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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody. Welcome into a Wednesday. They should have

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access from the Monday Texans Radio studio. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, John Harris Football and on the sideline reporter.

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Speaker 1: So glad to be with you for the next two

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Speaker 1: hours because it's game week. Yes, Sunday kick noon against

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Speaker 1: the Inneapolis Colts on September eleventh. Looking forward to the game,

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Speaker 1: maybe more so than any opener in quite some time.

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Speaker 1: Very curious to see not only how the Texans look

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Speaker 1: in week one, but also how the Colts look and

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Speaker 1: how the Texans obviously stack up to one of the

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Speaker 1: teams perceived to be great this year. Now we got

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Speaker 1: a jam pack show, Mark Vandemir stopping by and just

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Speaker 1: be here for twenty questions. We got Dpciter sitting down

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Speaker 1: with John Grenard. We've got men behind the Mikes, Matt Taylor,

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Speaker 1: the voice of the Colts with Mark, and then we

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Speaker 1: got a little in the lab. But we kick off

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Speaker 1: tonight's show with the general manager of your Houston Texans,

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Speaker 1: Nick Cassario, and of course we gotta get his thoughts

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Speaker 1: right at the shoot game week Baby let's go. You're excited,

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Speaker 1: excited about the opportunity here on Sunday, so I think

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Speaker 1: the team will be ready to go a big challenge

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Speaker 1: in front of us. So with to play good football. Nick.

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Speaker 1: We talked a little bit about the Colts last week,

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Speaker 1: but now it can really dive in and a player

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Speaker 1: that interests me in a good way in a bad

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Speaker 1: way is Grover Stewart for the Colts. We all know

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Speaker 1: Stewart sort of flies into the radar. You got a

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Speaker 1: How much of a problem does he become in the middle.

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Speaker 1: He absolutely, I'd say probably is a player that can

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Speaker 1: kind of helps solidify their front and kind of slow

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Speaker 1: good player. I think what makes him unique is for

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Speaker 1: how big he is six six three forty. He's a

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Speaker 1: his length is playing strength. He's got good quickness. So

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Speaker 1: when you pair that with a player like Buckner on

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Speaker 1: we always talk draft with you and players coming out

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Speaker 1: the league. Here and Matt Ryan veteran thirty seven years old,

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Speaker 1: and you evaluated him coming out of college too. What

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Speaker 1: There's no question about it. So it's been a very

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Speaker 1: been that he's played, so it speaks to his preparation

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Speaker 1: and speaks to the toughness. He's a very skilled player,

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Speaker 1: very accurate, and I want to say he's around I

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Speaker 1: don't know, sixty five percent career completion percentage, which for

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Speaker 1: He knows how to move within the pocket, and he

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Speaker 1: arguably one of the top five players in the league, argue,

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Speaker 1: the top running back in the league. Why does he

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Speaker 1: two punch. So they really compliment each other. Well, they're

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Speaker 1: Obviously not going to be able to handle the entire offense.

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Speaker 1: But you're into more of a game plan specific type things,

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Speaker 1: So we'll see if we can get ready to play,

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Speaker 1: But pre Covid Tuesdays we're a big day for players

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Speaker 1: It was the Jaguars out all their frustrations over the years,

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Speaker 1: of all the losses to the Texans. That's what that

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen game was. Down there and Gockway now a cult.

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Speaker 1: Thanks a lot in Gockway, Gilmore. I hate these acquisitions

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Speaker 1: from a Texans standpoint in Indy, very frustrating. Pro Football

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Speaker 1: Talk put out their power rankings in Week one and

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Speaker 1: Mike Florio has the Texans at number thirty two. What

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Speaker 1: do you think about that placement? I think you know,

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Speaker 1: I think Seth said it best this morning. They were

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Speaker 1: going over a lot of the different power ranking situations

436
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Speaker 1: presented by league media, national media. They don't think a

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Speaker 1: lot about the bottom five, six, seven, eight teams. They

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Speaker 1: don't really put a lot of thought into that. They

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Speaker 1: put a lot of thought into the top ten. Because

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Speaker 1: a team that gets knocked out of the top ten

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Speaker 1: and somebody's power rankings, their fan base is gonna be

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Speaker 1: a lot louder than Hey, we're not thirty one, we

443
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Speaker 1: should be twenty nine, that kind of thing, right. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: To be ranked last though, is just pure ignorance. You

445
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Speaker 1: didn't finished last last year. You are better now. I

446
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Speaker 1: mean this is not debatable. You are better now than

447
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Speaker 1: you were when you left the building last year, right

448
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Speaker 1: after losing to the Titans. Now, I guess a lot

449
00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,920
Speaker 1: of teams can say that, but come on. The Bears

450
00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:18,600
Speaker 1: are trying to pick up anybody they possibly can because

451
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Speaker 1: they feel so badly about their roster. The Jaguars should

452
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Speaker 1: be better, but are they better than the Texans who

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Speaker 1: beat them twice last year? You cannot say that. They

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Speaker 1: have to prove it on the field. So I don't

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Speaker 1: like that thirty two ranking at all. I love these

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Speaker 1: power rankings. I love them. They mean absolutely squat, but

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Speaker 1: I love them. Florio's got the Titans at eight, the

458
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Speaker 1: Colts at eleven, the Jague Wires at twenty nine. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: the Texans at thirty two. Do you agree with a

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Speaker 1: the first two? No? How do you think it should go?

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Speaker 1: I would probably rank the Colts higher. I know the

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Speaker 1: Titans have been there and they're the two time defending

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Speaker 1: AFC South champions, but I don't think they got a

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Speaker 1: ton better the Colts did. The Colts with Matt Ryan

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Speaker 1: and the defensive acquisitions we talked about on paper, you

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Speaker 1: should at least give it to them. Now. Maybe it

467
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Speaker 1: doesn't work out with Ryan at all. Maybe that's his

468
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Speaker 1: hunch right there, But the Titans themselves drafted a quarterback

469
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Speaker 1: to show you, you know what, they're a little shaky

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Speaker 1: they're a little iffy on the quarterback situation, and it's

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Speaker 1: a situation that produced a belly up performance in the

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Speaker 1: postseason for them. So I think that you should rank

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Speaker 1: the Colts ahead of the Titans. I would pick the

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Speaker 1: Colts ahead of the Titans in the division if I

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Speaker 1: had to. I tend to agree with you. These are

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Speaker 1: the power rankings from I don't think this is maybe

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Speaker 1: I can't tell what this is. Maybe Draft Kings. I

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Speaker 1: kinda like them. They got to Texas at twenty nine.

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Speaker 1: They got the Jaguars at twenty eight. Of this top

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Speaker 1: ten that I'm about to read to you, which team

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Speaker 1: doesn't belong number one? Bills, two Bucks, three Rams, four Chargers,

482
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Speaker 1: five Packers, six Chiefs, seven Broncos, eight Bengals, ninety nine

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Speaker 1: Ers and tend the Browns. Which team doesn't belong in

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Speaker 1: that top ten? Browns? Yeah, Brown Browns. Deshaun Watson's gonna

485
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Speaker 1: play opening Day? Is that what they have? Get Browns four? Yeah,

486
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Speaker 1: he says this, and disbelief. Yeah, you can't pick the

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Speaker 1: Browns that high because they have to play the bulk

488
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Speaker 1: of the season without Watson. Even with Watson, I get it.

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Speaker 1: They've got a good roster, etc. You have to take

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Speaker 1: that into account. With a better quarterback, they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: a lot better than they were last year. But Jacoby

492
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Speaker 1: Brissette has trouble hanging on to employment as a starting quarterback,

493
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Speaker 1: even a backup quarterback at this point in his career.

494
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Speaker 1: So I don't swim in confidence if I'm a Cleveland

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Speaker 1: fan right now. The other thing is this, what were

496
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Speaker 1: the Chargers and that one fourth? Yeah, that's given them

497
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Speaker 1: a lot of rich I love, I'm one of the

498
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Speaker 1: leaders of the Chargers are really good campaign but they

499
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Speaker 1: got to do it on the field. They have to

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Speaker 1: be able to prove it. And they're a lot of

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Speaker 1: teams that. I mean, everybody has to do that, but

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Speaker 1: the Chargers, especially after missing out on the postseason, losing

503
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Speaker 1: to a Raiders team that lost its coach on the

504
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Speaker 1: final day, with a chance to get to the postseason,

505
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Speaker 1: they couldn't close the deal. That doesn't mean they're gonna

506
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Speaker 1: be bad this year, but I don't think you should

507
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Speaker 1: rank them in the top five. Pete Prisco has his

508
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Speaker 1: power rankings for CBS Sports, and we are both Prisco fans.

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Speaker 1: I love Pete, less I don't agree with him that

510
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Speaker 1: I don't like Pete, so tell me do I like

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Speaker 1: him or not? Right now, he has the Texans at

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Speaker 1: number twenty six, one spot above the Detroit Lions. What

513
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Speaker 1: about the Jaguars one spot below? Glad you asked the

514
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars your comments about Pete Prisco's power. You know,

515
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Speaker 1: just as John McClain got Warren Moon into the Hall

516
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Speaker 1: of Fame, and we'll get Andrey Johnson into the Hall

517
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Speaker 1: of Fame, and he got a lot of people into

518
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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, Robert Brazil, Pete Prisco feels like

519
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Speaker 1: he got Tony Basselli into the Hall of Fame. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he did or not, but you know,

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Speaker 1: Pete was always trumpeting the cause of Basselli getting into

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Speaker 1: the hall, so good for him. Look, I think twenty

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Speaker 1: six is nice. I saw whose power rankings? Did I see?

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Speaker 1: With the Texans had five games against teams that were

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Speaker 1: below them. They had two against the Jags, they had

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Speaker 1: one against the Giants, one against the Bears. I think

527
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Speaker 1: that you have to rank the Giants pretty low based

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Speaker 1: on the fact that they really don't believe in their quarterback.

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Speaker 1: The Bears for reasons I just stated previously, and the

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Speaker 1: Jaguars should be below the Texans based on the fact

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Speaker 1: that they lost twice to them last year, and they

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Speaker 1: both are better, but how much better? Okay, he's got

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Speaker 1: the Bengals at five and the Patriots at number twenty two.

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Speaker 1: That's a little low. Which one is more likely to

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Speaker 1: be wrong? Bengals at five or Patriots at twenty two.

536
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Speaker 1: Remember Matt Patricia is your offensive coordinator in New England.

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Speaker 1: I think that I think the Bengals at five is

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Speaker 1: probably more likely to be wrong. Okay, I think the

539
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Speaker 1: Bengals based on the fact that they won ten games,

540
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Speaker 1: they got hot in the postseason, they should be better

541
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Speaker 1: this year. But five is high. Twenty two is low

542
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Speaker 1: for the Patriots. Johnny, But but I could see things

543
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Speaker 1: going very wrong for New England in a division that's tougher,

544
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: all right. The Jets might not be tougher, but the

545
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: Bills want to smash the Patriots every chance they get, obviously,

546
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Speaker 1: and when they're not gonna have another wind swept run

547
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Speaker 1: only game in Western New York, New England won't. The

548
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 1: Bills will sweep in this year, and the Dolphins could

549
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Speaker 1: be a lot better. I think it's gonna be tough

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Speaker 1: for New England. Okay, I'm gonna give you five teams, Yeah,

551
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Speaker 1: five teams, the Bills and the AFC West or the

552
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Speaker 1: field to win the Super Bowl. So you got the Bills,

553
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs, the Chargers, the Broncos and the Raiders. Or

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Speaker 1: are you taking the field? Now? Most power rankings as

555
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at Sam Monson's has the Bills at one,

556
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Speaker 1: the Chargers at five, the Chiefs at four, the Broncos

557
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Speaker 1: at seven out. So four those five in the top seven.

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Speaker 1: So you take in the Bills of the FC West

559
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Speaker 1: or the field. It's not even hard you take that

560
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Speaker 1: first selection the Bills. If you want to make it

561
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Speaker 1: really hard, you say the Bills and the AFC North, right, Yeah,

562
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Speaker 1: because the Bengals made it to the Super Bowl. The

563
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Speaker 1: Ravens are gonna be better if Jackson stays healthy. I

564
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Speaker 1: don't expect much out of Cleveland. I really don't, because

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Speaker 1: Uber Sett and all that. Steelers not the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: but they're gonna be a tough out. I would say

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Speaker 1: that would make it harder because to me, the Bills

568
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Speaker 1: are going to the Super Bowl. Yeah, I think so too,

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Speaker 1: But you also only have AFC West in that scenario,

570
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Speaker 1: the AFC, you don't have an NFC and look, so

571
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Speaker 1: few minutes anything can happen all but this is to

572
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Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl. W to win the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: Bills in the FC. Wests still take it because I

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Speaker 1: got the Chiefs and the Chargers do get hot and

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Speaker 1: Denver could be really good, but I don't think they'll

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Speaker 1: be that good. Yeah, the Raiders. I could change it

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Speaker 1: up and say the Bears and the AFC North or

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Speaker 1: the field to what have the number of the Draft

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Speaker 1: Bowl Ravens, Bengals, Browns, Steelers and the Bears by a lot? Okay,

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Speaker 1: Joe Flacco is starting the first three games for the

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Speaker 1: New York Jets because of Zach Wilson's knee issue. What

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Speaker 1: do we think of that? By the way, I'm asking you,

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Speaker 1: what do you think of that? Joe Flacco starting the

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Speaker 1: first three games to the Jets? What's their record at

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Speaker 1: the end of three games? You want me to see

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Speaker 1: who they play? Yeah, you gotta give me the gotta

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Speaker 1: get what you said three games with Flacco? What happened

588
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 1: to Mike White? I thought he was pretty good. They

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Speaker 1: start on September eleventh at Homing. It's the Ravens. Then

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Speaker 1: they go to Cleveland to take on the Brissette Browns,

591
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Speaker 1: and then they go back home to take on the Bengals.

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Speaker 1: One and two could beat Cleveland. They're not gonna beat

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Speaker 1: the Ravens, which interesting because they'll lose both at home,

594
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,520
Speaker 1: but went on the road against the Browns. Yeah, one

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Speaker 1: and two. One and two with Flacco Zami Wilson, if

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Speaker 1: Zach Wilson were healthy, still goes one and two with

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Speaker 1: Joe Flacco's your quarterback? Who will lead the league in rushing?

598
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Speaker 1: Derrick Henry or Jonathan Taylor? Or the field or the field?

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Speaker 1: I'll give you. I get Henry and Taylor, you get

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Speaker 1: the field. Are you taking that bet? I'll take the field? Real,

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Speaker 1: I'll take a shot. Sure Dalvin Cook stays healthy the

602
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Speaker 1: entire season. You know, somebody else comes out of the

603
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Speaker 1: Elijah Mitchell. You know one of these guys, all right,

604
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Speaker 1: Damian Pierce? Yes, I said it wouldn't that be? Which

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Speaker 1: makes me think this is a better way to a

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Speaker 1: phrase that the leading rusher in the NFL will come

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Speaker 1: from the AFC South. So you get the NFC South

608
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 1: running backs or the field? Now that would be even better.

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Speaker 1: I'll still take the field, but I want to see

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Speaker 1: Pierce do some serious damage here. The leading passer in

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Speaker 1: the NFL yards only you get the AFC West right

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Speaker 1: or the field. So you get Mahomes, Herbert Car or

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. The leading passer by yards in the NFL

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Speaker 1: will come from the AFC West or you're taking the field.

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Speaker 1: I'll take the AFC West, no question, Herbert, Mahomes, Car, Wilson.

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Speaker 1: I mean maybe even Car flirts with that. I think

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Speaker 1: Car's gonna be flirting with it. I think the number.

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Speaker 1: I think Car is gonna have the numbers there. I

619
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Speaker 1: think very easily. Justin Herbert could. But I think the

620
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Speaker 1: Charge is gonna be ahead and more games. I think

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Speaker 1: this year, so a little probably on Austin that a

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Speaker 1: little bit more. You have that Charger love going on.

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Speaker 1: I do, I do. I sang it, yeah, super Charger.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. I would go to Vegas and

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Speaker 1: put money on the acust to lead the league in passing. Oh,

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Speaker 1: you know the you know my wild card, which I

627
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Speaker 1: don't know. It's too much about Cart, Tom Brady, Dak Prescott,

628
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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. I think Prescott could put up some numbers.

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Speaker 1: They have to throw it. They have to. I don't

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Speaker 1: think their running game is is what it was? Now?

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Speaker 1: Can you get it off with a rookie had left tackle?

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Speaker 1: And I know Jason Peters went out there, but how

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Speaker 1: long is that gonna take? So it's not gonna be

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Speaker 1: a Green Bay because they want to run the ball.

635
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Speaker 1: Yeah they do. And Tampa, well Brady did it last year, right,

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Speaker 1: he could do it again. See that he could do

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Speaker 1: it again. I think Tampa's defense being a little bit better,

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Speaker 1: But I don't know what Tampa's gonna Tampa to me,

639
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: is gonna be a struggle bust just from the offensive line.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you a Wildcard League leader in passing. Say it, Jamis.

641
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Speaker 1: Do you know that he got off to such a

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Speaker 1: hot start in his career. I saw this graphic the

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Speaker 1: other day, and you know, you see so much stuff

644
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 1: you forget what it is, and I should have remembered it.

645
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: But he got off to one of the hottest starts

646
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Speaker 1: in history in terms of total yards past four. Now,

647
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: the turnovers might have been there and some other things

648
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: that you don't like, not enough wins, but he threw

649
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 1: for a bucket load of yards. He was him Marino

650
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Speaker 1: and somebody else in the first three four years of

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Speaker 1: their career with the most yards you did two any questions,

652
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 1: very well, we're gonna do that from now on. Nice job.

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Speaker 1: You're off the hot seat. But John Grenard is in

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Speaker 1: Mark at some point because dep caught up with John

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Speaker 1: Grenard earlier today and there's one thing I know about

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Speaker 1: both of them. They can go. They can go for

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Speaker 1: a while. So I got a little worried about time

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Speaker 1: because Deep talking to John, this is gonna be a

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Speaker 1: great conversation. I just thought I was gonna go for

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Speaker 1: maybe thirty minutes. Well luckily they didn't go that long.

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Speaker 1: rusher defensive lineman John Grenard. Deeply ticket away. It's a

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Speaker 1: deep Slant one one presented by Xfinity. Our guest for

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Speaker 1: week one, Jonathan Grenard. John, I mean, I feel like

676
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: you're a vet. It's only your three for you. Do

677
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 1: you feel like of it? You're like a leader of

678
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,040
Speaker 1: this defense, but more so you're one of the guys

679
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 1: that's been a fixture through a lot of changes, right right,

680
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,479
Speaker 1: And it feels that way kinda. I mean, being going

681
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: on year three. Obviously different coaches, obviously every year so far,

682
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: but I think this should feels a little different. I mean,

683
00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: the energy feels good. I think guys understanding what the

684
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: standard is. We're understanding what love He wants, what the

685
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,160
Speaker 1: organization is about, and I'm just trying to establish a

686
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,000
Speaker 1: new one. And obviously you know in the past it

687
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: wasn't we didn't live up to that. But I think

688
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: now this year we're just all in that same mission

689
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: and we don't want to court. Yeah, you're going through

690
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: a several coaching changes, but at least with Lovey being

691
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,719
Speaker 1: the new head coach, you had him as your defensive

692
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: coordinator last year, Does it feel like there's something that

693
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: you can really build on just knowing his scheme and

694
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: knowing what he's looking for when you're all right, I

695
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: think now just I think taking that his defensive mindset

696
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: and you know, making everybody on the team, including the

697
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: offense and special teams understand what he wants to So

698
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 1: I think it's just we'll use that now on the

699
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: defensive side to you know, spread that to the offense

700
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,719
Speaker 1: and help them out understand, you know, that what the

701
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: mission is and what the standard is. And I think

702
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: they already know a self explanatory. I mean, we all

703
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: we're trying to win here, we all understand what we're chasing.

704
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: But it definitely does help to have a guy like

705
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 1: like love you coming back your defensive coordinator. Now he's

706
00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: the head coach and obviously leading it the right way,

707
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: and it's not hard to follow it. Like I mentioned before,

708
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: it's just easy to follow because we at understand what

709
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: we're trying to do. What was your off season, Like

710
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: I know, it's probably not the way you wanted to

711
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: spend it. You were out there during ot as, you

712
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: weren't doing much. We saw you start to take snaps

713
00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: obviously in the preseason in the training camp. But tell

714
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: us about your offseason just getting healthy and what that

715
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 1: was like for y'all. Yeah, I had a little clean

716
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: up surgery, a little bit something else, a little bothering

717
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: me in my foot, but it helped out that I

718
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: used that time to pretty much just work on other

719
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 1: aspects of my body that I felt like that were weaker,

720
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: you know, or that needed tending to. And I feel good.

721
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: I mean, like, as you mentioned, it was tough watching

722
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: the guys that are OTA's obviously just continues to take

723
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: and reps being out there, you know, with the guys

724
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: sweating and grinding, but we understand the business, we understand

725
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,239
Speaker 1: what the mission is and understand the mental reps is

726
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:30,040
Speaker 1: was huge for me. I just went back over my

727
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: old film watching the guys that are in there now,

728
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: just trying to add to my game and just correct

729
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 1: the stuff that I did be a better and more

730
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Speaker 1: efficient player. Yeah, I was gonna ask you, what did

731
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: you learn about your self throw those mental reps and

732
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 1: not being on the field. Yeah, that I think too

733
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,000
Speaker 1: much at the time. So I'm a bit huge overthinker,

734
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: and I think that's my issue just in general in

735
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: life period and not just with ball. And I think

736
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: whenever you can do that for anybody, to just dumb

737
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: it down to where they can just play fast and

738
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: do one thing the mission is and what they're asking

739
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 1: you to doing that defense, offense or defense, it makes

740
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: the game go faster and more comfortable. In that way,

741
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 1: you can just play faster. I think overall that was

742
00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: the mission I was trying to get to each year

743
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 1: them trying to learn something that that I can build

744
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: off from last year. What about pass rushing, I mean,

745
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 1: you're just known as obviously a great pass rusher and

746
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: the defense. I know that you have had your conversations

747
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 1: with Laramie Tunsel and Titus Howard, especially in camp. So

748
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: how do you improve your pass rushing heading into a

749
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,719
Speaker 1: year three? And how did those guys really help you? Yeah?

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00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, even today, I mean, we're

751
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 1: gonna do it every day. We're gonna go against each other.

752
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: You know, we don't going against each other in the game.

753
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,280
Speaker 1: I just think to take these to pick each other's

754
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 1: brains from pass rush stuff. It's a little small things

755
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: because we're all as all pass rushes, we all think

756
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: the same kind of we understand that's in a million

757
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 1: ways to get to the quarterback, but at the same time,

758
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: it's kind of a foundational way that everybody gets to

759
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 1: the quarterback where it's a certain move that is that

760
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 1: is adjustable for one guy or fits him. But yeah,

761
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:43,959
Speaker 1: we do that all the time, and I just think

762
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: overall it helps us Iron Sharp AND's Iron and these

763
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: are guys that obviously at the top of their game

764
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: with Laramie and and Titus as well. And I think

765
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 1: if we continue to do that amongst ourselves with the

766
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: guys who got in our room Acrost the defensive line,

767
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,720
Speaker 1: I just think that it'll be great for us and

768
00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 1: to build that Camaradoe as well, just so that way

769
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:01,280
Speaker 1: we know going into the game and we can always

770
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,360
Speaker 1: just help each other out for that we need. Do

771
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: you try different moves on them in practice? Yeah, you

772
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,239
Speaker 1: got to try to try them out and see like, hey,

773
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:09,799
Speaker 1: how's this gonna work. You kind of got you kind

774
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:11,439
Speaker 1: of call you out when it's something new they haven't

775
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,319
Speaker 1: seen before. Uh, kinda yeah, because it's more so like

776
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, we don't want to lose.

777
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 1: I mean, some some guys some days you want to

778
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: get an extra rep just to kind of see whether

779
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:21,439
Speaker 1: you didn't like how he beat you on that rep.

780
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: You're trying to get another win, or you're trying to

781
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,439
Speaker 1: work something that you didn't before that you might have seen.

782
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: So I think that that's a good thing about it.

783
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,439
Speaker 1: You know, we never get into it that that type

784
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,680
Speaker 1: of stuff just because we understand we're trying to do

785
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:33,359
Speaker 1: you gotta get hit him off or stuff like that.

786
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,799
Speaker 1: We understand this ball, We understand that's that's a good

787
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 1: thing about having a good relationship outside of the locker

788
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 1: room or just inside them on the football field to

789
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 1: understand the mission. We can try a lot of things

790
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 1: and at the same time, we just gotta be be

791
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: real with each other when it comes to it. If

792
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 1: it's not a move, it ain't working like that, say

793
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:50,359
Speaker 1: like nah, I'm gonna do this every time, and it's

794
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: like okay, So you know, you just gotta keep building

795
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: and vice versus. So I think it's been a fish

796
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 1: for everybody. Well, one of the old linemen gave you

797
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 1: credit for something. A. J. Cann said you were the

798
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 1: best trash talker on the team. He was asking who

799
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 1: the best best trash tracker was. He said that, He

800
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: said that you're the loudest one, at least in camp.

801
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: You were, and he said it was all good stuff,

802
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,839
Speaker 1: very chippy. Sure, and I find that kind of hard

803
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 1: to believe because you were like this whenever we see

804
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:13,360
Speaker 1: Versali and happy. But what do you like on the

805
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: field with those guys. I try to turn it. I

806
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 1: try to turn it up a little bit, just because,

807
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: I mean, if I feel the team needs at that time,

808
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:20,760
Speaker 1: whether the practice is a little sluggish or something, sometimes

809
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: a little bit just throw it in there, just talking

810
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 1: a little trash, get us going. I like to keep

811
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:28,800
Speaker 1: it friendly. Sometimes it's not as friendly as others, but overall,

812
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:30,799
Speaker 1: we just we love a game. I love a game

813
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: of football. I just love them to compete, and I think,

814
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:34,879
Speaker 1: if we're out there, why not compete. I mean, it's

815
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 1: it's already hot as ever out there anyway, so if

816
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: we're might as well compete and try to both get

817
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 1: not just get through it, but I actually win through it,

818
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: you know, and push through it. So yeah, I like

819
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: to do that. I mean, I've been kind of do

820
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: it on since I was young. But as you say,

821
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 1: I kind of look like this on the outside. I

822
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: try to keep it. I try to keep this so

823
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. I'm glad I get it all

824
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: out on the Yeah, I'm glad them people see me

825
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 1: off the field and like, okay, you cool this guy.

826
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,040
Speaker 1: You know, I don't have my glasses on the day,

827
00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 1: so they think I'm a little non sophisticated right now.

828
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: But other than that, yeah, I try to I try

829
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: to keep it a little, keep that on the field.

830
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: What about during games? During game time? I mean, what

831
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 1: is it? I'm fascinated with trash talking on the fielding games?

832
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 1: I mean, what is it? What is the art to

833
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: good trash talking? Is it funny? Does it mean? Is

834
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 1: it annoying? It just depends when do you start? When

835
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: you stop? All right? I think it just depends. Um.

836
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: Depends on the guy. First of all. It depends on

837
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: how well. First of all, not the guy, depends on

838
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: how the game is going. If you're winning, okay, so

839
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: if if you're if you're winning the game, then that's

840
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 1: that's best grounds to talk. Um. But you make a

841
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: couple of plays, you kind of have to pace it.

842
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 1: Do you want to talk? Because you'll better be a

843
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 1: play that you know, get you off the field, because

844
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 1: if you're talking trash on the field, you're still on

845
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 1: the field. You gotta go five six more plays then

846
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 1: then this you're gonna be real tired. So I just

847
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: thin you gotta play with a little bit. But overall,

848
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: I just try to go with it. I mean, I

849
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: just played with the field. I mean, it gets me

850
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:48,839
Speaker 1: tired sometimes talking trash, so I gotta pick and choose

851
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: my battles. But for the most part, yeah, for the

852
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: most part. Um, I'm gonna try to get under the

853
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:54,800
Speaker 1: skin if I make a couple of plays, just so

854
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:56,839
Speaker 1: that I just get myself going to the minutes. Fine,

855
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: I mean I don't I don't mean no ill intent

856
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:00,719
Speaker 1: at all. You're never gonna here we go below the

857
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:02,759
Speaker 1: built about some stuff. I'm just trying to talk trash

858
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: to get us both through the game. For sure. What

859
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: about division opponents, because you're gonna see these guys twice

860
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 1: a year, is it like a series to be continued?

861
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 1: You're going against these guys quite a bit, right, you

862
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 1: would think that, you would think so, But I haven't surprised.

863
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 1: I haven't talked as much trash. But I just think overall,

864
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: we just got to get to that point where we

865
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 1: can do that. I think when we get to that point,

866
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 1: we all can conftantly walk around when our chest out

867
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:23,320
Speaker 1: to the point where we know, we know our identity,

868
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 1: we know we're actually putting it on tape, were getting

869
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: the results we want. And I think that's you know,

870
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:28,879
Speaker 1: not only is the film going to show, I mean

871
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: you can then you can be able to kind of

872
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 1: talk a little bit at the time too, because you

873
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:33,520
Speaker 1: know that you're you're confident what you're doing, and you

874
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:35,359
Speaker 1: know that it's no matter what they're gonna do, you're

875
00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: gonna win. So when we get to that point, I

876
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 1: think that's what where you're going to see a huge turn.

877
00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: And I'm definitely going to continue to my best every day.

878
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 1: Whether we like that or not. I'm still gonna be

879
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: talking trash to keep us going because at the end

880
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 1: of the day, we're still growing and we still play defense.

881
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 1: So we got to stop the wars every time they

882
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 1: try to score. All right, Well, speaking of division opponents,

883
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 1: you open up the season against the cole to Matt Ryan.

884
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 1: You grew up in Georgia, so you grew up watching

885
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: him all. I mean, what's that like? I know Lovey

886
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,879
Speaker 1: Smith has talked about it just facing those guys again

887
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: the way they dominated last He's kind of good to

888
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: start off the season against them. But what are your

889
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 1: thoughts on the colt and with Matt Ryan, a guy

890
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,360
Speaker 1: that's really been a veteran and kind of makes that

891
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 1: team look a little bit different. He does. I mean,

892
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: he's a great quarterback. I mean, like I said, I

893
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: grew up a Georgia kid um and watching him coming up.

894
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,399
Speaker 1: Obviously when he got drafted there, he kind of turned

895
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: the Falcons around him and we were blackout in Atlanta

896
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,400
Speaker 1: um around that time. So for him to change that

897
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: around and give the city a little hope at that time,

898
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: he was huge for the city. So I just admire

899
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: a guy like that, his true character. But but on

900
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 1: the football side, he's a great quarterback when everybody everybody

901
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:29,879
Speaker 1: know him, he's well respected, makes the Reds real good.

902
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: He fits that offense kind of like you know Carson

903
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: Wentzon and Phillip Rivers the year before. You know, these

904
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: guys were Frank Rig He's a quarterbacks coach. It fits

905
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 1: these guys. So I think overall we gotta make just

906
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 1: make him feel uncomfortable. A lot of teams that had

907
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:42,400
Speaker 1: success to gets him in the passage. HA made him

908
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: feel uncomfortable with his pass rush um games or anything.

909
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: Just get him off of his office spot, make him

910
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 1: get out of rhythm. You're gonna you gotta do that

911
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 1: gets an event like that because he's seen it all,

912
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 1: he knows it all, he's done it all. So I

913
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: just think overall, we stopped him. And then you get

914
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 1: to twenty eight that the running back they got a Taylor.

915
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,280
Speaker 1: I mean he's a great back as well. We stopped

916
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,280
Speaker 1: that aspect, and I think overall they're going to continue

917
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,000
Speaker 1: to just come to us at the times we're trying

918
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: to just get them to those long situations in passing down.

919
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: So I think we'll give ourselves a really good shot.

920
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 1: There are you talking about growing up in Georgia, So

921
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,240
Speaker 1: I have to ask you about the John Grenard Foundation.

922
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: Just started it this off season, So tell me what

923
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: the what was the driving force behind starting it and

924
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: who you really hope to help with that. Yeah, I mean, like,

925
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 1: I'm a small town kid from For the ones who

926
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: are from Georgia, I'm from Hi, I'm Georgia. But you know,

927
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 1: people asking where you're from, my say Atlanta because general

928
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 1: so I'm twenty, about thirty minutes outside of Atlanta to

929
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: going north, and this is a small town and it's

930
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 1: kind of surrounded by two or three of the biggest

931
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 1: counties almost in Georgia, you know, Cobb County, um in

932
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:38,400
Speaker 1: Fullton obviously where Atlanta resides, and obviously Douglas County and

933
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 1: those counties around it. So we kind of sit right

934
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,360
Speaker 1: in the middle. And I just think me creating that,

935
00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 1: creating the foundation was to level the plan field so

936
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 1: that we will all have equal opportunity. And that was

937
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:48,760
Speaker 1: all that was our mission statement. That's our mission statements

938
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: to level the plan fields because of you know, when

939
00:40:51,640 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: you look at mckeachron saying mckeachroon is the school in

940
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 1: Cobb County or the hill grows, you know, these bigger

941
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:59,320
Speaker 1: schools that are surrounding our county, they get all the

942
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 1: shot because they're just they just look better. They're obviously there,

943
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: and to just put out more so, I just think

944
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: what I wanted to do there, and it's not just

945
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: hire them, it just it kind of goes for anybody

946
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: that's overlooked. And I just think that me getting my

947
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 1: hands on them and the people in within our foundation

948
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: get our hands on the youth around there and being

949
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:16,320
Speaker 1: a part of that to make sure that we're not overlooking.

950
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: We can supply the people and the kids with those

951
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 1: stuff that makes them put them on that level playing field.

952
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: I love that, and that's just that's what I'm all

953
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: about because I just know me how was a three

954
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 1: star recruit coming out, didn't have many offers like that

955
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 1: coming out of school. I had to prove myself a lot,

956
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: you know. At the same time, I didn't have a

957
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:33,319
Speaker 1: lot of the resources to get to where I needed

958
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 1: to go at the time, but I was fortunate enough

959
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 1: to eventually build those relationships to get that. And I

960
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: just think I don't want everyone to start that path

961
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: when when I have the authority to make them all

962
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:43,280
Speaker 1: on a level playing field. So that's what we're about,

963
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 1: and I think that I'm gonna continue to draw for it.

964
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: We had our first successful camp this past offseason, Youth Camp,

965
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 1: and it was amazing. We had a lot of huge turnout.

966
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:51,719
Speaker 1: Even though the rain tried to get us, we still

967
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 1: had amazing turning out. About seventy kids came out, and

968
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 1: We're going to continue to keep trying to go out

969
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 1: and be bigger and better next year, and we're still

970
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:01,800
Speaker 1: building those relationships by teach them literacy, you know, football

971
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 1: stuff or life stuff in general, just life coaches, and

972
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: I think in totality we're going to be good for

973
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: the community. All right, great stuff, Love to see it.

974
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:11,240
Speaker 1: Congrats on the foundation, appreciate it. That's a lucky year. Three, Jonathan,

975
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Deep Well, those are two of

976
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 1: my favorite people in the building, two of my favorite

977
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:19,800
Speaker 1: people anywhere right there, dep City and John Grenard. Now

978
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: one of my favorite people you heard earlier in the show,

979
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: Mark Vandermer. He's going to stop by at the top

980
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: of the second hour with our men behind the mics,

981
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 1: the two men making the call on Sunday for their

982
00:42:30,239 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: respective teams. Of course you know the voice Mark Vandemir,

983
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,879
Speaker 1: but do you know the voice of the Indianapolis Colts. Well,

984
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: it's our friend Matt Taylor. Men behind the mics to

985
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: kick off the second hour of Texans All Access. That's next.

986
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:46,480
Speaker 1: Stay tuned, Stay tuned. This is one of my favorite

987
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 1: weeks of the year, because, I mean, who doesn't even

988
00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 1: get absolutely jazzed about having a season opener against the

989
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 1: visional opponent right here in our own beautiful and RG Stadium.

990
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 1: I mean, we all do right in game week world though,

991
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:03,760
Speaker 1: all Access for US kicks from one hour to two hours,

992
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:07,400
Speaker 1: and I'm always stoked about that on Wednesday and Friday,

993
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:09,840
Speaker 1: and I am your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline

994
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:12,400
Speaker 1: reporter right here in Honday, Texans Radio Studio. I've been

995
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,240
Speaker 1: doing this for nine years and this is the first

996
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 1: week of the ninth year. And when we kick off

997
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: the second hour if we're lucky, and most times we

998
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: are because Mark Vanimer is an absolute beast when it

999
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: comes to finding, locating, and interviewing. The play by play

1000
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 1: man on the other side could be a woman. I

1001
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: don't know there's any play by play women in the

1002
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 1: league for each team. I don't think via radio, but

1003
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 1: Matt Taylor has been the play by play voice of

1004
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 1: the Colts for about the last four years. I believe

1005
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 1: like he took over in twenty eighteen was when he

1006
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,360
Speaker 1: took over. He's been one of our great friends. He

1007
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 1: was a sideline reporter, so he was essentially me and

1008
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 1: then he turned into Mark and that's magic. And when

1009
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:57,399
Speaker 1: the two of them get together, we call it Men

1010
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 1: behind the Mics. Mark Away with Matt Taylor of the

1011
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: Indiapolis Colts. Joining us right now in Texans Radio Matt Taylor,

1012
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:09,360
Speaker 1: the voice of the Indianapolis Colts, And here we go, Buddy,

1013
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 1: Ready for twenty twenty two Texans opening against Indie. And

1014
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: there's really nothing like it. I mean, this team has

1015
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 1: been such a thorn in the side. How about a

1016
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: sword in the side of the Houston Texans. Man, how's

1017
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: it going? And you must have a great deal of

1018
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 1: excitement for this upcoming season. Oh, first, for sure, I

1019
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:30,319
Speaker 1: mean everybody does. I mean, it's it's football season. It's

1020
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: gone for so long and then you just wait and

1021
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 1: have it inch closer and closer. And yeah, the Colts are,

1022
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 1: they're excited. I mean, the fan base is excited for

1023
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 1: this upcoming season. Certainly, there's a lot of anticipation. You're

1024
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: trying to get that horrible taste out of your mouth

1025
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 1: from what happened last year to end the season, right,

1026
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: and the Colts had a ninety eight percent chance of

1027
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 1: making the playoffs going into the last two games of

1028
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:57,280
Speaker 1: the season and then they just they stubbed their toe.

1029
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: And I mean, whatever, whatever bad meta more you want

1030
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 1: to use, that's what happened to the Colts because they

1031
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 1: lose the Vegas at home and then Jacksonville on the road,

1032
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:10,720
Speaker 1: just inexplicable loss, and then you know, more quarterback change

1033
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: over a lot of changes in the off season. So

1034
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: it's a good roster, it's a good team, and I

1035
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 1: think the fan base is shopping at the bit to

1036
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 1: erase what happened last year out of their memory and

1037
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:22,640
Speaker 1: finally get off to a good start. That's something that

1038
00:45:22,800 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 1: this franchise and this team under Frank Right just hasn't

1039
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 1: been able to do. And they've got to be able

1040
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: to do that this season. Considering they play Week one

1041
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 1: against Houston, but more than that, they play their first

1042
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 1: two games against the AFC South and five of their

1043
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:40,839
Speaker 1: first seven are against the division. So if they get

1044
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: off to a bad start this year, there may not

1045
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 1: be a lot of room for you know, wiggle room

1046
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: there down the stretch to climb back into it like

1047
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,000
Speaker 1: they did a year ago. Matt, I don't want to

1048
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 1: dwell on last year, but some aspects I do want

1049
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 1: to bring up, and Jonathan Taylor would be one of them.

1050
00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 1: His performance, especially against the Texans. But for a whild

1051
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:03,319
Speaker 1: there in the middle of the season, the Cults were

1052
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: going so well with Carson Wentz. You really got on

1053
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 1: a great role with him, and then I know it

1054
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: went bad at the end. Now you have Matt Ryan.

1055
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 1: Can the Colts be as good as they were when

1056
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: they were playing at their best with Carson Wentz with

1057
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:21,080
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan at the controls? Yeah, I think so. I

1058
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 1: mean if you go back and look at when the

1059
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:25,040
Speaker 1: Colts were rolling last year in the middle of the season,

1060
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: towards the end, you know, Carson Wentz was really efficient

1061
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:30,840
Speaker 1: and he didn't have to do a whole lot in

1062
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:33,760
Speaker 1: terms of, you know, carrying the workload because as you said,

1063
00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:37,359
Speaker 1: they did have Jonathan Taylor. He emerged as you know,

1064
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 1: an MVP dark horse. I think he's the best running

1065
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: back of the NFL because he's the perfect blend of

1066
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:46,359
Speaker 1: power and speed. He can block, he can catch, I mean,

1067
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 1: the guy can do it all. So he was rolling,

1068
00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 1: he really started to emerge. I think the problem towards

1069
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 1: the end of last year is that they just got

1070
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:57,400
Speaker 1: a little bit too reliant on Jonathan Taylor. And you know,

1071
00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: teams knew they had to take him away first and foremost,

1072
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 1: and down the stretch, the Colts just couldn't capitalize. I

1073
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 1: mean in theory. I mean, if you're a novice football fan,

1074
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 1: you know that you know that the better you are

1075
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:11,520
Speaker 1: at running the football, the easier it should be to

1076
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: throw it and capitalize on play action and went on

1077
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 1: the outside and keep teams guessing. It just didn't happen

1078
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: for the Colts. I think there's a combination of a

1079
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 1: lot of things that contributed to that. But you know,

1080
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 1: quarterbacks a big part of it. You know, receiver talent

1081
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 1: was a part of it. You know, the Colts only

1082
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 1: threw for over two hundred yards twice in the last

1083
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:34,439
Speaker 1: eight games of the season last year. So it just,

1084
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, did not work out with Carson Wentz,

1085
00:47:38,600 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: both on the field off the field, just it didn't

1086
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: mesh for whatever reason. And so here we go again.

1087
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:46,840
Speaker 1: It's another quarterback. It's five straight years with a different

1088
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 1: quarterback at the helm. You know, the Colts are still

1089
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 1: looking for stability after the retirement of Andrew Luck and

1090
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: they think that with Matt Ryan here now, it buys

1091
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 1: them time to still compete and still be in a

1092
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:01,839
Speaker 1: position to accomplish all of their goals while they still

1093
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:05,120
Speaker 1: have time to look for that franchise quarterback of the future.

1094
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:08,439
Speaker 1: Not over extend themselves, you know, and find the right

1095
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:10,840
Speaker 1: guy whenever that time comes, whether you trade up in

1096
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:13,239
Speaker 1: the draft or and you pull off of you know,

1097
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: big offseason trade like the Broncos did to get Russell Wilson.

1098
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:20,480
Speaker 1: So I think they can win and and and you know,

1099
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 1: execute at a high level with Matt Ryan. And I've

1100
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:25,760
Speaker 1: said this all along. If you get a typical Matt

1101
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,279
Speaker 1: Ryan type of a season, and by that, I mean

1102
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 1: if you look at his history fourteen years with the

1103
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:34,600
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons, if if he puts up four thousand yards

1104
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 1: passing and uh, you know, he's somewhere between twenty three

1105
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:42,440
Speaker 1: and thirty passing touchdowns and he's completing sixty six sixty

1106
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:46,720
Speaker 1: seven percent of his passes. Again, that's a very you know, stereotypical,

1107
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 1: very good Matt Ryan type of season. If he gives

1108
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:53,279
Speaker 1: you that, there's no reason why the Colts can't flirt with,

1109
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:56,320
Speaker 1: you know, double digit wins and possibly winning the division

1110
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: for the first time since twenty fourteen. Matt Taylor Boy

1111
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 1: the Cults joining us on Texans Radio. Matt, give me

1112
00:49:03,560 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 1: a thing or two in the preseason that made you say,

1113
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: all right, everything's on schedule. We're good to go and

1114
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:11,839
Speaker 1: maybe a thing or two that you say, well, they

1115
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:13,799
Speaker 1: still need work in this area. Let's see if it

1116
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:16,399
Speaker 1: works out. Let's see how they put it together leading

1117
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:19,440
Speaker 1: into week one. Well, I think the first one is

1118
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan. I mean, I think he is as advertised.

1119
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:24,440
Speaker 1: You know what you saw when he played at a

1120
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:27,839
Speaker 1: very high level in Atlanta. That's what you're getting so

1121
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: far through a month of training camp with the Colts.

1122
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:34,319
Speaker 1: He's in command of the offense. Guys respect him. He

1123
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:38,759
Speaker 1: has this sort of quiet arrogance about him where he's

1124
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 1: very respected in the locker room, but at the same time,

1125
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: guys know that they've got to be on their piece,

1126
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:47,240
Speaker 1: and q's with a veteran like him that he commands respect.

1127
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:49,840
Speaker 1: He has to get the best that everybody on the

1128
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 1: field when they're out there. And so from that standpoint,

1129
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: I mean, he's incredibly accurate. The ball placement, the decision making.

1130
00:49:57,800 --> 00:49:59,319
Speaker 1: You know, there's gonna be a lot of guys that

1131
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 1: get involved in this offense. That's that's a Frank Reich staple.

1132
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: That's a Matt Ryan staple dating back to his Falcon's days.

1133
00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 1: So that's that makes you feel good, maybe even bigger

1134
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:12,240
Speaker 1: than that though, mark is that this team is healthy.

1135
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 1: And if you're a Colts fan, and if you pay

1136
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:17,320
Speaker 1: attention to the Colts in Houston, you know that hasn't

1137
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:19,799
Speaker 1: been the case the last couple of years, especially last

1138
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 1: year going into the regular season. Training camp was basically

1139
00:50:23,719 --> 00:50:25,880
Speaker 1: a wash because there wasn't a lot of time on

1140
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:28,319
Speaker 1: task for that team last year because Carson Wentz went

1141
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,399
Speaker 1: out the second day of practice, when Nelson went out

1142
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:33,799
Speaker 1: the second day of practice. T why Hilton was he

1143
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 1: missed a lot of training camp. Ryan Kelly was banged up,

1144
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 1: Braydon Smith, the right tackle was banged up. I mean,

1145
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:42,400
Speaker 1: they had a lot of key players and star players

1146
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 1: that just didn't practice a lot and play a lot

1147
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 1: before the regular season, and I think that contributed to

1148
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 1: their slow start. They were oh and three and then

1149
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:52,840
Speaker 1: one and four, and that's really been you know, the

1150
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:55,720
Speaker 1: theme of the Colts is just wait for injuries to happen,

1151
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 1: because they've happened the last couple of years. So they're

1152
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:01,799
Speaker 1: incredibly healthy right now going into the season. Knock on

1153
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 1: wood as far as that is concerned. So that's been

1154
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:06,839
Speaker 1: a nice welcome chains there's no drama as far as

1155
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:09,840
Speaker 1: the injuries. Are concerned, and then I think some of

1156
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,560
Speaker 1: the things on they give you a little bit of

1157
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: trepidation is, you know, the offensive line is really really

1158
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 1: good in terms of their starting five, but the depth

1159
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: is young and inexperienced. You know, they they signed Dennis

1160
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:25,440
Speaker 1: Kelly in the off season, but he hasn't practiced the

1161
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:27,880
Speaker 1: entire time in training camp. He's kind of like the

1162
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 1: one big injury that that the Colts just haven't been

1163
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:33,799
Speaker 1: able to get him on the field. Um, so he's

1164
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:36,719
Speaker 1: sort of their swing tackle, that veteran guy that you know,

1165
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 1: played a lot of those years with Tennessee. Last year

1166
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 1: he was with Green Bay, So you have him. I

1167
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 1: think you've got Bernard Ryman. He's the backup left tackle.

1168
00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 1: They picked him up in the third round. He's a

1169
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:49,880
Speaker 1: he's a He's a guy that I think could be

1170
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 1: the long term answer at that left tackle position, but

1171
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:54,800
Speaker 1: right now he's never played a game in the NFL.

1172
00:51:55,239 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 1: And most of their depth along the offensive line is

1173
00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 1: either a first year guy or a second your guy

1174
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 1: and not a lot of experience. So hopefully that unit

1175
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:06,839
Speaker 1: can stay healthy and intact because there's just a lot

1176
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 1: of unknowns with the depth along that offensive line. On offense. Defensively,

1177
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 1: you feel really good again about the starters. You know

1178
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:18,399
Speaker 1: they've upgraded with you know, premier talent like we talked

1179
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:20,799
Speaker 1: about before. We started with Unique and goakway in here

1180
00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 1: now Stefan Gilmour at the cornerback position. So they've upgraded

1181
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 1: on that side of the ball. But again depths a

1182
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 1: little bit of a concern at defensive tackle, maybe a

1183
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:31,719
Speaker 1: little bit in the secondary. So I would say that

1184
00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 1: the biggest strength of this team are the twenty two

1185
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 1: players starting on offense and defense. After that, you have

1186
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 1: to factor in what are the Colts going to look

1187
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 1: like on special teams and if they do start to

1188
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 1: get banged up with injuries, can that backup talent come

1189
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: in and still play a high level. Matt Taylor, voice

1190
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:49,880
Speaker 1: of the Cults joining us, I agree with you. The

1191
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:52,760
Speaker 1: Cults can be very good if certain things work out.

1192
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:56,400
Speaker 1: What about the Titans here, how are we feeling about

1193
00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 1: them from an indie perspective. I saw a little Malik

1194
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 1: will Us work in the preseason. I thought, oh, that

1195
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:05,839
Speaker 1: could be a problem. And I know they just got

1196
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 1: the injury to Harold Landry, They've got some other issues.

1197
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 1: But what do you think of the Titans, the two

1198
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:15,840
Speaker 1: time defending AFC South champions going into twenty twenty two. Man, Yeah,

1199
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:18,440
Speaker 1: you know it's funny you bring that up, because you

1200
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 1: know this is this is certainly you know a topic

1201
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:25,320
Speaker 1: of conversation around here. You know, when when the owner speaks,

1202
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 1: when Jim Hursey speaks, you know, to the public or

1203
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 1: to the team, you know, he always brings up Tennessee.

1204
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:32,840
Speaker 1: You know, that's that's the chief roadblock for the Colts

1205
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 1: at Lisa has been the last couple of years in

1206
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:38,759
Speaker 1: the AFC South and those games, those two matchups within

1207
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:42,480
Speaker 1: the division have meant so much in determining who wins

1208
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:46,839
Speaker 1: the South and you know, representing that division in the playoffs,

1209
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 1: and you know, it's it's really been sort of uh,

1210
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 1: you know, addition by subtraction. With the Colts in mind

1211
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 1: this offseason, you know, it starts with a J. Brown.

1212
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 1: And I don't know how specifically how those matchups between

1213
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 1: the Titans and the Tech since have gone the last

1214
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:03,400
Speaker 1: couple of years, but I know for certain that the

1215
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: Colts it's not as if Derek Henry's run all over him.

1216
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:09,880
Speaker 1: It's been J. Brown. The Colts have actually done a

1217
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:13,400
Speaker 1: nice job all things considered against Derek Henry in the

1218
00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:15,959
Speaker 1: ground game, it's AJ Brown on the outside and Ryan

1219
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:19,880
Speaker 1: Tannehill that have torched the Colts and have gone on

1220
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:23,120
Speaker 1: a nice little winning streak against Indianapolis and those matchups here.

1221
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 1: So without him, I mean, the Colts didn't have a

1222
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:28,799
Speaker 1: first round pick, but they were celebrating on that first

1223
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:30,880
Speaker 1: night of the draft when A. J. Brown got traded

1224
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 1: out of the division. They were doing fist pumps because

1225
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:36,160
Speaker 1: he's been a thorn in their side. And so now

1226
00:54:36,239 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 1: with Treylon Burke's there, I know he's an nice little

1227
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 1: player out of Arkansas and they think they can get

1228
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: you know, similar production. But I've got my questions right away.

1229
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:47,480
Speaker 1: You know, as a rookie coming out here, Robert Woods

1230
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:49,920
Speaker 1: has really never been a number one guy. He's coming

1231
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 1: off an injury. You know, they haven't really drafted very

1232
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:55,560
Speaker 1: well the last couple of years, but they've still gotten

1233
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 1: it done. You know, Nick Westbrook Akeena out of Indiana.

1234
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:00,239
Speaker 1: You know, he's a local kid that we're from smiliar

1235
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 1: with here. He's an undrafted guy. So I'm just curious

1236
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:06,319
Speaker 1: how they're gonna have explosive plays on offense like they

1237
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:09,400
Speaker 1: have the last couple of years without a j Brown

1238
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:12,239
Speaker 1: on the outside and then on defense. Yeah, I mean

1239
00:55:12,239 --> 00:55:14,160
Speaker 1: they were one of three teams or the only team

1240
00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:16,719
Speaker 1: I should say last year they had three players with

1241
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 1: eight sacks with Autry and Simmons, and you know, as

1242
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 1: you said that with that injury. So I'm just a

1243
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:26,680
Speaker 1: little bit curious how they're going to sustain because they've

1244
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:29,359
Speaker 1: lost a lot of top end talent the last you know,

1245
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 1: three or four months here, dating back to the draft.

1246
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 1: You know, this should be Indianapolis's year to get it done.

1247
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 1: But until you dethroned the king, if you will, it

1248
00:55:39,239 --> 00:55:41,480
Speaker 1: really doesn't matter. And the Colts again have talked very

1249
00:55:41,520 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 1: openly about what their goals are and how important those

1250
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: matchups are to their success this upcoming season. Matt Taylor,

1251
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:50,400
Speaker 1: boys of the Cults joining us. What about the Jaguars

1252
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:53,160
Speaker 1: with Trevor Lawrence year two? You have year one with

1253
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:57,800
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson coaching the team. Preseason some ups and downs,

1254
00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of optimism in North Florida. I

1255
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:03,080
Speaker 1: guess that's common this time of year with a lot

1256
00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:04,920
Speaker 1: of franchises. But what do you think is this a

1257
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 1: year where they can finally up the win total significantly. Yeah,

1258
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 1: And I said the same thing last year, and you know,

1259
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:13,719
Speaker 1: obviously we were all sort of let down, or at

1260
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: least I was with my expectations. I was a little

1261
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 1: bit more bullish on Jacksonville last year than most people.

1262
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 1: But no one foresaw the you know, the side show,

1263
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:28,920
Speaker 1: the circus show of of Urban Meyer and you know

1264
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 1: all that transpired with that. But they they've got to

1265
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:34,840
Speaker 1: be better. I think Trevor Lawrence is gonna be good.

1266
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:37,239
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be a franchise quarterback and

1267
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:40,120
Speaker 1: a guy that you can really build around. You know, defensively,

1268
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:41,879
Speaker 1: if you look at there's that side of the ball.

1269
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Speaker 1: They don't have a ton going on. There's sort of

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00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:47,040
Speaker 1: a team in flux. You know, they've they've claimed a

1271
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Speaker 1: lot of guys this past week. You know, they traded

1272
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 1: Leaviscus Chanals. You're kind of wondering what they're doing on offense.

1273
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:57,359
Speaker 1: So I think they're probably in all things, all things

1274
00:56:57,400 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 1: being equal, they're probably still a year or two away.

1275
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 1: But I still mean, don't don't don't tell Colts fans that,

1276
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:07,400
Speaker 1: because it doesn't matter how good or bad Jacksonville is,

1277
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 1: they always bring their a game against the Colts. I mean,

1278
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 1: the Colts haven't won down there on the road since

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00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. And we all know what happened last year

1280
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:17,960
Speaker 1: in a week eighteen when the Colts were in a

1281
00:57:18,040 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 1: win an in situation and they were a fifteen point

1282
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 1: favorite on the road against the worst team in football,

1283
00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 1: and they got blown out. They lost twenty six to

1284
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:28,959
Speaker 1: eleven in a game that really wasn't even that close.

1285
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 1: So that's a rivalry because the Colts just can't break

1286
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:36,960
Speaker 1: that hex in Jacksonville and North Florida. So that that's

1287
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 1: another game that circled on the Colts you know, calendar,

1288
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 1: and they play that game week two. They play that

1289
00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 1: next week after this first game against the Texans. So

1290
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 1: they're trying to get a lot of bad blood or

1291
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:48,960
Speaker 1: a lot of bad taste out of their mouth very

1292
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 1: quickly to start the season and get off to a

1293
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:54,280
Speaker 1: good start. All right, Matt, we're in the AFC South, obviously,

1294
00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:56,840
Speaker 1: let's go outside the division here. Give me your dark

1295
00:57:56,920 --> 00:58:00,320
Speaker 1: horse in the AFC. I mean I would presume, well,

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Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong. You tell me who you

1297
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 1: want or who you would pick objectively, maybe to win

1298
00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 1: the whole conference. A lot of people say Kansas City,

1299
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 1: I say Buffalo. But tell me who your pick is

1300
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:13,840
Speaker 1: and who's your dark horse team who might do some

1301
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:18,440
Speaker 1: damage this season that not everyone is expecting. Yeah, it's

1302
00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 1: it's so hard to say because if you look at

1303
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 1: the AFC. We've talked about this a lot in the offseason.

1304
00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 1: If you look at the AFC right now, Mark, you

1305
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:30,720
Speaker 1: got sixteen teams, right you only keep seven that make

1306
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 1: the playoffs as of right now? Who you crossing off?

1307
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:36,960
Speaker 1: Like who you're crossing off right now? At a sixteen

1308
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:39,360
Speaker 1: teams and saying they don't have a chance to make

1309
00:58:39,360 --> 00:58:43,400
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I mean the Jets maybe, but even then

1310
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 1: they might surprise some people. Maybe Jacksonville, but again we

1311
00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 1: just talked about them that got that franchise quarterback. Outside

1312
00:58:52,120 --> 00:58:54,640
Speaker 1: of that, that's that's really about it. I mean, I

1313
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:58,320
Speaker 1: think Pittsburgh can bounce back. I think Cleveland could still

1314
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:02,760
Speaker 1: surprise some people with Jacobe set, we'll see, But I mean,

1315
00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:06,560
Speaker 1: as of right now, it's it's anybody's game, and especially

1316
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:10,080
Speaker 1: in you know, especially in that West Division, if you will,

1317
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 1: with the Raiders and the Broncos and the Chiefs and

1318
00:59:12,080 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 1: the Chargers just loaded with quarterbacks, you know, the Texans

1319
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:17,120
Speaker 1: have to play that division. I know the Colts have

1320
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:19,720
Speaker 1: to play that division, right, the AFC South and the

1321
00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:23,880
Speaker 1: AFC West took up this year. It's so difficult to say.

1322
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:27,200
Speaker 1: I would say probably until you know it proven differently,

1323
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:29,040
Speaker 1: you got to go with the Chiefs. But a dark

1324
00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:31,640
Speaker 1: horse that I like are the Raiders. I'm a huge,

1325
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:35,640
Speaker 1: huge Derek Carr fan. You know, if you're in my

1326
00:59:35,720 --> 00:59:38,120
Speaker 1: inner circle, you get tired of me saying how much

1327
00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 1: man c I have on Derek Carr and what he

1328
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:43,760
Speaker 1: can do. So they might be one of those teams

1329
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 1: to watch out for this year, but the AFC is

1330
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:50,680
Speaker 1: going to be maybe the most parody filled conference we've

1331
00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 1: seen in the last couple of decades. Yeah, it is

1332
00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:55,560
Speaker 1: gonna be fun to watch Matt and I can't wait

1333
00:59:55,600 --> 01:00:00,200
Speaker 1: for Game one, September eleventh, that NRG high noon. Texas

1334
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 1: and Colts. Thanks for visiting my friend. You got him

1335
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:04,840
Speaker 1: my pleasure. I can't wait to see him. And that

1336
01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 1: has a double meaning really because we have not had

1337
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,400
Speaker 1: a chance to see Matt in a little bit because

1338
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:12,440
Speaker 1: I don't think they traveled. They didn't travel in twenty

1339
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:16,720
Speaker 1: twenty obviously, and I don't think they traveled in twenty

1340
01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:19,520
Speaker 1: twenty one, but I could be wrong about that, but

1341
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 1: it's gonna be good to see Matt Taylor and the

1342
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Speaker 1: Cults radio team on Sunday, Nancy the Colts as well. Now,

1343
01:00:26,080 --> 01:00:29,600
Speaker 1: we got a lot going on around our Texans world.

1344
01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:32,960
Speaker 1: And when two geeks get together and start nerding out,

1345
01:00:33,280 --> 01:00:34,880
Speaker 1: well we call that in the lab, and those two

1346
01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 1: geeks are well myself Andrew Doherty in the lab next

1347
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 1: right here in Texas All Access. It's Game Week. Yes, sir,

1348
01:00:47,880 --> 01:00:51,080
Speaker 1: welcome in and welcome back to our second hour of

1349
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:54,080
Speaker 1: Texas All Access. Hopefully you didn't miss men behind the

1350
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 1: mics with Matt Taylor, the voice of the Annapolis Colts,

1351
01:00:57,520 --> 01:01:01,040
Speaker 1: and of course Mark Vanomir. And as I said earlier,

1352
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 1: Game Week is just it flies. It really does fly.

1353
01:01:04,880 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 1: You have sort of a routine, but you gotta get

1354
01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:08,680
Speaker 1: back in that routine. And that's what we're getting into

1355
01:01:08,840 --> 01:01:12,000
Speaker 1: the fact that we've got two hours again during the season.

1356
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:14,120
Speaker 1: The offseason, we get one hour from six to seven.

1357
01:01:15,040 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 1: In the season, we get two hours on well, we

1358
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:21,720
Speaker 1: get three on Tuesday, we get two on Wednesday, we

1359
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:23,840
Speaker 1: get one on Thursday because Thursday football. But then we

1360
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:26,040
Speaker 1: get two on Friday, So I'll be back on Friday again.

1361
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:27,640
Speaker 1: Like I said, it's my ninth year doing this. So

1362
01:01:27,680 --> 01:01:29,440
Speaker 1: we got this down to a science, and we've been

1363
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:34,160
Speaker 1: doing in the Lab for about five or six years,

1364
01:01:34,240 --> 01:01:36,960
Speaker 1: and that is Drew Dorry and myself and we get together.

1365
01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:40,640
Speaker 1: We geek out about any number of things, and that's

1366
01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:45,240
Speaker 1: why we call it in the Lab. Here's this week's episode.

1367
01:01:45,680 --> 01:01:47,600
Speaker 1: I like starting a season with the Colts. I was

1368
01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:51,040
Speaker 1: doing Texans Matchup and I was going back and looking

1369
01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:54,400
Speaker 1: at the twenty ten game against the Colts and Aaron

1370
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Speaker 1: Foster taking over, and what a charge that gave this stadium. We'rgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous, retouchedown.

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01:02:00,600 --> 01:02:05,480
Speaker 1: It's two hundred thirty one yards easily the finest individual

1372
01:02:05,640 --> 01:02:08,840
Speaker 1: performance on the ground by a Texan in team history.

1373
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:12,760
Speaker 1: Just so much fun. What's easily? What's second? One? Man?

1374
01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:15,960
Speaker 1: He got me there? It's probably it's Arian or maybe

1375
01:02:16,040 --> 01:02:18,960
Speaker 1: Lamar Miller the ninety seven yard nine that he got

1376
01:02:18,960 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 1: the ninety seven yard or ye, but I would have

1377
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:24,520
Speaker 1: to go back and yeah, I just I just threw

1378
01:02:24,560 --> 01:02:27,960
Speaker 1: that out there, just thinking we always talk about that one,

1379
01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:30,600
Speaker 1: but are there other ones that stand out? He didn't

1380
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:33,680
Speaker 1: get the yardage, but he kind of was. I mean,

1381
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Speaker 1: I think he was the difference in the game offensively

1382
01:02:36,160 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 1: seven and one Texans seven and one Bears Sunday Night

1383
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 1: Football at Chicago in twenty twelve. He gets the touchdown catch.

1384
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:47,760
Speaker 1: You know, he had one. It was a very we

1385
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 1: had to slug it out type of effort, but he was.

1386
01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:51,520
Speaker 1: He was very good that. Yeah, in a sort of

1387
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:53,800
Speaker 1: odd way. It's not no one's ever gonna say that's

1388
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:56,040
Speaker 1: the second best performance, but that's the one that it

1389
01:02:56,160 --> 01:03:00,000
Speaker 1: still kind of jumps out to me of all his performances. Yeah,

1390
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:03,320
Speaker 1: I had one. I think it was Tennessee in fourteen.

1391
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:05,800
Speaker 1: I thought it was pretty good. His game against Dallas

1392
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:09,080
Speaker 1: and in eleven. Yeah, his game against Dallas in twenty fourteen,

1393
01:03:09,120 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 1: even though on a losing effort. I remember the third quarter,

1394
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:13,480
Speaker 1: first half, we couldn't really get anything going. Either team

1395
01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:16,520
Speaker 1: really could in that game against Dallas twenty fourteen, and

1396
01:03:16,520 --> 01:03:19,040
Speaker 1: then Arian really kind of woke everybody up in the

1397
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Speaker 1: third quarter. Didn't give it to him enough in overtime, Yeah,

1398
01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:22,800
Speaker 1: and then tried to throw it to him in overtime.

1399
01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 1: And yes, I don't want to get into that didn't

1400
01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:27,840
Speaker 1: get it to him enough. Anyways, that's neither here nor there, John.

1401
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 1: We're gonna do a few things relative to game week.

1402
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 1: All right, you're gonna answer or finish a sentence for me,

1403
01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:38,640
Speaker 1: oh boy. And we're gonna also have our cream of

1404
01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:42,640
Speaker 1: the crop predictions of the crop. Okay. So we're gonna

1405
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:45,600
Speaker 1: welcome our good friend Randy the macho Man savage back in.

1406
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:50,040
Speaker 1: Oh baby, Yes, so the macho Man. They're cream of

1407
01:03:50,080 --> 01:03:52,760
Speaker 1: the crop. Thank you, macho man. The macho Man give

1408
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:55,120
Speaker 1: us his his stylings for cream of the crop. But

1409
01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:56,800
Speaker 1: then we're gonna give who we think will be the

1410
01:03:56,840 --> 01:03:58,320
Speaker 1: cream of the crop. But I want you to answer

1411
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Speaker 1: this sentence. Who Okay. Ultimately the Texans will triumph over

1412
01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:12,320
Speaker 1: the Colts because finished that sentence. This is a much

1413
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:20,360
Speaker 1: more physical team. It's a much more explosively twitchy team

1414
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:24,640
Speaker 1: in the trenches. Okay. And those words often don't go

1415
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:29,240
Speaker 1: together all that often when you're talking about interior players.

1416
01:04:30,240 --> 01:04:35,080
Speaker 1: But to beat the Colts, they have those guys, and

1417
01:04:35,160 --> 01:04:38,720
Speaker 1: you've got to match those guys. And I heard I

1418
01:04:38,720 --> 01:04:40,480
Speaker 1: can't remember who was I was listening to this morning,

1419
01:04:40,520 --> 01:04:42,800
Speaker 1: whatever I think it was, maybe excuse me, Sean and

1420
01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:47,960
Speaker 1: Seth and they were talking about the offensive line. Our

1421
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 1: offensive line and our offensive line might include Titus Howard,

1422
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:59,680
Speaker 1: Justin britt Laramie Tuntsol on the front. But Titus being

1423
01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:02,000
Speaker 1: a guard last year and now at a tackle makes

1424
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:07,040
Speaker 1: a massive difference. Aj Can being at guard makes a

1425
01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:10,640
Speaker 1: massive different experienced has played these guys twice a year, yes,

1426
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:14,480
Speaker 1: the last five years. Physical. He did interview with Mark

1427
01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:16,640
Speaker 1: and I the other day and shook hands with him, like,

1428
01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:18,400
Speaker 1: my hands are pretty big. I mean I've got like

1429
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:20,600
Speaker 1: size tenant quarter hands. I mean I would go to

1430
01:05:20,600 --> 01:05:26,439
Speaker 1: the combine and I would get hand kudos. So when

1431
01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:29,479
Speaker 1: he grabbed my hands, wow, And he's had a really

1432
01:05:29,480 --> 01:05:32,960
Speaker 1: good preseason that thought. And then when Kenyon comes around,

1433
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:35,479
Speaker 1: that changes everything at left guard, even if it's Justin

1434
01:05:35,560 --> 01:05:37,400
Speaker 1: McCray to start, I think it's better than how the

1435
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:40,760
Speaker 1: Texans started at at left guard. I would rather had

1436
01:05:40,840 --> 01:05:45,040
Speaker 1: McCrae at guard Howard at tackle as opposed to what

1437
01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:47,480
Speaker 1: they ended up starting in Week one last year. So

1438
01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:50,000
Speaker 1: I just think that change of tight us out to

1439
01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:53,440
Speaker 1: a tackle. Aj can't coming in a guard and Kenyan

1440
01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:56,880
Speaker 1: potentially going in at guard or Justin mccrai guard I

1441
01:05:56,920 --> 01:06:00,400
Speaker 1: think changes things for this offense, no doubt, defense asily.

1442
01:06:01,120 --> 01:06:03,080
Speaker 1: I think Willie Collins has taken his game to different

1443
01:06:03,160 --> 01:06:05,320
Speaker 1: level roys in the second year. I just think there's

1444
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:07,760
Speaker 1: so much better inside. You got Booker, you got Highness,

1445
01:06:08,120 --> 01:06:11,280
Speaker 1: you got some dudes that have some twitch, some stout power,

1446
01:06:12,680 --> 01:06:15,800
Speaker 1: and then you add Obo outside to what you already had.

1447
01:06:15,840 --> 01:06:17,840
Speaker 1: Then you got to two vets. I just think you're

1448
01:06:17,960 --> 01:06:23,760
Speaker 1: that much more explosively twitchy outside. And I think the Colts,

1449
01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:26,160
Speaker 1: I don't want to say are the same, but the

1450
01:06:26,200 --> 01:06:28,640
Speaker 1: Colts added in Gockway on the outside. Now he won't

1451
01:06:28,680 --> 01:06:33,640
Speaker 1: play the run, But if a team's gonna have great

1452
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:35,440
Speaker 1: edge rushers, I'm okay with that because you got there.

1453
01:06:35,440 --> 01:06:37,720
Speaker 1: I mean, you got Titus out there, but they add

1454
01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:40,400
Speaker 1: in Gockway. But on the offensive line, they've lost. They

1455
01:06:40,440 --> 01:06:42,439
Speaker 1: lost Costango two years ago. I don't think they've ever

1456
01:06:42,480 --> 01:06:45,720
Speaker 1: really fully replaced him. So now that's Matt Pryor. They

1457
01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:48,520
Speaker 1: got Danny Pint to replace him. Mark Lewinsky and Glowinski

1458
01:06:48,560 --> 01:06:50,080
Speaker 1: was the glue they held that line together. It's still

1459
01:06:50,120 --> 01:06:52,480
Speaker 1: gonna be a good offensive line. Those are two losses

1460
01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:55,080
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years that have could really

1461
01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:58,280
Speaker 1: hurt the Colts. So if your defensive line can match up,

1462
01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:03,040
Speaker 1: especially in those two particular spots, and then you can

1463
01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:07,880
Speaker 1: win and win consistently with that explosive twitch, that power

1464
01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:10,520
Speaker 1: up front, and you got a great opportunity to win

1465
01:07:10,520 --> 01:07:13,560
Speaker 1: his football game. All right. I like that. My answer

1466
01:07:13,560 --> 01:07:19,560
Speaker 1: would be the because they win because takeaways, yep. And

1467
01:07:19,680 --> 01:07:23,000
Speaker 1: a rejuvenated run game. Okay. I think I think you're

1468
01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:27,200
Speaker 1: gonna have to get takeaways clearly for this defense for

1469
01:07:27,200 --> 01:07:30,680
Speaker 1: this team to flourish. And I do think they run

1470
01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:32,960
Speaker 1: game with Damian Pierce is going to be so much

1471
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:35,000
Speaker 1: better than what we saw last year. And you know,

1472
01:07:35,720 --> 01:07:37,360
Speaker 1: justin Britt I talked to him in the locker room

1473
01:07:37,400 --> 01:07:39,360
Speaker 1: the other day and he said, all right, listen, we're

1474
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:42,160
Speaker 1: not gonna get nine ten yards to carry like we did.

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01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:45,560
Speaker 1: Everyone needs to chill on that. But we gotta stay

1476
01:07:45,560 --> 01:07:48,000
Speaker 1: committed to it. We gotta keep getting the four and

1477
01:07:48,040 --> 01:07:51,000
Speaker 1: five yard chunks consistently because they didn't do that last year.

1478
01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:53,000
Speaker 1: There was in the three two range, three four range,

1479
01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:56,280
Speaker 1: which is unacceptable. You know, they and I'm not speaking

1480
01:07:56,280 --> 01:07:58,200
Speaker 1: out of turn. We've heard Nick Kissius yet we've heard

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01:07:58,240 --> 01:08:00,920
Speaker 1: Lovey say that everyone has said that, I'm off as

1482
01:08:00,920 --> 01:08:03,560
Speaker 1: Alignment said it. Yeah, I'm just parroting what they say.

1483
01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:08,400
Speaker 1: So they do those two things. That makes a world

1484
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:11,080
Speaker 1: of difference over what you saw them do against the

1485
01:08:11,080 --> 01:08:14,600
Speaker 1: Colts last year. This is a big sticking point in

1486
01:08:14,640 --> 01:08:20,519
Speaker 1: their respective or the collective Crows. They're absolutely smoked with

1487
01:08:20,560 --> 01:08:23,800
Speaker 1: no real excuse. You get smoked at Buffalo, that's kind

1488
01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:25,960
Speaker 1: of an excuse. It was Davis mills first road start

1489
01:08:26,040 --> 01:08:29,680
Speaker 1: and it was in torrential downpour. I mean, you can

1490
01:08:31,360 --> 01:08:33,639
Speaker 1: kind of wipe your hands with that one, so to speak.

1491
01:08:33,680 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 1: But the other two you were in perfect weather conditions

1492
01:08:37,240 --> 01:08:40,800
Speaker 1: and you got blasted by a superior opponent. And they

1493
01:08:40,840 --> 01:08:44,840
Speaker 1: want more. The Texans want more. Okay, So you brought

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01:08:44,920 --> 01:08:47,120
Speaker 1: up MALIEK. Collins and we're gonna add this in. I

1495
01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:49,200
Speaker 1: didn't put this in the table of contents. But true

1496
01:08:49,280 --> 01:08:52,519
Speaker 1: or false, we did see him a little bit, but

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01:08:53,080 --> 01:08:54,920
Speaker 1: for the most part he was He was not in

1498
01:08:54,920 --> 01:08:58,960
Speaker 1: in the preseason. True or false. The guys we did

1499
01:08:59,040 --> 01:09:02,960
Speaker 1: not see the preseason, and the things on offense end

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01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:06,280
Speaker 1: defense we did not see in the preseason, meaning blitz

1501
01:09:06,360 --> 01:09:10,439
Speaker 1: is on defense. Uh, different plays on offense. But those

1502
01:09:10,479 --> 01:09:12,879
Speaker 1: things that we that did not show up in August

1503
01:09:13,479 --> 01:09:17,479
Speaker 1: will also prove to be the difference on Sunday, true

1504
01:09:17,560 --> 01:09:21,000
Speaker 1: or false because we didn't see Brandon Foks, we didn't

1505
01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:22,960
Speaker 1: see Justin britt. I think it makes a difference in

1506
01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:27,679
Speaker 1: how the units operate for sure. You can also look

1507
01:09:27,680 --> 01:09:29,360
Speaker 1: at the Colts and say, well, you know they didn't

1508
01:09:29,360 --> 01:09:32,439
Speaker 1: play there guys either, right, And I think a big

1509
01:09:32,720 --> 01:09:37,160
Speaker 1: difference is does Shaquille Leonard play? That's Darius Leonard for

1510
01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:39,479
Speaker 1: for those of you who can't remember the inside Labbacker

1511
01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:42,479
Speaker 1: changed the name to Shaquille, Yeah, exact, Shaque Lenard, the maniac,

1512
01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:44,479
Speaker 1: the guy that we all I don't know I would

1513
01:09:44,520 --> 01:09:46,400
Speaker 1: put him on a villain's list. I think you were

1514
01:09:46,400 --> 01:09:48,439
Speaker 1: the one that said I put him on the Rushmore

1515
01:09:48,479 --> 01:09:50,840
Speaker 1: of Texans villains, up there with t Y Hilton. He's

1516
01:09:50,840 --> 01:09:52,920
Speaker 1: just so frustrating to play three of those. He wasn't

1517
01:09:52,920 --> 01:09:54,840
Speaker 1: even healthy last year. He's still punching the ball out

1518
01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:57,040
Speaker 1: from everybody. I mean, he's made such big plays against us,

1519
01:09:57,080 --> 01:10:00,479
Speaker 1: the last huge difference maker. Now know if he's gonna

1520
01:10:00,479 --> 01:10:01,960
Speaker 1: be ready for Week one, My guess is he is

1521
01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:05,280
Speaker 1: going to be on the field dressed out. How much

1522
01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:07,960
Speaker 1: he plays could be a difference. I'd be stunned if

1523
01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:10,320
Speaker 1: he doesn't. I would absolutely, I would be stunned. I'm

1524
01:10:10,360 --> 01:10:13,080
Speaker 1: just totally playing of in some form or fashion. I'm

1525
01:10:13,080 --> 01:10:16,559
Speaker 1: totally preparing for him to play. Yeah, and he didn't

1526
01:10:16,560 --> 01:10:18,559
Speaker 1: do anything in the preseason. Buckner didn't do a whole

1527
01:10:18,600 --> 01:10:21,120
Speaker 1: heck of a lot of preseason. Grover Stewart did playing

1528
01:10:21,320 --> 01:10:25,080
Speaker 1: in the preseason, so they didn't play their full guys.

1529
01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:27,679
Speaker 1: They're full of a lot man of guys. We didn't either,

1530
01:10:27,720 --> 01:10:31,759
Speaker 1: But there's a lot that revolves around Brandon Cooks. There's

1531
01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:33,920
Speaker 1: a lot that's going to change with your protection when

1532
01:10:33,920 --> 01:10:35,519
Speaker 1: you have a guy like Laramy tuns alot on the

1533
01:10:35,640 --> 01:10:39,080
Speaker 1: edge because you're like Laramy, you got in Gockway. Yeah, yeah,

1534
01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:41,679
Speaker 1: I'm good. I'm good. So you can set the protection

1535
01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:44,360
Speaker 1: different ways. You can, you know, move your running back

1536
01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:46,200
Speaker 1: and have your running back do different things. So I

1537
01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:49,639
Speaker 1: think schematically it makes a difference, especially Brandon Cooks. Where

1538
01:10:49,680 --> 01:10:52,120
Speaker 1: you can line Brandon up, what matchups you can get

1539
01:10:52,200 --> 01:10:55,400
Speaker 1: him on, what you can glean from a defense from

1540
01:10:55,439 --> 01:10:59,160
Speaker 1: just where Brandon is lined up. If there's a perimeter

1541
01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:03,559
Speaker 1: corner that lines up put Brandon inside. It's a decent idea. Well,

1542
01:11:03,560 --> 01:11:06,280
Speaker 1: that's probably man. Let's watch the safeties after snap. Yep,

1543
01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:08,600
Speaker 1: that's man. Okay, this is where I want to go

1544
01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:11,360
Speaker 1: with this route and gives Davis Mills some hints and tips, etc.

1545
01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:16,080
Speaker 1: I think those things make a difference for this team.

1546
01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:19,160
Speaker 1: I think the difference makers were the ones that obviously

1547
01:11:19,200 --> 01:11:22,400
Speaker 1: didn't play a lot. But I think you mentioned the

1548
01:11:22,439 --> 01:11:25,120
Speaker 1: biggest difference maker in this one, and that is Damian

1549
01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:27,240
Speaker 1: Pearce and the running game. Now you can look at

1550
01:11:27,280 --> 01:11:29,559
Speaker 1: the running game and say, well, success in the running

1551
01:11:29,600 --> 01:11:32,720
Speaker 1: game is the result of the process up front, of

1552
01:11:32,760 --> 01:11:37,320
Speaker 1: those guys occupying that front, moving that front, getting a

1553
01:11:37,320 --> 01:11:41,519
Speaker 1: hat on Darius Shaquille Leonard and occupying him as well

1554
01:11:41,560 --> 01:11:44,519
Speaker 1: to give Damien just little slivers a space. But I

1555
01:11:44,560 --> 01:11:47,240
Speaker 1: think also the one thing last year's team really could

1556
01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:53,160
Speaker 1: not kind of tap into was this game is seventeen seventeen,

1557
01:11:53,640 --> 01:11:57,759
Speaker 1: and it demands us to win the next five minutes

1558
01:11:57,760 --> 01:12:01,320
Speaker 1: of game action as physically as it can be. This

1559
01:12:01,479 --> 01:12:04,639
Speaker 1: game is teetering on the brink of us really pushing

1560
01:12:04,640 --> 01:12:07,320
Speaker 1: it over the edge. Can we take it over physically?

1561
01:12:07,760 --> 01:12:11,559
Speaker 1: And I think with a young hammerhead like Troy Harrison

1562
01:12:11,560 --> 01:12:14,960
Speaker 1: at fullback with AJ Cann and Kenyan Green on the inside,

1563
01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:18,240
Speaker 1: you have an opportunity to do that more so than

1564
01:12:18,280 --> 01:12:20,920
Speaker 1: you could last year or the year before. You just

1565
01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:23,599
Speaker 1: couldn't take over a game, and that I would love

1566
01:12:23,640 --> 01:12:27,120
Speaker 1: to see. Like in that twenty ten matchup, that offensive

1567
01:12:27,120 --> 01:12:29,160
Speaker 1: line an area took over the game in the second

1568
01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:31,880
Speaker 1: half and physically just brought it to the Colts. And

1569
01:12:31,880 --> 01:12:35,559
Speaker 1: if there's a team that you want to go in

1570
01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:37,360
Speaker 1: and just bust it right in the mouth, you know,

1571
01:12:37,439 --> 01:12:39,040
Speaker 1: you go in and bust the bully right in the mouth.

1572
01:12:39,080 --> 01:12:41,880
Speaker 1: You don't back down, but you can't tip toe in either.

1573
01:12:42,640 --> 01:12:44,600
Speaker 1: That game gets to the third fourth quarter in it

1574
01:12:44,720 --> 01:12:50,120
Speaker 1: demands physicality to take over the next eighteen fifteen twelve

1575
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:52,679
Speaker 1: minutes of game action. Then you got to be able

1576
01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:54,320
Speaker 1: to do I think Texas can tap into that a

1577
01:12:54,360 --> 01:12:57,320
Speaker 1: little bit more than they could in the past. And

1578
01:12:57,360 --> 01:13:00,280
Speaker 1: that's gonna be I think a massive, massive appointments game.

1579
01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:05,320
Speaker 1: All right, Time for Cream of the Crop. Okay, my

1580
01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:08,000
Speaker 1: cream of I'm gonna go first. My cream of the

1581
01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:11,600
Speaker 1: crop is gonna be offensive coordinator pet Pamilton. Oh wow,

1582
01:13:11,920 --> 01:13:16,360
Speaker 1: I've touched on this a few times since February. I

1583
01:13:16,400 --> 01:13:23,200
Speaker 1: can't stress enough that if what we've seen and what

1584
01:13:23,200 --> 01:13:27,920
Speaker 1: we're hearing turns out to be true, things will be

1585
01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:31,040
Speaker 1: much different than what we've seen around here offensively the

1586
01:13:31,160 --> 01:13:35,360
Speaker 1: last eight years. I think he's gonna get guys in

1587
01:13:35,479 --> 01:13:39,960
Speaker 1: position to succeed. He's going to accentuate strengths. He's not

1588
01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:42,920
Speaker 1: going to jam a square peg in the round hole.

1589
01:13:43,640 --> 01:13:48,880
Speaker 1: He's going to be creative in a different sort of way,

1590
01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:52,240
Speaker 1: yea in m I think a more sensible sort of way.

1591
01:13:52,320 --> 01:13:55,000
Speaker 1: And so I think he does that. We saw glimpses

1592
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:57,080
Speaker 1: of it. We saw glimpses of it in August. I

1593
01:13:57,120 --> 01:13:59,200
Speaker 1: mean what they were doing with the run game. And yes,

1594
01:13:59,240 --> 01:14:01,280
Speaker 1: I know it was pre season, but we didn't see

1595
01:14:01,320 --> 01:14:04,080
Speaker 1: that in the preseason here over the last decade. You

1596
01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:07,040
Speaker 1: didn't see it with Kubiak. He didn't see Arian peeling

1597
01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:10,080
Speaker 1: off big runs like that. You really did not. So

1598
01:14:10,360 --> 01:14:12,719
Speaker 1: that's that's what I'm going with. I'm going with pet Pamilton.

1599
01:14:12,800 --> 01:14:15,920
Speaker 1: He's if the Texans are to win and to take

1600
01:14:15,920 --> 01:14:18,439
Speaker 1: care of business and be this tough, physical team that

1601
01:14:18,479 --> 01:14:21,160
Speaker 1: they have said that. Pep said that Lovey Smith has

1602
01:14:21,160 --> 01:14:24,360
Speaker 1: said he wants them to be. It's gonna be because

1603
01:14:24,520 --> 01:14:26,479
Speaker 1: of what he's dialed up and what he's kind of

1604
01:14:26,520 --> 01:14:29,720
Speaker 1: helping still up front without offensive line and with this

1605
01:14:29,840 --> 01:14:32,120
Speaker 1: running game. I'm gonna use a phrase, affect them job

1606
01:14:32,360 --> 01:14:35,760
Speaker 1: and one word dendam to this and with what he's

1607
01:14:35,840 --> 01:14:40,400
Speaker 1: done since February installing this offense with Davis Mills, Davis

1608
01:14:40,400 --> 01:14:43,799
Speaker 1: has been up in those offices, working with him, getting

1609
01:14:43,800 --> 01:14:47,400
Speaker 1: things right, saying well, I don't I think that's I

1610
01:14:47,479 --> 01:14:50,160
Speaker 1: like that call, but what about this? This I think

1611
01:14:50,160 --> 01:14:53,720
Speaker 1: would work. They've been working on this. I'm gonna I'm

1612
01:14:53,720 --> 01:14:55,760
Speaker 1: gonna say a phrase and it First you're gonna go,

1613
01:14:55,880 --> 01:14:59,160
Speaker 1: wait a second. That's paradoxical in some sense, but I

1614
01:14:59,240 --> 01:15:02,280
Speaker 1: think an off a good offensive coordinator has to have

1615
01:15:02,400 --> 01:15:06,960
Speaker 1: stubborn melieability. I love it, Yes, meaning you've got to

1616
01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:11,040
Speaker 1: be stubborn on certain things, but being malieable means you

1617
01:15:11,240 --> 01:15:16,120
Speaker 1: are flexible to other things that during the game, hey

1618
01:15:16,400 --> 01:15:19,519
Speaker 1: I've started, we stubbornly have to stick to the run

1619
01:15:19,560 --> 01:15:21,880
Speaker 1: because it might pop. This is the game, it might pop.

1620
01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:25,719
Speaker 1: Melieability tells you you know what, they're eating us alive

1621
01:15:26,400 --> 01:15:29,280
Speaker 1: and they're staying in their base when we go to this.

1622
01:15:29,600 --> 01:15:31,400
Speaker 1: We've got to make this adjustment, and we got to

1623
01:15:31,400 --> 01:15:35,519
Speaker 1: make it quickly, and so everything that you've done during

1624
01:15:35,560 --> 01:15:36,920
Speaker 1: the week can get I don't want to say throw

1625
01:15:36,960 --> 01:15:40,200
Speaker 1: out the window, but it can be adjusted. But if

1626
01:15:40,240 --> 01:15:43,960
Speaker 1: you have stubborn malieability, as in we ran it, it

1627
01:15:43,960 --> 01:15:46,000
Speaker 1: didn't work, but we're gonna stick to it and see

1628
01:15:46,040 --> 01:15:50,240
Speaker 1: how it goes and be flexible off of that. And

1629
01:15:50,280 --> 01:15:54,080
Speaker 1: I think that's one way that I see PEP being

1630
01:15:54,200 --> 01:15:57,200
Speaker 1: different than play callers maybe in the past, which I'm

1631
01:15:57,240 --> 01:15:58,720
Speaker 1: okay with. My cream of the crop is going to

1632
01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:00,840
Speaker 1: be a guy that you mentioned a little while ago

1633
01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:03,280
Speaker 1: I brought up and as MALIEK. Collins. All right, I

1634
01:16:03,320 --> 01:16:05,760
Speaker 1: think Willie Collins during training camps playing on a level

1635
01:16:05,800 --> 01:16:07,840
Speaker 1: that I've not seen him since his days in Nebraska.

1636
01:16:08,920 --> 01:16:13,800
Speaker 1: His quickness was the same, if not better than it

1637
01:16:13,960 --> 01:16:18,960
Speaker 1: was last year. His power, he's so quick and concise

1638
01:16:19,600 --> 01:16:22,320
Speaker 1: with his hand movement and everything he's doing, and he

1639
01:16:22,400 --> 01:16:25,639
Speaker 1: has counters for everything. Now it's a battle going aa'st

1640
01:16:25,680 --> 01:16:28,519
Speaker 1: Quinton Nelson. It's gonna be a battle going as Danny

1641
01:16:28,520 --> 01:16:30,920
Speaker 1: Pin three, even though he's going and starting presumably for

1642
01:16:30,960 --> 01:16:32,920
Speaker 1: the first time. If his pint guard wage I expect

1643
01:16:33,439 --> 01:16:35,360
Speaker 1: then you gotta go against Ryan Kelly at center, so

1644
01:16:35,439 --> 01:16:37,800
Speaker 1: that that interior is pretty stout and pretty tough. But

1645
01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:41,559
Speaker 1: I think Malik matches up with them really well because

1646
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:43,519
Speaker 1: of his quickness, and he's not just a guy that

1647
01:16:43,640 --> 01:16:45,799
Speaker 1: runs up field a two hundred and eighty eight pounds

1648
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:48,000
Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty five pounds. He's a good stile

1649
01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:50,040
Speaker 1: of the three h five. And if you see Malik

1650
01:16:50,160 --> 01:16:53,559
Speaker 1: his button, his thighs are just massive, So it's not

1651
01:16:53,640 --> 01:16:55,519
Speaker 1: like he just runs up field and gets knocked out

1652
01:16:55,520 --> 01:16:57,720
Speaker 1: of gaps. He gets up field, but he holds his

1653
01:16:57,800 --> 01:16:59,920
Speaker 1: own and then can redirect when he gets there. I

1654
01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:02,960
Speaker 1: think Millie Collins ends up being a massive figure in

1655
01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:05,360
Speaker 1: this week one. He's my creamat the crop to go

1656
01:17:05,360 --> 01:17:07,320
Speaker 1: with your Pep Hamilton. I like your Pep Hamilton cream

1657
01:17:07,360 --> 01:17:09,559
Speaker 1: the crop. It's really good, it's really really good. But

1658
01:17:09,560 --> 01:17:11,439
Speaker 1: I'm going with Mille Collins on the defensive side. I

1659
01:17:11,479 --> 01:17:12,840
Speaker 1: think he's got to be a big key. Well, you

1660
01:17:12,880 --> 01:17:14,840
Speaker 1: know what, I like your MALIEK. Collins, and I also

1661
01:17:14,920 --> 01:17:18,080
Speaker 1: like your stubborn mellieability. So we're just liking everything today.

1662
01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:21,200
Speaker 1: This has been fun. How do you like that oxymoron,

1663
01:17:21,600 --> 01:17:26,360
Speaker 1: stubborn melieability. I think it's something all offensive coordinators need

1664
01:17:26,600 --> 01:17:31,000
Speaker 1: to have at some point in their repertoire. But hopefully

1665
01:17:31,200 --> 01:17:34,080
Speaker 1: Pep Hamilton will show that he's got that and then

1666
01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:38,360
Speaker 1: some on Sunday calling plays against the Indianapolis Colts. Now

1667
01:17:38,360 --> 01:17:42,839
Speaker 1: there's plenty going on around the NFL. Why does Friday

1668
01:17:42,960 --> 01:17:46,680
Speaker 1: a big day for one of the great quarterbacks in

1669
01:17:46,760 --> 01:17:50,920
Speaker 1: the league. What's going on with other squads as well?

1670
01:17:50,920 --> 01:17:52,800
Speaker 1: We'll have that right here in Texans All Axis we

1671
01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:57,080
Speaker 1: go around the NFL. Next, stay with us, Stay with us,

1672
01:17:58,040 --> 01:18:00,599
Speaker 1: Stay with us. We have fun Us segment of this

1673
01:18:00,720 --> 01:18:04,559
Speaker 1: edition of Texans All Access from the Honday Texans Radio studio.

1674
01:18:04,600 --> 01:18:06,759
Speaker 1: What a great show it's been. We had Nick Cassario

1675
01:18:06,920 --> 01:18:09,320
Speaker 1: on with Mark and myself. Mark stop by for a

1676
01:18:09,320 --> 01:18:13,040
Speaker 1: little twenty questions. John Grenard was in the house with

1677
01:18:13,200 --> 01:18:16,400
Speaker 1: dep City for a deep slant interview of the league

1678
01:18:16,439 --> 01:18:18,800
Speaker 1: brought to you by Exfinity. Matt Taylor was here the

1679
01:18:18,920 --> 01:18:21,559
Speaker 1: voice of the Colts, who did a little men behind

1680
01:18:21,560 --> 01:18:23,800
Speaker 1: the mics with Mark Vanimir and then of course I

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Speaker 1: didn't laugh with Drew Doherty. That's always fun stuff. So

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01:18:27,120 --> 01:18:30,879
Speaker 1: let's finish up by going around the league. And probably

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01:18:30,920 --> 01:18:34,160
Speaker 1: the biggest item to me going around the league is,

1684
01:18:34,400 --> 01:18:38,559
Speaker 1: and I've asked this numerous times of our guest John McClain, etc.

1685
01:18:39,080 --> 01:18:46,559
Speaker 1: Et cetera, what's gonna happen with Lamar Jackson's contract? And well,

1686
01:18:46,600 --> 01:18:49,439
Speaker 1: we should know by Friday, we should know whether the

1687
01:18:49,560 --> 01:18:52,439
Speaker 1: Ravens and Lamar Jackson will come together. I won't even

1688
01:18:52,439 --> 01:18:54,920
Speaker 1: say his agent because he's his own agent, he and

1689
01:18:54,960 --> 01:18:59,559
Speaker 1: his mom, and there's been no agreement. Well today he

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01:18:59,720 --> 01:19:04,200
Speaker 1: said at Friday as the deadline for a deal. Now

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01:19:04,240 --> 01:19:08,000
Speaker 1: the other side of this is his claimed that, yeah,

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01:19:08,040 --> 01:19:12,000
Speaker 1: we are still talking, but Friday is the deadline. We

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01:19:12,080 --> 01:19:16,800
Speaker 1: get to Saturday. In those note deal we're done. If

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01:19:16,840 --> 01:19:20,360
Speaker 1: that happens eighteen nineteen twenty twenty twenty two, it's the

1695
01:19:20,400 --> 01:19:23,920
Speaker 1: fifth year of his lad that did so if they

1696
01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:27,280
Speaker 1: can't come to a deal now, the Ravens can franchise him,

1697
01:19:28,240 --> 01:19:31,080
Speaker 1: which I would imagine they're going to do at the

1698
01:19:31,200 --> 01:19:32,639
Speaker 1: end of the year if they can't get a deal

1699
01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:35,920
Speaker 1: done by Friday. But Lamar seems to be a guy

1700
01:19:36,040 --> 01:19:39,519
Speaker 1: that he says it's Friday, It's Friday. It's not like, well, Friday,

1701
01:19:39,560 --> 01:19:41,519
Speaker 1: but maybe we'll move to Wednesday. No, no no, no, he

1702
01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:45,640
Speaker 1: seems like a guy that sets a deadline and he

1703
01:19:45,760 --> 01:19:48,760
Speaker 1: is going to stick with it now, Like I said,

1704
01:19:49,439 --> 01:19:52,519
Speaker 1: he told reporters today in Baltimore. As of right now,

1705
01:19:52,680 --> 01:19:57,479
Speaker 1: we're still talking. The week's not over yet. That deadline's

1706
01:19:57,520 --> 01:20:00,880
Speaker 1: coming up very very soon on Friday. Now the day

1707
01:20:00,920 --> 01:20:07,080
Speaker 1: earlier on Thursday, we have NFL football real ones that

1708
01:20:07,240 --> 01:20:11,639
Speaker 1: count in the standings, not like Baltimore's twenty three game

1709
01:20:11,800 --> 01:20:14,479
Speaker 1: preseason street coup cares and not the fact that Texas

1710
01:20:14,520 --> 01:20:16,719
Speaker 1: were three. You know, the preseason's fun, it's funny get wins.

1711
01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:20,639
Speaker 1: But now it's for real and it starts Bills Rams

1712
01:20:21,080 --> 01:20:24,840
Speaker 1: in so far, the Rams will be dropping the flag. Baby.

1713
01:20:25,120 --> 01:20:28,479
Speaker 1: They already got their incredible rings, but they're gonna drop

1714
01:20:28,520 --> 01:20:32,280
Speaker 1: the banner in Los Angeles. And it's the first time

1715
01:20:32,400 --> 01:20:36,320
Speaker 1: that the Rams have had a championships in Los Angeles

1716
01:20:36,560 --> 01:20:40,320
Speaker 1: since the nineteen Boy have they ever won one in

1717
01:20:40,400 --> 01:20:42,600
Speaker 1: Los Angeles? Now I think about it, I don't know

1718
01:20:42,640 --> 01:20:44,320
Speaker 1: that they have because they moved out to LA in

1719
01:20:44,360 --> 01:20:46,639
Speaker 1: the fifties. Probably got one in fifty one, I think

1720
01:20:46,680 --> 01:20:48,720
Speaker 1: that was the year. Maybe. So you check me on that.

1721
01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:50,680
Speaker 1: Go see how I did but they didn't want one.

1722
01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:55,880
Speaker 1: In the sixties, seventies, eighties got to a Super Bowl,

1723
01:20:56,000 --> 01:20:57,439
Speaker 1: and then by the nineties with the Saint Lewis the

1724
01:20:57,479 --> 01:20:59,160
Speaker 1: only championship that I could think of the have is

1725
01:20:59,200 --> 01:21:01,559
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety when they want it in Saint Louis,

1726
01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:04,280
Speaker 1: so they'll drop the banner. It's so far, so it's

1727
01:21:04,280 --> 01:21:08,640
Speaker 1: gonna be fun. Bills Rams. I usually do my predictions

1728
01:21:08,640 --> 01:21:13,639
Speaker 1: for games on Friday for the games on Sunday, so

1729
01:21:14,600 --> 01:21:16,680
Speaker 1: I guess they gotta go on record here. I like

1730
01:21:16,760 --> 01:21:18,479
Speaker 1: the Bills to be just. I think the Bills are

1731
01:21:18,479 --> 01:21:19,640
Speaker 1: gonna win it. I know I fall in live a

1732
01:21:19,680 --> 01:21:21,679
Speaker 1: lot of people I've been saying for a while, especially

1733
01:21:21,680 --> 01:21:23,880
Speaker 1: when the Bills got von Miller. I thought, man, if

1734
01:21:23,960 --> 01:21:26,439
Speaker 1: Von is anything like he was with the Rams last year,

1735
01:21:26,960 --> 01:21:31,200
Speaker 1: look out that defense could be hella nasty with the Bills.

1736
01:21:31,240 --> 01:21:34,439
Speaker 1: I'm going Bills to win in LA. I think the

1737
01:21:34,520 --> 01:21:36,800
Speaker 1: Rams take a step back. I think the Rams are

1738
01:21:36,840 --> 01:21:39,280
Speaker 1: a top ten team in the league still as Mark

1739
01:21:39,320 --> 01:21:41,160
Speaker 1: and I talked about that about power ran kids and

1740
01:21:41,160 --> 01:21:42,880
Speaker 1: things like that, I think Rams are a top ten team.

1741
01:21:42,920 --> 01:21:46,080
Speaker 1: But I think over in the NFC, I think Trey

1742
01:21:46,120 --> 01:21:48,639
Speaker 1: Lance is gonna be all that. I think the Packers

1743
01:21:48,640 --> 01:21:52,360
Speaker 1: will be solid again another twelve thirteen win season, and

1744
01:21:52,400 --> 01:21:54,479
Speaker 1: I think the Eagles are gonna surprise some teams. And

1745
01:21:54,479 --> 01:21:56,679
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have as much talent as anybody in the league.

1746
01:21:56,720 --> 01:21:58,240
Speaker 1: So I think those are the teams to end up

1747
01:21:58,240 --> 01:21:59,840
Speaker 1: watching the NFC. I just don't know what to think

1748
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:02,719
Speaker 1: about the Buccaneers, but I'm going Bills to win tomorrow,

1749
01:22:02,720 --> 01:22:05,000
Speaker 1: and you know what, let's have them cover the spread.

1750
01:22:05,040 --> 01:22:09,040
Speaker 1: The Texans picked their captains. A lot of teams announcing

1751
01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:12,679
Speaker 1: that today. I think the Bills announced there is They've

1752
01:22:12,680 --> 01:22:14,680
Speaker 1: got like a thousand captains. Let's get that picture. To

1753
01:22:14,760 --> 01:22:16,600
Speaker 1: Dre and to Mark, I was like, man, this is

1754
01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:20,120
Speaker 1: participation trophy stuff. Nine captains. We'll Texas the five two

1755
01:22:20,160 --> 01:22:23,439
Speaker 1: offense to defense, who won special teams and offense. It's

1756
01:22:23,439 --> 01:22:25,840
Speaker 1: hopefully the past catch combination we're gonna see a lot

1757
01:22:25,880 --> 01:22:32,360
Speaker 1: of this year. Davis Mills, Brandon Cooks offensive captains over

1758
01:22:32,560 --> 01:22:36,720
Speaker 1: on defense. How about Jerry Hughes not even here for

1759
01:22:37,080 --> 01:22:41,240
Speaker 1: what three months? Four months? He is a captain and

1760
01:22:41,320 --> 01:22:44,479
Speaker 1: Christian Kirksy not surprising that the man in the middle

1761
01:22:44,640 --> 01:22:47,120
Speaker 1: is a captain on defense. So Jerry Hughes, Christian kirksy

1762
01:22:47,120 --> 01:22:52,280
Speaker 1: on defense and our faith, our buddy, long time long snapper,

1763
01:22:52,400 --> 01:22:57,519
Speaker 1: pro bowler John Weeks, Special teams captains. So Davis, Brandon,

1764
01:22:57,600 --> 01:23:02,600
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes, kirk go and see are your five captains

1765
01:23:02,960 --> 01:23:08,840
Speaker 1: for your Houston Texans. Get pumped. I love it. I

1766
01:23:09,080 --> 01:23:12,920
Speaker 1: don't look when everybody, well you have these captains. I

1767
01:23:12,960 --> 01:23:14,920
Speaker 1: saw somebody make a comment that Trey Lance was not

1768
01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:17,519
Speaker 1: voted captain with the forty nine ers. I'm like, look, man,

1769
01:23:17,600 --> 01:23:21,519
Speaker 1: you got Trent, you got Kittle, you got us check,

1770
01:23:22,040 --> 01:23:24,519
Speaker 1: you got all kinds of players on that forty nine ers,

1771
01:23:24,960 --> 01:23:28,479
Speaker 1: you know roster that have probably been captains in the past,

1772
01:23:28,600 --> 01:23:31,719
Speaker 1: and I ain't gonna lose being captains. I'm not putting

1773
01:23:31,720 --> 01:23:34,560
Speaker 1: anything over on Trey Lance, but you can make a

1774
01:23:34,640 --> 01:23:37,040
Speaker 1: lot a lot as made of that. Okay, well, this

1775
01:23:37,080 --> 01:23:39,000
Speaker 1: guy wasn't made of captain here in Houstons. I mean

1776
01:23:39,040 --> 01:23:40,840
Speaker 1: a Larmy Tunsil's not gonna be a leader, or that

1777
01:23:40,920 --> 01:23:43,240
Speaker 1: Tyas Howard's not gonna be a leader, or JB. Justin

1778
01:23:43,240 --> 01:23:44,800
Speaker 1: Britt's not gonna be a leader. Yeah, those guys are

1779
01:23:44,800 --> 01:23:47,679
Speaker 1: gonna lead. They're just not given the title of captain

1780
01:23:47,840 --> 01:23:53,120
Speaker 1: as voted on by the players, So Captain's voted here

1781
01:23:53,240 --> 01:23:57,799
Speaker 1: in Houston Bill's Rams tomorrow night, Lamar Jackson and finally

1782
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:00,920
Speaker 1: asked this question to Mark what he thought. Joe Flacco

1783
01:24:00,960 --> 01:24:03,839
Speaker 1: will start the first three games, presumably for the Jets,

1784
01:24:04,040 --> 01:24:07,639
Speaker 1: and it starts against the Ravens. Mark Jackson's team this weekend.

1785
01:24:07,840 --> 01:24:10,800
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson is out until week four, the number two

1786
01:24:10,800 --> 01:24:13,360
Speaker 1: overall pick in the twenty twenty one draft. With that

1787
01:24:13,520 --> 01:24:16,240
Speaker 1: bone bruise, just couldn't get back ready for week one.

1788
01:24:16,280 --> 01:24:18,320
Speaker 1: They decided to give him more time and so he'll

1789
01:24:18,360 --> 01:24:21,880
Speaker 1: be back in week four. But Joe Flacco, the venerable

1790
01:24:21,960 --> 01:24:24,280
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, he was drafted, how about that?

1791
01:24:24,680 --> 01:24:27,719
Speaker 1: Still sticking around, still kicking. Jets take on the Ravens

1792
01:24:27,720 --> 01:24:30,840
Speaker 1: and Joe Flacco will start that game. So there is

1793
01:24:30,880 --> 01:24:35,240
Speaker 1: You're around the NFL news of the day right here

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01:24:35,240 --> 01:24:37,360
Speaker 1: on Texans All Acts is a big thanks to Nikissaria,

1795
01:24:37,439 --> 01:24:41,920
Speaker 1: to Mark Vanimir, to Judherity, John Grenard, Deep City, Matt

1796
01:24:42,000 --> 01:24:44,120
Speaker 1: Taylor and all of you for listening. Thank you so much.

1797
01:24:44,160 --> 01:24:46,240
Speaker 1: We'll see mr on as always, Go Texans.