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 1: it's not college anymore, you know, the coaches don't look

867
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 1: as you look at you as a kid anymore. I mean,

868
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: this is you are the face of an organization for

869
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: the foreseeable future, and you've got to do things a

870
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 1: little bit differently. And so I think I think the

871
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 1: biggest thing is canny do it? Yeah, the biggest question

872
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: is will he do it? You know? And that goes

873
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: with Freddy Kitchens too. I mean, he's new at this game,

874
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: you know, he's new at the head coach game and

875
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:28,879
Speaker 1: dealing with all the things that he has to deal with.

876
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:31,960
Speaker 1: And so those two guys together have not handled adversity

877
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: well at all, I don't think. And now whether that's

878
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: Freddy Kitchens just letting his quarterback know, hey, I'm the

879
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:38,360
Speaker 1: head coach and you're the quarterback, and we've got to

880
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 1: have some limits here and here's how we're going to

881
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:42,759
Speaker 1: address this thing moving forward. I don't know. I don't

882
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:44,960
Speaker 1: know have all the answers, But the question to me

883
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: in Cleveland is will those guys look in the mirror

884
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:51,200
Speaker 1: and adjust how they're dealing with adversity and move forward

885
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: in apologive direction. The way it looks right now, the

886
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,960
Speaker 1: wheels are coming off. It's just functioned throughout, and it's

887
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 1: only gonna get worse if they keep handling it the

888
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: way they're handling it. That's bye. We have him on

889
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: the air with us each and every Wednesday. He is

890
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 1: Clint Stirner. Clint, you're the absolute best, well man, Thank

891
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: you so much for being at Food Wreckers last night,

892
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:09,680
Speaker 1: and thank you so much for joining me at every

893
00:43:09,680 --> 00:43:12,399
Speaker 1: week brother you bet man, thanks for having me. Brother.

894
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: Y'all be good when we get back. How about my

895
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: good pal Andre, where join me this week? Yeah? We

896
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: kicked Mark out me Dre Next right here, Texas Auxis.

897
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:25,560
Speaker 1: We've got one hour down and one hour ago right

898
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: here in this Wednesday edition at Texans All Access from

899
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: the Hounday Texans Radio Studio. I am your host, John Harris,

900
00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: Football and Elson's Sila reporter. So glad to be with you.

901
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 1: And it's time now for our Stats Challenge, brought to

902
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: you by Slumberje. Visit Houston Texans dot com today to

903
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: register to take the stats Challenge. I saw this stat

904
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 1: today and I don't want to say it's sort of

905
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: mind blowing, but it is kind of mind blowing. I

906
00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: guess ESPM at this stat out and I mean I

907
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 1: honestly had to look at that for a little bit

908
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 1: like WHOA is that? Right? So here goes and it

909
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: pertains to three and outs the Texans. If you think

910
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,880
Speaker 1: about it, the Texans have not had a bunch of

911
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:22,359
Speaker 1: three and outs this year if you just go, yeah,

912
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 1: you know what, they haven't had a bunch of three

913
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 1: and outs. Man, there have a couple of games, but

914
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,399
Speaker 1: they didn't even punt, so they obviously have not had

915
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: three and outs. How few few three and outs have

916
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: they had, Well, they are number one in the league

917
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 1: with the fewest three and outs at seventeen point eight

918
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: percent of their drives, seventeen point eight percent of their

919
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: drives have resulted in three and outs. So that means

920
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 1: that if seventeen eighty two point two percent of their

921
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:02,920
Speaker 1: drives they've got in the first down a penalty, be

922
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:07,360
Speaker 1: a by penalty, run pass, whatever, they have eighty two

923
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 1: point two percent of their drives have resulted in a

924
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: first down, only seventeen point eight have been three and out.

925
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:21,279
Speaker 1: And I could promise you that those seventeen point eight

926
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: percent of three and outs would probably have come in

927
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 1: the first quarter first half. We did a second half look,

928
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: I guarantee you would find the Texans would have very

929
00:45:32,640 --> 00:45:35,879
Speaker 1: few three and outs in the second half, and any

930
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 1: of them that they've probably have had have been them

931
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,239
Speaker 1: just trying to kill the clock. I don't think they've

932
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: had any of them in a situation where they've been

933
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 1: behind and they've had to try and get back in

934
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 1: the game. And then they've gone a three and out

935
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:53,839
Speaker 1: seventeen point eight percent of three and outs for the

936
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 1: Texans this year, number one in the league the least

937
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,759
Speaker 1: I'm out of three and outs this season. That is

938
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: a phenomenal number. And I know my man Andre Ware

939
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:11,880
Speaker 1: would agree with me. Now, every single Wednesday, Mark Vandemer

940
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 1: comes in here and says, hey, I gotta get Dre.

941
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:15,880
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to the ball and then you can

942
00:46:15,960 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 1: use it on your show, and that's essentially what we do.

943
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: But this time I kicked Mark out of the room

944
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:23,879
Speaker 1: so I get the opportunity to talk to our good

945
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:26,719
Speaker 1: friend Andre. Where Dre, how are you doing? How do

946
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:31,479
Speaker 1: you feel coming back from London. I'm doing well now.

947
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: It's been the last couple of days. Honestly, I've been

948
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 1: kind of been a fog. So today I finally came

949
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:41,839
Speaker 1: around and finally getting back to normal somewhat that trip, Dre.

950
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 1: There's been talk about the Chargers going over to London.

951
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:47,799
Speaker 1: You obviously played in the league for a while, and

952
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:52,560
Speaker 1: you know what the toll on a body is going

953
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 1: through a long season where you gotta travel from place

954
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:59,279
Speaker 1: to place. Do you ever foresee a chance for the

955
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: NFL to create a full time team in London. I mean,

956
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:04,640
Speaker 1: do you buy any of this, The Chargers moving to London,

957
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 1: Maybe not the Chargers, but some team ever moving to

958
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:11,239
Speaker 1: London permanently. I certainly hope not, because I think it, uh,

959
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 1: you know, it kind of creates a competitive advantage for

960
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:20,720
Speaker 1: teams having to go there. If there's a home team

961
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:23,919
Speaker 1: there that's been there maybe in consecutive weeks, you've you've

962
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 1: gotten a chance to stay at home because it does

963
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 1: do a toll on your body a little bit. And

964
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 1: then you know, on the flip side, when they have

965
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: to come here, and then the time change you get.

966
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 1: I think you get a little more adapted coming this way.

967
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 1: That there's certainly losing time going to London. But I

968
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 1: certainly hope that, you know, you can, you can continue

969
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:45,839
Speaker 1: to sprinkle games in here and there. But for the

970
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:50,160
Speaker 1: most part, I hope that a team never makes London

971
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 1: it is permanent home because if it is not an easy,

972
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 1: easy way to travel and play a game. Yeah, you're

973
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 1: right about that, man. I'm I'm with you. As far

974
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 1: as the toll it took up my body, I'm still

975
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,800
Speaker 1: I'm kind of the same way. I finally realized today

976
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:07,120
Speaker 1: was Wednesday. Welcome on, Okay, it's Wednesday. This actually feels

977
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: somewhat normal. We got back in about five in the

978
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: morning on Monday. Dre Texans get away twenty six three.

979
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 1: What was your overall takeaway from the game against Jacksonville.

980
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 1: I mean, it was a big win for the team

981
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 1: to go into the bye week six and three. Was

982
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 1: there any big takeaway that you had coming out of

983
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 1: that win over Jacksonville? H yeah, that you know, they

984
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:30,359
Speaker 1: started well, they got on the board early, and then

985
00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: I put a lot of pressure on a young quarterback

986
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 1: in Gardner Minshew, and so you could tell as the

987
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 1: game progressed, he started to press a little bit more.

988
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:42,760
Speaker 1: It didn't seem like his normal self, and that's because

989
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:45,879
Speaker 1: the Texans took care business early. I thought they ran

990
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 1: the ball well, they threw it well. There was balanced

991
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,600
Speaker 1: to the offense, and where you thought there would be

992
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:54,319
Speaker 1: some concern would be on the defensive side of the

993
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: ball with starters out so many young players having to

994
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:01,800
Speaker 1: play significant minutes, but they were all over the field

995
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:06,839
Speaker 1: and hail Jacksonville to just three points. Think about that one,

996
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:10,160
Speaker 1: just three points in that ball game. I thought it

997
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 1: was a phenomenal job in one of Romeo Cornell's better

998
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 1: outing so to speak. Yeah, I'm with you. I thought

999
00:49:16,480 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 1: they that was to me the key, like we know

1000
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 1: jj wat. How would guys up front respond? And then

1001
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:24,799
Speaker 1: in the back end, you don't have Robie, you don't

1002
00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:27,680
Speaker 1: have to Sean Gibson, you know that jjos still banged up,

1003
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 1: you don't have Lonnie, and yet you have guys like

1004
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 1: Garyan Connley who's only been here for a couple of

1005
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:36,319
Speaker 1: weeks making plays. Justin Reid ends up with the pick Trey.

1006
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:39,479
Speaker 1: I think it was maybe the defense's finest hour. Maybe

1007
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: in the last few years now, they've had some good performances,

1008
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 1: but it really felt like that maybe was the defense's

1009
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 1: finest hour without what it was really it was the

1010
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 1: first game the defense was playing without Watt or Clowney,

1011
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:54,319
Speaker 1: dating all the way back to twenty ten, and it

1012
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 1: just felt like that group took over the game early

1013
00:49:57,239 --> 00:50:00,040
Speaker 1: and really just held on all the way through and

1014
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 1: then of course turned to a fourth quarter into a

1015
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 1: turnover fast. How do you think that group going forward

1016
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: is going to get better once it gets a few

1017
00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:09,800
Speaker 1: of the guys back in the back end. How do

1018
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:11,880
Speaker 1: you how do you foresee what the defense looks like

1019
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:15,360
Speaker 1: going forward, Drey. But they can continue to get pressure

1020
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 1: that takes an enormous come out of strain off the

1021
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 1: back end. So they did a nice job of that.

1022
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:26,080
Speaker 1: Of the coach Cornell did did a fabulous job in

1023
00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 1: terms of not allowing Gardener Mens you to see the

1024
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:32,799
Speaker 1: same things over and over, snap in and snap out.

1025
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:35,440
Speaker 1: He makes him his own coverages in and you know,

1026
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:38,439
Speaker 1: you know as well as I really likes and really

1027
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 1: prefers to play a lot of man and man, but

1028
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 1: he didn't in this game. He mixed coverages, he mixed fronts.

1029
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 1: He just continued to make the quarterback think. And when

1030
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:49,800
Speaker 1: you can do that, you're gonna have a great excusing

1031
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 1: a great deal of success in doing so. So I

1032
00:50:52,440 --> 00:50:54,719
Speaker 1: think when you start to get the veteran guys back,

1033
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:58,400
Speaker 1: guys that have played together mixed with some young talent,

1034
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 1: I think guy's a on the defensive side. On the

1035
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:04,160
Speaker 1: offensive side, Dre, I want to I want to focus

1036
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:06,360
Speaker 1: on to Sean. You obviously know how hard it is

1037
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 1: to play quarterback in this league. Having played in the

1038
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 1: NFL for a while, you've seen every snap. You and

1039
00:51:11,560 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 1: I and Mark have seen every single snap of his

1040
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:17,920
Speaker 1: career to this point. It feels like he's playing and

1041
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:19,840
Speaker 1: he's not. He didn't have a game in which he

1042
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,920
Speaker 1: threw for three fifty and four touchdowns, you know, like

1043
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 1: he did against Atlanta. He didn't have one of those,

1044
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:29,799
Speaker 1: you know, huge statistical days, but it just felt like

1045
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 1: he was the maestro in command of the orchestra all

1046
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 1: day long. What do you see from the Shawn this

1047
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: weekend in London and how do you foresee what he's

1048
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:39,520
Speaker 1: gonna look like you think the rest of this year?

1049
00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:44,359
Speaker 1: What I saw I was patience, a guy that he's

1050
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 1: really going. He's got the time and you have to

1051
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:49,880
Speaker 1: credit the offensive line for that. He's got time to

1052
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:52,759
Speaker 1: go through progressions to get the ball of the right

1053
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 1: spots and you know that he has he knows the

1054
00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: offense very very well because when he's when he does

1055
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 1: get him up in a buy and he knows where

1056
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:04,360
Speaker 1: to go with the football. And so you mix that

1057
00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 1: with just the ice water in his veins. I'm just

1058
00:52:08,239 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 1: not gonna lose the kind of attitude that he takes

1059
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 1: on the field each and every week. It gives you

1060
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: a chance. And I think he's grown, he's matured. I

1061
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 1: think they've done a nice job of mixing in some

1062
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:23,959
Speaker 1: RPOs in the offense with he had fails and whichever back,

1063
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:28,040
Speaker 1: whether it's high to Johnson, that's him there along with that,

1064
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:31,400
Speaker 1: whether he gives it, pulls it, throws it, that's where

1065
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 1: he is. He's comfortable. So when you're mixing stuff like

1066
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:38,840
Speaker 1: that in, his confidence grows even more because that's what

1067
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:40,879
Speaker 1: he did. He did a lot of that stuff when

1068
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 1: he was at Clemson. So you get him firmly entrenched

1069
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:46,800
Speaker 1: into a game, You're starting to see the results, and

1070
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:49,879
Speaker 1: I think it's I think sky's the limit for how

1071
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:52,399
Speaker 1: he can finish this year. Dre a few weeks ago

1072
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:56,360
Speaker 1: Tennessee decides to go with Ryan Tanne over Marcus Mariota.

1073
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 1: We get back from London. I think it was yesterday.

1074
00:52:59,080 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 1: Doug Marone in their off week decides we're gonna go

1075
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 1: back to Nick Foles instead of Gardner. Minshew A surprised,

1076
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:09,840
Speaker 1: b What do you think about that decision going forward? No,

1077
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 1: not really surprised, because you know of the inconsistency and

1078
00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: in how Minshew's played the last couple of weeks, and

1079
00:53:16,760 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 1: so you got a veteran, a guy that has won

1080
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:22,000
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl that is now coming back close to

1081
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 1: one hundred percent and h and has been practicing. You

1082
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 1: go out and you have the type of game that

1083
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 1: the Gardner Minshew had in London, where he throws a

1084
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 1: couple of pigs, he had a fumble, you know, so

1085
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 1: on and so forth. You turn it over and that's

1086
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 1: the quickest way to lose the confidence of a veteran coach,

1087
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:42,720
Speaker 1: especially when you have a veteran quarterback and a proven

1088
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:45,359
Speaker 1: when waiting in the wings. So that one, that move

1089
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: didn't surprise me. I think if he'd have played lights

1090
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: out in London and then they made this move, that

1091
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:54,360
Speaker 1: might have been that might have come as a surprise.

1092
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:57,239
Speaker 1: But the ball game he had, you could kind of

1093
00:53:57,239 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 1: see the writing on the wall. Yeah, I'm with you

1094
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:03,360
Speaker 1: on that. Other quarterback news, Cam Newton is placed on

1095
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:06,879
Speaker 1: IR and I got a text from my brother in law, Dre,

1096
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:09,319
Speaker 1: who lives in the Charlotte area, and he said, the

1097
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 1: medical people in Charlotte know that this injury is probably

1098
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:14,360
Speaker 1: a whole lot worse than the Panthers are letting on.

1099
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 1: They finally place Cam on IR and there are a

1100
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 1: lot of financial ramifications with him being let go or

1101
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: and there's no telling what is gonna take to come

1102
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:27,000
Speaker 1: back from this foot injury. I know people have mentioned

1103
00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:28,719
Speaker 1: this dre and I don't know that I buy it.

1104
00:54:28,800 --> 00:54:31,040
Speaker 1: But do you think this is the end of Cam

1105
00:54:31,040 --> 00:54:33,960
Speaker 1: Newton on the field. I don't think so, because Cam's

1106
00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:36,239
Speaker 1: a competitor. He's gonna try to fight and scratch and

1107
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:38,399
Speaker 1: get back. And I know this, he won't come back

1108
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:40,759
Speaker 1: until he's one hundred percent, So I don't know, you

1109
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:43,200
Speaker 1: know exactly what the timetable is. I think we see

1110
00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:46,560
Speaker 1: him again now. The question, a million dollar question, is

1111
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:48,800
Speaker 1: do we see him again in Carolina because they're getting

1112
00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 1: some outstanding quarterback play from Kyle Allen, who is just

1113
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:55,720
Speaker 1: kind of holding down the floor and doing a handle

1114
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 1: a job and winning games you know here, and then

1115
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 1: he's got him in a competitive each and every week,

1116
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 1: and so I think his teammates believe in him. I

1117
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 1: think you know that he is playing with a great

1118
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: deal of confidence each and every week that he gets

1119
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:11,800
Speaker 1: a chance to go out on the field. So that's

1120
00:55:11,840 --> 00:55:15,600
Speaker 1: the question is do we see Cam in Charlotte again,

1121
00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 1: playing for or in Carolina playing for the Panthers, rather

1122
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:23,799
Speaker 1: than maybe playing in in another uniform in years to come.

1123
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 1: Here's one that maybe Sean Pendergast brought this up, and

1124
00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:31,319
Speaker 1: it made me choking my chocolate milk this morning. What

1125
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:33,920
Speaker 1: about the Tennessee Titans. I was like, oh, I almost

1126
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 1: drove off the road. It's like, no, I don't think

1127
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:38,200
Speaker 1: Tennessee would do it. I think Tennessee would want to

1128
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:40,840
Speaker 1: have a rookie quarterback they could build with, like the

1129
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 1: Texans have with the Sean and like the Chiefs had

1130
00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:47,560
Speaker 1: with Patrick Mahomes. But Tennessee Titans with Cam Newton. Oh

1131
00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:51,120
Speaker 1: my god. Yeah, And it seems like the landing spot

1132
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:54,080
Speaker 1: because if you look around in the league, everybody else

1133
00:55:54,080 --> 00:55:59,040
Speaker 1: pretty much has that that position kind of locked up,

1134
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 1: and and what's some younger players with the exception of

1135
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 1: maybe New England, but we know who's Who's King of

1136
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:06,279
Speaker 1: the Hill. There's not going It doesn't seem to be

1137
00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:09,480
Speaker 1: going anywhere anytime soon. So you start to look around

1138
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:12,520
Speaker 1: from Jacksonville. Maybe if they want to move on from Poles,

1139
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 1: or if Poles gets hurt again and they start to

1140
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,720
Speaker 1: believe that maybe you know, they can't keep him healthy,

1141
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 1: so they need to go in a different direction. So

1142
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 1: it's within the division that you may may look, I

1143
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:28,760
Speaker 1: mean Indianapolis. If Berset doesn't work out, you know, that's

1144
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 1: that's kind of a far stretch because I think Jacobe

1145
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:34,560
Speaker 1: will be fine there. But there are three teams within

1146
00:56:34,600 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 1: the division that just don't have the type of cemented

1147
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:41,280
Speaker 1: quarterback that we have here in Houston and the luxury

1148
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 1: of being able to depend on a guy weekend and

1149
00:56:44,040 --> 00:56:46,360
Speaker 1: week out, and so you start to shop, what's the

1150
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:49,319
Speaker 1: best option with a healthy Cam Newton is going to

1151
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:52,440
Speaker 1: be a healthy option and a better option than you know,

1152
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:55,040
Speaker 1: anybody that you can go get in the draft. I'm

1153
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:56,799
Speaker 1: glad I'm talking to you, not Mark, because I think

1154
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:58,719
Speaker 1: Mark would have vomited at that point if you thought

1155
00:56:58,719 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 1: of Cam Newton in Indianapolis. I know that you, my friend,

1156
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 1: are heading up into my old neck of the woods

1157
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 1: in some sense. With what you're doing this weekend, I

1158
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 1: think you have one of the cooler opportunities this weekend.

1159
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:12,280
Speaker 1: What are you covering in college football? Yeah? I actually

1160
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 1: get to see two undefeated teams, the IVY League teams

1161
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:19,720
Speaker 1: in Dartmouth and Princeton, And it's just kind of remarkable

1162
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 1: what Princeton and Bob Says has been able to do

1163
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 1: with that program. They lost so many starters on both

1164
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 1: sides of the ball. After going undefeated in twenty eighteen,

1165
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 1: they are right back there again. I think they've won

1166
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:37,920
Speaker 1: seventeen in a row and undefeated this year. Dartmouth had

1167
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: to pull out a big one last week against Harvard

1168
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 1: with a hail Mary, winning that one nine to six

1169
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 1: to remain undefeated. So these two meet last year with

1170
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:51,160
Speaker 1: the heck of a ball game. I'm expecting the same thing.

1171
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:53,680
Speaker 1: And the icing on the cake for me is that

1172
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:57,120
Speaker 1: they're both playing in Yankee Stadium up from the Bronx

1173
00:57:57,200 --> 00:58:00,840
Speaker 1: in New York. So it's I'm looking totally looking forward

1174
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:03,240
Speaker 1: to it, can't wait to get there and and certainly

1175
00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:06,120
Speaker 1: can't wait to do this game. I mean, just the

1176
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:09,560
Speaker 1: IVY League game alone should have been the appetizer, the

1177
00:58:09,680 --> 00:58:12,160
Speaker 1: entre and a dessert. But you're throwing Yankee Stadium on

1178
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:14,560
Speaker 1: top of it, Man, Drey, that is really that is

1179
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:17,240
Speaker 1: really cool. That's one my man. I can answer my

1180
00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:20,160
Speaker 1: bugging list and say I called the game in Yankee Stadium.

1181
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 1: That is gonna be That's gonna be awesome. I mean,

1182
00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 1: of course, the IVY League is the part that gets me.

1183
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:28,880
Speaker 1: But you know, you know high rolled. Anyways, Drey, You're

1184
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:31,520
Speaker 1: the absolute best ball man. Enjoy it, Enjoy the off week.

1185
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:33,440
Speaker 1: Travel safe. We'll talk to you when you get back.

1186
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:36,479
Speaker 1: Brother all rybody appreciate it and see you soon. Coming

1187
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:40,800
Speaker 1: up next, got a little audio jukebox from our coaching staff.

1188
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:45,720
Speaker 1: Yesterday the assistant coaches met with the media and Drew

1189
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:48,120
Speaker 1: Dorty was there to capture it all. So we'll have

1190
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 1: a little bit of Jrew Dorty audio jukebox with our

1191
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 1: assistant coaches next right here in Texans Access. One of

1192
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:55,960
Speaker 1: my favorite times of the year is the off week,

1193
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 1: the bye week. I love this time of year because

1194
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:02,960
Speaker 1: not that I don't. I mean, it's weird when we

1195
00:59:03,000 --> 00:59:05,840
Speaker 1: don't have football, trust me. But one of the things

1196
00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 1: that happens during the off week is we get a

1197
00:59:08,120 --> 00:59:11,720
Speaker 1: chance to talk to the assistant coaches. Now, we see

1198
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:14,200
Speaker 1: the assistant coaches all the time. We see him in

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00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 1: the building, but we don't get an opportunity to talk

1200
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 1: to him in an official capacity, getting him on the mic,

1201
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:22,000
Speaker 1: getting them recorded, using them on the shows, etc. We

1202
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 1: usually see him and a lot of times don't even

1203
00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:26,600
Speaker 1: talking about football. A lot of times I see John

1204
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:28,680
Speaker 1: Perry wider Schiever's coach. I ask him how his brother's doing,

1205
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 1: because his brother, James, his head coach at my alma mater,

1206
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:37,400
Speaker 1: and James is all Mater Brown University, and John's nephew,

1207
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:40,760
Speaker 1: EJ is a starting quarterback, so EJ is an f

1208
00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 1: you also have James. So I talked to coach Perry

1209
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:45,480
Speaker 1: about that. I very rarely will talk to the coaching

1210
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 1: staff about the things that are happening on the field.

1211
00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:50,400
Speaker 1: I mean, I see Anthony Weaver. I mean we talk

1212
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:53,400
Speaker 1: about everything but football for the most part. We known

1213
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:55,120
Speaker 1: each other for a long time. We did radio together

1214
00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 1: a long time ago. We used to cut it up

1215
00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 1: over at Raged Cage and doing radio a long time ago.

1216
00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:01,160
Speaker 1: So we don't need to talk about football. But during

1217
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:03,560
Speaker 1: the off week or the bye week, we get an

1218
01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:06,000
Speaker 1: opportunity to talk to the coach we had. Tim Kelly

1219
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 1: earlier had a long interview with him as he came

1220
01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 1: in studio with me and Mark Drew Dorry had a

1221
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:14,959
Speaker 1: chance to catch up with Will Long, tight ends coach,

1222
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:19,520
Speaker 1: and offensive line coach Mike Devlon. Let's start with Will Long.

1223
01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:22,120
Speaker 1: His first year as tight ends coach, he had been

1224
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 1: an offensive assistant for the last couple of years. He'd

1225
01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:28,440
Speaker 1: been defensive assistant up up to that point. And what

1226
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:30,640
Speaker 1: I always thought was interesting is where we saw Mike Rabel,

1227
01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:33,160
Speaker 1: you saw Will Long, and then Will jumped over the

1228
01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:35,800
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball. And then when Tim Kelly

1229
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:38,480
Speaker 1: was promoted up to offensive coordinator, Will moved over and

1230
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:40,640
Speaker 1: started coaching at tight ends. He talked about a group

1231
01:00:40,680 --> 01:00:43,400
Speaker 1: that's doing a whale of a job this year. The

1232
01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 1: tight ends have just been absolutely crushing it, and they're

1233
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:50,720
Speaker 1: getting obviously some great coaching from Will Long, who's got

1234
01:00:50,800 --> 01:00:53,439
Speaker 1: a great future in this business. As I mentioned earlier

1235
01:00:53,440 --> 01:00:55,960
Speaker 1: about Tim Kelly, I think the same goes for Will Long,

1236
01:00:56,080 --> 01:00:57,560
Speaker 1: and Drew had a chance to catch up with him

1237
01:00:57,680 --> 01:01:00,920
Speaker 1: earlier this week. You guys are really producing at the

1238
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 1: tight end spot, really producing as an offense. But what

1239
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:05,520
Speaker 1: have you seen there from Fells and for Makings. It's

1240
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 1: a kind of a luxury for you as a tight

1241
01:01:07,520 --> 01:01:09,360
Speaker 1: ends coach to have these two, isn't it. Yeah, they're

1242
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:11,360
Speaker 1: doing a great job. Everything we ask him to do,

1243
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:13,920
Speaker 1: run game, pass game, they do it. They do a

1244
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:16,400
Speaker 1: good job with that. You know, Fellas has been a

1245
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:19,520
Speaker 1: good addition as far as being a mentor for the

1246
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:23,120
Speaker 1: younger guys. So we're fortunate to have that. But really

1247
01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:24,520
Speaker 1: everything we asked him to do that do a nice

1248
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:26,920
Speaker 1: job of. So speaking of fellas, when he signed and

1249
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:29,120
Speaker 1: we spoke with him early on, he kind of joked, hey,

1250
01:01:29,160 --> 01:01:31,680
Speaker 1: I'm a left left tackle and I'm a right right tackle,

1251
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:33,680
Speaker 1: and he was described as a blocking tight end and

1252
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:36,120
Speaker 1: he is all those things. Let's talk first about the blocking,

1253
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:38,000
Speaker 1: but also talk about him catching the ball. But first

1254
01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:40,400
Speaker 1: his blocking. What does that meant for this offense? Huge?

1255
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:43,120
Speaker 1: He provides a big bonus to having a run game

1256
01:01:43,120 --> 01:01:44,960
Speaker 1: because he can he can do some good things on

1257
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:48,400
Speaker 1: the edge for us. He's disciplined with his footwork, pad level,

1258
01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:52,160
Speaker 1: hand placement, those things. It's easy as your coach to

1259
01:01:52,240 --> 01:01:54,440
Speaker 1: sit there and tell guys what to do, but when

1260
01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:56,160
Speaker 1: you have a guy like him and say, hey, watch

1261
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 1: this guy do it is beneficial for the rest of

1262
01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:01,080
Speaker 1: the guys. And how beneficial it for you when you

1263
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 1: have a guy like that who can do those things.

1264
01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:05,480
Speaker 1: But you also have the knowledge that he's actually been

1265
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:09,400
Speaker 1: a professional in another sport in different environments overseas like

1266
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:12,240
Speaker 1: he has. I mean, that's life lesson stuff that you

1267
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:15,440
Speaker 1: just you don't really even see very commonly right here,

1268
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:18,920
Speaker 1: do you now? And he handles all kinds of different

1269
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:21,040
Speaker 1: environments very well, Like we just went over there and

1270
01:02:21,080 --> 01:02:23,880
Speaker 1: played in London. He's played basketball's overseas, he's done that

1271
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:26,640
Speaker 1: traveling and he's used to that. So he shares those

1272
01:02:26,680 --> 01:02:29,080
Speaker 1: experiences with the group too, and they feed off that

1273
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:32,000
Speaker 1: you mentioned big bonus in the blocking game. You didn't

1274
01:02:32,040 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 1: know or could you have foreseen six touchdowns at this

1275
01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:36,800
Speaker 1: juncture him catching the ball. You know, I don't put

1276
01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:39,680
Speaker 1: a number on anything. I think when the balls come

1277
01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:43,160
Speaker 1: his way. He's taken advantage of those opportunities. So I

1278
01:02:43,240 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 1: mean we put game plans together and plays developed, and

1279
01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:50,080
Speaker 1: teams play certain coverages, and there's times where he's been

1280
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:51,640
Speaker 1: the guy who's needed to make the play, and he's

1281
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:53,720
Speaker 1: made the play a lot of times. So Aikins is

1282
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:55,160
Speaker 1: a few years younger, but in a lot of ways

1283
01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:57,720
Speaker 1: has a lot of those similarities off the field to Felas,

1284
01:02:57,760 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 1: what have you seen in his development so far? In

1285
01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 1: or two as an NFL player, He's progressed. His knowledge

1286
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:07,000
Speaker 1: of defense has really it started to advance, understanding how

1287
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:10,600
Speaker 1: to attack defenders. Whether he's the blocks we ask him

1288
01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:13,440
Speaker 1: to execute the routes we ask him to run. Just

1289
01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 1: his knowledge of the offense as well is knowing his assignments.

1290
01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:19,840
Speaker 1: He's taking a step and he's made some plays for

1291
01:03:19,920 --> 01:03:22,320
Speaker 1: us too. So it's been pleasing to see how much

1292
01:03:22,360 --> 01:03:25,000
Speaker 1: of some of this has been Deshaun Watson's growth as

1293
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:27,280
Speaker 1: a quarterback and integrating different parts of the offense because

1294
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:28,960
Speaker 1: they didn't see the tight ends get involved as much

1295
01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 1: last year, but it's truly happening this year. Deshaun is

1296
01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:35,880
Speaker 1: a phenomenal playmaker and we all know as an offense,

1297
01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:38,960
Speaker 1: the plays never over with him. So those guys do

1298
01:03:39,040 --> 01:03:41,560
Speaker 1: a good job if they're not open initially, like trying

1299
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 1: to ways to get open. He's gotta walk a little

1300
01:03:43,520 --> 01:03:46,439
Speaker 1: bit longer sometimes if we're asking protection, because he's gonna

1301
01:03:46,440 --> 01:03:48,480
Speaker 1: make plays happen, and he does a great job disperson

1302
01:03:48,520 --> 01:03:50,720
Speaker 1: the ball to everybody. Haven't had a chance to see

1303
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:53,440
Speaker 1: Calli Wearing and Jordan Thomas because they've been on IR.

1304
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:56,439
Speaker 1: What's the challenge for you when guys are on IR

1305
01:03:56,520 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 1: and you're not as able to work with them as

1306
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:00,919
Speaker 1: much as you could, and how are they coming along

1307
01:04:01,160 --> 01:04:03,040
Speaker 1: in your estimation? You just got to keep them engaged.

1308
01:04:03,240 --> 01:04:05,120
Speaker 1: Tell them you know your time's coming, You're gonna get

1309
01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:08,000
Speaker 1: an opportunity, and they understand that. Really every day here

1310
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:10,640
Speaker 1: in this buildings an opportunity. So I think they're doing

1311
01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:13,280
Speaker 1: a good job taking advantage of everything that's asked to them.

1312
01:04:13,360 --> 01:04:15,560
Speaker 1: Day by day, we're working out, trying to stay in

1313
01:04:15,680 --> 01:04:18,280
Speaker 1: touch with the offense and as we develop as an offense,

1314
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 1: learning it so that if their time does come, they're

1315
01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:23,480
Speaker 1: ready to step in and make play. Bye week is

1316
01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 1: obviously a different one for coaches. You don't just take

1317
01:04:26,320 --> 01:04:28,080
Speaker 1: off and come back in a week. How does the

1318
01:04:28,200 --> 01:04:30,640
Speaker 1: role change for you guys with the buy? You know,

1319
01:04:30,720 --> 01:04:32,240
Speaker 1: in the buy we could do a lot of self scout,

1320
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:34,280
Speaker 1: see what things we need to improve on, things we're

1321
01:04:34,320 --> 01:04:38,200
Speaker 1: doing well, and just branch our offense from where we've

1322
01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:41,240
Speaker 1: things we've done so far to get better as we

1323
01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:44,400
Speaker 1: go forward. That was Will Long tight Ends coach doing

1324
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:47,400
Speaker 1: a great job with Darren Fells and Jordan Nakins. And

1325
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:49,560
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, for the first day of OTAs that

1326
01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:55,440
Speaker 1: group has just really played well. And I think I

1327
01:04:55,520 --> 01:04:57,400
Speaker 1: heard a couple of coaches say this in these assistant

1328
01:04:57,400 --> 01:05:00,720
Speaker 1: coach interviews. The tight Ends have really earned the trust

1329
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:05,200
Speaker 1: of DeShawn Watson. And look, not that Deshaun is territorial like, no, no,

1330
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:08,560
Speaker 1: I'm only going towards this, But earning a quarterbacks trust

1331
01:05:08,680 --> 01:05:11,560
Speaker 1: is a big deal, a huge deal, and I think

1332
01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:14,600
Speaker 1: the tight ends, both of them have definitely done that

1333
01:05:14,840 --> 01:05:18,160
Speaker 1: this year. Now, another group in which Deshaun has to

1334
01:05:18,240 --> 01:05:20,920
Speaker 1: earn that trust of them is the offensive line. And

1335
01:05:21,080 --> 01:05:24,440
Speaker 1: this group has come leaps and bounds beyond where it was.

1336
01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:27,560
Speaker 1: Two rookies added to the mix, Laremy Tutsill traded for

1337
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 1: a week before the opener. How are you gonna put

1338
01:05:31,120 --> 01:05:33,720
Speaker 1: it all together? Well, one man was really given the

1339
01:05:33,760 --> 01:05:37,840
Speaker 1: opportunity to mold that group, and he has done a

1340
01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:41,560
Speaker 1: fabulous job this year, and that's offensive line coach Mike Devlin.

1341
01:05:42,040 --> 01:05:44,680
Speaker 1: And Drew caught up with death earlier this week. Nine

1342
01:05:44,720 --> 01:05:47,680
Speaker 1: weeks in. You guys, it's clear the improvement has happened.

1343
01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:49,280
Speaker 1: What have you thought about the improvement for week one?

1344
01:05:49,320 --> 01:05:51,640
Speaker 1: And now? Yeah, I think you know, everybody's been coming in.

1345
01:05:51,720 --> 01:05:55,919
Speaker 1: I'm working hard and learning about each other, learning about

1346
01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:59,840
Speaker 1: the system, and trying to you know, set goals a

1347
01:06:00,160 --> 01:06:02,920
Speaker 1: week to try to improve and and so I've been

1348
01:06:03,160 --> 01:06:05,840
Speaker 1: pleased with the work ethic and and you know how

1349
01:06:05,880 --> 01:06:07,920
Speaker 1: hard they're working. How much of a luxury is it

1350
01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:10,440
Speaker 1: for you to get a guy like Laramie Tunsel before

1351
01:06:10,480 --> 01:06:13,960
Speaker 1: week one? Obviously he's he's a guy that can win

1352
01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:17,680
Speaker 1: the one on one matchups outside and so anytime you

1353
01:06:17,800 --> 01:06:20,520
Speaker 1: have that in this league, it's it's a plus. That's

1354
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:22,720
Speaker 1: a plus, clearly. But how much of a challenge is

1355
01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:24,440
Speaker 1: it when you get a player that late in the

1356
01:06:24,520 --> 01:06:26,959
Speaker 1: in the going, well, like anything, you know, it takes

1357
01:06:27,040 --> 01:06:29,760
Speaker 1: time to build offensive line and come together to know

1358
01:06:29,920 --> 01:06:33,160
Speaker 1: each other, and it's really about them working together, you know.

1359
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 1: And so but like I said, they come in, they

1360
01:06:36,840 --> 01:06:40,240
Speaker 1: watch film together, they all work hard on the practice field,

1361
01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:42,680
Speaker 1: they communicate. So when you when you have that, you

1362
01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:46,240
Speaker 1: have a chance to improve left to right the combination

1363
01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:49,480
Speaker 1: you have. Now, when did that kind of take shape

1364
01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 1: and have you say Okay, this is the way we

1365
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:52,680
Speaker 1: want to do because there was some mix in the

1366
01:06:52,760 --> 01:06:56,000
Speaker 1: matching throughout OTAs, throughout training, camping in the early going. Yeah,

1367
01:06:56,120 --> 01:06:58,880
Speaker 1: I think you know, philosophy wise, and this is you know,

1368
01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:02,080
Speaker 1: because everyone always ask that question. It's the reason why

1369
01:07:02,280 --> 01:07:05,560
Speaker 1: we move people around all the time because of the injuries.

1370
01:07:05,840 --> 01:07:07,760
Speaker 1: And then you know, unfortunately you don't want it to

1371
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:11,800
Speaker 1: come to fruition, but it has, and so I kind

1372
01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:15,000
Speaker 1: of it gives you the opportunity to move guys around,

1373
01:07:15,040 --> 01:07:16,480
Speaker 1: and then in the end, I think they kind of

1374
01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:19,960
Speaker 1: settle into the real what is their best role, what

1375
01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:21,920
Speaker 1: if you like so far, and what needs to get

1376
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:23,640
Speaker 1: better for the two rookies that are starting for you.

1377
01:07:24,080 --> 01:07:27,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I think overall, just as a group, obviously

1378
01:07:27,400 --> 01:07:30,040
Speaker 1: we got to the pre snap penalties. We got to continue,

1379
01:07:30,080 --> 01:07:31,320
Speaker 1: we have to improve on that. We just have to

1380
01:07:31,360 --> 01:07:34,160
Speaker 1: be more disciplined. From the rookie standpoint, I think every

1381
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:38,000
Speaker 1: week they're learning curve. But again, their approach, what I've

1382
01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:40,840
Speaker 1: liked is it's like they've never let one play affect them.

1383
01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:43,720
Speaker 1: I haven't seen a lot of letting that want that

1384
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:47,480
Speaker 1: one thing creep up again. So I like that mentality.

1385
01:07:47,760 --> 01:07:50,360
Speaker 1: They're all working hard and being good teammates and studying

1386
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:53,680
Speaker 1: their butts off. And I don't think they they think

1387
01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:57,400
Speaker 1: they're anything and special and by any means, and I

1388
01:07:57,520 --> 01:07:59,960
Speaker 1: think they go out there to try to do their job.

1389
01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 1: Him Whin. We hear all the time about Nick Martin's leadership,

1390
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:05,240
Speaker 1: How do you see that on the field, and how

1391
01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:06,800
Speaker 1: do you see that in the training room, in the

1392
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:08,920
Speaker 1: locker room, in the film room. Yeah. So, and his

1393
01:08:09,040 --> 01:08:12,960
Speaker 1: leadership to as far as communication, it's a center around

1394
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:15,959
Speaker 1: the league is as critical his knowledge of like really

1395
01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:18,680
Speaker 1: everything that's going on, right, I mean, you got the

1396
01:08:18,760 --> 01:08:22,080
Speaker 1: quarterback and then the center really has to have that

1397
01:08:22,520 --> 01:08:24,920
Speaker 1: type of knowledge. So I think his communication to everybody

1398
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:27,479
Speaker 1: and getting him on the same page. So that's on

1399
01:08:27,600 --> 01:08:29,880
Speaker 1: the field, I think, go off the field, He's always

1400
01:08:29,920 --> 01:08:32,599
Speaker 1: pulled them together for extra film sessions, so they're all

1401
01:08:32,600 --> 01:08:35,280
Speaker 1: on the same page, talking the same language. Stretch, run,

1402
01:08:35,320 --> 01:08:36,519
Speaker 1: What do you guys have to do as a unit?

1403
01:08:37,120 --> 01:08:39,120
Speaker 1: As a unit? Went again, we have to stop the

1404
01:08:39,280 --> 01:08:43,800
Speaker 1: pre snap penalties. We have to continue to run the ball,

1405
01:08:44,240 --> 01:08:47,960
Speaker 1: and we have to always, always, always continue to try

1406
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:51,280
Speaker 1: to protect better. Right to Shaun, who's magical. It's funny.

1407
01:08:51,320 --> 01:08:53,840
Speaker 1: I was actually thinking about the offensive line today as

1408
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:56,639
Speaker 1: I was driving in and thinking about two rookies being

1409
01:08:56,680 --> 01:09:00,280
Speaker 1: an offensive line and Titus Howard and Max Sharping and

1410
01:09:00,760 --> 01:09:04,559
Speaker 1: how different they are as players get when it comes

1411
01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:08,240
Speaker 1: to mentality. You know, Titys has probably got a little

1412
01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:10,320
Speaker 1: bit more edge to him than Max does. But those

1413
01:09:10,360 --> 01:09:12,519
Speaker 1: are two guys you don't mess with that on a field.

1414
01:09:12,920 --> 01:09:15,920
Speaker 1: You don't mess with those two guys. I just love

1415
01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:18,240
Speaker 1: the mentality that they bring, just kind of hard hat

1416
01:09:18,280 --> 01:09:20,240
Speaker 1: and lunch pale. You know. Then we got the OLPC,

1417
01:09:20,320 --> 01:09:22,360
Speaker 1: the lunch pale crew, but those guys in the offensive

1418
01:09:22,360 --> 01:09:25,400
Speaker 1: line epitomize that as well, got Zack Fulton, Nick Martin.

1419
01:09:25,439 --> 01:09:26,840
Speaker 1: I mean, those guys don't say a whole heck of

1420
01:09:26,880 --> 01:09:29,800
Speaker 1: a lot. In fact, during a game on Sunday, Nick

1421
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:33,000
Speaker 1: was really upset about something in talking to the officials.

1422
01:09:33,080 --> 01:09:35,680
Speaker 1: I had never seen him like that, And when I

1423
01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:37,360
Speaker 1: went back and I watched the film, I realized why.

1424
01:09:37,840 --> 01:09:40,400
Speaker 1: Because Miles Jack had flown into a pile late and

1425
01:09:40,640 --> 01:09:43,640
Speaker 1: speared somebody and just and I don't remember if it

1426
01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:45,360
Speaker 1: was Carlos or if it was dude, but it was

1427
01:09:45,360 --> 01:09:47,800
Speaker 1: a run play and he's flew in his spirits somebody. Man.

1428
01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:50,080
Speaker 1: It's set Nick. I've never seen him like that on

1429
01:09:50,160 --> 01:09:53,559
Speaker 1: a football field ever. But that quintet has played very,

1430
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:56,280
Speaker 1: very well together, and it's gonna be great when they

1431
01:09:56,360 --> 01:09:59,080
Speaker 1: can get all the pieces back together after the bye,

1432
01:09:59,439 --> 01:10:01,639
Speaker 1: which means Larimie Tutso will come back at that left

1433
01:10:01,680 --> 01:10:04,360
Speaker 1: tackle position. But Chris Clark and Rod Johnson did a

1434
01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:06,200
Speaker 1: solid job holding it down a left tackle with the

1435
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:09,240
Speaker 1: rotation they had going over there, Larie Tutso makes all

1436
01:10:09,280 --> 01:10:10,800
Speaker 1: the difference in the world. And why do I bring

1437
01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:12,599
Speaker 1: up belt? Well, first of all, we're talking off it's

1438
01:10:12,640 --> 01:10:15,519
Speaker 1: a line. Secondly, he sat down with dpcit earlier and

1439
01:10:15,640 --> 01:10:17,960
Speaker 1: we're gonna have that for you next right here on

1440
01:10:18,120 --> 01:10:21,479
Speaker 1: Texans All Access one final segment of this edition of

1441
01:10:21,640 --> 01:10:25,759
Speaker 1: Texans All Access. I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst

1442
01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:31,840
Speaker 1: and sideline reporter for your Houston Texans. And these next

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01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:37,599
Speaker 1: gen stats are powered by a w S. What next

1444
01:10:37,680 --> 01:10:41,760
Speaker 1: gen stats? How about this one? Darren Fells six touchdowns

1445
01:10:41,880 --> 01:10:46,240
Speaker 1: on the year. That ties a team record for a

1446
01:10:46,400 --> 01:10:51,360
Speaker 1: single season touchdown reception record. He's got six ties in

1447
01:10:51,439 --> 01:10:54,280
Speaker 1: with Joel Dreeson in twenty eleven, O Daniels in twenty twelve,

1448
01:10:54,680 --> 01:10:58,519
Speaker 1: and Darren Fells has seven games left to go. How

1449
01:10:58,560 --> 01:11:02,000
Speaker 1: about that? How about that from a left left tackle,

1450
01:11:02,040 --> 01:11:05,840
Speaker 1: as you called himself. Pretty amazing to think about. Now,

1451
01:11:05,960 --> 01:11:10,720
Speaker 1: speaking of left tackles, our left tackle Laramie Tunsel LT

1452
01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:14,080
Speaker 1: at LT sat down with our own dep city and

1453
01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:16,800
Speaker 1: did a little one on one sponsored by xffinity. It's

1454
01:11:16,840 --> 01:11:18,760
Speaker 1: a deep slant one on one percent of byxffinity. Our

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01:11:18,760 --> 01:11:21,720
Speaker 1: guest this week, left Tackle Laramie Tunsel. Laramie, Welcome to

1456
01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:24,040
Speaker 1: the studio. Glad to be here. Have you ever been

1457
01:11:24,080 --> 01:11:27,280
Speaker 1: on the side of the whole? Dame? Never? All? Right?

1458
01:11:27,360 --> 01:11:29,680
Speaker 1: Starting left Tackle? You're amazing. We all know that, but

1459
01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:31,600
Speaker 1: I feel like people really want to know who the

1460
01:11:31,720 --> 01:11:34,320
Speaker 1: real Laramie is. Do it? So the first day that

1461
01:11:34,400 --> 01:11:36,800
Speaker 1: you actually spoke to the media, you're wearing your Guns

1462
01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:39,320
Speaker 1: and Roses nineteen ninety two tour shirt. And I don't

1463
01:11:39,320 --> 01:11:41,840
Speaker 1: know if you know this, but the media like fell

1464
01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:45,439
Speaker 1: in love with you really, but not so much that

1465
01:11:45,680 --> 01:11:47,920
Speaker 1: I mean I think everything like just how you were

1466
01:11:48,040 --> 01:11:50,760
Speaker 1: with them. And you know your music. You've talked about

1467
01:11:50,760 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 1: your taste in music. Pink Floyd is one of your favorites. Floyd?

1468
01:11:55,040 --> 01:11:58,320
Speaker 1: Is that your favorite than its Pink Floyd? Then probably

1469
01:11:58,360 --> 01:12:01,840
Speaker 1: system of a doubt that with a heavy metal can

1470
01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:03,960
Speaker 1: I ask you You've got this like Mount Rushmore of

1471
01:12:04,439 --> 01:12:06,880
Speaker 1: music artists on your back. Who I mean, I don't

1472
01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:10,520
Speaker 1: want to stare, but who are they? Because I Hendricks okay, Tupop,

1473
01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:14,400
Speaker 1: Bob Marley and Prince Okay. So those are your top

1474
01:12:15,479 --> 01:12:18,559
Speaker 1: top top four and the top genres. I like hip hop,

1475
01:12:18,720 --> 01:12:22,680
Speaker 1: rock RB. Okay, your musical taste is pretty varied, and

1476
01:12:22,760 --> 01:12:26,360
Speaker 1: you like some old school stuff like you do. You're

1477
01:12:26,400 --> 01:12:28,720
Speaker 1: like an old soul. How did you get into that

1478
01:12:28,840 --> 01:12:30,200
Speaker 1: kind of I don't know. It kind of just like

1479
01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:32,880
Speaker 1: came to me when I was in college. It's funny

1480
01:12:32,920 --> 01:12:34,880
Speaker 1: to say, because I really wasn't like this in high school.

1481
01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:37,280
Speaker 1: What did you like in high school? Straight hip hop?

1482
01:12:38,240 --> 01:12:40,000
Speaker 1: Straight hip hop? And then when I got to college,

1483
01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:43,439
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just started loving old schools. I

1484
01:12:43,439 --> 01:12:46,720
Speaker 1: don't know, it's weird. Yeah, I think it fits your personality.

1485
01:12:46,800 --> 01:12:48,880
Speaker 1: I did some digging on you, so don't be freaked

1486
01:12:48,920 --> 01:12:51,560
Speaker 1: up on my stocking skills. I found that your go

1487
01:12:51,720 --> 01:12:56,880
Speaker 1: to karaoke song is shod a Ordinary Love. That is

1488
01:12:56,960 --> 01:13:01,479
Speaker 1: my favorite, but I can't really picture you singing it

1489
01:13:01,600 --> 01:13:09,240
Speaker 1: because we gotta have a karaoke night like we are doing. So. Yeah,

1490
01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:12,280
Speaker 1: The Greatest Hits is actually one of my most favorite album.

1491
01:13:12,720 --> 01:13:16,240
Speaker 1: Of course, so in sports, if you had to do amount,

1492
01:13:16,320 --> 01:13:19,560
Speaker 1: rushmore of athletes on your back is basketball? Just like

1493
01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:22,080
Speaker 1: this can be whatever you want. I won't even like

1494
01:13:22,200 --> 01:13:26,320
Speaker 1: limited to NFL football it's tough. I don't even watch

1495
01:13:26,320 --> 01:13:30,479
Speaker 1: sports like that. But do you watch any other sports?

1496
01:13:30,520 --> 01:13:32,519
Speaker 1: Like in your free time? Basketball? But not like that?

1497
01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:37,080
Speaker 1: Like you're not a die hard fan. Did you play

1498
01:13:37,080 --> 01:13:39,519
Speaker 1: a lot of sports growing up? I play basketball and

1499
01:13:39,600 --> 01:13:42,280
Speaker 1: football as a main one in high school? Yes? Did

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01:13:42,360 --> 01:13:44,800
Speaker 1: you do track as well? I did shot put my

1501
01:13:44,960 --> 01:13:47,160
Speaker 1: sophomore year, but they didn't work out well, it didn't.

1502
01:13:48,160 --> 01:13:49,960
Speaker 1: I was throwing like a thirty six and I think

1503
01:13:50,040 --> 01:13:53,519
Speaker 1: people above me was throwing like fifties. So why why

1504
01:13:53,560 --> 01:13:55,160
Speaker 1: did the basketball thing not work out? How did you?

1505
01:13:55,280 --> 01:13:58,439
Speaker 1: How did you go football over basketball? Uh? If I

1506
01:13:58,479 --> 01:14:00,000
Speaker 1: would have made it to the NBA, I've been playing

1507
01:14:00,200 --> 01:14:03,760
Speaker 1: point guard. So that's one thing I stopped. I want

1508
01:14:03,760 --> 01:14:06,840
Speaker 1: to be a point guard. What did you want to be? Center?

1509
01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:11,559
Speaker 1: Wanted to be Okay? Oh day? But six or five?

1510
01:14:11,720 --> 01:14:14,200
Speaker 1: You for sure get to the NBA playing point guard.

1511
01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:16,000
Speaker 1: How tall were you in high school? When're playing bast

1512
01:14:16,240 --> 01:14:18,720
Speaker 1: six six three six four? So you were like one more?

1513
01:14:18,760 --> 01:14:22,160
Speaker 1: All right? So you go to Old Miss, I feel

1514
01:14:22,160 --> 01:14:24,280
Speaker 1: like I would picture you more of a California guy.

1515
01:14:24,400 --> 01:14:26,519
Speaker 1: But how did you end up? Like? I like Callie?

1516
01:14:26,600 --> 01:14:31,000
Speaker 1: But I actually had an official visit to Old Miss

1517
01:14:31,479 --> 01:14:34,320
Speaker 1: and Robert Kimdic and LaQuan Tred what was there? And

1518
01:14:34,479 --> 01:14:37,240
Speaker 1: we came. We got there, we sat down this little room.

1519
01:14:37,280 --> 01:14:39,560
Speaker 1: We was all talking, was like, while we go to

1520
01:14:39,680 --> 01:14:42,200
Speaker 1: Alabama or Georgia, we could just come to Old Miss

1521
01:14:42,240 --> 01:14:44,760
Speaker 1: and just change the program around. Okay, And that's one

1522
01:14:44,800 --> 01:14:47,760
Speaker 1: thing we did. Be Alabama do a lot of teams.

1523
01:14:47,800 --> 01:14:49,840
Speaker 1: We unfortunately we didn't win the championship, but we won

1524
01:14:49,920 --> 01:14:51,760
Speaker 1: both games. So the goal was to beat a really

1525
01:14:51,840 --> 01:14:54,320
Speaker 1: good team like now, just to brain that program to

1526
01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:55,880
Speaker 1: the top. And I think that's what we did. Did

1527
01:14:55,920 --> 01:14:58,840
Speaker 1: you ever look at Texas? Never any Texas schools? Now?

1528
01:14:59,040 --> 01:15:01,360
Speaker 1: That was was? Is it ever in your thinking that

1529
01:15:01,479 --> 01:15:03,840
Speaker 1: you might end up one day living in Texas? Never

1530
01:15:03,960 --> 01:15:07,240
Speaker 1: thought that? Really? Did you think you'd live in California

1531
01:15:07,280 --> 01:15:09,680
Speaker 1: over Texas? I wanted to live in California when I'm

1532
01:15:09,680 --> 01:15:12,800
Speaker 1: done with everything, for sure. Yeah, state Texas kind of crazy,

1533
01:15:12,920 --> 01:15:17,080
Speaker 1: but well Texas no state tax, so I mean, and

1534
01:15:17,120 --> 01:15:21,040
Speaker 1: you can visit California for way. Never I've mentioned California

1535
01:15:21,040 --> 01:15:23,160
Speaker 1: Because you're a fashion You're you're probably one of the

1536
01:15:23,200 --> 01:15:25,599
Speaker 1: swaggiest old alignments, I think, and I think it's hard

1537
01:15:25,640 --> 01:15:27,240
Speaker 1: to do as an ALIGNM because you a little bigger.

1538
01:15:27,720 --> 01:15:30,680
Speaker 1: Um can I say that? Of course? Right? So how

1539
01:15:31,080 --> 01:15:33,599
Speaker 1: how did you get your sense of style or fashion?

1540
01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:39,479
Speaker 1: That came in college too? But now I came to college. U.

1541
01:15:40,520 --> 01:15:43,360
Speaker 1: My brother actually the one who started putting me on

1542
01:15:43,439 --> 01:15:45,760
Speaker 1: some swag and then I just took it over from there. Okay,

1543
01:15:46,080 --> 01:15:50,000
Speaker 1: what did your did your brother play wide receiver? Kay?

1544
01:15:50,120 --> 01:15:53,519
Speaker 1: Graduate from? So he does he dress like anybody on

1545
01:15:53,880 --> 01:15:56,160
Speaker 1: the Texans that you could compare him to. He does.

1546
01:15:56,240 --> 01:15:58,040
Speaker 1: He has his own style to style, we got an

1547
01:15:58,040 --> 01:16:01,400
Speaker 1: own style copy nobody. Yeah, So how would you describe

1548
01:16:01,479 --> 01:16:04,640
Speaker 1: your style compared to most? My mind's kind of like hippieish,

1549
01:16:05,439 --> 01:16:09,519
Speaker 1: rock and rollish modern days, like old school, like I'm

1550
01:16:09,560 --> 01:16:11,759
Speaker 1: all over the place. Yeah. When it comes to fashion,

1551
01:16:11,920 --> 01:16:14,200
Speaker 1: You've got your rock t shirts and then you have

1552
01:16:14,400 --> 01:16:17,120
Speaker 1: these Gucci pants which which was fake? Which were fake?

1553
01:16:17,160 --> 01:16:20,479
Speaker 1: You made sure you shouldn't tell people you're an NFL player. No,

1554
01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:22,680
Speaker 1: I don't want to. You want people to know they're

1555
01:16:22,720 --> 01:16:25,760
Speaker 1: they're fake. Have you been to Harwin and Hillcroft in

1556
01:16:25,800 --> 01:16:30,360
Speaker 1: the Houston area, because I think you would really enjoy Yeah,

1557
01:16:30,400 --> 01:16:32,960
Speaker 1: you could probably have your choice of fake Guccis and

1558
01:16:33,040 --> 01:16:36,240
Speaker 1: I don't know if I should be advertised fake puctradus,

1559
01:16:37,200 --> 01:16:39,559
Speaker 1: you get your choice of fake products and whatnot there.

1560
01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:44,479
Speaker 1: I also read that you're really into aliens. Okay, we

1561
01:16:44,640 --> 01:16:47,679
Speaker 1: dig in deep. Yeah, I could be a PI detective. Okay,

1562
01:16:47,840 --> 01:16:50,639
Speaker 1: what's your favorite alien movie of all time? I don't

1563
01:16:50,920 --> 01:16:55,400
Speaker 1: I've never seen at what You've been a black creditor

1564
01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:59,320
Speaker 1: like those movies like It's one move I actually seen,

1565
01:16:59,400 --> 01:17:01,519
Speaker 1: but I just don't know the name of it whatever,

1566
01:17:02,520 --> 01:17:06,800
Speaker 1: as old as it So, Okay, I don't watch alien

1567
01:17:06,840 --> 01:17:08,880
Speaker 1: movies like that. I don't watch I'm not a movies guy.

1568
01:17:09,520 --> 01:17:11,320
Speaker 1: I used to get so much stuff about that, like

1569
01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:13,320
Speaker 1: people used to come pick on me and everything. But

1570
01:17:13,400 --> 01:17:16,720
Speaker 1: because I don't watch movies at all, Like Lion King,

1571
01:17:16,800 --> 01:17:19,360
Speaker 1: I seen it one time and I don't remember anything.

1572
01:17:19,400 --> 01:17:21,760
Speaker 1: That's when I was youring. Okay, you why you don't

1573
01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:23,559
Speaker 1: like going to a movie. You just don't like one

1574
01:17:23,560 --> 01:17:25,280
Speaker 1: of the movie theaters, don't like the experience. It's not

1575
01:17:25,360 --> 01:17:27,599
Speaker 1: a movie, guy, just never been, never been a movie.

1576
01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:33,520
Speaker 1: You do like shows though, I love concerts, concerts, concerts,

1577
01:17:33,680 --> 01:17:36,800
Speaker 1: TV shows. Uh, because okay, we'll get to the shows.

1578
01:17:36,840 --> 01:17:39,439
Speaker 1: In the second last concert. You want to last concert,

1579
01:17:39,479 --> 01:17:44,920
Speaker 1: I went to was the Dreamville Fest in North oh Okay, Greenville. Jacob. Yeah,

1580
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:47,800
Speaker 1: those shirts are everywhere, the Dreamville shirts. So I got

1581
01:17:47,880 --> 01:17:49,479
Speaker 1: a couple of shirts. You got a couple. Okay. So,

1582
01:17:49,640 --> 01:17:51,920
Speaker 1: Jay Cole, is anybody that you want to see that's

1583
01:17:51,960 --> 01:17:55,720
Speaker 1: on tour? We'll be on tour. Someone Walker. I don't

1584
01:17:55,720 --> 01:17:58,920
Speaker 1: know if y'all know someone. Yeah, she's coming here. What

1585
01:17:58,920 --> 01:18:03,280
Speaker 1: about Lozzo? Lizzo? Lizzo just here? Y? Yeah, I don't

1586
01:18:03,320 --> 01:18:07,800
Speaker 1: know the female And of course you're very diverse and hip.

1587
01:18:08,280 --> 01:18:10,040
Speaker 1: But I'm looking forward to some Walker. I can't wait

1588
01:18:10,040 --> 01:18:11,519
Speaker 1: to see. Okay, I think she come down to thirty

1589
01:18:11,560 --> 01:18:13,840
Speaker 1: year from sure. Okay, So you're big into concerts, not

1590
01:18:13,880 --> 01:18:16,280
Speaker 1: in the movie? Is big in the concerts? You are

1591
01:18:16,320 --> 01:18:21,240
Speaker 1: into stranger things though. That's my show, but it's based

1592
01:18:21,439 --> 01:18:24,840
Speaker 1: it's based on the back of the says they're weird,

1593
01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:27,000
Speaker 1: that's right in my and the music is really good.

1594
01:18:27,040 --> 01:18:29,880
Speaker 1: It's good eighties music. Did you see that style? It's

1595
01:18:29,920 --> 01:18:34,240
Speaker 1: kind of like the seventies? Yeah, for sure. I don't

1596
01:18:34,240 --> 01:18:37,439
Speaker 1: know if eighties are in yet. What are they in again?

1597
01:18:37,600 --> 01:18:41,240
Speaker 1: Is it old enough in for me? Probably? Carry that on?

1598
01:18:41,760 --> 01:18:44,200
Speaker 1: So you like, is there any other show that you've

1599
01:18:44,280 --> 01:18:51,320
Speaker 1: been Stranger Stranger Things, Snowfall, and oh it's a new

1600
01:18:51,400 --> 01:18:54,960
Speaker 1: series that just came up called Woutan Clan. So I

1601
01:18:54,960 --> 01:18:59,360
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean that does not surprise me. Yeah

1602
01:18:59,360 --> 01:19:03,120
Speaker 1: you should. It's a good show to the chain Clan. Okay, travel.

1603
01:19:03,240 --> 01:19:06,280
Speaker 1: Do you like to travel? I do. I don't mind traveling. Okay.

1604
01:19:06,400 --> 01:19:09,320
Speaker 1: Where's the best place that you've ever gone on vacation?

1605
01:19:09,680 --> 01:19:12,400
Speaker 1: Costa Rica for sure? Okay, yeah, first time going zip line?

1606
01:19:12,400 --> 01:19:14,920
Speaker 1: It is pretty dope. Yes, that's actually I've gone zip lining.

1607
01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:17,439
Speaker 1: And because the jumps, the rainfort I'm a bigger guy,

1608
01:19:18,640 --> 01:19:22,040
Speaker 1: like extra reinforces flying down at home, it's so much fun.

1609
01:19:22,439 --> 01:19:24,960
Speaker 1: Well that's a little scary though, because if you're kind

1610
01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:27,760
Speaker 1: of like a dare devil though, Okay, my biggest thing

1611
01:19:27,800 --> 01:19:30,679
Speaker 1: I want to Scott dive. I gotta go and soon,

1612
01:19:30,880 --> 01:19:33,560
Speaker 1: like probably this offseason. I gotta go scott diving like

1613
01:19:33,760 --> 01:19:35,880
Speaker 1: jumping out of skydaving is jumping out of the plane.

1614
01:19:35,920 --> 01:19:38,880
Speaker 1: I always confuse it with a para sailing sky dadding,

1615
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:45,640
Speaker 1: So I probably that's not really. Where would you like

1616
01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:48,200
Speaker 1: to travel that you haven't been yet? I want to

1617
01:19:48,240 --> 01:19:54,080
Speaker 1: go to Greece. I want to go to Amsterdam for sure. Okay, Thailand,

1618
01:19:56,800 --> 01:19:59,280
Speaker 1: that's probably is so far out. I like to pick

1619
01:19:59,360 --> 01:20:01,479
Speaker 1: places based on the food that I like so great

1620
01:20:01,479 --> 01:20:03,439
Speaker 1: I would I would definitely do create a grease because

1621
01:20:03,439 --> 01:20:05,080
Speaker 1: I love great food. You used to be a food

1622
01:20:05,080 --> 01:20:08,400
Speaker 1: to yourself, right of course, guy, how do you so? Yes?

1623
01:20:08,600 --> 01:20:10,920
Speaker 1: I found about Grease to Kenny Steals. Kenny Steals with

1624
01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:12,679
Speaker 1: the grease. He went to Grease. He said, the food

1625
01:20:12,760 --> 01:20:15,160
Speaker 1: is amazing, so I'm gonna check it up. Houston is

1626
01:20:15,240 --> 01:20:17,479
Speaker 1: great for trying out all these different foods. By the way,

1627
01:20:17,720 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 1: how have you been able to? Have you liked Houston

1628
01:20:20,200 --> 01:20:23,040
Speaker 1: so far? Yes, I haven't been nowhere. I was like,

1629
01:20:23,120 --> 01:20:26,720
Speaker 1: have you gotten I haven't had. No, I haven't been

1630
01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:30,599
Speaker 1: nowhere besides the old dinner, But how have those been?

1631
01:20:30,720 --> 01:20:32,760
Speaker 1: Can I aspect? How do you remember any of like

1632
01:20:33,120 --> 01:20:35,040
Speaker 1: a place that stands out? The last place I went

1633
01:20:35,080 --> 01:20:37,000
Speaker 1: to we got a dinner tonight. But the last place

1634
01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:39,160
Speaker 1: I went to steak for the egg. Oh, yes, of

1635
01:20:39,200 --> 01:20:42,439
Speaker 1: course it's pretty good. Yes, they're none for steaks here. Yeah,

1636
01:20:42,960 --> 01:20:46,000
Speaker 1: who eats the most out the old group? I want

1637
01:20:46,000 --> 01:20:47,880
Speaker 1: to see if it's changed. Since you have to give

1638
01:20:47,880 --> 01:20:54,120
Speaker 1: it to the rooms. I was like, which one out? Everyone? Sure? Okay? Music?

1639
01:20:54,680 --> 01:20:57,200
Speaker 1: Just to circle back, you played a lot of instruments.

1640
01:20:58,600 --> 01:21:00,880
Speaker 1: I thought of this because tightus can sing from what

1641
01:21:00,960 --> 01:21:02,479
Speaker 1: I've heard. Yeah, he told me today he was in

1642
01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:04,360
Speaker 1: the choir, he was in a quarter. And you play

1643
01:21:04,600 --> 01:21:07,840
Speaker 1: a lot of instruments. You list all the instruments you play,

1644
01:21:07,840 --> 01:21:09,439
Speaker 1: because I think I'm going to forget one. I know

1645
01:21:09,520 --> 01:21:15,160
Speaker 1: the basics of the guitar, the bass, and the piano, okay,

1646
01:21:15,439 --> 01:21:19,720
Speaker 1: the keys, the basics. Did you teach yourself? I told myself. Yeah,

1647
01:21:20,000 --> 01:21:22,200
Speaker 1: I actually had a guy in Miami. That's really impressive.

1648
01:21:22,439 --> 01:21:24,000
Speaker 1: I actually had a guy in Miami who taught me

1649
01:21:24,160 --> 01:21:26,120
Speaker 1: how to play a guitar. Yeah, so he used to

1650
01:21:26,160 --> 01:21:28,719
Speaker 1: give me. It's not similar though, like guitar to piano

1651
01:21:28,800 --> 01:21:30,840
Speaker 1: to bass. It's kind of got the same nose, but

1652
01:21:30,960 --> 01:21:34,479
Speaker 1: it's not similar, if that makes sense. You have you

1653
01:21:34,479 --> 01:21:38,519
Speaker 1: got to beat pads? Are you going to produce music

1654
01:21:38,600 --> 01:21:41,040
Speaker 1: one day? Do you think that's my goal? I think

1655
01:21:41,080 --> 01:21:44,840
Speaker 1: that's a very cool that's my goal. The main thing

1656
01:21:44,920 --> 01:21:47,840
Speaker 1: with music you gotta be consistent, gotta be consistent with it.

1657
01:21:48,200 --> 01:21:51,200
Speaker 1: So have you been practicing since I've been down here?

1658
01:21:51,880 --> 01:21:57,560
Speaker 1: I mean, all this free lay. Yeah, but Miami. I

1659
01:21:57,680 --> 01:21:59,080
Speaker 1: used to used to be in the music a lot.

1660
01:21:59,120 --> 01:22:01,320
Speaker 1: I don't have none of my him down here. But okay,

1661
01:22:01,400 --> 01:22:03,760
Speaker 1: I think that maybe in the off season you and

1662
01:22:03,840 --> 01:22:07,240
Speaker 1: Titus that Kenny Ham's a great singer too. Yeah, you

1663
01:22:07,320 --> 01:22:10,559
Speaker 1: guys should make some beats. That's just my suggestion. All

1664
01:22:10,920 --> 01:22:13,320
Speaker 1: what other impressions of Houston before I let you go?

1665
01:22:13,560 --> 01:22:16,599
Speaker 1: You were complaining about traffic the other day. It is horrible. Yeah,

1666
01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:18,800
Speaker 1: you're you're a true Houstonian if you're complaining about traffic

1667
01:22:20,040 --> 01:22:24,680
Speaker 1: worse than Miami. Yes, really, I thought Miami was pretty bad.

1668
01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:27,439
Speaker 1: Miname is pretty bad. But we can get through. You

1669
01:22:27,479 --> 01:22:29,720
Speaker 1: can take back roads and host seem like you can't

1670
01:22:29,760 --> 01:22:31,800
Speaker 1: take no back roads. Yeah, you gotta give it a minute.

1671
01:22:31,800 --> 01:22:36,080
Speaker 1: I think you'll find something. The feeling is mutual, big fellow.

1672
01:22:36,120 --> 01:22:39,480
Speaker 1: We like having you in Houston. That was Laramie Tunsil,

1673
01:22:39,840 --> 01:22:43,400
Speaker 1: left tackle for your Houston Texans. Didn't play against Jacksonville,

1674
01:22:43,479 --> 01:22:47,479
Speaker 1: but should be back. Hopefully we'll be back against the

1675
01:22:47,760 --> 01:22:51,720
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens, facing a group on defense that will get

1676
01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:55,919
Speaker 1: after it. Wink Martindale, call him Wink. His name's Don Martindale,

1677
01:22:55,920 --> 01:22:58,600
Speaker 1: but they call him Wink, because well, you remember Wink Martindale.

1678
01:22:58,960 --> 01:23:02,720
Speaker 1: If you're my age group, my demographic, you remember all

1679
01:23:02,800 --> 01:23:05,760
Speaker 1: the game shows Wink Martindell. That's why they call him Wink.

1680
01:23:06,200 --> 01:23:11,240
Speaker 1: He will bring the heat. There's gonna be blitzing. They're

1681
01:23:11,240 --> 01:23:14,080
Speaker 1: gonna be guys coming from everywhere. Earl Thomas has probably

1682
01:23:14,160 --> 01:23:17,160
Speaker 1: blitzed more this year for the Baltimore Ravens from his

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Speaker 1: safety spot than he did his entire career with the

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Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks. He played that middle of the field safety

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Speaker 1: that covered three safety for the Seattle Seahawks, maybe in

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Speaker 1: cover one, but he was always in the middle of

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Speaker 1: the field making plays. He made that pick six against

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Speaker 1: the Texans back in twenty seventeen, Reny Eyes and Shawn

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Speaker 1: Watson picking off taking to the house. But he's blitzing

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Speaker 1: a bus he got after Tom Brady, making Tom have

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Speaker 1: to throw the ball away. So they do a lot

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Speaker 1: of different things from a blitz perspective. So the offensive

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Speaker 1: line running backs to Sean, they gotta know where everybody's

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01:23:49,640 --> 01:23:52,599
Speaker 1: coming from when they faced the Baltimore Ravens. But it'll

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Speaker 1: be nice to have LT back for that one, and

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01:23:54,479 --> 01:23:57,960
Speaker 1: hopefully he will be back for that one because he

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Speaker 1: is to me, the best left tackle in the game

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Speaker 1: and a guy that when you look back at how

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Speaker 1: the Texans were able to acquire him through that trade,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of people said, oh, you gave up

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01:24:09,000 --> 01:24:11,720
Speaker 1: too much not for a player of that calibrat. Oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, you all said Kenny Stills in that

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Speaker 1: trade too. You got Kenny Stills and Laramie Tunsel, two

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Speaker 1: enormously important players for this offense in twenty nineteen. You

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Speaker 1: got them in the same trade. So to me, I

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Speaker 1: think it was well worth it, and we'll get Laramie

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Speaker 1: back hopefully very very soon. All Right, there's your show.

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Speaker 1: It's in the books. A lot of people to thank

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Speaker 1: for this one. Gotta thank Tim Kelly, and I think

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Speaker 1: Mark Vandamer Duke Johnson, dep City my man Clint Sterner.

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Speaker 1: Andre Ware joined me earlier and he's coming to Ivy

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Speaker 1: League game. I love it. Drew Doherty, Will Long, Mike Devlin,

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Speaker 1: Laramie Tunsel, as you heard right there at the end.

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Speaker 1: Gotta thank all my guys back at Sports Radio six

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Speaker 1: d ten for taking care of me during the show.

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Speaker 1: Gotta thank all of you for listening. You all enjoy

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Speaker 1: the off week. We'll be back tomorrow with more all

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Speaker 1: access before the Thursday game Chargers Vie Raiders. I will

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Speaker 1: then have all access on Friday for you as well,

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Speaker 1: something a little special for you on Friday to look

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Speaker 1: forward to in addition to what we normally do on Friday.

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Speaker 1: So you definitely want to tune in. But thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for being here. Glad to be back. I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't mind going again at some point, but glad to

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Speaker 1: be back. We will see you tomorrow and as always,

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Speaker 1: go Texans.