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Speaker 1: What's up everybody. Welcome into a Wednesday edition of Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access sim your host, John Harris Football, a sideline reporter,

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Speaker 1: and so glad to be with you for Week two

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Speaker 1: of the regular season and this trip coming up to Cleveland.

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, Now in years past trip to Cleveland, you're

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Speaker 1: in there. You beat a team Nets four and twelve,

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Speaker 1: Owen sixteen. That's not this club, that is not the

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Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. Those are your older brother your older brothers,

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Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. This group, oh boy, talented, very talented, well coached,

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Speaker 1: well managed by GM Andrew Barry. Kevin Stefanski is a

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Speaker 1: descendant of the Gary Kubiak system, close friend of Gary Kubiak.

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Speaker 1: It's really all there for Cleveland. However, the Browns unable

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Speaker 1: to come through and get a win last Sunday against

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. Had a lead any much throughout that game,

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Speaker 1: but Punter dropped the ball she scored, and then the

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Speaker 1: Browns could not make much of the last two drives

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Speaker 1: of the game. Baker three interception on the final play

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Speaker 1: and their final offensive play, and the Chiefs get to win.

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Speaker 1: The Browns oh and one hurting a little bit, need

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Speaker 1: to get that win, and the Texans are up on

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Speaker 1: the schedule, and Vegas probably agrees to those people in

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Speaker 1: Cleveland that, oh we're gonna get a win, twelve and

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Speaker 1: a half point favorite over the Texans. So tough one,

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Speaker 1: a a tough hill to climb on Sunday. But with

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Speaker 1: this group, man, I'll tell you what, going to battle

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Speaker 1: against anybody anywhere. They'll show up physically, no doubt this

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Speaker 1: show tonight. Man, how about Nick Cassario? Are two on one,

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Speaker 1: Mark Vannimir myself with Nick, we'll do that in our

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Speaker 1: next segment. We touched on a lot of a lot

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Speaker 1: of things. Game Sunday, last game Sunday, this game coming

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Speaker 1: up on Sunday. We gotta tell a lot of different

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Speaker 1: stuff with Nick. Then Nathan Sigura from the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 1: He basically is the me of Cleveland sideline reporter. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of media stuff. He is our behind enemy

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Speaker 1: sidelines Interview of the week with our good friend Deep City.

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Speaker 1: Then Mark Vanamers go to stop by. We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: more than likely the game against Cleveland and some of

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Speaker 1: our thoughts about taking off Baker Mayfield and this Brown's

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Speaker 1: bunch that is extremely talented. But it's a remade defense,

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Speaker 1: but it's remade with a lot of high quality parts.

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Speaker 1: As the Waterboy once said, high quality H two oh,

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Speaker 1: but these are high quality defensive players. Offense, pretty much

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Speaker 1: everybody's back means the same group with one major exception. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Day three rookie. We'll get into that probably a little

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Speaker 1: bit more on Friday in our Keys to the Game,

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Speaker 1: but that's for down the road. Then it's in the

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Speaker 1: lab time Drew and I look back on the win

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Speaker 1: against it Jacksonville Jaguars and what went right. Who's gonna

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Speaker 1: be our key players for Sunday? Mine is a linebacker

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Speaker 1: and it's a name you've heard for a while now

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Speaker 1: that I'll give it away because every linebacker who was

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Speaker 1: Who my player to watch for this Sunday is going

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Speaker 1: to be. So we've got plenty to do on this show,

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Speaker 1: but we're gonna kick it off with some hot reads.

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Speaker 1: Presend you by Geico fifteen minutes to see fifteen percent

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Speaker 1: or more on car insurance. Now we're gonna do a

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Speaker 1: little David Culley head coach, David Culley audio jukebox love

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Speaker 1: doing that on Wednesday, he kind of it's just interesting

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Speaker 1: listening to him and compare that to previous coaches I've

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Speaker 1: heard with the Texans, he's gotten so much more comfortable

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Speaker 1: and he just gets right to the point, tells you

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Speaker 1: right way of saying this. It's a much more joyable listen.

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Speaker 1: So we'll get to some of the nuggets that he

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Speaker 1: to get to the all important injury report now. Today

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Speaker 1: in Cleveland, Kevin Stefanski said on his side that Odell

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Speaker 1: But I thought that was probably the most important part.

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Speaker 1: But Pharaoh, Desmond, KPL, Andre Roberts all DMPs one good

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Speaker 1: Saw him at practice and just saw him running around.

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Speaker 1: few more are big names, I guess, actually just more names.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the DNP category and this one gets Dicey.

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Speaker 1: They have three tackles on the roster, Jack Conklin, Jedrick

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Speaker 1: DNP side. Conklin a knee, Hubbard triceps, Wills and ankle. Now,

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Speaker 1: He tweeted afterwards something to the extent of, you know

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Speaker 1: that he was gonna be okay. Now. I don't know

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Speaker 1: three year tackles. Another one is JC Tredder. He's the

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Speaker 1: So that's definitely something to keep an eye on for Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever seen one of those. And

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Speaker 1: And that's key because Schwartz is one of the fastest

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Speaker 1: adversity and players and coaches out, it's the Browns that

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Speaker 1: They didn't have Kevin Stefanski there without I think their

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Speaker 1: I think the Browns will be just fine. No, by

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Speaker 1: Let's get to a couple of transactions that took place

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Speaker 1: we talked about Vincent Taylor injury found out late last night.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna be out six to eight weeks, you know,

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Speaker 1: it stinks for VT because he really was on a roll.

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Speaker 1: But he can get back, so he goes on reserve

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Speaker 1: our guy, David Coullie with a little Texans audio jew Bucks.

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Speaker 1: the top. Coach Culley was asked about the past protection

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Speaker 1: prepare and be ready to play, and we have to

427
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Speaker 1: feel confident that they would be able to go in

428
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Speaker 1: there and actually perform. You just don't want to bring

429
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Speaker 1: a guy from the practice but of the game, just

430
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,919
Speaker 1: because so as we're filling out the team and how

431
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Speaker 1: we're going to construct it, there's a lot that goes

432
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Speaker 1: into it. We've had a lot of discussions about it,

433
00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:49,199
Speaker 1: and it's how do you get people where, how do

434
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Speaker 1: you allocate your deploy your resources. So we just did

435
00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:54,960
Speaker 1: what we feel it was best, and I'd say the

436
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,560
Speaker 1: league of these league rules, I would say certainly, we

437
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Speaker 1: certainly would be a favor of moving forward because it's

438
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:02,119
Speaker 1: get more opportunity for the players, and it gives teams

439
00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:05,320
Speaker 1: more opportunities to use players as they see fit because

440
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 1: you really never know on a week to week basis

441
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Speaker 1: what's gonna happen or what's going to take place. Nick,

442
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:12,399
Speaker 1: we're outside the twenty four hour window finally, so it's Cleveland.

443
00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:18,480
Speaker 1: First thoughts, first glance at Cleveland, wildly talented team. Kevin

444
00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:20,919
Speaker 1: Stefanski appears to be a very good football coach. What

445
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,480
Speaker 1: do you think about the Browns overall, big challenge, really

446
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:28,120
Speaker 1: great football team. They you know, last season was no fluker,

447
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,720
Speaker 1: It wasn't a joke. But co Stefanski and ab Andrew

448
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:32,880
Speaker 1: Berry have done a great job putting a program in place.

449
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:34,640
Speaker 1: Paul de Petess as a part of that as well.

450
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Speaker 1: But they have a good infrastructure in place, and they've

451
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 1: brought a lot of good players, a lot of good people. Offensively,

452
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 1: they have too, arguably two of the best backs in

453
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Speaker 1: the league. I mean, chub is one of the best

454
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 1: backs and Hunt is probably a little bit underrated, but

455
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:48,240
Speaker 1: they can put two running backs out there in any

456
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,879
Speaker 1: gaming point in time, three good tight ends, three or

457
00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:54,000
Speaker 1: four really good receivers, including you know, the fifth receivers,

458
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,800
Speaker 1: a rookie who runs for one or whatever. Schwartz runs,

459
00:23:57,200 --> 00:23:59,919
Speaker 1: really good offensive line if they've invested in and Baker

460
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,639
Speaker 1: is a really really good player, underrated, very accurate with

461
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 1: the ball mobile, and then they essentially have rebuilt their defense.

462
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: They have nine new stars, but fourteen new players on

463
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:11,159
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball, and it really starts

464
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 1: with the defensive front. I mean, Garretts is good a

465
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 1: players there's in the league. JD's a really good player.

466
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:16,960
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys saw him for a number of years.

467
00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 1: Signed McKinley, drafted j Okaine the second round, drafted news

468
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,920
Speaker 1: him in the first round. Signed John Johnson, who's another

469
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,040
Speaker 1: underrated player. So they have a really good football team.

470
00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:27,439
Speaker 1: And then a lot of those guys have a role

471
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Speaker 1: in the kicking game. The Felton rookie returner from UCLA

472
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: Felton is doing a return kicks. So they have a

473
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: good football team. It's a big challenge certainly in front

474
00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:37,760
Speaker 1: of us, and it's good opportunity for us to go

475
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Speaker 1: on the road and kind of you know, seeing where

476
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,639
Speaker 1: we are. You've been on the road twice in the preseason,

477
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:46,040
Speaker 1: that's the regular season. And it's interesting because prior to

478
00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: COVID sometimes we take sponsors or whatever on the road

479
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 1: and they were blown away. If somebody's never been on

480
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 1: the road with an NFL team, Oh my gosh, the

481
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 1: way this operation has handled. What can you share with

482
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 1: us about how you put all that together and how

483
00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:01,120
Speaker 1: you fine tune that to be as as comfortable as

484
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 1: possible for the players, get maximum performance when kickoff occurs,

485
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,240
Speaker 1: and get them back quickly so you can get into

486
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Speaker 1: the next week. And it's a great question mark. There's

487
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:09,920
Speaker 1: a lot of foresight, a lot of planning that goes

488
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 1: into it, really going back to the spring, so we

489
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 1: spend time with having an advanced team or advanced individual

490
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Speaker 1: that will go out and identify the hotel. So once

491
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:19,760
Speaker 1: we have the hotel and place, then you look at

492
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,679
Speaker 1: some of the logistics getting from the hotel of the

493
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,679
Speaker 1: stadium and in terms of the meeting space at the hotel,

494
00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,680
Speaker 1: can we reduplicate or simulate what we do here in NRG,

495
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: because really you're trying to put the players into position

496
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,600
Speaker 1: where everything is normalized. So that's what we've tried to do.

497
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Speaker 1: But there's an immense amount of planning. There's a lot

498
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: of people that are involved in that. They do a

499
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:40,639
Speaker 1: great job as part of that process, so they're an

500
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:42,920
Speaker 1: integral part of the operation. So really we're just trying

501
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 1: to make it as easy on the players as possible.

502
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:46,359
Speaker 1: So but there's definitely a lot of planning. It's not

503
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Speaker 1: getting on a plane, get on a bus, drive at

504
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Speaker 1: a hotel and let's go play. There's a lot of planning,

505
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Speaker 1: a lot of foresight that goes into it. Nick, you

506
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Speaker 1: mentioned Jay Okay, who is Jeremiah Usu Koramoa, And when

507
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Speaker 1: you said that, it triggered something that I've actually heard

508
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Speaker 1: a guy, you know, well, Tom Brady about this offseason,

509
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Speaker 1: and that's the number change. Hears number twenty eight when

510
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,200
Speaker 1: he's in college. You can figure out he's a linebacker?

511
00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,879
Speaker 1: Is safety? Anthony Walker wears number four for them. Tom's

512
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:13,640
Speaker 1: talked about how tough that is to identify various people

513
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Speaker 1: and what that guy's position actually is. You've never seen

514
00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 1: single digits on defensive players in the NFL? Is that

515
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: really a thing? How tough is that to look over

516
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 1: there and go, you know what, everybody over there is

517
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 1: wearing a skilled number. How tough does that make it? No,

518
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Speaker 1: it's absolutely relevant because it's the same thing on the

519
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: other side of the ball. But when you break the hudder,

520
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:33,879
Speaker 1: you're just trying to figure out the deployment of whose

521
00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: wear and what position are they playing. Some of the

522
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 1: spot related, but not to look too far ahead to Carolina,

523
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:43,680
Speaker 1: but the carter and shack they literally change their numbers

524
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 1: right before they played the Jets, so during the preseason

525
00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,959
Speaker 1: they're fifty six and fifty four. So it mentally, as

526
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Speaker 1: you're preparing, you're trying to go through the mic identification

527
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Speaker 1: and the protection. So now you just have to know,

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Speaker 1: Okay Walker is number eight or whatever number Walker is wearing. Yeah,

529
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Speaker 1: Jay ok is twenty eight. So those guys are linebackers.

530
00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,280
Speaker 1: So when they put whatever group they're gonna put on

531
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Speaker 1: the field, how are they being categorized and how are

532
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 1: they being treated? So the league is really a personnel

533
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:13,960
Speaker 1: driven league. It's understanding personnel. It's understanding players, so specific

534
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 1: to the quarterback, understanding the personnel that they have on

535
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,439
Speaker 1: the field, like you better know who's wearing what and

536
00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,240
Speaker 1: who's who I'm opposition you're playing, because it affects how

537
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:23,399
Speaker 1: you distribute the blockers and how you set your protection,

538
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 1: is how you do a number of different things. So

539
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 1: it's an adjustment, but everybody's going through the same thing

540
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 1: and you just have to plan and prepare and just

541
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:31,719
Speaker 1: as long as you look at it the same way.

542
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:33,439
Speaker 1: So the offensive line sees it the same way as

543
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: a quarterback and the running backs view it the same way.

544
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 1: Then you can go out there and execute and as

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00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,919
Speaker 1: if they were wearing whatever the fifties or whatever the

546
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 1: numbers are. The poor kickers can't even find a single

547
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 1: digit to wear anymore. Joey's wearing number sixteen. He's Joe Montana.

548
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: So it so it's top crying for no reason, or

549
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: has you got a valid concert You guys can talk

550
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: to Tom. I'm not ever gonna is it valid though,

551
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean it is. It's different. I mean

552
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: to do it right before the game, you know, to

553
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Speaker 1: do it before the game, to go from fifty four

554
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,479
Speaker 1: to seven and go wait a second, seven. I mean

555
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 1: you have to have a little bit of knowledge I

556
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: guess of them because in college you did wear seven.

557
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:07,680
Speaker 1: But like you talk about jack tops it, to do

558
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: it like right before the game, oh boy. As long

559
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,239
Speaker 1: as you get get communicated to everybody, as long as

560
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 1: they understand who's playing what, who's wearing what, because there's

561
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:17,439
Speaker 1: sometimes there's number of changes. The guy gets brought up

562
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 1: from the practice squad that's not even on the flip cards,

563
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 1: so he gets brought up on Saturday and he gets

564
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:23,239
Speaker 1: at it. I mean Jacksonville had it with Rosnak. They

565
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,760
Speaker 1: brought up Devin Smith, those players play for them in preseason,

566
00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,199
Speaker 1: but they're not even the flip cards. You just have

567
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 1: to have some awareness in general understanding of who's at

568
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 1: the game. And that's why we as part of our

569
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 1: advanced scouting process, we do right ups in all fifty

570
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:36,919
Speaker 1: three players and including the practice squad players because at

571
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Speaker 1: any point, like we talked about earlier, Mark, those players

572
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: are eligible to play. Will you go on the road

573
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 1: and watch college games in person? This fall sporadically based

574
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 1: on where the game is relative to our location. I

575
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: think there's value in both ways seeing teams play live.

576
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: I've actually found it more useful just when the game

577
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: comes in you're still track and watching. If you want

578
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: to see something specific live, then you'll go ahead and

579
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,479
Speaker 1: go to the game. Like a lot of it's going

580
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 1: to be based on a geography and location, so everybody

581
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: has a different philosophy. You can look at it both ways.

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Speaker 1: I'd say there might be some times where I do that.

583
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: There might be some times in the area we'll go

584
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 1: watch a game if you want to see another team

585
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: or you know someone from around the country that otherwise

586
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 1: you wouldn't be able to see. So I would say selectively,

587
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 1: probably will do that. Mark will it be in a

588
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: regular basis, not necessarily, But we have people are our

589
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: college staff is like we talked about last week, they're

590
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: doing that right now j Lips going through that. So

591
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: we have people that are watching the players, and we

592
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 1: have a lot of information that's coming in front of

593
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: my desk and so I'm able to review it. So

594
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,520
Speaker 1: when I am watching at my desk watching a film,

595
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: have an understanding of who's doing what and what their

596
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,560
Speaker 1: situation is. Are they Richards junior or are they a

597
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 1: senior or what's their status? I mean, you can't even

598
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 1: go about junior senior in your work, can Yeah. I

599
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: mean it's like trying to figure out it's that guy

600
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 1: a junior will oh, he's in the COVID rules, so

601
00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: you actually is repeating that junior. I mean trying to

602
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,360
Speaker 1: figure that out is an absolutely the transfer portal that

603
00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: guys going from one team the next team without having

604
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: to sit out a year. So I mean, it's it's

605
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: why all I know is if you've got three years good,

606
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 1: oh look that's it. Just third year ago with you

607
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 1: Saturday or Sunday against Jacksonville. I kept thinking about this

608
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: as a game was going on, Nick, the physicality of

609
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 1: your guys on both fronts. Were you pleased with what

610
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: you saw on both sides the physicality you were playing with,

611
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: or do you want to see that amp up even more? Yeah.

612
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: Davis talked about this all through the offseason. How we're

613
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 1: gonna emphasize and how we're gonna be buildings inside out.

614
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 1: So being good in the offensive and defensive line, that's

615
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: something that's how what we believe in. That's how we're

616
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Speaker 1: going to try to play. So, you know a lot

617
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 1: of the things playing with the right pad level, there

618
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 1: were times where pad love was a little bit high

619
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Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball. It really is the

620
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 1: game extends, So you go from playing twenty five plays

621
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Speaker 1: to play in sixty five seventy plays, So can you

622
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: maintain that consistency of your body position, your post, and

623
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Speaker 1: your fundamentals. So being able to play strong with the

624
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, being able to run the football, being

625
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,840
Speaker 1: able to stop the run, being able to cover kisels

626
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: are all signs of physicality of your team and how

627
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 1: you measure. So it's something David has talked about from

628
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 1: day one. He's talked to the players about it. He

629
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: and I have talked about it. So that's something that's

630
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: important to us, and we're going to continue to and

631
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:10,360
Speaker 1: look what we're going to try to do each week.

632
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 1: Whatever we have to do to win, to give us

633
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 1: a chance to win the game, that's what we're going

634
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 1: to do. One more relative to that nick, week one

635
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 1: to week two, is that the biggest jump in improvement

636
00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: or change during the course of a season or is

637
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: that hard to really quantify? Does it vary? Now? It's

638
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: a good question mark. Really, it's probably the early part

639
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: of the season, from week one to week two, to

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Speaker 1: week two to week three, and by week four you

641
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Speaker 1: should start to settle in a little bit and have

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Speaker 1: an idea, so there should be continual improvement and gradual improvement.

643
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Speaker 1: And really what's gonna happen is you're gonna have You're

644
00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 1: gonna play more games, so more people are going to

645
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: see you play, so you're gonna people are going to

646
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: have more of an understanding of what you're trying to do,

647
00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: so your ability to stay ahead of that will be important.

648
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: So really, after four games, that's a pretty good body

649
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,959
Speaker 1: of work. And then you know, once you get into

650
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Speaker 1: the middle of the season, go back to the last

651
00:31:56,520 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 1: four games and there might be something maybe you want

652
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 1: to watch it an opponent again, specific team earlier in

653
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 1: the year that has a scheme that's similar to ours.

654
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 1: So the first call at three to four weeks is

655
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: really when you kind of establish that and then moving forward,

656
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: it's just about week to week and making an adjustment

657
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,400
Speaker 1: to who your opponent is. Nick, you mentioned Carolina earlier,

658
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: play them on a Thursday. When do they being the

659
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: Thursday opponent? When did they become relevant in the preparation schedule.

660
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: I know in the summer you guys prepare for him, etcetera.

661
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Speaker 1: But when do you really start kind of thinking about them,

662
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Speaker 1: Because if you start thinking about them on Monday, that's

663
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: as too late. What do you start kind of thinking

664
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Speaker 1: about Carolina Thursday? An opponent coming up? The advanced scout

665
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 1: is just about done with that report. So we've we

666
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 1: saw them play Sunday, We'll see them play again this

667
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Speaker 1: next Sunday, whoever they play, I don't even know who

668
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Speaker 1: that is. And then towards the end of this week,

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Speaker 1: probably once we get to Friday evening into Saturday, there'll

670
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: be some coaches that allocate some time, but the focus

671
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:53,239
Speaker 1: is still going to be on Cleveland. As soon as

672
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 1: the Cleveland game is over, then we're going to transition

673
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: into a quick turnaround. So you don't want to think

674
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Speaker 1: too too far ahead. But there is an element of

675
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 1: planning that you have to have in place so that

676
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: you turn the page and it's gonna come it's gonna

677
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: be here quick. That it will Nick, It definitely will

678
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: get here quick, and when it does, we will see

679
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Speaker 1: our next guest. Nathan Zigura, sideline reporter for the Cleveland Browns.

680
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: Right for Browns dot Com does all kinds of stuff

681
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: for them. Start behind Enemy Sidelines. Interview of the week

682
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 1: next with Deep City right here in Texas Access Access Access.

683
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Speaker 1: It is time to go behind enemy sidelines with dep

684
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: City this week. Nathan Ziguras, I love a reporter for

685
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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns, also writer and does radio work for

686
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 1: Browns dot Com. Let's do it DP, take it away, Nathan.

687
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: Always a pleasure to talk to you. Seems like we've

688
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: been chatting a lot in the last few years. But

689
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: week one in the books the Browns coming off a

690
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:44,960
Speaker 1: tough loss to the Chiefs, but I would imagine a

691
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 1: lot to be positive about, right, Yeah, absolutely, and also

692
00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: great to be with you and congrats to you on

693
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 1: your Week one win there with the Houston Texans. Uh yeah, Look,

694
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 1: we played a great game and for three quarters went

695
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: into Arrowhead Stadium against the class of our conference, the

696
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 1: two time defending AFC champ, and we're dominating the game.

697
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: And the Browns would be the first to tell you

698
00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: they let it get away. He had a fumble, you

699
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: had a muff on a punt snap, and then another

700
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 1: interception late. So you know, three turnovers at Arrowhead against

701
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 1: the chief scene with Patrick Mahomes and Kelsey and Tyree

702
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,279
Speaker 1: Kill when they make no turnovers, not a recipe for

703
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: success ultimately, but the fact that we had two turnovers

704
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: on the road and still had the ball back with

705
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Speaker 1: two minutes and a chance to win. That's good. Twenty

706
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Speaker 1: two to ten in the first half. You know, the

707
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,359
Speaker 1: ground game with Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt, they had

708
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,879
Speaker 1: three touchdowns combined on the ground. We rushed for four

709
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,920
Speaker 1: on the day, six yards of carry. Baker was twenty

710
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Speaker 1: one to twenty eight for over three hundred yards passing.

711
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: So yes, very efficient on offense in our defense. You know,

712
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Speaker 1: I thought, all in all, did a very good job

713
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Speaker 1: against an elite offense, obviously of the Kansas City Chiefs.

714
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Speaker 1: Now you've got Kevin Stefanski coming off of his twenty

715
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Speaker 1: twenty eight p Coach of the Year award. Here he

716
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,560
Speaker 1: is in year two. I know the expectations are really

717
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: high for him heading into year two with the Browns

718
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,359
Speaker 1: and everything he was able to accomplish in his first year.

719
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Speaker 1: But at him now, I know it's only been one week,

720
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Speaker 1: but what did you see different from him? Have you

721
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: seen a difference in play calling, a difference in just

722
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 1: how he handles the team or is it really the

723
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: same Stefanski that you saw last year. The guy is

724
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 1: the same every day and I think that's why the

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Speaker 1: players like him. And he's the same year one to

726
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: year two. He just is who he is. And we talked,

727
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 1: We joke on on cleveon Brown's daily all time that

728
00:35:19,239 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 1: you know, he's got the four piece, he's prepared, he's

729
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,399
Speaker 1: got a plan, he's got a process to implement the plan,

730
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Speaker 1: and he's got poison. As one of my favorite all

731
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 1: time Browns now Houston Texan Money Mitch would say, the

732
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 1: man has no fluster, So he is who he is.

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Speaker 1: You know, we were aggressive went forward on fourth down

734
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,840
Speaker 1: on our first drive and our second drive down in

735
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Speaker 1: the red zone. So he's always been aggressive. He will

736
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:44,319
Speaker 1: take opportunities when they're presented. He's very heady. The way

737
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 1: he handled even the end of the first half, so

738
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Speaker 1: very typical Kevin Stefanski performance in Week one. It's just

739
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 1: you know, Nick Chubb doesn't fumble, and he did. I've

740
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:53,479
Speaker 1: been with the Browns, you know, this is my ninth

741
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 1: season with the Browns. I've never seen the punter just

742
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 1: dropped the snap back to him. It happened. So it

743
00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: was one of those kind of flute games. But from

744
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 1: a Fansky standpoint, you know this coaching staff, Kevin Stefansky

745
00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 1: on the offensive side, you got Alex van Pelt, Chad O'Shea,

746
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: Bill Callahan, Stump, Mitchell, Drew Fetsing. It's a great staff

747
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 1: and to see that collaboration was fun. Our offense, it

748
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: was humming. We're a talented team, but we've got to

749
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,319
Speaker 1: take care of our business and execute, and if we

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Speaker 1: do that, I think this is gonna be a very

751
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,720
Speaker 1: fun season. Well, as I was watching one night football,

752
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: saw an other commercial from Baker Mayfield and it was

753
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 1: a new one because he's still putting out commercials. So yes,

754
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:31,760
Speaker 1: here he is. In Sunday's performance looked really good. Twenty

755
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: one for twenty eight three one hundred and twenty one

756
00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: yards or one interception late in the game. You know,

757
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 1: what have you seen from him? Growth wise? It seems

758
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: like he was really getting that offense moving that he

759
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,840
Speaker 1: did lead three touchdown drives in the first three drives

760
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 1: of the game. But you know, where have you seen

761
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,839
Speaker 1: him grow? Where does he still need to improve? Yeah,

762
00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 1: the Browns actually had five drives in the game with

763
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,360
Speaker 1: more than seventy five net yards on offense. Incredibly efficient

764
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:55,239
Speaker 1: and for Baker, you know, this is the first time

765
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:58,000
Speaker 1: in his career. He's had the same offensive system two

766
00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 1: years in a row, first time in his career. And

767
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: so for Baker Mayfield to kind of have that continuity,

768
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 1: same staff, same principal players, really, I mean, we're running

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00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: it back. Although the rookie Anthony Schortz had a very

770
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,879
Speaker 1: impressive debut last week. But he's just in command. He's

771
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,640
Speaker 1: comfortable and it's allowed him to be advanced. And you know,

772
00:37:15,960 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 1: for him, the light bulb really went on as he

773
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 1: got comfortable in the system last year and over the

774
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: second half the year, he had twenty touchdowns, two interceptions,

775
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,000
Speaker 1: and he played at very efficient football seventy five percent completions.

776
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: As you mentioned in Week one. It's just that now

777
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,879
Speaker 1: he's just allowing the game to dictate where the football goes.

778
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: The play call will kind of tell Hi where she goes,

779
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 1: but then the defensive call is going to tell him

780
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: where the ball goes. And so he's not forcing it anywhere.

781
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: He's just reading and reacting and he's very accurate with

782
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: the football. He's got a very strong arm. He looks great.

783
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 1: I think he's poised for a tremendous season. And you

784
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: know the stats which shows no touchdowns and the one

785
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: interception interception coming obviously on the Brown's last offensive play

786
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: when he's trying to throw it away and got hit

787
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: as he did so, and it kind of fluttered to

788
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: the sideline and the Chiefs got it. But you know,

789
00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 1: he easily could have had touchdowns. We ended up just

790
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 1: getting down to the goal line and running in on

791
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: a couple where Bombs got tackled close. So Baker's playing

792
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 1: very well and I think it bodes very well for

793
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: the Brown season. Yeah, that rushing attack is strong. I mean,

794
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: Texans fans certainly remember last year what Nick Chubb was

795
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 1: able to do with them, So you know he got

796
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:17,399
Speaker 1: a three year extension this year in camp, how did

797
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 1: the Browns balance that rushing attack between Chubb and Kareem

798
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 1: Hunt now that Chubb's got that contract extension. Yeah, it's

799
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:25,879
Speaker 1: the same philosophy as last year. You know, they will

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00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 1: rotate at times, but Nick Chubb is the main man.

801
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 1: Make no mistake about it. Now. Chubb and Hunt last year,

802
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: if you include the playoffs, are only the fourth running

803
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: back tanem in NFL history to both have more than

804
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: twelve hundred total yards and twelve touchdowns in the same

805
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: season in the same backfield. So it's a dynamic duo.

806
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: It's the best in the NFL. And I don't think

807
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 1: when I'm saying that, I'm saying that as a Browns person.

808
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:46,839
Speaker 1: I think everybody degree that's the best one two punch

809
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. Chubb is still the main man,

810
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:51,600
Speaker 1: but they will work Kareem Hunt in on third downs.

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00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,759
Speaker 1: They'll work Kareem Hunt in on some drives. You know,

812
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: Kareem gets the ball. As I said, both were very strong,

813
00:38:56,719 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: but it was Chubb leading the carries in that game,

814
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: as it will be the case all season long. He's

815
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: the main guy. He rushed for two touchdowns and this

816
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: one Kareem rushed for a touchdown of his own. It's

817
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 1: a good it's a good Tannem and it's it's a

818
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: wonderful luxury to have. And you know, one of the

819
00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 1: things you mentioned, Keim's a fancy earlier. He's already thinking

820
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: of how do I change things because we have this

821
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: extra game. You know, that's seventy extra offensive snaps, that's

822
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: how many extra carries for Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt.

823
00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 1: How do we kind of back that out and spread

824
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: that out over the course of the season as opposed

825
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: to just treating it like we're doing everything the same

826
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: for sixteen games. So there's a lot of rotation there.

827
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,080
Speaker 1: And it's a nice luxury because I'll tell you the

828
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: defense is they don't like it when Chubb's been beating

829
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:34,879
Speaker 1: him up and they're like, oh good, he's finally tired.

830
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: And then here comes Kareem Hunt, who you know has

831
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: led the league in rushing in his own right, and

832
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 1: he comes in fresh and he runs with a lot

833
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 1: of anger and passion, and so it's a great one

834
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: too punch to have, all right. That Brown's defense is

835
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: scary with Miles Garrett and now Jevan Clowney on the

836
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 1: opposite side. I know he was sick and he missed

837
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:52,839
Speaker 1: a lot of camp, but what do you expect out

838
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 1: of that Brown's front with those two? You know, they

839
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,480
Speaker 1: generated pressure. According to Pro Football Focus on forty four

840
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: percent of the dropbacks for the Kansas City Chiefs in

841
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: Week one, which is an astronomical number. Pat Mahomes was

842
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: just unbelievable under pressure in that game. He had a

843
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 1: quarterback grade him one hundred and twenty when he was pressured,

844
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 1: which is not typical for him or any quarterbacks. So

845
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 1: they can generate pressure. It's Miles, it's Clowney on the outside. Inside,

846
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 1: Malik Jackson, who has been a long pro bowler, been

847
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl champion, and then we found Malik McDowell,

848
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: who's a very interesting story. So he was a second

849
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: round pick in twenty seventeen of the Seahawks, never played

850
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,839
Speaker 1: a game there was out of the league. He ended

851
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 1: up in jail for a year, knew he wanted to

852
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:34,480
Speaker 1: come back and try to play football. The Browns game

853
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: an opportunity he started. He was our highest graded defensive

854
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 1: player against Pro Football Focus. You know in two thousand

855
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 1: and seventeen if you talked to the draft bund and

856
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: he was a top five talent, but obviously there were

857
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,040
Speaker 1: issues there. Well, he seems to have those figured out.

858
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:48,360
Speaker 1: That front is very, very good. And then in some

859
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 1: of the nickel situations, will bring in Tach McKinley, who

860
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: was a former first round or a god pass rusher

861
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:56,040
Speaker 1: for the Atlanta Falcons, and those three, along with one

862
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: of the Maliks, just get after it. And I'm excited

863
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 1: to see what this rush and do, especially at home

864
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:02,919
Speaker 1: at front of our fans, where it's gonna be really

865
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: loud at the right times this game, as opposed Arrowhead,

866
00:41:05,719 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: which was really loud, but not really when the Browns

867
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: wanted it all right. Well, the Texans have so many

868
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:13,040
Speaker 1: former Browns on this roster. You mentioned a few earlier.

869
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: Pharrell Brown was obviously with the Texans last year, scored

870
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 1: a touchdown up there in Cleveland, and now Tyrod Taylor.

871
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 1: So tell me a little bit about some of these

872
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 1: these familiar faces, especially Taylor. You know what you remember

873
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,080
Speaker 1: from covering him. I know he was just with the

874
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: Browns a short time, but it seems like he's left

875
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: a lasting impact wherever he's gone. Yeah, total professional, but

876
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 1: Toronto Taylor is a total professional, a leader, unselfish. You know,

877
00:41:35,239 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: he was here the year that we drafted Baker number

878
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: one overall, and you know he started and then Baker

879
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,400
Speaker 1: took over and the rest, as they say, it's history.

880
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: But was totally a class act the entire time this year.

881
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:47,239
Speaker 1: Nice guy, very good dresser. I remember that, very sharp

882
00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 1: dressed man, but a good guy. Pharaoh is a great story.

883
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: You know, he was with us for a while and

884
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 1: actually made the initial roster last year and then was released,

885
00:41:55,960 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: went down the Texans. I loved he got to score

886
00:41:57,760 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 1: that touch Since we won the game, I can be

887
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 1: very happy for him that he scored the touchdown. But

888
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,359
Speaker 1: you've got two of my all time favorite Browns, all

889
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: time favorite top human beings interviews people period. Christian Kirksey,

890
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 1: who had a nice interception Week one. I was pumped

891
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 1: for him, and Money Mitch. Those guys are, if I'm

892
00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 1: putting them out rush more of the people that I've

893
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,040
Speaker 1: gotten to interact with time at the Cleveland Browns. They're

894
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:24,280
Speaker 1: both on it without question. I mean just great, great people.

895
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you had the chance to

896
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:29,239
Speaker 1: interview money Mitch, but what an absolute treasure of a

897
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: human being. Well, Texans are certainly hoping they can do

898
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 1: a lot on defense this year for them, So pump

899
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 1: to have them, pumped, to have you once again, Nathan,

900
00:42:37,520 --> 00:42:39,400
Speaker 1: looking forward to the game on Sunday. Thanks so much

901
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 1: for the time. Oh my pleasure, and I'm looking forward

902
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: to seeing you and all my old friends there on

903
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans when you guys travel up to Cleveland

904
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Looking forward to we're also looking forward to

905
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,480
Speaker 1: the second hour. It's gonna kick off with myself and

906
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:54,640
Speaker 1: the Voice of Texans, Mark van Ry Radio and Texans

907
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:58,720
Speaker 1: All Access looking back this Wednesday at issue of Texans

908
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:02,760
Speaker 1: All Access from the Honday Texas Radio Studio. I'm John.

909
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 1: I said that earlier, so I won't tell you gags.

910
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: So I tell you never segment because you never know

911
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 1: when people are popping in and out. Joining me right

912
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 1: now is a Voice of the Texans, Mark vandermir Mark,

913
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 1: as you look back on Sunday against the Jags, there's

914
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: so many good things. Obviously we've had time to put

915
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: stuff on social media, but miked up with mark Ingram

916
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:23,840
Speaker 1: was absolutely awesome. Before we look ahead to the Browns.

917
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: Your final look back on the Jags. What do you think, Johnny?

918
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 1: I'm deep into week two here. I don't know about you,

919
00:43:29,320 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 1: but I obeyed this twenty four hour rule. In fact,

920
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: I did go on Houston Texans dot com because we

921
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:37,000
Speaker 1: have this thing called the Daily Brew. We each take

922
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 1: turns writing it. It's a daily thing, and when I

923
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: write it, I would just say, screw it. I'm just

924
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 1: gonna write my own column here. It's basically Vandermeer's view

925
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:47,280
Speaker 1: inserted into the Daily Brew with that sponsor Red Diamond.

926
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 1: But I said, look, I know we're a week two,

927
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:53,359
Speaker 1: but as Columbo said on TV in the seventies, one

928
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 1: more thing and then I just drop a Columbo. And

929
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 1: then I said, editor's note, because I have the editor

930
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: chime in every once in a while and stuff I

931
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: write vandermir seventies references are unacceptable. And I didn't even

932
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:12,240
Speaker 1: know if is Colombo a private eye a homicide detective.

933
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 1: He's a homicide detective. I had to look it up.

934
00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:15,839
Speaker 1: But he wore the trench coat and he said one

935
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:17,960
Speaker 1: more thing and that was he was famous for that.

936
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:19,879
Speaker 1: Before he was walking out, you thought you were done

937
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,640
Speaker 1: being questioned, and he'd say one more thing, and he

938
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: would ask you the killer question. That would always trap

939
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 1: the person he's accusing anyway or investigating. So one more thing,

940
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 1: Johnny I wrote about David Coullie winning his debut as

941
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 1: a head coach in Houston and winning his debut as

942
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: a starting quarterback in nineteen seventy five. Nineteen seventy five

943
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:45,880
Speaker 1: right at Rice at Vanderbilt. He was the starting quarterback

944
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 1: that day. Tommy Kramer on the other side, and I

945
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: went back, you know, I went into a wormhole. This

946
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 1: is what I do. Oh yeah, Tommy Kramer fourteen seasons

947
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 1: in the NFL, took over for fran Tarkenton. Yeah, oh yeah,

948
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 1: Tommy Kramer for San Antonio, and he had some good

949
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:05,479
Speaker 1: years in the National Football League, no doubt. Anyway, Look,

950
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:07,720
Speaker 1: I was really thrilled with what I saw on Sunday,

951
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:10,399
Speaker 1: But I know what's coming here. You know, I'm not

952
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: This is in my first rodeo. You go up to Cleveland,

953
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 1: and I wish it was Cleveland. I told dB this

954
00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,359
Speaker 1: last night, from four or five years ago. It's not

955
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 1: it's Kevin Stefanski who's very Kubiakian. Yes, and he knows

956
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: what he's doing. He is words. It could be used

957
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 1: as an adverb or an adjective. He's very Kubiakian. You

958
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 1: could say you're running in a very kubiaki in fashion, right, Yes,

959
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: but he coaches in a Kubiakian way. And get ready,

960
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna try to pound the rock, do bootlegs, zone

961
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:48,879
Speaker 1: running scheme, offensive line, lots of movement. Got to find

962
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:51,760
Speaker 1: a way to slow them down. And really, for the Texans,

963
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 1: I'll tell you one thing that carried over from the

964
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay game. They had that eighteen played drive against

965
00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay in which they didn't score because they had

966
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 1: to go board on fourth and five with no kicker.

967
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,239
Speaker 1: How long was one of those long drives in the

968
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 1: first half. It was about fourteen plays or something like

969
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 1: fourteen for eighty four yards. Remember that, okay, because that

970
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 1: is perfect of six yards per play. This if they

971
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 1: do well this year and we get define well a

972
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 1: variety of ways. If they do well this year, they're

973
00:46:17,960 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: gonna have plenty of drives like that. This is who

974
00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 1: they have to be. They have to have matriculate the

975
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 1: ball down the field drives. Nick talked about it with

976
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 1: us with all those third downs they have, those are

977
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: okay though if you keep converting them those third and

978
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:35,319
Speaker 1: shorts right, lots of plays, lots of clock grinded, and

979
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:37,839
Speaker 1: find a way to manage the game that way. Yeah,

980
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: no doubt. And for the Browns, the Browns are gonna

981
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: have seen the Chiefs, and we know what the Chiefs

982
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 1: offense and all the different weapons and such. Now, the

983
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:51,200
Speaker 1: Texas did push the ball down the field, which, if

984
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 1: there wasn't surprise last Sunday, Mark, I think it was

985
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: that I wasn't expecting a tone of down field throws.

986
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: But Tyrod made key ones. I mean there were I

987
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:05,200
Speaker 1: think there were four plays of twenty nine yards or one.

988
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:06,799
Speaker 1: That's always one of my fun things to look at.

989
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,600
Speaker 1: I forgot about that. They're always in the in the

990
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: miscellaneous in the game book, there's always this spot of

991
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 1: big plays. And Tyrode hit Cooks for fifty two, Cooks

992
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:20,760
Speaker 1: for forty. Um. He had a twenty nine yard run,

993
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 1: then he had twenty nine yards the Pharaoh, and then

994
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: he hit Pharaoh for another twenty five. When he was

995
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:29,319
Speaker 1: carrying dudes down the field, I wasn't even expecting that

996
00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:31,839
Speaker 1: this year. Not the Chiefs major in that. I mean,

997
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 1: that's what the Chiefs do. Yeah, I mean, there's there's

998
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:37,399
Speaker 1: a meme out there that Patrick Mahomes is actually asked

999
00:47:37,400 --> 00:47:40,239
Speaker 1: about after the game, and the meme is bleep it

1000
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 1: Tyreeks down there somewhere. I mean, I mean, that's kind

1001
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:45,839
Speaker 1: of that's kind of what Kansas City does. And all

1002
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're gonna see this offense. And I'm

1003
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: sure Cleveland's going okay, um, still not totally sure yea,

1004
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,319
Speaker 1: of all that they're gonna see from this particular offense.

1005
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,560
Speaker 1: I mean, the Browns play the Chiefs in the Browns

1006
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 1: last game last year, they start off within week one.

1007
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 1: Now they're seeing us now we played them last year.

1008
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 1: But our offense this year to last year, how different

1009
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 1: is it? Verry? Two players, two players will start, presumably

1010
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 1: all things staying where they are. Two players will start

1011
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 1: in the same spot they started in in the game

1012
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: against the Browns. Well, because Howard moves over to left guard. Yep,

1013
00:48:26,640 --> 00:48:31,479
Speaker 1: because Cooks started started. And that's all right. And look,

1014
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 1: you mentioned this meme or whatever, this gift about Mahomes

1015
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 1: and Tyreek and I felt like at least one of

1016
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: the Cooks plays and maybe both were bleepit, Cooks is

1017
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,640
Speaker 1: down there somewhere almost right. The first one was that. Yeah,

1018
00:48:44,640 --> 00:48:46,879
Speaker 1: the first one felt that way. But that's good. I mean,

1019
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:49,879
Speaker 1: we basically know, you know, if you're Tyree, if you're

1020
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: a Tyrod, Tyreek, we're just talking about him. If you're Tyrod,

1021
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: you know that you have Cooks in the pattern and

1022
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 1: he can help you out there. That first one, I

1023
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 1: mean there coverage there and Cooks went up and got it.

1024
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,960
Speaker 1: That bodes well for you though moving forward. But I

1025
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,800
Speaker 1: think there's more to it here. They they are more layers,

1026
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:12,399
Speaker 1: more layers on the onion. They need to unpeel, right,

1027
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:15,960
Speaker 1: because Nico Collins has to figure into this offense a

1028
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:17,759
Speaker 1: little bit more. He had one catch the other day,

1029
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 1: and he will as he's a rookie. He's gonna get

1030
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:21,879
Speaker 1: going here. They're gonna work on it week to week.

1031
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:23,839
Speaker 1: They gotta get better. That's what I'm trying to say here.

1032
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 1: Conley liked seeing what he did. I think they'll go

1033
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:30,400
Speaker 1: to the tight ends. More Aikens will be heard from. Yes,

1034
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: I think Aikins still ends up with more catches than

1035
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:35,719
Speaker 1: Farrell Brown on the season somehow. But I liked seeing

1036
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 1: what Farrell Brown did. I mean to see him drag

1037
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 1: people with him again was really welcoming. That was a

1038
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: welcome to the season thing for me. I thought, that's great.

1039
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 1: And now he's going back to Cleveland. And here's the

1040
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:52,239
Speaker 1: other thing, Johnny, the Tyrod Revenge tour continues. Okay, I

1041
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:55,319
Speaker 1: talked about this in the offseason. Jacksonville was the team

1042
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: that knocked the Bills out of the playoffs in twenty seventeen. Cleveland,

1043
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: he was there, and we know what happened there, all right, Carolina.

1044
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 1: I don't have anything for them just yet, but I'll

1045
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 1: think of something. And oh no, I think he lost

1046
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:08,560
Speaker 1: to them or he played them when he was at

1047
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 1: the Bills. But we'll get into that later. But then

1048
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,960
Speaker 1: you have the Bills themselves when he goes up there

1049
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:15,560
Speaker 1: and has a chance to beat them. It's the Tyrod

1050
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 1: Taylor Revenge Tour. Can't wait to see part two. Well,

1051
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 1: if the point about the offense being different is valid

1052
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:28,759
Speaker 1: for the Texans, it's also valid for the Browns. When

1053
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 1: you look at Miles Garrett's back, Denzel Awards back, everybody

1054
00:50:34,040 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: else different, everybody interesting, different, first play of the game,

1055
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:42,840
Speaker 1: Chiefs try and run inside zone and they'll see his

1056
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 1: number fifty eight. And even though I haven't studied the

1057
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 1: Browns and it's the first time I'm watching him, I

1058
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:50,479
Speaker 1: have a pretty good idea of who everybody is because

1059
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 1: I've seen some of the preseason games. And I knew

1060
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 1: that Anthony Walker, linebacker from the Colts, leading tackler for

1061
00:50:56,600 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 1: them on Sunday head nine tacks. I knew something he

1062
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:00,959
Speaker 1: wore number four. I knew Greg Newsome because I studied

1063
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:03,880
Speaker 1: him to draft. And I'm looking at him, going who's

1064
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 1: fifty eight because he just took guard and just shucked

1065
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,799
Speaker 1: him and made a stop for no gain. And I'm

1066
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:13,719
Speaker 1: like and I was, Oh, it's Christian Barmore. I'm like, no, no, no,

1067
00:51:13,719 --> 00:51:16,400
Speaker 1: they didn't draft Barmore because they drafted Newsom. And then

1068
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 1: they drafted as Nick called him, j Okay, Jeremiah Whoso Cormara.

1069
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 1: And I'm like, who's fifty eight. I'm racking my brand.

1070
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: I can't come up with it. And then oh, it's

1071
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:28,560
Speaker 1: Malik McDowell. He was an All American player at Michigan State,

1072
00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 1: had all kinds of off the field issues. Drafted by

1073
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:33,319
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks. I thought he was a top ten talent.

1074
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 1: I had him in the twenty seventeen draft. I had

1075
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 1: him in the top ten because he was that good.

1076
00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:40,160
Speaker 1: He was that good, but he just had all kinds

1077
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:43,320
Speaker 1: of issues, couldn't get on the field. Finally gets to Cleveland,

1078
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: the cloudy situation kind of opens up for him. He

1079
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:50,440
Speaker 1: starts and just wreck shop and I'm like, really, I mean,

1080
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 1: those are the kind of players you look at. Look

1081
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 1: the big signing of John Johnson at safety, massive, Troy Hill,

1082
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:58,280
Speaker 1: both guys coming over from the Rams. They were massive

1083
00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:00,319
Speaker 1: for the second or drafting Greg Newsome. He's a heck

1084
00:52:00,320 --> 00:52:02,359
Speaker 1: of a player. He starts for them, they draft j ok.

1085
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 1: He gets a lot of time on the field. He started.

1086
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:05,960
Speaker 1: I don't think he'll start. I think we'll see mac Wilson.

1087
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:09,560
Speaker 1: They could have as many as nine new starters on

1088
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 1: the field when we face them, and those guys are

1089
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:16,480
Speaker 1: oh and that Burry the lead. Some guy named Clowney

1090
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 1: plays on the opposite side of Miles Garrett and the

1091
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:22,840
Speaker 1: game against the Chiefs hed Clowney thinks first couple of

1092
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: plays of the game, like, ohoh boy, Clowney looks good.

1093
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:27,879
Speaker 1: Then later he jumped offside on a key moment, so

1094
00:52:28,120 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 1: you know he's still Clowney in every way, shape or form,

1095
00:52:33,280 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 1: And that's that's disrupted because it's like, man, you're gonna

1096
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:38,440
Speaker 1: run the edge. If you're gonna run on the edge,

1097
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:41,319
Speaker 1: you got you gotta hope that Clowney does some of

1098
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 1: the things he did here that is, hey, I'm gonna

1099
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 1: try and swim inside he gets caught, you get the

1100
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 1: edge a little bit quicker, but he and Miles Garrett

1101
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:50,200
Speaker 1: on the edge will eat your doll in side. They've

1102
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:54,080
Speaker 1: got depth. But it's a new defense. But you can

1103
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 1: see the seedlings of it kind of growing and being

1104
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:00,919
Speaker 1: very athletic. You're kind of depressingly right, Yeah, it's gonna

1105
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a's tough of defense. Right now. I

1106
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:05,359
Speaker 1: was in a good mood when I came in here,

1107
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 1: and now I'm getting into a bad mood. But here's

1108
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:12,840
Speaker 1: the thing this we have no idea what kind of

1109
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:14,480
Speaker 1: game this is gonna be. Look, we know Chub and

1110
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 1: Hunt want to pound the rock. They want to pound

1111
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: the rock with Chub and Hunt. That's that's what they

1112
00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 1: would like to do. And then off of that come

1113
00:53:21,040 --> 00:53:23,960
Speaker 1: to play action stuff. And then they've got this rookie

1114
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:27,440
Speaker 1: Anthony Schwartz nick referred to him. We'll talk about that.

1115
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:31,239
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, Schwartz runs a four one, he can fly,

1116
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:33,799
Speaker 1: he is Lympic speed. He was ten one in one

1117
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:38,160
Speaker 1: hundred in high school. And he's like Will Fuller and

1118
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:39,719
Speaker 1: kind of like Will and that he doesn't catch the

1119
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:42,279
Speaker 1: ball that well. But man, you better account for that

1120
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:44,560
Speaker 1: joker or he's gonna hurt you. But we know this

1121
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 1: comes down to can you stop Chubb and hunt? But defensively,

1122
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: it's still sort of a mystery. Okay, we know they've

1123
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 1: got all this talent, how does it kind of come together?

1124
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:57,760
Speaker 1: And hopefully at that point before it really fully meshes

1125
00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:00,240
Speaker 1: in Cleveland, maybe we're catching him at the right time.

1126
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:03,359
Speaker 1: What about the mistake they made with the punt, that's

1127
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 1: the punter making a mistakes. That's made a good point

1128
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:09,960
Speaker 1: about if one guy fumbles twice, this team isn't mentally

1129
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 1: prepared to play. People tend to overreact and think the

1130
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:15,319
Speaker 1: whole team is like that. But if that tends to

1131
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:18,839
Speaker 1: be a weekly thing, not necessarily just coughing up the ball,

1132
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 1: but mistakes, maybe some bad time to penalties, not that

1133
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 1: there's a good time for penalties. But you get my

1134
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 1: drift here, and look, one game is such a small

1135
00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: sample size, and you were an Arrowhead stadium. They got chiefed.

1136
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 1: And we've seen a lot of teams get chiefs. Right,

1137
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 1: you start making mistakes, you think you have the game,

1138
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:39,800
Speaker 1: not one, but oh we got this, we're in command,

1139
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 1: we're up, and all of a sudden we lost. How

1140
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 1: many times does that happen recently? For the Kansas City

1141
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 1: Chiefs playoffs, regular season games, teams tend to lose their

1142
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 1: composure because they see victory. They can see the end

1143
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:56,960
Speaker 1: of the tunnel, but you're not there yet, and you're

1144
00:54:56,960 --> 00:55:00,120
Speaker 1: gonna get chiefed. And that's what happened to them. What

1145
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:04,919
Speaker 1: you just need to know if that's gonna be a thing,

1146
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:08,440
Speaker 1: a pattern or not. So they go home now and

1147
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:10,439
Speaker 1: they're looking at the Texans and I'm wondering what they're

1148
00:55:10,480 --> 00:55:13,760
Speaker 1: really thinking here, because yeah, the Texans beat the Jags,

1149
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:19,239
Speaker 1: but it's the Texans. You know, my off season prognostication

1150
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:22,440
Speaker 1: of them not very high. You know, maybe they look

1151
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 1: past I don't know, I doubt it because they're playing

1152
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:27,720
Speaker 1: a home open. Everyone's gonna be jacked up. It's Cleveland, Johnny.

1153
00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:29,680
Speaker 1: They show up no matter what. Well, I'll tell you

1154
00:55:29,719 --> 00:55:34,359
Speaker 1: this the one thing I think. I think I may

1155
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:36,080
Speaker 1: have told the story in radio. I don't know. So

1156
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 1: last year we go there. I mean, the weather is

1157
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:44,120
Speaker 1: just it's just brutal, and before the game it's cloudy. Well,

1158
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 1: I like, it's been the last couple of days here

1159
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 1: and it's cloudy, and we had heard there was a chance,

1160
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:53,400
Speaker 1: but we weren't totally sure. So we get there and

1161
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 1: I'm like wow. So I go down to my perch.

1162
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: And this was the weekend before I was gonna have

1163
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:00,439
Speaker 1: my back surgery, so I was in bad shape. But

1164
00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:03,800
Speaker 1: I go find a spot and I literally am camping

1165
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:06,080
Speaker 1: out at that spot for most of the day. So

1166
00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: I get there and it's I don't know, probably forty

1167
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:10,280
Speaker 1: five minutes before and I'm kind of down there watching

1168
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:14,960
Speaker 1: pregame and there's a security guard and he's a young

1169
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:19,640
Speaker 1: guy and he's just heckling Texans. I mean, just just

1170
00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:24,239
Speaker 1: going off and heckling, and I'm just I'm laughing. I

1171
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:26,440
Speaker 1: put her on Twitter and people were responding to it

1172
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:29,160
Speaker 1: and he was heckling JJ and I mean he was

1173
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 1: really gonna I'm like security guard. I'm like, man, I

1174
00:56:31,520 --> 00:56:34,439
Speaker 1: thought security was supposed to stay neutral in this thing.

1175
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:36,200
Speaker 1: But I thought it was funny. And then I thought

1176
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:37,880
Speaker 1: later and I was like, you know what, there weren't

1177
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:39,600
Speaker 1: that many fans in the stands. He probably felt the

1178
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:41,799
Speaker 1: kid to pick up the slack. Yeah, And if there's

1179
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:48,880
Speaker 1: one thing about Cleveland fans, we know they are ardent football.

1180
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:53,640
Speaker 1: You know, many women, I mean, they love that team.

1181
00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 1: And even the small amount of fans that got into

1182
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:59,960
Speaker 1: the building last year in Week seventeen when they beat

1183
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 1: the Steelers, and you can just see just the emotion

1184
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:08,320
Speaker 1: that they had being in an environment like that. In

1185
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:11,120
Speaker 1: our environment the other day, I thought it was very

1186
00:57:11,239 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 1: very good. You know, I wasn't sure what to expect

1187
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,480
Speaker 1: week one. I know, going to Cleveland, they're opener. It's

1188
00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 1: gonna be jack And you can also use that to

1189
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 1: your favor. Though, to your point about the punter Gillian

1190
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:27,040
Speaker 1: dropping the ball, you start thinking, hey, you still if

1191
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:29,439
Speaker 1: you make them think, hey, you're still the Browns when

1192
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:31,280
Speaker 1: they know down deep they're not the Browns. But if

1193
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 1: you get them thinking, man, really weird things are happening

1194
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 1: to us. Yeah, you know, we had the first down,

1195
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:39,960
Speaker 1: but then we fumbled the ball backwards and now it's

1196
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:42,520
Speaker 1: fourth and one instead of being, you know, first down,

1197
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 1: some freaky thing. If you get some freaky thing to

1198
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 1: happen and all of a sudden they start thinking about

1199
00:57:46,920 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 1: like wait, wait a second, and that's maybe that's all

1200
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:51,560
Speaker 1: you need. Maybe you get the fans kind of uneasy

1201
00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:53,440
Speaker 1: and they're not into it like they should be. You know,

1202
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 1: who knows. I do know that environment's very very cool

1203
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:58,280
Speaker 1: up there. I like cool up there. I like the

1204
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 1: demeanor here. Look, it's Wednesday. We've had a long way

1205
00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 1: to go. But I loved coach Culley this morning with

1206
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 1: the media and just talking about we'll see other games

1207
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:11,080
Speaker 1: going and he just has this calmness about him. And

1208
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 1: it's gonna be anything butt com on Sunday. But maybe

1209
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:19,280
Speaker 1: they can draw from that. Be composed, be intense, play

1210
00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 1: their fundamentally sound football. Try to keep the penalties low. Johnny,

1211
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 1: I wonder this with the Cleveland talent, if the Texans

1212
00:58:27,840 --> 00:58:31,880
Speaker 1: can just not make the big mistakes, if the Texans

1213
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 1: can not turn it over, not commit pis on defense,

1214
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:40,280
Speaker 1: make them earn everything. How close is this game, it's

1215
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 1: probably still not enough. You have to make some plays.

1216
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:44,200
Speaker 1: You have to rip their throat out, you have to

1217
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 1: make some deep passes to Cooks or whoever. You have

1218
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:48,919
Speaker 1: to do some things like that, maybe get the ball

1219
00:58:48,960 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 1: out a couple of times. I'm just wondering how close

1220
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 1: this game can be if you just play a clean

1221
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:57,920
Speaker 1: game and pound it. I thought about that same thing.

1222
00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:00,400
Speaker 1: I was driving up here this morning thinking about that, Like,

1223
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 1: what if you just didn't make mistakes? Yeah, and I'm

1224
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:06,600
Speaker 1: not saying that you kind of play it like a

1225
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:09,120
Speaker 1: Floyd Mayweather fight, where Floyd's always kind of on the

1226
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: defense and then he's you know, counterpunching every now and

1227
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:13,960
Speaker 1: again to steal a few rounds. I'm not saying that,

1228
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:20,080
Speaker 1: per se, But do if you can just play solid football?

1229
00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:22,240
Speaker 1: What if you do this? What if you don't turn

1230
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 1: a ball over and in the red zone you bow up,

1231
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 1: forcing the field goals? What does that do? What does

1232
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:31,640
Speaker 1: that do for you as a team, As long as

1233
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:34,400
Speaker 1: you're running the rock and to Rod can make some

1234
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:37,440
Speaker 1: plays through the air and with his legs. Look, I

1235
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 1: love that he had the longest run last week. I

1236
00:59:40,840 --> 00:59:43,280
Speaker 1: don't love that necessarily, but I love that he was

1237
00:59:43,280 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 1: willing to do that, you know, because he's gonna have

1238
00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 1: to do that a time or two a game in

1239
00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:49,840
Speaker 1: order for this offense to have some success. You know,

1240
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 1: I do love that all three running back scored in

1241
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:54,480
Speaker 1: some way, shape or form. All three. I mean, I

1242
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:57,160
Speaker 1: shouldn't include Birkehead and there, Sorry Rex, but you know

1243
00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, the three that we talked about mostly

1244
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 1: during the offseason and before Burkhead showed up later in

1245
01:00:02,160 --> 01:00:05,840
Speaker 1: the offseason. You know, it's I think if you're the

1246
01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 1: Browns and you're trying to dissect the Houston offense, you're saying, Hey,

1247
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:11,120
Speaker 1: I don't care which running backs in the game. We

1248
01:00:11,240 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 1: just gotta stop the run. But now they can throw

1249
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:15,880
Speaker 1: it to them or sometimes they did have two in there, right,

1250
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:20,400
Speaker 1: And you went wild Ingram, Yeah, and that's still in

1251
01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:22,920
Speaker 1: your golf bag and you're gonna whip that club out

1252
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:24,480
Speaker 1: every once in a while. And what did I say

1253
01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:27,400
Speaker 1: in training camp? I was off a little bit about

1254
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:30,920
Speaker 1: Land asked us a question, who's gonna be starting running back?

1255
01:00:30,920 --> 01:00:35,040
Speaker 1: And I first thought was I think it could be two? Yeah,

1256
01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:38,520
Speaker 1: well you were close. Look, we always thought Ingram would

1257
01:00:38,520 --> 01:00:40,240
Speaker 1: be the first guy there, and they'll go with whoever

1258
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:43,720
Speaker 1: is the hot legs on the day, right, and they're

1259
01:00:43,720 --> 01:00:46,040
Speaker 1: gonna ride that Ingram horse as long as they can.

1260
01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:49,000
Speaker 1: But they're gonna be games when Lindsay goes off. They're

1261
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:52,200
Speaker 1: gonna be games when Burkhead makes big plays. And obviously

1262
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 1: David Johnson can catch the ball and can still run

1263
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:57,280
Speaker 1: the ball, and they'll just have to pick the right spots.

1264
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Speaker 1: That's the thing you need, that timely hitting on offense.

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Speaker 1: And it's to Tim Kelly to figure that out. I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to watch it, of course, we all can't wait.

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Speaker 1: Sunday at noon. Man who doesn't live for Sunday at noon,

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Speaker 1: My goodness, one o'clock if you're going to the games

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Speaker 1: Cleveland in Eastern time, so keep that in mind. Don't

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Speaker 1: get that messed up. It's one o'clock if you're going

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Speaker 1: to the game there, but if you're here at home,

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Speaker 1: it's noon. Kick all right, we get back. It's in

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Speaker 1: the lab time, true, and I talked about a little

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Speaker 1: bit of what went right against the Jacks and well

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Speaker 1: what to look forward to against the Browns in the Lab. Next.

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Speaker 1: Texans Delaxis, Texans Delaxis, Texans Delaxis. We are cruising on

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Speaker 1: this Wednesday edition of Texans All Access from the Hounday

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio studio. I am John Harris Rose, footballing out

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Speaker 1: sideline reporter, looking very forward to going to Cleveland. Twenty fourteen,

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01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:54,640
Speaker 1: went to Cleveland, Gray Skies, little chili. I love that

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01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:59,440
Speaker 1: reminded me nineteen eighty six as championship game, Lebroncos beat

1282
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:01,560
Speaker 1: the Browns with the great games of all time to drive.

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01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:04,640
Speaker 1: I just love kind of having an association like that.

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01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:11,000
Speaker 1: Went back in twenty twenty. Last year, rain, hail, sleet,

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Speaker 1: fifty five minar wins, ruthlessly bad day, Mother Nature unleashed.

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Speaker 1: Now the early early weather report for Sunday in Cleveland

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01:02:27,680 --> 01:02:32,880
Speaker 1: looks halfway decent, sunny. Now will that hold eighty one

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01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:38,800
Speaker 1: degrees lowers sixty four? We can handle eighty one degrees.

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01:02:39,160 --> 01:02:42,760
Speaker 1: I think I just that fifty five win stuff. That

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Speaker 1: was great, Zeke, kind of like we had here. My goodness. Well,

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Speaker 1: two guys that live here, very proud to be from here,

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Speaker 1: and that's Drew Doherty and myself and we are the

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Speaker 1: in the Lab crew. And we kicked it off with

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Speaker 1: our podcast this week talking about the Jags, talking about

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01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:03,440
Speaker 1: the Browns and a few players to watch for this

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Speaker 1: one on Sunday. It's always fun to do an in

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01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:07,959
Speaker 1: the lab in the season, and it's more fun after

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01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:11,360
Speaker 1: Texans win. And that's what the good guys did on

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Speaker 1: Sunday against the Jaguars. I was not surprised that they won.

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01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:19,800
Speaker 1: I was surprised that they put up thirty seven, but

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01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:22,640
Speaker 1: I thought, hey, you can beat a rookie quarterback. And

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01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:25,320
Speaker 1: all off season long, you and I have said, I

1303
01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:27,840
Speaker 1: think this offensive line is better. I think this defensive

1304
01:03:27,880 --> 01:03:31,560
Speaker 1: line is better. And the drop off from DeShawn Watson

1305
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:35,520
Speaker 1: to Tyrod Taylor it's significant. Yeah, it's gonna be significant

1306
01:03:35,600 --> 01:03:39,280
Speaker 1: pretty much from anybody dropping off from Deshaun Watson anybody,

1307
01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:42,640
Speaker 1: but Tyrod Taylor can still play. And it's not the

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01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:46,000
Speaker 1: precipitous drop that you would have from say like back

1309
01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:48,800
Speaker 1: in you know, two thousand when the Cowboys went from

1310
01:03:48,840 --> 01:03:52,120
Speaker 1: Troy Aikman down to you in the following years like

1311
01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:55,560
Speaker 1: Chad Hutchinson and Drew Henson and Anthony Wright and you know,

1312
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:57,960
Speaker 1: so on and so forth. So yeah, I think with

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Speaker 1: all that in mind, it's not that they won the game,

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01:04:01,560 --> 01:04:04,440
Speaker 1: but I was I was surprised that they put thirty

1315
01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:07,600
Speaker 1: seven because we haven't seen that much around here, you

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Speaker 1: know at all, certainly in the last seven eight years. Yeah,

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01:04:12,040 --> 01:04:15,840
Speaker 1: no doubt, and just the numbers that go along with it,

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01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:18,920
Speaker 1: the thirty seven points being the most in and opener,

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01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:23,480
Speaker 1: which kind of incredible to think about. But thirty seven points.

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Speaker 1: And here's the other thing. I know that what people

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01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 1: probably saw the box score from around the country, They're like, oh, yeah,

1322
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:32,960
Speaker 1: Trevor gave him the game three interceptions. Well they only

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01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 1: had three points off those three interceptions. I heard Sean

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01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:40,280
Speaker 1: and Seth say this on Tuesday morning as I was

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Speaker 1: listening to driving up, you know, during a tropical store.

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01:04:42,680 --> 01:04:44,960
Speaker 1: I'm listening to him and I'm thinking, why they're dead

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01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:48,000
Speaker 1: on about this? And Sean said, they left points on

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01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:49,560
Speaker 1: the field. I think they would all tell you that

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01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:51,600
Speaker 1: they left points on the field and they scored. Then

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Speaker 1: they scored thirty seven, so they generated thirty four. I

1331
01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:57,800
Speaker 1: think the thing that was surprising. I try to think back, Okay,

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01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:00,080
Speaker 1: what was surprising? What did what did it? All of

1333
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:01,520
Speaker 1: us missed. There are a lot of people that I

1334
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:04,919
Speaker 1: missed a lot of stuff. I don't think we were

1335
01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:08,800
Speaker 1: surprised by how uncomfortable the Front four and the past

1336
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:12,680
Speaker 1: Rush Maiden Trevor. I don't think we were surprised that

1337
01:05:12,760 --> 01:05:17,320
Speaker 1: the team played relatively clean, that it's been a focus. Um.

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01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:20,800
Speaker 1: I wasn't surprised they played with like relative joy. I mean,

1339
01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:24,120
Speaker 1: it just seemed to be um, you know, joy, an organization,

1340
01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:27,160
Speaker 1: um in camaraderie. I think the one thing I was

1341
01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:30,760
Speaker 1: surprised with was the number of plays that that Tyrod

1342
01:05:30,840 --> 01:05:32,600
Speaker 1: hit down the field. You know, he had Pharaoh, I

1343
01:05:32,600 --> 01:05:34,560
Speaker 1: think both now he had the one handed catch, but

1344
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:35,760
Speaker 1: he all said the other one where he got out

1345
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Speaker 1: of pocket and found Pharaoh on a crossing route and

1346
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Speaker 1: then Pharaoh drag Guys, there were cooks. Yeah, yeah, the

1347
01:05:43,160 --> 01:05:44,920
Speaker 1: two to cooks. I mean there were at least four

1348
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 1: or five plays where they went over twenty nine thirty yards, um,

1349
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:53,120
Speaker 1: which I did. I didn't expect. Um. You know, we

1350
01:05:53,160 --> 01:05:55,840
Speaker 1: do all this offseason work and we you know, we've

1351
01:05:55,880 --> 01:05:57,680
Speaker 1: all you know in the lab work was like, Okay,

1352
01:05:57,720 --> 01:06:00,160
Speaker 1: who's gonna lead the team reception? Okay, we think it's Cooks. Okay,

1353
01:06:00,160 --> 01:06:03,040
Speaker 1: whose second? Who's it gonna be? Well, if they resigned Fuller,

1354
01:06:03,120 --> 01:06:05,200
Speaker 1: well then Fuller is not gonna sign here. Okay, well

1355
01:06:05,240 --> 01:06:07,040
Speaker 1: then maybe it's gonna be these Oh maybe it's gonna

1356
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:08,600
Speaker 1: be the tight Ends. Yeah, no idea, it is gonna

1357
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Speaker 1: be Danny Amndola, who tied for the team lead with

1358
01:06:11,400 --> 01:06:15,120
Speaker 1: five catches. Yeah, but it wasn't surprising that it wasn't

1359
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Speaker 1: somebody that was on the roster. We just kind of

1360
01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:20,800
Speaker 1: we could see that there was maybe gonna be some

1361
01:06:20,920 --> 01:06:24,000
Speaker 1: move that went with it. We just weren't sure. But

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Speaker 1: that's I mean, it was probably the most surprising thing

1363
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:29,680
Speaker 1: was that they generated plays down the field. I thought

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Speaker 1: this would be very much you know, just keep chopping away,

1365
01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:36,840
Speaker 1: chopping away, and there might be periods of that. I

1366
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Speaker 1: think we're gonna see that. I think we'll see games

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Speaker 1: like that this year. Yeah, I think we will. I

1368
01:06:40,200 --> 01:06:42,479
Speaker 1: think there might be some games you have to slog through,

1369
01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:45,120
Speaker 1: but hopefully, you know, they can win those games thirteen

1370
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Speaker 1: twelve or seventeen fifteen, whatever. But they showed they could

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Speaker 1: put some points on the board, which I thought was

1372
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Speaker 1: a really bright m was a bright thing coming out

1373
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Speaker 1: of that game. They didn't win that think seven six

1374
01:06:56,320 --> 01:06:59,920
Speaker 1: and kind of muddle through. They were offensively a face

1375
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Speaker 1: ship and everything that they did for the most part. Yeah,

1376
01:07:03,320 --> 01:07:06,440
Speaker 1: they had that long you know, second drive was you know,

1377
01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:08,960
Speaker 1: a fourteen play drive and really chet up a lot

1378
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Speaker 1: of clock. But two things from what you just answered

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Speaker 1: that I think you need to be added onto before

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Speaker 1: we get into the Cleveland game. You talked about not

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Speaker 1: really getting any points off those three turners. Three points

1382
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Speaker 1: off three turner. I mean, that's almost anexcusable. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's certainly anexcusable in a loss. And it's really it's

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Speaker 1: it's not alarming, but it's it's what every one of

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Speaker 1: those guys, whether it was Cully or any one of

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Speaker 1: those players, they all, every one of them after the

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Speaker 1: game or yesterday on Monday, they all say, we still

1388
01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:39,080
Speaker 1: got a lot to work on. You got a lot

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Speaker 1: to clean up. And that's been a good thing. You know,

1390
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Speaker 1: that's been a refreshing thing to hear. They are not satisfied.

1391
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Speaker 1: They're happy, but they're definitely not satisfied, and so they

1392
01:07:49,520 --> 01:07:51,640
Speaker 1: focused on that that that's gonna be something they got

1393
01:07:51,640 --> 01:07:53,960
Speaker 1: to clean up. And you even saw it in Cully's

1394
01:07:54,160 --> 01:07:56,400
Speaker 1: locker room speech. You know, hey, we still got to

1395
01:07:56,400 --> 01:07:57,760
Speaker 1: clean up a lot of mistakes and we're going to

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01:07:57,840 --> 01:08:03,240
Speaker 1: correct them. And then the second thing was the deep ball.

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Speaker 1: You know, that was the big thing in training camp

1398
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Speaker 1: and in preseason. They can't throw the deep ball. It's

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Speaker 1: never gonna happen. Tyrod Taylor just can't do it. And

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Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor said it. He said, it's coming, it'll you know,

1401
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Speaker 1: just just be patient. It's gonna be here. It'll happen.

1402
01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:20,120
Speaker 1: And a few of his teammates said it, you know,

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Speaker 1: in the run up, you know, during the preseason, and

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Speaker 1: I think maybe some of us thought that was lip

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01:08:25,920 --> 01:08:29,439
Speaker 1: service and it's just like, you know, it's being said

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Speaker 1: to be said. But he backed it up, you know,

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Speaker 1: he did. He was able to go deep a few

1408
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Speaker 1: times and and really open things up. So if he

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Speaker 1: continues to do that, that gives that gives other teams

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Speaker 1: when they're studying the Texans, you know, more to consider,

1411
01:08:42,080 --> 01:08:44,559
Speaker 1: because I think there's there's this idea, well they want

1412
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Speaker 1: to run the ball and this guy can't throw, so

1413
01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:48,719
Speaker 1: let's just stack the bucks. Well that's not the case,

1414
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Speaker 1: and we'll see how much that's not the case this weekend,

1415
01:08:52,120 --> 01:08:54,400
Speaker 1: because it's good. It's a different test going up to Cleveland.

1416
01:08:54,800 --> 01:08:57,559
Speaker 1: A lot more veteran squad, a lot higher talent on

1417
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Speaker 1: that squad, and we're gonna get into that in a sect,

1418
01:08:59,280 --> 01:09:02,680
Speaker 1: but you got a yeah, yeah, no doubt. I think

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Speaker 1: it was really interesting and you just rubs something that

1420
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Speaker 1: struck me because I thought this early in the game,

1421
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Speaker 1: when Shaquille Griffin second play the game, jump that route

1422
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Speaker 1: on the outside, it was the speed out. It's stealing

1423
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Speaker 1: five yards really, and he sat on that sucker. He

1424
01:09:22,640 --> 01:09:24,920
Speaker 1: sat on that route and broke on it and just

1425
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:27,560
Speaker 1: couldn't hang on a the interception. Man, how different is

1426
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Speaker 1: the game if he comes up with the inception? They score,

1427
01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:33,280
Speaker 1: and boy, it could make the game totally completely different.

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01:09:33,280 --> 01:09:37,040
Speaker 1: And I remember thinking after that, like, man, we're really

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Speaker 1: gonna have to back them off because they're just gonna

1430
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Speaker 1: sit low and sit low and sit low, and they're

1431
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Speaker 1: gonna get one. And I think it was those deep

1432
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Speaker 1: plays that started backing him off a little bit. And

1433
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Speaker 1: then they started getting some stuff underneath. I think Cooks

1434
01:09:49,200 --> 01:09:51,400
Speaker 1: get that deep ball, they scored a touchdown the next drive.

1435
01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:54,280
Speaker 1: Chris Conley then gets the dig route underneath him. They

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01:09:54,400 --> 01:09:57,720
Speaker 1: backed him off like, hey, wait a second, that deep

1437
01:09:57,760 --> 01:10:00,800
Speaker 1: bo is still viable because Cooks can't st get down field.

1438
01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:02,519
Speaker 1: We've got back up a little bit. And I think

1439
01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:04,920
Speaker 1: that was really what helped them, but that that first

1440
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Speaker 1: throw worried me, and that was my exact thought was,

1441
01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:10,519
Speaker 1: dang it, are we gonna be able to push it

1442
01:10:10,560 --> 01:10:12,920
Speaker 1: down the field enough to back them off? And they

1443
01:10:12,920 --> 01:10:14,760
Speaker 1: eventually did that, and I think that's gonna happen to

1444
01:10:14,760 --> 01:10:17,720
Speaker 1: be themo like, look, take what they give you, but

1445
01:10:17,720 --> 01:10:19,720
Speaker 1: if they give you that deep ball, go take it.

1446
01:10:19,760 --> 01:10:21,439
Speaker 1: And Week one was a good sign that they went

1447
01:10:21,479 --> 01:10:22,960
Speaker 1: and took it and did a good job doing it.

1448
01:10:23,520 --> 01:10:26,240
Speaker 1: You know, the older I get, the more unsure I

1449
01:10:26,320 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 1: get when people ask me, hey, what do you think

1450
01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:29,800
Speaker 1: is gonna happen today? I had, you know, a few

1451
01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:32,800
Speaker 1: co workers, few friends, few fans say hey, what do

1452
01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:34,680
Speaker 1: you think it's gonna happen? Als, I don't know. I

1453
01:10:34,680 --> 01:10:37,400
Speaker 1: think we can win. Nothing's nothing surprises me anymore, nothing

1454
01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:39,799
Speaker 1: at all surprises me. Then looking at this game ahead,

1455
01:10:40,120 --> 01:10:42,760
Speaker 1: he gets Cleveland. I don't know. Nothing would surprise me.

1456
01:10:42,880 --> 01:10:46,679
Speaker 1: What happened last year he had basically a monsoon blast

1457
01:10:46,760 --> 01:10:49,800
Speaker 1: through in a four minute span and you had to

1458
01:10:49,800 --> 01:10:53,920
Speaker 1: clear everybody out, fans, players included. And then you go

1459
01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:56,800
Speaker 1: out there and you move the ball at will in

1460
01:10:56,840 --> 01:10:59,600
Speaker 1: between the twenties with ease in between the twenties on

1461
01:11:00,479 --> 01:11:03,599
Speaker 1: a really good defense, and then when you get down

1462
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:06,400
Speaker 1: inside the twenty, inside the ten, inside the five, you

1463
01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:09,000
Speaker 1: bog down and you lose by what it was a

1464
01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 1: twenty one seven typish game, but it was really like

1465
01:11:11,560 --> 01:11:15,360
Speaker 1: a one score game until Nick Chubb broke that's that

1466
01:11:16,080 --> 01:11:20,559
Speaker 1: long run late. But I just have no idea because

1467
01:11:20,560 --> 01:11:22,400
Speaker 1: you've got a lot of guys. I mean, they're they're

1468
01:11:22,400 --> 01:11:25,880
Speaker 1: all extra motivated in comparison to other teams of the past,

1469
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:28,599
Speaker 1: with the Texans because of so many one year deals.

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01:11:28,600 --> 01:11:31,800
Speaker 1: But then you've got this little subset of guys like

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01:11:31,840 --> 01:11:35,639
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor, Pharaoh Brown. I guess you could throw Eric

1472
01:11:35,720 --> 01:11:38,160
Speaker 1: Murray in there. But former Browns who are on this team,

1473
01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:41,519
Speaker 1: who've got I'm sure they've got, you know, I don't

1474
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:43,640
Speaker 1: want to say access to grind, but little hatchets to

1475
01:11:43,840 --> 01:11:47,440
Speaker 1: kind of to rub on the wet stone. But they've got,

1476
01:11:47,479 --> 01:11:49,880
Speaker 1: you know, a little bit of extra juice. And maybe

1477
01:11:49,920 --> 01:11:53,360
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean a hill of beans, but I do

1478
01:11:53,439 --> 01:11:55,120
Speaker 1: think there is a little something to that. And I'm

1479
01:11:55,360 --> 01:11:58,639
Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by what happens because they know the personnel clearly,

1480
01:11:59,120 --> 01:12:02,240
Speaker 1: and they know what they're capable of and they think

1481
01:12:02,280 --> 01:12:05,000
Speaker 1: they're capable of a lot more than maybe a lot

1482
01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:07,720
Speaker 1: of people outside the building think. I can't wait. It's

1483
01:12:07,840 --> 01:12:10,160
Speaker 1: this is a much better litmus test for where this

1484
01:12:10,200 --> 01:12:14,040
Speaker 1: team stands. And I'm just excited. What do you think

1485
01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:16,519
Speaker 1: is the key as far as what the Texans have

1486
01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:21,120
Speaker 1: to do to slow down this Chief's team? Because before

1487
01:12:21,120 --> 01:12:24,080
Speaker 1: you say, because when I was working in the post

1488
01:12:24,080 --> 01:12:26,759
Speaker 1: game writing some articles and stuff, I had the Chiefs

1489
01:12:26,960 --> 01:12:29,840
Speaker 1: Chiefs Browns game up, and I saw the Chiefs up.

1490
01:12:30,160 --> 01:12:32,280
Speaker 1: Excuse me, I saw that the Browns up big. But

1491
01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:35,160
Speaker 1: never once did I think they were gonna pull it off.

1492
01:12:35,520 --> 01:12:37,800
Speaker 1: I mean I was always of the mind, well, yeah,

1493
01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:42,760
Speaker 1: pretty soon Mahomes and company they're gonna go. And they did,

1494
01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:44,680
Speaker 1: and they pulled away and they did what they I

1495
01:12:44,720 --> 01:12:47,160
Speaker 1: thought they could do. Yeah, And I think there's a

1496
01:12:47,240 --> 01:12:49,400
Speaker 1: lot a lot of reasons for that. You know, having

1497
01:12:49,439 --> 01:12:52,919
Speaker 1: watched the game, you know there's that Mahome's Tyreek connection

1498
01:12:53,120 --> 01:12:56,120
Speaker 1: that's been there. This is now the fourth year, you know, Kelseyumhomes,

1499
01:12:56,200 --> 01:12:58,880
Speaker 1: same thing, fourth year those guys are together. I think

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01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:01,559
Speaker 1: what the Browns did really job of was wreck in

1501
01:13:01,600 --> 01:13:05,879
Speaker 1: the pocket a few times for Mahomes. Now like Patrick,

1502
01:13:05,920 --> 01:13:07,600
Speaker 1: Tyrod can get out of the pocket if you wreck it.

1503
01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:08,960
Speaker 1: He gets out of there. I mean a couple of

1504
01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:11,200
Speaker 1: big plays that he made were because he was able

1505
01:13:11,240 --> 01:13:13,720
Speaker 1: to get himself out of the pocket. Whodini like or

1506
01:13:13,840 --> 01:13:16,719
Speaker 1: David Blaine like, and and go make a playoff structure.

1507
01:13:17,200 --> 01:13:19,519
Speaker 1: But he made a lot of players instructure and David Blaine,

1508
01:13:19,560 --> 01:13:22,120
Speaker 1: I like that little reference for the kids. It's fun. Yeah,

1509
01:13:22,320 --> 01:13:25,000
Speaker 1: change it from Whodini to David Blaine. Is like, Whodini

1510
01:13:25,080 --> 01:13:28,960
Speaker 1: sounds cooler. Anyways, good, it does sound cooler, but um,

1511
01:13:29,000 --> 01:13:32,520
Speaker 1: you know, Hohodini Blaine sounds like a Big ten conference

1512
01:13:33,040 --> 01:13:35,760
Speaker 1: football award they give out. The Whodini Blaine Award goes

1513
01:13:35,800 --> 01:13:40,720
Speaker 1: to Tyrod Taylor. Anyhow, Uh, the Browns are extremely athletic

1514
01:13:41,160 --> 01:13:44,400
Speaker 1: and where they need to be griddy and tough, they

1515
01:13:44,400 --> 01:13:47,559
Speaker 1: are gridy and tough. Different a different ball of aax.

1516
01:13:47,640 --> 01:13:50,120
Speaker 1: And that front seven of the Jags gully. Yeah, it

1517
01:13:50,240 --> 01:13:52,360
Speaker 1: is maybe the best, maybe the best one of the

1518
01:13:52,360 --> 01:13:54,640
Speaker 1: best in the game. And Garrett and then Clowney, we

1519
01:13:54,720 --> 01:13:56,719
Speaker 1: know what, we know what the heck he can do. Yeah,

1520
01:13:56,720 --> 01:14:00,200
Speaker 1: it's just yeah, and it's deeper and and looked. The

1521
01:14:00,240 --> 01:14:02,639
Speaker 1: thing about it is the first play of the game

1522
01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:06,320
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs, I watched number fifty eight just swallow

1523
01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:09,320
Speaker 1: up this run. I mean, he just whips the guard

1524
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:12,680
Speaker 1: and just swallows up this run. And I'm like, that's

1525
01:14:12,760 --> 01:14:15,240
Speaker 1: not Christian Barnmore because Barmore went to the Patriots like

1526
01:14:15,240 --> 01:14:16,639
Speaker 1: who is that? And I go, look at it's Malik

1527
01:14:16,760 --> 01:14:20,120
Speaker 1: McDowell and I'm like, whoa. And if you remember Malie McDowell,

1528
01:14:20,479 --> 01:14:21,840
Speaker 1: he was a guy who had all kinds of issues

1529
01:14:21,840 --> 01:14:23,679
Speaker 1: when he went to Seattle. He had a car accent,

1530
01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:26,880
Speaker 1: he had issues off the field. The Browns basically picked

1531
01:14:26,960 --> 01:14:30,160
Speaker 1: him up for a song and he's now starting for them.

1532
01:14:30,200 --> 01:14:32,920
Speaker 1: And he's as athletic as any interior guy that Texas

1533
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:35,200
Speaker 1: are gonna face. You had him to Garrett, to Clowney,

1534
01:14:35,320 --> 01:14:38,679
Speaker 1: they had Anthony Walker from Innneapolis Colts, Great Newsome. They draft,

1535
01:14:39,320 --> 01:14:42,960
Speaker 1: they are athletic defensively. Look, they're not fallible, They're not

1536
01:14:43,160 --> 01:14:45,960
Speaker 1: They're not the seventy two Dolphins, you know they They're

1537
01:14:46,120 --> 01:14:48,679
Speaker 1: they're gonna make mistakes, and I was there were times

1538
01:14:48,680 --> 01:14:50,639
Speaker 1: that Mahomes had a ton of time in the pocket

1539
01:14:50,760 --> 01:14:55,920
Speaker 1: where the pastor us just didn't get there. So I

1540
01:14:56,200 --> 01:14:58,040
Speaker 1: you just gonna this is gonna have to be when

1541
01:14:58,080 --> 01:15:00,320
Speaker 1: you slocked through and where you established a lonest did

1542
01:15:00,360 --> 01:15:02,200
Speaker 1: you hit them in the mouth physically, And that's the

1543
01:15:02,200 --> 01:15:04,160
Speaker 1: one thing the Chiefs were not gonna do. The Chiefs

1544
01:15:04,320 --> 01:15:07,880
Speaker 1: just weren't gonna hit them right in the mouth and

1545
01:15:08,160 --> 01:15:10,640
Speaker 1: at all. That's not what the Chiefs do. That's not

1546
01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:14,519
Speaker 1: their m I think that is OURMO up front especially

1547
01:15:14,560 --> 01:15:16,800
Speaker 1: and on the defensive side. Look, you're gonna have to

1548
01:15:16,880 --> 01:15:22,120
Speaker 1: answer that physical offensive line with smart physical play. And

1549
01:15:22,160 --> 01:15:25,240
Speaker 1: then your linebackers can't be jump out of gaps. There

1550
01:15:25,240 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 1: were a couple of times one linebacker particular, jumping out

1551
01:15:28,400 --> 01:15:30,439
Speaker 1: of a gap. You gotta play strong, you gotta take

1552
01:15:30,479 --> 01:15:33,160
Speaker 1: on blocks, and then when you're there to make a play,

1553
01:15:33,240 --> 01:15:38,400
Speaker 1: you gotta wrap these guys up. Chub and Hunt are

1554
01:15:38,479 --> 01:15:41,519
Speaker 1: as good after first contact as any two backs you're

1555
01:15:41,520 --> 01:15:44,439
Speaker 1: gonna find, and because they can go one two, they're

1556
01:15:44,600 --> 01:15:49,120
Speaker 1: always always fresh. So you gotta match it such that

1557
01:15:49,479 --> 01:15:53,639
Speaker 1: you slow down any direct runway for them. You gotta

1558
01:15:53,680 --> 01:15:56,160
Speaker 1: make everything try and bounce and then give your secondary

1559
01:15:56,240 --> 01:15:58,000
Speaker 1: time to get there and help out. And then team

1560
01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:01,559
Speaker 1: tackle all day long. Text and to watch for you

1561
01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:07,400
Speaker 1: against the Browns is Zach Cuttingham. I think Zach Cuttingham's

1562
01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:11,840
Speaker 1: gonna have his hands full of position. He plays asks

1563
01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:14,880
Speaker 1: a lot because he's got to take on Chub, he's

1564
01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:16,519
Speaker 1: got to take on Hunt, he's got to fight through

1565
01:16:16,560 --> 01:16:19,719
Speaker 1: blocks up front. But he's also got to be pristine

1566
01:16:19,720 --> 01:16:22,519
Speaker 1: in coverage the tight ends at the Browns half and

1567
01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:26,320
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper and Harrison Bryant and Joeku. Now he's not

1568
01:16:26,439 --> 01:16:29,240
Speaker 1: matched up on all of them in man to man,

1569
01:16:29,560 --> 01:16:32,679
Speaker 1: but he can and they might ask him too, because

1570
01:16:33,000 --> 01:16:35,719
Speaker 1: you can't get into Nickel and Diamond against these guys,

1571
01:16:36,120 --> 01:16:39,080
Speaker 1: especially in second and seven or third and five. They'll

1572
01:16:39,120 --> 01:16:41,000
Speaker 1: just run the ball. They did it against the Chiefs

1573
01:16:41,000 --> 01:16:43,080
Speaker 1: a couple of times. The Chiefs one on Nickel and

1574
01:16:43,120 --> 01:16:45,280
Speaker 1: they were like, all right, you got five guys up front,

1575
01:16:45,280 --> 01:16:47,240
Speaker 1: we like our numbers counting the box. We'll run it.

1576
01:16:47,240 --> 01:16:49,880
Speaker 1: And they did. So that's where a guy like Zach

1577
01:16:49,920 --> 01:16:53,160
Speaker 1: Cuttingham has to play like a safety, like a linebacker

1578
01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:55,920
Speaker 1: and a defensive end all wrapped into one. He's the

1579
01:16:56,000 --> 01:16:59,720
Speaker 1: one to me, he's the one big focus that the Texans,

1580
01:17:00,920 --> 01:17:03,519
Speaker 1: that the Texas defense will have, and he's got to

1581
01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:05,200
Speaker 1: play at the high sea the second half of the game.

1582
01:17:05,240 --> 01:17:07,360
Speaker 1: Against the Jaguars, I felt like he played at Zach

1583
01:17:07,400 --> 01:17:10,120
Speaker 1: Cunningham standard. The first half, it felt like he was

1584
01:17:10,200 --> 01:17:12,240
Speaker 1: kind of just trying to feel his way through, kind

1585
01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:14,320
Speaker 1: of tiptoe win in the dark, you know, And the

1586
01:17:14,400 --> 01:17:16,559
Speaker 1: second half the light was on and he played, and

1587
01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:18,200
Speaker 1: I hopefully he's got to play like that for sixty

1588
01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:20,639
Speaker 1: minutes against these guys. For sure, that's a good choice.

1589
01:17:20,800 --> 01:17:24,559
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with whoever plays right tackle, and then

1590
01:17:24,920 --> 01:17:26,600
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna see Marcus Cannon a lot. I

1591
01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:29,240
Speaker 1: think he might see a little Jared Christian. How's Andy Heck?

1592
01:17:29,320 --> 01:17:32,160
Speaker 1: Is he back? Maybe he's on the COVI list. But

1593
01:17:32,560 --> 01:17:34,679
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about Laramie Tunsel. I think he's gonna

1594
01:17:34,720 --> 01:17:38,280
Speaker 1: get his against whoever is lining up opposite him. But

1595
01:17:38,560 --> 01:17:41,879
Speaker 1: I and we've seen Tunseil play very well against Clowney

1596
01:17:41,880 --> 01:17:43,640
Speaker 1: in the past. If Clowney is indeed over him, but

1597
01:17:44,040 --> 01:17:47,160
Speaker 1: over on that other side, if it's Miles Garrett, you're

1598
01:17:47,200 --> 01:17:49,160
Speaker 1: gonna I think the Texans will have a nice plan,

1599
01:17:49,680 --> 01:17:51,240
Speaker 1: you know, I don't. They're not gonna leave these guys

1600
01:17:51,240 --> 01:17:54,479
Speaker 1: on island and they're gonna have help. That's where Farrell Brown,

1601
01:17:54,520 --> 01:17:57,360
Speaker 1: I think will come in some and whoever Antony Antony,

1602
01:17:57,400 --> 01:18:01,439
Speaker 1: I'll Claire if he's in the game. But yeah, whoever's

1603
01:18:01,520 --> 01:18:03,720
Speaker 1: lining up at right tackle, because we saw a few

1604
01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:06,240
Speaker 1: different faces last game against the Jaguars, and I think

1605
01:18:06,240 --> 01:18:10,120
Speaker 1: you'll probably see that again. Cannon, like David Culey mentioned yesterday,

1606
01:18:10,600 --> 01:18:14,000
Speaker 1: was on a pitch count. They're wanting to keep him fresh,

1607
01:18:14,120 --> 01:18:17,320
Speaker 1: wanted to ramp him back because you know, he didn't

1608
01:18:17,320 --> 01:18:20,160
Speaker 1: play any preseason games. He just got activated what last week,

1609
01:18:20,400 --> 01:18:25,080
Speaker 1: So big task and Texans will have a plan. But

1610
01:18:25,439 --> 01:18:27,800
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett is a bit of a plan wrecker and

1611
01:18:28,400 --> 01:18:29,680
Speaker 1: that's why he's one of the best. That's why he

1612
01:18:29,680 --> 01:18:31,840
Speaker 1: gets paid the way he does. And that's who I'm

1613
01:18:31,880 --> 01:18:35,200
Speaker 1: looking at, Johnny. Whoever lines up at right tackle, that's

1614
01:18:35,200 --> 01:18:38,200
Speaker 1: a good one. I didn't mind the rotation with Marcus

1615
01:18:38,360 --> 01:18:40,200
Speaker 1: and Geronda. I thought they did a pretty good job.

1616
01:18:40,360 --> 01:18:43,639
Speaker 1: You're bringing up Laremy, you can tell it that because

1617
01:18:43,680 --> 01:18:46,120
Speaker 1: it's time as a training camp. Larry Titus aren't quite

1618
01:18:46,680 --> 01:18:49,360
Speaker 1: together yet with some of the things that they're doing,

1619
01:18:49,400 --> 01:18:50,800
Speaker 1: but they will get there. I don't worry about that.

1620
01:18:50,800 --> 01:18:53,800
Speaker 1: The one thing that I noticed that I really liked

1621
01:18:53,840 --> 01:18:55,920
Speaker 1: from those two it was not too much a pass

1622
01:18:55,920 --> 01:18:58,120
Speaker 1: protection button the run game. Go at the first play

1623
01:18:58,120 --> 01:19:00,760
Speaker 1: of the game. Now, this happened a few times. I'm

1624
01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:03,080
Speaker 1: telling you right now, the difference in this offensive line

1625
01:19:03,080 --> 01:19:05,640
Speaker 1: from Titus Howard from right tackle the left guard is

1626
01:19:06,400 --> 01:19:10,200
Speaker 1: evident invisible. First play of the game, they pancake the

1627
01:19:10,240 --> 01:19:12,599
Speaker 1: guy and no, not no, this is the first play

1628
01:19:12,600 --> 01:19:14,479
Speaker 1: of the game. It was not pancake. They took him

1629
01:19:14,479 --> 01:19:18,000
Speaker 1: on Hamilton and knocked him seven yards downfield on double team,

1630
01:19:18,080 --> 01:19:21,120
Speaker 1: and I was like, yo, man, they run block like this,

1631
01:19:21,400 --> 01:19:24,240
Speaker 1: forget it. They've got to work on some some T

1632
01:19:24,240 --> 01:19:26,439
Speaker 1: T stunts and ET stunts and some of those things

1633
01:19:26,479 --> 01:19:28,840
Speaker 1: kind of pass some guys off. They didn't have that

1634
01:19:29,160 --> 01:19:32,080
Speaker 1: clearly down. But that comes with time and synergy and

1635
01:19:32,080 --> 01:19:34,559
Speaker 1: they'll they'll get back there. I'm not worried about that, um.

1636
01:19:34,680 --> 01:19:38,280
Speaker 1: But if there's anybody to handle um Miles Garrett one

1637
01:19:38,320 --> 01:19:41,040
Speaker 1: on one and the best way possible. You know, there's

1638
01:19:41,040 --> 01:19:43,040
Speaker 1: some there's some players when you're facing you're like, man,

1639
01:19:43,080 --> 01:19:44,400
Speaker 1: how are we gonna how are we gonna match up

1640
01:19:44,439 --> 01:19:46,000
Speaker 1: with this guy? A lot of times if they got

1641
01:19:46,120 --> 01:19:49,080
Speaker 1: edge rusher, I'm like, We're okay, we're gonna be all right,

1642
01:19:49,200 --> 01:19:51,160
Speaker 1: because I think Laramie candles on one on one and

1643
01:19:51,160 --> 01:19:52,840
Speaker 1: I think on the other side, if you gotta help Marcus,

1644
01:19:52,880 --> 01:19:55,439
Speaker 1: you gotta help your on that that's fine. But you

1645
01:19:55,439 --> 01:19:57,920
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about helping both of them, and

1646
01:19:57,960 --> 01:20:00,360
Speaker 1: that's that's a good thing. So we'll see how it goes.

1647
01:20:00,400 --> 01:20:03,080
Speaker 1: But you know, look, I think what we've learned about

1648
01:20:03,080 --> 01:20:06,000
Speaker 1: this team since the time we saw it for good

1649
01:20:06,560 --> 01:20:11,320
Speaker 1: in training camp was they'll play together. They'll play hard,

1650
01:20:11,600 --> 01:20:13,320
Speaker 1: they'll play for one another, and they'll play for this

1651
01:20:13,360 --> 01:20:18,000
Speaker 1: coaching staff. They're gonna have fun. That's worth it. That's all.

1652
01:20:18,040 --> 01:20:20,639
Speaker 1: That's all worth it, it really is. And I think

1653
01:20:20,680 --> 01:20:22,679
Speaker 1: that camaraderie really comes through in the way they play

1654
01:20:22,720 --> 01:20:24,840
Speaker 1: for each other and with one another, kind of like

1655
01:20:24,920 --> 01:20:27,759
Speaker 1: this team. Drewn I. I've got a chemistry and his synergy.

1656
01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:29,479
Speaker 1: We've had it for a long time. So we appreciate

1657
01:20:29,520 --> 01:20:33,439
Speaker 1: you guys listening to our. In the Lab podcast final segment,

1658
01:20:33,600 --> 01:20:36,800
Speaker 1: we'll go around the NFL hit out a few news

1659
01:20:36,840 --> 01:20:41,600
Speaker 1: items that are happening throughout this league, including one that

1660
01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:44,080
Speaker 1: came out of Cleveland. I'll impact this game on Sunday

1661
01:20:44,120 --> 01:20:47,679
Speaker 1: against the Browns. That's next the Texans A Loxis. Texans

1662
01:20:47,720 --> 01:20:51,679
Speaker 1: A Loxis, Texas A Loxis. We've got one final segment

1663
01:20:51,680 --> 01:20:55,400
Speaker 1: this Wednesday edition of Texans All Access. I am your host,

1664
01:20:55,520 --> 01:20:58,679
Speaker 1: John Harris, and we have been jampacked. We've had Mark

1665
01:20:58,920 --> 01:21:04,560
Speaker 1: Drew Deep myself. We've also had Nick Assario, Nathan Zagura,

1666
01:21:04,640 --> 01:21:08,080
Speaker 1: We've had a David Culley audio jukebox, and now it's

1667
01:21:08,120 --> 01:21:12,200
Speaker 1: time to go around the NFL. We've hit everything. This

1668
01:21:12,520 --> 01:21:16,600
Speaker 1: note first out of the box is one that I

1669
01:21:17,160 --> 01:21:21,679
Speaker 1: said earlier and it pertains to the game on Sunday.

1670
01:21:21,720 --> 01:21:27,800
Speaker 1: As I gave you the injury report, Kevin Stefanski said

1671
01:21:28,520 --> 01:21:34,480
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Junior will not play this Sunday against the Texans.

1672
01:21:35,000 --> 01:21:41,599
Speaker 1: He was a limited participant in practice, but that apparently

1673
01:21:41,760 --> 01:21:43,519
Speaker 1: is just ramping him up to when he can get

1674
01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:47,759
Speaker 1: on the field. But he has already been ruled out. Now,

1675
01:21:48,439 --> 01:21:51,320
Speaker 1: until I see it in print, I don't know that

1676
01:21:51,360 --> 01:21:53,920
Speaker 1: I believe it, And I'd like to ask Nick, and

1677
01:21:53,920 --> 01:21:55,479
Speaker 1: maybe when I get a chance see Nick in the hallway,

1678
01:21:55,479 --> 01:21:58,040
Speaker 1: I'll ask him. Do you buy it? Like the coach

1679
01:21:58,080 --> 01:22:00,599
Speaker 1: says it? I mean, can you go with thinking he's

1680
01:22:00,640 --> 01:22:03,360
Speaker 1: not gonna be there? It doesn't mean that the Browns

1681
01:22:03,360 --> 01:22:05,879
Speaker 1: are going to be shorthanded. In the past, catcher department,

1682
01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:11,920
Speaker 1: pro bowler Jarvis Landry four point two five forty fast,

1683
01:22:12,040 --> 01:22:15,600
Speaker 1: Anthony Schwartz, three dynamic tight ends, and two of the

1684
01:22:15,600 --> 01:22:17,880
Speaker 1: best running backs in the league. So yeah, I don't

1685
01:22:17,880 --> 01:22:22,000
Speaker 1: think Baker Mayfield's gonna be hurting for weapons, but OBJ

1686
01:22:22,479 --> 01:22:28,240
Speaker 1: today Kevin Stefanski ruled him out for Sunday. I mentioned

1687
01:22:28,240 --> 01:22:31,080
Speaker 1: the Texans who did not participate practice at Desmond, King

1688
01:22:31,120 --> 01:22:35,280
Speaker 1: Farrell Brown, Andre Roberts. Those three did not participate in

1689
01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:39,799
Speaker 1: KPO Kevin Pierre Lewis, who was out for the opener

1690
01:22:39,880 --> 01:22:45,200
Speaker 1: against the Jags, so they did not practice. Also throughout

1691
01:22:45,240 --> 01:22:47,840
Speaker 1: the league, some mnus keep an eye on. Here's one

1692
01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:54,000
Speaker 1: from Dallas Cowboys. DeMarcus Lawrence showed up on the injury report.

1693
01:22:54,080 --> 01:22:57,840
Speaker 1: Is limited practice today. He was magnificent in the opening

1694
01:22:57,840 --> 01:23:04,840
Speaker 1: against the Bucks. Apparently during the practice he suffered the injury.

1695
01:23:04,920 --> 01:23:07,680
Speaker 1: So the severity is not clear. But my experience has

1696
01:23:07,680 --> 01:23:10,320
Speaker 1: been when that happens, when a guy pops up on

1697
01:23:10,360 --> 01:23:14,760
Speaker 1: the injury report and he hasn't been previously, that is

1698
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:19,160
Speaker 1: a huge red flag, Like, oh boy, I hope this

1699
01:23:19,240 --> 01:23:21,840
Speaker 1: is not a bad thing. De Marcus Lawrence is a

1700
01:23:21,960 --> 01:23:24,760
Speaker 1: very fun player to watch, whether you like the Cowboys

1701
01:23:24,920 --> 01:23:30,559
Speaker 1: or not. But DeMarcus Lawrence limited in practice. Showing up

1702
01:23:30,600 --> 01:23:36,680
Speaker 1: today on that injury report not great news for the

1703
01:23:36,720 --> 01:23:40,759
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. Also not great news for the Las Vegas Raiders.

1704
01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:46,759
Speaker 1: Joe McCoy brought in to shore up that interior position

1705
01:23:46,800 --> 01:23:53,960
Speaker 1: for the Raiders, having another season ended with surgery. McCoy

1706
01:23:54,000 --> 01:23:56,280
Speaker 1: has been a fantastic player and wasn't a fantastic player

1707
01:23:56,280 --> 01:23:58,519
Speaker 1: in this league, and over the last two three years,

1708
01:23:59,680 --> 01:24:02,760
Speaker 1: the injury bug has failed him. Last year he was

1709
01:24:02,800 --> 01:24:06,639
Speaker 1: with the with the Cowboys and he ruptured his squad

1710
01:24:06,680 --> 01:24:10,400
Speaker 1: in practice that into that season. He got hurt the

1711
01:24:10,439 --> 01:24:15,439
Speaker 1: other night against the Ravens and that will end this year.

1712
01:24:15,800 --> 01:24:19,679
Speaker 1: He was carted off with an injury two straight years.

1713
01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:23,679
Speaker 1: Gerald McCoy thirty three years old, former pro bowler. Two

1714
01:24:23,720 --> 01:24:26,640
Speaker 1: straight years in a row. He is missing due to

1715
01:24:26,920 --> 01:24:30,519
Speaker 1: an injury. The Raiders have signed Damien Square to replace him,

1716
01:24:30,880 --> 01:24:33,240
Speaker 1: and that's a blow to the Raiders. I thought the

1717
01:24:33,320 --> 01:24:36,160
Speaker 1: Raiders got kind of all over the place, but with

1718
01:24:36,200 --> 01:24:39,320
Speaker 1: the way Max Crosby played out on the edge, you

1719
01:24:39,360 --> 01:24:41,759
Speaker 1: got Jerald McCoy. You got some others you thought, Okay,

1720
01:24:41,760 --> 01:24:44,200
Speaker 1: there were some pieces there, but I'm not gonna have

1721
01:24:44,240 --> 01:24:47,960
Speaker 1: Jerald McCoy, that veteran influence for the rest of the year,

1722
01:24:48,040 --> 01:24:51,320
Speaker 1: and that is going to be a big time, big

1723
01:24:51,360 --> 01:24:56,920
Speaker 1: time blow. Indiapolis Colts. Three players they do not want

1724
01:24:56,960 --> 01:24:59,559
Speaker 1: to see in the DMP list, Darius Leonard, Quentin Nelson,

1725
01:24:59,640 --> 01:25:05,160
Speaker 1: Xavier Roads all were on the DNP list on Wednesday. Yikes.

1726
01:25:05,920 --> 01:25:09,519
Speaker 1: That is not good news for the Indianapolis Colts after

1727
01:25:10,000 --> 01:25:14,840
Speaker 1: losing last week to the Seattle Seahawks and didn't look

1728
01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:19,360
Speaker 1: good doing it. Now they've got their three major players injured,

1729
01:25:19,720 --> 01:25:25,280
Speaker 1: Leonard Rhodes and Quentin Nelson. Boy, that's a that's a

1730
01:25:25,320 --> 01:25:28,560
Speaker 1: tough nut right there. As the Colts have got the

1731
01:25:28,600 --> 01:25:32,200
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams coming to Indy on Sunday. Let's go,

1732
01:25:32,479 --> 01:25:35,240
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford, all right, it's gonna do for this show

1733
01:25:35,280 --> 01:25:39,559
Speaker 1: this evening. Gotta thank Mark Vandermer, Nick Casserio, Nathan Zagura,

1734
01:25:39,720 --> 01:25:42,160
Speaker 1: DP Sino, Drew Doherty and all of you for listening.

1735
01:25:42,160 --> 01:25:44,439
Speaker 1: Thanks my man, Jimmy Mudd. We'll see him everybody, and

1736
01:25:44,439 --> 01:25:45,559
Speaker 1: as always, go Texans.