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Speaker 1: What's happened? Everybody? Welcome to a Wednesday edition of Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access from the Texans Radio Studio. I am your host,

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Speaker 1: John Harris, Football on a sideline reporter for your Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: So glad to be with you. Man, do we have

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Speaker 1: a jam packed show for you this evening. Mark will

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Speaker 1: joined me here in just a little bit. We got

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Speaker 1: plenty to do with Mark. We've also got Wayne Laravie

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Speaker 1: who's also gonna be on one of my favorite voices ever.

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Speaker 1: He used to join me on my overnight show a long,

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Speaker 1: long time ago and he was so gracious with his time.

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Speaker 1: I love getting the opportunity to talk to Wayne Larvie.

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Speaker 1: He will join us as men behind the mics. We

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Speaker 1: do that every single Wednesday. Mark sits down with the

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Speaker 1: play by play voice of the other side. It's always

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Speaker 1: great stuff. So Wayne Larvy will join us. We have

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Speaker 1: a little in the lab. We're also gonna have Jake Hanson,

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Speaker 1: linebacker for your Houston Texans, stopping by as well. But

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Speaker 1: each and every Wednesday, the executive vice president jar manager

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Speaker 1: of your Houston Texans, Casario sits in the chair next

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Speaker 1: to me and we chat about football, about Halloween, about snacks,

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Speaker 1: about food, all kinds of stuff. We had a lot

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Speaker 1: to talk about this week. Yes, he was on with

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Speaker 1: Sean and Seth this morning. They did a great job,

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Speaker 1: but we do a little different interview with him, so

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Speaker 1: hopefully enjoy Nick Casario with me and Mark for our

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Speaker 1: weekly exclusive one on one.

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Speaker 2: Joining us now at studio is executive vice president and

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Speaker 2: general manager Nick Cassario.

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Speaker 3: Nick, great to see you, It's good to be here.

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Speaker 3: Good to see it. Congratulations on the win.

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Speaker 2: I know we have to talk about green Bay, but

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Speaker 2: let's review Neil England got the job done in a big,

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Speaker 2: big way, biggest win of the year really.

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Speaker 4: Score wise, Yeah, for the most part, played well, got

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Speaker 4: off to a good start to possessions to score. So

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Speaker 4: one of the things we want to do is try

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Speaker 4: to get off to a good start, so offensiving and

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Speaker 4: defensively so we're able to capitalize there. A little bit

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Speaker 4: of a loll there in a second quarter, probably an

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Speaker 4: execute as well as we needed to in the third quarter,

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Speaker 4: kind of swung the game there with the turnovers, but

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Speaker 4: you know, taking the ball away something that we hadn't

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Speaker 4: done for a little bit. But the takeaways were a

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Speaker 4: big part of the game, and we were able to

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Speaker 4: convert those takeaways into points. So we're able to play

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Speaker 4: complimentary football against a good, young football team that made

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Speaker 4: some plays. So in the end, you know, made enough

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Speaker 4: plays and did enough good things and we're able to

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Speaker 1: Nikki did a few things that you like, you said

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Speaker 1: that you haven't done.

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Speaker 3: You got the four turnovers.

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Speaker 1: You haven't been getting the turnovers but still winning games,

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Speaker 1: but hanging got the turnovers. Explosive run game fifty nine

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Speaker 1: yard or fifty four yard or twenty yard Joe Mixon run,

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Speaker 1: and then you score forty first time they've been done

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Speaker 1: since day after Christmas twenty twenty one. I know, those

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Speaker 1: aren't goals. You go in and you say, okay, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna do these things. But how good was it to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting.

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Speaker 4: Takeaways sometimes come in bunches, so you might have a

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Speaker 4: lull there where you don't have any. But it's something

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Speaker 4: that we it's a huge emphasis point for the team,

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Speaker 4: something that we talk about each week each Thursday. Try

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Speaker 4: which i'd say when we get to Green Bay, like

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Speaker 4: two runs, I mean it's really three runs were fairly

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Speaker 4: well blocked. There's a little bit of space that backs

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Speaker 4: it was well blocked, and then DP showed good balance

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Speaker 4: So anytime you can create explosive plays, whether throwing or running,

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Speaker 4: So it's good for you know, it's good opportunity, you know,

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Speaker 2: Just over a third of the season played and the

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Speaker 2: depth already really tested here.

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Speaker 3: Nick.

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Speaker 2: What's interesting to me is how you don't have Nico,

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Speaker 4: No, it's interesting point mark each week, it's probably gonna

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Speaker 4: You try to create as much depth as possible, both

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Speaker 4: gonna need everybody. We had a situation where we're able

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Speaker 4: then defensively without Kamari Dila went out there and played

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Speaker 4: who started his career on the practice squad, made an

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Speaker 4: So it just speaks to the players and the coaches

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Speaker 4: point we're going to need everybody to make a contribution.

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Speaker 4: It's a long season and you're going to need everybody

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Speaker 1: Speaking of Nick, tough news this week losing Mario Edwards

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Speaker 1: a Nico Autry back rather not trade, rather than both.

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Speaker 1: But how do you think that interior defensive line kind

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it kind of goes back to the last question

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Speaker 4: So Denko, coming back to Mario situation, I mean, it's

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Speaker 4: really and it's more of a league matter. There's really

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Speaker 4: not much we can do about it. I mean I

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Speaker 4: with de Nico, we'll see how he is this week.

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Speaker 4: You know, Kurt has been practicing there a little bit.

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Speaker 3: What does winning on the road do for the team there?

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Speaker 2: You are in a hostile environment and you have the

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Speaker 2: and they get the job done in the way they did.

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Speaker 3: Ye Every environment's different.

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Speaker 4: I think anytime you play in the road, you need

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Speaker 4: a certain amount of mental and physical toughness because it's

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Speaker 4: it's a challenge. So you're going into a hostile environment.

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Speaker 4: You know, good crowd. I mean, we'll talk about Green Bay.

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Speaker 4: It's one of the best environments for football that there's

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Speaker 4: here are the things that we need to do in

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Speaker 4: And then if you have those components, and then good

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Speaker 4: execution always trumps everything else. So if you can execute

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Speaker 4: never easy to do so, but it's credited to players

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Speaker 4: So it's nice to come out with a victory on

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Speaker 2: And you know, I like to talk about this stuff,

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Speaker 2: the support staff and the setup you guys create on

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Speaker 3: Really, it's awesome.

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Speaker 4: You're talking about selfless people that put the coaches and

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Speaker 4: the players at the forefront and try to recreate as

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Speaker 4: But you're trying to simulate as best as possible what

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Speaker 4: it's like to be home in an environment that is

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Speaker 3: So we're fortunate to have those people in those roles.

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Speaker 1: Nick, you know, I'm fascinated by the college scouting process,

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Speaker 1: and I thought about that on Sunday after we talked

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Speaker 1: to Demico about Will Anderson junior, because I think back

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Speaker 1: to Will when he's in college and he's so physically dominant,

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Speaker 1: think about what he could do, Like, Okay, as you're

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Speaker 1: these things. But now you're starting to see some of

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Speaker 1: What have you sort of seen from Will, not only

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Speaker 4: It's an interesting thought because the reality is any player

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Speaker 3: So they're starting from scratch.

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Speaker 4: So you always start with the person his mindset, his

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Speaker 4: does he have the willingness to improve and take the

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Speaker 4: So Will has been the same person who we thought

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Speaker 4: he was going to be coming out Alabama. That's what

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Speaker 4: he showed at Alabama. So you've seen a lot of carryover.

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Speaker 4: There's certain techniques that are different than what he was

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Speaker 4: doing in Alabama's defense. So for the ability of the

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Speaker 4: to the coaches. But we thought Will was a good

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Speaker 4: player coming out out of Alabama. He's been a good

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Speaker 4: which is what you want to see in any player.

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Speaker 2: Can I put the spotlight on one more guy here,

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Speaker 2: nevill Hewitt, who I call a special team superhero, but

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Speaker 2: sometimes people forget he had to come into the game

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Speaker 2: and play some meaningful snaps Nick and once upon a

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Speaker 2: time he led the Jets and tackles.

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Speaker 3: He can do that role.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're fortunate to have players like Nevill Hewitt on

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Speaker 1: I know that because you just don't have history with

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Speaker 4: certain rules and parameters. You can include veterans and some

437
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Speaker 4: exception players, so it's just an opportunity for more players

438
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Speaker 4: to be available, and each team kind of sets up

439
00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:04,240
Speaker 4: the practice squad a little bit differently, so there's always benefits.

440
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Speaker 4: So I think we've always taken the approach. Whatever the

441
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Speaker 4: rules are, we'll try to maximize them to the best

442
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Speaker 4: of our ability, make sure we understand them and put

443
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Speaker 4: ourselves in the best position possible to do the things

444
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Speaker 4: that we think make the most sense.

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Speaker 3: For the Eastern Texans.

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Speaker 1: There's a great game in the NFL. They're great places

447
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Speaker 1: to go, but Lambo is at the top. How cool

448
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Speaker 1: is it? I know, I mean for me it's a

449
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Speaker 1: little bit of going back where I was a kid.

450
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Speaker 1: But for you Nick, what's it like when you go

451
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Speaker 1: to Lambeau? How historic that stadium is, all the great

452
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Speaker 1: things that have happened in NFL history. I know you

453
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Speaker 1: got to gear up to play a game, but how

454
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Speaker 1: cool is it to actually play that game? And how

455
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Speaker 1: cool is it that it's not in December where it's

456
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Speaker 1: two degrees, it's going to be fifty degrees.

457
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Speaker 4: It's interesting if you're fortunate to have an opportunity to

458
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Speaker 4: essentially play in every stadium in the NFL. Every environment

459
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Speaker 4: is a little bit different. They all kind of have

460
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Speaker 4: their own spin, but there's just so much history and

461
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Speaker 4: just the atmosphere and you walk in there, the way

462
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Speaker 4: it's set up, it's just kind of a massive bowl.

463
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Speaker 4: We speaking of December we had I didn't played there.

464
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Speaker 4: It was twenty fourteen. We played a regular season game there,

465
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Speaker 4: know when they had Aaron, they had Brady. That went

466
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Speaker 4: back and forth. It was like twenty four to twenty one.

467
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Speaker 4: Kind of came down to the end of the game.

468
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Speaker 4: We were actually we played Green Bay and we were flying

469
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Speaker 4: from green Bay out to Los Angeles because we were

470
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Speaker 4: playing the Chargers, so we were kind of can be

471
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Speaker 4: going for two weeks.

472
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Speaker 3: But so much history.

473
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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know how many players are in

474
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Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame from the Green Bay Packers, but

475
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Speaker 4: it's a significant amount. So you have an appreciation for

476
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Speaker 4: they have an appreciation for a good football and you're

477
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Speaker 4: going to an environment like if you like football, you

478
00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,320
Speaker 4: like being a part of a good environment like Sunday

479
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Speaker 4: is going to be a really good place to be,

480
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Speaker 4: all right.

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Speaker 3: Thoughts on Vince Lombardi.

482
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Speaker 2: The trophy is named after him, and we have so

483
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Speaker 2: many coaches in the history of the game. We talked

484
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Speaker 2: about Paul Brown previously. How did Lombardi, in your opinion, innovate.

485
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Speaker 2: Is that his thing or was it just that he

486
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Speaker 2: was an excellent coach and won those championships in title

487
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Speaker 2: Town as they call.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, all the above.

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Speaker 4: When you look at the success that coach Lombardi had

490
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Speaker 4: over the course of his career, he left his imprint

491
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Speaker 4: on the league and for him to be recognized with

492
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Speaker 4: the Super Bowl Trophy being named after him, and it

493
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Speaker 4: speaks to excellence and it's what all we're aspiring, all

494
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Speaker 4: we're shooting for. So Paul Brown, I mean you talk

495
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Speaker 4: about in Don Coriel when you go back in the

496
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Speaker 4: history of the game, like they can't of lay the

497
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Speaker 4: groundwork for all of us. And you know, it's a

498
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Speaker 4: credit to the Packers organization for giving them the opportunity.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're big on history.

500
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Speaker 4: When you go back and actually look at the history

501
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Speaker 4: of the green Bay Packers, how they acquire their name,

502
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Speaker 4: the green Bay Packing Company, and everything that goes into it.

503
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's very unique. There's not too many, I

504
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Speaker 4: would say teams like it. So the fact that coach

505
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Speaker 4: Lombardi has his name on the trophy, I mean that

506
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Speaker 4: says it all right there.

507
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Speaker 1: I took Mark to the Packers Hall of Fame Yeah,

508
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Speaker 1: it's awesome. It's pretty cool. I mean, it's not the

509
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Speaker 1: NFL Hall of Fame but the Professional Football Hall of Fame.

510
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Speaker 3: But it's cool to just go through there. And I

511
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Speaker 3: went through there as a kid.

512
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Speaker 1: Now I can appreciate a little bit more looking at

513
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Speaker 1: all the different memorabilia, and they have Lombardi's office set up,

514
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Speaker 1: and it's just it's mind blowing in some sense to

515
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Speaker 1: think about, Like, that's really kind of where it all started,

516
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Speaker 1: was right there.

517
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Speaker 4: If you're into the history of football, to be on

518
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Speaker 4: the hallow grounds of lambeau Field in that environment, it

519
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Speaker 4: doesn't get much better.

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Speaker 2: All right, this week's most difficult question, Nick, We're going

521
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Speaker 2: to put you in a situation.

522
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Speaker 3: Here because wait for this one.

523
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Speaker 1: Green Bay is known for brots, right, this is their tailgates, right,

524
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Speaker 1: Brotts and beer.

525
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Speaker 3: You have to choose.

526
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Speaker 2: You have to choose one of the following Green Bay Broughts,

527
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Speaker 2: New England clam chowder, Baltimore crab cakes or Texas Barbecue.

528
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Speaker 3: You have to have one of these as a tailgate food. Well,

529
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Speaker 3: I probably have no choice but to select Texas Barbecue.

530
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Speaker 3: There we go, So let's take that out that out.

531
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Speaker 4: Actually, I'm a crab cake guy, So I like, okaycakes

532
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Speaker 4: anytime we have them in the in the cafe, Like,

533
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Speaker 4: I'll grab a crab cake. So if we take the

534
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Speaker 4: barbecue out, which that's obviously at the top of the list,

535
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Speaker 4: and then we draw a line, crab cakes probably would

536
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Speaker 4: be next.

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Speaker 3: And healthy ones. So is chowder up on the list?

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Speaker 3: I mean you were there for a while guy, not

539
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Speaker 3: a chowder guy. Oh, cars for a great breakfast at

540
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Speaker 3: ten o'clock in the morning like the other day. That's great, Nick,

541
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Speaker 3: thanks a lot of good luck. Thanks fellas.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I will admit the chowder at Jela Stadium was

543
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Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic. Fantastic. Also fantastic a trip to Lambeau Mark

544
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Speaker 1: and I discuss all of that next ride here on

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Speaker 1: Texas All Access. Welcome back to Wednesday edition of Texans

546
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Speaker 1: All Access. From now that Texans Radio studio, Mark Van

547
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Speaker 1: muer stays with me, your host John Harris playing on

548
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Speaker 1: a sideline reporter.

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Speaker 3: Mark, you're just overall thought about going to Green Bay.

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Speaker 1: We talk about an off season a lot whenever Green

551
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Speaker 1: Bay is on the schedule. You know, sometimes we've had

552
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Speaker 1: preseason games up there. I think we had preseason games

553
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Speaker 1: in nineteen and twenty one.

554
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Speaker 3: That was it, Johnny, that was it. I'd love to

555
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Speaker 3: do it every year.

556
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Speaker 1: Can I would go every year, Trust me, I'd be

557
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Speaker 1: all for it. I have a little family reunion on Saturday.

558
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna miss our dinner, which I always hate, but

559
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Speaker 1: I know my family has been. My family has been

560
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Speaker 1: has been planning this for a while. So my mom,

561
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Speaker 1: God bless her. I'd love her to death. She is

562
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Speaker 1: the just sweetest person. She has probably texted me once

563
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Speaker 1: a month since the schedule was announced.

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Speaker 3: Oh really, what do we do? What are we gonna do?

565
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Speaker 1: What's your plan? What you're playing? They live an hour

566
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Speaker 1: north of Green Bay. Yeah, a little about forty five

567
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Speaker 1: minutes hour north of green Bow.

568
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Speaker 3: You get a little chili.

569
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Speaker 1: Up there, just a little bit. But we should have

570
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Speaker 1: some good weather. We should have some good weather. So yeah,

571
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Speaker 1: it's it's not quite Canada, but it is up there. Man,

572
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Speaker 1: It's very close. Like Cargo that's gonna be. It's on

573
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Speaker 1: the border the Upper Peninsula.

574
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Speaker 3: Their a statue of Paul Bunyan. Outside of that town.

575
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Speaker 1: There might be somewhere, Okay, there might be somewhere, but Marrionett,

576
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin Way Way way up there. But looking forward to that,

577
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Speaker 1: that's going to be that's gonna be a blast. But

578
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Speaker 1: your thoughts about just going to Lambo for a regular

579
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Speaker 1: season game first time since twenty sixteen.

580
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Speaker 2: The best place to go in the league, that's what

581
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Speaker 2: it is. Yeah, let's be honest. This is the best

582
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Speaker 2: stadium to go to. It's the most historic Soldier Field

583
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Speaker 2: should be.

584
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Speaker 3: But it's not this.

585
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Speaker 2: You know, the Packers, the Bears, the Cardinals, these are

586
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Speaker 2: the oldest teams in the league. Now, the Cardinals, you

587
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Speaker 2: might think, what the Cardinals, Well, they weren't in Phoenix

588
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Speaker 2: at that point, right, they weren't in Saint Louis at

589
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Speaker 2: that point. They used to be the Chicago card And

590
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Speaker 2: it was the Decatur Staley's who became the Bears, and

591
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Speaker 2: the Green Bay Packers were the Green Bay Packers. And

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Speaker 2: that's why the Packer Hall of Fame is as important

593
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Speaker 2: to see as the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In

594
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Speaker 2: my opinion, I've seen them both. I really believe the

595
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Speaker 2: Packer Hall of Fame there's just something about it, and

596
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Speaker 2: you know, it's different. They play actual NFL football there

597
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Speaker 2: in Green Bay as opposed to Canton, where, yeah, you

598
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Speaker 2: have the Hall of Fame game. You have all the

599
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Speaker 2: Hall of Famers, which is great. I'm not taking anything

600
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Speaker 2: away from Canton. I'm just putting a lot into green Bay.

601
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Speaker 2: So the history of it amazing and the way they've

602
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Speaker 2: added to that stadium, built onto it. We had a

603
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Speaker 2: luncheon there in twenty nineteen when we were there for

604
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Speaker 2: the year practice days. Big luncheon at Lambeau kind of

605
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,960
Speaker 2: reminded you of Kyle Field in this way. You know,

606
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Speaker 2: they have those beautiful, beautiful facility attached to Kyle Field

607
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Speaker 2: with all the club levels, and they have so many

608
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Speaker 2: offseason events there. Kind of reminded me of that. Is

609
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Speaker 2: It's great. It's less a collegiate type of environment. I've

610
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Speaker 2: said this before. You feel more like high school in

611
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Speaker 2: a way. You're in a neighborhood. You don't see this

612
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Speaker 2: much in college right now. In college you're on a campus,

613
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Speaker 2: but at Green Bay you're in a neighborhood and all

614
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Speaker 2: of a sudden, boo, there's the NFL stadium and the

615
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Speaker 2: entire facility. So it's cool. I can't wait. Now as

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Speaker 2: far as the game on the field, this is a monster.

617
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Speaker 2: What Jordan Love and his merry band of past catchers

618
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Speaker 2: can do is dangerous. You gotta be ready for this one.

619
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Speaker 2: It is going to take everything they've got on defense

620
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Speaker 2: to stay close.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.

622
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Speaker 1: So these two quarterbacks, it's interesting because they both take

623
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Speaker 1: over as starters at the same time. But Jordan's been

624
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Speaker 1: around for a little bit. So I went to Big

625
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: twelve Media Days tell a story. Went the Big twelve

626
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Speaker 1: Media Days back this summer and really at a great time, met.

627
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Speaker 3: And talked to a lot of different people.

628
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Speaker 1: So I had just finished up kind of an interview

629
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Speaker 1: with Yogi Roth, who does games for the Big ten

630
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Speaker 1: Network now. Because he used to cover Pack twelve network

631
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Speaker 1: to a lot on the West Coast, they asked him

632
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Speaker 1: the games for the Big ten Network. He's really really good.

633
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Speaker 1: So in a great we had a great conversation. He

634
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Speaker 1: had just had Jrot Johnson on his new podcast because.

635
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Speaker 3: They knew each other from the Lead eleven days.

636
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Speaker 1: And so I've talked with Yogi and then this guy

637
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Speaker 1: walks over and I didn't quite know who he was.

638
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Speaker 3: He introduced himself. He said his name is Mike Sandford,

639
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Speaker 3: and I was.

640
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Speaker 1: Like, oh, and his dad, Mike Sandford, was the offensive

641
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Speaker 1: coordinator at the University of Florida when when Urban first

642
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 1: merber Meyer first got there from Utah. So this is

643
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Speaker 1: Mike Sandford's son, and so Mike Sandford Junior had gotten

644
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Speaker 1: into coaching and all that kind of stuff. And so

645
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Speaker 1: Yogi introduces me to him. You know, hey, he's with

646
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Speaker 1: the Texans, and he said, oh, yeah, CJ. Stroud and

647
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Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, of course, everything goes to c J.

648
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Speaker 1: Johnny goes, yeah, story for you.

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Speaker 3: So okay.

650
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Speaker 1: So he's at Utah State at the time, and he

651
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Speaker 1: is the I think he's the quarterbacks coach or recruiting coordinator,

652
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Speaker 1: but I think he's quarterbacks coach. And so Gary Anderson,

653
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Speaker 1: who had been the coach at Utah State, came back

654
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 1: to Utah State and it was the coach there at

655
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 1: Utah State for a while, walks in his office and

656
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: he throws him like three or four videotapes and he says, hey,

657
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 1: fuy me the next Jordan Love, because Jordan Love had

658
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 1: been at Utah State and it had done a really

659
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,120
Speaker 1: good job there.

660
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:19,679
Speaker 3: Became first round picking twenty twenty.

661
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: So throws him the tape at some point and says, hey,

662
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 1: find me the next Jordan Love. So Sandford is like man,

663
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:30,600
Speaker 1: I am scouring these tapes. I can't find anything.

664
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 3: He said.

665
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 1: Then I pick up this Rancho Kucamonga tape and I

666
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 1: throw it on and I see this kind of tall,

667
00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 1: skinny kid and I watched him throw and I'm like, yo,

668
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: that is the next Jordan Love.

669
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 3: And that was CJ. Stroud.

670
00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: So at that point, Mike started making calls, started to

671
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 1: get kind of on the on the radar of CJ Stroud.

672
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,160
Speaker 3: And he said, this was the spring, early summer.

673
00:27:56,119 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 1: Of twenty twenty nineteen, twenty nineteen, and it was shortly thereafter,

674
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: So like a Sandford's making calls, talking to both CJ

675
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 1: and his mom, kind of making that relationship that you

676
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 1: wouldn't recruiting. CJ gets the invite to Elie eleven. Oh,

677
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: and that's where he met He meets Gerrod. Yeah, he

678
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:20,120
Speaker 1: wins the MVP and Mike said, yeah, recruiting was pretty

679
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,159
Speaker 1: much over at that point, he said, he said, you.

680
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 3: To State was gonna lose out. The world had learned

681
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 3: about CJ. Stroud.

682
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: So when I see that these two are are going

683
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: head to head on Sunday, I thought about that story

684
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: with Mike and how things just changed really for CJ

685
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: with that Elite eleven week and dominating it and then

686
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: ends up in Ohio State. That turns into being a

687
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,000
Speaker 1: number two overall pick. He becomes our guy. And now

688
00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,600
Speaker 1: you got these two. And since the start of twenty

689
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 1: twenty three, CJ averages the most passing yards in a game.

690
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 1: Jordan Love has the most passing touchdowns in that time.

691
00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 1: So you're talking about two of the best young guns

692
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: in this league. And that I mean, yes, we want

693
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 1: the Texans to win, no doubt, we want Jordan Love

694
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: to not have a great game, But how coo will

695
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 1: that be to go up there and just see those

696
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: two just go at it and just have one of

697
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: those games where you're like, yo, look at these two guys.

698
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 3: They're playing at the top level.

699
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: I just think that would be really cool as long

700
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: as CJ comes out on top.

701
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 2: I told Wayne Larvie, who will be on the show later,

702
00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:25,280
Speaker 2: I said, this is going to be like Lynn Dickey

703
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 2: versus Ken Anderson.

704
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 3: You know you're gonna get one of those.

705
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna get one of those games where it

706
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 2: could be in the thirties. We'll see, we'll see if

707
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 2: it goes into the thirties. But I think this is

708
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 2: this could be a high scoring game for sure. I

709
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 2: think their defense is good, but they can be had

710
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 2: and they've had some moments of laps in Green Bay

711
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 2: this year, and I think you have to obviously be

712
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 2: in a situation where you're not coming back on them.

713
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 2: You got down to scores. You know, if you have

714
00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 2: to play tennis and hold hold your serve, so be it.

715
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:01,479
Speaker 3: Do it.

716
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 2: But I don't want one of these situations where we

717
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 2: have to be on the comeback trail the entire game.

718
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 3: Get off to a good start.

719
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 2: Maybe put the onus on them, you know, step on

720
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 2: their throats a little bit early, and forced them to

721
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,640
Speaker 2: have to throw because he will give up the I int.

722
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's one thing that he's done.

723
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:22,640
Speaker 1: That's probably a little surprising that j doesn't, yeah, consistently

724
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 1: consistently because Love's been interesting in that way. Mark because

725
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: early in his career, and I say early in his career,

726
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: it's hard because he got into the league in twenty twenty,

727
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: didn't play any in twenty twenty, play a little bit

728
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one when Rogers got hurt, and then

729
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,520
Speaker 1: took over a little bit in twenty twenty two, but

730
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: love has kind of this moment last year. You can

731
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 1: almost just you can see it in his in his

732
00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: numbers from last year. He in his first those first

733
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,000
Speaker 1: couple of games were pretty good as a starter. He

734
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: had six touchdowns in those two. They beat Chicago, then

735
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,440
Speaker 1: they lost Atlanta. But then he ran it to a

736
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:02,000
Speaker 1: stretch where he threw an interception for one, two, three, four, five,

737
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: five games in a row. One game he had two,

738
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: one game he had three in a loss to Las Vegas.

739
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 1: Then he went interceptionless and they won. But then he

740
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 1: played Pittsburgh he had two more. So it's really about

741
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: it's week ten. It's literally midway in the season. In

742
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: all outdher of the ball, two tuties, three tutties, three tutties,

743
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: one tuddy, one interception, two tutties, two tutties, three tutties

744
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: two he doesn't He throws one interception for the next

745
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 1: eight games.

746
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 2: It was not looking good early, right, like you said, right,

747
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 2: and you were starting to wonder, well, I was, is

748
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 2: this gonna happen for him or not? Because you know

749
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 2: I doubted him anyway, But then clearly removed doubt. And

750
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,479
Speaker 2: this is why guys need to play right, And this

751
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 2: is why. You know, if you're a Titans fan, and

752
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 2: clearly I am not one, you understand it in a way.

753
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:54,760
Speaker 2: If you really think Levis is it the man as man,

754
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,320
Speaker 2: He's got to play football in order to get better.

755
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 2: You cannot get any better by not playing, but you

756
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 2: might not get better by playing. So that's the risk

757
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 2: you take by playing these young quarterbacks. Like, all right,

758
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 2: I guess this is it. We got to take our

759
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 2: shot with this guy. Give them the time to improve,

760
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 2: because there's no way to I mean, there are things

761
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 2: you can do, but there's no way to really see it.

762
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 2: And some guys need a number of games to really

763
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 2: feel their way, and that's clearly the case with Jordan Love.

764
00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: What I find fascinating though, is he has that stretch

765
00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: where he has one interception in those eight games. Then

766
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: he goes a playoff game against Dallas and they just

767
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 1: roast Dallas. But now you look at him, think Dallas

768
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:35,920
Speaker 1: has got roasted the last four or five games. Quote

769
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: somebody used to work with who doesn't, Yeah, exactly roast Dallas?

770
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 3: Ye doesn't.

771
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,560
Speaker 2: It seems like that happens a lot. Look, they're good, though,

772
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 2: Green Bay's good. We got to give them there too.

773
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 3: No, no, I'm not.

774
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that, but it's they beat Dallas. But

775
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: then he throws two interceptions against the Niners. And he

776
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 1: has started four times this year with an interception in

777
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: each game, three of them in the loss to Minnesota.

778
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: So in his last five games, counting that forty nine

779
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: Ers playoff game, you're talking about four seven eight interceptions

780
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: in five games.

781
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 3: To your point, he will.

782
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: Now, the interception against the Cardinals is kind of unfortunate

783
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: because he's throwing a little snagger out, a little short,

784
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: you know, kind of inner hitch route, and his receiver

785
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: slipped and it was funny because Kevin Couger's on Coogler's

786
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: on a call and he's like, oh yeah, you can

787
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:27,080
Speaker 1: clearly see him slip.

788
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 2: It then falls in the hands of the dB. Are

789
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 2: you saying every interception as a story. That's kind of

790
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 2: where I'm going with it. But here's the other thing too.

791
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 2: He's only been above fifty nine percent once this year

792
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 2: in completion percentage.

793
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 3: That's eye opening, that's odd.

794
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: So like against the Rams fifty eight percent, against the

795
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: Vikings fifty nine percent, and last week he was only

796
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: fifty percent.

797
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,720
Speaker 2: What's the Mendoza line. And by the way, in baseball,

798
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 2: the Mendoza line is hitting two hundred.

799
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,600
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I'm not going to get into the whole.

800
00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 2: Story and why it's called the Mendoza line, But what's

801
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 2: the Mendoza liign for completion percentage in NFL football for

802
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 2: starting quarterbacks, the Mendoza ligne. It can't be sixties. Sixty

803
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 2: is more like batting two fifty. Yeah, right, it's probably

804
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 2: gonna be at least well two fifty. There are a

805
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 2: lot of guys who bat under two fifty are still

806
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:17,919
Speaker 2: pretty good hitters, yeah, because they're hitting with.

807
00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 3: Power, right, they might be getting on base in other ways.

808
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 3: That's kind of what he is.

809
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:26,280
Speaker 1: He's this year his so he's fifty, he's overall fifty

810
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:31,839
Speaker 1: eight point nine percent. But yet his TD percentage is

811
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: the largest in the league. He's thrown twelve tds thus

812
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: far this year. So, I mean, look, I'll be the

813
00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 1: last one to sit there and tell you Jordan Love

814
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:42,280
Speaker 1: is struggling. No, no, that's not.

815
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,799
Speaker 3: He's not struggling, but he does have vulnerabilities. That's right.

816
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 2: You're gonna give us some big plays to Jordan Love.

817
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 2: I don't care who you are. It's gonna happen. We

818
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 2: just have to brace ourselves and hope that it's minimized. Yep,

819
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 2: the big play surrender is minimized, and somehow somewhat will

820
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 2: and then you'll just got to get after it and

821
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 2: force him to make some mistakes, get him off his

822
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 2: launching point. We talk about this every week with quarterbacks,

823
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,959
Speaker 2: and it happened with Drake May. Now you got Jordan

824
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 2: Love who's seasoned, seasoned enough anyway, and is making a

825
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:12,120
Speaker 2: lot of plays.

826
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 3: Now.

827
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: One of the things that Love will do is he

828
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: will throw off his back foot, fading away, trying to

829
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 1: throw one down the field like he's got that club

830
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: in his bag.

831
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 3: It will happen. You have to capitalize on that.

832
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: Where against the Cardinals he does that and he throws

833
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:27,120
Speaker 1: a touchdown.

834
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 3: So it's like when a.

835
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:32,359
Speaker 1: Guy kind of his mechanics go to hell and all

836
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 1: of a sudden things are bad. He's fading away from

837
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 1: the d line. You've got to make him pay for

838
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 1: making a decision like that and doing things like that.

839
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 1: And that's where it's gonna get tough. That's where it's

840
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 1: tough because he can make tho he can make those throws,

841
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: but what I also like about what Matt Lafleur is

842
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:52,359
Speaker 1: doing for him. I think Matt does a really nice

843
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: job of getting your worst cover guys in a position

844
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: where they're covering maybe not the best guy they have,

845
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:04,359
Speaker 1: but a really capable guy.

846
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 3: So last week a great example of that.

847
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,439
Speaker 1: It's it's seven to nothing, they get a drive going,

848
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: they get it down in the low red zone, and

849
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,359
Speaker 1: they run Jayden Reid. And if you're trying there's been

850
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 1: some talk about Jayden Reid thus far this week, just

851
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 1: easily think Tank Dell. If you think about what Tank

852
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 1: Dell is, then you kind of get the point. I

853
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,240
Speaker 1: don't think Jaden's as explosive, but it's pretty dark close

854
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: and the way he's used is pretty similar. So Reid

855
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: is running a crossing route and the Cardinals are playing zone,

856
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 1: and the Packers know that they're gonna bump the zone,

857
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: so at some point as Reid's crossing, they're gonna get

858
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: a linebacker on Reid.

859
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 3: Well, Jordan just lets all that clear out there.

860
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 1: He is linebacker Chris Barnes, a former Packer who they

861
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,240
Speaker 1: know well is not gonna run with Jade Reid.

862
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 3: Reid runs by him. Jordan Dotson.

863
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:55,720
Speaker 1: I mean, Barnes was actually in good coverage hits red touchdown.

864
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:56,760
Speaker 3: It's fourteen to nothing.

865
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: But it's just the way that Matt's scheme that play

866
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: up to make sure we're gonna get read on their linebacker,

867
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 1: and that I think helps Jordan too, that he gets

868
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:10,200
Speaker 1: some advantageous situations and then takes advantage of him the

869
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:12,799
Speaker 1: other touchdown, the deep onto Christian Watson gets.

870
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 3: He gets Christian Watson on safety.

871
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: Buddha Baker, and we know that Buddha is not the

872
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:18,839
Speaker 1: best cover guy in the world.

873
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:20,240
Speaker 3: Buddha wants to play by the box.

874
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: He wants to make all those plays, tackle plays, those

875
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 1: are all the things that Buddh wants to do.

876
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 3: But they get Christian Watson on Buddha Baker, not one

877
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 3: on one.

878
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: Should have had a little bit of help with the

879
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:32,919
Speaker 1: other safety, but still took advantage of it. Love throws

880
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,960
Speaker 1: it up there. Watson's got Baker beat touchdown. Now it's

881
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 1: twenty four to I think it was twenty four to

882
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:41,760
Speaker 1: nothing at that point, and now it's pretty much Cardinal's

883
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 1: chasing the rest of the game.

884
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:44,359
Speaker 3: Packers just have to keep them at bay.

885
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:48,959
Speaker 1: So Matt Lafluor is giving Jordan Love some opportunities as well.

886
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:50,840
Speaker 1: And we know how good coach Mattlaflour is.

887
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 2: Do you think that these receivers before the Jets acquired Davante,

888
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 2: these receivers are better than the Jets group over, even

889
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:02,760
Speaker 2: though the Jets of Garrett Wilson.

890
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:06,240
Speaker 1: The Yeah, these receivers probably scare me the most because

891
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 1: of how they all fit together. Okay, because now with

892
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:15,359
Speaker 1: and then there's Craft as well, So I think it's

893
00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: hard to be as good as Garrett Wilson. But I

894
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 1: think the other guys with the Jets now before DeVante,

895
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:23,240
Speaker 1: the other guys of the Jets.

896
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 3: Are just old packers. There's old packers and they're okay.

897
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:32,240
Speaker 1: But Jayden Reid, Christian Watson, Romeo Dubbs, and Tucker Kraft,

898
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: every single one of those guys can beat you deep.

899
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 1: Every single one of those guys can hurt you and

900
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,439
Speaker 1: catch and run situations. Every single one of those guys

901
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,879
Speaker 1: can be intermediate threats making catches on third down like.

902
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 3: They all they all can do that.

903
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, the running backs are really

904
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: good receivers out of the backfield too, So you have

905
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: all of that that you have to account for. I

906
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 1: think that group is younger and more dangerous in that way.

907
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,839
Speaker 1: You put Garrett Wilson the Packers, forget it, I mean

908
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: game over, Holy callck?

909
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 3: How do you stop them?

910
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: So?

911
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 3: And I think you're gonna have your hands full of

912
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 3: stopping them.

913
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 1: But I would absolutely say Mark that that group was

914
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:13,240
Speaker 1: better and is better before Devonte got to the Jets.

915
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: Now you put Devontae Vigaret Wilson, Like, that's kind of hard,

916
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 1: That's kind of hard to contend. How do you think

917
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 1: that's gonna work. I think Jets are good this year.

918
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 1: I mean they're two and four. I just don't think

919
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: the defense is playing at that particular level. I don't

920
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,840
Speaker 1: with Rogers. You know, with the Packers, you know, he

921
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 1: could move around that pocket a little bit.

922
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:33,839
Speaker 3: Yeah.

923
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 1: Now with the Jets, it just looks like as soon

924
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:37,439
Speaker 1: as he gets a little bit of pressure of his feet,

925
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: he get rid of it.

926
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 3: Yeah.

927
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 1: And I think that's taking away from some of his

928
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: his accuracy, some of his just greatness. Because his greatness

929
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 1: was moving around the pocket a little bit. He's having

930
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: trouble kind of managing that pocket, I think as well

931
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: as he wanted to. So I just don't know that

932
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: he's gonna get those throws to DeVante and Garrett like

933
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: he used to, because he would make some of those

934
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 1: getting out like CJ does. CJ wouldn't run on you

935
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 1: a ton, and doesn't run on you a ton, but

936
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: he can just work to pocket enough, shake off a

937
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 1: tackler and get out, and all of a sudden, he's

938
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: look at the whole field, and DeVante knew how to

939
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: work with him and how to work back to him

940
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: and all that.

941
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 3: So I'm I'm curious.

942
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: Obviously, Halloween Night will be kind of interesting now that

943
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 1: we're taking him off. But I just think that if

944
00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: you can get Rush to Rogers, he's not as apt

945
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: to beat you with it because it seems like he's

946
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: got a quicker trigger because of you know, he's worried

947
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: about getting hit. His offensive line is not as great

948
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:36,560
Speaker 1: in front of him as it was in Green Bay.

949
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 1: So I think all of those are playing a role.

950
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: But I feel like this is my take. Go get

951
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 1: your thoughts on this. I just feel like Woody Johnson

952
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 1: is taking that stance of I'm going as far just

953
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: I want it one time. I want the super Bowl

954
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,600
Speaker 1: one time. Just give it to me one time, then

955
00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:56,640
Speaker 1: we'll tear it down. It's kind of a Florida Marlins

956
00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:58,880
Speaker 1: fire sale. Whatever, Just give me the one time. I

957
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 1: just want the one. You know, I'm of going and

958
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 1: winning a super Bowl and I'll feel good. I can

959
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: feel satisfied and then I don't care what else happened.

960
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:07,680
Speaker 3: And you know what, that always works in the NFL.

961
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 2: It always always works exact to go all in, spend

962
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 2: all your money because this is a third round pick,

963
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 2: could be a two for what could be a one

964
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:16,799
Speaker 2: year deal.

965
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 3: Who knows and Rogers what this is.

966
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 1: It may mean next year if you're if you work

967
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 1: something out, would feel good about it.

968
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 3: So what happens this year?

969
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: If okay, they've got to get a new coach, we

970
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 1: don't know what happens, all break and all that kind

971
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 1: of stuff. So what happens? What happens if they go

972
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:37,720
Speaker 1: to hire a coach? Are they gonna want rogers approval.

973
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:37,800
Speaker 3: On the coach?

974
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: Of course, if he's gonna stay right there lies my point.

975
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:43,719
Speaker 1: So Rogers is going to give you the approval on

976
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: the coach. So again you're gonna get in another Nathaniel

977
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: Hackett like situation where you're gonna get a guy that

978
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:53,399
Speaker 1: Rogers likes. Yeah, when Rogers approves of and then he

979
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:57,400
Speaker 1: plays seventy five to eighty percent of what he was

980
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:00,399
Speaker 1: in Green Bay or less. Now you're stuck the head

981
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 1: coach that was of Rogers. Choosing Rogers is clearly done.

982
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: At that point, you've you've killed yourself for another couple

983
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:06,479
Speaker 1: of years.

984
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:06,680
Speaker 5: Right.

985
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 2: But if they flame out the rest of the way,

986
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 2: let's say they finished Flowed seven and ten, you're gonna

987
00:42:11,760 --> 00:42:13,920
Speaker 2: blow it out loada because he will not have played

988
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 2: that well, Loda, It'll be over for him. Probably you're

989
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 2: gonna have to start all over again. Look, look what

990
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 2: Cleveland did trading Amari Cooper, right, So they're starting to

991
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 2: make those moves like, Okay, let's restock the draft cupboard.

992
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 3: We made a mistake here. Yep. If it reverses, it reverses.

993
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:35,160
Speaker 2: But let's assume right now that it probably won't, and

994
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 2: let's get some draft capital going and get ready for

995
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:39,640
Speaker 2: the future. And if I were them, I'd do it

996
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 2: with Stefanski because I think Stefanski is a good coach.

997
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 2: I think this is a bizarre situation and there's no

998
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:45,879
Speaker 2: other way I can describe it.

999
00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:49,439
Speaker 1: How many points, what's the highest point total the Jets

1000
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: have had this year.

1001
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,319
Speaker 3: It's not high twenty four.

1002
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: I mean that's in their two wins and their four

1003
00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 1: losses nineteen nine seventeen twenty.

1004
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 3: They have three of the next four on the road.

1005
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 2: Steelers Sunday night, another primetime game for the Jets. I

1006
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 2: mean they have like ten, it feels like.

1007
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,880
Speaker 1: Then at New England, yeah, which we know that's and

1008
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: then US on Halloween on a short week, so.

1009
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 2: They have Steelers, New England, US, and then at Arizona

1010
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 2: and then and then they've got I would not pick

1011
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 2: them at Arizona if Arizona's remotely healthy, I'm not picking

1012
00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 2: the Jets in that game. I know he's played well

1013
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:26,360
Speaker 2: there in the playast.

1014
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: And then on the after the bye week Seattle at

1015
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 1: Miami at Jacksonville Home, Los Angeles at Buffalo Miami. Now

1016
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: they can finish well, they can finish, you know, solidly

1017
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 1: against that. But if they go five and six down

1018
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 1: the stretch, guess what their record will be?

1019
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 3: Seven and ten, just like it was last year.

1020
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, So seven and ten with Rogers, with Rogers as

1021
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 2: opposed to Zach Wilson.

1022
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,400
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I look at that schedule and

1023
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: I think I think that three out of four stretch,

1024
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:57,919
Speaker 1: I think they'll get beat out of that. They'll get

1025
00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:01,919
Speaker 1: be once. Definitely, hopefully we beat that's too. We'll see

1026
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: what Miami's got in December, because that's maybe too. It

1027
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 1: comes back, maybe not, you know, and then they gotta

1028
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:08,280
Speaker 1: go to a Buffalo.

1029
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,360
Speaker 3: They're hard to figure. We could get the best version

1030
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 3: of the Dolphins. I don't know.

1031
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 1: I comes up to Dolphins healthy, but you no idea

1032
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: what to think about the Dolphins.

1033
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 2: That's not you know, as far as the Texan schedule goes,

1034
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 2: I look to December like it's a thousand years from now.

1035
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 2: I know we're gonna get there fast, but you have

1036
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 2: so much football to play before you get to that

1037
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:28,320
Speaker 2: Kansas City, Baltimore, Miami before that, you have so much

1038
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 2: to play through before you get to that. Oh I

1039
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 2: gotta worry about his Green Bay because, trust me, you

1040
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 2: know how I feel the horseshoes coming next week. I

1041
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,319
Speaker 2: don't care what happens Sunday. No, this is gonna be

1042
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:41,719
Speaker 2: a big game. I don't care what they do this week,

1043
00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 2: and against Miami, I expect them to win at home.

1044
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:45,760
Speaker 3: This is gonna be a tough one.

1045
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 2: That is their chance, their perceived chance to get back

1046
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:52,760
Speaker 2: into the race. Because let's say they beat the Dolphins,

1047
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 2: Texans meet the Packers, go six and one, right, Colts,

1048
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 2: all right, we're two back, but we get this one.

1049
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 2: Now we're one back with us. They're gonna be so

1050
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:05,359
Speaker 2: fired up for that game. Just no, just no, how

1051
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 2: about this with the this is crazy.

1052
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 1: The Jets played on Monday night, Thursday night in London,

1053
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:22,439
Speaker 1: Sunday morning, Monday night, Sunday night against the Steelers. Two

1054
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: weeks later, they play us on Thursday night. They had

1055
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: the four to twenty five game out of West of Arizona,

1056
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:30,240
Speaker 1: and then a Sunday night game against the Colts.

1057
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:31,399
Speaker 3: That's all before the bye week.

1058
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 2: Wait, so they've done two Thursdays plus London. Yeah, and

1059
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 2: didn't take the bye after London.

1060
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:39,359
Speaker 1: That's right, not taking the buy after the Colts gaming

1061
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 1: week twelve.

1062
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 2: And look, don't nuts, I don't root for them, but

1063
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,520
Speaker 2: this schedule that has as much to do with their

1064
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 2: struggles as just about anything. Not quite, but just about

1065
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,720
Speaker 2: any team would have a tough time navigating through that pile,

1066
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:58,360
Speaker 2: because that is to have two Thursdays early on first

1067
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,560
Speaker 2: not even half of the season, and then we're looking

1068
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 2: October and London and you didn't take the Bible.

1069
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 3: It's your fault. You didn't take the buy after London.

1070
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:08,680
Speaker 3: But I get it. That's tough to get there.

1071
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:11,240
Speaker 1: And you lost your coach and you've traded for Devonte Adams.

1072
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 1: I mean, it's all kinds of stuff going on with

1073
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 1: the New Jersey, I mean, the New York Jets, all right,

1074
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:17,959
Speaker 1: A lot of stuff going on with this Green Bay

1075
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:21,760
Speaker 1: Houston game coming up on Sunday. The injury report is out.

1076
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at it. Could be worse, could

1077
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 1: be a lot better too. We'll discuss that next on

1078
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:32,799
Speaker 1: Texans All Access. A lot of Texans news today, so

1079
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 1: let's start with this news that we got earlier in

1080
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 1: the day. Will Anderson Junior Defensive Player of the Week

1081
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: in the AFC. That's four of them this year, covering

1082
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 1: all three phases. Joe Mixon Week one, Will Anderson Week six,

1083
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:51,319
Speaker 1: Kymie Fairbairn Weeks two and five. How about that? Will

1084
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 1: Anderson Junior three sacks, fourth dfls, one pass defense that

1085
00:46:55,920 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 1: was deflected into an interception. His sacks, his saxon tackles

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Speaker 1: for lost both rank first across the NFL last week.

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Speaker 1: His tackles led the team and he tied for the

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Speaker 1: most among defensive ends league wide. Congratulations to Will Anderson Junior,

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Speaker 1: his first time to win AFC Defensive Player of the Week.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get this injury report because it's kind

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Speaker 1: of gnarly, especially on the defensive side. One two, three

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Speaker 1: for five starters ziz Al Schier fully fought, Akassi, Kamari Lasser,

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00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 1: Henry totoa Jimmy Ward, all five of them dealing with injuries.

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00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 1: They were DMP. Robert Woods also did not participate. Yikes,

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00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:38,280
Speaker 1: So that's six very key players limited Joe with the ankle,

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Phillips with a hip, let me Tunsle with the ankle,

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Speaker 1: but everybody else was full over On the Green Bay side,

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00:47:44,239 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 1: Elton Jenkins with a knee, Kolby Wood and Devonte White,

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Speaker 1: two defensive linemen from the SEC went from Auburt went

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Speaker 1: from Georgia. Both did not participate. We'll keeping eye Elton Jenkins,

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00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 1: he is key to that offensive line. Limited participants a

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Speaker 1: number of players including Jyry, Alexander Christian Watson, Jayden Read

1103
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 1: Dantavian Wicks. That's their receiving course, so injuries could be worse.

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Speaker 1: Five starters did not participate. We'll keep an eye on

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Speaker 1: those guys. We've I think it was Aaron Wilson reported

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00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 1: Kamari might be a couple of weeks. I don't know

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00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 1: what Henry with the concussion. Fully, I saw in the building,

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00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 1: yeah today, so hopefully that's a good sign. And saw

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00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:21,480
Speaker 1: disease as well, So hopefully we'll get a chance to

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Speaker 1: see them later in the week. But injury report for

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Speaker 1: your Texas All right, we get back to maybe hind

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Speaker 1: to Mike Swayne Lairvie, a long time voice the Packers

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Speaker 1: joints Mark van Ernext right here on Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to this second hour of

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access from the Hunday Texans Radio studio. It's

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Speaker 1: time for the Stats Challenge, brought to you by SLB.

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Speaker 1: How about this one. Since the start of twenty twenty three,

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00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 1: one quarterback has the most yards per game in the

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00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 1: NFL and one quarterback has the most passing tds in

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Speaker 1: the NFL. They will meet on Sunday.

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Speaker 6: C J.

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00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:57,840
Speaker 1: Stroud is averaging two hundred and seventy point seven yards

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Speaker 1: per game through the air. That's the best since to

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Speaker 1: start at twenty twenty three. Jordan Love has the most

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Speaker 1: passing touchdowns in the NFL in that same timeframe with

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Speaker 1: forty four. Those two will meet on Sunday. How about that.

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Speaker 1: That's your status challenge, brought to you by SLB. Now

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Speaker 1: it's time to bringing you men behind the mics. Wayne Larvie,

1129
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:22,239
Speaker 1: what an interesting guy. When I was doing my national show,

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Speaker 1: I mentioned this a little bit earlier in twenty eleven

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00:49:25,160 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 1: through twenty thirteen, we had the opportunity because it was

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Speaker 1: a national show to get a number of NFL play

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00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: by play man. I had Kevin Harlan on a bunch.

1134
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Speaker 1: I would get college guys on Eli Gold Alabama voice

1135
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: voices of Alabama Crimson Tide for a long time. I

1136
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:42,800
Speaker 1: also used to get Wayne Laravie and got him a

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00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 1: few times, and he was so gracious with his time.

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Speaker 1: And having been a little guy growing up with Green

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00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 1: Bay Packers, Packers are always kind of my second team,

1140
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:55,960
Speaker 1: and so Wayne Laravie, having been a former Bears announcer

1141
00:49:56,719 --> 00:50:00,560
Speaker 1: now a Packers announcer. It's amazing how the Packers fandom

1142
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 1: has really kind of taken him in he sat down

1143
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 1: with Mark Vandermuir to go through all of that, and

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00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:09,280
Speaker 1: this one on Sunday we call him and behind Mike's

1145
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 1: Mark Vandamir with Wayne.

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00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 3: Larvie joining us.

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00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 2: Now Wayne Laravie the voice of the Green Bay Packers

1148
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:17,360
Speaker 2: and Wayne, we don't get together too often, so this

1149
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 2: is special, especially this year.

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00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 3: What do you make of the season so far for

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00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:21,959
Speaker 3: Green Bay.

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00:50:22,840 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 5: I've been an intriguing season, have had some adversity and

1153
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 5: have overcome it, supposedly, and you know, they're building and

1154
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 5: they're kind of an evolving team. They're not worth everyone

1155
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:37,239
Speaker 5: thought they would be, but they're certainly heading in the

1156
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 5: right direction, that's for sure. Off the big win over

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00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:41,439
Speaker 5: the Cardinals the other day.

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00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:43,560
Speaker 2: Well, I know a lot of people ask you about

1159
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:45,839
Speaker 2: Jordan Love and I have to do the same. Contractually

1160
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:48,880
Speaker 2: obligated Wayne to talk about the quarterback because here he

1161
00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:51,280
Speaker 2: is in year two as the full time starter.

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Speaker 3: I know he had the injury.

1163
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that in a moment, but what he's

1164
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 2: seeing from him in his development overall.

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00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:02,719
Speaker 5: He's becoming a little more assistant. And I'm speaking specifically

1166
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:05,279
Speaker 5: of this year. He had a good training camp, a

1167
00:51:05,360 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 5: fine training camp, nothing spectacular, but you know how training

1168
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 5: camp is, and you don't know what you have until

1169
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:15,279
Speaker 5: you get on the field in a regular season game.

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Speaker 5: And his performance in Sal Paulo, Brazil was kind of

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00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 5: it was fine, It wasn't great, but he wasn't as

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Speaker 5: accurate as we were used to seeing him down the

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00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 5: stretch a year ago. Then he ended knee injury missus

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00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:33,000
Speaker 5: two weeks, comes back, shakes off for US against the Vikings,

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Speaker 5: and then has been getting better each of the last

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00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 5: two weeks in terms of where he's delivering the football

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00:51:38,120 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 5: and that kind of thing. His accuracy much better. I

1178
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:44,319
Speaker 5: think his confidence in his injured knee a whole lot

1179
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 5: better too. In the last couple of.

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Speaker 2: Weeks, Wayne Laravie, Voice of the Packers with us what

1181
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:52,479
Speaker 2: about Malik Willis filling in for him and the way

1182
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 2: Matt Lafleur was able to coach his way through those victories.

1183
00:51:56,000 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 2: Discussed that a little bit because I was really impressed

1184
00:51:58,120 --> 00:52:00,759
Speaker 2: with the way the Packers handled their business with love out.

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00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:04,840
Speaker 5: You know, that was impressive and certainly the coaching staff

1186
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 5: gets a lot of credit for it. But also, you know,

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Speaker 5: Malik Willis is a pretty good talent. He has a

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00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:15,719
Speaker 5: nice arm, He throws a very catchable pass, and he

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00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 5: has obviously the ability to make things happen outside the

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Speaker 5: pocket with his legs. He is a potential dual threat

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00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,879
Speaker 5: quarterback and they used him effectively that way. The best

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Speaker 5: thing they did Mark was they didn't ask him to

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00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 5: do anything he was incapable of doing. And you know

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00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:37,279
Speaker 5: the heavy run type of game against the Colts when

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Speaker 5: they ran it fifty four times, and then the following

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Speaker 5: week they started opening things up a little bit, not much,

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Speaker 5: but a little bit, and they started passing more on

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Speaker 5: early downs and Willis certainly was equal to the task

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Speaker 5: each week.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about some of the pass catchers.

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00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:55,839
Speaker 1: Wainn because read Craft, Watson very impressive.

1202
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Speaker 3: What about this group overall?

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00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:01,040
Speaker 1: And Jacobs catches the ball out of the backfield as well.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what, again, I think with the run

1205
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 5: heavy emphasis in the two games we just talked about,

1206
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 5: you don't have the numbers. These guys don't have the

1207
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:15,279
Speaker 5: numbers others do around the NFL. But I think that's

1208
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:17,879
Speaker 5: going to change as we go forward. Watson was back

1209
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 5: that caught a big touchdown pass last week. Perhaps it

1210
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:24,920
Speaker 5: has been a revelation looks a lot. It reminds me

1211
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 5: a lot of George Kittle. I'm not saying he's at

1212
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:29,719
Speaker 5: that level, but he does a lot of things, like

1213
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 5: he can block in line, he can block downfield on

1214
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:37,400
Speaker 5: a big run. He's become a very reliable receiver. He

1215
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:39,839
Speaker 5: gets opened, that kind of thing, very hard to bring

1216
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 5: down once he catches it. Reed is a playmaker out

1217
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 5: of the slot. And then Romeo Dobbs is kind of there.

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00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:51,200
Speaker 5: I really think he's more like a safety valve, especially

1219
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 5: in the red zone. He runs great routes, strong hands,

1220
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:57,640
Speaker 5: that kind of thing. So that's the receiving core. Bo

1221
00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:00,359
Speaker 5: Melton will be mixed in there, Malie Keith a little bit.

1222
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:02,839
Speaker 5: The guy they've had trouble getting on track is don

1223
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 5: Tavian Wicks. He's had drops this year, and he really

1224
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 5: is a kid who came on late last year. Caught

1225
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:12,240
Speaker 5: twenty nine of his thirty nine receptions in the last

1226
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 5: ten games last year. So obviously they're trying to get

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00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:16,719
Speaker 5: him on track because he can be a big play

1228
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:19,160
Speaker 5: in this receiving course. Well, they haven't been able to

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00:54:19,160 --> 00:54:19,800
Speaker 5: do that yet.

1230
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Speaker 1: All right, give me a couple of guys on defense

1231
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: that aren't really discussed much that don't get the publicity

1232
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:29,480
Speaker 1: that some other members of the team do.

1233
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Speaker 3: As the Packers have a pretty good defense.

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00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, and it's an evolving defense. It's a

1235
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:37,239
Speaker 5: new system this year for this defense. They struggle to

1236
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 5: get consistent pressure on the quarterback. They don't sack the

1237
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:43,480
Speaker 5: quarterback a whole lot, except for one game at Tennessee

1238
00:54:43,560 --> 00:54:47,319
Speaker 5: when they had eight sacks. But you know, it's it's

1239
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 5: and again, like the rest of the team, I think

1240
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 5: they're evolving in this new defensive scheme and they'll be

1241
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:55,280
Speaker 5: better in the next several weeks than they are maybe

1242
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 5: right now. Some guys in the defense that you hear

1243
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 5: a lot about Xavier mc kenny and Jaiiere Alexander. Keyshawn

1244
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:05,480
Speaker 5: Nixon has been kind of a quiet key. He's played

1245
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:08,480
Speaker 5: some on the outside. He's their Nickel Carver corner, but

1246
00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:11,880
Speaker 5: he's beneffective on the outside as they've had injuries out

1247
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:14,960
Speaker 5: on the outside of their defense. So I think that's

1248
00:55:15,239 --> 00:55:16,840
Speaker 5: a guy you might want to keep an eye on.

1249
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:21,440
Speaker 5: Evan Williams, the rookie's really emerging making turnover plays and

1250
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:24,359
Speaker 5: that's been something that's been worth watching. The steady guy

1251
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 5: in the linebacking corps. Isaiah mcduffy, second leading tackler. You

1252
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 5: know again, kway Walker is guys who potentially makes big plays.

1253
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 5: You know. Eric Wilson has been a solid pro Edgrin

1254
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 5: Cooper is a rookie who's starting to emerge out of

1255
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:41,839
Speaker 5: Texas A and M. And he's a guy they're looking

1256
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 5: forward to using quite a bit on the defensive line.

1257
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Speaker 5: Carl Brooks, nobody hears about him, but I'll tell you what.

1258
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Speaker 5: When he's in there, he makes plays. He's playing a

1259
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Speaker 5: lot more with the injury to defensive tackle Devontae Wyatt.

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Speaker 2: Wayne Laraview with us the voice of the Green Bay Packers.

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Speaker 2: What is the relationship like between Matt Lafleur and the

1262
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 2: fan base in general? The general feeling of Packer nation

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Speaker 2: about the head coach.

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Speaker 5: I think it's good. I mean, all Matt Lafleur has

1265
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:11,200
Speaker 5: done here is win and now maybe not so much

1266
00:56:11,239 --> 00:56:13,919
Speaker 5: in the playoffs, but he's actually made long playoff runs

1267
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:16,920
Speaker 5: in the NFC Championship on a couple of occasions. And

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00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:20,239
Speaker 5: last year I think everyone came to realize how good

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00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 5: a coach he is when all of a sudden, you

1270
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 5: didn't have the specter of Aaron Rodgers covering everything, and

1271
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 5: you saw what this team could do and what this

1272
00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:32,400
Speaker 5: coach could do with a new quarterback. So been very positive.

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Speaker 5: I'd have to say yeah, and.

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Speaker 2: I go back with him because he was a little

1275
00:56:36,520 --> 00:56:38,719
Speaker 2: kid at Central Michigan when I was there with his

1276
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 2: dad coaching the secondary of the Chippewas, so very familiar

1277
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 2: with Matt's career and he was here with the Texans,

1278
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:49,520
Speaker 2: so we do follow him. Wayne, what about calling a

1279
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:52,480
Speaker 2: game from Brazil? What was that experience like with the

1280
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 2: team going down there and doing that game with the

1281
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:56,320
Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles.

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00:56:56,960 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 5: Well, it was a great experience, you know, to visit

1283
00:56:59,560 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 5: that cun Tree and see that city. You know, it's

1284
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:05,399
Speaker 5: the fourth largest city in the world, and it takes

1285
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:07,799
Speaker 5: a long time to get around that city. It took

1286
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:11,120
Speaker 5: us two hours from the hotel in downtown salth Pollow

1287
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:13,640
Speaker 5: to the game site, which is in the city limits

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00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:17,400
Speaker 5: of salth Pallo. Two hours with the police escort, winding

1289
00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 5: through all kinds of different types of neighborhoods because they

1290
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:24,680
Speaker 5: don't have the infrastructure, the highway infrastructure we have in

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00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 5: this country. They just don't. And you know, you've got

1292
00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:29,439
Speaker 5: twenty five million people. That are bigger city than any

1293
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:32,160
Speaker 5: city in the US, and you don't have the ability

1294
00:57:32,160 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 5: to get around it the way we do so. And

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00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 5: the other factor is the stadium was nice. It was wonderful.

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00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:42,560
Speaker 5: The field was a little slick in but that's on

1297
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:44,920
Speaker 5: the NFL because they took care of the field and

1298
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 5: it just was a little slick for both sides. But

1299
00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:49,880
Speaker 5: I thought the enthusiasm of the fans of the game,

1300
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:54,080
Speaker 5: the atmosphere is great. Unfortunately, our broadcast position, we were

1301
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:56,560
Speaker 5: behind a plane of glass. We were in a glass

1302
00:57:56,600 --> 00:58:00,320
Speaker 5: enclosed booth, so that wasn't so good. But otherwise it

1303
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:00,760
Speaker 5: was great.

1304
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,920
Speaker 2: Where else have you been? You've been to London obviously,

1305
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 2: and I guess that's it. Have you been to Germany?

1306
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 5: Well, when I was with the Bears, we went to

1307
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:10,960
Speaker 5: a lot of places. We went to Germany, we went

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00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:15,160
Speaker 5: to Sweden, Gothenburg, Sweden for a game, London obviously, a

1309
00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 5: couple of times, Ireland. You know, we've been. I've been

1310
00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:22,680
Speaker 5: all over the world of the NFL doing games. It's

1311
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 5: been it's been great in many respects. And you know,

1312
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 5: the the international games are it's it's curious to what

1313
00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:31,880
Speaker 5: as to why they're putting these resources in there. But

1314
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 5: when you see the fan in the enthusiastic enthusiasm of

1315
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:38,160
Speaker 5: the fans on game day, even though that country may

1316
00:58:38,160 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 5: not play American football, you know the enthusiasm for the game,

1317
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:46,200
Speaker 5: certainly in Brazil and Europe and in London, and it's

1318
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 5: been palpable and that's why the league is there.

1319
00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 3: What was your favorite place to go personally?

1320
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 5: Of those foreign trips, I would say would have been Berlin, Germany,

1321
00:58:57,200 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 5: because we were there right after the fall of the

1322
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:04,560
Speaker 5: of the wall, of the Berlin Wall, and all of

1323
00:59:04,600 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 5: a sudden, East and West were coming together, and I

1324
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:12,440
Speaker 5: remember jogging past the wall and into what was then

1325
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:15,960
Speaker 5: considered East Germany. It was like going from technic color

1326
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 5: to black and white, and it was really stark to

1327
00:59:19,600 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 5: see the difference in the two cities. But I think now,

1328
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:26,160
Speaker 5: obviously I haven't been back there since, but now I'm

1329
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:28,480
Speaker 5: sure everything's fine. But Berlin was a beautiful city. It

1330
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:29,040
Speaker 5: really is.

1331
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:32,560
Speaker 2: Wayne Larvie with us the voice of the Green Bay Packers,

1332
00:59:32,560 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 2: So you were the voice of the Bears, voice of

1333
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 2: the Packers, two oldest teams in the NFL. Everybody wants

1334
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:40,480
Speaker 2: to go to Green Bay because it's the pilgrimage. It's

1335
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:43,480
Speaker 2: such a historic place. What stadium do you really like

1336
00:59:43,560 --> 00:59:43,960
Speaker 2: going to?

1337
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 1: What stadium kind of gives you makes the hair stand

1338
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:49,360
Speaker 1: up on the back of your neck in a good way?

1339
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:54,760
Speaker 5: Well, Green Bay number one. I love going to Chicago

1340
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:59,040
Speaker 5: for games, but the stadium's not very good. Denver is

1341
00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:02,920
Speaker 5: probably my favorite place to go because I just like Denver,

1342
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:05,960
Speaker 5: Colorado and the mountains and you're right at the foothills.

1343
01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 5: It's a neat place. The place it's the best to

1344
01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:10,720
Speaker 5: do a game in, in my opinion. I think the

1345
01:00:10,760 --> 01:00:13,680
Speaker 5: Metal Lands, I really do. And you know, the big

1346
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 5: the big air conditioner there in the Metal Lands. I

1347
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:21,280
Speaker 5: just the sight lines are great. It's a great football stadium.

1348
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 5: You're you're you know, you may be up high, but

1349
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:25,440
Speaker 5: you're more on top of the action than you are

1350
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:28,320
Speaker 5: in most places in the Meadowlands. A great atmosphere when

1351
01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:30,560
Speaker 5: especially if one of those New York teams is growing.

1352
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:33,800
Speaker 2: All right, speaking of the Metal Lands, you could probably

1353
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:36,640
Speaker 2: speak with some expertise on this. What do you make

1354
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:39,440
Speaker 2: of the Aaron Rodgers experiment with the Jets? Where do

1355
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:40,600
Speaker 2: you think it's going from here?

1356
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:42,320
Speaker 3: Wow?

1357
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:47,360
Speaker 5: I think they had more more problems than just wide receiver.

1358
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:51,360
Speaker 5: They can't they If they can't get that offensive line fixed,

1359
01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:54,080
Speaker 5: they're gonna have a lot of trouble. Aaron, I don't.

1360
01:00:54,080 --> 01:00:56,080
Speaker 5: It's what I've a little bit I've seen of him

1361
01:00:56,120 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 5: this year. I'm I'm not sure he's moving as well

1362
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 5: as he once did. That could improve as we go along.

1363
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:03,240
Speaker 5: He's coming off, but you know, an achilles injury. But

1364
01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:06,840
Speaker 5: I think that offensive line is going to be their

1365
01:01:06,920 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 5: undoing more than anything else. The defense is good as

1366
01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 5: the manufac's better than it looks. It's better on paper

1367
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:16,160
Speaker 5: than it looks on the field. Their defense, but I

1368
01:01:16,200 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 5: think really that offensive line that's going to be the problem.

1369
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 5: They have a good wide receivers, and I don't know

1370
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 5: why Wilson hasn't been dominating games like some of the

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01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:28,720
Speaker 5: others have. But so they bring in DeVante Adams and

1372
01:01:29,080 --> 01:01:31,360
Speaker 5: they take what to me looked like kind of a

1373
01:01:31,360 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 5: position of strength and made it stronger, but didn't solve

1374
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 5: what's really holding you back.

1375
01:01:36,840 --> 01:01:39,040
Speaker 2: All right, Wayne, I've got one more for you. You did

1376
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 2: the Balls on TV, so you had Michael Jordan, you

1377
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:45,520
Speaker 2: did Brett fav and the Packers. Aaron Rodgers and the Packers.

1378
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:50,200
Speaker 2: So when you look at Rogers, farv Jordan, these great players,

1379
01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:53,919
Speaker 2: team leaders, championship winners, is there a thread you see

1380
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:57,840
Speaker 2: that runs through the great players that you've done games for.

1381
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:01,400
Speaker 2: Is there something that is in common with them? A

1382
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 2: common denominator if you will.

1383
01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:05,880
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I'd throw Walter Payton in there as well.

1384
01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:10,360
Speaker 5: You know, the common thread. Boy, there's a certain drive

1385
01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:13,880
Speaker 5: about each one of those guys. They might be the

1386
01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:18,600
Speaker 5: most talented player on their team. But the thing I

1387
01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:22,280
Speaker 5: always noticed about those guys, they're the hardest workers and

1388
01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:25,040
Speaker 5: far of especially late in his career. I mean, he

1389
01:02:25,560 --> 01:02:29,120
Speaker 5: really poured himself into that position. Maybe early on he

1390
01:02:29,240 --> 01:02:31,680
Speaker 5: was kind of the gunslinger type of guy and you know,

1391
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:33,360
Speaker 5: having fun in the locker room and all that. By

1392
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 5: the end of his career he was a worker. Jordan

1393
01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 5: was always the one thing Jerry Krous, the late general

1394
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:42,440
Speaker 5: manager of the Bulls in those days, used to say,

1395
01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:44,880
Speaker 5: he said, you know, you can debate the greatest player

1396
01:02:44,920 --> 01:02:47,720
Speaker 5: of all time, but the greatest practice player of all time,

1397
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 5: there is no question. Michael Jordan, and you know Walter

1398
01:02:52,080 --> 01:02:55,240
Speaker 5: Peyton just he would not miss a game. And the

1399
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:58,720
Speaker 5: same thing with Jordan preseason game. Jordan would never miss

1400
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:02,000
Speaker 5: a preseason game. There's no such thing as load management.

1401
01:03:02,240 --> 01:03:06,800
Speaker 5: His approach was, Hey, listen, somebody, some kid or somebody

1402
01:03:07,160 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 5: paid a big bunt money to come see me play

1403
01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:12,600
Speaker 5: and not to watch me sit on the bench. And

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01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:16,560
Speaker 5: that was the mantra. These guys were old school Aaron

1405
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:20,960
Speaker 5: Rodgers and he was like a surgeon. The way he

1406
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:25,040
Speaker 5: would dissect defenses in his preparation for the game just

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01:03:25,120 --> 01:03:29,840
Speaker 5: second to none. Those guys they play the game at

1408
01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:32,360
Speaker 5: a different level, they see it at a different level,

1409
01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:34,919
Speaker 5: they approach it at a different level than everyone else.

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01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:36,920
Speaker 5: And the other guy throw into that mix is the

1411
01:03:36,920 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 5: great Charles Woods and maybe the best football player I've

1412
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:42,680
Speaker 5: ever been around. And he could play both sides of

1413
01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:43,000
Speaker 5: the ball.

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Speaker 3: That is awesome stuff. Wayne, thanks so much for the time.

1415
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:49,560
Speaker 2: And I feel like sending that to every coach in

1416
01:03:49,600 --> 01:03:51,120
Speaker 2: the league, but I won't. I just want to send

1417
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:54,919
Speaker 2: it to my coach as But you described about Jordan

1418
01:03:54,960 --> 01:03:59,160
Speaker 2: as incredible, greatest practice player of all time. That's phenomenal, Wayne,

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01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:01,360
Speaker 2: Thanks so much. Look forward to the visit on Sunday

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01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:02,280
Speaker 2: at lambeau Field.

1421
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:05,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's get together Mark all the best and look

1422
01:04:05,320 --> 01:04:06,680
Speaker 5: forward to seeing you guys up here.

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01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:09,240
Speaker 1: Can't wait, plea get a chance to shake Man's hand

1424
01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:11,920
Speaker 1: and talk to him. I love Wayne Laravie. He is uh,

1425
01:04:12,600 --> 01:04:15,320
Speaker 1: He's such a great dude, and I'd love his voice.

1426
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 5: You know.

1427
01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:18,800
Speaker 1: My man is Mark for sure, but Wayne Laravy is

1428
01:04:19,080 --> 01:04:21,680
Speaker 1: number two. So it's like it's great hearing my numbers

1429
01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:24,439
Speaker 1: one and two together right here on our air. Now,

1430
01:04:24,600 --> 01:04:27,160
Speaker 1: a guy that, depending on injury situation, we have to

1431
01:04:27,160 --> 01:04:29,640
Speaker 1: play linebacker on Sunday is Jake Hanson. Will he stepped

1432
01:04:29,640 --> 01:04:32,320
Speaker 1: in studio on Wednesday and chatty with Mark and myself.

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Speaker 1: That's next on Texans All Access. It's happen everybody. Welcome

1434
01:04:35,160 --> 01:04:37,520
Speaker 1: back to Wednesday edition to Texans All Access. John Harris

1435
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:41,520
Speaker 1: Football on a sideline reporter right here for your Houston Texans.

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Speaker 1: It's time to talk to Jake Hanson, linebacker the West

1437
01:04:47,160 --> 01:04:50,280
Speaker 1: Coast of Florida playas college ball Illinois, came down here

1438
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:53,280
Speaker 1: to Houston and has done a really nice job. We

1439
01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:55,880
Speaker 1: may end up seeing him on Sunday against the Packers

1440
01:04:56,480 --> 01:04:59,520
Speaker 1: because of some injuries at linebacker to both Henry Totoa

1441
01:04:59,640 --> 01:05:01,720
Speaker 1: and because he's al Shire. We'll see how that goes.

1442
01:05:01,760 --> 01:05:05,720
Speaker 1: The rest of this week, but Jake filled in admirably

1443
01:05:05,760 --> 01:05:08,800
Speaker 1: on Sunday. No doubt he has played a lot of linebacker,

1444
01:05:08,840 --> 01:05:10,520
Speaker 1: played a ton of special teams. We always have a

1445
01:05:10,520 --> 01:05:13,320
Speaker 1: great time with Jake Stepson's studio, but a final member

1446
01:05:13,560 --> 01:05:15,360
Speaker 1: of this team doesn't get talked about a lot. Jake

1447
01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:16,880
Speaker 1: Hanson with me and Mark.

1448
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:19,200
Speaker 3: Let's go Jake Hanson in studio with us.

1449
01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:21,280
Speaker 2: All right, Jake, saw you out there against the New

1450
01:05:21,280 --> 01:05:22,760
Speaker 2: England Patriots on Sunday.

1451
01:05:22,840 --> 01:05:24,760
Speaker 3: Lots of action. How's it going for you so far?

1452
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:27,400
Speaker 6: It's going good and we've had a good start to

1453
01:05:27,440 --> 01:05:30,320
Speaker 6: the year. Happy to be five and one with the

1454
01:05:30,360 --> 01:05:33,480
Speaker 6: team and uh rolling right now, so we feel pretty good.

1455
01:05:33,640 --> 01:05:36,200
Speaker 1: Jake, what's that linebacker room like with you know, add

1456
01:05:36,240 --> 01:05:40,040
Speaker 1: disease to the mix? Del Shaun comes in, Jamal's drafted.

1457
01:05:40,040 --> 01:05:41,640
Speaker 1: What's the kind of linebacker room like with some of

1458
01:05:41,680 --> 01:05:42,600
Speaker 1: the additions you guys have.

1459
01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:44,360
Speaker 3: Made, you know, Disease.

1460
01:05:44,560 --> 01:05:47,720
Speaker 6: I can't say enough good things about Disease and how

1461
01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:50,000
Speaker 6: he stepped up as a leader for us, and uh

1462
01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:52,360
Speaker 6: really just been a role model for everyone in the

1463
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:54,720
Speaker 6: room and how to how to do things and how

1464
01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:57,480
Speaker 6: to carry yourself as a pro. So can't say enough

1465
01:05:57,520 --> 01:06:01,600
Speaker 6: good things about his leadership, adding Dell Sean that's my guy.

1466
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:04,400
Speaker 6: I played with him at Illinois, so right, Yeah, it

1467
01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:06,439
Speaker 6: was a familiar over the place man.

1468
01:06:06,520 --> 01:06:09,680
Speaker 7: Yeah, we get some a linea in here, so it's

1469
01:06:09,720 --> 01:06:10,200
Speaker 7: been great.

1470
01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:14,680
Speaker 6: He adds a great guy, another great special teams player

1471
01:06:14,760 --> 01:06:18,280
Speaker 6: and great linebacker as well, so great addition of the room.

1472
01:06:18,280 --> 01:06:21,960
Speaker 7: And then scoobs at your young buck learning and growing.

1473
01:06:22,040 --> 01:06:23,680
Speaker 7: He's gotten so much better too.

1474
01:06:23,840 --> 01:06:27,280
Speaker 6: From the defense a special team standpoint, he's uh, he's

1475
01:06:27,280 --> 01:06:28,320
Speaker 6: making strides every day.

1476
01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:30,360
Speaker 7: So it's it's been fun to watch.

1477
01:06:30,560 --> 01:06:33,080
Speaker 2: So, Jake, you're really good at special teams and you're

1478
01:06:33,120 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 2: really good at linebackers. So how hard is it to

1479
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:37,720
Speaker 2: be really good at both and practice both the way

1480
01:06:37,760 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 2: you need to to be able to perform at a

1481
01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:40,840
Speaker 2: high level on Sundays.

1482
01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:44,960
Speaker 6: It's hard, it's but you know it's that's why they

1483
01:06:44,960 --> 01:06:49,880
Speaker 6: pay us to play pro football, So it's something that

1484
01:06:49,920 --> 01:06:51,680
Speaker 6: you know, I try to take pride in being a

1485
01:06:51,720 --> 01:06:55,040
Speaker 6: good best teams player and special teams I think goes

1486
01:06:55,440 --> 01:06:58,920
Speaker 6: like it's another level on top of all your defensive preparations.

1487
01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:01,160
Speaker 6: So defensive preparation takes a certain amount of time and

1488
01:07:01,200 --> 01:07:02,120
Speaker 6: then you kind.

1489
01:07:01,960 --> 01:07:02,840
Speaker 7: Of just have to add on.

1490
01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:05,880
Speaker 6: It's not hey, you got to take less here more here,

1491
01:07:05,960 --> 01:07:08,040
Speaker 6: it's you can just have to add and continue to

1492
01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:11,120
Speaker 6: do more preparation to be ready to go in on

1493
01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:13,640
Speaker 6: defense and play on special teams as well.

1494
01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:16,040
Speaker 2: Is there like a friendly competition with you and Neville?

1495
01:07:16,080 --> 01:07:17,840
Speaker 2: Like who could be better at special teams?

1496
01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:19,560
Speaker 3: I want and I want this.

1497
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Speaker 7: Stop orse of Coursey.

1498
01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:22,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, I tell them, hey, hold them up, I'll make

1499
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:24,480
Speaker 6: the tackle, make a check a speed, I'll go make

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Speaker 6: the play.

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01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:25,439
Speaker 3: Okay.

1502
01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:27,600
Speaker 1: I gotta ask you because in the in the first

1503
01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:30,160
Speaker 1: game that has had ever been played in the NFL

1504
01:07:30,800 --> 01:07:33,600
Speaker 1: with the new kickoff rule, you make one heck of

1505
01:07:33,640 --> 01:07:34,080
Speaker 1: a stop.

1506
01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:37,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it was a pretty healthy collision about healthy,

1507
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Speaker 3: I mean probably not so much.

1508
01:07:39,560 --> 01:07:43,560
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna ask your unhealthy what what what do

1509
01:07:43,640 --> 01:07:45,160
Speaker 1: you think about the kickoff rules?

1510
01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:46,760
Speaker 7: You know, after.

1511
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:52,400
Speaker 6: After the first one, like, uh, when I when we

1512
01:07:52,480 --> 01:07:55,440
Speaker 6: crashed out a little bit, it was, uh, I don't know,

1513
01:07:55,440 --> 01:07:57,000
Speaker 6: I didn't look like I didn't love it from a

1514
01:07:57,080 --> 01:07:58,960
Speaker 6: k R standpoint. It was taking a little bit long

1515
01:07:59,040 --> 01:08:01,160
Speaker 6: to get used to as well, So at first I

1516
01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:04,720
Speaker 6: didn't like it, but all my plays on special teams

1517
01:08:04,760 --> 01:08:06,600
Speaker 6: so far has come on kickoff, So it's starting to

1518
01:08:06,640 --> 01:08:08,560
Speaker 6: growing me quite a bit and I'm starting to like

1519
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:10,840
Speaker 6: get a good feel for it, and after a few

1520
01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:12,720
Speaker 6: weeks it's it's kind of it.

1521
01:08:12,720 --> 01:08:14,240
Speaker 7: It might be my new favorite.

1522
01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:17,800
Speaker 6: Teams because I've been able to factor the most on

1523
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:21,200
Speaker 6: those plays. And I think our kickoff team is kind

1524
01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:24,200
Speaker 6: of taking a different approach. We're forcing a lot of

1525
01:08:24,280 --> 01:08:26,479
Speaker 6: kicks and making guys block us.

1526
01:08:26,600 --> 01:08:27,200
Speaker 7: It's hard to do.

1527
01:08:27,560 --> 01:08:29,840
Speaker 6: If KR is hard on the new I think it's

1528
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:32,040
Speaker 6: harder on kickoff return than it is on kickoff, So

1529
01:08:33,280 --> 01:08:35,360
Speaker 6: I think the kickoff team has an advantage forcing them

1530
01:08:35,360 --> 01:08:38,360
Speaker 6: to take it out. And because we're everyone's still trying

1531
01:08:38,360 --> 01:08:40,320
Speaker 6: to learn the new blocking schemes and how to scheme

1532
01:08:40,360 --> 01:08:41,639
Speaker 6: people love, and how to.

1533
01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:44,080
Speaker 7: How to block like the Patriots or just face up.

1534
01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:45,640
Speaker 6: And then you have different teams that are trying to

1535
01:08:45,640 --> 01:08:48,320
Speaker 6: do like pin and pool run style plays. So it's

1536
01:08:48,360 --> 01:08:51,920
Speaker 6: just a lot of different learning And I'm sure next

1537
01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:53,880
Speaker 6: year to the kickoff return will be a lot better

1538
01:08:53,920 --> 01:08:56,040
Speaker 6: and a lot harder, and they'll be better schemes.

1539
01:08:56,080 --> 01:08:59,320
Speaker 2: So, but you can't move if you're on kickoff return.

1540
01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:01,800
Speaker 2: You can't move until the ball is touched or hits

1541
01:09:01,840 --> 01:09:05,320
Speaker 2: the ground, right, Yeah, so you look back, right, and

1542
01:09:05,360 --> 01:09:07,680
Speaker 2: while you're looking back, that's a split second of time

1543
01:09:07,720 --> 01:09:09,240
Speaker 2: where you're not looking at the guy in front of you.

1544
01:09:09,320 --> 01:09:10,519
Speaker 3: So how do you handle all of that?

1545
01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:14,920
Speaker 6: So that's like another different schematic thing, like some coaches are, hey,

1546
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:17,320
Speaker 6: don't look back, just look at your guy the whole time.

1547
01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:20,480
Speaker 7: And that's like New England was that.

1548
01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:22,760
Speaker 3: If he moves first, you're not violation.

1549
01:09:22,479 --> 01:09:25,880
Speaker 6: Exactly right, And I guess you could have a little awareness,

1550
01:09:25,920 --> 01:09:28,080
Speaker 6: but then once, once you're kind of getting ready to go,

1551
01:09:28,280 --> 01:09:30,599
Speaker 6: you just face up like that's how New England plays.

1552
01:09:30,960 --> 01:09:33,080
Speaker 6: And then some other teams have done it as well,

1553
01:09:33,080 --> 01:09:36,400
Speaker 6: but we're hey, take a quick drop. So it's like

1554
01:09:36,960 --> 01:09:40,160
Speaker 6: for us, it's a little bit more of hey, see

1555
01:09:40,160 --> 01:09:43,960
Speaker 6: the ball then and then get a quick burst flip

1556
01:09:44,160 --> 01:09:45,439
Speaker 6: to give yourself a little more time.

1557
01:09:46,400 --> 01:09:47,679
Speaker 3: Jake can even win in New England.

1558
01:09:47,760 --> 01:09:50,680
Speaker 1: I know you haven't been here for the seven contests

1559
01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:52,559
Speaker 1: prior to In fact, that was your first regular season

1560
01:09:52,640 --> 01:09:56,000
Speaker 1: game in New England, But were you guys aware of that?

1561
01:09:56,080 --> 01:09:57,920
Speaker 1: To coach make you aware of that? And I know

1562
01:09:57,960 --> 01:09:59,240
Speaker 1: in the locker room you gave everybody of your game

1563
01:09:59,280 --> 01:10:01,200
Speaker 1: ball because it was the time that the organization won

1564
01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:01,880
Speaker 1: in New England.

1565
01:10:01,920 --> 01:10:04,280
Speaker 3: But was that was that something.

1566
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:05,920
Speaker 1: That you guys were aware of going to New England,

1567
01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:07,479
Speaker 1: that being the first time, Hey let's get the first

1568
01:10:07,479 --> 01:10:08,080
Speaker 1: one in New England.

1569
01:10:08,120 --> 01:10:09,120
Speaker 3: Did you guys know that going in?

1570
01:10:09,439 --> 01:10:11,240
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think the whole team was aware, and it

1571
01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:13,559
Speaker 6: was something that we were kind of going into the

1572
01:10:13,600 --> 01:10:16,519
Speaker 6: practice week. We know we wanted to like That's what

1573
01:10:16,680 --> 01:10:19,000
Speaker 6: kind of drove us and motivated us that practice to

1574
01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:20,960
Speaker 6: get going was Hey, we got to go get a

1575
01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:24,919
Speaker 6: first win in Foxboro, right and it was a great opportunity,

1576
01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:26,800
Speaker 6: a lot of tradition in that stadium, So it's cool

1577
01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:27,840
Speaker 6: to get get a win there.

1578
01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:31,639
Speaker 2: Jake Hanson with us, all Right, How strange is it, though,

1579
01:10:31,880 --> 01:10:34,760
Speaker 2: the last two years to be winning like this after

1580
01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:36,479
Speaker 2: what you went through in twenty twenty two that was

1581
01:10:36,479 --> 01:10:39,520
Speaker 2: a rough season, went through a lot of bumps and bruises,

1582
01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:42,760
Speaker 2: a lot of losses. But here you are last two years,

1583
01:10:42,840 --> 01:10:44,720
Speaker 2: last year, make the playoffs, this year off to a

1584
01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:47,520
Speaker 2: five and one start. How different is it the environment

1585
01:10:47,760 --> 01:10:50,040
Speaker 2: and just working for Tamiko Ryans and making this kind

1586
01:10:50,080 --> 01:10:51,760
Speaker 2: of having this kind of success.

1587
01:10:52,240 --> 01:10:54,880
Speaker 6: I would say there's a lot. It's a lot more

1588
01:10:54,880 --> 01:10:56,240
Speaker 6: positive energy in the building.

1589
01:10:56,320 --> 01:10:56,559
Speaker 1: You know.

1590
01:10:56,640 --> 01:10:59,240
Speaker 6: It's and that starts with your head coach, Like he

1591
01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:01,800
Speaker 6: sets a great positive tone. And I'm sure you guys

1592
01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:03,720
Speaker 6: have heard he never coaches in negative He's trying to

1593
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:05,840
Speaker 6: coach in positives all the time. So I think he

1594
01:11:05,920 --> 01:11:08,559
Speaker 6: sets a great tone for our organization and how we're

1595
01:11:08,640 --> 01:11:11,120
Speaker 6: showing up the work and how everyone's just happy to

1596
01:11:11,160 --> 01:11:14,599
Speaker 6: be here and having a lot of energy. And you know,

1597
01:11:14,680 --> 01:11:17,840
Speaker 6: he promotes that and says like he wants energy, we

1598
01:11:17,920 --> 01:11:22,640
Speaker 6: want to have that those big plays, And yeah, I

1599
01:11:22,640 --> 01:11:25,080
Speaker 6: would say it makes work coming a lot, coming to

1600
01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:27,000
Speaker 6: work a lot easier, you know, and it makes it

1601
01:11:27,040 --> 01:11:28,880
Speaker 6: a lot more fun. It brings the fun back in

1602
01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:32,639
Speaker 6: football when you're winning games and there's energy and everyone

1603
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:34,600
Speaker 6: wants to be here and everyone wants to put in

1604
01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:34,880
Speaker 6: the work.

1605
01:11:34,960 --> 01:11:36,639
Speaker 7: So it makes a big difference for us.

1606
01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:39,720
Speaker 1: So going to Lambo, trying to remember when was the

1607
01:11:39,760 --> 01:11:41,599
Speaker 1: last time we were at Lambo for a preseason game?

1608
01:11:41,680 --> 01:11:43,479
Speaker 3: Was that in twenty one?

1609
01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:43,960
Speaker 5: One?

1610
01:11:44,240 --> 01:11:44,479
Speaker 3: Yep?

1611
01:11:44,840 --> 01:11:48,040
Speaker 1: So a have you ever played in Lamba B I

1612
01:11:48,040 --> 01:11:49,439
Speaker 1: know we're not all the way through kind of the

1613
01:11:49,479 --> 01:11:52,120
Speaker 1: preparation for the Packers, but your thoughts about facing the

1614
01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:53,040
Speaker 1: Packers at Lambo.

1615
01:11:54,040 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 7: No, I've never played in Lambo, so my first time.

1616
01:11:56,800 --> 01:12:00,439
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I'm excited, real excited for a lot of

1617
01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:03,920
Speaker 6: tradition this at this stadium as well. You know, they're

1618
01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:06,200
Speaker 6: they're a great team, they have a great run game.

1619
01:12:06,280 --> 01:12:08,719
Speaker 6: They're obviously have one of the best quarterbacks in football

1620
01:12:08,720 --> 01:12:10,800
Speaker 6: as well, So there's gonna be a big challenge for

1621
01:12:10,880 --> 01:12:15,000
Speaker 6: us to stop both of those, right, you know, Josh

1622
01:12:15,080 --> 01:12:18,559
Speaker 6: Jacobs great running back, and uh they have some good

1623
01:12:18,600 --> 01:12:20,680
Speaker 6: weapons on the outside and Jordan Loves has been doing

1624
01:12:20,720 --> 01:12:23,000
Speaker 6: a great job getting them all the rock.

1625
01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:25,800
Speaker 2: So it is big ten country, and you're a big

1626
01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:28,479
Speaker 2: ten guy, So how bizarre is it for you to

1627
01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:33,400
Speaker 2: see USC Washington these weird big ten matchups.

1628
01:12:33,439 --> 01:12:35,360
Speaker 3: I'm still not used to it. I don't know how

1629
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:36,200
Speaker 3: you feel, though, No.

1630
01:12:36,240 --> 01:12:38,439
Speaker 6: It's it's a lot different mile line. I are going

1631
01:12:38,439 --> 01:12:41,040
Speaker 6: to Oregon, uhl at Oregon.

1632
01:12:40,760 --> 01:12:42,960
Speaker 3: This year in AIG and a Big ten game.

1633
01:12:43,080 --> 01:12:46,400
Speaker 6: Yeah, on the West Coast, and that's new, and I'm

1634
01:12:46,960 --> 01:12:48,880
Speaker 6: I'll be quite honest, I'm happy I don't got to

1635
01:12:48,880 --> 01:12:50,599
Speaker 6: go play in the West Coast in some of those games.

1636
01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:53,960
Speaker 6: Those are tough travel schedule for them, so but it's

1637
01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:57,599
Speaker 6: it's different. I prefer the Big Ten West and the

1638
01:12:57,640 --> 01:13:00,519
Speaker 6: East and the winners of the West and in the

1639
01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:01,760
Speaker 6: Big ten Chip and just.

1640
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:03,840
Speaker 7: Kind of how it was for a while.

1641
01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:07,200
Speaker 6: But it's new, and you know, it's a new age

1642
01:13:07,200 --> 01:13:09,599
Speaker 6: of college football, so I'm sure it'll grow on me soon.

1643
01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:13,840
Speaker 6: And even keeping up a college football now, it's starting

1644
01:13:13,840 --> 01:13:15,080
Speaker 6: to grow on me a lot more.

1645
01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:18,439
Speaker 7: Just a new it's not really power five. It's just you.

1646
01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:21,120
Speaker 1: Know, it's a lot different when you were in college.

1647
01:13:21,200 --> 01:13:23,639
Speaker 1: I mean, your boys in Illinois playing well, I mean

1648
01:13:23,720 --> 01:13:27,000
Speaker 1: only only the one loss, have been playing very very well.

1649
01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:30,920
Speaker 1: They play Michigan this week games at Illinois. What place

1650
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:33,760
Speaker 1: did you enjoy going to the most when you were

1651
01:13:33,800 --> 01:13:36,200
Speaker 1: playing at Illinois, Like what stadium did you or what

1652
01:13:36,360 --> 01:13:37,880
Speaker 1: environment did you enjoy the most?

1653
01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:39,600
Speaker 7: I always really like playing in Nebraska.

1654
01:13:39,840 --> 01:13:40,439
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah.

1655
01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:43,479
Speaker 6: Nebraska was always a really a really cool because I

1656
01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:47,479
Speaker 6: played there my freshman almost freshman year.

1657
01:13:47,520 --> 01:13:51,040
Speaker 7: I played there and I didn't.

1658
01:13:50,800 --> 01:13:52,880
Speaker 6: Hear much about Nebraska or what it was gonna be like.

1659
01:13:52,920 --> 01:13:57,000
Speaker 6: And it's they sell out every freaking game. They fans

1660
01:13:57,000 --> 01:13:59,759
Speaker 6: are honestly, the fans are great people. They just cheer

1661
01:13:59,800 --> 01:14:03,240
Speaker 6: hard and they're all die hard Nebraska fans, so I

1662
01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:04,519
Speaker 6: feel like you can't really beat that.

1663
01:14:04,600 --> 01:14:07,000
Speaker 7: The stadium's beautiful, a great stadium.

1664
01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:09,439
Speaker 1: So, Jake, you're from the west coast of Florida. Did

1665
01:14:09,479 --> 01:14:10,839
Speaker 1: everybody make it to the hurricane?

1666
01:14:10,880 --> 01:14:11,200
Speaker 3: Okay?

1667
01:14:11,400 --> 01:14:12,599
Speaker 7: Yeah, everyone was all good.

1668
01:14:12,680 --> 01:14:16,840
Speaker 6: Appreciate you asking lost a little power for like, I think,

1669
01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:18,639
Speaker 6: twelve hours, but that's not bad.

1670
01:14:18,680 --> 01:14:19,400
Speaker 7: Yeah, not bad at all.

1671
01:14:19,520 --> 01:14:21,840
Speaker 6: Better than some of the people in Houston losing power

1672
01:14:22,160 --> 01:14:25,080
Speaker 6: back when we had our little tropical storm hurricanes.

1673
01:14:25,200 --> 01:14:26,320
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely.

1674
01:14:26,439 --> 01:14:28,639
Speaker 1: We talked about this a little bit this summer, right

1675
01:14:28,680 --> 01:14:31,960
Speaker 1: after Texas traded for Steph.

1676
01:14:32,040 --> 01:14:33,880
Speaker 3: You and I talked and you said, yeah, yeah, I

1677
01:14:33,920 --> 01:14:34,479
Speaker 3: worked out with him.

1678
01:14:34,479 --> 01:14:37,200
Speaker 1: I don't understand it what everybody was saying about this guy,

1679
01:14:37,280 --> 01:14:39,280
Speaker 1: Like I watched this guy work out. He works out hard.

1680
01:14:39,479 --> 01:14:41,120
Speaker 1: You kind of had a front row seat of seeing

1681
01:14:41,120 --> 01:14:43,000
Speaker 1: what Steph was all about when he got here. I

1682
01:14:43,040 --> 01:14:44,880
Speaker 1: know you don't want to share the whole conversation, but

1683
01:14:45,120 --> 01:14:47,240
Speaker 1: what did you see in him that you thought, Yeah,

1684
01:14:47,280 --> 01:14:48,400
Speaker 1: you know what this guy is gonna be.

1685
01:14:48,560 --> 01:14:50,240
Speaker 3: He's gonna be one of us. So he's gonna fit

1686
01:14:50,240 --> 01:14:50,840
Speaker 3: in really well.

1687
01:14:51,560 --> 01:14:53,680
Speaker 6: I mean yeah, so yeah, I saw him in the

1688
01:14:55,080 --> 01:14:58,160
Speaker 6: in the off season, We're at the same training facility

1689
01:14:58,200 --> 01:15:01,880
Speaker 6: for a few days and everyone, I mean, you know

1690
01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:03,000
Speaker 6: who Stefan Diggs is.

1691
01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:04,640
Speaker 7: Like he's a big name in football, so I know

1692
01:15:04,680 --> 01:15:08,800
Speaker 7: who he is. And there's a I think there was

1693
01:15:08,800 --> 01:15:10,479
Speaker 7: a the media kind of has given.

1694
01:15:10,360 --> 01:15:12,559
Speaker 6: Him a bad rap, at least the Buffalo media and

1695
01:15:12,600 --> 01:15:16,759
Speaker 6: other organizations have kind of given him a bad rap.

1696
01:15:16,800 --> 01:15:19,280
Speaker 6: But I mean, all I've seen from Steph is him

1697
01:15:19,280 --> 01:15:22,200
Speaker 6: coming to work every single day. And in our workout

1698
01:15:22,240 --> 01:15:24,040
Speaker 6: it was that I think he was going to another

1699
01:15:24,080 --> 01:15:25,240
Speaker 6: workout later that day.

1700
01:15:25,320 --> 01:15:27,920
Speaker 7: So it was like he's hitting two days.

1701
01:15:27,640 --> 01:15:31,639
Speaker 6: In March, and it's like I'm like grinding through one,

1702
01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:33,920
Speaker 6: trying to get through one, and I'm like, dang, So

1703
01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:36,839
Speaker 6: these you could just tell he I mean, every aspect

1704
01:15:36,880 --> 01:15:38,920
Speaker 6: of football in the preparation, he loves it and he's

1705
01:15:39,040 --> 01:15:40,880
Speaker 6: trying to be the best version of himself.

1706
01:15:40,880 --> 01:15:42,439
Speaker 7: That's why he's had the success he's had.

1707
01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:45,160
Speaker 2: So all right, one more, I've promised Johnny to not

1708
01:15:45,240 --> 01:15:48,559
Speaker 2: ask you about eighties movies this time. You are named

1709
01:15:48,800 --> 01:15:51,920
Speaker 2: I know you're named after Jake Ryan and sixteen Candles

1710
01:15:51,920 --> 01:15:54,160
Speaker 2: and I can't get over that. But what are you

1711
01:15:54,160 --> 01:15:57,679
Speaker 2: watching these days? Anything interesting? On TV streaming whatever.

1712
01:15:58,360 --> 01:16:01,000
Speaker 7: My girl is on the is blind right now?

1713
01:16:01,200 --> 01:16:09,320
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, okay, whoa, whoa, whoa you say she's okay,

1714
01:16:09,320 --> 01:16:12,799
Speaker 8: that's a very convenient way she watches.

1715
01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:14,240
Speaker 3: I watch a little bit every now.

1716
01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:21,240
Speaker 6: But it's a good one that we watched recently. I mean,

1717
01:16:21,400 --> 01:16:23,200
Speaker 6: you can't think you can't go wrong with Ozarks.

1718
01:16:23,200 --> 01:16:23,519
Speaker 7: We were on.

1719
01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:27,880
Speaker 6: We've finished up Ozarks recently. But yeah, it's a great one.

1720
01:16:28,840 --> 01:16:30,880
Speaker 1: That is not for the faint of heart though, that

1721
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:35,000
Speaker 1: is not for the very stressful. Jason Bateman that that

1722
01:16:35,040 --> 01:16:37,160
Speaker 1: whole show is fantas does a great It made.

1723
01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:38,639
Speaker 7: Me become a big Jason Bateman fan.

1724
01:16:38,840 --> 01:16:41,599
Speaker 6: I wasn't a huge fan of his, but after watching OKS,

1725
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:44,360
Speaker 6: I really liked him. And then it's another one on Hulu.

1726
01:16:45,439 --> 01:16:47,000
Speaker 6: It's all about Sea. I can't think of the name

1727
01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:49,000
Speaker 6: right now. It's just like the c I A and

1728
01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:52,519
Speaker 6: uh Homeland. Homeland is a good one. Have you guys

1729
01:16:52,520 --> 01:16:52,920
Speaker 6: seen Home?

1730
01:16:53,320 --> 01:16:53,880
Speaker 3: Yea great.

1731
01:16:54,120 --> 01:16:55,080
Speaker 7: Homeland is really good.

1732
01:16:55,400 --> 01:16:57,720
Speaker 1: Damian Lewis, Yeah, that's a good one, all right, Jake,

1733
01:16:57,720 --> 01:16:58,920
Speaker 1: that's a lot of good luck this week.

1734
01:16:59,080 --> 01:17:00,800
Speaker 7: Thank you, guys, appreciate the man.

1735
01:17:00,840 --> 01:17:03,000
Speaker 1: We love Jake. Mark and I are charter members of

1736
01:17:03,040 --> 01:17:05,720
Speaker 1: the fan club for show. We like that guy. Man,

1737
01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:08,240
Speaker 1: love the way he plays. He has been a final member.

1738
01:17:08,280 --> 01:17:10,360
Speaker 1: I loved him talking about kickoff. That was kind of interesting,

1739
01:17:10,880 --> 01:17:13,040
Speaker 1: but man, I'm telling you he kind of chuckled and

1740
01:17:13,800 --> 01:17:17,240
Speaker 1: said that shot he took against the Bears and the opener, Wow,

1741
01:17:17,600 --> 01:17:20,320
Speaker 1: that was a shot. But either way, Jake doing some

1742
01:17:20,400 --> 01:17:23,760
Speaker 1: great things for this team already and gotta do some

1743
01:17:23,880 --> 01:17:27,599
Speaker 1: on Sunday against the Green Bay Packers. Okay, speaking of Packers,

1744
01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:30,200
Speaker 1: Drew Doerty and I talked a lot about that and

1745
01:17:30,400 --> 01:17:34,439
Speaker 1: then some and what's the comparison to twenty twelve with

1746
01:17:34,560 --> 01:17:36,360
Speaker 1: this team. Drew and I talked about that on in

1747
01:17:36,439 --> 01:17:38,720
Speaker 1: the Lab. That's next the Texans All Access. We were

1748
01:17:38,800 --> 01:17:41,640
Speaker 1: one final segment this Wednesday edition to Texans All Access

1749
01:17:41,760 --> 01:17:45,000
Speaker 1: before we turn it over to Area forty five right

1750
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:47,880
Speaker 1: here on Sports Radio six ten. Appreciate you being with me.

1751
01:17:47,960 --> 01:17:52,040
Speaker 1: John Harris foot Planals sideline reporter for your Houston Texans.

1752
01:17:52,080 --> 01:17:54,519
Speaker 1: It's time to go in the lab with my guy,

1753
01:17:55,200 --> 01:17:58,679
Speaker 1: Drew Doherty. Let's do it right here as we discuss

1754
01:17:59,800 --> 01:18:02,880
Speaker 1: A eleven and twelve, twenty three and fourteen. There's a

1755
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:06,519
Speaker 1: lot of similarities and one really big difference here we go.

1756
01:18:06,880 --> 01:18:08,679
Speaker 9: Hey, John, what's going on? You're doing all right?

1757
01:18:09,040 --> 01:18:09,280
Speaker 1: Doing?

1758
01:18:09,320 --> 01:18:09,639
Speaker 3: Okay?

1759
01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:13,360
Speaker 1: Drew came home from Massachusetts with a win for the

1760
01:18:13,360 --> 01:18:15,280
Speaker 1: first time in the writers Jesus, So that was cool.

1761
01:18:15,320 --> 01:18:16,760
Speaker 3: That was cool. That was awesome. Yeah.

1762
01:18:17,040 --> 01:18:20,040
Speaker 9: So it's you and it's me. It's you watching or listening,

1763
01:18:20,080 --> 01:18:23,120
Speaker 9: and we're appreciative of you watching and or listening. So

1764
01:18:23,200 --> 01:18:26,720
Speaker 9: if you're checking us out on YouTube, subscribe to this

1765
01:18:26,800 --> 01:18:29,120
Speaker 9: YouTube page. Why haven't you already done that? If you

1766
01:18:29,160 --> 01:18:31,840
Speaker 9: haven't done that already, I mean you would a free Yeah,

1767
01:18:31,880 --> 01:18:34,280
Speaker 9: you wouldn't just get reminders about this. You get the

1768
01:18:34,320 --> 01:18:38,040
Speaker 9: iron sharpens iron. You get the Nick Cassario conversations every

1769
01:18:38,040 --> 01:18:41,240
Speaker 9: single week that he and I say he you and

1770
01:18:41,320 --> 01:18:43,960
Speaker 9: Mark Vandermer do, which is awesome. You get the head

1771
01:18:43,960 --> 01:18:48,880
Speaker 9: coach talking with you two every single week. You get uh, oh,

1772
01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:52,280
Speaker 9: I don't know, a cinematic recap after a win. You

1773
01:18:52,320 --> 01:18:55,760
Speaker 9: get the shuffle, you get the goat talk. I mean, oh,

1774
01:18:56,080 --> 01:18:57,759
Speaker 9: you know, you know what's going on with goat talk.

1775
01:18:58,960 --> 01:19:01,840
Speaker 9: I don't mean to get two cross promotional here, But

1776
01:19:02,320 --> 01:19:06,160
Speaker 9: we had Michael Irvin on last two weeks ago. We

1777
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:10,000
Speaker 9: had Chris Carter to start things off. The Big Aristotle

1778
01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:12,320
Speaker 9: was in the building and we just shot something with him,

1779
01:19:12,360 --> 01:19:15,799
Speaker 9: and yes, I'm talking about that Big Aristotle.

1780
01:19:15,400 --> 01:19:16,880
Speaker 3: For those that don't know Shaquille O'Neil.

1781
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:17,679
Speaker 9: Shaquille O'Neil.

1782
01:19:17,760 --> 01:19:20,120
Speaker 1: Yes, he was in the cafeteria and it was just

1783
01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:25,559
Speaker 1: it was it was we'll walk in like that's that's

1784
01:19:25,600 --> 01:19:27,000
Speaker 1: shack Holy cow.

1785
01:19:27,080 --> 01:19:28,720
Speaker 3: So yeah, it was. It was pretty cool. We got

1786
01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:30,360
Speaker 3: Shaq Mason got a chance to meet him.

1787
01:19:30,400 --> 01:19:32,080
Speaker 9: He did, Yeah, he did, and so did C. J.

1788
01:19:32,200 --> 01:19:32,679
Speaker 3: Stroud.

1789
01:19:32,840 --> 01:19:35,600
Speaker 9: And you're gonna hear and see that in about a

1790
01:19:35,640 --> 01:19:38,840
Speaker 9: month or so because next week we got Gary Kubiak's

1791
01:19:38,880 --> 01:19:40,760
Speaker 9: Go Talk coming out, which was a really fun one

1792
01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:43,040
Speaker 9: with and Andre Johnson and is a good power Jonathan

1793
01:19:43,080 --> 01:19:45,200
Speaker 9: Joseph do these things anyway, So that's neither here nor there.

1794
01:19:45,880 --> 01:19:47,920
Speaker 9: This Texans team is on a roll. And I was

1795
01:19:47,960 --> 01:19:52,000
Speaker 9: thinking this morning, John, it reminds me so much of

1796
01:19:52,040 --> 01:19:56,720
Speaker 9: twenty twelve, but better because this quarterback is better. And

1797
01:19:56,760 --> 01:19:58,639
Speaker 9: back then you had a Pro Bowl quarterback and Matt

1798
01:19:58,640 --> 01:20:01,320
Speaker 9: Shop that's a good thing, but this guy's even better.

1799
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:04,599
Speaker 9: And it made me think we are in the good times.

1800
01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:07,160
Speaker 9: It's like, what, Yeah, I know, the season's not over.

1801
01:20:07,200 --> 01:20:08,720
Speaker 9: I know there's still a lot to get to, but

1802
01:20:09,720 --> 01:20:11,519
Speaker 9: the good old days, you know, you think about the

1803
01:20:11,520 --> 01:20:14,360
Speaker 9: good old days when we're in right now, John, I mean,

1804
01:20:14,400 --> 01:20:16,320
Speaker 9: you got it. There's no other way to put it.

1805
01:20:16,400 --> 01:20:18,040
Speaker 9: There's no other way to put it. You're coming off

1806
01:20:18,080 --> 01:20:20,680
Speaker 9: a playoff win, your four games over five hundred. You're

1807
01:20:20,680 --> 01:20:23,240
Speaker 9: going up to Green Bay to face a four and

1808
01:20:23,280 --> 01:20:25,320
Speaker 9: two team. This is the game of the week pretty much,

1809
01:20:25,479 --> 01:20:28,920
Speaker 9: two best records squaring off on Sunday. Most of the

1810
01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:31,080
Speaker 9: country is going to get to see it. It's the

1811
01:20:31,080 --> 01:20:33,200
Speaker 9: good old days right now. How sweet is that, dude?

1812
01:20:34,200 --> 01:20:37,160
Speaker 1: It's I mean, it's sweet, there's no question about it,

1813
01:20:37,200 --> 01:20:38,439
Speaker 1: I think, and we want more.

1814
01:20:38,720 --> 01:20:41,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, this is the good old days. I think

1815
01:20:41,920 --> 01:20:42,719
Speaker 3: for some.

1816
01:20:42,640 --> 01:20:47,639
Speaker 1: People that remember twenty twelve, it's like when twenty twelve

1817
01:20:47,720 --> 01:20:50,320
Speaker 1: is brought up, I think people think about how it

1818
01:20:50,439 --> 01:20:55,479
Speaker 1: ended started eleven and one, and then there's the Letterjacket game,

1819
01:20:56,120 --> 01:20:58,559
Speaker 1: their losses down a stretch. Now all of a sudden,

1820
01:20:58,560 --> 01:21:00,559
Speaker 1: you got to play on walk Car weekend, when thought, man,

1821
01:21:00,560 --> 01:21:02,360
Speaker 1: we're gonna get a buye and back then you had

1822
01:21:02,360 --> 01:21:04,400
Speaker 1: two buys, so you were going to get a bye

1823
01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:07,400
Speaker 1: and it just all fell apart. Now you ended up

1824
01:21:07,520 --> 01:21:09,600
Speaker 1: going to divisional round, but you end up losing to

1825
01:21:09,720 --> 01:21:12,320
Speaker 1: New England as opposed to having a bye and then

1826
01:21:12,360 --> 01:21:16,439
Speaker 1: playing somebody here. So I think for people that have

1827
01:21:16,560 --> 01:21:20,920
Speaker 1: been following this team ardently since the beginning, or even

1828
01:21:20,960 --> 01:21:23,599
Speaker 1: since twenty twelve, whatever the case might be, I think

1829
01:21:23,640 --> 01:21:27,519
Speaker 1: people have that reaction when they hear twenty twelve, and

1830
01:21:28,600 --> 01:21:30,920
Speaker 1: I kind of had a little bit of that reaction too,

1831
01:21:31,400 --> 01:21:34,080
Speaker 1: But then you think about things that are different, and

1832
01:21:34,160 --> 01:21:37,640
Speaker 1: obviously the biggest difference is Matt was at the end

1833
01:21:37,720 --> 01:21:41,760
Speaker 1: of his run, he was physically not where he had been,

1834
01:21:42,479 --> 01:21:46,920
Speaker 1: and I think for that big reason that was kind

1835
01:21:46,920 --> 01:21:49,439
Speaker 1: of the struggle of twenty twelve. Teams start breaking out

1836
01:21:49,439 --> 01:21:52,400
Speaker 1: physically a little bit, and I know we're right in

1837
01:21:52,479 --> 01:21:53,200
Speaker 1: the midst of that.

1838
01:21:53,160 --> 01:21:54,160
Speaker 3: Kind of injury season.

1839
01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:57,080
Speaker 1: I'm kind of coining it injury season from like weeks yeah,

1840
01:21:57,080 --> 01:21:59,240
Speaker 1: guys to like week eleven.

1841
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:01,759
Speaker 3: The injury report should you have two pages?

1842
01:22:01,760 --> 01:22:04,840
Speaker 1: As I said to Nick the other day, So it's

1843
01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:10,400
Speaker 1: tough to kind of go, oh, it's similar, But I

1844
01:22:10,439 --> 01:22:14,559
Speaker 1: think this team having CJ. Strad at quarterback is a big,

1845
01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:16,960
Speaker 1: big difference. And let me recaliber we'll go from there,

1846
01:22:16,960 --> 01:22:17,880
Speaker 1: you're going have a good point.

1847
01:22:17,920 --> 01:22:21,960
Speaker 9: So when I say that, I'm thinking of, oh, twenty

1848
01:22:22,040 --> 01:22:24,880
Speaker 9: eleven happened, and you did all those great things, but

1849
01:22:24,960 --> 01:22:26,880
Speaker 9: you did it with a quarterback.

1850
01:22:26,400 --> 01:22:27,879
Speaker 3: Who was in TJ. Yates.

1851
01:22:28,040 --> 01:22:30,240
Speaker 9: He was a fifth rounder, he was you were kind

1852
01:22:30,240 --> 01:22:33,680
Speaker 9: of piecing things together. You had that ferocious defense, still

1853
01:22:33,720 --> 01:22:36,680
Speaker 9: the best defense the Texans have ever had, and the

1854
01:22:36,720 --> 01:22:40,240
Speaker 9: expectations coming into twelve were very very high, just like

1855
01:22:40,439 --> 01:22:43,960
Speaker 9: the expectations coming into this season were very very high.

1856
01:22:44,040 --> 01:22:47,200
Speaker 9: And then the start to that season in twenty twelve

1857
01:22:47,840 --> 01:22:50,920
Speaker 9: was astounding, eleven and one. You got to the sun

1858
01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:53,760
Speaker 9: set on Thanksgiving Day and the Texans were ten and one.

1859
01:22:53,920 --> 01:22:57,479
Speaker 9: It was bananas and Arian Foster krack in a thousand,

1860
01:22:57,720 --> 01:23:02,240
Speaker 9: Andre Johnson went for fifteen hundred. The defense was good

1861
01:23:02,320 --> 01:23:05,160
Speaker 9: and JJ Watt was a comet, but there were some

1862
01:23:05,479 --> 01:23:08,080
Speaker 9: cracks in the foundation that that got exposed in December.

1863
01:23:08,320 --> 01:23:12,200
Speaker 9: But it feels like the early part of that season

1864
01:23:12,240 --> 01:23:15,639
Speaker 9: when things were rocking and rolling, and then when Cushing

1865
01:23:15,680 --> 01:23:18,719
Speaker 9: got hurt, it all sort of changed things, but Sexon

1866
01:23:18,760 --> 01:23:21,160
Speaker 9: still found ways to win. But this feels in the

1867
01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:25,400
Speaker 9: good ways, like twenty twelve at the start and you're right,

1868
01:23:26,080 --> 01:23:27,840
Speaker 9: you need to recalibrate and you need to reframe that,

1869
01:23:27,880 --> 01:23:29,280
Speaker 9: because that's way I'm thinking that people are.

1870
01:23:29,200 --> 01:23:32,400
Speaker 3: Like, you're yeah, You're like, no, I understand they lost.

1871
01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:35,240
Speaker 1: I know that because in twenty twelve you ended up

1872
01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:38,280
Speaker 1: having that big win at Chicago on Sunday Night. You

1873
01:23:38,320 --> 01:23:42,120
Speaker 1: had those back to back wins where Andre was incredible

1874
01:23:42,400 --> 01:23:46,120
Speaker 1: against the Jaguars and the Lions, and you go you

1875
01:23:46,160 --> 01:23:48,160
Speaker 1: go into that mini bye or you come out of that,

1876
01:23:48,680 --> 01:23:50,559
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you go into the mini bye weekend, the

1877
01:23:50,560 --> 01:23:54,000
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving weekend and you're like, whoa, Okay, we got a

1878
01:23:54,040 --> 01:23:56,200
Speaker 1: mini by and then we've got all the way till

1879
01:23:56,200 --> 01:23:59,280
Speaker 1: Monday night we play the Patriots, and then it's it's

1880
01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:01,759
Speaker 1: like this excitement and build up, like Okay, this franchise

1881
01:24:01,880 --> 01:24:03,800
Speaker 1: is really you know, gotten to the got into the

1882
01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:06,040
Speaker 1: big time. And I think there are there are just

1883
01:24:06,160 --> 01:24:09,559
Speaker 1: too many people that remember that that instance, and you

1884
01:24:09,600 --> 01:24:13,840
Speaker 1: know then what happens after that that they gloss over

1885
01:24:14,040 --> 01:24:16,760
Speaker 1: the win over the Broncos in twenty twelve, which was

1886
01:24:16,920 --> 01:24:19,880
Speaker 1: such a great win because it was beating Peyton Manning

1887
01:24:19,960 --> 01:24:24,080
Speaker 1: and that was that had been unthinkable really while he

1888
01:24:24,200 --> 01:24:29,400
Speaker 1: was in Indianapolis and so but you're right, and it's

1889
01:24:29,439 --> 01:24:32,519
Speaker 1: it's so interesting how the two years of eleven and

1890
01:24:32,640 --> 01:24:36,240
Speaker 1: twelve kind of mirror right now twenty three and twenty four.

1891
01:24:36,800 --> 01:24:41,360
Speaker 1: So there there is probably for those fans and people

1892
01:24:41,439 --> 01:24:44,160
Speaker 1: that remember a little trepartation like okay, you know, can

1893
01:24:44,200 --> 01:24:45,280
Speaker 1: this team stay healthy?

1894
01:24:45,720 --> 01:24:46,599
Speaker 3: What's the next step?

1895
01:24:46,600 --> 01:24:48,280
Speaker 1: And I think the biggest thing people have got to

1896
01:24:48,280 --> 01:24:54,639
Speaker 1: realize is that I think personally this team, twenty twenty

1897
01:24:54,640 --> 01:25:01,040
Speaker 1: four team is deeper and maybe at its top, maybe

1898
01:25:01,160 --> 01:25:06,360
Speaker 1: deeper in the elite player category two now when everybody's

1899
01:25:06,400 --> 01:25:08,360
Speaker 1: healthy and that, but that also was the key here,

1900
01:25:08,439 --> 01:25:11,000
Speaker 1: you know, how how guys stay healthy. And we came

1901
01:25:11,040 --> 01:25:13,639
Speaker 1: out of Sunday and we saw A Z's get banged up.

1902
01:25:13,840 --> 01:25:17,160
Speaker 1: We saw Henry take a big shot on the sideline

1903
01:25:17,160 --> 01:25:20,160
Speaker 1: and was down for a bit. And those two linebackers

1904
01:25:20,200 --> 01:25:22,519
Speaker 1: have played I think every snap for you Drew in

1905
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:25,679
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, so you have to avoid those injuries.

1906
01:25:25,680 --> 01:25:28,200
Speaker 1: And you mentioned the big one and and I've always

1907
01:25:28,240 --> 01:25:31,479
Speaker 1: said this about Cush for whatever people wanted to say

1908
01:25:31,479 --> 01:25:35,360
Speaker 1: about Cush and you know, Maynac animal whatever, I felt

1909
01:25:35,400 --> 01:25:37,519
Speaker 1: like Cush gave this team its soul.

1910
01:25:37,880 --> 01:25:39,519
Speaker 3: I felt like he was the soul of.

1911
01:25:39,479 --> 01:25:44,040
Speaker 1: This team that he recognized when he needed to go

1912
01:25:44,080 --> 01:25:47,439
Speaker 1: into cush mode and kind of get everybody's attention, and

1913
01:25:47,520 --> 01:25:49,800
Speaker 1: that I think that was, you know, even all the

1914
01:25:49,800 --> 01:25:51,479
Speaker 1: way through the rest of his career, even after he

1915
01:25:51,560 --> 01:25:54,559
Speaker 1: was banged up. But when he goes down in that

1916
01:25:54,680 --> 01:25:57,080
Speaker 1: Jets game, I just remember everybody going back to the

1917
01:25:57,160 --> 01:25:59,760
Speaker 1: locker room after the win and he's on crutches and

1918
01:25:59,800 --> 01:26:03,200
Speaker 1: he's greeting everybody, and I just remember thinking, Damn, that's

1919
01:26:03,240 --> 01:26:06,280
Speaker 1: gonna hurt badly at some point, and.

1920
01:26:06,600 --> 01:26:09,400
Speaker 9: Because it was really tough because you bring up that

1921
01:26:09,479 --> 01:26:11,519
Speaker 9: aspect of him, you know, the heart and soul stuff.

1922
01:26:12,760 --> 01:26:15,360
Speaker 9: But in twenty eleven and through those first four games

1923
01:26:15,360 --> 01:26:18,280
Speaker 9: to change, yeah, he was. He was the team MVP

1924
01:26:18,400 --> 01:26:21,880
Speaker 9: in twenty eleven, I mean, and he was a phenomenal

1925
01:26:21,920 --> 01:26:25,360
Speaker 9: defender in twenty twelve at the start. And you lose

1926
01:26:25,640 --> 01:26:29,720
Speaker 9: both those things after you'd traded the Miko Ryans that

1927
01:26:29,800 --> 01:26:32,479
Speaker 9: offseason before, right, so then you're relying on Brady James,

1928
01:26:32,520 --> 01:26:33,680
Speaker 9: who was at the end of his career. He had

1929
01:26:33,680 --> 01:26:35,439
Speaker 9: been a fine linebacker in the NFL, but he was

1930
01:26:35,439 --> 01:26:37,360
Speaker 9: a little bit older. You had to pull guys off

1931
01:26:37,400 --> 01:26:39,439
Speaker 9: the street and bear it rude, right, you had to

1932
01:26:39,439 --> 01:26:42,880
Speaker 9: get Darryl Sharpton going, and it just caught up.

1933
01:26:42,840 --> 01:26:45,920
Speaker 3: With you, you know exactly. And that's and I think

1934
01:26:45,960 --> 01:26:48,120
Speaker 3: that's the you know, you want.

1935
01:26:47,920 --> 01:26:51,160
Speaker 1: To draw parallels in some sense, you know, disease is

1936
01:26:51,240 --> 01:26:55,520
Speaker 1: kind of that that that soulful piece for this team. Yeah,

1937
01:26:55,560 --> 01:26:57,880
Speaker 1: and yeah, he's a captain and I think he has

1938
01:26:57,920 --> 01:27:00,320
Speaker 1: meant so much to this team. Now obviously plays a

1939
01:27:00,320 --> 01:27:02,839
Speaker 1: little different than Cushion, just there's a big size difference

1940
01:27:02,840 --> 01:27:03,720
Speaker 1: and that kind of thing.

1941
01:27:03,760 --> 01:27:06,720
Speaker 3: But that I think you can draw parallels there.

1942
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:08,559
Speaker 1: And it's like, man, I just keep my fingers crossed,

1943
01:27:08,600 --> 01:27:10,560
Speaker 1: like god, dang, it's a knee, just like Cushions is

1944
01:27:10,600 --> 01:27:11,960
Speaker 1: a knee, and like, okay.

1945
01:27:11,800 --> 01:27:12,240
Speaker 3: There can't.

1946
01:27:12,240 --> 01:27:15,559
Speaker 1: They're crazy similarities that hopefully aren't going to end up

1947
01:27:15,560 --> 01:27:17,639
Speaker 1: being true. But again you go back to the fact

1948
01:27:17,640 --> 01:27:25,439
Speaker 1: that you know seven is a quarterback and everything. You know,

1949
01:27:25,479 --> 01:27:27,880
Speaker 1: he can't go out and cover a receiver. He can

1950
01:27:28,160 --> 01:27:30,240
Speaker 1: you know, set the edge in the run defense. But

1951
01:27:30,760 --> 01:27:33,960
Speaker 1: when players at those spots end up making those mistakes,

1952
01:27:34,560 --> 01:27:37,160
Speaker 1: because invariably they're going to happen, he can then erase

1953
01:27:37,200 --> 01:27:39,960
Speaker 1: them by coming back and having a seventy five play drive,

1954
01:27:40,360 --> 01:27:42,519
Speaker 1: hitting a sixty seven yard bomb like he did de

1955
01:27:42,600 --> 01:27:46,040
Speaker 1: Nico and the Bills game. He can erase those mistakes

1956
01:27:46,120 --> 01:27:48,479
Speaker 1: just with his play, and it is just that much

1957
01:27:48,520 --> 01:27:52,519
Speaker 1: more paramount to keep him upright and healthy and keep

1958
01:27:52,600 --> 01:27:55,479
Speaker 1: him from taking shots. And this is a defense this

1959
01:27:55,520 --> 01:28:00,240
Speaker 1: week against the Green Bay Packers that they're they're out

1960
01:28:00,320 --> 01:28:02,240
Speaker 1: upfront and they're gonna get their shots.

1961
01:28:02,960 --> 01:28:05,040
Speaker 3: And so that offensive line has really got a hold.

1962
01:28:04,920 --> 01:28:07,960
Speaker 1: Up because he is. He is the key difference in

1963
01:28:08,320 --> 01:28:11,639
Speaker 1: these two teams. That makes twenty three twenty four different

1964
01:28:11,640 --> 01:28:14,360
Speaker 1: than eleven and twelve. And look, you know you had

1965
01:28:14,360 --> 01:28:16,960
Speaker 1: the success in eleven and twelve. There was this kind

1966
01:28:16,960 --> 01:28:19,679
Speaker 1: of in eleven, it was this joy of oh my god,

1967
01:28:19,720 --> 01:28:21,479
Speaker 1: look at what this team's doing Coylake last year.

1968
01:28:22,120 --> 01:28:23,960
Speaker 3: And I think in twenty twelve.

1969
01:28:25,120 --> 01:28:27,559
Speaker 1: The thing about this season was because they beat the

1970
01:28:27,560 --> 01:28:30,320
Speaker 1: Broncos as handily as they did up in Denver, I

1971
01:28:30,360 --> 01:28:31,800
Speaker 1: think it had a little different feel.

1972
01:28:31,960 --> 01:28:35,439
Speaker 3: They had that big victory up front. Then they ended up.

1973
01:28:35,400 --> 01:28:37,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, losing the Packers, okay, but they had that victory

1974
01:28:37,280 --> 01:28:39,760
Speaker 1: against the Broncos, so that kind of buoyed people, and

1975
01:28:39,760 --> 01:28:40,880
Speaker 1: then they had didn't lose again.

1976
01:28:41,120 --> 01:28:41,760
Speaker 3: Then they beat the.

1977
01:28:41,680 --> 01:28:43,800
Speaker 1: Bears on Sunday night, so I think people were like, oh, yeah,

1978
01:28:44,080 --> 01:28:47,320
Speaker 1: this team is definitely for real. But then you know

1979
01:28:47,479 --> 01:28:51,320
Speaker 1: Matt's you know health in a sense started just you know, dissipating,

1980
01:28:51,320 --> 01:28:52,479
Speaker 1: and we know the rest of the story.

1981
01:28:52,600 --> 01:28:53,680
Speaker 3: So hopefully this.

1982
01:28:53,680 --> 01:28:59,040
Speaker 1: Team is it's mixed differently, it's mixed differently, and that

1983
01:28:59,600 --> 01:29:02,840
Speaker 1: they have some grizzled vets, but yet it's still at

1984
01:29:02,880 --> 01:29:06,320
Speaker 1: its core a pretty young team. So we'll see how

1985
01:29:06,320 --> 01:29:10,120
Speaker 1: it ends up going. But but you're right, the looking

1986
01:29:10,160 --> 01:29:13,559
Speaker 1: at five and one like this is only happened one time.

1987
01:29:13,560 --> 01:29:15,320
Speaker 1: How many how many years we've been a franchise, it

1988
01:29:15,360 --> 01:29:17,799
Speaker 1: means our franchise eligible to drink now are we beyond

1989
01:29:17,800 --> 01:29:20,160
Speaker 1: twenty one years? I think we're twenty two years now,

1990
01:29:20,479 --> 01:29:23,599
Speaker 1: so we've only been five and one one at a time.

1991
01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:24,960
Speaker 3: That's twenty twelve.

1992
01:29:25,400 --> 01:29:28,280
Speaker 1: So I mean, man, I think a lot of people

1993
01:29:28,240 --> 01:29:30,320
Speaker 1: around this building will tell you, yeah, we haven't played

1994
01:29:30,360 --> 01:29:32,519
Speaker 1: our best game yet. We played well, you know, and

1995
01:29:32,600 --> 01:29:34,519
Speaker 1: played well a lot of the times, but we really

1996
01:29:34,560 --> 01:29:37,000
Speaker 1: haven't hit our our stride yet. So hopefully it happens

1997
01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:38,680
Speaker 1: in Lambeau because this would be a big one on

1998
01:29:38,680 --> 01:29:40,000
Speaker 1: the road, all right.

1999
01:29:41,120 --> 01:29:44,200
Speaker 9: It's time to bring in our pal macho Man, Randy

2000
01:29:44,240 --> 01:29:46,920
Speaker 9: Savage to talk about a cream of the crop.

2001
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:47,960
Speaker 1: The cream of the crop.

2002
01:29:48,360 --> 01:29:51,160
Speaker 9: Thank you, Macho Man, cream of the Crop award winner.

2003
01:29:51,280 --> 01:29:55,240
Speaker 9: So if the Texans are flying south on Sunday afternoon,

2004
01:29:55,280 --> 01:29:59,320
Speaker 9: Sunday evening with a victory and they're at six and one,

2005
01:29:59,560 --> 01:30:04,200
Speaker 9: it will be because this guy and this guy were

2006
01:30:04,280 --> 01:30:06,879
Speaker 9: Cream of the Crop award winners, cream of the crop players.

2007
01:30:06,920 --> 01:30:11,200
Speaker 9: I'm gonna go with Will Anderson Jr. That's not that's

2008
01:30:11,240 --> 01:30:16,400
Speaker 9: not a real uhsotic pick, but man three sacks last

2009
01:30:16,439 --> 01:30:21,559
Speaker 9: week and Demico Ryan's not challenging but not prodding, but

2010
01:30:21,680 --> 01:30:24,240
Speaker 9: kind of mentioning, Hey, how about we do it again?

2011
01:30:24,320 --> 01:30:26,360
Speaker 9: How about we keep this going? You know, when the

2012
01:30:26,360 --> 01:30:29,440
Speaker 9: coaches show with you and in the press conference and whatnot,

2013
01:30:29,600 --> 01:30:33,120
Speaker 9: I could see Will Anderson sort of heating up. He

2014
01:30:33,200 --> 01:30:36,360
Speaker 9: talked about how he's, you know, working on some things

2015
01:30:36,360 --> 01:30:39,360
Speaker 9: and figuring things out and you know, diversifying as a

2016
01:30:39,360 --> 01:30:42,280
Speaker 9: pass rusher and maybe simplifying as a pass rusher at

2017
01:30:42,280 --> 01:30:45,600
Speaker 9: the same time. Let's see him keep getting out. I

2018
01:30:45,640 --> 01:30:48,559
Speaker 9: mean eight total tackles, four of them for a loss,

2019
01:30:48,640 --> 01:30:51,479
Speaker 9: three sacks, the batted pass that led to the interception

2020
01:30:51,640 --> 01:30:53,160
Speaker 9: by Eric Murray, which was a hell of a pick

2021
01:30:53,439 --> 01:30:54,920
Speaker 9: and you'll had a fun time talk with him and

2022
01:30:54,960 --> 01:30:58,120
Speaker 9: n D. Kalu yesterday about that. But anyways, give me

2023
01:30:58,160 --> 01:31:01,720
Speaker 9: Will Anderson Jr. I want to see the Terminator keep

2024
01:31:01,760 --> 01:31:04,599
Speaker 9: playing the way he plays because they're gonna get tested,

2025
01:31:04,600 --> 01:31:06,400
Speaker 9: Like you've mentioned, they're gonna get tested by the Green

2026
01:31:06,439 --> 01:31:09,040
Speaker 9: Bay offense. They're on the road. Should be a fun one.

2027
01:31:09,080 --> 01:31:11,960
Speaker 9: It's gonna be nice, man, It's gonna be nice, nice afternoon.

2028
01:31:12,000 --> 01:31:15,000
Speaker 9: It's gonna be like Houston seventy two, Sonny. At least

2029
01:31:15,200 --> 01:31:19,200
Speaker 9: that's what the the Apple iPhone this weather things.

2030
01:31:19,400 --> 01:31:21,200
Speaker 3: Yeah, hopefully that way.

2031
01:31:21,560 --> 01:31:23,720
Speaker 9: Let me let me go with Will Anderson. Who you

2032
01:31:23,760 --> 01:31:26,120
Speaker 9: have as you're a Cream of the Award winner.

2033
01:31:25,920 --> 01:31:30,479
Speaker 1: So in most things football, you know when you name

2034
01:31:30,560 --> 01:31:33,040
Speaker 1: like an All American team, you've got first team, second team,

2035
01:31:33,080 --> 01:31:35,040
Speaker 1: third team. Yes, I'm gonna do that really quick, just

2036
01:31:35,080 --> 01:31:37,519
Speaker 1: because there were two names that immediately popped him mind.

2037
01:31:37,520 --> 01:31:40,559
Speaker 1: And then there was one and his name has actually

2038
01:31:40,560 --> 01:31:42,479
Speaker 1: been mentioned earlier in this show that I'm gonna use

2039
01:31:42,479 --> 01:31:44,759
Speaker 1: as my first team, but my third team and second

2040
01:31:44,760 --> 01:31:48,240
Speaker 1: team are Kaylen Bullock and Jalen peatree. Okay, I think

2041
01:31:48,280 --> 01:31:50,200
Speaker 1: that Jordan Love is gonna want to take shots down

2042
01:31:50,200 --> 01:31:50,639
Speaker 1: the field.

2043
01:31:50,880 --> 01:31:52,160
Speaker 3: That is gonna be Kaylen Bullock.

2044
01:31:52,400 --> 01:31:54,120
Speaker 1: And I think Jalen's got to play a little bit

2045
01:31:54,160 --> 01:31:57,160
Speaker 1: better in coverage and be a little stickier in coverage,

2046
01:31:57,880 --> 01:32:01,040
Speaker 1: especially that he was against New England because you got

2047
01:32:01,040 --> 01:32:03,400
Speaker 1: to keep chating the pecher in a field and at

2048
01:32:03,439 --> 01:32:05,320
Speaker 1: times because the position he plays is gonna have to

2049
01:32:05,400 --> 01:32:07,320
Speaker 1: end up one on one. Well, that's gonna be one

2050
01:32:07,320 --> 01:32:10,160
Speaker 1: on one against probably Jayden Reid, and Jaden Reid is

2051
01:32:10,160 --> 01:32:14,360
Speaker 1: one of the best inside slot, dynamic, explosive receivers that's

2052
01:32:14,360 --> 01:32:17,400
Speaker 1: in the league. But my All American, my first team

2053
01:32:17,720 --> 01:32:20,680
Speaker 1: cream of the crop All American is going to be

2054
01:32:20,880 --> 01:32:21,599
Speaker 1: Shaq Mason.

2055
01:32:22,080 --> 01:32:22,400
Speaker 3: Okay.

2056
01:32:23,000 --> 01:32:26,439
Speaker 1: And I picked Shack kind of as a representative of

2057
01:32:26,479 --> 01:32:29,720
Speaker 1: the offensive line, but I thought the offensive line did

2058
01:32:29,760 --> 01:32:32,360
Speaker 1: some better things the other day. I don't think Shack

2059
01:32:32,439 --> 01:32:35,599
Speaker 1: has played his best ballgame this year, and this would

2060
01:32:35,600 --> 01:32:37,759
Speaker 1: be the time to do it because he's facing Kenny

2061
01:32:37,800 --> 01:32:41,719
Speaker 1: Clark Devonte Wyatt. He's facing some dudes, and they're different

2062
01:32:41,800 --> 01:32:43,920
Speaker 1: kind of dudes. Clark is kind of a bigger, thicker,

2063
01:32:44,040 --> 01:32:45,880
Speaker 1: stronger manchild.

2064
01:32:46,240 --> 01:32:48,839
Speaker 3: Wyatt is kind of a little.

2065
01:32:48,720 --> 01:32:52,559
Speaker 1: Quicker, So it's a good mix for the Packers of

2066
01:32:52,680 --> 01:32:55,080
Speaker 1: quickness and strength and two different guys.

2067
01:32:55,800 --> 01:32:57,080
Speaker 3: Shaq's gotta be able to handle that.

2068
01:32:57,160 --> 01:32:58,639
Speaker 1: I mean, you could throw Kenyan and Green in there

2069
01:32:58,680 --> 01:33:02,879
Speaker 1: as well, but I think Kenyan shown at times some growth.

2070
01:33:03,600 --> 01:33:06,320
Speaker 1: I think Shack needs to play that kind of game

2071
01:33:07,120 --> 01:33:10,080
Speaker 1: this week against the Packers that the Texas thought they

2072
01:33:10,080 --> 01:33:12,320
Speaker 1: were getting last year when they got him here, and

2073
01:33:12,360 --> 01:33:14,639
Speaker 1: that he's capable of playing. He's got to play that game.

2074
01:33:14,680 --> 01:33:17,160
Speaker 1: He's got to keep those into your guys off a CJ. Stroud,

2075
01:33:17,479 --> 01:33:19,360
Speaker 1: and they got to be able to make blocks up front,

2076
01:33:19,439 --> 01:33:22,760
Speaker 1: whether it's running power and he's leading, or he's down

2077
01:33:22,760 --> 01:33:26,000
Speaker 1: blocking on power towards him, or they're running zone and

2078
01:33:26,040 --> 01:33:28,920
Speaker 1: he's able to wipe out those guys in the zone game.

2079
01:33:29,360 --> 01:33:30,880
Speaker 3: Shack Mason is my cream of the Cropper.

2080
01:33:31,000 --> 01:33:33,840
Speaker 9: Drew fitting that you choose Shack Mason in a week

2081
01:33:33,840 --> 01:33:38,120
Speaker 9: in which he gets to see Shack Shaquille O'Neal. He

2082
01:33:38,200 --> 01:33:41,400
Speaker 9: knows Shaquille O'Neil. Yeah, they've met before. But we got

2083
01:33:41,400 --> 01:33:43,880
Speaker 9: a nice photo of that Zach Tarrant did earlier in

2084
01:33:43,920 --> 01:33:46,080
Speaker 9: the weekend. It'll come out in time you'll see that,

2085
01:33:46,280 --> 01:33:49,519
Speaker 9: but I like it. Little Blue Trenches love today. Yeah,

2086
01:33:49,560 --> 01:33:52,640
Speaker 9: both of us absolutely cream of the Crop award winners.

2087
01:33:52,280 --> 01:33:56,000
Speaker 9: It's it's exciting, man. Whether it's twenty twelve or twenty

2088
01:33:56,040 --> 01:33:59,200
Speaker 9: four or twenty eleven or whatever, your team is, four

2089
01:33:59,240 --> 01:34:02,040
Speaker 9: games above five one hundred, they're very very good. Good

2090
01:34:02,120 --> 01:34:05,320
Speaker 9: things are projected. These are the good old days. Don't

2091
01:34:05,360 --> 01:34:05,840
Speaker 9: forget that.

2092
01:34:06,320 --> 01:34:08,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with Drew. These are some fun days, and

2093
01:34:08,360 --> 01:34:12,960
Speaker 1: sometimes we have to step back from our daily discussion

2094
01:34:13,080 --> 01:34:16,120
Speaker 1: and go, yeah, man, this is fun. We got a

2095
01:34:16,160 --> 01:34:20,519
Speaker 1: really good football team because for three years we didn't

2096
01:34:20,680 --> 01:34:23,559
Speaker 1: really Let's be honest, it was tough times, but we

2097
01:34:23,640 --> 01:34:26,080
Speaker 1: got through it and hopefully we'll play some good football

2098
01:34:26,280 --> 01:34:29,519
Speaker 1: on Sunday and throughout the rest of the twenty four seasons.

2099
01:34:29,560 --> 01:34:32,439
Speaker 1: So I definitely appreciate Drew for stopping by giving that

2100
01:34:32,520 --> 01:34:36,240
Speaker 1: perspective on in the lab, and that was really really fun.

2101
01:34:36,360 --> 01:34:41,240
Speaker 1: Wayne Larvie longtime voice the Green Bay Packers, nineteen nineties

2102
01:34:41,520 --> 01:34:46,200
Speaker 1: Bulls as well as the nineteen eighty five Bears. Man

2103
01:34:46,200 --> 01:34:50,120
Speaker 1: that guy has called some games in his career. But

2104
01:34:50,240 --> 01:34:54,160
Speaker 1: appreciate Wayne Love hearing his voice on here. Appreciate Mark

2105
01:34:54,240 --> 01:34:57,880
Speaker 1: as always Nick Caserio stopped by. That was really really cool.

2106
01:34:57,960 --> 01:35:01,120
Speaker 1: He does it every week with us. It's always it's

2107
01:35:01,160 --> 01:35:04,400
Speaker 1: always fun, it's always a blast. He always humors me

2108
01:35:04,600 --> 01:35:07,360
Speaker 1: with all my questions and of course marks as well,

2109
01:35:07,400 --> 01:35:10,040
Speaker 1: but mainly mine because mine are always kind of out there.

2110
01:35:10,080 --> 01:35:13,040
Speaker 1: So I appreciate Nick for being out there. Appreciate you guys.

2111
01:35:13,120 --> 01:35:17,400
Speaker 1: You guys are always here for us. Thank you so very much.

2112
01:35:17,640 --> 01:35:19,040
Speaker 1: We got plenty of the rest of the week. We've

2113
01:35:19,040 --> 01:35:22,040
Speaker 1: got John McClain coming on tomorrow. That's gonna be a

2114
01:35:22,040 --> 01:35:24,320
Speaker 1: fun time. We should also have an assistant coach too,

2115
01:35:24,400 --> 01:35:27,439
Speaker 1: not sure totally just yet, but we should have assistant

2116
01:35:27,439 --> 01:35:29,680
Speaker 1: coach on with us tomorrow, so we have that to

2117
01:35:29,720 --> 01:35:31,680
Speaker 1: look forward to. Friday's show. Then we take off for

2118
01:35:31,720 --> 01:35:34,240
Speaker 1: Green Bay and take on the packers, and I get

2119
01:35:34,240 --> 01:35:37,400
Speaker 1: a little family reunion in the process, So that's gonna

2120
01:35:37,400 --> 01:35:40,000
Speaker 1: be a fun time as well. The funnest time is

2121
01:35:40,000 --> 01:35:42,120
Speaker 1: gonna be beating the packers. We've got a few days

2122
01:35:42,120 --> 01:35:44,439
Speaker 1: to prepare to get ready for the packers up in

2123
01:35:44,479 --> 01:35:46,960
Speaker 1: Green Bay, but it's gonna be fun. CJ. Stravers, Jordan

2124
01:35:47,000 --> 01:35:51,040
Speaker 1: Love Texans v Packers, Nance Romo Tracy on the call

2125
01:35:51,160 --> 01:35:54,280
Speaker 1: it's gonna be awesome, so get it ready for them.

2126
01:35:54,720 --> 01:35:57,040
Speaker 1: We'll see tomorrow everybody, and as always, go Texans.