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Speaker 1: What's happening everybody.

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Speaker 2: Happy Friday to all of you out there listening to

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Speaker 2: Texas All Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio, where typically

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Speaker 2: I tell you we are less than forty eight hours

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Speaker 2: away from kickoff, but we're a little over that because

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Speaker 2: game will kick off.

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Speaker 1: At seven twenty teen.

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Speaker 2: Seven twenty Yeah, seven twenty is Sunday Night football. Seven

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Speaker 2: fifteen is Thursday Night football, So it's easy to get

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Speaker 2: him confused. John Harris, your host, alongside the voice of

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Speaker 2: the Texans, Mark Vandermier. Mark, just starting right here, your

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Speaker 2: level of excitement for Sunday Night.

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Speaker 1: Johnny, I'm always pumped up.

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Speaker 3: I know you always.

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Speaker 2: Pumped us one, but just it's but it's Sunday night.

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Speaker 2: It's a little bit different. Are you that much more

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Speaker 2: pumped up? Are you just trying to keep it down

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Speaker 2: and kind of like like Coach Ryan's talks about, just

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Speaker 2: kind of you know, rising a little bit until we

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Speaker 2: get to kick off.

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Speaker 1: I'm super excited.

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Speaker 4: You know, we have so many things to do with

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Speaker 4: what you and I do, and I've got a lot

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Speaker 4: of stuff to do tomorrow. Because being a national game,

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Speaker 4: sometimes weird and fun things happen, you know, A couple

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Speaker 4: of weeks ago. Wasn't a national game, but it was

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Speaker 4: the Andre Johnson game. So I went to a Saturday

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Speaker 4: rehearsal for a halftime thing. Now I've got this NFL

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Speaker 4: thirty three feature thing, the NBC crew in town. It's

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Speaker 4: a lot of fun and you really love having the

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Speaker 4: eyes of the nation on you. Now, we talked about

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Speaker 4: this the moment the schedule came out, this three game

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Speaker 4: stretch of primetime games right in the middle of everything

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Speaker 4: with the Jets, the Lions, and of course the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to them later. The Detroit Lions are so good.

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Speaker 4: You didn't You knew they were going to be good,

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Speaker 4: but you didn't know they were going to be this good.

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Speaker 4: What's the stat you gave me on David Montgomery? Oh

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Speaker 4: all right, So the running And I know you're going

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Speaker 4: to talk about this in your keys, but I think

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Speaker 4: this will paint the picture just one side of it,

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Speaker 4: but it's a huge element of how dominant this team

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Speaker 4: has been.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So Jamia Gibbs second year running back for the

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Speaker 2: Detroit Lions. David Montgomery also I think in his second year,

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Speaker 2: maybe a third year.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember. He ended up leaving Detroit. I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry leaving. I gonna go down here running around.

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Speaker 4: We faced him in that twenty twenty one game, right,

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Speaker 4: didn't we. No, we didn't play them in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty two with Mills. Okay, twenty twenty two with Mills.

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Speaker 4: Wasn't Montgomery on that team? No, we didn't face them. No,

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Speaker 4: Montgomery was on the team in twenty twenty with the Bears.

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Speaker 4: With the Bears. Yeah, okay, that's what I was.

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Speaker 1: So it was with the Bears.

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Speaker 2: So then he moved to Detroit, to think in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty two, so I think he was a year before Gibbs.

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Speaker 1: Gibbs got there last year.

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Speaker 2: So, by the way, Dave Montgomery Jamior Gibbs have played

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Speaker 2: twenty games together. Twenty games together, same game as teammates, okay,

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Speaker 2: twenty times. In those games, David Montgomery has nineteen touchdowns

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Speaker 2: and Gibbs has seventeen.

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Speaker 1: I'll do the math for you. That's ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: That's thirty six touchdowns in twenty games together.

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Speaker 4: So that is, as Demko would say, the best one

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Speaker 1: There's no question.

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Speaker 4: You don't have to look anything else up This is horrifying.

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Speaker 4: If you're a defense, there's no rest. Gibbs comes in

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Speaker 4: with all that speed. Yep, Montgomery a little more power,

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Speaker 4: whatever the case is. We all talk about the offensive

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Speaker 4: that line is frightening and you just have to be

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Speaker 1: And oh yeah they can throw the ball.

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Speaker 4: They don't need to throw it much because the running

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Speaker 4: game is so good, so play action.

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Speaker 1: All that stuff works great. They are in sync.

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Speaker 4: They are a machine, and you've got to find a

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Speaker 2: You want some historical context to that, because I know

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Speaker 2: you hear that and you're like, oh, nineteen seventy are

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Speaker 4: I'm thinking about Chuck Munsey and James Brooks with air Coriel.

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Speaker 1: Okay, stop me.

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Speaker 2: Montgomery and Gibbs are the first pair of running back

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Speaker 2: teammates since at least nineteen ninety one, thirty three years

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Speaker 2: to each have fifteen plus touchdowns in their first twenty

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Speaker 1: We have who it was in ninety one, No, we

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Speaker 1: don't wondering who that was. Now I think about yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: Know who it Wasn't the Cowboys. I mean they were

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Speaker 4: I don't know if that wasn't the one we'll final if.

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Speaker 2: But that's that just gives you some historical context of

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Speaker 2: how good David Montgomery and Jamier Gibbs have been together.

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Speaker 1: And I wrote this and know your fall. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they're they're incredible together.

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Speaker 2: And I remember twenty twenty when we went to Chicago

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Speaker 1: Eighty yards to the house.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the one to the house on the first

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: We didn't play it well, but still to be able

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Speaker 2: it's a little bit chilly in Chicago, I mean, he

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Speaker 2: just housed us, and he's so different. Goal to bring

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Speaker 2: down Montgomery has been one of my favorite backs for

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Speaker 2: a long time. I mean coming out of the draft,

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Speaker 2: good for us, but Chicago didn't want to keep him

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Speaker 2: around for some reason. And now he goes to Detroit

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Speaker 2: and now he's got Jamir Gibbs. And remember Draft Knight.

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Speaker 2: Remember Draft Knight when people were like, oh, they just

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Speaker 1: That for twelve They're crazy, they're nuts. And now what

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Speaker 2: He's got seventeen touchdowns in twenty flipping games. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's been incredible to see what those two Gibbs. I'd

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Speaker 2: love some of the numbers that are in this game.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to a few more in just a second.

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Speaker 2: Jamiir Gibbs averages averages six point seven yards a touch.

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Speaker 2: He would be if he continued that, he would be the.

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Speaker 1: First player.

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Speaker 2: Since Marshall Fulk in two thousand and one averaged six

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Speaker 1: In the league. So it's historic stuff. It's historic stuff.

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Speaker 2: My god, Marshall Fulk in nineteen ninety nine, the first

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Speaker 1: Hey, oh my god, it's either Christian Nakoye and Barry Word.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a good one with the Chiefs or Icky

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Speaker 4: I brought up Brooks with Chuck Munsey in a decade

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Speaker 4: earlier with the San Diego Chargers, but Ikey Woods and

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Speaker 4: James Brooks with the Bengals. That's all I found so far.

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Speaker 4: But I can't get confirmation on that.

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Speaker 2: That would I mean, that shows one of those two

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Speaker 2: Barry Word and Christian Nakoye.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, that was pretty yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean you go back thirty three years for what

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Speaker 2: these guys are doing now. Texans aren't you know, Texans

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Speaker 2: aren't bringing a toothpick toen knife fight. You know they're

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Speaker 2: gonna They're gonna bring their guys. I mean, the Texans.

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Speaker 2: When you look at numbers from them, they look incredible.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna get their few those in a second. But

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Speaker 2: you Mark Vandermy had a chance to catch up with

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Speaker 2: the headman himself, Demico Ryan and get his thoughts on

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Speaker 2: this one on Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: All right, coach, a.

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Speaker 4: Little bit of a longer week to get ready for

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Speaker 4: this one. How has that part of it gone for you?

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Speaker 4: Getting ready for the Lions that way?

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Speaker 5: Well, we've had a really good week a longer week.

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Speaker 6: It gives you time to watch a little bit more film,

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Speaker 6: kind of fine tunes, some details of the game plan,

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Speaker 6: and our guys being locked in and focused this week,

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Speaker 6: and I'm excited to see how they go out and play.

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Speaker 4: What about stopping or at least slowing down this running game.

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Speaker 4: How hard is that?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's gonna be very hard to slow down their

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Speaker 6: a great job of resetting the line of scrimmage. So

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Speaker 6: we have to find a way to get penetration and

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Speaker 6: creating some knock back, creating some movement inside, and it's

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Speaker 1: Golf has been very accurate. You've gotta be very tight

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Golf is very accurate because a lot of guys

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Speaker 6: the play action game, like they run the ball well

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Speaker 6: Golf can turn his back, the defense look up and

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Speaker 6: the guy's wide open because he has the second level

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Speaker 6: good at running the ball, but where he gets a

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Speaker 6: lot of his completions is if the look isn't right,

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Speaker 6: he does a great job of just getting the ball

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Speaker 6: to the checkdown. Now that's Gibbs or Montgomery and also

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Speaker 5: But that's how he gets a lot of yardage.

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Speaker 4: No question that the crowd has affected the game here.

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Speaker 4: You really need them in this one.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Our crowd has been great all year and I think

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Speaker 6: it's gotten better each time we play it at home

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Speaker 6: and this week, I mean Sunday night.

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Speaker 5: Again, we need our crowd rowdy.

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Speaker 6: It will affect their quarterback, It will affect their operation

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Speaker 6: like they like to operate. They like to go on

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Speaker 6: to a lot. So if we can be loud as fans,

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Speaker 6: and we can be loud and disrupt their process, disrupt

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Speaker 6: their their operation like that truly helps us on defense?

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Speaker 5: All right?

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Speaker 4: Now, what about on offense? They don't have Hutchinson obviously

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Speaker 4: haven't had them, but they are still really tough to

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Speaker 4: deal with, really good and limitting point totals for the opponent.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, really tough defense.

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Speaker 6: When it comes to their situational football, they do a

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Speaker 6: really great job on third down. They're gonna play tight,

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Speaker 6: aggressive man coverage and kind of challenge you to beat them.

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Speaker 5: And then when they get into.

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Speaker 6: The red zone, right, they try to do a great

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Speaker 6: job of stopping the run and like you said, they

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Speaker 6: eliminate you from scoring touchdowns. Right, they're competitive. They do

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Speaker 6: a great job of winning in the red zone, winning

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Speaker 6: third down, and those have been two areas of focus

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Speaker 6: for us offensively. We have to improve our third down

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Speaker 6: points in the red zone.

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Speaker 4: And they've made big plays in the kicking game too,

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Speaker 4: got to be aware of that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, their returner number eleven is the explosive, dynamic returner.

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Speaker 5: And then on special.

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Speaker 1: Sounds great, coach, Thanks a lot, good luck. Thanks Mark,

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Speaker 1: great stuff.

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Speaker 2: As always between Mark and Demiko, plus each and every Friday,

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Speaker 2: and this week Drew Doherty caught up with the Nico Autrey.

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Speaker 1: This is fun stuff. Take a listen Rogers in trouble.

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Speaker 4: Rogers goes down another sack for the Houston Texans, Teniko

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Speaker 7: Thanks so much for well as we've got Denico Autry

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Speaker 7: in the fold with the team. What have the last

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Speaker 8: That's been great, man. The guy's been helping me out

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Speaker 1: And here's Rogers taking the snap. Here's a big rush, and.

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Speaker 4: It's a big sack for the Texans as Tennico Autrey

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Speaker 4: flattens Rogers inside the two.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I gotta imagine getting those two sacks last week

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Speaker 8: It was great. It was great just where the season

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Speaker 7: Let's talk about this defense specifically at home twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 7: Opposing quarterbacks, the four that have been here, they're averaging

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Speaker 7: about forty five percent completion rates a game. You guys

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Speaker 7: a game. What makes this defense just a tenC tiny

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, it's always fun to play from my home fans.

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Speaker 8: All right, man, you gotta protect the house, man, they's

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Speaker 8: just the mindset we have. Anybody come in here, you

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Speaker 7: Jared Goff is the quarterback playing the Super Bowl right now.

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Speaker 7: Fourteen touchdowns, four picks, most accurate passer in the league

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Speaker 7: statistically is completion rate? What sets him apart? What's he

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Speaker 7: doing so well right now? Aside from those things that

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Speaker 8: He's making plays when you need to. He's not doing

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Speaker 7: And how helpful is that running attack? You got two

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, that's tannhem. But you know we're gonna do

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Speaker 7: All right, you're breaking out the battle red uniforms.

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Speaker 5: What do you think about these? Oh?

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Speaker 8: They're cool man, that those things are that look pretty good?

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Speaker 7: Are you much on uniforms?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: A little bit, man.

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Speaker 5: You know you look good, you play good.

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Speaker 7: You have to customize them a little bit and add

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Speaker 7: Like Tank Dell at wide receiver.

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Speaker 8: Does not quiet, and I got a color coordinator a

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Speaker 7: Sunday Night football. You've played on Sunday Night a few

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Speaker 8: It's prime time man, everybody in America watching it. It's

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Speaker 8: just one of those things where it's time to step

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Speaker 7: So you do those intros. You're a Mississippi State Bulldog.

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Speaker 7: Do you stick with the college or do you go

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Speaker 7: back to East Mississippi State? Do you do album Marle?

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Speaker 7: Do you do your neighborhood? What's the intro there?

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Speaker 8: Mississippi State for the most part, all right?

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Speaker 7: Speaking of your junior college, did you overlap a little bit?

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Speaker 3: Was Darius Smith?

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Speaker 7: He's over on the other side of the field tonight.

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Speaker 8: Yes, yes, we played together for one season.

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Speaker 7: So what's that like to guys from the same juco

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Speaker 3: It's great.

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Speaker 8: It's a blessing to see that. You know, we came

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Speaker 7: All right, Deniko Autry, you want to give away any

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 8: No, man, no secrets, just just.

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Speaker 7: What defensive lineman Denico Autry. We appreciate the time. Best

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Speaker 7: of luck against the Lions on Sunday Night Football.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, all right, Mar.

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Speaker 2: We've talked a lot about the numbers on the Lion's side.

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Speaker 2: I think this is one of those games that is

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Speaker 2: That's kind of, in a sense, what this game is

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Speaker 1: The Colts game.

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Speaker 2: Texans are allowing quarterbacks to complete passes at like a

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Speaker 2: forty six percent clip right for the season. The Texans,

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Speaker 2: I think are number one in the league in giving

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Speaker 2: up completion percentage. It's number one in the league. They're fantastic.

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Speaker 2: They're fifty four point nine completion percentage. That's the lowest

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Speaker 2: completion percentage in the NFL at twenty twenty four. It's

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Speaker 2: even better at home, even better at home. However, check

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Speaker 1: The road.

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Speaker 2: Jared Goff on the road, Jared Goff is four to

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Speaker 2: zho Okay, He's completed eighty percent of his passes.

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Speaker 1: Okay, eighty percent of his passes.

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Speaker 2: His passing yards per attempt is nine point nine.

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Speaker 4: That's a sick number, folks. Anything over eight is really good.

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Speaker 1: On the road. On the road, he's eight to.

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Speaker 2: One touchdown interception ratio, and his passer rating is one

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Speaker 2: thirty one point five. His one lost record is completion percentage.

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Speaker 1: Games on the road. Yeah, and as he said, undefeated

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Speaker 4: But I like the way you put this because the

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Speaker 1: Bring their defense on the road as well.

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Speaker 4: Look, they're number two in the league in total yards,

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Speaker 4: you can just slow them down even maybe, just maybe

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Speaker 4: field position on occasion. But we all know, we know

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Speaker 4: what this want's about, Johnny, because Thursday Night football, I

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Speaker 4: I'm not saying I want to get into one with them,

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Speaker 4: but we need this offense to get going. Yeah, second

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Speaker 4: second half. Give me the number. We always talk about

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go it's at least thirty.

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Speaker 2: It's the number that came to mind as soon as

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Speaker 1: So CJ's at home four o sixty eight point.

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Speaker 2: Two percent completion percentage, eight point one yards per attempt, which.

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Speaker 2: Anything over eight, it's not I mean, it's not nine

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Speaker 2: his passer rating is one hundred point nine. So CJ's

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Speaker 1: So, like I said earlier, you're not bringing a toothpick to.

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Speaker 2: A knife fight. You're you're gonna get in that fight

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Speaker 1: You're just running into a hot buzzsaw and there are

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: That was a weird game.

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Speaker 4: It'd be great to get it. I'm not saying mail

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Speaker 4: You become much more of a conversation in the AFC

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Speaker 4: I still say that two weeks ago against the Colts,

445
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Speaker 4: you could argue that was a bigger game. You had

446
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Speaker 4: to end their division life and put them out of

447
00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:28,399
Speaker 4: their misery and move on and put yourself way on

448
00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:31,560
Speaker 4: the horizon from their view, which you basically did. Now

449
00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:33,920
Speaker 4: you can still melt down like the Jags did last year,

450
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Speaker 4: and look, everything's in the conversation. It's the NFL. But

451
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Speaker 4: keep guys healthy as possible because the biggest games have

452
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Speaker 4: yet to be played.

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Speaker 2: You absolutely hit it that Colts game, and you said

454
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Speaker 2: it that week in the Colts game and warn people

455
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Speaker 2: during the Colts game, Look, this is the one you've

456
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Speaker 2: got to have.

457
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Speaker 1: Not that you want to.

458
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Speaker 2: Say, well, I'll take the Colts win over a Lion's loss,

459
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Speaker 2: Like no, we're not saying no.

460
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Speaker 4: I would, but I would absolutely say I would take it.

461
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Speaker 4: But you're not going to allow yourself to lose. Yeah, absolutely,

462
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Speaker 4: you gotta fight, fight, fight, Yeah. And you know you

463
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Speaker 4: talked about this scenario Johnny, where if you go, say

464
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Speaker 4: three and one in the next four games, and the

465
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Speaker 4: Colts go, say one in three, and that's entirely in

466
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Speaker 4: the realm of possibility, both scenarios. You clinched the division

467
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Speaker 4: with four games to go, those conversations are going to

468
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Speaker 4: be wild. Yeah, how do you handle those games. We

469
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Speaker 4: got to play, ZJ, but we don't want to get

470
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Speaker 4: them hurt. You got the postseason coming up, you've already clinched.

471
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Speaker 4: What are your seeding possibilities? Get me to that point,

472
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Speaker 4: but get me to ten thirty on Sunday night with

473
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Speaker 4: the victory of the Lions, because I want to see

474
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Speaker 4: it for the fans. I want to see it for

475
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Speaker 4: these players. I want to see the belief they believe

476
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Speaker 4: in themselves. But I want to see the results, the

477
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Speaker 4: payoff for all the hard work they've been doing. Coaches too,

478
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Speaker 4: as they've been trying to correct some of the things

479
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Speaker 4: that have been ailing them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, And I think I think just getting back

481
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Speaker 2: to playing, you know, really good football football the way

482
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Speaker 2: that they like to play it. And CJ talked about it,

483
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Speaker 2: and I thought Bobby Slowk's answer was awesome. CJ talked

484
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Speaker 2: about play with more joy. That's something that I've talked about,

485
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Speaker 2: is you know, having more having more joy, just playing

486
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Speaker 2: the game with a little bit more youthful exuberns as

487
00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,360
Speaker 2: opposed to be you know. And I mean it's tough

488
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Speaker 2: for CJ to say that in all honesty, because he's

489
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Speaker 2: been getting the you know what beat out of him.

490
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Speaker 2: I mean, the numbers of pressures. I can't even I

491
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Speaker 2: read him to you during you know, during the day,

492
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Speaker 2: and I'm like, I can't even bring it back up.

493
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Speaker 2: I mean, we all have seen it. The pressure rate

494
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Speaker 2: has been phenomenal on CJ. I don't even have to

495
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Speaker 2: hear the stats.

496
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Speaker 4: I'm just looking at it through my binocular from the

497
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Speaker 4: booth and I'm just seeing a wave of people after

498
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Speaker 4: him on almost every pass play. And it's hard to

499
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Speaker 4: watch because you just want to see him set up

500
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Speaker 4: and have a.

501
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Speaker 1: Smidge of time to throw.

502
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Speaker 4: You know, you're not gonna get it every time, but

503
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Speaker 4: get it more that he's been getting it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, and everybody, Well my point of that is

505
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Speaker 2: Bobby Slow talked about, well, you know, fun is having success.

506
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know Nick talks about it. It's process.

507
00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,720
Speaker 2: The process leads to your success, and then that's that's

508
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:08,600
Speaker 2: where the process has got to be better. So I

509
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Speaker 2: am curious to see how the Texans are going to

510
00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:13,320
Speaker 2: line up on the offensive line because Kenny Green was

511
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Speaker 2: placed on ir They got something.

512
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Speaker 1: So they gotta do something.

513
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Speaker 2: So something's gonna be different because they've had that same

514
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,520
Speaker 2: five starting for the first which is weird because we

515
00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 2: talked about that last year all the time. Mark, we

516
00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,520
Speaker 2: would I was over here and I would make a

517
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Speaker 2: list of all the different combinations we had on the

518
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Speaker 2: offensive line, and yet the offense was motor and the

519
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,960
Speaker 2: offense was doing it right with all these different moving parts.

520
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Speaker 1: In the offensive line.

521
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Speaker 2: And then this year we had the same offensive line

522
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:41,400
Speaker 2: for nine games and we're giving up pressure rate that's

523
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Speaker 2: through the roof, giving up pressures the most of the lead.

524
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Speaker 1: What have they seen? Is it?

525
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Speaker 4: It's not just personnel, right, What have they seen? What

526
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,959
Speaker 4: if opponents scene that makes them think they could do this?

527
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Speaker 4: And why did they see it last year? They didn't

528
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Speaker 4: see it last year. Last year around this time he

529
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Speaker 4: had Cincinnati had games like that where okay, every game

530
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:01,800
Speaker 4: was an offensive explosion.

531
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Speaker 1: That one was, yeah, but.

532
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Speaker 4: You had it more often than not where you were

533
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,480
Speaker 4: just wowed by the prowess of the passing game. Now

534
00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 4: you're just getting little slices of it. Look, I know

535
00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,480
Speaker 4: Nico's been out, I know Diggs is gone for the season,

536
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:18,440
Speaker 4: and you know unsung hero Noah Brown from last year

537
00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:19,040
Speaker 4: you ever had.

538
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Speaker 3: I'm not saying you.

539
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,919
Speaker 4: Need Noah Brown, Johnny, but what you need is that

540
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Speaker 4: kind of performance from somebody.

541
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Speaker 1: Somebody you need that occasional.

542
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Speaker 4: Wow, look at you know, Noah Brown had some big

543
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 4: plays for this football team, and no one's gonna say

544
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:33,920
Speaker 4: it was the MVP or anything like that. But who

545
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,280
Speaker 4: has replaced that kind of production, that kind of spot

546
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 4: duty where somebody erupts on a given Sunday. Little Tank

547
00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 4: looked really good against the Jets. That was the biggest

548
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 4: game he's had. But you need other guys to step

549
00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:48,560
Speaker 4: up as well. It's not just guys, it's the whole thing,

550
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Speaker 4: working together with the protection and able to get the

551
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Speaker 4: ball to them.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't think there's any question in that.

553
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Speaker 2: I think you had a guy step up, not a receiver,

554
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Speaker 2: but you had Darna Gumbwale very tough and have a.

555
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Speaker 1: Noah Brown like game.

556
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Speaker 2: But Noah had seven for one seventy year, like seven

557
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Speaker 2: for one seventy five I think against the Bucks, and

558
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:10,919
Speaker 2: then he had the next week against Cincinnati.

559
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Speaker 1: That's what you need at the receiver position.

560
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Speaker 4: So and look, I like Jamal Crawford or one of

561
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,080
Speaker 4: these guys just come off the bench.

562
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Speaker 1: And light it. I hate it when you come up.

563
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Speaker 1: Well I shouldn't say, I hate it.

564
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Speaker 2: I hate it when I don't come up with something

565
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Speaker 2: like that, because that's exactly what you need. You need

566
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Speaker 2: a Vinnie Johnson of Vinnie Johnson the microwave, that's that's

567
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:31,760
Speaker 2: a daily reference.

568
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Speaker 4: But but Vinnie Johnson was consistent.

569
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Speaker 1: Crawford not always right.

570
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Speaker 2: But every once in a while you would get the

571
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Speaker 2: Crawford and you're like, holy cow, you're.

572
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Speaker 1: Right, you need you need something like that.

573
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Speaker 2: I think that I think the tight ends could end

574
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Speaker 2: up being a factor, depending on how much they've got

575
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Speaker 2: to stay in and rush. I think with the tight

576
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Speaker 2: ends this week when we talked about this a little

577
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Speaker 2: bit on Wednesday, the Lion's Edge guys aren't tremendous. Now

578
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 2: Zadarius is now added to the g but they have

579
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Speaker 2: one sack amongst the edge guys. That's it, And I

580
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:07,680
Speaker 2: mean on the roster right now, because Marcus Davenport's and

581
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:10,880
Speaker 2: I R and A Nudgson's on I R. That one

582
00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,879
Speaker 2: sack of guys that are still in the roster, and

583
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Speaker 2: that's Pascal.

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Speaker 4: We have the Texans problems coming from. That's right exactly

585
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Speaker 4: inside inside.

586
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Speaker 2: But it's not as if it's not if Laramie and

587
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Speaker 2: Titus are playing their eight plus game like they did

588
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Speaker 2: at times last year.

589
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Speaker 1: Well, Titus is inside, So so we'll see.

590
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Speaker 2: We'll see how this this offensive line is gonna line up,

591
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,159
Speaker 2: and I think that's gonna be a big story, uh

592
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 2: in the game, no matter what first snap they come

593
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Speaker 2: out and go, oh okay, this is how they're gonna

594
00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:37,760
Speaker 2: this is how they're gonna deal with life without Kenyon

595
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 2: Is he got put on I R.

596
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Speaker 1: So what are they gonna do? We don't know.

597
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,040
Speaker 2: We've talked about all the different options uh that could

598
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Speaker 2: be there, Titus moving over, Blake Fisher moving in, uh,

599
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Speaker 2: putting in Jared Patterson.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

601
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Speaker 2: The one that I I had mentioned was do you

602
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Speaker 2: because I I I think in the long run, I

603
00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:58,880
Speaker 2: think Jared would struggle at guard. So if you wanna

604
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Speaker 2: get Jared on the field, Jared and Juice. So we've

605
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 2: talked about all those options. Maybe it's broker.

606
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Speaker 4: They did last year. Yeah, they had Jared at center,

607
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Speaker 4: so yeah, Jarrett.

608
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Speaker 2: Center and then Jared got hurt before Juice stepped back

609
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 2: in for Titus. So so we'll see how it goes.

610
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Speaker 2: But there are gonna be how many people can we

611
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Speaker 2: fit in an Energy stadium?

612
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Speaker 4: Seventy seventy plus seventy plus seventy two ish, Yeah, seventy

613
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Speaker 4: one and change.

614
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Speaker 1: It can be seventy one and seventy one.

615
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 2: Thousand plush eyes on that three guard center guard.

616
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Speaker 1: They will be watching those three.

617
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Speaker 2: The fans are very in tune to what's going on,

618
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Speaker 2: and you can you can.

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Speaker 1: Tell which what percentage.

620
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, there is a the offensive line creates

621
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Speaker 2: a penalty and you hear the number.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you hear the crowd voice. It's displeasure. It's significant. Yes,

623
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Speaker 1: it's significant. No, it's not everybody, I get it. But

624
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of eyes on.

625
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Speaker 2: There're gonna be a lot of guys, a lot of

626
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Speaker 2: eyes on guard center guard for the Texans, because if

627
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Speaker 2: that group holds up, Mark, you have a chance against

628
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 2: these guys. As long as you don't row at Joseph

629
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Speaker 2: and Branch, you can move the football. Joseph and Branch

630
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 2: had the two lowest passer ratings allowed amongst safeties, with

631
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,399
Speaker 2: twenty plus targets as the nearest defender and coverage.

632
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Speaker 1: The Joseph and Branch, darn it.

633
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:21,000
Speaker 2: The other guys are getting torched, absolutely torched. So if

634
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 2: you stay away from them and you get some time

635
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 2: to throw. Maybe CJ can have some success and that

636
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 2: will go a long way and determining how this one

637
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,879
Speaker 2: ends up going. But I mean just looking at the

638
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 2: pressure numbers and that's got to change. So hopefully, hopefully

639
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 2: getting all on the same page, whatever they do on

640
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 2: the offensive line ends up working in the way that

641
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 2: they want it to work on Sunday, and hopefully that's

642
00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 2: something that they can carry going forward.

643
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Speaker 1: But is that home? Yeah? Four and on home and.

644
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Speaker 4: Go hit them in the mouth, y, go play tough,

645
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 4: like CJ said. Joy, what did CJ say before the

646
00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 4: Colts game regular season finale last year? They don't believe

647
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:02,439
Speaker 4: in us or I don't know whatever it was.

648
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,479
Speaker 1: Go do that. Yeah, we want to show him. I

649
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: want to see him do the pregame thing.

650
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Speaker 4: Now, Look, we all know what's really important is Saturday

651
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,959
Speaker 4: night before the game that speech. Yeah, some things that

652
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 4: happened during the week, we don't really know what's been

653
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:15,120
Speaker 4: happening to week.

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Speaker 1: We've seen bits and pieces of practice.

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Speaker 4: Great, let's see the results on Sunday night against the

656
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:22,199
Speaker 4: hottest team in the NFL.

657
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Speaker 2: That is gonna be fan task, all right, we get

658
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Speaker 2: back I'll give you my keys.

659
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Speaker 1: To the game.

660
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Speaker 2: We talked about a few of them, but I'll dive

661
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 2: a little bit deeper into some of those to get

662
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Speaker 2: a win against the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 1: What's it going to take? That's next on Texans All Access.

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Speaker 2: Yues, Sir, welcome back to this show, John Harris, for

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Speaker 2: playing outside of the report of your hosts. Appreciate you

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Speaker 2: being with me as it's time for my keys to

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Speaker 2: the game. Every single week, I give you the keys

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Speaker 2: to a win over the opponent. In this case, it

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Speaker 2: is the seven to one juggernaut that is the Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 3: So let's get some music going and this.

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Speaker 2: Will get me kind of in the mood to talk

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Speaker 2: about this particular game. We dive deep into things that

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Speaker 2: need to happen for the Texans to get a win. Okay,

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Speaker 2: this team is seventy one. The Texans are gonna face

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Speaker 2: they're four to zero on the road. Jared Goff has

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Speaker 2: been absolutely destroying.

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Speaker 3: It on the road. We'll get to that in a

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Speaker 3: little bit, but.

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Speaker 2: To show you how this season sort of changed for Lions,

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Speaker 2: they were one and one after two weeks they had

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Speaker 2: won the opener, and a week two they were playing

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Speaker 2: at home against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They were held

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Speaker 2: sixteen points and lost twenty to sixteen. And it was shocking, like,

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Speaker 2: wait a second, the Lions. Man, they won the game

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Speaker 2: on Monday night against the Rams, scored twenty six points

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Speaker 2: one and overtime.

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Speaker 3: Then he just scored sixteen. Both games are at home.

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Speaker 2: He thought, man, something wrong with They went to Arizona

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Speaker 2: and they won twenty to thirteen.

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Speaker 3: So two and one thought something.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe the hangover of the NFC Championship

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Speaker 2: game was too much. And then holy cow, they put

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Speaker 2: forty two on Seattle on Monday night, they put forty

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Speaker 2: seven on Dallas at Dallas, they.

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Speaker 3: Put thirty one on a really good Minnesota defense. At Minnesota.

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Speaker 2: They put fifty two points on the board against Tennessee

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Speaker 2: at home, and then in a driving rainstorm they scored

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Speaker 2: twenty four in just two and a half quarters.

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Speaker 3: At Green Bay.

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Speaker 2: They've averaged thirty nine point two points per game in

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Speaker 2: their last five games. And it's not just the offense.

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Speaker 2: Cleef Raymond ran a punt return back against the Titans.

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Speaker 2: The defense gave the offense short fields. In particular against Tennessee,

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Speaker 2: Kirby Joseph stole the ball away from Green Bay with

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Speaker 2: a pick six right before halftime to give them seventeen

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Speaker 2: to three lead against the Green Bay Packers. So it's

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Speaker 2: been everybody contributing to that particular scoring output.

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Speaker 3: If you will. So they're seventy one. They won five

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Speaker 3: in a row. They're four to zero. Excuse me, they

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Speaker 3: won six in a row.

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Speaker 2: They've w the last four, just demolishing teams, including the

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Speaker 2: Tennessee Titans. And now it's time to come to Houston

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Speaker 2: to take on to Text and so let's talk about

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Speaker 2: his Lions offense. They're six in the NFL in rushing

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Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty three yards per game. We'll talk

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Speaker 2: about Montgomery and Gibbs here in a second passing you're

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Speaker 2: two seventeen.

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Speaker 3: It's fifteenth in the league overall.

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Speaker 2: There seventh, seventh highest rated total offense output in the

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Speaker 2: league at three to seventy per game. They've only lost

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Speaker 2: five turnovers. Mark and I had talked about that on Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: They've only lost five turnovers four fumbles on Jared goff

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Speaker 2: In one interception. That's crazy, that's absolutely crazy. I think

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Speaker 2: I have my math correct on that. But either way,

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Speaker 2: five turnovers is just ridiculous. So on offense, Jared Goff

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Speaker 2: leads the way and he's one of the big keys.

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Speaker 2: This guy was a throw in mad trade in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty one. We'll be honest, even though Brad Holmes will

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Speaker 2: say so he's blue in the face. Yeah, man, I'm

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Speaker 2: telling you we thought Goff had something, and I've always

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Speaker 2: thought Golf had something. But the trade was for Matt

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Speaker 2: Stafford for Golf and two first round picks and more.

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Speaker 2: You can't tell me that he wasn't thought of as

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Speaker 2: a throw in. But he's turned to to an MVP candidate.

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Speaker 2: He has been phenomenal since the loss to Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 2: He's completed seventy two percent of his passes in every game.

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Speaker 2: He's completed eighty percent of his passes in the last

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Speaker 2: three games. He was a perfect eighteen for eighteen against

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Speaker 2: the Seahawks on Monday Night. He hasn't thrown an interception

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Speaker 2: since Week three. In that time, he's also thrown eleven touchdowns.

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Speaker 2: This guy has been unbelievable. Now, this Detroit offense is

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Speaker 2: really really good, but Goff is driving that machine. Doesn't

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Speaker 2: take a lot of sacks. He's behind a great offensive line.

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Speaker 2: We'll get to that in a second. He makes good decisions.

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Speaker 2: He has a lot of weapons in the passing game,

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Speaker 2: amaras Saint Brown to get Jameson Williams backs.

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Speaker 3: Sambla Porter is.

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Speaker 2: One of the better young tight ends. He's not just

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Speaker 2: best young tight end in the league. He's got a

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Speaker 2: way to get the ball and he gets it out.

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Speaker 2: He throws it to his backs. He doesn't do dumb things.

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Speaker 2: That's the hardest part about facing Jared Goff. You got

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Speaker 2: to force him into dumb things. And I don't know

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Speaker 2: that he is at this point gonna do dumb things

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Speaker 2: because and here's keen number two. The Lions have the

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Speaker 2: best one to two combination in the league. Now, some

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Speaker 2: might say Baltimore, Lamar Jackson and Derrick Henry, but we're

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Speaker 2: just talking straight up running backs. We're talking about Dave Montgomery,

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Speaker 2: Engameer Gibbs. Mark and I talked about this stat in

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Speaker 2: Week one. They've played twenty games together, twenty games as teammates.

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Speaker 2: Montgomery has nineteen touchdowns in that time. Gibbs has seventeen.

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Speaker 2: That's thirty six scores we have had. We haven't seen

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Speaker 2: a duo score like that since nineteen ninety one. It's crazy.

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Speaker 2: And the thing about it is they do a little

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Speaker 2: bit of everything. They hit every box.

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Speaker 3: You want explosive plays, Gibbs does that.

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Speaker 2: You want power breaking tackles, Montgomery does that. You want

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Speaker 2: to catch the ball in the backfield, they both do that.

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Speaker 2: They want to pass protect, they both do that. You

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Speaker 2: want reliable, no fumbles all that, they both do that.

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Speaker 3: It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: They can run through you, they can run around you,

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Speaker 2: they can run past you, they can catch the ball

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Speaker 2: over your head. This is the best duo that we're

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Speaker 2: going to see in the Texas. Linebackers and safety's are

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Speaker 2: gonna be in the spotlight against those two all night long.

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Speaker 3: And finally, a pinay for your thoughts.

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Speaker 2: Penay Sewell plays right tackle for the Detroit Lions, and

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Speaker 2: he is unbelievably good. He and Taylor Decker are arguably

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Speaker 2: the best tackled duel in the league. But Taylor Decker

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Speaker 2: is not gonna play. He has been ruled out. We'll

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Speaker 2: talk a little bit more about that in the next

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Speaker 2: segment when we go over the status report.

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Speaker 3: But Taylor Decker's out, But that still gives the Lions.

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Speaker 2: Eighty percent of the best offensive line in the league,

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Speaker 2: and paday Sewell is arguably the best right tackle in

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Speaker 2: the league.

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Speaker 3: He's arguably one of the top three tackles in the league.

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Speaker 2: He mashes people, and I mean mashes gaping holes, and

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Speaker 2: he helps give the offense an identity.

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Speaker 3: And that's what Detroit wants. They want grit, they want toughness, and.

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Speaker 2: They got it in paday Sewell, and he gives it

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Speaker 2: to him over the right side. Defensive ends, linebackers are

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Speaker 2: gonna have to really face up against that guy and

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Speaker 2: do the best they can. He gets a lineman, can't

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Speaker 2: get washed on down block. They got to hold the

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Speaker 2: point as best they possibly can against that guy.

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Speaker 3: All right. Talk about the Lions defense overall is twenty.

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Speaker 2: Second in the league, giving up three hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: seven yards per game now against the runner, pretty good,

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Speaker 2: only one hundred and.

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Speaker 3: Six yards at seventh in the NFL. In the passing game, they.

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Speaker 2: Give up two hundred and fifty one yards through the air.

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Speaker 2: That's twenty ninth in the league. There's a chance there,

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Speaker 2: there's a chance, especially because they've lost Aiden Hutchinson. I

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Speaker 2: don't think they can get the edge pressure, and that

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Speaker 2: is key number one. Back when JJ was doing things

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Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen, he was putting crooked numbers in every

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Speaker 2: stat column.

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Speaker 3: That's what Aiden Hudginson was doing. They got hurt in

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Speaker 3: the Dallas game and Allions.

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Speaker 2: Haven't been able to do anything really since they only

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Speaker 2: have one sack, one sack of a defensive endill play

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Speaker 2: on Sunday night.

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Speaker 3: Texas have to take advantage of that.

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Speaker 2: They got to help on the interior guys and Laraimi

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Speaker 2: and Titus I gotta go one on one and win backs,

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Speaker 2: tight ends all that. They gotta help the interior guys.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you do it. I don't know

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Speaker 2: how you scheme it up, but you gotta help those

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Speaker 2: interior guys and let larim me in and Titus win

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Speaker 2: one on one. Now, they haven't done great winning one

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Speaker 2: on one this year, but they got to do it

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Speaker 2: on Sunday night. Number two. The other dynamic duo is

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Speaker 2: Kirby Joseph and Brian branch. I don't think there's a

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Speaker 2: better safety duo in the league. I don't think there's

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Speaker 2: some really good safeties. I don't know that there's a

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Speaker 2: duo quite like Kirby Joseph and Brian Branch. Those two

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Speaker 2: are giving up the lowest passer rating in the league

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Speaker 2: when targeted twenty plus times. They're the nearest defender to

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Speaker 2: the ball. They're incredible. They have ten interceptions between them.

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Speaker 2: They are a rocket ship of talent at the safety spot.

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Speaker 3: And finally, this kind of goes into key number one

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Speaker 3: as well. CJ. Stroud needs time. He needs time to throw.

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Speaker 2: He needs time to get the ball off and if

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Speaker 2: he does, he can pick apart this line secondary as

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Speaker 2: long as he avoids Kirby.

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Speaker 3: Joseph and Brian Branch. Please protect number seven.

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Speaker 2: He is our Houston treasure and we need to protect

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Speaker 2: him because he will produce.

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Speaker 3: A big game if that is the case. Okay, they

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Speaker 3: are your keys. We get back.

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Speaker 2: Let's check out the injury and status report and at

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Speaker 2: Texans was back at practice today. We'll discuss that next

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Speaker 2: right here in Texans All Access.

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Speaker 3: What's tapping? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back Texas All Access on a Friday evening, and

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Speaker 2: it's time for the injury slash status report. But a

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Speaker 3: Okay, on Fridays and most of you know this.

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Speaker 2: Actually, I sit around on Friday and I wait and

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Speaker 2: I wait and I wait and I wait for the

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Speaker 2: injury report because I want to see who's in, who's out,

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Speaker 2: and it's important to know who did not participate, who's limited,

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Speaker 2: who's full, that kind of stuff. So it's a big

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Speaker 2: part of I would say, it's a big part of

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Speaker 2: the analysis of the game that's going to take place

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Speaker 2: on Sunday evening. So let's start with the big piece

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Speaker 2: of news that we got Friday morning, combined with what's

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Speaker 2: on the status report, and has to do with Nico Collins.

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Speaker 2: Nico was announced was activated into the twenty one day

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Speaker 2: window from IR, so if you're new around here, it's

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Speaker 2: always good to know anyways. But what happens when a

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Speaker 2: guy comes off IR is he's put in that twenty

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Speaker 2: one day window and then you have between that declaration

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Speaker 2: date and twenty one days to put him back on

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Speaker 2: the fifty three man roster and make him active.

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Speaker 3: If you don't, he reverts back.

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Speaker 2: To IR for the remainder of the year and then

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Speaker 2: out for the remainder of the year. Now, I don't

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Speaker 2: anticipate that happening with Nico at all, But I don't

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Speaker 2: know what that means for a Sunday because he's listening

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Speaker 2: to the status report as being questionable. He did practice

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Speaker 2: today in a limited capacity and he is questionable. So

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Speaker 2: don't know what that means now. If you read the

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00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:08,799
Speaker 2: tea leaves, and sometimes we have to. If you look

881
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 2: back Joe Mixon a few weeks ago, and Joe's not

882
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:15,120
Speaker 2: put an IR, keep that in mind. Joe practice on Friday,

883
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 2: and we thought, oh, maybe there's a chance for Sunday. Nope,

884
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 2: didn't play them on Sunday. In fact, didn't play them

885
00:39:21,080 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 2: the next week either. Ended up coming back a few

886
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,160
Speaker 2: weeks after that, and I believe that first game was

887
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:31,319
Speaker 2: New England that he came back and so practiced on

888
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 2: Friday in limited capacity, was listened questionable, didn't play.

889
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 3: I think we've seen that.

890
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 2: With a couple other players. A ce's how shire think

891
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:43,319
Speaker 2: fit in that category? Practice on Friday, totally sure about this,

892
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 2: listen is questionable, didn't play so we're following the trend,

893
00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 2: and that's kind of what I expected. When Nico did

894
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 2: not practice Wednesday or Thursday, my immediate thought was, Okay,

895
00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:00,120
Speaker 2: that's not enough to play on Sunday, especially because he

896
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 2: hasn't played the first the last four weeks being on IR.

897
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 3: So my gut says no on Sunday. But I hope

898
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 3: my gut is wrong.

899
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 2: The other part of this that makes it kind of

900
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:14,000
Speaker 2: difficult is we just saw Tank Dell show up on

901
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:17,839
Speaker 2: Friday and he is questionable as well, dealing with a

902
00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 2: back issue. Now, Tank had not been on injury report

903
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 2: all week and he showed up on Friday with a

904
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:25,440
Speaker 2: back issue.

905
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,320
Speaker 3: So hopefully that's not gonna be a problem.

906
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 2: Either, because man, if you don't have Nico or Tank

907
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 2: ekes Man. But Nico is questionable, So we'll keep our

908
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,840
Speaker 2: fingers crossed it Maybe Sunday night that's enough time. I

909
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 2: don't know, maybe an extra seven hours I can get

910
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 2: him back on a field.

911
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:46,680
Speaker 3: You know Mark mentioned earlier.

912
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 2: I don't know that it's we're at that you gotta

913
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,720
Speaker 2: have him stage. This isn't Week eighteen against the Colts

914
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 2: to get to the playoffs. This is in week seventeen

915
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 2: where you could end up, I don't know, beating the

916
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:04,359
Speaker 2: Ravens for the buy or move from the three slot.

917
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 3: To the three seed to two seed.

918
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a game you want to win and you

919
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 2: want to look good on Sunday night. But it's it's

920
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 2: the Lions, it's the NFC, and yeah, it's a really

921
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:17,399
Speaker 2: good team and you want to look really good against them,

922
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 2: and you want wins. But you got a two and

923
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:21,360
Speaker 2: a half game cushion up in the AFC South, and

924
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:24,279
Speaker 2: you've got another stretch of games with Cowboys, Titans, and

925
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 2: Jaguars that if you can sweep those three teams, you

926
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 2: got an opportunity potentially to win the division before you

927
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 2: go into the bye week. Most importantly, you have a

928
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,360
Speaker 2: chance to give Nico even more time to be fully healthy.

929
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 3: So we'll see what it means if he plays.

930
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean that, oh, the Texans are prioritizing winning

931
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 2: over his health. It just means he's fully ready to go,

932
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:47,359
Speaker 2: and hopefully he's going to be ready to go.

933
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 3: Now.

934
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 2: One key guy not ready to go for your Texans

935
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 2: is Will Anderson. He is out with the ankle. Also

936
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 2: out as Damian Peers deal with the groin issue. Those

937
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 2: are the two players that are out for your Texans.

938
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 2: Will Anderson Junior and Damien Pierce to questionables and just

939
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 2: gave you Tank and Nico. Jerry Hughes, and Jeffakuda were

940
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:10,400
Speaker 2: also brought into that twenty one day window. They practiced

941
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,800
Speaker 2: all week in some sort of capacity and on Friday

942
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 2: they were full participants in practice. But the our list

943
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 2: is questionable, so there'll be some transactions going on over

944
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 2: the weekend. Fully Foughtakasi Jake Hansen are both questionable now.

945
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 2: Fully not practice all week. We saw him in you know,

946
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:32,920
Speaker 2: at practice and paying attention but not practicing dealing with

947
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:36,080
Speaker 2: the groin and his shoulder. Nico Autrid in practice today,

948
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:38,799
Speaker 2: but that was just a rest day. He is going

949
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 2: to be ready to go on Sunday, as you heard

950
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 2: him do the pregame interview with Drew Doherty earlier in

951
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 2: the show. So to reiterate, Will out, Damien out, Questionable, Fully,

952
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 2: Jake Hanson, Nico Collins, Tank Dell, Jerry Hughes, Jeff Akuda.

953
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 2: Now on the other side, as we watch this through

954
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 2: the week, I thought, hmm, I don't know this's gonna

955
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:10,360
Speaker 2: be anything or shattering coming from this side. Lions traded

956
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 2: for Zadarius Smith. That's gonna help their edge rushing. Yea,

957
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 2: that's pretty much it. Oh and then if you got

958
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 2: to Malfon Wu and Emmanuel Moseley were brought back into

959
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 2: the twenty one day window from ir Man. If they

960
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:24,919
Speaker 2: activate those guys, holy cal it's can give them who's

961
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 2: this secondary? Well, I guess things changed in some sense,

962
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:34,120
Speaker 2: and maybe this was the plan all along. But Jalen Reeves,

963
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:38,279
Speaker 2: maybe Malcolm Rodriguez. Two linebackers both out of this game.

964
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 2: Broader Martin d Liman, even though he's a full participant

965
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,720
Speaker 2: on Friday's practice, he is out.

966
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 3: Malfonwin Mosley both out. Now Here come the big ones.

967
00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:53,440
Speaker 2: Taylor Decker popped up on the injury report on Thursday

968
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 2: with a shoulder, and those are always one you keep

969
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,240
Speaker 2: an eye on, kind of like with tank guy pops

970
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 2: up like, oh, that came out of nowhere.

971
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:02,359
Speaker 3: He hasn't been on there.

972
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:06,560
Speaker 2: Now he pops up, Well, he is out of this game.

973
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 2: The Lions star left tackle Taylor Decker is out now.

974
00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 2: That probably means Dan Skipper will move over there. But

975
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 2: what that does is if they move Skipper over to

976
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 2: left tackle. A lot of the things they do with

977
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 2: six linemen that includes Dan Skipper a lot of times.

978
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:28,800
Speaker 2: So now presumably Skipper will be that guy that steps

979
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:29,760
Speaker 2: in for Decker.

980
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 3: We'll see how that goes.

981
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:34,439
Speaker 2: Whether that's actually gonna end up being the case, that's

982
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:38,279
Speaker 2: my guess just based on kind of their their depth chart.

983
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 2: But I think it could be that Dan Skipper steps

984
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:43,920
Speaker 2: in for Taylor Decker.

985
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:47,879
Speaker 3: That changes a lot. It changes a ton.

986
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 2: Now they don't have to face Will Anderson Junior, which sucks,

987
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 2: but we don't have to face eight nudgets it. So

988
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 2: that's kind of, I guess, a wash in some sense.

989
00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:59,839
Speaker 2: But Decker and Panay Sewell are gonna have to face

990
00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 2: a guy that they know pretty well, and that's Daniel Hunter.

991
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 3: So they're gonna have to do it without Taylor Decker.

992
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:09,439
Speaker 2: So it it gets kind of interesting this weekend without

993
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:12,840
Speaker 2: Taylor Decker. The other one this Zadarius Smith. Now Zadari's

994
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 2: not practice on Wednesday or Thursday. Now he practiced in

995
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 2: full on Friday. He's listed as questionable and he was

996
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 2: just traded for from the Browns. Mark and I talked

997
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 2: about this around lunchtime, just kind of chatting about you know,

998
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 2: life in the NFL.

999
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:29,399
Speaker 3: In this game in.

1000
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 2: Particular, I felt like Zadarius would probably play, but it

1001
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 2: will be one of those kind of spot situations where

1002
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 2: he can just Hey, all you're doing is rushing, Go

1003
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:43,240
Speaker 2: go right, go against Titus, go against Laraman.

1004
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 3: You're one on one. That's that's it.

1005
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 2: Now, we don't know that to be the case for

1006
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 2: sure because he listens question.

1007
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 3: Well, he's only practiced one day, so we'll see.

1008
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 2: But there without Taylor Decker, they might be without Zadarius Smith.

1009
00:45:58,239 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 2: That could end up being pretty big losses. So if

1010
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 2: we're without Will Anderson Junior, hey, you know, we might

1011
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 2: be without Niko two. That's gonna impact the game, as

1012
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 2: will Taylor Decker being out, Zadarias Smith potentially being out.

1013
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 3: So is your report status report in week ten?

1014
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 2: It's always a little dicey things are gonna pop up

1015
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:18,360
Speaker 2: that you're like, well, I it's say that coma. Taylor

1016
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 2: Decker was one of those. So we'll see what happens

1017
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 2: on Sunday night, how they go about it. My guess

1018
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,360
Speaker 2: is it is Dan Skipper that steps over there. He

1019
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 2: did play with the Texans a little bit, but that

1020
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 2: could change some of the things they do with some

1021
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 2: of their six offensive line informations and some of the

1022
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 2: funky things they do offensively. They may just have to

1023
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 2: play it straight because they just don't have the firepower

1024
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 2: without Taylor Decker over there, still gonna be good. The

1025
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,879
Speaker 2: other four guys make up best offensive line in the league.

1026
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 2: So defensive line's gonna have its hands full on Sunday

1027
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 2: now night, no question about it. Okay, we got one

1028
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:53,360
Speaker 2: hour into books. We get back, We're gonna talk to

1029
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:56,959
Speaker 2: Jonathan Alexander from the Houston Chronicle. We love having Jay

1030
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,520
Speaker 2: on with us each and every Friday. Jonathan Alexander's next

1031
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 2: on Texans All Access.

1032
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 3: It's tap and everybody. We got one hour in the books.

1033
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 2: We got one hour left to go now and then

1034
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,439
Speaker 2: Mark's got you from eight tonight, so we got three

1035
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 2: hours total on Friday evening and love having.

1036
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:15,320
Speaker 3: That real estate.

1037
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 2: If you will to kind of hang out with you

1038
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:19,040
Speaker 2: guys for the rest of the night before we turn

1039
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 2: it over to Area forty five. We will take you

1040
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 2: to the next couple hours after that, but appreciate you

1041
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 2: guys being here with me this evening.

1042
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:27,799
Speaker 3: I'm your host.

1043
00:47:27,880 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 2: John Harris, Footballantal sideline reporter and football analyst for your

1044
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 2: Houston Texans.

1045
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 3: So I had to think there for a second.

1046
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 2: Man, a lot of things going through this brain right now,

1047
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 2: including how we're gonna beat the Lions.

1048
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:41,200
Speaker 3: I just gave you my keys in the last segment.

1049
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 2: If you miss that, go to Houston Texas dot com

1050
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:45,760
Speaker 2: and check out the podcast page and you can find

1051
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 2: my keys to the game. Golse'll read my know your

1052
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 2: Faux article, which is always a fun one to write

1053
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 2: now when I write it versus when things happen in between.

1054
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:02,320
Speaker 2: There can there be some things that happened, including Taylor

1055
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:03,320
Speaker 2: Decker being out.

1056
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:03,800
Speaker 3: For the Lions.

1057
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 2: I might have pointed that out as being Look, it's

1058
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 2: never a good thing when anybody in their team is out,

1059
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 2: but considering the banged upedness of the Texans, I'm not

1060
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 2: totally sad about the Lions having a couple of key

1061
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 2: guys out. And we'll see what the status will be

1062
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 2: on Zadarias Smith the day of the game, as he

1063
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 2: was traded from Cleveland to Detroit. It's been a personal

1064
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:30,640
Speaker 2: issue in and out of practice, so we'll see whether

1065
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 2: he ends up playing or not. If he does not,

1066
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 2: I would imagine we'll see Al Kadein Mohammad, who has

1067
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:38,280
Speaker 2: always been a thorn in the side of the Texas

1068
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 2: over the years.

1069
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,680
Speaker 3: But I still know that the Lions have guys out

1070
00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 3: on the edge that can get to CJ. Stroud. That is,

1071
00:48:45,280 --> 00:48:48,279
Speaker 3: if Titus Howard's and Larry mc tumps are playing their

1072
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 3: A level ball, and that obviously has gotta be something

1073
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:51,920
Speaker 3: they do going.

1074
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 2: Forward for this ball club. All right, guy, we love

1075
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 2: to talk to you on a Friday evening. Is Jonathan

1076
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 2: Alexander from the Houston Crown. Each and every Friday we

1077
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:03,799
Speaker 2: bring him in. We throw a bunch of topics at him,

1078
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 2: and he just like Wonder Woman's deflectors, just bang, bang bang.

1079
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 2: He just answers them all, deflex all our questions. Well,

1080
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:12,319
Speaker 2: he answers all of our questions. But I just had

1081
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 2: this kind of visual Wonder Woman I thought was kind

1082
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 2: of cool.

1083
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 3: So that being said, sid for Jonathan Alexander to join

1084
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 3: Mark and myself.

1085
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 4: Let's go with us now in studio. Jonathan Alexander from

1086
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,399
Speaker 4: the Houston Chronicle. All right, it's been a while since

1087
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 4: we've seen a game. It's been over a week here, Jonathan.

1088
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:29,359
Speaker 4: As they had that short week we talked about, and

1089
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 4: then the mini buys. So your thoughts on how this

1090
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,600
Speaker 4: might or could help the Texans having a little rest

1091
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:36,720
Speaker 4: after that jet outing.

1092
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:39,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, some of the players talked about it.

1093
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 9: They've been going for what nine weeks straight without any breaks,

1094
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Speaker 9: and you know, to get this little mini buy really

1095
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 9: helped a lot of them. Number one, recuperate their bodies

1096
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 9: and get back to somewhat better health and into it.

1097
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Speaker 9: It gave him time to reflect. A lot of guys

1098
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 9: were talking about it. I got to story come out Sunday.

1099
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 9: You know, there was a leadership council meeting on Monday,

1100
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:08,960
Speaker 9: and players earned out, you know, their issues to each other,

1101
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 9: and then they had conversations in further meetings with the

1102
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Speaker 9: Bride team and I think they realized a lot of

1103
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 9: things that they weren't playing up to their standard and

1104
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 9: they needed to bring the energy. And you've started to

1105
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:21,799
Speaker 9: see that in practice. The energy is a little bit

1106
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Speaker 9: higher and they expect to play a lot better moving forward.

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Speaker 1: And that obviously is to me John. There are a

1108
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,960
Speaker 1: couple of major low hanging fruit issues.

1109
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Speaker 2: We know about the old line, but the second halves

1110
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 2: of games have really been striking. I don't know how

1111
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 2: many times we've low the Texas get the ball start

1112
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:44,879
Speaker 2: the second half and then three Now, yeah, they've had

1113
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 2: one game against the Colts where they had two touchdowns

1114
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:50,280
Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter, I believe it was and really

1115
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 2: that's kind of been it. So I know it's a conundrum.

1116
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:57,560
Speaker 2: But what do you do to solve the second half issues?

1117
00:50:57,680 --> 00:50:59,279
Speaker 2: I mean not saying that you could get to the

1118
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 2: second half, I mean the Lions were up thirty five

1119
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,799
Speaker 2: to fourteen on the bike on the Allions and you're

1120
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 2: like games already overright that particular point Titans. So in

1121
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 2: this one, how do you solve some of the second

1122
00:51:09,960 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 2: half issues?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it's gonna be on Bobby's sloan to

1124
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:16,160
Speaker 9: you know, mix it up with the play can. I

1125
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Speaker 9: think I don't know if it was the last game

1126
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 9: or the game before that, but it was one of

1127
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:21,479
Speaker 9: the games where they get out in the third quarter

1128
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Speaker 9: and they threw it three straight times and it was

1129
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 9: three straight incompletions. I can't remember if it was the

1130
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:28,319
Speaker 9: Jazz game or it was the game before that, but

1131
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:30,960
Speaker 9: they got away from their bread and butter, and I

1132
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:34,720
Speaker 9: think the Texans identity right now, especially while Nico Collins

1133
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 9: is out needs to be to run the football. Yeah,

1134
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 9: and Mixing has been having some really good games. He's

1135
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 9: been effective and running the ball. And when you pound

1136
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 9: the ball with success like that, you wear down the team.

1137
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 9: And I think the Texans ended up getting away away

1138
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 9: from it the last few weeks or or maybe last week.

1139
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 9: It just wasn't getting this going early as it was previously.

1140
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 9: But I think they have to stick to their identity

1141
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 9: and then build all off of that. I think when

1142
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 9: other teams counter, they have to counter back. So I

1143
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 9: think that comes from preparation, from slowick and from the

1144
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 9: players executing at a much higher level than they have

1145
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:11,080
Speaker 9: been azecuting recently.

1146
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:14,000
Speaker 4: Jonathan awer z that or Houston Chronicle joining us with

1147
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 4: the offensive line. I feel like any moment it could

1148
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:19,839
Speaker 4: click in. But were you surprised they didn't try to

1149
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:23,480
Speaker 4: add anything at the trade deadline? I know, as having

1150
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 4: your job, you're on the phones, you're working things, you're

1151
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:29,240
Speaker 4: ready to pounce with that trade deadline approaching on Tuesday,

1152
00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:30,880
Speaker 4: they really didn't do anything significant.

1153
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 1: So what are your thoughts on that?

1154
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:34,760
Speaker 9: No, I wasn't surprised, and I actually wrote a story

1155
00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:37,960
Speaker 9: prior to the deadline just to kind of inform readers

1156
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 9: that the Texans weren't likely going to make them any

1157
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 9: major moves. You know, they didn't have the cap space

1158
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:43,520
Speaker 9: to make major moves.

1159
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:43,719
Speaker 1: Now.

1160
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 9: They could have restructured the contracts of Laramie Tunsel and

1161
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:49,400
Speaker 9: Titus Howard to make room, but they didn't want to

1162
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,400
Speaker 9: do that. They didn't want to put extra money in

1163
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 9: the future contracts. They already did that with Stefan Diggs.

1164
00:52:53,800 --> 00:52:56,040
Speaker 9: Stefan Diggs is on They're on the hook for sixteen

1165
00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:59,400
Speaker 9: million of Stefan Diggs contract for next season and Stephan

1166
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:02,080
Speaker 9: Diggs won't even be under contract, So the Texans were

1167
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 9: not in a position to do that. They made a

1168
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:06,840
Speaker 9: lot of their moves prior to the season. They also

1169
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 9: felt that Nico Collins coming back is going to be

1170
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:12,239
Speaker 9: a benefit, so you know, if there was a move

1171
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 9: to make, then the Texans were going to add depth

1172
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 9: at certain positions. And like Demko said, it takes two

1173
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 9: teams to tango, and you know, teams weren't willing to,

1174
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:24,120
Speaker 9: you know, just give away a player to the Texans

1175
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:27,319
Speaker 9: for next to nothing. So, you know, I think that

1176
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:30,279
Speaker 9: was the important realization that the fans probably should take

1177
00:53:30,280 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 9: away from that, So I'm not at all surprised that

1178
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:33,080
Speaker 9: they didn't make a move.

1179
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:40,280
Speaker 10: So Sunday, Sunday Sunday, the Almighty Detroit Lions walk into

1180
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 10: the building and nobody can beat them.

1181
00:53:43,760 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: SI dot Com.

1182
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:46,759
Speaker 2: I just saw all their experts pick the Lions to

1183
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 2: win the game straight across the board. Those are the

1184
00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 2: kind of games that you always look back and go, hahaha,

1185
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 2: you guys do nothing. But why is everybody picking the Lions?

1186
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:59,360
Speaker 2: What makes this Lions team so great even without Aiden Hutchinson.

1187
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think they're probably the deepest team in the

1188
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 9: NFL on both sides of the football, And just imagine

1189
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 9: if they had Aiden Hutchinson. But they've allowed only six

1190
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 9: passing touchdowns all year, have six interceptions, and then their

1191
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:15,120
Speaker 9: offense is leading in the league in points per game.

1192
00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 9: You know, they're playing with a lot of efficiency. They

1193
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:19,319
Speaker 9: know their identity, they know what they want to do.

1194
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:21,279
Speaker 9: They're going to run the ball down your throat and

1195
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 9: then hit you with the play action. And they're getting

1196
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:26,400
Speaker 9: Jamison Williams back, who's one of the fastest receivers in

1197
00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 9: the league. Aman Ro Saint Brown is is you know,

1198
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 9: lethal in open field. So they can do a lot

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00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 9: of different things to beat you. And they could beat

1200
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:38,439
Speaker 9: you one way with the ground, they could be beat

1201
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:41,280
Speaker 9: you one way in the air, and then their defense

1202
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:43,360
Speaker 9: is just phenomenal. You know, they're one of the most

1203
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 9: probably you know, draft built teams. Uh and they've just

1204
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 9: continued the development and gotten better each year. And I

1205
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:54,560
Speaker 9: think that's why they're, you know, the team to beat

1206
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 9: right now in the NFL.

1207
00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 4: Jonathan, take inventory of the Texans situation for us because

1208
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:02,360
Speaker 4: it's unique. With a two game lead in the division

1209
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 4: and the tie breaker over the second place team, you

1210
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:07,880
Speaker 4: got a lot of opportunity here to make sure you

1211
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:10,520
Speaker 4: don't rush guys back. That's the way we're feeling with

1212
00:55:10,600 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 4: some of the injured players. Hey, if you're not one

1213
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:14,719
Speaker 4: hundred percent, there is no you don't want them to

1214
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:17,399
Speaker 4: be soft, but you don't want to be too aggressive either,

1215
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:20,400
Speaker 4: and you don't want to mortgage your cushion. But if

1216
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:22,040
Speaker 4: the Colts go one and three in the next four,

1217
00:55:22,160 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 4: the Texans go three and one, they clinch.

1218
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:26,720
Speaker 1: Before the bye, which is crazy. What are your thoughts

1219
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 1: on that?

1220
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:28,759
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, Demiko and Ryans will never say this

1221
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:31,239
Speaker 9: is Nick Seri never say this the AFC South is

1222
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:33,880
Speaker 9: basically wrapped up. I mean, the Colts, the Titans, and

1223
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:36,839
Speaker 9: the Jaguars are all terrible teams. And as long as

1224
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:39,680
Speaker 9: the Texans keep their head above the water and continue

1225
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:41,920
Speaker 9: to improve, you know they're good. They don't have to

1226
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:45,160
Speaker 9: rush any of their players back immediately because they're not

1227
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:47,239
Speaker 9: really in any desperate situations.

1228
00:55:47,239 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 1: They're still a good team. Let's make no mistake.

1229
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:50,920
Speaker 9: Even though they lost some of the games and look

1230
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 9: bad in some of them, they're still a good team.

1231
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:54,799
Speaker 9: They're still better than a lot of the rest of

1232
00:55:54,840 --> 00:55:59,279
Speaker 9: the AFC. So you know, two rush guys back when

1233
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 9: you know they need those players in a deep playoff run,

1234
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:06,439
Speaker 9: which they'll be in the playoffs having won the AFC South.

1235
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:08,800
Speaker 9: It is no need to rest players back if you

1236
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:11,600
Speaker 9: don't have to at this point, especially with the hamstring

1237
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:15,320
Speaker 9: injury like Nico Collins. Those things you can suffer another

1238
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:17,439
Speaker 9: injury and be out for the year and just like that.

1239
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:21,680
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna make you Chris Ballard and Shane Styke

1240
00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:26,120
Speaker 2: in all in one brain, you have to decide. The

1241
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:29,480
Speaker 2: Bills are coming to Indianapolis. Joe Flacco is named the

1242
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 2: starter against the Vikings. They didn't put up an offensive

1243
00:56:32,120 --> 00:56:35,120
Speaker 2: point or offensive touchdown. They gonna put up two field goals.

1244
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:37,800
Speaker 2: What do you do against the Bills? Do you play

1245
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:40,400
Speaker 2: Flacco or do you bring Anthony Richardson back? How do

1246
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 2: you handle this? Not only this week, Jonathan, but then

1247
00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 2: the remainder of the season.

1248
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:48,239
Speaker 9: If I'm Chris Ballard, I play Anthony Richardson. I just

1249
00:56:48,239 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 9: think Anthony Richardson. I mean, if he's your future and

1250
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 9: he has not played a ton of games in high school,

1251
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:59,880
Speaker 9: college or pros, he needs the experience. And Joe Flacco,

1252
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:03,160
Speaker 9: as we saw last week, he is not the guy

1253
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 9: who is going to turn this or save this coach season.

1254
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:07,920
Speaker 1: They're already lost.

1255
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:12,240
Speaker 9: They might as well continue to build around Anthony Richardson

1256
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:14,439
Speaker 9: and allow him to have his lumps and allow him

1257
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 9: to get better and improve. I see moments where Anthony

1258
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 9: Richardson can be a good quarterback, but then you also

1259
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:24,800
Speaker 9: see moments where he's wildly inaccurate. I can only see

1260
00:57:24,800 --> 00:57:28,400
Speaker 9: that getting better with time and experience. So if I'm

1261
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:32,720
Speaker 9: Chris Ballard, I would play or sat Shane Stikeen. I

1262
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 9: would play Anthony Richison because what they've done so far

1263
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:36,560
Speaker 9: just hasn't worked.

1264
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:39,080
Speaker 4: The last time Detroit played the Chiefs was Opening Day

1265
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:41,440
Speaker 4: of twenty twenty three, and Detroit won the game at

1266
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 4: Arrowhead Stadium. Here they are with one loss. The Chiefs

1267
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 4: have no losses, and they look better having made these

1268
00:57:47,320 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 4: recent acquisitions, including but not limited to DeAndre Hopkins. Who's

1269
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 4: the better team. Who's the best team in the league

1270
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 4: right now? In your opinion, Jonathan, I think the.

1271
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:55,560
Speaker 9: Best team in the league is the Detroit Lions. I

1272
00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 9: think the Chiefs do have some major issues on offense.

1273
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 9: DeAndre Hopkins definitely helps them, but you're not seeing the

1274
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:06,960
Speaker 9: same Patrick Mahomes. And that's not because Patrick Mahomes regress.

1275
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 9: It's because his weapons are not the same and they're

1276
00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 9: having to put band aids on a lot of issues.

1277
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:15,640
Speaker 9: Travis Kelce is an older player right now. I think

1278
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 9: they have serious issues on the offense. Now, can they

1279
00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 9: overcome it? Yes, because of Anthony Andy Reid's ingeniousness and

1280
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:26,440
Speaker 9: Patrick Mahomes and what he can do, and their defense

1281
00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 9: is phenomenal. But when you look at a team from

1282
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 9: top to bottom, I see the Lions as being the

1283
00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 9: most talented team in the NFL right now.

1284
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 2: An a Lions ad we talked earlier about how unfortunately

1285
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:41,440
Speaker 2: Aiden Hutcherson was subtracted due to broken leg. Against Dallas Cowboys,

1286
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:45,920
Speaker 2: their edge rushers have a combined one sack. Then they

1287
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:49,200
Speaker 2: bring in Sadarias Smith coming for from the Browns. The

1288
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 2: Texas face to face them twice last year. He was

1289
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:53,160
Speaker 2: with the Browns a big game. The first one didn't

1290
00:58:53,160 --> 00:58:55,480
Speaker 2: do as much as second one. He talks about Zadarius

1291
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 2: Smith going to join the Lions, a team that deestperatedly

1292
00:58:58,800 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 2: needs some pass rush.

1293
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 9: Yeah, they need that. You know, is Zadarius Smith. You know,

1294
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 9: he gave the Texans problems in that first game last year.

1295
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:10,880
Speaker 9: So he's he has five sacks coming into this season.

1296
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:13,320
Speaker 9: He's a really good pass rusher, a veteran who knows

1297
00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:15,240
Speaker 9: what he's doing. You know, I think it might take

1298
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:17,120
Speaker 9: a little bit of time for him to get fully adjusted.

1299
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:19,320
Speaker 9: Pass rushers obviously don't have to do so so much,

1300
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:23,840
Speaker 9: but you know, I don't know. That is the one

1301
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:28,120
Speaker 9: weakness that the Lions have had since Aiden Hutchinson's injury,

1302
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:30,120
Speaker 9: it is their pass rush. So I think that might

1303
00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:33,280
Speaker 9: you know, bowed into Texans favor in this game that

1304
00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 9: they'll have just a little bit more time. Eventually Zadarius

1305
00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 9: Smith will catch on and eventually I think he'll be

1306
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:41,280
Speaker 9: a factor. But you can't match what Aiden Hutchinson was

1307
00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:43,600
Speaker 9: able to do. He was just a probably the best

1308
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 9: ed dresser in the league this year.

1309
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:48,400
Speaker 4: One more for you, Jonathan, not asking you to predict

1310
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 4: it necessarily, but what's your gut feel about how this

1311
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 4: game is going to be played out on Sunday night?

1312
00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:55,920
Speaker 4: With the Texans, as we discussed coming off some rest,

1313
00:59:56,240 --> 00:59:59,880
Speaker 4: hopefully solving some of their issues, Lions coming in piping

1314
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:01,840
Speaker 4: your thoughts, I'll say.

1315
01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:04,120
Speaker 9: This, I think the Texans will give the Lions a

1316
01:00:04,160 --> 01:00:06,960
Speaker 9: better game than what we may be expecting. I think

1317
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:10,280
Speaker 9: they'll play well because I think that they are mindful

1318
01:00:10,360 --> 01:00:13,600
Speaker 9: of the struggles. They'll improve, but I just don't think

1319
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:15,360
Speaker 9: they have enough at this point. I think it'll take

1320
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 9: some time to get back on the right track. And

1321
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,600
Speaker 9: I think the Lions are just clicking right now, and

1322
01:00:19,640 --> 01:00:21,680
Speaker 9: I think they win thirty one to twenty three over

1323
01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:23,680
Speaker 9: the Texans, But the Texans will give them a good game.

1324
01:00:23,720 --> 01:00:24,040
Speaker 5: I think.

1325
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 1: All Right, what do you have going out of the

1326
01:00:25,240 --> 01:00:26,360
Speaker 1: Houston Chronicle for us?

1327
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 9: Yeah, Like I mentioned a little bit earlier, I got

1328
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:32,280
Speaker 9: a story on you know, how the Texans hope to

1329
01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:34,959
Speaker 9: turn around this season. You know, Joe Mixon was really

1330
01:00:35,000 --> 01:00:38,200
Speaker 9: a huge factor in kind of sparking the offense and

1331
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 9: the team meeting recently and telling everybody that they have

1332
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:44,600
Speaker 9: everything that they need. And I'll dive a little bit

1333
01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:46,920
Speaker 9: deeper onto it on some of the voices that spoke

1334
01:00:47,000 --> 01:00:47,680
Speaker 9: up this week.

1335
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 1: All right, sounds good, Jonathan Alexander, thanks for joining us,

1336
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:51,080
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me.

1337
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:55,520
Speaker 3: Great stuff from Jaya Jonathan Alexander from the Houston Chronicle.

1338
01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:56,320
Speaker 3: Are we get back?

1339
01:00:56,920 --> 01:01:00,240
Speaker 2: There is a bowloader games now, not as many as

1340
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:05,040
Speaker 2: typically are throughout a weekend because there are well we're

1341
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:09,000
Speaker 2: in by season by seasons basically from I don't know

1342
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:12,440
Speaker 2: week five until week fourteen. I think that's when ours

1343
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:15,160
Speaker 2: takes place. But there are four teams on a buy.

1344
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 2: The Browns are Raiders, the Packers the Seahawks. So essentially

1345
01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:20,840
Speaker 2: you take two games out of the mix. But we've

1346
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:23,440
Speaker 2: got some nice ball games going on. And there was

1347
01:01:23,480 --> 01:01:26,000
Speaker 2: a great game last night, so we might hit a

1348
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:28,800
Speaker 2: couple of items from that game on Thursday night, and man,

1349
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:30,640
Speaker 2: what a game it was. And then I'll make all

1350
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:32,600
Speaker 2: my predictions straight up and against the spread next right

1351
01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:34,400
Speaker 2: here on Texans All Access.

1352
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:35,680
Speaker 3: What's happened everybody?

1353
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:37,440
Speaker 2: Welcome back to this Friday ed issue of Texans All

1354
01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 2: Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio.

1355
01:01:39,800 --> 01:01:42,440
Speaker 3: I'm your host, John Harris, Football on a sideline reporter,

1356
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:45,840
Speaker 3: and it's time to make some picks.

1357
01:01:46,160 --> 01:01:48,600
Speaker 2: Yes, I'd love to do this straight up and against

1358
01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:52,320
Speaker 2: the spread for fun. For fun, It's a good way

1359
01:01:52,360 --> 01:01:56,640
Speaker 2: to talk about everything going on in the NFL, including

1360
01:01:56,680 --> 01:02:01,120
Speaker 2: what happened last night in the NFL. God, what a

1361
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 2: game we had in Baltimore where the Bengals and Ravens

1362
01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:10,520
Speaker 2: were lobbing haymakers haymakers at one another, and man, it

1363
01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:13,440
Speaker 2: looked like the Bengals We're gonna run off with this one.

1364
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:17,680
Speaker 2: After Jamar Chase went sixty seven yards to make it

1365
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:20,080
Speaker 2: twenty one seven, Chuck gum for.

1366
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:22,560
Speaker 3: Burrow, who's got Brown on his hit to the right.

1367
01:02:22,640 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 11: Three receivers to the left, fake the hand off, Burno

1368
01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:27,560
Speaker 11: steps up, Burno will fire downfield that.

1369
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:29,320
Speaker 12: Hits Jamar Chase.

1370
01:02:29,600 --> 01:02:30,240
Speaker 3: The fifty.

1371
01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:32,520
Speaker 5: Chase turns up field to the forty thirty.

1372
01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:35,480
Speaker 12: Chase going down on the right side and he's gone

1373
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:36,640
Speaker 12: tucks down.

1374
01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:38,240
Speaker 3: Game record.

1375
01:02:38,960 --> 01:02:41,280
Speaker 12: Jamar Chase takes it.

1376
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:48,560
Speaker 2: The distance, but the Ravens and Lamar Jackson answered right back.

1377
01:02:49,120 --> 01:02:52,720
Speaker 2: Dereck Henry took one in to make it twenty one fourteen.

1378
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:56,160
Speaker 2: Then the Ravens got the ball back and the big

1379
01:02:56,240 --> 01:02:58,880
Speaker 2: play the Ravens have been looking for all night came

1380
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:01,000
Speaker 2: courtesy of Lamar Jackson.

1381
01:03:01,120 --> 01:03:05,280
Speaker 3: And Thailand Wallace. Yes, Thailand Wallace.

1382
01:03:05,440 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 11: Third and two, Jackson operating from the gun. Jackson looks,

1383
01:03:08,600 --> 01:03:10,360
Speaker 11: he darts it to the left side and it's cold

1384
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:13,080
Speaker 11: Tyckle broken down the sideline.

1385
01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:16,240
Speaker 12: Tayland Wallace is finally first toward to time and he's

1386
01:03:16,240 --> 01:03:20,440
Speaker 12: still gone. Wallas to the twenty the ten touch down.

1387
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:22,680
Speaker 12: Wallace comes all the way.

1388
01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:24,680
Speaker 1: How did he do it?

1389
01:03:25,520 --> 01:03:27,320
Speaker 3: I'm watching a hope thinking the same thing. How did

1390
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:29,800
Speaker 3: he do it? I don't know how he did it.

1391
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:33,080
Speaker 2: Bo What happened next kind of changed the game a

1392
01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:35,560
Speaker 2: little bit because Justin Tucker missed the extra point, so

1393
01:03:35,720 --> 01:03:40,919
Speaker 2: his twenty one twenty and the Bengals offense started to

1394
01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:43,400
Speaker 2: slide and the Ravens were hot.

1395
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:46,800
Speaker 3: Mark Jackson couldn't miss third down to.

1396
01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:50,600
Speaker 11: Nine at the eighteen yard line for Baltimore in Cincinnati

1397
01:03:50,720 --> 01:03:52,760
Speaker 11: Territory Hill to the left of Jackson.

1398
01:03:53,040 --> 01:03:53,919
Speaker 1: Receiver to the left.

1399
01:03:53,960 --> 01:03:56,040
Speaker 13: Two to the right, Jackson to the pocket, floats it

1400
01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:59,200
Speaker 13: left side, It's caught inside of the five, takes it

1401
01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:05,760
Speaker 13: out down Mark Andrews Lamar Jackson, who perfectly plays along

1402
01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:06,760
Speaker 13: the left side.

1403
01:04:07,040 --> 01:04:08,720
Speaker 5: Now the Ravens take the lead.

1404
01:04:10,920 --> 01:04:15,520
Speaker 11: It's Jackson to Andrews, a combination that has been so

1405
01:04:15,920 --> 01:04:19,800
Speaker 11: good for this Baltimore team, and it covers eighteen yards.

1406
01:04:20,160 --> 01:04:21,200
Speaker 3: Baltimore in front.

1407
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:25,600
Speaker 2: But on the very next play, Joe Burrow Jamar Chase

1408
01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:27,760
Speaker 2: linked up, and boy was pretty.

1409
01:04:27,760 --> 01:04:31,200
Speaker 11: Last two drives for the Bengals. Eight plays forty one yards.

1410
01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:33,880
Speaker 11: They pumped it eight plays thirty six yards. They turned

1411
01:04:33,880 --> 01:04:38,280
Speaker 11: it over on downs shotgun Burrow, step throw deep shot

1412
01:04:38,400 --> 01:04:39,400
Speaker 11: looking middle of the.

1413
01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:44,000
Speaker 12: Field, guns fair, Tamar, Chase is gone. Chase will take

1414
01:04:44,040 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 12: it all the way for the touchdown. He's standing at

1415
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:52,720
Speaker 12: the one and now crosses over for seventy yards a

1416
01:04:53,040 --> 01:04:54,280
Speaker 12: major silencer.

1417
01:04:55,680 --> 01:04:59,880
Speaker 3: Burrow to Chase. One play.

1418
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:04,920
Speaker 2: Wow yeah, wow, I mean this game was just completely

1419
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:08,960
Speaker 2: wow and it didn't stop. Lamar Jackson floated one into

1420
01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:10,520
Speaker 2: the end zone to take a thirty five to twenty

1421
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:10,960
Speaker 2: eight lead.

1422
01:05:11,040 --> 01:05:14,880
Speaker 11: Next break the huddle, two receivers to the left two

1423
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:17,760
Speaker 11: to the right hill to the left of Jackson, Shutgun

1424
01:05:18,320 --> 01:05:22,480
Speaker 11: Jackson looking Jackson looking to his left. Jackson floating inside,

1425
01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:25,040
Speaker 11: caught left side, touchs down.

1426
01:05:25,480 --> 01:05:26,800
Speaker 1: Rush out faith bend.

1427
01:05:27,680 --> 01:05:30,920
Speaker 3: But the Bengals didn't back down. They drove all the

1428
01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:33,680
Speaker 3: way back down and it was time to make a play.

1429
01:05:34,160 --> 01:05:36,120
Speaker 3: Joe Burrow looked for Jamar Chase.

1430
01:05:36,640 --> 01:05:40,080
Speaker 11: Two receivers off to the left. Burrow and now flanked

1431
01:05:40,120 --> 01:05:44,080
Speaker 11: by two teammates to each side. Shutgun Burw We'll throw

1432
01:05:44,120 --> 01:05:45,360
Speaker 11: it deepen the end zone.

1433
01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:47,360
Speaker 3: Right side cont.

1434
01:05:47,160 --> 01:05:54,440
Speaker 12: John mar Chase, touchdown Monster Knight for Chase unstuffable.

1435
01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:59,120
Speaker 3: Thirty five thirty four, and the Bengals decided to go

1436
01:05:59,200 --> 01:06:00,640
Speaker 3: for two in the win.

1437
01:06:02,480 --> 01:06:03,439
Speaker 5: They're going for two.

1438
01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:06,480
Speaker 1: They didn't think twice about it.

1439
01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:08,320
Speaker 5: This is the plan.

1440
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:10,320
Speaker 1: They just wanted to see what the deefens was. They're

1441
01:06:10,320 --> 01:06:11,600
Speaker 1: still going for two.

1442
01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:15,280
Speaker 5: They're trying to win this game.

1443
01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:20,440
Speaker 11: Outright still thirty eight seconds left, though, looking for the lead.

1444
01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:22,680
Speaker 5: Chase in motion from right.

1445
01:06:22,600 --> 01:06:25,000
Speaker 1: To left, Burrow, shut up.

1446
01:06:25,080 --> 01:06:29,120
Speaker 11: Chase sets up on the left side, going for two.

1447
01:06:30,240 --> 01:06:32,800
Speaker 3: Snap Burrow in the pocket.

1448
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:34,080
Speaker 1: Burrow soft toss.

1449
01:06:34,240 --> 01:06:38,880
Speaker 13: It is in complete right side three to Hudson fall

1450
01:06:39,040 --> 01:06:39,680
Speaker 13: to the turf.

1451
01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 12: The Ravens stop the Pengals.

1452
01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:50,520
Speaker 11: Thirty five thirty four, Baltimore in front with thirty eight

1453
01:06:50,600 --> 01:06:51,440
Speaker 11: seconds to play.

1454
01:06:52,240 --> 01:06:57,280
Speaker 2: Man, what a ballgame that was, Holy League cow just brilliant,

1455
01:06:57,920 --> 01:07:01,800
Speaker 2: just brilliant. Thirty five thirty four. Lamar Jackson threw four touchdowns.

1456
01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:05,560
Speaker 2: Jamar Chase was eleven for two sixty four and three touchdowns.

1457
01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:10,360
Speaker 2: They went at it all night long. That was such

1458
01:07:10,400 --> 01:07:13,800
Speaker 2: a fun game to watch last night. Now which ones

1459
01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:16,480
Speaker 2: will live up to the hype? So here we go,

1460
01:07:16,800 --> 01:07:19,360
Speaker 2: two minute drill as quickly as we can go. Just

1461
01:07:19,360 --> 01:07:21,680
Speaker 2: go to Germany to start it off. Two and seven

1462
01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:24,280
Speaker 2: against two and seven Giants and Panthers, and Giants are

1463
01:07:24,360 --> 01:07:26,919
Speaker 2: six and a half point favorites. Giants will win this thing,

1464
01:07:27,280 --> 01:07:29,320
Speaker 2: but the Panthers will get inside that six and a half.

1465
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:31,840
Speaker 2: So Panthers with the cover the Broncos, We're taking on

1466
01:07:31,880 --> 01:07:36,200
Speaker 2: the Chiefs. Patrick Mahomes always beats the Broncos, especially in

1467
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:38,560
Speaker 2: Kansas City, Kansa City's favored by seven and a half,

1468
01:07:38,600 --> 01:07:40,920
Speaker 2: they will win, and win by more than seven and

1469
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:41,240
Speaker 2: a half.

1470
01:07:41,360 --> 01:07:43,720
Speaker 3: I think the Broncos slide starts well.

1471
01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:45,880
Speaker 2: It started last week, but it will continue this week

1472
01:07:46,040 --> 01:07:47,720
Speaker 2: as they lose to the Chiefs and lose by more

1473
01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:49,520
Speaker 2: than seven and a half. The Steelers, Commander is a

1474
01:07:49,560 --> 01:07:53,040
Speaker 2: tremendous game. It's in Washington. Washington's favored by two and

1475
01:07:53,080 --> 01:07:55,280
Speaker 2: a half. I'm going Steelers. I don't want it. I

1476
01:07:55,320 --> 01:07:58,120
Speaker 2: want the Commanders. We're going Steelers to win this thing

1477
01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:02,160
Speaker 2: in an upset on the road at Washington. Vikings Jags

1478
01:08:02,240 --> 01:08:05,680
Speaker 2: taking place down in Newvall County. The Vikings are favored

1479
01:08:05,680 --> 01:08:08,200
Speaker 2: by six and a half and it's gonna be ugly

1480
01:08:08,240 --> 01:08:10,520
Speaker 2: for the Jaguars. As the Vikings are gonna take this win.

1481
01:08:10,560 --> 01:08:14,280
Speaker 2: They're gonna win this by ten. Let's go twenty to ten.

1482
01:08:14,560 --> 01:08:17,439
Speaker 2: Twenty ten sounds good. Vikings get to win and they

1483
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:20,160
Speaker 2: get to cover. Falcons and Saints is always a brutal battle,

1484
01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:22,280
Speaker 2: but there's no Marshall and Latimore in this one. So

1485
01:08:22,320 --> 01:08:24,720
Speaker 2: the Falcons are going to New Orleans. I think the Falcons,

1486
01:08:25,520 --> 01:08:27,880
Speaker 2: excuse me, I think the Saints are dead. The Saints

1487
01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:30,559
Speaker 2: are dead. The Saints are dead. Falcons are favored about

1488
01:08:30,560 --> 01:08:31,880
Speaker 2: three and a half to win this thing by a

1489
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:34,639
Speaker 2: touchdown or more. Falcons will move to seven to three

1490
01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:37,120
Speaker 2: with that win over the Saints. The forty nine Ers

1491
01:08:37,160 --> 01:08:40,160
Speaker 2: taken on the Buccaneers down in Tampa. I mean, forty

1492
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:42,719
Speaker 2: nine ers are starting to find something. I'm going forty

1493
01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:45,160
Speaker 2: nine Ers to win this Buccaneers in a short week.

1494
01:08:45,240 --> 01:08:46,720
Speaker 3: That was a tough one on Monday night.

1495
01:08:46,880 --> 01:08:49,080
Speaker 2: Let's go San Francisco to win it, but the Bucks

1496
01:08:49,280 --> 01:08:52,040
Speaker 2: get inside that six and a half. Bill's Colts. Let's

1497
01:08:52,040 --> 01:08:56,400
Speaker 2: go Bills. Bills win and cover in Indy. Patriots taken

1498
01:08:56,439 --> 01:09:01,160
Speaker 2: on the Bears in Chicago. Chicago favored by six. Although

1499
01:09:01,160 --> 01:09:03,519
Speaker 2: I want to see the Patriots get inside that six,

1500
01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:05,200
Speaker 2: I don't think it'll happen. I think the Bears will

1501
01:09:05,240 --> 01:09:08,240
Speaker 2: bounce back and win this, and they'll win by touchdowns.

1502
01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:10,040
Speaker 3: So I'll cover the six. Titans. Chargers.

1503
01:09:10,200 --> 01:09:14,120
Speaker 2: Let's go Chargers. Let's go Jim Harball, Let's go Justin Herbert.

1504
01:09:14,280 --> 01:09:16,680
Speaker 2: They will win this thing out in La in a

1505
01:09:16,720 --> 01:09:21,439
Speaker 2: big way. Let's go thirty to thirteen Chargers over the Titans.

1506
01:09:21,439 --> 01:09:23,800
Speaker 3: Eagles taking the taking on the.

1507
01:09:23,760 --> 01:09:26,400
Speaker 2: Cowboys down in Jerry Wild, Phillies favored by seven and

1508
01:09:26,439 --> 01:09:29,200
Speaker 2: a half on the road. Cooper Rush starting with the Cowboys.

1509
01:09:29,280 --> 01:09:31,320
Speaker 2: I think Eagles will win this, but I think Cowboys will.

1510
01:09:31,200 --> 01:09:32,120
Speaker 3: Keep this one close.

1511
01:09:32,560 --> 01:09:34,760
Speaker 2: So let's go with the Cowboys to cover, but the

1512
01:09:34,800 --> 01:09:37,080
Speaker 2: Eagles gonna win to get the seven and two Jets

1513
01:09:37,080 --> 01:09:39,320
Speaker 2: and Cardinals. Jets are favored by one and a half.

1514
01:09:39,439 --> 01:09:42,960
Speaker 2: The Cardinals are playing really good football. I'm gonna go

1515
01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:47,080
Speaker 2: with the Cardinals Cardinals to win a little minor upset,

1516
01:09:47,360 --> 01:09:49,960
Speaker 2: how about that. And then on Monday Night, Dolphins taken

1517
01:09:49,960 --> 01:09:52,000
Speaker 2: on the Rams. Rams are faired by one at home.

1518
01:09:52,200 --> 01:09:54,760
Speaker 2: I think the Rams beat them by a touchdown. That's

1519
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:56,559
Speaker 2: a tough road to hope for Miami to.

1520
01:09:56,520 --> 01:09:57,360
Speaker 3: Play that on Monday night.

1521
01:09:57,400 --> 01:09:59,160
Speaker 2: I think the Rams are playing much better. Let's go

1522
01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:02,960
Speaker 2: Rams to win and cover that one. Okay, we get back.

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Speaker 2: It's a feel good Friday.

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Speaker 3: It means Demiko Ryans stops by right here in Texas

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01:10:06,240 --> 01:10:09,200
Speaker 3: All Access. What's up for everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to this final segment of Well, I should

1527
01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:14,400
Speaker 2: say it's not our final segment of Texas All Access,

1528
01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:16,840
Speaker 2: but it's the final segment of this part of Texas

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01:10:16,880 --> 01:10:19,120
Speaker 2: All Access. As I take you updated clock Mark will

1530
01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:20,880
Speaker 2: take you from eight to nine before we kick it

1531
01:10:20,920 --> 01:10:23,280
Speaker 2: over to Area forty five for the rest of the evening.

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01:10:23,680 --> 01:10:25,320
Speaker 2: But I'm your host, John Harris foot Pay and at

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01:10:25,320 --> 01:10:27,800
Speaker 2: the side down reporter, and we call this feel Good

1534
01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:30,160
Speaker 2: Friday because you want to feel good on Friday heading

1535
01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:32,679
Speaker 2: into a Sunday game, right, I want to feel great

1536
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:34,800
Speaker 2: and we always feel great when we talked to Demiko Ryans,

1537
01:10:34,840 --> 01:10:37,600
Speaker 2: so we started this probably about a month.

1538
01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:39,559
Speaker 3: Maybe a little bit a little bit longer, five six

1539
01:10:39,600 --> 01:10:40,400
Speaker 3: weeks ago.

1540
01:10:40,439 --> 01:10:43,360
Speaker 2: Where we thought, you know what, let's let the people

1541
01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:45,719
Speaker 2: hear from Demiko Ryans when he steps in the studio

1542
01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:49,120
Speaker 2: with Mark and myself. He's always got positive vibes. You

1543
01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:51,120
Speaker 2: feel good about Friday, you feel good about the game

1544
01:10:51,160 --> 01:10:53,439
Speaker 2: on Sunday. So here it is feel Good Friday with

1545
01:10:53,520 --> 01:10:55,040
Speaker 2: Demiko Ryans and Mark.

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01:10:54,840 --> 01:10:57,960
Speaker 1: And myself joining us now in studio. Head coach, Demiko

1547
01:10:58,040 --> 01:10:58,559
Speaker 1: Ryan's coach.

1548
01:10:58,600 --> 01:11:00,000
Speaker 5: Good to see you, good see you guys.

1549
01:11:00,080 --> 01:11:00,320
Speaker 1: All right.

1550
01:11:00,400 --> 01:11:02,920
Speaker 4: Following the mini buy, and I wanted to ask you

1551
01:11:02,960 --> 01:11:06,080
Speaker 4: about this, it's not a regular buy. It's not a

1552
01:11:06,160 --> 01:11:08,639
Speaker 4: week on either, So how do you handle the situation

1553
01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:10,000
Speaker 4: when you get a couple of days like that?

1554
01:11:10,080 --> 01:11:11,920
Speaker 6: Hey, you get a couple of days, just take it

1555
01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:14,679
Speaker 6: to get away and refresh, right, It's just the time

1556
01:11:14,720 --> 01:11:19,240
Speaker 6: to hit reset, right, just rejuvenate yourselves physically, mentally, And

1557
01:11:19,280 --> 01:11:21,479
Speaker 6: that's what we took these past three days to do.

1558
01:11:21,800 --> 01:11:24,720
Speaker 2: Cause you sitting home, whether you're here, you check out

1559
01:11:24,720 --> 01:11:27,040
Speaker 2: the games or they just kind of noise in the background,

1560
01:11:27,120 --> 01:11:28,479
Speaker 2: the games that are going on, you.

1561
01:11:28,479 --> 01:11:29,519
Speaker 1: Kind of take a look at them. How do you

1562
01:11:29,600 --> 01:11:30,080
Speaker 1: kind of handle it?

1563
01:11:30,280 --> 01:11:32,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, we sat at home for a little bit watching

1564
01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:33,320
Speaker 5: the games.

1565
01:11:33,400 --> 01:11:35,200
Speaker 6: I had a little Yeah, I had a little youth

1566
01:11:35,280 --> 01:11:38,360
Speaker 6: basketball going on, so when sons are playing basketball, so

1567
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:40,559
Speaker 6: I was able to go see them play, which was

1568
01:11:40,600 --> 01:11:41,240
Speaker 6: which was fun.

1569
01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:42,519
Speaker 5: It is always fun to see.

1570
01:11:42,360 --> 01:11:46,240
Speaker 6: Them, you know, growing and showing their competitive spirit as well.

1571
01:11:46,280 --> 01:11:48,639
Speaker 6: So I had fun doing that and just sit back

1572
01:11:48,760 --> 01:11:51,200
Speaker 6: watching some of the games and you see just how

1573
01:11:51,439 --> 01:11:55,599
Speaker 6: how wild the NFL is eaching every game it's something

1574
01:11:55,760 --> 01:11:58,080
Speaker 6: something different. A lot of games going down to the

1575
01:11:58,160 --> 01:12:01,400
Speaker 6: last possession, going to overtime, so it's exciting.

1576
01:12:01,560 --> 01:12:03,559
Speaker 4: Well, you got to feel good about a few things

1577
01:12:03,600 --> 01:12:06,000
Speaker 4: here in first place in the AFC South as you

1578
01:12:06,080 --> 01:12:08,880
Speaker 4: take inventory or over the halfway hump of the season. Here,

1579
01:12:08,920 --> 01:12:11,720
Speaker 4: I know you're not playing as well as you possibly

1580
01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:13,600
Speaker 4: want to, but you're playing well enough to have the

1581
01:12:13,640 --> 01:12:15,759
Speaker 4: first place position and a six and three record.

1582
01:12:15,920 --> 01:12:17,800
Speaker 6: Right We're in a good spot right now on the

1583
01:12:17,840 --> 01:12:20,679
Speaker 6: halfway point, right, to be in first place in our division.

1584
01:12:21,040 --> 01:12:24,120
Speaker 6: Right got six wins out of the first nine, which

1585
01:12:24,200 --> 01:12:24,760
Speaker 6: is pretty good.

1586
01:12:24,840 --> 01:12:25,519
Speaker 5: We'll take that.

1587
01:12:25,960 --> 01:12:28,280
Speaker 6: Of course, a couple of games we dropped there that

1588
01:12:28,320 --> 01:12:30,320
Speaker 6: we feel like we should have had, but we didn't

1589
01:12:30,320 --> 01:12:32,519
Speaker 6: make those plays in a game to win them.

1590
01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:35,679
Speaker 5: So you know, we move forward. We press forward. Now.

1591
01:12:35,960 --> 01:12:39,160
Speaker 6: It's a great I think the Thursday game came at

1592
01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:41,160
Speaker 6: a great point in the season, like right at the

1593
01:12:41,200 --> 01:12:43,360
Speaker 6: halfway point, we get to take a couple of days

1594
01:12:43,400 --> 01:12:46,439
Speaker 6: to refresh, and now you know, we press forward. Now

1595
01:12:46,439 --> 01:12:49,479
Speaker 6: we had eight games left, and my message to the

1596
01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:53,760
Speaker 6: team is based basically like how do we just get

1597
01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:56,160
Speaker 6: better moving forward? I want to see our team just

1598
01:12:56,200 --> 01:12:59,080
Speaker 6: continue to grow and continue to get better and see

1599
01:12:59,120 --> 01:13:01,240
Speaker 6: can we play our best ball down the stretch?

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01:13:01,640 --> 01:13:03,000
Speaker 2: Could you kind of hit on it right there that

1601
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:05,200
Speaker 2: I don't want to ask you about because we've never

1602
01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:07,120
Speaker 2: had to buy this late in the year, we haven't

1603
01:13:07,160 --> 01:13:09,360
Speaker 2: gotten to it. And we went for we went for

1604
01:13:09,360 --> 01:13:12,559
Speaker 2: a long stretch. It's a long stretch to play. How

1605
01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:15,719
Speaker 2: important was it to get those couple of days, not week,

1606
01:13:15,760 --> 01:13:18,600
Speaker 2: but get a couple of days to at least just refresh.

1607
01:13:18,680 --> 01:13:20,759
Speaker 2: And what do you think is more important the mental

1608
01:13:20,920 --> 01:13:22,839
Speaker 2: freshness or the physical freshness.

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01:13:23,040 --> 01:13:26,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think first and foremost it's the mental freshness

1610
01:13:26,040 --> 01:13:29,679
Speaker 6: that everyone needs. Coaches, players like you just get away

1611
01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:32,200
Speaker 6: from it for me, because you get you get in

1612
01:13:32,280 --> 01:13:35,040
Speaker 6: the monotony, you get into out of the Hampshire wheel.

1613
01:13:35,200 --> 01:13:38,320
Speaker 6: You're just going it's the next opponent, next opponent, and

1614
01:13:38,600 --> 01:13:41,080
Speaker 6: you kind of just get so locked in there that

1615
01:13:41,120 --> 01:13:43,880
Speaker 6: you need. Everybody, whatever type of work that we do,

1616
01:13:43,920 --> 01:13:47,559
Speaker 6: everybody needs that rest and recovery, and we're it's hard

1617
01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:49,800
Speaker 6: to get that in the NFL season, especially when you

1618
01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:53,120
Speaker 6: have such a late bye week as we have. But man,

1619
01:13:53,360 --> 01:13:57,799
Speaker 6: everyone needed that little refresher to get our sales right mentally,

1620
01:13:57,920 --> 01:14:01,360
Speaker 6: to spend time with the family, which is very important

1621
01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:04,200
Speaker 6: and vital because I feel always feel like if you're

1622
01:14:04,600 --> 01:14:07,679
Speaker 6: personally right, if you're if you're good away from the building,

1623
01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:10,240
Speaker 6: that's gonna make you better once you're in the building.

1624
01:14:10,360 --> 01:14:14,120
Speaker 6: So I'm encouraged, I'm refreshed, I'm excited to see, you

1625
01:14:14,160 --> 01:14:15,160
Speaker 6: know what's ahead for us.

1626
01:14:15,320 --> 01:14:18,519
Speaker 4: How hard is it for you to completely unplug, even

1627
01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:21,080
Speaker 4: for a few hours, coach, because I know you got

1628
01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:23,400
Speaker 4: to have a feeling of Hey, if I call so

1629
01:14:23,520 --> 01:14:25,439
Speaker 4: and so, and I got an idea about this or

1630
01:14:25,439 --> 01:14:26,080
Speaker 4: that or the other thing.

1631
01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:27,479
Speaker 1: How hard is it to let go like that?

1632
01:14:27,560 --> 01:14:28,160
Speaker 5: It is hard.

1633
01:14:28,280 --> 01:14:31,320
Speaker 6: It's hard to let go because it's just, you know, football,

1634
01:14:31,320 --> 01:14:34,400
Speaker 6: It consumes it's our job because everybody arounds as they're

1635
01:14:34,479 --> 01:14:37,439
Speaker 6: asking or trying to send some encouraging words or whatever

1636
01:14:37,479 --> 01:14:39,519
Speaker 6: the case may be. So it does consume us. So

1637
01:14:39,560 --> 01:14:41,880
Speaker 6: I take the phone and I just tunk it out

1638
01:14:41,880 --> 01:14:45,000
Speaker 6: of the way. I don't want to Nobody text me

1639
01:14:45,040 --> 01:14:48,679
Speaker 6: and everybody has the answer as to how everybody turns

1640
01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:50,800
Speaker 6: into a coach, And that's when I just throw the

1641
01:14:50,840 --> 01:14:51,519
Speaker 6: phone away.

1642
01:14:51,720 --> 01:14:53,640
Speaker 2: So with the game on Thursday, coach, I know you

1643
01:14:53,680 --> 01:14:55,880
Speaker 2: know I love too much in the past. But just

1644
01:14:55,880 --> 01:14:57,240
Speaker 2: just in looking back, I know you and I talked

1645
01:14:57,280 --> 01:15:03,480
Speaker 2: after the game about just as it happened, the frustrations.

1646
01:15:02,240 --> 01:15:03,200
Speaker 1: That you had.

1647
01:15:03,280 --> 01:15:05,080
Speaker 2: As you went back and you watched the film, did

1648
01:15:05,120 --> 01:15:07,240
Speaker 2: you feel any better about some of those things? Like,

1649
01:15:07,280 --> 01:15:08,800
Speaker 2: you know what, in the game, I kind of had

1650
01:15:08,800 --> 01:15:10,320
Speaker 2: this feel, but I go back to watch the film

1651
01:15:10,360 --> 01:15:11,680
Speaker 2: and I kind of got this feeling about it.

1652
01:15:11,720 --> 01:15:12,760
Speaker 1: Do you have any kind of.

1653
01:15:12,680 --> 01:15:15,320
Speaker 2: Thoughts about you know what you're frustrated about that maybe

1654
01:15:15,320 --> 01:15:16,840
Speaker 2: you saw it a little bit differently as.

1655
01:15:16,760 --> 01:15:18,960
Speaker 5: You watch the film. Oh, it's the same.

1656
01:15:19,120 --> 01:15:20,000
Speaker 1: Frustrating for me.

1657
01:15:20,560 --> 01:15:23,080
Speaker 6: I wish it was different, but it's the same. It's

1658
01:15:23,120 --> 01:15:26,160
Speaker 6: just like we were in a really good spot going

1659
01:15:26,200 --> 01:15:28,880
Speaker 6: into the half, and I mean just to come out

1660
01:15:28,920 --> 01:15:31,240
Speaker 6: at halftime, and it's something we kind of been uh

1661
01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:33,800
Speaker 6: focusing on as being better coming out of the half,

1662
01:15:33,880 --> 01:15:36,040
Speaker 6: and for us to not stop the run, it was

1663
01:15:36,120 --> 01:15:39,479
Speaker 6: just the same that this doesn't sit well with me, right.

1664
01:15:39,520 --> 01:15:41,880
Speaker 6: How we fit the run, that's the one thing. And

1665
01:15:41,920 --> 01:15:48,320
Speaker 6: then just operation, like just not playing the right way offensively, right,

1666
01:15:48,280 --> 01:15:51,240
Speaker 6: And then we got our we got ourselves and you

1667
01:15:51,280 --> 01:15:54,040
Speaker 6: know in shooting range, right, we were there across midfield

1668
01:15:54,040 --> 01:15:57,160
Speaker 6: a couple of times, and then we find ourselves going backwards.

1669
01:15:57,200 --> 01:15:59,920
Speaker 5: Right. So those things just didn't sit well with me

1670
01:16:00,080 --> 01:16:00,320
Speaker 5: in there.

1671
01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:03,639
Speaker 6: They're all fixable, right, And that's the encouraging part about

1672
01:16:03,680 --> 01:16:06,680
Speaker 6: going forward, Like, man, they're all fixable, right. We know

1673
01:16:06,760 --> 01:16:08,000
Speaker 6: we how to fit the run, we know how to

1674
01:16:08,040 --> 01:16:10,320
Speaker 6: play the run. We gotta of course it's gonna come

1675
01:16:10,360 --> 01:16:12,080
Speaker 6: up this week. We gotta be more, we gotta be

1676
01:16:12,120 --> 01:16:16,400
Speaker 6: more physical, we gotta set edges offensively, Let's execute better,

1677
01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:20,599
Speaker 6: let's operate faster and let's just keep pressing forward, moving

1678
01:16:20,640 --> 01:16:21,360
Speaker 6: the ball forward.

1679
01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:24,160
Speaker 5: But uh, still a little little frustration.

1680
01:16:24,400 --> 01:16:26,360
Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, like I tell

1681
01:16:26,400 --> 01:16:29,600
Speaker 6: the guys like this, in this league, like there are

1682
01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:32,120
Speaker 6: a lot of ups and downs. We talk about building

1683
01:16:32,120 --> 01:16:35,880
Speaker 6: a foundation. We talk about the grind of a season. Right,

1684
01:16:35,880 --> 01:16:38,519
Speaker 6: they're always ups and downs every season. But how strong

1685
01:16:38,600 --> 01:16:41,840
Speaker 6: is your foundation that allows you to withstand right.

1686
01:16:41,880 --> 01:16:44,800
Speaker 5: A little little win, little waves that come at you.

1687
01:16:45,040 --> 01:16:47,680
Speaker 6: It's just about being steady, right, and that's right when

1688
01:16:47,760 --> 01:16:50,640
Speaker 6: our team focused on just us being steady, focusing on

1689
01:16:50,680 --> 01:16:55,000
Speaker 6: ourselves and let's keep pressing forward. We lost the game one.

1690
01:16:55,080 --> 01:16:57,640
Speaker 6: We felt like, yeah, we should have won it. It

1691
01:16:57,680 --> 01:16:59,800
Speaker 6: didn't happen. They made more plays than we did. At

1692
01:16:59,840 --> 01:17:02,000
Speaker 6: the end of the day, what do we do about it.

1693
01:17:02,040 --> 01:17:05,599
Speaker 6: We don't suck. We don't just hold our heads down

1694
01:17:05,680 --> 01:17:08,639
Speaker 6: because of it. Man, that was there was some good players.

1695
01:17:08,640 --> 01:17:12,879
Speaker 6: It May I mean Wilson may too, I mean unbelievable Kenches.

1696
01:17:13,080 --> 01:17:17,000
Speaker 6: It's some things. It's just it happened.

1697
01:17:17,280 --> 01:17:18,160
Speaker 3: It was bad.

1698
01:17:18,240 --> 01:17:18,719
Speaker 5: It happened.

1699
01:17:18,760 --> 01:17:21,000
Speaker 4: Now we press for yeah, and sometimes you have to

1700
01:17:21,000 --> 01:17:22,960
Speaker 4: look at what you have to work with.

1701
01:17:23,240 --> 01:17:23,439
Speaker 3: Right.

1702
01:17:23,560 --> 01:17:25,920
Speaker 4: You talked about mix and Tank had a really big

1703
01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:28,680
Speaker 4: game the other night. You had some positives going on

1704
01:17:28,760 --> 01:17:29,599
Speaker 4: that you can build with.

1705
01:17:29,680 --> 01:17:30,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, a ton of positives.

1706
01:17:30,920 --> 01:17:34,000
Speaker 6: Man, that's where I like to live on those positives, right,

1707
01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:38,000
Speaker 6: tank and making plays for us. You know, when uh,

1708
01:17:38,120 --> 01:17:40,479
Speaker 6: we give the ball to Joe, something good, something good

1709
01:17:40,640 --> 01:17:43,160
Speaker 6: is gonna happen. Right, So it's us trying to find

1710
01:17:43,160 --> 01:17:45,200
Speaker 6: a way to lean into that a little bit more, right,

1711
01:17:45,280 --> 01:17:48,240
Speaker 6: because Joe has been such a productive player, right, an

1712
01:17:48,280 --> 01:17:51,000
Speaker 6: impact player for us, right, and we've been blocking it

1713
01:17:51,040 --> 01:17:53,120
Speaker 6: really well in the run game, and that's been a

1714
01:17:53,160 --> 01:17:53,880
Speaker 6: strength of ours.

1715
01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:56,040
Speaker 4: I want to ask you about this, and not about

1716
01:17:56,040 --> 01:17:58,320
Speaker 4: anybody specific, but when you have players who are out

1717
01:17:58,320 --> 01:18:00,280
Speaker 4: and they might be able to go, but it's kind

1718
01:18:00,280 --> 01:18:00,759
Speaker 4: of iffy.

1719
01:18:00,800 --> 01:18:02,480
Speaker 1: How tough are those decisions?

1720
01:18:02,520 --> 01:18:05,080
Speaker 4: Because you might think, well, another week would be good,

1721
01:18:05,120 --> 01:18:06,599
Speaker 4: but we could really use you, but we don't want

1722
01:18:06,600 --> 01:18:07,200
Speaker 4: to make you worse.

1723
01:18:07,479 --> 01:18:09,760
Speaker 1: That must be really difficult to decide those things.

1724
01:18:09,800 --> 01:18:12,040
Speaker 6: Oh, that's one of the toughest spots of being a

1725
01:18:12,120 --> 01:18:14,479
Speaker 6: head coach, right, of making having to make that call

1726
01:18:14,640 --> 01:18:18,479
Speaker 6: of for guys clothes but we still don't know.

1727
01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:21,479
Speaker 5: For me, I'll always.

1728
01:18:21,080 --> 01:18:24,040
Speaker 6: Lean towards making sure a player long term health is

1729
01:18:24,439 --> 01:18:27,639
Speaker 6: always at the forefront of my decision as opposed to, oh,

1730
01:18:27,640 --> 01:18:31,040
Speaker 6: come back a week too soon and now we lose

1731
01:18:31,080 --> 01:18:33,040
Speaker 6: you for call it four or.

1732
01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:33,800
Speaker 5: Five more weeks.

1733
01:18:33,840 --> 01:18:37,320
Speaker 6: So let's make sure right you are, you can practice

1734
01:18:37,360 --> 01:18:39,840
Speaker 6: throughout the week, right, and let's make sure you can

1735
01:18:39,920 --> 01:18:43,719
Speaker 6: show your teammates and yourself you can gain that confidence,

1736
01:18:43,760 --> 01:18:46,120
Speaker 6: Oh I can go out and perform my job to

1737
01:18:46,200 --> 01:18:47,240
Speaker 6: the highest level.

1738
01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:49,160
Speaker 1: You have to tell them to sit down, like, hey,

1739
01:18:49,200 --> 01:18:50,679
Speaker 1: you got to sit and they want to play.

1740
01:18:50,800 --> 01:18:54,759
Speaker 6: Sometimes sometimes throughout my conversation with them, I talk around

1741
01:18:54,840 --> 01:18:57,519
Speaker 6: around and let them make that decision I.

1742
01:18:57,479 --> 01:18:59,439
Speaker 2: Was going to say in the game, during the game,

1743
01:18:59,479 --> 01:19:01,959
Speaker 2: out of match, and that's pretty tough because you're focused,

1744
01:19:02,320 --> 01:19:03,840
Speaker 2: you know, Hey, I want to make sure I got

1745
01:19:03,840 --> 01:19:06,120
Speaker 2: the right defensive call against this offensive scheme, and then

1746
01:19:06,120 --> 01:19:07,559
Speaker 2: he's sitting there going I want to go back in.

1747
01:19:07,600 --> 01:19:09,120
Speaker 1: How tough is it during a game to kind of

1748
01:19:09,320 --> 01:19:09,960
Speaker 1: kind of handle that.

1749
01:19:10,080 --> 01:19:13,720
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's very hard, I mean, because if guys are

1750
01:19:13,920 --> 01:19:15,559
Speaker 6: if they felt something to where they had to leave

1751
01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:18,439
Speaker 6: the game, obviously they're not going to be at their best. Sure,

1752
01:19:18,600 --> 01:19:21,640
Speaker 6: so is that guy at seventy percent better than our

1753
01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:23,920
Speaker 6: other guys who are fresh and ready to go right.

1754
01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:26,320
Speaker 6: I'm always on let's get as many healthy guys out

1755
01:19:26,360 --> 01:19:29,559
Speaker 6: there as possible going one hundred percent, and that's going

1756
01:19:29,640 --> 01:19:31,120
Speaker 6: to be better than a guy who's hobbled.

1757
01:19:31,280 --> 01:19:33,880
Speaker 4: All right, So the Detroit Lions coming in and they're

1758
01:19:33,880 --> 01:19:34,320
Speaker 4: pretty good.

1759
01:19:34,320 --> 01:19:35,400
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've heard about that.

1760
01:19:35,640 --> 01:19:38,040
Speaker 4: So what do you think just zooming out and zooming

1761
01:19:38,080 --> 01:19:40,680
Speaker 4: in toward them as they heading here on Sunday night?

1762
01:19:40,840 --> 01:19:42,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, yah, zooming out.

1763
01:19:42,280 --> 01:19:44,960
Speaker 6: This team is you know, I've heard all the bulls

1764
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:47,599
Speaker 6: about the team, right, and you put on the tape

1765
01:19:47,640 --> 01:19:52,759
Speaker 6: and it shows right. They have a really cool play style.

1766
01:19:52,840 --> 01:19:56,160
Speaker 6: They play the game how I am visited football being played.

1767
01:19:56,360 --> 01:20:00,479
Speaker 6: They're physical, They're tough right all across the off their

1768
01:20:00,520 --> 01:20:04,000
Speaker 6: defense especially, all of them are very tough, physical players

1769
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:06,720
Speaker 6: and it shows on tape right. Offensively, they do a

1770
01:20:06,760 --> 01:20:09,320
Speaker 6: really good job of running the ball, putting the quarterback

1771
01:20:09,360 --> 01:20:12,160
Speaker 6: in good spots. There's not a lot of dropback passes,

1772
01:20:12,160 --> 01:20:13,880
Speaker 6: but they do a good job of play action. That's

1773
01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:15,840
Speaker 6: what Golf has been really good at since he was

1774
01:20:15,840 --> 01:20:19,799
Speaker 6: with the Rams, the play action passing game. Good decision maker,

1775
01:20:20,840 --> 01:20:23,240
Speaker 6: not loose with the football, and it doesn't throw a

1776
01:20:23,240 --> 01:20:25,840
Speaker 6: ton of interceptions. He finds the open guys, and they

1777
01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:28,240
Speaker 6: do a really good job of just their run after catch.

1778
01:20:28,479 --> 01:20:31,519
Speaker 6: So it may be some short intermediate passes the way

1779
01:20:31,640 --> 01:20:35,880
Speaker 6: you know Saint Brown, all this Gibbs, how they turn

1780
01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:39,240
Speaker 6: a short check down or or short pass, how they

1781
01:20:39,280 --> 01:20:42,599
Speaker 6: turn that into explosives. It's been really really cool to see.

1782
01:20:42,600 --> 01:20:46,200
Speaker 6: And then they have Jamison Williams, who is you know,

1783
01:20:46,280 --> 01:20:49,400
Speaker 6: explosive deep play threat. So they have a lot of

1784
01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:54,400
Speaker 6: playmakers all across the field. Defensively, they play really good ball.

1785
01:20:54,439 --> 01:20:56,640
Speaker 6: You know, Aaron Glenn has done a great job with

1786
01:20:56,760 --> 01:20:59,200
Speaker 6: this unit. I mean they're a top ten and all

1787
01:20:59,240 --> 01:21:02,519
Speaker 6: of the most important category you talk about points, red zone,

1788
01:21:02,560 --> 01:21:06,280
Speaker 6: third down, they're top ten defense tackle, whell take the

1789
01:21:06,280 --> 01:21:10,320
Speaker 6: football away, Brian Branch, Kirby Joseph to really good safeties,

1790
01:21:10,439 --> 01:21:14,160
Speaker 6: young players who are impact players for their defense. So man,

1791
01:21:14,680 --> 01:21:17,160
Speaker 6: I love this matcho, Like, and I talked to our

1792
01:21:17,200 --> 01:21:21,000
Speaker 6: guys about earning it. You gotta go prove it each week, like, hey,

1793
01:21:21,040 --> 01:21:23,840
Speaker 6: this is it Sunday night. Our player is gonna be

1794
01:21:23,840 --> 01:21:27,960
Speaker 6: an outstanding environment. I see we're in all red battle,

1795
01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:31,680
Speaker 6: So I mean, what a cool environment with a you know,

1796
01:21:31,760 --> 01:21:34,360
Speaker 6: a team who's been you know, they think they've lost

1797
01:21:34,400 --> 01:21:37,960
Speaker 6: one game, so they're riding high. And so if we

1798
01:21:38,000 --> 01:21:41,120
Speaker 6: want to go out and show the people who we are, right,

1799
01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:43,840
Speaker 6: let's go do it this week. And Coach, they're just

1800
01:21:43,880 --> 01:21:47,080
Speaker 6: watching them on film. It even on an offense.

1801
01:21:47,120 --> 01:21:50,960
Speaker 2: It feels like their physicality is maybe the best part

1802
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:53,200
Speaker 2: of their overall team. And I mean I'm just talking

1803
01:21:53,200 --> 01:21:55,719
Speaker 2: to lines like I'm unroll go out there and blocking

1804
01:21:55,760 --> 01:21:58,080
Speaker 2: and knocking into the into the bleachers. It feels like

1805
01:21:58,720 --> 01:22:02,360
Speaker 2: to beat them, you got to match and exceed their physicality.

1806
01:22:02,439 --> 01:22:03,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, you have to.

1807
01:22:03,520 --> 01:22:06,000
Speaker 6: And that's what you know I've been standing on is

1808
01:22:06,040 --> 01:22:08,680
Speaker 6: we're going to be a physical football team. Well, the

1809
01:22:08,840 --> 01:22:11,559
Speaker 6: matchup this week is all about let's see how physical

1810
01:22:11,640 --> 01:22:14,839
Speaker 6: we are. Like you said, from their receivers, their tight ends,

1811
01:22:14,880 --> 01:22:16,599
Speaker 6: like of course, their offensive line.

1812
01:22:16,880 --> 01:22:19,080
Speaker 5: They'll add in an extra offensive.

1813
01:22:18,600 --> 01:22:21,120
Speaker 6: Lineman to run the football and then they'll go jumbo

1814
01:22:21,240 --> 01:22:23,840
Speaker 6: personnel in the middle of the field and they're daring

1815
01:22:23,880 --> 01:22:26,240
Speaker 6: you to stop the runs. I love that match up.

1816
01:22:26,560 --> 01:22:30,240
Speaker 6: You know a little bit of my former linebackers coming out,

1817
01:22:30,320 --> 01:22:32,920
Speaker 6: but I love this match up versus these guys, just

1818
01:22:32,920 --> 01:22:34,559
Speaker 6: to see where our guys stack up.

1819
01:22:34,760 --> 01:22:38,439
Speaker 4: It's your third primetime game this regular season, and you

1820
01:22:38,600 --> 01:22:41,280
Speaker 4: went through it at home already with the Bears Sunday night,

1821
01:22:41,360 --> 01:22:44,000
Speaker 4: prime time at NRG Stadium. How much does that help

1822
01:22:44,040 --> 01:22:46,760
Speaker 4: to have gone through that whole experience waiting around all day?

1823
01:22:46,800 --> 01:22:48,720
Speaker 4: We were talking to Katie said, yeah, waiting around all

1824
01:22:48,760 --> 01:22:50,320
Speaker 4: day is a thing, and I know you can probably

1825
01:22:50,360 --> 01:22:52,439
Speaker 4: relate as a player, So what about that part of it?

1826
01:22:52,600 --> 01:22:55,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, our guys have they've had They've done it what

1827
01:22:55,400 --> 01:22:58,040
Speaker 6: two times already? Right, we had a really good game

1828
01:22:58,120 --> 01:23:02,200
Speaker 6: versus the Bears this Thursday game that was that felt

1829
01:23:02,200 --> 01:23:04,640
Speaker 6: like forever I got spend on the East Coast, the

1830
01:23:04,800 --> 01:23:07,840
Speaker 6: extra hour, it felt like it was forever just waiting.

1831
01:23:07,920 --> 01:23:10,000
Speaker 6: But you know, our guys had been in this environment

1832
01:23:10,160 --> 01:23:11,360
Speaker 6: at home Sunday night.

1833
01:23:11,439 --> 01:23:12,439
Speaker 5: They know what it feels like.

1834
01:23:12,520 --> 01:23:16,320
Speaker 6: So the preparation, the schedule, it's all the same schedules,

1835
01:23:16,320 --> 01:23:18,040
Speaker 6: so they should be used to it by now. And

1836
01:23:18,439 --> 01:23:20,479
Speaker 6: you know, want to be a good team, you gotta

1837
01:23:20,479 --> 01:23:24,439
Speaker 6: get used to schedules being adjusted playing in those primetime spots.

1838
01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:27,000
Speaker 6: So I'm I'm happy excited that our team gets to

1839
01:23:27,160 --> 01:23:29,320
Speaker 6: get these moments in the prime time. Now we just

1840
01:23:29,360 --> 01:23:30,960
Speaker 6: have to go capitalize on them.

1841
01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:32,519
Speaker 1: Coach other night against the Jets.

1842
01:23:32,560 --> 01:23:35,040
Speaker 2: You got them into some third down situations and Deniko

1843
01:23:35,840 --> 01:23:38,160
Speaker 2: really kind of showed up and it really looked like, Okay,

1844
01:23:38,160 --> 01:23:40,400
Speaker 2: that's the Deniko we remember from seeing it with the

1845
01:23:40,400 --> 01:23:42,600
Speaker 2: Colts and the Titans, and it was really nice to

1846
01:23:42,640 --> 01:23:44,200
Speaker 2: see that. What do you kind of think is he

1847
01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:46,720
Speaker 2: kind of gets into the third or fourth game now

1848
01:23:46,720 --> 01:23:47,960
Speaker 2: he's kind of finding a little.

1849
01:23:47,800 --> 01:23:49,000
Speaker 1: Bit of a groove. What do you think of Denico

1850
01:23:49,040 --> 01:23:49,479
Speaker 1: the other night?

1851
01:23:49,560 --> 01:23:52,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, I thought it was really like you said, what

1852
01:23:52,040 --> 01:23:54,479
Speaker 6: we expected from him, and it was cool to see.

1853
01:23:54,479 --> 01:23:56,519
Speaker 6: I know, his first game back, as I mentioned earlier,

1854
01:23:56,560 --> 01:23:58,759
Speaker 6: he was trying to get his feet underneath him, getting

1855
01:23:58,800 --> 01:24:02,080
Speaker 6: used to it. But now, like you saw the presence

1856
01:24:02,120 --> 01:24:05,440
Speaker 6: that he has inside as a rusher, like his quickness

1857
01:24:05,479 --> 01:24:08,759
Speaker 6: and his power match with the power against inside players,

1858
01:24:08,800 --> 01:24:10,880
Speaker 6: whether there's a guard or a center, like he can

1859
01:24:10,920 --> 01:24:14,880
Speaker 6: dominate inside. And so we want to continue to live

1860
01:24:15,120 --> 01:24:17,559
Speaker 6: in that where we're putting him in those positions, try

1861
01:24:17,560 --> 01:24:19,719
Speaker 6: to get him some more one on one opportunities versus

1862
01:24:19,720 --> 01:24:22,400
Speaker 6: guards where I feel like he will win nine out

1863
01:24:22,400 --> 01:24:24,840
Speaker 6: of ten of those matchups and it's only going to

1864
01:24:24,920 --> 01:24:27,439
Speaker 6: get better, you know, moving forward with Denico. So very

1865
01:24:27,439 --> 01:24:28,639
Speaker 6: pleased with the game that he had.

1866
01:24:28,800 --> 01:24:31,320
Speaker 4: Well, we talked about the weekend off, but you have

1867
01:24:31,400 --> 01:24:34,519
Speaker 4: a day Monday before the mandatory day off Tuesday. So

1868
01:24:34,720 --> 01:24:37,479
Speaker 4: in this kind of context, coach, how do you handle

1869
01:24:37,600 --> 01:24:41,479
Speaker 4: the Monday of getting back into a normal game week routine.

1870
01:24:41,800 --> 01:24:44,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, this Monday all we call it a bonus Monday.

1871
01:24:44,439 --> 01:24:46,840
Speaker 6: You know, we get a bonus day to prepare. We

1872
01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:49,320
Speaker 6: get our guys just to we get a chance to

1873
01:24:49,360 --> 01:24:53,320
Speaker 6: just really dive deep dive and into a look into ourselves.

1874
01:24:53,400 --> 01:24:55,040
Speaker 5: Like, let's look and see.

1875
01:24:54,840 --> 01:24:58,519
Speaker 6: Where we can improve where you're fundamentals, techniques and those things.

1876
01:24:58,560 --> 01:25:01,160
Speaker 6: We don't have to worry truly focus on an opponent

1877
01:25:01,520 --> 01:25:04,040
Speaker 6: right today, So as we're watching film and those it's

1878
01:25:04,040 --> 01:25:07,680
Speaker 6: truly on, Like, let's just hit reset and let's go

1879
01:25:07,760 --> 01:25:12,280
Speaker 6: back to our day one training camp fundamentals execution, and

1880
01:25:12,600 --> 01:25:15,080
Speaker 6: that's it's a great moment at the season to go

1881
01:25:15,160 --> 01:25:18,160
Speaker 6: back and hit those. Sometimes you get lost right in

1882
01:25:18,240 --> 01:25:21,799
Speaker 6: the game planning and who you're playing against this player,

1883
01:25:21,880 --> 01:25:25,080
Speaker 6: this matchup, Like, no, let's just forget the matchups and

1884
01:25:25,160 --> 01:25:27,479
Speaker 6: let's just take a look at ourselves and see where

1885
01:25:27,479 --> 01:25:28,280
Speaker 6: can we get better.

1886
01:25:28,720 --> 01:25:30,519
Speaker 2: So it's not a full by week from that standpoint,

1887
01:25:30,600 --> 01:25:33,439
Speaker 2: you got a couple of days. Is that enough time

1888
01:25:33,479 --> 01:25:35,160
Speaker 2: to get kind of a self scout done or do

1889
01:25:35,200 --> 01:25:38,639
Speaker 2: you kind of just kind of quickie self scout over

1890
01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:40,120
Speaker 2: the last couple of days, coach kind of how do

1891
01:25:40,200 --> 01:25:42,200
Speaker 2: you I don't want to say, how do you talk

1892
01:25:42,240 --> 01:25:44,920
Speaker 2: about getting you know, getting improved? But do you do

1893
01:25:44,920 --> 01:25:46,280
Speaker 2: a little bit of a self scout as you go

1894
01:25:46,320 --> 01:25:48,080
Speaker 2: through the last couple of days of like, okay, these

1895
01:25:48,080 --> 01:25:49,519
Speaker 2: are things we did it because it's red at the

1896
01:25:49,520 --> 01:25:51,439
Speaker 2: halfway mark. Hey, here's the things we did in the

1897
01:25:51,439 --> 01:25:52,800
Speaker 2: first half. These are the things we got to do

1898
01:25:52,840 --> 01:25:54,040
Speaker 2: better in the second half of For.

1899
01:25:53,960 --> 01:25:57,200
Speaker 6: Sure, it's definitely a self scout and I'm I'm always

1900
01:25:57,200 --> 01:26:00,120
Speaker 6: about self scouting out there every four oas just to

1901
01:26:00,160 --> 01:26:02,080
Speaker 6: get a quick snapshot. But this time you're able to

1902
01:26:02,120 --> 01:26:05,600
Speaker 6: really just you know, take a breather and digest information

1903
01:26:05,720 --> 01:26:08,720
Speaker 6: and see, okay, you know with our tendencies where we've

1904
01:26:08,720 --> 01:26:11,400
Speaker 6: been heavy, like where can we change things up a

1905
01:26:11,439 --> 01:26:14,040
Speaker 6: little bit and where can we just lean into like

1906
01:26:14,120 --> 01:26:17,439
Speaker 6: putting our players in the best position possible for them

1907
01:26:17,760 --> 01:26:21,280
Speaker 6: to succeed. After a snapshot of eight you know, well

1908
01:26:21,400 --> 01:26:24,439
Speaker 6: nine weeks, you get to see, okay, this player is really,

1909
01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:27,760
Speaker 6: you know, excelled in this area, not so well in

1910
01:26:27,760 --> 01:26:30,680
Speaker 6: this area, so we can lean more this way. So

1911
01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:34,320
Speaker 6: it's a lot of that self reflection and really looking

1912
01:26:34,320 --> 01:26:36,559
Speaker 6: into who we really are. And as I talked through

1913
01:26:36,600 --> 01:26:39,879
Speaker 6: it with our coaches, it's like each season is different,

1914
01:26:39,960 --> 01:26:43,120
Speaker 6: each team is different, and you kind of your team kind.

1915
01:26:42,960 --> 01:26:44,960
Speaker 5: Of shapes itself throughout the season and you.

1916
01:26:44,960 --> 01:26:48,360
Speaker 6: Kind of see, Okay, this is our twenty four identity.

1917
01:26:48,520 --> 01:26:50,439
Speaker 6: This is what we kind of need to do to

1918
01:26:50,560 --> 01:26:51,960
Speaker 6: win games moving forward.

1919
01:26:52,040 --> 01:26:54,400
Speaker 4: All Right, So this is a self serving question for me.

1920
01:26:54,400 --> 01:26:57,519
Speaker 4: Meeting with the broadcasters before the game. We've mentioned this before,

1921
01:26:57,600 --> 01:27:00,000
Speaker 4: but now you've been through the full gauntlet of all

1922
01:27:00,040 --> 01:27:02,360
Speaker 4: all the prime time cruise. Right, you had al Michaels

1923
01:27:02,400 --> 01:27:05,400
Speaker 4: and Kirk herb Street last week, You've had Tarico and Collinsworth,

1924
01:27:05,479 --> 01:27:09,200
Speaker 4: you had Bucking Akman last year, right, we had Nansen Romo.

1925
01:27:09,439 --> 01:27:12,439
Speaker 1: Right, So what is that like meeting with those guys?

1926
01:27:12,479 --> 01:27:14,280
Speaker 1: For you? What can you tell the listeners about that?

1927
01:27:14,800 --> 01:27:18,600
Speaker 6: Those are those are always fun. It's for me is

1928
01:27:18,880 --> 01:27:20,479
Speaker 6: you get to see these guys who you hear all

1929
01:27:20,520 --> 01:27:24,120
Speaker 6: the all the time on on on the broadcast, but

1930
01:27:24,200 --> 01:27:26,880
Speaker 6: it's always cool. They just want to know more about

1931
01:27:27,080 --> 01:27:29,480
Speaker 6: you want to take a deeper dive into the players

1932
01:27:29,560 --> 01:27:31,800
Speaker 6: and the impact players, and they want to know a

1933
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:34,080
Speaker 6: little bit more about the guys so they can tell

1934
01:27:34,120 --> 01:27:36,880
Speaker 6: the story as they're on TV. So a lot of

1935
01:27:37,280 --> 01:27:39,760
Speaker 6: a lot of questions on the guys that think. It

1936
01:27:39,840 --> 01:27:43,679
Speaker 6: depends on the crew. Some cruise are they're really dow

1937
01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:46,679
Speaker 6: they and then they know like their roster really well.

1938
01:27:46,760 --> 01:27:49,400
Speaker 6: And some has asked me to give a one liner

1939
01:27:49,439 --> 01:27:51,320
Speaker 6: on all my guys. I'm like, wait a minute, can

1940
01:27:51,800 --> 01:27:53,519
Speaker 6: get you guys?

1941
01:27:54,320 --> 01:27:55,000
Speaker 1: All your guys?

1942
01:27:55,640 --> 01:27:58,160
Speaker 6: And that was an outlier for sure, but for the

1943
01:27:58,200 --> 01:28:00,639
Speaker 6: most part, they're pretty in acquiring.

1944
01:28:02,160 --> 01:28:02,840
Speaker 5: I can't tell you.

1945
01:28:03,160 --> 01:28:06,200
Speaker 2: Okay, we'll keep that one quiet. How about your TV

1946
01:28:06,640 --> 01:28:10,240
Speaker 2: preseason crew? They're pretty good my preseason TV?

1947
01:28:11,439 --> 01:28:14,600
Speaker 5: Yeah? Them every week we.

1948
01:28:14,760 --> 01:28:17,479
Speaker 1: Love Yeah, that'd be that would definitely be awesome for sure,

1949
01:28:17,800 --> 01:28:21,000
Speaker 1: very good stuff. Uh when do you put in the

1950
01:28:21,040 --> 01:28:21,639
Speaker 1: game plan?

1951
01:28:21,880 --> 01:28:24,240
Speaker 4: When does that happen during a given week and is

1952
01:28:24,280 --> 01:28:25,439
Speaker 4: it different this week?

1953
01:28:25,640 --> 01:28:25,840
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1954
01:28:25,920 --> 01:28:28,040
Speaker 6: When we put into the we put the game plan

1955
01:28:28,160 --> 01:28:30,280
Speaker 6: in on Wednesday with our players and that's more of

1956
01:28:30,320 --> 01:28:33,120
Speaker 6: our first and second down game plan. So as coaches,

1957
01:28:33,160 --> 01:28:36,360
Speaker 6: we'll go through it Monday, Tuesday and kind of hash

1958
01:28:36,400 --> 01:28:39,200
Speaker 6: out like, Okay, this is kind of this would be

1959
01:28:39,280 --> 01:28:41,559
Speaker 6: our core of what we're doing first and second down,

1960
01:28:41,640 --> 01:28:45,519
Speaker 6: and then we spend Wednesday evening really diving into third down,

1961
01:28:45,600 --> 01:28:48,439
Speaker 6: and that's where come back Thursday morning and we'll implement

1962
01:28:48,520 --> 01:28:52,360
Speaker 6: our third down, goal line, short yardage, all right, presentation

1963
01:28:52,439 --> 01:28:55,240
Speaker 6: to our players and our game plan. And then Friday

1964
01:28:55,320 --> 01:28:58,479
Speaker 6: is big red zone day and that's how spread a

1965
01:28:58,520 --> 01:29:02,280
Speaker 6: red zone. And then also got also two minutes goes

1966
01:29:02,280 --> 01:29:04,840
Speaker 6: in on Wednesday as well. So it's a lot to

1967
01:29:04,920 --> 01:29:08,000
Speaker 6: crunch in a lot of different areas of the game,

1968
01:29:08,120 --> 01:29:11,320
Speaker 6: but you can make sure you hit, especially the situations.

1969
01:29:11,520 --> 01:29:14,440
Speaker 6: You want to make sure you really dialed into those situations.

1970
01:29:14,439 --> 01:29:16,360
Speaker 6: As I continue to look at it throughout the week,

1971
01:29:16,680 --> 01:29:19,000
Speaker 6: I may have some thoughts that change. So I may

1972
01:29:19,040 --> 01:29:22,760
Speaker 6: come in on Saturday morning with hey, guys, I know

1973
01:29:23,120 --> 01:29:25,720
Speaker 6: we were thinking this way, but as I continue to

1974
01:29:25,760 --> 01:29:28,559
Speaker 6: watch it, like I really want to flip the script

1975
01:29:28,600 --> 01:29:29,960
Speaker 6: and go a different, different route.

1976
01:29:30,000 --> 01:29:31,760
Speaker 4: So do you ever call something during a game that

1977
01:29:31,880 --> 01:29:34,320
Speaker 4: you might not have planned on for that particular week,

1978
01:29:34,360 --> 01:29:36,400
Speaker 4: but it's gonna work right here in the context of

1979
01:29:36,400 --> 01:29:37,000
Speaker 4: that game, And.

1980
01:29:37,040 --> 01:29:38,000
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, all the time.

1981
01:29:38,920 --> 01:29:40,800
Speaker 6: That's what I try to make sure our guys are

1982
01:29:41,360 --> 01:29:45,960
Speaker 6: just have a really good understanding of everything we're doing philosophically,

1983
01:29:46,040 --> 01:29:49,320
Speaker 6: like coverage wise, pressure wise, and to make sure I

1984
01:29:49,360 --> 01:29:51,640
Speaker 6: always have I always tell the coach I always have

1985
01:29:51,680 --> 01:29:53,960
Speaker 6: a few things in my back pocket that we have

1986
01:29:54,040 --> 01:29:56,599
Speaker 6: a game plan, but make sure they can always run

1987
01:29:56,600 --> 01:29:57,439
Speaker 6: these Well, that's what I.

1988
01:29:57,479 --> 01:29:59,759
Speaker 2: Was gonna You went right exactly where I was going.

1989
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:03,240
Speaker 2: That is, if you see something during the week and

1990
01:30:03,320 --> 01:30:06,599
Speaker 2: you want to make a change, kind of you're going

1991
01:30:06,640 --> 01:30:08,280
Speaker 2: to make the change. There's no doubt obviously if you

1992
01:30:08,280 --> 01:30:09,800
Speaker 2: see it during the week. But if it's something on

1993
01:30:09,840 --> 01:30:13,920
Speaker 2: Saturday Sunday and you haven't worked on something potentially practice,

1994
01:30:13,920 --> 01:30:16,040
Speaker 2: maybe it's something you did in week two, Yes, but

1995
01:30:16,320 --> 01:30:18,280
Speaker 2: now in week ten or whatever it is, Man, we

1996
01:30:18,320 --> 01:30:20,840
Speaker 2: haven't worked on it a while. Do you have any

1997
01:30:20,840 --> 01:30:23,160
Speaker 2: hesitation about bringing it back and using it even if

1998
01:30:23,200 --> 01:30:24,720
Speaker 2: you haven't worked on it during the practice week?

1999
01:30:24,760 --> 01:30:25,439
Speaker 1: Coach, Yeah, No.

2000
01:30:26,160 --> 01:30:29,000
Speaker 6: The things that I that I'll pull back out is

2001
01:30:29,040 --> 01:30:31,599
Speaker 6: things that we've already worked on before, so it wouldn't

2002
01:30:31,640 --> 01:30:33,160
Speaker 6: be foreign too our guys.

2003
01:30:33,200 --> 01:30:35,760
Speaker 5: And so when when I have man, we have such

2004
01:30:35,800 --> 01:30:38,600
Speaker 5: smart players with Jayalen E.

2005
01:30:38,840 --> 01:30:42,760
Speaker 6: Murray, like Stingley, it's so many smart guys were able

2006
01:30:42,800 --> 01:30:44,840
Speaker 6: to adjust on the fly, and that's what allows me

2007
01:30:45,360 --> 01:30:47,719
Speaker 6: to be able to do those things and throw something

2008
01:30:47,760 --> 01:30:49,479
Speaker 6: at the guys that we haven't ran in a while,

2009
01:30:49,880 --> 01:30:52,040
Speaker 6: just because of how sharp the guys are with any

2010
01:30:52,120 --> 01:30:53,320
Speaker 6: adjustments that I throw at them.

2011
01:30:53,479 --> 01:30:56,200
Speaker 4: Hey, you were asking the press conference about injured players

2012
01:30:56,240 --> 01:30:59,240
Speaker 4: and guys who might replace whoever and who needs to

2013
01:30:59,280 --> 01:31:01,800
Speaker 4: step up? How hard is it for guys to step

2014
01:31:01,880 --> 01:31:04,120
Speaker 4: up during the course of a season in practice?

2015
01:31:04,120 --> 01:31:04,400
Speaker 1: Coach?

2016
01:31:04,439 --> 01:31:06,400
Speaker 4: How hard is it for them to impress the coaches

2017
01:31:06,439 --> 01:31:09,360
Speaker 4: when you're not having these training camp type practices now

2018
01:31:09,360 --> 01:31:11,160
Speaker 4: where it's just full on every single day.

2019
01:31:11,320 --> 01:31:12,559
Speaker 1: So what about that part of it?

2020
01:31:12,640 --> 01:31:16,240
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's very hard to do physically in practice, right.

2021
01:31:16,680 --> 01:31:19,160
Speaker 6: I think the main part of stepping up is when

2022
01:31:19,760 --> 01:31:22,760
Speaker 6: your coaches and everybody around you trust you mentally with

2023
01:31:22,880 --> 01:31:25,000
Speaker 6: the preparation. And that's where we are at this point

2024
01:31:25,000 --> 01:31:27,639
Speaker 6: in the season. It's more the mental prep and guys

2025
01:31:27,640 --> 01:31:30,439
Speaker 6: you trust that can go in and do things the

2026
01:31:30,560 --> 01:31:33,759
Speaker 6: proper way, and that's where I think guys can step

2027
01:31:33,840 --> 01:31:36,439
Speaker 6: up in that manner. Is not going to be a

2028
01:31:36,640 --> 01:31:40,599
Speaker 6: physical like, Oh, I've seen him, you know, have such

2029
01:31:40,640 --> 01:31:43,360
Speaker 6: great reps this week. Physically, it's hard to do right,

2030
01:31:43,439 --> 01:31:47,360
Speaker 6: especially when there are not many competitive reps throughout the season,

2031
01:31:47,479 --> 01:31:49,360
Speaker 6: just because we've got to make sure we're taking care

2032
01:31:49,400 --> 01:31:51,120
Speaker 6: of ourselves so we're healthy on Sunday.

2033
01:31:51,200 --> 01:31:53,880
Speaker 2: Because we've been around you enough to know that you

2034
01:31:53,960 --> 01:31:55,840
Speaker 2: care for everybody that comes in this building that puts

2035
01:31:55,880 --> 01:31:59,240
Speaker 2: on a logo. And it's not like the cutdown day,

2036
01:31:59,240 --> 01:32:01,840
Speaker 2: but trade deadline can be one of those days where

2037
01:32:01,880 --> 01:32:04,679
Speaker 2: maybe somebody's coming in that might take a job of somebody,

2038
01:32:04,800 --> 01:32:06,720
Speaker 2: or somebody's going out, whatever the case might be.

2039
01:32:07,640 --> 01:32:09,719
Speaker 1: For a coach, is it a little.

2040
01:32:09,520 --> 01:32:11,439
Speaker 2: Tougher kind of going through that situation and kind of

2041
01:32:11,439 --> 01:32:13,280
Speaker 2: explain to players, like, you know.

2042
01:32:13,240 --> 01:32:14,800
Speaker 1: If they come to you, hey, why are we doing this?

2043
01:32:14,920 --> 01:32:15,559
Speaker 1: What's going on?

2044
01:32:15,800 --> 01:32:17,120
Speaker 2: Is it kind of a tough week kind of the

2045
01:32:17,160 --> 01:32:18,800
Speaker 2: business of football going on as you head up to

2046
01:32:18,840 --> 01:32:19,519
Speaker 2: the trade deadline?

2047
01:32:19,680 --> 01:32:23,240
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean anytime we have those transactions with players,

2048
01:32:23,360 --> 01:32:26,080
Speaker 6: and in my seat in the past two years, as

2049
01:32:26,120 --> 01:32:31,880
Speaker 6: I've done it, like most most players generally understand and

2050
01:32:31,920 --> 01:32:34,439
Speaker 6: that makes that's That's one thing I was always kind

2051
01:32:34,439 --> 01:32:37,040
Speaker 6: of apprehensive about having it. It was always a hard

2052
01:32:37,080 --> 01:32:39,280
Speaker 6: thing of telling a player no or telling the player

2053
01:32:39,600 --> 01:32:42,519
Speaker 6: we're moving in a different direction. But what's helped me

2054
01:32:42,680 --> 01:32:45,880
Speaker 6: is just, man, how the players have handled it, like

2055
01:32:45,960 --> 01:32:49,760
Speaker 6: they've helped me deliver the news and in a different way,

2056
01:32:49,960 --> 01:32:53,040
Speaker 6: just because I see how how easy it is to

2057
01:32:53,080 --> 01:32:56,200
Speaker 6: communicate that because I'm I'm just trustworth. I mean, I

2058
01:32:56,240 --> 01:32:58,559
Speaker 6: tell the guys the truth, you know, and I try

2059
01:32:58,600 --> 01:33:02,000
Speaker 6: not to sugarcoat or tell them something that it.

2060
01:33:02,080 --> 01:33:02,760
Speaker 5: Can come back.

2061
01:33:02,800 --> 01:33:05,479
Speaker 6: And hey, coach, well you said, It's like, no, I'm

2062
01:33:05,520 --> 01:33:07,720
Speaker 6: a man of my word, and what we say we

2063
01:33:08,120 --> 01:33:10,960
Speaker 6: stick by. And is really really great to have Nick

2064
01:33:11,040 --> 01:33:13,160
Speaker 6: who is the same way, like we're gonna tell it

2065
01:33:13,240 --> 01:33:16,760
Speaker 6: straight and so players understand exactly where our position is.

2066
01:33:17,040 --> 01:33:17,320
Speaker 1: All right.

2067
01:33:17,360 --> 01:33:20,400
Speaker 4: The MG bank asked coach question of the week, and Coach,

2068
01:33:20,439 --> 01:33:22,160
Speaker 4: I know you make a lot of tough decisions. You

2069
01:33:22,200 --> 01:33:24,160
Speaker 4: get asked a lot of tough questions. This is gonna

2070
01:33:24,160 --> 01:33:26,800
Speaker 4: be one of them. When is the proper time to

2071
01:33:26,840 --> 01:33:31,040
Speaker 4: start playing Christmas music? Because once Halloween ended November one,

2072
01:33:31,240 --> 01:33:32,040
Speaker 4: I'm hearing it.

2073
01:33:32,120 --> 01:33:33,280
Speaker 3: And is it too early?

2074
01:33:34,160 --> 01:33:35,479
Speaker 1: When is the right time?

2075
01:33:35,600 --> 01:33:39,000
Speaker 5: It's a little too early right now. I think after Thanksgiving.

2076
01:33:40,040 --> 01:33:43,280
Speaker 6: Thanksgiving for me fair after Thanksgiving, then now it's time

2077
01:33:43,320 --> 01:33:45,160
Speaker 6: to start a little little Christmas music.

2078
01:33:45,800 --> 01:33:46,720
Speaker 1: Good. I'm good with that.

2079
01:33:46,800 --> 01:33:49,880
Speaker 2: My wife watched five Hallmark movies Christmas Hallmark movies on

2080
01:33:49,960 --> 01:33:52,960
Speaker 2: Saturday already. I have my college games on my computer

2081
01:33:53,280 --> 01:33:55,600
Speaker 2: and she was watching hall All Christmas.

2082
01:33:55,280 --> 01:33:58,960
Speaker 1: Movies eighty five degrees. Yeah, twenty four to seven through.

2083
01:33:58,800 --> 01:34:03,080
Speaker 4: Sixty five Christmas movies are out of best coach, thanks

2084
01:34:03,080 --> 01:34:04,800
Speaker 4: a lot, good luck, Thank you guys.

2085
01:34:04,720 --> 01:34:06,760
Speaker 2: Love it, Love that man, Love the fact that he

2086
01:34:06,840 --> 01:34:08,599
Speaker 2: is the head coach for your football team.

2087
01:34:08,680 --> 01:34:12,360
Speaker 3: Demiko Ryan's and a big thanks to him. To Mark,

2088
01:34:12,880 --> 01:34:17,040
Speaker 3: to Deniko Autry, to Drew Doherty, to Jonathan Alexander, to

2089
01:34:17,280 --> 01:34:20,519
Speaker 3: all of you for listening Big one on Sunday night,

2090
01:34:20,600 --> 01:34:24,200
Speaker 3: game roof open weather permitting, and we're gonna have a

2091
01:34:24,200 --> 01:34:24,719
Speaker 3: great time.

2092
01:34:25,439 --> 01:34:28,200
Speaker 2: Hopefully it'll end like the first four that have taken

2093
01:34:28,240 --> 01:34:29,680
Speaker 2: place at Energy Stadium.

2094
01:34:29,880 --> 01:34:30,920
Speaker 3: Texas aren't underdog.

2095
01:34:31,000 --> 01:34:33,439
Speaker 2: They were a underdog against Buffalo, beat them twenty three

2096
01:34:33,800 --> 01:34:37,040
Speaker 2: to twenty, had a twenty twenty three lead at one point.

2097
01:34:37,760 --> 01:34:39,720
Speaker 2: Hopefully we'll get a twenty three lead, but then put

2098
01:34:39,760 --> 01:34:42,280
Speaker 2: the hammer down and show everybody across the country with

2099
01:34:42,400 --> 01:34:45,800
Speaker 2: this team can really do and hopefully they're able to

2100
01:34:45,800 --> 01:34:48,240
Speaker 2: do that on Sunday Night against the best team in

2101
01:34:48,280 --> 01:34:49,839
Speaker 2: the league, the Detroit Lions.

2102
01:34:49,880 --> 01:34:51,880
Speaker 3: Can't wait. We'll see you on everybody, and as always,

2103
01:34:51,920 --> 01:34:52,960
Speaker 3: go Texans.