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Speaker 2: Welcome in too, a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access

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Speaker 2: from the Hunday Texans Radio Studio. I am your host,

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

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Speaker 2: So glad to be with you. We have so much

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Speaker 2: to do on this show tonight. We're gonna hear from

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Speaker 2: Executive vice President General Manager if you're Houston Texans, Nick Cassario.

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Speaker 2: We're also gonna hear from Texans President Greg Grissom. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna hear from John Gernard, who did our deep Slant

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Speaker 2: interview of the week. We got Texans Ogs with our

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Speaker 2: buddy dy Kalou, who caught up with a former teammate.

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Speaker 2: Here's your hint, he went to North Shore, then Arizona.

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Speaker 2: That is the good enough hit. That's a good hint.

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Speaker 2: You should be able to get it off of that.

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Speaker 2: And then we got Matt Taylor, who's gonna join us

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Speaker 2: play by play voice of the Indianapolis Colts. We love

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Speaker 2: talking to Matt. He's a good friend of ours and

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Speaker 2: love seeing the growth in his career. So we'll go

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Speaker 2: man behind the Mike's with Mark and Matt a little

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Speaker 2: bit later, but we kicked this show off with the

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Speaker 2: executive vice president and general manager of your Houston Texans,

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Speaker 2: Nick Caserio.

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Speaker 3: Let's go joining us now, I'm Texans Radio. It's general

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Speaker 3: manager and executive vice president Nick Casario. Nick, Well, week two,

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Speaker 3: here we go after week one. Let's review some of

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Speaker 3: the things about the game against the Ravens. Obviously it's

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Speaker 3: not the way you wanted it to go. There were

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Speaker 3: some things that you can take moving forward though.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Sure, definitely did a number of good things in the game,

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Speaker 5: put ourselves in a decent position there in the first half.

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Speaker 5: The second half, I would say, like most games usually

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Speaker 5: boil us down to a handful of plays, a handful

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Speaker 5: of possessions. The Ravens made a few more plays than

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Speaker 5: we did in the end. But overall, I mean, certainly

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Speaker 5: did some things well, certainly some things that we can improve.

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Speaker 5: A good opportunity here this week in the division at home,

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Speaker 5: so we're looking forward to the opportunity in front of us.

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Speaker 6: There's a lot of talk about CJ and rookie quarterbacks

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Speaker 6: and all that kind of stuff, and I don't want

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Speaker 6: to say Will Anderson kind of flew under the radar,

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Speaker 6: but I don't know there's as much talk about Will

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Speaker 6: Anderson until Sunday and then he's seemingly unleashed. What did

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Speaker 6: you see from the youngster on Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, defensively, we played well as a team to limit

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Speaker 5: I would say explosive raven offense to under three hundred.

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Speaker 5: Yet whatever it was really other than the long completion

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Speaker 5: to limit the explosives. But you know, front played well.

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Speaker 5: The ends on both Will and JG had some disruptive plays.

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Speaker 5: So I think that group overall has been pretty consistent

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Speaker 5: the big thing will be continuing that moving forward. Will

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Speaker 5: be a different set of challenges and circumstances this week

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Speaker 5: with the Indie offense, but say, overall, off to a

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Speaker 7: Offensive line.

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Speaker 3: We've talked about this a lot all off season really,

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Speaker 3: and you never know what kind of situations are going

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Speaker 8: Yeah, we were prepared going in.

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Speaker 5: We're going to take a linemant of the game, so

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Speaker 5: you kind of have a all right, what's your next

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Speaker 5: You know, Mike had worked a little bit of tackle

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Speaker 5: Overall, that group held up fairly well against a pretty

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Speaker 5: know those things are going to happen. A couple of

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Speaker 6: Nick, one of the things I always worry about in

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Speaker 6: I feel like the tackling was pretty good. Would you

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Speaker 5: in UH in practice, how we attack the ball, the

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Speaker 3: How hard is it to establish rhythm in the passing

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Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely had our moments. The passing game. It's all

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Speaker 5: it didn't look as good. But there are things that

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Speaker 5: we can certainly clean up and improve and get better.

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Speaker 5: So really what you're trying to do is build on

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Speaker 5: And it's a new set of challenges and circumstances specific

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Speaker 6: In Indy we talk about season one to season two jumps,

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Speaker 6: got game one out of the way. Here's how we

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Speaker 5: No question, the early part of the year is really

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Speaker 5: about improvement. Can you improve from week one to week two,

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Speaker 5: you sort of have an idea of, all right, how

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Speaker 5: things that you're doing well. The teams that are watching

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Speaker 5: So you kind of have a core foundation in place. Right,

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Speaker 5: here are the things that we're gonna hang our hat on.

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Speaker 5: All right, If we have to making the modification and

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Speaker 5: adjustment either to the look, to the formation, or introduce

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Speaker 5: maybe a different concept that's gonna help us, then you're

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Speaker 5: gonna do that. But it's seventeen games, and from where

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Speaker 5: you start week one to the end, you're probably gonna

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Speaker 5: see a different team and different players and just their

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Speaker 3: Nick during COVID the practice squad rules changed and you

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Speaker 3: could protect certain guys and things like that. And just

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Speaker 3: speaking in general terms here as we record this, how

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Speaker 3: hard is it to decide who to sign to the

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Speaker 7: You can elevate them, but not that much.

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Speaker 3: And do you look at the other teams in their

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Speaker 8: You're cognizant of where other teams are. We track every

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Speaker 5: We kind of know where they are day to day

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Speaker 5: with the roster. Who's on the active who's on the

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Speaker 5: practice squad, where's the whole where's the need, Whether or

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Speaker 5: Something happens in the game, does that force you to

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Speaker 5: we track that, we look at it weekly. We've targeted

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Speaker 5: So we actually had some of those discussions here over

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Speaker 6: Okay, good small talk, guys, good good good appetizers, Good appetizers.

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Speaker 6: Now let's get there. It's week two to Indianapolis, questioned Nick.

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Speaker 6: So I'll ask you this one first. I think a

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Speaker 6: lot of people would say, oh, Lamar Jackson, Anthony Richard

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Speaker 6: because I would think you know them pretty well.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say, the reality is they're both unique

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Speaker 5: think sometimes guys get lumped into same general category. But

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Speaker 5: they're both highly skilled, highly talented players. I would say

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Speaker 5: in Anthony's case, I mean his size, speed, strength combination.

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Speaker 5: There's not too many people like him in the league.

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Speaker 5: The closest one is probably Cam and we had Cam

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Speaker 8: When Cam came.

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Speaker 5: I would say, specific to the Indie offense, the quarterback

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Speaker 8: But Anthony was their leading rusher the other day.

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Speaker 5: for however many weeks it is. But Anthony's a big

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Speaker 8: Them in a game. You know, they scored on defense.

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Speaker 7: How does it help you?

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Speaker 3: They played the Jaguars, and you faced the Jaguars pretty

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Speaker 7: Of the Colts?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, no, question Mark.

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Speaker 5: It's really interesting because you're kind of seeing your next

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Speaker 8: So anytime you're.

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Speaker 6: I'm glad you brought up Grover Stewart because I've been

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say John. They compliment each other. So

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Speaker 5: the run. Grover's probably a little better run player than

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Speaker 5: Buck presents some matchups in pass protection because of his

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Speaker 3: All right, Nick, We asked Amico Ryans this question. And

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Speaker 8: I wouldn't call it a rivalry if you don't beat somebody.

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Speaker 7: But what about high school? Who was the biggest high

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Speaker 5: what happened against Mountain Union. I could say that for sure.

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Speaker 5: I'm sure Nick Sirianni will love to hear that you saw.

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Speaker 6: I think Sirianni's last college game when he was at

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Speaker 6: I'm sure you know which didn't happen very often. I

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, I mean, nobody was beating them, I mean not

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Typically what you do is you kind of study

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Speaker 5: But I think what you've seen from a lot of

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Speaker 5: And Shane has come out and said this, So essentially

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Speaker 6: Along those lines, Nick, preparation is never easy, and I

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Speaker 6: does that help in preparation? The fact that, Okay, you've

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Speaker 6: Does that make it any I don't say easier, but

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Speaker 8: You have a little bit more of.

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Speaker 5: A background, so we can go back and look at

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Speaker 5: if you've just been doing the same thing, all right,

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Speaker 8: But there might be some tweaks.

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Speaker 5: And I think that's a credit to the coaches and

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Speaker 8: That we're doing.

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Speaker 6: The last few years, unfortunately, you've had to talk to

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Speaker 6: a lot of coaches in the coaching hiring process, and

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Speaker 6: I know that can be grueling in some sense, but

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Speaker 6: I know at heart it feels like you're a coach

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Speaker 6: at heart. Do you enjoy sitting at talk across from

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Speaker 6: coaches and kind of getting to know more about them

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Speaker 6: and more about their schemes and more about all that,

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Speaker 6: it feels like you get a really you get a

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Speaker 6: charge out of learning about what other teams do, what

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Speaker 6: coaches do.

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Speaker 5: You learn a lot. And I think if you open

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Speaker 5: your mind and you just kind of listen, you when

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Speaker 5: you watch a team or a coach like play, you're

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Speaker 5: kind of formulating your thoughts and your ideas. You're keeping notes,

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Speaker 5: all right, and then when you have an opportunity to

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Speaker 5: have a conversation, it could confirm or refute maybe some

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Speaker 5: of the things that you see, and then you get

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Speaker 5: a better understanding of Okay, it's how they think, their

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Speaker 5: thought process, their philosophy. So I think to your point, John,

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Speaker 5: I mean that's I mean I grew up. I mean

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Speaker 5: when I was finished playing football, my biggest mentor Joe Perella,

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Speaker 5: God rest his soul, like he was a coach at heart,

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Speaker 5: and he inspired me to want to get.

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Speaker 8: Into football and coach.

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Speaker 5: And I'd say my career is kind of a winding

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Speaker 5: road kind of and my background is maybe a little

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Speaker 5: bit different than some other folks. But I think when

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Speaker 5: you kind of have an understanding schematically and from a

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Speaker 5: coaching standpoint, it helps from a player evaluation standpoint, because

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Speaker 5: you're trying to take a player and project him into

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Speaker 5: a system, and you want to have some understanding about

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Speaker 5: how that fits.

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Speaker 8: So I mean you try to take a positive and everything.

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Speaker 5: So to your point, we've we've talked to a lot

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Speaker 5: of coaches, but I've enjoyed the conversation, the opportunity to

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Speaker 5: really get to know them a little bit more and

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Speaker 5: then kind of have an understanding of philosophically, you know,

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Speaker 5: how they think or what they believe in.

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Speaker 3: If you went back to the university school right now

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Speaker 3: and coached, would you run wishbone and shoot?

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Speaker 5: Uhone. I don't understand that there were wing tea. We

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Speaker 5: were a kind of a pro style three and five

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Speaker 5: step drop back, not a lot of boots and nakeds

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Speaker 5: kind of play.

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Speaker 4: Action.

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Speaker 5: Had autonomy at the line of scrimmage, you know, control

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Speaker 5: The offense I ran in high school was the same

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Speaker 5: offense since I ran in college because it was the

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Speaker 5: same coach. Coach Pello coached me in high school and

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Speaker 5: he coached me at John Carroll. But the quarterback a

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Speaker 5: lot of autonomy at the line of scrimmage. Get out

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Speaker 5: of a play. It could change the protection, could flip

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Speaker 5: the play the other way. So not everybody liked that,

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Speaker 5: but coach had enough faith in me that I would

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Speaker 5: make the right decisions. So I think this is kind

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Speaker 5: of how my mind thinks and works. So we could

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Speaker 5: probably talk football for two hours, there's no question.

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Speaker 3: Well we'll do that on another occasion. Thanks so much

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Speaker 3: for the visit, Nick.

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Speaker 2: Thanks guys, that's awesome stuff there from Nick Casario, executive

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Speaker 2: vice president, general manager of You're.

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans All Right.

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Speaker 2: Coming up next, we are going to talk to Texans

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Speaker 2: President Greg Grissom. We had a lot to talk about

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Speaker 2: with this week against the Colts, and as a fan,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna love the conversation with Greg Grissom. That's next

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Speaker 2: to Texans All Access. It's time to dive right back

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Speaker 2: into this Wednesday issue of Texans All Access with Texans

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Speaker 2: President Greg Grissom.

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Speaker 1: And you, being a fan of the Texans, you'll love

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Speaker 1: this conversation. Take a listen.

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Speaker 3: Joining us now Texans Radio. It's Texans President Greg Grissom.

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Speaker 4: Greg.

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Speaker 9: Game Week.

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Speaker 8: Here we go, let's go, It's game week. I'm ready,

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Speaker 8: all right.

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Speaker 3: So I said earlier on the air that you were

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Speaker 3: probably gonna give me grief because of the way I

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Speaker 3: began my Demiko Ryan's interview, which was finally a coach

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Speaker 3: understands my pain.

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Speaker 10: Well, we all understand the pain. But there's nothing more

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Speaker 10: fun than beating the Colts. Nothing or really any of

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Speaker 10: our division opponents. But the Colts, I know, for you,

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Speaker 10: is really special. And you know what, let's let's get

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Speaker 10: the home season started off the right way with that victory.

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Speaker 8: Just just to make you happy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Sure, but if I'm happy, everybody's happy, that's the beauty.

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Speaker 4: I could.

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Speaker 6: I could tell you I'm happy if he's happy, that's

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Speaker 6: for sure. But there is something when you're in this

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Speaker 6: building long enough, you get to a point you see

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Speaker 6: that horseshoe and you just kind of have this visceral reaction.

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Speaker 10: You've been in this building a long time, no question. Yeah,

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Speaker 10: I mean, you know, you respect all your opponents. The

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Speaker 10: NFL is hard, but yeah, I don't really much care

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Speaker 10: for the horseshoe. And you know that lighter color blue

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Speaker 10: and then and you know they've they've had great successes

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Speaker 10: of franchise. But I think it's it's it's another time

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Speaker 10: to beat him on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and when the fans come to the game and

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Speaker 3: we'll get into a lot of the aspects of this,

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Speaker 3: but it's important we have you here, so you tell

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Speaker 3: us first of all, because I know everything's different, right,

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Speaker 3: everything's better than ever digital tickets. This is the third

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Speaker 3: consecutive year of all digital But the way that they're

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Speaker 3: distributed and that you communicate with the fans on how

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Speaker 3: to get to the game and best ways to get

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Speaker 3: into the.

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Speaker 7: Game, how has that emerged and evolved.

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Speaker 10: Well, it's been a real focus area for us this

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Speaker 10: offseason is how can we communicate and better educate fans

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Speaker 10: when they when they come to the game. And so

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Speaker 10: digital ticketing does allow you to do that. And just

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Speaker 10: think about it. If you had tickets, you know, hard

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Speaker 10: tickets previously, and you gave them to a friend, you

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Speaker 10: may have known everything to what to expect, where to

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Speaker 10: park out of that, but you give it to the

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Speaker 10: friend and that we don't know that, So there's no

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Speaker 10: way for us to communicate.

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Speaker 8: Now, we have a very robust no before.

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Speaker 10: You go so emails that sent out to tell you

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Speaker 10: where to park, the best route to go, and encourage

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Speaker 10: everybody to pay attention to that it'll help their game experience.

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Speaker 10: But if you forward those tickets to somebody, you know

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Speaker 10: which we really want to make sure that all tickets

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Speaker 10: are used and in hands of people who are coming

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Speaker 10: to the game. They get an email shortly thereafter telling

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Speaker 10: them all the same information, so you don't even have

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Speaker 10: to worry about that anymore. And it's our business analytics team,

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Speaker 10: our our email team, and everybody putting together done a

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Speaker 10: great job and really want to communicate and give everybody

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Speaker 10: the best information they can to have a great game day.

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Speaker 9: You can look at me, Greg and realize I don't

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Speaker 9: miss a meal.

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Speaker 8: And I have that same challenge.

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Speaker 6: I love food and I never get to handle any

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Speaker 6: of it because I'm always down on the sidelines. But

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Speaker 6: I know the fans are going to have an opportunity

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Speaker 6: this year to tackle all the great food that's here.

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Speaker 6: But what's new up in the food category, up in

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Speaker 6: energy stadiums. I know fans, of course they want to

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Speaker 6: be or they want to popcorn, et cetera. But what

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Speaker 6: else can they get when they get to this stadium?

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Speaker 10: Miss, So let me just maybe answer a couple of

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Speaker 10: things that aren't new that are still here. So we've

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Speaker 10: had Killing's barbecue, We've got Good Company barbecue, we have

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Speaker 10: Hugo's in the club, and a variety of other you know,

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Speaker 10: restauranteurs that they're really reflect the great culinary environment of Houston,

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Speaker 10: which is just kind of connected to our overall theme,

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Speaker 10: which is embracing Houston and what makes it unique in

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Speaker 10: all that we do. So to that end, we've also

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Speaker 10: at it. I think he's got a lot of attention

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Speaker 10: our friends at Bumbye and bringing Trilbergers into the stadium

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Speaker 10: in five locations. Uh, you know, there's a lot of

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Speaker 10: interested around Treilburgers, which is awesome, and we're gonna do

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Speaker 10: our best to keep the lines down as beau as

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Speaker 10: we possibly can. And then you know, a bigger product,

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Speaker 10: maybe not Houston Base, but it's a it's actually a

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Speaker 10: family here in Houston who runs the local franchise, Pizza Hut,

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Speaker 10: will be in the stadium for the first time, you know,

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Speaker 10: started in pre season, but for the first regular season game.

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Speaker 10: But you know, food is just such an amazing way

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Speaker 10: to just connect to people, right And we'll even hopefully

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Speaker 10: be introducing a new hot dog here that we'll have

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Speaker 10: some Houston roots, maybe even a Houston type name. And

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Speaker 10: we just want to make sure that when people come

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Speaker 10: to the stadium they can connect to the things that

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Speaker 10: that they know and love about Houston here at NRG Stadium.

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Speaker 3: H Town Dog. I just thought of it, Htown Dog,

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Speaker 3: something like that. Well, well, this makes the decision really difficult.

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Speaker 3: I'm thinking of all these options. I mean, there aren't

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Speaker 3: too many places where you go see a game where

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Speaker 3: it's a really tough decision. Do I go Killing's Good

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Speaker 3: Company or Trellberger for instance, that's tough.

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Speaker 10: How about all of them? But do it all before

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Speaker 10: the game. Get into your seat early so that you're

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Speaker 10: you're in your seat early and getting loud to get

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Speaker 10: after the Colts and along those lines.

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Speaker 3: If you're in your seat early, which you should be,

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Speaker 3: you're gonna see something very different and special with this

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Speaker 3: legend of the Bull.

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Speaker 7: You've hinted on this last time, what people see.

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Speaker 10: Honestly, I'm excited. I get to see it firsthand, you know,

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Speaker 10: here here tonight and as we lead into the season.

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Speaker 8: So I think it's going to be spectacular.

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Speaker 10: Our our video and game day presentation, game day presentation

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Speaker 10: grew of work really really hard on it. It's a

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Speaker 10: little more thematic, it's it's it's maybe something that we

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Speaker 10: haven't done before, and I just know it's gonna be special.

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Speaker 10: I think we're gonna have lights flashing, we're gonna have

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Speaker 10: music going. We're going to really try to tell the

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Speaker 10: story of the legend of the Bull and maybe how that,

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Speaker 10: you know, even connects into Thunderstruck, which is one of

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Speaker 10: our primary songs that we have on game day. So

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Speaker 10: I think it's going to be exciting. It gives people

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Speaker 10: a reason to come early and get into the seats

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Speaker 10: and be ready to welcome the team out on the field.

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Speaker 6: Greg, I know it sounds logical to listen to your fans,

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Speaker 6: but there are a lot of teams that just won't

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Speaker 6: do it. But it feels like that's become I don't

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Speaker 6: know if you put up on the whiteboard and you're like, Okay,

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Speaker 6: we gotta do these ten things, but it feels like

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Speaker 6: it's one of those ten things, listening to fans and

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Speaker 6: listening to their suggestions and then applying them either that

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Speaker 6: year or the following year, whether the case might be.

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Speaker 9: Why is that such an important deal for you and

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Speaker 9: the organization?

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Speaker 10: When you say one of ten things, I put it

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Speaker 10: in at number one. Yeah, And why is it important?

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Speaker 11: Was the other?

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Speaker 10: What makes us go right? Without the fans? We really

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Speaker 10: don't have anything, and so we want to better understand.

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Speaker 10: It's always been a hallmark of the organization, and yes

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Speaker 10: we have tried to amp it up over the last

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Speaker 10: year or two just to better understand what's their expectation

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Speaker 10: from us? What do they want from us? As we

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Speaker 10: really try to challenge ourselves to change and evolve. What

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Speaker 10: better way to do that than to ask and to

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Speaker 10: listen and to adapt. And there are many examples where

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Speaker 10: they've given us feedback. I mentioned some you know, things

658
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Speaker 10: around communication. That's part of it. A big part of

659
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Speaker 10: that is our parking and how we can get people

660
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Speaker 10: in and out of the stadium. They got they have

661
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Speaker 10: tremendous ideas about that because they're out there experiencing it

662
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Speaker 10: and we want to make that the best experience possible.

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Speaker 10: So broadly, what better way to get better than to

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Speaker 10: listen to the folks who are investing their time and

665
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Speaker 10: energy and money into this experience to make it better.

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Speaker 3: So that's what we're focused on doing music DJs. Everything's

667
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Speaker 3: a little bit different that way. Plus the halftime show

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Speaker 3: for this one is Louis the singer right.

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Speaker 10: Correct, Yeah, I mean, so DJs. We have we have

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Speaker 10: two new DJs, DJ Vanilla Trull, DJ Mcbreezy, I think

671
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Speaker 10: is the right way to say it. I'm probably you know,

672
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Speaker 10: my daughter's gonna get mad at me for that, you know,

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Speaker 10: but that's fine. But really excited about the vibe that

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Speaker 10: they can create. And then Louis the singer this this

675
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Speaker 10: Sunday at halftime with maybe a little special guest, So

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Speaker 10: stay in your seat and see if there might be

677
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Speaker 10: a little special guest. But Louis is a great artist

678
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Speaker 10: and just again reflective of Houston and everything that we're

679
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Speaker 10: trying to do.

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Speaker 6: I know, we talk football all the time because that's

681
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Speaker 6: what we are hired to do, you know, football as

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Speaker 6: well as anybody in this building.

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Speaker 4: Her thoughts about I don't know about that.

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Speaker 9: No, no, this is true.

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Speaker 4: This is true.

686
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Speaker 9: You know football.

687
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Speaker 6: You're not gonna talk football, and you you know the

688
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 6: right questions to ask, the right things to say. So

689
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Speaker 6: going into this game against the Colts, just your overview

690
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Speaker 6: of what you saw from week one, in the excitement

691
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Speaker 6: of some of those things bringing it into week two, well.

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Speaker 10: I'm just I would say I remain excited and energized

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Speaker 10: by this young team.

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Speaker 4: You know, I know the.

695
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Speaker 10: Outcome on the on the on the field when lost

696
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Speaker 10: column when't what anybody wanted. But I love the way

697
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Speaker 10: that the response from Demiico, from from you know, CJ

698
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Speaker 10: all the players will is uh, they're just focused on

699
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Speaker 10: getting better, and I think we saw so many exciting

700
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Speaker 10: things that we can build on. Hopefully we build on

701
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Speaker 10: them Sunday here and and and and get into the

702
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Speaker 10: victory column. But I'm just really encouraged and excited about

703
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Speaker 10: where we're going moving forward with with this group and

704
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Speaker 10: what they can become. And I can't wait to watch

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Speaker 10: it all happen.

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Speaker 3: Well, nine home games, so obviously this is the home

707
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Speaker 3: opener and the next one is the Watt game. Packed house,

708
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Speaker 3: packed house. What a way to start the season at

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Speaker 3: home for the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 9: Correct, well, yeah, Sunday should be a packed house.

711
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Speaker 10: You know, I would say ticket you can always tickets

712
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Speaker 10: are always still available with the secondary market, so you know,

713
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Speaker 10: a courage you know, we're basically sold out, but that

714
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Speaker 10: doesn't mean that tickets aren't available by going to the

715
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Speaker 10: NFL ticket exchange. UH, with Ticketmaster, you can always find

716
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Speaker 10: seats that folks are kind of looking to to sell

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Speaker 10: or whatever. But so it'll be a packed house. This

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Speaker 10: Sunday will definitely be a packed house against the Steelers

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Speaker 10: when as we honor JJ and welcome into the Ring

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Speaker 10: of Honor. And then right behind that we have the

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Speaker 10: Saints coming to town, you know for the next home game,

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Speaker 10: and you know, should have another great environment there. So

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Speaker 10: really really looking forward to a great start of the season.

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Speaker 3: All right, So I have one more question about football,

725
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Speaker 3: because John's right you we could do a football show

726
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Speaker 3: with Craig and a lot of people don't know this.

727
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Speaker 3: Greg and I we went at a big group meeting

728
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Speaker 3: and Greg and I were having to a Texans trivia

729
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Speaker 3: throwdown and it was tough on me.

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Speaker 7: John, I think I.

731
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Speaker 8: Could take you down.

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Speaker 9: I really think I could do.

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Speaker 3: And you know what he remembers, like what was DeShawn

734
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Speaker 3: Polk's number and stuff like that.

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I don't remember numbers all the time. I know ninety nine. Anyway, Greg,

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Speaker 3: what is your give me? Give me maybe your top

738
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Speaker 3: two or three cult memories, best memories, best moments against

739
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Speaker 3: this organization?

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Speaker 10: Because the two that popped the mind is the first

741
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Speaker 10: one would be the first time we beat him on

742
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Speaker 10: the road, which was what that was twenty Yeah, and

743
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Speaker 10: I can tell I actually have a picture in my

744
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Speaker 10: office of a group of us that were standing there

745
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Speaker 10: as as we're counting down that game, and it was

746
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Speaker 10: kind of an amazing game just to go up there

747
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Speaker 10: and beat him on the road that we've never done it.

748
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Speaker 10: And then the other is I would say, is the

749
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Speaker 10: the season kickoff when with with Arian the ground and

750
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Speaker 10: just I mean they couldn't stop him, and it was

751
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Speaker 10: just an amazing, amazing day just to kind of realize

752
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 10: that not only had we beat him, but we beat

753
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:57,440
Speaker 10: him pretty good that day. So it was that that

754
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Speaker 10: would probably the other one to jump to mine.

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Speaker 9: It was like you finally punched the bully back.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 9: It's like the bully had been kind of holding you

758
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Speaker 9: down a little bit and finally like, no, take this.

759
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Speaker 9: And that's kind of what it felt like.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and look their ways to win games, but when

761
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Speaker 6: you run for two thirty one, one guy runs for

762
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Speaker 6: two thirty one, you feel.

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Speaker 9: Like you're really just finally giving it back to them.

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Speaker 10: Well they I just remember, they couldn't stop him there,

765
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Speaker 10: so they couldn't the clock just kept running it. They

766
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Speaker 10: really never had any opportunities to score, So it was

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Speaker 10: a good.

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Speaker 9: Day, Well, I love that.

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Speaker 6: On Sunday with to Damian Pierce two thirty one, would

770
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Speaker 6: you take her right now?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 3: I will absolutely yes, Please, thank you. I don't have

773
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Speaker 3: to look at the door number two. Let's hope for

774
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Speaker 3: a great day on Sunday. Greg, thanks a lot for

775
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Speaker 3: joining problem.

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Speaker 7: Just real quick, be early, wear white, be loud, let's go. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: still wear the Liberty White.

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Speaker 10: Obviously, team's gonna be a six season kickoff game featuring

779
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Speaker 10: Liberty White, and uh, get everybody getting their seats early.

780
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Speaker 8: Welcome this team to the field.

781
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 10: So just think about being your seats by eleven thirty

782
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Speaker 10: and uh, let's bring the.

783
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Speaker 3: Juice and see this new show, this new pre show.

784
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 3: Because it's different, it's not what you're accustomed to. It's

785
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 3: gonna be awesome. Thanks a lot, right, thanks guys.

786
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Speaker 2: You guys know, I get you act for the game,

787
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 2: the game itself, but man, game presentation, food, all that

788
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 2: kind of stuff for the fans, that's just that's so awesome.

789
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:09,520
Speaker 2: So get your seats, be ely, be loud. Like Greg said,

790
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Speaker 2: it's gonna be awesome. Coming up next. One of the

791
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Speaker 2: guys that can really benefit from your sound, your voice,

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Speaker 2: John Grenard defensive end with Deep Situ Deep Slant Interview

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Speaker 2: of the Week next right here in Texans All Access.

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Speaker 2: It's not for our deep Slant Interview of the Week

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Speaker 2: with our good friend Deep Situ. This week it's John

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Speaker 2: Grenard who got his first sack of the week against Baltimore.

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Speaker 1: Deep take it away.

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Speaker 12: It's a deep sent one on one presented by Exfinity

799
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Speaker 12: joining me my good I do want to say my

800
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Speaker 12: good friend Jonathan Garnard because I feel like we're friend.

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Speaker 13: Then we've been around for a minute, right all right,

802
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Speaker 13: for sure, I mean like four years and now I

803
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Speaker 13: will call it that a friendship for show gotta be

804
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Speaker 13: what are we doing here?

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Speaker 1: But I was just saying it.

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Speaker 12: I was like, I think you're the longest tenured Texan

807
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Speaker 12: on defense and we just confirm.

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Speaker 4: That you are.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, like I said, year four man coming in at

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Speaker 13: COVID here was a was definitely a whirlwind. It's a twist,

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Speaker 13: but it was fine. Like I said, I'm blessed to

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Speaker 13: be here. But I definitely wear that title. No, I

813
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Speaker 13: guess you.

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Speaker 12: Have been through it. You've been through it a number

815
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Speaker 12: of coaches, a number of defensive coordinators. I feel like

816
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 12: there's just a different buzz or excitement about you and

817
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 12: just this team this year.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, anytime you get a fresh start, you

819
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Speaker 13: get a clean stot. I think that should be a

820
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Speaker 13: breath of freshair for anyone obviously, you know, not just here,

821
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Speaker 13: but anywhere, because you get to just start all over

822
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Speaker 13: and you know, show people who you really are, your

823
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Speaker 13: true identity.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, it's been fun.

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Speaker 13: I mean I obviously have been on a not on

826
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Speaker 13: the side we want things, obviously, but just to be

827
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Speaker 13: here and go through the experience of growing pains and

828
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Speaker 13: understand how to grow not just a player, but as

829
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Speaker 13: a man, as a family man as well, all those

830
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Speaker 13: things just helped me out. So I'm just glad I

831
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Speaker 13: was able to, you know, experience those things with those guys.

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Speaker 12: All right, So after the game at Baltimore, you post

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Speaker 12: it on Instagram, just some pictures and some highlights. First

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Speaker 12: of all, congrats on the sack.

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Speaker 9: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 12: A fantastic game in week one, what a way to

837
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Speaker 12: start the season. But you have the sack on Lamar

838
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Speaker 12: Jackson and you post a picture in a video and

839
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Speaker 12: I was looking at the comments and he actually he.

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Speaker 9: Was like, can you just take that picture and that

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Speaker 9: video down.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, that's that's my boy man. We go all

843
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Speaker 13: the way back to Louisville. We were in the same class,

844
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Speaker 13: coming in from straight out of high school. We ended

845
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Speaker 13: up taking our visits. You know, I went to the

846
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Speaker 13: spring game together, so we pretty much know what each

847
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 13: other before you even graduated high school. But yeah, just

848
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:09,239
Speaker 13: to get to that moment, we already knew what he

849
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Speaker 13: was going to do from the first day he started

850
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Speaker 13: on campus, especially when people see the viral video of him,

851
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Speaker 13: you know, juking guys out they shoes. I didn't even

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Speaker 13: know that was him at that time, so when I

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Speaker 13: seen that video, it was news to me. And seeing

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Speaker 13: him get to this point now we all it's all

855
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 13: expected at this point. The type of guy he is,

856
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Speaker 13: the type of character he shows not just about the game,

857
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Speaker 13: but to everyone around him, the people that you know,

858
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Speaker 13: follow him. He's a great guy, and I'm just the

859
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Speaker 13: sky's sky's limit for that guy. I think he's still

860
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Speaker 13: going to do more things, exceedingly and beyond. So it

861
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Speaker 13: was good to definitely be on the other side of,

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Speaker 13: you know, obviously sacking when he was off limits and

863
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 13: practicing college a lot of times, but just to wrap

864
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Speaker 13: them up man and get it. Get a sack on

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Speaker 13: my belt was great, just not for me, but for

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Speaker 13: the for the team.

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Speaker 12: It's not an easy quarterback to get a sack or

868
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Speaker 12: get the sort of stats that you had on him.

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Speaker 12: You know, you looked so impressive. You came out firing.

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Speaker 12: Let's saw your pregame speech.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, you were fired up.

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Speaker 12: The sack, the way that first drive ended. You seem

873
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 12: different here in year four. What do you think is

874
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:02,640
Speaker 12: different about you in year four?

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Speaker 9: I just I mean it's a combination of things.

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Speaker 4: You got You're confident.

877
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 13: You're confident in the system, the scheme, the coaches, the

878
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 13: players around you, your technique and everything. It just makes

879
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 13: you go into and not have to worry about anything.

880
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:14,720
Speaker 13: You don't think gotta worry about it. Bring your juice,

881
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 13: and I think that's the main thing where I try

882
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:18,840
Speaker 13: to do for the entire team. And obviously it's the

883
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,440
Speaker 13: first game, so you want to start on the high note,

884
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 13: start off fast. So I feel like, you know, that

885
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 13: was something that the team needed at the time. Where

886
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 13: there's the pregame speech where there's me, you know, talking

887
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 13: poorly to the side and saying something. But I just

888
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,359
Speaker 13: feel like that energy was just needed and necessary, and

889
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 13: I think we're gonna need that again obviously every game

890
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 13: move forward, and then some just because we understand, Like

891
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 13: with us coming out with that mentality and we still

892
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 13: didn't get the result we wanted, that means we got

893
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:41,560
Speaker 13: to take it up another notch. So I just think

894
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 13: that it's gonna be infectious for everybody coming and coming through.

895
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 13: So I think if I got to be that person,

896
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 13: I'll be it.

897
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 12: Well, you've been through so much, like we mentioned these

898
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:50,879
Speaker 12: last ye year's coaching changes, You've gone through your share

899
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 12: of injuries. When you look back, what's been the toughest

900
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,320
Speaker 12: thing that you've had to overcome? And how do you

901
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 12: think you really got past it, both physically and mentally.

902
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 13: Yeah, besides the injuries, I think injuries humble me a lot.

903
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 13: Obviously in times, you know, you lose people. I lost

904
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:07,399
Speaker 13: my step father during those COVID times and obviously yeah

905
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 13: twenty one, yeah, well yeah to COVID and twenty one

906
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 13: as well. You know we're going to twenty two as well.

907
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 13: So I think that all of those things have a

908
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 13: combination of you know, settling me down and sitting me

909
00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:18,320
Speaker 13: down to understanding like who I truly am, you know

910
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 13: who I lean on with my faith, you know, friends

911
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,000
Speaker 13: around me, my support system, and I think that just

912
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 13: sitting down that makes you do that. It was actually

913
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 13: very beneficial for me. So seeing those things and all

914
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 13: those types of you know, experiences through other people, you know,

915
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 13: just watching the game, and that's how to protect myself

916
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 13: and perfect my craft while I'm on the sideline, while

917
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:35,320
Speaker 13: I was hurt those times.

918
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:36,799
Speaker 9: It just make me a better player.

919
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 13: And now that when I do get out there, as

920
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 13: you see, I have that fire, it makes me, you know,

921
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 13: appreciate the game not much more because as we know,

922
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:44,720
Speaker 13: this is a physical game. I mean, you can literally

923
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 13: take one stuff, as we've just seen sadly unfortunately with

924
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 13: a rod, you know, take literally seventy seventy five seconds

925
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 13: he's played in that game, and four snaps in the

926
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 13: seasons all over and I've been there before, so I

927
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 13: just understand that this game can It's a privoc to

928
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 13: play this. And I think that when you're going with

929
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 13: that mentality and just try to make sure that you

930
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 13: take advantag of every day, you'll be able to chare

931
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 13: sous moments and you won't actually have any regret when

932
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 13: that time, you know, because we all have that time

933
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 13: that's gonna come, and you don't want to be looking

934
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 13: on the other end of it and I wish I

935
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 13: did this, I wish you did that, And you know,

936
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 13: I'm just making sure I'm not gonna do that.

937
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 12: Yeah, you're definitely not, because now you've got yourself to

938
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 12: play for and a new baby on the way in

939
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 12: a couple of weeks. We've been talking about this. It's

940
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 12: it's very very close to the wire. Now how many weeks.

941
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 13: She's due on the thirtieth shoe, we're at almost at

942
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:28,879
Speaker 13: the finish line.

943
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:32,760
Speaker 12: Now, you are very very You talk to other teammates

944
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:33,800
Speaker 12: like how do you do this dance?

945
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 1: Now?

946
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 12: You're in season, the baby could be coming any day,

947
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 12: maybe you'll be here hopefully. You're here hopefully and you're

948
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:43,040
Speaker 12: not an away game, So how is that all working?

949
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,440
Speaker 13: Yeah, Like, as you just mentioned, I literally just got

950
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 13: done talking to Kyami earlier just about you know, what's

951
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 13: the sleep schedule? Like, man, what's what's the first couple

952
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,319
Speaker 13: of days? Like what's the first literally and I'm like,

953
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,520
Speaker 13: how do I need to prepare that? Or and even

954
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 13: like the lead up for other things like that. It's just,

955
00:38:57,840 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 13: you know, always on my toes. But I just know

956
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 13: that my fiance, she's amazing. She's she's one of those

957
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,439
Speaker 13: people that literally like, hey, you worry about Ball.

958
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 9: I got this over here, like because I mean at

959
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 9: the end of the day's at the end of the day.

960
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 13: I mean I can't do anything regardless or not, so

961
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 13: I just just be there for as a support system.

962
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 13: And she always got her back, she got my back.

963
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 13: But when she told me those things in the beginning

964
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 13: and we first when she first found out that we

965
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 13: were pregnant, I mean that was just an instant weight

966
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 13: off my shoulders where I can just say, hey, look,

967
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,399
Speaker 13: you know I'm always here. She knows I'm always there.

968
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 13: But she said, hey, look you worry about Ball. I

969
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 13: mean whenever it'show time, when you come home. Now, you're

970
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 13: gonna get her for sure. But like but just in

971
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,319
Speaker 13: general and everything else, like you you take care of

972
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 13: Ball or about that, because the mission doesn't change. I mean,

973
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 13: that's the reason you got here, and that's the reason

974
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 13: why we both took this journey to do this. You know,

975
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 13: when when we first decided to make this jump, when

976
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,840
Speaker 13: obviously I got drafted to come out to Houston the

977
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 13: both of us, so and doing that and having that

978
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:47,879
Speaker 13: person in get back in your back pocket and as

979
00:39:47,920 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 13: a left hand, right hand man, whatever you want, my

980
00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 13: partner in crime. I mean that that should give you

981
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 13: obviously more confidence too, like I had on Sunday too.

982
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,399
Speaker 13: So I think that she's been awesome. So I think

983
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 13: we're gonna continue to lean on her as this time

984
00:39:58,360 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 13: comes in.

985
00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 12: You're four a lot, We're exciting. Oh it's gonna end

986
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 12: totally different from how it begins.

987
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 9: It has to go right, all right.

988
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 1: So CG.

989
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 12: Stroud was talking about how you were one of the

990
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 12: players that took him under your wing when he first

991
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 12: got here. What's your relationship been like with him?

992
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 13: Yeah, man, CJ. I mean, he's just a lot of

993
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 13: guys that I've like, I've known. That's like I've been

994
00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:20,839
Speaker 13: really cool, not like a lot of guys I've known,

995
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 13: but like the people that I've been really close with,

996
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,359
Speaker 13: they just always have been humble, down to earth guys

997
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 13: who are hungry. And he comes tom a winning program

998
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,360
Speaker 13: where he's not used to losing. And I told me,

999
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 13: there's a lot of times where I had to learn

1000
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 13: in this league. When I first come in and like,

1001
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:34,360
Speaker 13: I mean, you don't want the mission is never to lose,

1002
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 13: but these things happen. We're in the pros now, So

1003
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 13: you have to understand how to you know, have the

1004
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,319
Speaker 13: twenty four hour rule. I mean, whether it's good or bad,

1005
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 13: you need to love it, watch the film on it,

1006
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 13: and get rid of it because at the end of

1007
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:46,840
Speaker 13: the day, I mean, these guys get paid too. I

1008
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 13: mean you're, yeah, you were like I said he was,

1009
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 13: You would draft whatever you were. But these guys, that

1010
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,359
Speaker 13: makes him more hungry to come after God like you. So,

1011
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 13: but you're our leader, you know what I'm saying. So

1012
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:57,319
Speaker 13: when you being our leader, and I told him, when

1013
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 13: you're being our leader, we gonna go as fast as

1014
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 13: you are. I always know we're going to have your back,

1015
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:02,799
Speaker 13: you know, as fast as you go. And if if

1016
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 13: you need some help, we're gonna be We're right there

1017
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:06,400
Speaker 13: to help you out. So don't feel like you have

1018
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 13: to do everything. Of course, yes, we know, you know,

1019
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,920
Speaker 13: win or loss, they're gonna say it's the quarterbacks fault.

1020
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:13,680
Speaker 13: You know, it's so just understand the territory that comes

1021
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 13: with it. But he's such a guy who just wants

1022
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 13: to be better and wants to be great, And I

1023
00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 13: think that's the part where you know, I can always

1024
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 13: work with that. And then and if you're a good guy,

1025
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 13: good human being under you know, underneath that. I think

1026
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 13: that's the best part about it because now we can

1027
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 13: have personal conversations. We're not just talking about football all

1028
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 13: the time. We can talk about life and it just

1029
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 13: translates into the football world. So the sky's the limit

1030
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 13: for him. Like I said, I mean he was you

1031
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 13: can tell obviously he was probably down on himself, you know.

1032
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,520
Speaker 13: Obviously he felt like he played terrible in the games.

1033
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:40,839
Speaker 4: His fault.

1034
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:42,480
Speaker 13: Like, bro, look you came out here and play it

1035
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:44,600
Speaker 13: against first NFL game.

1036
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 12: He was giving a lot of positive exactly.

1037
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 13: And that's what I'm telling Yeah, And he's a guy

1038
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 13: he don't want to hear that. And that's the part

1039
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 13: I love about him because it's like, you want to

1040
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:53,879
Speaker 13: hear that, but you don't.

1041
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 4: But I'll tell you, bro, you did, you did your thing.

1042
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:57,760
Speaker 13: But in the same token, you went out there against

1043
00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 13: one of the top defenses in the in the top

1044
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 13: ronments on the road, So like you just got to

1045
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 13: give yourself a little credit. It doesn't mean you're you're

1046
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 13: being you're settling for you know, satisfaction or or or

1047
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 13: just being complacent. It's just a matter of just taking

1048
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:13,760
Speaker 13: your victories in a small area where you're not beating

1049
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 13: yourself up all the time. Because I've been there, you

1050
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,839
Speaker 13: feel like you don't congratulate yourself at times. You never

1051
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 13: know what is good for you, what you need to hear,

1052
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:22,319
Speaker 13: what you need to do to build upon it. So

1053
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:24,839
Speaker 13: having a guy like that as our quarterback, our leader

1054
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 13: and leading this team is such a young age like

1055
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 13: he is, and having that confidence and that mentality, I mean,

1056
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 13: I can work with that any day.

1057
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 12: I'm always curious about defensive guys that have that relationship

1058
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 12: with offensive because you just think, oh, you're probably with

1059
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 12: your defensive players, you're with your d line group. But

1060
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:42,320
Speaker 12: to like cultivate a relationship with the quarterback who's a rookie.

1061
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 12: He's got his receivers and his you know, offensive players

1062
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 12: he can hang out with. But like, for sure, the

1063
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,759
Speaker 12: fact that you and him have had this, where does

1064
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 12: that come from? Happen in the off season, happen in practice?

1065
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1066
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:54,839
Speaker 13: I think as soon as he got drafted, I mean

1067
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 13: I followed him ig and obviously I seen him when

1068
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:00,919
Speaker 13: he came and came to the facilit obviously the first time,

1069
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 13: throw OTAs and from the river with me and said

1070
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 13: what's up, I mean, introduce yourself. And you know, he

1071
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 13: was very proactive to everyone, not just you know, to

1072
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:09,840
Speaker 13: just me or a couple other guys, but yeah, like

1073
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 13: you like you say, I mean, you would usually think

1074
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,000
Speaker 13: the relationship is like, you know, offense against defense. But

1075
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,320
Speaker 13: you know, for myself, I always giving points to anybody

1076
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 13: i'll talk to, whether it's a tight end receiver or

1077
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 13: it's a quarterback in his instance where this about cadence.

1078
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:23,279
Speaker 13: If I say, hey, look you might have did this

1079
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 13: and switch it up or this and that, or just

1080
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,240
Speaker 13: a little pointers, or if he's stepping in the pocket,

1081
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:29,240
Speaker 13: if he's sitting back and doing certain things that I see,

1082
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,359
Speaker 13: I'm not gonna hold that in. I'm always like, look,

1083
00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:33,359
Speaker 13: you know, I'm a defensive end. We look for things

1084
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,480
Speaker 13: like this as a quarterback or that doing this in quarterbacks,

1085
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 13: so try not to do this on this and that,

1086
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 13: or you know, just a little small things. And he

1087
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 13: tells me certain things like look, I can tell when

1088
00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:41,719
Speaker 13: you're coming on this play or this and that, you know,

1089
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 13: just just certain things that we always you know, uh,

1090
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 13: just give each other pointers on I'm not just himing

1091
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 13: with everybody on the team. I think that's just beneficial

1092
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 13: for us all. I mean, it's going to make you

1093
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 13: at exactly. So when I'm in practice, you know, if

1094
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 13: I see something, use it the defense on one side,

1095
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 13: I'm standing behind the offense because I want to see,

1096
00:43:57,160 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 13: like how are y'all offering?

1097
00:43:58,080 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 4: Like what are y'all talking about?

1098
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:01,720
Speaker 13: How do y'all you know, communicate certain things because defense

1099
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,360
Speaker 13: is is more you know, fast power, because you know,

1100
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 13: if offense gets to play, they're gonna go hurry up

1101
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 13: and defense now we gotta hey, we gotta talk about

1102
00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 13: this now. Offense they're they're dictating it. So you know,

1103
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 13: they can communicate differently. So I try to, you know,

1104
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 13: just pick up a little small things like that and

1105
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:16,439
Speaker 13: give my points as needed.

1106
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 12: All right, So on Sunday, you're gonna face Anthony richards

1107
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 12: and get his first starts at home. We'll get to

1108
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 12: the home start in a second. But Hithley Richardson, you

1109
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 12: didn't play with him at Florida, but I'm sure you

1110
00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 12: watched a lot of Florida film just because your former Gators.

1111
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 12: What have you seen from him? I know it's a

1112
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:33,880
Speaker 12: different challenge, but in some ways kind of similar.

1113
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 13: Yeah, are I got a good relationship with him still, Yeah,

1114
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 13: that's like a little brother to me. He came in

1115
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,480
Speaker 13: a little bit later as my senior year was approaching.

1116
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 13: He came out as a visits and you know, it

1117
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 13: was around the team a lot, right, five Bowl games,

1118
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 13: so he was around us a lot already, just you know,

1119
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 13: I mean he was at literally that same size. We

1120
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 13: honestly thought he was about to go play right with

1121
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:53,759
Speaker 13: us right then. He was still in high school at

1122
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 13: the time, he didn't even graduate yet. So seeing seeing

1123
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 13: him doing these things like that, and the off season

1124
00:44:58,360 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 13: times we used to come up to Houston just you know,

1125
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 13: whether it's with family and things or that's so I

1126
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:03,360
Speaker 13: always chop it up with him when I always go

1127
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 13: back last year when they played L s U, I

1128
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:07,360
Speaker 13: want to chop it up with him. So he's a

1129
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 13: really good kid, humble kid as well. Skyzlombe for that

1130
00:45:09,960 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 13: guy as well. I mean we obviously got to get

1131
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 13: after him on Sunday, but but yeah, he's, like you said,

1132
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 13: a similar kind of mentality. Really, I mean, he can

1133
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 13: he can go, he got a he got a rocket

1134
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:20,800
Speaker 13: for arm, he can run forever. He's one of those

1135
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 13: one of those blessed prospects I like to say. I mean,

1136
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 13: he's he's literally blessed with all the intents wised to

1137
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 13: be a great player in this league. But yeah, I

1138
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:30,720
Speaker 13: think the mission doesn't stop, it doesn't change, the mindset

1139
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 13: doesn't stop. I think that is just the main thing,

1140
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 13: just to make sure we get we get we disrupt

1141
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 13: him and make sure he's not comfortable there. So I

1142
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 13: think that's one of the things that we all do

1143
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:40,879
Speaker 13: every week, but this week a lot obviously a lot

1144
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 13: more with his running ability.

1145
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 12: We were talking about how Demico ryans this is his

1146
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:46,840
Speaker 12: first obviously first season as head coach. Right, he's coaching

1147
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 12: against Niapis Colts. No one needs to tell him what

1148
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 12: the rivalry is like, because he lived it. He was

1149
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 12: here when the franchise won their first game against the Colts.

1150
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,959
Speaker 12: All Right, you know, heading into Sunday's game at home,

1151
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 12: how excited are you for him to make his debut,

1152
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 12: for you all, to make your twenty twenty three JBU

1153
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 12: in front of this home crowd.

1154
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:04,839
Speaker 13: Yeah, I honestly, I'm eager to see what the crowd

1155
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 13: is gonna be like, because I just know.

1156
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 6: That they yeah, exactly, it was literly posters there at

1157
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 6: this time.

1158
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 13: So I'm excited to see how the crowd comes. I

1159
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 13: know they're gonna come out with full swing. I mean

1160
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:17,360
Speaker 13: just because of the hype. You know obviously what we

1161
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 13: got going on right now. I mean obviously you know

1162
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 13: we didn't like the results, obviously, and that's not the

1163
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:23,880
Speaker 13: standard for what we want obviously last week. But the

1164
00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 13: mindset and if you see and you watch that game

1165
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 13: in the passion that we still play with and fix

1166
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:29,080
Speaker 13: a little couple of things, I think we're gonna put

1167
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 13: ourselves in a really good situations. So I love I

1168
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:33,800
Speaker 13: love the mentality we have, even just after practice today.

1169
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 13: So the mindset and the mission never changes. We're going

1170
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 13: to concede to go out and work our butts off,

1171
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 13: but that crowd is going to be crazy and they

1172
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 13: come with it with the combination of what we have.

1173
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:42,960
Speaker 4: I like ourselves.

1174
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 7: I like ourselves too.

1175
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 4: JG.

1176
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:45,839
Speaker 12: Always a pleasure.

1177
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 9: Sea catching up with you.

1178
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 4: I appreciate it. DP, thank you for sure.

1179
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:50,839
Speaker 1: Man.

1180
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:53,280
Speaker 2: I love those two. They are awesome and they're awesome together.

1181
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 2: So appreciate John Grenard and dB City for stopping by.

1182
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:01,280
Speaker 2: When we get back time Protections, oh G. Ind Clue

1183
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:04,840
Speaker 2: sits down with one of his pals, former teammate Houstonian

1184
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,400
Speaker 2: north Shore's own Earl Mitchell.

1185
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:09,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, Earl Mitchell with Indie Clue.

1186
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:12,480
Speaker 2: Texans OG's kicking off our second hour next on Texans

1187
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 2: All Access. Here we go, Yes, second hour, Texans All Access.

1188
00:47:18,840 --> 00:47:22,800
Speaker 2: It's time for Texans oh G's and our buddy in

1189
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 2: d Clue. This week, Indy cut up with a gapala

1190
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:30,160
Speaker 2: his former Texan Houstonian Earl Mitchell, take a listen.

1191
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 14: Sitting across from me. Earl Mitchell starred his high school

1192
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:38,840
Speaker 14: ball here in Age Town, switch positions when played college

1193
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:41,480
Speaker 14: ball up in Arizona and then in the NFL. When

1194
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 14: I say switch positions, Earl, I love this story, but

1195
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 14: I just want you to tell it. Let folks know

1196
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:50,359
Speaker 14: like where you started, it was your playing career, and

1197
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 14: what you ended up as when it was time to

1198
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 14: become a professional.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 14: So one, I'm excited to be here, man. But I

1201
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 14: started my career north Shore High School and uh small

1202
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:07,160
Speaker 14: school and uh yeah, I played tight end there and

1203
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 14: then I ended up going to Arizona. They you know,

1204
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 14: they were looking for a tight end fullback, and I

1205
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:16,360
Speaker 14: played both of those positions at north Shore and I

1206
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:19,920
Speaker 14: played there for uh played tight end there for two years,

1207
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 14: and then Robert Grokowski came in, and then we had

1208
00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 14: some d linemen.

1209
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:27,360
Speaker 4: Get kicked, get kicked off the team.

1210
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 14: So I ended up making the switch and it worked

1211
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,960
Speaker 14: out for me. You know, there are so many stories

1212
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 14: in the NFL. We sometimes don't really appreciate people's stories.

1213
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:40,919
Speaker 14: And you're a humble guy. But to go from first

1214
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 14: of all, I don't know if you remember this story,

1215
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:45,600
Speaker 14: but when you and I did an event in the

1216
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:48,520
Speaker 14: Valley years ago, I remember you told me you were

1217
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 14: on JV as was it as a sophomore junior?

1218
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:53,399
Speaker 4: Both O? Yeah?

1219
00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 14: And I remember I was amazed because you know, most

1220
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,359
Speaker 14: guys in the NFL, uh, you know a lot of

1221
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 14: them played varsity as a song as a freshman. But

1222
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 14: you you weren't even salty, like you're like, no, I

1223
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 14: went to north Shore. It had a great program, and

1224
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:08,319
Speaker 14: I just wasn't ready until I was ready. And I

1225
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:10,319
Speaker 14: was like, man, that's some great insight from a guy

1226
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:14,320
Speaker 14: who eventually did what most people haven't done and start

1227
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 14: in the NFL. Yeah, So, yeah, my story, you know,

1228
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 14: going back, I was I rotated at fullback. My junior year,

1229
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 14: I was playing JV and some varsity. There would be

1230
00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 14: weeks I wouldn't play at all because as the coaches

1231
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 14: would say, hey, we want you to suit up for Friday.

1232
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:31,959
Speaker 14: So I would still go and dress at the JV

1233
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 14: games and sit there because I was on JV. But

1234
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:37,320
Speaker 14: and then I would a dress Friday and I didn't

1235
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 14: play at all because you know, the players were so good.

1236
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 14: But eventually I would get my chance to you know,

1237
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 14: start at tight end my senior year. But my junior

1238
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,799
Speaker 14: year I was rotating with two others at fullback. So

1239
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 14: and when I got to Arizona, it was kind of

1240
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 14: the same thing where I had to earn my spot

1241
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:59,200
Speaker 14: and I was always humble about it. And even when

1242
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:01,359
Speaker 14: I made it to the it was I was very

1243
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 14: new to switching to defense and it was easy to

1244
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 14: just listen and learn throughout my entire career. Tell me

1245
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,319
Speaker 14: this because going to Arizona that's a big time D

1246
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:14,040
Speaker 14: one program. When in high school, did you know, like,

1247
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:16,439
Speaker 14: you know what I could play at the next level

1248
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:19,680
Speaker 14: because you weren't one of those guys where oh as

1249
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 14: a freshman he was on varsity, you know, those savants.

1250
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:24,759
Speaker 14: Or as a sophomore, when did you say, like, not

1251
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:27,560
Speaker 14: only can I start here at Northshore, which is literally

1252
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 14: one of the best programs in the country. I mean,

1253
00:50:29,840 --> 00:50:32,360
Speaker 14: it just is what it is. But when did it

1254
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,239
Speaker 14: hit you like I could do this at the next level.

1255
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,919
Speaker 14: I think seeing the talent that we had at north

1256
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 14: Shore and I was able to I was. I was

1257
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 14: such a try hard kid at north Shore kind of

1258
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:47,000
Speaker 14: annoyed my my teammates who were the starters, and and

1259
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 14: I knew that if I pushed myself hard enough that

1260
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 14: I would eventually get some looks, you know, maybe not necessarily,

1261
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:58,440
Speaker 14: you know, University of Texas or you know, any other

1262
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 14: other local schools. I was again, I was a fullback rotating,

1263
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 14: So that was kind of my mindset where if I

1264
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:08,440
Speaker 14: worked really hard, I could do just as well as

1265
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 14: the others on my team. Out of all those guys

1266
00:51:10,600 --> 00:51:13,080
Speaker 14: you played with, how many of them actually went to

1267
00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 14: the NFL. So we had Chockie Brown who went on

1268
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:19,880
Speaker 14: to win the Super Bowl with the Ravens.

1269
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 4: He was a cornerback.

1270
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:26,359
Speaker 14: We had Kevin Rutland, who was our starting quarterback, who

1271
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 14: moved to cornerback at Missouri and he played for the

1272
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:34,279
Speaker 14: Jacksonville Jaguars and we had daily on far play a

1273
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 14: little bit with the Cowboys. See, the fact that you

1274
00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:41,960
Speaker 14: named three guys is amazing. But the fact that you

1275
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:45,239
Speaker 14: were on JV senior year and you actually made it

1276
00:51:45,280 --> 00:51:47,800
Speaker 14: to the league, you know, and not too many guys

1277
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:50,400
Speaker 14: can say that. I'm just I've always been impressed with

1278
00:51:50,440 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 14: your story and just the humility that you've always had

1279
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 14: when you told that to me and we talked about it.

1280
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 14: So then at Arizona, you know, you go from tight

1281
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:02,319
Speaker 14: end slash four back to defensive tackle and then you

1282
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 14: get drafted third round. Yes, you get drafted third round.

1283
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 14: That that's pretty high, you know, that's pretty high. So

1284
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:11,520
Speaker 14: when you moved to defensive tackle, did it feel like, hey,

1285
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 14: this is where I should have been or I'm home

1286
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:14,960
Speaker 14: or was there an adjustment?

1287
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 4: No, there was there was some pushback. Initially.

1288
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 14: I was very I was a very proud offensive player,

1289
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 14: and I was the lead fullback and I was you

1290
00:52:24,200 --> 00:52:27,359
Speaker 14: know that I kind of like had like a little

1291
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 14: bit of a fan base just kind of based on

1292
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 14: my my blocking ability and stuff like that. But I was,

1293
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 14: you know when when they sold it to me and

1294
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 14: told me that this is what the team needs right now.

1295
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:40,879
Speaker 14: We had switched over to a spread offense. There really

1296
00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 14: wasn't much need for my position at that point, and

1297
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 14: you know, had Sunny Dykes come in and we didn't,

1298
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 14: we had Gronkowski, and it just it made sense for

1299
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 14: me along with Brooks Reed, who both came in as

1300
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:59,359
Speaker 14: fullbacks to make the switch over to defense, and then

1301
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 14: we both got drafted here.

1302
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:02,920
Speaker 4: So we had a very similar story.

1303
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 14: Okay, And that's strong, and that's just again, I think

1304
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:10,719
Speaker 14: a lot of listeners, a lot of casual fans, you know,

1305
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 14: there's a oh, he switched draft in the third round,

1306
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 14: But it's guys who've been in it to know how

1307
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,120
Speaker 14: hard it is to even go in the third round,

1308
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:21,200
Speaker 14: let alone switch positions while you're in college. I've always

1309
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 14: and I've told the story to my sons, and you know,

1310
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 14: I've just always been impressed with that. All right, kind

1311
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 14: of let the listeners know, the fans know, you know,

1312
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 14: a lot of people know your name, know what you

1313
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:33,840
Speaker 14: did here in Houston before you went off to Miami.

1314
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:40,719
Speaker 14: What's Earl Mitchell doing nowadays. Nowadays, I'm I'm still adjusting

1315
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 14: to retirement life. I'm uh, you know, I played I

1316
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:47,439
Speaker 14: played nose guard where I was required to be over

1317
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:53,040
Speaker 14: three hundred pounds my entire career, and now I'm working

1318
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:56,920
Speaker 14: really hard to you know, to to make that transition.

1319
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 14: But right now I'm just kind of, you know, still

1320
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:02,839
Speaker 14: in that transition phase. I help out with a lot

1321
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 14: of uh, you know, former former former athletes, new former

1322
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 14: athletes that are that we're all in the same position.

1323
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:11,000
Speaker 4: Just uh.

1324
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 14: There's a community and for Lauderdale that's ran by Caleb Thornhill.

1325
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:19,840
Speaker 14: It's called the Pro Athlete Community, and he does a

1326
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 14: great job of teaching guys about real estate and providing

1327
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 14: us with life coaches. And we do this event called

1328
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:29,880
Speaker 14: Next Chapter You and I just I like to go

1329
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:31,960
Speaker 14: out there and I help out as well, and I

1330
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 14: get to learn with, you know, players who are also

1331
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 14: transitioning out of the league. I'm glad you talked about

1332
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:42,799
Speaker 14: it because it's so tough to transition from being an

1333
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:46,959
Speaker 14: NFL player to now being a quote unquote regular guy.

1334
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 14: Because your schedule is determined from when you wake up

1335
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:53,759
Speaker 14: when you could go to the restroom throughout the entire week,

1336
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,759
Speaker 14: Like you said, you're eating whatever you want you can

1337
00:54:56,920 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 14: to gain weight, and then at the drop of a dime,

1338
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:01,400
Speaker 14: it's like, okay, now to be healthy, you have to

1339
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:05,880
Speaker 14: drop thirty forty pounds. But besides the you know, on

1340
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:08,879
Speaker 14: top of the schedule change, but with everything, what's been

1341
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:12,920
Speaker 14: the hardest part of the transition of going from NFL

1342
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:16,919
Speaker 14: player to or Mitchell you know exactly what you just said.

1343
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:22,279
Speaker 14: I didn't realize how much of a routine guy was

1344
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:26,359
Speaker 14: until it was gone. I would we would we get

1345
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:29,720
Speaker 14: we would get emails of our itinerary every single morning.

1346
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:33,399
Speaker 14: And when you go from that to having nothing, it's

1347
00:55:33,719 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 14: you're literally like, what do I do now? It's seven am,

1348
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:39,200
Speaker 14: an hour just past I feel like I should have

1349
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:43,160
Speaker 14: did something, and that's just uh. I think that was

1350
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:45,080
Speaker 14: kind of like the hardest part for me is just,

1351
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:48,680
Speaker 14: you know, figuring out how to make my own routines

1352
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,799
Speaker 14: and uh. And it may sound silly to the to

1353
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:55,080
Speaker 14: the you know, to that average you know person who

1354
00:55:55,120 --> 00:55:57,279
Speaker 14: wakes up and works every day, but when you go

1355
00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:00,360
Speaker 14: from doing the same thing for you know, ten plus years,

1356
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 14: twenty plus years, as you know, it's harder than you

1357
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,800
Speaker 14: may think. No, it's tough, and this isn't a Woe

1358
00:56:09,960 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 14: is Us a segment. It's just kind of pulling the

1359
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:15,919
Speaker 14: curtain back so people can see some of the adjustments.

1360
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:18,799
Speaker 14: Because I think I can speak for you. If we

1361
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 14: had a chance to do it all over again, we

1362
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:22,919
Speaker 14: wouldn't change anything as far as the journey. So we're

1363
00:56:22,920 --> 00:56:25,279
Speaker 14: not saying that, Oh, Phil, sorry for us, but it's

1364
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 14: pretty cool talking to guys. And one of the few

1365
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:33,840
Speaker 14: things that I remember during the transition was the support

1366
00:56:33,920 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 14: staff is you know, not having the support staff, just

1367
00:56:36,239 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 14: little things like I remember even when we weren't in season,

1368
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 14: but if I wanted to travel, I would just call

1369
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:45,640
Speaker 14: somebody like, Hey, I'm going from Philadelphia San Antonio. Then

1370
00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 14: ten minutes later, hey, here's your itinerary. And just being

1371
00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 14: now being to the point where it's like, oh, I

1372
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:54,680
Speaker 14: have to call Southwest myself, I have to request so

1373
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:59,800
Speaker 14: little things like that you forget and you took for granted,

1374
00:56:59,880 --> 00:57:02,560
Speaker 14: or you know you were taking it for granted. As

1375
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:05,920
Speaker 14: a player, how are you in regards to being a

1376
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 14: fan of the game, Because I've talked to some guys

1377
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:10,800
Speaker 14: that I play. I know some guys that can't watch football,

1378
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:13,799
Speaker 14: like for some reason, it brings up a and I

1379
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 14: see your laughing. How are you like on Sundays? What's

1380
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:19,720
Speaker 14: it like for It's so funny because I always tell

1381
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:24,040
Speaker 14: people I'm used to watching it in silence. Yeah, just

1382
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 14: we watched film and and and initially when I was

1383
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 14: watching the games, I was watching it as a player would,

1384
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:35,360
Speaker 14: like I'm only watching the nose guards, I'm only watching

1385
00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 14: the offensive line, and I'm listening to the calls. But

1386
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 14: I'm starting to finally like just relax and just enjoy

1387
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 14: the game. But at first it was like, uh, as

1388
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:48,560
Speaker 14: soon as I would hear the national anthem, I would

1389
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 14: walk out of the stadium, like I just I just

1390
00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 14: I just couldn't watch. But but I'm beating I'm becoming

1391
00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 14: a fan.

1392
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 4: Are you more? Do you prefer coming to the game

1393
00:57:58,440 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 4: or watching it at home?

1394
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:03,200
Speaker 14: I prefer watching at home, so or yeah, just going

1395
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:06,040
Speaker 14: going to a bar watching it and just enjoying it.

1396
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:08,960
Speaker 14: And initially I couldn't. It was hard for me to

1397
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 14: like listen to fans point of views, and because when

1398
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:15,479
Speaker 14: especially when you're still friends and teammates with certain people

1399
00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 14: on the field. But as I get further away from

1400
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:20,800
Speaker 14: the game, it's like it's easier for that noise to

1401
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 14: just go in one ear and not the other. Do

1402
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:25,800
Speaker 14: you find yourself like if you're at a bar, kind

1403
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:29,360
Speaker 14: of biting your tongue, if if you hear something it's

1404
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 14: out there. Yeah, my first NFL game was I went

1405
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:37,360
Speaker 14: to watch the Cowboys play the Dolphins and I played

1406
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:39,880
Speaker 14: for the Dolphins, and they were still a lot of

1407
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:42,160
Speaker 14: my teammates were still on the team, and just to

1408
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:45,160
Speaker 14: hear fans in the crowd like, uh, you know, talk

1409
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:48,000
Speaker 14: about my friends, it was that I had to leave

1410
00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:52,080
Speaker 14: because that was it was. It was just it was

1411
00:58:52,120 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 14: just too close to home and uh and I just

1412
00:58:55,320 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 14: I just knew I wasn't in the right space, you

1413
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 14: know where we're laughing about it, but really really think

1414
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 14: about that. To actually get up and leave the stadium,

1415
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:09,400
Speaker 14: that's big. That means it really hit you know, it

1416
00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:11,240
Speaker 14: hit a spot that you just like you said you were,

1417
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 14: you weren't in the right space to be there.

1418
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:15,920
Speaker 4: And I'm glad you left because I.

1419
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:18,360
Speaker 14: Could have you know, you could have responded and they

1420
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:21,560
Speaker 14: could have responded. And then we're reading about Earl Mitchell. Yeah,

1421
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:24,640
Speaker 14: that was the very next year after I well that

1422
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:28,919
Speaker 14: was during the season that I uh retired and then

1423
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 14: so it was still it was it was my first

1424
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:34,040
Speaker 14: time watching the game and it was hard to watch

1425
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 14: and I was I was telling someone yesterday, it's like,

1426
00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:41,440
Speaker 14: it's like watching your ex have fun with you without you. Yeah,

1427
00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:45,640
Speaker 14: And that's what it was like. It was it was

1428
00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:47,680
Speaker 14: just too weird for me, and so I had to

1429
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 14: have the lead. Now, when you were retired, was it

1430
00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:53,080
Speaker 14: your body telling you it's time to retire? Was it

1431
00:59:53,120 --> 00:59:56,760
Speaker 14: the league saying there's no no more opportunities? What was

1432
00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:57,520
Speaker 14: that like for you?

1433
00:59:57,720 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say it was. It was.

1434
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:04,040
Speaker 14: It just it just kind of hit me that I've

1435
01:00:05,320 --> 01:00:07,840
Speaker 14: been I've been taking on these double teams for the past,

1436
01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:11,760
Speaker 14: you know, ten years, and body is just starting to

1437
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 14: talk to me. It was I started started just paying

1438
01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:17,280
Speaker 14: attention to like how I was getting up in the

1439
01:00:17,320 --> 01:00:19,920
Speaker 14: morning and wondering how I was gonna even make it

1440
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:22,840
Speaker 14: through practice. And one day it just was like, that's

1441
01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:26,000
Speaker 14: that's enough. Your your body is my body. My body

1442
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:29,480
Speaker 14: told me to stop. Do you find yourself enjoying college

1443
01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 14: football more than NFL or NFL.

1444
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:32,960
Speaker 4: More than college?

1445
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:36,760
Speaker 14: For me personally, I think, you know, the college experience

1446
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 14: was you know, top tier. And I can't even imagine

1447
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:44,640
Speaker 14: the scenario that it's like now with you know nil

1448
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:48,960
Speaker 14: and all that stuff. But NFL is very much a business,

1449
01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:53,640
Speaker 14: and college is just a bunch of kids just who

1450
01:00:53,640 --> 01:00:56,760
Speaker 14: are constantly competing with each other because you got you know,

1451
01:00:56,760 --> 01:00:59,520
Speaker 14: a lot of four stars and five stars and kids

1452
01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:02,120
Speaker 14: from Californ Point in Texas is literally like the you know,

1453
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:04,360
Speaker 14: the best of the best. Just a lot of kids

1454
01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:07,600
Speaker 14: having fun. But you know, NFL was just more business,

1455
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:09,280
Speaker 14: still fun, but in a different way.

1456
01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:11,200
Speaker 4: You're you're a lot younger than I am.

1457
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 14: We're both part of the Texans Ambassador program or a

1458
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:19,760
Speaker 14: Texan former Texan pro program, but as a guy that's younger,

1459
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 14: but you did not get to experience ni L Are

1460
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:25,840
Speaker 14: you forward against it? Do you feel like it's ruining

1461
01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:29,440
Speaker 14: the game with guys transferring multiple times? Like what's your

1462
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:32,200
Speaker 14: personal take on college football right now? I say I'm

1463
01:01:32,320 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 14: for it. I think that you know, life eventually changes,

1464
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:39,680
Speaker 14: like there's gonna be a new thing, you know, twenty

1465
01:01:39,760 --> 01:01:43,640
Speaker 14: years from now that you know, people are gonna be

1466
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 14: surprised that, yeah, when we tell them that there was

1467
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:52,880
Speaker 14: no nil and and I think it's a I think

1468
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 14: it makes it. Initially, I was kind of iffy on

1469
01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 14: it because you know, there's a lot of players who

1470
01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 14: have played behind uh, you know, future Hall of famers

1471
01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:04,200
Speaker 14: and got to compete and earned their opportunities.

1472
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:06,400
Speaker 4: But now there's.

1473
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:11,400
Speaker 14: Players who can literally go anywhere and just decide if

1474
01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:16,000
Speaker 14: you know, they can make grown man decisions and you know,

1475
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:19,400
Speaker 14: if it's if it's for you, it's for you. But

1476
01:02:19,840 --> 01:02:22,400
Speaker 14: I think it's something that works in the can work

1477
01:02:22,440 --> 01:02:25,440
Speaker 14: in the kids favor. This is the Texans OG podcast.

1478
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:29,120
Speaker 14: I'm in d Kalud speaking with Earl Mitchell, former defensive

1479
01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:31,720
Speaker 14: tackle nose guard with the Houston Texans, and we're just

1480
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:34,960
Speaker 14: chopping it up here on our Texan OG podcast. I'll

1481
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 14: say this, I'm all for the idea and I'm for

1482
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:42,720
Speaker 14: the ni L like it bothered me. I never believed

1483
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:46,800
Speaker 14: the schools should should pay the players outside of their

1484
01:02:46,840 --> 01:02:52,680
Speaker 14: stifen and obviously their scholarship check. But I was always

1485
01:02:52,680 --> 01:02:56,520
Speaker 14: annoyed that a Johnny Manziel couldn't go make money off

1486
01:02:56,560 --> 01:02:59,040
Speaker 14: his name images likeness. I'm gonna go back and show

1487
01:02:59,120 --> 01:03:02,080
Speaker 14: my age. I was always annoyed that the running Rebels

1488
01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:05,800
Speaker 14: the UNLV basketball team when they were all broke and

1489
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 14: all these people were making money off T shirts with

1490
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:11,520
Speaker 14: their likeness on it, but legally they couldn't. Like that

1491
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:14,880
Speaker 14: seems so Unamerican to me, But as a guy who

1492
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 14: truly enjoys college football even more so than the NFL,

1493
01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:24,720
Speaker 14: something about a lot of these kids not even developing

1494
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:28,080
Speaker 14: with their schools and just bouncing around doesn't sit right

1495
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:31,760
Speaker 14: with me. But I do agree with having the freedom

1496
01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:33,840
Speaker 14: to say, you know what, I don't want to be

1497
01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 14: at the school anymore. So I'm kind of conflicted because

1498
01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:42,160
Speaker 14: I'm watching games now and you know, they don't even

1499
01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:43,800
Speaker 14: say what high school they want you. They don't say

1500
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:46,080
Speaker 14: Earl Mitchell from North Shore. It's like, oh, Earl Mitchell,

1501
01:03:46,120 --> 01:03:48,560
Speaker 14: he was formerly at Oregon State and Oregon and now

1502
01:03:48,600 --> 01:03:51,480
Speaker 14: he's here, and something about that. It's kind of like

1503
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:53,760
Speaker 14: you said, and that was a very mature statement. As

1504
01:03:53,800 --> 01:03:56,920
Speaker 14: you mentioned, you know, when life comes changed, maybe in

1505
01:03:56,960 --> 01:03:59,160
Speaker 14: twenty years or ten years, I'll be more used to it.

1506
01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:01,320
Speaker 14: But it just that part of it doesn't feel like

1507
01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:02,280
Speaker 14: college anymore.

1508
01:04:02,440 --> 01:04:03,000
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1509
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:05,360
Speaker 14: Now I feel like, yeah, a lot of the traditional

1510
01:04:05,440 --> 01:04:07,920
Speaker 14: things that you know, I think that's that that just

1511
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:14,000
Speaker 14: kind of comes with the traditions are definitely what I

1512
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:18,920
Speaker 14: think some people have just become accustomed to just breaking

1513
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:23,920
Speaker 14: these days. I like I like that the kids can,

1514
01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:26,400
Speaker 14: you know, have an opportunity to make money. The only

1515
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:32,440
Speaker 14: thing that that would bother me is the the the

1516
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:34,880
Speaker 14: environment that it can possibly create in the locker room.

1517
01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:36,960
Speaker 14: It wasn't until I got into the NFL where I

1518
01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:40,200
Speaker 14: noticed that guys had endorsements and oh, man, he gets

1519
01:04:40,520 --> 01:04:43,160
Speaker 14: you know, he's on every single commercial and I'm not.

1520
01:04:43,440 --> 01:04:46,720
Speaker 14: And but now you got that with eighteen year olds

1521
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:50,800
Speaker 14: and little kids and that and that's and that and

1522
01:04:50,880 --> 01:04:54,040
Speaker 14: this is that this is influencing their decision. When I

1523
01:04:54,120 --> 01:04:56,120
Speaker 14: was in high school, I was like, oh, they have

1524
01:04:56,200 --> 01:05:00,160
Speaker 14: a cool uniform and I want to see my up

1525
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:02,720
Speaker 14: in a uniform. And I was just a kid, make it,

1526
01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 14: trying to make decisions. But now they kids are at

1527
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:09,000
Speaker 14: more advanced, They have access to things that we didn't have.

1528
01:05:09,080 --> 01:05:13,240
Speaker 14: They can study, they can compare themselves to others now,

1529
01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:17,240
Speaker 14: and we necessary at least I didn't necessarily do that.

1530
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:20,240
Speaker 14: I'll tell you one thing, and again I don't think

1531
01:05:20,280 --> 01:05:23,120
Speaker 14: they should change anything, but one thing that annoys me.

1532
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:25,680
Speaker 14: And I'm sure the people older than me probably would

1533
01:05:25,680 --> 01:05:28,760
Speaker 14: have said the same thing because my son is at

1534
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:29,320
Speaker 14: Baylor now.

1535
01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:30,040
Speaker 4: He's a freshman.

1536
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:33,000
Speaker 14: So I was doing the recruiting process with him and

1537
01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:36,360
Speaker 14: I remember seeing the facilities and I'm wide, I like, man,

1538
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:38,160
Speaker 14: these facilities are great, and.

1539
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:39,720
Speaker 4: He's like, yeah, they're all right. You know.

1540
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:44,400
Speaker 14: Then there was a kid that was coming in as

1541
01:05:44,440 --> 01:05:46,600
Speaker 14: a freshman and my son was like, oh, yeah, he

1542
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:48,800
Speaker 14: has a two hundred thousand dollars nil deal. But he

1543
01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:51,280
Speaker 14: was just saying that like it was and I was like, fool,

1544
01:05:51,280 --> 01:05:53,320
Speaker 14: that's what I made my rookie year then, like I

1545
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:54,200
Speaker 14: barely made that.

1546
01:05:54,320 --> 01:05:57,160
Speaker 4: So but my point is I.

1547
01:05:56,680 --> 01:05:59,680
Speaker 14: Because they don't know any other way, Yeah, they don't

1548
01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:02,760
Speaker 14: really to truly appreciate that. Like if you play your

1549
01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:06,360
Speaker 14: cards right, and we've seen it. There's a I'm not

1550
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:08,520
Speaker 14: going to say his name, but there's a quarterback at

1551
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:11,640
Speaker 14: a school that I'm close to who is already working

1552
01:06:11,640 --> 01:06:14,200
Speaker 14: on his masters because he was given that seventh.

1553
01:06:13,960 --> 01:06:14,960
Speaker 4: Year of eligibility.

1554
01:06:15,440 --> 01:06:18,840
Speaker 14: He has a six digit nil deal and he's not

1555
01:06:18,880 --> 01:06:21,960
Speaker 14: going pro, like he's not an NFL quarterback. But if

1556
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:24,880
Speaker 14: he plays his cards right, he could have his masters,

1557
01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:28,120
Speaker 14: have enough for a down payment on a very nice house,

1558
01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:29,720
Speaker 14: and have a nice head start.

1559
01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:33,520
Speaker 4: But I just don't think that they truly like appreciate that.

1560
01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 4: I think that's uh.

1561
01:06:35,040 --> 01:06:38,160
Speaker 14: I think that's wonderful because there are teammates that I

1562
01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:40,560
Speaker 14: have from college to this day who have ended their

1563
01:06:40,640 --> 01:06:43,680
Speaker 14: careers at you know, you know at you know, at

1564
01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:48,000
Speaker 14: the universities or you know, and they're dealing with injuries

1565
01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 14: and once they're done that, it's over and now you

1566
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:54,400
Speaker 14: have to figure out what you're going to do. You know,

1567
01:06:54,440 --> 01:06:56,720
Speaker 14: they don't have the luxuries that we have where you know,

1568
01:06:56,760 --> 01:06:59,520
Speaker 14: we go on to play pro and you know, you

1569
01:06:59,600 --> 01:07:03,560
Speaker 14: haven't Durns. And but I think that the kids now

1570
01:07:03,560 --> 01:07:05,680
Speaker 14: are a little bit more set up for their their

1571
01:07:05,720 --> 01:07:10,360
Speaker 14: future careers post college. All right, some rapid fire off

1572
01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:13,680
Speaker 14: football question. This is the Texans OG podcast. I'm in

1573
01:07:13,720 --> 01:07:17,560
Speaker 14: decollusive with my main man, Earl Mitchell. Favorite pass rush

1574
01:07:17,560 --> 01:07:20,560
Speaker 14: move club rip humph.

1575
01:07:21,480 --> 01:07:22,640
Speaker 4: I like that. Yeah.

1576
01:07:22,760 --> 01:07:24,720
Speaker 14: Do you do it naturally or do you plan to

1577
01:07:24,760 --> 01:07:28,760
Speaker 14: do a pre snap? I do it naturally. Yeah, I

1578
01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:33,840
Speaker 14: like to. I would go for a speed rip initially,

1579
01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:36,520
Speaker 14: and I would hope that they will chase it, and

1580
01:07:36,560 --> 01:07:38,280
Speaker 14: then as soon as they chase me, I just come

1581
01:07:38,440 --> 01:07:40,320
Speaker 14: come back across with it and just thrown across.

1582
01:07:40,440 --> 01:07:42,520
Speaker 4: Have you ever seen highlights of the Reggie White hump move?

1583
01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:46,040
Speaker 14: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he was he was natural. Yeah,

1584
01:07:46,080 --> 01:07:49,120
Speaker 14: I think yeah, and you knew it was coming. Like me,

1585
01:07:49,200 --> 01:07:51,920
Speaker 14: I had to had to strategically plan it, and I

1586
01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:53,600
Speaker 14: had to be against specific people.

1587
01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:57,080
Speaker 4: He did it against Hilarry Allen, he did against anybody.

1588
01:07:57,720 --> 01:08:01,280
Speaker 4: One team that you beat and you enjoy more so

1589
01:08:01,360 --> 01:08:01,960
Speaker 4: than any.

1590
01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:07,960
Speaker 14: Other NFL t any team that I beat that I

1591
01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:12,439
Speaker 14: enjoyed more than any other team. I would Uh, I'll

1592
01:08:12,480 --> 01:08:17,160
Speaker 14: probably say it'll for some reason, it was nice to

1593
01:08:17,200 --> 01:08:22,439
Speaker 14: beat the Raiders. They're fans exactly. I know the reason. Yeah,

1594
01:08:22,479 --> 01:08:25,040
Speaker 14: it was always uh yeah, if we if we ever

1595
01:08:25,080 --> 01:08:27,360
Speaker 14: beat the Raiders, it was always just like that because

1596
01:08:27,360 --> 01:08:30,120
Speaker 14: because when you run out the tunnel, and especially when

1597
01:08:30,160 --> 01:08:32,519
Speaker 14: they were in Oakland, like they were just in your face,

1598
01:08:32,600 --> 01:08:34,960
Speaker 14: and then when you beat them and you walk out there,

1599
01:08:35,080 --> 01:08:37,120
Speaker 14: it's just quiet and it's so apparent.

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01:08:37,320 --> 01:08:37,519
Speaker 4: You know.

1601
01:08:37,680 --> 01:08:40,160
Speaker 14: Yeah, that's a great pool. I was gonna say, yeah,

1602
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:42,320
Speaker 14: I'll tell you why it's good to be the Raiders,

1603
01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:45,360
Speaker 14: especially when you're there. What what player were you in

1604
01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:48,760
Speaker 14: awe of that you were sharing the field with him?

1605
01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:50,000
Speaker 4: That's pretty easy.

1606
01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:55,200
Speaker 14: JJ what oh wow, yeah, or or did you mean

1607
01:08:55,280 --> 01:08:59,680
Speaker 14: against playing again? No, no, no, just yeah, just just for

1608
01:09:00,040 --> 01:09:03,120
Speaker 14: I'm on the you know, twenty sex, twenty bad at

1609
01:09:03,120 --> 01:09:07,479
Speaker 14: balls consecutively, like doing some things that hadn't been done

1610
01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:10,839
Speaker 14: so long and just you know. And it was funny

1611
01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 14: playing next to him because he was a little he

1612
01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:17,760
Speaker 14: was a little like you never knew what he was

1613
01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:21,400
Speaker 14: going to do. So you know, my my coach, I

1614
01:09:21,439 --> 01:09:23,360
Speaker 14: D line coach at the time. He was always on

1615
01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:25,760
Speaker 14: me just like, oh, like make sure you are in

1616
01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:28,920
Speaker 14: the right spot because he was circle with JJ with

1617
01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:30,200
Speaker 14: that laser, like is this.

1618
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:32,960
Speaker 4: Guy over here? You have no idea what he's gonna do.

1619
01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:34,600
Speaker 14: And if you're in the wrong spot and he's in

1620
01:09:34,600 --> 01:09:38,519
Speaker 14: the wrong spot, we are in business. So but he

1621
01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:40,960
Speaker 14: made so many like uh, he made so many plays

1622
01:09:42,840 --> 01:09:46,760
Speaker 14: and sometimes like people saw his freelancing. He but he

1623
01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:49,080
Speaker 14: knew that he was athletic enough to recover and make

1624
01:09:49,120 --> 01:09:52,800
Speaker 14: a bunch of ton of plays off schedule. Now that

1625
01:09:52,880 --> 01:09:56,160
Speaker 14: that's great that you brought that up as a player.

1626
01:09:57,000 --> 01:09:59,479
Speaker 14: It sounds like you actually appreciated it and you didn't

1627
01:09:59,600 --> 01:10:03,080
Speaker 14: mind him going off script because he was such a

1628
01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:05,840
Speaker 14: big playmaker. Or were there times where you're like, how

1629
01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:06,880
Speaker 14: come he can go off script?

1630
01:10:06,960 --> 01:10:08,640
Speaker 4: Then I can now it.

1631
01:10:08,880 --> 01:10:10,960
Speaker 14: It wasn't so much that like because me, like my

1632
01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:13,519
Speaker 14: my upbringing was always just like just just do your

1633
01:10:13,600 --> 01:10:17,760
Speaker 14: job and uh and so I never was I never

1634
01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:19,760
Speaker 14: looked at it as like as a jealousy thing. But

1635
01:10:20,040 --> 01:10:23,040
Speaker 14: I was always in awe Like I was just like, man, like,

1636
01:10:23,080 --> 01:10:25,640
Speaker 14: you're like, he's he's making a lot of plays. But

1637
01:10:25,880 --> 01:10:28,920
Speaker 14: there but if but if his his backup came in

1638
01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:33,559
Speaker 14: and tried to do it, it didn't work out for

1639
01:10:33,680 --> 01:10:37,200
Speaker 14: him on the sideline man brutal in the meeting rooms.

1640
01:10:37,240 --> 01:10:38,880
Speaker 4: But he was like, you can't, you can't do what

1641
01:10:38,920 --> 01:10:39,200
Speaker 4: he did.

1642
01:10:39,560 --> 01:10:43,520
Speaker 2: Man. The stories are just incredible on Texas OG's Appreciatoral

1643
01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:46,360
Speaker 2: Mitchell and of course our host, our good friend Indie

1644
01:10:46,479 --> 01:10:49,120
Speaker 2: Indie Clue for driving the train on Texas OG.

1645
01:10:49,280 --> 01:10:50,719
Speaker 1: So make sure you check it out.

1646
01:10:50,800 --> 01:10:55,160
Speaker 2: More of that on our podcast page, Houston Texas dot com, Spotify, iTunes,

1647
01:10:55,160 --> 01:10:57,120
Speaker 2: wherever you get your podcasts, you can get your texts

1648
01:10:57,120 --> 01:11:01,160
Speaker 2: OG's podcast as well. Time for Men behind the Mikes

1649
01:11:01,160 --> 01:11:03,120
Speaker 2: the two men that'll call the game on Sunday. You

1650
01:11:03,160 --> 01:11:05,680
Speaker 2: know Mark Vandermuir, but our good friend Matt Taylor. He's

1651
01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:08,240
Speaker 2: a play by play voice of Thedianapolis Colts. Hill Jonas

1652
01:11:08,240 --> 01:11:12,880
Speaker 2: next right here in Texans All Access. Yes, sir, welcome

1653
01:11:12,920 --> 01:11:14,880
Speaker 2: back to this edition of Texas All Access. I'm your host,

1654
01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:17,760
Speaker 2: John Harris, football analyst, Sadeline reporter and a big fan

1655
01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:20,880
Speaker 2: of these next two people. You obviously know that Mark

1656
01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:22,920
Speaker 2: vandermir is my guy, always has been. He's are played

1657
01:11:22,920 --> 01:11:25,040
Speaker 2: by play voice and has been since the beginning. Matt

1658
01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:30,240
Speaker 2: Taylor took over in Indianapolis, think probably twenty nineteen, twenty eighteen,

1659
01:11:30,280 --> 01:11:32,839
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen. He took over, and he's done a fabulous

1660
01:11:32,920 --> 01:11:35,200
Speaker 2: job and we've got to know him very very well.

1661
01:11:35,320 --> 01:11:37,160
Speaker 2: In this segment, I call men behind the Mikes, the

1662
01:11:37,160 --> 01:11:40,280
Speaker 2: two men that'll call the game for their respective organizations.

1663
01:11:40,680 --> 01:11:42,800
Speaker 2: Mark for the Texans, Matt Taylor.

1664
01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:45,200
Speaker 1: For the Colts. They talked about this matchup.

1665
01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:48,920
Speaker 3: On Sunday, joining US now Texans Radio. It's Matt Taylor,

1666
01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:51,240
Speaker 3: voice of the Indianapolis Colts.

1667
01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:51,439
Speaker 11: Mac.

1668
01:11:51,479 --> 01:11:53,479
Speaker 3: Great to catch up with you. How did it go

1669
01:11:53,560 --> 01:11:56,200
Speaker 3: for you on Sunday? Which is like saying, other than that,

1670
01:11:56,280 --> 01:11:58,800
Speaker 3: how is the play? Missus Lincoln? But what did you

1671
01:11:58,840 --> 01:12:01,759
Speaker 3: think of the team's perform was despite the loss. On Sunday,

1672
01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:02,639
Speaker 3: Matt Well, I.

1673
01:12:02,600 --> 01:12:04,280
Speaker 11: Thought it was fun. I mean, first, it was fun

1674
01:12:04,360 --> 01:12:06,599
Speaker 11: just to have regular season football back for the first

1675
01:12:06,600 --> 01:12:09,679
Speaker 11: time in nine months, and certainly after a very eventful

1676
01:12:09,720 --> 01:12:12,040
Speaker 11: offseason for the Colts with their search for a new

1677
01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:15,000
Speaker 11: head coach and a rookie quarterback. You know, something that

1678
01:12:15,040 --> 01:12:17,720
Speaker 11: you guys and Houston, you know, he went through the

1679
01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:20,000
Speaker 11: exact same thing. So it's like, you know, talking to

1680
01:12:20,040 --> 01:12:22,680
Speaker 11: a guy in the mirror here. But you know, I

1681
01:12:22,720 --> 01:12:25,520
Speaker 11: thought it was a very entertaining game for the Colts.

1682
01:12:26,080 --> 01:12:27,639
Speaker 11: You know, I thought it was a game the Colts

1683
01:12:27,680 --> 01:12:29,960
Speaker 11: you know, could have won, you know, upset the AFC

1684
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:32,280
Speaker 11: South champions right out of the gate. But they fell

1685
01:12:32,320 --> 01:12:35,000
Speaker 11: by ten points, primarily because you know, there was a

1686
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:37,679
Speaker 11: like a two minute stretch there in the fourth quarter

1687
01:12:37,720 --> 01:12:40,160
Speaker 11: for the Colts that was just disastrous. You know, they

1688
01:12:40,160 --> 01:12:42,880
Speaker 11: were up twenty one to seventeen. They gave up a

1689
01:12:42,880 --> 01:12:45,400
Speaker 11: big punt return to Jamal Agnew that set up the

1690
01:12:45,439 --> 01:12:48,639
Speaker 11: go ahead score for the Jaguars. They retook the lead

1691
01:12:48,680 --> 01:12:52,280
Speaker 11: by three with about five minutes to go. Two plays later,

1692
01:12:52,360 --> 01:12:55,800
Speaker 11: Anthony Richardson, you know, throws a pick two plays later

1693
01:12:55,880 --> 01:12:59,360
Speaker 11: after that, the Jaguars running in from about twenty five

1694
01:12:59,439 --> 01:13:03,519
Speaker 11: yards away. So the Colts go from up with twenty

1695
01:13:03,560 --> 01:13:07,280
Speaker 11: one to seventeen to down thirty one twenty one in

1696
01:13:07,320 --> 01:13:10,000
Speaker 11: a blink of an eye and obviously just were never

1697
01:13:10,040 --> 01:13:13,479
Speaker 11: able to overcome that, not enough time left in the game.

1698
01:13:13,520 --> 01:13:17,040
Speaker 11: But I thought the team fought. I thought Anthony Richardson

1699
01:13:17,120 --> 01:13:20,120
Speaker 11: looked really good at times. There were times where the

1700
01:13:20,160 --> 01:13:23,559
Speaker 11: offense really struggled, especially in the second half. I think

1701
01:13:23,600 --> 01:13:27,759
Speaker 11: there was a five player excuse me, a five series

1702
01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:30,760
Speaker 11: stretch there in the second half where the Colts didn't

1703
01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:34,439
Speaker 11: even record a first down in that stretch. So a

1704
01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:37,519
Speaker 11: lot of things to work on, I thought. Defensively, I

1705
01:13:37,560 --> 01:13:39,559
Speaker 11: think they're way ahead of schedule from where they were

1706
01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:42,280
Speaker 11: this time last year in year number one under gust Bradley.

1707
01:13:42,360 --> 01:13:44,400
Speaker 11: Most of that defense is back for year two in

1708
01:13:44,439 --> 01:13:48,320
Speaker 11: the same scheme, So defensively, you know that that's the

1709
01:13:48,400 --> 01:13:50,320
Speaker 11: unit that's going to have to definitely pull their weight

1710
01:13:50,360 --> 01:13:53,519
Speaker 11: and keep the Colts in games as the offense goes

1711
01:13:53,560 --> 01:13:55,840
Speaker 11: through some speed bumps with a rookie quarterback. But all

1712
01:13:55,880 --> 01:13:58,639
Speaker 11: in all, I thought the Colts team fought and we're

1713
01:13:58,680 --> 01:14:00,760
Speaker 11: in a position to win that game. In the fourth

1714
01:14:00,840 --> 01:14:04,760
Speaker 11: quarter on Sunday, But unfortunately, their fourth quarter struggles that

1715
01:14:04,800 --> 01:14:07,920
Speaker 11: were prevalent all of last season kind of reared their

1716
01:14:08,040 --> 01:14:09,880
Speaker 11: ugly head right out of the gate for the Colts

1717
01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:10,439
Speaker 11: in Week one.

1718
01:14:10,920 --> 01:14:13,320
Speaker 3: Matt Taylor, Voice of the Colts joining US, Matt, how

1719
01:14:13,320 --> 01:14:17,320
Speaker 3: would you define the Shaneesdeken offense here? What would you

1720
01:14:17,439 --> 01:14:19,600
Speaker 3: say are some of the key components? I know you

1721
01:14:19,600 --> 01:14:22,959
Speaker 3: don't have Jonathan Taylor. Obviously, the running game is probably

1722
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:25,280
Speaker 3: well definitely not where you want it to be overall,

1723
01:14:25,400 --> 01:14:27,080
Speaker 3: But how would you define it?

1724
01:14:27,560 --> 01:14:30,720
Speaker 11: Yeah, I would define it as as very aggressive. I

1725
01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:33,760
Speaker 11: would say it's very creative. You know, they want to

1726
01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:37,679
Speaker 11: use a lot of personnel groups. You know, they rely

1727
01:14:37,800 --> 01:14:40,320
Speaker 11: heavily on tight ends and the running games, certainly in

1728
01:14:40,360 --> 01:14:44,120
Speaker 11: the passing game as well. I think the biggest thing

1729
01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:46,439
Speaker 11: that you could use to describe it as just very

1730
01:14:46,600 --> 01:14:50,280
Speaker 11: RPO heavy. You know, the last couple of years in Philadelphia,

1731
01:14:50,360 --> 01:14:53,160
Speaker 11: the Eagles in twenty twenty one, in twenty twenty two,

1732
01:14:53,479 --> 01:14:55,320
Speaker 11: I don't know what the numbers were marked, but they

1733
01:14:55,400 --> 01:14:59,160
Speaker 11: led the NFL in number of RPOs called in each

1734
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:02,040
Speaker 11: of the last two year years. And you know, we're

1735
01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:05,080
Speaker 11: seeing it right the college football game is trickling up,

1736
01:15:05,120 --> 01:15:07,200
Speaker 11: if you will, to the National Football League. All of

1737
01:15:07,240 --> 01:15:10,599
Speaker 11: these guys that come from major college football, like CJ.

1738
01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:14,519
Speaker 11: Stroud and Bryce Young and Anthony Richardson. That's what they're

1739
01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:18,040
Speaker 11: doing very well on Saturdays, and now they're bringing it

1740
01:15:18,040 --> 01:15:20,400
Speaker 11: with them here on Sundays and college here, excuse me,

1741
01:15:20,439 --> 01:15:23,599
Speaker 11: offensive coordinators and play callers in the NFL are taking

1742
01:15:23,640 --> 01:15:27,320
Speaker 11: advantage of it. And so Anthony Richardson is really comfortable

1743
01:15:27,439 --> 01:15:30,519
Speaker 11: running our pos and he's really comfortable obviously with the

1744
01:15:30,560 --> 01:15:33,320
Speaker 11: football in his hands. You know, he had ten carries

1745
01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:35,879
Speaker 11: the other day. Not all of them were design runs,

1746
01:15:35,920 --> 01:15:39,519
Speaker 11: but you know, he very much can run the football

1747
01:15:39,680 --> 01:15:42,200
Speaker 11: very effectively. And we saw it in the preseason. We

1748
01:15:42,240 --> 01:15:45,000
Speaker 11: saw in a Week one where he's you know, trucking

1749
01:15:45,040 --> 01:15:48,479
Speaker 11: guys out of bounds and turning a five yard loss

1750
01:15:48,520 --> 01:15:52,360
Speaker 11: into a fifteen yard scramble for a first down. And

1751
01:15:52,400 --> 01:15:55,559
Speaker 11: he's very aggressive. Shane Stikeen, very very aggressive. The Colts

1752
01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:59,080
Speaker 11: went forward on fourth down five times, you know, I

1753
01:15:59,080 --> 01:16:01,920
Speaker 11: mean that's obviously news to those that follow the NFL

1754
01:16:01,960 --> 01:16:04,280
Speaker 11: the last two years and when he was with the Eagles,

1755
01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:07,720
Speaker 11: you know, Philadelphia ran that, you know, whatever you want

1756
01:16:07,760 --> 01:16:10,280
Speaker 11: to call it the quarterback sneak, the push push play,

1757
01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:12,880
Speaker 11: or the offensive line the running backs are pushing the

1758
01:16:12,920 --> 01:16:16,000
Speaker 11: quarterback up the field with the quarterback sneak. Colts tried

1759
01:16:16,040 --> 01:16:18,559
Speaker 11: to do that a couple of times on Sunday, weren't

1760
01:16:18,560 --> 01:16:21,000
Speaker 11: as successful as the Eagles were the last couple of years.

1761
01:16:21,040 --> 01:16:23,960
Speaker 11: So that's something to work on. But a very aggressive

1762
01:16:23,960 --> 01:16:28,439
Speaker 11: play caller, guys, very very intelligent high football IQ loves

1763
01:16:28,479 --> 01:16:30,719
Speaker 11: the ball, just kind of lights up when he talks.

1764
01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:34,880
Speaker 11: His talks X and o's and schematics, So very very bright,

1765
01:16:34,960 --> 01:16:38,000
Speaker 11: young guy getting to be a you know, a first

1766
01:16:38,040 --> 01:16:40,559
Speaker 11: time head coach in the NFL with the Colts, kind

1767
01:16:40,560 --> 01:16:43,080
Speaker 11: of bringing those, you know, same innovations that he had

1768
01:16:43,120 --> 01:16:46,920
Speaker 11: in Philadelphia with the Colts. Obviously, the personnel is way different,

1769
01:16:47,200 --> 01:16:49,600
Speaker 11: you know, certainly, I don't think the Colts are as dynamic,

1770
01:16:50,479 --> 01:16:53,639
Speaker 11: you know, personnel wise, as the Eagles were the last

1771
01:16:53,720 --> 01:16:55,479
Speaker 11: couple of years. They're trying to get to that point

1772
01:16:55,479 --> 01:16:59,240
Speaker 11: with a rookie quarterback. But Shane Stikeen very very aggressive

1773
01:16:59,439 --> 01:17:01,519
Speaker 11: and you know he's going to mix up the run

1774
01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:03,879
Speaker 11: in the past. He said in his introductory press conference

1775
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:05,880
Speaker 11: that you know we're going to pass the score, we're

1776
01:17:05,880 --> 01:17:07,439
Speaker 11: going to throw the score, and we're going to run

1777
01:17:07,439 --> 01:17:11,280
Speaker 11: to win. Unfortunately, that didn't you know, come to fruition

1778
01:17:11,840 --> 01:17:15,240
Speaker 11: in week one. But you know, Shane Stiken thinks that

1779
01:17:15,280 --> 01:17:19,000
Speaker 11: he's got the necessary pieces to be dynamic within the offense,

1780
01:17:19,120 --> 01:17:21,680
Speaker 11: and obviously it kind of hinges on the growth of

1781
01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:24,000
Speaker 11: a rookie quarterback. With Anthony richardson.

1782
01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:26,320
Speaker 3: Voice of the Colts, Matt Taylor with US Matt, what

1783
01:17:26,360 --> 01:17:29,320
Speaker 3: about the defense? We see some very familiar faces like

1784
01:17:29,400 --> 01:17:31,960
Speaker 3: the Forest Buckner who had that big play last week,

1785
01:17:32,040 --> 01:17:33,040
Speaker 3: and Shaq Lawrence.

1786
01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:36,400
Speaker 7: Of course, what excites you about this defense? What's different

1787
01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:37,000
Speaker 7: about it?

1788
01:17:37,520 --> 01:17:40,320
Speaker 11: Well, honestly, what excites me about it is that it's

1789
01:17:40,640 --> 01:17:44,519
Speaker 11: not different. There's a lot of continuity. Maybe it's different

1790
01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:47,120
Speaker 11: in the sense that they're trying to get better in

1791
01:17:47,200 --> 01:17:51,040
Speaker 11: all of the major pothole areas from last year. I

1792
01:17:51,040 --> 01:17:53,560
Speaker 11: mean the Colts defense. I mean, if you break it

1793
01:17:53,600 --> 01:17:56,320
Speaker 11: down statistically, at the beginning of last year, they were

1794
01:17:56,360 --> 01:17:59,080
Speaker 11: a good defense, not a great defense, but they were

1795
01:17:59,120 --> 01:18:01,720
Speaker 11: certainly again you know, holding up their weight or they're

1796
01:18:01,760 --> 01:18:03,840
Speaker 11: into the bargain to keep the Colts in games, and

1797
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:06,080
Speaker 11: they were good enough to win more games in the

1798
01:18:06,120 --> 01:18:08,200
Speaker 11: first half of the season last year than they did.

1799
01:18:08,880 --> 01:18:11,400
Speaker 11: But they completely fell off a cliff last year when

1800
01:18:11,439 --> 01:18:14,559
Speaker 11: the Colt season got squirrely with you know, firing head

1801
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:17,840
Speaker 11: coaches and offensive coordinators and bringing in Jeff Saturday and

1802
01:18:17,840 --> 01:18:22,160
Speaker 11: the quarterback carousel. I mean, everything just sort of plummeted

1803
01:18:22,240 --> 01:18:25,519
Speaker 11: last year. Red zone defense, they were dead last, third down,

1804
01:18:25,560 --> 01:18:28,360
Speaker 11: they were not very good. The takeaway numbers last year

1805
01:18:28,439 --> 01:18:32,360
Speaker 11: dropped off dramatically from the year before in twenty twenty one,

1806
01:18:32,439 --> 01:18:34,599
Speaker 11: when they were the number two team in the NFL

1807
01:18:34,880 --> 01:18:38,680
Speaker 11: at taking the football away. Obviously losing Shaq Leonard last year.

1808
01:18:38,720 --> 01:18:42,240
Speaker 11: He only played in three games, but he just wasn't healthy.

1809
01:18:42,560 --> 01:18:45,400
Speaker 11: He only played seventy four snaps last year, dealing with

1810
01:18:45,439 --> 01:18:48,360
Speaker 11: a back injury and a lower leg injury. Trying to

1811
01:18:48,400 --> 01:18:51,000
Speaker 11: find out what's going on with his nerves in the back.

1812
01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:54,000
Speaker 11: They just could never pinpoint it, and so thus he

1813
01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:56,519
Speaker 11: just didn't have, you know, an impactful season, and the

1814
01:18:56,560 --> 01:19:00,920
Speaker 11: takeaway numbers just fell off dramatically because they're takeaway machine,

1815
01:19:00,960 --> 01:19:04,120
Speaker 11: which Leonard is just wasn't out there quite frankly. So

1816
01:19:04,439 --> 01:19:07,040
Speaker 11: it was good to see that part of the game

1817
01:19:07,120 --> 01:19:09,080
Speaker 11: come back in Week number one. I know it's a

1818
01:19:09,120 --> 01:19:11,840
Speaker 11: small sample size, but you know that the peskiness of

1819
01:19:11,880 --> 01:19:16,120
Speaker 11: the Colts defense was definitely prevalent in Game one. They

1820
01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:20,360
Speaker 11: had seven tackles for loss, they had three force fumbles,

1821
01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:23,960
Speaker 11: they had two takeaways, they had a defensive touchdown. In fact,

1822
01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:26,639
Speaker 11: they had they had two more takeaways taken away from

1823
01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:30,200
Speaker 11: them after official reviews. So I mean that part of

1824
01:19:30,240 --> 01:19:33,200
Speaker 11: the defense, that's the hallmark of the Gus Bradley defense

1825
01:19:33,600 --> 01:19:36,120
Speaker 11: of just when you have an opportunity to take the

1826
01:19:36,120 --> 01:19:39,200
Speaker 11: football away, you gotta do that. The Colts didn't do

1827
01:19:39,320 --> 01:19:42,640
Speaker 11: that last year. The pass rush showed up. You know,

1828
01:19:42,680 --> 01:19:45,000
Speaker 11: the Colts are asking a lot from their third year

1829
01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:47,880
Speaker 11: guys that they drafted in rounds one and two in

1830
01:19:47,880 --> 01:19:51,160
Speaker 11: twenty twenty one, and Quitty Pay and Dio a Dangbo,

1831
01:19:51,200 --> 01:19:53,519
Speaker 11: they're asking a lot of those guys. They needed them

1832
01:19:53,560 --> 01:19:56,679
Speaker 11: to take big jumps. I think Quitty Pay is capable

1833
01:19:56,720 --> 01:20:00,200
Speaker 11: of that. Dio at Dangbo, I think it's capable of

1834
01:20:00,240 --> 01:20:03,240
Speaker 11: that as well. But certainly Quitty is off to a

1835
01:20:03,280 --> 01:20:06,639
Speaker 11: really good start, really good camp preseason. Had a sack

1836
01:20:06,720 --> 01:20:10,200
Speaker 11: in game number one. Obviously, DeForest Buckner and Grover Stewart

1837
01:20:10,240 --> 01:20:13,360
Speaker 11: one of the best defensive tackle tandems in the National

1838
01:20:13,360 --> 01:20:17,360
Speaker 11: Football League. Leonard's back healthy. Zaire Franklin, you know, I

1839
01:20:17,479 --> 01:20:20,120
Speaker 11: just is just an emerging star that I don't think

1840
01:20:20,160 --> 01:20:22,679
Speaker 11: a lot of people across the country know his name yet,

1841
01:20:23,080 --> 01:20:25,519
Speaker 11: but he is one of the best linebackers in the NFL.

1842
01:20:25,640 --> 01:20:29,120
Speaker 11: Eighteen tackles in Game one set a franchise record for

1843
01:20:29,200 --> 01:20:32,360
Speaker 11: tackles in a single season last year. He's back. You've

1844
01:20:32,400 --> 01:20:36,480
Speaker 11: got Anny Moore in the secondary, Julian Blackman in the secondary.

1845
01:20:36,760 --> 01:20:39,160
Speaker 11: They're very young at corner, Mark I will tell you,

1846
01:20:39,280 --> 01:20:42,559
Speaker 11: very young at corner. Dallas Flowers on the outside, Darryl

1847
01:20:42,640 --> 01:20:45,719
Speaker 11: Baker junior on the outside. Both of these guys were,

1848
01:20:46,200 --> 01:20:49,040
Speaker 11: you know, rookie undrafted free agents last year, and they

1849
01:20:49,040 --> 01:20:53,280
Speaker 11: are taking on enormous roles comparatively speaking from from a

1850
01:20:53,320 --> 01:20:56,040
Speaker 11: year ago, and so you know, that's something to monitor.

1851
01:20:56,640 --> 01:20:59,200
Speaker 11: But I think defensively they're in good shape. That's the

1852
01:20:59,240 --> 01:21:02,200
Speaker 11: strength of the team so far to this point. But

1853
01:21:02,280 --> 01:21:05,320
Speaker 11: they've got Pro Bowl players and Pro Bowl caliber players

1854
01:21:05,640 --> 01:21:08,320
Speaker 11: in all three levels of that defense, and they're definitely

1855
01:21:08,360 --> 01:21:10,200
Speaker 11: gonna again have to pull their way early on in

1856
01:21:10,280 --> 01:21:10,719
Speaker 11: the season.

1857
01:21:10,920 --> 01:21:13,880
Speaker 3: Matt Taylor voice of the Colts joining us on Texans Radio, Matt,

1858
01:21:13,960 --> 01:21:16,599
Speaker 3: what about the Jaguars. You were right there with them

1859
01:21:16,760 --> 01:21:19,440
Speaker 3: on able to pull it out. But has your opinion

1860
01:21:19,520 --> 01:21:22,439
Speaker 3: of them changed at all? How good are they?

1861
01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:25,840
Speaker 11: No, it hasn't changed. I mean I still think they're

1862
01:21:25,880 --> 01:21:29,480
Speaker 11: probably the best team in the division from a talent standpoint,

1863
01:21:29,560 --> 01:21:33,920
Speaker 11: from an overall roster construction standpoint. Trevor Lawren, I mean,

1864
01:21:33,960 --> 01:21:36,479
Speaker 11: I know the Texans always you always feel like there's

1865
01:21:36,520 --> 01:21:39,560
Speaker 11: these guys or these teams that always play well or

1866
01:21:39,600 --> 01:21:42,360
Speaker 11: play their best against the Texans. You can definitely say

1867
01:21:42,360 --> 01:21:44,840
Speaker 11: that about the Jaguars. They seem to always play their

1868
01:21:44,840 --> 01:21:48,120
Speaker 11: best against the Colts. Trevor Lawrence always seems to bring

1869
01:21:48,200 --> 01:21:51,040
Speaker 11: his best for the Colts. He's now played in five

1870
01:21:51,120 --> 01:21:54,280
Speaker 11: games against Indianapolis, and in three of those games he's

1871
01:21:54,320 --> 01:21:58,400
Speaker 11: over at least seventy percent completion percentage. And he looked really,

1872
01:21:58,439 --> 01:22:00,559
Speaker 11: really good. I mean you can just tell he's beaming

1873
01:22:00,600 --> 01:22:03,519
Speaker 11: with confidence and is in a good spot, you know,

1874
01:22:03,640 --> 01:22:07,080
Speaker 11: mentally with Doug Peterson and Press Taylor and you know,

1875
01:22:07,120 --> 01:22:09,000
Speaker 11: the guys you know, kind of pushing his buttons a

1876
01:22:09,040 --> 01:22:12,120
Speaker 11: little bit going into year number three. The touchdown pass

1877
01:22:12,160 --> 01:22:15,479
Speaker 11: he had to Zay Jones was a tremendous throw. Calvin

1878
01:22:15,520 --> 01:22:18,040
Speaker 11: Ridley's there now. He was over one hundred yards in

1879
01:22:18,080 --> 01:22:21,160
Speaker 11: his first game and a Jaguar uniform coming over in

1880
01:22:21,200 --> 01:22:24,280
Speaker 11: a trade last year. They're just stacked on offense with

1881
01:22:24,760 --> 01:22:29,240
Speaker 11: Kirk and Ridley, like I mentioned, and Ingram. You know, defensively,

1882
01:22:29,320 --> 01:22:31,880
Speaker 11: their front seven is really really good. They played that

1883
01:22:32,360 --> 01:22:34,519
Speaker 11: you know, not to get two overlease schematical, but they

1884
01:22:34,520 --> 01:22:37,320
Speaker 11: played that kind of like double sync defensive tackle. Look

1885
01:22:37,680 --> 01:22:40,599
Speaker 11: that bear front defense where it's hard to run against them.

1886
01:22:40,880 --> 01:22:44,080
Speaker 11: You mentioned the Colts running game. Colts running backs on Sunday,

1887
01:22:44,360 --> 01:22:47,400
Speaker 11: they only managed twenty five carries. Excuse me, they managed

1888
01:22:47,400 --> 01:22:50,760
Speaker 11: twenty five yards on sixteen carries. All right, that's just

1889
01:22:50,840 --> 01:22:53,400
Speaker 11: not gonna win. I mean, I know they're without Jonathan Taylor,

1890
01:22:53,439 --> 01:22:56,479
Speaker 11: but you're not gonna win many football games when you're

1891
01:22:56,520 --> 01:22:59,160
Speaker 11: not rushing you know, more than two yards per carry.

1892
01:22:59,479 --> 01:23:02,040
Speaker 11: So I think Jacksonville is really really good. But that's

1893
01:23:02,080 --> 01:23:04,000
Speaker 11: the thing I think that gives the Colts confidence is

1894
01:23:04,080 --> 01:23:06,840
Speaker 11: that they were right there. I mean they outside of

1895
01:23:06,840 --> 01:23:09,600
Speaker 11: an Anthony Richardson turnover late in the game. You know,

1896
01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:12,280
Speaker 11: you could argue the Colts were in a position to win,

1897
01:23:12,960 --> 01:23:15,800
Speaker 11: argue they could have won, should have won. So I

1898
01:23:15,840 --> 01:23:18,040
Speaker 11: think the Colts are coming in with confidence knowing that

1899
01:23:18,120 --> 01:23:20,960
Speaker 11: they can play with just about anybody. But they've got to,

1900
01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:23,640
Speaker 11: you know, shore some things up and get you know,

1901
01:23:23,680 --> 01:23:26,880
Speaker 11: some more offensive consistency. Especially in the second halves of

1902
01:23:26,920 --> 01:23:29,880
Speaker 11: these games where the Colts only put up fourteen points

1903
01:23:29,880 --> 01:23:32,920
Speaker 11: on offense, they had the defensive touchdown. That's just not

1904
01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:35,800
Speaker 11: going to cut it. I don't care who you're playing nowadays.

1905
01:23:35,800 --> 01:23:37,599
Speaker 11: It used to be it used to be all right,

1906
01:23:37,600 --> 01:23:39,799
Speaker 11: if we can get you know, twenty four to twenty

1907
01:23:39,840 --> 01:23:42,240
Speaker 11: five points, were in a good position to win. You know,

1908
01:23:42,240 --> 01:23:44,479
Speaker 11: with teams like the Jaguars and the Bills and the

1909
01:23:44,479 --> 01:23:46,200
Speaker 11: Bengals and the Chiefs. Now you've got to be up

1910
01:23:46,240 --> 01:23:48,439
Speaker 11: close to thirty points I think to be in a

1911
01:23:48,439 --> 01:23:50,679
Speaker 11: comfortable position to win every Sunday.

1912
01:23:51,360 --> 01:23:54,000
Speaker 3: Matt Taylor, Voice of the Colts joining us. Matt, what

1913
01:23:54,120 --> 01:23:57,760
Speaker 3: about the Titans they lost at the Saints. Where do

1914
01:23:57,800 --> 01:24:00,679
Speaker 3: you think they're headed right now as we talk about

1915
01:24:00,720 --> 01:24:02,080
Speaker 3: our ants south foes.

1916
01:24:02,600 --> 01:24:05,479
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's a great question. I mean, obviously you start

1917
01:24:05,520 --> 01:24:09,200
Speaker 11: with the quarterback position, and you know it's it's it

1918
01:24:09,280 --> 01:24:11,679
Speaker 11: seems like this might be the final you know, push

1919
01:24:11,800 --> 01:24:14,400
Speaker 11: for for Ryan Tannehill. Don't know what they're gonna do

1920
01:24:14,640 --> 01:24:18,000
Speaker 11: going forward with with those two young guys they drafted, Levis.

1921
01:24:18,720 --> 01:24:22,320
Speaker 11: I'm starting to read some stuff on Derrick Henry's usage

1922
01:24:22,360 --> 01:24:24,320
Speaker 11: and kind of dialing him back a little bit to

1923
01:24:24,400 --> 01:24:26,719
Speaker 11: save him, you know, with all the wear and tear

1924
01:24:26,800 --> 01:24:28,800
Speaker 11: that they've put on his body over the years, with

1925
01:24:28,880 --> 01:24:31,880
Speaker 11: all those carries. You know, defensively, I think they're gonna

1926
01:24:31,880 --> 01:24:34,479
Speaker 11: be pretty darn good. I mean I think again, you know,

1927
01:24:34,520 --> 01:24:36,800
Speaker 11: the strength of their team at least as of right

1928
01:24:36,880 --> 01:24:40,160
Speaker 11: now is probably their defense to keep them in games.

1929
01:24:40,479 --> 01:24:43,839
Speaker 11: Obviously the play action game for Ryan Tannehill with Derrick Henry,

1930
01:24:44,040 --> 01:24:45,680
Speaker 11: that's always going to be a front and center. But

1931
01:24:46,040 --> 01:24:48,720
Speaker 11: you know, offensively on the outside, I mean, Mark, you

1932
01:24:48,800 --> 01:24:51,439
Speaker 11: know it, they just don't They don't scay a ton,

1933
01:24:51,680 --> 01:24:55,519
Speaker 11: you know, outside of Hopkins. So I think this division

1934
01:24:55,560 --> 01:24:57,599
Speaker 11: is pretty much wide open. I really do. I think

1935
01:24:57,640 --> 01:25:01,040
Speaker 11: the Colton Texans can can make a push, but you know,

1936
01:25:01,080 --> 01:25:03,280
Speaker 11: it all starts in this game. Obviously, in Week number

1937
01:25:03,280 --> 01:25:05,640
Speaker 11: two for the Colts in Houston. You know, got to

1938
01:25:05,680 --> 01:25:08,519
Speaker 11: get a win, and you know, the Colts trying to

1939
01:25:08,560 --> 01:25:10,920
Speaker 11: figure out the AFC South, which is weird to say

1940
01:25:10,960 --> 01:25:14,120
Speaker 11: around here because they were so successful for so long

1941
01:25:14,200 --> 01:25:17,599
Speaker 11: within the within the division, dating back to two thousand

1942
01:25:17,640 --> 01:25:19,639
Speaker 11: and two. But if you go back to last year,

1943
01:25:19,640 --> 01:25:22,600
Speaker 11: the Colts, what are now one five and one in

1944
01:25:22,640 --> 01:25:24,800
Speaker 11: the AFC South. You know they were one four and

1945
01:25:24,880 --> 01:25:27,640
Speaker 11: one last year. Obviously the tie came against the Texans.

1946
01:25:28,360 --> 01:25:32,120
Speaker 11: It's just, you know, trying to win your first division title.

1947
01:25:32,160 --> 01:25:34,120
Speaker 11: If you're the Colts trying to win your first division

1948
01:25:34,160 --> 01:25:38,240
Speaker 11: championship since twenty fourteen, you know that's a tough pill

1949
01:25:38,280 --> 01:25:42,360
Speaker 11: to swallow for a franchise that dominated the division. Houston's

1950
01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:45,360
Speaker 11: won it twice. In fact, every team's won it twice

1951
01:25:45,439 --> 01:25:48,679
Speaker 11: since the Colts last won it, So Tennessee I think

1952
01:25:48,760 --> 01:25:51,160
Speaker 11: is still right there. But certainly I think this is

1953
01:25:51,200 --> 01:25:54,400
Speaker 11: kind of like their last push with their main pieces

1954
01:25:54,439 --> 01:25:56,840
Speaker 11: in place at quarterback and running back before they have

1955
01:25:57,280 --> 01:25:59,720
Speaker 11: some big decisions to make in the offseason coming up.

1956
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:01,599
Speaker 7: Well, never a dull moment, Matt.

1957
01:26:01,600 --> 01:26:03,639
Speaker 3: It's gonna be great to see you on Sunday, looking

1958
01:26:03,680 --> 01:26:05,400
Speaker 3: forward to an exciting game at NRG.

1959
01:26:05,560 --> 01:26:06,599
Speaker 7: Thanks for joining us.

1960
01:26:06,720 --> 01:26:08,880
Speaker 11: Yep, my pleasure, Mark as always.

1961
01:26:08,640 --> 01:26:12,320
Speaker 2: Excellent stuff there from Mark and Matt. All right, we're

1962
01:26:12,360 --> 01:26:15,080
Speaker 2: gonna close it down with my man, Mark Vandermier. We're

1963
01:26:15,080 --> 01:26:19,400
Speaker 2: gonna catch up, share a few our favorite moments from

1964
01:26:19,479 --> 01:26:23,559
Speaker 2: games against the Colts. That's next on Texans All Access. Yes, sir,

1965
01:26:23,680 --> 01:26:26,160
Speaker 2: one final segment here on a Wednesday edition of Texas

1966
01:26:26,200 --> 01:26:30,240
Speaker 2: All Access, John Harris and Mark vandermir And Mark, I

1967
01:26:30,320 --> 01:26:32,560
Speaker 2: can't really say this any better.

1968
01:26:32,400 --> 01:26:35,120
Speaker 9: But it's Colts week. Yeah, you've anybody.

1969
01:26:35,160 --> 01:26:37,840
Speaker 6: I think I would love to talk to you about

1970
01:26:37,840 --> 01:26:39,440
Speaker 6: this more than anyone, because.

1971
01:26:39,120 --> 01:26:41,640
Speaker 3: It's very disappointed by the way, and you for not

1972
01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:45,880
Speaker 3: having me on Texans Matchup Tuesday night, because that to.

1973
01:26:45,840 --> 01:26:47,040
Speaker 9: Me, are you reading my notes?

1974
01:26:47,160 --> 01:26:47,240
Speaker 4: Like?

1975
01:26:47,240 --> 01:26:48,640
Speaker 9: Are you reading my notes in front of me?

1976
01:26:48,720 --> 01:26:48,800
Speaker 14: No?

1977
01:26:49,479 --> 01:26:52,200
Speaker 3: I just feel this way because who better to talk

1978
01:26:52,240 --> 01:26:55,400
Speaker 3: about the pain, the suffering, the sorrow, the pity, the

1979
01:26:55,439 --> 01:26:57,160
Speaker 3: horror of the Indianapolis Colts.

1980
01:26:57,240 --> 01:26:59,360
Speaker 6: But I didn't want to bring matchup down and I

1981
01:26:59,400 --> 01:27:02,880
Speaker 6: only had, you know, trying to keep a positive vibe.

1982
01:27:02,960 --> 01:27:03,920
Speaker 7: He's such a downer.

1983
01:27:04,640 --> 01:27:05,160
Speaker 9: It's funny.

1984
01:27:05,200 --> 01:27:07,559
Speaker 7: I watched the video we shot with DeVico. It's up

1985
01:27:07,640 --> 01:27:08,200
Speaker 7: on YouTube.

1986
01:27:08,240 --> 01:27:08,320
Speaker 2: Ye.

1987
01:27:08,439 --> 01:27:11,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm sitting here like my pain, you know,

1988
01:27:11,640 --> 01:27:14,160
Speaker 3: the poor head coach's Mark I'm trying to get ready

1989
01:27:14,160 --> 01:27:14,639
Speaker 3: for week two.

1990
01:27:14,680 --> 01:27:17,439
Speaker 7: Here you're talking about your personal pain. It's good.

1991
01:27:17,840 --> 01:27:19,920
Speaker 3: I know Grissom, you know, we have him on as

1992
01:27:19,960 --> 01:27:21,720
Speaker 3: well this week, and he's just gonna be all over

1993
01:27:21,760 --> 01:27:24,200
Speaker 3: me about this too, like stop it. It's not about

1994
01:27:24,280 --> 01:27:26,080
Speaker 3: your suffering regarding the cults.

1995
01:27:26,439 --> 01:27:29,920
Speaker 6: So I at the end of the show, I just

1996
01:27:30,439 --> 01:27:33,120
Speaker 6: played because the way this show went, I had kind

1997
01:27:33,120 --> 01:27:34,920
Speaker 6: of a short segment at the end. I wanted to

1998
01:27:34,920 --> 01:27:38,639
Speaker 6: do a little bit more, but I wanted to play

1999
01:27:38,680 --> 01:27:40,920
Speaker 6: some of my favorite moments from this rivalry since I've

2000
01:27:40,960 --> 01:27:44,479
Speaker 6: been down on the sidelines twenty fourteen, and so tell

2001
01:27:44,520 --> 01:27:48,519
Speaker 6: me what I missed. Okay, go ahead, twenty fourteen. I

2002
01:27:48,560 --> 01:27:52,320
Speaker 6: know we lost both Watt Watch, Scoop and Score.

2003
01:27:52,560 --> 01:27:52,760
Speaker 9: Yeah.

2004
01:27:52,800 --> 01:27:55,120
Speaker 3: I was talking to one of our young video guys

2005
01:27:55,120 --> 01:27:57,599
Speaker 3: who just got here a few months ago, and he's

2006
01:27:57,600 --> 01:28:00,120
Speaker 3: really into the history of the franchise. So it's you know,

2007
01:28:00,200 --> 01:28:02,800
Speaker 3: when I have an audience like that, Johnny the poor guy,

2008
01:28:03,439 --> 01:28:05,360
Speaker 3: I'm just holding cord at his death, like.

2009
01:28:05,520 --> 01:28:07,720
Speaker 9: Mark marks that down here? Where is he?

2010
01:28:07,800 --> 01:28:08,040
Speaker 2: Oh?

2011
01:28:08,120 --> 01:28:08,960
Speaker 7: I got work to do.

2012
01:28:10,120 --> 01:28:14,080
Speaker 3: Intern I said that that that was a loss, but

2013
01:28:14,320 --> 01:28:16,479
Speaker 3: in my it was so long ago and my memory

2014
01:28:16,600 --> 01:28:20,280
Speaker 3: It's a positive that game because of that Watt scoop

2015
01:28:20,320 --> 01:28:24,240
Speaker 3: and score and the building erupting like that. The game

2016
01:28:24,320 --> 01:28:26,240
Speaker 3: was a loss, and it was a tough loss because

2017
01:28:26,240 --> 01:28:27,800
Speaker 3: you were down twenty four to nothing in that game.

2018
01:28:27,840 --> 01:28:30,040
Speaker 3: Does that score sound familiar? Twenty four to nothing in

2019
01:28:30,040 --> 01:28:33,040
Speaker 3: that game, but you were within five after the Watt

2020
01:28:33,040 --> 01:28:35,240
Speaker 3: scoop and score, and I thought, I think everybody in

2021
01:28:35,280 --> 01:28:36,920
Speaker 3: the world thought the Texans were going to win the

2022
01:28:36,920 --> 01:28:38,479
Speaker 3: game at that point. They didn't, but that was a

2023
01:28:38,479 --> 01:28:41,560
Speaker 3: great memory anyway, gone twenty fifteen.

2024
01:28:41,720 --> 01:28:48,120
Speaker 6: Obviously at Indianapolis, which was the complete opposite of twenty

2025
01:28:48,200 --> 01:28:49,000
Speaker 6: fifteen at.

2026
01:28:48,880 --> 01:28:51,160
Speaker 7: Home, which was Hasselbeck and a diaper.

2027
01:28:52,680 --> 01:28:55,599
Speaker 9: I played, actually played two from that.

2028
01:28:57,240 --> 01:29:02,120
Speaker 6: One, Brandon Whedon to Jalen Strong, which at the beginning

2029
01:29:02,120 --> 01:29:04,120
Speaker 6: of twenty fifteen, you Tooby Brandon Wheden was gonna throw

2030
01:29:04,120 --> 01:29:06,600
Speaker 6: a touchdown to beat the Colts. To Jalen Strong, I

2031
01:29:06,600 --> 01:29:08,200
Speaker 6: woud have thought I would have had you committed he

2032
01:29:08,280 --> 01:29:09,439
Speaker 6: was a cowboy at the time.

2033
01:29:09,520 --> 01:29:09,720
Speaker 14: Yeah.

2034
01:29:09,920 --> 01:29:12,639
Speaker 9: Yeah. The second one I played was your final call.

2035
01:29:13,040 --> 01:29:17,360
Speaker 6: Okay, because you know, for me down on this, I

2036
01:29:17,360 --> 01:29:19,840
Speaker 6: mean sometimes because the things that are happening, I can't

2037
01:29:19,840 --> 01:29:22,240
Speaker 6: always hear that so sometimes it takes me to the

2038
01:29:22,240 --> 01:29:23,880
Speaker 6: next day and I remember the next day hearing that

2039
01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:26,439
Speaker 6: is like chills, like, oh my god, we just we

2040
01:29:26,520 --> 01:29:33,759
Speaker 6: beat these guys. Here's one twenty sixteen Sunday night, aus

2041
01:29:33,840 --> 01:29:34,920
Speaker 6: Wiler for Norowitz.

2042
01:29:35,120 --> 01:29:36,800
Speaker 9: Yeah, that was you tied the game.

2043
01:29:37,080 --> 01:29:39,120
Speaker 6: I don't think people I think that one gets lost

2044
01:29:39,120 --> 01:29:40,920
Speaker 6: in the shuffle a lot of times because it was

2045
01:29:40,960 --> 01:29:45,120
Speaker 6: Brock and you know, uh.

2046
01:29:44,040 --> 01:29:44,720
Speaker 9: The comeback.

2047
01:29:45,000 --> 01:29:45,639
Speaker 7: Yeah, the comeback.

2048
01:29:45,640 --> 01:29:48,800
Speaker 3: I mean that was one hell a comebackne in touchdowns, right,

2049
01:29:49,240 --> 01:29:51,760
Speaker 3: and Lamar Miller with the catch and run inside the tent.

2050
01:29:51,920 --> 01:29:53,760
Speaker 7: That's one of the great plays we'd ever talked about.

2051
01:29:53,880 --> 01:29:57,479
Speaker 3: That plays Lamar Miller whoop, whoop, whoop getting into the

2052
01:29:57,640 --> 01:29:59,760
Speaker 3: end zone. Brock just dumped it off to him and

2053
01:30:00,040 --> 01:30:02,599
Speaker 3: mar Miller did the rest and it was a terrific touchdown.

2054
01:30:02,800 --> 01:30:04,920
Speaker 3: And you're thinking, all right, nice job, but you're still

2055
01:30:04,960 --> 01:30:06,840
Speaker 3: down a score and they came up with another stuff.

2056
01:30:06,840 --> 01:30:09,040
Speaker 9: I gotta stop. I remember Andre Hall got a sack.

2057
01:30:09,720 --> 01:30:12,120
Speaker 6: They pushed the Colts back even further than they were

2058
01:30:12,800 --> 01:30:15,800
Speaker 6: and got the ball back and Brock started dalan and

2059
01:30:15,800 --> 01:30:18,960
Speaker 6: then he threw maybe I think it's the best pass

2060
01:30:19,000 --> 01:30:22,040
Speaker 6: I remember him throwing at twenty sixteen, he hits Fedorowitz

2061
01:30:22,120 --> 01:30:25,559
Speaker 6: down the seam in stride, right before Mike Adams gets there,

2062
01:30:26,400 --> 01:30:28,479
Speaker 6: and I think it.

2063
01:30:28,439 --> 01:30:29,240
Speaker 9: Was kind of shocking.

2064
01:30:29,240 --> 01:30:32,400
Speaker 6: I remember being on the sidelines thinking, wait, did he did?

2065
01:30:32,880 --> 01:30:36,040
Speaker 6: He just tied this game? Yeah, like I had that spot.

2066
01:30:36,360 --> 01:30:38,520
Speaker 6: He just tied this game and then we got an overtime.

2067
01:30:38,800 --> 01:30:40,920
Speaker 6: Made a couple of plays, of course, you were always leary.

2068
01:30:41,439 --> 01:30:43,559
Speaker 3: Look another nice throw to jail and Strong to set

2069
01:30:43,600 --> 01:30:44,559
Speaker 3: up that game winning field goal.

2070
01:30:44,640 --> 01:30:47,040
Speaker 6: Exactly right, he makes a great throw. Jalen made a

2071
01:30:47,040 --> 01:30:50,040
Speaker 6: great catch. Jalen Strong was the Colts killer in fifteen

2072
01:30:50,040 --> 01:30:53,400
Speaker 6: and sixteen. He was remember in uh was it fIF

2073
01:30:53,720 --> 01:30:56,240
Speaker 6: What game was it was a seventeen? I can't remember

2074
01:30:56,320 --> 01:30:58,680
Speaker 6: where Jalen Strong caught the Hilmary. Was that in the

2075
01:30:58,680 --> 01:30:59,840
Speaker 6: hassleback in a diaper game?

2076
01:31:00,280 --> 01:31:00,840
Speaker 4: I think it was?

2077
01:31:00,880 --> 01:31:03,080
Speaker 6: I think it was it was it was he had

2078
01:31:03,120 --> 01:31:05,680
Speaker 6: to hail Mary catch right for halftime, which saved me

2079
01:31:05,760 --> 01:31:09,400
Speaker 6: because I thought Bill O'Brien was gonna strangle me at halftime.

2080
01:31:09,800 --> 01:31:12,000
Speaker 6: But then that happened and I was like, Okay, you're

2081
01:31:12,000 --> 01:31:14,280
Speaker 6: only down a score, so you know it wasn't wasn't

2082
01:31:14,320 --> 01:31:16,920
Speaker 6: too team is down big, I'm gonna go strangle the

2083
01:31:17,040 --> 01:31:21,040
Speaker 6: sideline report that is, you know, things can happen. Those

2084
01:31:21,080 --> 01:31:23,280
Speaker 6: are the ones I went with. Other ones I would

2085
01:31:23,320 --> 01:31:27,519
Speaker 6: have considered at some point. Kymie Fairbarn's fueldal to end

2086
01:31:27,520 --> 01:31:28,520
Speaker 6: it in eighteen.

2087
01:31:29,400 --> 01:31:30,920
Speaker 7: Eighteen was a hell of a battle.

2088
01:31:31,000 --> 01:31:32,400
Speaker 9: That was incredible force.

2089
01:31:32,439 --> 01:31:34,679
Speaker 6: We're about to go oh and four, oh and three,

2090
01:31:34,720 --> 01:31:37,679
Speaker 6: you're gonna own four. Ye I was thinking about that yesterday. Yeah,

2091
01:31:37,720 --> 01:31:38,960
Speaker 6: we were owing three that year.

2092
01:31:39,240 --> 01:31:41,840
Speaker 3: That was awful. And then you're about to lose again

2093
01:31:42,000 --> 01:31:42,880
Speaker 3: at Indy.

2094
01:31:42,840 --> 01:31:44,639
Speaker 9: And then somehow pull that one out.

2095
01:31:44,840 --> 01:31:46,200
Speaker 7: I was really amazing.

2096
01:31:46,240 --> 01:31:47,840
Speaker 3: And I thought at the time, we're gonna see Deshaun

2097
01:31:47,880 --> 01:31:50,760
Speaker 3: Watson and Andrew Luck for another ten years for these franchises.

2098
01:31:51,200 --> 01:31:53,479
Speaker 9: Not so fast, Oh not really.

2099
01:31:53,760 --> 01:31:56,400
Speaker 6: The thing about that game in eighteen was we'd gotten

2100
01:31:56,400 --> 01:32:00,759
Speaker 6: a big lead, We'd gone up what twenty eight to ten.

2101
01:32:01,439 --> 01:32:03,920
Speaker 9: We had a long drive to start the third quarter, and.

2102
01:32:04,000 --> 01:32:05,880
Speaker 6: Luck got hot and I'm like, all right, we're good,

2103
01:32:06,040 --> 01:32:09,240
Speaker 6: and then Noodle armed Luck. At least we thought it

2104
01:32:09,320 --> 01:32:11,120
Speaker 6: was at that point all of a sudden just started

2105
01:32:11,600 --> 01:32:13,880
Speaker 6: threw almost every play in the second half, and I

2106
01:32:13,960 --> 01:32:18,400
Speaker 6: just remember that day they opened the roof and it was.

2107
01:32:19,240 --> 01:32:22,760
Speaker 9: It was spicy. At the end of that game, everybody

2108
01:32:22,880 --> 01:32:23,439
Speaker 9: was exhausted.

2109
01:32:23,479 --> 01:32:26,120
Speaker 6: I remember on the two point conversion, guys just laid

2110
01:32:26,160 --> 01:32:27,840
Speaker 6: in the end zone because they on both sides. They

2111
01:32:27,880 --> 01:32:31,160
Speaker 6: were just exhausted on the Colts offense and the Texans defense.

2112
01:32:32,560 --> 01:32:35,960
Speaker 6: But those are the ones I went with. Fourteen fifteen, sixteen.

2113
01:32:35,800 --> 01:32:38,519
Speaker 7: Nineteen here was pretty good.

2114
01:32:38,760 --> 01:32:40,479
Speaker 9: Yeah, I didn't go to nineteen.

2115
01:32:40,560 --> 01:32:43,280
Speaker 6: You had Deshaun thrown the two touchdowns to hop on

2116
01:32:43,400 --> 01:32:46,200
Speaker 6: Thursday night, Brentan Scarlett getting a fourth down stop.

2117
01:32:46,280 --> 01:32:48,000
Speaker 7: That was awesome. That was a big win at the time.

2118
01:32:48,000 --> 01:32:50,880
Speaker 3: The Colts were pretty hot at the time, they were surging,

2119
01:32:51,240 --> 01:32:54,000
Speaker 3: and the Texans were coming off a lost to the Ravens.

2120
01:32:54,000 --> 01:32:55,960
Speaker 3: Does that sound familiar? So you lose to the Ravens

2121
01:32:56,000 --> 01:32:57,280
Speaker 3: on the road, you can come home to play the

2122
01:32:57,280 --> 01:32:59,320
Speaker 3: Colts and you beat them. Now that was a Thursday night,

2123
01:32:59,400 --> 01:33:00,639
Speaker 3: so it was a short week.

2124
01:33:00,800 --> 01:33:00,920
Speaker 4: Yep.

2125
01:33:01,040 --> 01:33:03,360
Speaker 3: You just got your doors blown off by the Ravens

2126
01:33:03,720 --> 01:33:07,040
Speaker 3: and come home and gut one out against your rival.

2127
01:33:07,160 --> 01:33:08,680
Speaker 3: And I thought that was a big win at the

2128
01:33:08,720 --> 01:33:11,200
Speaker 3: time to sort of re establish yourself. And then you

2129
01:33:11,240 --> 01:33:12,960
Speaker 3: had the mini buy then the win over the Patriots

2130
01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:14,360
Speaker 3: and we don't have to talk about Denver and the

2131
01:33:14,360 --> 01:33:14,760
Speaker 3: rest of it.

2132
01:33:14,960 --> 01:33:16,479
Speaker 9: Yeah, oh god, Denver.

2133
01:33:16,720 --> 01:33:22,120
Speaker 6: Oh Man, the most confusing afternoon I think ever on

2134
01:33:22,160 --> 01:33:22,920
Speaker 6: the sidelines.

2135
01:33:23,360 --> 01:33:25,599
Speaker 9: But it's funny because there's so much.

2136
01:33:25,479 --> 01:33:28,320
Speaker 6: Of that Baltimore game that I don't remember, and maybe

2137
01:33:28,320 --> 01:33:29,760
Speaker 6: because I don't want to remember, but I think a

2138
01:33:29,760 --> 01:33:31,080
Speaker 6: lot of it had to do with the fact that

2139
01:33:31,360 --> 01:33:33,479
Speaker 6: we got teed up against the Colts on Thursday night,

2140
01:33:34,120 --> 01:33:36,280
Speaker 6: like we better get we better get our act together,

2141
01:33:36,600 --> 01:33:39,439
Speaker 6: and we did enough and then made a stop on Brissette,

2142
01:33:39,520 --> 01:33:43,240
Speaker 6: and Brissette lit Brissette lit us up up there.

2143
01:33:43,600 --> 01:33:44,920
Speaker 9: He went nuts against us.

2144
01:33:44,920 --> 01:33:48,360
Speaker 6: Even though JJ had one of his best games against Prissette.

2145
01:33:48,760 --> 01:33:53,320
Speaker 6: He lit our secondary up in that win up there.

2146
01:33:53,400 --> 01:33:55,479
Speaker 6: So getting him back here was kind of like, man,

2147
01:33:55,520 --> 01:33:57,120
Speaker 6: we don't have what what are we gonna do?

2148
01:33:57,439 --> 01:33:59,679
Speaker 9: And they obviously just got hammered by the Ravens.

2149
01:33:59,680 --> 01:34:02,320
Speaker 6: That was one that worried me a lot, but made

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Speaker 6: two touchdown catches.

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Speaker 3: It was a good night the loss that the Colts

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Speaker 3: suffered here in nineteen on that Thursday night. That's the

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Speaker 3: only time Brissette ever lost to the Texans. Yes, I

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Speaker 3: think he's four to one or something like that because

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Speaker 3: he won as a dolphin as well.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right, twenty twenty one as a dolphin, Patriots

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Speaker 6: in sixteen, colts in seventeen and nineteen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah seventeen, only nineteen, so that's three four, five and one.

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Speaker 6: He could have been six and one if they would

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Speaker 6: have gone with him here with the Browns last year.

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Speaker 1: And that's all we'll say about that.

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Speaker 2: Mark, appreciate you being here, Greg Grissom, Nick Cassario, Indy

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Speaker 2: klu Earl Mitchell DPC, dude, John Gernard, everybody out there

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Speaker 2: that listened. Of course, our buddy Matt Taylor will see

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Speaker 2: you next time. Everybody in his always go Texans