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Speaker 1: Welcome in the first playoff edition of Texans Huddle. I

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Speaker 1: am nd he is Drew and none other than my homeboy,

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Speaker 1: former pro bowler Wade Smith sitting to my right for

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Speaker 1: this special edition playoff edition of Texan Huddle. Welcome in

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Speaker 1: Wade as always appreciate you and welcome back, hey man.

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Speaker 2: That sound is really good man, the playoff edition of

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Speaker 2: the Houston Texans Texans Huddle.

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Speaker 3: Like, think about that.

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Speaker 2: If you look at how uh you know Dmiko Ryans

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Speaker 2: comes in as a as a new head coach, do

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Speaker 2: you think to yourself in the first year, is it

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Speaker 2: going to be a playoff edition of Texans Huddle. I'm

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Speaker 2: not sure how many people laid much money on that bet,

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Speaker 2: but we're here now and it's a real thing, and

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Speaker 2: I'm very very excited.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad to be here on the show.

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Speaker 1: We're both biased because we of our relationship with Demko,

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Speaker 1: and I try to take myself outside of it when

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Speaker 1: I'm asked this question Coach of the Year, and I

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Speaker 1: keep maybe because we're so close and when knew where

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Speaker 1: this organization was, where it's at now, not just with

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Speaker 1: and for me, it's hands down has to be coach

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Speaker 1: of the Year. I want to get both of your

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Speaker 1: guys take on it. I agree. I think there's some

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Speaker 1: really good candidates out there. The team that we're playing

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Speaker 1: this week.

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Speaker 2: Kevin Stefanski done a great job with Cleveland, the quarterback

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Speaker 2: issues that they've had all year. They've had a bunch

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Speaker 2: the year, and for them to be I guess that

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Speaker 3: They lost the last game, so they might be six. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: so win eleven games. I mean, excellent job there.

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Speaker 2: But I just feel like in taking the bias out

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Speaker 2: that's the tiebreaker between Stefanski and Demiko is Dimiko won

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Speaker 2: his division as a rookie head head coach. I just

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Speaker 2: I just I just feel like he's brought. He's brought

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Speaker 3: And I think he deserves the Coach of the Year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm with you on all those points. I'm shell

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Speaker 4: shocked by what was going on here in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 4: after he had just signed the contract, did I think

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Speaker 4: Demiko Ryans was going to come here. I didn't think

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Speaker 4: And then he came down the hall a few minutes later. So, yeah,

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Speaker 4: all those reasons that you named. Also, I'll throw in this.

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Speaker 4: he gets my vote. I kind of think the vote's

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Speaker 4: gonna go for Stefanski just based on only head to

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Speaker 4: But he gets my vote. Dimico Ryans gets my vote.

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Speaker 4: And it's just been such a fun, fun season. I

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Speaker 4: talked a little bit about it with you before we

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Speaker 4: started this show. Look what Look, what Look? What's going

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Speaker 4: on this week? In the NFL? It happens every year.

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Speaker 4: Guys get fired that day after two days after the season. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: What what what makes Shane Stike in a leader?

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Speaker 4: And Shane Steiken has wound up being a good coach,

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Speaker 4: And I think they're they're gonna be the team to beat. Uh,

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Speaker 1: That's a plan right there. We'll give our predictions later

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Speaker 1: in the show. Y'all both y'all both brought up Stefanski

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Speaker 1: So I don't know if I want to give the

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Speaker 1: it like, you made this egregious mistake, in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: When you think of the general manager of the Browns

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Speaker 1: more dumbass decision to start with, or props to you

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Speaker 1: because your quarterback didn't perform and y'all are still here.

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Speaker 2: I'll kind of rephrase it this way. Look at I'll

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Speaker 2: look at it this way. The Cleveland Browns were more

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Speaker 2: You look at the defense that they put together. You

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Speaker 2: It's the same stuff that we do here, and so

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Speaker 2: I would just say that it's always you always want

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Speaker 2: brock os Wiler. Trade them away. You know, you brought

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Speaker 3: So you know, you got to be able to do that.

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Speaker 2: But the way that you put that question together is

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Speaker 2: like it's It further confirms to me that Demiko rans

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Speaker 2: it wasn't on the same level as the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 2: But what you've learned throughout the season is that a

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Speaker 2: lot of those moves that Nicko Sario has made and

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Speaker 2: you've shown that those guys are playing at a high level.

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Speaker 2: And some of those guys that maybe people didn't think,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you, well, that's that's a strong answer because

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Speaker 1: I like what you bring up that Cleveland was built

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Speaker 4: Him, guys, and you got to quit. You gotta break

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Speaker 4: that list into a few different sections. You got to say,

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Speaker 4: mean there's there's lots of different options. That's a beautiful question.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you got guys that aren't playing right now,

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Speaker 2: It's a lot of guys. There's a lot of guys.

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Speaker 2: So he's the reason we're in the playoffs. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Hey, and d I think we've we may have

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Speaker 4: You did the color and I was on the sidelines

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Speaker 3: Everybody else.

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Speaker 2: You got to put them in their best position in

437
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Speaker 2: the best scheme for them to succeed. For you to

438
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Speaker 2: look up like like, I never go into the Pro

439
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Speaker 2: Bowl if we don't run the outside zone scheme and

440
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Speaker 2: gap trap off of it. I don't become a Pro

441
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Speaker 2: Bowl offensive lineman if I'm not running out so I

442
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Speaker 2: can use my athleticism, because sometimes you you put guys

443
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Speaker 2: that are you know, big burly guys and you're trying

444
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Speaker 2: to run outsides on with them and they can't.

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Speaker 3: You know, they can't.

446
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Speaker 2: If you're a center, you can't cut off the shade,

447
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:17,000
Speaker 2: like you can't reach the shade. And so you know,

448
00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:21,399
Speaker 2: putting guys in the right scheme that that lends to

449
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Speaker 2: success overall. So when you look at the run game,

450
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Speaker 2: I think that's part of it as well.

451
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Speaker 3: I think them figuring out that, like damn, we got CJ.

452
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Speaker 2: Stride at quarterback and he's an excellent quarterback, and so

453
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Speaker 2: sometimes we might not necessarily run the ball as much

454
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Speaker 2: as we otherwise might because we can just throw the

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Speaker 2: ball around the yard. And then you have injuries at quarterback.

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Speaker 2: It's you know, CJ missed a couple of games, and

457
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Speaker 2: so there's there's a lot of factors.

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Speaker 3: Of why sometimes they didn't have success. But I think.

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Speaker 2: Saying all of that up front, the physicality on a

460
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Speaker 2: consistent basis hasn't been there enough in order for it

461
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Speaker 2: to be consistently good despite whoever's behind you. And so,

462
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Speaker 2: like I say a lot of stuff, but when I

463
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Speaker 2: always circle back to, like, you know, I'm if I'm in,

464
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Speaker 2: if I'm in the huddle, it's like, we need to run.

465
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Speaker 2: We need to we need to run through somebody's face.

466
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Speaker 2: We need to hit this dude in the mouth and

467
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Speaker 2: do it on a consistent basis. So we give them

468
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Speaker 2: seams to work through and run through. And the offensive

469
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Speaker 2: linemen are figuring this out too, because they haven't been

470
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Speaker 2: running the scheme as well. So I think with time,

471
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Speaker 2: it's gonna get there. And when it gets there, it's

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Speaker 2: it's a it's a it's a beauty to see. Like

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Speaker 2: in two thousand and eight, two thousand and nine, those

474
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Speaker 2: running games were not the same as they were by

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Speaker 2: twenty ten. When I got there, it changed. But then

476
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Speaker 2: once it was ten eleven, twelve, it was like we

477
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Speaker 2: were a force. It was a combination of offensive linemen

478
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Speaker 2: that had been in the scheme for a long time.

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Speaker 2: Plug me in, get Arian Foster and guys like Ben

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Speaker 2: Tad and all those type of guy in the scheme.

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Speaker 2: And it's not just I'm using those names because a

482
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Speaker 2: lot of these people listening, a lot of the people

483
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Speaker 2: listening know these names and understand what it looked like.

484
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Speaker 2: But this goes on all over all over the league.

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Speaker 2: You look at what goes on and with the forty

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Speaker 2: nine Ers and the Packers, and I mean pretty much

487
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Speaker 2: half the teams in the league are running this type

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Speaker 2: of offense.

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Speaker 4: Hey, that's Wade Smith, Pro Bowl offensive lineman. We also

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Speaker 4: have nd Klube. I want to follow up on what

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Speaker 4: you just said about the eighty five percent mainly scheme

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Speaker 4: players and there's fifty percent. How long did it take

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Speaker 4: for you to kind of come up with that theory?

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Speaker 4: Was it while you were in the league, was it

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Speaker 4: when you came out before? When did you come up

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Speaker 4: with that idea?

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Speaker 2: Definitely after, definitely, Like when you're in it, you're just

498
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Speaker 2: figuring out, like how to do my job, how you know,

499
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Speaker 2: you know, making sure that I'm doing I'm supposed to do,

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Speaker 2: and make sure sure my group or my guys are

501
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Speaker 2: doing what they're supposed to do, all that type of stuff.

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Speaker 2: You're not really panning out and looking at it and

503
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Speaker 2: seeing it for what it was or what it is.

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Speaker 3: But when you look.

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Speaker 2: At it, you know, when you have an opportunity to

506
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Speaker 2: step away from the game and kind of see it

507
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Speaker 2: for what it is and look back at the different

508
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Speaker 2: guys that had success that you were teammates with or

509
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Speaker 2: played against, you can kind of figure out, like, you know, listen,

510
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Speaker 2: this dude, if he would have went there, he would

511
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Speaker 2: have had a lot more success than what he what

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Speaker 2: he did. Like I tell people, like, hey, if I

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Speaker 2: would have like the Denver Broncos were looking to draft

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Speaker 2: me coming out of the draft, they were looking at me,

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Speaker 2: I think, and I think maybe somebody told me at

516
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Speaker 2: one point, but like, let's say the sixth round, I

517
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Speaker 2: end up getting drafted in the third round. I feel

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Speaker 2: like if I would have got drafted by the Denver Broncos,

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Speaker 2: I would have probably went to multiple pro bos because

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Speaker 2: I would have been in that scheme and my whole career.

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Speaker 2: Whereas you know, I was drafted to a scheme that

522
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Speaker 2: was more of a you know, we're just gonna run

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Speaker 2: through your face.

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Speaker 3: I was playing a different I was playing left tack. Cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, different position, and so you know, I could do

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Speaker 2: my job, but there's one there's a difference between doing

527
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Speaker 2: your job and being elite at your job or being

528
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Speaker 2: you know, considered one of the best at your job.

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Speaker 2: And so in some people, a lot of times guys

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Speaker 2: get put in positions to where they look like bad

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Speaker 2: football players, but they're just in bad schemes for their

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Speaker 2: for their skills, their skill sets. A lot of times

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Speaker 2: you have coaches that have a certain philosophy of how

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Speaker 2: they want to do things, and you have a personnel

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Speaker 2: front office that looks for different height, weight, managements and

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Speaker 2: all that type stuff, and they don't align. And so

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Speaker 2: when you don't when people are on the same pages,

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Speaker 2: a lot of times the players get you know, lost

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Speaker 2: in the shuffle.

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Speaker 4: Okay, then you two are the very perfect people to

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Speaker 4: ask this with all that in mind. Okay, you grew

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Speaker 4: up in Dallas. You saw the Troygman, the Triplets, those Cowboys,

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Speaker 4: you played against the Dallas Cowboys. What happens if the

544
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Speaker 4: Dallas Cowboys spend a sixth or seventh or whatever in

545
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Speaker 4: two thousand on Tom Brady? Is Tom Brady? Who we

546
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Speaker 4: know who he is right now? Because that team went

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Speaker 4: five and eleven five and eleven five and eleven in

548
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Speaker 4: two thousand and three, they get parcels in there and

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Speaker 4: things turn around. Let's start with you and d Kalu.

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Speaker 1: I'll get to that, but quick point, what you just

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Speaker 1: said about eighty five percent is so awesome. I never

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Speaker 1: thought about it. And when you initially said eighty five

553
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Speaker 1: percent of the guys, you know, I thought, man, that's

554
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Speaker 1: a little high. But as you were talking, I'll think

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Speaker 1: a lot of the great players I played with, and

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Speaker 1: I was he might be right, because those players are great.

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Speaker 1: I mean, to play in the NFL, you have to

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Speaker 1: be a different way. But when I thought of their greatness,

559
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Speaker 1: they fit the system perfectly. I'm not going to say

560
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Speaker 1: the guy's name because I respect him as a player

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Speaker 1: and it'll come off wrong if I use him as

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Speaker 1: an example. But I played with all Pro not just

563
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Speaker 1: you know, not Pro bowler, but all Pro linebacker multiple years.

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Speaker 1: He left our system in Philly and for two years

565
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Speaker 1: he was kind of considered an average linebacker. Came back

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Speaker 1: to Philly and went back to the Pro Bowl. So again,

567
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Speaker 1: great player, much better defensive player than I ever was.

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Speaker 1: I'll put that out there, but that's just one of

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Speaker 1: many examples of how you're on point with that you

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Speaker 1: have to be in that right system.

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Speaker 3: To answer your question, Drew, I've always.

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Speaker 1: Thrown that out there, like, yeah, do is tom Brady

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Speaker 1: tom Brady if he's not in the exact situation the now.

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Speaker 4: I'm not discounting him, but I've always thought about that

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Speaker 4: because that's what that'll happen there on.

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Speaker 1: The flip side, I don't know why this name always

577
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Speaker 1: comes up in my head. I watched him in college.

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Speaker 1: I also believe if Matt Lioner was in a different system,

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Speaker 1: a different scenario coming out of college, he might be

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Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer because I really thought he was

581
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Speaker 1: that great as a college player. So to answer a question,

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Speaker 1: I would understand if somebody said tom Brady wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: tom Brady in a different system. To go to Waye's

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Speaker 1: point about the top fifteen percent, I do believe Peyton Manning,

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Speaker 1: regardless of where you put him, he was gonna be

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Speaker 1: a and that that doesn't mean Peyton Manning is a

587
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Speaker 1: better quarterback than Tom Brady. I just feel like his

588
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Speaker 1: skill sets a little more versatile than a Tom Brady. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I look at it like this, I'm trying to remember

590
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Speaker 1: who the coach was back in two thousand?

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Speaker 3: Was it like Stave Campo, Dave Campbo?

592
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Speaker 2: Like does does Tom Brady thrive in a Dave Campbo

593
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Speaker 2: led Dallas Cowboys?

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Speaker 4: I think Bruce Coslet was a one of those, right.

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Speaker 1: I just I don't see it. Does anybody thrive in exactly?

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Speaker 4: Then?

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Speaker 3: That's that's kind of the thing.

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Speaker 2: Like where you go, where you the situation that you're

599
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Speaker 2: in plays a huge factor in your ability to to thrive,

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Speaker 2: survive or fail, you know what I mean? It plays

601
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Speaker 2: a huge factor in into it. And so yeah, I

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Speaker 2: just I don't see him having the same. It was

603
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Speaker 2: a perfect storm of you know, and Brady to me

604
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Speaker 2: is the greatest quarterback to ever play, and it's based

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Speaker 2: off of what he was able to do. Like he

606
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Speaker 2: the evidence shows that he's he's done x Y, and

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Speaker 2: there's been other guys that are more talented than him,

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Speaker 2: but they haven't had the amount of success that he's had.

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Speaker 2: And I've played a bunch of years against Tom Brady

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Speaker 2: and always had that feeling on the sideline late in

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Speaker 2: the ball game that we can't stop this guy. And

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Speaker 2: as a bad feeling of knowing, like you give him

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Speaker 2: the ball late in the game, and he's going to

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Speaker 2: figure out a way to win the game.

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Speaker 3: And so.

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Speaker 2: You know, as a non defensive player, it's that's a

617
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Speaker 2: that's a bad feeling where you're just sitting over there

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Speaker 2: and you're watching him methodically go down the field and

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Speaker 2: beat your team that has a good defense that can

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Speaker 2: get after the quarterback and it didn't matter.

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Speaker 3: So to me, he's the greatest.

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Speaker 2: But I don't think if you don't put him in

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Speaker 2: that situation, I don't think he has the opportunity to

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Speaker 2: become who he ended up becoming.

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Speaker 1: You said, it's a bad feeling as an offensive player,

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Speaker 1: trust me, as a defensive player, it's the worst feeling

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Speaker 1: because I was on that field and I was like, hold,

628
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Speaker 1: we're like the third ranked defense in the NFL and

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Speaker 1: he's just running right through us like wet toilet paper.

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Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take a speaking of toilet paper,

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Speaker 1: if you got to take a bathroom break, this is

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Speaker 1: the time to do it right now, quick time out.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back Texan huddle right here. Welcome in, Welcome

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Speaker 1: back round to Texans Huddle. I guess I should say

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Speaker 1: quarter two since we are talking football, talking to Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans and definitely gonna talk about the upcoming playoff game.

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Speaker 1: Waite Smith in studio with us. I am indeed he

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Speaker 1: is Drew John Harris on the other side, trying to

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Speaker 1: be quiet because he's so polite. But this is a

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Speaker 1: guy that we want to hear what John Harris has

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Speaker 1: to say, because he could break it down.

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Speaker 4: He didn't even hear it said there.

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Speaker 1: He was still being polite as he walks in and

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Speaker 1: out of the studio before we get started. Sweet sweet

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Speaker 1: sweatshirt and why don't I have one? He's just safe

646
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Speaker 1: for the Pro Bowlers that the guys that went to

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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowls.

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Speaker 4: Paid the picture too. It's a black sweatshirt with like

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Speaker 4: army green green on the inside, so Houston Texans got

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Speaker 4: a flag on one shoulder.

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Speaker 3: Smith.

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Speaker 2: It was sent to my house by the equipment staff

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Speaker 2: a couple of years back.

654
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Speaker 3: I was very thankful for that.

655
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 2: They send it along with a card and a note

656
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 2: and thank you for all you do for the organization

657
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:15,360
Speaker 2: type deal.

658
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 1: And you know what they said, I think a bill

659
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: from the last time they found out I stole some

660
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 1: shoes on my way out at two thousand and nine.

661
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 1: I think I think it has less to do with

662
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl and more to do with just the

663
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: different you know, events and committees and things that you know,

664
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 1: you do within the organization.

665
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 3: And hey, I don't know, I don't know. I'm very

666
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 3: thankful for it. Though. It's a very nice city.

667
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 2: I only wear it like on special occasions because it's

668
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 2: that nice.

669
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 3: Whatever.

670
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,240
Speaker 1: Yes, you've been humble, but but you know, let's get

671
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:50,240
Speaker 1: into it this Saturday, Houston Texans taking on Cleveland again

672
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,600
Speaker 1: right here in RG Stadium.

673
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 3: Just thoughts going into this playoffs.

674
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 2: I'm excited about the fact that you got a home

675
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 2: game in the playoffs. That's all the Texans have had

676
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 2: in the history of the franchise. It's always been a

677
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 2: home game. It's always been the first game to kick

678
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:08,479
Speaker 2: off the playoff season. I believe where I don't know,

679
00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 2: three and two or two and three one or the other.

680
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 4: So, yeah, yeah, you only you dropped the one of

681
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 4: the cultivate and right, yeah, and the Chiefs. Yeah, I

682
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 4: think you've won all the other ones for.

683
00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 2: So four and one or three and two, I know

684
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 2: we won. I think we won more than four.

685
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 4: And two because you beat the Bengals twice. You beat

686
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 4: the Raiders once and then the Bills. So that's four yeah,

687
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 4: so yeah, so I had some success here doing that,

688
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 4: and we want to continue that. The Browns have a

689
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 4: good team.

690
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 2: Man, they have a we saw a couple of years

691
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 2: excuse me, a couple of weeks ago with how they

692
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 2: played against the Texans. Now, the Texans weren't at full strength,

693
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:43,960
Speaker 2: nowhere near it. You didn't have CJ. Stroude in the

694
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,920
Speaker 2: game at quarterback. There's guys that were missing on the

695
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 2: defensive side.

696
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 3: Of the ball.

697
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:52,400
Speaker 2: The Texas are a lot more healthy in that regard.

698
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 2: But the Browns have a good football team. Damn good defense.

699
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 2: Flacco was playing at a high level. They run the

700
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 2: same offensive scheme that we run here year, some of

701
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 2: the stuff that you see them do in the last game,

702
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,800
Speaker 2: and through the little the the boot and then through

703
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,960
Speaker 2: the goal route which is usually like the the dummy,

704
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 2: you know, just runoff route on that play and actually

705
00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 2: hit it. It's just I think I think a lot

706
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 2: of in a lot of ways, there's the teams are

707
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,480
Speaker 2: mirrors of themselves, and so when you have a game

708
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 2: like that, it's good because you have that familiarity, but

709
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 2: you also have to understand that there's always it's always

710
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 2: gonna come down to execution. It's gonna come down to

711
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 2: who plays the best, who who executes their assignment, playing

712
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 2: and play out, is consistent, can protect the football, all

713
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 2: those type of things. So I'm excited for it though

714
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 2: because I'm I'm I'm excited because I know that the

715
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 2: crowd is going to be crazy. I think the fact

716
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 2: that the Texans were able to win the division, the

717
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 2: excitement that the city is has been rekindled in the

718
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 2: city over this season when it started with the hiring

719
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 2: of Demico Ryans and then the results that took place,

720
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 2: and how excited people are about c J.

721
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:03,560
Speaker 3: Stroud.

722
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 2: I'm excited to see what this game looks like as

723
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,759
Speaker 2: opposed to two weeks ago or three weeks ago, and

724
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:11,840
Speaker 2: the opportunity for a little bit of revenge when it

725
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,320
Speaker 2: matters the most against the Browns.

726
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:15,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, Wade Smith and d Kalu. The complexion of this

727
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 4: game one hundred and eighty degrees different because if you

728
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 4: know the guy playing quarterback for the Texans back, you

729
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,800
Speaker 4: also have Will Anderson Junior probably back. There's a chance

730
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 4: Jonathan Garnard is out there. We'll see on him. Blake

731
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 4: Cashman didn't play in the last one. There's a few

732
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:30,399
Speaker 4: other big names, but I want to ask you about

733
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 4: Amari Cooper had a day. Man had a day against

734
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 4: this Texans defense a few weeks back. Why will he

735
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 4: not this Saturday? And then as a follow up to that,

736
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,919
Speaker 4: why the hell did the Dallas Cowboys trade him away

737
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 4: and only get a couple of six round picks in return?

738
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 4: Why would you let that guy leave your building?

739
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,360
Speaker 2: I would say he's not going to have the success

740
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 2: that he had last time because the Texans are going

741
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:56,200
Speaker 2: to play a smarter game on the back end. I think,

742
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 2: you know, a few of those big plays just had

743
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:01,320
Speaker 2: to do with you know, not playing and the technique correctly,

744
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 2: mental errors things like that. I think they're going to

745
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 2: clean that up up and that's going to limit some

746
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 2: of the success that he had. Some of those players

747
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 2: that the Mark Cooper made. You just tip a cap

748
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 2: and say that's that's that's damn good ball. That's you know,

749
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 2: they get paid too, but there's there's gonna be opportunities

750
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 2: for guys to step up and play a better ball game.

751
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:23,399
Speaker 2: I think the fact that you mentioned some of those

752
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 2: names it didn't play last time. There wasn't much of

753
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 2: a pass rush against Cleveland last time. And if you're

754
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,360
Speaker 2: getting after the quarterback, you're getting you're getting Flacco to

755
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:33,880
Speaker 2: have to move, then I don't think he's going to

756
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 2: be as accurate with the ball. And so that's that's

757
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 2: kind of the recipe for success in my mind, is

758
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 2: rushed the quarterback. The run game doesn't scare me like

759
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 2: it would have scared me let's say, you know, Week

760
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 2: three and when when it was Nick Chubb and it

761
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 2: was a scream hunt. The run game doesn't scare me

762
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 2: like that. The fact that the Texans throughout this year,

763
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 2: you know, you know, omitting last week, but and I

764
00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 2: think that actually plays into their favor that they had

765
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,400
Speaker 2: the performance they had last week stopping the run, that

766
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,760
Speaker 2: they're going to be better against it this next week.

767
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 2: But the Texans have done a good job of you,

768
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 2: I think, top five in the league of stopping the

769
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 2: run all year long, and so that plays into your favor.

770
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 2: And then the fact that you have CJ. Stroud on

771
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 2: the offense side of the ball putting pressure on them

772
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 2: defensively when you didn't have that, I think it's a

773
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 2: recipe for success for the Texans.

774
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Speaker 1: Here's a problem with that question. If a Mario Cooper

775
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,560
Speaker 1: has half the day he had against the Texans, still

776
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: a huge day. So the question is going to be,

777
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,319
Speaker 1: you know, you don't really shut it down, shut a

778
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 1: guy like that down. You just hope to make sure

779
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,720
Speaker 1: he doesn't have that historic type day that he had.

780
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: And another hope or thought that I had going into

781
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,320
Speaker 1: this game, they need to make sure they don't spend

782
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 1: all their time just trying to shut down a Marii

783
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: Cooper or David and Joku or any one of their

784
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: past catchers will end up having a big game. You

785
00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:00,040
Speaker 1: just have to play good all round, solid defense, and

786
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,720
Speaker 1: you're playing against this Cleveland Browns team. But I'm excited

787
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: for all the reasons that Wade mentioned and just to

788
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 1: get playoff football back in Houston when most of your

789
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: most diehard fans that are still realistic we'ren't even expecting

790
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 1: it this year. So it's gonna be that much more

791
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:22,200
Speaker 1: energy and excitement at NRG. It's just a fun time

792
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:24,879
Speaker 1: right now, and let's keep it going. I mean, can

793
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 1: you imagine what's going to be like if they get

794
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 1: to the second round of the playoffs. You know, just

795
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:30,920
Speaker 1: the excitement here in the city.

796
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 4: It's wild. I mean, I go back to two thousand.

797
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 4: What was it like suiting up and getting ready to

798
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 4: take on the Bengals that day, back in two thousand

799
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 4: and eleven, first playoff game in franchise history.

800
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 2: It was a great feeling that that team we had

801
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 2: the ultimate belief that it didn't matter what type of

802
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 2: adversity that we faced or would go through, we would

803
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:55,879
Speaker 2: figure out a way to get it done. Guys would

804
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,839
Speaker 2: get hurt, other guys would step up, you know, bad

805
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,320
Speaker 2: things might happen throughout the game. We'd figure out a

806
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 2: way to get it done. We were very much so

807
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 2: we knew who we were. And when you know who

808
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 2: you are and you approach the game and you understand

809
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 2: how what we need to do for us to win

810
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 2: this game, it gives you an extreme amount of confidence.

811
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 2: You have confidence in yourself, you have confidence in the

812
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,240
Speaker 2: guys next to you, you have confidence in the guys

813
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 2: making the calls, belief in the system and what it

814
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 2: would be able to do for you. And so you know,

815
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 2: people ask me, like, you know, have you did you ever?

816
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 2: Like y'all go talk to kids at school all the

817
00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:36,360
Speaker 2: time and they're like, Hey, do you ever win a

818
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 2: Super Bowl? You ever go to the Super Bowl. I'm like, no,

819
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 2: I never went to the super Bowl, never won a

820
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 2: super Bowl. But I've been on a super Bowl caliber

821
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,240
Speaker 2: team like a thousand percent. Like after I left the Texans,

822
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 2: I went to Seattle. I was in that locker room

823
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,840
Speaker 2: for a little bit and I was like, this is

824
00:38:51,239 --> 00:38:53,720
Speaker 2: this is familiar. They had just come off of winning

825
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 2: the championship the year before I got there, and I'm

826
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 2: like that feeling. I'm like, yeah, we had that same feel,

827
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 2: that that that confidence where you just knew that you

828
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:05,399
Speaker 2: were going to figure out a way to get it done.

829
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 2: And we fell short. For you know, hey, you're in

830
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 2: the playoffs. You turn the ball over four times on

831
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:12,799
Speaker 2: the road against a damn good team. Yeah, you're not

832
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 2: going to win in the playoffs that way. I don't

833
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 2: care how good you are. You can't turn the ball over.

834
00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 2: But physically go back and watch the game. We beat them.

835
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 2: We beat them up front offensively, all line, D line.

836
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 2: We won that matchup. And so that's one of those

837
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 2: things where it still sticks with you, like in your mind,

838
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 2: you feel like the better team didn't win, right, And

839
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 2: so that's part of like my excitement with what's going

840
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:40,920
Speaker 2: on now with Demiko that was that was there then

841
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 2: and this team that tying it together, the full circle

842
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:46,840
Speaker 2: of like a completing the mission, like figuring out a

843
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,360
Speaker 2: way to get it done. These guys figure out a

844
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:53,359
Speaker 2: way to get it done. He's implemented that same philosophy,

845
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 2: that same that same belief. Those guys having each other,

846
00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 2: you can tell that they love each other, that they're

847
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,279
Speaker 2: a family, and that they're to be willing to lay

848
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 2: it on the line to get it done. And so

849
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:05,880
Speaker 2: I'm just excited that we get to sit back and

850
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:06,560
Speaker 2: watch it happen.

851
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,800
Speaker 1: All right, quick time out, we'll be back. He's way Smith.

852
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: I'm ind that's Drew to my left. You are you,

853
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: and you're always welcome to get in the textan huddle

854
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:16,399
Speaker 1: with us. Quick time out and we'll be right back.

855
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 1: Welcome in, Welcome back. The final segment here Texan huddle.

856
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: We have Waye Smith joining us. You know what, we

857
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: don't have much time and I want you to take

858
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 1: your time with this because my quick story about playoff

859
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: tempo playoffs, what it's like People ask me, like, is

860
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:37,439
Speaker 1: it true that the game is a little bit faster

861
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: when you get to the playoffs, and it is for me.

862
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: You know, I can't speak for every player, and I'll

863
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: never forget my second year in the NFL. One of

864
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:48,480
Speaker 1: the season, Vets said a youngster. The preseason's fast. The

865
00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 1: regular season, believe it or not, it's even faster. And

866
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 1: then when you get to the playoffs is faster. And

867
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,480
Speaker 1: I remember thinking like, man, I know I gave it

868
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 1: all I had in the preseason just to make the team.

869
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Speaker 1: How's it going to get faster? And I remember the

870
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: regular season was even more intense. And then when we

871
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,319
Speaker 1: made the playoffs, I was like wow, Like he was right,

872
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,759
Speaker 1: like did you experience that? And kind of just talk

873
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: about because you not only played, but started in multiple

874
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: playoff games, you're your playoff experience.

875
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:19,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, Like the focus, the sense of urgency, the intensity,

876
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 2: everything about the game ratchet up to a level that

877
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:26,960
Speaker 2: you can't compare it to in the regular season. You

878
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,520
Speaker 2: can't compare it to in the preseason, you can't compare

879
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 2: it to in college.

880
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 3: It's just not the same.

881
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:36,320
Speaker 2: That the finality of playing in the playoffs and knowing

882
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 2: that if I don't whoop this person across from me,

883
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 2: it's over.

884
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:42,360
Speaker 3: But let me sell you there. Let me sell you

885
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 3: there and hold on to that thought.

886
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,440
Speaker 1: But the reason it kind of shocked me, and maybe

887
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 1: it's because you know, we had different paths of the NFL.

888
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 1: For me, that's how I felt in the preseason because

889
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: I was trying to make the team. Another mattered more

890
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:57,360
Speaker 1: than making the team. Then when I made the team

891
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 1: in the regular season, I felt that way because I

892
00:41:59,920 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 1: was trying to stay on the team. I was trying

893
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 1: to get that big contract. So how how did it

894
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 1: ratchet up in the in the playoffs? How do we

895
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 1: explain that? Because I don't have the words for it,

896
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 1: I'll put it like this.

897
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 2: In the preseason, you're not playing against all pros and

898
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 2: Pro bowlers, right, You're playing against if you're a rookie

899
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:25,800
Speaker 2: in your first year, early in your career, you are young, dumb,

900
00:42:25,960 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 2: and you know the rest, and you're just out there.

901
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:31,840
Speaker 2: You're just out there, going out there trying to do

902
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:35,280
Speaker 2: your job and have success. And you're doing against maybe

903
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 2: you know a fourth or fifth year guy that is,

904
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 2: you know, the special teams guy that plays it's it's

905
00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 2: the intensity is not quite the same. Then when you

906
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:49,160
Speaker 2: get in the regular season, now you know you are

907
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 2: you are right? Like, I'll just use myself for example,

908
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 2: when I played and I started for the Dolphins as

909
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 2: a rookie at left tackle. The first game I started

910
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 2: was against the Houston Texans, and I was playing against

911
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 2: I can't think of his name right now, outside linebacker

912
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 2: for the Texans.

913
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 3: I wasn't peaked. That was my guy.

914
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 2: We played against you in the college. It was an

915
00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:10,919
Speaker 2: older guy, let's say, like six or seven year vet.

916
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:16,040
Speaker 2: I think might be Foley was ste So my first

917
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 2: start in the NFL was against Steve Foley, right, Steve

918
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 2: Foley was a He's a good football player, solid, right.

919
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 2: But you gotta think about it. When you get to

920
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 2: the playoffs, You're playing against Geno Atkins, You're playing against

921
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 2: Vince will Fork the playoffs, it tends to be the

922
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:35,240
Speaker 2: best against the best.

923
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 3: You see. It's like you got Stingley versus Coop Cooper.

924
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:41,839
Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Those are the These are

925
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 3: the type of a matchup.

926
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:45,920
Speaker 2: See Miles Garrett out here, Miles Garrett against Learning Tunsel.

927
00:43:46,160 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 2: That's the sense of urgency, the intensity, the quality of

928
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 2: your opponent goes up, the finality of understanding that if

929
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:58,839
Speaker 2: we don't get this done, it's over. It makes everything.

930
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 2: It multiplies it exponentially when you're playing. And so when

931
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 2: you when you when you when it's all said and done,

932
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 2: when you look back on it, you want to feel

933
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 2: like you laid it all on the line. And that

934
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 2: was something I was telling these guys in the break, like,

935
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 2: you know, you look back on your career, you look

936
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 2: back on your playoff performances, and it's like you can

937
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 2: look back with solace and say, you know, we didn't

938
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 2: get it done, but we left it all on the line.

939
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:33,360
Speaker 2: Like guys were They talk about strain like that.

940
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 3: That's a real thing.

941
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 2: You gotta strain to you know, you gotta drop, you

942
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,359
Speaker 2: gotta drop your pad levels and run through somebody. And

943
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,879
Speaker 2: it's gonna be noisy, it's going to be violent. You're

944
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 2: gonna see those Nico Collins type of runs. You're going

945
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 2: to see the Christian Harris coming downhill and blowing people up.

946
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 2: That is that is the game in itself. The game

947
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:58,799
Speaker 2: is there is That is the most violent aspect of

948
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 2: football is when there's finality behind it, the playoffs, the

949
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:05,800
Speaker 2: super Bowl, it's the most violent games that you're gonna

950
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:10,840
Speaker 2: ever be part of. And that's as a fan. That

951
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,439
Speaker 2: is the most citing thing to see, Like, these dudes

952
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 2: are going out there. Let it ain't no, ain't no

953
00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 2: plays off, there's none of that. It's hey, strap it

954
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 2: up and let's go to work.

955
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,360
Speaker 1: That's a great way to end the show. This is

956
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 1: the final segment, so you came with it on that one,

957
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,399
Speaker 1: describing what it's like to play in the playoffs. God will,

958
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,919
Speaker 1: and we'll be having another show next week getting ready

959
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 1: for Round two as the Texans take on the Cincinnati

960
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:39,439
Speaker 1: Bank excuse me, the Cleveland Browns this Saturday. So let's

961
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:41,799
Speaker 1: go Texans, and thank y'all for tuning in.