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Speaker 1: Welcome into Texans All Access. It's a Tuesday from the

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Speaker 1: day Texans Radio Studio and a lot of changes, a

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Speaker 1: lot of coaching changes that is announced today. We've got

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Speaker 1: Bill Bryant on this show. Also, we'll get into some

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Speaker 1: of our Texans All Access Sports Awards that's later on

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Speaker 1: this show with Drew Dorty and John Harris. But first

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Speaker 1: let's get right to it. We've got the head coach

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Speaker 1: discussing all those coaching changes with Mark VanderMeer and John Harris.

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Speaker 1: Gelations on these changes, these hires, and Tim Kelly becomes

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Speaker 1: your offensive coordinator. I know you'd like to promote from within,

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Speaker 1: so tell us a little bit about what this change

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Speaker 1: brings about. Yeah, we believe this is an excellent change,

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Speaker 1: something that Tim Kelly has earned. You know, one of

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Speaker 1: the philosophies that we have here is we really like

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Speaker 1: to try to hire young coaches, you know, teach them

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Speaker 1: on one side of the ball, or you know, maybe

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Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. Timmy started out on defense

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Speaker 1: at Penn State. He moved over to offense when he

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Speaker 1: came here to Houston and was promoted to tight end

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Speaker 1: coach and now promoted the coordinator Timmy has an excellent

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Speaker 1: knowledge of our offense, UH, all aspects of it. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, whether it's the passing game, the running game. UH.

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Speaker 1: Timmy has an excellent knowledge of how we talk about

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Speaker 1: of coverages and fronts. And the players have a great

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Speaker 1: amount of respect for tim tim ran a lot of

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Speaker 1: the unit meetings this year, so he's been trained and

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Speaker 1: and he's ready to go. You know, Timmy. Timmy's an

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Speaker 1: excellent young coach. I think he's got a real bright

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Speaker 1: future and we're excited for him, and we're excited for

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Speaker 1: our coaching staff to be able to promote Timmy coach.

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Speaker 1: You've been in, obviously, coaching staffs throughout your entire career,

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Speaker 1: and they've been a lot of them to have offensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator and head coach, And there've been somewhere the head

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Speaker 1: coach calls the plays. There are somewhere the offensive coordinator

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Speaker 1: you want to do with that situation yet? You know, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: that's always it's an interesting discussion and a great question,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's always been a collaborative effort for us.

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Speaker 1: You know, we we've through the years, Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously we had George Gotzie called plays. And uh,

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Speaker 1: there's no doubt in my mind that Tim Kelly is

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Speaker 1: ready to call plays. Uh. And that's something that will

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Speaker 1: always be, like I said, a collaborative effort. Now on

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Speaker 1: the outside, people may say, well, what does that mean. Well,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot that goes into a play call. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously you don't have a lot of time

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Speaker 1: you know. And and so whether it's me calling the

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Speaker 1: best for the team. And it'll always be, like I say,

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Speaker 1: a collaborative effort of game planning during the week and

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Speaker 1: then okay, let's see how this game is being played

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Speaker 1: the team. And that's all part of this, Uh, this

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Speaker 1: this promotion of Tim, Well, not only do you have

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Speaker 1: He's been in this system, he was in this system

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Speaker 1: all the different areas that he's worked in. He's worked

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Speaker 1: see from that particular person, no matter the role, Yeah, coordinator, assistant, position, coach, whatever,

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Speaker 1: And that's why it's always good in some respects to

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Speaker 1: Like my philosophy there is you know, why would you

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Speaker 1: ability for us to promote tim and I'm sure you're

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Speaker 1: that those are That's a philosophy that we have that

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Speaker 1: to be very hard working. They've got to be articulate,

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Speaker 1: just like we look for in a player, somebody that

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Speaker 1: Will Lying his background is very interesting. You know, he

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Speaker 1: And so, uh, he's a guy that we're very excited

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Speaker 1: we'll we'll have a lot on his plate, all right, Coach.

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Speaker 1: There's there's a really I've mentioned this to Mark a

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Speaker 1: What are those two guys brand coming in as first

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Speaker 1: about that. At Keem Dent is a similar story. When

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Speaker 1: But we really are excited about having him. Johnny Elward

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Speaker 1: have a man of this ilk this experience coaching him.

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Speaker 1: As clue Ube coach, He's coached a very similar quarterback

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Speaker 1: as Watson. Let's talk about Obie and all the help

429
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Speaker 1: that he's got this year. He's got quarterbacks coach, He's

430
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Speaker 1: got an offensive coordinator. He's also got an assistant in

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Speaker 1: Doug West, who formerly was the director of football operations.

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Speaker 1: Doug stays in the building but moves to the coaching side. Yeah,

433
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Speaker 1: and did Bill. He did not get into that. We

434
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Speaker 1: had so much to get into it. I really regret that.

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Speaker 1: But I gotta tell you this. My take on this

436
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Speaker 1: is it's one of those under the radar things that's

437
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Speaker 1: really gonna help just in terms of time spent doing

438
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Speaker 1: whatever he needs to do. Now, Doug's not a football coach,

439
00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,920
Speaker 1: but he's a football guy, so he's gonna help keep

440
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Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien, help keep his eyes on the most important things.

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Speaker 1: So I really like having Doug. He's highly organized. I mean,

442
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Speaker 1: he was in charge of all the team travel. This

443
00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,520
Speaker 1: is no joke, you know this going around the country

444
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Speaker 1: with an NFL team and all the little things you

445
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Speaker 1: have to think of I've always said that job that

446
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Speaker 1: Doug had, you got to pitch a perfect game every time.

447
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Speaker 1: You know, one mistake means hours of lost time. So

448
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Speaker 1: obviously Bill really believes in Doug West. He's going to

449
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Speaker 1: help him out a whole lot. But I think it's

450
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Speaker 1: the coaches, the football stuff, the odd field stuff people

451
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Speaker 1: get more excited about. But every little change can mean

452
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Speaker 1: a whole lot. Here, Okay, what did he say about

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Speaker 1: Tim Kelly as far as did he say anything of

454
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Speaker 1: a calling plays or how much more he's going to

455
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Speaker 1: put on his play? Yes, he did, and he wasn't

456
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Speaker 1: really going to make a full commitment there as to

457
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Speaker 1: who's going to be doing it. But he said it's

458
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Speaker 1: a collaborative thing, so I think he's gonna see how

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Speaker 1: it goes. Look, I can't really read too much into it.

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Speaker 1: I think he's certainly willing to let Tim Kelly call

461
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Speaker 1: a bunch of the action, but I don't know if

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Speaker 1: he's willing to say that right now. And he sounded

463
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Speaker 1: like that. Any other impressions you got from Bill, obviously

464
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Speaker 1: you were in the room with him, reading between the lines,

465
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Speaker 1: things that that sort of jumped out from that interview, Well, yeah,

466
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Speaker 1: I just going back to Kelly here, having somebody who's

467
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Speaker 1: got that kind of mind helped organize things on offense

468
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Speaker 1: is going to be big for Bill. You know, he

469
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Speaker 1: really didn't have an offensive coordinator here the last couple

470
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Speaker 1: of years. In the offense, I don't care what anybody says.

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Speaker 1: The offense has done some really cool things the last

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Speaker 1: couple of years. I know it got very tough when

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Speaker 1: Watson got hurt in twenty seventeen. But with Watson and

474
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Speaker 1: everything going good during the nine game winning streak most

475
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Speaker 1: of it, remember they were third in the league and

476
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Speaker 1: rushing for a big part of that. I know the

477
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Speaker 1: running game kind of tailed off at the end. Well,

478
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Speaker 1: those kinds of things, the struggles they had in the

479
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Speaker 1: playoff game, whatever, you know, I think having more minds

480
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Speaker 1: involved with it, and even having Carl Smith in here

481
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Speaker 1: to help out as sort of a wise guy wise

482
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Speaker 1: guy that doesn't not a wise guy a wise man.

483
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Speaker 1: Look what did Brad Seeley mean for Bill O'Brien this year?

484
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Speaker 1: A whole lot right teams turned it around. Yeah, that

485
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Speaker 1: was great, But just having him in the building, somebody

486
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Speaker 1: to talked to him on game day, I think Carl

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Speaker 1: Smith can serve and maybe not as much of a

488
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Speaker 1: similar capacity as that, but to a degree, And I

489
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Speaker 1: think that's really going to help. Well. Obviously he's one.

490
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Speaker 1: He's gone to the super Bowl with Russell Wilson. So

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Speaker 1: I think just having that when you're coaching your quarterbacks

492
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Speaker 1: is great, just to offer stories or advice here and there,

493
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Speaker 1: just from not just from a football perspective. Sometimes I

494
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Speaker 1: think the other stuff is just as important too, situational life.

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Speaker 1: You know, they deal through with a lot of adversity,

496
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Speaker 1: these guys throughout the course of a season. Oh they do.

497
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Speaker 1: And think about this year. You know, you dealt with

498
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Speaker 1: the passing of mister McNair, you dealt with a lot

499
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Speaker 1: of things the last couple of years, and it's just

500
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Speaker 1: been it's been difficult. But they want eleven games. This

501
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Speaker 1: past year, they just didn't do well at all in

502
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Speaker 1: the postseason and they want to try to rectify that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure that everybody feels this way. You

504
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Speaker 1: just want to go right back to the playoffs and

505
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Speaker 1: see if you could do better, but you just you

506
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Speaker 1: can't get there without going through everything you need to

507
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Speaker 1: do in the offseason and the preparation, and you know,

508
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Speaker 1: trying to win ten eleven games again and get back

509
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Speaker 1: to that postseason stage. I was speaking of Super Bowls.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Did you see this? ESPN predicted the

511
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Speaker 1: Texans to make it to the next Super Bowl. It

512
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Speaker 1: wasn't that like one writer bold prediction? Yeah, who I mean,

513
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Speaker 1: who knows? But lose predicted that the Rams would only

514
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Speaker 1: scored three points in the Super Bowl. Who knows. You

515
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,040
Speaker 1: just don't know those things. I mean. The NFL is

516
00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:28,399
Speaker 1: so weird because the Cults look as good as they

517
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Speaker 1: did here and then they looked horrible at Kansas City.

518
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Speaker 1: I know the weather was a factor, and the Chiefs

519
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,320
Speaker 1: were certainly a factor, but you just don't know it

520
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,960
Speaker 1: this league. Midway through the season. Would you ever think

521
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Speaker 1: that the Patriots could do what they did? Now? Of

522
00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 1: course that wasn't as much of a stretch, but a

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Speaker 1: thirteen to three Super Bowl is just mind boggling to me.

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Speaker 1: It feels like that's like one quarter right. It's strange.

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Speaker 1: Someone was saying the over under on that was like

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Speaker 1: fifty eight somebody because crazy a totally high school it

527
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Speaker 1: was at forty game. The Rams were in that fifty

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Speaker 1: four fifty one. You know you'd don't expect this kind

529
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Speaker 1: of thing, but hey, get ready, defense does win championships. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they also predicted the Texans to sign Steelers Levion Bell,

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Speaker 1: so that just they did and one is wrong? Yes,

532
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Speaker 1: and you know where? You know where I'm thinking here? Well,

533
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Speaker 1: I the New England Patriots held their Super Bowl championship

534
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Speaker 1: parade today. Who knows where it's gonna be next year?

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Speaker 1: Hopefully it's it's in Houston. The funniest sweet I'm not

536
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Speaker 1: gonna credited properly, but I'll just say it. It was

537
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Speaker 1: those long suffering New England sports fans haven't had a

538
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Speaker 1: victory parade since November. How do they live? Four month

539
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Speaker 1: old babies have seen more championships than many fans across

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Speaker 1: the US. So no one's feeling sorry for Bostonians. True. Now,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Mark, And coming up next, we've got one

542
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Speaker 1: final segment. We bring in Dru Dohty John Harris, and

543
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Speaker 1: we're going to give out our own Houston Texans or

544
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Speaker 1: Radio Sports Awards, if you will. We're sort of combining

545
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Speaker 1: the best of everything. That's all coming up one final

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Speaker 1: segment of Texans All Access Don't Go Anywhere. Welcome back

547
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Speaker 1: for the final segment of Texans All Access. We've got

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Speaker 1: more from Bill O'Brien. Also a big week for a

549
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Speaker 1: war in the NFL in Houston. We'll get to some

550
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Speaker 1: of our favorites from I Guess You Home the Texans

551
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Speaker 1: All Access Awards. We'll get into those in a little

552
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Speaker 1: bit with Drew Dorty and John Harris. But first part

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Speaker 1: two of the Billibrand interview on the coaching changes Couch.

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Speaker 1: You have change, obviously in a coaching staff, but there's

555
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Speaker 1: also continuity. There a lot of continuity. How valuable is

556
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Speaker 1: that to coaching staff and to a team, and not

557
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Speaker 1: likely to a team at any point, but to your

558
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Speaker 1: team right now, coming off eleven and five, building off

559
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Speaker 1: of twenty eighteen, going to twenty nineteen, how important is

560
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Speaker 1: it to keep the continuity? Racks, defensive coordinator, a lot

561
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Speaker 1: of the defensive names the same, so I'll talk about

562
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Speaker 1: some of the offensive coach is still in place. How

563
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Speaker 1: much does the continuity matter at this point? Continuity is important.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think the players. There's certain things that

565
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Speaker 1: need to need to change, there's no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: But there's other things relative to how we do things,

567
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Speaker 1: our expectation level in the building our our systems on offense, defense,

568
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Speaker 1: and special teams, things that players really enjoy. They enjoy

569
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Speaker 1: being a part of how we play defense, how we

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Speaker 1: play offense, how we run our special teams. So it's

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Speaker 1: important to keep continuity that way, we understand that there's

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Speaker 1: certain things that have to be better. We also know

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Speaker 1: that there's certain areas that we can improve in. Obviously,

574
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Speaker 1: we had a good run during the season, but we

575
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Speaker 1: did not end the season like like we wanted to,

576
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Speaker 1: and so we're going to work hard to improve. But

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Speaker 1: I think that one of the ways to improve is

578
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Speaker 1: to make sure that when the guys come back to

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Speaker 1: work for the offseason program, Hey, look, some of these

580
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Speaker 1: things are the same and that's important, but there's other

581
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Speaker 1: things that are changing, and I think that's also important.

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Speaker 1: How do you shape these strength and conditioning program sports

583
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Speaker 1: performance right now? Yeah, I think it's interesting. You know,

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Speaker 1: Luke Richardson did a great job for us. You know,

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Speaker 1: he came in and uh, he's actually a guy that's

586
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Speaker 1: a very close friend of mine, and you know, he

587
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Speaker 1: had some personal things that he needed to take care of,

588
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Speaker 1: and so he moved on and we were able to

589
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Speaker 1: promote Mike Eubanks and Brian and I feel very good

590
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Speaker 1: about Mike Eubanks, his ability to work with the players,

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Speaker 1: his knowledge of what we want to do in that

592
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Speaker 1: weight room. I think made a big difference for us

593
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Speaker 1: this year, but there's certain things that we can do better,

594
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Speaker 1: and so to have him with his staff of Billy

595
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Speaker 1: Voltaire and Jason George, and we added Joe Dister, guy

596
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Speaker 1: that was with the Chicago Bears last year, and then

597
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Speaker 1: obviously Kush. We feel like we have a very very

598
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Speaker 1: good strength staff that's gonna have creative ideas and our

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Speaker 1: players are going to really enjoy going into the weight

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Speaker 1: room just like they did last year with some different

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Speaker 1: different things that we're gonna do this year, but a

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Speaker 1: lot of the same foundational things, and our guys are

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Speaker 1: going to be excited about it. Every years different Like

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Speaker 1: you always say, But in a way, do you feel

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Speaker 1: like you're going into year two even though it's year

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Speaker 1: six for you as the head coach of this team,

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Speaker 1: because you and Brian and working together and Watson aiming

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Speaker 1: for a second full season. I appreciate that question, but

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Speaker 1: I know it's year six. I know, look, I know

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Speaker 1: it's a year to year business and you know, there's

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Speaker 1: there's uh, you know, we're working very very hard to

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Speaker 1: bring a championship to Houston. We feel good about where

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Speaker 1: we're headed. We communicate very well in the organization. We're

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Speaker 1: all working very hard. We're excited about the players that

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Speaker 1: we have and the players that we may add, and

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Speaker 1: we know what the what the bottom line is. We

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Speaker 1: understand that, and uh, we know where we have to

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Speaker 1: improve and we have to go out and do it.

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Speaker 1: And so, yeah, it is year two, especially as it

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Speaker 1: relates to Brian, and Brian's done an excellent job, but

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Speaker 1: we also know it to year six, if that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: So we we we understand that and we're excited about it.

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Speaker 1: We're excited about the challenge and going out there and

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Speaker 1: doing better. Coach, the process of just thinking about the

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Speaker 1: offseason process between you and Brian last year, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you guys knew each other beforehand. He had been here before,

627
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Speaker 1: but last year was the first year where you guys

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Speaker 1: are going through that whole process. Now you've gone through it,

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Speaker 1: now you get to repeat it. Yeah, you talked about

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Speaker 1: it a little bit, but how important is it too?

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Speaker 1: Here are the things that we could improve on from

632
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Speaker 1: last year? Here to things. I think we did well

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Speaker 1: as you move on into that second year together and

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Speaker 1: doing that, that's big. You know, last year was kind

635
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Speaker 1: of a whirlwind because even though he had been here

636
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Speaker 1: for several years and then had gone to Buffalo and

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Speaker 1: come back, it was still the whirlwind of having to

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Speaker 1: put all of his philosophies in place higher his staff,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of collaborate with the coaching staff on

640
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 1: different things. So there was a little bit of a

641
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 1: you know, a whirlwind aspect to that. And now having

642
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: gone through that for a year, you know, we've had

643
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 1: tremendous communication between his staff and the coaching staff, and

644
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: that's the key. You cannot have silos in these organizations.

645
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 1: You have to collaborate, you have to communicate. You have

646
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: to have face to face conversations, very honest communication, and

647
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: sometimes there's disagreements, but that's the that's a healthy organization.

648
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: And as long as at the end of the day

649
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: we all see things through the same set of eyes,

650
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,200
Speaker 1: we're gonna be in good shape. And and I think we,

651
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: Brian and I work very well together because you know,

652
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 1: we're friends. You know, we we we work very hard

653
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 1: and and we I'm sure there's days where he's sick

654
00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 1: of me, no doubt about it, because I bring that

655
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,080
Speaker 1: coaching attitude to every day. But but I know that

656
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 1: all aside, I've enjoyed every day working with Brian coach.

657
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot. We really appreciate it. Thank you, guys.

658
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,760
Speaker 1: All right, guys, welcome to the show. Drew. Johnny, I

659
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,280
Speaker 1: know Johnny, we've heard you throughout the show. Drew. Welcome,

660
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Speaker 1: I guess welcome in. Um Hold on a second, John,

661
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Speaker 1: when did you get these glasses? You look like what? No?

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Speaker 1: These are these are just readers. These are these are

663
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Speaker 1: just Bill O'Brien readers that don't they don't break, you know,

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Speaker 1: those ones that are magnetic. No, these are just my

665
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Speaker 1: I started getting to me watching some tape of college prospects,

666
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: and so I was like, you know, I wonder if

667
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Speaker 1: I got some readers. Oh boy, this looks a lot better.

668
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Speaker 1: The reason I bring this up, I know it's a radio,

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Speaker 1: it's it's just a hearing only medium. I haven't seen

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Speaker 1: him in these glasses, and I'm around him all the time.

671
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,000
Speaker 1: His office is next door to mine. I do the

672
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,239
Speaker 1: podcast with you on a weekly basis. Listen to it.

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00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 1: It's called in the lab. It's great. I have not

674
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Speaker 1: seen you in these. It jarred me. It was a

675
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Speaker 1: Senior Bowl trip purchase. Okay, but it's only for a computer,

676
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: and that's where I watched my games, and so it's

677
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: been helping me getting the Harris one hundred together. So

678
00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 1: it's making the fun a little bit bigger. You're not

679
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 1: going to be wearing them on the field, no, no, no,

680
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 1: no, no no no. I used to. I used to wear

681
00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: them and then I got lay sick, and then I'm

682
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: just these are just eiders, just you know, readers, a

683
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:09,400
Speaker 1: little bit like you need a tweet a picture now

684
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:14,720
Speaker 1: so the listeners can probably I know they are they're

685
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:19,000
Speaker 1: they're they're blue view, so they apparently protect from blue light.

686
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: I got some of those two. It's just to protect

687
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 1: from looking the computer. That that that could be an

688
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Speaker 1: early best Accessory award for Texans radio people. We're talking

689
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,560
Speaker 1: about awards a little bit earlier. The NFL honors obviously

690
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: happened this week. Watt was up for Comeback Player of

691
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: the Year, Whitney up for Walter Paytonman of the Year.

692
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,480
Speaker 1: They didn't win, but obviously, as far as the Texans go,

693
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:38,520
Speaker 1: they did some great things. Here in the community and

694
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: JJ Watt on the field. Now, the Houston Sports Awards

695
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: are happening tomorrow. It's the second annual. We've got a

696
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: few Texans that are up for awards. JJ Watt has

697
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: already won the Sportsmanship Award, but we've got DeAndre Hopkins.

698
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: He's up four Athlete of the Year. Ye Moment of

699
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: the Year for the hop hop spins the spin catch

700
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 1: versus Dallas, and then the event of the year, the

701
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: Houston Texans Monday night win over Tennessee, the first game

702
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: without Bob McNair, and then mill of Brian is up

703
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 1: for Coach of the Year. So we're gonna see how

704
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 1: that all plays out tomorrow. But I thought, why not

705
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: have our own awards ceremony, all right, So I want

706
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: to get your your old view on this, because no

707
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: one really talks about these things. But it's the off

708
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: season and it's nice to look back at the season.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna start with an easy one. Best touchdown

710
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: of the year, best touchdown of the year, most important

711
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 1: touchdown on yere wow, I would say offensive. The best

712
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,800
Speaker 1: touchdown of the year is Lamar's ninety seven yard touchdown run.

713
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 1: I think defense had a touchdown too. I put justin

714
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,080
Speaker 1: Reid's one hundred and one yard pick six. That was

715
00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: pretty That's a good one. I think the only close

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00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 1: second to that would be Jjoe's pick six, because you

717
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: gotta remember that was a tie ball that won game

718
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,719
Speaker 1: t Yeah, with a minute and a half left to go,

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00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: Texans were down in that goal. Okay, going to the

720
00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, they were down, and then they have to

721
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: tie it up at thirdeen with a field goal minute

722
00:32:57,400 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: and a a half to go, and then the next play

723
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: from scrimmage after kickoff, jjo pick six. That was the

724
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 1: best defense in the regular season that they played all

725
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,840
Speaker 1: season long. Yeah, I think that Buffalo Bill's defense was

726
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: the We had some good defensive touchdowns this year. Okay,

727
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 1: moving back to offense. What about DeAndre Hopkins Jets where

728
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: he was carried off the field? Yeah, that was that

729
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: was pretty good. I was I just when when I

730
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 1: think about it, I heard you talk about this using

731
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: sports Awards, and Mark and I have talked about this.

732
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: I think one of the things is Mark actually plays

733
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: a role in that too, because as Lamar broke through

734
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: and he scores the touchdown and you can hear the

735
00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: crowd in the background, and then he says that one's

736
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: for you, Bob, and I was like, whoa. I mean,

737
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 1: it just it hit perfectly. It was the perfect note.

738
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: So I don't know, there's just something a little bit

739
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: more with that one. Even though the one Hop had

740
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: won the game, and you know how I typically am

741
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: anything Hop does, I'm gonna put that ahead, But I

742
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: just think that that one was so special on that

743
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 1: for the franchise. Franchise, and that one essentially won the

744
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 1: game as well, because yeah, that was they played before.

745
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:53,880
Speaker 1: They had stopped him on fourth and goal got the

746
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: ball back and they blew it open. I mean it

747
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:57,800
Speaker 1: was like a you know, fourteen point swing there. So

748
00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: I think that big one that might be my favorite

749
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: Chulenges because it seemed so unlikely, no one expected it,

750
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: and it was a night that sort of started off

751
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,320
Speaker 1: on a somber note, so it really changed the entire energy.

752
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 1: I mean, we were down ten nothing in that game.

753
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: We're now ten nothing. A Taylor Luan is over on

754
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 1: our sideline and he's taught in the fans, and he's

755
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: taught in our fans, and then all of a sudden,

756
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:18,880
Speaker 1: it was like Foo just took off from there. Can

757
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,359
Speaker 1: I just see. I met Taylor Luan at the Pro Bowl,

758
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: and so he was so lovely. It really was Taylor

759
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: that the last two times the Titans have come here,

760
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,800
Speaker 1: they've been beaten by combined sixty point he was humbled.

761
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: Is that what you're trying to say? He did, He

762
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 1: did make fun he did make fun of Purdue. He

763
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 1: went to Michigan, I went to Purdue make fun of Pull.

764
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 1: So you know, it wasn't all great, but you know,

765
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: it's funny to see these guys, all right. Best press

766
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: conference moment, oh wow, A lot of good moments this year.

767
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 1: I'm sure you bet. I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say mine.

768
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start off, because mine that'll give us a yeah. Yeah.

769
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 1: Mine was DeAndre Hopkins wearing the Jaguar print with the coolots.

770
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: Andre Johnson up at the podium talking about his entire outfit.

771
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 1: The duel Andre Johnson, Andre Hopkins. I think just along

772
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: those lines, the dual press conferences when it would be

773
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: clown I think Clowney and Hopkins had one that Jacksonville

774
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: that was phenomenally for they were really funny. That was

775
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 1: so so good. I mean, that was that was really good.

776
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 1: So and that you know that also after that that

777
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 1: that game was what sort of precipitated or caused or

778
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,879
Speaker 1: started really the downfall of the Jaguars. Absolutely, they were

779
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 1: right around five hundred. They needed that win and Texans

780
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 1: came in there and spanked him. That was kind of

781
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 1: a make or break moment for either team. And I

782
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:39,840
Speaker 1: think at that point of the seas, especially with DeShawn

783
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 1: dealing what he was dealing with the fact that I

784
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: think whoever had won that game, it would have it

785
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: was just going to be upward moment. Those two talked

786
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,520
Speaker 1: about Dea in that press conference, they were asked about him,

787
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 1: and they were They spoke reverently about him. I mean

788
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 1: that that's my quarterback that you know that was back.

789
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,239
Speaker 1: It was cool clowney that That was one of the

790
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 1: more fun trips all year, just realizing what Deshaun had done.

791
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: The bus. I remember sitting on the bus ready to

792
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 1: go home and there's just bus in front of like,

793
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: that's the Shawn's bus. And I made that trip so

794
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 1: many times, drive from Jacksonville to Houston, so it's an

795
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 1: easy trip. But it was just he's gonna play football game.

796
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 1: I think the most remarkable thing about that whole bus

797
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:18,800
Speaker 1: trip was we had to play a game on Thursday night. Yeah,

798
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: and he probably had his best passing game that night

799
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: against Miami. After that, I thought that was pretty incredible.

800
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,360
Speaker 1: I think we were very lucky that we were playing

801
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. We could have taken a bus. That's true,

802
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: because I was thinking what if what if it was

803
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,879
Speaker 1: it was another another stadium somewhere else where. There wasn't

804
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 1: enough time to drive. I mean, you're you're in a

805
00:36:37,600 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: lot of trouble. So I thought it was very fortuitive.

806
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: All right, So I think the dual press conferences, those

807
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: are always gonna trump everyone else, all right. Best player

808
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 1: personality you're off off the field in the locker room

809
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: that you've observed in an interview, what's your favorite? I

810
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:59,360
Speaker 1: think Devian Clowney to me, just when the when the

811
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 1: Texans win in he and he's had just any kind

812
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:04,279
Speaker 1: of decent game, but even if he's had a great game.

813
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:08,320
Speaker 1: After the Buffalo game, in the locker room, and typically

814
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:09,960
Speaker 1: I'll get a player in the back and I interviewed

815
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 1: that player and it was J Joe. And I interviewed

816
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: j Joe, and then I kind of go around and

817
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 1: talk to the guys. And I saw him and I

818
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,279
Speaker 1: was close to him, and he was like, say, bro,

819
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: next week, you'll talk to me, because he was basically

820
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: saying I'm gonna have a great game against Jacksonville. So

821
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:26,760
Speaker 1: I talked to him for a little bit and and

822
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, you know Buffalo. He's kind of like

823
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: looking past Buffalo. He's like, but he knew who was next,

824
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 1: and he knew obviously with Jacksonville had done. It was

825
00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: like all those defensive line at Jacksonville had and he

826
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: was basically calling his shot and then he went out

827
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 1: to Jacksonville's phenomenal. So I told him, I said, you

828
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: asked for it, you got it. And he's like, all right,

829
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 1: let's do it. And so he came over and did

830
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: the interview. But I just think he's he's this fun

831
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,359
Speaker 1: of personality that we have in a locker room. I think,

832
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 1: now there are times when you know, as with everybody else,

833
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 1: you have bad day whatever, But I think he's fantastic.

834
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 1: I love him in the locker room. I'm partial. Christian Covington,

835
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: I mean went undercover with the guy putting your piece

836
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: in and we went and last offseason went all over

837
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: the place. We're serving up food, all that stuff, but

838
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 1: he's just there. He can always talk about something interesting.

839
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: So Christian Covit, Yeah, he's been. He was on the

840
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 1: Foodbruckers Show a few times. He was also on Texans

841
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: three sixty. He hosted a show with you last year.

842
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,279
Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna go in two different directions. Obviously, I'm

843
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 1: partial to Kareem Jackson with Kjack TV. I feel like

844
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: he brings up the best in everybody and he's just

845
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 1: so over the top. He's not like that in his

846
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: press conferences, but I think that's the true Kareem Jackson,

847
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: which you see on Kjack TV. I like him, and

848
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 1: then I'm gonna stick with the DBS. I really enjoyed

849
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,719
Speaker 1: Tyrone Matthew interviewing him, hearing him talk after games, after

850
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,319
Speaker 1: the losses, after the wins in a different sort of way.

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00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: He's not haha, funny, but he just has a lot

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00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 1: of wisdom. You know, He's gone through a lot of

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00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 1: hardship in his life. I think coming here for the

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00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 1: first year, I didn't really know what to expect from him,

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00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,320
Speaker 1: but the fact that he was doing all those pregame

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00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 1: speeches and the players just had him doing it every week.

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00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 1: I was fired up. I was frighted up watching that.

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00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: So I just I just really like that persona. I

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00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 1: think the one thing that he said that stood out

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00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: to be more anything else that they lost the Giants.

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00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 1: It may have been on Monday and he was doing

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00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 1: his little thing and it kind of pulled him away

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00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: from his locker because so many people want to hear him.

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Speaker 1: And I remember, I'll never forget what he said. He

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00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 1: was like, our five star players need to start playing

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00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: like five star players. And then they did, and then

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00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 1: they started winning games because of it, and I thought

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00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: that was it was very on point. Yeah, he was

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Speaker 1: very good about making things black and white. Yeah he didn't.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't there was. There wasn't a lot of fluff

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Speaker 1: and things that he was saying. All right, best storyline

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Speaker 1: from twenty eighteen. I'll give you some I'll give you

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Speaker 1: some choices. I don't need a choice. Well, I think

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00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 1: the bus right to Jack and that's a micro one. Yeah,

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00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,720
Speaker 1: those are good ones. But I think just nine wins

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00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: after the way he started, it's almost like nine wins

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00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 1: you kind of gotta put up on a shelf because

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00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 1: it's so it over it kind of covers everything. Yep,

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00:39:56,520 --> 00:40:01,919
Speaker 1: so to speak in granularly, you get bus ride to Jacksonville,

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00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 1: Drey Howe coming back. I mean I think those things, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean coming back, Yeah, I mean those are those

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00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:13,320
Speaker 1: are all I mean. And then its like sustained excellence.

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00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 1: And then you talk about things that happened on the

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00:40:15,719 --> 00:40:17,760
Speaker 1: on the field, like the plays we talked about already.

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00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,400
Speaker 1: Those things, Um, I think those are all, you know,

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00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 1: all particular stories. But to me, there's there's something about

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00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: that bus ride that sort of flipped the season because

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00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: it gave on the right way of saying this. This

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00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: team had an identity, and that that identity is essentially

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00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: it puts its head down. It just plays. It doesn't talk.

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00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 1: It doesn't it doesn't brag about things. It doesn't like

892
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey tell everybody that they're the greatest or you know,

893
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,879
Speaker 1: say that quarterback's trash or whatever. They just play and

894
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 1: there's this there's you know, you know a bunch of

895
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 1: good guys and they all play for each other and

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00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff, and they're great teammates. But

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00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: the bus ride was sort of symbolic of all that

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00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:00,479
Speaker 1: and when that was known and people could talk about

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00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: it and guys are kind of shaking heads, like man,

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00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 1: fifteen hour bus ride and he's playing football man. And

901
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 1: then it was that reverence for Deshaunt to doing it.

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00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 1: I think that was the other aspect. So to me,

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00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:13,560
Speaker 1: that's the story that kind of stands out a lot.

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Speaker 1: And then of course Stray how coming back, I mean,

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00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: come back from cancer, and that's that's same Jacksonville weekend.

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00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 1: He comes back from cancer. It was that was an

907
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: incredible lost his father as well with the same way.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was just it's amazing what he's had

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Speaker 1: to balance back from. Guys, I appreciate you so much.

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Speaker 1: We'll do it again, thinks having us All right, that's

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Speaker 1: gonna do it for us. You're listening to Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: Check out Houston Texans dot com. We still have stories,

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Speaker 1: we still have videos. It's the offseason, but there's still

914
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: lots to cover as far as the team is concerned.

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Speaker 1: That's going to do it for us as always. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for listening and go Texans.