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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, Let's get right to it with the Dimico

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Speaker 1: This is the Demiko Ryans Podcast, presented by AMAG Bank,

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Speaker 1: the official business bank of the Houston Texans. Following the

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Speaker 1: win over Jacksonville and in advance of what week as

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Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Stealers come to town Sunday, October one, noon

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Speaker 1: kick Legends Homecoming presented by Ford. Let's get to it

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Speaker 1: with the head coach joining us now in the Hunday

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio studio. It's head coach Tamiko Ryans coach. Congratulations

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Speaker 1: win number one in the books.

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Speaker 2: Yes, thank you guys, Thank you. Feels great to finally

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Speaker 2: get that first win.

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Speaker 3: Relief, joy, euphoria, nervousness, anxiety, which emotion probably hit the most?

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Speaker 4: This is joyful joyful.

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Speaker 2: Uh just can't say enough how proud I am with

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Speaker 2: the guys for just the style and the brand the

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Speaker 2: football that they play. That's what I'm I'm most proud of.

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Speaker 2: They played physical brand of football and that's what I

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Speaker 2: want us to That's who I want us to be right,

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Speaker 2: and that's how I envision our team looking and to

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Speaker 2: see it come to fruishing there versus the Jaguars, it was.

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Speaker 4: It was fun to watch.

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Speaker 1: All three phases helped each other, right, because you had

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Speaker 1: the start you didn't want on offense and they drove

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Speaker 1: it a bit but missed the field goal. You get

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Speaker 1: running from there.

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Speaker 2: Right, And that's that's the that's the other part of

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Speaker 2: It's complementary football, right, all three phases. When the offense

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Speaker 2: play offense, having the defense back, special teams coming together

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Speaker 2: making game changing plays with the block field goal by

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Speaker 2: will Right, the return for a touchdown by Beck, the

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Speaker 2: heaviest player in the NFL.

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Speaker 4: To return a new record, new record, new record for him.

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Speaker 2: But it was fun to see those guys and how

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Speaker 2: seeing the way guys were fired up for each other.

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Speaker 4: It's fun to see, Coach.

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Speaker 5: That was really cool.

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Speaker 3: The moment Drew's actually got a great shot because he

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Speaker 3: The reaction from the sideline is incredible. I mean the

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Speaker 5: I imagine that's the energy that you're looking for.

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Speaker 3: We talked about a little bit, but did you sense

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Speaker 3: that at that point, like, Oh, I don't think they.

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Speaker 5: Can beat us. Now, look at the energy we got

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely felt the energy.

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Speaker 2: Even I got a clip of you on the sideline

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Speaker 4: So it was but it's, uh, yeah, that's that's what

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Speaker 2: I knew from our pregame warm ups right, the energy

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Speaker 2: Guys were hyped, they were pumped up for that game.

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Speaker 2: So I could tell instantly from the pregame warmups that

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Speaker 1: I want to dive into this game more. But since

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Speaker 1: we're on that topic, you knew what you were looking

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Speaker 1: at here with the Jaguars going into this one, and

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Speaker 4: It's the same approach.

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Speaker 2: It's the same approach because there are a lot of

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Speaker 2: So it's that same intent, that same mindset. Yeah we

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Speaker 4: Right, you had.

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Speaker 2: Everybody loves that feeling right on Monday after a win,

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Speaker 2: It's the same work you put in last week, being

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Speaker 3: I like in football, games a lot of times to

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Speaker 3: you followed it up with the Damian Pierce touchdown. How

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Speaker 3: important was were those two plays to really kind of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, those are two, i mean, really huge plays for

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Speaker 2: Is this something we talked about on Wednesday as a team,

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Speaker 2: have to capitalize on it and to see CJ and

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Speaker 2: Tank connect and make that shot play happen. And it

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Speaker 2: He was running very physical all day, running behind his

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Speaker 2: That's that's physical football and that's what we want to be.

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Speaker 1: And Devin ran it well too, So coach, I know

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Speaker 1: you're not running it as well as you want to eventually,

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Speaker 1: but you got better. You got a little bit better

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Speaker 5: What about that aspect of every.

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Speaker 4: Right, and that's it, Mark.

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Speaker 2: We just want to see improvements, right, and I think

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Speaker 2: we took a step right when it comes to running

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Speaker 2: the football, we definitely took a step. We got better

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Speaker 2: and I think as a team, for me, it's just

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Speaker 4: I think when you talk about.

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Speaker 2: Improvements, you know no guy that improved more than CJ.

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Speaker 2: You talk about facing facing the pressure and the blitzes,

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Speaker 2: right to see him come back this week versus pressure him,

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Speaker 2: versus the touchdown to Brevin, they're running zero a zero

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Speaker 2: hit Brevin and he ends on for a touchdown. Couple

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Speaker 3: Watch cause some of the little things always kind of

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Speaker 3: Just okay, it's not my day now, I'm done your

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Speaker 3: three guys yesterday. And pass protection, we're really good at

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Speaker 3: that gets you up thirty four to seventeen. What kind

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Speaker 3: of lesson is that that, Hey, you're not getting the

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Speaker 3: there are other things you can do to help this team.

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Speaker 2: Right, everybody, everybody matters on every play and every fine

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Speaker 2: detail matters.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 2: If we don't protect, we can't get the ball out

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Speaker 2: and our backs they stepped up. They protected well. Boom

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Speaker 2: did a great job, as you say right there, stepping

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Speaker 2: out the protection. We dropped some protections last week, right,

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Speaker 2: dialed in and knowing that if I just do my

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Speaker 2: job on this play, right, and you watch that play again,

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Speaker 2: there's nobody celebrating hard on that play than Mike Boom

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Speaker 2: because he knows that his block was the block that

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Speaker 2: allows CJ to make that throw.

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Speaker 1: To take coach, You've been around a lot of quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: a lot of young quarterbacks and rookie quarterbacks, and here's

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Speaker 1: we seeing here? Because it gets better every week, like

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Speaker 2: Man, we're seeing We're seeing a young player, right who

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Speaker 2: is dedicated to the process of getting better, Like nobody

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Speaker 2: prepares better than like he studies more than anybody all

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Speaker 2: about improving and getting better at I mean, I haven't

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Speaker 2: and just talk about week one to week three. He's

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Speaker 2: He's gonna be playing really good football for us. He

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Speaker 3: Coach, when you're a defensive coordinator in San Francisco and

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Speaker 3: you're on the headset and the coach com me talking

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Speaker 3: to Fred Warner. He's been around den Jael Perriman the

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Speaker 3: first few games. This week, it's a rookie, Henry Toatoa.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you've been around h since.

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Speaker 5: Otia's but it's a rookie in his third game in

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Speaker 3: How does you feel like the communication was defensively with

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought he did an excellent job for his

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Speaker 2: first time out, like handling the communication, getting guys lined

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Speaker 2: was really cool to see, right, he took he took

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Speaker 2: You know, he spoke with command and the huddle guys

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Speaker 2: young rookie stepping in handling communication. And I probably talked

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Speaker 2: to probably dollar back a little bit, giving him too

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Speaker 2: he's probably like, was just set up for a second,

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Speaker 2: but it was.

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Speaker 4: But he handled it really well for his first time out.

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Speaker 1: How about Blake Cashman getting in there. And I don't

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Speaker 1: think anyone who saw him a training camp is surprised,

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Speaker 1: right that he was making plays in a game, because

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Speaker 1: in training camp he was making a lot of plays

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, he did. Training camp.

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Speaker 2: It was almost like every day is he's making a

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Speaker 3: Coach with in that same van, Khlil Davis gets to

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Speaker 2: Had a good game for us, I mean, first time

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Speaker 1: I know you've been asked a lot about the Andrew

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Speaker 2: Then he goes down to score and everybody's just running

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Speaker 2: But man Beg made a big time play for us.

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Speaker 3: Coach how along those lines with special teams Will's block,

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Speaker 2: I mean pivotal point in the game, right, big swing

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Speaker 2: And that's what it showed Will rushing the DLON, always

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Speaker 4: And now the one they missed anyway, Yeah, they missed.

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Speaker 2: I guess he tricked him on there you go, tricked

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Speaker 5: We made up for this.

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Speaker 1: But as a football player, that's another opportunity to make

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Speaker 1: special teams. Here's the number three pick of the draft

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 2: It shows the unselfish mindset of Will. Sound like he

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Speaker 2: If Coach Ross ask him to go out, he's gonna

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Speaker 2: relentlessly rushing, getting his hands up blocking a kick right there,

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Speaker 3: Coach, there was so much noise in the offseason about

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Speaker 5: Nico has the game against the coach with one. Yes,

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Speaker 3: What have you seen from your receiver group? And it

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Speaker 4: Yeah, those guys have been very consistent.

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Speaker 2: I mean you from the start of OTAs Dude training camp,

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Speaker 2: He knows that if he puts it out there, those

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Speaker 1: And each one of the top three is fifteen catches each.

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Speaker 1: That's interesting, highly notable after three games, Coach, It's Legend's

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Speaker 1: Homecoming presented by Ford. This weekend, JJ is going into

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a special week. I mean, credit to JJ

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Speaker 4: The Ring of honor here.

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Speaker 2: It'll be exciting week getting all the legends back in

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Speaker 2: and this, uh you kind of he some you know

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Speaker 3: And it's kind of like when you were you were

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Speaker 5: You know, the Packers. You get to bring a football

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Speaker 4: It's kind of nice.

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Speaker 3: it's gonna be a physical battle against a team like that.

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Speaker 3: we have to account for the offense. I mean it's

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Speaker 4: All Right.

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Speaker 1: I saw you talking with coach Tomlin at the owners meetings, right,

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Speaker 2: Coach Tomlin, guy I've always respected and just I remember

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Speaker 3: Coach coming back here to Energy Stadium kind of a

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Speaker 3: weird Anomi, we're talking about this who there's last six

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: make sure we're playing football the right way when we're

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Speaker 2: at home, playing with the right energy. And it hasn't

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Speaker 2: been that way. So that's on us to turn that

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Speaker 2: around and give our fans something to cheer for.

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Speaker 1: Well, you said you put the money in the bank

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

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Speaker 5: Sir, cash out coach. I love that.

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Speaker 4: I mean that yours. That's really good.

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Speaker 1: That that's T shirt material the very least, if not

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Speaker 1: book material.

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Speaker 4: I don't know. I just man, you gotta work right.

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Speaker 4: You can't short change the work.

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Speaker 2: And that's one thing that been trying to teach, you know,

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Speaker 2: teach these guys, teach our team, like what does winning

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Speaker 2: practice look like? We can't win games until you put

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Speaker 2: the work in and practice in. It takes a while

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Speaker 2: to learn that process. It's hard. I get, yeah, it's

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Speaker 2: gonna be hard, but nothing worth having. I mean, you

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Speaker 2: have to work for if if it's worth having, right,

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Speaker 2: you gotta work for. You gotta put the work in.

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Speaker 2: And we want wins, right, we want wins every single week.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna get wins by putting an effort out on

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Speaker 2: Wednesday through Friday.

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Speaker 1: All right, coach, the AMG Bank asked coach question of

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Speaker 1: the week. And with the Steelers in town, this is

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Speaker 1: a traditional NFL franchise, and people go back to the

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Speaker 1: seventies and all the big games they played and the

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Speaker 1: team that used to be in this town. They played

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Speaker 1: two AFC Championship games against them. What are some of

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Speaker 1: your earliest pro football memories as a little kid and

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Speaker 1: what intrigued you about the pro game as you were

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Speaker 1: growing up in Alabama.

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Speaker 2: Wow, oh, that's a good one, you know, being in Alabama, right,

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Speaker 2: it's all college football.

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Speaker 4: You're in Alabama, Alurn growing up.

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Speaker 2: So for me, it's like it wasn't much pro football

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Speaker 2: for me growing up.

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Speaker 4: It was Alabama football on Saturdays.

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Speaker 2: If you called an NFL game, Yeah, okay, well one

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Speaker 2: you know when it started to click for me, it

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Speaker 2: was of course it was Dion Sanders.

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Speaker 4: Yep, right, it was prime time.

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Speaker 2: And just how because I grew up playing baseball, so

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Speaker 2: to see, like it really stuffed for me when prime

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Speaker 2: he played in the baseball game and then he went

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Speaker 2: played in the football He played in a football game

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Speaker 2: right earlier that day, and then when the finished played

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Speaker 2: in a baseball game the same day and Bo Jackson

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Speaker 2: being a baseball football player, Like.

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Speaker 4: That's what it kind of clicked for me.

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Speaker 2: So I started watching the Falcons with Prime, and then

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Speaker 2: later my high school days, I started watching the Bucks,

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Speaker 2: so I grew fun. So I ended up being a

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Speaker 2: Bucks fan there for a while. Tony Duneye and that crew.

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Speaker 5: Derrick Brooks, Yes, sir, yes.

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Speaker 4: To watch there, Yes, sir.

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Speaker 5: Coach likes a lot of good luck this week.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, guys,