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Speaker 1: What's happened? Everybody.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into a Wednesday edition, a playoff Wednesday edition of

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Speaker 2: Texans All Access. I'm your host, John Harris, Football on

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Speaker 2: a sideline reporter for your Houston Texans, and I am

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Speaker 2: so excited to be doing bonus radio for you as

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Speaker 2: we go through this week and get ready for the

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Speaker 2: Baltimore Ravens. Third straight week that we will play on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Played the Colts at seven to fifteen. We played the

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Speaker 2: Browns at three point thirty. We will play the Ravens

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Speaker 2: at three thirty, this one in Baltimore, this one outside.

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Speaker 1: It will be our first outside game since Tennessee in Nashville.

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Speaker 2: That's the first, that's the last time we have played outside.

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Speaker 2: So we played outside, of course, in the weather, and

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Speaker 2: it was a good trial run this week, getting used

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Speaker 2: to some of the things that we saw through this

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Speaker 2: week with the weather Tuesday, in particular, Wednesday started to

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Speaker 2: warm up a little bit. Thursday is gonna be downright

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Speaker 2: ball me guests for middle of January, mid to late

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Speaker 2: January here in Houston.

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Speaker 1: But either way, you deal with it.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of dealing with it, we got plenty to deal

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Speaker 2: with on the show this evening, Mark and I are

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Speaker 2: gonna discuss this one in full. We had a lot

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Speaker 2: of things that we need to talk about, starting with

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Speaker 2: three letters p f F.

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Speaker 1: That's a little later in the show.

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Speaker 2: We gotta go behind amy sidelines and Drew Doherty will

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Speaker 2: do that with Garrett Downing, who's director of social media

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Speaker 2: for the Baltimore Ravens, knows that team inside and out.

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Speaker 3: We got to slant this evening with John Metchi.

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Speaker 2: The third Stephanie Gonzalez steps in and had a long

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Speaker 2: conversation with Stephanie and come to find out she may

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Speaker 2: maybe not totally sure, she may have had my parents's teachers.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of wild. So Stephanie will be a bye

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Speaker 2: with the slant with John met You. We also go

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Speaker 2: men behind the mics. Now we're doing a two fur

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Speaker 2: but not tonight. We're splitting it up one Wednesday, one Friday,

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Speaker 2: and today we're gonna talk to Tom McCarthy. When I

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Speaker 2: say we, Mark is gonna talk with Tom McCarthy, who's

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Speaker 2: to be calling the game for Westwood One doing to

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Speaker 2: play by play with Ross Tucker. That's gonna be kind

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Speaker 2: of cool. Ross was on with the guys Sean Seth

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Speaker 2: this morning. This Wednesday, Yeah, this morning with his normal

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Speaker 2: hit as the Odyssey Insider. But he's also doing a game,

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Speaker 2: and he said he lives like an hour from Baltimore,

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Speaker 2: so just drive up, called a game, drive back.

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Speaker 3: He's pretty excited about it, so that's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: He'll be doing the game with Tom McCarthy, who has

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Speaker 2: pipes of God. I mean, it's incredible to listen to

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Speaker 2: that man's pipes. So Tom McCarthy will be by for

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Speaker 2: our men behind the Mike's segment. I think that's everything.

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Speaker 2: Oh and got a little cutlet from the locker room

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Speaker 2: with Blake Cashman, a very important figure for this defense,

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Speaker 2: who did not play in Week one against the Baltimore Ravens.

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Speaker 2: In fact, there are a number of players we were

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Speaker 2: actually doing the math on this at practice today. A

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Speaker 2: number of guys that were not with the team in

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Speaker 2: Week one. We're injured in Week one, even a guy

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Speaker 2: like Jaylen Peatree. He only played like a quarter and

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Speaker 2: a half in that game because he went out with

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Speaker 3: What it was.

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Speaker 2: I know he took a knee, a knee to the midsection.

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Speaker 2: He was coughing up some blood. So we ended up

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Speaker 2: missing punctured long, I think is what it was. He

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Speaker 2: had missed some time with that. So they played a

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Speaker 2: majority of that game. They played a lot of that

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Speaker 2: It's a line. Michael Dieterer was not at center. Jews

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Speaker 2: Scruggs was on IR you know, but Devin Singletary hadn't

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Speaker 2: taken over just yet as the number one back. So

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Speaker 2: we'll see how that manifests. This manifests itself nineteen weeks later.

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Speaker 2: That's definitely a talking point amongst all of our guests

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Speaker 2: this evening, of course, and the first guest his executive

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Speaker 2: vice president, Football ops and general Manager, Nick Cassio.

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Speaker 1: We had a blast talking with Nick.

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Speaker 4: Tick listen here in the Hundai Texans Radio studio. It's

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Speaker 4: executive vice president and general manager Nick Cassario postseason conversation

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Speaker 4: powered by Reliant Nick, congratulations on the wild card weekend,

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Speaker 4: when phenomenal stuff. Your thoughts as we head into the

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Speaker 4: divisional round morn Jens.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, great to be here. Always good to be playing

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Speaker 5: football in January. So great weekend, great weeking for the city,

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Speaker 5: great weaking for the organization. Players did unbelievable job. Staff

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Speaker 5: did a great job getting the team ready to go

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Speaker 5: played probably as collective a game as we played probably

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Speaker 5: anytime you scored twice on defense, I mean that usually

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Speaker 5: reality is, for as well as we played in that game,

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Speaker 5: see who exactly we're going to play Saturday afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Ten year old Nick Cassaria would not have been happy

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Speaker 2: with the way that one unfolded. But I don't know

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Speaker 2: happy with everything. What was the biggest key, Nick? We

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Speaker 2: talked about the keys before the game, and I went

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Speaker 2: key that ended up coming to fruition.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Really, we started fast.

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Speaker 5: You know, we were able to early in the game

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Speaker 5: some points on the board. Early explosive plays on both

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Speaker 5: sides of the ball were a big part of it.

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Speaker 5: We gave up the two really forty plus yard plays,

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Speaker 5: in the football is taking the ball away. And then offensively,

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Speaker 5: we took care of the football, kind of took care

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Speaker 5: of their problem players other than Joka. It seems like

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Speaker 5: Jokay maybe just about every tackle. He's a great football player.

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Speaker 5: And then we were able to kind of control field

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Speaker 4: What makes Nico Collins so good with the yards after

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Speaker 4: the catch?

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Speaker 6: Nick, It's interesting we run after cats.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes it's either they have a skill or you might

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Speaker 5: think as the year is going on, you've seen Nico

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Speaker 6: Nick I always look at the game book.

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Speaker 2: I've asked you before in the game book, what numbers

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Speaker 5: understand what the other team does, well, here are the

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Speaker 4: Is Brevin Jordan a good example of, hey, you never

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Speaker 4: a tight end, but he's versatile.

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Speaker 5: overall value to the team, then that's going to help

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Speaker 5: you as a player. I think Brevman is really bought

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Speaker 5: He's compact, he's strong, and he has good speed. And

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Speaker 5: you saw everything on that play. But I think you'd

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Speaker 4: You could tell Nicks from Ohio because he says, Miami

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Speaker 2: But you made transactions throughout the year. I mean, obviously

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Speaker 2: Got opening, we got injury, we could upgrade. You make

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Speaker 6: You caught in all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 6: To go and so and so what are your thoughts

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Speaker 6: So it was a matter of here's a good football player.

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Speaker 5: It has some experience and familiarity with our call it

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Speaker 6: Here's the CJ.

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Speaker 4: Stroud appreciation question, Nick as he's the youngest quarterback to

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Speaker 4: win a playoff game. Amazing performance again for him, And

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Speaker 4: he's got to handle things himself.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 4: You can coach a guy, but he's got to be

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Speaker 5: Own business in order to improve. Absolutely, at some point

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Speaker 6: I think with CJ.

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Speaker 5: He's very mature, he's very poised, he cares a lot

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Speaker 5: And he went out there and he did the right thing.

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Speaker 6: So do you do the right thing.

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Speaker 5: They kind of brought four a week, and he zipped

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Speaker 6: One of my options may be able to get to

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you noticed, Nick, but you'll draft

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Speaker 2: number twenty three in the first round in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 6: You're you're assuming we're gonna pick that. But let's dress

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Speaker 2: Arizona Cardinals will be somewhere beyond you. Because I know

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Speaker 2: there are a lot of people that thought, well, why

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Speaker 2: would you make that Jade, because I just want to

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Speaker 2: We kind of got the just before it went up

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Christian, he played a lot of football at Alabama.

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Speaker 4: You want to have a veteran team that's been there before.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's all about the opportunity and it's really don't

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Speaker 5: But in the end, it's about your execution and it's

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Speaker 5: That's for everybody else to talk about. But each week

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Speaker 5: ultimately is going to win it, not to make it

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Speaker 2: I know, you can only handle so many pats on

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Speaker 2: four thirty Eastern if you're there in Baltimore, three thirty

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Speaker 6: We saw him in week one. Now we're even further

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Speaker 2: With the Colts. That was sixteen weeks in between. It's

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Speaker 6: Division around of the playoffs. Yeah, it's interesting.

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Speaker 5: it'd be interesting, and come to find out Zay's been

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Speaker 5: there at their most productive and he led them in

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Speaker 5: receptions this year. So Zay's a really good football player. Well,

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Speaker 5: they didn't have Andrews in the first game. If Andrews

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Speaker 5: is available, we end up playing Baltimore. I think Mark

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Speaker 5: is definitely somebody that you're gonna have to account for.

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Speaker 5: But the one thing that stayed consistent are is the

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Speaker 5: offensive line. So they have a really good offensive line,

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Speaker 5: so good football team. They're amongst the top tier defensively

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Speaker 5: and offensively. They can basically score from any area of

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Speaker 5: the field. And you know, mars comt X factor because

448
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Speaker 5: he almost ran for a thousand yards this year, So

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Speaker 5: just he's a dynamic football player. And really it's just

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Speaker 5: we talked about this before we played him. In their program,

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Speaker 5: I would say is as impressive as any program in

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Speaker 5: the league. Starts top to bottom with ownership and then

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Speaker 5: from Eric and coach Harbaugh. I mean, there's a reason

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Speaker 5: why they're in a position that they're in, and it's

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Speaker 5: just the stability and the continuity, and it's it's a

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Speaker 5: great program, and we have a lot of respect and

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Speaker 5: appreciation for them.

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Speaker 4: Playing in cold weather, Nick, how much of a help

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Speaker 4: is it that it's cold here. You gotta practice outside

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Speaker 4: and the cold and get used to the elements. And

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Speaker 4: how much is dealing with it associated with the mental

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Speaker 4: side versus the physical side, And also wind. I gotta

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Speaker 4: think wind is a big factor.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, temperature is a temperature. You can't really deal with that.

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Speaker 5: So I mean it is cold, and I guess it's

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Speaker 5: cold by standards here in Houston, it's not really that cold.

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Speaker 5: I knew that was coming, but typically you knew it.

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Speaker 5: The temperature isn't as big of a factor. The wind

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Speaker 5: usually plays a bigger factor. So because once you're moving,

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Speaker 5: once you're running around, you create heat with your body,

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Speaker 5: So the cold isn't as big of a factor. Maybe

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Speaker 5: some of the ball handling, how hard the ball gets

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Speaker 5: or slick it might get, but the wind usually plays

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Speaker 5: more of a factor than the actual cold. So there's

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Speaker 5: things that you can do to mitigate it, heaters on

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Speaker 5: the sideline, jackets, those types of things.

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Speaker 6: But you have to remember you're not playing the weather.

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Speaker 6: You're playing the opponent.

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Speaker 5: So you have to have I would say, a certain

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Speaker 5: level of mental and physical toughness to focus on the

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Speaker 5: thing that matters, which is actually opponent on the other

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Speaker 5: side of the ball.

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Speaker 2: Nick, how much is individual and team confidence worth in

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Speaker 2: your opinion? Just guys, now, I think a job met

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Speaker 2: you the other day. I know John, at the end

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Speaker 2: of the year, you know, at a couple of moments

487
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Speaker 2: did come through for him, and I know he dropped

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Speaker 2: a touchdown pass at one point. You just feel like

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Speaker 2: confidence is kind of shaking. The other day it felt

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Speaker 2: like he was playing with a lot more confidence. And

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Speaker 2: then just the team in general getting to the divisional around.

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Speaker 2: As Mark said, I think you know some people have

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Speaker 2: coined it as well. They're too naive to know they

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Speaker 2: shouldn't be here or whatever the case might be, but

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Speaker 2: they're playing with a lot of confidence.

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Speaker 6: How much is that worth in your estimation?

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Speaker 5: It really comes down to belief, and then it goes

498
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,080
Speaker 5: back and execution is ultimately going to matter more than

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Speaker 5: anything else. But when you have success on the field,

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Speaker 5: it just creates belief, whether it's internally, individually or collectively

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Speaker 5: with their teammates around you, that you can rely on

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Speaker 5: that player, you can trust them and they can go

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Speaker 5: out there and actually do the job.

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Speaker 6: The people that are in our building. We believe in

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Speaker 6: the people that are in our building. In the end,

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Speaker 6: we're going to be on the road, so anything we're

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Speaker 6: going to have is each other.

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Speaker 5: The only thing we're gonna have is ourselves, So it's

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Speaker 5: incumbent upon us to do a weekend. Control the things

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Speaker 5: that we can control, which is our work, which is

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Speaker 5: our preparation, which our focus, and our belief and one another.

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Speaker 5: And I would say Demiko's done an unbelievable job making

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Speaker 5: sure that the players understand that and believing in the players,

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Speaker 5: and the players in turn and believe in each other

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Speaker 5: and any end, that's what it's going to come down to.

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Speaker 5: It's come down to individual and collective belief and overall

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Speaker 5: team execution.

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Speaker 4: Nick, We've asked the players, there's plenty of times, and

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Speaker 4: I think we've talked to you about it, but if

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Speaker 4: we have, it's been a minute. Pregame ritual and routine

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Speaker 4: and what you do to get ready and fired up?

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Speaker 4: Do you listen to Motley Crue and your earbuds? What

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Speaker 4: do you do?

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Speaker 6: I know you talk to Johnny? So what does it

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Speaker 6: change to the postseason? How do you get ready for it? Again?

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Speaker 6: That's the thing.

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Speaker 5: You really don't want to change anything whatever you do

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Speaker 5: during the course of the season. I say, the only

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Speaker 5: thing that's different is the home game rituals are a

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Speaker 5: little bit different than the road game. Typically for home games,

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Speaker 5: and say you get to the stadium a certain time,

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Speaker 5: I like to work out, you know, before the game

533
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Speaker 5: we're playing at home, and then eventually go out there

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Speaker 5: and talk to John on the road. It's just a

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Speaker 5: little bit different kind of get up, maybe do a

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Speaker 5: few things in the morning and do a little bit

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Speaker 5: of work, and then get yourself at the stadium. And

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Speaker 5: then typically I'll do some work in the locker room,

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Speaker 5: whether it's on the opponent or if I want to

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Speaker 5: just divert my attention here and focus, you know, watch

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Speaker 5: a draft prospect or something like that. But I think

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Speaker 5: it's important don't change anything that you've been doing to

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Speaker 5: this point. I mean, I think sometimes everybody kind of

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Speaker 5: has a heightened while I need to do something extra, well,

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Speaker 5: you really don't. You just need to do what you've

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00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 5: relied on to get to yourself to this point. So

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Speaker 5: nothing exotic or nothing special.

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Speaker 2: Nick, You've gone all the way through obviously with New

549
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Speaker 2: England winning championships, go to.

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Speaker 6: The Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: As far as advanced scouting goes, how far in advance.

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Speaker 6: Do you go? Do you do you.

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Speaker 2: Even you know, do you consider as scouting NFC teams

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Speaker 2: at this point? Is a too far ahead? How do

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00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 2: you kind of go through the advanced scouting at this point. Yeah,

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00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 2: you typically just focus on the AFC.

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Speaker 5: So over the weekend, we just wanted to make sure

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00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 5: our work on Baltimore and Kansas City has kind of

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00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 5: finished off. As we know as of Monday evening, we

560
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 5: know who we're gonna play, So that's kind of step one,

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Speaker 5: and then we'll go through the course of the week

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Speaker 5: and we'll go back and see if there's any additional

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00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,359
Speaker 5: work that we need to do. Really, don't worry about

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Speaker 5: the NFC until you get to that point because you

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Speaker 5: have a couple you have an extra week in terms

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Speaker 5: of your preparation as well, So I think the coaching

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00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 5: staff tries to focus on the opponent and then from

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Speaker 5: an advanced scouting standpoint, we maybe look a week ahead,

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Speaker 5: but you don't get too far ahead, but at some

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Speaker 5: point you're probably gonna use it information in some capacity.

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Speaker 4: Nick, thanks a lot, good luck this week.

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Speaker 6: Thank you fellas.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not getting twisted. Nick's pregame ritual is to

574
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:49,359
Speaker 2: talk with me. It's not the most important thing, but

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Speaker 2: it's a fun.

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Speaker 1: Thing for me.

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Speaker 2: In particular, I'd love to get Nick's views. You got

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00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:55,800
Speaker 2: to hear his keys to the game, because last week

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Speaker 2: he hit all He hit right on all of them.

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Speaker 1: I mean he hit every single one of them perfectly.

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Speaker 2: It's like a golf shot. You just hit it right

582
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,480
Speaker 2: in the screws. You don't even feel it. You're like, yeah,

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00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,199
Speaker 2: that was good. When he got done with that, I

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00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:07,160
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, that was good.

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00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:08,160
Speaker 1: He nailed them.

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00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,359
Speaker 2: He kneeled what I thought they were, so I was

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Speaker 2: glad to see that we were right on it. So

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Speaker 2: make sure you check that out late in pregame. Do

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00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 2: the interview like two hours before the game, but it

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00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:20,119
Speaker 2: ends up being played in pregame about half hour before

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Speaker 2: the game starts, So make sure you check that out.

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Speaker 2: Sean Seth will do the pregame, Mark Andre and myself

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00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,840
Speaker 2: will have the game, and then Sewn and Clint Stirner will.

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Speaker 1: Have the post game.

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Speaker 2: And hopefully it's not the last pre and post for

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Speaker 2: those guys. I know they enjoy it, especially this year

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00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 2: as opposed to the previous years. All right, we get back,

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Speaker 2: let's go behind enemy sidelines. Let's learn a little bit

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Speaker 2: more about the Baltimore Ravens. This current iteration of the

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Speaker 2: Baltimore Ravens where Garrett Downing Drew Doherty cut up with

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Speaker 2: the director of social Media for the Baltimore Ravens. That's

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Speaker 2: next on Texans All Access.

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Speaker 6: What's up, everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access

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Speaker 2: from the Today Texans Radio Studio, a playoff foinition Texans

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Speaker 2: All Access, brought to you by Mattress Firm. I'm your host,

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Speaker 2: Jehan Harrison, football sideline reporter for your Houston Texans and

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Speaker 2: look forward to our next interview because I always like

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Speaker 2: getting the inside slant, if you will.

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Speaker 3: Up in Green Bay, they call it the dope The.

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Speaker 1: Dope sheet is what they called.

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Speaker 2: It's just information and getting information for people that know

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Speaker 2: the team best. So we go behind himy sidelines with

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Speaker 2: Drew Doherty and this week he caught up with Garrett Downing,

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Speaker 2: who's director of Social Media for the Baltimore Ravens. That's

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Speaker 2: been around the building for a long time. He knows

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Speaker 2: this Ravens team inside and out. So Drew take it away.

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Speaker 8: My friend joining me now is Garrett Downing of the

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Speaker 8: Baltimore Ravens. He's been there a long time. He's the

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Speaker 8: director of social Media. He's also a digital host for

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Speaker 8: the Baltimore Ravens and he kind of do a little

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Speaker 8: bit of everything.

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Speaker 1: Garrett.

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Speaker 8: First things, First, I've known you, it seems like forever.

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Speaker 8: When did you start with them?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I started in twenty eleven, and my first year

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00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:56,399
Speaker 9: actually played at the Texans in the Divisional round that year. TJ.

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Speaker 9: Yates was the starting quarterback that year and that was

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Speaker 9: a game here in Baltimore. So that was my first,

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Speaker 9: my first playoff experience, and so here we are once again.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's pretty wild. There's a lot of similarities that

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00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,120
Speaker 8: twenty eleven season for the Texans. I mean, you play

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00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:15,679
Speaker 8: there in the regular season very early and fall, and

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00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 8: then you're playing there in the postseason as well, and

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00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 8: it's an upstart team both times around. But this is

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00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 8: a Baltimore Ravens bunch that the Texans saw in Week one,

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00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 8: but that was four months ago. The Texans obviously very different.

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Speaker 8: But you know, it's like rokwand Smith pointed out recently

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00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 8: as well, the Baltimore Ravens are a very different team

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Speaker 8: from the one that we saw in Week one.

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Speaker 9: How So, yeah, I think it's interesting. I try to

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Speaker 9: glean from players over the course of this week how

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00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,920
Speaker 9: much you can draw on that Week one game. Knowing

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Speaker 9: that both teams have gone through a lot of changes.

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Speaker 9: I think the changes that the Texans have gone through

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00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 9: are more I guess obvious, and that you had a

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Speaker 9: rookie quarterback starting his first game, you have a first

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Speaker 9: year head coach, and just the evolution that a young

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Speaker 9: team through over the course of a season. For the Ravens,

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Speaker 9: I think the biggest difference is that if you go

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Speaker 9: back to that Week one game, it was their first

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Speaker 9: game under new offensive coordinator Todd Malkin, and so they

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Speaker 9: were still kind of figuring things out offensively, deciding on

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Speaker 9: what their vision was going to be for this offense,

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Speaker 9: and that really kind of developed, I would say, around

656
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 9: mid season, and then they hit their stride over the

657
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 9: course of the last five six weeks of the season,

658
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,399
Speaker 9: where the Ravens were really red hot, playing some of

659
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 9: the best teams in the league like the forty nine

660
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 9: ers and the Dolphins and the Jaguars, and he's playing

661
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 9: some really tough competition down the stretch, and that's where

662
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 9: the offense really got going into a groove. That's where

663
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 9: Lamar Jackson, I thought, really took full command of the

664
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 9: offense down the stretch and likely earned himself a second

665
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 9: MVP Award. So it is interesting, you know, I think

666
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 9: that you don't throw out week one in terms of

667
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 9: trying to learn from it at both these teams, But

668
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,719
Speaker 9: you also have to look at it with the knowledge

669
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:56,720
Speaker 9: that there's been a lot of changes on both sides

670
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 9: of this over the course of the last four months.

671
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 8: Yeah, do you have seventeen games to view this offense?

672
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 8: How is it much different than what we've seen there

673
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 8: in Baltimore the last few years.

674
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 9: Well, it's definitely different. Previously, the offense was much more

675
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 9: of a run heavy scheme, particularly in terms of the

676
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,959
Speaker 9: quarterback design runs. The quarterback design run is not as

677
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 9: much of a piece of the offense now compared to

678
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 9: the last five seasons when Greg Romin was the offensive coordinator. Now,

679
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 9: of course Lamar was still talking to run, but much

680
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 9: less so than he did previously, particularly from a called standpoint.

681
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 9: The main thing that Lamar has said from a difference

682
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 9: is that he has the keys to the offense, so

683
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 9: he has more freedom to call plays at the line

684
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 9: of scrimmage to make adjustments, and Todd Monkin has that

685
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 9: was a priority for him. Honestly, even before the season started,

686
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 9: when the Ravens hired Todd Monkin. He said to Lamar,

687
00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 9: you know, back in the spring, I don't want to

688
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 9: give you the keys and put more on your plate.

689
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 9: And the Ravens have done that, and so I think

690
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 9: that Lamar's growing comfort with the offense over the course

691
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 9: of the season has a allowed him to really take

692
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 9: the reins of that. I also think that in past years,

693
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 9: either the weapons around Lamar are better than they've been

694
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 9: in past years. You have some veterans like Odell Beckham,

695
00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 9: Junior Nelson Aguilar. Both those guys have won Super Bowls

696
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 9: and have come up with big catches over the course

697
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 9: of the season. Zay Flowers is a dynamic player.

698
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 6: Now.

699
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 9: They had a big gay big day in Week one

700
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 9: when these two teams faced off. But he's been an

701
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 9: electric player for the Ravens all season long. So they

702
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 9: just have a better compliment of weapons and Lamar is

703
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 9: doing a good job of getting the ball to all

704
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:32,080
Speaker 9: of them across the field.

705
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

706
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 8: Talking with Garrett Downing of the Baltimore Ravens, he's a

707
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 8: director of social media and a digital host. You just

708
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 8: brought up a few of those weapons out at wide receiver.

709
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 9: Huhum.

710
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:44,000
Speaker 8: Another year and the Ravens still have excellent production at

711
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,080
Speaker 8: the tight end spot as well. I think eleven touchdowns

712
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 8: combined between Andrews and Likely. What stands out about those two.

713
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 9: Well, the biggest thing is, you know, the truth be told,

714
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:58,040
Speaker 9: they haven't really been as much of a duo as likely.

715
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 9: It's just likely replaced Andrews once Andrews went down after

716
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 9: the ankle injury in Week eleven against the Bengals, and

717
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 9: you know, Likely has just played at a really high level.

718
00:31:09,800 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 9: I think that the two very different players, and so

719
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 9: Likely is more of a run after the catch guy.

720
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 9: He's he's a bit more of a call it a

721
00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 9: receiver playing tight end, you know where Mark is so

722
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,200
Speaker 9: good at finding the soft spot and making really tough catches.

723
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 9: Now Likely, as I thought, really shown himself to be

724
00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:29,240
Speaker 9: a guy who can be trusted in big moments down

725
00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 9: the stretch here, you know, as a young player, but

726
00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:35,239
Speaker 9: he's you know, he can get the ball and then

727
00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 9: make something happen with his legs. Lamar and Mark Andrews

728
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 9: just have this great connection and feel for where they're

729
00:31:41,560 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 9: going to be. And Mark can break out for route

730
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 9: and putting himself in a spot where he's just in

731
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 9: Lamar's line of sight, and Lamar throws it up, and

732
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:50,960
Speaker 9: Andrews can just make tough contest to catches. I think

733
00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 9: the interesting thing for you know, the Ravens will be

734
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 9: while the Mark Andrews plays. He returned to practice at

735
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 9: the end of last week, which I think, you know,

736
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 9: caught a lot of people by surprise, just the guy

737
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 9: who had you know, foot ankle surgery, you know, just

738
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 9: just a couple of months ago, back in mid November,

739
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 9: and at the time, initially the feeling was this is

740
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 9: a season ending injury. Then it became okay, he got

741
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 9: in there, maybe looked a little better then we first thought.

742
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 9: You know, there's an outside chance if we make it

743
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 9: deep in the playoffs, he could come back. Then all

744
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 9: of a sudden, before the playoffs even start, Marks back

745
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 9: on the practice field. Now there's a difference between practice

746
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 9: and games, and we'll see if he's able to play

747
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 9: in the game. And then if he's able to play

748
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 9: in the game, how much is on his plate, you know,

749
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 9: is it a limited snap count, is it certain packages?

750
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 9: But he's already I think proven a lot of people

751
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 9: wrong just getting back on the practice field. At this point,

752
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 9: dude is an incredibly hard worker and one of the

753
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 9: toughest guys I've ever been around. So I'm not I'm

754
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 9: not doubting him.

755
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:48,240
Speaker 1: You know, done.

756
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 9: I'm done in that. I'm not in that game anymore.

757
00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 9: So it wouldn't surprise anything, would not surprise me with Mark,

758
00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,200
Speaker 9: and it'll be curious to see how the Ravens use

759
00:32:58,240 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 9: the two of them if Mark is able to play

760
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 9: this game.

761
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 6: No doubt.

762
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 8: You know, what have you thought about the pass protection

763
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 8: this season for Lamar Jackson?

764
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 9: Yeah, I do think that this could be a kind

765
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:10,000
Speaker 9: of a game in the trenches where and you could

766
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 9: probably say that about most games, but the protection for Lamar,

767
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 9: I would say has been hot and cold. They have

768
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 9: had injuries of the tackle position. Ronnie Stanley has missed

769
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 9: time with getting banged up with his knee twice two

770
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 9: different times, one of them in that game. Morgan Moses

771
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 9: has missed some time. So they've had a rotation at

772
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 9: the tackle position really all year long. Basically four tackles

773
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 9: have played, you know, considerable amount of snaps throughout the season.

774
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 9: They've got a great center in Tyler Linderbaums, a Pro

775
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 9: bowler this year. They've got two good guards Kevin Zeitler

776
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 9: and John Simpson. So you know, the question is the tackles.

777
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 9: I do think that the bye week probably helped those

778
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 9: guys just get more healthy and get their bodies ready

779
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,440
Speaker 9: as veteran players for a playoff run. I think that

780
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,040
Speaker 9: Stanley and Moses are still really good players. It's just

781
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 9: been more of a health question. So I think Stanley's

782
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 9: been gradually improving his health down the stretch. You know,

783
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:01,320
Speaker 9: when he's his best, he's one of the best tackles

784
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 9: in the game. You know, him and Lamy Tunsel came

785
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 9: out in that same draft, and those two guys have

786
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 9: kind of been compared to each other since since draft

787
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 9: weekend that years and so they're there. Stanley has a

788
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 9: lot of pride, and when he's playing his best, he

789
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,280
Speaker 9: can be one of the best left tackles in football.

790
00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 9: It's just it's really more of a health question. So

791
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 9: that'll be something to watch a monitor, and I'm sure

792
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 9: that you know, the Ravens are are going to have

793
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:28,879
Speaker 9: a variety of different options there. But yeah, I think

794
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 9: I still think this offensive line can be really good,

795
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 9: and I think that the bye week probably helped them

796
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 9: get healthy and ready for this run.

797
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 8: All right, Garrett Downey and the Baltimore Ravens is joining us,

798
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 8: and Garrett, somebody up there needs to be locked up

799
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 8: for being a thief, because it's not fair that you

800
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 8: got Rokwan Smith for second and a fifth round.

801
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 6: We saw him wreck.

802
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 8: A game when he was a bear earlier the season

803
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 8: last year, and then you got to see him again.

804
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 8: What has he meant to this this defense? And it's

805
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,959
Speaker 8: almost like I'm never gonna say he's not ray Lewis.

806
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,200
Speaker 8: He's obviously not ray Lewis. But it's like you look

807
00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 8: at this Baltimore team ten years later, it's like, Okay,

808
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:09,720
Speaker 8: you got a great linebacker, you got a great safety

809
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 8: in Kyle Hamilton, But what is and I want to

810
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,680
Speaker 8: get to Hamlin in a moment, but what is Roquan

811
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 8: Smith so great at? And what does he meant to

812
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 8: this defense?

813
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:21,280
Speaker 9: Yeah? I think I think everybody probably underestimated the impact

814
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,879
Speaker 9: of that trade when the Ravens made it last year

815
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 9: and brought him here to Baltimore. I do get ray

816
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 9: Lewis vibes, you know, I do. I think that for

817
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 9: the way he plays the game, the leadership, you know,

818
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 9: the tone setting. Rokwan is the guy that gives the

819
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 9: hump the pump up speech in the middle of the

820
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:41,799
Speaker 9: huddle before games. He's he has that element. But I

821
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,280
Speaker 9: think even during the week, the way he carries himself,

822
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 9: you know, with a confidence and a little bit of bravado,

823
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 9: and I think all of that has rubbed off on

824
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 9: the rest of the defense, and he backs it up

825
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:55,399
Speaker 9: on game day. You know, It's one thing to talk,

826
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 9: but it's another thing to be able to back it

827
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,319
Speaker 9: up on game day, and Rokwan does both. So I

828
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 9: think he's just been a tremendous player. He's always in

829
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 9: the right spot. He gets everybody lined up in the

830
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 9: right position, all the stereotypical things that you want from

831
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 9: the middle linebacker, communication, leadership, sure, tackling like he checks

832
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:15,400
Speaker 9: all those boxes. So I know he's fired up, you

833
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 9: know about about this these playoffs and this game on Saturday.

834
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 9: And you know, and the other thing too, I'll say,

835
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 9: is Patrick Queen's right next to him. Yeah, you know,

836
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 9: he's a former first round pick. Both those guys made

837
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 9: the Pro Bowl this year as AFC inside linebackers. Patrick

838
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,839
Speaker 9: Queen's having an excellent season and in a lot of ways,

839
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:34,480
Speaker 9: Queen actually probably makes he could argue that he makes

840
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 9: more plays. He makes more splash plays, you know, tackles

841
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 9: for a loss, coming up with sacks, and he flies

842
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 9: all over the field. But they kind of have a

843
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 9: thunder and lightning dynamic to them. You know, it's a

844
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,360
Speaker 9: little unique in today's day and age. You know that

845
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 9: you start with these two great linebackers and that's how

846
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 9: the team is built. I take a lot of times

847
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,760
Speaker 9: teams build from the corner, they build from that outside

848
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 9: d With the Ravens, they've got this great inside duo

849
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 9: with Queen and Rokwan, and they're really the heart and

850
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,799
Speaker 9: soul of this team. And I think that they play

851
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 9: at such a high level and everybody kind of takes

852
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 9: their cues from them. And you know, if the Ravens defense,

853
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 9: which has been excellent all season long, if they if

854
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 9: the defense has you know, a really strong game on Saturday,

855
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 9: I think it will be because you look at the

856
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,560
Speaker 9: stat sheet and know, Okay, there's twelve tackles for Okwan

857
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 9: Smith and there's eight tackles in a sack for Patrick Queen.

858
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 9: You know, that's kind of been the way that the

859
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 9: Ravens have played. And if they're going to have success,

860
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 9: on Saturday. That would be the recipe.

861
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:30,479
Speaker 8: And then you have and we're talking with Gared Downey

862
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 8: of the Baltimore Ravens. Then you have Kyle Hailson. That's

863
00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:35,840
Speaker 8: a guy Texans fans are very familiar with. A lot

864
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 8: of them wanted him in the draft in twenty twenty two,

865
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 8: and he's turning out to be that special player that

866
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 8: a lot of folks around here thought he could be.

867
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 9: Have you seen he's been great? I think he's honestly

868
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 9: been best case scenario for what you hoped he would

869
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 9: become in the draft and All Pro in the second season.

870
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 9: He fell to the Ravens at fourteen because I think

871
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:55,800
Speaker 9: a lot of teams that were in front of the

872
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 9: Ravens debated, like, where do you play this guy? You know,

873
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 9: he's big, he's like six foot four or is he

874
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 9: a safety? Do you play him at the line of scrimmage?

875
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,720
Speaker 9: You know? Is he just a true, you know, rangey safety?

876
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:08,879
Speaker 9: How do you use him? Well, the Ravens have kind

877
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 9: of unlocked something with him by putting him all over

878
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 9: the field. They kind of start up of putting him

879
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 9: in a big nickel role where he would play with

880
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 9: the line of scrimmage and he would blitz and he

881
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,879
Speaker 9: would come up and run defense. And this year he's

882
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 9: played a little bit of everything. He'll still play that role,

883
00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 9: but he'll play traditional safety. He'll make plays in the backfield,

884
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 9: he'll fly all over the place, he can come up

885
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:31,760
Speaker 9: with interceptions. He's just been excellent. And I think that again,

886
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 9: I think that when the Ravens drafted him, if you

887
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 9: were to say, what do you hope he becomes, this

888
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 9: is kind of best case scenario. And you know, he

889
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,320
Speaker 9: dealt with a knee injury this year, but you know,

890
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 9: he's he's worked his way back, and I think that

891
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 9: he is going to be a I think he's already

892
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:52,240
Speaker 9: a terrific player, and I think that he is. He's

893
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,839
Speaker 9: he has play making potential every single time, and I'm

894
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 9: sure that the CJ. Stroud and that Texans offense are

895
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 9: going to want to know where he is on the

896
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 9: field every single play because he's so versatile. Again, you

897
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 9: can put him at the line of scrimmage, they can

898
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 9: line him up in deep safety, they can move them

899
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,479
Speaker 9: all over the place. So I think that makes life tough.

900
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 9: And I do think that will be kind of a

901
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 9: game within a game in terms of how the Ravens

902
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 9: use Hamilton. Ravens defensive coordinator Mike McDonald is really creative.

903
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 9: He's get a bunch of head coaching interviews, you know,

904
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 9: based on you know, his his talent and ability. But

905
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 9: I think that the matchup of how the Ravens use

906
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,800
Speaker 9: Hamilton will be something to watch and that could be

907
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 9: a huge factor in this game.

908
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,839
Speaker 8: Yeah, you bring up Stroud. Stroud is definitely aware of him.

909
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 8: He brought he called out Hamilton by name as being,

910
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 8: you know, one of the guys he's got to take

911
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 8: care of, has got to look out for, and one

912
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:41,280
Speaker 8: of the the lynchpins of a fantastic Baltimore Ravens defense. Well, Garrett,

913
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 8: this is going to be a fun one. We always

914
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,240
Speaker 8: do appreciate the time. We look forward to seeing you

915
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 8: in just a few days Texans and Ravens in the

916
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 8: divisional round. It's gonna be a fun one, man. Thanks

917
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:51,879
Speaker 8: so much for the time.

918
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 9: Awesome man. It's good to catch up and we'll see

919
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 9: on Saturday.

920
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 2: Garrett down and great stuff there covering the Baltimore Ravens

921
00:39:58,040 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 2: been around for a while.

922
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 1: He has seen some things, as.

923
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 2: They say, and so it has drew Doherty. Of course,

924
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 2: Drew's got family ties to Baltimore, so it's always a

925
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 2: good fun trip for Drew to go up to Baltimore.

926
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 2: It has not been a fun trip for the Texans.

927
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 2: Texans have gone up there seven times, seven times, seven losses.

928
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 2: The last three this past year twenty five to nine,

929
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 2: lost by sixteen, twenty nineteen ended up losing forty one

930
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 2: to seven, and then at twenty seventeen on a Monday Night,

931
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,840
Speaker 2: ended up losing. I think it was by seven six,

932
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 2: whatever it was. I think it was a one score game.

933
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 2: Just couldn't pull it out. Tom Savage playing quarterback in

934
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 2: that one. In fact, I remember that twenty seventeen game

935
00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 2: of Monday night because Jevion Clowney just went off. He

936
00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 2: had a great night against Joe Flacco. Well, now we

937
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 2: gotta hope that Jevian Clowney doesn't have that same game

938
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 2: against CJ.

939
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: Stroud.

940
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:53,840
Speaker 2: He has been playing really good football this year for

941
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 2: the Baltimore Ravens, and I love it for JD. I

942
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 2: hate it to go up there and see him, but

943
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 2: he's been a Minnesot's fan. Oh you heard Nick talk

944
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 2: about that earlier. The additions that Eric Costa and John

945
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,640
Speaker 2: Harbough have made for that Ravens team have really really

946
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,240
Speaker 2: paid off, especially for Mike McDonald and that defense.

947
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,760
Speaker 1: He has been phenomenal with that defense.

948
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 2: So we can expect blitz, We can expect a lot

949
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 2: of pressure and CJ is gonna have to get rid

950
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 2: of the football and hopefully that's something that he's doing

951
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 2: better now than he did back in Week one.

952
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: I think that's probably one.

953
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 2: Of the biggest steps that he's made as a quarterback,

954
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:31,760
Speaker 2: is how quick he processes and gets the ball out

955
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,359
Speaker 2: and hopefully can avoid those hits. But look, they're gonna

956
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 2: bring some heat, They're gonna break some pressure. Guys are

957
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 2: gonna have to beat man and man coverage. But we'll

958
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 2: talk more about that the later show with Mark Vandermuir

959
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 2: and we'll talk about it with our Keys to the

960
00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 2: Game on Friday.

961
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,360
Speaker 6: So we gotta move on. We gotta get this injury report.

962
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 2: What does it look like, What are some kind of

963
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 2: the trends, What are some of the things that we

964
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 2: need to look at. A couple of key names, both

965
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:53,439
Speaker 2: on the Texans side but also on the Ravens side.

966
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 3: We'll do that next right here on Texans All Access.

967
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 3: It's happening.

968
00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 2: Maybe Bonus Radio, Yes, Texans All Access. Last three years,

969
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 2: we've been in god knows where because the season has

970
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:08,400
Speaker 2: been over for a couple of weeks. But it is

971
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 2: not because we keep doing radio as long as the

972
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 2: Texans win. So hopefully we're doing this all the way

973
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 2: through and there's no breaks because we take it all

974
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 2: the way to the super Bowl. That would be kind

975
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 2: of nice doing radio from the super Bowl and then

976
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 2: the Texans and the super Bowl, but that would be badass.

977
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 2: That would be really really cool. But one at a time,

978
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:28,760
Speaker 2: one at a time. It's taken on the Ravens. Texans

979
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 2: about a nine point underdog, so we'll see how that goes.

980
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:36,359
Speaker 2: I think they were probably nine or ten to start

981
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,360
Speaker 2: the year, and obviously the Ravens covered, but the Texans,

982
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 2: a young team, had to kick a lot of fuel

983
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 2: goals that day. Hopefully you're not kicking a lot of

984
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 2: fuel goals on Saturday.

985
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:45,359
Speaker 1: Yes.

986
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 2: I like seeing Kymie Fairbairn do his work, and he

987
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,800
Speaker 2: has been very good twenty to twenty nine. And points

988
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:54,359
Speaker 2: are always awesome, but seven points is more than three,

989
00:42:54,480 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 2: and seven points are a lot better than three, and

990
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 2: the Texans haven't scored a lot of touch downs in

991
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 2: that building. In fact, the last one was gosh what

992
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 2: when it was forty one to seven in twenty nineteen.

993
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 2: So they got to put some touchdowns on the board

994
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,440
Speaker 2: and would like to do it early and force the

995
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,359
Speaker 2: Ravens to have to have to chase a little bit

996
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 2: and see how they react to that, especially considering what

997
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:17,759
Speaker 2: happened the last playoff game that was played in Mt.

998
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 1: Banks Stadium.

999
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 2: You don't recall twenty nineteen Divisional Round number one seed

1000
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 2: Baltimore Ravens taking on a young, hot team from the

1001
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:29,880
Speaker 2: AFC South gets bounced after a fourteen and two seasons

1002
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 2: super Bowl was a lock. Everybody was stunned afterwards. Well,

1003
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 2: hopefully it will repeat itself on Saturday, so we'll see.

1004
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:41,399
Speaker 2: All right, let's get the injury report for this one.

1005
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 2: You know, at this point of the year, guys are

1006
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,839
Speaker 2: just trying to muscle through it the best way they

1007
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 2: know how. So a little bit of good news balanced

1008
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 2: by I don't know if this is bad news or not,

1009
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 2: but Willie Anderson and Jonathan Gernard did not participate in

1010
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 2: practice today dealing with those ankles. Now, they were limited

1011
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 2: participants on Tuesday, they are They did not participate on Wednesday,

1012
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,439
Speaker 2: and my hope is that was just rest days, get

1013
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 2: those ankles feel a little bit better, and then you

1014
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,200
Speaker 2: go back out and you're ready on Thursday. You can

1015
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 2: play on Saturday. So that really was the biggest That

1016
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 2: was the biggest change, and that was obviously not going

1017
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 2: in the right direction.

1018
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 1: So hated seeing that.

1019
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 2: Now Andrew Beck, Jerry Hughes, Sheldon Rankins did not participate

1020
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 2: as well. Did not participate the day before Beck deal

1021
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 2: with a back issue. Jerry Hughes dealing with an ankle.

1022
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 2: I'm not sure we're gonna see Jerry. Then Sheldon Rankins

1023
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 2: got banged up a lot, a lot in that game

1024
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,440
Speaker 2: against the Cleveland Browns last week. He's dealing with ribs

1025
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:45,839
Speaker 2: and shoulders, so I would love to see it. Limited participants.

1026
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 2: Chris Boyd was a limited participant dealing with a hamstring.

1027
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,800
Speaker 2: Hate ceing because he was not on the injury report.

1028
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 2: He has been a will player our special team for

1029
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 2: the Texans. Christian Harris was a limited participant dealing with

1030
00:44:57,239 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 2: a calf. Gosh, hate seeing that. Hopefully he's gonna be okay,

1031
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,360
Speaker 2: but Metchi Denzel Perriman Ribs.

1032
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:07,280
Speaker 1: Robert Woods back with a hip.

1033
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,840
Speaker 2: So those guys were limited participants after a few of

1034
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 2: those guys.

1035
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: Being d nps on Tuesday. Now for the Ravens, a

1036
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: couple of keep an eye on. Number one is Marlon Humphrey.

1037
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 2: Didn't play in Week one against the Texas. He's one

1038
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:24,520
Speaker 2: of the better defensive backs in the league. He's doing

1039
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 2: a calf issue now. Apparently he's not practiced at all

1040
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 2: since December thirty first, so there is some skepticism whether

1041
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:32,319
Speaker 2: Marlin Humphrey is gonna be able to play. If he's not,

1042
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 2: then that's gonna end up being Brandon Stevens more than

1043
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 2: likely opposite. Well, if it's not Humphrey, it's gonna be

1044
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:42,879
Speaker 2: Brandon Stevens opposite Ronald Darby. Rock you has seen on

1045
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 2: that other side at corner. So keeping eye on Marlon Humphrey.

1046
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 2: One of the better players in the league. Like I said,

1047
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 2: didn't play in the first one. Don't know if he'll

1048
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:51,920
Speaker 2: ended up playing in this one.

1049
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: Clown.

1050
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 2: He ended up as a d NP on Wednesday dealing

1051
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 2: with the illness. So hate that for JD. But man,

1052
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 2: if JD is unable to go that, I'm.

1053
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 3: Telling you just one player makes a massive difference.

1054
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 2: Now, two guys that are on the designated to return list,

1055
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:13,800
Speaker 2: Mark Andrews and Devin Duvernet, they were both full participants.

1056
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 2: So we'll keep an eye on those two guys as

1057
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 2: they get ready for Saturday against the Texans.

1058
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews one of the best tight ends in the league.

1059
00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 10: Uh.

1060
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,359
Speaker 2: Duvernet a great return guy, slot guy. But they get

1061
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 2: say Flowers that do a lot. Now A Flowers has

1062
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 2: been dealing with a calf, but he's been practicing full.

1063
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 2: He practiced full today. He was limited on Tuesday, but

1064
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 2: I imagine he's gonna play uh and get himself ready

1065
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:38,879
Speaker 2: for the Texans because he had a great ball game,

1066
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 2: nine catches and really gave the Texans a lot of issues.

1067
00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 2: So Texans got to play. They got to play for

1068
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:47,440
Speaker 2: a lot of things. Offensively, gust the bus with Patrick

1069
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:51,840
Speaker 2: Ricard leading him. That's tough, Lamar Jacks everything he can do.

1070
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 2: And then obviously OBJ receiver, and then Mark Andrews who

1071
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 2: placed tight end, and then obviously A Flowers is a monster.

1072
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 2: So those are all ones we're keeping an eye. But

1073
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 2: Jevion Clowney deal with illness. Marlin Humphrey deal with a calf.

1074
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 2: Those are two from the Ravens side that we should

1075
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 2: be watching.

1076
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:08,359
Speaker 1: All right. When we get back, we got a lot

1077
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 1: to do.

1078
00:47:09,239 --> 00:47:11,800
Speaker 2: We got our men behind the mikes with Mark Vandermuir

1079
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 2: and Tom McCarthy, who's gonna be calling the game for

1080
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 2: Westwood one. We're also got a little cutlet with Drew

1081
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 2: Doherty and Blake Cashman, and we've got the slant with

1082
00:47:20,880 --> 00:47:22,840
Speaker 2: John Metchi and Stephanie gan Zal's.

1083
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:24,320
Speaker 1: That's all next on Texans All Access.

1084
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 3: All right, we got one of our down, one hour

1085
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 3: left to go.

1086
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Speaker 2: Right here on a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access,

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Speaker 2: a playoff edition brought to you by Mattress Firm. Appreciate

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00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:33,480
Speaker 2: you being with me, John Harris Football on a sideline reporter,

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00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 2: and it's time for the men behind them mikes. Tom

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00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 2: McCarthy will call the game for Westwood one National Radio.

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Speaker 2: He cut up with Mark vandermir and these two gentlemen.

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Speaker 1: Have some pipes. Take a listen.

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00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:46,799
Speaker 6: Joining us now on Texans Radio.

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Speaker 4: It's Tom McCarthy who's calling the Texans Ravens game on

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00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 4: Westwood one, and he does CBEs, he does a whole

1096
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 4: bunch of other things. The Philadelphia Phillies. Forgive him for that,

1097
00:47:56,719 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 4: Houston fans, Tom, great to have you on. How's it

1098
00:47:59,480 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 4: going with my friend?

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Speaker 11: It's going great, Mark, looking forward to this game. I'm

1100
00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,319
Speaker 11: excited to see what CJ. Stroud and the Texans have

1101
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 11: in store for the Ravens.

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Speaker 4: Now, you were here with CBS earlier, so I know

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Speaker 4: there's familiarity there. What are your thoughts on the Texans

1104
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 4: now that you prep for them facing the Ravens in

1105
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:17,720
Speaker 4: this divisional round.

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Speaker 11: Well, I think one of the big things that stands

1107
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:22,720
Speaker 11: out to me now compared to then, and you guys

1108
00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 11: were dealing with injuries at that point, but you are

1109
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:28,759
Speaker 11: dealing with a significant amount of injuries at this point,

1110
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 11: but a lot of teams are. I was in Buffalo

1111
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:33,320
Speaker 11: last week and I really don't know how their secondary

1112
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:35,839
Speaker 11: is going to handle the Chiefs this weekend because they

1113
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 11: lost one guy after another. But I think that's the

1114
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 11: biggest thing. And I also think that DJ Stroud coming

1115
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 11: back from his injury. I think that's the big deal.

1116
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 11: And I think it's it's a continuation for him from

1117
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 11: a maturity standpoint that he certainly looks like the best

1118
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:58,880
Speaker 11: rookie offensive player. No offense to Kuka Nakua, but the

1119
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 11: best rookie offensive player in the National Football League, and

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Speaker 11: I think he showed that last week against the Browns.

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Speaker 4: What do you think of the Ravens? They had such

1122
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 4: great wins down the stretch, Lamar Jackson all the way

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00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 4: back to MVP form it appears. What do you think

1124
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Speaker 4: of this version of the Baltimore Ravens Tom Well, I.

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Speaker 11: Think that he's overcome the injuries early on to his

1126
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Speaker 11: backfield to kind of establish himself again as the leading

1127
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Speaker 11: candidate for the Most Valuable Player Award. When I saw

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Speaker 11: them earlier this season and I've seen them twice, his

1129
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 11: completion percentage was over seventy percent. Now he's been hovering

1130
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Speaker 11: around that and I think that's where the big the

1131
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 11: big difference is for him, is that he's been able

1132
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Speaker 11: to be on target with his passes when you're expecting

1133
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Speaker 11: him to run, and I think that has been a

1134
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Speaker 11: huge boost for them from an offensive standpoint. And the

1135
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Speaker 11: other part of it is that they just understand that

1136
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:58,319
Speaker 11: linebacker position so well defensively that they every single year

1137
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 11: doesn't matter if if they go at Ropewond Smith from

1138
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Speaker 11: the Bear whoever. They have that middle linebacker position or

1139
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 11: that linebacker interior position just downpat and it just is

1140
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:12,320
Speaker 11: so effective for John Harbaugh's defense.

1141
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 4: Tom McCarthy joining us calling the divisional game between the

1142
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:18,840
Speaker 4: Texans and the Ravens on Westwood One. Tom, you do

1143
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:22,319
Speaker 4: the Phillies. So you've done a ton of baseball. What

1144
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 4: is that like on a day to day basis, say,

1145
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 4: comparatively when you compare it to do.

1146
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 6: In CBS NFL or Westwood one NFL.

1147
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:31,840
Speaker 4: I know it's very different, but share with the listener

1148
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:35,840
Speaker 4: how it's different when you're dug into a baseball schedule

1149
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:37,400
Speaker 4: versus everything else you do.

1150
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 10: Well.

1151
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 11: I think sometimes I take it for granted because I

1152
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 11: do think it's easier to do baseball on a daily basis,

1153
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 11: except for the schedule. From a preparation standpoint, because you're

1154
00:50:48,120 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 11: with the team every single day, so information kind of

1155
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 11: carries over from one day to the next. Preparation is

1156
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 11: as detailed from one day to the next, but you

1157
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 11: have a little bit more at your whereas when you

1158
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:04,799
Speaker 11: do football, I begin prep mark kind of like you do.

1159
00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:08,040
Speaker 11: You know, I begin prep on Monday for a Sunday

1160
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:11,280
Speaker 11: game and when it's on television. Even compared to radio,

1161
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 11: there's even more involved because there's meetings on Friday and

1162
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,720
Speaker 11: meetings on Saturday. All day there's a lot of film

1163
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,800
Speaker 11: session and not that I don't do that for radio,

1164
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 11: but I don't have the same meetings for radio. So

1165
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:30,040
Speaker 11: there's more of a of a steady schedule of preparation

1166
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:34,600
Speaker 11: each day for football that I kind of target compared

1167
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:39,240
Speaker 11: to the normal sort of flow of a daily baseball game.

1168
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 11: That's I know, it's hard to understand sometimes, but one

1169
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 11: day kind of rolls into another with baseball, and I

1170
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 11: never really know if it's Tuesday or Wednesday.

1171
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 6: Did you grow up a Phillies fan?

1172
00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 4: You've also done some Mets and some other things, And

1173
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:55,000
Speaker 4: I know you're a Philly guy, really, but you're a

1174
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 4: New Jersey and it's the part of New Jersey that's

1175
00:51:57,520 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 4: more Philly than New York.

1176
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 3: Right, Yes, so I grew.

1177
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:03,359
Speaker 11: Up a Mets fan. But my dad used to take

1178
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 11: us because we lived in a part of Jersey that

1179
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 11: was so centrally located that we would go to the VET,

1180
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:11,440
Speaker 11: we would go to Yankee Stadium. We would go to

1181
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:15,719
Speaker 11: Shape Stadium several times a year. So where I grew up,

1182
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:18,440
Speaker 11: I grew up watching and listening to the Mets and

1183
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 11: the Yankees, but also the Phillies because we got Phillies

1184
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:25,320
Speaker 11: games in Central Jersey. So I've been with the Phillies

1185
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:27,840
Speaker 11: for with the exception of leaving for two years to

1186
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 11: go to the Mets. I've been with the Phillies for

1187
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:33,359
Speaker 11: parts of twenty two years. So even though I grew

1188
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 11: up a Mets fan, I don't I can never even

1189
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:40,239
Speaker 11: I can't even like lean that way anymore. Although my

1190
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 11: son does the Mets games now on radio, so we

1191
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:46,000
Speaker 11: do have a little Blue and Orange bleeding around our

1192
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:47,959
Speaker 11: family from time to time.

1193
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 4: Tom McCarthy joining us calling the game on Westwood One

1194
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 4: this weekend.

1195
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:52,720
Speaker 6: Texans and Ravens.

1196
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:56,879
Speaker 4: All right, so a lot of Houstonians are calling Baltimore

1197
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:02,840
Speaker 4: the Northeast. Tom, is Baltimore that Northeast to you?

1198
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,680
Speaker 11: No, to me, it's the mid Atlantic, to be honest

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00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:09,839
Speaker 11: with you. You know, it's it's two and a half

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00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:12,919
Speaker 11: hours from where I live. I love going there because

1201
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:14,839
Speaker 11: it's so easy to do games because I can get

1202
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:17,400
Speaker 11: on and off on ninety five. But no, it's not

1203
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 11: the Northeast. It's probably on the I don't know. I

1204
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:25,560
Speaker 11: always say mid Atlantic when I talk about Baltimore.

1205
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 4: Let's talk about baseball a little bit here, because the

1206
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:32,680
Speaker 4: Houston fans so on fire for the Astros in recent years,

1207
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 4: well really forever, but especially in recent years. But you,

1208
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 4: being a Phillies guy and having observed everything up close

1209
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:42,880
Speaker 4: and personal, your thoughts on the Astros, and then maybe

1210
00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 4: the state of baseball, Tom, because you grew up in

1211
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:48,400
Speaker 4: a hotbed of baseball. How has it changed? Where is

1212
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 4: it at right now?

1213
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 9: Well?

1214
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 11: I do think baseball is at a really good spot

1215
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 11: right now, Mark, because I think that the new rules

1216
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 11: have certainly sped up the you know, the pace of

1217
00:53:57,680 --> 00:54:00,120
Speaker 11: the game, and it's gotten back to when you and

1218
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 11: I used to watch games when we were kids, so

1219
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 11: it was a lot quicker than it is now. And

1220
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:06,680
Speaker 11: we all know that attention spans are really hard to

1221
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 11: corral when it comes to the generation that's growing up

1222
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 11: at this point. But I think it's in a really

1223
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:15,920
Speaker 11: good spot because I think it's got some young stars

1224
00:54:15,960 --> 00:54:19,680
Speaker 11: that are not only from the States but also internationally,

1225
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 11: and I think that that has sort of grown the

1226
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:26,920
Speaker 11: game even more now. I don't think anything can overtake

1227
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 11: football when it comes to the animal of audiences, you know,

1228
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 11: by the number of people. It's just a machine. But

1229
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:37,839
Speaker 11: I do think baseball has found itself in a really

1230
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:41,239
Speaker 11: good position now and I think it will only get better.

1231
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:42,759
Speaker 11: I mean, I look at some of the contracts that

1232
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 11: are given out for guys that are playing one hundred

1233
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:47,839
Speaker 11: and sixty two games, and it's drastically different than it

1234
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:49,399
Speaker 11: was five years ago.

1235
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:50,560
Speaker 9: So I.

1236
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 11: Think there's a lot of young stars that people are

1237
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 11: attracted to, and I think there's some older stars, And

1238
00:54:57,600 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 11: I can't believe I'm saying Mike Trout is an older

1239
00:54:59,680 --> 00:55:02,960
Speaker 11: star and Bryce Harper is an older star, but that

1240
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 11: are still are still relevant to this generation of baseball fans.

1241
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 11: So I'm excited about it. I'm excited about the upcoming year.

1242
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:15,600
Speaker 11: You know, people say that there's not enough of a

1243
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:19,640
Speaker 11: player that stays with one team for the long period

1244
00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:22,800
Speaker 11: of time, But I tend to believe that no sport

1245
00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:25,080
Speaker 11: has a player that stays with one team for a

1246
00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 11: long period of time, and I just think that's the

1247
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:28,719
Speaker 11: way the game games are right now.

1248
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:33,040
Speaker 4: Tom McCarthy joining us calling a game Texans and Ravens

1249
00:55:33,040 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 4: this weekend for Westwood One. All right, Tom, allow me

1250
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:38,239
Speaker 4: to do this. You also do college basketball, and I

1251
00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:40,600
Speaker 4: think you were the voice of Saint Joe's for a while.

1252
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:42,680
Speaker 4: I was in the Atlantic Ten a long time ago.

1253
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 4: Did you work with Phil Martelli? And was Lenardi doing

1254
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 4: games with you? Can you tell us a little story

1255
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 4: about Martelli or two?

1256
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:52,160
Speaker 11: Well? I did?

1257
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:52,799
Speaker 1: I did both.

1258
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:55,799
Speaker 11: I worked when Phil's team went to the Elite eight

1259
00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 11: lost Oklahoma State with a chance to go to the

1260
00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:00,200
Speaker 11: Final four in San Antonio was my first year. That

1261
00:56:00,239 --> 00:56:04,279
Speaker 11: was Jamiir Nelson and Delonte West's final years with with

1262
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 11: Saint Joseph's, So you know, working with with Phil and Joe,

1263
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:12,400
Speaker 11: it's sort of the total opposite of hair quality. But

1264
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:16,360
Speaker 11: I will say that that that that in those years

1265
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:19,040
Speaker 11: that I worked at Saint Joseph's after doing Princeton for

1266
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 11: nine seasons, was really eye opening and enjoyable because there's

1267
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:29,879
Speaker 11: there's something drastically different between, at least at that time,

1268
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:33,239
Speaker 11: not as much now, between doing Ivy League games and

1269
00:56:33,280 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 11: obviously doing the Atlantic Ten, and the intensity is the

1270
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:41,400
Speaker 11: same for the coaches, whether it be Pete Carrill or

1271
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:45,319
Speaker 11: Mitch Tendersenter, Bill Carmony or Phil Martelli. But I will

1272
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 11: say watching Phil embrace the entire game, not just the

1273
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 11: game itself, but practice and also the shows and the

1274
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:58,279
Speaker 11: radio shows, his TV shows, the city of Philadelphia, his

1275
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:02,120
Speaker 11: love for the city of Philadelphia to me was a

1276
00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 11: cherished time for me in my life. And you know,

1277
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 11: he and I still text back and forth while he's

1278
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:09,920
Speaker 11: at Michigan. It was a good time. It was a

1279
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:10,840
Speaker 11: good time to do radio.

1280
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:13,480
Speaker 6: All right, you have four kids, Tom.

1281
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:17,360
Speaker 4: If I gave you a kids basketball team, say ten

1282
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 4: twelve years old, could you coach the Princeton offense? Could

1283
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:24,080
Speaker 4: you teach it to them at that age or maybe

1284
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:26,200
Speaker 4: any age group? What could you tell us?

1285
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 11: So I coached middle school basketball for seven years while

1286
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 11: my boys were playing, because it was the only thing

1287
00:57:33,160 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 11: I could do. And we would run a semblance, a

1288
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:41,320
Speaker 11: very small semblance of the Princeton offense. We couldn't do

1289
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 11: it all because it was somewhat intense for seventh and

1290
00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 11: eighth graders. But we can set a high screen ear

1291
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:52,920
Speaker 11: all to the elbow, which is called schin, and have

1292
00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:56,640
Speaker 11: the center who set the screen settle up top for

1293
00:57:56,840 --> 00:58:00,959
Speaker 11: three or if the defender's head spins, it all goes

1294
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:04,200
Speaker 11: back door for a bounce pass from the elbow from

1295
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 11: from the point guard.

1296
00:58:05,800 --> 00:58:08,040
Speaker 2: All right, great, stuff there from Tom and of course

1297
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:11,320
Speaker 2: Mark Vandermin. I just do a little cutlet with Drew Dord.

1298
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 2: You caught up with Blake Cashman in the locker room

1299
00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 2: earlier this week.

1300
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 8: Blake Keshman, how exciting is this?

1301
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 1: It's amazing.

1302
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 12: You know, this is a special opportunity with an even

1303
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 12: more special team.

1304
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:24,120
Speaker 6: And what's awesome about it.

1305
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:26,320
Speaker 12: Is, you know you can see, you can feel the excitement,

1306
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:30,920
Speaker 12: but the confidence and the focus you feel with this

1307
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:34,920
Speaker 12: locker room and in this building is remarkable, and you know,

1308
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:35,920
Speaker 12: I think.

1309
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:38,440
Speaker 6: It's it's gonna help us. You know, come come.

1310
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:41,960
Speaker 8: Saturday, Offense, Defense, Special Teams. You're all hot at the

1311
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:44,200
Speaker 8: right time. I mean, the last three games you guys

1312
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 8: are playing fantastic.

1313
00:58:45,120 --> 00:58:46,240
Speaker 1: This is the right time to do it right.

1314
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:50,400
Speaker 12: Absolutely, I mean it definitely, uh you know means something

1315
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:53,080
Speaker 12: and I think it carries waiting to the following week.

1316
00:58:53,160 --> 00:58:55,480
Speaker 12: But you know it's important to not.

1317
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:56,680
Speaker 1: Just be riding the momentum.

1318
00:58:56,720 --> 00:58:59,320
Speaker 12: You still got to attack the week you always do

1319
00:58:59,440 --> 00:59:02,919
Speaker 12: and repair with your meeting notes and your your game

1320
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:07,200
Speaker 12: film and understanding all the adjustments and whatnot. But you know,

1321
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:10,760
Speaker 12: I got no worries, no doubts with the guys' locker room.

1322
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:13,800
Speaker 12: You can just feel it with everyone, just how locked

1323
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:17,040
Speaker 12: in everyone is and through all the excitement and then

1324
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 12: even like the lows we've had in this year or

1325
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:20,480
Speaker 12: the bad plays that we had in the in the

1326
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:23,160
Speaker 12: Cleveland game, like nobody flinches, nobody's playing.

1327
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:24,360
Speaker 6: We've got ten toes.

1328
00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:26,520
Speaker 12: Down ready to face any challenge that comes our way.

1329
00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:29,280
Speaker 8: Yeah, you bring up those bad times, if they last,

1330
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 8: they last for just one game this year, I mean,

1331
00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:34,000
Speaker 8: aside from the first two of the season, you guys

1332
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:35,480
Speaker 8: don't stay down long, if at all.

1333
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:38,080
Speaker 12: No, And I think you know that's because we got

1334
00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 12: the right people here. You know, we had great coaches

1335
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:43,480
Speaker 12: that are doing a great job at at teaching us

1336
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:46,400
Speaker 12: and getting us coached up right. And we got you know,

1337
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:50,760
Speaker 12: players that have that you know, next snap, next rep mentality,

1338
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:54,640
Speaker 12: and guys that look adversity in the eye and are

1339
00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:58,040
Speaker 12: ready to make the changes that we need to be better.

1340
00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:01,120
Speaker 9: And that's what you want in a playoff team.

1341
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 13: That's what it takes to be a champion.

1342
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:04,000
Speaker 1: I think as a whole.

1343
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:06,280
Speaker 8: Defensively, what are you guys doing right right now?

1344
01:00:06,480 --> 01:00:08,320
Speaker 12: I mean last game, you saw we took the ball

1345
01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:10,360
Speaker 12: away and we score we haven't really been able to

1346
01:00:10,960 --> 01:00:14,280
Speaker 12: put points up as a defense. But right now, I think,

1347
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:17,480
Speaker 12: you know, everyone is just playing sound football, you know,

1348
01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:19,960
Speaker 12: in the right spots. No one's trying to be a hero.

1349
01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 12: That everyone's playing discipline, and you know, we need to

1350
01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 12: continue that and that's going to be important to help

1351
01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:27,800
Speaker 12: us to beat the Ravens because when you look at

1352
01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:30,440
Speaker 12: the Ravens and what that offense does, it's all about

1353
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 12: playing discipline football because of all the different moving parts

1354
01:00:34,120 --> 01:00:38,240
Speaker 12: and they got power counter and especially as second level players,

1355
01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:40,480
Speaker 12: you got to just play with your I see and

1356
01:00:40,560 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 12: what your rules tell you.

1357
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:44,000
Speaker 8: Four months ago is when you guys played them last,

1358
01:00:44,120 --> 01:00:46,480
Speaker 8: you didn't get to make that one. How anxious are

1359
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 8: you to get out there and play these guys? And

1360
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 8: what's the challenge with Lamar Jackson first and four best?

1361
01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean I'm excited.

1362
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:53,960
Speaker 6: I'm ready to strap it up now.

1363
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:58,800
Speaker 12: Honestly, playoff game Baltimore, My first time playoffs with a

1364
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:01,720
Speaker 12: great team, a team that's I love. I think the

1365
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:05,160
Speaker 12: special with the group that's here. With Lamar, you know,

1366
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:08,120
Speaker 12: he's a dynamic player, but one of the more talented

1367
01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 12: players in the league, possibly our league MVP. We know

1368
01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:14,400
Speaker 12: we can tack it through the air, on the run,

1369
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:17,440
Speaker 12: on the ground, running the ball. Like I said, it's

1370
01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:18,840
Speaker 12: gonna be just important to be.

1371
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:19,840
Speaker 6: Disciplined, nobody.

1372
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:21,560
Speaker 12: Don't go out there trying to be a hero, and

1373
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:24,000
Speaker 12: just play what you see with your eyes.

1374
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 6: And play with clean footwork.

1375
01:01:26,280 --> 01:01:28,360
Speaker 12: And if we do that, I think, you know, we'll

1376
01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:30,439
Speaker 12: be able to especially knock out the run.

1377
01:01:30,520 --> 01:01:32,080
Speaker 6: But just keep the ball in front of us.

1378
01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:34,720
Speaker 12: And I think when we've been able to keep the

1379
01:01:34,760 --> 01:01:38,240
Speaker 12: ball in front of us, eliminate those chunk plays that

1380
01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:42,280
Speaker 12: go for you know, twenty five yards were an impossible.

1381
01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:42,280
Speaker 6: Team to beat.

1382
01:01:43,040 --> 01:01:44,920
Speaker 8: For a Minnesota guy like you, it's a perfect day

1383
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:47,040
Speaker 8: to go ice fishing or go win a football game.

1384
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:49,360
Speaker 6: Right absolutely looking forward to it.

1385
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:50,880
Speaker 8: Play cash and best of luck.

1386
01:01:50,920 --> 01:01:52,920
Speaker 6: Thanks so much for the time. Thank you, I appreciate it.

1387
01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:56,560
Speaker 2: And finally it's time for the Slant with Stephanie Gonzalez

1388
01:01:56,560 --> 01:01:58,960
Speaker 2: and this week it's wide receiver John Metchi.

1389
01:01:59,240 --> 01:02:02,040
Speaker 14: John, welcome, Thanks, thanks for having me, Thank you for

1390
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:04,400
Speaker 14: being here. And I love how you're wearing your gloves

1391
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:05,680
Speaker 14: because it's freezing outside.

1392
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 13: Yeah yeah, just taking care of the hands and.

1393
01:02:08,280 --> 01:02:10,480
Speaker 14: You're just kind of getting ready for Baltimore. I would

1394
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:13,120
Speaker 14: say this is kind of mother nature helping you guys

1395
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:14,480
Speaker 14: get ready for your Saturday.

1396
01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:15,800
Speaker 13: It's good, It's great for us.

1397
01:02:16,040 --> 01:02:18,160
Speaker 14: And let's talk about the last few days. It's been

1398
01:02:18,240 --> 01:02:22,760
Speaker 14: so exciting. Saturday's game was electric. What would you describe

1399
01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:23,680
Speaker 14: Saturday like?

1400
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:26,240
Speaker 15: It was just a great feeling having all the fans

1401
01:02:26,240 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 15: out there, playoff game at home. I don't remember when

1402
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:32,040
Speaker 15: the last time was, but for us to have our

1403
01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:34,200
Speaker 15: play off game at home was huge for us.

1404
01:02:34,360 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 10: And how much does it mean to have the fans there?

1405
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:40,000
Speaker 14: Because I was there and I had never seen anything

1406
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:42,760
Speaker 14: like it from the fans in the stands or even

1407
01:02:42,760 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 14: when they were buying.

1408
01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 10: Water or food. It was a party.

1409
01:02:45,440 --> 01:02:47,320
Speaker 14: So how much does it mean to you to have

1410
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:48,880
Speaker 14: the fans just supporting you guys?

1411
01:02:49,160 --> 01:02:49,480
Speaker 13: A lot?

1412
01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:51,240
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think it was a little bit of like

1413
01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:53,520
Speaker 15: a little bit of a full circle moment with just

1414
01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:57,120
Speaker 15: like whether it be expectations or whatever, and then us

1415
01:02:57,120 --> 01:02:59,000
Speaker 15: making it to the playoffs and then our first playoff

1416
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:01,200
Speaker 15: game being at home, I think was huge.

1417
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:03,680
Speaker 10: And what has the mood been like these last few days.

1418
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:05,240
Speaker 13: It's been cool. It's been cool.

1419
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 15: Everybody's kind of been themselves, having fun, hanging out, it's

1420
01:03:09,240 --> 01:03:09,840
Speaker 15: been cool.

1421
01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:13,200
Speaker 14: And if you could describe the season and one word,

1422
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:14,919
Speaker 14: what word would you use?

1423
01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:17,160
Speaker 13: Resilient?

1424
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:21,440
Speaker 14: Ooh, I like that and you have such a cool story.

1425
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:25,920
Speaker 14: You were born in Taiwan. Do you go back there often?

1426
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:27,600
Speaker 14: Do you still have family there?

1427
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:31,600
Speaker 15: I haven't been back there since probably high school, but yeah,

1428
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:33,840
Speaker 15: I have a lot of family there. My mom's whole

1429
01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:36,400
Speaker 15: side of the family's there, but I definitely plan to

1430
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:37,200
Speaker 15: try and get back there.

1431
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:38,240
Speaker 10: So yeah.

1432
01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:42,640
Speaker 14: You also have four brothers, three three, and one of

1433
01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:45,040
Speaker 14: them he plays in the CFL.

1434
01:03:45,400 --> 01:03:46,440
Speaker 10: How was it growing up?

1435
01:03:46,560 --> 01:03:48,880
Speaker 14: Do you guys play together all the time. How did

1436
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:50,840
Speaker 14: you get into playing football?

1437
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:51,280
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1438
01:03:51,320 --> 01:03:53,280
Speaker 13: I think it was just like we always played sports.

1439
01:03:53,280 --> 01:03:55,360
Speaker 15: We were always like active kids when we were growing

1440
01:03:55,400 --> 01:03:58,000
Speaker 15: up in Africa or wherever we were. And then when

1441
01:03:58,000 --> 01:03:59,880
Speaker 15: we got to Canada, my brother's kind of found for

1442
01:04:00,160 --> 01:04:02,880
Speaker 15: well through high school and I learned football through my brothers.

1443
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 15: You know, being the youngest, you kind of just want

1444
01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:06,880
Speaker 15: to be like your older siblings and stuff, So I

1445
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:08,560
Speaker 15: learned football through my older brothers.

1446
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:09,560
Speaker 13: Personally.

1447
01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:10,919
Speaker 10: How old were you what do you say?

1448
01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:12,720
Speaker 13: Probably like nine?

1449
01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:14,560
Speaker 10: You were a little yeah, nine.

1450
01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:17,920
Speaker 14: Year old and you eventually moved from you moved to

1451
01:04:18,040 --> 01:04:22,280
Speaker 14: Canada then the US, and you ended up going to Alabama.

1452
01:04:22,360 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 10: So how did that decision come about?

1453
01:04:25,160 --> 01:04:27,960
Speaker 15: I think we're leaving Canada to go to US. I

1454
01:04:27,960 --> 01:04:29,960
Speaker 15: wanted to play football. I wanted to go to high

1455
01:04:29,960 --> 01:04:31,720
Speaker 15: school in America with the hopes of like going to

1456
01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:34,240
Speaker 15: college and play football and stuff. And then I think

1457
01:04:34,280 --> 01:04:36,360
Speaker 15: then it was just figuring out where the best place

1458
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:38,240
Speaker 15: for me was and I kind of wanted to be

1459
01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:41,440
Speaker 15: in the best environment, the most competitive environment, and it

1460
01:04:41,640 --> 01:04:42,520
Speaker 15: just so happened.

1461
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:45,040
Speaker 10: To be Alabama. What was that experience like for you?

1462
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:47,640
Speaker 13: It was great. It was a great experience.

1463
01:04:47,680 --> 01:04:50,880
Speaker 15: The competition, the guys you come in with, having to

1464
01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:54,080
Speaker 15: compete every day, and then like coach Aban obviously learning

1465
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:56,400
Speaker 15: football through him and being coached by him was a

1466
01:04:56,800 --> 01:04:57,640
Speaker 15: really good experience.

1467
01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:02,200
Speaker 14: So then let's talk about NFL Draft twenty twenty two.

1468
01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:05,520
Speaker 14: What do you recall about that day, which I'm sure

1469
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:07,320
Speaker 14: was super special for you.

1470
01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:10,200
Speaker 15: I had my family with me. I think that was

1471
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:12,800
Speaker 15: the most important part for me. Absolutely, Yeah, I didn't

1472
01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:16,920
Speaker 15: think anything else really mattered, but having all my family

1473
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:19,320
Speaker 15: with me, that's the only thing I'll remember about it.

1474
01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:19,880
Speaker 13: Honestly.

1475
01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:23,040
Speaker 14: Your season, your rookie season, was delayed a little bit,

1476
01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:26,560
Speaker 14: but a year later you were back and you played

1477
01:05:26,600 --> 01:05:30,520
Speaker 14: your first NFL game. Looking back now, how do you

1478
01:05:30,600 --> 01:05:31,720
Speaker 14: feel about all of that?

1479
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:37,320
Speaker 15: Looking back now, I'm grateful. I'm extremely grateful and bless

1480
01:05:37,400 --> 01:05:39,160
Speaker 15: of course. I played a lot of football before that,

1481
01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:42,800
Speaker 15: and then that happened and it was taken away from

1482
01:05:42,800 --> 01:05:44,320
Speaker 15: you for a little bit and you get to come

1483
01:05:44,360 --> 01:05:46,720
Speaker 15: back to the sports you love to play and get

1484
01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 15: to do it every day as a job. And so

1485
01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:51,080
Speaker 15: I think just gratitude would probably be the biggest word

1486
01:05:51,440 --> 01:05:52,280
Speaker 15: beautifully said.

1487
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:57,600
Speaker 14: And was there a moment where you realized before NFL

1488
01:05:57,680 --> 01:05:59,600
Speaker 14: Draft Day all of that that you realized, Hey, I

1489
01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:02,760
Speaker 14: could play this at a professional level. This is something

1490
01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:04,720
Speaker 14: that I can see myself doing for a living.

1491
01:06:05,200 --> 01:06:05,960
Speaker 13: Yeah.

1492
01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:08,040
Speaker 15: I think I always had that believe in myself when

1493
01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:11,200
Speaker 15: it came to like athletics and sports, but of course

1494
01:06:11,240 --> 01:06:13,000
Speaker 15: I had to go and be tested and then try

1495
01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:15,760
Speaker 15: it out and actually go play and compete and see.

1496
01:06:16,160 --> 01:06:20,160
Speaker 14: Yeah, there's also something that I remember hearing and it's

1497
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:22,640
Speaker 14: just you know, you're always such a hard worker. That's

1498
01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:25,120
Speaker 14: everything that I've heard about you. So what is something

1499
01:06:25,160 --> 01:06:26,120
Speaker 14: that keeps you going?

1500
01:06:26,520 --> 01:06:28,520
Speaker 15: I think family, I think it was the way like

1501
01:06:28,960 --> 01:06:31,160
Speaker 15: my brothers and I were raised. Our mom always just

1502
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:34,040
Speaker 15: told us to like, try our best, do what we love.

1503
01:06:34,120 --> 01:06:36,120
Speaker 15: But I'll always make sure that we're trying our best

1504
01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:36,840
Speaker 15: and working hard.

1505
01:06:36,880 --> 01:06:39,240
Speaker 13: So I think just family and I give that one

1506
01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:42,560
Speaker 13: to my mom for sure. Shout out to mom, for sure.

1507
01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:44,360
Speaker 10: What would ten year old you?

1508
01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:47,600
Speaker 14: Let's actually say nine, this is when you start playing football?

1509
01:06:47,600 --> 01:06:50,360
Speaker 14: You said, so, what would nine year nine year old

1510
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:50,920
Speaker 14: do you say?

1511
01:06:51,080 --> 01:06:51,640
Speaker 10: Looking forward?

1512
01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:54,880
Speaker 14: Knowing that you are in the NFL, You're with the Texans,

1513
01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:56,400
Speaker 14: you're in the playoffs.

1514
01:06:56,880 --> 01:06:57,880
Speaker 10: What do you think you would.

1515
01:06:58,240 --> 01:07:01,280
Speaker 13: Nine year old me? I don't think I have no

1516
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:03,320
Speaker 13: idea what nine year old you would say. Actually, I

1517
01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:05,480
Speaker 13: was still learning a lot of things at nine years old.

1518
01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:07,560
Speaker 15: I just moved to Canada, so so many things were

1519
01:07:07,560 --> 01:07:09,280
Speaker 15: new to me, the people were new to me. I

1520
01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:11,560
Speaker 15: think nine year old me would be would be really

1521
01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:12,920
Speaker 15: happy with how far off come.

1522
01:07:13,480 --> 01:07:15,640
Speaker 10: Thank you so much, Thank you so much.

1523
01:07:16,160 --> 01:07:19,720
Speaker 2: There you go, Stephanie Gonzalez with the slant which John Metchi.

1524
01:07:19,800 --> 01:07:21,440
Speaker 2: We get back, Mark and I've got a lot to

1525
01:07:21,480 --> 01:07:23,360
Speaker 2: talk about, including CJ.

1526
01:07:23,560 --> 01:07:28,280
Speaker 3: Stroud seventy eight grade from Saturday. Oh pff, say it's

1527
01:07:28,280 --> 01:07:30,400
Speaker 3: not so that's next on Texans All Access.

1528
01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:34,400
Speaker 2: Welcome back to a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access,

1529
01:07:34,440 --> 01:07:36,920
Speaker 2: a playoff edition brought to you by Mattress Firm. I'm

1530
01:07:36,920 --> 01:07:39,800
Speaker 2: your host, John Harris, Football on a sideline reporter, sitting

1531
01:07:39,840 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 2: next to the Voice of the Texans, whose voice A.

1532
01:07:44,600 --> 01:07:47,840
Speaker 6: I hear every day. B. I love to hear every day.

1533
01:07:48,240 --> 01:07:54,440
Speaker 2: See, I'm hearing on every show inside the NFL, light

1534
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:57,560
Speaker 2: ups everywhere. I keep here, I'll be in my kitchen.

1535
01:07:57,600 --> 01:08:00,760
Speaker 2: Let So here's my example, Mark vandam here the Voice Texans.

1536
01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:03,680
Speaker 2: I'm in my kitchen. Last night I make surprid chicken

1537
01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:06,560
Speaker 2: and I'm just doing drumsticks. So I'm in the kitchen

1538
01:08:06,600 --> 01:08:09,840
Speaker 2: and I've got I'm trying out a different recipe. I

1539
01:08:09,880 --> 01:08:12,960
Speaker 2: had a different kind of water brine, and then I

1540
01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:15,200
Speaker 2: tried to a little different recipe and it came out great.

1541
01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:16,760
Speaker 6: I was really I was really happy with it.

1542
01:08:17,479 --> 01:08:19,600
Speaker 2: So I'm in a kitchen I put on inside the

1543
01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:22,960
Speaker 2: NFL and they're they're dropping around to different playoff games,

1544
01:08:22,960 --> 01:08:24,720
Speaker 2: and I'm kind of not paying attention, and then all

1545
01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:28,080
Speaker 2: sudden i hear second and ten for the Texans, and

1546
01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:31,639
Speaker 2: I'm like, I know that voice. You are all over

1547
01:08:31,680 --> 01:08:33,840
Speaker 2: the place, and it's awesome. Well that's what I really cool.

1548
01:08:33,920 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 2: Team plays well, I sound better when we win. That's

1549
01:08:37,400 --> 01:08:40,800
Speaker 2: just the reality of the NFL play by play business, Johnny.

1550
01:08:40,800 --> 01:08:43,519
Speaker 2: But I am grateful to be in this league.

1551
01:08:43,520 --> 01:08:46,680
Speaker 4: I've mentioned this many times that in this league they

1552
01:08:46,800 --> 01:08:51,960
Speaker 4: use the radio calls to describe the action. With NFL films,

1553
01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:55,400
Speaker 4: they couple that together. So many of the social media

1554
01:08:55,479 --> 01:08:57,800
Speaker 4: clips not all. Sometimes they're trying to get it out fast,

1555
01:08:57,800 --> 01:08:59,760
Speaker 4: so they use the TV guys, and the TV guys

1556
01:08:59,760 --> 01:09:02,679
Speaker 4: do it job, but they use the hometown announcer calls

1557
01:09:02,720 --> 01:09:06,320
Speaker 4: to give the passion, the emotion, the excitement, and it's

1558
01:09:06,360 --> 01:09:09,080
Speaker 4: really cool because they don't do that in baseball. They

1559
01:09:09,080 --> 01:09:12,559
Speaker 4: don't do that in basketball because the hometown announcers are

1560
01:09:12,600 --> 01:09:15,080
Speaker 4: doing the TV call for those particular sports. So I

1561
01:09:15,120 --> 01:09:18,160
Speaker 4: explain to people those things, those differences, and that's why

1562
01:09:18,160 --> 01:09:20,599
Speaker 4: it's so wonderful. And I'm grateful to be the voice

1563
01:09:20,640 --> 01:09:21,200
Speaker 4: of this team.

1564
01:09:21,479 --> 01:09:21,719
Speaker 6: Yeah.

1565
01:09:21,760 --> 01:09:25,559
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And I love hearing it. It's just it's awesome.

1566
01:09:25,600 --> 01:09:28,320
Speaker 2: I mean, it's really really cool to just be a

1567
01:09:28,360 --> 01:09:30,080
Speaker 2: small part of it, and it's really really fun to

1568
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:34,439
Speaker 2: hear those calls and the excitement and knowing what it's

1569
01:09:34,680 --> 01:09:38,200
Speaker 2: taken to have gotten there. We talked to a linebacker,

1570
01:09:38,200 --> 01:09:40,759
Speaker 2: coach Chris Kiff, and you'll hear that on Friday show

1571
01:09:41,280 --> 01:09:43,000
Speaker 2: as we are on our way to Baltimore. Actually I

1572
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:44,559
Speaker 2: think we'll be in Baltimore, but we'll have it all

1573
01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:46,320
Speaker 2: recorded all ready to go for you. But you hear

1574
01:09:46,360 --> 01:09:49,599
Speaker 2: it from coach Kiffin kind of talking about the changes

1575
01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:51,479
Speaker 2: in his group, but just kind of flashing in your

1576
01:09:51,560 --> 01:09:54,960
Speaker 2: mind all the different things that have happened with this year.

1577
01:09:55,000 --> 01:09:58,599
Speaker 6: So I yesterday the Tuesday days.

1578
01:09:58,439 --> 01:10:01,759
Speaker 2: Are all confusing now because it's a Thursday football schedule,

1579
01:10:01,840 --> 01:10:05,120
Speaker 2: it's a Wednesday radio schedule. Anyhow, So I got home

1580
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:08,439
Speaker 2: yesterday and I did what I learned from my daughter,

1581
01:10:08,680 --> 01:10:12,680
Speaker 2: and that was just kind of flying through YouTube, like

1582
01:10:12,840 --> 01:10:15,479
Speaker 2: just going from YouTube. And so I went to YouTube

1583
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:18,880
Speaker 2: and I don't know what account it was, but it

1584
01:10:19,040 --> 01:10:22,400
Speaker 2: just said CJ Stroud like CJ Strout highlights or something

1585
01:10:22,439 --> 01:10:27,080
Speaker 2: like that, and it went back to Game one against

1586
01:10:27,080 --> 01:10:31,679
Speaker 2: Baltimore and it was all of CJ's throws, runs, everything,

1587
01:10:31,840 --> 01:10:34,280
Speaker 2: you know, every big play that had Baltimore highlights.

1588
01:10:34,280 --> 01:10:36,040
Speaker 6: They did not score a touchdown and that no, but

1589
01:10:36,120 --> 01:10:37,439
Speaker 6: he did have some throws in that game.

1590
01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:40,840
Speaker 2: Did Bobby Trees a couple times for third downs? About

1591
01:10:40,840 --> 01:10:42,200
Speaker 2: three times in a row, yet need to go on

1592
01:10:42,520 --> 01:10:43,160
Speaker 2: a dig route.

1593
01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:45,920
Speaker 4: It was a mini revelation. I was like, oh, Robert Woods,

1594
01:10:45,920 --> 01:10:48,120
Speaker 4: he could play a role. And CJ was just getting

1595
01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:50,599
Speaker 4: heated up. We talked about this last night. He barely

1596
01:10:50,600 --> 01:10:52,800
Speaker 4: played in the preseason, and then he's out there against

1597
01:10:52,840 --> 01:10:54,240
Speaker 4: the Ravens in Week one.

1598
01:10:54,320 --> 01:10:56,280
Speaker 2: Right, and then he started cooking against the Colts. So

1599
01:10:57,160 --> 01:11:01,840
Speaker 2: I'm watching this and it's like twenty one minutes, maybe

1600
01:11:01,840 --> 01:11:04,800
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one minutes, and I can't take my eyes

1601
01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:05,400
Speaker 2: off the screen.

1602
01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:07,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's good, And I'm.

1603
01:11:07,240 --> 01:11:09,519
Speaker 2: Just watching the throws and I'm watching the things and

1604
01:11:09,560 --> 01:11:14,799
Speaker 2: I'm reliving, watching it live, reliving what in that moment.

1605
01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:17,360
Speaker 2: And it gets to the Saints game and I'm like, oh, man,

1606
01:11:17,400 --> 01:11:20,439
Speaker 2: I forgot about this. Gets the Arizona game, Oh, I

1607
01:11:20,560 --> 01:11:23,559
Speaker 2: forgot about that. Bro of course, they cut it up

1608
01:11:24,040 --> 01:11:26,880
Speaker 2: and they don't have the throw. They have almost every

1609
01:11:26,920 --> 01:11:28,840
Speaker 2: great throw he's had them all year. So that's why

1610
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 2: it's twenty one minutes. They didn't have the throw from

1611
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:35,280
Speaker 2: CJ to Noah that's set up the Cincinnati game winning

1612
01:11:35,280 --> 01:11:35,600
Speaker 2: field goal.

1613
01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:38,200
Speaker 6: But Madame nouj like what it felt like.

1614
01:11:38,320 --> 01:11:41,639
Speaker 4: Noah was ten feet tall in that game, I believe

1615
01:11:41,840 --> 01:11:44,160
Speaker 4: always got open. Yeah, and as long as CJ could

1616
01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:46,599
Speaker 4: keep the play alive, he was gonna find ten foot

1617
01:11:46,600 --> 01:11:50,040
Speaker 4: tall Noah Brown downfield. And unfortunately, Noah no longer available

1618
01:11:50,080 --> 01:11:51,400
Speaker 4: to this team. He's on IR.

1619
01:11:51,439 --> 01:11:53,920
Speaker 2: Yes, unfortunately Tank Tell is as well. And so as

1620
01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:57,280
Speaker 2: you're watching you, as I'm watching this, I'm just seeing the.

1621
01:11:57,360 --> 01:11:58,960
Speaker 6: Number of throws to those guys.

1622
01:11:59,000 --> 01:12:02,360
Speaker 2: But because it goes chronologically, they did every game that

1623
01:12:02,439 --> 01:12:04,799
Speaker 2: he played in and obviously they don't have the Tennessee

1624
01:12:04,840 --> 01:12:07,599
Speaker 2: game once some guys came up really big with case

1625
01:12:07,680 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 2: Keenum instead of CJ for those games.

1626
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:13,520
Speaker 6: But just reliving all those throws.

1627
01:12:13,240 --> 01:12:19,280
Speaker 2: And going wow wow, and watching him work early in

1628
01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:25,000
Speaker 2: the year and realizing, not realizing at the time, that

1629
01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:27,120
Speaker 2: that's gonna get cleaner and better by the end of

1630
01:12:27,160 --> 01:12:27,439
Speaker 2: the year.

1631
01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:30,120
Speaker 4: You're watching it at real time. You're watching progress, right,

1632
01:12:30,160 --> 01:12:32,400
Speaker 4: You're watching a player who has not hit his ceiling.

1633
01:12:32,640 --> 01:12:35,320
Speaker 4: We don't know what the ceiling is. Incredible. You know

1634
01:12:35,360 --> 01:12:38,320
Speaker 4: who Josh Allen is. You know who Patrick Mahomes is.

1635
01:12:38,360 --> 01:12:38,880
Speaker 6: He's awesome.

1636
01:12:38,960 --> 01:12:42,080
Speaker 4: You know Lamar Jackson's awesome, but you're probably not going

1637
01:12:42,160 --> 01:12:46,120
Speaker 4: to see anything else. Right, you might see amazing plays.

1638
01:12:46,160 --> 01:12:48,600
Speaker 4: I'm not denying that. You might see him make the

1639
01:12:48,600 --> 01:12:50,120
Speaker 4: most amazing play in NFL history.

1640
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:52,280
Speaker 6: I don't know. But as far as.

1641
01:12:52,160 --> 01:12:55,120
Speaker 4: His personal improvement, he can still get better those guys,

1642
01:12:55,160 --> 01:12:57,640
Speaker 4: all of them. But it's going to be incremental at

1643
01:12:57,640 --> 01:13:01,240
Speaker 4: this point, CJ. We don't know where it's going, but

1644
01:13:01,320 --> 01:13:03,320
Speaker 4: it's really in a good place right now, and it

1645
01:13:03,439 --> 01:13:06,960
Speaker 4: continues to improve week to week. He is a much

1646
01:13:06,960 --> 01:13:10,720
Speaker 4: better quarterback right now than he was prior to the concussion. Yeah,

1647
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:14,280
Speaker 4: even more than three weeks ago, probably considering what he's

1648
01:13:14,360 --> 01:13:17,800
Speaker 4: lived through. Johnny, you must win game at Indie. I

1649
01:13:17,840 --> 01:13:20,519
Speaker 4: know a lot of people think, oh house money, whatever happens. Fine,

1650
01:13:20,800 --> 01:13:22,960
Speaker 4: if they end up at nine to eight, no playoffs,

1651
01:13:23,320 --> 01:13:25,519
Speaker 4: really good step for this team, and it would have been.

1652
01:13:25,840 --> 01:13:28,360
Speaker 4: But no, he won the game, and then the next

1653
01:13:28,400 --> 01:13:32,200
Speaker 4: week against Cleveland won the game. Let's continue to win

1654
01:13:32,280 --> 01:13:34,640
Speaker 4: the game here every single week and see where it

1655
01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:35,240
Speaker 4: takes us.

1656
01:13:35,360 --> 01:13:38,320
Speaker 6: I mean, hey, that that's the win.

1657
01:13:38,400 --> 01:13:41,559
Speaker 2: The week before his return game against Tennessee after the concussion,

1658
01:13:41,600 --> 01:13:43,679
Speaker 2: missing very tweak, very.

1659
01:13:43,479 --> 01:13:46,759
Speaker 4: Clean, doesn't all right, Knockwood doesn't throw pick.

1660
01:13:46,920 --> 01:13:49,559
Speaker 6: Well, that's the one. I mean, he doesn't. He's thrown

1661
01:13:49,600 --> 01:13:52,519
Speaker 6: five this year. Three of them were in one game.

1662
01:13:52,600 --> 01:13:53,920
Speaker 6: I know that's that.

1663
01:13:53,920 --> 01:14:00,160
Speaker 2: That game is still mystifying, like what Yeah, And I

1664
01:14:00,200 --> 01:14:02,240
Speaker 2: know the defensive staff of the Cardinals that day was

1665
01:14:02,280 --> 01:14:04,280
Speaker 2: really really good. I think the Cardinals. I think a

1666
01:14:04,280 --> 01:14:06,639
Speaker 2: lot of what the Cardinals have done with Montios support

1667
01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:09,360
Speaker 2: at GM Johnson Ganna is head coach. I didn't think

1668
01:14:09,400 --> 01:14:11,400
Speaker 2: that would work at all. They're one to watch. Are

1669
01:14:11,439 --> 01:14:12,080
Speaker 2: you surprised?

1670
01:14:12,520 --> 01:14:15,400
Speaker 4: I know this is not Cardinals all access, but they

1671
01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:16,040
Speaker 4: have said, no.

1672
01:14:15,960 --> 01:14:18,160
Speaker 1: We're good with Murray. Yeah, we'll see where Texas.

1673
01:14:18,240 --> 01:14:21,519
Speaker 4: They start Week one with Murray and fort five around him,

1674
01:14:21,640 --> 01:14:24,080
Speaker 4: I could be a pretty dead dangerous team in the West.

1675
01:14:24,120 --> 01:14:26,920
Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with you, but I think you're absolutely

1676
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:28,760
Speaker 2: dead on about that. I think you're dead on. I

1677
01:14:28,800 --> 01:14:32,040
Speaker 2: think the Cardinals are good. Did the Cardinals, you know,

1678
01:14:32,120 --> 01:14:34,000
Speaker 2: do a Texans sort of thing go from wors the

1679
01:14:34,040 --> 01:14:36,479
Speaker 2: first No, I don't know if I'm going ready to

1680
01:14:36,520 --> 01:14:36,960
Speaker 2: go that far.

1681
01:14:37,040 --> 01:14:39,720
Speaker 6: They showed improvement though, but they showed a lot of improvement,

1682
01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:42,200
Speaker 6: and they play hard for him. They played hard.

1683
01:14:42,240 --> 01:14:45,240
Speaker 4: Notice that right away even before Murray ever appeared. You

1684
01:14:45,240 --> 01:14:48,440
Speaker 4: could tell they were in games. They were just so undermanned.

1685
01:14:48,439 --> 01:14:50,479
Speaker 4: They were trading guys away, they were getting ready.

1686
01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:50,799
Speaker 6: For the future.

1687
01:14:50,880 --> 01:14:53,679
Speaker 4: That's a true rebuild, absolutely, And they were the young

1688
01:14:53,720 --> 01:14:57,040
Speaker 4: and scrappy Cardinals. The Texans are the young and scrappy Texans,

1689
01:14:57,200 --> 01:14:59,959
Speaker 4: but they're young and scrappy in the divisional round Texans.

1690
01:15:00,080 --> 01:15:00,879
Speaker 6: There's a difference.

1691
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:04,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's definitely definitely a difference. And look, I

1692
01:15:04,680 --> 01:15:06,639
Speaker 2: mean a hundred times over one hundred, I'm taking CJ. Stouter,

1693
01:15:06,800 --> 01:15:09,759
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray. But I've got very impressed with how Kyler

1694
01:15:09,800 --> 01:15:11,880
Speaker 2: adapted to the offense. I thought he did a really

1695
01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:14,000
Speaker 2: nice job. And they that's big, that's a big wins.

1696
01:15:14,120 --> 01:15:16,519
Speaker 2: They won the state of Pennsylvania. They beat both the

1697
01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:20,360
Speaker 2: Steelers and Eagles in Pennsylvania. So I give them. I

1698
01:15:20,360 --> 01:15:24,200
Speaker 2: gave them a ton of credit for that. So it's

1699
01:15:24,200 --> 01:15:24,679
Speaker 2: time for.

1700
01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:24,840
Speaker 1: Me to.

1701
01:15:26,439 --> 01:15:29,400
Speaker 6: I want some clarification. Okay, So.

1702
01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:34,040
Speaker 2: Pff It's funny because I had sort of I planned

1703
01:15:34,080 --> 01:15:36,840
Speaker 2: to talk to you about this before I saw what

1704
01:15:36,960 --> 01:15:40,200
Speaker 2: JJ Watt said on the McAfee show.

1705
01:15:41,320 --> 01:15:44,080
Speaker 6: McAfee. Oh no, that's mccabee.

1706
01:15:44,160 --> 01:15:49,519
Speaker 2: Anywaysh PFF did its highest graded quarterbacks from wild Card weekend.

1707
01:15:49,840 --> 01:15:52,840
Speaker 2: Now remind me, oh, you know what, I'll do it

1708
01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:54,240
Speaker 2: because I remember right off the top of my head.

1709
01:15:54,479 --> 01:15:57,759
Speaker 2: CJ was sixteen to twenty one, Yeah for two seventy

1710
01:15:57,840 --> 01:15:59,839
Speaker 2: four and three tutties.

1711
01:16:00,600 --> 01:16:00,800
Speaker 6: Yeah.

1712
01:16:00,880 --> 01:16:05,200
Speaker 2: And is forty not even not even forty plays? I

1713
01:16:05,200 --> 01:16:06,360
Speaker 2: think it was thirty eight plays?

1714
01:16:06,439 --> 01:16:09,439
Speaker 6: Yeah? Is that any good? Yeah? I think it is.

1715
01:16:09,520 --> 01:16:11,680
Speaker 6: According to PFF, it's not. It's not one of the

1716
01:16:11,720 --> 01:16:15,599
Speaker 6: top four. The number one is Jordan Love ninety two

1717
01:16:15,640 --> 01:16:16,160
Speaker 6: point five.

1718
01:16:16,240 --> 01:16:20,839
Speaker 2: Now, if you missed it, Jordan Love's numbers were sixteen

1719
01:16:20,880 --> 01:16:24,679
Speaker 2: or twenty one, two hundred and seventy two yards, three.

1720
01:16:24,479 --> 01:16:28,360
Speaker 4: Touchdowns against not the number one defense in the NFL,

1721
01:16:28,400 --> 01:16:32,240
Speaker 4: by the way, right exactly on the road.

1722
01:16:32,400 --> 01:16:34,000
Speaker 6: Get it, first playoff game.

1723
01:16:34,160 --> 01:16:34,519
Speaker 1: Get it.

1724
01:16:35,000 --> 01:16:37,160
Speaker 2: Tell me what's different in between sixteen twenty one, two

1725
01:16:37,240 --> 01:16:39,559
Speaker 2: seventy four and three touchdowns sixteen for twenty one, two

1726
01:16:39,600 --> 01:16:40,799
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy two, three touchdown.

1727
01:16:40,800 --> 01:16:43,559
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna beef with Jordan Love getting accolades here,

1728
01:16:43,600 --> 01:16:45,759
Speaker 4: and I don't think you are either. He loved Jordan,

1729
01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:49,160
Speaker 4: he was terrific. I gave him all his flowers. But

1730
01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:53,080
Speaker 4: my big problem with the top four. Who were the others?

1731
01:16:53,080 --> 01:16:55,960
Speaker 2: It was Josh Allen, so Jordan Love in ninety two

1732
01:16:55,960 --> 01:16:59,160
Speaker 2: point five, matt Stafford at eighty eight point five.

1733
01:16:59,439 --> 01:17:04,040
Speaker 4: Let's just stop right there. As Meatloaf once said, I'm

1734
01:17:04,080 --> 01:17:06,519
Speaker 4: not gonna sing it in the proper melody, great song,

1735
01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:09,679
Speaker 4: Paradise by the dashboard light. Check it out. Don't listen

1736
01:17:09,680 --> 01:17:12,280
Speaker 4: with the children. You'll have a lot of explaining to

1737
01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:18,840
Speaker 4: do so. Anyway, Matthew Stafford, really does winning the game matter?

1738
01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:21,360
Speaker 4: Does it matter to the PFF folk?

1739
01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:22,439
Speaker 6: Apparently not?

1740
01:17:22,600 --> 01:17:26,080
Speaker 4: Okay, I know, apparently not. Wins are not a quarterback

1741
01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:29,400
Speaker 4: stat or whatever. A lot of people have that mantra. Yeah,

1742
01:17:29,439 --> 01:17:32,880
Speaker 4: sometimes we overplay that because CJ against Atlanta, you leave

1743
01:17:32,920 --> 01:17:35,400
Speaker 4: the field with the lead. If the defense makes the stop,

1744
01:17:35,479 --> 01:17:37,559
Speaker 4: that's a win for you. If they don't, that's an

1745
01:17:37,680 --> 01:17:40,640
Speaker 4: l for you. Really, I wasn't even involved with that

1746
01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:43,080
Speaker 4: final part. And I'm not taking anything away from this team,

1747
01:17:43,120 --> 01:17:44,800
Speaker 4: and I'm not criticizing the team. I'm just pointing out

1748
01:17:44,800 --> 01:17:48,320
Speaker 4: the staff part of it. Matthew Stafford. Though you didn't

1749
01:17:48,360 --> 01:17:50,679
Speaker 4: win the game, right, you did not win the game.

1750
01:17:50,720 --> 01:17:52,080
Speaker 4: You played to win the game.

1751
01:17:52,240 --> 01:17:53,760
Speaker 6: GoF is not on the list, we use.

1752
01:17:53,720 --> 01:17:56,040
Speaker 2: What herm Edwards I did, I did played win the game.

1753
01:17:56,120 --> 01:17:58,519
Speaker 2: So number one was your Love ninety two point five. Okay,

1754
01:17:58,680 --> 01:18:00,920
Speaker 2: Number two is Matt Stafford eighty eight point five. And

1755
01:18:00,960 --> 01:18:04,599
Speaker 2: you're going, okay, wait a second. CJ had similar numbers

1756
01:18:04,600 --> 01:18:07,439
Speaker 2: of Jordan Love. Oh, it gets better, okay, Josh Allen

1757
01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:09,320
Speaker 2: eighty eight, he's number three.

1758
01:18:09,920 --> 01:18:13,559
Speaker 6: He's tied for it with Patrick Mahomes eighty eight. Both

1759
01:18:13,600 --> 01:18:16,639
Speaker 6: of them had eighty eights. I mean beautiful, just great.

1760
01:18:16,720 --> 01:18:18,920
Speaker 6: Oh wait, wait for it. Jordan Love is a ninety

1761
01:18:18,920 --> 01:18:20,280
Speaker 6: two point five. Yeah.

1762
01:18:20,400 --> 01:18:20,720
Speaker 3: C J.

1763
01:18:20,800 --> 01:18:25,160
Speaker 4: Stroud was seventy eight because he's seventy eight, so that

1764
01:18:25,240 --> 01:18:29,799
Speaker 4: implies he did stuff wrong. What did CJ do wrong

1765
01:18:30,640 --> 01:18:31,960
Speaker 4: in the Cleveland game?

1766
01:18:32,320 --> 01:18:36,719
Speaker 6: Well, what needs it? The one throat of Noah could

1767
01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:40,800
Speaker 6: have been picked? Maybe is that it is that?

1768
01:18:41,000 --> 01:18:45,840
Speaker 2: What's the fourteen point difference between Jordan Love and c J.

1769
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:46,400
Speaker 6: Stroud.

1770
01:18:47,200 --> 01:18:49,800
Speaker 2: Jordan Love absolutely deserved a ninety two point five.

1771
01:18:50,439 --> 01:18:52,479
Speaker 6: C J. Stroud should have been second on that list.

1772
01:18:52,640 --> 01:18:55,679
Speaker 2: This is the kind of thing that the analytics people

1773
01:18:56,000 --> 01:18:59,639
Speaker 2: and the PFF people just don't understand that you step

1774
01:18:59,760 --> 01:19:01,400
Speaker 2: away away from the numbers a little bit and go

1775
01:19:01,840 --> 01:19:03,080
Speaker 2: I just gave him a seventy eight.

1776
01:19:03,120 --> 01:19:04,439
Speaker 6: Does that make sense right?

1777
01:19:04,600 --> 01:19:05,680
Speaker 1: No, it was not.

1778
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:08,559
Speaker 4: Let me point a few things out to you. Third

1779
01:19:08,680 --> 01:19:12,280
Speaker 4: quarter of play between the Rams and the Lions. Rams

1780
01:19:12,320 --> 01:19:15,599
Speaker 4: get the ball first. In the third quarter, they make

1781
01:19:15,680 --> 01:19:18,960
Speaker 4: it to the LA thirty eight. It's third and eleven incomplete.

1782
01:19:19,120 --> 01:19:24,200
Speaker 4: They have to punt Detroit scores. Rams get the ball back.

1783
01:19:24,760 --> 01:19:29,920
Speaker 4: They get a field goal drive. Brewing okay, field goal drive. Okay,

1784
01:19:30,040 --> 01:19:32,240
Speaker 4: that's it, field goal drive. We head for the fourth.

1785
01:19:32,240 --> 01:19:34,400
Speaker 4: I'm just skipping ahead here because I did not miss

1786
01:19:34,400 --> 01:19:38,800
Speaker 4: any Rams possessions. Rams get it again, and they get

1787
01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:41,360
Speaker 4: another field goal drive to cut it to twenty four

1788
01:19:41,360 --> 01:19:44,880
Speaker 4: to twenty three. So apparently Matthew Stafford in the second

1789
01:19:44,920 --> 01:19:48,360
Speaker 4: half is just torching people with these field goal drives.

1790
01:19:48,400 --> 01:19:51,559
Speaker 4: Field drive right, yeah, So they're down one. Detroit gets

1791
01:19:51,560 --> 01:19:54,479
Speaker 4: the ball back, they have to punt. Rams get it back.

1792
01:19:54,680 --> 01:19:56,760
Speaker 4: Rams get it back. Now it's time for Stafford to

1793
01:19:56,840 --> 01:19:58,400
Speaker 4: what win the game?

1794
01:19:58,479 --> 01:19:59,000
Speaker 6: Winn the game?

1795
01:19:59,040 --> 01:20:01,800
Speaker 4: All right, He's le you to a grand total of

1796
01:20:01,880 --> 01:20:05,080
Speaker 4: two field goals in the second half. Now, Matthew Stafford,

1797
01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:07,240
Speaker 4: go ahead and win the game. I'm not saying Stafford

1798
01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:09,639
Speaker 4: is bad. I'm just saying pff, what are we looking

1799
01:20:09,680 --> 01:20:12,000
Speaker 4: at here? So now it's time to drive and win

1800
01:20:12,040 --> 01:20:14,400
Speaker 4: the game. And guess what they come up with third

1801
01:20:14,400 --> 01:20:16,640
Speaker 4: and four they get a holding. They have third and

1802
01:20:16,680 --> 01:20:21,040
Speaker 4: fourteen incomplete pass to Nakua and then you have to punt.

1803
01:20:21,200 --> 01:20:24,760
Speaker 4: Lions run out the clock. Golf throws the dagger, the

1804
01:20:24,960 --> 01:20:28,960
Speaker 4: dagger to Amana Saint Brown to enable the Lions to

1805
01:20:29,040 --> 01:20:32,080
Speaker 4: kill the clock. That throw right there, to me was

1806
01:20:32,160 --> 01:20:35,000
Speaker 4: like hitting the clutch bucket yep in a game that

1807
01:20:35,280 --> 01:20:38,400
Speaker 4: distances you from the opponent being able to come back

1808
01:20:38,439 --> 01:20:40,600
Speaker 4: on you. It's a three score margin or whatever with

1809
01:20:40,640 --> 01:20:41,920
Speaker 4: ten seconds left, they're not going to be able to

1810
01:20:41,960 --> 01:20:43,840
Speaker 4: do it. You were able to kill the clock with

1811
01:20:43,880 --> 01:20:46,400
Speaker 4: that dagger. Throw. Wasn't a sexy thing. It was kind

1812
01:20:46,400 --> 01:20:47,880
Speaker 4: of a good throw. I mean it was a good throw,

1813
01:20:48,400 --> 01:20:50,680
Speaker 4: but it wasn't overly sexy, and that's the kind of

1814
01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:52,760
Speaker 4: thing that shows up in the stat sheet as all right,

1815
01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:55,320
Speaker 4: you threw for a first down. That was a clock killing,

1816
01:20:55,439 --> 01:20:58,200
Speaker 4: game winning score. If you will, I'll put that in

1817
01:20:58,200 --> 01:20:58,719
Speaker 4: air quotes.

1818
01:20:58,720 --> 01:21:02,320
Speaker 6: Of course. Stafford tol Field goals in the second half.

1819
01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:05,559
Speaker 4: Yeah really really, all right, I'm done.

1820
01:21:05,720 --> 01:21:07,720
Speaker 2: So here are a couple of responses, which I think

1821
01:21:07,800 --> 01:21:10,960
Speaker 2: are are pretty interesting. So okay, PFF put that out

1822
01:21:10,960 --> 01:21:12,800
Speaker 2: as a post on X or Twitter or whatever you

1823
01:21:12,840 --> 01:21:17,559
Speaker 2: call it. And so it's from Tyler and he has

1824
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:19,800
Speaker 2: a picture. It shows Stroud on one side, Jordan Love

1825
01:21:19,800 --> 01:21:22,240
Speaker 2: on the other and has the exact stats one hundred

1826
01:21:22,280 --> 01:21:24,519
Speaker 2: and fifty to seven point two passerate. I think, exact

1827
01:21:24,520 --> 01:21:28,000
Speaker 2: stats except for two extra yards for CJ. And says PFF,

1828
01:21:28,040 --> 01:21:29,840
Speaker 2: you got some splaining to do. How the heck is

1829
01:21:29,840 --> 01:21:32,720
Speaker 2: Stroud at number one? CJ had the same stats as Love?

1830
01:21:32,760 --> 01:21:35,200
Speaker 2: Why is he on here? You guys need a competitor.

1831
01:21:35,320 --> 01:21:37,759
Speaker 2: Stroud isn't on this list? Where's Stroud?

1832
01:21:38,120 --> 01:21:38,200
Speaker 9: Me?

1833
01:21:38,360 --> 01:21:41,040
Speaker 2: Looking for CJ? And it said John travolta gift where

1834
01:21:41,040 --> 01:21:44,479
Speaker 2: he's looking around? Where's every buddy? Stroud is in the

1835
01:21:44,520 --> 01:21:47,479
Speaker 2: top four? Stafford's in kN kun Why is the over?

1836
01:21:47,560 --> 01:21:48,839
Speaker 2: Why is the hero over Stroud?

1837
01:21:49,000 --> 01:21:55,400
Speaker 6: Lmao. PFF grades are the new S two test. That's

1838
01:21:55,439 --> 01:21:57,799
Speaker 6: a good one. That's pretty good. I think CJ himself

1839
01:21:57,880 --> 01:22:00,760
Speaker 6: might like that one. Yeah, Stroud was unbelievable. PFF grades

1840
01:22:00,800 --> 01:22:03,520
Speaker 6: are worthless. They are worthless.

1841
01:22:03,720 --> 01:22:07,840
Speaker 2: Stafford over Alan mahomes Ann. Stroud is certainly a choice.

1842
01:22:09,040 --> 01:22:12,639
Speaker 2: Your graded criteria has flaws. You're getting reamed by strouded

1843
01:22:12,680 --> 01:22:16,160
Speaker 2: Myers and rightfully so one of these grades based on

1844
01:22:16,439 --> 01:22:21,519
Speaker 2: when CJ cooks PFF's darling d Now that's that one

1845
01:22:21,600 --> 01:22:25,360
Speaker 2: right there, I think brings it up. You've got this

1846
01:22:25,439 --> 01:22:28,360
Speaker 2: defense number one in the league. And apparently PFF love

1847
01:22:28,479 --> 01:22:29,960
Speaker 2: the Browns, everything about the Browns, and.

1848
01:22:29,920 --> 01:22:33,080
Speaker 6: He torches them right, torches in the first half.

1849
01:22:33,240 --> 01:22:35,360
Speaker 2: He gets a C plus seventy eight C plus that

1850
01:22:35,479 --> 01:22:36,879
Speaker 2: is crazy plus.

1851
01:22:37,040 --> 01:22:41,719
Speaker 4: He basically gets my high school average. Not fair to CJ. Stroud,

1852
01:22:41,960 --> 01:22:44,880
Speaker 4: not fair Stafford. By the way through for three hundred

1853
01:22:44,880 --> 01:22:46,959
Speaker 4: and sixty seven yards are we going volume?

1854
01:22:47,200 --> 01:22:49,800
Speaker 6: He was sacked twice, but love it it can't be

1855
01:22:49,800 --> 01:22:51,719
Speaker 6: because CJ had more yards than Love.

1856
01:22:52,680 --> 01:22:55,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's no, it's it's not that. It's not that

1857
01:22:55,280 --> 01:22:58,920
Speaker 4: they look at every throw they look what. Yeah, it

1858
01:22:58,960 --> 01:23:01,720
Speaker 4: doesn't make much sense there, but it is what it is.

1859
01:23:02,240 --> 01:23:04,400
Speaker 6: This is I think this is one of the.

1860
01:23:06,040 --> 01:23:06,080
Speaker 1: This.

1861
01:23:07,320 --> 01:23:09,639
Speaker 2: JJ talked about this on McAfee show and he kind

1862
01:23:09,640 --> 01:23:11,800
Speaker 2: of went off. In fact, he goes out to end

1863
01:23:11,840 --> 01:23:17,160
Speaker 2: his interview and he basically took napalm just he pulled

1864
01:23:17,160 --> 01:23:19,680
Speaker 2: the pin in the grenade and threw it right in

1865
01:23:18,840 --> 01:23:22,160
Speaker 2: the PFF direction, and then he did talk about it

1866
01:23:22,160 --> 01:23:24,639
Speaker 2: a little bit later. But Aaron Agler, who covers the Packers,

1867
01:23:24,800 --> 01:23:26,280
Speaker 2: who I think does a really good job, he says,

1868
01:23:26,600 --> 01:23:28,760
Speaker 2: PFF in the analytics community in general would do well

1869
01:23:28,840 --> 01:23:30,400
Speaker 2: to listen to what jj WAT is saying here about

1870
01:23:30,400 --> 01:23:32,920
Speaker 2: their public tone. There's so much good work being done

1871
01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:35,639
Speaker 2: that gets dismissed or ignored because the way it's presented

1872
01:23:35,680 --> 01:23:38,000
Speaker 2: as some stone tablet from God himself.

1873
01:23:38,400 --> 01:23:39,160
Speaker 6: And that's true.

1874
01:23:39,240 --> 01:23:41,400
Speaker 4: You put a graphic up with the guy's pictures, it

1875
01:23:41,400 --> 01:23:44,760
Speaker 4: looks really bad, right, It makes you look bad as

1876
01:23:44,800 --> 01:23:46,879
Speaker 4: an analytics entity, right.

1877
01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:51,040
Speaker 2: Exactly, And a lot of people rely on that. Well,

1878
01:23:51,080 --> 01:23:52,880
Speaker 2: you know, PFF said this, and there were a lot

1879
01:23:52,920 --> 01:23:55,640
Speaker 2: of people. You know, Mike Mountzer's our great friend. I

1880
01:23:55,720 --> 01:23:59,960
Speaker 2: love Mike. Mike would quote Football Outsiders DVOA like every

1881
01:24:00,160 --> 01:24:01,040
Speaker 2: single week like it.

1882
01:24:00,960 --> 01:24:02,360
Speaker 6: Was gospel, and it was like, whoa.

1883
01:24:02,640 --> 01:24:04,240
Speaker 2: There's a lot that goes into and I've said it

1884
01:24:04,320 --> 01:24:07,479
Speaker 2: many many times when the analytics department the film department

1885
01:24:07,520 --> 01:24:11,200
Speaker 2: get together. Powerful Yeah, but it's just the film guys,

1886
01:24:11,760 --> 01:24:15,200
Speaker 2: and it's just the analytics. Like, but if you put

1887
01:24:15,200 --> 01:24:18,760
Speaker 2: it together, it's pretty powerful the information you can get.

1888
01:24:18,800 --> 01:24:21,720
Speaker 4: But what about ESPN analytics. Have you seen the percentage

1889
01:24:21,800 --> 01:24:23,960
Speaker 4: chance that the Ravens have to win this game this week?

1890
01:24:24,000 --> 01:24:26,880
Speaker 4: Is it's something like eighty eight or something? And who

1891
01:24:26,920 --> 01:24:31,639
Speaker 4: made the joke? Was it Florio ESPN Analytics. You're watching

1892
01:24:31,680 --> 01:24:35,599
Speaker 4: the broadcast with Joe Buck and Foyeikman, ESPN Analytics says

1893
01:24:35,720 --> 01:24:38,920
Speaker 4: go for it. Yeah, and it always says go for it,

1894
01:24:38,920 --> 01:24:41,800
Speaker 4: oh way, yes, But the fourth down go forward or not?

1895
01:24:42,120 --> 01:24:45,880
Speaker 4: Those instances? I find that really interesting because first of all,

1896
01:24:46,240 --> 01:24:49,560
Speaker 4: you don't know how tired guys are. What the situation

1897
01:24:49,720 --> 01:24:52,280
Speaker 4: is is the quarterback hurt? Can we sneak here? Which

1898
01:24:52,360 --> 01:24:54,720
Speaker 4: is a very high percentage play with some quarterbacks in

1899
01:24:54,720 --> 01:24:57,880
Speaker 4: some instances? What are they lined up doing?

1900
01:24:58,120 --> 01:24:58,240
Speaker 1: Right?

1901
01:25:00,040 --> 01:25:03,760
Speaker 4: How how successful have you been in the course of

1902
01:25:03,800 --> 01:25:07,720
Speaker 4: that game blocking the opponent? Not all four down opportunities

1903
01:25:07,760 --> 01:25:11,080
Speaker 4: are created equal. You cannot use analytics as the only

1904
01:25:11,240 --> 01:25:13,120
Speaker 4: measure for whether to go forward or not?

1905
01:25:13,320 --> 01:25:16,439
Speaker 2: Is your kicker Daria Gumble? Yeah, you know those kind

1906
01:25:16,479 --> 01:25:18,519
Speaker 2: of things, right, you know those kind of things. Then

1907
01:25:18,520 --> 01:25:20,840
Speaker 2: you're making it. You're making the field goal, Yeah, you're

1908
01:25:20,880 --> 01:25:24,320
Speaker 2: making that fields one thousand. I mean, just to think

1909
01:25:24,360 --> 01:25:26,680
Speaker 2: back in the season to think about. You know, one

1910
01:25:26,680 --> 01:25:28,760
Speaker 2: of the things that Coach Kiffin brought up was we

1911
01:25:28,800 --> 01:25:30,800
Speaker 2: asked him kind of about the season and he started

1912
01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:32,200
Speaker 2: talking about, well, you know, one of the first ones

1913
01:25:32,240 --> 01:25:33,400
Speaker 2: that comes to mind is Tampa Bay.

1914
01:25:34,320 --> 01:25:35,920
Speaker 6: That game with Tampa Bay.

1915
01:25:35,960 --> 01:25:38,479
Speaker 2: I mean, now you look at it, and you know,

1916
01:25:38,520 --> 01:25:40,519
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay's the divisional round opponent of the of the

1917
01:25:40,560 --> 01:25:42,720
Speaker 2: Lions coming up, and that's gonna be That's gonna be

1918
01:25:42,800 --> 01:25:44,799
Speaker 2: a really fun ball game. Which I was on textags

1919
01:25:44,840 --> 01:25:46,720
Speaker 2: this morning and they were like, that's a lot of

1920
01:25:46,760 --> 01:25:50,240
Speaker 2: aggie in that in that game, Dan Campbell, Aaron Glenn,

1921
01:25:50,520 --> 01:25:53,200
Speaker 2: Josh Reynolds, Oh yeah, and then Mike Evans on the

1922
01:25:53,200 --> 01:25:55,479
Speaker 2: other side, there's a lot of aggie in that game.

1923
01:25:55,880 --> 01:25:57,719
Speaker 2: That's gonna be. That'll be a fun one to watch.

1924
01:25:57,920 --> 01:26:00,280
Speaker 2: Hopefully were watching it after having beat the Raven. But

1925
01:26:00,439 --> 01:26:05,760
Speaker 2: I've always wondered about that aspect that doesn't back in

1926
01:26:05,920 --> 01:26:07,200
Speaker 2: you know two thousand I was coaching.

1927
01:26:07,600 --> 01:26:08,360
Speaker 6: You didn't even think.

1928
01:26:08,400 --> 01:26:10,600
Speaker 2: I didn't even consider analytics, But all the things you

1929
01:26:10,640 --> 01:26:14,080
Speaker 2: talked about, those are all things that I would consider, like, Okay,

1930
01:26:14,080 --> 01:26:16,640
Speaker 2: how tired are we? How tired are they? Do we

1931
01:26:16,720 --> 01:26:19,960
Speaker 2: need the momentum, like, what's the what's the crowd feeling like?

1932
01:26:20,479 --> 01:26:22,680
Speaker 2: Is it tense over here? Do we need to have this?

1933
01:26:22,880 --> 01:26:24,960
Speaker 2: And you know what, sometimes I got burned because I

1934
01:26:25,040 --> 01:26:26,719
Speaker 2: just threw all that to the side and I wanted

1935
01:26:26,720 --> 01:26:28,840
Speaker 2: to go for two. We're down twelve, I want to

1936
01:26:28,840 --> 01:26:31,280
Speaker 2: go at fourteen. That just felt good to me, and

1937
01:26:31,320 --> 01:26:33,320
Speaker 2: it ended up biting me in the backside because I

1938
01:26:33,400 --> 01:26:34,360
Speaker 2: because I did it that way.

1939
01:26:34,400 --> 01:26:36,840
Speaker 4: How about the other night with Sirianni taking points off

1940
01:26:36,840 --> 01:26:39,200
Speaker 4: the board to take a higher percentage opportunity.

1941
01:26:38,800 --> 01:26:41,639
Speaker 2: To the brothers shove and then it got stuffed? Were

1942
01:26:41,640 --> 01:26:42,799
Speaker 2: you happy that it got stuffed?

1943
01:26:43,040 --> 01:26:46,160
Speaker 4: Absolutely? Are you kidding? I was doing a parade. Look

1944
01:26:46,360 --> 01:26:48,760
Speaker 4: I like Hurtz Houston, guy, I do.

1945
01:26:49,240 --> 01:26:49,439
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1946
01:26:49,760 --> 01:26:53,439
Speaker 4: Sirianni bothers me for some reason. Yeah so, and a

1947
01:26:53,479 --> 01:26:56,160
Speaker 4: lot of the Eagles fans bother me. I don't really

1948
01:26:56,200 --> 01:26:59,559
Speaker 4: have this thing against the Eagles by and large, but

1949
01:27:00,160 --> 01:27:02,120
Speaker 4: I was kind of pulling for Baker. You know why

1950
01:27:02,120 --> 01:27:05,559
Speaker 4: I'm pulling for Baker A couple of things Cleveland gave

1951
01:27:05,640 --> 01:27:09,400
Speaker 4: up on him, and I love it. I love the

1952
01:27:09,439 --> 01:27:13,000
Speaker 4: meme with the two playoff wins. Since the Browns have

1953
01:27:13,040 --> 01:27:16,640
Speaker 4: come back into the League, and Baker's got two and

1954
01:27:16,680 --> 01:27:18,559
Speaker 4: one of them was with the Browns, and the Browns

1955
01:27:18,560 --> 01:27:20,880
Speaker 4: have won and it was with him, and that's all

1956
01:27:20,880 --> 01:27:23,400
Speaker 4: they've got because we just stopped him like a grape

1957
01:27:23,400 --> 01:27:24,280
Speaker 4: and Napa Valley.

1958
01:27:24,680 --> 01:27:26,040
Speaker 6: I freaking love that.

1959
01:27:26,160 --> 01:27:29,760
Speaker 4: So I'm pulling for Baker in the playoffs until we

1960
01:27:29,760 --> 01:27:30,680
Speaker 4: meet him in the super Bowl.

1961
01:27:30,760 --> 01:27:34,519
Speaker 6: Yeah, there it is. Yeah, absolutely, that's that would be fun.

1962
01:27:34,640 --> 01:27:35,280
Speaker 6: That would be fun.

1963
01:27:35,400 --> 01:27:36,880
Speaker 4: I have kind of a it would be fun to

1964
01:27:36,880 --> 01:27:43,840
Speaker 4: play anybody that's I mean, there is not picky, not picky.

1965
01:27:43,680 --> 01:27:45,599
Speaker 6: Just playing that game. But one game at a time.

1966
01:27:45,840 --> 01:27:49,759
Speaker 2: And we would like to to end this the streak

1967
01:27:49,840 --> 01:27:52,200
Speaker 2: of four, the streak.

1968
01:27:51,960 --> 01:27:53,559
Speaker 6: Of four four divisional round appears.

1969
01:27:53,640 --> 01:27:57,599
Speaker 2: Four divisional round games. Four give him the number four

1970
01:27:57,720 --> 01:28:00,120
Speaker 2: four divisional round games. This will be our fifth for

1971
01:28:00,200 --> 01:28:02,120
Speaker 2: to visual round games that we've had in the history

1972
01:28:02,160 --> 01:28:05,080
Speaker 2: of the Texans. Yeah, we have trailed by four at

1973
01:28:05,160 --> 01:28:06,519
Speaker 2: halftime of all of them.

1974
01:28:06,560 --> 01:28:09,040
Speaker 6: Seventeen thirteen, seventeen thirteen, seventeen thirteen.

1975
01:28:09,439 --> 01:28:11,439
Speaker 4: All right, so now they're going to lead by five.

1976
01:28:11,680 --> 01:28:14,479
Speaker 6: Then the famous twenty eight twenty four of twenty nineteen.

1977
01:28:14,520 --> 01:28:16,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a different trailing, but a little different

1978
01:28:16,760 --> 01:28:19,599
Speaker 2: trailing beyfore that did not feel like trailing by four,

1979
01:28:19,880 --> 01:28:22,479
Speaker 2: And that was the last halftime interview that of any

1980
01:28:22,520 --> 01:28:26,080
Speaker 2: kind I would do it Bill O'Brien, and I'm panicked.

1981
01:28:26,160 --> 01:28:29,559
Speaker 2: I'm like, this is gonna be just all awful. And

1982
01:28:29,720 --> 01:28:31,679
Speaker 2: he was the most reasoned I'd ever heard him.

1983
01:28:31,760 --> 01:28:34,120
Speaker 6: Really. Yeah, he was like, we'll get back in it.

1984
01:28:34,120 --> 01:28:36,920
Speaker 2: We're down four, We're fine, we're good, We're gonna start it.

1985
01:28:38,120 --> 01:28:40,320
Speaker 4: I was like, I felt like there was no chance

1986
01:28:40,360 --> 01:28:42,040
Speaker 4: on the world you're gonna win that game. And Johnny,

1987
01:28:42,080 --> 01:28:44,120
Speaker 4: I look back and I think, why did I feel

1988
01:28:44,160 --> 01:28:47,200
Speaker 4: so bad? It is only four, You had Deshaun Watson,

1989
01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:49,080
Speaker 4: you had an offense that could score something once, you

1990
01:28:49,080 --> 01:28:51,040
Speaker 4: had beaten. I think because you were up twenty four

1991
01:28:51,080 --> 01:28:53,439
Speaker 4: to nothing, and it just felt like we just blew everything. Yeah,

1992
01:28:53,479 --> 01:28:56,519
Speaker 4: we just completely emptied the bench account and there's nothing

1993
01:28:56,640 --> 01:28:59,679
Speaker 4: left and what are we gonna do? It just felt awful.

1994
01:29:00,120 --> 01:29:01,960
Speaker 4: Unable to move the ball in the second quarter and

1995
01:29:02,000 --> 01:29:03,479
Speaker 4: the rest of the game really had one drive. You

1996
01:29:03,520 --> 01:29:04,599
Speaker 4: scored another touchdown.

1997
01:29:04,880 --> 01:29:05,360
Speaker 1: Stop me.

1998
01:29:05,600 --> 01:29:07,360
Speaker 2: If that could have one drive in the second quarter,

1999
01:29:07,360 --> 01:29:09,960
Speaker 2: I would have felt a lot better about whatever happened.

2000
01:29:10,280 --> 01:29:14,320
Speaker 2: Maybe it's twenty eight, twenty seven whatever. But yeah, that

2001
01:29:14,400 --> 01:29:17,600
Speaker 2: was a good team. They won the exercise those demons

2002
01:29:17,720 --> 01:29:20,760
Speaker 2: and just play our guts out against the Ravens, and

2003
01:29:20,880 --> 01:29:24,439
Speaker 2: just the think of the mistakes that we made in

2004
01:29:24,479 --> 01:29:27,200
Speaker 2: that run. Now we got there with a fumble by Tyreek,

2005
01:29:27,520 --> 01:29:29,480
Speaker 2: a block field goal that went for a touchdown.

2006
01:29:29,760 --> 01:29:32,200
Speaker 6: We had good things that were happening.

2007
01:29:32,200 --> 01:29:36,040
Speaker 2: We were dropped on our side, they dropped passes early on,

2008
01:29:36,720 --> 01:29:38,519
Speaker 2: but then the mistakes we didn't cover.

2009
01:29:38,600 --> 01:29:41,080
Speaker 4: This guy I knew was gonna be enough. I knew

2010
01:29:41,080 --> 01:29:43,240
Speaker 4: it wasn't gonna be enough. Right that you'd have to

2011
01:29:43,280 --> 01:29:44,439
Speaker 4: continue to score points.

2012
01:29:44,479 --> 01:29:44,960
Speaker 6: I thought.

2013
01:29:46,240 --> 01:29:49,639
Speaker 4: I thought it was gonna happen. Should you continue to score?

2014
01:29:50,160 --> 01:29:53,800
Speaker 4: I figured at least another two touchdowns, because they're gonna

2015
01:29:53,800 --> 01:29:56,360
Speaker 4: score points. That's what they do. They're at home, they're

2016
01:29:56,360 --> 01:29:59,800
Speaker 4: gonna settle down, human nature takes over. You might let

2017
01:29:59,880 --> 01:30:02,439
Speaker 4: up a little bit. They'll put together two three touchdowns

2018
01:30:02,479 --> 01:30:04,080
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, Oh my gosh, so you

2019
01:30:04,160 --> 01:30:06,240
Speaker 4: better score touchdowns than they weren't able to do it.

2020
01:30:06,320 --> 01:30:06,439
Speaker 6: Well.

2021
01:30:06,479 --> 01:30:09,040
Speaker 2: Will Fler scored to maybe forty one thirty one. I thought, okay,

2022
01:30:09,280 --> 01:30:10,840
Speaker 2: now maybe we're back on Traga stuff.

2023
01:30:10,840 --> 01:30:12,960
Speaker 6: Just couldn't get a stoped. Yeah, just couldn't get a stopped.

2024
01:30:12,960 --> 01:30:16,800
Speaker 2: But all four division on games we've trailed by four

2025
01:30:17,600 --> 01:30:18,320
Speaker 2: at the half.

2026
01:30:18,439 --> 01:30:19,120
Speaker 6: That's interesting.

2027
01:30:19,240 --> 01:30:24,400
Speaker 2: So we're seeing by seven, thirteen, eighteen, and twenty.

2028
01:30:24,600 --> 01:30:27,040
Speaker 6: So we got to we got to reverse all that. Yeah, yeah,

2029
01:30:27,040 --> 01:30:28,479
Speaker 6: I gotta reverse. Did you say so?

2030
01:30:28,560 --> 01:30:30,880
Speaker 4: It was seventeen thirteen against the Patriots. Both times it

2031
01:30:30,920 --> 01:30:32,599
Speaker 4: was seventeen thirteen against the Ravens.

2032
01:30:32,600 --> 01:30:34,080
Speaker 6: Two seventeen thirteen's against the Ravens.

2033
01:30:34,120 --> 01:30:36,360
Speaker 4: Still the first three divisional round appearances, you were down

2034
01:30:36,400 --> 01:30:37,479
Speaker 4: seventeen thirteen in the half.

2035
01:30:37,560 --> 01:30:39,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm weird.

2036
01:30:39,120 --> 01:30:42,040
Speaker 2: That is weird stuff, really really weird. I was when

2037
01:30:42,080 --> 01:30:45,960
Speaker 2: I saw that. I was like, this is this bizarro world.

2038
01:30:46,040 --> 01:30:48,559
Speaker 4: I forgot about the Ravens game because the seventeen thirteen

2039
01:30:48,640 --> 01:30:50,599
Speaker 4: sticks in my mind about the Patriots games.

2040
01:30:50,680 --> 01:30:51,919
Speaker 6: Yeah, up there.

2041
01:30:51,800 --> 01:30:56,439
Speaker 2: In that in that uh, in that Baltimore game, I remember,

2042
01:30:56,600 --> 01:31:01,000
Speaker 2: I remember there were scoring up front, there were scoring early.

2043
01:31:01,360 --> 01:31:03,400
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, you got a field.

2044
01:31:03,080 --> 01:31:07,040
Speaker 4: Goal early because I remember he had Kevin Walter opened

2045
01:31:07,080 --> 01:31:10,240
Speaker 4: down the sideline on what was it a little you know,

2046
01:31:10,400 --> 01:31:13,880
Speaker 4: out and go or whatever, and he just didn't see it.

2047
01:31:13,920 --> 01:31:15,040
Speaker 4: He found Onrey Johnson.

2048
01:31:15,320 --> 01:31:16,639
Speaker 6: Nice nice play, but.

2049
01:31:17,479 --> 01:31:21,320
Speaker 2: Only points scored only points scored after Rackers field goal

2050
01:31:21,680 --> 01:31:23,200
Speaker 2: and then Jacobe punting the ball.

2051
01:31:23,080 --> 01:31:26,479
Speaker 6: With his head. Kay Wilson, Who's Kay Wilson.

2052
01:31:27,840 --> 01:31:30,360
Speaker 2: Kay Wilson scored for the Ravens on a one yard pass,

2053
01:31:31,200 --> 01:31:33,720
Speaker 2: kind of kicked the field goal and Kwanta. It was

2054
01:31:33,760 --> 01:31:36,280
Speaker 2: seventeen to three at that point, but got back in

2055
01:31:36,280 --> 01:31:39,280
Speaker 2: a Rackers field goal, Arion touchdown. It's seventeen thirteen and

2056
01:31:39,280 --> 01:31:41,760
Speaker 2: a half. It finished twenty to thirteen. Nobody could score

2057
01:31:41,800 --> 01:31:44,599
Speaker 2: in the second half. Do the Yeah, well, the defense

2058
01:31:44,680 --> 01:31:47,080
Speaker 2: was so good. Cushing was an animal, I mean both.

2059
01:31:46,880 --> 01:31:48,320
Speaker 6: Those Oh my god.

2060
01:31:48,520 --> 01:31:51,400
Speaker 2: So listen to the dudes in this game. Yeah you

2061
01:31:51,479 --> 01:31:54,960
Speaker 2: ready for read me the Ravens defense. Okay, here we'll

2062
01:31:55,000 --> 01:32:01,919
Speaker 2: start with the Texans. What Cushing to meet? Barwin Kareem

2063
01:32:02,439 --> 01:32:04,439
Speaker 2: j Jo. Those are just some of the highlights. Number

2064
01:32:04,439 --> 01:32:05,519
Speaker 2: two defense in the league.

2065
01:32:05,600 --> 01:32:10,840
Speaker 6: Here's the Ravens defense. It's not good. Hello Di Nada,

2066
01:32:11,960 --> 01:32:16,080
Speaker 6: Terrence Cody, you remember Mount Cody? Yep? Terrell Suggs. Was

2067
01:32:16,120 --> 01:32:16,719
Speaker 6: he any good?

2068
01:32:17,040 --> 01:32:21,519
Speaker 2: Ray Lewis, Ladarius Webb, Bernard Pollard the free safety was

2069
01:32:21,680 --> 01:32:22,040
Speaker 2: Ed Reed.

2070
01:32:22,320 --> 01:32:25,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're pretty good. I mean.

2071
01:32:26,880 --> 01:32:28,280
Speaker 6: Was on the offense.

2072
01:32:28,479 --> 01:32:33,720
Speaker 4: Flacco the quarterback Vonte Leach, Ray, Rice Yep, Tory Smith.

2073
01:32:33,800 --> 01:32:35,560
Speaker 6: Brian McKinney one of the more underrated.

2074
01:32:35,800 --> 01:32:36,160
Speaker 1: Uh.

2075
01:32:36,200 --> 01:32:39,240
Speaker 4: Oh, they were good. Matt Burke at center, Marshall Yonda

2076
01:32:39,479 --> 01:32:42,639
Speaker 4: at guard. Oh, they had some play. Mark Arian Lore

2077
01:32:42,800 --> 01:32:44,879
Speaker 4: was on that team. Yep, Arian scored.

2078
01:32:44,760 --> 01:32:46,679
Speaker 2: Was just under five minutes left in the second quarter

2079
01:32:47,320 --> 01:32:49,439
Speaker 2: and that was all the scoring until there.

2080
01:32:49,360 --> 01:32:51,040
Speaker 6: Was two fifty two left and kind of hit that

2081
01:32:51,080 --> 01:32:51,559
Speaker 6: field goal.

2082
01:32:52,160 --> 01:32:54,880
Speaker 2: I mean, those defenses, I remember that distinctly, Like the

2083
01:32:54,960 --> 01:32:58,320
Speaker 2: defenses were just balling out that day.

2084
01:32:58,560 --> 01:32:59,920
Speaker 6: It was really really fun to watch.

2085
01:33:00,080 --> 01:33:02,400
Speaker 2: Hopefully one defense will ball out on Saturday and that

2086
01:33:02,439 --> 01:33:04,880
Speaker 2: will be the Texans defense.

2087
01:33:04,920 --> 01:33:06,799
Speaker 6: All right, we get back, we'll go around in the NFL.

2088
01:33:06,800 --> 01:33:11,919
Speaker 2: What's happening in other divisional round playoff cities.

2089
01:33:12,040 --> 01:33:14,080
Speaker 6: We'll hit that next right here in Texans All Access.

2090
01:33:14,320 --> 01:33:15,920
Speaker 2: We want to find a segment in this edition of

2091
01:33:16,040 --> 01:33:19,639
Speaker 2: Texans All Access from Monday, Texans a radio studio.

2092
01:33:19,640 --> 01:33:21,360
Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris.

2093
01:33:21,240 --> 01:33:24,320
Speaker 2: Football anal sideline reporters. So we go around the NFL.

2094
01:33:25,000 --> 01:33:27,320
Speaker 2: Big news today in the NFL, I guess if they're

2095
01:33:27,479 --> 01:33:31,200
Speaker 2: well plas any big news Both the New England Patriots

2096
01:33:31,240 --> 01:33:34,879
Speaker 2: and Washington Commanders introduced their new hires.

2097
01:33:35,479 --> 01:33:35,799
Speaker 1: GIROD.

2098
01:33:35,880 --> 01:33:38,120
Speaker 2: Mayo, new head coach for the New England Patriots, met

2099
01:33:38,120 --> 01:33:42,120
Speaker 2: the media in New England. He is the first black

2100
01:33:42,160 --> 01:33:44,800
Speaker 2: head coach in franchise history, is now the youngest head

2101
01:33:44,800 --> 01:33:47,560
Speaker 2: coach in the NFL as well, and the Washington Commanders

2102
01:33:47,920 --> 01:33:51,599
Speaker 2: hired Adam Peters made it official with Adam Peters as

2103
01:33:51,640 --> 01:33:55,200
Speaker 2: the general manager. Now we'll see if the Patriots are

2104
01:33:55,200 --> 01:33:57,639
Speaker 2: gonna end up getting a GM to go along with Mayo,

2105
01:33:57,720 --> 01:33:59,240
Speaker 2: or they're going to do something internal.

2106
01:33:59,360 --> 01:33:59,880
Speaker 1: We'll see.

2107
01:34:00,120 --> 01:34:02,400
Speaker 2: Now, the Commanders have got to find themselves a head coach,

2108
01:34:02,479 --> 01:34:04,439
Speaker 2: and one of the names they have requested to interview

2109
01:34:04,840 --> 01:34:08,080
Speaker 2: is Texan's offense corner to Bobby Slowick. That's not the

2110
01:34:08,120 --> 01:34:10,439
Speaker 2: only team the Titans I've seen mentioned. I think the

2111
01:34:10,479 --> 01:34:13,280
Speaker 2: Seahawks have asked for permission. Bobby roo with the media

2112
01:34:13,320 --> 01:34:16,160
Speaker 2: today and just said, no, man, it's all on Baltimore.

2113
01:34:16,520 --> 01:34:18,120
Speaker 1: It's all Baltimore.

2114
01:34:18,200 --> 01:34:23,400
Speaker 2: So I love hearing that Eagle center Jason Kelsey said, Hey,

2115
01:34:23,479 --> 01:34:27,519
Speaker 2: hold up that retirement thing. I'm not totally sure yet.

2116
01:34:27,800 --> 01:34:30,880
Speaker 2: I'll announce it now. He did apparently have a moment

2117
01:34:30,920 --> 01:34:33,559
Speaker 2: with the Eagles in the locker room and it does

2118
01:34:33,560 --> 01:34:36,040
Speaker 2: sound like he's gonna retire, and if you watch the documentary,

2119
01:34:36,040 --> 01:34:38,200
Speaker 2: you would think this is it. But he said he's

2120
01:34:38,240 --> 01:34:44,000
Speaker 2: gonna do it on his own terms, which I kind

2121
01:34:44,000 --> 01:34:47,400
Speaker 2: of like that kind of do it on your terms.

2122
01:34:47,479 --> 01:34:50,200
Speaker 2: So we'll keep an eye on what happens with Jason Kelsey. Now,

2123
01:34:50,280 --> 01:34:53,000
Speaker 2: Travis Kelsey will be playing with the Kansas City Chiefs

2124
01:34:53,479 --> 01:34:58,000
Speaker 2: up in Buffalo. Weather update, Buffalo is gonna get even

2125
01:34:58,280 --> 01:35:00,840
Speaker 2: more snow now. There's no talk yet of moving the

2126
01:35:00,880 --> 01:35:04,720
Speaker 2: game off of Sunday. We play Saturday Buffalo. Kansas City

2127
01:35:04,760 --> 01:35:08,160
Speaker 2: playing Buffalo on Sunday. No talk about moving the game yet,

2128
01:35:08,200 --> 01:35:11,559
Speaker 2: but more weather. It's hitting Western New York in Orchard

2129
01:35:11,640 --> 01:35:14,439
Speaker 2: Park apparently, kind of the way it's situated, gets hit

2130
01:35:14,680 --> 01:35:15,880
Speaker 2: really hard.

2131
01:35:16,040 --> 01:35:18,000
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens there. And that's the show.

2132
01:35:18,040 --> 01:35:20,639
Speaker 2: Appreciate everybody that was involved. Thank you all so much

2133
01:35:20,640 --> 01:35:22,840
Speaker 2: for listening. We will see you tomorrow as wee inch

2134
01:35:22,920 --> 01:35:27,160
Speaker 2: closer to Divisional round against the Baltimore Ravens. See tomorrowbody

2135
01:35:27,200 --> 01:35:28,280
Speaker 2: as always, go Texans.