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Speaker 1: What is up? Everybody?

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

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Speaker 2: the Honday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris,

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Speaker 2: football analyst, sideline reporter, and I'm gonna have you probably

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Speaker 2: for about the next six hours. Now, all Access is

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Speaker 2: not six hours. All Access is from six to eight.

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Speaker 2: By eight o'clock, Brett Dolan and myself take over on

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Speaker 2: sports Radio six to ten. We've got the tax Act

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Speaker 2: Texas Bowl, Oklahoma State taking on Texas, A and M

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Speaker 2: right here at a RG Stadium. So long day at

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Speaker 2: the stadium, but always a great one to be able

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Speaker 2: to cover the bowl game. We had our Sunday game

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Speaker 2: against the Browns. We've got our Wednesday night game, the

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Speaker 2: Taxak Texas Bowl. We got our Sunday game against the Titans.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully we'll come out of there one and one. But

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Speaker 2: hopefully tonight there will be a tremendous football game. Conic

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Speaker 2: last year last year's game, as I said, I think

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Speaker 2: last night on radio, it was it was all over

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Speaker 2: the place. I think I used the word drunk. It

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Speaker 2: was crazy. There were so many things happening. There was

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Speaker 2: Link Kiffin going for it. I was on fourteen yard

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Speaker 2: line and fourth down. There's crazy stuff that happened throughout

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Speaker 2: that game last year, and there'll probably be some of

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Speaker 2: those fireworks tonight with A and M taking on Oklahoma State.

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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna be with you for the next six hours.

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Speaker 2: Brett will do most of the talking during the game,

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Speaker 2: so it'd be good. Give me a little bit of

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Speaker 2: a rest, but we got plenty for you tonight. In

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Speaker 2: the show, we're gonna hear a little bit from Kareem Jackson.

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Speaker 2: Drew Doherty caught up with him in the locker room

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Speaker 2: exclusive the one on one a little cutlet with him.

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Speaker 2: Marxis stop by. We're gonna have some thoughts on practice,

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Speaker 2: what we saw at practice day.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about practice. What we saw practice today.

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Speaker 2: Some good things still, some things that have got to

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Speaker 2: be worked out. They have to do with injuries and such,

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Speaker 2: but one big one. We'll talk about that a little

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Speaker 2: bit later. The slant tonight is Andrew Beck with Stephanie Gonzalez.

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Speaker 2: Shi does a great job with Andrew Beck, Walsavilo in

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Speaker 2: the Lab of My Man, Drew Doherty Mike Keith two

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Speaker 2: weeks later, Men behind the Mikes. One of the things

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Speaker 2: that Mike says in this inn is pretty interesting because

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Speaker 2: if you think the Texans are banged up, holy smokes,

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Speaker 2: look at the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 1: They are mega banged up, like beyond banged up.

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Speaker 2: They just put three guys on IR and Jeffrey Simmons

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Speaker 2: is one of them.

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Speaker 1: Oh boy wow. So there's a lot going on with that.

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Speaker 2: But we kick off every Wednesday show with Nick Cassio.

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Speaker 1: Now I was.

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Speaker 2: Doing radio over Exports Radio six ten on Tuesday, so

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Speaker 2: I was not part of the interview here with Nick.

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Speaker 2: So that's one thing they're gonna miss me. They already

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Speaker 2: know that they're gonna miss me. Here's the second thing.

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Speaker 2: They did an interview on Tuesday Caream Jackson. Information claiming

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Speaker 2: him on waivers didn't happen until Tuesday evening, So we

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Speaker 2: didn't talk about this waiver acquisition waiver claim of Cream

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Speaker 2: Jackson with Nick Cassario. So it's not as if Mark

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Speaker 2: was just devoid it. It was just we did this

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Speaker 2: on Tuesday, and we always played on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Are we clear? Okay?

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Speaker 2: Thought we would be. So here's Nick Casario sitting now

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Speaker 2: with mart Vander Beer and here.

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Speaker 3: We are on the Hunday Texans Radio studio with executive

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Speaker 3: vice president and general manager Nick Cassario.

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Speaker 4: Nick, how's it going.

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Speaker 3: Happy to hear Mary Christmas, same view and no Johnny

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Speaker 3: Harris today, So it's next man up.

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Speaker 4: I'm the next man up here, Nick.

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Speaker 5: So you'll do yourself very well, No worried.

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Speaker 3: I'll ask you about the opponent question and all that.

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Speaker 3: But let's start with I know we have the Titans

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Speaker 3: coming up, but the Cleveland Browns game obviously did not

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Speaker 4: A lot to handle with Joe Flack own company.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, bottom line is Cleveland played better than we did.

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Speaker 6: They made a lot of plays. We didn't make enough plays,

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Speaker 6: But the explosive plays were a big part of We

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Speaker 5: Of the game, you know, the ball goes over our heads.

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Speaker 6: So I think there's things we can certainly learn from

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Speaker 6: moving forward. So it's always disappointing anytime you lose. But

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Speaker 6: the reality is we got to flip the page and

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Speaker 6: get ready for you know, a good opponent that we

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Speaker 3: We talk about every week being different, but is every

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Speaker 3: you have the Titans, who you just got ready for

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Speaker 6: Yeah, good or bad, whatever happens that game, you don't

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Speaker 6: be some things schematically that you're not going to deal with.

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Speaker 6: And I think as you transition to playing a team

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Speaker 6: So I think you just go back and sort of

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Speaker 6: team that you've recently played. There are some things that

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Speaker 6: came up in the game both ways that we can

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Speaker 6: certainly learn from. And I think big things just refamiliarizing yourself,

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Speaker 6: reorientating yourself with the opponent, and then just some of

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Speaker 6: the personnel changes that they've made. So that's the way

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Speaker 6: that the league is built. You have seventeen opportunities essentially

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Speaker 6: over the course of the year, and whatever happens that

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Speaker 3: All right, we're not going to talk about injuries, but

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Speaker 3: what happens when injuries occur. For instance, in that game

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Speaker 3: for a big chunk of it, you're out there with

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Speaker 3: the team when the season began. But that's life in

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Speaker 3: the NFL sometimes, Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 6: I mean, you have contingency plans in place as best

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Speaker 6: Do we have to get through a period of time

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Speaker 6: whatever happens offensive defensively, you have to look at the

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Speaker 4: Well, here we are, it's to holiday season.

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Speaker 3: We acknowledge the work of a lot of people in

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Speaker 3: on injured players. Nick, can you take us inside a

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Speaker 3: little bit to paint the picture of what happens when

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Speaker 3: a player is recovering from an injury. I know it

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Speaker 6: No absolute, it's very comprehensive. So you have the initial diagnosis,

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Speaker 6: And then once a player is diagnosed and whatever they're

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Speaker 5: Play sort of protocol that process.

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Speaker 6: So there's various touch points and depending on where they

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Speaker 6: If you know the player is really not going to

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Speaker 6: there's another stuff that's involved, but there's a lot of people.

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Speaker 6: We've allocate a lot of time and resources to that

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Speaker 5: I think the players are appreciative.

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Speaker 6: We're certainly appreciative ownership giving us the opportunity to do so,

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Speaker 6: and if we have to air on the side of caution.

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Speaker 6: I think our thought process has been maybe let's hold

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Speaker 3: All Right, so game planning, and I know we talked

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Speaker 3: Knowing who's available, it does affect things as you face

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you have your core plan in place, and then

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Speaker 5: So injuries are always very fluid.

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Speaker 5: We went through that.

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Speaker 6: Going back to the Atlanta game, we had a situation

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Speaker 3: And it's hard to measure that kind of stuff. You

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Tennessee is a good team.

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Speaker 3: Okay, it's time for the Tennessee question. And I know

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Speaker 4: You got to be ready for anything.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, No, Derek's a good back. It's been a good

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Speaker 5: There's just not a revolving door.

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Speaker 4: How hard is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't the showing you wanted against the Browns,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think in the preseason you're just focused on

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Speaker 5: But we're very fortunate.

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Speaker 6: We're expecting the good football team to come in here,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we're gonna flip the page here very quickly whenever

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Speaker 6: so that whenever we do add the player to the team,

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Speaker 6: we have an understanding of really what we're getting when

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Speaker 6: that player walks in.

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Speaker 4: All right, it is New Year's New Year's resolution.

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Speaker 5: I don't do resolutions.

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Speaker 4: Well, I was going to say.

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Speaker 3: I was going to say, a guy like you understands

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Speaker 3: that you could start a new thing at any time

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Speaker 3: of year, Right, you don't have to wait for January one.

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Speaker 3: Is that how you see life in general?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, my life is one day at a time, So

451
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Speaker 6: try to have a consistent routine, and that's where the

452
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Speaker 6: focus is not all of a sudden when the new

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Speaker 6: year starts, we could flip the calendar and all of

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Speaker 6: a sudden, we're going to change. So just try to

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Speaker 6: be consistent in everything that you know we're trying to do.

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Speaker 6: So maybe I can do some things on the home front.

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Speaker 6: So maybe that'll be my resolution for the year. But no,

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Speaker 6: it's always good to kind of turn the page on

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Speaker 6: two only through with a lot to be thankful for

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Speaker 6: over this past year, and hopefully we have a lot

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Speaker 6: more to be thankful about, and then the new year

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Speaker 6: whenever that comes about.

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Speaker 3: Aside from the way you were raised, though, do you

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Speaker 3: feel like having played sports as a kid helps you

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Speaker 3: as an adult when you're trying to start a new

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Speaker 3: routine and break in a new good habit in your life.

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Speaker 1: Sure.

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Speaker 6: I mean sports have been a huge part of my

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Speaker 6: life since I started playing baseball when I was six

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Speaker 6: years old, so I mean played six, seven, eight year

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Speaker 6: old baseball and then got into fifth, sixth and grade.

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Speaker 6: Started play football when I was in fifth grade, and

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Speaker 6: my thought ross was to just kind of go from

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Speaker 6: one season to the next, So you go from football

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Speaker 6: in the fall the basketball, so having to go through there,

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Speaker 6: it takes a certain amount of discipline, and you have

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Speaker 6: to get on a schedule, and you got to make

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Speaker 6: sacrifices and it's all tied together.

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Speaker 5: So I was fortunate.

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Speaker 6: I was raised the right way by my mom and

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Speaker 6: dad and to emphasize the things that are important. And

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Speaker 6: you know, once I started an athletic career, you know,

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Speaker 6: and I think what you're trying to do is you

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Speaker 6: go if you're looking for ways to modify, adjust, and

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Speaker 6: I think that's all all of us and whatever line

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Speaker 6: of work that we're in. I'm sure I'm different, you know,

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Speaker 6: than I was ten years ago relative to my thought process,

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Speaker 6: relative to a lot, but I think that's part of

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Speaker 6: learning and growing and developing. But when you have that

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Speaker 6: foundation in place, I mean, it's I don't want to

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Speaker 6: say it makes it a little bit easier, but you know,

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Speaker 6: you learned an early age just to kind of balance

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Speaker 6: multiple things. So very fortunate to you know, be raised

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Speaker 6: the right way and to be involved in sports. And

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Speaker 6: I've loved sports since I was a little kid. It

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Speaker 6: had been a big part of my life, without a question.

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Speaker 3: Well, thanks so much for the time, Nick, Happy New

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Speaker 3: Year and looking forward to Sunday against the Titans.

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Speaker 5: Good thank you, Mark Man.

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Speaker 1: It's so sad and i'd be on that interview. I

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Speaker 1: hate that.

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Speaker 2: But I got a chance to do some radio with

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Speaker 2: Adams playing on Tuesday, so I jumped all over that. Man,

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Speaker 2: a lot of radio. I was on seven hours yesterday

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Speaker 2: for that Adam tend to two. Then we did two

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Speaker 2: hours from six to eight, and then we have matchup

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Speaker 2: after that, almost as many today two and probably a

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Speaker 2: game about three and a half to four hours tonight.

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Speaker 2: So a lot of radio and I'm not sorry about it. Sorry,

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Speaker 2: not sorry, just talking a lot of football and that's

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Speaker 2: what we do on this show. But it was great

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Speaker 2: to get Nick on the show with us. He's always

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Speaker 2: great and I will be back next week. It was

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Speaker 2: just a one time thing and we'll be back with

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Speaker 2: Nick next week. The three best friends anyone could ever have, Me,

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Speaker 2: Nick and Mark. Okay, we get back. There's a lot

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Speaker 2: going on in the NFL, including a major quarterback decision

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Speaker 2: in Denver, a quarterback decision made in Washington. Yes, the

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Speaker 2: Commander's making moves and things happening, and a lot going

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Speaker 2: on around the league. I get Mark Vandermier's gut reaction

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Speaker 2: to around the NFL happenings next right here on Texans

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Speaker 2: All Access. Welcome back to Wednesday night edition of Texans

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Speaker 2: All Access.

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Speaker 1: Smart Vanmier, John Harris with you for this one.

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Speaker 2: And there's a lot of news going around in the

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Speaker 2: NFL today, Mark, and it's a lot of quarterback news.

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Speaker 1: Now, we talked about CJ.

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Speaker 2: Stroud a little bit, a little bit earlier in the

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Speaker 2: show back at practice today. A great, great sign move

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Speaker 2: in the right direction. That is good to see. Now

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Speaker 2: we're gonna do Mark vandermir gut reaction. Okay, it's always right,

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Speaker 2: It's always right, Yes.

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Speaker 4: One hundred how about this fifty percent of the time.

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Speaker 3: It's right all of the time. Okay, Okay, my gut

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Speaker 3: reaction of things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So this one is it's got a lot of layers.

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Speaker 2: What I'm about to read to you has a lot

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Speaker 2: of different layers, so you can hit on any number

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Speaker 2: of things you'd like to hit on with this.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Okay.

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Speaker 2: This is from Ian Rapaport on the situation in Denver. Okay, Okay,

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Speaker 2: Ian Rapaport sources which now we know is all the sources.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The Broncos are in fact benching Russell Wilson for the

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Speaker 2: final two games, preserving their financial flexibility for the offseason.

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Speaker 2: Jarrett Stidham starts, Yeah, your gut reaction, because there's a

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Speaker 2: lot there in that particular sentence.

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Speaker 3: Well, the contract situation plays into this for sure, correct, right,

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Speaker 3: And he talked about they don't want to just sustain

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Speaker 3: a big time injury and have to keep him and

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Speaker 3: guarantee that salary to do in March when that clock

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Speaker 3: starts taking with the new league year. So it makes

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Speaker 3: sense when you're in their situation right here. Look, they

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Speaker 3: are the twelfth seed right now, and we all know

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Speaker 3: who's beaten them. It is not going to be an

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Speaker 3: easy march, So why not just sit rustle down?

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Speaker 4: It's not going well, right It was going well for

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Speaker 4: a while, but.

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Speaker 3: It's not going well right now, and they'll put Stidham

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Speaker 3: instead OF's not the answer to anything, you would think.

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Speaker 3: As much as I like his father in law, Tad Brown,

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Speaker 3: the CEO of the Philadelphia seventy six ers and the

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Speaker 3: New Jersey Devils last I checked, formerly of the Houston Rockets, correct,

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Speaker 3: but I don't think he's the answer to any of

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Speaker 3: their problems either. It'll be really interesting to follow what

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Speaker 3: they do at quarterback of the offseason. Yeah, sit them down.

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Speaker 3: Look the Broncos, Johnny, We've talked about this. This is

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Speaker 3: nothing personal against on Peyton, just him as a football persona.

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Speaker 3: I kind of love seeing the Broncos and him be miserable.

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Speaker 4: I just enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: I just do.

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Speaker 3: And I loved beating them here. Kareem didn't play in

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Speaker 3: that game, by the way. Now he's in Houston, Texan.

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Speaker 3: Be funny to get his thoughts. I don't know if

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Speaker 3: we'll get the true candid thoughts, especially while the team's

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Speaker 3: in season, but we'll see. But my gut reaction is good,

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Speaker 3: sit them down, lose these last two.

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Speaker 4: Wait, who do they have? Do we need them to

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Speaker 4: beat anybody?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Man, if I have to go back into the playoff machine,

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Speaker 2: but we've been hours in that thing already.

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Speaker 3: It's so much fun, though. It's so much fun to

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Speaker 3: analyze everything is and the NFL tie breaking procedure. If

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Speaker 3: you own a foreign business on American soil and have

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Speaker 3: to do the tax return, it's less complicated than interpreting

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Speaker 3: the tie breaking procedure. They've got the Chargers and the Raiders,

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Speaker 3: by the way, and we actually that last game of

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Speaker 3: the year, go Broncoss the Raiders. Stidham's revenge against the Raiders. Yes,

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Speaker 3: how about this though?

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Speaker 2: What if I told you that Russell Wilson's numbers in

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Speaker 2: the last four games oney fourteen passing yards, nine touchdowns,

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Speaker 2: two interceptions.

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Speaker 3: All right, in the last how many games for and

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Speaker 3: that includes the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: Yep?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but what do you do against the Houston Texans?

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Speaker 7: Right?

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Speaker 2: How did that game end? And I think that's it.

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Speaker 2: I mean people are saying, hey, his numbers were pretty good.

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Speaker 2: I just think this is And we talked about this

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Speaker 2: a little bit earlier. This This was Sean Tchaumpayton going,

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Speaker 2: I know I have to keep Russell Wilson for a year.

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Speaker 1: I know I have to. I have to.

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Speaker 2: So this arranged marriage. Le's see how it goes. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and it starts off one and five. But then they

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Speaker 2: start winning games. They start turning teams over. They're not

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Speaker 2: winning really because of Russell.

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Speaker 4: They got rid of a lot of guys.

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Speaker 2: They yeah, and so all of a sudden they get

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Speaker 2: to what seven and six I think it was, or

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Speaker 2: what six and something when they came here to playoffs. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they were right in it, and they were right in

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Speaker 2: it Russell couldn't finish the deal, and so is.

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Speaker 4: It gonna get any better?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 2: This is just Sean Payton and Russell Wilson are not

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Speaker 2: made for one another. Sean Payton wants Drew Brees mechanical

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Speaker 2: think through the process, no chaos, You stay in the pocket,

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Speaker 2: you deliver the football. Russell Wilson is I need chaos,

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Speaker 2: I create, I throw deep.

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Speaker 1: There's no middle of the field for that. Cook.

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Speaker 2: Let Russ cook. That's that's not a marriage that's gonna work.

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Speaker 2: So that is Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman not gonna work.

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Speaker 4: Caution flammable.

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Speaker 2: What would be a more recent one. Kanye and Kim. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: this is Kanye Kim. Kanye's Peyton and Kim is Russell.

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Speaker 4: Let Russ cook.

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Speaker 3: Last year's meal was served out of a food truck

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Speaker 3: two week old ingredient.

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Speaker 2: It was like a Swanson TV dinner meal that was

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Speaker 2: expired by a month.

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Speaker 3: By the way, your thought about expiration date on quarterbacks,

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Speaker 3: it's a real thing.

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Speaker 2: Johnny Tommy DeVito expiration, Oh Done inspiration, Sam Howell expiration inspiration.

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Speaker 2: Jake Browning, Jake Browning exploration expiration. That's all We're gonna

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Speaker 2: say about that.

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Speaker 1: What CJ. Bethards expiration date?

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Speaker 4: Well, we'll find out, won't we.

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Speaker 1: I hope it's not even one game.

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Speaker 4: Mullins, yea mal Santa.

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Speaker 2: And so I brought up Sam Howe. That's a piece

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Speaker 2: of news. Got reaction Washington commanders and making it change.

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Speaker 2: After Jacoby Brissette brought them back on the brink of

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Speaker 2: victory against the New York Jets last week, didn't get

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Speaker 2: the victory because the Jets Trevor Simeon pulled it out

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Speaker 2: in the end. They have named Jacoby Brissette as the

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Speaker 2: starting quarterback in Washington. So I asked two parts. One

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Speaker 2: got reaction to Hcoby Brissette taking back over.

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Speaker 1: Number two?

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Speaker 2: Is this Ron rever Like? Is Ron Rivera just completely

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Speaker 2: and totally done in Washington?

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Speaker 4: Well, I wonder who's making this decision?

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Speaker 1: Good to me?

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Speaker 3: I gotta play Howe till it all ends, because Howe

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Speaker 3: is the guy I need to see, just like I

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Speaker 3: really feel the Titans. If I'm a Titan fan, and

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Speaker 3: I'm clearly not, and I'd rather see Levis than Tannehill.

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Speaker 4: But I really think they need to play Levis.

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Speaker 3: If Levis is healthy, they need to play Levis because

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Speaker 3: they need to have a look at him. Howl's gotten

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Speaker 3: a lot of snaps, a lot of starts right relatively,

663
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Speaker 3: but he needs to get more. You have no shot

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Speaker 3: to improve unless you continue to play. I think Geno

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Speaker 3: Smith has pointed that out to a lot of people

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Speaker 3: that you don't necessarily have to give up on a guy,

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Speaker 3: especially when the season's over for you.

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Speaker 4: Anyway, what is Jacoby Brissett really going to do for you?

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Speaker 3: At this stage? We might be able to make some plays.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm watching the Giants with Tyrod Taylor out there.

671
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Speaker 3: We love Tyrod Taylor kept him in the game. And

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Speaker 3: you know, the the de Vito expiration date did occur.

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Speaker 3: Did you see the New York Post backpage after he

674
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Speaker 3: beat the fos live in de Vito Loca?

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Speaker 4: It was good.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty good.

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Speaker 4: It's good.

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Speaker 7: I like that.

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Speaker 1: So does that mean this expiration dates on Sean Still?

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Speaker 3: You know what the NFL memes calls it, the insanity run.

681
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, yeah, that's exactly what's that insanity runs.

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Speaker 2: That's exactly what it's. That's exactly what it's been. I

683
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Speaker 2: just don't know what the it sounds like Washington's gonna

684
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Speaker 2: get rid of Ron Rivera and start over. They have to,

685
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Speaker 2: don't they. I mean, I love Ron Rivera. Here's the

686
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Speaker 2: here's the other thought, probable guy, is they move Veric

687
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Speaker 2: being me into the head coaching spot.

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Speaker 4: And put Rivera's the defensive coordinator.

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Speaker 2: No, and move Rivera out, Rivera out and being me

690
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Speaker 2: becomes a head coach.

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Speaker 1: They could do that.

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Speaker 3: He's done a pretty good job. I mean, for a while,

693
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Speaker 3: they were cooking Howels leading the league. I know, I know,

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Speaker 3: I mean they were really I was. CJ's name is

695
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 3: up there, Sam Howell. Wait a minute, this does not

696
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 3: make my rookie look good. That Sam Howell's name right

697
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:34,560
Speaker 3: next to him. No, he still looks great, don't get

698
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Speaker 3: me wrong, But how is putting up a lot of

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Speaker 3: yards in a season that was struggling. But I would

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Speaker 3: play Howell if I were them. And look, I don't

701
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Speaker 3: watch every snap of Commander's football. So maybe there are

702
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Speaker 3: Commanders fans listening right now.

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Speaker 1: Saying you're crazy.

704
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but would you really rather see Jacoby Brissett Now

705
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 3: he owns the Texans, He's.

706
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Speaker 1: Does all the time. I mean, we're not seeing him,

707
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Speaker 1: thank god.

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Speaker 4: I mean, some ridiculous record, Jacoby.

709
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Speaker 2: I mean he beat us even in twenty one with

710
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Speaker 2: the Dolphins when he stepped in for.

711
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Speaker 4: Tua right on the day of Oh Oh.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I.

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Speaker 2: Ended up watching at first, I wasn't all that, you know,

714
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Speaker 2: I always watch the Hard Knocks no matter what.

715
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Speaker 1: I like seeing some of the inside stuff.

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Speaker 4: I like this, by the way, go ahead, what's that?

717
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Speaker 4: I have a take on this?

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Speaker 7: Go ahead.

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Speaker 2: I watched the second to last episode, not the most

720
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Speaker 2: recent one, but the one before that, the one of

721
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 2: the Jets game, and I was just riveted by it.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Mike McDaniel, I love him.

723
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's just he's from Yale, so he's an

724
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 2: Ivy leaguer like wah, so I like him from that perspective.

725
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Speaker 1: But he's just he's so honest, he's funny.

726
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:38,840
Speaker 2: He's encouraged, like, he's really fun and he's going through it.

727
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 2: So there's a moment where he's talking about the adversity

728
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Speaker 2: that they have faced, and it's really impressive to hear

729
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:50,360
Speaker 2: him talk about himself and talk about, Hey, you're talking

730
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 2: about the Titans game. Yeah, and he's talking about I

731
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 2: gave you guys. Bleep plays against cover zero. You should

732
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 2: have had much better plays because I can because I

733
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 2: gave you bad quarterbacks having to throw off his back leg.

734
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 2: My quarterback doesn't throw like that. That's on me taking accountability.

735
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 3: But he better be right otherwise he'll he'll kill the

736
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Speaker 3: quarterbacks credibility if he covers the quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope he's right for his saying right, right right,

738
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Speaker 2: you know, I agree. And he was showing the film

739
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 2: of it. He was showing that film and I thought

740
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 2: it was really I thought it was really interesting. Then

741
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 2: the fallout from losing to the Titans for them, he

742
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 2: was really big.

743
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Speaker 4: But look at the next game they bounce back or

744
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:29,360
Speaker 4: two games later they.

745
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 2: Bounce back the heck out of the Jets and then

746
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 2: the Cowboys. Yeah, got both of them at home.

747
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 4: I mean the Jets is one thing, but the Cowboys game.

748
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 2: That's gonna be really interesting the next couple of weeks

749
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 2: because you get the Ravens and the Bills. So Ravens

750
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 2: on the road, Bills at home. That'll determine are you

751
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 2: they're in the playoffs. They're in the playoffs, but are

752
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 2: they wild card going on the road having to play

753
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:48,880
Speaker 2: in the cold, or they're gonna be able to play

754
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 2: at home and maybe even get a second game at

755
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:52,479
Speaker 2: home by getting the two seeds.

756
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 4: Is there a scenario?

757
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 3: There is a scenario where the Texans could be a

758
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 3: seven going to play Miami.

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00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 2: There is a scenario, but we got to get through

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Speaker 2: the Titans first. So let's dive into what we saw

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00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 2: at practice today next right here in Texans All Access.

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back to Wednesday edition of Texans All

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Speaker 2: Access from the Hundai Texans Radio studio. We're less than

764
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Speaker 2: two hours away from tax at Texas Bowl.

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Speaker 1: And you will hear my voice.

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Speaker 2: John Here's football sideline reporter alongside Brett Dolan. Yes, I

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00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 2: am ready, Mark vandam here.

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Speaker 1: I am ready.

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Speaker 2: I'm always ready for this game. I love getting an

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Speaker 2: opportunity to do this game. I don't know that A

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Speaker 2: and M is ready. They have fifty.

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Speaker 1: Five scholarship players potentially available.

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Speaker 3: For tonight, Johnny, how many players do the NFL teams

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Speaker 3: bring on Sunday?

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Speaker 1: Listen if it's but both teams? Yeah, get forty eight?

776
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Speaker 7: Right.

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00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State has its full lot well as close as it.

778
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Speaker 3: Can, but is the seventieth scholarship athlete with the Oklahoma

779
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Speaker 3: State Cowboys. Is he worthy of knocking off somebody?

780
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Speaker 2: Make game after a bowl game is big, especially key positions.

781
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 2: But as long as you got your quarterback in a

782
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 2: and m he got his quarterback, Yeah, I mean, I know.

783
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: But still that's my question. You want to have some depth.

784
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Speaker 3: It's always funny though, because I remember when I was

785
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 3: doing UMass football a long time ago and they had

786
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,479
Speaker 3: sixty five yeah at the time in FCS Division one,

787
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 3: Double A, and they used to complain about that, and

788
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 3: I thought, that's still a lot of guys, and then

789
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 3: you have walk ons on top of that.

790
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Speaker 1: But I get it.

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Speaker 4: It's tough and it is what it is.

792
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Speaker 2: Well, the biggest part is not so much the numbers,

793
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,920
Speaker 2: it's the who where.

794
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: You have them. It's where it's where you're lacking.

795
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 4: So what star players are the Aggie's missing, Well.

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Speaker 2: They're miss Andrew Cooper, who I think is gonna be

797
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 2: linebacker one in twenty twenty four draft class. He is declared,

798
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 2: so he's at least the first he's probably a second rounder.

799
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 2: McKinley Jackson arguably one of the top five interior defensive

800
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Speaker 2: tackles in the draft, the top sixty after me and

801
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 2: the Harrison one hundred. He's out tight end. Max Johnson's brother,

802
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,400
Speaker 2: Guy Camp. I'm blanket on his first name. Max Johnson

803
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,640
Speaker 2: and his brother both committed to North Carolina, so they're

804
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 2: going to mac Brown.

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00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:10,800
Speaker 1: Who else is missing?

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Speaker 8: You know?

807
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: I'm missing a few?

808
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 8: Oh?

809
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 1: Oh, oh.

810
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 2: Probably the biggest one is Evan Stewart and he's gone

811
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 2: into the transfer portal, so he is entertaining offers or

812
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 2: listening or why, I don't know, whatever you do in

813
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 2: the portal. Yeah, Evan, Evan Stewart is an absolute dude

814
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Speaker 2: at wide receiver. He could be top three in the

815
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five NFL wide receiver draft class.

816
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Speaker 3: Remember last night we were talking with coach Gundy about

817
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 3: the portal, yep, and the nuances and no longer can

818
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,240
Speaker 3: you say, why is Max Johnson going to North Carolina?

819
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,359
Speaker 4: What's the football advantage of going there?

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Speaker 8: No?

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, it's not about that, right, It's about

822
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Speaker 3: the financial advantage because he john if he stayed in

823
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Speaker 3: aguland isn't he the starter going in the projected starter

824
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Speaker 3: going into the twenty twenty four campaign for.

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Speaker 1: The Probably Connor Wigman is oh.

826
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Speaker 4: Because Connor Wigman's back, all right?

827
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: He can opportunity.

828
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Speaker 3: So he does want to go back into that board,

829
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 3: says the backup. Okay, so now he's on his third

830
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,960
Speaker 3: school in four years. All right, but you only get

831
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 3: two transfers. Only two, right, as long as one if

832
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,480
Speaker 3: you graduate. Could you imagine whose marriages work this way?

833
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 3: You get two free ones, the third one you got

834
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 3: to lock into. Okay, get you get two practice ones,

835
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Speaker 3: you get to move on to a third.

836
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Speaker 1: Hey, honey, will you marry me? You're my practice marriage.

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Speaker 4: Honey. I'm entering the portal.

838
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Speaker 3: I'm entering the marriage portal, and now I am going

839
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Speaker 3: to put myself out there.

840
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Speaker 2: There are men and women out there saying, look, here's

841
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Speaker 2: your nil deal.

842
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 1: Here's the deal that I here's the deal.

843
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Speaker 4: Kind of part of the deal, isn't it.

844
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Speaker 3: As in the old days they called it a dowry,

845
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 3: all right, as the woman's father would have a.

846
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:52,879
Speaker 4: Dowry and that was a deal.

847
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Speaker 3: The guy would get the dowry because having a daughter,

848
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Speaker 3: you know, she couldn't work the fields back in the day,

849
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Speaker 3: although I think she could because when thank.

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Speaker 2: God I have the car, thank god I have the car,

851
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,000
Speaker 2: my wife is not driving around listening real.

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00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I mean she might be anyway in the

853
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Speaker 3: app that's true.

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Speaker 2: She may well be I think marriage listening on me

855
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Speaker 2: and then she'll text me about something.

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Speaker 8: I'll like.

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Speaker 1: You heard that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, sorry, No, my wife is my not my

859
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:22,919
Speaker 2: practice marriage. She is my She is my Saturday game day,

860
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:24,280
Speaker 2: Sunday game day marriage.

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Speaker 3: I know, agree with that, all right. This was never

862
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Speaker 3: a threat to you, chime No, No, I know, I know,

863
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Speaker 3: but we just don't want practice marriages. I guess there's

864
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Speaker 3: some people that have treated like that. You used to

865
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Speaker 3: work for a station with the two main guys. They

866
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Speaker 3: would talk about this kind of stuff, and they talked

867
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Speaker 3: about it when they were on this station.

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Speaker 4: All the time.

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Speaker 3: They both have practice marriages, and I did too, by

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Speaker 3: the way, So it happens.

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Speaker 2: Before we get into what we saw at practice today.

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00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,479
Speaker 2: Drew Doherty caught up with a guy we're gonna talk.

873
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Speaker 1: About a little bit. Kareem Jackson is back.

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Speaker 9: How much have an I good to see, by the way,

875
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 9: how much of and I have you kept on the

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00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 9: Texans this year versus what's been going on around here

877
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Speaker 9: the last.

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Speaker 5: Four years or so?

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Speaker 10: A lot, you know, this year obviously with Demiko taking

880
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Speaker 10: over being able to play with Demiko for two years.

881
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 10: So I've watched him a lot, you know, watch him

882
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 10: a lot when he was in San France as the

883
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 10: DC and now as a head coach here. Watched him

884
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 10: a lot, you know, just his progress, how he carries

885
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 10: himself as as a leader, and the way the guys here,

886
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 10: you know, kind of Riley behind him, a bunch of

887
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 10: young talent here. Guy's been playing great this year.

888
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 9: What'd you think about that? When he was hired? How

889
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:24,359
Speaker 9: happy were you for him?

890
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:26,800
Speaker 10: Extremely happy for him because I know what type of

891
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 10: guy he is. I know what type of leader he is.

892
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,120
Speaker 10: When he played, obviously know what type of player he was,

893
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 10: but you know, to see you know, things come full

894
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 10: circle for him, the transition from being a player to

895
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,880
Speaker 10: a coach and now a head coach. You know, extremely

896
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 10: happy for him.

897
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 5: What do you think he can bring to this defense?

898
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:42,200
Speaker 5: Definitely your leadership.

899
00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:43,840
Speaker 10: I mean obviously it's my first ay here, and like

900
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 10: I said, I've had a chance to watch him, you know,

901
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 10: quite a bit this year. I think some leaders out there,

902
00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 10: but you know, just want to add to it. For me,

903
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 10: wanting to be a piece to a puzzle, you know, however,

904
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:55,799
Speaker 10: I can help this team win, you know, defensively, I'm

905
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 10: definitely all for that.

906
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 9: Physically, how do you feel you've had some time come

907
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 9: off since like the last game you played and before

908
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 9: that as well.

909
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I feel pretty good.

910
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 10: Like you said, I had a lot of time off

911
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 10: this year, and I banged up at all, feeling fresh

912
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 10: ready to go.

913
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 5: What'd you hear from Johnathan Joseph JJ is my god.

914
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 10: Talked to ja Jo every other day, so I mean, obviously,

915
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 10: you know, getting the news and coming back, you know,

916
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 10: I mean, he's excited. I talked to Drake quite a bit.

917
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 10: He's excited as well. A lot of the guys that

918
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 10: are their former Texans. I still kind of keep in

919
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 10: touch with her, talk to him a lot, so you know,

920
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 10: just having conversations and you know, talking about you know,

921
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 10: grabbing dinner and the kind of catching back up, you know,

922
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 10: obviously because being in Denver the majority of the season,

923
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:36,879
Speaker 10: so it'd be great to see those guys and catch

924
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 10: back up with him other than just you know, texting

925
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:40,440
Speaker 10: and talking on the phone with him.

926
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:45,400
Speaker 2: Man, that was fun to hear Kareem Jackson's voice back

927
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:48,880
Speaker 2: in the Texans locker room and see him at practice.

928
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:53,800
Speaker 2: We were at practice today and there's some good news finally, finally.

929
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:56,839
Speaker 1: First of all, c J. Stroud out of practice.

930
00:38:57,719 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 2: Seeing four red jerseys out there was a little weird

931
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 2: because we have see how the last time we saw

932
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:02,879
Speaker 2: four quarterbacks out of it fit a.

933
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 3: While for four quarterback and I'm thinking Tim Boyle is

934
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 3: he's standing there.

935
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 11: Like, what's going to happen to me now? Because now

936
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 11: that's okay, it's okay. Tim Boyle is wearing an NFL helmet,

937
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,120
Speaker 11: an NFL logo. He's fine, he's practicing. Fine, this is

938
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:17,760
Speaker 11: practice squad.

939
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,760
Speaker 3: There's so many benefits to the practice squad for these veterans.

940
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 3: Right a guy like Tim Boyle, there's no way he'd

941
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 3: still be on the team right now, or you'd have

942
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:26,320
Speaker 3: to make a decision about one of them whatever. Absolutely,

943
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 3: so now you have a practice squad quarterback, he can

944
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 3: still be here. Earn Itt Scheck get to know these

945
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 3: guys better. Who knows, somebody gets hurt, whatever the case

946
00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 3: may be, maybe impresses them in practice. We don't know

947
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 3: what they really think of Tim Boyle. Maybe they love

948
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 3: Tim Boyle, so who knows?

949
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:42,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, but four guys that practice because CJ. Strouda

950
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 2: was back at practice, so moving along in a cushion

951
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 2: cushion protocol. That is absolutely fantastic. I also saw a

952
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 2: number fifty three out on the field that that would

953
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:54,280
Speaker 2: be Blake Cashman.

954
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 4: That's huge development right now.

955
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, to have Blake Cashman back all the ten he

956
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 3: racked up, his coverage skills everything else. Didn't play in

957
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,399
Speaker 3: the first matchup with the Tennessee Titans, so he'll play

958
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:09,919
Speaker 3: in the sequel in all likelihood, and you need all

959
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:11,279
Speaker 3: hands on deck for this one.

960
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 4: I talked to Mike Keith. Will hear that. Mike said,

961
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 4: you're gonna need to redo your charts. Little does he know.

962
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 4: I don't really do a chart.

963
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 3: I just have a new roster handy because the Titans

964
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 3: have that many more injuries from the last time we

965
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 3: played them two weeks ago.

966
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: Wow.

967
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,359
Speaker 2: Now the seas I mean US and the Seahawks has

968
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 2: two pretty physical football teams. You're gonna get beat up.

969
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:35,879
Speaker 2: I know in that game Sean Murphy bunting went out

970
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 2: in the game against US, and so Trey Avery had

971
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:40,879
Speaker 2: to go in. And by the way, the Seahawks picked

972
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 2: on Trey Avery holy smokes. So they definitely want Sean

973
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 2: Murphy bunting to be back. But Blake Cashman back at

974
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 2: practice awesome.

975
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:53,840
Speaker 1: CJ. Stroud at practice awesome. I did see.

976
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 2: Will Anderson out there in a jersey, so good. That

977
00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 2: was at least movement in the right to wreck love.

978
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 2: Seeing that better than not seeing him there. Here's another

979
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 2: thing that we saw today at practice. We saw a

980
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 2: number twenty two. Yeah, Kareem, how about this?

981
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 7: Yeah?

982
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:10,439
Speaker 1: I don't think you and I have had a chance

983
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:11,279
Speaker 1: to talk about this too much.

984
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 2: We talked about a little bit last night, but we

985
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 2: kept getting interrupted with coaches and interviews and Hall of

986
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:17,360
Speaker 2: Fame all that kind of stuff.

987
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 1: It was a really fun show, it really was.

988
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:20,760
Speaker 2: But we can get a chance to talk about Kareem

989
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 2: in general, him coming back to Texans and your thoughts

990
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 2: about it, both on the field, off the field, in

991
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:29,919
Speaker 2: the locker room, all things considered with Kareem, your thoughts

992
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 2: about him coming back.

993
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 3: There are so many benefits to this and Jimmy Ward,

994
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 3: whatever Jimmy Ward was to this football team, he's on

995
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 3: ir right now. Whatever Jimmy Ward was, Look, Kareem's a

996
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 3: different player, but to bring it a veteran like Kareem

997
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:44,919
Speaker 3: Jackson who knows Demiko Ryans, who knows the building, who

998
00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 3: knows many of the people still here, and Johnny he

999
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:50,280
Speaker 3: can still play. He will help this team. I don't

1000
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 3: know how much. I don't know what degree. I can't

1001
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 3: measure that right now. We have to watch it.

1002
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:57,479
Speaker 4: On the field. But he will help this football team.

1003
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:00,399
Speaker 3: And I know he's served a lot of suspension time here,

1004
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:04,280
Speaker 3: but guess what, fresh legs. Yeah, Kareem's been staying in shape,

1005
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:09,440
Speaker 3: fresh legs out there safety position, hard hitting people, feeding

1006
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 3: off his hard hits, his intensity and play. Now he's

1007
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 3: got to be careful not to hit too hard because

1008
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,239
Speaker 3: three times it's not a charm here as far as

1009
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:20,760
Speaker 3: suspensions go. But he'll be playing with a lot of aggression.

1010
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 3: Two games left in the season. He's gonna give it

1011
00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:24,800
Speaker 3: as all for this team and he'll.

1012
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 4: Be a plus. It's a plus to sign him.

1013
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: I like that absolutely.

1014
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 2: Texas has gone with some veterans at the safety position,

1015
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 2: bringing a DHC who had a second interception the other

1016
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 2: day against the Browns.

1017
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 1: I start thinking about that.

1018
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 2: Sting's got five, yeah, Nelson's got four, four, DC's got two.

1019
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 4: That's nice.

1020
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 2: So you've gotten some good veteran play from DHC. Also

1021
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 2: Adrian Amos, you know, played a good portion. The biggest

1022
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 2: thing for the safeties is Jalen Petrie's got.

1023
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: To play like Jalen Petrie.

1024
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1025
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 2: That to me, that might be the biggest thing on

1026
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 2: the defense. It might be the biggest thing the whole

1027
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,399
Speaker 2: entire squad right now, is that five's got to play

1028
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 2: like five. He's got he's got to get his confidence back,

1029
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 2: and he's got to get playing again, like we knew

1030
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 2: he could play, and like we know he can play.

1031
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,800
Speaker 2: Make a few plays, get your confidence back, get winninggas

1032
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 2: the tights, and then get ready for the Indianapolis Colt team.

1033
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:22,800
Speaker 3: Can you explain to the listener simply what's different about

1034
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 3: this defense and Petre's role in it versus last year.

1035
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 3: He had five picks last year. Now, we all know interceptions.

1036
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 3: Sometimes the ball comes to you, sometimes you're in the

1037
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:34,360
Speaker 3: right spot or whatever it's right, it's a caram and

1038
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,200
Speaker 3: you pick it off, whatever the case may be. But

1039
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:39,759
Speaker 3: he had five picks last year and now it's not

1040
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:42,759
Speaker 3: going as well. But what's the difference in his role

1041
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 3: in this defense versus twenty twenty two.

1042
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 2: Well, one of the things I remember love you saying

1043
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,240
Speaker 2: is you know, we move Jalen back to free safety

1044
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:51,280
Speaker 2: from you know what they they called the strong safety,

1045
00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:52,879
Speaker 2: and so he got to play a little bit more

1046
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,239
Speaker 2: in the middle of the field, which he does a

1047
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:59,000
Speaker 2: little bit, but they play Dorico's defense is a lot

1048
00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 2: of you know, quarters or or or two safeties on

1049
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 2: the roof, you know, two in the roof, as you said,

1050
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 2: middlefield open, and so with those coverages to play cover two,

1051
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 2: cover four, so you're covering half of the field or

1052
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 2: you're playing a quarter of the field, Whereas if you're

1053
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:14,280
Speaker 2: the free safety playing in the middle of the field,

1054
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 2: you got the middle of the field, it's cover three.

1055
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 2: You've got the third, middle third of the field, and

1056
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 2: you read that middle third and the way you go

1057
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 2: to me. There's more reading and deciphering that you have

1058
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 2: to do in this defense because they pattern match a lot,

1059
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 2: meaning they route whatever the how are You don't know

1060
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,359
Speaker 2: who's an a end up in your territory or your

1061
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 2: zone who you're gonna match with, but once somebody declares,

1062
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 2: you're gonna match with that player.

1063
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: So there are a lot of rules that go with that.

1064
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 2: So if this guy runs ten yards, no matter what

1065
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 2: he does after ten yards, he's your guy. And so

1066
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 2: there are a few more more rules inherent in Demico

1067
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 2: and Matt Birk's defense than last year.

1068
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: But then last year he was playing a little bit

1069
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: more free.

1070
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:57,479
Speaker 2: Safety could float in the middle a little bit, played

1071
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 2: a little bit deeper in coverage. Baylory played a little

1072
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 2: bit closer to the line of scrimmage. You know, he

1073
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 2: did a lot of stuff. As I talked with Dave Randy,

1074
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 2: he had a lot of They had Jalen rules. They

1075
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 2: let Jalen just go. I like that, and and.

1076
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:09,839
Speaker 8: I like that.

1077
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 2: I think there's gotta be a little bit more of

1078
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 2: that for Jalen. But you just can't do that as much.

1079
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:20,360
Speaker 2: He's got to be he's got to be more disciplined

1080
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 2: with the things that he's seeing and applying his rules.

1081
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:24,439
Speaker 1: And I think that's the one thing.

1082
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 2: Your eye's gonna sometimes tell you one thing, but the

1083
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 2: defense is gonna tell you you have to do something else.

1084
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 1: No matter what your I see.

1085
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 2: You might think that guy's coming and that's yours, but

1086
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 2: it's not. So those things you gotta you gotta apply.

1087
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:39,399
Speaker 2: And sometimes veterans get that a little bit more. They've

1088
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,879
Speaker 2: been playing back there for a while. They understand, Hey,

1089
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,799
Speaker 2: this looks like it might it might be mine, but

1090
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 2: I gotta make sure I stay in my zone because

1091
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 2: there might be something else coming that I gotta help with,

1092
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 2: or I gotta cover back there.

1093
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 4: How about it? How about this rule? Never let anybody

1094
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 4: get behind you.

1095
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 3: They catch it, don't let them beat you deep, don't

1096
00:45:57,239 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 3: let it beat want to give a big cushion either,

1097
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,319
Speaker 3: it's easier set the dutch to me, right, But if.

1098
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 2: You give a cushion, just come up a tackle. If

1099
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:06,360
Speaker 2: you give a cushion, come up tackle. You lived to

1100
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 2: see another down right. If you get too aggressive or

1101
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 2: you get too undisciplined, no something, they're thrown over the top,

1102
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:13,400
Speaker 2: and now you got to try and get back to it.

1103
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 1: You can't do it.

1104
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:17,400
Speaker 3: This is where closing speed really helps, Like Stingly, tremendous

1105
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 3: closing speed.

1106
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,880
Speaker 2: And the one thing that Sting has ball skills. Sting

1107
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 2: has tremendous ball skills. He understands you don't always have

1108
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:27,719
Speaker 2: to like the play he made against Arizona, to me,

1109
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 2: was the best one because he realized it looked like

1110
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:35,439
Speaker 2: Hollywood Brown had him beat. But Sting was so good

1111
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:38,319
Speaker 2: tracking the ball that he kind of played it such

1112
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 2: that he could go up for it, and because he's longer, taller,

1113
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 2: he was able to go up for it and rip

1114
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:45,279
Speaker 2: it away from him even though he wasn't hip to

1115
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,359
Speaker 2: hip with Marky's brown. So he's got a really good

1116
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 2: knack for how you play those things, and he's got

1117
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 2: to have a big game as well. But Nie Jalen

1118
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:57,439
Speaker 2: Patriot safety for sure. Okay, we get back Marcio's stick around.

1119
00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:00,760
Speaker 2: It's men behind the mics, It's Mike Keith Part two

1120
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 2: two weeks later. We'll have that for you next right

1121
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 2: here in Texans All Access.

1122
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 1: Are we going? One our down? One hour left to go?

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Speaker 2: Right here on a Wednesday edition to Texans All Access

1124
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 2: from Theday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris,

1125
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 2: Foot Finals sideline reporters. Time to go, Men behind the

1126
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 2: Mike's again. Two weeks after catching up with Mike Keith

1127
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:26,799
Speaker 2: last Wednesday, Mark vandermir said, down with Mike Keith.

1128
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 1: Again, and you they got two weeks. What's changed?

1129
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:33,160
Speaker 2: Oh, a lot has changed. Let's go in behind the Mike's.

1130
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:34,680
Speaker 2: Mark and Mike right now.

1131
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:37,840
Speaker 3: We welcome in Mike Keith's Voice of the Tennessee Titans

1132
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,840
Speaker 3: here on Texans Radio and Mike, we just caught up recently.

1133
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 3: I liken this whole thing too. We had part one

1134
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,319
Speaker 3: of the movie. Now it's the sequel, the Texans and

1135
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:49,320
Speaker 3: the Titans, and the first one was a doozy.

1136
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 4: Here we go with part two. How you doing, my friend,

1137
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:53,320
Speaker 4: I'm doing just fine.

1138
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:56,480
Speaker 8: I think the only problem for you, Mark is you're

1139
00:47:56,520 --> 00:48:00,439
Speaker 8: gonna have to change your Titans spot charts considerable from

1140
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,319
Speaker 8: the game two weeks ago because we have had some

1141
00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:07,720
Speaker 8: moving parts with guys going to IR, guys joining the team,

1142
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:12,040
Speaker 8: guys becoming starters. We are a beat up football team

1143
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:14,960
Speaker 8: at this moment in time as we head for NRG Stadium.

1144
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:19,399
Speaker 3: Well, we just re signed or reacquired Kareem Jackson from

1145
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 3: the Denver Broncos. So I wonder what veteran you're going

1146
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 3: to get from the Tennessee Titans history.

1147
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:33,800
Speaker 8: We did about five right now. Maybe Javon Curse somebody

1148
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:36,359
Speaker 8: like that would would be really handy at this moment.

1149
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,960
Speaker 8: As a matter of fact, last Sunday, Mark, our starting

1150
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:45,839
Speaker 8: defensive line and our starting secondary featured no one who

1151
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:48,879
Speaker 8: started the season opener at New Orleans. There are only

1152
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 8: three guys on defense. Yeah, I mean when they introduced

1153
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 8: the starting defense and eight of them were guys that

1154
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 8: most of the fans didn't know. The crowd responded positively.

1155
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:02,919
Speaker 8: You know, they certainly cheered their players, but you could

1156
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 8: almost see the inquisitive looks on their faces around the stadium,

1157
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 8: like who are these guys? Now? Who's this? And that's

1158
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:13,279
Speaker 8: really what it looked like. Then finally Denico Autry and

1159
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:16,439
Speaker 8: Harold Landry and Aziz al Shire were introduced, like, oh, yes,

1160
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 8: this is the starting defense. So it's been a little

1161
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 8: bit of a rerun in the last two weeks like

1162
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 8: what the last two years have been. And you know,

1163
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 8: we've been through kind of this crazy injury thing for

1164
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:33,319
Speaker 8: two years. This year not nearly as bad, but just

1165
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 8: recently it is hit and you get to the point

1166
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:39,720
Speaker 8: of the season now where if a guy potentially can't

1167
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 8: play this week, you have to go ahead and put

1168
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:44,840
Speaker 8: him on ir just so you can get a body

1169
00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:47,719
Speaker 8: in who can cover kicks and who can play on

1170
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:49,800
Speaker 8: the extra point team and so on and so forth.

1171
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:53,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, great point there, Mike Keith, voice of the Titans, joining.

1172
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:53,759
Speaker 7: Us all right.

1173
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 3: Last time out, the Texans did a tremendous job against

1174
00:49:56,600 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 3: Derrick Henry, and then, of course I monitored his progress

1175
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 3: against the Ehawks and it wasn't an explosive game, but

1176
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:05,880
Speaker 3: he was certainly back. He was productive, caught a pass,

1177
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:09,239
Speaker 3: threw a touchdown pass, and obviously looked pretty good running

1178
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:09,760
Speaker 3: the football.

1179
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 4: So what do you make of it?

1180
00:50:11,719 --> 00:50:15,120
Speaker 3: His comments after the Texans and Titans played last time

1181
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 3: were very They weren't cryptic, they were very descriptive, and

1182
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:21,200
Speaker 3: it just felt like the end might be near. But

1183
00:50:21,680 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going to happen. I just know

1184
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 3: he's gonna be out there Sunday giving it his best.

1185
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:27,240
Speaker 3: Your thoughts on Derek one hundred percent?

1186
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,360
Speaker 8: Right? You know, they they certainly did some things better.

1187
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 8: I don't think the Seahawks are as good upfront overall

1188
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 8: as what the Texans are, so that factored in. But

1189
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 8: they schematically, they did some things. They changed a little

1190
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:42,359
Speaker 8: bit of personnel in there and that kind of helped them.

1191
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:45,839
Speaker 8: But Hinry was clearly motivated. You know, whenever you get

1192
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,879
Speaker 8: these professionals who are great players, and you've seen this

1193
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 8: throughout your time in the league with not only Texans

1194
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:55,719
Speaker 8: but players that you've played against, when they come off

1195
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 8: of a game that is like that, their pride takes

1196
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:01,920
Speaker 8: over and you know you're going to get something quite

1197
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:05,880
Speaker 8: different in the next game. And clearly Derek showed something

1198
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 8: very different in the game against the Seahawks. Had they

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Speaker 8: been able to run him in the fourth quarter, which

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00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 8: unfortunately they only really had two drives and one of

1201
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 8: them was a two minute drive, he would have piled

1202
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 8: up more yards. But he ran harder, he was more decisive,

1203
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 8: and I thought all of the pieces went together and

1204
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:31,839
Speaker 8: worked very very well for the run game. Thirty one

1205
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 8: carries one hundred and sixty two yards overall, and that

1206
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 8: factored in some good running too from Taje Spears.

1207
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:39,799
Speaker 4: And Mike will Levis.

1208
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 3: Look, I know, as the week began, you don't know

1209
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:45,240
Speaker 3: what the situation is going to be, but in general

1210
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 3: his progress. Look, I know the Titans didn't get the

1211
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:51,800
Speaker 3: win the last time will Levis played, but you certainly

1212
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:54,880
Speaker 3: see some signs, some potential there, some hope for the future.

1213
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 3: What do you think the general feeling is about will

1214
00:51:57,840 --> 00:51:58,800
Speaker 3: Levis and what's yours.

1215
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 8: I think, in turn, what they've been excited about with

1216
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,719
Speaker 8: will Levis is that he runs the offense that he

1217
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:08,360
Speaker 8: plays quarterback. The statement was made, I think was a

1218
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 8: good thing. So many guys come out of college having

1219
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:15,920
Speaker 8: run plays and the other guys are playing quarterback. There

1220
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:17,760
Speaker 8: are a lot of guys that come out of college

1221
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:19,840
Speaker 8: now that have been running plays that get to the

1222
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:23,360
Speaker 8: league and have to learn how to play quarterback. Because

1223
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 8: this guy was at Penn State and at Kentucky and

1224
00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 8: played for NFL style coaches, guys who's literally been in

1225
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 8: the NFL. I think what you see from him is

1226
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:38,960
Speaker 8: there's an understanding of how you run the team, how

1227
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 8: you run the offense, how you handle the huddle, how

1228
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 8: you call a play. And because of that confidence mark

1229
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 8: there's a decisiveness to him. He has tremendous physical tools.

1230
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,440
Speaker 8: I mean his arm is just amazing. But he's a

1231
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 8: really bright guy who's into every detail of being this

1232
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 8: team's quarterback. So do you have your answer for the

1233
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 8: future one hundred percent? Well, you never know that. I

1234
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,359
Speaker 8: mean we've had guys be Rookie of the Year here

1235
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 8: at quarterback and then their career goes in a different direction.

1236
00:53:11,880 --> 00:53:15,920
Speaker 8: Anything can happen. But do you see the right signs?

1237
00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 8: Do you see all of the markers and the boxes

1238
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 8: being checked off? And those sorts of thing. Yes, you do,

1239
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,279
Speaker 8: and I think that's why people are so confident in

1240
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 8: Will Levice to this point. Long way to go, but

1241
00:53:28,719 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 8: he has shown a whole lot that he has the

1242
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 8: ability to be not just a credible NFL quarterback, but

1243
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:36,720
Speaker 8: maybe a real good one.

1244
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:40,000
Speaker 3: Mike, as you observe what is happening down the stretch

1245
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 3: here in the AFC South, the Jacksonville Jaguars, Trevor Lawrence

1246
00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:45,399
Speaker 3: all banged up. What do you make of what they're

1247
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:48,719
Speaker 3: going through right now? It's almost similar. I know there

1248
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:51,800
Speaker 3: are differences, but it feels like almost what the Titans

1249
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 3: went through second half of last year, where you have

1250
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 3: some good things going on, but then injuries and whatnot

1251
00:53:57,680 --> 00:54:00,160
Speaker 3: crept into the situation and you had that final who

1252
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:01,360
Speaker 3: were Die game with the Jacks.

1253
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 4: What do you think of them this year, what they're

1254
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:03,720
Speaker 4: going through.

1255
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 8: I think it's exactly what we went through last year,

1256
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 8: the key injuries at certain points, bad luck, getting out

1257
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 8: of sync, sort of not being able to execute what

1258
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 8: it is you do. I mean, they we played them,

1259
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 8: and I mean they absolutely handled the Titans. I mean

1260
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:27,839
Speaker 8: it was they looked like we left there after that

1261
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 8: ballgame and you're thinking, that's a team that can win

1262
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:33,359
Speaker 8: the whole thing. If they go play like this, they

1263
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 8: can win the whole thing. And then watching them this week,

1264
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 8: you're like, who are these people? And that's what the

1265
00:54:39,680 --> 00:54:42,799
Speaker 8: Titans did last year, and it just goes to show

1266
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:46,960
Speaker 8: about the NFL. You know, at one moment, you know

1267
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 8: it can all go sideways. I mean, it was four

1268
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:52,719
Speaker 8: years ago the Titans made the playoffs at nine and

1269
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 8: seven and beat the number one seed in the number

1270
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:59,279
Speaker 8: two seat and really handled both those teams and then

1271
00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:02,719
Speaker 8: went to Kansas and then they were ahead, Kansas City

1272
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:05,279
Speaker 8: had to come from behind to win the AFC Championship game.

1273
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:08,960
Speaker 8: That was a nine to seventeen. It can go both ways,

1274
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:12,600
Speaker 8: and that's why everybody's just trying to get in the tournament.

1275
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:15,720
Speaker 8: You're trying to battle your way into the tournament because

1276
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:18,799
Speaker 8: you never know what can happen. They're gonna have to

1277
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:20,759
Speaker 8: turn it around in a big hurry or they're not

1278
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:21,279
Speaker 8: gonna make.

1279
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:22,839
Speaker 1: The tournament, all right.

1280
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:27,240
Speaker 3: So you're looking at it from the outside, seeing the Colts, Texans,

1281
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:30,239
Speaker 3: and Jags battle for playoff spots. What do you think

1282
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:32,680
Speaker 3: happens down the stretch here with these teams because the

1283
00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:35,960
Speaker 3: Titans can really play spoiler multiple times here, well two

1284
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:39,959
Speaker 3: times with these final two contests, I think it's.

1285
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 8: Gonna be hard to do because the Titans are going

1286
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:44,480
Speaker 8: to be in a position where they're having to come

1287
00:55:44,520 --> 00:55:47,759
Speaker 8: to Houston and then they're having to play Jacksonville in

1288
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:50,680
Speaker 8: Week eighteen in the game that Jacksonville is no matter

1289
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 8: what happens this weekend, clearly gonna need to win. So

1290
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 8: the spoiler aspect thing is somewhat appealing. Tried to play

1291
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:01,799
Speaker 8: spoiler in the Sea they needed to win that one

1292
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:04,840
Speaker 8: as well. I don't think that matters as much. I

1293
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:08,759
Speaker 8: think it's about matchup. To me, Houston is in a

1294
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 8: great position right now, not knowing exactly where Indianapolis is

1295
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 8: with some of their skilled people, and then seeing Jacksonville

1296
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 8: having the difficulties that they have. They desperately need to

1297
00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:24,279
Speaker 8: win this game this week against Carolina, a game they

1298
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:27,919
Speaker 8: should win based on just talent, because if they come

1299
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 8: to Nashville having lost five in a row, that may

1300
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:34,120
Speaker 8: make it more interesting than what you know, because as

1301
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:37,560
Speaker 8: what happened with us last year when we walked into

1302
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 8: that last game having lost six in a row, then

1303
00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 8: you're in a position mark where you're saying yes, and

1304
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 8: we were ahead with three minutes to go and would

1305
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:49,359
Speaker 8: have won the division for a third straight year. But

1306
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 8: you didn't have that confidence, right You didn't have that

1307
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 8: self assured play down the stretch where you said, yeah,

1308
00:56:57,320 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 8: we're ahead right now, you know, we're just gonna go

1309
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 8: and win this game. That's where you don't want to be.

1310
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:06,600
Speaker 8: Everybody had a bad weekend last weekend, you flush it,

1311
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:09,440
Speaker 8: you go on, and I think you know that's obviously

1312
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:11,839
Speaker 8: what the Texans are trying to do this weekend. That's

1313
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 8: what the Titans are trying to do too. This is

1314
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:18,440
Speaker 8: a team that, in spite of being down personnel wise,

1315
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 8: has played some pretty dog gone good football over the

1316
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:25,400
Speaker 8: last five weeks. For stretches, been very competitive, you know,

1317
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:29,480
Speaker 8: the Houston game, very competitive. Beat Miami somehow, had a

1318
00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:32,440
Speaker 8: chance to beat Seattle, had a chance to beat Indianapolis.

1319
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:36,439
Speaker 8: If this team keeps playing that way, they may get

1320
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 8: somebody at some point, because and I think it's a

1321
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 8: credit to Mike Rabel, they're doing what he wants to do.

1322
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:47,320
Speaker 8: They're playing the complimentary football if they can limit the

1323
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 8: mistakes even with the talent they're giving themselves a chance

1324
00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:52,920
Speaker 8: and we'll see.

1325
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 7: Yeah.

1326
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 3: I mean very close games, no question about it. Last

1327
00:57:56,680 --> 00:57:59,120
Speaker 3: two times out after the win against the Dolphins, Mike

1328
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:02,120
Speaker 3: Keith Boy of the Titans joining us. All Right, so

1329
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:04,840
Speaker 3: the Texans and Titans both played the Ravens, both lost

1330
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:06,720
Speaker 3: to the Ravens. We just saw what the Ravens did

1331
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:09,480
Speaker 3: to the forty nine ers. Are the Ravens that good?

1332
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:12,439
Speaker 3: Was it a great day for them and a sub

1333
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:14,600
Speaker 3: par day for the forty nine ers? What do you

1334
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:16,840
Speaker 3: think of the Ravens here and how the rest of

1335
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 3: the AFC up top anyway shapes out going into the postseason.

1336
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 8: Mike, I think those are the two best teams right now.

1337
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 8: Now what goes from here? How does San Francisco respond

1338
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 8: to that? And how does Baltimore respond to that? Is

1339
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:37,440
Speaker 8: this Baltimore's high water mark and they think they've really

1340
00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:41,160
Speaker 8: got it and then they don't play as well, especially

1341
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 8: with you know, having Miami coming up, a team that

1342
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:47,840
Speaker 8: can certainly drive you crazy. If I'm San Francisco, I

1343
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:51,040
Speaker 8: like having that game with the thought that you know,

1344
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:56,080
Speaker 8: they're coaching staff, everybody associated saw the Ravens at their best.

1345
00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:59,080
Speaker 8: If there were to be another meeting, in the Super

1346
00:58:59,120 --> 00:59:02,439
Speaker 8: Bowl coming up in February in Las Vegas. I think

1347
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:06,440
Speaker 8: you like having seen their best against you on tape

1348
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:10,600
Speaker 8: for the adjustments that you'll be able to make. I

1349
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:14,360
Speaker 8: do think it's Baltimore's race to run right now, because

1350
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:17,680
Speaker 8: when we saw them in London and we left London,

1351
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:21,480
Speaker 8: my feeling about them was they've got a chance to

1352
00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:26,480
Speaker 8: get considerably better. And they have Mark They've continued to

1353
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:29,920
Speaker 8: improve throughout the course of the year, and they have

1354
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 8: Lamar Jackson not herding at this point in the season

1355
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 8: for the first time in a long time.

1356
00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:37,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a big deal.

1357
00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:39,600
Speaker 3: And you talked about when the Titans were nine and

1358
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:43,880
Speaker 3: seven knocking off Baltimore, knocking off New England on the

1359
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:47,000
Speaker 3: way to Kansas City in the AFC Championship Game. What

1360
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 3: about the Chiefs because that game that you played against them. Historically,

1361
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:56,680
Speaker 3: recent history, they've been so good, but right now not

1362
00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 3: so much.

1363
00:59:57,520 --> 00:59:58,919
Speaker 4: What do you think of what they're going through.

1364
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 8: I just don't think they're a real good football team

1365
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:05,240
Speaker 8: right now. I just don't think there's any part of

1366
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:09,560
Speaker 8: them that's really functioning at that high level. And I

1367
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:12,080
Speaker 8: think there are a lot of reasons for that. But

1368
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:15,080
Speaker 8: there's certain things that even when they lost games, they

1369
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 8: could say, whatever, we'll come back and we'll lean on

1370
01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 8: you know, Patrick Mahomes and we'll get this fixed. And

1371
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:24,720
Speaker 8: I don't think that's just enough right now, because there

1372
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 8: are enough teams in the AFC that have worked so

1373
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:32,440
Speaker 8: hard to develop rosters and strategies to beat them. You know,

1374
01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:36,160
Speaker 8: that's what you do if you want to compete, if

1375
01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:39,160
Speaker 8: you want to play that kind of football, then you've

1376
01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:40,840
Speaker 8: got to be able to match up with them. And

1377
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:43,000
Speaker 8: I think Baltimore has set a roster to do it.

1378
01:00:43,040 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 8: I think Buffalo's set a roster to do it. You know.

1379
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:48,720
Speaker 8: I think Miami has certainly set a roster to be

1380
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:52,000
Speaker 8: able to go right at them. And so there's that

1381
01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 8: ebb and flow and you know this too, Mark, would

1382
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:57,880
Speaker 8: you get good in this league? Then what happens is

1383
01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:00,120
Speaker 8: you either have to pay guys to keep them, or

1384
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:03,200
Speaker 8: you let guys walk because you can't pay everybody. Well,

1385
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 8: they're going through that cycle right now. It's some of

1386
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:10,080
Speaker 8: what that has affected the Titans this year is the

1387
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:13,760
Speaker 8: Titans were paying off some contracts of guys who were

1388
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:16,960
Speaker 8: either not playing for them anymore, retired, or were not

1389
01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:20,400
Speaker 8: performing to the level of what they were when they

1390
01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:23,680
Speaker 8: initially got those contracts. Well, so the EBB and flow

1391
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:26,040
Speaker 8: is that the Titans, had they won a couple of

1392
01:01:26,040 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 8: close games, Titans might be eight and seven right now,

1393
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:30,760
Speaker 8: but this was gonna be a transitioned year.

1394
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:31,560
Speaker 7: Now.

1395
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:34,880
Speaker 8: What happens is you get eighty million dollars to spend

1396
01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 8: in the offseason and you've got eight draft picks, and

1397
01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 8: suddenly you've got a chance to come back quickly if

1398
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 8: you found your quarterback. We all go through the cycles.

1399
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:47,160
Speaker 8: Everybody deals with it, and I think Kansas City's dealing

1400
01:01:47,160 --> 01:01:47,920
Speaker 8: with it right now.

1401
01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:50,600
Speaker 3: Great analysis there, Mike, Well, thanks so much for the

1402
01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 3: time as always, and we look forward to seeing you

1403
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:55,160
Speaker 3: on New Year's Rocket Eve when the Texans and Titans

1404
01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:55,960
Speaker 3: get together again.

1405
01:01:57,800 --> 01:01:59,600
Speaker 8: I look forward to seeing you too, Mark. Thanks for

1406
01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 8: having me, you.

1407
01:02:00,480 --> 01:02:01,200
Speaker 1: Know, for Titan.

1408
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:04,240
Speaker 2: Mike Keith's a pretty awesome dude in love the fact

1409
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:06,600
Speaker 2: that he joins us twice a year on the show

1410
01:02:06,680 --> 01:02:09,440
Speaker 2: Man Behind the Mikes, Mike Keith and Mark Vandermy we

1411
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:11,800
Speaker 2: get back, it'll be two other guys behind the mics,

1412
01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:13,920
Speaker 2: a couple of nerds, a couple of geeks going in

1413
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:17,040
Speaker 2: lab Drew Dougherty and myself next right, he aren't Texans

1414
01:02:17,080 --> 01:02:20,040
Speaker 2: All Access appreciate you being here with me. John Harris

1415
01:02:20,040 --> 01:02:23,400
Speaker 2: Football anal sideline report for your Houston Texans. Tonight on

1416
01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:26,120
Speaker 2: Texans All Access is time to go in the Lab

1417
01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:29,640
Speaker 2: where Drew Dorty and I dork out, geek out, just

1418
01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:32,600
Speaker 2: get all nerdy and stuff. So take a listen, sorry,

1419
01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:35,240
Speaker 2: in the Lab podcast. Let's go big, big week. Let's

1420
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:40,600
Speaker 2: forget Christmas Eve, Jesus cruise. Oh yeah, let's forget Christmas

1421
01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 2: Eve football game that happened. Yeah, Christmas even Christmas Day.

1422
01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:46,360
Speaker 2: For both the Doherty's and the Harris's were very very

1423
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:47,080
Speaker 2: good fantasts.

1424
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:49,200
Speaker 9: And you know what, Humankind, you could do it. But

1425
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:54,120
Speaker 9: let's just like delve into that. I was scheduling this

1426
01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:58,760
Speaker 9: well in advance. I scheduled this well in advance of

1427
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:00,440
Speaker 9: the news that.

1428
01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:03,200
Speaker 5: An old friend was returning to the Texans. And this

1429
01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:03,760
Speaker 5: is fun.

1430
01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:08,160
Speaker 9: We're gonna talk a lot about Kareem Jackson today, Okay,

1431
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 9: but before we do, actually while we do, we're gonna

1432
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:14,560
Speaker 9: go way back in time because my first year with

1433
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:17,360
Speaker 9: the Texans was two thousand and nine. They've come very

1434
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:19,760
Speaker 9: very close to making the playoffs. They go nine and seven,

1435
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:23,000
Speaker 9: but they just miss out. So they had to pick

1436
01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:26,040
Speaker 9: in the late teens in the draft for the twenty

1437
01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:29,400
Speaker 9: ten draft. So I went to Mobile, Alabama for the

1438
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:31,920
Speaker 9: first time, looked at all the stuff going on in

1439
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:35,640
Speaker 9: the Senior Bowl, learned a lot. The draft comes along.

1440
01:03:35,640 --> 01:03:38,880
Speaker 9: We're doing these mock draft surveys where people are doing.

1441
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 5: Calling their picks.

1442
01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:45,640
Speaker 9: No one, not one single person other than Spencer Tillman

1443
01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:50,160
Speaker 9: predicted that the Texans would take Kareem Jackson. A lot

1444
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:52,760
Speaker 9: of folks were thinking the Boise State corner, Kyle Wilson.

1445
01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 9: A lot of folks were saying one of the McCarty brothers. Correct,

1446
01:03:56,240 --> 01:04:00,439
Speaker 9: no one but Spencer. To give Spencer his due, YEP,

1447
01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:03,640
Speaker 9: called for Kareem Jackson Alabama corner.

1448
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:05,320
Speaker 5: And he comes.

1449
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:05,520
Speaker 8: Uh.

1450
01:04:05,720 --> 01:04:09,440
Speaker 9: He'd played in the title game, he'd played at a

1451
01:04:09,440 --> 01:04:11,880
Speaker 9: at a military school before that, kind of as a

1452
01:04:11,920 --> 01:04:16,120
Speaker 9: prep school. He's a Georgia guy. But Kareem comes to

1453
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:19,240
Speaker 9: town and I met him at the airport. He had

1454
01:04:19,240 --> 01:04:21,200
Speaker 9: to fly southwest because I can't remember where he was

1455
01:04:21,200 --> 01:04:24,080
Speaker 9: coming from. I mean him at the airport, comes into

1456
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:27,240
Speaker 9: town and then he has one of the awful rookie

1457
01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:29,960
Speaker 9: seasons along with most of the secondary there for the

1458
01:04:30,000 --> 01:04:30,640
Speaker 9: Houston Texas.

1459
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:32,480
Speaker 12: That was just horrible.

1460
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:33,320
Speaker 5: Twenty ten?

1461
01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:34,600
Speaker 1: Say his name?

1462
01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:37,880
Speaker 5: Yes? Well, who what Siri?

1463
01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:39,040
Speaker 1: Seigi?

1464
01:04:39,120 --> 01:04:41,040
Speaker 9: A year two two? I felt like a mark his name.

1465
01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:43,880
Speaker 9: I saw a mark. I saw Marik Cooper on Sunday,

1466
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:45,520
Speaker 9: and I said, who is a SEGGI A jear two two?

1467
01:04:46,160 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 1: Twenty ten? Was that man's name?

1468
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:48,800
Speaker 8: Exans.

1469
01:04:49,080 --> 01:04:53,240
Speaker 9: The twenty ten Texans had the worst pass defense since

1470
01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:58,160
Speaker 9: the AFL NFL merger statistically speaking, right in twenty ten. Yeah,

1471
01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:02,560
Speaker 9: but then a lot of things change in eleven. You

1472
01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:06,560
Speaker 9: get Wade Phillipson here, you bring Jonathan Josephin here, you

1473
01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:09,440
Speaker 9: move Glover Quinn to safety, you get a better pass

1474
01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:13,880
Speaker 9: rush going Nno. Barwin comes back healthy, JJ Watts solid

1475
01:05:13,880 --> 01:05:16,280
Speaker 9: as a rookie. Antonio Smith turns in a Pro Bowl season.

1476
01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:20,080
Speaker 9: You guys get rocking and rolling and things get better,

1477
01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:24,560
Speaker 9: and Kareem Jackson steadily improves. But we go way back

1478
01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:26,320
Speaker 9: with this guy, and we're still gonna get into more things.

1479
01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:32,840
Speaker 9: But John, what's your first memory of Kareem Jackson, boy?

1480
01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:34,800
Speaker 9: Because I'm sure you were breaking down stuff of what

1481
01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:36,600
Speaker 9: he'd done in college, right.

1482
01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:40,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, It's interesting. I watching him in college.

1483
01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:42,760
Speaker 2: I had him behind those guys you mentioned. I thought

1484
01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:46,560
Speaker 2: Kyle Wilson mccordy. I thought Devin, who ended up having

1485
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:49,080
Speaker 2: a lot create safety and safety is a key word

1486
01:05:49,120 --> 01:05:51,919
Speaker 2: here because I feel like Kareem always got pulled back

1487
01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:52,840
Speaker 2: to play corner.

1488
01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:55,600
Speaker 1: All right, look, man, we need some help at corner. Kareem,

1489
01:05:55,600 --> 01:05:57,560
Speaker 1: can you go play corner? Yep? And he just do it.

1490
01:05:57,760 --> 01:05:58,360
Speaker 1: He'd do it.

1491
01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:01,080
Speaker 9: It's like the scene it's Pacino and Father three. Yeah,

1492
01:06:01,120 --> 01:06:02,040
Speaker 9: he just thought I was about.

1493
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:04,800
Speaker 2: He just kept getting pulled back to corner and had

1494
01:06:04,800 --> 01:06:07,440
Speaker 2: he hey gone to safety. I think early in his career,

1495
01:06:07,520 --> 01:06:11,480
Speaker 2: let's say fourteen twenty fourteen, when Bill O'Brien's staff takes over,

1496
01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:14,800
Speaker 2: if he goes to safety at that point, I think

1497
01:06:14,840 --> 01:06:16,760
Speaker 2: he ends up being one of the better safeties we've

1498
01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:17,760
Speaker 2: seen for the Texans.

1499
01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:20,640
Speaker 1: And obviously we've seen how physical he is.

1500
01:06:21,520 --> 01:06:24,240
Speaker 2: You know, he suspended a few weeks in Denver because

1501
01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:25,919
Speaker 2: of the hits he had.

1502
01:06:26,080 --> 01:06:28,240
Speaker 9: And before these suspensions, You've heard me say this a

1503
01:06:28,280 --> 01:06:31,160
Speaker 9: few different times over the years. I've said it multiple times.

1504
01:06:31,320 --> 01:06:34,400
Speaker 9: He's the hardest hitter in the franchise's history.

1505
01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:38,080
Speaker 2: That leads me to that leads me to my memory

1506
01:06:38,120 --> 01:06:40,520
Speaker 2: of him. In some sense. We had gone to Denver,

1507
01:06:40,600 --> 01:06:44,800
Speaker 2: ironically in twenty eighteen, and we had just traded for

1508
01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:47,880
Speaker 2: Damarius Thomas, and we're going back to Denver and we've

1509
01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 2: got a win streak going, and Koream is playing his

1510
01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:53,200
Speaker 2: best ball. I think in twenty eighteen, I mean he

1511
01:06:53,280 --> 01:06:55,520
Speaker 2: was all over the place and he was playing at

1512
01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:59,440
Speaker 2: corner so early in the game. Denver Broncos have a

1513
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:02,640
Speaker 2: rookie un back by the name of Philip Lindsay. And

1514
01:07:02,720 --> 01:07:04,360
Speaker 2: Philip was a tough dude. We saw him here. I

1515
01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:07,400
Speaker 2: loved Philip. It just didn't work here in Houston. And

1516
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:11,280
Speaker 2: I think he's now doing radio Denver. Anyway, Pace Keenan

1517
01:07:11,320 --> 01:07:14,000
Speaker 2: just played quarterback for the Broncos and throws a swing

1518
01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:17,480
Speaker 2: pass to Lindsay and I'm telling you it's not He's not.

1519
01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:20,560
Speaker 1: Lindsay's not ten yards from me on the sidelines.

1520
01:07:21,480 --> 01:07:25,320
Speaker 2: And before COVID, you could go all the way to

1521
01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:27,640
Speaker 2: the thirty five and thirty five the yellow line cut

1522
01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:28,040
Speaker 2: off line.

1523
01:07:28,280 --> 01:07:30,240
Speaker 1: The bench was from thirty five to thirty five. Now

1524
01:07:30,240 --> 01:07:30,840
Speaker 1: it's moved out.

1525
01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:33,959
Speaker 2: It's like twenty five to twenty five because they spread

1526
01:07:33,960 --> 01:07:35,880
Speaker 2: everybody out for COVID and they just left it like that.

1527
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:38,640
Speaker 2: So I was actually a little bit closer, and that

1528
01:07:38,640 --> 01:07:40,600
Speaker 2: thing is not ten yards away from me, and I

1529
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:44,160
Speaker 2: could see the ball and I could see how the

1530
01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:49,440
Speaker 2: cor my, oh, somebody's coming, and Kareem absolutely decapitated him.

1531
01:07:49,960 --> 01:07:53,240
Speaker 2: And it's one of the greatest legal hits I've ever seen.

1532
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:57,760
Speaker 2: And I just remember the sideline came on glued. I

1533
01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:01,640
Speaker 2: came on glued. I loved seeing a like that, and

1534
01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:05,600
Speaker 2: it just really set the tone for the Texans playing

1535
01:08:05,680 --> 01:08:08,440
Speaker 2: a particular way in style, and you know, Kareem was

1536
01:08:08,480 --> 01:08:12,120
Speaker 2: a massively huge part of that. So I think the

1537
01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:15,600
Speaker 2: other thing he always stands out with Kareem was he

1538
01:08:15,680 --> 01:08:17,920
Speaker 2: wore twenty five, which I don't know if you where,

1539
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:19,640
Speaker 2: you know he was arning the Broncos twenty two, So

1540
01:08:19,680 --> 01:08:21,639
Speaker 2: I wonder if he'll wear twenty two here because it's open.

1541
01:08:22,840 --> 01:08:25,679
Speaker 2: But twenty four and twenty five went everywhere together. Wherever

1542
01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:28,040
Speaker 2: you saw j Joe, you saw Kareem. You saw Kareem,

1543
01:08:28,040 --> 01:08:31,680
Speaker 2: you saw j Joe. They were always talking ball. They

1544
01:08:31,680 --> 01:08:33,080
Speaker 2: were so great, and then when you got in the

1545
01:08:33,080 --> 01:08:35,680
Speaker 2: locker room, you know, Heyjack TV was some of the

1546
01:08:35,720 --> 01:08:39,080
Speaker 2: best content you know, this side of on the Nose

1547
01:08:39,160 --> 01:08:40,880
Speaker 2: with Sean Cody. I mean, Kareem just took it and

1548
01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:44,559
Speaker 2: ran with it and had a blast, and they just

1549
01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:46,960
Speaker 2: kept pushing the boundaries and he just did such a

1550
01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:49,479
Speaker 2: good job. So on the field, off the field, everything

1551
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:52,120
Speaker 2: about Kareem, I'm just glad he can come back here.

1552
01:08:52,240 --> 01:08:56,240
Speaker 2: His wife is from Houston, so getting back here hopefully,

1553
01:08:56,600 --> 01:08:58,160
Speaker 2: you know, we'll see what happens for his career, but

1554
01:08:58,880 --> 01:09:01,120
Speaker 2: you know, if this is it, he gets to finish here.

1555
01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:03,040
Speaker 1: At home, and hopefully he can have some good memories.

1556
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:05,160
Speaker 2: You know, Look, Case Keenum had those good memories against

1557
01:09:05,160 --> 01:09:07,600
Speaker 2: the Titans, and hopefully Kareem can have a few of

1558
01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:10,280
Speaker 2: those memories against the Titans and the Colts a couple

1559
01:09:10,320 --> 01:09:11,439
Speaker 2: of division opponents as well.

1560
01:09:11,680 --> 01:09:13,960
Speaker 9: Okay, that's all the fun stuff from the past. And

1561
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:17,879
Speaker 9: one more little thing to note. He's one interception behind

1562
01:09:18,439 --> 01:09:22,000
Speaker 9: Jonathan Joseph, the franchise lead. I believe it's nineteen to

1563
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:24,040
Speaker 9: eighteen or eighteen to seventeen, but he's one behind him

1564
01:09:24,080 --> 01:09:27,479
Speaker 9: for that all time and career picks. He's also one

1565
01:09:27,479 --> 01:09:30,000
Speaker 9: behind him and pick sixes in his career four to three.

1566
01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:30,479
Speaker 1: Ooh.

1567
01:09:30,960 --> 01:09:34,960
Speaker 9: So he conceivably with one play, with one play, he

1568
01:09:34,960 --> 01:09:38,439
Speaker 9: could tie him. With two, he could beat him. That'd

1569
01:09:38,439 --> 01:09:41,719
Speaker 9: be awesome, that would be awesome. But for that to happen,

1570
01:09:43,400 --> 01:09:45,880
Speaker 9: what is he actually how how is he going to

1571
01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:46,880
Speaker 9: be deployed?

1572
01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:47,160
Speaker 8: Is he?

1573
01:09:47,960 --> 01:09:49,120
Speaker 5: I mean, is he going to be active?

1574
01:09:49,160 --> 01:09:51,559
Speaker 9: Like I imagine he's going to be active, But like, where

1575
01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:57,719
Speaker 9: do you see Kareem Jackson currently as a player fitting in.

1576
01:09:57,640 --> 01:09:59,760
Speaker 5: With this defense that's banged up?

1577
01:09:59,760 --> 01:09:59,920
Speaker 8: Man?

1578
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:01,760
Speaker 9: Because we didn't even mention Jimmy Ward is done for

1579
01:10:01,800 --> 01:10:04,080
Speaker 9: the season. He's on injured reserve. Right when he was

1580
01:10:04,120 --> 01:10:06,720
Speaker 9: in there, the defense was better, but he was hurt

1581
01:10:06,760 --> 01:10:08,880
Speaker 9: a lot this year. But Jimmy Ward is not going

1582
01:10:08,920 --> 01:10:11,040
Speaker 9: to play again this season. That's one of the reasons

1583
01:10:11,160 --> 01:10:14,040
Speaker 9: Kareem's here. I think, So how much does Kareem play

1584
01:10:14,080 --> 01:10:15,640
Speaker 9: and how effective do you think Kareem can be?

1585
01:10:17,280 --> 01:10:20,519
Speaker 2: I think you can still be very effective and I

1586
01:10:20,560 --> 01:10:23,599
Speaker 2: think losing. You know, Jimmy and Kareem are similar. They

1587
01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:27,960
Speaker 2: both have corner backgrounds. Yeah, they could play the nickel.

1588
01:10:28,120 --> 01:10:30,840
Speaker 2: They've got an edge, they play with an edge. They're

1589
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:34,920
Speaker 2: physically fearless, absolutely fearless.

1590
01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:38,439
Speaker 1: So when you sit there and go, okay, we lost Jimmy.

1591
01:10:38,439 --> 01:10:41,720
Speaker 2: What's I don't know, if you want to say the

1592
01:10:41,720 --> 01:10:47,040
Speaker 2: next best or a basically carbon copy, what's Kareem Jackson.

1593
01:10:47,080 --> 01:10:50,360
Speaker 2: Now Cream's a little bit older than Jimmy is, but

1594
01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:54,200
Speaker 2: they play the game very, very similar. And I just

1595
01:10:54,880 --> 01:10:57,120
Speaker 2: I just like the fact of having an enforcer in

1596
01:10:57,160 --> 01:10:59,680
Speaker 2: some way, shape or form that's in the back that

1597
01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:04,760
Speaker 2: receivers have to think twice about, because now receivers is

1598
01:11:04,840 --> 01:11:07,479
Speaker 2: right across the middle like, hey, no big deal, but

1599
01:11:07,880 --> 01:11:10,559
Speaker 2: if you know, well, you can get popped. Twenty two's

1600
01:11:10,600 --> 01:11:12,400
Speaker 2: back there, He's gonna pop you. I mean, that just

1601
01:11:12,439 --> 01:11:15,200
Speaker 2: makes you think twice about some things. I think Koreem

1602
01:11:15,280 --> 01:11:19,200
Speaker 2: can still run. I think obviously he can still be physical.

1603
01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:24,120
Speaker 2: I still think he's got the he's still got the

1604
01:11:24,120 --> 01:11:28,280
Speaker 2: physical skills to play the position, and he's also along

1605
01:11:28,320 --> 01:11:31,639
Speaker 2: the way acquired the knowledge to be able to play

1606
01:11:31,680 --> 01:11:36,960
Speaker 2: the position with restraint. And that I think is key

1607
01:11:37,000 --> 01:11:40,240
Speaker 2: because I don't think the Safeties right now are playing

1608
01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:43,000
Speaker 2: the game that way. I don't know that they're playing

1609
01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:47,360
Speaker 2: with that sort of physical restraint. It's one hundred miles

1610
01:11:47,400 --> 01:11:50,920
Speaker 2: an hour going to a certain spot and it's like,

1611
01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:55,479
Speaker 2: oh wait, and it's kind of that feeling and there

1612
01:11:55,560 --> 01:11:59,080
Speaker 2: you have to have trained eyes in the back in

1613
01:11:59,160 --> 01:12:02,040
Speaker 2: the back end, you have to have discipline eye in

1614
01:12:02,040 --> 01:12:04,639
Speaker 2: the back end, and I don't think that's what they've

1615
01:12:04,680 --> 01:12:08,839
Speaker 2: had now. Joe Flacco dropped dimes Like a great example.

1616
01:12:08,920 --> 01:12:10,439
Speaker 2: What I'm talking about is the very first play of

1617
01:12:10,439 --> 01:12:13,400
Speaker 2: the game. It's a two man route, it's a max

1618
01:12:13,439 --> 01:12:16,880
Speaker 2: protect route. Texans look to be in quarters and so

1619
01:12:17,240 --> 01:12:21,200
Speaker 2: when you get essentially a vertical route, that's essentially splitting

1620
01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:23,000
Speaker 2: your outside corner and your safety.

1621
01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:24,960
Speaker 1: The way you can.

1622
01:12:24,840 --> 01:12:27,280
Speaker 2: Play that is the safety will kind of come underneath

1623
01:12:27,280 --> 01:12:32,040
Speaker 2: that route and not trail, but get in the inside

1624
01:12:32,120 --> 01:12:35,320
Speaker 2: hip pocket of the receiver as he's running deep and

1625
01:12:35,360 --> 01:12:37,599
Speaker 2: then the corner. What that does is it buys time

1626
01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:40,240
Speaker 2: for the corner to go over the top, So you

1627
01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:44,280
Speaker 2: kind of squeeze and bracket the wide receiver and now

1628
01:12:44,280 --> 01:12:46,519
Speaker 2: you force the quarterback to throw into a tea cup

1629
01:12:46,560 --> 01:12:48,360
Speaker 2: as opposed to throwing it to a spot and let

1630
01:12:48,439 --> 01:12:53,080
Speaker 2: his receiver go get it. Joe Flacco threw in the teacup. Yeah,

1631
01:12:53,120 --> 01:12:56,400
Speaker 2: and what can you do? Like, I've watched that play

1632
01:12:56,439 --> 01:12:59,000
Speaker 2: ten times now on film, and I'm like, there's nothing

1633
01:12:59,040 --> 01:13:02,640
Speaker 2: really anybody could do, you know, could think about the

1634
01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:04,679
Speaker 2: fort Nelson had been a little bit more over the top,

1635
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:07,920
Speaker 2: Maybe could Jimmy have been a little bit close, Maybe think.

1636
01:13:07,800 --> 01:13:10,519
Speaker 9: About the fourth down pass at the very end. But

1637
01:13:10,560 --> 01:13:13,479
Speaker 9: that basically ended any hope for the Texans. Yeah right,

1638
01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:16,840
Speaker 9: I mean Stingley's hand is just right fraction away from

1639
01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:19,440
Speaker 9: getting I mean those rate passes to coverage.

1640
01:13:19,640 --> 01:13:22,720
Speaker 2: There are there are plays like that where Sunday you

1641
01:13:22,760 --> 01:13:25,880
Speaker 2: got beat. There are also plays that you got beat

1642
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:29,639
Speaker 2: because you weren't disciplined enough to play a coverage.

1643
01:13:29,680 --> 01:13:31,920
Speaker 1: Your eyes took you somewhere that they weren't supposed to.

1644
01:13:32,600 --> 01:13:37,840
Speaker 2: So you had opportunities that you could have taken away.

1645
01:13:39,560 --> 01:13:41,040
Speaker 2: You weren't gonna take all of them way because that

1646
01:13:41,120 --> 01:13:42,760
Speaker 2: first throw, as I said, Joe Flaccoll just put it

1647
01:13:42,800 --> 01:13:43,960
Speaker 2: right in the money, like you look at it and

1648
01:13:43,960 --> 01:13:46,360
Speaker 2: just go, you know, chuck it up to the game.

1649
01:13:46,400 --> 01:13:47,000
Speaker 7: What are you gonna do?

1650
01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:49,960
Speaker 1: I mean, Flaco just threw a perfect pass, and it

1651
01:13:50,040 --> 01:13:50,559
Speaker 1: was perfect.

1652
01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:53,680
Speaker 2: But there were also opportunities to think in that back end,

1653
01:13:53,960 --> 01:13:57,720
Speaker 2: especially with safety, where disciplined eyes could have kept some

1654
01:13:57,760 --> 01:14:02,040
Speaker 2: big place from happening, mainly the Amari Cooper long touchdown

1655
01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:03,920
Speaker 2: pass they made a fourteen seven. You know that was

1656
01:14:03,920 --> 01:14:06,000
Speaker 2: a play that could have been stopped and should have

1657
01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:09,240
Speaker 2: been stopped. Namiko Ryans talked about that, and those are

1658
01:14:09,240 --> 01:14:13,599
Speaker 2: the things I think that Kareem can help with because

1659
01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:15,559
Speaker 2: he's played back there now.

1660
01:14:15,439 --> 01:14:16,360
Speaker 1: For a few years.

1661
01:14:16,600 --> 01:14:20,400
Speaker 2: Yes, he is super physical, but he's also very smart,

1662
01:14:21,520 --> 01:14:24,879
Speaker 2: always very in tune to passing games and passing schemes

1663
01:14:24,880 --> 01:14:27,759
Speaker 2: and route combinations, whether it's at corner, nickel or safety.

1664
01:14:28,160 --> 01:14:30,719
Speaker 2: So how much he plays, I don't know. I think

1665
01:14:31,040 --> 01:14:33,320
Speaker 2: just how much he can learn about this defense and

1666
01:14:33,400 --> 01:14:35,200
Speaker 2: a short amount of time is going to help. But

1667
01:14:35,800 --> 01:14:37,559
Speaker 2: you know, if you get some veteran ballers out there,

1668
01:14:37,560 --> 01:14:39,120
Speaker 2: you don't get Dez at the nickel, and you get

1669
01:14:39,200 --> 01:14:42,480
Speaker 2: Kareem out there, you put them with Amos or with DHC,

1670
01:14:43,120 --> 01:14:45,960
Speaker 2: with Petrie, however you mix it up. I just think

1671
01:14:46,040 --> 01:14:47,800
Speaker 2: Kareem is going to be able to help back there

1672
01:14:48,040 --> 01:14:51,000
Speaker 2: because of the intelligence. And then you're throw in Dez

1673
01:14:51,080 --> 01:14:53,960
Speaker 2: and Dez King's intelligence.

1674
01:14:53,280 --> 01:14:54,000
Speaker 1: You have football IQ.

1675
01:14:54,160 --> 01:14:55,720
Speaker 2: You put that together, that's going to help some of

1676
01:14:55,760 --> 01:15:00,080
Speaker 2: those young guys say hey, reminder, hey, discipline Eze, make

1677
01:15:00,120 --> 01:15:02,240
Speaker 2: sure we know the coverage, no we're doing Let's communicate

1678
01:15:02,400 --> 01:15:03,760
Speaker 2: I think cream is gonna be a big help with

1679
01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:04,240
Speaker 2: all That.

1680
01:15:04,320 --> 01:15:06,920
Speaker 9: First week of the season he had a pick and

1681
01:15:07,040 --> 01:15:10,920
Speaker 9: four tackles. Yep, next week, get two tackles. Now, I

1682
01:15:10,920 --> 01:15:13,519
Speaker 9: know tackles aren't the be all, end all stat but

1683
01:15:13,600 --> 01:15:15,720
Speaker 9: just to give you an idea of how active he was,

1684
01:15:17,240 --> 01:15:19,839
Speaker 9: he had eight tackles, then eight tackles, and then ten tackles,

1685
01:15:19,880 --> 01:15:21,479
Speaker 9: then a couple of games with five tackles, and the

1686
01:15:21,520 --> 01:15:23,439
Speaker 9: last game he played was we had nine tackles.

1687
01:15:23,479 --> 01:15:24,040
Speaker 5: But listen to this.

1688
01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:29,120
Speaker 9: So he played pretty much every week up to the

1689
01:15:29,160 --> 01:15:32,479
Speaker 9: twenty second of October. Then he gets one of the suspensions. Yep, right,

1690
01:15:32,680 --> 01:15:36,040
Speaker 9: doesn't play again until November nineteenth, so he has about

1691
01:15:36,080 --> 01:15:38,640
Speaker 9: a month off. I think that's the Vikings. Yeah, he

1692
01:15:38,680 --> 01:15:40,479
Speaker 9: came back and played the Vikings. That's the last time

1693
01:15:40,479 --> 01:15:44,519
Speaker 9: he's played eleven nineteen November nineteen. So in theory, I

1694
01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:47,400
Speaker 9: mean he's he's got a lot of a lot of

1695
01:15:47,400 --> 01:15:49,240
Speaker 9: tread on the tire, or a lot of tread has

1696
01:15:49,280 --> 01:15:51,280
Speaker 9: come off the tire, so to speak, because he's been

1697
01:15:51,320 --> 01:15:53,719
Speaker 9: around a long time in the NFL. But in theory,

1698
01:15:54,880 --> 01:15:58,680
Speaker 9: he should also be feeling pretty good physically because he

1699
01:15:58,720 --> 01:15:59,920
Speaker 9: hasn't had to play in a while.

1700
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:01,599
Speaker 5: He's played one game in the last two months.

1701
01:16:02,160 --> 01:16:03,360
Speaker 9: Now, there might be a little bit of us, but

1702
01:16:03,800 --> 01:16:07,400
Speaker 9: given his knowledge, given his experience, that might bode well

1703
01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:09,960
Speaker 9: for him and have him really fresh for the two games.

1704
01:16:10,240 --> 01:16:12,360
Speaker 9: And I still think this is a playoff team, you know,

1705
01:16:12,400 --> 01:16:13,879
Speaker 9: for well later in January.

1706
01:16:13,920 --> 01:16:17,200
Speaker 2: And you bring up a great point, true, when you

1707
01:16:17,240 --> 01:16:19,200
Speaker 2: can sort of see the end in sight.

1708
01:16:19,680 --> 01:16:23,040
Speaker 1: Okay, there's two games. There's something about.

1709
01:16:22,760 --> 01:16:25,400
Speaker 2: That where like, I mean, I'm gonna let it all

1710
01:16:25,400 --> 01:16:26,679
Speaker 2: hang out, man, I got two games.

1711
01:16:26,680 --> 01:16:28,720
Speaker 9: Like Billy chapel Wood, he's pitching the perfect game at

1712
01:16:28,800 --> 01:16:29,839
Speaker 9: the Yankee Stadium.

1713
01:16:29,880 --> 01:16:33,120
Speaker 2: And you never know what it is for Kareem, whether

1714
01:16:33,120 --> 01:16:35,280
Speaker 2: he wants to continue playing after this year, how his

1715
01:16:35,360 --> 01:16:38,800
Speaker 2: body feels, all that kind of stuff, And so you

1716
01:16:38,840 --> 01:16:40,840
Speaker 2: go into it with a two game season like I

1717
01:16:40,880 --> 01:16:41,719
Speaker 2: got two weeks.

1718
01:16:42,280 --> 01:16:45,439
Speaker 1: I'm back in my building and just gonna let loose.

1719
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:48,559
Speaker 2: But there has to be a restraint with that, there

1720
01:16:48,600 --> 01:16:50,639
Speaker 2: has to be discipline with that, and I think Kareem

1721
01:16:50,680 --> 01:16:53,559
Speaker 2: is the type of guy that will will play with that.

1722
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:56,280
Speaker 2: And I'm excited to see what he's able to do

1723
01:16:56,320 --> 01:16:59,800
Speaker 2: for this team. Just even if Kareem doesn't play it

1724
01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:03,080
Speaker 2: out even if he's inactive this week.

1725
01:17:03,479 --> 01:17:04,559
Speaker 1: He can help that.

1726
01:17:04,720 --> 01:17:08,400
Speaker 2: Secondary just talk them through the things they're seeing, what

1727
01:17:08,520 --> 01:17:10,600
Speaker 2: to anticipate receiver splits.

1728
01:17:11,080 --> 01:17:13,280
Speaker 1: You know, Hey, you know the Titans like to do

1729
01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:14,280
Speaker 1: this now, it will help.

1730
01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:17,799
Speaker 2: The Texans played him just two weeks ago, but Kareem

1731
01:17:17,800 --> 01:17:20,320
Speaker 2: has faced to Tim Kelly offense every single day in

1732
01:17:20,400 --> 01:17:23,240
Speaker 2: practice for like five years. Yeah, so they're gonna be

1733
01:17:23,280 --> 01:17:25,880
Speaker 2: seeing things that he you know, sees that he's gonna

1734
01:17:25,920 --> 01:17:28,840
Speaker 2: see and he's gonna recognize that are gonna help. So

1735
01:17:29,479 --> 01:17:31,080
Speaker 2: I'm just really excited about having it back in the

1736
01:17:31,120 --> 01:17:32,960
Speaker 2: Billy And I think he's a great spirit, he's a

1737
01:17:32,960 --> 01:17:35,519
Speaker 2: great Texan and I think this is where he needs

1738
01:17:35,560 --> 01:17:35,720
Speaker 2: to be.

1739
01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:36,600
Speaker 1: So I'm excited for that.

1740
01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:38,880
Speaker 9: Yeah, and if nothing else, is gonna be fun talking

1741
01:17:38,880 --> 01:17:40,240
Speaker 9: to him in the locker room because you know he's

1742
01:17:40,240 --> 01:17:41,120
Speaker 9: gonna say something funny.

1743
01:17:41,160 --> 01:17:41,439
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1744
01:17:41,439 --> 01:17:48,320
Speaker 9: Okay, who on Monday morning in twenty twenty four January first,

1745
01:17:48,360 --> 01:17:50,840
Speaker 9: twenty twenty four are we going to be saying this

1746
01:17:51,400 --> 01:17:53,679
Speaker 9: was my Caream of the Crop award winner who gets

1747
01:17:53,720 --> 01:17:56,479
Speaker 9: the cream of the crop, Thank you much?

1748
01:17:56,520 --> 01:17:56,720
Speaker 8: A man?

1749
01:17:56,800 --> 01:17:57,880
Speaker 5: Rady Savageho's your choice?

1750
01:17:57,920 --> 01:17:58,160
Speaker 8: John?

1751
01:17:58,400 --> 01:17:58,719
Speaker 4: Hmmm?

1752
01:18:00,080 --> 01:18:04,200
Speaker 2: Know this question's coming, and so I've gone back and forth,

1753
01:18:04,720 --> 01:18:07,800
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna if the Texans walk out of their

1754
01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:10,240
Speaker 2: Sunday with the Winds setting up a win and in

1755
01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:15,040
Speaker 2: playoff situation with Thedanapolis Colts the following Sunday, it is

1756
01:18:15,080 --> 01:18:18,839
Speaker 2: going to be five individuals. It's going to be Laromy Tunsel,

1757
01:18:18,960 --> 01:18:23,040
Speaker 2: Juice Scruggs, Michael Dieter, Shaq Mason, and whether it's George

1758
01:18:23,040 --> 01:18:26,280
Speaker 2: Fan or Charlie Hecker right tackle. This game against the

1759
01:18:26,320 --> 01:18:30,639
Speaker 2: Titans comes down to how well they can protect hopefully CJ.

1760
01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:31,160
Speaker 7: Stroud.

1761
01:18:31,560 --> 01:18:34,400
Speaker 1: If CJ is playing in this game, he cannot be touched.

1762
01:18:34,880 --> 01:18:35,839
Speaker 1: He cannot be touched.

1763
01:18:36,200 --> 01:18:39,439
Speaker 2: And one thing I noticed about the Cleveland Browns, the

1764
01:18:39,479 --> 01:18:43,160
Speaker 2: Browns are very worried about, especially early in the Texas

1765
01:18:43,160 --> 01:18:45,840
Speaker 2: pass rush, and for a good reason, what John Grenard

1766
01:18:45,960 --> 01:18:47,040
Speaker 2: was on the field. He's only on a field for

1767
01:18:47,080 --> 01:18:50,839
Speaker 2: three plays, but the one play he absolutely whipped, whipped

1768
01:18:50,840 --> 01:18:54,440
Speaker 2: the left tackle and was in the face of the quarterback.

1769
01:18:54,920 --> 01:18:57,479
Speaker 2: But he ended up not being able to stay on

1770
01:18:57,479 --> 01:18:59,960
Speaker 2: the field because he got rolled up on by Dark

1771
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:03,519
Speaker 2: Barnett coming from the other side. Barnett was making his

1772
01:19:03,600 --> 01:19:06,720
Speaker 2: case for getting to the quarterback and he got knocked out. Anyways,

1773
01:19:07,320 --> 01:19:10,479
Speaker 2: the Browns were protecting and running two man routes, three

1774
01:19:10,479 --> 01:19:13,800
Speaker 2: man routes. They were protecting with seven. So I don't

1775
01:19:13,840 --> 01:19:16,880
Speaker 2: care how you do it, but you gotta protect CJ.

1776
01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:21,720
Speaker 2: Stroud every game henceforth, but in particular coming off of

1777
01:19:21,760 --> 01:19:24,360
Speaker 2: concussion and missing two weeks, simple as that. One of

1778
01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:27,200
Speaker 2: the guys that's gonna have to do that is Andrew Beck.

1779
01:19:27,280 --> 01:19:29,840
Speaker 2: He joins us for the Slap presented by Infinity. Next

1780
01:19:29,920 --> 01:19:32,840
Speaker 2: right here on Texans All Access, it's time for the

1781
01:19:32,960 --> 01:19:38,320
Speaker 2: Slant presented by Exfinity. This week, Stephanie Gonzalez back in

1782
01:19:38,640 --> 01:19:44,840
Speaker 2: the Captain's chair alongside Andrew Beck. Versatile weapon X fullback,

1783
01:19:44,920 --> 01:19:51,000
Speaker 2: tight end, tailback, wide receiver, part offensive lineman, great kick returner.

1784
01:19:51,160 --> 01:19:54,400
Speaker 2: Everything you want in a football player. Andrew Beck is that.

1785
01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:57,720
Speaker 2: So let's get to it. Slant presented by Infinity Stephanie

1786
01:19:58,000 --> 01:19:59,000
Speaker 2: with Andrew Beck.

1787
01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:02,360
Speaker 13: Hey, guys, I'm Stephanie Gonzalez and welcome to the Slant.

1788
01:20:02,439 --> 01:20:05,000
Speaker 13: I'm here with Texans full back Andrew Beck.

1789
01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:06,040
Speaker 8: Me.

1790
01:20:06,320 --> 01:20:07,719
Speaker 7: Yeah, thank you so much. I'm excited.

1791
01:20:07,880 --> 01:20:08,840
Speaker 12: Yeah I am too.

1792
01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:12,880
Speaker 13: And you just got done with training, right, So what

1793
01:20:13,040 --> 01:20:14,960
Speaker 13: is the day in the life of Andrew Beck, Like,

1794
01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:16,320
Speaker 13: what is your typical daylight?

1795
01:20:16,520 --> 01:20:19,000
Speaker 7: Oh? Man, I wish it could be more exciting. I

1796
01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:20,920
Speaker 7: feel like I need more exciting things to tell you.

1797
01:20:21,000 --> 01:20:23,800
Speaker 7: I don't know. You know, it's for me the keys

1798
01:20:23,840 --> 01:20:25,280
Speaker 7: kind of getting into a routine. So I try to

1799
01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:29,800
Speaker 7: keep our training days like Wednesday, Thursdays, and Fridays pretty similar. Yeah.

1800
01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:32,719
Speaker 7: So I usually get here about six forty five or seven,

1801
01:20:32,840 --> 01:20:35,920
Speaker 7: like quick breakfast into the tubs in the training room

1802
01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:37,880
Speaker 7: and then start looking over what we have for the

1803
01:20:37,960 --> 01:20:40,120
Speaker 7: day and then get ready for other lyft On Wednesdays

1804
01:20:40,200 --> 01:20:43,680
Speaker 7: or Thursdays, we go right into meetings and and kind

1805
01:20:43,680 --> 01:20:45,679
Speaker 7: of learn what the coaches have for us those days

1806
01:20:45,720 --> 01:20:47,760
Speaker 7: and uh and get ready to go do it on

1807
01:20:47,760 --> 01:20:49,479
Speaker 7: the practice field. We don't have much time from when

1808
01:20:49,520 --> 01:20:51,519
Speaker 7: we get it to when we have to apply it. Yeah,

1809
01:20:51,560 --> 01:20:53,160
Speaker 7: so you know, being able to be locked in in

1810
01:20:53,200 --> 01:20:54,840
Speaker 7: meetings is kind of key for me because you know,

1811
01:20:54,840 --> 01:20:56,479
Speaker 7: it's like I took for granted when I was in

1812
01:20:56,479 --> 01:20:58,120
Speaker 7: middle school, and I could like study and then have

1813
01:20:58,160 --> 01:21:00,240
Speaker 7: seven days to get ready for the test. Yeah, we

1814
01:21:00,280 --> 01:21:02,120
Speaker 7: got like fifteen minutes and they're like, all right, guys,

1815
01:21:02,120 --> 01:21:04,120
Speaker 7: good luck, We'll see out there. I love that it's

1816
01:21:04,240 --> 01:21:06,439
Speaker 7: you know, trying to keep it consistent and you know,

1817
01:21:06,560 --> 01:21:09,679
Speaker 7: not get bordered, you know, into the run of the routine,

1818
01:21:09,680 --> 01:21:11,880
Speaker 7: but make sure that I you know, follow my my steps.

1819
01:21:11,880 --> 01:21:14,680
Speaker 13: At one Andrew back joining us on the slant. You

1820
01:21:14,760 --> 01:21:17,799
Speaker 13: joined the Texans this year, I did first year. Has

1821
01:21:17,920 --> 01:21:19,280
Speaker 13: this year been like for you?

1822
01:21:20,120 --> 01:21:23,599
Speaker 7: Uh? For me, it's been unbelievable. You know, you look

1823
01:21:23,640 --> 01:21:27,639
Speaker 7: at you know, where this organization was this time last year,

1824
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:30,280
Speaker 7: and what the new coaching staff and you know, all

1825
01:21:30,320 --> 01:21:32,280
Speaker 7: the guys that we brought in and the rookies who

1826
01:21:32,280 --> 01:21:34,120
Speaker 7: have been such a big part, you know what they've

1827
01:21:34,120 --> 01:21:36,240
Speaker 7: been able to accomplish, and we've been able to accomplish

1828
01:21:36,560 --> 01:21:39,679
Speaker 7: this year so far, as I think really surprised some people.

1829
01:21:39,760 --> 01:21:41,920
Speaker 7: And it's you know, playing meaningful games this late in

1830
01:21:41,960 --> 01:21:43,719
Speaker 7: the years is really important to a lot of people.

1831
01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:46,000
Speaker 7: And obviously, you know in that locker room, we're some

1832
01:21:46,040 --> 01:21:48,599
Speaker 7: of those people. So you know that's I guess that's

1833
01:21:48,680 --> 01:21:51,160
Speaker 7: you know kind of kind of been the biggest thing

1834
01:21:51,200 --> 01:21:53,200
Speaker 7: for me is you know, I've really been enjoying it

1835
01:21:53,280 --> 01:21:55,240
Speaker 7: just because of I think we've we've done a lot

1836
01:21:55,280 --> 01:21:58,280
Speaker 7: more than maybe people thought we could have outside of

1837
01:21:58,320 --> 01:21:59,479
Speaker 7: the locker room. I mean you you look at the

1838
01:21:59,479 --> 01:22:01,479
Speaker 7: guys in the loom and everybody you know from OTAs,

1839
01:22:01,520 --> 01:22:03,040
Speaker 7: We're like, we're going to win Super Bowl. This is it.

1840
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:06,040
Speaker 7: But you know, now we've we've got some people outside

1841
01:22:06,080 --> 01:22:07,960
Speaker 7: the building believing too, and so you know, it's it's

1842
01:22:08,080 --> 01:22:10,639
Speaker 7: learning for young guys to balance that and older guys

1843
01:22:10,640 --> 01:22:12,920
Speaker 7: who haven't been, you know, in this position their career.

1844
01:22:12,960 --> 01:22:14,960
Speaker 7: Coach France has done a great job of like, hey, guys,

1845
01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:16,000
Speaker 7: this is what it's all about.

1846
01:22:16,040 --> 01:22:16,559
Speaker 1: This is what we're doing.

1847
01:22:16,680 --> 01:22:18,920
Speaker 7: Is you know, we're playing so you can't plan a

1848
01:22:18,960 --> 01:22:21,360
Speaker 7: vacation yet. And yeah, I think that's that's kind of

1849
01:22:21,400 --> 01:22:23,120
Speaker 7: where we are and that's where we wanted to be.

1850
01:22:23,200 --> 01:22:23,879
Speaker 7: So that's exciting.

1851
01:22:23,960 --> 01:22:25,599
Speaker 12: Oh I love that, and we're all excited too.

1852
01:22:25,720 --> 01:22:30,479
Speaker 13: And we also have to talk about September twenty fourth that.

1853
01:22:31,120 --> 01:22:31,600
Speaker 8: I love that.

1854
01:22:31,960 --> 01:22:34,560
Speaker 12: I was like, let's see what he says when I mentioned.

1855
01:22:34,240 --> 01:22:35,519
Speaker 1: That, is that the kicker?

1856
01:22:35,840 --> 01:22:36,479
Speaker 8: Yeah that's right.

1857
01:22:36,560 --> 01:22:37,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what.

1858
01:22:38,160 --> 01:22:40,439
Speaker 13: And I'm sure everyone has been asking you about it

1859
01:22:40,479 --> 01:22:42,439
Speaker 13: and we're not. Let's be honest, we're not tired of

1860
01:22:42,479 --> 01:22:43,160
Speaker 13: hearing about it.

1861
01:22:43,280 --> 01:22:44,320
Speaker 1: So I appreciate it.

1862
01:22:44,400 --> 01:22:47,080
Speaker 13: Take us back to that what was that moment, like

1863
01:22:47,200 --> 01:22:48,880
Speaker 13: what was going through your mind?

1864
01:22:49,240 --> 01:22:51,559
Speaker 7: Oh man, it was. It was unbelievable, you know, just

1865
01:22:51,600 --> 01:22:53,680
Speaker 7: looking back on it's definitely one of those memories I'll

1866
01:22:53,760 --> 01:22:55,960
Speaker 7: cherish for a long time. And you know, crossing the

1867
01:22:55,960 --> 01:22:57,479
Speaker 7: goal line, being in the end zone, turn around and

1868
01:22:57,479 --> 01:22:58,840
Speaker 7: see Brevin Jordan is a guy that I'm in the

1869
01:22:58,840 --> 01:22:59,680
Speaker 7: meeting room with every day.

1870
01:22:59,800 --> 01:23:00,960
Speaker 1: Was the first got there to celebrate.

1871
01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:03,639
Speaker 7: And then just the swarm of teammates that came down

1872
01:23:03,640 --> 01:23:06,040
Speaker 7: and coaches running down the sideline like trying not to

1873
01:23:06,040 --> 01:23:07,960
Speaker 7: get flagged, but come down and celebrate with everybody.

1874
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:08,360
Speaker 1: I think it was.

1875
01:23:08,400 --> 01:23:11,120
Speaker 7: It was a really cool moment and kind of just

1876
01:23:11,160 --> 01:23:13,080
Speaker 7: that that game, it was early enough in the year,

1877
01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:14,800
Speaker 7: like it did a really good job of we kind

1878
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:16,760
Speaker 7: of came together as a team right around that game

1879
01:23:16,800 --> 01:23:20,120
Speaker 7: and then shortly there afterwards, and certainly not saying that

1880
01:23:20,120 --> 01:23:22,000
Speaker 7: that was that that had anything to do with in general,

1881
01:23:22,040 --> 01:23:25,400
Speaker 7: but just kind of like feeling the response afterwards of like,

1882
01:23:25,479 --> 01:23:27,360
Speaker 7: you know, hugging all my teammates and things like that.

1883
01:23:27,160 --> 01:23:28,120
Speaker 1: That stuff's important.

1884
01:23:28,560 --> 01:23:30,400
Speaker 7: That's one of the you know, the big reasons guys

1885
01:23:30,439 --> 01:23:32,360
Speaker 7: like playing this game is the team side of it,

1886
01:23:32,400 --> 01:23:34,280
Speaker 7: you know, So I think that's that's what it will

1887
01:23:34,280 --> 01:23:36,280
Speaker 7: always mean for me, is like how cool it was

1888
01:23:36,280 --> 01:23:38,160
Speaker 7: to celebrate with everybody on the roster after that was

1889
01:23:38,160 --> 01:23:38,519
Speaker 7: really cool.

1890
01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:40,160
Speaker 12: That's what I was going to ask you. The aftermath,

1891
01:23:40,160 --> 01:23:42,559
Speaker 12: I'm sure a lot of phone calls oh yeah.

1892
01:23:42,520 --> 01:23:45,960
Speaker 7: Wild yeah, and text messages from people that I haven't

1893
01:23:45,960 --> 01:23:48,800
Speaker 7: talked to in twenty years from moving around with things

1894
01:23:48,800 --> 01:23:51,560
Speaker 7: like that, you know, but it was it was really cool. Yeah, absolutely,

1895
01:23:51,640 --> 01:23:53,479
Speaker 7: absolutely a fond memory forever.

1896
01:23:53,920 --> 01:23:55,879
Speaker 12: It's fun to watch anytime.

1897
01:23:55,960 --> 01:23:57,680
Speaker 13: I watched a few of the clips and just the

1898
01:23:57,720 --> 01:23:59,280
Speaker 13: commentators that just happened.

1899
01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:02,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, like did we just see what we do?

1900
01:24:02,479 --> 01:24:02,679
Speaker 10: Saw?

1901
01:24:03,040 --> 01:24:04,000
Speaker 7: It was one of my favorite ones.

1902
01:24:04,080 --> 01:24:08,080
Speaker 13: Yeah, absolutely, Well, congrats that was great, very memorable, and

1903
01:24:08,800 --> 01:24:10,960
Speaker 13: I always like to also just kind of go back

1904
01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:12,800
Speaker 13: in time a little before all of this.

1905
01:24:13,120 --> 01:24:17,040
Speaker 12: Okay, where did you grow up? Where are you from?

1906
01:24:17,120 --> 01:24:20,519
Speaker 7: Oh Man, So, my dad's active duty military, So I

1907
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:23,280
Speaker 7: lived eleven places before I went to college. So I

1908
01:24:23,320 --> 01:24:25,679
Speaker 7: was born in Kentucky, bounced around a bunch, and then

1909
01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:28,040
Speaker 7: finished high school in Tampa, Florida, before I went to

1910
01:24:28,200 --> 01:24:30,360
Speaker 7: ut and Austin for a college and was there for

1911
01:24:31,000 --> 01:24:33,280
Speaker 7: five years and a couple of minutes maybe, and then

1912
01:24:33,320 --> 01:24:36,120
Speaker 7: I've been bouncing around. Was in signed with New England

1913
01:24:36,160 --> 01:24:38,200
Speaker 7: after college, and then was in Denver for four years,

1914
01:24:38,200 --> 01:24:39,680
Speaker 7: and now I'm down here for this one and the

1915
01:24:39,760 --> 01:24:42,040
Speaker 7: next one, so hopefully a little bit longer. But yeah,

1916
01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:45,080
Speaker 7: I've been all over, oh Man, which is great, right

1917
01:24:45,120 --> 01:24:47,640
Speaker 7: because I've yeah, I moved eleven different places. We were

1918
01:24:47,640 --> 01:24:50,320
Speaker 7: in Germany for two of them. Been all over. But

1919
01:24:50,320 --> 01:24:52,479
Speaker 7: I've got you know, really good close friends all over

1920
01:24:52,520 --> 01:24:53,720
Speaker 7: that I can reach out to. So it has been

1921
01:24:53,760 --> 01:24:55,960
Speaker 7: kind of nice. Like we left, came back to college here,

1922
01:24:56,080 --> 01:24:58,639
Speaker 7: left went to New England, then Denver, and then came

1923
01:24:58,680 --> 01:25:00,400
Speaker 7: back and we still have you know, college friends in

1924
01:25:00,439 --> 01:25:02,800
Speaker 7: Houston from you two that we've been hanging out with

1925
01:25:02,840 --> 01:25:04,800
Speaker 7: and reconnecting with and things like that. It was kind

1926
01:25:04,800 --> 01:25:07,479
Speaker 7: of that my entire life, kind of growing up, moving around,

1927
01:25:07,520 --> 01:25:10,800
Speaker 7: reconnecting with people that you know, we had we'd moved

1928
01:25:10,840 --> 01:25:13,000
Speaker 7: and then ended up moving back there or you know,

1929
01:25:13,040 --> 01:25:14,719
Speaker 7: the one thing you learn about the Armies how small

1930
01:25:14,760 --> 01:25:16,640
Speaker 7: the world is. So you'd move and then you know,

1931
01:25:16,680 --> 01:25:18,639
Speaker 7: two weeks later, somebody else would move that you hadn't

1932
01:25:18,640 --> 01:25:21,080
Speaker 7: seen four or five years, and they moved and get

1933
01:25:21,120 --> 01:25:22,920
Speaker 7: stationed in the same spot your parents are stationed in.

1934
01:25:23,000 --> 01:25:25,640
Speaker 7: So so it was it was fun growing up. It

1935
01:25:25,680 --> 01:25:27,240
Speaker 7: was a different childhood than a lot of guys that

1936
01:25:27,280 --> 01:25:30,120
Speaker 7: I talked to, like Eric Soberts and another tight Endulton Shows.

1937
01:25:30,120 --> 01:25:31,280
Speaker 7: A lot of those guys I grew up in the

1938
01:25:31,320 --> 01:25:32,880
Speaker 7: same spot. They're like, I'm going to hang out with

1939
01:25:32,880 --> 01:25:34,760
Speaker 7: my high school buddies. I was like, oh man, what's

1940
01:25:34,880 --> 01:25:40,479
Speaker 7: what's that like? But no, I you know, I wouldn't

1941
01:25:40,520 --> 01:25:42,880
Speaker 7: have changed anything about my childhood kind of growing up.

1942
01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:46,280
Speaker 7: I think it prepared me for this business. Especially is

1943
01:25:46,320 --> 01:25:48,160
Speaker 7: the you know, the sudden moving and things like that.

1944
01:25:48,320 --> 01:25:49,840
Speaker 7: So I enjoyed.

1945
01:25:49,800 --> 01:25:52,479
Speaker 13: Our guest is Andrew Beck today on the slant. How

1946
01:25:52,520 --> 01:25:56,000
Speaker 13: did football get into the mix? How did you begin playing?

1947
01:25:56,040 --> 01:25:58,080
Speaker 13: With all the movie and all that. Do you remember

1948
01:25:58,680 --> 01:25:59,960
Speaker 13: how we're introduced.

1949
01:26:00,120 --> 01:26:03,920
Speaker 7: Yeah, so it was second grade. We lived in West Virginia,

1950
01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:06,840
Speaker 7: So we started playing full pad tackle football in second

1951
01:26:06,840 --> 01:26:09,120
Speaker 7: grade in West Virginia, which you know, may.

1952
01:26:09,120 --> 01:26:10,400
Speaker 1: Or may not be a good thing. Let me talk

1953
01:26:10,400 --> 01:26:10,960
Speaker 1: about that later.

1954
01:26:11,400 --> 01:26:14,720
Speaker 7: But so that was when we you know, I before that,

1955
01:26:14,760 --> 01:26:16,679
Speaker 7: it was like baseball and soccer because my dad played

1956
01:26:16,680 --> 01:26:17,479
Speaker 7: soccer at West Point.

1957
01:26:17,840 --> 01:26:19,640
Speaker 1: So it was baseball and soccer.

1958
01:26:19,320 --> 01:26:22,639
Speaker 7: And then one of my best friend's dad was coaching

1959
01:26:22,680 --> 01:26:24,479
Speaker 7: the team and my dad was deployed at the time,

1960
01:26:24,520 --> 01:26:26,160
Speaker 7: so he went to my mom was like, hey, like

1961
01:26:26,760 --> 01:26:29,080
Speaker 7: Andrews got to come play football. So the deal was

1962
01:26:29,320 --> 01:26:31,000
Speaker 7: their son would play soccer with me one year and

1963
01:26:31,000 --> 01:26:32,720
Speaker 7: then the next year I'd go play football. And it

1964
01:26:32,840 --> 01:26:35,160
Speaker 7: was I mean it was like my knee pads we

1965
01:26:35,200 --> 01:26:36,599
Speaker 7: went out. My mom and I were trying to figure

1966
01:26:36,600 --> 01:26:38,639
Speaker 7: out the pads altogether, so we had everything right except

1967
01:26:38,760 --> 01:26:40,639
Speaker 7: like she put my knee pads on my butt cheeks

1968
01:26:40,640 --> 01:26:41,200
Speaker 7: and stuff like that.

1969
01:26:41,200 --> 01:26:41,760
Speaker 1: Like it was a mess.

1970
01:26:41,760 --> 01:26:43,479
Speaker 7: It was an absolute disaster the first time we did it.

1971
01:26:43,640 --> 01:26:45,840
Speaker 7: So he came sprinting across the parking lot to get

1972
01:26:45,880 --> 01:26:48,080
Speaker 7: me and like fix my uniform and everything like that.

1973
01:26:48,680 --> 01:26:50,840
Speaker 7: But that was where I got started and kind of

1974
01:26:50,960 --> 01:26:53,759
Speaker 7: played ever since then. And we used it as because

1975
01:26:53,800 --> 01:26:56,880
Speaker 7: you know, you work out summer going into fall, so

1976
01:26:56,920 --> 01:26:58,840
Speaker 7: it was always a great way to make friends before

1977
01:26:58,840 --> 01:27:00,519
Speaker 7: the school year started. So I was at least two

1978
01:27:00,560 --> 01:27:02,479
Speaker 7: or three people that I knew going into the school year.

1979
01:27:03,479 --> 01:27:05,760
Speaker 7: So that was kind of what sports was to me.

1980
01:27:05,840 --> 01:27:07,960
Speaker 7: And that's why, like the team camaraderie thing is so

1981
01:27:08,000 --> 01:27:11,240
Speaker 7: big to me now, because it was it was literally

1982
01:27:11,320 --> 01:27:14,080
Speaker 7: like your school lifeline going into to the first couple

1983
01:27:14,120 --> 01:27:15,720
Speaker 7: of days. It was how you made friends and you know,

1984
01:27:15,840 --> 01:27:19,479
Speaker 7: knew someone going in. So it was, like I said,

1985
01:27:19,520 --> 01:27:21,800
Speaker 7: the camaraderie side of it has always been huge to me,

1986
01:27:21,840 --> 01:27:23,160
Speaker 7: and I think that's what it goes back to.

1987
01:27:23,560 --> 01:27:25,600
Speaker 12: With all the moving. Would you say that football was

1988
01:27:25,680 --> 01:27:26,400
Speaker 12: your constant.

1989
01:27:27,240 --> 01:27:29,080
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean there's a couple of things for sure,

1990
01:27:29,160 --> 01:27:30,960
Speaker 7: right Family, Like family is always going to be there,

1991
01:27:30,960 --> 01:27:32,439
Speaker 7: and that's been big for me. And you know, even

1992
01:27:32,479 --> 01:27:34,599
Speaker 7: though my parents continue to move, we're still we're still

1993
01:27:34,600 --> 01:27:37,000
Speaker 7: really really close with them and always will be obviously.

1994
01:27:37,080 --> 01:27:39,280
Speaker 7: And then sports. You know, it's kind of family and

1995
01:27:39,360 --> 01:27:41,720
Speaker 7: then and then sports. It's just it's what you knew.

1996
01:27:41,760 --> 01:27:44,519
Speaker 7: It's what was the like you said, the constant everywhere

1997
01:27:44,520 --> 01:27:46,320
Speaker 7: you went, it's like, well, I know they'll play football

1998
01:27:46,320 --> 01:27:48,200
Speaker 7: on the fall outside of like going to Europe, but

1999
01:27:48,680 --> 01:27:50,479
Speaker 7: it was like, I know over here they'll play football

2000
01:27:50,479 --> 01:27:51,599
Speaker 7: on the fall. So I kind of had to get

2001
01:27:51,760 --> 01:27:53,800
Speaker 7: get good at that because I was I wasn't really

2002
01:27:53,840 --> 01:27:56,360
Speaker 7: good at football until like my junior year high school.

2003
01:27:57,000 --> 01:27:59,320
Speaker 7: I'd like to tell people as a much better baseball player,

2004
01:27:59,640 --> 01:28:02,679
Speaker 7: it's just wishful thinking. But uh but yeah, no, you're

2005
01:28:03,040 --> 01:28:04,639
Speaker 7: you're right. It was kind of it was the constant

2006
01:28:04,680 --> 01:28:06,720
Speaker 7: that we kind of knew was going to be there

2007
01:28:06,720 --> 01:28:07,839
Speaker 7: and fell back.

2008
01:28:07,680 --> 01:28:09,679
Speaker 12: On Andrew back joining us on the slant.

2009
01:28:09,840 --> 01:28:12,960
Speaker 13: So you went to ut I did this, man, and

2010
01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:16,360
Speaker 13: now you're back in Texas, love it and you are

2011
01:28:16,360 --> 01:28:17,640
Speaker 13: in the NFL.

2012
01:28:19,160 --> 01:28:22,080
Speaker 12: So what has this journey been like for you?

2013
01:28:22,120 --> 01:28:24,360
Speaker 13: What is that like just being back here and playing

2014
01:28:24,600 --> 01:28:26,880
Speaker 13: you know, yeah, absolutely.

2015
01:28:26,600 --> 01:28:29,519
Speaker 7: It's it's finishing. I laugh all the time the fact

2016
01:28:29,520 --> 01:28:31,600
Speaker 7: that I, you know, play in the NFL. And so

2017
01:28:31,720 --> 01:28:34,240
Speaker 7: after the game a couple of weeks ago, we did

2018
01:28:34,320 --> 01:28:36,800
Speaker 7: the organization did a great job of bringing my dad

2019
01:28:36,800 --> 01:28:38,360
Speaker 7: down for the Saluta Service game and did a lot

2020
01:28:38,400 --> 01:28:40,000
Speaker 7: of stuff for him, which was really really cool, and

2021
01:28:40,000 --> 01:28:41,240
Speaker 7: we got to be on the share a moment of

2022
01:28:41,280 --> 01:28:45,000
Speaker 7: the field together before that game kicked off, and we

2023
01:28:45,040 --> 01:28:46,960
Speaker 7: talked about it afterwards and he had both laughed like,

2024
01:28:46,960 --> 01:28:48,799
Speaker 7: hey man, like he's a two star general.

2025
01:28:48,880 --> 01:28:50,559
Speaker 1: Now I'm going into my fifth year in the NFL.

2026
01:28:50,560 --> 01:28:52,320
Speaker 7: We were like, either one of us really thought we

2027
01:28:52,360 --> 01:28:54,960
Speaker 7: would ever be in this position growing up. So that

2028
01:28:55,000 --> 01:28:58,200
Speaker 7: moment is something that we will always always cherish, but yeah,

2029
01:28:58,200 --> 01:28:59,920
Speaker 7: it's it's funny you bring that up because we had

2030
01:29:00,040 --> 01:29:01,240
Speaker 7: talked about that same thing.

2031
01:29:01,920 --> 01:29:04,880
Speaker 13: And obviously family is it means a lot to you

2032
01:29:05,000 --> 01:29:06,920
Speaker 13: and your Wifey Hope.

2033
01:29:06,960 --> 01:29:09,599
Speaker 12: Elizabeth she's from here, right, she is.

2034
01:29:09,920 --> 01:29:11,920
Speaker 7: She's from just north of Houston. She's from the Woodlands,

2035
01:29:11,920 --> 01:29:14,040
Speaker 7: which I've learned is not technically Houston, even though I

2036
01:29:14,120 --> 01:29:15,880
Speaker 7: used to tell people that, but I guess for the

2037
01:29:15,880 --> 01:29:18,160
Speaker 7: sake of argument, we'll say, yeah, she's from the greater

2038
01:29:18,240 --> 01:29:18,880
Speaker 7: Houston area.

2039
01:29:19,200 --> 01:29:20,200
Speaker 12: What do y'all like to do here?

2040
01:29:20,960 --> 01:29:23,679
Speaker 7: You know, we're still kind of relearning the city. She's

2041
01:29:24,040 --> 01:29:25,800
Speaker 7: kind of teaching me a lot of stuff. I love

2042
01:29:25,840 --> 01:29:28,120
Speaker 7: restaurants and going to a couple different places, so we've

2043
01:29:28,120 --> 01:29:30,360
Speaker 7: been trying to like the must eat spots that you

2044
01:29:30,439 --> 01:29:33,760
Speaker 7: have to go to. But we're excited for the off

2045
01:29:33,800 --> 01:29:35,360
Speaker 7: season where we kind of get to go around and like,

2046
01:29:35,400 --> 01:29:37,360
Speaker 7: I love going to Ashers games and things like that,

2047
01:29:37,479 --> 01:29:39,800
Speaker 7: so I feel like everybody in Houston does so, so

2048
01:29:39,880 --> 01:29:42,320
Speaker 7: we've you know, kind of been doing that in sightseeing

2049
01:29:42,320 --> 01:29:44,040
Speaker 7: and like running through going to check out you know,

2050
01:29:44,080 --> 01:29:46,160
Speaker 7: parks and things like that, like like being outside. So

2051
01:29:46,200 --> 01:29:47,559
Speaker 7: I feel like here's a good place, you know, come

2052
01:29:47,560 --> 01:29:49,120
Speaker 7: from Denver. It's like four feet of snow on the

2053
01:29:49,120 --> 01:29:52,080
Speaker 7: ground sometimes, so we're kind of taking advantage of it. Yeah,

2054
01:29:52,439 --> 01:29:53,880
Speaker 7: taking advantage of the warmth here.

2055
01:29:53,960 --> 01:29:54,599
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.

2056
01:29:54,880 --> 01:29:56,519
Speaker 7: Get to sit in the pool in December, it was

2057
01:29:56,560 --> 01:29:59,880
Speaker 7: really nice. But yeah, no, we we were very excited

2058
01:29:59,880 --> 01:30:01,160
Speaker 7: to I'm back here. We kind of knew that Houston

2059
01:30:01,200 --> 01:30:02,800
Speaker 7: was gonna end up being home base when I was

2060
01:30:02,840 --> 01:30:04,360
Speaker 7: done playing, and then we got the call to come

2061
01:30:04,400 --> 01:30:06,040
Speaker 7: down here and it worked out perfectly. We get to

2062
01:30:06,080 --> 01:30:08,360
Speaker 7: you know, fast track it and kind of set up

2063
01:30:08,520 --> 01:30:10,160
Speaker 7: set up home base when we're done playing down here.

2064
01:30:10,200 --> 01:30:11,040
Speaker 1: So we're super excited.

2065
01:30:11,040 --> 01:30:13,080
Speaker 7: But you know, love Houston and love being here and

2066
01:30:13,240 --> 01:30:15,000
Speaker 7: excited to you know, build a future.

2067
01:30:14,720 --> 01:30:16,800
Speaker 12: Here and the Astros. I mean, you mentioned baseball, so

2068
01:30:16,840 --> 01:30:17,920
Speaker 12: you still fan.

2069
01:30:18,479 --> 01:30:21,000
Speaker 7: I am. I've watched the games. I'm like, I could

2070
01:30:21,040 --> 01:30:25,000
Speaker 7: totally do that. It's not true, but I like, yeah,

2071
01:30:25,040 --> 01:30:27,360
Speaker 7: like we do the hypotheticals during you know, we're sitting

2072
01:30:27,400 --> 01:30:29,320
Speaker 7: around eating and they're like, if you had to face

2073
01:30:29,320 --> 01:30:31,760
Speaker 7: an an MLB pitcher, how many balls do you put

2074
01:30:31,760 --> 01:30:33,679
Speaker 7: in play out of one hundred, And I was like fifty,

2075
01:30:33,960 --> 01:30:36,439
Speaker 7: and they're like, yeah, MLB hitters won't even put fifty

2076
01:30:36,439 --> 01:30:39,160
Speaker 7: of it. Yeah, so I'm that guy. But no, still

2077
01:30:39,520 --> 01:30:41,800
Speaker 7: still love going and enjoying it and pretending that I

2078
01:30:41,840 --> 01:30:42,960
Speaker 7: could run out there and do that.

2079
01:30:43,479 --> 01:30:46,360
Speaker 13: I mean, well, absolutely we have to do something with

2080
01:30:46,439 --> 01:30:47,360
Speaker 13: you and baseball.

2081
01:30:47,439 --> 01:30:49,200
Speaker 7: I mean, I don't know, because right now I can

2082
01:30:49,320 --> 01:30:50,479
Speaker 7: say that I can still do it.

2083
01:30:50,600 --> 01:30:55,640
Speaker 1: I don't need to prove myself wrong. I love that.

2084
01:30:56,000 --> 01:31:00,799
Speaker 13: And for any aspiring professional athletes out there, what advice

2085
01:31:00,840 --> 01:31:03,040
Speaker 13: would you give them?

2086
01:31:03,120 --> 01:31:06,160
Speaker 7: I think, you know, it's super cliche, but but you know,

2087
01:31:06,200 --> 01:31:07,680
Speaker 7: at the end of the day, you may not be

2088
01:31:07,680 --> 01:31:09,479
Speaker 7: the most talented or the biggest, or the strongest or

2089
01:31:09,479 --> 01:31:11,679
Speaker 7: fastest whatever, but you can always be the hardest working.

2090
01:31:11,960 --> 01:31:13,960
Speaker 7: And my dad kind of told me that, you know,

2091
01:31:14,040 --> 01:31:16,439
Speaker 7: at nauseum when I was growing up, and it became

2092
01:31:16,520 --> 01:31:18,200
Speaker 7: such a cliche for me, But the more I moved

2093
01:31:18,240 --> 01:31:20,200
Speaker 7: around and the more I saw it, like, it's true.

2094
01:31:20,200 --> 01:31:22,839
Speaker 7: There are always going to be people that are bigger, faster, stronger,

2095
01:31:23,120 --> 01:31:25,400
Speaker 7: but you can work harder than everybody else. And I

2096
01:31:25,400 --> 01:31:27,120
Speaker 7: think that's the biggest thing, And even at this level,

2097
01:31:27,200 --> 01:31:30,200
Speaker 7: like if you know, you can be a crazy athlete,

2098
01:31:30,240 --> 01:31:31,479
Speaker 7: but if you don't work hard on the mental side

2099
01:31:31,479 --> 01:31:32,640
Speaker 7: of the game, you're not gonna make it, and the

2100
01:31:32,680 --> 01:31:34,400
Speaker 7: same thing the other way around. They're really smart guys

2101
01:31:34,400 --> 01:31:36,880
Speaker 7: who just can't you know that don't physically have it.

2102
01:31:36,920 --> 01:31:40,120
Speaker 7: But you know, if you have an ability to consistently

2103
01:31:40,200 --> 01:31:43,000
Speaker 7: work on every part of your game diligently, then I

2104
01:31:43,040 --> 01:31:45,160
Speaker 7: think you'll be successful. And that's you know, the guys

2105
01:31:45,160 --> 01:31:47,160
Speaker 7: that you see are successful, they kind of trace it

2106
01:31:47,200 --> 01:31:48,800
Speaker 7: back to that. So I think that'd be the biggest thing.

2107
01:31:48,840 --> 01:31:49,799
Speaker 1: It's just work ethic.

2108
01:31:50,200 --> 01:31:52,760
Speaker 12: I love that. And what is the best advice that

2109
01:31:52,880 --> 01:31:53,760
Speaker 12: you've received?

2110
01:31:54,840 --> 01:31:59,479
Speaker 7: Best advice I've received as far as relating to the

2111
01:31:59,479 --> 01:32:02,639
Speaker 7: game for me personally, you can't really apply it to everybody,

2112
01:32:02,680 --> 01:32:04,000
Speaker 7: But for me personally, it is always like have a

2113
01:32:04,000 --> 01:32:06,800
Speaker 7: short memory because I'll make a mistake and hold on

2114
01:32:06,840 --> 01:32:08,920
Speaker 7: to it for you know, two three plays to drive

2115
01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:11,120
Speaker 7: the next series and the quarter or whatever. And you

2116
01:32:11,640 --> 01:32:13,640
Speaker 7: can't do it at this level anymore. You kind of

2117
01:32:13,680 --> 01:32:16,120
Speaker 7: you know, everybody knows when you've made a mistake or not.

2118
01:32:16,240 --> 01:32:17,760
Speaker 7: The ability to kind of flush it move on to

2119
01:32:17,760 --> 01:32:19,759
Speaker 7: the next one, knowing that you'll correct it in film

2120
01:32:19,840 --> 01:32:22,519
Speaker 7: or meetings and things like that. I think that's that's key,

2121
01:32:22,560 --> 01:32:23,960
Speaker 7: and that was the biggest piece of ad us for

2122
01:32:24,000 --> 01:32:27,160
Speaker 7: me is short term memory, because you can't just beat

2123
01:32:27,200 --> 01:32:28,200
Speaker 7: yourself up all the time.

2124
01:32:28,640 --> 01:32:29,560
Speaker 12: Your memory.

2125
01:32:29,360 --> 01:32:31,360
Speaker 1: Try trying to seal that from you.

2126
01:32:31,960 --> 01:32:34,360
Speaker 12: It's hard. It's a human exactly.

2127
01:32:34,479 --> 01:32:35,960
Speaker 7: I'm trying to, you know, try to beat yourself up.

2128
01:32:35,960 --> 01:32:37,880
Speaker 7: Everybody thinks you have to be perfect. It's okay not

2129
01:32:37,960 --> 01:32:39,559
Speaker 7: to be as long as you know what you did wrong.

2130
01:32:39,720 --> 01:32:40,800
Speaker 12: Yeah, and you know what, I like that.

2131
01:32:40,840 --> 01:32:43,479
Speaker 13: I like that topic because nowadays I like that we

2132
01:32:44,240 --> 01:32:47,040
Speaker 13: can talk about mental health and you know all of it.

2133
01:32:47,040 --> 01:32:49,080
Speaker 13: It's just back in the day for me, at least,

2134
01:32:49,080 --> 01:32:51,320
Speaker 13: I feel like not many people talked about it.

2135
01:32:51,400 --> 01:32:54,000
Speaker 12: So as an athlete, obviously you have to stay on.

2136
01:32:54,680 --> 01:32:57,559
Speaker 13: But how do you keep yourself seen through the ups

2137
01:32:57,560 --> 01:32:59,160
Speaker 13: and downs that life throw at you.

2138
01:32:59,320 --> 01:33:01,400
Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly, And you can apply it outside of sports

2139
01:33:01,439 --> 01:33:04,040
Speaker 7: to life in general. I'm always going to go your way,

2140
01:33:04,040 --> 01:33:04,920
Speaker 7: but you can turn around.

2141
01:33:05,000 --> 01:33:05,639
Speaker 1: It's not too bad.

2142
01:33:05,960 --> 01:33:08,240
Speaker 12: I like that. And what is your goal for the

2143
01:33:08,280 --> 01:33:09,200
Speaker 12: remainder of the season.

2144
01:33:10,000 --> 01:33:11,880
Speaker 7: Win the next two We've got two games left. We

2145
01:33:11,960 --> 01:33:13,160
Speaker 7: got to win both of them to get where we

2146
01:33:13,200 --> 01:33:14,840
Speaker 7: want to go. So that's the goal, is you know,

2147
01:33:15,040 --> 01:33:18,160
Speaker 7: win this one, reset, come back, take care of the colts,

2148
01:33:18,160 --> 01:33:20,639
Speaker 7: and then we're where we want to be. So when

2149
01:33:20,840 --> 01:33:21,400
Speaker 7: that's the goal.

2150
01:33:21,479 --> 01:33:23,400
Speaker 12: When we were doing the math before you came in,

2151
01:33:23,479 --> 01:33:24,760
Speaker 12: so just the.

2152
01:33:24,760 --> 01:33:27,320
Speaker 1: Math check out. As long as we win, we're good.

2153
01:33:27,600 --> 01:33:28,439
Speaker 1: That's what they told us.

2154
01:33:28,439 --> 01:33:31,160
Speaker 12: So yeah, Mark, but yeah, Mark will tell us more

2155
01:33:31,200 --> 01:33:33,960
Speaker 12: about it. I love it.

2156
01:33:33,960 --> 01:33:36,760
Speaker 13: Well, thank you so much. And we do have one

2157
01:33:36,840 --> 01:33:39,640
Speaker 13: last thing, the favor if you can do for us?

2158
01:33:39,720 --> 01:33:42,680
Speaker 13: You said, oh no, so could you. I heard you're

2159
01:33:42,680 --> 01:33:44,040
Speaker 13: a great singer. Could you sing?

2160
01:33:47,400 --> 01:33:48,760
Speaker 12: Could you sign the wall for us?

2161
01:33:49,120 --> 01:33:49,280
Speaker 10: Oh?

2162
01:33:49,479 --> 01:33:53,040
Speaker 7: Please, my honor, my eyes the pure fear when you said,

2163
01:33:53,640 --> 01:33:54,320
Speaker 7: keep it going.

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Speaker 1: But I couldn't do it to you so much. I

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Speaker 1: would love to.

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Speaker 12: You can pick a spot we'd like.

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Speaker 7: Here we go.

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Speaker 12: Thank you so much, so much fun. We'll keep chearing

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Speaker 12: me on. And yeah, thank you for your time.

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Speaker 7: I appreciate it. Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 2: No, Andrew, thank you, and Stephanie thank you. Appreciate you

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Speaker 2: guys both for being here. Appreciate Drew Doerty for being here,

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Speaker 2: Kareem Jackson for being back in Houston and spending a

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Speaker 2: couple of minutes with Drew Doherty, Mike Keith, the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 2: The big thanks to Mark as always, of course, Executive

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Speaker 2: vice president football Option General manager Nick Casserio joined us

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Speaker 2: on the show this evening, so we had a lot

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Speaker 2: of guests, a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully you guys enjoyed it.

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Speaker 2: And now it's time to kick it over to Brett

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Speaker 2: Dolan and myself for the Tax Act Texas Ball right

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Speaker 2: here on Sports Radio six ' ten. Appreciate you guys

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Speaker 2: being here. Thank you so much. We will see you

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Speaker 2: tomorrow and as always, Go Texan.