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Speaker 1: What's happening? Everybody, Welcome into Wednesday, this shit of Texans,

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Speaker 1: all acts. As you heard the Man, I'm Heroes, John Harris,

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Speaker 1: football analyst, side of the reporter for your Houston Texans,

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Speaker 1: and man, we've got a jam packed show. Mark's gonna

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Speaker 1: join me in the next segment and we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about the state of the ABC souths of important stuff

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Speaker 1: happening in this division, who's gonna win it this year?

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Speaker 1: And what do you make of the cults making Nick

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Speaker 1: Foles a starting quarterback. We'll talk about that a little

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Speaker 1: bit later in the show. We also are gonna go

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Speaker 1: men behind the mics and when it's Tennessee Titans week,

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Speaker 1: that means it's our pal Mike Keith gonna join the show.

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Speaker 1: Dpcity also sat down with Christian Harris. It's deep slant

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Speaker 1: first timer Christian Harris. That's gonna be fun. And then

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Speaker 1: David Fletcher GM of Lone Star Sports and Entertainment is

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Speaker 1: gonna join me to talk about the Tax Act Texas

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Speaker 1: Bowl featuring Texas Tech against Old Miss. That's gonna be

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Speaker 1: some fun stuff. But it's Wednesday, and right out the shoot,

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Speaker 1: you know how we do. We started with Nick Cassio.

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Speaker 1: We had fun time talking to Nick this week joining

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Speaker 1: us Now Texan's Radio it's general manager Nick Kassario. Nick,

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Speaker 1: good to see a happy holidays. Likes a left for

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Speaker 1: being with us today, Like what that's good to be here.

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Speaker 1: Great effort against the Kansas City Chiefs. Outstanding effort, really

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Speaker 1: losing it over time, but so many good moments leading

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Speaker 1: up to that. Didn't execute in ot but got the

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Speaker 1: big stop. There was so much in that game, Nick,

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Speaker 1: What did you see on Sunday afternoon? Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: Um did some decent things in the red area. Offensively,

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Speaker 1: So um, you know, so overall, you know, gave ourselves

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Speaker 1: But you know, it's kind of been the story of

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Speaker 1: our season here a little bit, Nick, We knew it's

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Speaker 1: step up. But reconfiguring an offensive line can be kind

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Speaker 1: guard before with Titus Howard. But for the third straight week,

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Speaker 1: where they can go out there and feel good about

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Speaker 1: where they are and big abo out there and perform,

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Speaker 1: you know, at an optimum level. On Sunday, I would imagine,

431
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Speaker 1: I mean, you're football guys. You're watching football a lot,

432
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Speaker 1: whether you're watching it for work or you're just football. Hey,

433
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Speaker 1: how strange is it for you to watch a game

434
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Speaker 1: between the Raiders that have got some of your great

435
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Speaker 1: friends on one side and a lot of your other

436
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Speaker 1: friends on the other side. And b have you ever

437
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Speaker 1: seen a game end the way that it did? In

438
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Speaker 1: Las Vegas. Yeah, it's you're almost like watching as a fan.

439
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, there's relationships that run very deep.

440
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Speaker 1: I'd say the close unfortunately, the closest end of the

441
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Speaker 1: game to that game was I forget what year was

442
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Speaker 1: it played down in Miami. You know, the end of

443
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Speaker 1: the game where they had the you know, with seven

444
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Speaker 1: sex and left in the game and they ended up

445
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Speaker 1: you know, hooking ladder. They toss the ball and then

446
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Speaker 1: they went in the last play of the game. So

447
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Speaker 1: unfortunately it was kind of a part of one of

448
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Speaker 1: those but a little bit different than kind of what

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Speaker 1: happened with you, right, I think I can't remember exactly

450
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Speaker 1: what the score was we were I think we were

451
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Speaker 1: up in the game, so they ended up winning the

452
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Speaker 1: game on the last play. So but I'd say, really

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Speaker 1: it's a good example of games come Toto situational football,

454
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Speaker 1: and it could be one play at the end of

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Speaker 1: the game, it could be one play in the middle

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Speaker 1: of the game. So how you handle that situation. And

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Speaker 1: it's probably a learning experience on both sides of him,

458
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Speaker 1: And it was learning experience for us. Go back in

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Speaker 1: New England in Miami game kind of how we played

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Speaker 1: sort of end of the game defense. So hopefully you

461
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Speaker 1: just kind of learned from that situation. You're really never

462
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Speaker 1: gonna know when it's gonna show up, what's gonna show up,

463
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Speaker 1: and how you handle it. But I mean, yeah, I'm

464
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Speaker 1: sure there's a lot of emotions that were in the

465
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Speaker 1: stadium for that last play. Yeah, did you put Gronk

466
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Speaker 1: through more tackling exercises after that? At that point, I

467
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Speaker 1: think we took him off attack and exercise and then

468
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Speaker 1: focused on playing tight end. Nick, what about the holiday season?

469
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Speaker 1: You've been in this business a long time. How do

470
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Speaker 1: you handle it? Because, hey, everybody's got a Christmas list

471
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Speaker 1: and you have a lot of work to do, So

472
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Speaker 1: how do you balance that? Yeah, you gotta have a

473
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Speaker 1: lot of helpers. Hopefully have a lot of elves that

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Speaker 1: could help. Yes, So but we're getting there, We're getting

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Speaker 1: ready for the holiday. So you know, our girls are

476
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Speaker 1: excited about it. You know, honestly, we're the staff and

477
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Speaker 1: the people in the building here is important. You didn't

478
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Speaker 1: want to try to reward them for the work and

479
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Speaker 1: everything they've done this year. So, I mean, holiday, it's

480
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Speaker 1: a great time for everybody. Um, we have a job

481
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Speaker 1: to do, so we have to focus on playing football,

482
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Speaker 1: trying to play good football, and then you know, I

483
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Speaker 1: think we're kind of fortunate, you know, after the game

484
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Speaker 1: on Saturday there, you know, everybody will kind of be

485
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Speaker 1: off on Sunday for Christmas what they should be, which

486
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Speaker 1: they should be with their family and then kind of

487
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Speaker 1: come back, you know, following week and kind of get

488
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Speaker 1: ready to go for the next challenge in front of us. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, Happy Holidays and Mary Christmas to everybody. Mary

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Speaker 1: Christmas to the crew here. So it's always good to

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Speaker 1: visit with you guys on a on a weekly basis.

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Speaker 1: All Right, thanks a lot, Nick, Mary Christmas, Good luck.

493
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Speaker 1: Thanks guys. Nick, thank you appreciate your time as well.

494
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Speaker 1: Every single time, I mean every single week he joins us,

495
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Speaker 1: and I know that's got to be a pain to

496
00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:41,840
Speaker 1: come in and talk about things, things not going well.

497
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Speaker 1: He does it every single week. Love what Nick Kissario

498
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Speaker 1: Bridge Stars Show gives to us. He's just fantastic and

499
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Speaker 1: we appreciate that. All right, Coming up next, what is

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Speaker 1: the state of the AFC South right now? Three teams

501
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Speaker 1: could still win this division? Who does win it? And

502
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Speaker 1: what does it mean that Nick Foles is taking over

503
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Speaker 1: for quarterback for the rest of the year for the

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts. That's next in Texas All Access. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: this Wednesday at issue of Texas All Access from the

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Speaker 1: Hunday Texans Radio studio is great catch up with Nick Cassario,

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Speaker 1: Mark vander Meer and I got a chance to do that,

508
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Speaker 1: and I'm your host, John Harris Football on a sideline

509
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Speaker 1: reporter and Mark sticks with me and Mark, I'm gonna

510
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Speaker 1: ask you a question. It's got a lot of different parts.

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, I brought my number two pencil, Johnny. What

512
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Speaker 1: is the state of the AFC South? Okay, a lot

513
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Speaker 1: that's a lot to unpack, As Spencer would say, Yeah,

514
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Speaker 1: there's a lot to um back there. Of course, now

515
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Speaker 1: we know what our issues are. I mean, we have

516
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Speaker 1: a pretty good feeling and we'll see how those things

517
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Speaker 1: kind of play out. But there are three other teams

518
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Speaker 1: that have got a lot going on. So I'm gonna

519
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Speaker 1: start with this one. Who wins the AFC South in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two three games to go. You've got the

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Speaker 1: Titans at seven and seven. Ye, you have the Jaguars

522
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Speaker 1: at six and eight, and believe it or not, believe it. Sorry,

523
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Speaker 1: Matt Thomas. Um, sorry, I was just I know we

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Speaker 1: love Matt Mattsigan. Dude. The Colts still have a chance

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Speaker 1: to win a division. Huh. It's they gotta win three

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Speaker 1: in a row, which I don't know. Then they've got

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Speaker 1: to have the Titans. Who's all three, and the Jaguars

528
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Speaker 1: can win one because the Jaguars I gotta win that

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Speaker 1: game against Tennessee at the end. That's how they do.

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Speaker 1: There's there's a miracle involved there. So given all that information,

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Speaker 1: who wins the AFC South in twenty twenty two? All right,

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Speaker 1: let me give you the Titans schedule here. Okay, we

533
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Speaker 1: know who they play Saturday. That would be the Houston

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Speaker 1: Texans at noon, that's correct. Then it's the Dallas Cowboys

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Speaker 1: at home, right, and the Cowboys are gonna want that one, yes,

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Speaker 1: And then at Jacksonville, I think the Titans. And here's

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Speaker 1: the thing. The Titans are gonna lose once before they

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Speaker 1: get to Jacksonville. It's either us or the Cowboys. Right,

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Speaker 1: They're gonna lose one of those games, Johnny. Now, they

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Speaker 1: might win both, but I think they're gonna lose one.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think Jacksonville has a legit shot here.

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Speaker 1: But this Thursday Night or they have with the Jets

543
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Speaker 1: is no joke. It's going to be in New York, well,

544
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Speaker 1: the Greater New York Area, New Jersey Exit sixteen W

545
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Speaker 1: off the New Jersey Turnpike, the Meadowlands. So they'll be

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Speaker 1: at the Jets Thursday night, then against the Texans at

547
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Speaker 1: NRG New Year's Day, then Tennessee. The question is do

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Speaker 1: the Jags sweep their way to the final, and if

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Speaker 1: they do, they're winning the division. The Jacksonville Jaguars are

550
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Speaker 1: coming from out of nowhere to win the division. This

551
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Speaker 1: is a team that at one point lost five in

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Speaker 1: a row. They were two in what six to start

553
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Speaker 1: the season. Ridiculous. Wow, how about this? I want you

554
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Speaker 1: to think about this fact. This is kind of nuts.

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Speaker 1: We had a nine game winning streak in twenty eighteen,

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Speaker 1: right right, nine game winning streak didn't get as much.

557
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Speaker 1: But if the Jacksonville Jaguars go on a seven game

558
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Speaker 1: winning streak, yeah, they are Super Bowl champs. Oh from

559
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Speaker 1: here on here, they're already two into it, so that

560
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Speaker 1: would match our nine game winning streak. If they have

561
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Speaker 1: a nine game winning streak to finish the season, the

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars are the Super Bowl champs. I just want

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Speaker 1: that to Let that just ruminate for a little bit,

564
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Speaker 1: because how outside the realm possibility is it. Let's think

565
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Speaker 1: about this for a second. Have you heard of a

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Speaker 1: team that just got into the playoffs, one to division

567
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Speaker 1: with a second year number one overall draft pick, with

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Speaker 1: a lot of talent, things came together at the right spot,

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Speaker 1: and got to a Super Bowl. You're saying they're the

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals. I'm throwing it out there. Look, if there

571
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Speaker 1: are a lot of similarities, are there not a lot

572
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Speaker 1: of similarities this? I can't have this. I cannot have

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Speaker 1: the Jaguars going to the Super Bowl. I can't do it.

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Speaker 1: No straight wins is all it takes for the Well,

575
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Speaker 1: six straight wins gets the Jaguars to the Super Bowl.

576
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Speaker 1: Then they'll loose to the forty nine ers. But six

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Speaker 1: straight wins gets them there. Five straight wins get them

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Speaker 1: to the AFC Championship. I don't feel so good. I

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Speaker 1: don't feel so good thinking about that, Johnny. I know,

580
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Speaker 1: I don't know if they're ready for that, but they're

581
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Speaker 1: certainly headed in the right direction. You have to say

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Speaker 1: that at this point yes, Now they could melt down

583
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Speaker 1: from here when they lose three in a row to

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Speaker 1: end the season. That's possible, two or two out of

585
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Speaker 1: three whatever. That's also in play. It's a clunky division

586
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Speaker 1: right now. It's similar to the twenty fifteen twenty sixteen

587
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Speaker 1: AFC South right right. But one thing that Mike Keith

588
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Speaker 1: told me, and we're gonna have moms, yes, One thing

589
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Speaker 1: he told me was the Jaguars have lost the fewest

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Speaker 1: starts to injury in the league. They are healthy like

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Speaker 1: they were in twenty seventeen when they went to the

592
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Speaker 1: AFC Championshipact. They were the healthiest team then, the healthiest team.

593
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Speaker 1: Now it's a different kind of season. They were doing

594
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Speaker 1: much better that year in the regular season. But it's

595
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Speaker 1: all right there in front of them. They control their

596
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Speaker 1: destiny right now, which is a wonderful thing to say

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Speaker 1: for a team. So I give them a lot of credit.

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Speaker 1: And isn't it funny how once upon a time Nick

599
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Speaker 1: Foles was the great hope for the Jaguars and one

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Speaker 1: on Opening Day block he might be the great hope

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Speaker 1: for another team, the fc S. I don't know he's

602
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Speaker 1: the great hope, but he's gonna start for the Indianapolis Cults.

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Speaker 1: How about that Falls is your guy in Indy? I know, Mark,

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Speaker 1: I just I feel like I feel like they're grasping

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Speaker 1: at straws. Just what do we do? How do we

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Speaker 1: do it? It is the Chargers, and that Chargers defense

607
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 1: can be all over the map. That Charger defense was

608
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Speaker 1: really good against Derek Henry for the most part, did

609
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Speaker 1: have over one hundred yards an average almost five yards

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Speaker 1: to carry against him, but held the Titans of fourteen points,

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Speaker 1: which should have But against us, they gave up our

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Speaker 1: highest point output and probably should have given up more. Now,

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Speaker 1: obviously we got some of that after the fumble on

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Speaker 1: the kick return, But that's a team Nick Foles. Why not?

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Speaker 1: I mean, Jeff Saturday is looking at it going We've

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Speaker 1: wown a thirty three point lead with Matt Ryan. Maybe

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Speaker 1: Ryan's banged up. Maybe they just want to see you

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Speaker 1: what Foles is. God, I don't think in their heart

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Speaker 1: of hearts they think Foles is the answer long term.

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Speaker 1: But why not if you're the Colts at this point,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you've you've fired the Sam Ailinger bullet and

622
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Speaker 1: that didn't go well. Then you've you've gone with the

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan bullet and that didn't go well. So you

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Speaker 1: spin the chamber and you find this one and go,

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Speaker 1: you know what, let's try Foles and see what happens. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think thirty three to nothing is very good. Losing

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Speaker 1: the game is very bad. And the fact that you

628
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Speaker 1: couldn't score in the second half, but for a field goal,

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Speaker 1: that's very bad. So they're looking at that, They're looking

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Speaker 1: at the whole body of work with Matt Ryan. I

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Speaker 1: was surprised they didn't go to Foles instead of Ellinger

632
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Speaker 1: at first. I was teased on the way Ellinger played.

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Speaker 1: In fact, when they went to him, I thought, well,

634
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Speaker 1: maybe they know something here, maybe he's been really shown

635
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Speaker 1: out on the look team or whatever. And they looked

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Speaker 1: at the stuff and they felt like, this guy's ready

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Speaker 1: to show us something we need to spark. Well, he

638
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:14,439
Speaker 1: didn't really give it to them, and there they are.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the nine game winning street comparing it to hey,

640
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 1: what if the Jacks win seven in a row and

641
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 1: win the championship? Okay, this time a year, every victory

642
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,639
Speaker 1: is worth more. I know they're all worth the same

643
00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: you went on opening day. It's worth the same as

644
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 1: Week eighteen. Yes, and no, it's like you're climbing Everest.

645
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 1: If you're trying to win a championship, the early steps

646
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: have to be easier than the ones that take you

647
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: near the top, right when you get toward that final apex.

648
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,959
Speaker 1: That's what these games are. So this Monday nighter when

649
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: the Chargers visit Indy is humongous for the Chargers. They've

650
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 1: got to get it. They can't stumble. They're fighting for

651
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 1: a playoff birth they cannot afford Defaulter in Indy against

652
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: Nick Foles and the Jonathan Taylor Less cults because he's

653
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: for the year. So I like the Chargers in this one.

654
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna rise to the occasion and win it.

655
00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 1: But it will be interesting to watch. Yeah, there's no

656
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: there's no doubt, so Colt starting Nick Foles against the Chargers.

657
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,880
Speaker 1: That's been announced. That was announced on Wednesday. You mentioned

658
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:18,400
Speaker 1: the schedule for the Titans, which included games against the Jaguars,

659
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, the Texans, the Jaguars. You also mentioned the

660
00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: Thursday night game, Yeah, New York. That game was announced

661
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 1: by Amazon. I remember when we were going through the schedule,

662
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:31,239
Speaker 1: and of course we look at a lot of things

663
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: that we start with ours. Where where our games were,

664
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: the prime time games? When are we traveling here? Where

665
00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 1: we're going there? What could be our weather games? Here?

666
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 1: We have now finally the one last road game and

667
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 1: the last outdoor game of the year, and it's gonna

668
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 1: be the coldest one all years. So you know, we've

669
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: dodged a few weather bullets throughout the years, so I'm

670
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 1: okay with that. But when that was announced from Amazon,

671
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: you look at scheduling, go, okay, there's oh, there's our

672
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: game against the Eagles. Okay, that'd be fun. It's our

673
00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: battle rette game where we're red helmets. It's gonna be fun.

674
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 1: Jaguars Jets on a Thursday night. You're thinking, come on, man,

675
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: I mean December twenty second, Come on, everybody's gonna be watching.

676
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 1: You gives Jaguars Jets like you can't give us Chiefs

677
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: Chargers December twenty second. You can't give us something like that.

678
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, this game is one of

679
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: the most important games in the league. It's compelling. Zach

680
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 1: Wilson starting for the second consecutive time, coming back from

681
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 1: the Abyss. You have the Jaguars fighting for a postseason

682
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: birth the Jets are seven and seven, obviously right in

683
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 1: the mix, and they both desperately needed It's good. Yeah,

684
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: you're right. When you saw it on the schedule, it

685
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 1: reeked of twenty sixteen ish color rush Jaguars were in

686
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:42,280
Speaker 1: the poopoo diaper color uniforms, remember those against the Titans.

687
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 1: And it was a Thursday night. Ugly, it looked ugly.

688
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: It was ugly. Record wise otherwise it was so bad.

689
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 1: And that was the worst color uniform ever. They will

690
00:30:56,080 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 1: never ever wear that again. What was that? It's gold? No,

691
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: it's no, that wasn't gold. I didn't open up my

692
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 1: kids diaper and say it's gold. It's gold. But they

693
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 1: go to the Jets. Then they get ten days to

694
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: prepare for the Texans on January first here, so they

695
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 1: got two road games, so that'll be that'll be a

696
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 1: test for them. They lost at Detroit on December fourth,

697
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: then they beat Tennessee at Tennessee. Then they've won at

698
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: Dallas or excuse me, back home in Duvall County against

699
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, and then they close to the Tennessee Titans.

700
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: So Jaguars Colts Titans. I don't know if you've said it.

701
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 1: Who wins the AFC South in twenty twenty two. All Right,

702
00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: so I gotta make a prediction right now. Texans are

703
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:46,520
Speaker 1: out of it obviously, but they can affect this absolutely.

704
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: That's that's where. Absolutely, that's what I'm here for this

705
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,640
Speaker 1: mini AFC South Tournament round robin thing. I love it

706
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:56,160
Speaker 1: for the Houston Texans, and I love on the way out.

707
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 1: I'm talking of the play by play guys. I know

708
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: these teams, we've had them before. Or it's a nice

709
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: way to end it. I think Lovey Smith is really

710
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 1: caught onto something. By the way, at this point, what

711
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: else can you catch on too? But he's pinpointed, you

712
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 1: know what, we have a winning to record within the division. Yes,

713
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: we could have the best record within the division of

714
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 1: all the division teams. Can you win the conference championship

715
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: and get to a bowl game, Johnny? Maybe maybe that

716
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: would be nice. I want to get you a bowl.

717
00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 1: It might put you into Cure Bowl. It may not

718
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 1: take you to the Taxak Texas Bowl might be but yeah,

719
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 1: I would absolutely because who do haven't here In the

720
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: other day, we're talking to Mary Rogers talking to Tabia

721
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:36,719
Speaker 1: Thomas and brought up the record in Division it's one

722
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: one and one. Yeah, so you could go four one

723
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 1: and one. Yeah, you go four one and one in

724
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: the division and be the most dominant team in the division.

725
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: Haven't taken care of business? People are wondering right now.

726
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: So the Tennessee Titans are three and one in the division.

727
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: In the division, so you could be to Jacksonville. That's

728
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: three and two, and then they're gonna lose to Jacksonville,

729
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: So that's handy for you. The Jags in the division

730
00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: are two and two. They have dates left over with

731
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: the Texans and the Titans. The Cults in the division

732
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: are one three and one, so you can win that

733
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: that fox, Yes, you could kionship. What do I call

734
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: that the best division record? The Cults would actually hang

735
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 1: a banner for this, I think, and the Texans will

736
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: not do it. They yeah, that's bullying. They probably would.

737
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,479
Speaker 1: That's best bullying, but I think that is I'd love

738
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 1: to see them do it, though. You know, look, this

739
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 1: is what love he has right now. He's going to

740
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 1: present this to the players. You'll get a bit of

741
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 1: bragging rights as the team that did better than the

742
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: others within the division. That's kind of cool if you're

743
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: able to do it. But they have the opportunity in

744
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: front of them with these three dates. But Johnny, I

745
00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 1: will pick the Jaguars to win. The Texans can still

746
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: beat Jacksonville and Jacksonville can do it because the Texans

747
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: can actually help Jacksonville and then beat Jacksonville and Jacksonville

748
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 1: with a victory over the Titans on closing day will

749
00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 1: win the AFC South. The only way that Week eighteen

750
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 1: my math. I'm doing my math the only way. Week

751
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:09,359
Speaker 1: eighteen becomes irrelevant for the Jaguars and the Titans. As

752
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,200
Speaker 1: if the Jaguars lose both games to the Jets and

753
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 1: the Texans, they lose both of those, they would be

754
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 1: six and ten. The Titans, that would be six and

755
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: ten going in no, lady second, No, if the Titan,

756
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:23,719
Speaker 1: the Titans have to do in one game. So if

757
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: the Jaguars lose two games in a row, they lose

758
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,320
Speaker 1: the Jets, they lose to the Texans, but the Titans

759
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: win one of the next two three, Eighteen's irrelevant. It's irrelevant.

760
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 1: It's irrelevant, And that's exactly what the Titans need to

761
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: have for them where the way they are going, That's

762
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: exactly what they need to have. That could be the

763
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:42,319
Speaker 1: Sunday night game. By the way, they haven't announced it yet.

764
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: That could be the Jaguars v. Titans. What were the

765
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: Uva County What were the odds? Oh? Zero? Yeah, absolutely,

766
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 1: absolutely zero. But they need a game where at least

767
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: at least one of the teams is gonna get in

768
00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:00,080
Speaker 1: with a win or not. Right, they need that, They

769
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,320
Speaker 1: need something on the line. They can't have an exhibition

770
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,759
Speaker 1: in that Sunday night game. No, you're you're absolutely right

771
00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: about that, all right. I remember now I'm having flashbacks

772
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: of two thousand and nine with a Sunday Night Oh,

773
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,240
Speaker 1: Jets Bengals Jets. Okay, well, let's take a look. Angles

774
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: didn't need it, so they didn't play. I'll tell you

775
00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: which one gets flexed, though, what I'll tell you which

776
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: one gets flexed in week eighteen. It may not be

777
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 1: the Jaguars Titans. We'll see because the Ravens are hanging

778
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: on for dear life. Yeah, Ravens Bengals is Week eighteen. Yeah,

779
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: but the Bengals won't need it. Maybe not, maybe not.

780
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: Patriots Bills is Week eighteen. Um, Lions Packers could be

781
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,800
Speaker 1: for something. What if the Bills needed for the one seed,

782
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 1: because right now theres got to get in. Jets Dolphins

783
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: is week eighteen. Okay, here's another one. Crazy as it

784
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 1: may seem. Panthers Saints might be for the NFC salad.

785
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: It could be that's also that's Week eighteen. Giants Eagles,

786
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: Week eighteen, Brown Steelers might have playoff ramifications. I got

787
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: one for you. You asked me to pick the AFC

788
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,720
Speaker 1: South that I did. It's Jacksonville. Yeah, I think somehow,

789
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: some way it works out. That's what I think it is, too.

790
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:11,400
Speaker 1: I think it's Jacksonville. I think they win one of

791
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 1: these next two, and it makes as long as they

792
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,760
Speaker 1: win one of these next two, the Week eighteen becomes

793
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: for the whole Enchilada. I'm going to give you a

794
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 1: chance to revise if you want to your Super Bowl pick?

795
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: Who wins the Super Bowl? Right now? Oh, I've got

796
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,960
Speaker 1: my team. I got my team, Buffalo Bills. Who is

797
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 1: I think the Bills is the best team in the AFC.

798
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 1: Now the Bills were my pick, yeah, and I'm they

799
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,000
Speaker 1: would be number two. I have two teams that I

800
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 1: think win it. Philly Nope, forty ninety nine Ers. Yeah,

801
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: what Drey, we asked Drey that question. I don't know.

802
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: A couple of weeks ago, he said forty nine ers.

803
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: I was like, man, he read in my mind, that's

804
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: exactly who I thought. I just think the forty nine

805
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 1: ers are getting javon kin Law back on the defensive line.

806
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: So you get a hoss like that back late in

807
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:59,760
Speaker 1: the year fresh holy smokes good. So yes, it's brock Purty.

808
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: But look, we saw a well coached team in two

809
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,800
Speaker 1: thousand and one go win a Super Bowl because the

810
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: defense was really really good and the quarterback was just opportunist.

811
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,840
Speaker 1: That good. Yeah, they are that good. God, I mean

812
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:13,359
Speaker 1: with all those pieces now, I don't know when they

813
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: get Deebo back that that'll be key. But about Garoppolo,

814
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: do you go back? Not if Purdie stays on this wall?

815
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: Drew and um Drew and DP asked me last night

816
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 1: would you go back to Garoppolo? And I said, it

817
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: depends how Purdie's playing. If Purdy continues to play nearly

818
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,800
Speaker 1: flawless football and make some really nice plays and the

819
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: guys are responding to them, I think the players almost

820
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: make that decision for you. I feel know being in

821
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,360
Speaker 1: that building, you'll get the vibe, you'll know whether you

822
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 1: need to stick with him or not. And the Patriots

823
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 1: in two thousand and one, I don't know if Brady

824
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: was playing exceptionally well. I brought this up to but

825
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:55,360
Speaker 1: walked in and said, hey, Brady's our guy. And then

826
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 1: they get the AFC Championship game and Drew Bledsoe had

827
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 1: to come on and save it. Yeah, but bell Check

828
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 1: went back to Brady because that was the guy they

829
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 1: got hot with. I don't know what Jimmy's status is,

830
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: but I stick with Brock as long as Brock is playing, well,

831
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: I'm sticking with Rock. Flashbacks when you say I stick

832
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,839
Speaker 1: with Brock, Yeah, that's different. Brock Purty ladies. Oh man,

833
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: I saw I was watching I think it was ESPN

834
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 1: Sports Center and they were teasing for the next segment

835
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: and it said Brock and Roll and I just broke

836
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 1: my eyes, like, oh, I've seen that before. I never

837
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 1: said that. I know, I know that was the I

838
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: know you didn't, but everybody kept saying that. Let the

839
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: record show in twenty sixteen. They kept saying that, and

840
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,320
Speaker 1: I was like, are you gonna say it? And You're like, no,

841
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,320
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Then you didn't. Thank god. Um, Johnny,

842
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: if the Titans don't win the division, how bad is

843
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 1: it in that building? Does it change anything? You know?

844
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: You asked McClain the other day if it affects rabel status. Look,

845
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 1: if I were them, I wouldn't touch Rabel. Rabel stays.

846
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:52,800
Speaker 1: In fact, rabels the guy who's gonna make all the

847
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,320
Speaker 1: football decisions. Anyway, For me, I want to know what

848
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Speaker 1: he's gonna do about what they lack in personnel or

849
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:02,799
Speaker 1: the perceived black in personnel. They have cap problems. They

850
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 1: got to get under the cap. They can't make a

851
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 1: ton of free agent moves this offseason. They got to

852
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 1: try to draft well reload that way. We'll see what

853
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:13,000
Speaker 1: they do at quarterback, probably keep Tannehill. But what did

854
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,719
Speaker 1: we say last week? Narratives will change in these final

855
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: four weeks. Now we're down to three weeks and I

856
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 1: still say that's possible to change affect narratives. Hey, the

857
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 1: narrative right now after the Jags came back and beat

858
00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and overtime was watch out the Jags can

859
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: win the division. What Well, that's what a week did

860
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,840
Speaker 1: just by winning that game and the Titans losing a

861
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:36,399
Speaker 1: fourth consecutive game. Now, look, if the Jags win Thursday night,

862
00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: the Titans are thinking, oh my goodness, yep, we've got

863
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 1: to win these next two, next three in order to

864
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: lock up this division. There's also another way you can

865
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: look at it. If you're the Titans. We got all

866
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 1: these guys hurt, and we honestly have to win one game.

867
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:54,239
Speaker 1: Now it's on the road, but we have to win

868
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: one game, and that's Week eighteen. So no matter what

869
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 1: the Jags do, we gotta win at one game. It's dicey.

870
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:03,919
Speaker 1: I mean, you want to leave yourself up. You don't

871
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 1: play better football going into Week eighteen. But if you've

872
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 1: got guys hurt, and they got a lot of guys

873
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,439
Speaker 1: that they do, all five offensive linemen, starting offensive lineman,

874
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: we're on the injury report on Tuesday, why Usenberry go.

875
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 1: I don't get this. I don't know. I get Saffold,

876
00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 1: but I don't get Quisenberry. Because he was less expensive. Yeah,

877
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:22,439
Speaker 1: he was less expensive and he could play a number

878
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:24,759
Speaker 1: of different spots, prove and he could play guard. Now, yeah,

879
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,560
Speaker 1: exactly why did we let Quessenberry go? Never mind, Well,

880
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:29,719
Speaker 1: there's a lot of there's yeah, there's there's a lot

881
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 1: that goes in with that one. All right, Mark, great job,

882
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:33,399
Speaker 1: Thank you John. Coming up next, we're gonna go around

883
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:37,760
Speaker 1: the NFL, including looking at Texans Titans injury report, plus

884
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: perhaps some major news coming for the Tennessee Titans. That's

885
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:46,839
Speaker 1: next on Texas Access. Looking back to this edition out

886
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:50,280
Speaker 1: of Texans All Access. I'm your host, Sean Harris, Football

887
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 1: and on a sideline reporter, and it's time you go

888
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:55,360
Speaker 1: around the NFL. We're gonna focus on Texans and Titans

889
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:59,760
Speaker 1: in this one because the injury report is just massive

890
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,200
Speaker 1: both sides. I don't even know that I can get

891
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 1: all the way through it. So let's do this. For

892
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: the Texans DMPs, Nico Collins, Kenyan Greene did not practice.

893
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: Only two that did not practice due to injury. You

894
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: had Mario Addison, Belie Collins, Jerry Hughes not injury related

895
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:19,479
Speaker 1: to rest day, so they were DMPs full participants today,

896
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: Obo Kronquell, Laramie Tunsil, Brandy Cooks limited participants Justin mccraig,

897
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: Chris Moore. So keep her fingers crossed. That can get back.

898
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: Obo and Laramie for sure. Don't know about Nico Kenyon

899
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: my guest says they would be out, but they were

900
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: not put on IR. So maybe that's the thought that

901
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 1: they can get back. Now the Titans, it's almost better

902
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:45,320
Speaker 1: to think of who's not on this list DMPs, Dylan

903
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: Cole linebacker, Nate Davis, guard, Christian Fulton, Ben Jones, Terrence Mitchell,

904
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: Dylan Ray duns He just got put on IR. Ryan

905
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,920
Speaker 1: Tannehill circle that one real fast, well mentally circle it.

906
00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:02,400
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry was arrest day. Monny Hooker, Well, I take

907
00:42:02,440 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: it back. Derrick Henry was a DMP, but it was

908
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 1: not a rest day. His rest day was on Tuesday,

909
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 1: So we'll see what that's all about. DMPN Wednesday boy Man,

910
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,759
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons DMP. He went from limited to DMP. Derrick

911
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,439
Speaker 1: Henry went from limited to DMP. A lot of things

912
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:25,479
Speaker 1: going on. Here's maybe the biggest. Joe rex Rod who, Joe,

913
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:28,279
Speaker 1: I said that wrong. I apologize. Joe rex Rod, who

914
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 1: used to cover Michigan State sports. He now covers the

915
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:36,839
Speaker 1: Titans in Tennessee, tweeted source. Ryan Tannehill most likely done

916
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 1: for the season after reinjuring his ankle Sunday, meaning that's

917
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,360
Speaker 1: gonna be Malik Willis against the Texans. We'll keep her

918
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:44,759
Speaker 1: eye on that the rest of the week. See what

919
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:48,239
Speaker 1: the Titans do. But that's your injury report for this

920
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: week against the Titans. All right, we get second hour.

921
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: It's time to go. Memmi hind to Mike. Mike Keith

922
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 1: joins Mark van rynext no Texas All Access. We got

923
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:57,319
Speaker 1: one hour and down, one hour left to go right

924
00:42:57,360 --> 00:42:59,719
Speaker 1: here on a Wednesday issue of Texas All Acts as

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00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 1: I am John Harris, football analyst, silo reporter and a

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00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: big fan of the next two gentlemen. Obviously one of

927
00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: my close friends and somebody I work very close to.

928
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 1: Mark Vanomir, the voice of the Texans, but also got

929
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 1: to know Mike Keith, the play by played voice since

930
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: the beginning of the Tennessee Titans. He is the famous

931
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:19,479
Speaker 1: there are no flags on the field for the Music

932
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 1: City Miracle. He's just great and he is just a

933
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 1: great guy. And a documentary that gets mentioned here. I

934
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 1: got a chance to talk with Mike about at the

935
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: Senior bo It's fantastic. Well, let's get to it. Let's

936
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Speaker 1: get men behind the Mike's Mike Keith, Mark Vandomir right

937
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: now joining us, right now in Texans Radio, it's the

938
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 1: voice of the Tennessee Titans, Mike Keith. Mike, great to

939
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 1: catch up with you again. I know you might be

940
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 1: a big jet lagged following the trip to the West coast.

941
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:47,120
Speaker 1: But here we go on a short week Texans and Titans.

942
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 1: Tell me what's this been like? Because when the Texans

943
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 1: played the Titans last time, the Titans were going good.

944
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 1: Now it's a four game losing streak. What's been happening overall?

945
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 1: Paint the picture for me. It's been a bizarre year

946
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 1: mark because you know, we started in two and then

947
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 1: we got to seven and three following a Thursday night

948
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:07,879
Speaker 1: win in Green Bay, which I mean, you know, even

949
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:11,399
Speaker 1: if Green Bay's not their best packer team, it's still

950
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 1: impressive to go in there and win, and you get

951
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,800
Speaker 1: ten days off and you're feeling good about things, and

952
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: then you lose a game to Cincinnati where you didn't

953
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 1: like how it ended because in the second half they

954
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: really kind of worked you over a little bit. Go

955
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 1: to Philadelphia and they put it on you come back play.

956
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 1: Jacksonville turned the ball over four times and the Titans

957
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 1: have gone minus four in turnover ratio fourteen times. In

958
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 1: the last twenty years, and they're oh and fourteen in

959
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:47,280
Speaker 1: those games. So there's your recipe. You really had no chance.

960
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 1: And then go to the West Coast and take on

961
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 1: a Charger's team that's surging right now and play pretty

962
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 1: well and find a way at the end to get

963
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: the game tied, and then Justin Herbert does Justin Herbert things,

964
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 1: Mike Williams with a fantastic catch and you lose that one.

965
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: The overriding story in there has been the difficulty of

966
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:13,319
Speaker 1: the offense to protect the passer and in that situation,

967
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:16,960
Speaker 1: the Titans not really set up to be your drop

968
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 1: back forty times team, particularly on third and seventeen, and

969
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 1: having a hard time with that. Defensively given up a

970
00:45:26,320 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: lot of passing yards, which has been a major storyline

971
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: over the last three games in particular, and then the

972
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:37,720
Speaker 1: injury storyline. Each of the last two weeks the Titans

973
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: have declared seven guys out on Friday, the injuries continue

974
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,720
Speaker 1: to mount, and now dealing with it with some skill

975
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 1: players as well, including the quarterback. So it's been a

976
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: combination of all of that. I will say, if you're

977
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 1: a Titans fan or someone who supports the team, the

978
00:45:56,880 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: performance in Los Angeles was much more like the team

979
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: ran the ball well, played good defense, did some good things,

980
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: got some takeaways, took care of the ball, just didn't

981
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 1: have enough gas to get it over the finish line.

982
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 1: And now we see coming into this week, a short week,

983
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,040
Speaker 1: who's going to be able to play for this team

984
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:20,760
Speaker 1: on Saturday and what are they going to be able

985
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,839
Speaker 1: to get done with the people they're having to play

986
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 1: because and you know this too, Mark, when you're down

987
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:30,360
Speaker 1: to guys who weren't with you in training camp or

988
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 1: who weren't with you in the first two months of

989
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:36,320
Speaker 1: the season, you can't run everything that you like to do.

990
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 1: So you know, we'll see. But it has been probably

991
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: the most roller coaster season that I have had in

992
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 1: my time with the franchise. It has never been as

993
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 1: up and down and up and down as what it

994
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:58,320
Speaker 1: has been in twenty twenty two for the Tennessee type.

995
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:00,719
Speaker 1: All Right, So Derrick Henry, we all know what he

996
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:02,960
Speaker 1: did last time against the Houston Texans, and it was

997
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:06,760
Speaker 1: a lot over two bills. Again against Houston, I've noticed

998
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:10,839
Speaker 1: some lower yardage totals for him since then. He had

999
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 1: a four game stretch where he was double digits and

1000
00:47:13,360 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: some under fifty. A couple of games, now, a couple

1001
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 1: of these were wins. But what's been going on with

1002
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: him in the ground game overall? Mike during this stretch.

1003
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 1: So there was a period of time for the majority

1004
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 1: of November and into the first part of December, certainly

1005
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, where teams just set out to totally stop

1006
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:35,839
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry and dared the Titans to throw the ball.

1007
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:38,839
Speaker 1: And the Titans did have some success throwing the ball,

1008
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: and you felt like Traylan Burks was getting on track

1009
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 1: and there were some things starting to happen. And then

1010
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:50,880
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia, Traylan Burks gets knocked out on an amazing

1011
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: touchdown catch that he made when the game was still

1012
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:56,279
Speaker 1: very much in doubt, and the Titans have not had

1013
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 1: him for the last two and a half games, and

1014
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:03,000
Speaker 1: that kind of change things a little bit with the

1015
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,320
Speaker 1: passing game, because Burke's is a guy who can really

1016
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 1: stretch the field. He is a six two, two hundred

1017
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:16,240
Speaker 1: and twenty nine pound receiver, enormous hands, very physical, likes

1018
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:19,839
Speaker 1: to play physical, very much, fits what the Titans want,

1019
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 1: and is on his way to becoming a lade receiver

1020
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: and then he goes out and he has missed two

1021
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 1: long stretches, one with turf toe and then one post concussion.

1022
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 1: And so you know, when the Titans lost him, suddenly

1023
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: they don't have that lead receiver type guy that the

1024
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: other team has to be afraid of so much so

1025
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 1: people continue to bunch up and bunch up and bunch up.

1026
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:48,359
Speaker 1: And the last two weeks, Henry has gone for over

1027
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 1: one hundred yards, but the difficulty has been the Titans

1028
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 1: have not been able to get enough downfield in the

1029
00:48:56,640 --> 00:49:00,880
Speaker 1: passing game, and those opportunities are there. You know, with

1030
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 1: eight men in the box, you've got some play action

1031
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 1: shots that you can take for you know, those chunk

1032
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 1: plays that you need. So at some point in life,

1033
00:49:12,320 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be able to rEFInd both

1034
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 1: aspects of it. The other teams saying, Okay, Henry can

1035
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 1: rush for a hundred yards as he has done in

1036
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:25,279
Speaker 1: the last two weeks, but there is a way for

1037
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 1: that to happen, and you're not gonna beat us. And

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00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 1: that's what went on in the Jacksonville game and in

1039
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 1: this past game at Los Angeles is the team said

1040
00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: the Jags and the Chargers both said, okay, give the

1041
00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 1: ball to Derrick Henry. That's fine. We're going to do

1042
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 1: what we need to do to stop him, and we

1043
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:48,239
Speaker 1: don't think your receivers can go by us. And so

1044
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 1: that's been where some of the difficulty has been. Is

1045
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 1: he seeing the usual Derrick Henry defenses, and the Titans

1046
00:49:56,600 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: passing game has not been able to back people off

1047
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,720
Speaker 1: it this point. Mike Keith, voice of the Tennessee Titans,

1048
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,359
Speaker 1: joining us. Mike, this is one of the rare instances

1049
00:50:05,440 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 1: where I am in the booth and the general manager's

1050
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,480
Speaker 1: booth is to my right and I can sort of

1051
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,839
Speaker 1: watch the general manager during the game a little bit.

1052
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 1: But no, John Robinson, Now, so you tell me what

1053
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: can you share with us about the search or what's

1054
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 1: going to happen at that position with the organization moving

1055
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 1: into the offseason. I know we're going to catch up

1056
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:27,759
Speaker 1: at the combine, but what can you tell us right now? Well,

1057
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,919
Speaker 1: and that's the key is the Titans want their next

1058
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:35,359
Speaker 1: person in position by not just the combine, but by

1059
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 1: the senior boat. This team has a ton of decisions

1060
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:44,080
Speaker 1: that it has to make on veterans, probably twelve to

1061
00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:47,800
Speaker 1: fourteen of the biggest name players on the roster and

1062
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: the decisions that they have to make which are upcoming

1063
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:55,280
Speaker 1: are something that are going to shape what the Titans

1064
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:57,840
Speaker 1: end up doing and needing in the draft. And so

1065
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 1: the realization behind all of it for the Titans is

1066
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 1: they want to take the time to have this guy

1067
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:12,840
Speaker 1: in position as quickly as they can. Ryan Cowden is

1068
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:17,320
Speaker 1: the vice president player Personnel. He is running that operation

1069
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: right now. He will be a candidate for the job.

1070
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:23,719
Speaker 1: He was a finalist for the Steelers job and has

1071
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:28,080
Speaker 1: been interviewed for other jobs. There may be other internal candidates.

1072
00:51:28,239 --> 00:51:31,719
Speaker 1: We could see that. They will certainly spend time and

1073
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:35,280
Speaker 1: have already spent time putting together the list of people

1074
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 1: that they will want to interview as quickly as possible.

1075
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: And this is what everyone wondered Mark about the timing,

1076
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,879
Speaker 1: is why do it at the point at which they

1077
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: did it, And the answer is because with all these

1078
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:53,800
Speaker 1: big decisions coming up and what is going to be

1079
00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: a very important offseason for the franchise. Amy Adams Strunk

1080
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 1: knew what she wanted to do and in talking with people,

1081
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:07,879
Speaker 1: said we can better pursue this if we go now.

1082
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: And so that's what they're in the process of doing.

1083
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 1: Right now, I think Ryan Cowden is going to get

1084
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 1: a full evaluation. I don't think it has to do

1085
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:19,040
Speaker 1: with wins or losses, because, as you know, Mark, there's

1086
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 1: not a lot you can do person l wise right now.

1087
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 1: I think it's more about running the office, getting along

1088
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 1: with people, showing that he has the relationship with the

1089
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:31,880
Speaker 1: head coach and the coaching staff, and then formulating what

1090
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 1: would be his plan and putting forward what would be

1091
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:38,120
Speaker 1: his plan if he has chosen as the next general manager.

1092
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:40,919
Speaker 1: But Amy Adam Strunk has made it very clear she's

1093
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 1: going to hire a general manager. There will be a

1094
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:48,240
Speaker 1: new GM with the personnel power. Certainly she wants somebody

1095
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:51,480
Speaker 1: who can work closely with Mike Vrabel, and you know,

1096
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:54,360
Speaker 1: we move forward with this. There are a couple of

1097
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:57,879
Speaker 1: things going in this direction right now. You know, you've

1098
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 1: got the season going on, and then you've got the

1099
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:04,720
Speaker 1: work towards who will run personnel starting at early twenty

1100
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: twenty three and will be in place and ready to

1101
00:53:07,719 --> 00:53:09,759
Speaker 1: go to the Senior Bowl. Mike Keith, voice of the

1102
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans, joining us. Mike, you played the Jaguars. You

1103
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 1: lost to the Jaguars. The Jaguars are chasing the Tennessee Titans.

1104
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 1: How good are the Jaguars? I was delighted with the

1105
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:22,359
Speaker 1: lack of progress of the Jaguars in the early part

1106
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: of this season. Now not so much. Here they come.

1107
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 1: How good are they? Really good? And we were fearful

1108
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 1: leading into that game because you were starting to see

1109
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 1: the signs. And here's what they have. First and foremost,

1110
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:38,960
Speaker 1: they're the healthiest team in the NFL. They have lost

1111
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:42,360
Speaker 1: less starts to injury than any other team in the NFL.

1112
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:45,800
Speaker 1: It certainly it makes sense you want to have your guys.

1113
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: But the other point, too, Mark, is because they've had

1114
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 1: their guys, they have been able to work together all year,

1115
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:56,400
Speaker 1: and so the progress is there. And that's not just

1116
00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:00,359
Speaker 1: in games, that's in practice. And so what duck person

1117
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:04,280
Speaker 1: wanted to do, which normally gets stymied by a number

1118
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:07,920
Speaker 1: of injuries in year one of a new coach, has

1119
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 1: not been stimied. And so they're healthy. They're talented. You know,

1120
00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 1: they've had a lot of high picks over the last

1121
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 1: ten years. Some they've hit on, some they haven't. They've

1122
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: clearly hit on the one with the quarterback Trevor Lawrence.

1123
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: They've hit on the coach finally, and I think they

1124
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:27,880
Speaker 1: are a double dog dangerous team for the rest of

1125
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: this season. What they did against US in spite of

1126
00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:34,320
Speaker 1: the four turnovers was no fluke. I mean, they played

1127
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: great football that day in every aspect of the game.

1128
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:41,160
Speaker 1: They came to Nashville and won for the first time

1129
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 1: in nine years, and it was very, very impressive, And

1130
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 1: certainly was impressive what they did last weekend against the

1131
00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:52,280
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys, being down twenty seven to ten. They're not perfect,

1132
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:56,439
Speaker 1: but they are very dangerous the rest of the way,

1133
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 1: and I think they're going to be very dangerous for

1134
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:03,320
Speaker 1: years to come. Mike, I was watching this documentary on

1135
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:06,160
Speaker 1: I think it's called Voices of the South Voices of

1136
00:55:06,239 --> 00:55:09,320
Speaker 1: the SEC, and it was on SEC Network, but I

1137
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:11,719
Speaker 1: saw it an ESPN Plus. It's still available. And you

1138
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 1: are the Bob Costas of this thing. I mean, you're

1139
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 1: driving this thing as the main they're interviewing you, but

1140
00:55:17,160 --> 00:55:18,759
Speaker 1: you're a narrator. You know what you did, but I'm

1141
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: describing it to the listener. Tell me about that project

1142
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:24,279
Speaker 1: and how good it was to be involved with that

1143
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:28,800
Speaker 1: kind of thing. It was a great honor. Tacklebox Productions

1144
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:32,560
Speaker 1: did that for the SEC Network. And for ESPN. They're

1145
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:36,720
Speaker 1: a group out of Nashville, partially owned by Kenny Chesney,

1146
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 1: who I've known for thirty something years. I knew Kenny

1147
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:44,359
Speaker 1: Chesney before he was Kenny Chesney from back at our

1148
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 1: days in Knoxville. And that group has a strong interest

1149
00:55:49,239 --> 00:55:53,600
Speaker 1: in sports. They've got a couple more unbelievable documentaries out

1150
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 1: or getting ready to come out. And I think what

1151
00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:00,880
Speaker 1: they do is just beautiful work. And so Shuan Silva

1152
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: and Don Lapoor, who work at Tacklebox, called me and

1153
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:07,160
Speaker 1: it was going to be a very narrow focus. It

1154
00:56:07,280 --> 00:56:10,799
Speaker 1: was going to be a couple announcers, and we ended

1155
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:13,000
Speaker 1: up being on the phone for a long period of

1156
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:15,000
Speaker 1: time and I said, if you gotta think about this guy,

1157
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 1: and you should think about this guy, and and you

1158
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:21,040
Speaker 1: know went through because in my time with the Titans

1159
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:24,719
Speaker 1: and growing up in Middle Tennessee, which is, you know,

1160
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 1: only forty miles from the Kentucky border, Nashville is and

1161
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:33,040
Speaker 1: only eighty miles from the Alabama border, you get this

1162
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:36,280
Speaker 1: cross section of people. There are a lot of Kentucky

1163
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:40,800
Speaker 1: fans at Alabama fans, oh miss Mississippi State, Auburn, and

1164
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:43,239
Speaker 1: so you get a chance to listen to a lot

1165
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:47,040
Speaker 1: of these guys over the years, and it's it's kind of,

1166
00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:51,440
Speaker 1: you know, my passion is listening to those announcers and

1167
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:56,360
Speaker 1: understanding what they mean to their particular schools and particular

1168
00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 1: teams and so on and so forth. And so we

1169
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:01,160
Speaker 1: ended up having a long discussion, and then we had

1170
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 1: another really long discussion. They said, we're thinking about this,

1171
00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:06,320
Speaker 1: and you know, it really turned out to be a

1172
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:08,960
Speaker 1: lot of fun. And so they said, hey, would you

1173
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:11,920
Speaker 1: sit for it, because you know stories about kind of

1174
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 1: all of these guys. And I ended up sitting for

1175
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:20,240
Speaker 1: them for about three hours and we you know, they said,

1176
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:22,920
Speaker 1: we're we'd like to use you in sort of this

1177
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:25,880
Speaker 1: a little bit different role because you sort of in

1178
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:29,080
Speaker 1: your travels have touched all of these schools and all

1179
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 1: of these guys in this different way. And so it's

1180
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:34,280
Speaker 1: really fascinating and it was it was a great project.

1181
00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:38,760
Speaker 1: When they let me see it, they called me into

1182
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 1: tackle Box and they were kind enough to let me

1183
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:43,800
Speaker 1: see it before it went out, and I had tears

1184
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:48,480
Speaker 1: in my eyes because you know what these announcers mean

1185
00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 1: to fans. And it was just two weeks ago Mark,

1186
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:55,160
Speaker 1: someone stopped me at a Titans game, and he said, Hey,

1187
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:59,440
Speaker 1: I'm a Georgia fan and I so appreciated the stories

1188
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:03,160
Speaker 1: about Larry Munson and really thank you for that and

1189
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:06,480
Speaker 1: thank you for what that was. And you know, Munson's

1190
00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:10,440
Speaker 1: style couldn't be any more different than the man I

1191
00:58:10,560 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 1: grew up with at Tennessee, John Ward, and yet they

1192
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 1: both mean so much to their fan base, right just

1193
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:19,600
Speaker 1: you know, just like NFL announcers. I mean, there's they're

1194
00:58:19,640 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 1: different personalities, they're different cadences. Nobody does it the same way,

1195
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 1: and there's no right way to do it. It's just

1196
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:30,600
Speaker 1: really a matter of what resonates with the fan base.

1197
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 1: And there's no magic formula. How that happens, who knows.

1198
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 1: But it's a beautiful business we're in. It's still very

1199
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:42,560
Speaker 1: relevant to this day. There's some people doing it today

1200
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 1: who do it really, really well. And I think it

1201
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:50,400
Speaker 1: starts with a lot of these guys and what they

1202
00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:53,920
Speaker 1: showed us how to do. And we're working hard, probably

1203
00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:57,360
Speaker 1: not meeting the mark, but we're working hard to emulate

1204
00:58:57,520 --> 00:59:01,440
Speaker 1: their talent and their professionalism. It's a it's a special

1205
00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:05,360
Speaker 1: relationship that we get to have with the fan base,

1206
00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,600
Speaker 1: and those men taught us how to do it well.

1207
00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:11,880
Speaker 1: If anyone wants to know why people want to be

1208
00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:15,120
Speaker 1: the voice of a team, just watch that viral Andrea's

1209
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 1: cantor video after Argentina wins the World Cup. I mean

1210
00:59:18,760 --> 00:59:20,720
Speaker 1: that that tells you the whole story right there. And

1211
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 1: I tweeted out, that's me when we eventually win the

1212
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:28,440
Speaker 1: AFC Championship game. I know. I mean, it's the same thing.

1213
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:33,480
Speaker 1: It's a it's um and I've always enjoyed him so much.

1214
00:59:33,720 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: I enjoyed him even before I really knew who he

1215
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:39,360
Speaker 1: was or what his relevant. You know, you would hear

1216
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:44,200
Speaker 1: the goal calls all over the place before anything even

1217
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 1: could go viral, before we knew what viral was, right,

1218
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:50,480
Speaker 1: And it's just a it's just a matter of you

1219
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:53,600
Speaker 1: know what your what your favorite flavor is. There's some

1220
00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:56,560
Speaker 1: people who say, well I like this person and I

1221
00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:59,959
Speaker 1: don't like this person. It doesn't personal. Maybe it isn't

1222
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:03,320
Speaker 1: some cases, but in most cases it's not. But it's

1223
01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 1: it's kind of where it hits you in the middle

1224
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 1: of the heart. It's not just about calling the Titans

1225
01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 1: hand to Derrick Henry at right guard. It's a five

1226
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:15,120
Speaker 1: yard game. Jones with the tackle at second and five.

1227
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 1: It's about how that person tells you that story and

1228
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:23,800
Speaker 1: brings you into the stadium with them wherever you are,

1229
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:27,800
Speaker 1: because that's the greatest experience of being a fan. You know,

1230
01:00:27,920 --> 01:00:32,440
Speaker 1: being a fan is just being a part of following

1231
01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:35,959
Speaker 1: the Titans or following the Texans or your college team

1232
01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 1: or whatever. It's just it's just so enjoyable. And you know,

1233
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:45,960
Speaker 1: to be able to have the experience with tackle Box

1234
01:00:46,080 --> 01:00:50,080
Speaker 1: to do that presentation was one of my favorite things

1235
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:53,440
Speaker 1: that I've ever been allowed to do. It was and

1236
01:00:53,880 --> 01:00:57,280
Speaker 1: remains one of the best things that I have ever seen.

1237
01:00:57,400 --> 01:01:01,520
Speaker 1: That kind of lays out who these people are and

1238
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:06,360
Speaker 1: why they occupy such a big part of our hearts

1239
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:08,960
Speaker 1: as sports fans because that, you know, the passion of

1240
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 1: it is what it's really all about. And if you

1241
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:14,800
Speaker 1: saw the World Cup, as you mentioned, you get it.

1242
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:17,080
Speaker 1: I don't even know that much about soccer, but I

1243
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:21,520
Speaker 1: understand why those people were so excited. And we're on

1244
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:24,880
Speaker 1: the West Coast, you know, last weekend on Sunday, and

1245
01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:27,160
Speaker 1: there are people at sports bars at six thirty in

1246
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:30,440
Speaker 1: the morning sure to watch it. It's great. If they

1247
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:33,760
Speaker 1: don't have a dog in the fight, there they were Yep,

1248
01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:37,480
Speaker 1: absolutely amazing. Well, the documentary is Voices of the South

1249
01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 1: Right and it's on ESPN Plus, so that's cool. Yea.

1250
01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:44,800
Speaker 1: Take a look at that and check out Mike Keat's

1251
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:48,120
Speaker 1: work there and also as the voice of the Tennessee Titans. Mike,

1252
01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:49,959
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us, and I look forward

1253
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:53,960
Speaker 1: to seeing you on on Saturday, Christmas eve Day. Yes,

1254
01:01:54,200 --> 01:01:56,360
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, and we look forward to seeing you. And

1255
01:01:57,400 --> 01:02:00,720
Speaker 1: bring your heaviest coat. Oh don't you were your pretty

1256
01:02:00,760 --> 01:02:04,360
Speaker 1: little head, my friend, we will be bundled up. In fact,

1257
01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:09,720
Speaker 1: I've got bags of handwarmers hear him, Yeah, right there,

1258
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:11,840
Speaker 1: I'll be having those with me on the sideline for

1259
01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:13,960
Speaker 1: shirt on Saturday. Coming up, it's do a little deep

1260
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:16,160
Speaker 1: slant with Christian Harris right here on Texans All Access.

1261
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:21,800
Speaker 1: It's time for the SLB Stats Challenge, brought to you

1262
01:02:21,920 --> 01:02:25,240
Speaker 1: by our friends at s LB. Check out the SLB

1263
01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:28,120
Speaker 1: Stats Challenge at Houston Texans dot com. And the number

1264
01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:33,360
Speaker 1: tonight is fourteen. That is Christian harris tackle number from

1265
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:36,400
Speaker 1: last week against the Chiefs. He also threw under another

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Speaker 1: number in there, three three TFLs man. He was fantastic

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Speaker 1: last week and he's fantastic on the mic right here

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Speaker 1: with Deep City Deepe Take it Away. It's a deep

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Speaker 1: slant one on one presented by Exfinity. My guest Christian

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Speaker 1: Harris Ricky linebacker. We were just talking about how I

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Speaker 1: didn't think i'd interviewed you, but you remembered that right

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Speaker 1: after the draft we did a quick zoom call. Yeah

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Speaker 1: we did. It was right after the draft. That was

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Speaker 1: a whirlwind for you. Was aho a lot of emotions

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01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:04,160
Speaker 1: going on. Good time though, So the first thing I

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01:03:04,560 --> 01:03:07,280
Speaker 1: have to ask you the Levey Smith and Nick Cassirio

1277
01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:09,800
Speaker 1: hugging after the draft. When did you see that video?

1278
01:03:09,840 --> 01:03:12,040
Speaker 1: Because that's really all anybody was talking about. I think

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Speaker 1: somebody there ended up showing it to me, but it

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01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:16,160
Speaker 1: was just so much going on. But yeah, it was

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Speaker 1: pretty funny, don' When I got to see that, there

1282
01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:19,680
Speaker 1: was a lot made of it. But did you know

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Speaker 1: that the Texans were going to draft you or were

1284
01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:24,840
Speaker 1: you surprised? You surprise? It kind of caught me off

1285
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:27,720
Speaker 1: guard just because at that point I really wasn't expecting

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01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:31,680
Speaker 1: to still be kind of available in drafting. Um, I mean,

1287
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Speaker 1: you just see kind of how God work you kind

1288
01:03:33,440 --> 01:03:35,560
Speaker 1: of put them in a really good situation. That's probably

1289
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Speaker 1: why they were so excited that you were still around.

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01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:39,200
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean it's four hours from home, like

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01:03:39,400 --> 01:03:41,880
Speaker 1: everybody can come see me play, So okay, Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: really like I said, guy, just work on that. This

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Speaker 1: last game against Kansas City, you set some career highs.

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Speaker 1: You led the team in tackles. You had three tackles

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Speaker 1: for loss. You're the first rookie this season to do that,

1296
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Speaker 1: to have three tackles for loss in a game. How

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Speaker 1: has it been for you? It seems like you're sort

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01:03:58,120 --> 01:04:00,280
Speaker 1: of all over the place now on the field, backling

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Speaker 1: out in the open field. How do you feel like

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Speaker 1: your rookie season sort of progressed at this point? Um,

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Speaker 1: I think like really easy. Game has been getting better progressively.

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Speaker 1: But I mean that's just kind of been my main

1303
01:04:09,520 --> 01:04:11,720
Speaker 1: focus week the week, just trying to find things that

1304
01:04:11,920 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 1: you know, I might have messed up on or it

1305
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:15,800
Speaker 1: could have did better. I'm just kind of trying to

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01:04:15,840 --> 01:04:18,440
Speaker 1: attack those things each week and it's kind of just

1307
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 1: helped my progression a lot, like move a lot more faster,

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01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:23,160
Speaker 1: because I mean, it was, like I said, it was,

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01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:25,880
Speaker 1: I didn't have preseason, right, I didn't have like I

1310
01:04:25,960 --> 01:04:27,360
Speaker 1: missed out on a lot of time, So it was

1311
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:28,800
Speaker 1: kind of just come back and try to get your

1312
01:04:28,840 --> 01:04:30,680
Speaker 1: feet wet and just get as comfortable as you can.

1313
01:04:31,120 --> 01:04:33,480
Speaker 1: I mean, they're being really good with me too with that,

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01:04:33,640 --> 01:04:35,760
Speaker 1: my coaches making sure, you know, they're helping me with

1315
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Speaker 1: the playbooks and spotting out those things that I can't

1316
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:40,040
Speaker 1: see it. I'm you know, messing up on that I

1317
01:04:40,120 --> 01:04:43,520
Speaker 1: need to improve on. So you mentioned missing the training

1318
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Speaker 1: camp preseason, you start off your Quirkie campaign on IR

1319
01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:49,240
Speaker 1: you missed the first six games. What was the hardest

1320
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Speaker 1: part of that for you? I mean, I've never set

1321
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Speaker 1: out really my whole life like that. I could remember,

1322
01:04:55,160 --> 01:04:58,000
Speaker 1: you know, from an injury. I've normally like played through everything.

1323
01:04:58,120 --> 01:05:00,840
Speaker 1: So it was just a little bit of a different experience.

1324
01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:03,240
Speaker 1: But however, I mean it worked out well for me.

1325
01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:05,040
Speaker 1: I was able to sit there and really get to

1326
01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:08,800
Speaker 1: watch the defense, see how guys are moving around, trying

1327
01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:11,000
Speaker 1: to get a better understanding of it for myself, just

1328
01:05:11,080 --> 01:05:12,640
Speaker 1: so you know, when I get back in I can

1329
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Speaker 1: hit it running not really be missing the steps. Did

1330
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Speaker 1: you feel like you hit it running to take a

1331
01:05:16,600 --> 01:05:18,120
Speaker 1: while to sort of get up to the speed that

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Speaker 1: you're at now. Yeah, I mean I think I'm doing

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Speaker 1: better than I did when I first, Like I said,

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Speaker 1: my first game, but I mean I know that time

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Speaker 1: out off that I had out it kind of hurt me,

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Speaker 1: but also helped with, like I said, my understanding of

1337
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Speaker 1: the defense. So kind of had his pros and cons

1338
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Speaker 1: with it all. Right. So one of the first things

1339
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Speaker 1: I learned about you was that you only started playing

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Speaker 1: linebacker when you got to Alabama. In high school, you played,

1341
01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:38,200
Speaker 1: You played a lot of positions, but rattle them off

1342
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Speaker 1: for me. All the positions that you played. I played

1343
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Speaker 1: wide receiver, in a corner. I had a couple of

1344
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Speaker 1: snaps at safety like freshman year, a couple of snaps

1345
01:05:44,840 --> 01:05:47,439
Speaker 1: at running back, did kick return part return. So yeah,

1346
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:49,440
Speaker 1: I was about it. You get recruited by Alabama to

1347
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Speaker 1: play linebacker, to switch positions. I mean, at what point

1348
01:05:52,640 --> 01:05:54,800
Speaker 1: would you have a lot of colleges telling you to

1349
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Speaker 1: switch to linebacker? Was Alabama the only one? I mean,

1350
01:05:57,520 --> 01:06:00,680
Speaker 1: everybody was really saying, like recruiting me as an athlete

1351
01:06:00,840 --> 01:06:03,640
Speaker 1: and then and they'll find a spot for you. Yeah,

1352
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:06,640
Speaker 1: And I mean you know, after conversation, you kind of

1353
01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:08,240
Speaker 1: see where they fit. You want to fit you at,

1354
01:06:08,280 --> 01:06:11,560
Speaker 1: and everybody was mentioning this linebacker thing. I never stepped

1355
01:06:11,600 --> 01:06:13,920
Speaker 1: foot at that position before, so it was kind of

1356
01:06:13,960 --> 01:06:16,080
Speaker 1: just like having taken a leap of faith and believing

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Speaker 1: in myself and the coaches I had at Bama. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's a great program they got over there

1359
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Speaker 1: for developing players. So I just kind of trusted him

1360
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:25,760
Speaker 1: with that and went with it. Were you sad that

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Speaker 1: you wouldn't be able to play offense anymore or did

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Speaker 1: you have any offers to play off I didn't the

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Speaker 1: LSU recruit you on offense? Well, yeah, I was getting

1364
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Speaker 1: recruited to play like a tight end slash like h back,

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Speaker 1: like a you know. But ye, my weight jumped up

1366
01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:46,280
Speaker 1: like I was two ten probably my sophomore year, but

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Speaker 1: then I got to like two twenty five to thirty

1368
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Speaker 1: around my junior year. And then that's when they like

1369
01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:54,360
Speaker 1: vision for receiver or dB went away and went more

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Speaker 1: towards linebacker back, like you're this big, you know, like

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Speaker 1: we can use your size and like develop you into

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Speaker 1: this type of So so you get to Alabama, which

1373
01:07:02,720 --> 01:07:05,320
Speaker 1: is like arguably one of the best programs in the country.

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Speaker 1: You're a day one starter as a true freshman. Did

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01:07:07,920 --> 01:07:10,600
Speaker 1: that surprise you at all, that the transition that you

1376
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Speaker 1: made the ability to be a starter on that defense

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Speaker 1: from from the jump? It definitely like it wasn't something

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01:07:17,880 --> 01:07:20,600
Speaker 1: I initially thought about like going right into it just

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Speaker 1: because like you were just saying, I mean I never

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Speaker 1: played linebacker, so it was kind of just attack it

1381
01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:26,120
Speaker 1: with it mindset of like I'm just trying to find

1382
01:07:26,200 --> 01:07:28,320
Speaker 1: a way to get better like each and every day.

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Speaker 1: And it was kind of hard. I mean I only

1384
01:07:29,680 --> 01:07:32,120
Speaker 1: had two months before the first game, so was it

1385
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Speaker 1: like a cram session that summer? Like, I mean I didn't.

1386
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:36,680
Speaker 1: I didn't start starting to like the second week of

1387
01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:39,480
Speaker 1: training camp really, so um, only had like about a

1388
01:07:39,560 --> 01:07:41,960
Speaker 1: month before the season started. But it was just kind

1389
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:43,640
Speaker 1: of just take that approach, like Okay, we're going to

1390
01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:45,280
Speaker 1: learn on the fly, like you're going to be learning

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Speaker 1: this whole year. Um, I mean like growing pains and

1392
01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:50,560
Speaker 1: all of that. But what does that look like? Does

1393
01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:53,160
Speaker 1: that look like you're in the playbook, you're watching other

1394
01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:56,320
Speaker 1: linebackers on film. I imagine before you play linebacker, you

1395
01:07:56,400 --> 01:07:59,880
Speaker 1: probably getting up to speed on the position, Like how

1396
01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:02,280
Speaker 1: did you get there? In a lot of film study

1397
01:08:02,880 --> 01:08:05,040
Speaker 1: individually and with the coaches. I spent a lot of

1398
01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:08,200
Speaker 1: time out there with the GA's my position coach, just

1399
01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:10,760
Speaker 1: trying to get as much knowledge as I possibly could,

1400
01:08:10,800 --> 01:08:12,360
Speaker 1: because I know I don't I didn't know at all.

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01:08:12,600 --> 01:08:14,600
Speaker 1: I mean I'm still learning now, Like I don't have

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01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:17,120
Speaker 1: much experience at that position. There's been three years, so

1403
01:08:17,880 --> 01:08:19,880
Speaker 1: kind of just going in that would open mind. It'll

1404
01:08:19,880 --> 01:08:21,840
Speaker 1: help me when I'm coming to counter with people that

1405
01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:23,960
Speaker 1: have knowledge with it. It's like I can just really

1406
01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:26,479
Speaker 1: be a sponge. You sound like you've got just a

1407
01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:29,240
Speaker 1: really good work ethic, just in learning and putting forth

1408
01:08:29,280 --> 01:08:31,519
Speaker 1: the effort. So where does that come from? For y'all?

1409
01:08:32,080 --> 01:08:34,280
Speaker 1: My family really are the people that I kind of

1410
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Speaker 1: surround myself with. I mean, I have an older brother.

1411
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Speaker 1: He played He played in the league with Seattle for

1412
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Speaker 1: two years, three years and what was your brother's name,

1413
01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:43,120
Speaker 1: Tyler Harris? Okay, so yeah, he was He got to

1414
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Speaker 1: play d line, moved around a lot with that, and

1415
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Speaker 1: I mean, really just for me, that was kind of

1416
01:08:47,840 --> 01:08:51,000
Speaker 1: my role model. M since literally trying to play three

1417
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Speaker 1: sports at a young age like he did. So it

1418
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:55,360
Speaker 1: was kind of my whole life. It was just him

1419
01:08:55,479 --> 01:08:58,040
Speaker 1: kind of you know, structuring making sure I would stand focused.

1420
01:08:58,040 --> 01:08:59,960
Speaker 1: And then I mean, God just blessed me with good

1421
01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:02,200
Speaker 1: people along the way to m while I'm still doing

1422
01:09:02,280 --> 01:09:03,920
Speaker 1: this journey to you know, just help me out and

1423
01:09:04,280 --> 01:09:06,599
Speaker 1: give me good pointers. So just trying to like stay

1424
01:09:06,680 --> 01:09:09,280
Speaker 1: open minded and take that advice while I can. That's

1425
01:09:09,280 --> 01:09:10,800
Speaker 1: all I'm trying to do right now. Well, what was

1426
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Speaker 1: the best advice your brother gave you? Really? Just trusting myself.

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01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:18,000
Speaker 1: I think recently he uh something that kind of stood out.

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01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:19,400
Speaker 1: He's just telling me to like, you know, take a

1429
01:09:19,479 --> 01:09:22,800
Speaker 1: deep breath to stay balanced, like you know, never getting

1430
01:09:22,800 --> 01:09:24,920
Speaker 1: too higher too low in moments. It's something our coach

1431
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:27,599
Speaker 1: says a lot too, Coach Miles. But yeah, just kind

1432
01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:29,479
Speaker 1: of helping me stay out of balance anyway he can.

1433
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Speaker 1: So all right, So you come from Louisiana. Derek Stingley's

1434
01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:36,000
Speaker 1: also from Louisiana and Fatmuge. You guys played seven on

1435
01:09:36,080 --> 01:09:37,880
Speaker 1: seven growing up. So what was that Like? You get here,

1436
01:09:37,960 --> 01:09:40,599
Speaker 1: you're rookie, you've got someone that you've known since childhood.

1437
01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:43,640
Speaker 1: How much easier did that make that for you? I know,

1438
01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:46,080
Speaker 1: you guys both sort of with your injuries at different times.

1439
01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:48,320
Speaker 1: But just having him here, I mean it was fun.

1440
01:09:48,439 --> 01:09:51,040
Speaker 1: It's exciting. It was not something I thought was going

1441
01:09:51,080 --> 01:09:53,240
Speaker 1: to happen at all. Why I keep, you know, mentioning

1442
01:09:53,360 --> 01:09:55,760
Speaker 1: just I mean out of control. It was for you know,

1443
01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:57,280
Speaker 1: the situation to play out the way it did, with

1444
01:09:57,400 --> 01:09:59,840
Speaker 1: God having his hand on it. Like I knew, staying

1445
01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:04,599
Speaker 1: since probably high school, you know, mutual friends and us

1446
01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:06,600
Speaker 1: working out together at our high school. We're trying to

1447
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:08,280
Speaker 1: get him to come to our high school and then

1448
01:10:08,680 --> 01:10:10,200
Speaker 1: you know, we get on the same seven on seven

1449
01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 1: team and we're playing wide receiver in corner. I was

1450
01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:15,040
Speaker 1: still playing dB at the time. Okay, I mean it

1451
01:10:15,160 --> 01:10:16,400
Speaker 1: was just fun to get a chance to you know,

1452
01:10:16,520 --> 01:10:18,720
Speaker 1: play with him and learn from them and see him

1453
01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:21,240
Speaker 1: playing college. And then it played out this way. It's

1454
01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:23,439
Speaker 1: made it a lot a lot more fun for Did

1455
01:10:23,479 --> 01:10:25,160
Speaker 1: you know him through the draft process or did you

1456
01:10:25,240 --> 01:10:28,040
Speaker 1: connect with them there? We stayed and we stayed at

1457
01:10:28,760 --> 01:10:31,280
Speaker 1: Frisco trained their excels together. Oh you did in the

1458
01:10:31,320 --> 01:10:34,479
Speaker 1: off season. Okay, so you guys really were still connected

1459
01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:36,920
Speaker 1: even though you didn't know you'd be playing for the Cure.

1460
01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:38,599
Speaker 1: All right, So being from Louisiana, what do you miss

1461
01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:42,720
Speaker 1: most about Louisiana. I would think it's the food. But

1462
01:10:43,320 --> 01:10:46,240
Speaker 1: I mean the food and Houston is not bad. It's crazy. Yeah,

1463
01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:48,439
Speaker 1: they got good food everywhere, So it's it's not that

1464
01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:51,680
Speaker 1: I would probably say mainly probably family. I get to

1465
01:10:51,760 --> 01:10:53,720
Speaker 1: see family when they come out here, and I mean

1466
01:10:53,800 --> 01:10:56,280
Speaker 1: it's a far hour drive for them. But I mean,

1467
01:10:56,360 --> 01:10:58,400
Speaker 1: if anything, it would just beginning to see like my people,

1468
01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:00,920
Speaker 1: my high school friends are all that home right now

1469
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:04,400
Speaker 1: for Christmas. It's like killing me. Sometimes. I was like, man,

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01:11:05,080 --> 01:11:08,200
Speaker 1: season a little bit longer than this is a little

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01:11:08,240 --> 01:11:10,920
Speaker 1: bit longer. But I would probably be just the people.

1472
01:11:11,200 --> 01:11:13,120
Speaker 1: So what about for fans that don't really know much

1473
01:11:13,120 --> 01:11:14,600
Speaker 1: about you? What are some of your hobbies would you

1474
01:11:14,600 --> 01:11:16,320
Speaker 1: like to do with your free time? Um? What are

1475
01:11:16,320 --> 01:11:19,599
Speaker 1: you wanto? I mean it depends on that time of year.

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01:11:19,600 --> 01:11:21,400
Speaker 1: I feel like in season, it's like I just try

1477
01:11:21,439 --> 01:11:23,960
Speaker 1: to stay more laid back and out the way. I mean,

1478
01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:25,920
Speaker 1: I got like a smaller group I went to. I

1479
01:11:26,040 --> 01:11:28,720
Speaker 1: like to go to aquariums. You do, Yeah, I want

1480
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:32,160
Speaker 1: my mom for a birthday waited Houston or in louisih

1481
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:35,080
Speaker 1: which one Moody gardens? I can't remember the name of

1482
01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:37,920
Speaker 1: it down at the end of Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's

1483
01:11:37,920 --> 01:11:40,439
Speaker 1: the Downtown Aquaria. But that was a good one. I

1484
01:11:40,520 --> 01:11:42,559
Speaker 1: just I'm really with my family majority of the time,

1485
01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:45,400
Speaker 1: and like we're just finding different stuff, different things to go. Yeah.

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01:11:45,479 --> 01:11:47,360
Speaker 1: So I mean I just get, like, you know, a

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01:11:47,520 --> 01:11:50,519
Speaker 1: handful of friends, probably three four people that I'm really

1488
01:11:50,560 --> 01:11:52,840
Speaker 1: cool with. We'll just find something to do, go eat,

1489
01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:55,560
Speaker 1: go hang out, go to the music, do something like.

1490
01:11:56,200 --> 01:11:58,160
Speaker 1: I love that you love aquariums. That's like a fun

1491
01:11:58,280 --> 01:12:01,160
Speaker 1: fact that I don't think anyone is what's the best

1492
01:12:01,200 --> 01:12:03,320
Speaker 1: a quarium you've seen? And you don't have to say Houston?

1493
01:12:03,400 --> 01:12:05,400
Speaker 1: But nah, well, I mean do you have isn't there

1494
01:12:05,400 --> 01:12:07,599
Speaker 1: one in New Orleans? There is one in New Orleans.

1495
01:12:07,760 --> 01:12:12,080
Speaker 1: I mean, and they have like a just albino like alligator.

1496
01:12:12,720 --> 01:12:16,639
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so yeah, but it's like a fun fact

1497
01:12:16,640 --> 01:12:18,960
Speaker 1: about that one. But yeah, I probably say Houston though,

1498
01:12:18,960 --> 01:12:22,639
Speaker 1: just because I like the tigers at the end. Yeah,

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01:12:23,040 --> 01:12:25,760
Speaker 1: so we're sort of an interesting mix. You've got the

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01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:27,760
Speaker 1: aquarium and then you've got tigers at the end of it.

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01:12:27,920 --> 01:12:31,479
Speaker 1: So and then a Ferris wheel. But that's Houston for you, Christian. Yeah,

1502
01:12:31,520 --> 01:12:33,040
Speaker 1: all right, Well, in the off season, you'll get to

1503
01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:35,240
Speaker 1: check out lots more quariums, but for now, just wish

1504
01:12:35,280 --> 01:12:36,519
Speaker 1: you the best luck for the rest of the season.

1505
01:12:36,840 --> 01:12:39,400
Speaker 1: Appreciate that fun guy interview. I've had a chance to

1506
01:12:39,439 --> 01:12:41,320
Speaker 1: do it a couple of times after a couple of

1507
01:12:41,400 --> 01:12:44,040
Speaker 1: games earlier this year. Glad that Christian Harris is here

1508
01:12:44,200 --> 01:12:47,479
Speaker 1: with the Texans. Now we're gonna switch over to the

1509
01:12:47,560 --> 01:12:51,280
Speaker 1: Texas Bowl because GM a little start. Sports Entertainment Executive

1510
01:12:51,320 --> 01:12:54,800
Speaker 1: Director of the Texas Bowl tax At Texas Bowl David

1511
01:12:54,880 --> 01:12:57,280
Speaker 1: Fletcher joins me next right here in Texas, all Axis,

1512
01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:01,240
Speaker 1: We've got the tax Act Texas Bowl coming up December

1513
01:13:01,360 --> 01:13:04,000
Speaker 1: twenty eighth. If you're watching game at home, you see

1514
01:13:04,040 --> 01:13:06,200
Speaker 1: my buddy Andre Ware calling the game. If you're listening

1515
01:13:06,240 --> 01:13:09,519
Speaker 1: a sports radio sixten, you'll hear me calling the game.

1516
01:13:09,600 --> 01:13:12,000
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a great one and that brings in

1517
01:13:12,360 --> 01:13:15,719
Speaker 1: my pal GM. The Lssclan Star Sports Entertainment is putting

1518
01:13:15,760 --> 01:13:18,479
Speaker 1: the game on and GM, excuse me. Executive Director of

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01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:22,800
Speaker 1: the Taxac Texas Bowl, David Fletcher fletch. We are eight

1520
01:13:23,520 --> 01:13:26,240
Speaker 1: days away as we are recording this on December twentieth,

1521
01:13:26,400 --> 01:13:28,320
Speaker 1: so I might play a couple times. So if you're

1522
01:13:28,320 --> 01:13:30,200
Speaker 1: hearing it the second time, that's great. Just do the math.

1523
01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:32,560
Speaker 1: It's the twenty eighth, and whatever day it is, you

1524
01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:34,040
Speaker 1: just subtract it in the way you go. So if

1525
01:13:34,040 --> 01:13:35,800
Speaker 1: you're listening to it on the twenty seventh, well guess

1526
01:13:35,840 --> 01:13:38,840
Speaker 1: what you're one day away. Well, my man, fletches with me. Fletch,

1527
01:13:38,880 --> 01:13:41,160
Speaker 1: what's going on? You can do math right? Well, I

1528
01:13:41,200 --> 01:13:43,360
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm a University of Texas alum, where it's

1529
01:13:43,360 --> 01:13:46,280
Speaker 1: not really our strong suit. But you know what, yeah, Johnny,

1530
01:13:46,320 --> 01:13:48,360
Speaker 1: it's it's the most wonderful time of the year. Bowl

1531
01:13:48,439 --> 01:13:51,160
Speaker 1: season is here, and we got a great one here

1532
01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:55,040
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, the twenty eighth, between the Texas Tech Red

1533
01:13:55,160 --> 01:13:57,920
Speaker 1: Raiders and the Old Miss Rebels, the twenty twenty two

1534
01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:01,439
Speaker 1: Taxac Texas Bowl right at RG Stadium. Okay, let me

1535
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:04,320
Speaker 1: start there. Because there were so many different matchups that

1536
01:14:04,960 --> 01:14:07,639
Speaker 1: we had tossed around. In fact, we had talked about

1537
01:14:07,720 --> 01:14:11,439
Speaker 1: so many different matchups. Fletch that during the game on

1538
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:16,040
Speaker 1: Sunday when it was announced, I remember saying, oh, yeah,

1539
01:14:16,040 --> 01:14:18,439
Speaker 1: it's Texas second Arkansas because I had screwed up because

1540
01:14:18,439 --> 01:14:21,040
Speaker 1: we talked about so many different matchups and I was like, oh, wait, no,

1541
01:14:21,400 --> 01:14:24,160
Speaker 1: it's Old Miss. So you get Texas Tech and Old Miss.

1542
01:14:24,479 --> 01:14:26,960
Speaker 1: It's a heck of a matchup. My man, getting Lane

1543
01:14:27,040 --> 01:14:29,839
Speaker 1: Kiff in here. From the Omiss side, you get Joey McGuire,

1544
01:14:29,960 --> 01:14:33,880
Speaker 1: who understands the state of Texas because he grew up

1545
01:14:33,920 --> 01:14:36,840
Speaker 1: as a Texas high school coach, now taken over Texas Tech. First.

1546
01:14:36,880 --> 01:14:39,080
Speaker 1: Of all the coaches you got in this matchup, you

1547
01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:41,200
Speaker 1: couldn't have asked for a better matchup from that perspective.

1548
01:14:41,240 --> 01:14:46,200
Speaker 1: I mean, these are high energy, big time offenses. You've

1549
01:14:46,280 --> 01:14:48,880
Speaker 1: got the only matchup in the country of two top

1550
01:14:48,920 --> 01:14:53,200
Speaker 1: twelve offenses right here in Houston. Texas Tech, known for

1551
01:14:53,360 --> 01:14:57,599
Speaker 1: their passing assault, they led the Big twelve in passing

1552
01:14:57,640 --> 01:15:01,280
Speaker 1: again as expected, throwing the ball around. Took three different

1553
01:15:01,320 --> 01:15:03,719
Speaker 1: quarterbacks this year to do it, given all the injuries,

1554
01:15:03,760 --> 01:15:06,679
Speaker 1: but they made it through, coming in on a hot streak,

1555
01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:10,479
Speaker 1: three game winning streak down the stretch, wins over Texas

1556
01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:14,280
Speaker 1: and Oklahoma for the first time ever. Joey McGuire's got it,

1557
01:15:14,479 --> 01:15:16,200
Speaker 1: got it rolling out there in the planes and then

1558
01:15:16,520 --> 01:15:18,800
Speaker 1: look laying Kiffin on the other side of the ball.

1559
01:15:19,160 --> 01:15:21,320
Speaker 1: One of the most creative offensive minds in the game.

1560
01:15:21,960 --> 01:15:25,240
Speaker 1: The third best rushing attack in the country led the

1561
01:15:25,439 --> 01:15:30,360
Speaker 1: SEC two horses in Judkins and Evans. They're gonna run

1562
01:15:30,479 --> 01:15:33,679
Speaker 1: the spread like nobody else in the country. I don't

1563
01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:35,400
Speaker 1: know if our stadium guys are gonna be able to

1564
01:15:35,439 --> 01:15:37,360
Speaker 1: keep up on the scoreboard with enough points. I mean,

1565
01:15:37,479 --> 01:15:40,920
Speaker 1: it's gonna be electric in here, a ton of energy.

1566
01:15:41,400 --> 01:15:44,080
Speaker 1: And that's something that's great for the fans, especially this

1567
01:15:44,200 --> 01:15:46,560
Speaker 1: time of year when you've got matchups like like we

1568
01:15:46,720 --> 01:15:49,120
Speaker 1: see in the bull season, where teams that don't get

1569
01:15:49,120 --> 01:15:51,639
Speaker 1: a chance to play each other very often different styles,

1570
01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:55,360
Speaker 1: different types of mentalities. You know that that great makes

1571
01:15:55,400 --> 01:15:59,120
Speaker 1: for great football. This one here, two different ways to

1572
01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:02,120
Speaker 1: do it. But the thing that both of them are

1573
01:16:02,200 --> 01:16:03,720
Speaker 1: going to be doing is putting up some points, and

1574
01:16:03,720 --> 01:16:05,320
Speaker 1: that would be a lot of fun. I think what's ironic.

1575
01:16:05,360 --> 01:16:07,240
Speaker 1: Everybody thinks about Lank Kiffin and they think, oh, he

1576
01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:09,519
Speaker 1: throws it around the yard. They're up tempo, they're slinging

1577
01:16:09,560 --> 01:16:11,559
Speaker 1: it all over the place. You're gonna be further from

1578
01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:15,320
Speaker 1: the truth. They run the rock a lot, and they'll

1579
01:16:15,360 --> 01:16:17,800
Speaker 1: do it out up tempo. But Old miss will run it.

1580
01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:21,080
Speaker 1: Like you said, with Judkins and Evans, I mean they

1581
01:16:21,280 --> 01:16:24,880
Speaker 1: run the rock about as well as anybody runs it.

1582
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:27,280
Speaker 1: But everybody thinks they want to throw the football, and

1583
01:16:27,439 --> 01:16:30,320
Speaker 1: yet they just pound the rock and make you like it.

1584
01:16:30,760 --> 01:16:32,320
Speaker 1: And if you don't, they're gonna run it for three

1585
01:16:32,400 --> 01:16:35,040
Speaker 1: hundred fifth yards. Well look, and and they can throw it.

1586
01:16:35,080 --> 01:16:37,400
Speaker 1: I mean Jackson Dart, you know, transferred in there is

1587
01:16:37,920 --> 01:16:40,200
Speaker 1: uh has come in and really added an element to

1588
01:16:40,240 --> 01:16:42,519
Speaker 1: the offense that he can throw the ball around. Um.

1589
01:16:43,160 --> 01:16:45,479
Speaker 1: We all know that Old miss can can can recruit

1590
01:16:45,560 --> 01:16:47,439
Speaker 1: and has some great receivers. Look at the history of

1591
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:50,080
Speaker 1: guys like DK Metcalf and A. J. Brown that that

1592
01:16:50,200 --> 01:16:52,360
Speaker 1: played there in recent years. I mean, they know what

1593
01:16:52,439 --> 01:16:55,320
Speaker 1: they're doing. Treadwell another one, so you know. But but

1594
01:16:55,840 --> 01:16:58,080
Speaker 1: Dart can run it or throw it. You combine it

1595
01:16:58,160 --> 01:17:01,040
Speaker 1: with those two backs, um, and a really good young

1596
01:17:01,160 --> 01:17:04,960
Speaker 1: offensive line and to your point, Johnny, I mean, you know,

1597
01:17:05,280 --> 01:17:07,920
Speaker 1: just because they're high powered doesn't mean they're throwing the ball.

1598
01:17:07,960 --> 01:17:09,559
Speaker 1: They're putting it on They're putting it on the ground

1599
01:17:09,560 --> 01:17:12,160
Speaker 1: and they're pounding you. What has Joey McGuire done at

1600
01:17:12,200 --> 01:17:17,519
Speaker 1: Texas Tech fletch, because it feels like Tech has there's

1601
01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:21,120
Speaker 1: more juice, there's more momentum. I know this state can

1602
01:17:21,160 --> 01:17:25,960
Speaker 1: be very provincial about its coaching spots and coaches, etc.

1603
01:17:26,840 --> 01:17:29,280
Speaker 1: The fact that Joey McGuire was a high school coach

1604
01:17:30,160 --> 01:17:33,320
Speaker 1: in this state and then obviously knows how to recruit

1605
01:17:33,439 --> 01:17:36,040
Speaker 1: this state, it feels like that has made it pretty

1606
01:17:36,080 --> 01:17:38,000
Speaker 1: big impact at Texas Tech. How do you see what

1607
01:17:38,120 --> 01:17:41,639
Speaker 1: he's done for Texas Tech, and not only this year

1608
01:17:41,720 --> 01:17:43,800
Speaker 1: but going forward as well. Well, I think you know

1609
01:17:43,920 --> 01:17:47,479
Speaker 1: the thing that Joey's brought more than anything, and I've

1610
01:17:47,520 --> 01:17:50,320
Speaker 1: seen it firsthand, and and any Red Raider fan that

1611
01:17:50,360 --> 01:17:53,000
Speaker 1: has seen it as well. I mean he's brought the energy.

1612
01:17:53,240 --> 01:17:57,960
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy is relentless. He is so positive,

1613
01:17:58,080 --> 01:18:01,479
Speaker 1: he's focused on really trying to build something out there

1614
01:18:01,520 --> 01:18:03,479
Speaker 1: at Texas Tech. He's got the great roots here in

1615
01:18:03,520 --> 01:18:06,400
Speaker 1: the state as a high school coach, coached at Baylor

1616
01:18:06,520 --> 01:18:09,240
Speaker 1: as well, had some high success there here in the state.

1617
01:18:09,840 --> 01:18:12,920
Speaker 1: But fundamentally he's got such an energy. I love to

1618
01:18:13,000 --> 01:18:15,080
Speaker 1: tell this story, and I know it's one that's been

1619
01:18:15,120 --> 01:18:16,960
Speaker 1: out there before, but I don't even know if Joey

1620
01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:20,120
Speaker 1: McGuire was on the radar at Texas Tech. But Kurby

1621
01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:22,439
Speaker 1: Hokutt the ad there is a good friend of mine

1622
01:18:22,479 --> 01:18:25,560
Speaker 1: and shared that Joey just kept calling and calling and

1623
01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:28,640
Speaker 1: calling and calling, you know, and he eventually you know,

1624
01:18:28,720 --> 01:18:30,519
Speaker 1: I mean, he knew he'd had success, but he didn't

1625
01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:33,760
Speaker 1: know much about him, he said. He said the relentlessness

1626
01:18:33,840 --> 01:18:35,760
Speaker 1: was one of the big reasons because he just kept

1627
01:18:35,880 --> 01:18:37,840
Speaker 1: calling him, and when he got a chance to actually

1628
01:18:37,920 --> 01:18:40,240
Speaker 1: visit with him, you know, they made all the sense

1629
01:18:40,280 --> 01:18:42,240
Speaker 1: to the world. A great fit. So that's the kind

1630
01:18:42,280 --> 01:18:45,240
Speaker 1: of guy that he is. With the relationships that he's built,

1631
01:18:45,680 --> 01:18:48,120
Speaker 1: he could certainly take Texas Tech to a place they

1632
01:18:48,160 --> 01:18:51,040
Speaker 1: haven't been in in a little while now, and that's

1633
01:18:51,040 --> 01:18:54,360
Speaker 1: a that's a place where they're competing for the Big Twelve,

1634
01:18:54,520 --> 01:18:58,639
Speaker 1: competing potentially, especially with the expanded playoff, for a spot

1635
01:18:58,840 --> 01:19:02,160
Speaker 1: spot in what could be a fun tournament going forward.

1636
01:19:02,200 --> 01:19:04,960
Speaker 1: And they're just unique. You know, there are those teams

1637
01:19:05,080 --> 01:19:09,519
Speaker 1: in college football, Navy, Georgia Tech, and i'd say Texas

1638
01:19:09,600 --> 01:19:12,479
Speaker 1: Tech that you just plan for that are different. Yeah,

1639
01:19:12,560 --> 01:19:15,320
Speaker 1: you know, because they throw the ball around. Everybody's throwing

1640
01:19:15,360 --> 01:19:17,519
Speaker 1: the ball around a lot, but they throw the ball around.

1641
01:19:17,600 --> 01:19:21,200
Speaker 1: It's such a pace with such precision um no matter

1642
01:19:21,280 --> 01:19:24,640
Speaker 1: who's in that system, and having that energy from a

1643
01:19:24,680 --> 01:19:29,280
Speaker 1: guy like Joey McGuire to help elevate the the the program,

1644
01:19:29,720 --> 01:19:34,400
Speaker 1: elevate them you know, the pace and and ultimately you know,

1645
01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:36,320
Speaker 1: deliver the results is something that I think a lot

1646
01:19:36,360 --> 01:19:38,639
Speaker 1: of people up there in Lubbock are really excited about. Yeah,

1647
01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:43,400
Speaker 1: it's that program I think is definitely definitely on the rise.

1648
01:19:43,439 --> 01:19:46,080
Speaker 1: I think Joey McGuire when it's interesting hearing that story

1649
01:19:46,400 --> 01:19:48,920
Speaker 1: about McGuire just Hey, I'm gonna keep calling and you're

1650
01:19:48,960 --> 01:19:51,320
Speaker 1: gonna have to tell me no. And eventually they didn't

1651
01:19:51,320 --> 01:19:53,479
Speaker 1: tell him no. And I think it's it's paying off

1652
01:19:53,520 --> 01:19:56,080
Speaker 1: for Texas Tech. The way that he is. He has

1653
01:19:56,200 --> 01:19:58,439
Speaker 1: marketed and and every time you use the word marketing

1654
01:19:58,479 --> 01:20:00,639
Speaker 1: you feel like, oh, they're trying to you know, trying

1655
01:20:00,640 --> 01:20:02,600
Speaker 1: to pull the wall over people's eyes. It's not really that,

1656
01:20:03,120 --> 01:20:06,200
Speaker 1: but how you market and package the program can be

1657
01:20:06,400 --> 01:20:10,040
Speaker 1: very attractive to recruits nowadays. Look, and he's done a

1658
01:20:10,120 --> 01:20:12,639
Speaker 1: great job in doing that, and he's got full support

1659
01:20:12,760 --> 01:20:15,080
Speaker 1: up there, just like like Kiffin does as well. At

1660
01:20:15,080 --> 01:20:17,400
Speaker 1: all Miss I mean, you know, both are investing heavily

1661
01:20:17,560 --> 01:20:23,040
Speaker 1: into um the the facility side. Both both have very

1662
01:20:23,800 --> 01:20:27,479
Speaker 1: aggressive um UH plans around nil and transfer, which you

1663
01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:30,400
Speaker 1: have to in this environment. And um, there two there

1664
01:20:30,439 --> 01:20:33,320
Speaker 1: are two programs we talked about this um when when

1665
01:20:33,479 --> 01:20:35,880
Speaker 1: the announced These are two programs over the last three

1666
01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:38,200
Speaker 1: years that are really on the rise. And that's something

1667
01:20:38,240 --> 01:20:40,720
Speaker 1: about this particular game, Johnny, that I think it's really

1668
01:20:40,760 --> 01:20:43,200
Speaker 1: intriguing to fans. It's why it's always one of that

1669
01:20:43,479 --> 01:20:46,679
Speaker 1: people like to watch. Is teams that win this game

1670
01:20:47,200 --> 01:20:51,000
Speaker 1: are setting themselves up for success next year. The last

1671
01:20:51,160 --> 01:20:54,080
Speaker 1: five winners of the Taxac Texas Bowl have played in

1672
01:20:54,120 --> 01:20:57,160
Speaker 1: the New Year's Six the next season. And so look,

1673
01:20:57,560 --> 01:21:02,160
Speaker 1: both of these teams know that they're not necessarily focus

1674
01:21:02,320 --> 01:21:04,600
Speaker 1: exclusively I'm trying to win this game. They're trying to

1675
01:21:04,680 --> 01:21:07,040
Speaker 1: win this game so they can set up that momentum

1676
01:21:07,080 --> 01:21:09,760
Speaker 1: for next year. And both of them have been on

1677
01:21:09,840 --> 01:21:11,840
Speaker 1: a track to do that the last three years. Yeah,

1678
01:21:11,880 --> 01:21:14,760
Speaker 1: Texas Tech. Last time, if my math is correct, that

1679
01:21:14,840 --> 01:21:17,840
Speaker 1: they were in the tax Act Texas Bowl, some dude

1680
01:21:17,960 --> 01:21:21,280
Speaker 1: named Mahomes was the starting quarterback for them back then

1681
01:21:21,520 --> 01:21:25,200
Speaker 1: accurate assessment twenty. That was the first time that night

1682
01:21:25,320 --> 01:21:29,719
Speaker 1: watching Mahomes, I'm like, Yo, that guy special. That dude

1683
01:21:29,800 --> 01:21:33,439
Speaker 1: is on a different, different level and having seen him

1684
01:21:33,520 --> 01:21:35,559
Speaker 1: up close and seeing what he was doing up close,

1685
01:21:36,240 --> 01:21:37,800
Speaker 1: if I went out on a limb and said that

1686
01:21:37,880 --> 01:21:39,560
Speaker 1: guy could play in this league. In fact, I was

1687
01:21:39,720 --> 01:21:42,240
Speaker 1: in my mock drops early saying I saw him at

1688
01:21:42,320 --> 01:21:45,280
Speaker 1: Texas Bowl do things I don't know that a lot

1689
01:21:45,320 --> 01:21:47,800
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks can on this planet can do, and now

1690
01:21:47,840 --> 01:21:49,479
Speaker 1: he's doing at the NFL level. And I think that's

1691
01:21:49,520 --> 01:21:52,519
Speaker 1: one of the other things too. Fletches. For some people

1692
01:21:52,560 --> 01:21:54,360
Speaker 1: that obviously, you know, kind of live in my world,

1693
01:21:54,600 --> 01:21:57,320
Speaker 1: sometimes they come just to see players. They want to

1694
01:21:57,360 --> 01:21:59,920
Speaker 1: see guys. Now you won't see Tyree Wilson, who argue

1695
01:22:00,360 --> 01:22:02,080
Speaker 1: is going to be a top twelve pick at worst,

1696
01:22:02,240 --> 01:22:05,000
Speaker 1: maybe a top ten pick. The defensive van for Texas Tech,

1697
01:22:05,040 --> 01:22:06,639
Speaker 1: who you saw a couple of years ago. I saw

1698
01:22:06,640 --> 01:22:09,000
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago mit Texas Kickoff. But there

1699
01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:11,280
Speaker 1: are also stars in this game too. You mention Jackson

1700
01:22:11,360 --> 01:22:13,920
Speaker 1: Dart He's gonna be in that class at twenty twenty

1701
01:22:13,960 --> 01:22:17,920
Speaker 1: four quarterbacks after transferring from USC, Quinshawn Judkins, the running

1702
01:22:17,960 --> 01:22:21,760
Speaker 1: back who might be when it's all said and done.

1703
01:22:21,840 --> 01:22:25,360
Speaker 1: B Sean's pretty good at Texas. Quinshawn Judkins is in

1704
01:22:25,479 --> 01:22:27,599
Speaker 1: the team picture as one of the top five running

1705
01:22:27,600 --> 01:22:30,280
Speaker 1: backs in the country as a true freshman. And of

1706
01:22:30,320 --> 01:22:32,080
Speaker 1: course Zach Evans. I hope we get a chance to

1707
01:22:32,160 --> 01:22:35,479
Speaker 1: see Zach Evans coming back home to play North Shore

1708
01:22:35,560 --> 01:22:39,720
Speaker 1: High School. Having those star players in this game has

1709
01:22:39,760 --> 01:22:43,200
Speaker 1: always been great because we've seen Mahomes, we saw Miles Garrett,

1710
01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:47,960
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams, Jamal Adams playing, I mean, Leonard Furnett, I mean,

1711
01:22:48,080 --> 01:22:50,240
Speaker 1: all those guys have played in this game, Fletch, and

1712
01:22:50,320 --> 01:22:53,599
Speaker 1: that's a massive feather in your cap to bring them

1713
01:22:53,640 --> 01:22:55,720
Speaker 1: all here. But then those guys to show it off

1714
01:22:55,760 --> 01:22:57,519
Speaker 1: once they get here. Yeah, I mean you look you

1715
01:22:57,640 --> 01:23:00,360
Speaker 1: look at you look at the type of talent that's

1716
01:23:00,400 --> 01:23:03,759
Speaker 1: in college football right now. Um, it's certainly it's certainly

1717
01:23:03,800 --> 01:23:06,160
Speaker 1: amazing to see the type of guys that we have

1718
01:23:06,320 --> 01:23:10,280
Speaker 1: been able to fortunately, um have it our game each year,

1719
01:23:10,800 --> 01:23:12,960
Speaker 1: even last year's game. Scott Thompson, you know, the MVP

1720
01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:15,640
Speaker 1: for Kansas State by the Wildcats. Awesome to see what

1721
01:23:15,680 --> 01:23:17,160
Speaker 1: they've been able to do. They got a great matchup

1722
01:23:17,200 --> 01:23:19,439
Speaker 1: with Alabama and the Sugar Bowl after winning the Big Twelve,

1723
01:23:19,479 --> 01:23:22,400
Speaker 1: and so you know, again that's that's fun. There's a

1724
01:23:22,439 --> 01:23:24,840
Speaker 1: lot of fun reasons to come out here next Wednesday night,

1725
01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:27,839
Speaker 1: uh and uh and and catch this game eight o'clock

1726
01:23:28,520 --> 01:23:30,240
Speaker 1: on ESPN if you're not able to make it out

1727
01:23:30,240 --> 01:23:33,320
Speaker 1: to the stadium. Tickets still available, handful of them at

1728
01:23:33,400 --> 01:23:36,320
Speaker 1: least at Taxac Texas Bowl dot com. But there's something

1729
01:23:36,400 --> 01:23:39,640
Speaker 1: for everybody. There's there's the fun and the passion and

1730
01:23:39,680 --> 01:23:42,200
Speaker 1: the pageantry of college football with the spirit groups and

1731
01:23:42,280 --> 01:23:45,240
Speaker 1: the bands and the mascots and the cheer and everybody

1732
01:23:45,439 --> 01:23:48,200
Speaker 1: tailgate and heavy. Um. You know you've got You've got

1733
01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:50,960
Speaker 1: a full day of college football next Wednesday, four games

1734
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:54,640
Speaker 1: and we're the primetime headliners. So um. You know, if

1735
01:23:54,680 --> 01:23:57,040
Speaker 1: you're a college football fan, this is a fun time

1736
01:23:57,080 --> 01:23:59,880
Speaker 1: of year. Um. And so you know, I just you know,

1737
01:24:00,240 --> 01:24:02,479
Speaker 1: you can watch the stars of the future. You can

1738
01:24:02,760 --> 01:24:04,759
Speaker 1: come out and have a great time with your family.

1739
01:24:05,080 --> 01:24:07,000
Speaker 1: I know at that point a lot of us probably,

1740
01:24:07,040 --> 01:24:08,519
Speaker 1: I know, my family is going to be tired of

1741
01:24:08,560 --> 01:24:10,559
Speaker 1: seeing me. So you know, come out and get out

1742
01:24:10,560 --> 01:24:12,920
Speaker 1: of the house, go have some fun. Um ticket starting

1743
01:24:12,960 --> 01:24:15,320
Speaker 1: as low as twenty five bucks. So um, there's a

1744
01:24:15,400 --> 01:24:17,880
Speaker 1: little bit of something for everybody. But um, that's that's

1745
01:24:17,920 --> 01:24:20,840
Speaker 1: what makes this event so much fun for our group

1746
01:24:20,920 --> 01:24:23,599
Speaker 1: here in the building and for those in the community

1747
01:24:23,640 --> 01:24:26,280
Speaker 1: that helps support it is. It is a true celebration

1748
01:24:26,360 --> 01:24:28,519
Speaker 1: of the culture, heritage, and football tradition of the Lone

1749
01:24:28,560 --> 01:24:32,040
Speaker 1: Star State UM. There's fan events throughout the week taxac

1750
01:24:32,120 --> 01:24:34,320
Speaker 1: Texas Bowl dot com where you can you can find

1751
01:24:34,360 --> 01:24:36,720
Speaker 1: out those full schedules and get your tickets for those

1752
01:24:37,160 --> 01:24:39,080
Speaker 1: UM there's a lot of ways to interact with the

1753
01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:42,880
Speaker 1: teams while they're here, and it all benefits a great

1754
01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:45,760
Speaker 1: charity and De Pelchian Children's Center. So you look at

1755
01:24:45,800 --> 01:24:48,160
Speaker 1: all the things that you could do during the holiday season,

1756
01:24:48,520 --> 01:24:50,360
Speaker 1: not a whole lot else that I can come up

1757
01:24:50,400 --> 01:24:53,759
Speaker 1: with that that has more variety and a bigger impact

1758
01:24:53,800 --> 01:24:56,040
Speaker 1: on our community than coming out for this event, no doubt,

1759
01:24:56,120 --> 01:24:59,479
Speaker 1: my man, David Fletcher. When you get to the Texas

1760
01:24:59,560 --> 01:25:01,720
Speaker 1: Bowl and you get great seats and you see a

1761
01:25:01,800 --> 01:25:04,280
Speaker 1: great game, I want you to keep that name in

1762
01:25:04,600 --> 01:25:08,080
Speaker 1: mind because he and his staff provided for everyone walking

1763
01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:11,559
Speaker 1: into that stadium or come to an event. December twenty eight,

1764
01:25:11,760 --> 01:25:15,400
Speaker 1: Texas Tech versus Old Miss Big twelve versus SEC doesn't

1765
01:25:15,400 --> 01:25:18,040
Speaker 1: get much better than that, Fletch. You're the man, my friend.

1766
01:25:18,120 --> 01:25:20,400
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining me. Thanks Johnny. That's gonna do

1767
01:25:20,479 --> 01:25:23,200
Speaker 1: it for tonight's show. Big thanks to Fletch, to Christian Harris,

1768
01:25:23,280 --> 01:25:27,080
Speaker 1: the DP City, to Drew Doherty, who is always in

1769
01:25:27,200 --> 01:25:29,880
Speaker 1: my mind on this show you got, Marvanomir, to Mike Keith,

1770
01:25:29,920 --> 01:25:32,320
Speaker 1: to Nick Kissario, all you guys for listening. Thank you

1771
01:25:32,360 --> 01:25:34,400
Speaker 1: so much. We'll see tomorrow and as always, go Texans,