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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody. Welcome into a Wednesday edition of

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I am

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Speaker 1: your host, John Harris, celebrating a one year anniversary of

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Speaker 1: a new back. Was one year ago today at back surgery.

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Speaker 1: But I still did my radio shows, did them all,

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Speaker 1: never missed a one, and we'll not miss one tonight.

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to being with you tonight. We have got

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Speaker 1: a lot for You're gonna have a little Coach Cully

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Speaker 1: audio juke box a little bit later in the show,

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Speaker 1: we're also going to hear from dpcuy, who caught up

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Speaker 1: with Jim Wyatt. It is Tennessee Titans week and when

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Speaker 1: we go behind enemy sidelines, Jim Wyatt, senior writer for

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Speaker 1: Titans dot Com, the longtime writer there in Nashville, moved

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Speaker 1: over to the team's side a few years ago and

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Speaker 1: he's fantastic and he will give us the skinny on

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Speaker 1: the number one team in the AFC. Yes, the number

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Speaker 1: one team in the AFC is the ten to See Titans.

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Speaker 1: And I want to throw up in my mouth, but

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Speaker 1: it's true. It's very true. And here's the sad thing.

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Speaker 1: I like to watch that team play. I really do

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Speaker 1: because for years, the last two three years, the defense

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Speaker 1: was garbage. I mean, defense is garbage. But they drafted

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Speaker 1: to Jeffrey Simmons when some people thought maybe you shouldn't

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Speaker 1: go in the first round after an ACL tarret's about

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Speaker 1: the field issues. They brought in Kevin Bayard a few

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Speaker 1: years ago, they hit on Harold Landry. Finally they brought

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Speaker 1: in Bud Dupree. I think one of the more underrating

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Speaker 1: signings was Danico Autry, and they've all kind of pulled

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Speaker 1: that together. That defense has really started to play some

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Speaker 1: good ball. Coach by Shane Bowen, who was a defensive

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Speaker 1: assistant with your Houston Texans a few years ago. Great dude,

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Speaker 1: great coach. I wish them all luck, just not on

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Speaker 1: Sunday when we arrive. So coach Cole is gonna join us,

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Speaker 1: Jim Whyatt's gonna join us. We also have got men

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Speaker 1: behind the mics. When I say the word Mike, well

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Speaker 1: I'm talking microphone, but I'm also talking about Mike Keith.

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Speaker 1: He played by play voice, longtime play by play voice

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Speaker 1: of the Tennessee Titans. And I wish I could have

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Speaker 1: jumped on this call with Mike and with Mark because

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Speaker 1: Mike Keith was part of what I think is one

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Speaker 1: of the best documentaries I've seen. It was on SEC

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Speaker 1: Network call SEC Story called More More Than a Game,

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Speaker 1: and it's about the voices of the Southeastern Conference and

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Speaker 1: it is fantastic. And Mike did some work with Tennessee

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Speaker 1: volunteers back in his early days and in college, and

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Speaker 1: so he was interviewed. So maybe we get to Nashville,

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Speaker 1: I might have a chance to run into Mike. I'd

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Speaker 1: like to get his thoughts. But I've been telling Mark

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Speaker 1: anywere you gotta see the show Man. It's awesome. You

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Speaker 1: guys gotta see it too. Have you seen it already?

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about. It is fantastic. So

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Speaker 1: Memmiana Mike's then we have a little in the lab,

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Speaker 1: Drew Doherty and myself talking about any number of things,

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Speaker 1: talking about the connections amongst these two teams and over

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Speaker 1: the year. There's always been a connection Texans. For a

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Speaker 1: connection Patriots Texans connection, but there is definitely one Texans

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Speaker 1: Titans because when Mike Rabel took that job in Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: He also took with him a few guys, his secondary coach,

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Speaker 1: the show. Well, let's kick it off by speaking with

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Speaker 1: the general manager of your Houston Texans, Nick Cassario, who

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Speaker 1: is well, he's not so much crying his milk because

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Speaker 1: John Carroll to make the D three playoffs. But you

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Speaker 1: Carroll and you see why here in just the second.

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Speaker 1: But here's Nick with me and Mark joining us right

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Speaker 1: now Texans Radio. It's Texans general manager Nick Kissia. Nick,

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Speaker 1: great to have you with us. Back to it, back

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Speaker 1: to the grind here. So self, scout, you looked at yourselves.

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Speaker 1: of the situational elements we've done okay. There's some other

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Speaker 1: during the course of the game. At the end of

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Speaker 1: the game, whatever the score is is the score. But

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Speaker 1: I think that's the most important thing that all of

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Speaker 1: our players can do, and we weren't really what we're

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Speaker 1: looking for. So you want to go through your routine,

435
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Speaker 1: have a good week of practice, go through your process,

436
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Speaker 1: and then go out there and actually perform. But the

437
00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:20,119
Speaker 1: bottom line, it comes down to execution. So we have

438
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Speaker 1: to be able to go out there and execute. It's

439
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Speaker 1: not one player, one person it's going to be about

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Speaker 1: a collective effort from our team, and if we have

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Speaker 1: collective execution, then we'll put ourselves in a position to

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Speaker 1: hopefully be competitive. At the end. The Vision three playoff

443
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Speaker 1: racket came out, was John Carroll on it. No, I

444
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Speaker 1: think they went seven and three this year. They actually

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Speaker 1: they had a coincidentally happened to check. So they played

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Speaker 1: Baldin Wallace, which is between Mount Union BW. Those two

447
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Speaker 1: our biggest rivals, so the Kuyahaga Gold Bowl, which nobody

448
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Speaker 1: even knows what the hell that is, but it's like

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Speaker 1: a crosstown rival sort of trophy. So I think BW

450
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Speaker 1: was eight and one and they were actually on the

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Speaker 1: precipice of the playoffs and then John Carroll was seven

452
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Speaker 1: and two, six and three going in the game, so

453
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Speaker 1: their season was basically over, but they won the game

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Speaker 1: at the end, so they might have knocked bwot I

455
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Speaker 1: don't know if bw's on there, I don't think that.

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Speaker 1: I don't think John Carroll's out. So they finished seven

457
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Speaker 1: and three, you know, which is, you know, a decent record,

458
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Speaker 1: but you know, the hope and the goal is to

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Speaker 1: do more. But coach Finati has done a great job

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Speaker 1: so that the program has been fairly consistent. Going back

461
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Speaker 1: to the Ice Age when I was there, the three playoffs,

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Speaker 1: I think I just think playoffs are fantastic. But you

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Speaker 1: mentioned you're watching games. Can you, after all the years

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Speaker 1: of evaluation, all the film you watch, can you just

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Speaker 1: watch a game just for fun or are you calling

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Speaker 1: off formations or looking at particular players? Can you watch

467
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Speaker 1: a game just for fun? It depends what you're watching,

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Speaker 1: so you know you're you're really watching the flow of

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Speaker 1: the game. But when you're accustomed to watching football for

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Speaker 1: I don't know, twenty five thirty years, you're always looking

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Speaker 1: for something. It might it might not necessarily be an evaluation.

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Speaker 1: He might see a team run a player formation and go,

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Speaker 1: you know what, that's kind of interesting. You know, they

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Speaker 1: make a note about that, So there could be a

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Speaker 1: scheme element or scheme component, and you're not necessarily worried about, Okay,

476
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Speaker 1: where's this guy gonna get drafted? He's gonna show up

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Speaker 1: at the East west and and what's this forty time

478
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Speaker 1: gonna be? Is he gonna jump high? Like? None of

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Speaker 1: those types of things. So it depends on the game

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Speaker 1: and really what you're looking for, But really it's what

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Speaker 1: your what is your goal? What are you trying to accomplish?

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Speaker 1: And look, we talked about earlier. You just have to

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Speaker 1: be careful about too much stock and what you see

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Speaker 1: in one play and what happens, because there's so much

485
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Speaker 1: that goes into the evaluation of any player. Why do

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Speaker 1: I imagine your daughters to be like the little girl

487
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Speaker 1: and remember the Titans and be total football experts? Please

488
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Speaker 1: tell me so remember the Titans? No, I have good

489
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Speaker 1: My Actually, my oldest daughter is more in tune than

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Speaker 1: I realize. Like she's very astute with her observations and

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Speaker 1: questions and she actually hasn't understand and we don't even

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Speaker 1: talk about it at home, but she just is very observant.

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Speaker 1: So unfortunately she have some of her her father's traits.

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Speaker 1: So my middle one and the younger one are more

495
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Speaker 1: like their mother, so at least they we have a

496
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Speaker 1: couple that so so well, she just asked you a

497
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Speaker 1: question that you're like, well, I don't really thought about that. Yeah,

498
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Speaker 1: Or she'll say oh yeah, so and so you know

499
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Speaker 1: didn't play very well last week, or this team beat

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Speaker 1: that team last week, and it's like, how do you

501
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Speaker 1: know that like, we don't even like to Nick. Thanks

502
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Speaker 1: a lot, good luck this week. Thanks guys, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Each and every week we get a chance to go

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Speaker 1: two on one with the Texans general manager Nick Cassario.

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Speaker 1: It's always fun because we get hit on any number

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Speaker 1: of topics. We like talking about the draft and the

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Speaker 1: building of the team process. We'd love doing all that

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Speaker 1: with Nick, and he's gracious enough to go through those

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Speaker 1: things with us and share with us. He's really fun.

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Speaker 1: But what stood out to me this week was the

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Speaker 1: way that he spoke about the Tennessee Titans and the

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Speaker 1: philosophy that the Tennessee Titans have. And I always found

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Speaker 1: that really really interesting to hear what he had to

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Speaker 1: say and how animated he got. If you see the video,

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Speaker 1: you see how animated he got. Now, the one thing

516
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Speaker 1: Nick is not going to get animated about is well

517
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Speaker 1: going out to eat with me and or Mark at

518
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Speaker 1: any point, because at some point we're gonna go to

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite places, Freddie's Frozen Custard and steak Burgers.

520
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:05,800
Speaker 1: And Freddie's is all about the good and creating more

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Speaker 1: of it, more drive through celebrations, more road trips around

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Speaker 1: the block, more family dinners and lunches, more car picnics

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Speaker 1: and desserts, maybe even more second desserts, more being together

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Speaker 1: as much as we can. With seventeen area locations in

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Speaker 1: the Houston area, Freddy's keeps the good going with the

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Speaker 1: taste that brings you back. It definitely brings me back.

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Speaker 1: I went through there the other day, got me a

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Speaker 1: little turtle concrete on the way home. Made for a

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Speaker 1: nice driving dessert. Don't do that at home. Don't do

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Speaker 1: but like go get a dessert, but let be the

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Speaker 1: designated driver, if you know what I mean. Don't do

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Speaker 1: like I did. All right, what's here from Coach Cully? Next?

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Speaker 1: He met with the media today, so we'll do a

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Speaker 1: little David Kelly audio jubox next right here on Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access since all Access since All Access since. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back this Wednesday edition of Texas All Access. I'm John

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Speaker 1: Harritts Football on a sideline reporters. Time for a little

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Speaker 1: Texans audio cute box David Kelly style. All right's here

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Speaker 1: from the head coach. He was asked today right off

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Speaker 1: the bat about facing Mike Vrabel, something that Colly has

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Speaker 1: done in Baltimore. I think they've faced Mike Vrabel and

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Speaker 1: every single stop. Here's a coach had to say about

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Speaker 1: facing the former Texans defensive coordinator. Well, they are a

544
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Speaker 1: reflection of who he is. I happened to be coaching

545
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Speaker 1: that the Pittsburgh Stelius when he was a young player there,

546
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Speaker 1: and he was a very selfless kind of player, the

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Speaker 1: kind of player that you want on your football team,

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Speaker 1: and his football team is a reflection of him. He

549
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Speaker 1: was also a very tough you know, it was always

550
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Speaker 1: about the team, and his football team is a reflection

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Speaker 1: of who he is offensively, defensively and special teams. You

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Speaker 1: heard it from Nick Kissaria earlier when when Nick was

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Speaker 1: asked we talked about the Tennessee its and his eyes

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Speaker 1: kind of lit up, and he's talking about various guys

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Speaker 1: and he mentioned the word, the words Jeffrey Simmons, which

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Speaker 1: really kind of strikes fear in the hearts of everybody

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Speaker 1: in the AFS he's South and throughout the NFL. Here's

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Speaker 1: the coach call he had to say about facing the

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Speaker 1: big fellow Jeffrey Simmons. Well, he maybe you know, we've

560
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Speaker 1: gone against Aaron Donald and this guy right here is

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Speaker 1: as good as Aaron Donald, he's one of the best

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Speaker 1: guys in the league are doing that, and obviously the

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Speaker 1: same thing when Aaron Donald, you're not trying not to

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Speaker 1: leave him in a situation where you won on one

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Speaker 1: with him very much, but he's a heck of a player. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: there have been a lot of moving parts on the

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Speaker 1: Texans offensive line this year, and there are some questions

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Speaker 1: based on the timing of guys that have gone on.

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Speaker 1: Ir could they get anybody back? Well, Coach had this

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Speaker 1: to say about the offensive line heading into the Tennessee game.

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Speaker 1: Oh Us, we're gonna We're gonna use the same line

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Speaker 1: we had last last game out. You know, we'll start

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Speaker 1: the same guys that we had. Justin's not quite ready

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Speaker 1: yet and Lamby is not quite ready yet. But the

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Speaker 1: thing about what this team does is it brings out

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Speaker 1: the physicalness in you. They're a very physical front. They

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Speaker 1: play that way, they play that way defensively, and we

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Speaker 1: got to match that brand. We got to match that.

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Speaker 1: As coach said, unfortunately, not gonna have Lary Mutunsel. But

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Speaker 1: how close is he to making it back. Well, he's

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Speaker 1: still going through the rehab right now, and you know

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Speaker 1: he's still got to the point where he's deciding to

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Speaker 1: do our worst plan or do a not worst plan.

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Speaker 1: And right now, the big thing he's doing is just

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Speaker 1: getting his strength back. From a standpoint of him getting

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Speaker 1: his overall strength back, because because of the injury, he

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Speaker 1: hasn't been able to lift weights, those kind of things.

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Speaker 1: It's almost like being on COVID and coming back and

589
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Speaker 1: not being able to do anything. He's actually getting to

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Speaker 1: that point where he's starting to lift a little bit

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Speaker 1: now and get his strength back, and once he gets

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Speaker 1: that back, it's just a matter of him being able

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Speaker 1: to ready to go. Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of

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Speaker 1: this season has been the inability to run the ball effectively.

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Speaker 1: So the General John McClain asked David Culley if he

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Speaker 1: had hope whether the running game could Kiddy going. I

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Speaker 1: do have hope, John, And the reason I have hope

598
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Speaker 1: is is that after nine ball games now we've gone

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Speaker 1: back and we looked in we see we try to

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Speaker 1: do some things that we felt like we were capable

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Speaker 1: of doing, but because of certain situations of some band

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Speaker 1: injuries and just not being able to get that consistency

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Speaker 1: that we need there. But I think during the bye

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Speaker 1: week when we went back and reassessed who we are

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Speaker 1: and what we need to do to get that going more.

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Speaker 1: I think we'll eliminate some things that we have been doing,

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Speaker 1: as I said before, that weren't good and start doing

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Speaker 1: the things that we feel like we were very very

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Speaker 1: good at flipping over the other side of the ball

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00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 1: last week down in Miami, four turnovers force within defense,

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Speaker 1: one of my special teams, four sacks Defense really did

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Speaker 1: I thought a very very good job give up one

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Speaker 1: drive after the first interception. Really the rest of the

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Speaker 1: scorers were on short fields for the most part, and

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Speaker 1: one of the key reasons was the play of Zach Cuttingham.

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Speaker 1: Here's Coach Culley talking about what Zach has done and

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Speaker 1: what he expects and hopes of him going forward. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, he's he's actually actually this past

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Speaker 1: game he actually called a game too, which he hadn't

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Speaker 1: been doing before. You know, he's he's a heck of

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Speaker 1: an athlete. You know, he's one of our better players

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Speaker 1: on defense. He's playing the last three ball games that

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Speaker 1: he's played, he's played probably his best football this year.

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Speaker 1: You know, he gives us that guy in there that

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Speaker 1: can get all over the place. You know, he makes

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Speaker 1: a lot of tackles. He's all around there, and I

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Speaker 1: think his energy too, brings U a little bit more

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Speaker 1: to us on our back end down there than what

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Speaker 1: we've had. Coach brought up a great point and that

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Speaker 1: was being the man in a huddle, having that responsibility.

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Speaker 1: I think that actually can help a guy like Zach.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you don't want to load a guy up too

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Speaker 1: much with stuff, but sometimes if you give a guy

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Speaker 1: added responsibility, sometimes he's forgetting about or putting to this

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Speaker 1: side the worries. Sometimes he's plays, he's making the calls,

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Speaker 1: he's doing everything so fast. He's just doing everything that

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Speaker 1: he's been coaching doing the ball stabus play and sometimes

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00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 1: you get out of your head and sometimes you just play,

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Speaker 1: and hopefully that's what happens. Was that cutting him the

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Speaker 1: rest of the season. Okay, when we get back, we

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Speaker 1: will go behind enemy sidelines with our good friend Deep City.

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Speaker 1: It's Tennessee Titans week. That means it's Jim Wyatt on

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Speaker 1: a Wednesday. Gotta love the alliteration. That's next behind enemy sidelines,

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Speaker 1: You can find his work on Tennessee Titans dot com. Hi, Jim,

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Speaker 1: six ones in a row for the Titans. I mean,

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Speaker 1: can you believe it? Especially with all the injuries and

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Speaker 1: all the adversity that team has gone through this year.

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Speaker 1: What's the mood like in tenne See? And how surprised

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Speaker 1: are you where the Tights are sitting. I have to

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Speaker 1: say I'd be lying if I said it was not surprised,

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00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 1: because you know this team, you know the way it started,

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00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: lost the game right out of the gate against the Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: lost the Jets in Week four, Sitting two and two,

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Speaker 1: with really kind of a murderous row schedule, coming up

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Speaker 1: against six playoff team from last year. I think there

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Speaker 1: are a lot of people in Nashville that thought, okay.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the team thought this, but I think

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Speaker 1: there are a lot, probably about the fans, that thought okay,

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Speaker 1: if you can almost split these games, you'd be happy.

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Speaker 1: And then to win six in a row, it's been

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Speaker 1: really remarkable. You know, some of the teams that they've

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Speaker 1: beaten the way they've beaten them doing it without some

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Speaker 1: key players who are out with injuries and u and

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Speaker 1: now you've got people talking about the you know, not

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Speaker 1: only win in the AFC South, which I really expect

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Speaker 1: the team to do at this point, but then can

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Speaker 1: you hold on to the number one seed in the

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Speaker 1: afceed And I think that's a realistic possibility. But got

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Speaker 1: to keep playing well and the injuries continue them mount

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Speaker 1: and we'll just see how this team can handle them.

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Speaker 1: I think one of the biggest surprises is losing Derrick

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Speaker 1: Henry for a chunk of time, possibly the entire season

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Speaker 1: with the foot injury, and the Titans sort of keep

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00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,959
Speaker 1: finding ways to reinvent themselves. How much has the offense

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Speaker 1: changed without Henry in the lineup, and what's the expectation

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Speaker 1: now of the running game now that he's out, Well,

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Speaker 1: it has the offense has sputtered some, the defense has

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Speaker 1: really saved the day the last couple of weeks. And

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Speaker 1: you know, we can talk about some of the guys

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Speaker 1: who have a murdered there offensively. You know, the running

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Speaker 1: game is obviously different with that Derrick Kennry. They've brought

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Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson into here, but a foreman had Jeremy Nichols

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Speaker 1: has been more of a running back by committee approach,

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Speaker 1: trying to find a guy who has a hot hand

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Speaker 1: and really trying to stick with him. With Derrick Henry,

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00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 1: they just handed the ball again and again and again,

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Speaker 1: and by the time the fourth quarter came along, he

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Speaker 1: was wearing teams down. So they're not doing that anymore.

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Speaker 1: And you know they're asking more of Ryan tanney Hill,

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Speaker 1: obviously asking more of the receiving corps, but even that

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Speaker 1: group has been banged up. You know, Julio Jones has

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Speaker 1: not been available most weeks. But they keep finding ways

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Speaker 1: to win. And I think now the question is how

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Speaker 1: much lawyer can they do it? And the question that

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Speaker 1: everybody keeps asking is will Derek can we be back

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Speaker 1: at some point? That's so far down the road right now.

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Speaker 1: They got to win what they've got. How surprised are

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Speaker 1: you by Adrian Peterson and him showing up what he's

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Speaker 1: been able to do and what's the expectation there for him?

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Speaker 1: Is he going to get a majority of the carries.

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Speaker 1: Are they still going to continue to split the carries

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Speaker 1: once he gets up to speed. They've got two games

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Speaker 1: under their belt now, essentially, So is this sort of

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Speaker 1: how you see the run game playing out now? I

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Speaker 1: think how maybe Adrian does will help determine that. I

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Speaker 1: think the plan, you know, is for him to maybe

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Speaker 1: be the guy that gets the majority of the carries

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Speaker 1: if he gets more comfortable, you know it, gets in

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Speaker 1: better condition, gets more in sync with the offensive line.

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Speaker 1: It's been Yeah, it's been slow going early, which I

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Speaker 1: think is you know, to be expected. This guy was

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Speaker 1: not with the team the entire season. You know, he

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Speaker 1: came in here thirty six years old. It looks great,

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Speaker 1: and he looks in good condition. I think he's eager

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Speaker 1: to want to do more. But Deante Foreman has actually

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Speaker 1: performed pretty well when he's gotten the ball, So I

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Speaker 1: think I think they'll continue to try to find the

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Speaker 1: guy who is kind of developing the quickest of those

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Speaker 1: two because Foreman came in here the same week to

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Speaker 1: both on the same timetable, and then kind of see

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Speaker 1: where it goes from there. It's been cool to see

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Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson minutes it's uh. You know, some of these

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Speaker 1: guys the Titans have signed latent seasons. I can say

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Speaker 1: I've covered all these Hall of famers. Rady Moss came

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Speaker 1: in here one year, several years ago, Julio Jones now

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Speaker 1: and here at the end of his career. He got

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Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson coming in and it's a who's who of players.

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Speaker 1: But now Peterson, Peterson's got to prove himself worthy of care.

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Speaker 1: He's moving forward though his past credentials are not going

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Speaker 1: to get it all right. You mentioned Julio Jones, another

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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer there with his injury. Who do you

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Speaker 1: think will get the line's share of catches? Who's going

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Speaker 1: to benefit more? AJ? Brown owner Marcus Johnson. I saw

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Speaker 1: that Marcus Johnson had one hundred yard receiving game last

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Speaker 1: week against the Saints. Do you expect that to sort

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Speaker 1: of continue with Julio all Marcus Johnson was really good

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Speaker 1: on Sunday, and you know he had the best I

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Speaker 1: have to say. You know, during training camp he was

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Speaker 1: the most consistent receiver that they had. Now, granted Julio

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Speaker 1: didn't practice doctor and training camp, AJ was being brought

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Speaker 1: along slowly. Marca Johnson every day was this team's best receiver,

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Speaker 1: and then when the season kind of rolled around, he

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Speaker 1: you know, he dealt with an injury and then he

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Speaker 1: kind of kind of drifted into the background a little bit.

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Speaker 1: He has re emerged. I think this potentially could be

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Speaker 1: a sign of things to come. A J. Brown is

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Speaker 1: clearly still this team's number one receiver, and I think

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Speaker 1: most weeks he's going to be the guy who gets

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Speaker 1: the live share of the looks and the catches. They've

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Speaker 1: got some other guys, Nick Westbrook China who has done

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Speaker 1: a nice job. They just released Josh Reynolds, you know,

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Speaker 1: the day before Julio Jones reaccivated his hamstring injured the

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Speaker 1: part of the way Josh Reynolds. So the receiver corps

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00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 1: has kind of taken on a different look. But I

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Speaker 1: think for the time being, until Julio can get healthy,

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Speaker 1: I think you see a j I think you see

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Speaker 1: Marcus Johnson. I think you'll see Nick, Nick Westbrook, a

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Speaker 1: Keena and the Chester Rodgers who works a lot in

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Speaker 1: the slot. He'll be involved as well. All Right, Ryan Tannehill,

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Speaker 1: he didn't really put up flashy numbers and that went

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Speaker 1: over the Saints nineteen to twenty seven two hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirteen yards and a touchdown no interceptions. Though, what's been

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Speaker 1: the key for Tannehill really moving this offense forward without

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Speaker 1: Henry or Jones in the lineup? Well, I think you know,

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00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,800
Speaker 1: he's used his legs on top of throwing it. You know,

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Speaker 1: he's kind of an extra weapon out of the backfield

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00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: in some ways, especially in the goal line when that

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Speaker 1: play action works. You know, the challenge he Phace is now,

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Speaker 1: you know, as the play action gonna be as effective

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Speaker 1: without dearck Henry, can he still be effective without some

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Speaker 1: of his top targets at receiver. He's turned the ball

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Speaker 1: over too much this year. I think he'd tell you

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Speaker 1: that himself. He's made some throws he'd like to have back,

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Speaker 1: and we haven't really seen that over the last couple

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Speaker 1: of years. He's gonna have to be better. It was

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00:36:59,040 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: really a sluggish per formus on offense on Sunday, but

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00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 1: they did enough to win. And I think I think

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Speaker 1: with Ryan Tannehill, I think he knows he's got to

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Speaker 1: be sharp, he's got to be effective. He can't make

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Speaker 1: mistakes give the other teams short fields by turning the

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Speaker 1: ball over. So that's something he's got to do a

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Speaker 1: better job of. Um, you know in these coming weeks. Yeah,

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00:37:19,719 --> 00:37:22,359
Speaker 1: the Tan's defense. You mentioned them really stepping up when

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Speaker 1: when Henry went out, and I think everyone was really

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Speaker 1: impressed in that win over the Chiefs where they held

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Speaker 1: the homes to just a field goal in that game.

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Speaker 1: So that pass rush has been really effective in getting

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Speaker 1: to quarterbacks. Who have you seen really step up for

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Speaker 1: that defensive front. Well, I mean it's been incredible, really,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's this This defense was really one of

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Speaker 1: the laughing stocks in the league last year. But I

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00:37:42,239 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: remember doing interviews before the season started. I think I

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Speaker 1: was talking maybe Darian Urban in Arizona, and he was

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Speaker 1: referencing the Titans defense is being, you know, probably the

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Speaker 1: worst in the league, and and then certainly in Week

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Speaker 1: one they look like the worst in the league. But

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Speaker 1: something has kind of clicked, and uh, and that's something

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Speaker 1: is really the pass rough. You know, Harold Landry with

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Speaker 1: ten socks in ten games, really having a breakout season.

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Stimmons in the middle, uh, seven and a half sacks.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's got five sacks in the last two games.

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Speaker 1: They have been really really disruptive up front. And that's

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Speaker 1: kind of allowed the secondary to kind of be able

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Speaker 1: to play a lot better. And Kevin Bayard has been

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Speaker 1: really good forcing turnovers again, he's kind of re emerged

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Speaker 1: as kind of a pro ball caliber player. You know,

832
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: this defense has been so good that people in town

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00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 1: are trying to come up with a nickname for it,

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Speaker 1: which is, uh, you know, not something that people are

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Speaker 1: used to ride here. They've been called names before, but yes,

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Speaker 1: that's right. And I don't know if some of the

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Speaker 1: nicknames are good. When somebody's trying to trying to push

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Speaker 1: the tickle monsters because they're the kind of just harasses

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Speaker 1: you and drives to praise. I don't know if that's

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Speaker 1: gonna stick. But we're dealing with when you're performing well

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00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 1: there Andrew enjoying it. Yeah, you mentioned Kevin Byard. Five

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00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: interceptions through ten games and a touchdown. What's made him

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00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: so effective at getting to the ball this year? What's

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00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: been different for him? Well, he really was hard on

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Speaker 1: himself and then the last year and kind of you know,

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00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 1: it certainly wasn't all his fault, but he tried to

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Speaker 1: take the blame for the defensive struggles and said a

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Speaker 1: lot of it on him, he's got to be better

849
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,320
Speaker 1: committed himself to work and harder. I don't think he

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00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:28,399
Speaker 1: ever slacked off or took it easy. So I hate

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Speaker 1: to say it's a result of him getting more serious again.

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Speaker 1: I just think he has from film study and from instincts.

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00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: He jumped around and it resulted and picked six. So

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Speaker 1: he's just doing those type of things. He's just all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden being the guy that's the white place

856
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 1: at the right time once again. And he's been really

857
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 1: really good for this defense. All right. On a serious

858
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 1: and more personal note, A J. Brown he shared a

859
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,360
Speaker 1: message over the weekend on his social media about how

860
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,440
Speaker 1: he considered suicide and was battling depression. Really brave and

861
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 1: courageous of him. It's gotten a lot of attention across

862
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 1: the league. What's been the reaction in the building to

863
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 1: Brown's message and your thoughts on that, Well, you know,

864
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 1: when that came out Friday night, I think it caught

865
00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:10,360
Speaker 1: me by surprise. They caught a lot of people by surprise.

866
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:14,440
Speaker 1: And anytime somebody you know of that stature and you

867
00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: know that that has a following, is brave enough to

868
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: to share some of his personal struggles, I think it's

869
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: you know, I was proud of him for doing that.

870
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 1: I know Mike Bradfell talked to his press council Monday

871
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:28,880
Speaker 1: about them trying to have a culture there of of

872
00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 1: of talking through your problems, let people know when things

873
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 1: are not right and and and they're obviously dealing with

874
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,759
Speaker 1: some of that through. AJ is one of the most

875
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 1: uh you know, energetic, friendliest, uh you know, good spirited

876
00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: guys that I've ever been around. But I think it

877
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: just shows that just never know what somebody's going through.

878
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:55,640
Speaker 1: So uh really have a lot of respect for him

879
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: for being willing to talk about that. I do think

880
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 1: his message is going to help others. I mean, just

881
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,800
Speaker 1: judgment from my social media feed and from the comments

882
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 1: I see, you realize how many other people are going

883
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: through something similar, and then there are probably a lot

884
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 1: of people out there that are going through it and

885
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:15,879
Speaker 1: not really sharing their feelings with people. So when he's

886
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 1: willing to do that, I think he's helping others. I

887
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: don't think that, you know, I think that's part of

888
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 1: the reason he did it. And he's supposed to talk

889
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:24,359
Speaker 1: to us that later this week and kind of maybe

890
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: explain maybe where that was coming from. But really a

891
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: good kid, and I hope that this is kind of

892
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:34,919
Speaker 1: something that maybe helps him moving forward as well. Yeah,

893
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,080
Speaker 1: well said Jim. Well, Jim, thanks so much, appreciate the time,

894
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 1: and we look forward to the matchup on Sunday. It's

895
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:43,600
Speaker 1: pretty powerful stuff there from Jim Wyatt talking about A J.

896
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,320
Speaker 1: Brown and what he is going through right now, and

897
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 1: obviously that always hits very very close to home for

898
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: me and for my family, so my thoughts are with AJ.

899
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,440
Speaker 1: It was very interesting to hear from Jim, and I

900
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 1: hope it's something that NFL teams are getting a little

901
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 1: bit better of a handle on so they can help

902
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 1: their players. But just the understanding is a massive piece

903
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: of the equation. It sounds as if the Titans have

904
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 1: that no doubt for A J. Brown. All right, we

905
00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:16,840
Speaker 1: got one hour down, one hour left to go, and

906
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:18,879
Speaker 1: that means we kick off the second hour with men

907
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 1: behind the mics are pal Mark vandermir the voice of

908
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 1: the Texans, sits down with a long time play by

909
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: play host and friend, Mike Keith. Boy, Mike's a really

910
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 1: interesting dude. I love getting a chance to talk with them.

911
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: This one's marking Mike, So it's okay, but that's next

912
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,840
Speaker 1: right here in Texas axis, right here in Texas axis,

913
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:43,120
Speaker 1: right here, and we've got one hour in the books,

914
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 1: one hour left to go. Right here, on a Wednesday

915
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:49,760
Speaker 1: edition of Texans All Access. I am your host, John Harris,

916
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:53,960
Speaker 1: Glad to be with you this evening, A wonderful, wonderful

917
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 1: Wednesday evening. This is why you live in Houston, amongst

918
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: a thousand other things, but when you can look at

919
00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 1: the weather on November seventeenth and go, hall man, this

920
00:43:04,360 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 1: is nice. Yeah, that's why you live here. Glad you're

921
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 1: with me this evening. And I want to take a

922
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 1: second from my friends over at Mattress Firm because they're

923
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:18,760
Speaker 1: trying to hook you up, hook you up. This season,

924
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 1: Mattress Firm is giving away two tickets, custom jerseys, Tarrasco's

925
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 1: club passes and parking to two lucky fans each week.

926
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 1: Let me repeat, two tickets, custom jerseys, Tarrasco's club passes

927
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 1: and parking to two lucky fans each week. All you

928
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:39,920
Speaker 1: have to do is go to Houston Texas dot com

929
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: slash Dream Big Experience Houston Texans dot com slash Dream

930
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 1: Big Experience to enter to win. I mean, that's awesome. Tickets, jerseys,

931
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 1: Trasco's Club passes. That's the one thing I never get

932
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 1: to really be a part of is the tailgame, eating

933
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,919
Speaker 1: and being up. We're all, you know, the great food

934
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,359
Speaker 1: and drink and carrying on is going on. Man, I'll

935
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 1: be down on the sidelines and look, it's fun. Man.

936
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:10,800
Speaker 1: I'm not trading it for anything, but man, I'd like

937
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: to go up to Trasco's Club every now and again

938
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 1: we have a I don't know, a burger or have

939
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 1: something to eat some of the great food, a cevich

940
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 1: maybe I don't know, hed a sevich. Last week and

941
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: forward two weeks ago. Man, the bye weeks throwing me off.

942
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:26,879
Speaker 1: I keep saying last week, but actually it's two weeks ago.

943
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 1: It feels like a year ago, and yet it feels

944
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:32,399
Speaker 1: like it just happened yesterday. We played play the game,

945
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 1: but actually had to bye week, Opie week, off week.

946
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 1: Don't care what you call it. I'm just gonna go

947
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:39,279
Speaker 1: on a rant every time I bring it up. I'm

948
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,760
Speaker 1: gonna call it a bye week. Deal with it, deal

949
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: with it all right. It is Tennessee Titans Week, and

950
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 1: I always look forward to Tennessee Titans week for this

951
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: segment in particular, one of the guys that we've gotten

952
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,760
Speaker 1: to know over the years. And I say we because

953
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: every time we go to combine, Mark and I sit

954
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:58,720
Speaker 1: down and we get as many radio interviews as possible.

955
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: And the one I look forward to almost every year

956
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: is chopping it up with Mike Keith, the play by

957
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:08,400
Speaker 1: play voice of the Tennessee Titans. He has been the

958
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:13,000
Speaker 1: man from the beginning, back in nineteen ninety seven. I

959
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: think it was the first year. I can't remember for sure.

960
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 1: I think nineteen eighty seven. Either way, he's been the guy.

961
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: And I thought about Mike. It's probably about a month

962
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: ago when I first saw it. It was a documentary

963
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,360
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier called More Than a Game. It's on

964
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: SEC Network. They have a show called SEC Story, and

965
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: it's essentially the SEC networks thirty for thirty arm They

966
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:35,880
Speaker 1: don't call it thirty for thirty, they called SEC Storied,

967
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:40,239
Speaker 1: but the same kind of thing. So Kenny Chesney produced

968
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 1: it and got together some of the great voices in

969
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:46,320
Speaker 1: the Southeastern Conference, and Mike was one of those. And

970
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: I was like, wait a second, Mike does the Tennessee Titans,

971
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 1: but he tells a story that he had actually spent

972
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 1: time with the Tennessee Volunteers when he was right out

973
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 1: of college or in college. I know in college. But

974
00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 1: it was just interesting to hear him talk about out broadcasting,

975
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: and of course that strikes home for me. I've tried

976
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:05,919
Speaker 1: to get Mark to watch the video. He's really wanting

977
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: to watch it because it talks about games on the

978
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: radio and really connecting with the voice of a team.

979
00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:15,880
Speaker 1: And I think about that with the Texans that every

980
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: time I hear a Texans highlight, I hear Mark's name,

981
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 1: I hear his voice. I mean I hear it every day,

982
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 1: but I hear it then too. And I even before

983
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 1: I became the Silot reporter, I just associated everything Texans

984
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 1: with Mark's voice and Mark and Andre hearing them do

985
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 1: the game, and I can imagine I was kind of

986
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 1: weird for people listening to the game last week and

987
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,680
Speaker 1: hear my voice and no Dre because he was out.

988
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 1: So it's always interesting to talk about the world of

989
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:40,919
Speaker 1: broadcasting and talking about it with a guy in Mike Keith,

990
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: who is got so many varied interests in things that

991
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 1: he does. He's such an interesting guy. And he sat

992
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 1: down with Mark, they chopped it up about this one

993
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: and what's been going on in Titans land Mark take

994
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,399
Speaker 1: it away. Joining us right now at Texans Radio. It's

995
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:57,760
Speaker 1: the voice of the Tennessee Titans. Mike Keith, Mike, glad

996
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 1: to have you with us. How's it go on, my friend,

997
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:04,040
Speaker 1: top seat in the AFC. Yeah, it's been an interesting year,

998
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 1: a successful year, but a strange year for the Titans

999
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 1: to this point. And I'm glad to be with you. Mark.

1000
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 1: Let's start here in an unusual place sort of. John Robinson,

1001
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 1: general manager of this team, comes in in twenty sixteen.

1002
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:19,360
Speaker 1: I think there are only two players on the roster

1003
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:22,840
Speaker 1: who were there before he got there, so he's overhauled

1004
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 1: the whole thing. Take me through a little bit of

1005
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:28,240
Speaker 1: the process, his thinking and how it's working out. Obviously,

1006
00:47:28,280 --> 00:47:30,840
Speaker 1: it's working out very well with all winning seasons and

1007
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 1: you are where you are right now. It started off

1008
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 1: with he and Mike Malarkey coming in together, and the

1009
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 1: situation went through two years, and they went nine and

1010
00:47:40,080 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 1: seven together and sort of felt like they had some synergy.

1011
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 1: But then it was time to go in a different

1012
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:50,240
Speaker 1: direction with the offense. They wanted to make some moves

1013
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 1: and do something different offensively. Malarkey didn't want to do that,

1014
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:58,320
Speaker 1: and so Amy Adam Strunk released him from his contract

1015
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:00,359
Speaker 1: with a year ago. At that point, they went out

1016
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: and hired Mike Vrabel. They started with Matt Lafleur, and

1017
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:06,279
Speaker 1: Matt Lafleur did a nice job for a year as

1018
00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, and then he departed to become the head

1019
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 1: coach the Green Bay Packers, and they promoted Arthur Smith

1020
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 1: and had two very successful years once they figured out

1021
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 1: the quarterback position with Ryan Tannehill and with the amazing

1022
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 1: development of Derrick Henry after three years of just being

1023
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:29,800
Speaker 1: now okay, you know, he became something completely different towards

1024
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:33,359
Speaker 1: the end of year three. And so as they've kind

1025
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:38,280
Speaker 1: of stacked people on both lines, they've looked for value.

1026
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:41,680
Speaker 1: They've looked for guys to develop. They've worked very hard

1027
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: through the undrafted's. They've made a few bold moves, but

1028
00:48:46,280 --> 00:48:51,320
Speaker 1: it's not been an organization characterized by the wild moves

1029
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: or the outlandish, and I think slow and steady has

1030
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 1: been the way they have gone. The biggest thing that's happened, though,

1031
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 1: is they found the answer at quarterback, and that was

1032
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:04,840
Speaker 1: something that you know, they did not have kind of

1033
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: consistent basins since Steve McNair. Carry Collins did a pretty

1034
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 1: good job at one point. Matt Hasselbeck did a good

1035
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:14,399
Speaker 1: job for a year, but they just never had their guy.

1036
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: And once they found Tannehill and what was a trade

1037
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 1: that most people thought was kind of you know, right

1038
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: before the twenty nineteen draft, they figured it out. They

1039
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:28,560
Speaker 1: absolutely have He's done very well. You have no Derek

1040
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,359
Speaker 1: Henry right now. How are they winning without him? They

1041
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:35,279
Speaker 1: still seemed committed to the run. It's not as successful yet.

1042
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 1: A couple of wins here. How's it going, Mike, It's

1043
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 1: hard to tell. For two reasons. Mark Number one, they've

1044
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 1: played two very good run defenses. The Rams played the

1045
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 1: run very well, and the Saints are the number one

1046
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: run defense in the NFL. The two running backs for

1047
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: the most part, talking about Deante Foreman and also Adrian

1048
00:49:56,280 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: Peterson have been here for two weeks, so neither one

1049
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:04,759
Speaker 1: of them were anywhere. Foreman was with the Falcons in camp.

1050
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,759
Speaker 1: He had not been anywhere since. Peterson had been out

1051
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,919
Speaker 1: of football for ten months, just waiting for an opportunity,

1052
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 1: So it's sort of taken them some time. The other

1053
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 1: issue continues to be the injuries in the offensive line.

1054
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:22,279
Speaker 1: This offensive line, the starting five at the beginning of

1055
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:25,839
Speaker 1: the year, has not gone through one game in its

1056
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:30,359
Speaker 1: entirety altogether. So ten games this year they've had at

1057
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:33,840
Speaker 1: least one guy have to miss some snaps, if not

1058
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: a game, and the rotating nature of that has kind

1059
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 1: of made it difficult to get in any sort of

1060
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:44,760
Speaker 1: rhythm overall. Derrick Henry could mask some of those problems.

1061
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:47,919
Speaker 1: You know, He's like a guy who can make those

1062
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: offensive linemen look good and they're happy to tell you

1063
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 1: that their guy helps them out. When you got new

1064
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:56,160
Speaker 1: guys in and everybody's trying to figure it out, some

1065
00:50:56,360 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 1: things show up even more so. I think the great

1066
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:02,560
Speaker 1: to this point is incomplete, but it's something that they

1067
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:05,839
Speaker 1: have to get figured out if they're going to make

1068
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 1: noise going down the stretch. Because listen, Mark, they're built

1069
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,800
Speaker 1: to run. They are not built to throw fifty times

1070
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:13,920
Speaker 1: a game. That's not who they want to be. They

1071
00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:17,240
Speaker 1: must run the football better than sixty six and sixty

1072
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:20,239
Speaker 1: nine yards per game. Tell me about Marcus Johnson. I

1073
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 1: know he's been around the league a little bit. He's

1074
00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:24,800
Speaker 1: a longhorn, but here he is first year with the

1075
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:28,800
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans, and he erupts last week for the offense.

1076
00:51:28,880 --> 00:51:32,320
Speaker 1: What about him? It's a great story. So the Colts

1077
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:36,279
Speaker 1: cut him January second, and the Titans added him to

1078
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 1: the practice squad right before their playoff game with Baltimore.

1079
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 1: So after the regular season ends, he was so good

1080
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 1: in practice they nearly activated him for the playoff game,

1081
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: and they didn't. They end up resigning him in the offseason.

1082
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 1: He does great in all the offseason workouts. He's one

1083
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:57,880
Speaker 1: of the big stars of training camp and people are

1084
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 1: thinking this guy may be the number three with Julio

1085
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 1: Jones and A. J. Brown. Well that he gets hurt.

1086
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:06,600
Speaker 1: He gets hurt right at the end of training camp,

1087
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:12,240
Speaker 1: goes on ir comes back. First game is Jacksonville in October.

1088
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 1: He plays well and then he really doesn't do anything.

1089
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 1: And now that he shows up this past Sunday, five

1090
00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 1: catches for one hundred yards, and their hope is that

1091
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:25,239
Speaker 1: he's got health, that he has some confidence, and that

1092
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 1: he can get into some sort of rhythm, because I mean,

1093
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 1: this guy's six two, he's two ten, he has four

1094
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:34,799
Speaker 1: four speed, he can catch the ball, he's very good

1095
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 1: run after the catch, His issue really two health and

1096
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 1: just overall consistency. You know, he's got three hundred yard

1097
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:46,800
Speaker 1: games in his career, and there are a lot of

1098
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:49,800
Speaker 1: receivers that we know well who don't have three hundred

1099
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:53,919
Speaker 1: yard games in their careers, and yet it's been it's

1100
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 1: sort of eluded him in terms of finding that staying power,

1101
00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 1: that spot where he can be a difference maker. The

1102
00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:04,400
Speaker 1: Titans are hoping that over the final seven games he

1103
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 1: can give them some consistent performance Mike on the defensive

1104
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: side of the ball. Jeffrey Simmons, John Harris our draft expert,

1105
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:15,919
Speaker 1: sideline reporter, etc. When the Titans drafted him first round

1106
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:19,000
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, he slammed the table because he knew

1107
00:53:19,040 --> 00:53:20,960
Speaker 1: this was going to be a problem in the division.

1108
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:23,879
Speaker 1: He's a problem for a lot of teams. One about him.

1109
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:26,480
Speaker 1: He knocked down the two point conversion pass against the

1110
00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 1: Texans in Nashville last year. He just makes play after play.

1111
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 1: He's so big. I mean, he is just such a

1112
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 1: big individual, and you know it's there are a lot

1113
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:40,000
Speaker 1: of guys in the league who's six four, and there

1114
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:41,360
Speaker 1: are a lot of guys in the league who are

1115
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:45,240
Speaker 1: over three hundred pounds and yet some guys are just bigger.

1116
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:47,640
Speaker 1: You know that. You just see him, You're like, whoa,

1117
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 1: and that's him. Long arms, long legs, giant hands, incredibly athletic,

1118
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 1: really put together in a way. Maybe not quite like

1119
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:02,239
Speaker 1: JJ Watt was going towards that. I mean, not a

1120
00:54:02,280 --> 00:54:05,359
Speaker 1: lot of fat on. This guy can really really run,

1121
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 1: has a big time motor, wants to be great. That's

1122
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: one of the most exciting things about him from the

1123
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:15,280
Speaker 1: Titans perspective. And he's been playing with a bum ankle

1124
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:18,720
Speaker 1: for the last few weeks and still has been giving

1125
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 1: them all but ten snaps a game on the defensive line.

1126
00:54:23,200 --> 00:54:26,360
Speaker 1: He's coming into his own now, and he is starting

1127
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 1: to see what a beast he can be. You certainly

1128
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:33,960
Speaker 1: remember Albert Haynesworth. This is a guy who has that

1129
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 1: sort of ability, just natural ability and bigness like Albert Haynesworth.

1130
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:42,840
Speaker 1: But he's got a lot more of a motor, a

1131
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:46,760
Speaker 1: lot more desire, and it is probably more athletic overall.

1132
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 1: I think I'm like John, I think he's a top

1133
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:54,600
Speaker 1: three to four pick if he doesn't have the ACL

1134
00:54:54,680 --> 00:54:57,680
Speaker 1: injury in February before the draft. I don't think there's

1135
00:54:57,680 --> 00:55:00,920
Speaker 1: any way that he gets by the Ray or the

1136
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:03,920
Speaker 1: Jets at that point in that draft. I think he's

1137
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 1: that kind of talent. The Titans got very, very lucky

1138
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 1: with him at number nineteen and twenty nineteen. Voice of

1139
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:13,040
Speaker 1: the Titans, Mike Keith, joining us on Texans Radio. Okay,

1140
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 1: the streak. How big a deal are people making of

1141
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: the streak in Nashville? Mike? As you beat five consecutive

1142
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 1: teams that were in the playoffs the year before. This

1143
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: is an NFL record. Now, in order to have that record,

1144
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:26,439
Speaker 1: you have to have the opportunity to do it, because

1145
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: not everybody gets that. But I think it's a pretty

1146
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:32,359
Speaker 1: big deal. What do you think? You know, I've heard

1147
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 1: that quite a bit on the national shows. I don't

1148
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:39,040
Speaker 1: think it's being played up very much locally because I

1149
00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:44,279
Speaker 1: think everybody here is kind of just amazed that this

1150
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:47,160
Speaker 1: has kept going the way it is with all the injuries.

1151
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:49,200
Speaker 1: You know, the Titans have played eighty two guys this

1152
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:54,040
Speaker 1: year and the record I believe is eighty four and

1153
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: there's seven games left. When the season started and the

1154
00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:02,719
Speaker 1: injury bug hit this ball club and they were two

1155
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:06,440
Speaker 1: and two, it sounded like an excuse. Well, now that

1156
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: they're eight and two. I think there are a lot

1157
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:11,600
Speaker 1: of people just kind of amazed that they have gotten

1158
00:56:11,640 --> 00:56:15,799
Speaker 1: to this point. So in terms of the whole well

1159
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 1: you've got the best record in the conference or they've

1160
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 1: got the street. I don't think it's about that here

1161
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:25,319
Speaker 1: so much. I think it's about being impressed that they

1162
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:28,920
Speaker 1: have found a way to do it and seeing if

1163
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:31,840
Speaker 1: they can continue to do it, and and the chance

1164
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 1: too to potentially improve. You know, this team has a

1165
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:40,239
Speaker 1: buy that doesn't happen until week thirteen, and they this

1166
00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 1: team desperately needs a buy. I don't know what Mike

1167
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:47,359
Speaker 1: Vrabel can do in practice with these guys overall mark

1168
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:51,520
Speaker 1: because they are so beaten up at so many key spots.

1169
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: That being the case, you're you know, you've got two

1170
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,960
Speaker 1: more games before the buy. Can they keep it up?

1171
00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:00,800
Speaker 1: And I think that's been more of the question that

1172
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:04,839
Speaker 1: people have had here is are they able to keep

1173
00:57:05,040 --> 00:57:08,560
Speaker 1: going with what they've been up against? Because now that

1174
00:57:08,719 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 1: you've won six in a row, the injuries don't sound

1175
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 1: like an excuse anymore. They become more of a fact.

1176
00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:15,920
Speaker 1: People are like, well, you know, we have a lot

1177
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 1: of injuries. If you say that when you're not winning,

1178
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 1: you're whining right. Well, when you are winning and you

1179
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 1: talk about injuries, people say, well, that's impressive. That's kind

1180
00:57:26,520 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 1: of been the talk here. Mike Keith, voice of the Titans,

1181
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:32,600
Speaker 1: joining us. All Right, the division, the cults, what do

1182
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 1: you think here? As it's been a little shaky at times,

1183
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 1: but here they are with five wins and a chance

1184
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 1: to make a move. Good team, you know, really good team.

1185
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:45,000
Speaker 1: They've they've had some bad luck. They certainly should be

1186
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:48,480
Speaker 1: six and four. They should have beaten Baltimore, had a

1187
00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 1: great chance to beat the Titans on Halloween in the

1188
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 1: game that ended in overtime. It's a good ball club

1189
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 1: that you could see making a big run the rest

1190
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:01,440
Speaker 1: of the way. Adsu for the Co's his schedule. You know,

1191
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 1: they've still got a lot of tough teams to play

1192
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:08,160
Speaker 1: on their schedule. That's why the Titans already having the

1193
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:11,640
Speaker 1: Colts out of the way, very unusual schedule like Titans

1194
00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:15,000
Speaker 1: and the Colts done by Halloween, and the fact and

1195
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 1: the fact that the Titans were able to get both

1196
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 1: of those games. So the lead in the division is

1197
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:24,560
Speaker 1: more or less four games because of the sweep of

1198
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 1: the season series, I think you know it's gonna be

1199
00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 1: tough to win the division for them, there's no doubt

1200
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 1: and anything can happen. But I think they're a playoff team.

1201
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:35,479
Speaker 1: I think when it's all said and done, they're gonna

1202
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:38,400
Speaker 1: win enough games to get into the playoffs. More impressive

1203
00:58:38,480 --> 00:58:42,080
Speaker 1: win in your opinion for the Titans at the Rams

1204
00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:44,960
Speaker 1: or home against the Chiefs that was twenty seven three

1205
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:48,000
Speaker 1: against Kansas City at the time. I think probably the

1206
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:51,120
Speaker 1: Rams game based on what had just happened with Derek

1207
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:54,840
Speaker 1: Henry and the week the team came off of. So

1208
00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:57,920
Speaker 1: you go to Indy, you get the very emotional win

1209
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:03,200
Speaker 1: everybody's because you've got an advantage there, and you're saying, okay,

1210
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:06,880
Speaker 1: we're six and two, and you wake up Monday morning

1211
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:09,240
Speaker 1: in the news hits that Derek Henry has a broken

1212
00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:12,720
Speaker 1: foot that needs surgery, and so then you're dialing up

1213
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:17,240
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson, You're dialing up Deontay Foreman, and you can

1214
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 1: do the whole thing about, well, one player doesn't make

1215
00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:22,760
Speaker 1: a team. Well, that's true, and the Titans are pretty

1216
00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: good club without Derek Henry. But let's face it, mark

1217
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:29,320
Speaker 1: the offense changes. There are very few teams in this

1218
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:32,560
Speaker 1: league that have one guy that you say, Okay, this

1219
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 1: week on offense, we're definitely going to hand it to

1220
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:39,600
Speaker 1: twenty two at least twenty five times. That's going to happen. Well,

1221
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:42,720
Speaker 1: now you've got to figure out the offensive line thing,

1222
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:45,920
Speaker 1: the running back thing, the tight end thing. You know,

1223
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 1: the Titans having to put extra offensive linemen in the

1224
00:59:49,400 --> 00:59:54,080
Speaker 1: game at tight end now to shore up blocking. Everything changed.

1225
00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:56,800
Speaker 1: So when they got to Los Angeles, you know, it

1226
00:59:56,920 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 1: was the big showcase of SOFI st ADM on National

1227
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:05,880
Speaker 1: TV and the Titans. Dave McGinnis, my color analysts, said

1228
01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:09,240
Speaker 1: the Titans were kind of being treated like the homecoming opponent,

1229
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:12,280
Speaker 1: and they sort of were. You know, the whole thing

1230
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:15,120
Speaker 1: was about the Rams and everything they were doing, and

1231
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:17,800
Speaker 1: you know, the Titans kind of stole the show. So

1232
01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:21,440
Speaker 1: I think that one is probably the bigger one, and

1233
01:00:21,520 --> 01:00:24,960
Speaker 1: I think it got people's attention that this club is

1234
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:28,440
Speaker 1: more than Derrick Henry. Now they've got to get a

1235
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:31,960
Speaker 1: lot of things figured out, but I think that was

1236
01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 1: something that really caught everyone's attention. What happened against the Jets.

1237
01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:42,880
Speaker 1: Titans played poorly, I mean just really poorly. Missed a

1238
01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 1: lot of opportunities to score points, couldn't get any big plays,

1239
01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:50,160
Speaker 1: gave up a bunch of big plays. And you know,

1240
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:52,760
Speaker 1: that's been the scary thing for this defense is they've

1241
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:55,840
Speaker 1: given up a lot of chunk plays, which is not good.

1242
01:00:56,440 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 1: And they've given up pass interference penalties which have essentially

1243
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 1: been more chunk plays. That's the part of the Titans

1244
01:01:04,200 --> 01:01:07,360
Speaker 1: defense that has has made them nervous. Now it's better

1245
01:01:07,960 --> 01:01:10,720
Speaker 1: now that Amani Hooker is back at safety with Kevin

1246
01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:14,960
Speaker 1: Byrd because Hooker can really run. But you know, that's

1247
01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 1: the part of this defense that still kind of makes

1248
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:21,800
Speaker 1: you nervous, their ability to allow big plays. When they

1249
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:26,040
Speaker 1: make you drive first down to first down to first down,

1250
01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:30,440
Speaker 1: they're hard to score on because eventually somebody's gonna make

1251
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 1: a play, and that's what's exciting about him. But the

1252
01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:36,480
Speaker 1: chunk plays, that's where they've had problems. And what did

1253
01:01:36,560 --> 01:01:39,000
Speaker 1: the Saints come up with yesterday or I should say

1254
01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:42,400
Speaker 1: last Sunday. The Saints came up with six chunk plays.

1255
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:46,120
Speaker 1: My keys Voice of the Titans joining us, Mike. When

1256
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:48,040
Speaker 1: we caught up at the Combine a couple of years ago,

1257
01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:51,800
Speaker 1: you were coming off a movie production and acting performance.

1258
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:53,880
Speaker 1: I think you were playing a coach. Am I write

1259
01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:57,960
Speaker 1: about that? Anything else developing with that part of your career? No,

1260
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:01,480
Speaker 1: I think I don't. I don't think I'm going to

1261
01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 1: be reprising that role at any point. I'm just trying

1262
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:07,840
Speaker 1: to keep my head above water right now and be

1263
01:02:07,960 --> 01:02:12,160
Speaker 1: a broadcaster. That was actually a movie produced by one

1264
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:15,440
Speaker 1: of the gentlemen who works on our TV shows. Okay,

1265
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:18,920
Speaker 1: and so I guess if he has another production of anything,

1266
01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:21,720
Speaker 1: he'll probably throw me in it because I work cheap

1267
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:25,040
Speaker 1: and I do show up. But yeah, no big awards

1268
01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:29,480
Speaker 1: coming from that, Mark, No other calls, no agents, nothing

1269
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:32,520
Speaker 1: of the Sword, no spin off to the miniseries, nothing

1270
01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:35,120
Speaker 1: like that. Too bad. Now, don't need another coach throwing

1271
01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 1: a chair. I guess if they do, they know they

1272
01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:41,800
Speaker 1: know my number. Right. All right, Well, I'll see on Sunday, Mike.

1273
01:02:41,880 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 1: We really appreciate the time. Thanks a lot, look forward

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Speaker 1: to it. Mark thinks there's so many things you learn

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01:02:47,200 --> 01:02:49,600
Speaker 1: when you sit down with somebody and talk to them.

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Speaker 1: I remember going to Combine talking to Paul Allen, who

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Speaker 1: is a play by play voice of the Minnesota Vikings.

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Speaker 1: It was just it was fabulous having talking to Jeff

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Speaker 1: joni Ak the Bears. This is all the last combine

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Speaker 1: we were there. Well, at that combine we were talking

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01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:08,880
Speaker 1: to Mike off the air and he made a comment

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Speaker 1: about his cousin was Jack Parkman. It's like, wait a second,

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Speaker 1: Jack Parkman like Major League two, He's the best villain ever.

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Speaker 1: He goes, yeah, that was my cousin, David Keith, and

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh. At that point, Mike Keith just

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Speaker 1: rocketed up my rankings as behind Mark as the best

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Speaker 1: play by play guy in the NFL. I mean, he

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Speaker 1: could screw up everything, but he's Jack Parkman's cousin. Actually,

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Speaker 1: he's David Keith's cousin. David Keith just played Jack Parkman

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Speaker 1: and we I was fascinated by that because I love

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Speaker 1: the Major League Series at least one and two, and

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Speaker 1: he didn't really care for three all that much. I

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Speaker 1: probably watched it just because I'm a sick dude. But

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Speaker 1: that said, major League two was awesome, but as good

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Speaker 1: as one, but it was awesome and Jack Parkman. Oh

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Speaker 1: so anyways, Mike Keith moved up the rankings, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: A guy that's near the top of my rankings on

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Speaker 1: everything in life is Drew dohrty. He joins me next

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Speaker 1: for a little in the lab. Right here in Texans axis,

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Speaker 1: right here in Texans axis, right here in Texans axis.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. This Wednesday issued Texans all Acts says sign

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Speaker 1: your host, John Harris, And did I just see that

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01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:25,480
Speaker 1: Justin Verlander is signing with the Houston Astros. It is

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01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 1: absolutely amazing to me the number of people that were

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01:04:28,440 --> 01:04:32,120
Speaker 1: losing their collective bleep because oh, he wasn't around the team.

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01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:35,920
Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, he's coming back. This is

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01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:39,680
Speaker 1: why you just let things play out. Let it go

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01:04:40,120 --> 01:04:44,200
Speaker 1: and see what happens. If he ends up signing somewhere else,

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01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:49,160
Speaker 1: or it's signed somewhere else, react accordingly, Carlos Carrea signed

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01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:52,360
Speaker 1: somewhere else, React accordingly. But we get all of our

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Speaker 1: you know what in a bunch because oh my gosh,

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01:04:55,480 --> 01:04:58,520
Speaker 1: Carlos Correa ripped Derek Jeter. Could that mean? You know what?

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Speaker 1: Just let it play out. You never know what might

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01:05:01,640 --> 01:05:05,080
Speaker 1: end up happening. Enjoy it. Don't sit there going oh

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01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:08,920
Speaker 1: my god, they get the at No, just let it

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Speaker 1: play out, Dad Gumm and Jav's coming back. That's awesome.

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01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:14,320
Speaker 1: Hopefully he's rehapping ready to go for twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: That's great stuff for the Houston Astros. Let's talk a

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Speaker 1: little Houston Texans football with my pal, my good buddy,

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Speaker 1: Drew Doherty. We did a little in the lab earlier today.

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Speaker 1: This is in the lab. It's me Drew Doherty with

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01:05:28,040 --> 01:05:30,480
Speaker 1: my good pal John Harris and John. The Texans are

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Speaker 1: back to work, back to football. They're going to Nashville.

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Speaker 1: They're taking on the Titans. This is a team we

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Speaker 1: know very very well. It's their bitterest of enemies. They're

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01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:44,080
Speaker 1: bitterest of rivals. And the team that used to be

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Speaker 1: yours and mis or you're and my favorites. I don't

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01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:52,000
Speaker 1: know how that works. I'm bungling it. But the Oilers

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01:05:52,080 --> 01:05:53,760
Speaker 1: used to be my favorite football team, same for you.

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01:05:54,440 --> 01:05:57,120
Speaker 1: And you know, no woman could ever break my heart

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01:05:57,160 --> 01:06:01,000
Speaker 1: like the Oilers did. They're now gone. The Texans are

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01:06:01,040 --> 01:06:05,320
Speaker 1: now my team. So it's interesting you're looking at this matchup.

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01:06:06,240 --> 01:06:09,440
Speaker 1: Obviously Titans are favored to win it. But it's interesting

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01:06:09,600 --> 01:06:15,200
Speaker 1: for a variety of reasons, mainly for me because every

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Speaker 1: week on a Tuesday, I do this little connections piece.

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01:06:19,160 --> 01:06:21,200
Speaker 1: It's it's I don't do it. It's handed to me

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01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:24,520
Speaker 1: by by public relations, by the media relations folks here

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01:06:24,560 --> 01:06:29,600
Speaker 1: in a fantastic job. And rarely do you see one, two, three, four,

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01:06:29,720 --> 01:06:32,840
Speaker 1: or five six former Texans on another team. And that's

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01:06:32,880 --> 01:06:37,400
Speaker 1: what you got, just players wise on this h Titans squad,

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01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:41,280
Speaker 1: because you got five former Texan coaches there as well.

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01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:45,280
Speaker 1: Obviously Mike Rabels the head coach, he was a linebackers

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01:06:45,360 --> 01:06:48,120
Speaker 1: coach here. He's had one year as a DC in seventeen.

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01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:52,240
Speaker 1: You got the quarterbacks coach, Pat O'Hara, who is also

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01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:55,280
Speaker 1: an extra in so many movies. Yeah, we should probably

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01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:57,160
Speaker 1: tell Mark vanderber about that, because he's a movie buff

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01:06:57,200 --> 01:06:58,880
Speaker 1: and I don't know if he knows anything. Oh no,

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01:06:59,320 --> 01:07:02,520
Speaker 1: oh loves him some pad o Hara, Yeah yeah, I'm

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01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:07,560
Speaker 1: without yeah yeah. So uh And and funnily enough, um,

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01:07:07,920 --> 01:07:11,160
Speaker 1: Terrence Mitchell quarterback here on the Texans. This morning, he

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01:07:11,320 --> 01:07:13,680
Speaker 1: was in the cafeteria wearing a steam and Willie Beamon

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01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 1: Shark's jersey Art Vandermers saw that, and so Vandermer's head

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01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:20,240
Speaker 1: nearly explode and talked to him about it. And um,

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01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:22,240
Speaker 1: you know, I was an extra in the movie any

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01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:25,400
Speaker 1: Given Sunday with a steam and Willie Beamon did you

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01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:27,960
Speaker 1: know that. I don't know if I knew that. Yeah,

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01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:30,360
Speaker 1: maybe you've told me that and I just couldn't remember.

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01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:33,080
Speaker 1: But it makes sense now that you've said that to me.

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01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:34,760
Speaker 1: But you don't see her hear me. But it's the

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01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:39,960
Speaker 1: scene where Pacino has to apologize to the press for

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01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:44,000
Speaker 1: shoving John C. McKinley. Yeah, and it was funny he

1362
01:07:44,120 --> 01:07:49,200
Speaker 1: was in that. It was McGinley, Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Charlton Heston,

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01:07:49,240 --> 01:07:51,280
Speaker 1: they were all on the scene and I was roomed

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Speaker 1: with him, just kind of watching its back when I

1365
01:07:53,200 --> 01:07:56,800
Speaker 1: was in college at SMU. He also got their defensive coordinator,

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01:07:56,960 --> 01:07:58,840
Speaker 1: Shane bow and he was here. He was an defensive

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Speaker 1: assistant for a few years. Good guy secondary coach. And

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Speaker 1: Anthony Midgett who was here, and then strength and conditioning

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01:08:05,680 --> 01:08:09,880
Speaker 1: assistant Brian Bell. Yeah, he was with us. Love b Bell.

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Speaker 1: But think about this, all these former players. You got

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Speaker 1: Randy Bullock, the kicker, Deonta Foreman's getting carries now. Yes,

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Speaker 1: he is never worked out here for the Texans in

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01:08:20,320 --> 01:08:24,280
Speaker 1: the long term. Ben Jones, man, that guy is coming

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Speaker 1: up on his what tenth year in the league. He's

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Speaker 1: kind of one that got away. I think he would

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Speaker 1: have been a good one to keep around. He started

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01:08:31,320 --> 01:08:35,599
Speaker 1: for them, he started for the Texans. He's still walking

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01:08:35,680 --> 01:08:39,760
Speaker 1: barefoot before the game. The Pride of bib County, Alabama,

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01:08:40,439 --> 01:08:44,400
Speaker 1: Kendall Lamb is also on the Titans. Michael Pruitt spent

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01:08:44,439 --> 01:08:45,760
Speaker 1: a little bit of time here as a tight end.

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Speaker 1: And then one of everyone's favorites, David Quessenberry is also

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Speaker 1: a Titan. How about that, dude, that's right there. That's

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01:08:53,439 --> 01:08:59,120
Speaker 1: eleven connections, like really strong connections between these two franchises. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's interesting thinking of you know those names

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Speaker 1: you mentioned. I think the one that I don't I

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01:09:05,640 --> 01:09:08,639
Speaker 1: almost you know, bothers me like I understand business decisions

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01:09:08,680 --> 01:09:11,120
Speaker 1: and things that had to be made. But I was

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01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:13,840
Speaker 1: I was texting back and forth with a friend of

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Speaker 1: mine this this weekend. We were actually talking about the

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01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:20,960
Speaker 1: offensive line and tracing things with the offensive line back

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Speaker 1: to Dwayne Brown and in twenty seventeen, and I was like,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think he goes back further than that.

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01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:32,680
Speaker 1: The fact that in twenty fifteen, the left side of

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01:09:32,720 --> 01:09:37,360
Speaker 1: your line is from center over it's Ben Jones, Brandon Brooks,

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01:09:37,600 --> 01:09:41,639
Speaker 1: and Dwayne Brown. Now those now I don't know. Brandon's

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01:09:41,640 --> 01:09:43,640
Speaker 1: banged up on a Brandon's had some injury issues. But

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Speaker 1: after Brandon left, he ended up being a Pro Bowl

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01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:50,080
Speaker 1: with Philadelphia Goos, and we all knew he had the talent,

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Speaker 1: you know, he showed that. But I think what it

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01:09:52,560 --> 01:09:58,120
Speaker 1: went to show me, Drew is that sometimes we need

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01:09:58,240 --> 01:10:01,439
Speaker 1: not be so critical of what we have. Like I

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01:10:01,479 --> 01:10:03,160
Speaker 1: would watch those three and be like, you know, I

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01:10:03,320 --> 01:10:06,240
Speaker 1: find certain things that I didn't really like. Okay, these

1404
01:10:06,320 --> 01:10:08,640
Speaker 1: guys can be better. They could be better, and I

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01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:11,439
Speaker 1: think the coaching staff looked at it as dah and

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01:10:11,520 --> 01:10:15,599
Speaker 1: then they gave them, you know, some offers that probably

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01:10:16,320 --> 01:10:19,160
Speaker 1: they didn't like, and obviously they felt like, okay, well

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01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:21,200
Speaker 1: we're not wanted here. And so Ben goes to Tennessee,

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01:10:21,360 --> 01:10:23,599
Speaker 1: Brandon goes to Philadelphia, and they're still playing for those

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01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:28,479
Speaker 1: respective places. They trade Dwayne in twenty seventeen, and then

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01:10:28,560 --> 01:10:32,360
Speaker 1: all I've struggled to replace those two of the three. Obviously,

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01:10:32,439 --> 01:10:35,360
Speaker 1: Lara Mtunto stepped in and has done a great job

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01:10:35,400 --> 01:10:37,840
Speaker 1: when he's on the field at left tackle, but we've

1414
01:10:37,880 --> 01:10:42,240
Speaker 1: really struggled to replace Ben Jones and Brandon Brooks and

1415
01:10:42,680 --> 01:10:45,800
Speaker 1: those guys and seeing Ben is a constant reminder of that.

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Speaker 1: And I say this, and I was saying this in

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Speaker 1: the text conversation. Look, I don't think that Ben is

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01:10:51,080 --> 01:10:53,840
Speaker 1: the best center in the league. I really don't. I

1419
01:10:53,920 --> 01:10:55,800
Speaker 1: think there are saying some things that he just he

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01:10:55,960 --> 01:10:58,760
Speaker 1: doesn't do or doesn't do well. But then gave you

1421
01:10:58,840 --> 01:11:02,360
Speaker 1: an identity man. He was tough, and not just because

1422
01:11:02,360 --> 01:11:06,680
Speaker 1: he didn't work. Super smart, yeah, super smart, super competitive,

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01:11:07,560 --> 01:11:10,200
Speaker 1: gotten people's faces when he needed to. I mean, you know,

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01:11:10,479 --> 01:11:13,680
Speaker 1: he and look like he said, he's going on. This

1425
01:11:13,880 --> 01:11:16,400
Speaker 1: is his tenth year. He's drafted in twenty twelve. Yeah,

1426
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:19,200
Speaker 1: and he played guard one year. Then he finally got

1427
01:11:19,240 --> 01:11:21,040
Speaker 1: the center and did some things and then he moved

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Speaker 1: on and he's done some really nice things with the

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Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. He's never been an all he's never been

1430
01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:29,560
Speaker 1: All Pro or Pro bowler. But to me, he was

1431
01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:33,479
Speaker 1: the guy that you I don't say you took for granted,

1432
01:11:33,520 --> 01:11:35,680
Speaker 1: but you kind of did. And unfortunately, because you took

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01:11:35,720 --> 01:11:37,640
Speaker 1: him for granted, and he ended up wanted to go

1434
01:11:37,760 --> 01:11:39,320
Speaker 1: somewhere else when he felt like he got a better

1435
01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:41,200
Speaker 1: offer to go somewhere else, and he of course goes

1436
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Speaker 1: to a division team and they absolutely love him in Tennessee.

1437
01:11:44,920 --> 01:11:47,599
Speaker 1: They they love him. And we were talking to Nick

1438
01:11:47,640 --> 01:11:52,439
Speaker 1: Assario on Tuesday and we brought up the Tennessee Titans,

1439
01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:55,799
Speaker 1: and it was interesting to listen to Nick talk about

1440
01:11:56,400 --> 01:12:01,559
Speaker 1: this Tennessee team in general, and he just he made

1441
01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:05,720
Speaker 1: a comment very poignedly about them wanting to be a

1442
01:12:05,800 --> 01:12:08,680
Speaker 1: bunch of badasses, and I was just like, whoa Like.

1443
01:12:08,840 --> 01:12:11,600
Speaker 1: I mean, it was the first time I kind of

1444
01:12:11,680 --> 01:12:14,960
Speaker 1: heard Nick talk like me in some sense saying something

1445
01:12:15,080 --> 01:12:19,160
Speaker 1: like that, because he's very you know, very m not

1446
01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:21,880
Speaker 1: not as a business life, but he kind of doesn't

1447
01:12:21,920 --> 01:12:23,560
Speaker 1: go into that room, but he's talking about Tennessee and

1448
01:12:23,640 --> 01:12:25,519
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, they got a bunch of badasses. He

1449
01:12:25,560 --> 01:12:27,800
Speaker 1: talked about that offensive mind. He said that's the way

1450
01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:30,000
Speaker 1: they want to play. Well, they could play that way

1451
01:12:30,040 --> 01:12:31,840
Speaker 1: because they have a guy in the middle like Ben Jones.

1452
01:12:32,360 --> 01:12:35,040
Speaker 1: You know, Philadelphia for years at Brandon Brooks and I

1453
01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:37,120
Speaker 1: think about that with Ben Jones and you know those

1454
01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:39,880
Speaker 1: guys you mentioned, we all have obvious you know ties

1455
01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:42,240
Speaker 1: them in some sense. Love David Quisenberry. You know last

1456
01:12:42,320 --> 01:12:45,600
Speaker 1: year when we played the Titans at our place, and

1457
01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:47,400
Speaker 1: you know, I couldn't be on the sideline. But I

1458
01:12:47,720 --> 01:12:50,120
Speaker 1: could be in my moat my little one row, you

1459
01:12:50,320 --> 01:12:52,519
Speaker 1: first row, and he happened to be walking over where

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01:12:52,520 --> 01:12:54,200
Speaker 1: he's gonna stretch. He just kind of gave a little

1461
01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:57,320
Speaker 1: bit of a salute over and I just thought that

1462
01:12:57,479 --> 01:12:58,800
Speaker 1: was kind of cool, you know, the fact that he

1463
01:12:59,240 --> 01:13:01,519
Speaker 1: remembered many saw me and I wish you're going to

1464
01:13:01,560 --> 01:13:03,160
Speaker 1: field and kind of tell him how proud I am

1465
01:13:03,200 --> 01:13:04,880
Speaker 1: of him, because he's done. He's done an act of

1466
01:13:04,920 --> 01:13:08,080
Speaker 1: a job. He's been a big piece of that bullyball

1467
01:13:08,200 --> 01:13:10,960
Speaker 1: that Tennessee plays with Derrick Henry or down Day Foreman

1468
01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:13,000
Speaker 1: or whoever they're gonna put back there. And by the way,

1469
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:15,960
Speaker 1: Adrian Peter smalls to play from them too. So it

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01:13:16,240 --> 01:13:20,360
Speaker 1: tackling on Sunday is always a premium, but this Sunday

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01:13:20,400 --> 01:13:23,320
Speaker 1: in particular, it's gonna be at a high, high premium

1472
01:13:23,360 --> 01:13:26,280
Speaker 1: against these guys, their team over the last few years,

1473
01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:29,080
Speaker 1: that man, there's a lot of games that they go

1474
01:13:29,200 --> 01:13:31,759
Speaker 1: into that you think there's they have no business winning

1475
01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:34,880
Speaker 1: this game, and even during the game, you're like, well,

1476
01:13:34,920 --> 01:13:37,479
Speaker 1: they're not gonna win this game, and what do they do?

1477
01:13:37,840 --> 01:13:40,120
Speaker 1: They just find a way to win. And that like

1478
01:13:40,320 --> 01:13:42,840
Speaker 1: earlier this year in Seattle when Seattle was still healthy,

1479
01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:44,960
Speaker 1: and you know, they were a record. I mean, they

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01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:47,080
Speaker 1: went in there and they beat the Seahawks and they

1481
01:13:47,120 --> 01:13:49,320
Speaker 1: were down in that game too. They were down something

1482
01:13:49,479 --> 01:13:52,439
Speaker 1: I know big. That's something big, Like there's no way.

1483
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:55,160
Speaker 1: That's the glaring one for me. And it seems like, man,

1484
01:13:55,200 --> 01:13:57,519
Speaker 1: I felt this way about eight or nine other times

1485
01:13:57,680 --> 01:14:00,280
Speaker 1: the last three or four years. And you know that's

1486
01:14:00,320 --> 01:14:02,080
Speaker 1: not luck. You got to hand it to a team

1487
01:14:02,120 --> 01:14:04,040
Speaker 1: that can do that over and over and over again.

1488
01:14:04,040 --> 01:14:06,479
Speaker 1: And that's that's what they've done. You know, they've you

1489
01:14:06,600 --> 01:14:09,080
Speaker 1: got to you gotta tip your your cap and salute

1490
01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:12,000
Speaker 1: them because it's a pretty good team. Um, and they're

1491
01:14:12,040 --> 01:14:14,280
Speaker 1: they're gonna be a let me get their horses back, man,

1492
01:14:14,360 --> 01:14:16,439
Speaker 1: that they're gonna be a team that's got to be

1493
01:14:16,479 --> 01:14:19,080
Speaker 1: reckoned with. So and I mean the thing about it is, Drew,

1494
01:14:19,479 --> 01:14:22,559
Speaker 1: you mentioned it that that Seattle game was huge. It's

1495
01:14:22,600 --> 01:14:25,880
Speaker 1: just they'd started off poorly and the you know, losing

1496
01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:27,439
Speaker 1: the first game of the year and I'm trying to

1497
01:14:27,479 --> 01:14:30,360
Speaker 1: remember who beat Arizona. Arizona has done that to a

1498
01:14:30,400 --> 01:14:32,519
Speaker 1: lot of people. Yeah, right, And so now you look

1499
01:14:32,560 --> 01:14:35,360
Speaker 1: back at that game, go oh okay. But then they

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01:14:35,439 --> 01:14:37,920
Speaker 1: got to Seattle and they're down in that game big

1501
01:14:38,240 --> 01:14:40,360
Speaker 1: and then somehow found a way to come back and

1502
01:14:40,439 --> 01:14:44,120
Speaker 1: win that thing and overtime. You know. Then they they

1503
01:14:44,240 --> 01:14:46,600
Speaker 1: beat Indianapolis. Then they lost the Jets. That to me

1504
01:14:46,720 --> 01:14:49,240
Speaker 1: was the turning point. They lose to the Jets. They're

1505
01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:51,960
Speaker 1: two and two. Everybody in the ANFC South is two

1506
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:54,400
Speaker 1: and two or one and three, and it's like, man,

1507
01:14:55,360 --> 01:14:57,640
Speaker 1: what that what the hell is going on? All of

1508
01:14:57,640 --> 01:15:01,200
Speaker 1: a sudden, beat the Jagson Jackson, and then they wanted

1509
01:15:01,240 --> 01:15:03,160
Speaker 1: this run to beat the Bills on a Monday night,

1510
01:15:03,520 --> 01:15:06,960
Speaker 1: they beat the Chiefs, Chiefs, They hammered the Chiefs, beat

1511
01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:09,519
Speaker 1: the Colts again and over time, beat the Rams on

1512
01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:11,360
Speaker 1: Sunday night and beat the Saints the other day. I

1513
01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:14,519
Speaker 1: mean that run is better than any run any NFL

1514
01:15:14,600 --> 01:15:18,040
Speaker 1: team has made this year. Any It's an impressive and

1515
01:15:18,960 --> 01:15:21,479
Speaker 1: they met They beat the Rams and the Saints without

1516
01:15:21,680 --> 01:15:24,840
Speaker 1: arguably the best non quarterback in the league in Barrick Henry.

1517
01:15:25,439 --> 01:15:28,160
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's really a group that's kind of

1518
01:15:28,200 --> 01:15:30,920
Speaker 1: turned around. Like you said, they've got a bunch of

1519
01:15:30,960 --> 01:15:33,240
Speaker 1: former Texans. Here's the thing, and I thought about this,

1520
01:15:34,280 --> 01:15:37,360
Speaker 1: Do we have any former Titans? Only one, and you're

1521
01:15:37,360 --> 01:15:40,280
Speaker 1: not going to guess him m Desmond King And he

1522
01:15:40,280 --> 01:15:42,720
Speaker 1: went there very long. Oh that's right. I should have

1523
01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:44,400
Speaker 1: guessed that. I knew that because I was mad at

1524
01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:46,360
Speaker 1: I was mad at Desmond and mad at the Titans,

1525
01:15:46,439 --> 01:15:48,479
Speaker 1: and he ended up going there. You're right. He was

1526
01:15:48,560 --> 01:15:50,479
Speaker 1: there for at half a last year. I believe it was.

1527
01:15:50,600 --> 01:15:52,920
Speaker 1: He got traded there on a Tuesday, I think, and

1528
01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:55,160
Speaker 1: on the next Sunday picked up a fumble and took

1529
01:15:55,200 --> 01:15:58,479
Speaker 1: it back like the other way to the house. Yeah,

1530
01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:02,840
Speaker 1: in typical Desmond and so yeah, and yeah, that's uh gosh,

1531
01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:05,240
Speaker 1: you're right. It's so funny how that works some ways.

1532
01:16:05,560 --> 01:16:07,080
Speaker 1: Like for a long time it was the Broncos and

1533
01:16:07,120 --> 01:16:13,040
Speaker 1: the Texans. Yeah, yeah, Texas, the Eagles, and now it's

1534
01:16:13,200 --> 01:16:16,840
Speaker 1: the Texans and the Titans and some in some sense,

1535
01:16:16,880 --> 01:16:18,839
Speaker 1: and there are probably been others that have been jettisoned

1536
01:16:18,880 --> 01:16:21,080
Speaker 1: along the way that that ended up there got a

1537
01:16:21,120 --> 01:16:26,040
Speaker 1: look but didn't stick. Um because Rabel has has experience. UM,

1538
01:16:26,160 --> 01:16:28,720
Speaker 1: I was a little surprised that they didn't pick up Um.

1539
01:16:29,560 --> 01:16:32,920
Speaker 1: But Argi McKinney. When but Argick was released at the

1540
01:16:32,960 --> 01:16:35,560
Speaker 1: beginning of the year waived by the Miami Dolphense but

1541
01:16:36,080 --> 01:16:38,240
Speaker 1: ended up with the Giants and is starting to do

1542
01:16:38,360 --> 01:16:40,880
Speaker 1: some things for the Giants. So good for Bmac. But yeah,

1543
01:16:40,880 --> 01:16:45,120
Speaker 1: if Rabel is you know, you talk about that. If

1544
01:16:45,160 --> 01:16:46,800
Speaker 1: he told me that a team was going to do it,

1545
01:16:47,240 --> 01:16:49,040
Speaker 1: I would say, you know, the Titans have an opportunity

1546
01:16:49,040 --> 01:16:51,960
Speaker 1: to do it because they have a guy like Rabel

1547
01:16:52,479 --> 01:16:55,240
Speaker 1: who doesn't think he should lose to anybody in anything.

1548
01:16:55,840 --> 01:16:57,800
Speaker 1: You know, Raybel would go one on one Michael Jordan

1549
01:16:57,920 --> 01:17:00,360
Speaker 1: think he could beat him in one on one. Um.

1550
01:17:00,520 --> 01:17:01,760
Speaker 1: I mean that's you know, he could go out on

1551
01:17:02,120 --> 01:17:04,519
Speaker 1: the golf links with Tiger Woods and feel like, you

1552
01:17:04,560 --> 01:17:06,120
Speaker 1: know what, I'm gonna find a way to beat Tiger.

1553
01:17:06,120 --> 01:17:08,559
Speaker 1: A couple of these holds him And I saw him

1554
01:17:08,560 --> 01:17:11,639
Speaker 1: in seventeen at the Greenbrier when he was the defensive

1555
01:17:11,680 --> 01:17:15,240
Speaker 1: coordinator playing four square with Shane Bowen and the rest

1556
01:17:15,280 --> 01:17:20,400
Speaker 1: of the JJ watt that defensive line. Yeah, and then

1557
01:17:20,439 --> 01:17:23,519
Speaker 1: hating it when he lost. Yeah, unbelievable. Back on the

1558
01:17:23,640 --> 01:17:26,120
Speaker 1: Quatro Network, those are fun times. All right, we gotta

1559
01:17:26,120 --> 01:17:27,479
Speaker 1: wrap this up. This is a short one. And then

1560
01:17:27,520 --> 01:17:30,720
Speaker 1: just for the record, Ben Jones started ten games as

1561
01:17:30,760 --> 01:17:33,479
Speaker 1: a rookie at right guard. Thirteen, he didn't play too much.

1562
01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:36,600
Speaker 1: Right in fourteen he started just about every game at

1563
01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:39,160
Speaker 1: left guard, and then ever since it's fifteen e on

1564
01:17:39,320 --> 01:17:41,800
Speaker 1: he's been a starter at center. So he's played all

1565
01:17:41,880 --> 01:17:45,679
Speaker 1: three interior positions. That's and he started a lot of games. That's.

1566
01:17:45,760 --> 01:17:48,120
Speaker 1: That's a valuable guy. Valuable guy. He's not a like,

1567
01:17:48,280 --> 01:17:49,880
Speaker 1: not a pro bowler, like you said, but if you

1568
01:17:49,920 --> 01:17:52,479
Speaker 1: could start for that long in the NFL, you are good. So,

1569
01:17:53,160 --> 01:17:56,040
Speaker 1: no doubt, one of our favorite Texans ever and the

1570
01:17:56,120 --> 01:18:00,280
Speaker 1: best camouflage shuit you've ever seen. Yeah, and lug to

1571
01:18:00,320 --> 01:18:02,320
Speaker 1: go with it. Good stuff. This has been an in

1572
01:18:02,400 --> 01:18:04,200
Speaker 1: the lab. John's always fun talking with you, my man.

1573
01:18:04,560 --> 01:18:08,559
Speaker 1: All right, brother, We start that in the Lab podcast probably,

1574
01:18:08,840 --> 01:18:11,439
Speaker 1: I don't know, probably about three or four years in

1575
01:18:12,160 --> 01:18:13,680
Speaker 1: to my stay with the Texas. I think it was

1576
01:18:13,720 --> 01:18:15,960
Speaker 1: maybe like twenty eighteen or so, and Drew and I

1577
01:18:16,040 --> 01:18:18,800
Speaker 1: were just doing some radio together and we realized we

1578
01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:21,360
Speaker 1: started like to geek out about a few things, and

1579
01:18:22,240 --> 01:18:24,120
Speaker 1: that's where we came up with a name in the Lab,

1580
01:18:24,280 --> 01:18:28,680
Speaker 1: like we were scientists podcast scientists, and we got involved

1581
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:31,600
Speaker 1: with guy Knows What beakers and all that kind of

1582
01:18:31,640 --> 01:18:35,200
Speaker 1: stuff and through some experiments together. So what if you

1583
01:18:35,320 --> 01:18:40,800
Speaker 1: could take a offensive guard and merge him with a

1584
01:18:40,960 --> 01:18:44,040
Speaker 1: defensive safety, what kind of player would you come up with? Like?

1585
01:18:44,120 --> 01:18:45,880
Speaker 1: That was the kind of stuff we've always talked about.

1586
01:18:46,360 --> 01:18:51,000
Speaker 1: There was just nothing but experiments and stuff and evolved

1587
01:18:51,200 --> 01:18:54,439
Speaker 1: and has evolved into we talked about games, We talked

1588
01:18:54,439 --> 01:18:57,920
Speaker 1: about connections. I want to say that we missed Dylan Cole.

1589
01:18:57,920 --> 01:19:00,280
Speaker 1: I could be totally wrong in that. I think we

1590
01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:02,600
Speaker 1: may have missed Dylan Cole. I could be wrong, but

1591
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:06,160
Speaker 1: I know he had a hit for a fumble last

1592
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:10,400
Speaker 1: week against the New Orleans Saints. So I think he's

1593
01:19:10,479 --> 01:19:12,519
Speaker 1: up with the roster or the fifty three man roster,

1594
01:19:12,640 --> 01:19:14,680
Speaker 1: and he looks he looks good, and I'm glad for him.

1595
01:19:14,760 --> 01:19:16,720
Speaker 1: He just couldn't stay healthy here. But man, you could

1596
01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:18,680
Speaker 1: tell the making he's a really good football player were there.

1597
01:19:18,720 --> 01:19:21,280
Speaker 1: He just couldn't stay healthy. So, yeah, there were a

1598
01:19:21,320 --> 01:19:23,920
Speaker 1: lot of connections and a lot of connections between these two.

1599
01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:26,240
Speaker 1: And obviously we spent some time talking about Ben Jones,

1600
01:19:26,880 --> 01:19:29,160
Speaker 1: who we will see on Saturday, and it always just

1601
01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:35,360
Speaker 1: it saddens me to see those bare feet every Sunday

1602
01:19:35,600 --> 01:19:39,120
Speaker 1: twice a year that we play, and of course walking

1603
01:19:39,200 --> 01:19:42,720
Speaker 1: on the field with Titans gear on. Anyhow, all right,

1604
01:19:42,760 --> 01:19:45,400
Speaker 1: we get back. We got a lot to finish up with.

1605
01:19:46,080 --> 01:19:49,960
Speaker 1: Injury report came out, one transaction was made, it affected

1606
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:52,360
Speaker 1: the practice squad for the most part, and maybe some

1607
01:19:52,439 --> 01:19:54,120
Speaker 1: other things we caught up on. We'll catch up on

1608
01:19:54,280 --> 01:19:56,640
Speaker 1: that around the league. We'll do all that next in

1609
01:19:56,680 --> 01:20:03,280
Speaker 1: our final segment of Texans All Access. We've got one

1610
01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:06,160
Speaker 1: final segment. It's Wednesday edition of Texas All Access from

1611
01:20:06,160 --> 01:20:09,080
Speaker 1: the Hounday Texans Radio studio. I am John Harris Football

1612
01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:16,720
Speaker 1: anal sideline reporter. It's time for the Schlumberge Stats Challenge

1613
01:20:17,600 --> 01:20:20,479
Speaker 1: present to buy Schlumberge. Visit Houston Texas dot com to

1614
01:20:20,640 --> 01:20:27,160
Speaker 1: learn more about the Schlumberge Stats Challenge. So I did math,

1615
01:20:27,400 --> 01:20:31,800
Speaker 1: So here your stats. It's actually a number fifty five

1616
01:20:32,280 --> 01:20:36,160
Speaker 1: point six percent. Now that could be there could be

1617
01:20:36,160 --> 01:20:39,920
Speaker 1: a lot of things, but to me, what it represents

1618
01:20:40,680 --> 01:20:43,559
Speaker 1: is five out of nine. If you shoot three pointers

1619
01:20:43,680 --> 01:20:48,200
Speaker 1: five out of nine, fifty five point six percent, you

1620
01:20:48,400 --> 01:20:51,760
Speaker 1: will be the greatest three point shooter of all time.

1621
01:20:52,240 --> 01:20:56,000
Speaker 1: If you shoot free throws at five out of nine, yeah,

1622
01:20:56,040 --> 01:21:01,479
Speaker 1: it's a struggle two point fuel goals in basketball. You know,

1623
01:21:01,600 --> 01:21:04,040
Speaker 1: anything inside the arc which doesn't happen a lotty five

1624
01:21:04,040 --> 01:21:06,360
Speaker 1: point six is pretty good. I mean it's pretty good.

1625
01:21:07,360 --> 01:21:13,000
Speaker 1: Fifty five point six percent of turnovers created in one

1626
01:21:13,520 --> 01:21:17,360
Speaker 1: game versus the number you had in a full season

1627
01:21:18,120 --> 01:21:20,680
Speaker 1: is outstanding. And what I mean by that is the

1628
01:21:20,760 --> 01:21:26,120
Speaker 1: Texans had five turnovers generated on Sunday against the Dolphins

1629
01:21:26,200 --> 01:21:31,759
Speaker 1: or two Sundays ago against the Dolphins five. In twenty twenty,

1630
01:21:32,160 --> 01:21:36,559
Speaker 1: they had nine total turnovers. Five turnovers in one game

1631
01:21:37,000 --> 01:21:42,479
Speaker 1: nine a season. Five out of nine is fifty five

1632
01:21:42,680 --> 01:21:46,560
Speaker 1: point six percent. Fifty five point six percent of the

1633
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:51,560
Speaker 1: entire season's worth the Texans recorded in one game. That

1634
01:21:51,920 --> 01:21:57,280
Speaker 1: is your Slumberg stats challenge for the evening. All right,

1635
01:21:57,360 --> 01:21:59,320
Speaker 1: let's get to the injury report. We didn't get a

1636
01:21:59,400 --> 01:22:02,519
Speaker 1: chance to get to this little bit earlier, and there

1637
01:22:02,680 --> 01:22:05,639
Speaker 1: was only one at DMP that was Hardy Nickerson still

1638
01:22:05,720 --> 01:22:11,400
Speaker 1: dealing that concussion. Limited participants Danny Amadola, Rex Birkehead, Brandon

1639
01:22:11,600 --> 01:22:16,519
Speaker 1: Cooks not injury related, did see him out of practice today,

1640
01:22:16,520 --> 01:22:20,320
Speaker 1: but they were limited participants. Farrell Brown thigh, Jonathan Grennard

1641
01:22:20,400 --> 01:22:22,920
Speaker 1: dealing the foot issue and hopefully those guys are gonna

1642
01:22:22,920 --> 01:22:25,320
Speaker 1: be okay, But they were both limited practice. The Titans

1643
01:22:25,400 --> 01:22:27,960
Speaker 1: got a little bit more banged up now. Obviously they

1644
01:22:28,040 --> 01:22:31,960
Speaker 1: played last week, but guards starting guard Nate David's concussion,

1645
01:22:32,160 --> 01:22:35,640
Speaker 1: starting out to linebacker Bud Dupree knee, Chris Jackson, the

1646
01:22:35,760 --> 01:22:41,160
Speaker 1: key secondary member of foot David Long, starting linebacker hamstring

1647
01:22:41,240 --> 01:22:45,040
Speaker 1: and Jeremy McNichols, one of the ball carriers for the Titans,

1648
01:22:45,120 --> 01:22:50,679
Speaker 1: a concussion. They were all dnps today, Sean Evans, Harold Landry,

1649
01:22:50,800 --> 01:22:56,000
Speaker 1: Greg Maban, Kyle Peco, Jeffrey Simmons, Tier Tart key guys.

1650
01:22:56,680 --> 01:23:00,599
Speaker 1: I think all of them. Those guys are all limited

1651
01:23:00,680 --> 01:23:03,840
Speaker 1: participants in practice. The ones obviously keep an eye on

1652
01:23:03,920 --> 01:23:08,799
Speaker 1: our one to four three starters and then two players,

1653
01:23:08,960 --> 01:23:12,759
Speaker 1: two key players or DMPs for the Titans. We already

1654
01:23:12,800 --> 01:23:15,519
Speaker 1: know that Julio Jones and Derrick Henry will not be

1655
01:23:15,600 --> 01:23:19,880
Speaker 1: in this game because they have been placed on I

1656
01:23:20,120 --> 01:23:23,360
Speaker 1: are so they will not be in this game. Means

1657
01:23:23,400 --> 01:23:26,320
Speaker 1: you'll face Jeremy mc nichols if he plays, You'll face

1658
01:23:26,600 --> 01:23:30,680
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson and Dante Foreman in the backfield, and then

1659
01:23:31,120 --> 01:23:34,479
Speaker 1: we've Ben Jones. The number of guys we've already talked about.

1660
01:23:34,560 --> 01:23:37,320
Speaker 1: So it's a Titans group that's a little bit banged up.

1661
01:23:38,200 --> 01:23:40,439
Speaker 1: A j Brown, as Jim why I mentioned, has been

1662
01:23:40,520 --> 01:23:42,760
Speaker 1: dealing with a number of things off the field, and

1663
01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:47,240
Speaker 1: hopefully he's gonna beat Okay, his mental health is going

1664
01:23:47,400 --> 01:23:52,240
Speaker 1: to improve, is the best way of saying it is

1665
01:23:52,280 --> 01:23:55,439
Speaker 1: going to improve, and hopefully those are things that he

1666
01:23:55,640 --> 01:23:59,360
Speaker 1: has an opportunity to deal with in the NFL, and

1667
01:23:59,439 --> 01:24:03,519
Speaker 1: the Titans will help him with that situation. But it's

1668
01:24:03,560 --> 01:24:06,000
Speaker 1: a team that's not quite one hundred percent. However, if

1669
01:24:06,040 --> 01:24:11,080
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons is healthy, Hey, Kevin Bayard's healthy, oh Man

1670
01:24:11,479 --> 01:24:13,599
Speaker 1: talking about arguably one of the best safeties in the league.

1671
01:24:13,840 --> 01:24:16,280
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons is one of the top five, maybe top

1672
01:24:16,400 --> 01:24:20,920
Speaker 1: three defensive lineman in the league. Taylor Luwan's there, He's

1673
01:24:20,920 --> 01:24:22,439
Speaker 1: one of the top tackles in the league. Look, there's

1674
01:24:22,520 --> 01:24:26,080
Speaker 1: enough talent there in Tennessee. I don't think they're gonna

1675
01:24:26,120 --> 01:24:29,400
Speaker 1: cry too much in their beer without or having to

1676
01:24:29,479 --> 01:24:31,639
Speaker 1: go without some of the players that we've already mentioned.

1677
01:24:31,760 --> 01:24:34,479
Speaker 1: But I know they envisioned an offense led by Derrick

1678
01:24:34,560 --> 01:24:36,880
Speaker 1: Henry with the opportunity to throw a play action from

1679
01:24:36,960 --> 01:24:40,280
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill to Julio Jones and A. J. Brown And

1680
01:24:40,439 --> 01:24:43,320
Speaker 1: right now, that's that's not happening for them. However, the

1681
01:24:43,439 --> 01:24:46,840
Speaker 1: Titans aren't losing. The Titans are not losing. They went

1682
01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:50,240
Speaker 1: two and two to start this year, and you thought, hmm, okay,

1683
01:24:50,760 --> 01:24:53,160
Speaker 1: maybe this thing is going in a different direction. They

1684
01:24:53,280 --> 01:24:58,479
Speaker 1: lost to the Jets. They lost the Jets, and from

1685
01:24:58,560 --> 01:25:01,920
Speaker 1: that point forward they have and six in a row.

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Speaker 1: Six in a row. That's the role that they are on.

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Speaker 1: So there's you, Andrew report. We'll talk about the game.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk more about it tomorrow night with John McClean

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Speaker 1: from the Houston Chronicle. Mark Vannomir. Of course we'll also

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Speaker 1: do it on Friday. I'll give you my keys the game,

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Speaker 1: make all of our predictions presented by Caesar's rewards. We

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Speaker 1: allow to do the rest of the week. But I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys for being here, Deep City, Jim Wyatt,

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Speaker 1: Mark Vannimir, Mike Keith, Drew Doherty, Nick Casserio, David Culley,

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Speaker 1: all of you. Thank you so much. We'll see you

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Speaker 1: next time, and as always, go Texans.