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Speaker 1: Welcome in Texans huddle after the bye week. I am

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Speaker 1: in D She's DP, and not every day do you

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Speaker 1: get to sit next to a Heisman Trophy winner. The

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Speaker 1: only Heisman Trophy winner of the Houston Cougar is still

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out why that statue's not there. But

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Speaker 1: you know what, we'll talk about that later. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: about that later. Make it happen.

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Speaker 2: Andre were in the seat next, So good to be

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Speaker 2: in with you, guys. This has been a long time coming.

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Speaker 2: You know how long I've been wanting to get on

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Speaker 2: the air and just talk football with you and listen

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Speaker 2: to your shows all the time, and then finally, finally.

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Speaker 1: Not as long as I've wanted to jump on air

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Speaker 1: with you.

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Speaker 3: So you have never crossed paths, No, we haven't. Your

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Speaker 3: time together, not on air.

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Speaker 1: He's always been a guy that I We've always talked

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Speaker 1: and he's always given me advice, But as far as

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Speaker 1: just doing something together, it hasn't happened.

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Speaker 4: And you guys did the same thing in the preseason.

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Speaker 3: You were doing color for TV and Andre was doing

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Speaker 3: color for radio.

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Speaker 2: So we talked then and obviously we we uh, we

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Speaker 2: shared some We had long conversations notes the season. Sorry

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Speaker 2: we didn't share, no, but we just shared I guess

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Speaker 2: strategy so to speak, and different things like that. But

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Speaker 2: it's He's We've always talked and communicated. We've just never

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Speaker 2: been on the air together.

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Speaker 1: You know. It's funny because I listen, especially if I'm

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Speaker 1: on the road when the Texans are playing, so I'm

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Speaker 1: always listening to to the games. And this isn't a

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Speaker 1: knock against anybody. You know, Mark is more. No matter

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Speaker 1: what happens, I have to be pro Texans and not

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Speaker 1: saying Andre is it? But Andre like, no, that was

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Speaker 1: a bad play on air. He'll be like, no, it's

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Speaker 1: okay to say it's something, and I'll just be driving

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Speaker 1: my car just laughing, Like, look, if there's one guy

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Speaker 1: that's gonna keep it real regardless of who signing the

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Speaker 1: check is Andre. You have to appreciate that.

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Speaker 4: He's even better in person.

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Speaker 3: I feel like because you hear what he says on

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Speaker 3: the air and then you see his reactions in the booth, and.

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Speaker 4: That's actually really funny. Sometimes it's funny. Sometimes it's it's funny.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad it didn't come across over the airs.

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Speaker 1: Probably gotten close, but maybe I notice because I know you,

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Speaker 1: and I know.

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Speaker 3: You know Dre, you know you know where his frustrations

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Speaker 3: coming from. But I love you like just as a

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Speaker 3: former quarterback, like everything that you've been able to it

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Speaker 3: seems like this is such a nice gift to get

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Speaker 3: to call these CJ.

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Speaker 1: Stride It is.

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Speaker 4: It's every single week.

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Speaker 2: I mean, some of the quarterback play over the last

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Speaker 2: few years, it's been gut wrenching, to be quite honest.

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Speaker 2: But this is a breath of fresh air to watch

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Speaker 2: this young man come in and do what he's doing.

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Speaker 2: A big fan before, and then you sit and you

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Speaker 2: watch the games back and you're even more more of

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Speaker 2: a fan than when you're actually calling the games. He

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Speaker 2: anticipates like a veteran quarterback, the ball comes out like

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Speaker 2: a veteran quarterback. I was on Carolina Panthers radio yesterday

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Speaker 2: and we were talking about the obviously the subject of CJ.

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Speaker 2: Strode and then you know Bryce Young. I told him

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Speaker 2: we got the best better of that deal, and I

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Speaker 2: had to pay a hefty price, but we got the

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Speaker 2: better of the deal because of all the things that

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Speaker 2: I just just just described. And he gives this chance,

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Speaker 2: this team a chance to win every single time they

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Speaker 1: Do you think pre draft, when they're evaluating CJ. Stroud,

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Speaker 1: it seems like the majority of the so called draft

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Speaker 1: gurus and draft experts had Bryce Young and they were wrong.

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Speaker 1: They're in different positions and they were wrong. But what

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Speaker 1: did they miss from CJ? From college?

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Speaker 2: I think I think the decision was made, Oh, look

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Speaker 2: at the competition that Alabama faces. Well, he's facing the

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Speaker 2: same thing at Ohio State. You know, Well, he's used

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Speaker 2: get that at Michigan you get I mean, he's played

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Speaker 2: He's been there and done that already. And I think

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Speaker 3: Part of it, doesn't It seem like everybody, and I

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Speaker 3: remember this during the draft process, that everybody was giving

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Speaker 3: he has a great this, a great that. But it

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Speaker 3: We still didn't give enough credit. He was still drafted.

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Speaker 2: There have been a lot of guys that have had

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Speaker 2: great supporting cast and still didn't deliver. Somebody's got to

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Speaker 2: get him the ball, you know, and in stride so

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Speaker 2: that they become the great receivers that that we talk about.

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Speaker 2: And he was the distributor. And that's really really all

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Speaker 2: he has to do here. He's got good talent around him.

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Speaker 2: Nico is growing up right in front of our faces.

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Speaker 2: Dalton Schultz is coming around at tight end. So there

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Speaker 2: are weapons for CJ here and and he's doing he's

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Speaker 2: starting to do exactly what he did at Ohio State,

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Speaker 2: and that's distributed the football.

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Speaker 1: We talk a lot about CJ, as we should, But

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Speaker 1: when I've watched quarterbacks, there have been quarterbacks in the

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Speaker 1: past that I felt like they were just in the

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Speaker 1: wrong position and then the other And when I say

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Speaker 1: wrong position, I mean the wrong organization, exact situation. That's

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Speaker 1: what I should say. In there, done that, you know

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And then there are guys where I

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Speaker 1: did and I'll even say this, and I think he's

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Speaker 1: the great most accomplished pro athlete of all time in

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady. So I'm not knocking him. I've already said

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Speaker 1: he's the best to do it. But I believe there's

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Speaker 1: an alternate universe. If he wasn't at New England where

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Speaker 1: not know who he is then. On the flip side,

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Speaker 1: because I want to get your take on this as well,

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Speaker 1: there's a guy I used to follow for whatever reason,

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Speaker 1: Matt Lioner, and I feel like in a different situation,

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Speaker 1: he could be a household name. So absolutely talk to

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Speaker 1: me about it. Absolutely. And you make a great, great point.

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Speaker 2: When you come into the NFL and you're drafted high,

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Speaker 2: a place that's not very good. Longevity for a quarterback

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Speaker 2: is if that staff and that system stays in place.

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Speaker 2: How many system did Brady play in is and his

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Speaker 2: even when they changed and they they're still running the

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Speaker 2: same system. You can say the same thing about Terry Bradshaw.

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Speaker 2: You can say the same thing about Joe Montana. I

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Speaker 2: can Troy. I can go down to just a laundry

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Speaker 2: list of guys that played in the same system, and

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Speaker 2: we look at him as all time greats. There's only

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Speaker 2: been one that had to change and went to multiple systems,

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Speaker 2: yet he still was a pro bowler and all of

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Speaker 2: these places that he went, I want to guess.

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Speaker 4: I guess too.

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Speaker 2: The partners in a foundation together called Brother Warm Warm Moon.

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Speaker 2: That's the only one. Everywhere he went he had success.

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Speaker 2: He's in the run and shoot in Houston. They trade

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Speaker 2: him to Minnesota. He goes to more of a drop back.

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Speaker 2: They have success in Minnesota. He ends up in Kansas City,

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Speaker 2: they still are having success. Then he goes and finish

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Speaker 2: his career in Seattle, where they had success. He was

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Speaker 2: able to execute from within every system. You get a

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Speaker 2: as successful when you have to move more and throw

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Speaker 2: the football. A lot of fans are going to argue, yes,

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Speaker 2: but just because it's Tom Brady, you and I know

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Speaker 2: that's not that's not feasible. So, uh, there's only been

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Speaker 2: one and the rest of them. When you have the

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Speaker 2: same system to go back, and that's the luxury of

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Speaker 2: having Bill Belichick as your head coach those that system

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Speaker 2: stays in the house and they build on it every

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Speaker 2: single year that he comes back.

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Speaker 1: I think I found another one.

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Speaker 2: And then maybe Tom going down to Tampa that is

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Speaker 2: you know, they they were loaded and ready to go.

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Speaker 1: Though, Rich Gannon.

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Speaker 2: Gannon was in a system in Minnesota that resembled a

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Speaker 2: lot of with with the with the Raiders and what

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Speaker 2: he was doing. What he was doing that resembling. And

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Speaker 2: I only know that because I was in both places,

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Speaker 2: because in Minnesota and I was in UH Oakland when

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Speaker 2: Rich came when Rich came in.

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Speaker 3: But when you look at Bryce Young, Okay, so they're

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Speaker 3: off to an O and six start, maybe it's too

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Speaker 3: early to say the systems a right fit or not.

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Speaker 3: I know they've got so much going on with their

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Speaker 3: offensive line. But with that being said, and you've got

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Speaker 3: dealt with so many quarterbacks, that's just you know, Meanwhile,

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Speaker 3: the Texans have a defensive minded coach, which people thought

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Speaker 3: that might be an issue, but when you look at

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Speaker 3: the sacks that Bryce Young is taken versus CJ. Stroud,

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Speaker 3: and we've had our own issues with the line, as

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Speaker 3: you well.

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Speaker 4: Know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: Does that tell you something just in comparing if you're

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Speaker 3: trying to make an apples apples comparison, how the two

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Speaker 2: Tells me something because our situation on the offensive line

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Speaker 2: here is worse, doesn't in Carolina. What CJ learned in

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Speaker 2: a very short period of time, and I expressed this

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Speaker 2: to them on the air yesterday and talking to him,

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Speaker 2: we hear the old adage of this guy doesn't make

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Speaker 2: the same mistakes twice. I am we are literally living

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Speaker 2: with that with CJ. He does not make the same

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Speaker 2: mistake twice. So if he's sacked by holding onto the

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Speaker 2: football too long, now he's starting to throw it away.

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Speaker 2: He didn't care about the percentage. He's under fifty percent

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Speaker 2: or sixty percent for the first time all year, and

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Speaker 2: that was because of the last game with New Orleans.

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Speaker 2: They're bringing heat, nobody's open thrown away lift to come

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Speaker 2: back on second and third down. That's the smart way

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Speaker 2: to play the position rather than taking sacks. Create momentum

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Speaker 2: for the other team, because that's what sacks do. He's

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Speaker 2: learned that in a very short period of time and

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Speaker 2: knowing how to protect the football, get it out, get

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Speaker 2: it away, un let's come back on the next down.

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Speaker 2: A lot of quarterbacks don't learn that. They think they

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Speaker 2: can outrun everything because they did it on the college level.

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Speaker 2: They think they can escape from everything because they did

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Speaker 2: it on the This is a totally different animal. CJ

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Speaker 2: realizes that I don't quite know that Bryce has gotten

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Speaker 3: Because when you look at their sack numbers, Bryce Young

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Speaker 3: has sixteen sacks on the season, and I just for

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Speaker 3: some reason thought that Stroud's was super low. But Stroud

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Speaker 3: has thirteen sacks because he took a majority of them

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Speaker 3: in those first.

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Speaker 1: Times, those early weeks.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and then the last.

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Speaker 3: Four weeks just two sacks. And now the old line's

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Speaker 3: getting healthier. So a lot of it just is it

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Speaker 2: And it's been two weeks now than when DeShawn has

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Speaker 1: And keep in mind that week. I'm sure he's not

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Speaker 2: But there's the overriding factor three to one, two hundred

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Speaker 4: But what like, I cannot, for the life of me,

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Speaker 4: Why is he not?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely when you get to that level, we can we

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Speaker 3: Work hard, serve others. Repeat to Shaun Watson. Available on

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Speaker 3: Amazon for fifty percent off dre Yeah.

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Speaker 1: He probably.

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Speaker 3: And it's a weird situation because you're watching the Browns

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Speaker 2: Right, I I can honestly say that I didn't playoffs.

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Speaker 4: And you know what, the team is getting healthier too,

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Speaker 2: ready for what you're going to face. Somebody that's certainly

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Speaker 2: going to coach you harder.

439
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Speaker 1: Than I am. So if you can, you know, if

440
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Speaker 1: you can play for me, you can play for most coaches. Uh.

441
00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,200
Speaker 2: And I just left that actually a high school. That's

442
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Speaker 2: why I was kind of behind off schedule getting here, uh,

443
00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,080
Speaker 2: because I was speaking to a high school team Austin

444
00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:35,240
Speaker 2: High School out and but and some of those kids

445
00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,040
Speaker 2: have actually played a couple of kids on that team

446
00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:41,560
Speaker 2: played for me. But I'm also coaching years in advance

447
00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:45,120
Speaker 2: and giving knowledge for what you're going to face rather

448
00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,919
Speaker 2: than the immediate. And so you know, we we uh,

449
00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,720
Speaker 2: we press and we we play hard, and we play

450
00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,399
Speaker 2: that way for the entire portion of the game. And

451
00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,680
Speaker 2: my reason for doing that is, Yeah, you may be

452
00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:00,560
Speaker 2: up by twenty in this game, but the stuff that

453
00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:02,840
Speaker 2: you've done, some of the things that you've done in

454
00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:05,280
Speaker 2: this game against a better team is going to cost us,

455
00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,359
Speaker 2: and so I'm always that's that's my biggest fear is

456
00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,040
Speaker 2: that playing against a good competitive team, we make too

457
00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:12,840
Speaker 2: many mistakes and that costs us a game.

458
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Speaker 3: Is there a coach that you like that you really

459
00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:19,200
Speaker 3: responded to as a player, like a great style of coaching.

460
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Speaker 1: It's a great question. The harder you were on me,

461
00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:22,800
Speaker 1: the more I respond.

462
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Speaker 4: To you, that was you, because some players I think

463
00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:25,199
Speaker 4: don't respond.

464
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:27,560
Speaker 2: Well, you got you got moms that the minute you

465
00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,040
Speaker 2: raise your voice, it's like, how dare you talk to

466
00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,560
Speaker 2: my baby that way? Or you use you know that

467
00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:35,520
Speaker 2: you know, I've some of my best moments. I'm not

468
00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:38,760
Speaker 2: proud of them. I've I've dropped a profanity, you know,

469
00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:42,560
Speaker 2: laden whatever you want to call them. But that's when

470
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Speaker 2: my older kids, that's when they're fourteen and and uh,

471
00:21:46,119 --> 00:21:49,320
Speaker 2: they they're used to hearing those things. When the games

472
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Speaker 2: that he's talking about they were a little bit younger

473
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Speaker 2: at that point in time. Then you got to kind

474
00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:55,760
Speaker 2: of put your arm around them. But in a gym

475
00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,600
Speaker 2: that's loud and noisy and you got parents cheering is

476
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:01,920
Speaker 2: going to I'm across that I'm a little better. I'm

477
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,240
Speaker 2: not trying to I'm not trying to whisper or call

478
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,080
Speaker 2: you over. I'm going to give you instructions while the

479
00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:07,800
Speaker 2: game's going on.

480
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Speaker 4: Andy, what about you? Who did you respond to?

481
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Speaker 1: You know similar? I was the one like if you

482
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:14,240
Speaker 1: doll cussed me, and I know him in the wrong,

483
00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:16,480
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, I feel bad and I want to

484
00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:20,400
Speaker 1: make it better to go up to the shell. Then

485
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you. Tommy Brazier, when I was in Philadelphia,

486
00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,240
Speaker 1: I was having a decent run one year with my

487
00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:28,480
Speaker 1: sack total up, and I came off a game where

488
00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:31,119
Speaker 1: I think I had like three sacks and I was

489
00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:32,680
Speaker 1: defensive player of the week and he called me in

490
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Speaker 1: to his office and I was walking up there with

491
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Speaker 1: my chest out and he's an ex military flaws. I

492
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,240
Speaker 1: walked up there thinking he's about to pat me on

493
00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,960
Speaker 1: the back and tell me how great I'm playing and this,

494
00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:46,800
Speaker 1: that or the other. As soon as I sit down,

495
00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:48,640
Speaker 1: he says, this is why you'll never be as good

496
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Speaker 1: as Michael Sinclair and somebody he coached. And then he

497
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Speaker 1: just went on and on and talked about it. And

498
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Speaker 1: then on my way out, he was like Oh yeah,

499
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,840
Speaker 1: congrats on the war. So you know those type of coaches.

500
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Speaker 2: Keeping keeping you hungry, That's exactly what that was all about.

501
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 2: And a lot of coaches will play mental games. If

502
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 2: you've if you've been around guys that were on the

503
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,440
Speaker 2: Parcels staff, that's all they do. They play mental games

504
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:15,000
Speaker 2: like that all the time. All these playing them with

505
00:23:15,119 --> 00:23:17,920
Speaker 2: Russell uh Sean Paygnon's playing them with Russell Wilson in

506
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Speaker 2: Denver right this minute.

507
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Speaker 1: All right, well, we're not gonna play any games with you.

508
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Speaker 1: We'll get right back to Texans Huddle. He has been

509
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Speaker 1: trophy winner NFL Color and College Color Analyst. Andre Where

510
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 1: is sitting to my right, DP to my left. I'm

511
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Speaker 1: in D. This is Texans Huddle. Keep it right here,

512
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Speaker 1: Welcome in, Welcome back, Texans Huddle. I am in D.

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Speaker 1: She is DP and Andre Where sitting to my right.

514
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Speaker 1: As I was saying our names n D, DP and

515
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Speaker 1: Andre and Andre. Most guys is obviously you know this

516
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Speaker 1: don't go by their government name. But Andre were like,

517
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Speaker 1: was it a dub?

518
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:53,640
Speaker 3: Like? What was your.

519
00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:56,639
Speaker 1: Name or abbreviate?

520
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,359
Speaker 2: The very first nickname I ever had given to me

521
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,000
Speaker 2: by my great grandmother was and she said, it's too

522
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,000
Speaker 2: hard to say Andre, and it's too long to say it.

523
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:06,840
Speaker 2: So I'm calling him Andy. And how she did how

524
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 2: she got Andy out of Andre is beyond me. But

525
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:14,119
Speaker 2: that's stuck. So in my hometown, I was Andy Ware interesting,

526
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:18,040
Speaker 2: really or long before Andre. I think I graduated or

527
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Speaker 2: matured into Andre at some point because I was in

528
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Speaker 2: my hometown. If I'm walking right, walking the streets, riding

529
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Speaker 2: my bike, whatever, I'm Andy.

530
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:29,720
Speaker 1: About Dickinson High School. When you're making plays, did they

531
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:31,720
Speaker 1: say Andy Ware with the touchdown?

532
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 2: Teammates called me Andre, classmates call me Andre, anybody else?

533
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,199
Speaker 1: I was Andy Interesting?

534
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,159
Speaker 4: You so don't even look like an Andy to me?

535
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,080
Speaker 1: It was Andy, And I answered to him.

536
00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:48,880
Speaker 2: If you if you approached me or someone says Andy Ware,

537
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Speaker 2: I know they're from Dickinson, Texas, and I'm going to

538
00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:53,880
Speaker 2: turn around and greet and talk.

539
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,200
Speaker 1: And I know you're from my hometown. Otherwise you don't

540
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Speaker 1: know that interesting.

541
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Speaker 3: I was gonna ask you because I was reading great

542
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,879
Speaker 3: article on CJ. Strout on ESPN about his handshakes, So

543
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:04,920
Speaker 3: he has different handshakes with all the different players, and

544
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:06,359
Speaker 3: it got me thinking about you.

545
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:08,520
Speaker 4: When you threw touchdown passes.

546
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:09,520
Speaker 1: How did you like.

547
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,840
Speaker 3: What type of celebrations did you used to have? I uh,

548
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 3: one really am hoping that you were super flashy.

549
00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 1: Red I was.

550
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 2: I had one with Manny Hazard that when we connected,

551
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 2: we we we had a handshake. Aside from that, I

552
00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 2: just throw up the one to let you know that's

553
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 2: another one, and that was.

554
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: That was about it.

555
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:32,600
Speaker 2: But I tried to play the game as even keel

556
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,640
Speaker 2: as I possibly could. I never got too high from

557
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 2: throwing a touchdown pass and I never got too low

558
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 2: when I threw an interception, because you have to manage

559
00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 2: the game through the entire sixty minutes. That was my

560
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 2: advice to Donovan Smith right before kickoff at the U

561
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Speaker 2: of H Texas game.

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Speaker 1: Remain in the middle today.

563
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 2: There's gonna be a lot of stuff that goes on,

564
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,119
Speaker 2: and it will go it won't go your way, but

565
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 2: you've got to be the steady force, that guy that

566
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,920
Speaker 2: that kind of leads this in. Guys this ship and

567
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,399
Speaker 2: first pass out of the gate, he has a receiver

568
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:06,639
Speaker 2: open that it was a big drop. That was a

569
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 2: huge play right in the chest. Ball goes on the

570
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:12,000
Speaker 2: ground and he managed to come back from that and

571
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 2: even being down twenty one to nothing. He managed to

572
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 2: get just kind of stay steady and lead his team

573
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,439
Speaker 2: back where they had a chance to win it at

574
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Speaker 2: the end.

575
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Speaker 1: That's all.

576
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:22,640
Speaker 2: That's how you play the position because there's so many

577
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 2: things that go on around you that if you allow

578
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,159
Speaker 2: yourself out of that space and get too high and

579
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:32,440
Speaker 2: celebrating a touchdown or magical touch whatever it is, or

580
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,480
Speaker 2: you get too low because you've thrown an interception, guess

581
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,159
Speaker 2: what you're gonna You're not gonna play up to your capability.

582
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Speaker 3: I think that's probably gotta be one of the hardest

583
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 3: things as a quarterback. St when your receiver drops a

584
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Speaker 3: really wide.

585
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,320
Speaker 1: OA no in practice, I was a different animal.

586
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,160
Speaker 2: If you drop one of mine in practice, especially early

587
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,480
Speaker 2: in my career at U of H, I'd meet you

588
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 2: about halfway and I'm cussing as I'm coming towards you

589
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 2: because I'm trying to win this job.

590
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Speaker 1: I need that play man.

591
00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,640
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, and so uh Jason Phillips,

592
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:08,600
Speaker 2: Manny Hazard, James Dixon, they, Brian Williams, all of them

593
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 2: will tell you I was a different dude. If you

594
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,880
Speaker 2: put the ball on the ground in the game, catch

595
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 2: the damn ball man, And that's all I would tell.

596
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,439
Speaker 2: That's all I would say, Catch the damn ball if

597
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 2: you want it again, catch it.

598
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 1: Okay. What if they're open and for some reason you're

599
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:27,399
Speaker 1: thrown off pass, they might I'm not saying anything.

600
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 2: They might have something to say at that point, but

601
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 2: I'm not saying I might say my bad about it.

602
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 2: You know, I'm acknowledged that it was my fault, and

603
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 2: they did then, but I would still have something Snider.

604
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,520
Speaker 4: It's the etiquette. If it's your fault.

605
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,639
Speaker 3: The way the past goes, is the receiver allowed to

606
00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:48,920
Speaker 3: say words with the quarterback or no.

607
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,679
Speaker 2: They never did, and they probably know it's in their

608
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 2: best interest not to because it would lead somewhere based

609
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,280
Speaker 2: on how I was, how I was in that moment,

610
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 2: or eight quarterback is in that moment. So you just

611
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 2: you know the chemistry of whose fault it was. If

612
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 2: you were supposed to continue on the route that you

613
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:08,879
Speaker 2: cut off, and I threw to where I thought you

614
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,880
Speaker 2: were going, that's you, you know, And and he would

615
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:13,600
Speaker 2: come back to whoever it was, would come back and

616
00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 2: say my bad. If I did it where I threw

617
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,560
Speaker 2: behind you or whatever it was, I would acknowledge, Hey,

618
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 2: that's my bad. My fault won't happen again. But it's

619
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 2: when you try to deflect and you it's your fault

620
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 2: and you won't own it. With me, that's a different deal.

621
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 2: I mean, we're gonna have some words at that. What

622
00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 2: do you mean that that's not you? That is your fault?

623
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 2: And so we once you know my style though, I'm

624
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 2: easy to play with, all right. Speaking of styles, I've

625
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 2: been with different coaches. You've been and they all have

626
00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 2: different styles, different approaches. Coming off the bye week Texas,

627
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 2: coming off the bye week, part of me thinks what

628
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,360
Speaker 2: you should do early in the week, have a very

629
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 2: physical practice. I agree, not the I don't want to

630
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 2: use the word russ because I don't think RUSS develops

631
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 2: after just a week, but just to kind of shock

632
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 2: your heart, you'd be surprised. I hated bye weeks if

633
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 2: I was hot going in, I hated by weeks. Hated

634
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 2: them because once you get in a rhythm, it's hard

635
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 2: to recapture that.

636
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: Once you start getting in the flow of things.

637
00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 2: And football players are as superstitious as anybody else. We

638
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 2: wear the same socks and if we win, you don't

639
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,720
Speaker 2: wash whatever that superstition is. But I hated it when

640
00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 2: we were playing well as a team and we were

641
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:27,200
Speaker 2: really rolling, and then here comes the bye week and

642
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,400
Speaker 2: maybe we needed to heal up. Maybe we don't, but

643
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 2: I just hated it from the standpoint of what it

644
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 2: did to the rhythm that we'd establish.

645
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And then with your physical part of it,

646
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 1: I believe in that too.

647
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 2: You get right back into the grind of football and

648
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 2: let the entire team know this isn't the vacation that

649
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 2: you're just coming back from the couple of days that

650
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 2: I've given you off. It's time to get back to work.

651
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 2: And you immediately flip the switch in their minds of

652
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 2: it's time to get going again.

653
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,360
Speaker 4: Isn't that the Monday. Isn't that what the Monday practice

654
00:29:58,440 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 4: is for? That to knock off some rust?

655
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 3: You get an extra like a bonus day of practice,

656
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 3: and then you just hit your Wednesday Thursday, like.

657
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Speaker 1: You mean before the bye week after Like, how did

658
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Speaker 1: you do it?

659
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Speaker 4: Like when you're coming out of the bye week.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Andy Read was very liberal with

661
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Speaker 1: his bye weeks. If we were winning, he would give

662
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Speaker 1: us more off than any other coach I've ever been

663
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Speaker 1: around and what I'm talking about de people like you

664
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Speaker 1: mentioned four. So if we're winning and having a good year,

665
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Speaker 1: you have a winning record. We have record before the

666
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Speaker 1: bye week and we're coming off two three game win streak.

667
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Speaker 1: Not only will we get that entire week off, then

668
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Speaker 1: he'll tell us don't show up until like Wednesday, oh

669
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Speaker 1: the Wednesday that we have a game. Beautiful, But keep

670
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Speaker 1: in mind, you're gonna work when we have Brian Dawkins

671
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Speaker 1: as a leader, Troy Vincent, Uh, you know John Runying Uh.

672
00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 1: Donovan McNabb obviously was our quarterback. So we had guys

673
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Speaker 1: where even though we're not as a team, in that

674
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Speaker 1: weight room, there's about eighty percent of the guys in there.

675
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Speaker 1: You know, if you go into a meeting room, at

676
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Speaker 1: least half the guys are in there watching film.

677
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Speaker 2: Even though he's given you and that that's what being

678
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 2: a pro is all about. Right there, you're taking ownership

679
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 2: of of your career and the team at that point.

680
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 2: Next guys, that's what for And he's given it knowing

681
00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 2: that Brian.

682
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Speaker 4: They're still gonna come in.

683
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Speaker 2: Well, he's gonna yeah, they're coming in. Brian and those guys,

684
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 2: all the leaders that he talked about, hey man, let's go.

685
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Speaker 1: Get this lift.

686
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Speaker 4: It's almost better that way because then it's the players

687
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Speaker 4: wanting to come in.

688
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 2: You're not until the team the players lead the team,

689
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 2: it's not the leadership doesn't need to really come from

690
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 2: the head coach and the coaching staff. When the team

691
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Speaker 2: itself polices itself, that's when you have a good team.

692
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Speaker 1: Oh and don't let guys. So with that being said,

693
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Speaker 1: going into a game where we you we had the

694
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Speaker 1: bye week after, and we only got that if we

695
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,840
Speaker 1: were gonna win, you know, if we if we so

696
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: that week before the game, that's before the bye week,

697
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Speaker 1: if the practices aren't going away, it should be coach reed,

698
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: didn't have to say anything because the vet to want

699
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Speaker 1: at that time. One at the time, I mean, guys

700
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Speaker 1: would be like, look, I already got my f and

701
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 1: ticket out of here the game, Like I'm not getting

702
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: the reef. Like we need to pick it up and

703
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: practice and make sure that that's absolutely on top.

704
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Speaker 3: Did you guys often do the see of Wednesdays where

705
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Speaker 3: you don't come back Monday or Tuesday, like late in

706
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Speaker 3: the season if you're winning.

707
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we haven't seen those in a while.

708
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Speaker 2: I'd be in Atlantic City when that was see you Wednesday, fantastic,

709
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Speaker 2: straight to the airport.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, those are for me. I used to just stay put,

711
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: but just rest and just kind of take a mental break.

712
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Speaker 1: When you get those extra two days. You would have

713
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Speaker 1: played for Tom Coughlin then, could have or could not?

714
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,880
Speaker 1: You could have, yeah, because he wanted you to rest.

715
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 1: We go to camp and he would give us a

716
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Speaker 1: day off. One, you couldn't wear sunglasses around him. He

717
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 1: wanted to see everybody's eyes and look into your eyes

718
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: and whatever else he got from that. And the second

719
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 1: thing was if he gave you off, it was time

720
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Speaker 1: to rest. It was to rest, not to go play golf,

721
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Speaker 1: not to travel and go go out of town or

722
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Speaker 1: go rest, put your feet up. Oh I like that,

723
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Speaker 1: Like I never and keep him back in my day,

724
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: you know, training camp was really training sounds like what

725
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: it is now. I never understood when we did have

726
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: an afternoon off or day off and guys would just

727
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Speaker 1: go play. I was like, man, like I'm staying in bed,

728
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: Like I'm staying in bed and watching TV. So I

729
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: never quite understood how some of those guys had that

730
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: and you got the extra energy to go do x

731
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Speaker 1: Y and Z. All right, so big matchup. Is this

732
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Speaker 1: more fan based or will the players be thinking about

733
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Speaker 1: it because the Carolina Panthers obviously the next opponent, number

734
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,960
Speaker 1: one versus number two. Does that creep into CJ's mind

735
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: or Bryce Young's mind or is that just more fan

736
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Speaker 1: and media related?

737
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,640
Speaker 2: Well, I think it definitely is in their minds, and

738
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 2: they will forever be connected as one and two. And

739
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 2: obviously you're two, you want to out play one, and

740
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 2: you feel like going in that you have the better team,

741
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 2: but one, they feel like this is a getwill game

742
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:54,560
Speaker 2: for them with you coming into town. So there's gonna

743
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 2: always be that that competition, the quiet competition between the

744
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 2: two of them. They were in New York together and

745
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 2: Bryce beat CJ for the Heisman, beat him out of

746
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 2: the Heisman, so to speak. So this will on a

747
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 2: much lesser level, or a different level, so to speak.

748
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:15,879
Speaker 2: This this will be a this will be a good

749
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Speaker 2: one for CJ to put on his on his belt.

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Speaker 3: I'm Mark and I were discussing this early Mark Vandermuer

751
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Speaker 3: and he's he's very worried about this game.

752
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 4: He said, oh and six record, but they're coming off

753
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Speaker 4: of bye as.

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Speaker 2: Well, and they led who was it in their last

755
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 2: game for Miami? Yeah, yeah, and fourteen nothing in their

756
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 2: last game.

757
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Speaker 4: Points. It's not like they're getting shut out in these

758
00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 4: They're getting better, is what they are. Progressively.

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Speaker 3: They're changed their play caller, So now Thomas Brown's calling

760
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 3: the place, Frank Reich's doing some things differently. I mean,

761
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Speaker 3: you never know, they might be close to turning it around.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: At the end of the day, though, Frank is still

764
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 2: the guy who's got to make the decisions to go

765
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Speaker 2: for it on fourth down, to kick a field goal

766
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Speaker 2: or not kick a field goal, And he's analyticed up

767
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,759
Speaker 2: as much as anybody that I've ever seen. He uses

768
00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 2: that so much, so sometimes I think in the well,

769
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Speaker 2: he basically gave us a game last year because of it,

770
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Speaker 2: and I want to say the year before as well.

771
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Speaker 2: But he's still making decisions that are going to affect

772
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Speaker 2: what that football team does, whether he's the play caller

773
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Speaker 2: or not. I don't know that that matters in the

774
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 2: grand scheme of things, other than from an experienced standpoint,

775
00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 2: or you've seen certain things that you can adjust to

776
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 2: right on the spot. If you're an experienced play caller,

777
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,839
Speaker 2: that's not the case for Carolina right now, but they are.

778
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 2: They have been playing a little bit better, and they

779
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 2: look at this team as the Texans, as their get

780
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 2: well game and a game that they feel.

781
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 1: Like they can get. We talked a lot of quarterback,

782
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:44,760
Speaker 1: obviously with you with CJ. Stroud, the position you played,

783
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 1: but the running back Damie appears as a guy that

784
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,880
Speaker 1: most defensive players fell in love with his style of

785
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 1: play last year. It doesn't feel like you're seeing that

786
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: same intensity, but you know he's a guy that wants

787
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: to you know, he's got to put some work. What's different?

788
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 1: What do you see that's different.

789
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 2: From the intensity is still there, The ability to run

790
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 2: is still there. He's not And I answered this question

791
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:11,479
Speaker 2: yesterday as well, when you have a makeshift offensive line

792
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 2: and as a running back, they feel it more than

793
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 2: the quarterback because the holes just aren't there and so

794
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,839
Speaker 2: you're running into a wall over and over and over again,

795
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 2: or you're having to make a guy miss two yards

796
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 2: in the backfield when you just got the ball. So

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Speaker 2: I don't care if it's Bo Jackson, I don't care

798
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Speaker 2: if it's Marcus Allen. I don't care who it is.

799
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Speaker 2: If you are having problems up front with the five

800
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 2: guys in front of you. It doesn't matter who the

801
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 2: running back is. And so that's the difference in this

802
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 2: year's version of Damian Pierce and last year's version of Damien.

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Speaker 1: It's funny there's one name you didn't mention that you

804
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 1: didn't care. I Thinkry Sanders. Yeah, there's only one man

805
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 1: because he can make a mission. There's only one guy.

806
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: He can make a miss and then still go eighty

807
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:57,280
Speaker 1: for all the people under I guess thirty five, probably

808
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: even let maybe forty who never really saw him. I'm

809
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 1: not talking about highlights and going to pull it out,

810
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 1: go pull it up and just he would make four

811
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Speaker 1: or five guys. He would have the most magical two

812
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: yard game. I mean I've seen some.

813
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Speaker 2: And then even away from the football field, he's one

814
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 2: of the best athletes I've ever seen. We go to

815
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:25,120
Speaker 2: play pick up basketball at Oakland University off he's just

816
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 2: dunking ind He's standing flat footed under the basket, going

817
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 2: straight up at five to eight. Now, I've never seen

818
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,399
Speaker 2: Barry talk noise about football ever in my life. He's

819
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 2: the most humble guy he would ever meet, until you

820
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 2: put a basketball in his hand.

821
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Speaker 1: He thinks he's Magic Johnson.

822
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Speaker 2: And more trash on a basketball court than anybody I've

823
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 2: ever played with.

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Speaker 1: All Right, that's the ninja in him. I'll let y'all

825
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:53,479
Speaker 1: figure that one out, quick time out. One more segments ago,

826
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Speaker 1: Texas huddle. Right here, Welcome man, welcome back. One more

827
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Speaker 1: segment to go, Texans huddle. Coming off the bye week.

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans hot going into the bye week, and the

829
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Speaker 1: hope is they stay hot as they're about to take

830
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Speaker 1: on the Carolina Panthers. Talked a lot of offense, talked

831
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,439
Speaker 1: a lot of quarterback running back, But the real side

832
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:18,040
Speaker 1: of the ball, the defensive side of the ball, the

833
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: side that we all love, the defensive side. When you

834
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 1: when you look at this Texan defense, dre and obviously

835
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 1: you study both sides of the ball. Where you know what,

836
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 1: because we've been it's been all rainbows and butterflies. Right now,

837
00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: where do you want to see more improvement after the

838
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: bye week on the defensive side of the ball.

839
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Speaker 2: It doesn't be specific. The ability to stop the running Okay,

840
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 2: that's it. This is run stop in the front seven

841
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 2: has got to get better. I mean, it's this is

842
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 2: what this league is built on and about, and if

843
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 2: you can't stop it.

844
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Speaker 1: You're gonna bleed.

845
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 2: You're gonna you're gonna live or bleed a slow death

846
00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 2: every single week. And that's just how teams once they

847
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 2: sense it. Everybody's got a good running back or one

848
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 2: that is accomplished enough to hurt you for sixty minutes.

849
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 2: And so I think we saw that last year at

850
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 2: the tune of one hundred and seventy yards per clip,

851
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 2: which is unbelievable to me. Those numbers are down, they're

852
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 2: playing better. They held Kamara and check this past game

853
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 2: or the last game that they had, and he is

854
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 2: as elite as they get at that position. So you

855
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,799
Speaker 2: feel like going forward they're they're going to be able

856
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 2: to get a handle on it. But that's the one

857
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,359
Speaker 2: area where you want to be dominant in and that's

858
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 2: that's where.

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00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: They need to get to.

860
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Speaker 3: What about the secondary, it seemed like would Derek Stingle

861
00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,879
Speaker 3: and Derek stingely I feel like, should be coming back

862
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 3: offer soon hopefully, But in the case that since he

863
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 3: hasn't through these first six games, what do you see

864
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 3: from like Steven Nelson and Shaq Griffin and those.

865
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 2: Guys they've stepped up Nelson's obviously leading the team in

866
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 2: interceptions with three, and Shaq Griffin is so long it's

867
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 2: hard to get open on him. So I don't know

868
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:01,840
Speaker 2: that they've missed uh Stingley much. To be quite honest

869
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 2: with you, they really haven't missed him. The secondary is

870
00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:08,479
Speaker 2: playing well. Jimmy Ward being back, that's that's he's playing

871
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 2: some outstanding football. And then Petris is the one of

872
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 2: the best in the secondary and or one of the

873
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 2: best in the entire league at his position, and how

874
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,959
Speaker 2: he's being utilized has helped him as well. Right around

875
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage, he's involved in a lot of tackles,

876
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,480
Speaker 2: but on the back end he can defend the pass

877
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 2: as well. So the secondary, I think is one of

878
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,880
Speaker 2: the strong suits of this team is the guys in

879
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 2: front of them that really have to have to step up.

880
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,359
Speaker 1: You said some interesting things about the run game from

881
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 1: a quarterbacks perspective. If you are finding your running back

882
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:41,839
Speaker 1: picking up four yards five years job, so much to ask,

883
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 1: so much easier. Do you tell the coach he let's

884
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 1: keep running. Yeah, absolutely, don't get out of this.

885
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 2: Let's just make him make him quick, Because you can

886
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 2: literally make a team quit by running the football at

887
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 2: him over and over and over again and having success

888
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 2: those three four five yard carries over and over again.

889
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 2: That's debilitating. That just wears you down. Yes, and if

890
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:07,279
Speaker 2: you're doing it with with tempo to go along with it,

891
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:11,319
Speaker 2: that that gets it there even faster. So uh yeah,

892
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 2: it's it's that's why it's said that it's a quarterback's

893
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 2: best friend, along with a tight end. I don't know

894
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 2: that because I didn't play with a whole lot of

895
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 2: I can.

896
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:21,239
Speaker 1: Tell you the running game does.

897
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 2: And it makes play action a whole lot easier because

898
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 2: once you show the football linebackers got to respect it.

899
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 2: If you're hitting them for four yards of carry, you

900
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:31,880
Speaker 2: pull it out. Now you've got Dalton Schultz up to

901
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 2: up the seam or in the middle of the field.

902
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:37,479
Speaker 2: If you're just dropping back and they dropped, draw plays work,

903
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:41,360
Speaker 2: all that good stuff. It just all mixes and messages together.

904
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 4: How to switching the running backs change up the rhythm

905
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 4: of the run game. Because with the they didn't.

906
00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought they did an outstanding job.

907
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 2: I gave Danny Barrett a lot of credit on the

908
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 2: air based on the substitution pattern that they've had. Obviously,

909
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:57,160
Speaker 2: Pierces is the main back and he's going to get

910
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 2: the bulk of the carries. But Singletary got hot the

911
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 2: day against New Orleans, and I like the fact that

912
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 2: they left him in when he got hot, to hey,

913
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:08,239
Speaker 2: you know, we got a makeshift offensive line. He may

914
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 2: read it or see something that piercedn't seeing right now,

915
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 2: and it might help him. What it also does is

916
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 2: it gives you a fresh back every single time to

917
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 2: keep coming out of defense with. And so Singletary stepping

918
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 2: up in that game it was huge, huge, and I

919
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 2: think they just by accident ended up with thirteen carries.

920
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:28,279
Speaker 1: Apiece. I want to get your take on this. What

921
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: are some of the trappings of a young quarterback having success.

922
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:36,240
Speaker 1: We've seen Carson Wentz go from face of the league

923
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:42,919
Speaker 1: to I don't even know what right now amazing. We've

924
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,960
Speaker 1: seen where at one point Gardner mentioned you was going

925
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 1: to be the next Tom Brady because of his story,

926
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 1: and now he's playing. But what do you tell a

927
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: young quarterback that's experienced some success early on to make

928
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 1: sure that they can maintain that.

929
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 2: That makes sure you continue to study, make sure you

930
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,759
Speaker 2: study every single week. But because you're not going to

931
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 2: see the same. Whatever you see that's consistent from week

932
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 2: to week, it's what that team did that was successful

933
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 2: against you, that's going to be in their game plan defensively,

934
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 2: and you're going to see something else that you hadn't seen.

935
00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 2: It takes years of experience before you or years of

936
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:20,480
Speaker 2: playing before you get the experience where you've seen it all,

937
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 2: or you've seen most things that they can throw at you.

938
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:25,359
Speaker 2: You're not seeing that, certainly as a rookie or as

939
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:29,839
Speaker 2: a young player that is doing it for the first time.

940
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:34,879
Speaker 2: So study hard every single week. My philosophy was once

941
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:38,760
Speaker 2: the season started, the outside world didn't exist. I became

942
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 2: a very bored, boring person to be around because it

943
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,800
Speaker 2: was football. I was either at the facility, I was

944
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 2: either studying. When I was at home. I was either

945
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:49,400
Speaker 2: watching film when I was at home. It was something

946
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 2: that was football related. And then when the season was over,

947
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 2: you get back to living your life. Because you only

948
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,879
Speaker 2: get that small amount that small window for a very

949
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 2: small amount of time, You've got to try to maximize

950
00:44:01,719 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 2: it as a young player, So don't think that you've

951
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 2: seen anything that's going to make you comfortable that you

952
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 2: automatically assume, oh, they run cover one, but they may

953
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:12,879
Speaker 2: get to cover one in a totally different manner than

954
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 2: what that team you played last week got.

955
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 1: To it in. Do you think that's the problem with

956
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: some of these guys. I know, yeah, I think so.

957
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 2: But you get comfortable in your surroundings and and think

958
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 2: that you've had some success, the game is going to

959
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:28,800
Speaker 2: be easy for you. You still have to study because

960
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 2: one defensive coordinator to the next, they do not think alike.

961
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,439
Speaker 2: It's totally different. They're all going to put their spin

962
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:39,399
Speaker 2: on certain defenses that you might deem as basic. They're

963
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 2: going to make it look like something else just to

964
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 2: try to mess with you. So you got to figure

965
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 2: out what that tail is that they're going to give you,

966
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 2: and that's what you study film for.

967
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:48,240
Speaker 1: Are the tails?

968
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 3: As a quarterback, was there any particular type of coverage

969
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,319
Speaker 3: or something you'd see and you're like, yes, this is.

970
00:44:56,360 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 2: One, yeah, one safety in the middle. We played Texas

971
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,880
Speaker 2: this I'm going to go back to college first. We

972
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 2: would play Texas and they thought they could play us

973
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 2: in man to man because, as I said, that was

974
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 2: their arrogance. They could line up and this is u

975
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 2: of ah. These little receivers We're gonna just kill him

976
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 2: with man and man and we would just throw corner outs.

977
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 2: Then when they start overplaying the corner, we give you

978
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 2: a nod to the corner and go to the post.

979
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 2: There guy's going still running to the corner, and I'm

980
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 2: throwing touchdown passes in the middle of the field.

981
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: I mean, it was that.

982
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,360
Speaker 2: That was the defense I loved, and I knew we

983
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:32,359
Speaker 2: could block it up and I knew they couldn't stay

984
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 2: with our receivers. I also knew the chemistry that we'd

985
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 2: built so based on the wiggle that Jason would give.

986
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 2: I knew which direction he was going right or left.

987
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:45,320
Speaker 2: It was that kind of chemistry, and you have to

988
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:47,919
Speaker 2: have it in a passing offense, otherwise you got balls

989
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 2: sailing all over the place. But we were able to

990
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 2: kind of capture lightning in a bottles.

991
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 1: Statement. You got to make stop and let people gnawing it. Like,

992
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: really think about what he said that as a quarterback,

993
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: you can see the juke move, which is left, right, left, right,

994
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:06,919
Speaker 1: and determine which way you're going to people.

995
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 2: We would actually we would actually tell people in interviews. Uh,

996
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 2: I would say I knew where he was going before

997
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 2: he did wow. And there was a pass that proved

998
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 2: it against Texas where I was getting hit and I

999
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 2: just put the ball where I thought he was going.

1000
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 2: And I just laid there listening for the reaction of

1001
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:26,560
Speaker 2: the crowd. And when I heard our crowd react, I

1002
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 2: knew what had happened. It was a touchdown.

1003
00:46:28,040 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 1: Path Is that from.

1004
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 2: Practice, practice, all over and all that's that goes all

1005
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,360
Speaker 2: the way back to summer workouts where you're not just

1006
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 2: out throwing balls and throwing routes. That's what and I

1007
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 2: tell people all the time there are guys about ninety

1008
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 2: percent of the guys in the NFL are running plays.

1009
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 2: The other ten percent are playing quarterback. You start playing

1010
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 2: quarterback when when all the things that we just described,

1011
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:54,360
Speaker 2: and you know, knowing where your receivers are in the summers,

1012
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 2: ironing out how he's going to break routes off or

1013
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 2: come back to me on a simple all route, it

1014
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 2: becomes a comeback to keep the defender, but your body

1015
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:09,120
Speaker 2: between the defender and the football. That's playing quarterback stuff.

1016
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 1: CJ.

1017
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 2: Stroud's doing anticipating. That's playing quarterback. He's not just running

1018
00:47:13,680 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 2: plays anymore. That's hard to get to, especially early well.

1019
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:19,719
Speaker 1: There's ninety percent people who just talking Mike's and ten

1020
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 1: percent of us doing the actual pot. That's what we're

1021
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: doing here in Texas. She's DP. I'm ind that's been

1022
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 1: the great Andre where that's gonna do it for us?

1023
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 3: All Access coming up, that's right, Texans, All Axis coming

1024
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:33,320
Speaker 3: up in Texans matchup after that.

1025
00:47:33,520 --> 00:47:35,359
Speaker 1: Awesome. Thanks enjoyed it, guys,