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Speaker 1: What's up and everybody, Welcome into a Wednesday edition of

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access from the Honday.

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Speaker 2: Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 3: I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter for

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Speaker 3: your Houston Texans and it is on Sunday night football.

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Speaker 3: Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead. Cannot wait for the entire

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Speaker 3: nation to see this team play.

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Speaker 2: Gotta get through some injury stuff.

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Speaker 3: We'll get to that a little bit later in the show,

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Speaker 3: but you know how we kick off every Wednesday. Executive

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Speaker 3: vice president and general manager Nick Casario jumps into studio

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Speaker 3: with us.

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Speaker 2: We always appreciate his time. It's some great stuff.

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Speaker 1: Take a listen in studio with us now, Executive vice

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Speaker 1: president and general manager Nick Cassario. Nick, great to see.

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Speaker 4: You, Good to see you guys. Come here.

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Speaker 1: Big game this weekend with Kansas City and let's review Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: It went well at Indye. How did you see what

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Speaker 1: transpired Sunday?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, good team win.

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Speaker 5: Really got contributions from all three phases. Certainly some things

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Speaker 5: that we can learn from not only that are going

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Speaker 5: to apply to this game coming up against in the City.

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Speaker 5: But you know, in a few weeks when we play

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Speaker 5: Indianapolis again when you played a division opponent again, but

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Speaker 5: overall made enough plays In the end, I probably left

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Speaker 5: some plays on the field. But anytime you go on

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Speaker 5: the road in the division and come out with a win,

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Speaker 5: it's a good it's a good feeling. So hopefully we

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Speaker 5: can learn from some of the things that we did well,

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Speaker 5: make some of the corrections, and get ready for a

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Speaker 5: really good Kansas City team.

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Speaker 3: Nick gives Buffalo it's eight sacks. Everybody can see the sacks.

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Speaker 3: Everybody thinks sacks are sexy. You had one sacked the

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Speaker 3: other day against the Colts. Yet I would contend that

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Speaker 3: the pressure was as important against the guy, especially it

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Speaker 2: How would you go.

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Speaker 3: About saying eight sacks one sack? They don't quite but

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Speaker 3: yet I felt that the pressure was there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, each week is gonna be a little bit different.

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Speaker 5: I'd say the front lot most of the time we

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Speaker 5: to make sure the rush is coordinated and don't let

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Speaker 5: he could still get out of the hawking to make

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Speaker 5: that all four rushers are kind of working together in unison,

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Speaker 5: limiting the space and then force a quarterback to make

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Speaker 5: a throw front the pocket. So rushing covers usually tie together.

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Speaker 5: We've talked about that. Tomiko's talked about that quite a bit.

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Speaker 5: So each game is going to be a little bit different.

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Speaker 5: So sometimes what's on a statue you can be a

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Speaker 1: I know you want to score as many points as possible. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but third down defense really good and time of possession

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Speaker 4: Yeah. For the most part, we controlled the game.

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Speaker 5: Had a number of thirteen to fourteen play drives, had

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Speaker 5: multiple multi number of plays. Defensively, we were limit them

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Speaker 5: a few that we left on a field, which usually

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Speaker 5: equates the points, which you know, we talk about that,

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Speaker 3: One of the things you talked about, Nick, and we

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Speaker 2: And how did that manifest itself in the offensive performance?

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Speaker 1: So what about the running game, Nick, we talk about

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Speaker 5: But the running game is a huge part of I

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Speaker 1: And also creativity. Right because Stover shows up, we'll get

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Speaker 5: Nice to see, yeah, this time of the year, you

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Speaker 5: So if you can just make a subtle adjustment or

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Speaker 5: maybe as long as you can execute it. In the end,

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Speaker 3: And building off of that, Nick, it felt like early

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Speaker 3: and you always said, hey, you stick to the run.

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Speaker 2: You stick to run.

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Speaker 3: Eventually you hit the rocket of time it breaks and

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Speaker 3: it felt like maybe you did that, but you needed

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Speaker 5: You articulated it very well, I mean that's the ebb

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Speaker 5: All Right, you try this and it's not really working

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Speaker 5: all right, how do we counterbalance that or counterac that.

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Speaker 5: So it's gonna be the same challenge here this week.

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Speaker 5: I mean, we'll talk about the Chiefs, but this is

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Speaker 1: Yep. Nick Nicocollins thoughts, I mean, here he is and

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Nico's a good players. Worked really hard to establish

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Speaker 5: he's got a good attitude regardless, he's a great teammate

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Speaker 5: usually he's tough to tackle. I mean a couple of

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Speaker 5: Credit to him, credit to really coach McDaniels has been

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Speaker 3: So let's talk about pushing tushes because Kate Stover had

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Speaker 3: It's not really a play you're going to get an

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Speaker 5: It's like anything else, you just have to find repetitions.

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Speaker 5: There's kind of steal reps. So whether it's in between periods,

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Speaker 5: your point, Johnny, like short yardage is hard to practice

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Speaker 2: So they tried it earlier with Warren.

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Speaker 3: Now Warren's taking a lot of snaps that Penn state,

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Speaker 3: he took a lot of snaps under center shotgun, et cetera.

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Speaker 3: When he botched it, was there any concern like, hey man,

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Speaker 5: You got to trust really the players and hopefully they

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Speaker 5: really a key to your point. Even on the Warren play,

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Speaker 5: I mean, he was kind of rushed. I mean he

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Speaker 1: What'd you think of CJ's return? As he said, he

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Speaker 1: was rusty but made some really nice throws through for

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Speaker 3: It's a different kind of team maybe, nick, but still

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Speaker 2: To report on this? On this version of the Chiefs.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like they haven't changed.

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Speaker 5: There's still one of the best teams in the league.

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Speaker 1: Nick. It feels like when you face an opposing team,

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Speaker 3: Nick whatever the narratives can be away from the building,

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Speaker 3: He still finds himself to get open. What have you

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Speaker 1: Nick football in general. Question here because fans of media

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Speaker 4: So he's very versatile.

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Speaker 5: They do a really good job with the disguise, So

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Speaker 5: you really have to play with good awareness and just

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Speaker 5: kind of go back to the Miko talks about this

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Speaker 5: all the time. Just go back to your basic rules

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Speaker 5: and understanding the integrity of the play. What's the assignment,

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Speaker 5: what you're asked to do. You don't try to do

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Speaker 5: too much, otherwise they're going to be chasing stuff that's

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Speaker 5: really not happening.

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Speaker 1: How would you define the coaching style maybe offensively or

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Speaker 1: in general of Andy Reid one of the greatest ever

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Speaker 1: because in Philly with Donovan McNabb. They actually had a

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Speaker 1: mini playoff run with Jeff Garcia. Once you look at

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Speaker 1: Alex Smith for a while, and then of course what

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Speaker 1: he's gotten now with Mahomes.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, very similar aspects.

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Speaker 5: I mean, they're very calculated in what they're trying to do,

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Speaker 5: and Andy has a really good feel in a sense

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Speaker 5: of maybe the rhythm of the game and how it's going,

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Speaker 5: and they've made adjustments and modifications through the years to

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Speaker 5: kind of cater to their personnel. What he was doing

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Speaker 5: with Donovan is different than what he's doing with Patrick.

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Speaker 5: There's some similarities, but there's also a lot of things

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Speaker 5: that are different. But I mean Andy's going to go

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Speaker 5: down as one of the best not only coaches but

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Speaker 5: probably play callers in the history of our game. So

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Speaker 5: he puts a lot of stress on the defense, so

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Speaker 5: you got to kind of prepare for everything, and then

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Speaker 5: as the game goes just kind of get a sense

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Speaker 5: in a feel for how the game is being called.

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Speaker 1: It feels almost unfair a Jim Johnson and Philly back

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Speaker 1: in the day. Andy Kaluh always talks about how great

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Speaker 1: he was and now he's got Spagnola doing really well.

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Speaker 4: So Andy always has good coaches on his staff, no question.

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Speaker 2: No question.

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Speaker 3: I always feel like when we play the Chiefs, we

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Speaker 3: talk about homes Kelsey and we talk about Chris Jones

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Speaker 3: and Spags, and I feel like, when you talk about

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Speaker 3: the chief who don't give enough credit to Dave Tobb

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Speaker 3: and the special teams.

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Speaker 2: How big a matchup does that become?

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Speaker 3: Because last year in the playoff game, and Frank told

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Speaker 3: us he felt like that was not the Texans standard

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Speaker 3: special teams wise, and a lot of that has to

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Speaker 3: do with what Tabb does with special teams.

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Speaker 5: Nick, they're excellent, really good place kicker and Harrison Bucker.

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Speaker 5: I mean, he's been there a number of years now.

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Speaker 5: They kind of made the swap out for Reza, and

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Speaker 5: Matt's done a good job for them. The two really

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Speaker 5: good returners for Meiho and then Brashard Smith. Ay you

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Speaker 5: sim Smu kid and kick off returns, but Dave's a

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Speaker 5: very aggressive coach. They do a really good job in

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Speaker 5: a return game. So covering kicks is going to be

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Speaker 5: of the utmost importance. And they present some matchup problems.

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Speaker 5: They got a bunch of I would say, stronger, bigger, longer,

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Speaker 5: mid skill bodies, but they're special teams unit. I mean,

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Speaker 5: it's a good football team offensively, defensively. Any kicking game. Dave,

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Speaker 5: to your point, probably doesn't get as much respect as

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Speaker 5: he deserves, but he's been doing this a long time

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Speaker 5: and he's been one of the best special teams coaches

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Speaker 5: in his league for a number of years.

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Speaker 1: Nick, I know you and your staff. You're hard at

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Speaker 1: work about the offseason already, and we talk about scouting

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Speaker 1: college football. So fix college football for us, just kidding,

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Speaker 1: but here we are playoffs, about conference championship games going on,

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Speaker 1: but playoffs about to start. How does that affect your

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Speaker 1: scouting preparation as you get ready for April.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're actually gonna start our first round of draft

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Speaker 5: meetings here next week, and it's really more informational.

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Speaker 4: What do we really need? What are the main.

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Speaker 5: Questions we have on certain prospects. So we'll kind of

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Speaker 5: go through that process here a little bit. We've kind

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Speaker 5: of started some other discussions as well as trying to

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Speaker 5: kind of stack the board here a little bit. Kind

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Speaker 5: of have to wait and see what happens with the underclassmen.

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Speaker 5: It'll be interesting to just kind of watch and we

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Speaker 5: probably have seen most of these teams, whether in person,

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Speaker 5: live on campus or at a game. But it looks

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Speaker 5: like there's a number good matchups here Conference Championship weekend,

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Speaker 5: So we'll be cognizant on what's going on, whether or

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Speaker 5: not we're there or not. It's probably not gonna have

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Speaker 5: a huge bearing on what the evaluation is of the player.

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Speaker 5: But it's always the exciting time a year in college

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Speaker 5: football for sure.

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Speaker 3: Underclassmen we talk about this a lot, Nick, just the decision.

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Speaker 3: I know you guys will track the underclassmen, and I

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Speaker 3: think all the teams have started track them, maybe heavier

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Speaker 3: heavily than maybe heavier than that he did earlier. How

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Speaker 3: do you kind of at this point kind of track

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Speaker 3: You just kind of keep your ear to the ground, like, hey,

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Speaker 3: we think this guy's coming out, Just kind of like

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Speaker 3: we anticipate it and if he goes back, great, we

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Speaker 3: got all this for next year.

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Speaker 5: If he does come out, we're ready to go. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: you take the information as it comes. I think you

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Speaker 5: have a sense like this cohort more than likely they've

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Speaker 5: essentially not declared, but they're going to be in the draft.

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Speaker 5: There's another group they're fifty to fifty and then the

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Speaker 5: school might actually say, like, this player's playing on coming

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Speaker 5: back for a myriad or reason, so whatever that is, injuries,

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Speaker 5: maybe they go into portal. So we'll track it and

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Speaker 5: then whoever is available, whoever is draft eligible, like, we'll

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Speaker 5: make sure we're prepared. But between now and April we'll

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Speaker 5: probably get a lot of clarity as it comes to

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Speaker 5: a player evaluation front.

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Speaker 1: All right, one more big question for you here, Nick,

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Speaker 1: Because Sunday night football, this is the game of the week,

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Speaker 1: this is prime time and it's the number one show

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Speaker 1: on television. So this is a question about television. What

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Speaker 1: was the last TV show that you watched regularly? Oh God,

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Speaker 1: I don't quite see you as a guy who binge

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Speaker 1: watches Game of Thrones and WWE does not count. It's

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Speaker 1: got to be a drama of sorts or a comedy.

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Speaker 1: Can you name something?

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Speaker 4: No, not on cable television.

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Speaker 5: What I will say, I did watch a few Netflix

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Speaker 5: series when they profiled the tennis Tour.

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Speaker 4: I forget the name of whatever it was called.

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Speaker 5: I watched all three two or three series or seasons

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Speaker 5: of Full Swing. It was fascinated by. I can also

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Speaker 5: watch the tennis version of it. It's an interesting kind

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Speaker 5: of getting behind the scenes. Look, but as far as

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Speaker 5: television goes, honest to God, that counts.

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Speaker 1: Though. That's pretty good.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's sort of television, it's streaming.

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Speaker 3: But I would say I told Mark the full swing

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Speaker 3: second season when they did the Ryder Cup behind the

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Speaker 3: scenes outstanding.

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Speaker 2: That was fascinating to me. I loved golf.

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Speaker 5: I'm a massive fan of I was watching the DP

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Speaker 5: World Tour Australia open over the weekend, so I know

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Speaker 5: it out of a life. But that's the kind of

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Speaker 5: extent of my Tellion.

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Speaker 2: Brought the Skins game back for Amazon.

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Speaker 1: I didn't watch the Skins game. I missed that one,

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Speaker 1: So such a good timing. Okay, Nick, thanks a lot

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Speaker 1: for joining us, Good luck, Thanks fellas.

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Speaker 3: Excellent stuff there from Nick Caserio, and of course Mark

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Speaker 3: and I were pretty good as well. All right, buddy

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Speaker 3: Mindatt Bowen writes for ESPN dot com. He came up

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Speaker 3: with one hundred and nine traits that he follows kind

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Speaker 3: of throughout the year, and the best of each of

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Speaker 3: those traits. Your Texans were mentioned a number of times.

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Speaker 3: We'll have that for you next right here in Texas

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Speaker 3: All Access.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to this.

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Speaker 3: Wednesday at issue of Texans all as, I'm your host,

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Speaker 3: John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter, as we hone in

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Speaker 3: on Sunday night football against the Kansas. He chiefs Mark

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Speaker 3: vandermirir with me. Mark Matt Bowen, who I've gotten to

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Speaker 3: know over the years rights for ESPN, played in the league,

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Speaker 3: played to Iowa, does some coaching now in the Chicago area.

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Speaker 3: He he's a ball noer. He knows ball. He's really good.

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Speaker 3: He does this thing every year. It's his annual one

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Speaker 3: nine different skills and the best players at those particular skills.

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Speaker 1: One hundred and nine different, hundred and nine different traits. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so I don't know that I totally agree with all

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Speaker 1: of them. Like here are the first few most accurate

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Speaker 1: passer Stafford No Mahomes, Dakota Wayne Prescott. Really yeah, dak

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Speaker 1: Prescott most accurate of.

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Speaker 3: Quarterbacks who have played at least ten games this season.

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Speaker 3: Prescott's nine point six percent off target rate is the lowest,

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Speaker 3: and he completed sixty nine point three percent of his passes.

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Speaker 2: He's playing some of the best football in his career.

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Speaker 1: What I like is he's he's using he updates it

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Speaker 1: and he uses analytics.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's using numbers.

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Speaker 3: Now, strongest arm, strongest arm.

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Speaker 7: Right.

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Speaker 3: Now, we face this guy recently, that would be Josh

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Speaker 3: all Josh Allen. When does he lead physical tools frame

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Speaker 3: arm like the hand size Alec bought every level of the field.

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Speaker 2: Best deep ball thrower. C. J.

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Speaker 1: Stroud hasn't done it in one hasn't really tested that

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Speaker 1: arm in a while.

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Speaker 2: I would like to see it against Kanpas.

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Speaker 1: Gosh.

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Speaker 2: Please, we faced this quarterback too. We faced him.

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Speaker 3: Now, we did not give up deep balls to him,

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Speaker 3: but he did slice us up a little bit.

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Speaker 2: With one of the best receivers in the league on

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Speaker 2: a Monday night.

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Speaker 1: On a Monday that would be Baker Mayfield. Best deep ball. Wait, oh,

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Speaker 1: you're talking about Sam Darnold ball thrower.

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Speaker 3: His twelve completions on passes of thirty or more air

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Speaker 3: yards leads the league. And he has completed seventy I

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Speaker 3: mean six percent of those throws.

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Speaker 1: Who's he throwing to? Yeah, that's the thing. Yeah, Now,

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Speaker 1: here's what's important. Last sentence.

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Speaker 3: In coordinator Clint Kubiak's offense, Darnald is set up on

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Speaker 3: scheme shot plays to target the third level and that

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Speaker 3: that that's a that's a massive part of that.

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Speaker 1: They go to the NFC Championship game. Is Clint Kubiak

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Speaker 1: getting a head coaching job even if they don't, What

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Speaker 1: do you think?

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I'm curious. And that's a conversation we'll have later.

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Speaker 3: Which NFL jobs will be open. We already know Tennessee's open.

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Speaker 1: We can make a list of people. And this is

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Speaker 1: for another show that we do not want to see

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Speaker 1: in Nashville. And I think Clint Kubiak is one of them.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to root against Clint Kubiak. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't want that. Of Browns and Steelers, uh huh zero

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Speaker 1: one or two?

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Speaker 2: None?

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Speaker 1: One of them are both open. Oh Brown's open. Browns,

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Speaker 1: I think they got to start over. I think Stefanski's good.

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Speaker 1: But don't you think that marriage needs to break up?

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Speaker 1: Probably just from a far probably go that way. Tomlin

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Speaker 1: have a hard time with because I like the Steelers

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Speaker 1: the fact that they've only had three coaches since the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl era began. I love that about them as

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Speaker 1: a matter of fact. But I think they've kind of

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Speaker 1: reached the ceiling too. Maybe I just think I think

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Speaker 1: the Titans try to take I am not gonna blame

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Speaker 1: this on Aaron Rodgers. I'm not but and I look defensively,

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Speaker 1: they give up over two hundred rushing yards last week.

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Speaker 1: So you can't blame that on Aaron Rodgers. But maybe

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Speaker 1: you can.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: There's something about Rodgers in the building. New York Jets.

658
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Speaker 1: You know all about it.

659
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:32,640
Speaker 2: You know it.

660
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Speaker 1: Seven games with Zach Wilson. Couldn't do it with Aaron Rodgers.

661
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Speaker 1: What best scrambler Mayfield?

662
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Speaker 2: We will see him Sunday night.

663
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Speaker 1: Oh, he's so good. Yes, how about this?

664
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Speaker 3: Mahomes average twenty eight point eight rushing guards per game

665
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 3: on scramble attempts while converting twenty three first downs. That

666
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Speaker 3: is a massive number. Twenty three first downs on scrambles.

667
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Speaker 1: Yep. And it's always you know, you have everything covered up.

668
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Speaker 1: And well, look, we'll have Girard on the show. I

669
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Speaker 1: guess what Friday, Friday. Yeah, but Friday he talks about, Hey,

670
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Speaker 1: that's part of coverage.

671
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Speaker 2: Yep.

672
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 3: You read coverage. You go be your own, be your

673
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 3: own checkdown. Yeah, I mean that's that's kind of the

674
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Speaker 3: time I came up with. Yes, I like that to

675
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Speaker 3: your checkdown. And he's so good at it. It's so frustrating.

676
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 3: You got to be able to stop him.

677
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Speaker 1: Mayfield is obviously an outstanding scrambler, as well as is

678
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen. There are several in the league.

679
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Speaker 2: The offensive ones.

680
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Speaker 1: Uh, they're no Texans, No Texans involved, a lot of Colts,

681
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Speaker 1: a lot of Jonathan Taylor stuff.

682
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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 3: Best downfield receiver at this point, best deep ball JSN.

684
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Speaker 3: He's got the best deep ball thrower, yes, but who's

685
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 3: the best deep ball catcher? We saw him Sunday.

686
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Speaker 1: So they think Pierce is the best deep ball catcher.

687
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 3: Pierce is averaging league high twenty point nine yards per catch,

688
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Speaker 3: and he has a reception of twenty five or more

689
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Speaker 3: yards and eight of.

690
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 2: Ten games played.

691
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Speaker 3: All Right, that is a true vertical target who can

692
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Speaker 3: stretch the field in the Colts offense, says Matt Bowen

693
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Speaker 3: of ESPN.

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Speaker 1: I think Pierce is really good with that. Okay, I'll

695
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Speaker 1: go along with that. However, I go I will point

696
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Speaker 1: this out that some of the other really great receivers

697
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:25,360
Speaker 1: are utilized more around the line of scrimmage, medium range

698
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Speaker 1: and long range, and it hurts. I'll put out of

699
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Speaker 1: their quotes their average. So you're not gonna have the

700
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Speaker 1: average that Pierce has because it always seems like he's

701
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Speaker 1: catching a pass of at least twenty yards plus. But

702
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Speaker 1: other guys, I'm gonna use JSID this way, that way,

703
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Speaker 1: the other way, and it's gonna hurt the average against

704
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Speaker 1: guys like Pierce or t Y when he was Pierce.

705
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Speaker 3: Comes in and he becomes Klay Thompson. Yeah, he knocks

706
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 3: home eight of ten threes.

707
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Speaker 1: Whereas you know, Steph Curry's gonna score from everywhere. What

708
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Speaker 1: happened to a Pman the other day? Why aren't your

709
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: Pittman is the guy they're paying. What happened to him?

710
00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:00,080
Speaker 2: I have theory?

711
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: What's your theory? Give me?

712
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Speaker 2: It's not that good.

713
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Speaker 1: He's not able to get separation and Pierce can get

714
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Speaker 1: it down the field. Yeah, And Daniel Jones just can't

715
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Speaker 1: stick in there long enough to be able to throw

716
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Speaker 1: the ball where Pittman runs his routes? Is this part?

717
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Speaker 1: How rate the hot take? Okay, Pittman is the third

718
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 1: best receiver on his team and he makes the most money.

719
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Speaker 1: That's one and a half the downs and Pierce Pierce,

720
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Speaker 1: we're scarier. We're drafting. We're drafting a team. We got

721
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Speaker 1: the choice of those three receivers in order. We're taking

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Speaker 1: Pierce Downs, Pittman.

723
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love listen, I love Pittman coming out.

724
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Speaker 3: I think Pittman has been very good for the Colts,

725
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Speaker 3: but it is clear that Pierce and Downs have gotten

726
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Speaker 3: to a point where they're more dangerous.

727
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I don't fear Pittman at all. No,

728
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Speaker 1: that's exactly. It seems like, let's get Pittman the ball

729
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Speaker 1: on a screen because it's the only way we're gonna

730
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Speaker 1: get him the ball. Yeah, he never it feels like

731
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Speaker 1: he never really hurts you.

732
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Speaker 7: Now.

733
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Speaker 2: Pierce is like, no, no, he's got a little way.

734
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Speaker 3: So before the game, I did I did my pregame

735
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 3: hit with Sean and Seth and they asked, Okay, we

736
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 3: know Jonathan Taylor, you gotta stop twenty eight.

737
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Speaker 1: Okay, everybody knows that. We talked about all week. They

738
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Speaker 1: didn't get the words out of their mouth. And I said, Pierce, yeah,

739
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Speaker 1: that's it. The words were knew that who scares you?

740
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Speaker 3: And I was like, Pierce, Pierce scares me because I'm

741
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,080
Speaker 3: sitting there and I'm pointing at the spot where he

742
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 3: went up and went over Kaylin for a touchdown in

743
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Speaker 3: week one, and then he had another deep ball on

744
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 3: Jimmy Ward in week one, and I'm like, that dude

745
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 3: is scary. He's flat out scary, and you can start

746
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 3: to see.

747
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 1: A little bit more of the full all round game

748
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Speaker 1: start to evolve.

749
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Speaker 3: Like to me, I think he should be paid. That

750
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 3: dude should be paid. Not Pittman, that guy.

751
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: But either way, they got problems. They do have problems

752
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: from them. They have to figure that out and then

753
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Speaker 1: we'll see what Chris ballad. If Chris ballad.

754
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Speaker 3: Okay, so before we get to the next one, if

755
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 3: if this thing flames flames out for the Colts, right,

756
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 3: you wipe the whole thing you start.

757
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I was no, Listen, I would love to

758
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Speaker 1: see them get rid of Shane Steiking because I think

759
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Speaker 1: he's pretty good. Yeah too, so I would love to

760
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: see them make that mistake, just the way the Titans

761
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 1: made the mistake firing Mike Vrabel. Yeah, I was so

762
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Speaker 1: glad to see him leave the division. Shane Steiking is good.

763
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: He goes nine and eight, eight and nine, never has

764
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Speaker 1: a quarterback with many richardson. He gets whatever he can

765
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Speaker 1: get out of Daniel Jones, who anybody could have had,

766
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Speaker 1: and look at the start they had. Now Jones is hurt,

767
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 1: so they're coming back down to earth, and a lot

768
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Speaker 1: of people predicted that anyway, because the schedule got tougher.

769
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Speaker 1: I think there would be nuts to get rid of

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Speaker 1: Shane steike In. I don't know about Ballard because Johnny,

771
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Speaker 1: I think they've made moves. I know we didn't mean

772
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Speaker 1: for this to be a cult segment, but I think

773
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Speaker 1: they've made a lot of moves that Ballard had nothing

774
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 1: to do with. Because once you go ahead and hire

775
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Speaker 1: Jeff's Saturday to be your head coach, now I doubt

776
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Speaker 1: everything else that's kind of very out of the ordinary,

777
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Speaker 1: like Sauce Gardner for two ones.

778
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Speaker 3: Might I feel about this because you I've known Chris

779
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Speaker 3: for a long time and that is just not his

780
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 3: mo right, and that might be what ends up losing

781
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 3: his job. But then there's nothing you could do about it.

782
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:09,880
Speaker 3: He went out and got a good player and the

783
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 3: player got hurt. Best speed to power in the NFL.

784
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Speaker 2: You know him, you love him. Will Anderson Junior.

785
00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 3: Anderson can ben and flatt and using counter moves to

786
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Speaker 3: disengage for blockers, but he can also win with speed

787
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 3: to power, collapsing the edge of the pocket. He's ten

788
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Speaker 3: and a half sacks, the fifth most NFL, and his

789
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 3: twenty three point five pass rush win rate ranks third.

790
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Speaker 3: So now that we're in a pass rush category, most

791
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Speaker 3: explosive pass rush for Miles Garrett, most physical defensive line

792
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Speaker 3: defensive lineman.

793
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 2: Jared versus the Rams.

794
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 3: Wow, I pray that I could see that best pass

795
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,920
Speaker 3: rush moves Miles Garrett. I don't know about that. I

796
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 3: think that Danielle Hunter has a cadre of.

797
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Speaker 1: Moves he does. But what Garrett did last week saw

798
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 1: is what he did to Trent the You know what

799
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 1: it is. It's the lateral quickness. It's insane, and that's

800
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: that speed to speed to power right, it's it's so,

801
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,000
Speaker 1: how are you supposed to stop that when you're a

802
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: three hundred pound guy who doesn't have that kind of

803
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:13,879
Speaker 1: athletic work.

804
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 2: He does it in two steps.

805
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:19,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you get the feeling he's playing that. Yet

806
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: he knows that if you anticipate, I'm gonna go inside

807
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: because he's ultimately going there. Yeah, he's got the gear shift.

808
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: I'll just stay outside and I'll just burn you. Mark.

809
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 3: A lot of people have talked about, well, you know

810
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:35,760
Speaker 3: Texans seven number one defense or whatever. Oh the Broncos

811
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Speaker 3: are next, or the Rams or this no, no, no, The

812
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,040
Speaker 3: next best defense in the league is Cleveland Browns.

813
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 2: Those dudes are.

814
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 3: Nasty and they obviously have him, but they're good across

815
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Speaker 3: the boarder all three levels.

816
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 1: That is it. Really, they got some sneaky hot wins

817
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,879
Speaker 1: and had they had some sort of offense, they could

818
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: have won a lot more games. And who knows what happens,

819
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 1: but they're playing Dylan Gabriel and you know, the exhumed

820
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: body of Joe Flack goes.

821
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 2: Somebody was to return today.

822
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 1: Well, and he posted it.

823
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:04,800
Speaker 2: On his own Instagram.

824
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:08,600
Speaker 1: His workout video very well produced, by the way, so

825
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: clearly this wasn't done with just your phone. But good

826
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: for him, and uh, who knows? Who knows? No longer

827
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 1: a problem. Best spin move in the NFL, as judged

828
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Speaker 1: by Matt Bowen Daniel Daniel, I didn't think people would

829
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 1: recognize that outside the building. I never feel like he

830
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:26,720
Speaker 1: gets the credit he deserves.

831
00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:27,839
Speaker 2: Here's what Matt Bowen says.

832
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 3: Hunter has a slippery spin move off the edge that

833
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,879
Speaker 3: leaves offensive tackles grabbing at air. He can also use

834
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 3: the thread of his spin move to set up an

835
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 3: outside rush path. His eleven sacks ranked fourth in the NFL.

836
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 3: Daniil Hunter, very nice. Yeah, his spin move. What I

837
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:46,879
Speaker 3: like is he can spin outside and he can spin inside,

838
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,879
Speaker 3: and I think that's uh that that's pretty impressive. Okay,

839
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:55,799
Speaker 3: let's get the linebackers, Packers, Eagles. You know he recognizes

840
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Speaker 3: Eddrian Cooper, which who I was high on his A and.

841
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Speaker 1: M most of the chance. Well we got him right here.

842
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:02,400
Speaker 1: Does he have an award like that?

843
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:06,840
Speaker 3: He has one called best Hitter Disease Disease out Shire.

844
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 2: Here's what he says, and I love I love this.

845
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: Ausese looks to take the ballcarrier's soul every time he

846
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 1: makes contact.

847
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 2: He has thunder in his pads. That is so good.

848
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 2: I want to text Matt that and say this, like bravo.

849
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 1: This is like that. Yeah, I want to kick off, right,

850
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, let's go. I'm really trying to keep

851
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:38,399
Speaker 1: myself in control as we anticipate Sunday night.

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00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm with you. So that's it.

853
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 3: At linebackers, let's get to DB's a couple of interesting ones.

854
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:50,799
Speaker 3: Best backfield Vision. Now that was a former defensive back.

855
00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 3: So he hits on a number of things here that

856
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:55,959
Speaker 3: you know a little bit different. Best backfield vision.

857
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,320
Speaker 1: So when you're thinking about dB looking in the backfield,

858
00:36:58,320 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: you're like, that's not always a good thing.

859
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 2: But I get what he's saying.

860
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: The ability to anticipate, like Kyle Hamilton or somebody like that.

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Speaker 2: Or number twenty four Derek Stingley Junior.

862
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 1: Oh, so he's just going DB's in general. I was

863
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 1: thinking safeties.

864
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 3: Best backfield vision. Derek Stingley Junior. Stingley uses his backfield

865
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 3: vision to overlap seamballs. Plus he will get in the

866
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 3: plus he will get in the weeds.

867
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:22,839
Speaker 2: Looking for work. He has three interceptions to eight pass

868
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 2: breakups this season.

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Speaker 3: Right after that, and I've been preaching this since the

870
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Speaker 3: Pittsburgh preseason game last year, my first game that I

871
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,919
Speaker 3: called in preseason. Something stood out to me. And it's

872
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,919
Speaker 3: not only coming to fruition, it is becoming a true

873
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 3: asset for this defense.

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00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 2: Best third level range.

875
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,720
Speaker 1: So we're talking Kaylin, It's exactly.

876
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 2: What we're talking about Kaylen Bullock.

877
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 3: Bullock glides through the air through the third level of

878
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 3: defense with post range and ball skills, and he can

879
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 3: cover ground from depth. Four interceptions are tied for fourth

880
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:07,359
Speaker 3: most in the NFL. That says dead on. I mean,

881
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 3: I'm glad that Matt sees that, because when you see

882
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 3: it in person and you know how fast the game

883
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 3: is going and you see how much ground he covers,

884
00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 3: it is mind blowing.

885
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:23,240
Speaker 2: It is mind blowing.

886
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: You Know. One of the ways I know this defense

887
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: is great is when I'm watching other games, I'm thinking,

888
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: why did they get to the how did they not

889
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: do this? Why did they do that? Yeah, And I'm realizing, oh,

890
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 1: because they don't have the Texans defense. I'm used to

891
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 1: our guys being around the ball like what yulk row Like,

892
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: they're gonna get there. Now, they'll give up a player

893
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: or two, but they're gonna get there and hold opponents low.

894
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 1: And it's to the point where when somebody does hit

895
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 1: a big play, you're so utterly shocked. Like the screen

896
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: to Jonathan Taylor the other day, I thought, oh no,

897
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,319
Speaker 1: but it turns out to be okay. We overcame it.

898
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 1: In the course of the game of Christ. You're not

899
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: gonna be able to hold everybody scoreless. It's like a

900
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:05,359
Speaker 1: basketball game. They're gonna get theirs. They're gonna get some.

901
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 1: They're gonna get some, but you gotta be able to

902
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: keep them down, that's all, and they do.

903
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 2: It's when you talk about his his third level range.

904
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: I'm glad Matt pointed out, because you see it live,

905
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: it's amazing. Then you watch on TV, you watch it

906
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,200
Speaker 1: from all twenty two angle, and you realize he's moving.

907
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 1: My basketball coach when I was a younger, When I

908
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 1: was younger, I remember, he's got an older coach, and

909
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 1: he would always talk to us.

910
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 3: You would always talk to us about moving at a

911
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 3: high rate of speed.

912
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:34,840
Speaker 1: I wish Lance were here because Lance could do it

913
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: better than I could.

914
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 3: Kaylan moves at a faster rate of speed than anybody

915
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 3: else in the field. And it stood out to me

916
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 3: the other day when the Colts, I think it was

917
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 3: when I was twenty to thirteen and the Colts were

918
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 3: driving and he threw the deep ball to Pierce down

919
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 3: the down the left sideline, like directly in front of

920
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:59,319
Speaker 3: you guys, opposite of us, and Kaylan made sure that

921
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 3: Pierce wasn't going to catch that ball, Like he came

922
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 3: out of nowhere, nowhere to make sure that Pierce wasn't

923
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 3: going to catch that one, and Kamari was in good

924
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 3: shape too, so there's really no way that Jones was

925
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 3: going to complete that pass. But the fact that Kaylen

926
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 3: was moving that fast from the middle of the field,

927
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 3: that's what blows me away. And that's what stood out

928
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 3: to me as when we were in Pittsburgh in twenty

929
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 3: twenty four in the preseason, he was in the middle

930
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 3: of the field and who was playing quarterback for Pittsburgh

931
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 3: at that point, was trying to hit a fadeball go

932
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 3: ball down the sideline and Kaylen picked it off. Now

933
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 3: he couldn't get his feeding bounds and he picked it off.

934
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 3: And I just remember we had a shot.

935
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:41,439
Speaker 1: From the all twenty two basically, and I was able

936
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,439
Speaker 1: to point out, look how far he goes.

937
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,840
Speaker 3: And then my comment afterwards was, y'all, that ain't normal.

938
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 3: That isn't normal. Don't you don't find that?

939
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:50,879
Speaker 2: Man?

940
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,719
Speaker 3: This kid's gonna be super once he kind of gets

941
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 3: the game. And now you start to see him learning

942
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,280
Speaker 3: the game, learning quarterbacks and learn those kind of things.

943
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 3: I'm glad Matt recognize him, But that dude's ready to

944
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,440
Speaker 3: take off and be a superstar.

945
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:07,800
Speaker 1: I think he's taken off right now. It's in progress.

946
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 1: People are noticing, like Matt Bowen, like many others, because

947
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: when all the hay is in the barn at the

948
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 1: end of the season, and I don't know where it's going,

949
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 1: but I like where it's headed. Yep, put it that

950
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 1: way where it appears to be headed. They're going to

951
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: get all their accolades right, and they're getting a lot

952
00:41:26,960 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 1: of love right now. You still have five games to go.

953
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 1: This is a big chunk of the season you have left.

954
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 1: I love the way the schedule looks after this week,

955
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: but we can't get ahead of ourselves. And you know

956
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:39,359
Speaker 1: you and I know what it's all about. It's week

957
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: to week and everything. It was week to week when

958
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,400
Speaker 1: you weren't doing that well or as well as you wanted.

959
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: It's week to week now. But this is so big

960
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:48,920
Speaker 1: on day I mean, it is just so mass I mean,

961
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 1: it's so much fun.

962
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 2: Think about those things that we just talked about. And

963
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:55,280
Speaker 2: there was one more best Fueld goal.

964
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,839
Speaker 1: Blocker didn't he go out? So several Texans showing up.

965
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 3: Yes, and on Sunday, on a Sunday night, there are

966
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:09,480
Speaker 3: a lot of people in Phoenix. There are people in

967
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 3: Baltimore that or maybe Baltimore is a bad one to use.

968
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:19,320
Speaker 3: Maybe Charlotte that haven't Washington, that haven't seen this team play.

969
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they've.

970
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 3: Heard, Oh I've heard about this defense. I've heard about

971
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,879
Speaker 3: this defense. And then they go and watch the game

972
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 3: and they're like, Okay, the hype is real. This is

973
00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 3: that opportunity on Sunday. And I only win a football game,

974
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 3: but to really make a statement. And you go on

975
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 3: social media and there are videos of guys with blocks

976
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 3: like ed Ingram had the other day, of interceptions, of tackles,

977
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 3: of sacks of things, you know, look at them, get

978
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 3: after Mahomes. I mean, those are all the kind of

979
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:49,320
Speaker 3: things that can go along with a great performance on Sunday,

980
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,920
Speaker 3: and that gets people's attention in the media that are

981
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,360
Speaker 3: voting for some of these NFL All Pro for Pro Bowls,

982
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 3: those kind of things, for different kind of awards throughout

983
00:42:59,560 --> 00:42:59,879
Speaker 3: the year.

984
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:01,720
Speaker 2: This is an opportunity.

985
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:06,239
Speaker 3: And look, ask any one of those guys we mentioned, Hey,

986
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 3: would you would you rather be a Pro bowler or

987
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 3: go win a Super Bowl? Oh my gosh, every single

988
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 3: one I'm saying win.

989
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:13,919
Speaker 2: A Super Bowl. There's no doubt about that.

990
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,800
Speaker 3: But they also want to have those honors as well

991
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,439
Speaker 3: and be respected by their peers and by the people

992
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 3: that cover this game. So this is that opportunity to

993
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 3: do both make a statement winning the game and then

994
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 3: get some love nationally, which I think it's starting to

995
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 3: ramp up because of the way, especially the defense is played.

996
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:38,439
Speaker 3: But imagine if you go and do your defensive thing

997
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:39,439
Speaker 3: against that team.

998
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,359
Speaker 2: We're playing Sunday night. Oh my, you imagine the.

999
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 1: Biggest stage in regular season football is Sunday night foot

1000
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:48,959
Speaker 1: pro That's it. It's it. Even though fifty seven million

1001
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,279
Speaker 1: watched the Cowboys and the Chiefs, but that was Thanksgiving.

1002
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: That's a different kind of day.

1003
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 3: It is fifty seven point seven million on Chiefs Cowboys,

1004
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:59,800
Speaker 3: forty seven point seven on Lions Packers.

1005
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:03,800
Speaker 1: You knew that was a good lineup. That it turns

1006
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:05,280
Speaker 1: out to be even better than your thought.

1007
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 2: That's incredible.

1008
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: It's incredible. But this is the league, it's the you

1009
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: know what, the America's Campfire. It's bigger than ever because

1010
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:18,719
Speaker 1: it's the one thing that really unites the most people. Literally, Yeah,

1011
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:23,280
Speaker 1: and people follow it for fantasy football reasons, for this reason,

1012
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:26,160
Speaker 1: for that reason, for their team, reasons for I hate

1013
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, I hate the Chiefs reasons. There's so many

1014
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:30,760
Speaker 1: different reasons and it brings people together.

1015
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 2: Well, you know what they're doing on Peacock on Sunday Night?

1016
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:33,719
Speaker 2: Did I tell you this?

1017
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:34,399
Speaker 1: What are they doing?

1018
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 3: They're taking four reality show stars. So there's a woman

1019
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:42,040
Speaker 3: from Housewise of Salt Lake City, a guy from Survivor,

1020
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 3: and then two others I can't remember, but they're taking

1021
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:49,319
Speaker 3: reality show stars and they're basically going to put them

1022
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 3: in you know, love seats with the game going on,

1023
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:56,919
Speaker 3: and they're gonna be just jaw jacking during the game,

1024
00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 3: talking about the game.

1025
00:44:58,080 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 1: And they have to pair up and get married.

1026
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:02,800
Speaker 2: No, they don't do that. I don't think. I don't think,

1027
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 2: but it might be. I mean, it might be an interesting.

1028
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:09,000
Speaker 3: But when when do you see this Monday night game

1029
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 3: is going to be the animated game.

1030
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:12,919
Speaker 2: Remember how they did the Simpsons animated game.

1031
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 3: They're doing an their animated game for the Monday night

1032
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:16,080
Speaker 3: game the Eagles and Chargers.

1033
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 2: They're having reality stars.

1034
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:21,279
Speaker 3: Talking about it's unbelievable what this league is doing. But

1035
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 3: to be able to do it on Sunday night, and

1036
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 3: my god, if seven has the game that we think

1037
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 3: he can have on a Sunday Night.

1038
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 1: This is this is gonna be a theme tomorrow. But

1039
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,479
Speaker 1: remember the Circus used to be the greatest show on Earth.

1040
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:38,440
Speaker 1: This is the greatest show on Earth that on earth.

1041
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:40,239
Speaker 1: Your stage, Sunday Night.

1042
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 3: It's the best reality show going. It is the best

1043
00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 3: reality show going. It's unscripted, seemingly, or some would tell

1044
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:49,880
Speaker 3: you that, and it's tremendous and Sunday Night is going

1045
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 3: to be unbelievable. All right, injury report is out. There

1046
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:57,800
Speaker 3: were some guys not at practice. Demko did talk about

1047
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:00,440
Speaker 3: a few of them and use the words they will

1048
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 3: be fine, But we still got to let you know

1049
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:05,880
Speaker 3: what's there, and on both sides, because the Chiefs are

1050
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 3: struggling with.

1051
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 2: The injury telling. Everybody.

1052
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 1: Welcome back to this Wednesday thistion of Texans All Access.

1053
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris Football and a sideline reporter

1054
00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 1: for your Houston Texans.

1055
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 3: It's time to hit the injury report. And I know

1056
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 3: this one's not gonna be good. I just know it.

1057
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:25,919
Speaker 3: And I've been feeling this way for a little bit.

1058
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,800
Speaker 3: And I remember, and I can't remember whether it's Demiko

1059
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 3: or Nick one of them when they were in here

1060
00:46:31,800 --> 00:46:34,800
Speaker 3: for their interview said, you know, we've got some guys

1061
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:37,839
Speaker 3: banged up, and I just thought, eh, boy, I don't

1062
00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 3: want to see this. Well that's the case.

1063
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 6: Now.

1064
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:48,320
Speaker 3: The bad news is Will Anderson Junior, de Nico Autrey,

1065
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 3: Trent Brown, Jamal Hill, Kamari Lassiter, Woody Marks, Tim Settle Junior.

1066
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 3: All very important pieces, even Scooby on special teams. He's

1067
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:02,400
Speaker 3: missed a couple of games now with that hamstring, but

1068
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 3: all of those guys play a key role for this team.

1069
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 3: They were all dnps on Wednesday. Now Coach Ryan's asked

1070
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 3: about that and the presser said, they'll all be fine,

1071
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:22,280
Speaker 3: but you just still to see them on the DMP

1072
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 3: list as you're getting ready to play a some important

1073
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:25,240
Speaker 3: game against the Chiefs.

1074
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:26,360
Speaker 2: It does sting.

1075
00:47:26,440 --> 00:47:26,600
Speaker 7: Now.

1076
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 3: We did see Will Anderson Junior last Thursday, I think,

1077
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 3: show up on the injury report as a d m P.

1078
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 3: He showed up with both the chest and his shoulder,

1079
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 3: So hopefully Will can get taped back up with duck

1080
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:41,400
Speaker 3: tape and be ready to go. Trent with that hand,

1081
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 3: he has had different various tape jobs and casts and

1082
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:48,719
Speaker 3: whatever else on the hand and still able to play,

1083
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 3: so hopefully he's gonna be okay. But I worry about

1084
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:54,880
Speaker 3: the foot, the feet, the ankle of what he marks,

1085
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:58,280
Speaker 3: the feet of Tim Settle, Junior Kamari last So hopefully

1086
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:00,520
Speaker 3: those guys are gonna be okay. Is He's out was

1087
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:02,760
Speaker 3: limited with a knee, but he was out at practice.

1088
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:03,720
Speaker 2: That was great news.

1089
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 3: Now nobody's gonna be crying in their beer for the

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00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:11,440
Speaker 3: Texans injuries, especially in Kansas City. Now they don't have

1091
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 3: the volume, but they have one focused position that is

1092
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 3: going to beat an issue. The news out of Kansas

1093
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 3: City started with Josh Simmons, their starting left tackle, going

1094
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:28,240
Speaker 3: on ir he. I think it was a dislocated elbow.

1095
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 3: I believe it was against the Cowboys. He had played

1096
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:35,840
Speaker 3: pretty well. Then he was gone for five games. Nobody

1097
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 3: knew why he's gone for five games. It kind of

1098
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 3: got through, it came back, was playing for a couple

1099
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:45,240
Speaker 3: of games, and then got hurt against the Cowboys. Missing

1100
00:48:45,239 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 3: against the Cowboys was Trey Smith with an ankle injury.

1101
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 2: He was also a DNP.

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00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 1: Now reading the tea leaves from information up there, it

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00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like Trey Smith's gonna be ready to go

1104
00:48:57,239 --> 00:48:57,840
Speaker 1: for this game.

1105
00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 2: And Josh Simmons is on IR.

1106
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 3: Then Juwan Taylor, their right tackle, did not participate with

1107
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 3: a triceps slash neat so he's got triceps issue and

1108
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 3: a knee issue. So Trey Smith, starting guard ankle did

1109
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 3: not participate, starting right tackle, Juwan Taylor triceps and a

1110
00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 3: knee issue, did not participate in practice, and Josh Simmons,

1111
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 3: starting left tackle, went on IR. And they gotta face

1112
00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:30,839
Speaker 3: the Texans defensive line.

1113
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 2: Now.

1114
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:33,799
Speaker 1: The flip side of that is three key members at

1115
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 1: defensive line did not participate on Wednesday, either, Will Anderson Junior,

1116
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 1: Tim Sedtle junior, and Deny Gautry.

1117
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 2: So it is worth watching now.

1118
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 3: I say all that, and it is important, there's no doubt,

1119
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 3: and Kansas City's gotta find a way. Probably gonna be

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Speaker 3: Jalen Moore at one spot, probably gonna be jan Ye

1121
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 3: Morris at another. Uh Suma Taya will probably step in

1122
00:49:57,120 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 3: a guard spot again, Mike Caliendo will probably be in

1123
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 3: his spot. So really the only thing that they have

1124
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:07,400
Speaker 3: consistently right now is Creed Humphrey, arguably the best center

1125
00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 3: in the NFL at this moment.

1126
00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:13,239
Speaker 2: Mahomes makes do, doesn't matter who's in front of him.

1127
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:15,440
Speaker 3: He makes do now there have been times in his

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00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:19,959
Speaker 3: career like Super Bowls when the offensive line hasn't held

1129
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 3: up and the defensive line was so relentless they able

1130
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:24,480
Speaker 3: to get to him buck Super Bowl in twenty the

1131
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:27,439
Speaker 3: COVID season, and then last year the Eagles getting to him.

1132
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 3: Can the Texans do that and do it consistently? Put

1133
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:32,799
Speaker 3: him on the run, make him have to make tough

1134
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:35,600
Speaker 3: decisions on the run, and maybe that ends up being

1135
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:39,480
Speaker 3: a big advantage for the Texans. Okay, Yakub Johnson, who

1136
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 3: is not on the injury report, We got a lot

1137
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Speaker 3: to talk about with him.

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Speaker 2: He's up next on Texans All Access.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sir, welcome back to this second hour Texans All

1140
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Speaker 3: Access on this wonderful Wednesday evening wherever you are.

1141
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 2: And it's wonderful because, well, you're a Texans fan like me.

1142
00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:58,920
Speaker 3: I'm your host, John Harris Football, aantallest sideline reporter for

1143
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 3: your Houston Texans over the last I don't know, nine

1144
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 3: ten months or so. Mark and I have got to

1145
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:10,400
Speaker 3: be big fans of our next guest and international player

1146
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,280
Speaker 3: play at Reboult High School in Jacksonville, went to University

1147
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 3: of Tennessee. But he's a German national Yakub Johnson. We

1148
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:21,880
Speaker 3: had a lot to talk about with Yakub, including right cheek,

1149
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:25,479
Speaker 3: left cheek. Yeah, you'll figure it out as you listen

1150
00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 3: to us discussed with Yakub Johnson.

1151
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:30,800
Speaker 1: Right here, Yakub Johnson with us in studio. How's it

1152
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:31,400
Speaker 1: going Yakub?

1153
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 6: Good Man?

1154
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: Good great to have you in here. You're a member

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00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:37,719
Speaker 1: of the Tush push crew. Yes, sir, full back, tight end.

1156
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: You do a lot of different things here. So how's

1157
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:41,839
Speaker 1: it going for you overall here being with the team.

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00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 8: Oh?

1159
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:43,919
Speaker 6: Man, it's been it's been going great, man.

1160
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: Like.

1161
00:51:44,440 --> 00:51:47,160
Speaker 9: Obviously, I had some some up and downs, had to

1162
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 9: sit out some time with an injury. But since I've

1163
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:52,759
Speaker 9: gotten back, we've been on a role, we've been winning

1164
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:53,919
Speaker 9: some games. So it's a lot of fun.

1165
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 3: Man, Yaka, we were kind of chatting just a little

1166
00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 3: bit and you go week thirteen. I was like, no,

1167
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 3: Week fourteen, but it made me think, how's the body

1168
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 3: feel week fourteen?

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00:52:03,080 --> 00:52:03,279
Speaker 7: Oh?

1170
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:05,160
Speaker 3: I know you talked about some injuries and things, but

1171
00:52:05,880 --> 00:52:07,879
Speaker 3: you go through a full football season and we're close.

1172
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 3: We got five games left and hopefully some playoffs after that.

1173
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,200
Speaker 3: But how's the body feel right now?

1174
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:12,840
Speaker 6: Honestly?

1175
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 9: At this point, you don't really want to feel anything,

1176
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:16,759
Speaker 9: you know what I mean. It's it's just it is

1177
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Speaker 9: what it is. Like. You don't even pay attention anymore

1178
00:52:18,719 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 9: at this point, the part of the season where you're

1179
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:23,959
Speaker 9: like sore and everything that was like four weeks ago.

1180
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 9: At this point, your body just like gives up and

1181
00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 9: just accepts its fate and you just do what you do.

1182
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 2: You know, I love it. It just but it just

1183
00:52:30,239 --> 00:52:30,600
Speaker 2: gives in.

1184
00:52:30,719 --> 00:52:30,879
Speaker 8: Yeah.

1185
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:33,720
Speaker 9: Yeah, at some point the body stops like it just like, hey, okay,

1186
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 9: we're just gonna be hurt every day.

1187
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:37,000
Speaker 2: Fifteen fifteen more car wrecks.

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Speaker 1: I'm a how do you handle practice at your spot?

1189
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:42,919
Speaker 1: Because you do a lot of different things, like I said,

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00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:45,879
Speaker 1: initially with tight end and fall back, and I see

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00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: you warm it up with all sorts of people and

1192
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:49,800
Speaker 1: then you have that touch pushtake. So tell us about

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00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:51,839
Speaker 1: practice for you and how you go about that.

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00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,840
Speaker 9: Man, every day is different, every week is different. It

1195
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:58,240
Speaker 9: just depends on the game plan. So I'm in different spots,

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00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:00,359
Speaker 9: I'm asked to do a different things as it might

1197
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 9: be a little bit of special. Teams might not be

1198
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:05,800
Speaker 9: moving me around on offense, so I never know until

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Speaker 9: I come in and I see the game plan. But

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00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:10,000
Speaker 9: you just you just go out there. You play football.

1201
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 9: You know, that's what you been doing since you was

1202
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:14,320
Speaker 9: a kid, so it's no different.

1203
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna ask a question. Now.

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00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: This is a little sensitive, so you don't really have

1205
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 1: to answer. But you go in the game the other day,

1206
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:23,400
Speaker 1: see you guys all running the game. I see you

1207
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:25,160
Speaker 1: in British and I'm like, okay, this is gonna be interesting.

1208
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:26,360
Speaker 1: What are we doing our short yardage?

1209
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:28,640
Speaker 3: And then see k get under center, I'm like, oh man,

1210
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 3: it's awesome doing the toush push. So is your responsibility

1211
00:53:33,320 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 3: like one cheek and then British is the other one?

1212
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,439
Speaker 3: Or is it a collective effort to you not even

1213
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 3: handle that?

1214
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,719
Speaker 9: Listen, listen, we get coach on this in very a

1215
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:44,319
Speaker 9: lot of details, you know what I mean. Coach Coach

1216
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:47,080
Speaker 9: Jake Morland will short of instruck me to to really

1217
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 9: take charge of my cheek, you know what I mean,

1218
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 9: and try to really lift as as I you know. So, yeah,

1219
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:56,279
Speaker 9: it's a lot more detailed than people think, but it's

1220
00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:58,759
Speaker 9: all about really just getting in there and and taking

1221
00:53:58,840 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 9: hold of it.

1222
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 3: Well here's the other to kabits I mean, you guys

1223
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:06,359
Speaker 3: don't have padded practices, you know, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. You

1224
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 3: might get one maybe during the week, depending on where

1225
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 3: it where it lands. Have you been able to work

1226
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 3: on this like in pads in practice or is it

1227
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:19,120
Speaker 3: just something that you guys kind of had to work

1228
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:21,800
Speaker 3: on like an individual and then you know, kind of

1229
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:22,919
Speaker 3: carry it forward to team.

1230
00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:25,799
Speaker 9: Yeah, we met up on our own time and just

1231
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:29,120
Speaker 9: really just started grabbing kids cheese. No, no, of course,

1232
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:34,360
Speaker 9: I mean we we got a few like walkthroughs of

1233
00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 9: it during practice. But yeah, and you just I mean

1234
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:38,719
Speaker 9: in the game, you just gotta go, you know, Yeah,

1235
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:40,799
Speaker 9: you gotta trust Kate holding onto the ball and then

1236
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 9: we just push them as hard as we can and see.

1237
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:43,080
Speaker 2: Where we go.

1238
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 1: Are you begging for a carry? Come on, give me

1239
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:46,799
Speaker 1: a carry?

1240
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 9: Not begging, but like, honestly, I feel like I've been

1241
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:53,000
Speaker 9: closer than people think, just like from the game plan perspective,

1242
00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:55,840
Speaker 9: the opportunities, it just hasn't happened yet. But yeah, you

1243
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:57,800
Speaker 9: just gotta stay patient until the moment comes.

1244
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:01,520
Speaker 2: So in your role, and I say roll, I mean

1245
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:04,239
Speaker 2: you're you're all over the place.

1246
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 3: I mean, you line up tight end, you can lineup

1247
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:08,400
Speaker 3: it full back obviously, and special teams, all those kind

1248
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:11,880
Speaker 3: of things. When you come in on you know, Wednesday,

1249
00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 3: to start getting ready for that next team, and you

1250
00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 3: start getting prepared, like you see the game playing, You're like, Okay,

1251
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 3: I might be I might have this role, I might

1252
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 3: have this, this might be a little bit.

1253
00:55:22,120 --> 00:55:23,440
Speaker 2: Higher than this one this week.

1254
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:26,160
Speaker 1: How do you kind of handle your preparation as you

1255
00:55:26,200 --> 00:55:29,680
Speaker 1: go into a week when your target could be moving

1256
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:32,479
Speaker 1: every single Wednesdays you start getting ready for a Sunday game.

1257
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 9: Well, honestly, I try to front load my prep. I

1258
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:37,439
Speaker 9: try to really already start watching some of the film

1259
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:40,600
Speaker 9: on like Mondays and Tuesdays really, so by the time

1260
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 9: I get in here, I already know the defense and

1261
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:45,400
Speaker 9: kind of what they're doing and how they're playing on

1262
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 9: the defensive line, how they linebackers are playing, and so

1263
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 9: thence once I see the place, I can kind of

1264
00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 9: put it together in my head. It's like, okay, I'm

1265
00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 9: blocking the will already know how he plays, and that

1266
00:55:56,000 --> 00:55:57,080
Speaker 9: makes it a little bit easier for me.

1267
00:55:57,160 --> 00:55:58,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've been around the league for a while now,

1268
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:02,239
Speaker 1: since twenty nineteen. Who's been helpful to you here? As

1269
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:04,879
Speaker 1: you further get assimilated into the Texans way of doing

1270
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,600
Speaker 1: things and in your career in general, Yaka oh Man.

1271
00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 6: In my career in general is tough. Man.

1272
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:11,919
Speaker 9: There's been a lot of people that helped me along

1273
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:14,920
Speaker 9: the way here he had the Texans. I got to

1274
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 9: give credit to our our position coach, Jake Morland Man.

1275
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:20,480
Speaker 9: He's been doing an excellent job of getting us ready,

1276
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 9: especially with all the movement that we had in the

1277
00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:26,200
Speaker 9: tight end room, Guys getting injured, different guys being asked

1278
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:29,240
Speaker 9: through different things. He's been doing a great job getting

1279
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:31,400
Speaker 9: us ready and adapted to this system.

1280
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 6: In my career in general, man, I had great coaches.

1281
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 6: You know.

1282
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:37,920
Speaker 9: Nick Kaylee was my first ever NFL position coach. I

1283
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 9: think he did a tremendous job taking a very raw

1284
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:46,640
Speaker 9: international pathway player that didn't really know where to line

1285
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:49,320
Speaker 9: up all the time and turned me into a decent

1286
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:53,879
Speaker 9: NFL player. There's been the coaches in college that gave

1287
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:57,360
Speaker 9: me my opportunity to even get started here in America

1288
00:56:57,400 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 9: with football. So yeah, it's been a lot in that way.

1289
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:02,160
Speaker 1: I think I know the answer to this, So I'm

1290
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:04,719
Speaker 1: gonna ask this in a different way because I would

1291
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:07,400
Speaker 1: ask you, is it surprising that there has been even

1292
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:11,319
Speaker 1: more international influence. So I'll ask you this way, because

1293
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:13,640
Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna be surprised by that, but

1294
00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 1: I'll ask you why has the international influence grown and grown?

1295
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 2: In your opinion? Yaka?

1296
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:21,760
Speaker 3: But I mean obviously there's you. We saw who's the

1297
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 3: kicker for the Saints. I think I might something, Yeah.

1298
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 1: Why has that increased over the years? And not even

1299
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Speaker 1: just over the years, but even this year in the NFL.

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00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:36,040
Speaker 6: The visibility has completely changed. When when I started playing.

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Speaker 9: Overseas, football was kind of looked at like as in

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00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 9: like skateboarding, like an extreme sport, Like whoa, you're doing

1303
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 9: American football?

1304
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 6: Oh?

1305
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:46,600
Speaker 9: And it was really hard to watch the games, like

1306
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 9: there was no games on television except the Super Bowl,

1307
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 9: and you didn't even know the players' names because there

1308
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 9: was no way for us to even like see any

1309
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 9: of that, Like there's no ESPN over there. Nowadays, with

1310
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 9: the Internet, with social media, with like highlight clips being

1311
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:05,800
Speaker 9: shared on TikTok and Instagram reels and all this stuff,

1312
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 9: the visibility just increased. And I think then the NFL

1313
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 9: also taking charge and bringing the games overseas. You just

1314
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:14,800
Speaker 9: had the first game in Madrid. You got games in

1315
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:17,720
Speaker 9: Germany every year. Now, yeah, that's that's a game changer.

1316
00:58:17,840 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, what kind of season are the Stuttgart Scorpions happening

1317
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:21,360
Speaker 1: right now?

1318
00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 10: Ya?

1319
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 1: We want to know the.

1320
00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 9: Stuet Guard scorp Is are actually doing well. They they

1321
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:29,760
Speaker 9: just uh uh leveled up from I think the Third

1322
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 9: League up to the second League, so they increasing. We

1323
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,720
Speaker 9: have we got like seven, we got seven. If you're

1324
00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:37,560
Speaker 9: in the bottom, you get relegated, you gotta move down.

1325
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:40,560
Speaker 9: So it's like soccer, you have like soccer. Yeah, wow, yeah,

1326
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 9: it's like that. But but then on the I gotta

1327
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 9: share some band who's on the European football front. On

1328
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:48,120
Speaker 9: the on the professional level over there, it's some issues

1329
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:50,920
Speaker 9: right now with the league going on. My franchise the

1330
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 9: surge uh probably won't be around next season, but you know,

1331
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:57,480
Speaker 9: I mean that doesn't mean that's the end for for football,

1332
00:58:57,520 --> 00:58:59,640
Speaker 9: but then in general, it just might be some changes

1333
00:58:59,640 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 9: going on.

1334
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Speaker 1: So it's funny because the relegation is something that is

1335
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: no punitendence.

1336
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:08,479
Speaker 2: It is completely foreign to people over the United State.

1337
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 3: It was foreign to me before I started watching Premier

1338
00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:14,440
Speaker 3: League soccer, and then I was like, this is one

1339
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:15,400
Speaker 3: hell of a concept.

1340
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Speaker 6: Yeah.

1341
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 3: I mean it's amazing because you watch Premier League soccer

1342
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 3: matches at the end of the year and they're all

1343
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:24,760
Speaker 3: no matter what's going on in what you would like

1344
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 3: week eighteen of the Premier League season, there are teams

1345
00:59:28,680 --> 00:59:31,520
Speaker 3: fighting relegation. There are teams trying to get into the

1346
00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:33,480
Speaker 3: top four this so they can be a champions league.

1347
00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:37,320
Speaker 3: It's like they've mastered the end of the season because

1348
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:39,040
Speaker 3: of relegation and promotion.

1349
00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 2: I gotta imagine it's kind of the.

1350
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:44,240
Speaker 3: Same way in those football leagues, Like going up is

1351
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 3: a massive deal, but also to fight going down.

1352
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:48,120
Speaker 6: As well, yeah, big time.

1353
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 9: Like there are some clubs that obviously have been in

1354
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 9: the in the first league for years and are like

1355
00:59:53,160 --> 00:59:56,280
Speaker 9: traditionally big clubs, and you have one bad season, you know,

1356
00:59:56,440 --> 01:00:00,560
Speaker 9: now you're fighting relegation and that's a that comes with

1357
01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 9: like less money, obviously you're you're just less important. So yeah,

1358
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:08,000
Speaker 9: those those end of season games in Germany are still

1359
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 9: closely fought.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yaka tell the listeners because you said your franchise

1361
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:15,200
Speaker 1: the surge. Yeah, so you're part owner of that.

1362
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:17,800
Speaker 9: Yeah, I was a part owner. There was a European

1363
01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 9: football league that started five years ago. We had built

1364
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 9: it up. My franchise actually just won the championship this season. Fantastic.

1365
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Speaker 9: But now you had a realignment where a bunch of

1366
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Speaker 9: teams wanted the league, leave the league, create their own thing,

1367
01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 9: and the finances got tricky, and so yeah, the Surge

1368
01:00:38,280 --> 01:00:41,160
Speaker 9: won't be around next season, but I mean European football

1369
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:41,880
Speaker 9: probably still will.

1370
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Speaker 2: What would it mean to you, ya to be able

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01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:46,400
Speaker 2: to play a game back home? An NFL game back home?

1372
01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:47,880
Speaker 2: At some point in your career you.

1373
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Speaker 9: Said a key thing, I would love to play an

1374
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:53,640
Speaker 9: NFL game. Yeah, back home obviously, just because my family

1375
01:00:53,680 --> 01:00:56,080
Speaker 9: could come out, My sisters could see it, my grandma

1376
01:00:56,120 --> 01:00:59,160
Speaker 9: could come out, all those things. I don't know if

1377
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:01,320
Speaker 9: I would go back to the European League and play.

1378
01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:05,800
Speaker 3: To play an NFL game like we just had, what

1379
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:11,560
Speaker 3: was it, Colts Falcons, Yeah, Berlin, that's huge. What what

1380
01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:15,000
Speaker 3: would it mean to take the Texans overseas playing Germany?

1381
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Speaker 2: Be able to play in front those find I mean,

1382
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Speaker 2: that's just.

1383
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:17,720
Speaker 6: That would be amazing.

1384
01:01:17,760 --> 01:01:19,440
Speaker 9: I mean it would be a huge opportunity for me

1385
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:21,520
Speaker 9: because I think I would be the best tour guide

1386
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:23,360
Speaker 9: you guys could ask for, right, I would have all

1387
01:01:23,400 --> 01:01:26,880
Speaker 9: the recommendations ready, the reservations, the food, the sites, all

1388
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:29,439
Speaker 9: that stuff. But then on the on the sports side

1389
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 9: of things, Uh, Baron Berner was a draft pick for

1390
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:36,280
Speaker 9: the Colts from Berlin. Yeah, he was the one that

1391
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:38,440
Speaker 9: they got to introduce the team in Berlin and got

1392
01:01:38,440 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 9: everything else.

1393
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 6: It was kind of like a full circle moment for him.

1394
01:01:41,200 --> 01:01:44,640
Speaker 9: So for me to get the opportunity to potentially bring

1395
01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 9: the Texans to Stuttgart, the city that I'm from, that

1396
01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 9: would be I mean, that would be drink.

1397
01:01:49,680 --> 01:01:52,840
Speaker 1: So, Sebastian Volmer, was he still playing when you were

1398
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:54,360
Speaker 1: with the Patriots or was he gone by then?

1399
01:01:54,520 --> 01:01:55,720
Speaker 6: He was retired by then.

1400
01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:58,240
Speaker 9: Yeah, but I obviously knew about him, like growing up,

1401
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:00,760
Speaker 9: I read his book and everything versus Uston guy.

1402
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:04,920
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, which guy tackle very nice. Just one more

1403
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 1: question about that stuff. How big do these crowds get?

1404
01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:10,680
Speaker 1: What's the biggest crowd you've heard about or played in

1405
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:12,560
Speaker 1: front of in Germany or Europe? What do you know

1406
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:15,520
Speaker 1: about that? On the end, like the NFL games, no

1407
01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 1: nor leagues that are based in Europe.

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01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:22,400
Speaker 9: So so the europe Bowld that we just played, it

1409
01:02:22,440 --> 01:02:24,800
Speaker 9: was in my hometown in Stuttgart, we played in front

1410
01:02:24,800 --> 01:02:27,440
Speaker 9: of thirty seven thousand people.

1411
01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:30,280
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I wonder why the NFL is going

1412
01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:30,640
Speaker 1: over there.

1413
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Speaker 9: Yes, and that's and that's four league that essentially was

1414
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:39,160
Speaker 9: semi pro until four years ago, you know. So it's

1415
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:42,120
Speaker 9: a big deal for just the kids that are playing

1416
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:44,240
Speaker 9: up there. Like all of our starters, all of our

1417
01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:48,480
Speaker 9: big stars, were kids that I remember playing for my

1418
01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:50,880
Speaker 9: hometown team when I was over there, being in the

1419
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:52,080
Speaker 9: youth programs and everything.

1420
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Speaker 1: When you first experienced Neeland Stadium, fah, my god, what

1421
01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:58,760
Speaker 1: was that like for you? Because you've probably been to

1422
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:02,200
Speaker 1: some you know, Buyer Munich or whatever big team's over there,

1423
01:03:02,280 --> 01:03:04,640
Speaker 1: and that's awesome, But what about kneeling with over one

1424
01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:06,760
Speaker 1: hundred thousand people all that orange? What was that like

1425
01:03:06,800 --> 01:03:07,840
Speaker 1: for you to experience in that?

1426
01:03:07,960 --> 01:03:10,520
Speaker 9: I mean, that was unreal. I mean that's all it took.

1427
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:14,320
Speaker 9: Like I took one visit during my high school recruiting phase.

1428
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:17,520
Speaker 9: It was to Niless Stadium when they played Vanderbilt at

1429
01:03:17,560 --> 01:03:20,240
Speaker 9: the end of the season. Who whole house was rocking

1430
01:03:20,400 --> 01:03:25,360
Speaker 9: the whole game. They experience when they when the players

1431
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:27,560
Speaker 9: come out and all the fans line up to greet

1432
01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:30,240
Speaker 9: them and everything and then being in the stadium when

1433
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:32,360
Speaker 9: when they when they played Rocky Top and all the

1434
01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:33,920
Speaker 9: I mean, that's that's.

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Speaker 6: All it took. I was like, yeah, where do I sign?

1436
01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:37,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not European.

1437
01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:39,640
Speaker 6: No no, no, no, no, sign me up.

1438
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:44,760
Speaker 3: I'm staying yakub going to Kansas City. Yeah, Sunday night.

1439
01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:48,840
Speaker 1: I always wondered this for NFL players playing on Sunday night?

1440
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:52,680
Speaker 1: Is it still you know, when Sunday night became the game.

1441
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:54,200
Speaker 2: Of the week. I mean, everybody, we want to play

1442
01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:57,000
Speaker 2: Sunday night. What is it like playing on Sunday night?

1443
01:03:57,080 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 2: Is that? Is it that much more special playing on

1444
01:03:59,240 --> 01:03:59,640
Speaker 2: Sunday night?

1445
01:03:59,640 --> 01:04:02,520
Speaker 3: Because you know that's the game everybody, all the you know,

1446
01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:04,320
Speaker 3: teams are back home, all the guys that you know

1447
01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:06,480
Speaker 3: are back home watching you on that particular night.

1448
01:04:06,720 --> 01:04:08,880
Speaker 1: It is the game. What's it like playing on a

1449
01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:09,480
Speaker 1: Sunday night?

1450
01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:13,040
Speaker 9: I think anytime you get the opportunity to play a

1451
01:04:13,080 --> 01:04:16,760
Speaker 9: primetime game in front of America and the world watching,

1452
01:04:17,640 --> 01:04:20,640
Speaker 9: that's a great opportunity. Yeah, great opportunity to take advantage

1453
01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:25,920
Speaker 9: off Kansas City Chiefs Arrowhead Stadium. I mean, what more

1454
01:04:25,920 --> 01:04:26,280
Speaker 9: do you want?

1455
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:29,120
Speaker 1: Yeah? Awesome environment. One more for you? So you played

1456
01:04:29,160 --> 01:04:31,880
Speaker 1: in several different American cities here, and we talked about

1457
01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:35,280
Speaker 1: Neiland Stadium in college. You played for New England Giants,

1458
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:41,440
Speaker 1: Vegas here, American cities. Look, I assume Houston is your

1459
01:04:41,480 --> 01:04:43,280
Speaker 1: favorite anyway, like America crashed.

1460
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:43,960
Speaker 2: If you could.

1461
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:46,320
Speaker 1: Houston to other places you've lived, what's it like here

1462
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:47,920
Speaker 1: for you being a resident?

1463
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:51,160
Speaker 9: Now, okay, you gotta be real careful with the food.

1464
01:04:52,640 --> 01:04:55,200
Speaker 9: The food is amazing. The food is amazing. The Houston

1465
01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:58,280
Speaker 9: fifteen is real, you know. So the food is great.

1466
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:00,600
Speaker 7: I love it.

1467
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:02,040
Speaker 6: I love it. Food is amazing.

1468
01:05:02,080 --> 01:05:02,240
Speaker 7: Man.

1469
01:05:02,840 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 9: The weather is almost good, always good. Uh, summer a

1470
01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:07,720
Speaker 9: little bit hot.

1471
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:08,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know that's almost good.

1472
01:05:09,120 --> 01:05:11,520
Speaker 9: Yeah, summer is a little bit hot. But you know,

1473
01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 9: besides that, I think it's a beautiful city. I love

1474
01:05:14,080 --> 01:05:16,440
Speaker 9: the park, Memorial Park. Yeah, yeah, you know, so it's

1475
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:17,520
Speaker 9: a lot of nice things to enjoy.

1476
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:19,360
Speaker 2: What's the summer like in shoot Gart.

1477
01:05:20,880 --> 01:05:23,800
Speaker 6: It's hot too, yeah, but not as humans, not as

1478
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:24,280
Speaker 6: human right.

1479
01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:25,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's europe hotet.

1480
01:05:25,480 --> 01:05:28,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a different like they say, it's a little

1481
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:29,200
Speaker 3: different here.

1482
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:29,440
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1483
01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:31,000
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot for joining us. Good luck.

1484
01:05:31,040 --> 01:05:33,840
Speaker 3: You gotta appreciate it. That dude is fantastic. I'd love

1485
01:05:33,880 --> 01:05:36,520
Speaker 3: having him in studio every single week. All right, we

1486
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Speaker 3: get back. It's men behind the Mike's time. Josh Klingler,

1487
01:05:40,280 --> 01:05:42,960
Speaker 3: the John Harrison that the Kansas City Chiefs sideline reporter

1488
01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:45,480
Speaker 3: and analysts for them, will join Mark vandermier Nax right

1489
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Speaker 3: here in Texans. All right, here we go, Texans All

1490
01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:51,960
Speaker 3: Access coming at you on a Wednesday evening. Before we

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01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:55,080
Speaker 3: hand it over to the guys an area, forty fives

1492
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Speaker 3: will break down everything happen in Houston, sports, your Texans,

1493
01:05:58,680 --> 01:06:01,760
Speaker 3: your Rockets, anything else going on Major League Baseball.

1494
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:04,680
Speaker 2: I've seen much hot stove news at.

1495
01:06:04,480 --> 01:06:06,800
Speaker 3: This point, but I'm sure there'll be some at some point,

1496
01:06:06,840 --> 01:06:09,440
Speaker 3: and those guys will take you through it. But we're

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Speaker 3: talking Texans here, and we've got a big one Sunday night,

1498
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:14,160
Speaker 3: as we all know, taking on the Kansas City Chiefs

1499
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Speaker 3: and the John Harrison, the Kansas City Chiefs. Josh Klingler

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Speaker 3: set down and cut up with Mark Fanning of the

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Speaker 3: Voice of the Texans.

1502
01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:23,520
Speaker 2: We call men behind the Miccident's right.

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Speaker 1: Here with us now in Texans Radio. Josh Klingler, sideline

1504
01:06:26,520 --> 01:06:29,440
Speaker 1: reporter for the Kansas City Chiefs Chiefs Radio Network Josh,

1505
01:06:29,440 --> 01:06:31,520
Speaker 1: how's it going. You're ready for this one on Sunday.

1506
01:06:31,840 --> 01:06:35,200
Speaker 10: Well, it's going a little differently again Penthouse problems for

1507
01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:39,200
Speaker 10: the Chiefs this year, we're living everybody else's season. I

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01:06:39,240 --> 01:06:43,640
Speaker 10: think Kansas City fans uncomfortably living every other NFL fans

1509
01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:47,240
Speaker 10: season where you're battling for a playhoff spot down the

1510
01:06:47,280 --> 01:06:52,320
Speaker 10: stretch versus other years where they're seemingly, you know, looking

1511
01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:54,320
Speaker 10: at the number one seed and how they can attain it.

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01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:56,480
Speaker 10: So it's been a little bit of a different ride,

1513
01:06:57,160 --> 01:06:59,760
Speaker 10: uneasy ride for most fans in Kansas City. And I

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01:06:59,800 --> 01:07:01,720
Speaker 10: think of this team as well, because I don't think

1515
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:04,320
Speaker 10: they planned to be in the position that they're in

1516
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:08,360
Speaker 10: right now, where basically this game with Houston's a playoff

1517
01:07:08,360 --> 01:07:10,400
Speaker 10: game next week, with the Chargers in the playoff game,

1518
01:07:10,520 --> 01:07:12,960
Speaker 10: so on and so forth, and they're right in the

1519
01:07:13,040 --> 01:07:14,840
Speaker 10: thick of, you know, being in or out.

1520
01:07:15,160 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 1: Every team has multiple issues, But what would you say

1521
01:07:17,800 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 1: is the biggest issue affecting the Chiefs negatively this year?

1522
01:07:22,400 --> 01:07:26,880
Speaker 10: I think it's been penalties and discipline. They've They've been

1523
01:07:26,920 --> 01:07:30,320
Speaker 10: in every game. They've just lost a lot of close

1524
01:07:30,360 --> 01:07:32,400
Speaker 10: games that they were able to pull out. A season ago,

1525
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:35,280
Speaker 10: you know, not being able to find that kind of

1526
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:37,960
Speaker 10: big play, that key play. At times, this team's looked

1527
01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:41,800
Speaker 10: a little non cohesive in spots, but I think most

1528
01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:44,480
Speaker 10: of it has been kind of engineered by by discipline

1529
01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:48,960
Speaker 10: and penalties and getting you know those little those little

1530
01:07:50,440 --> 01:07:54,160
Speaker 10: false start penalties or something that derails to drive or defensively.

1531
01:07:54,240 --> 01:07:57,080
Speaker 10: Maybe last week certainly they were a little bit handsy

1532
01:07:57,120 --> 01:08:00,080
Speaker 10: and got some pass interference that we're having problems getting

1533
01:08:00,120 --> 01:08:02,600
Speaker 10: them off the field. So I think for the most part,

1534
01:08:02,680 --> 01:08:04,280
Speaker 10: you know, the biggest questions that have been asked to

1535
01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 10: Andy Reid this week have been about the penalties, because

1536
01:08:07,560 --> 01:08:10,200
Speaker 10: it's something that hasn't really been cleaned up throughout much

1537
01:08:10,240 --> 01:08:13,120
Speaker 10: of the season, and I think that it's probably they

1538
01:08:13,160 --> 01:08:15,400
Speaker 10: will they would look and say, that's the thing that's

1539
01:08:15,400 --> 01:08:18,880
Speaker 10: been keeping us from from winning maybe these close games.

1540
01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:21,200
Speaker 10: So it's been a little bit different. Last year, they

1541
01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:23,080
Speaker 10: were a team that lived on the close games and

1542
01:08:23,120 --> 01:08:26,040
Speaker 10: they were really good and figuring the way out. This year,

1543
01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:28,360
Speaker 10: they haven't really been able to figure much out and

1544
01:08:28,439 --> 01:08:32,439
Speaker 10: have dropped more of those you know, three and you know,

1545
01:08:32,520 --> 01:08:33,719
Speaker 10: four point type games.

1546
01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:36,960
Speaker 1: Are they getting the ground game they want? Do they

1547
01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:39,240
Speaker 1: want to run the ball more, take the heat off

1548
01:08:39,280 --> 01:08:44,000
Speaker 1: Mahomes and the pass catchers. How do you see it, Josh.

1549
01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:45,559
Speaker 10: Well, that's always been kind of the big question really

1550
01:08:45,560 --> 01:08:50,240
Speaker 10: with Andy Reid because he's, you know, a West Coast offense,

1551
01:08:50,360 --> 01:08:54,479
Speaker 10: pass first type guy, and certainly when you have Patrick Mahomes,

1552
01:08:54,920 --> 01:08:56,559
Speaker 10: you know, you run the football, you take the ball

1553
01:08:56,560 --> 01:08:58,559
Speaker 10: out of the best player in football, teinds. So that's

1554
01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:01,080
Speaker 10: always kind of the the the call that's been a

1555
01:09:01,080 --> 01:09:04,160
Speaker 10: little bit difficult. Two games ago, really committed to the run.

1556
01:09:05,200 --> 01:09:08,640
Speaker 10: Last week dug themselves some third and long situations kind

1557
01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:10,800
Speaker 10: of right out of the shoot, which seemingly kind of

1558
01:09:10,960 --> 01:09:15,280
Speaker 10: took the pressure away from, you know, trying to establish

1559
01:09:15,320 --> 01:09:17,880
Speaker 10: the run game and made them pass a little bit more.

1560
01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:21,800
Speaker 10: So it's always been kind of a push pull. Two

1561
01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:25,200
Speaker 10: weeks ago, the really down a running back. Last week

1562
01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:27,600
Speaker 10: had the full compliment of running backs. It's really a

1563
01:09:27,640 --> 01:09:29,839
Speaker 10: one to two punch with Kareem Hunt and Isaiah Pacheco,

1564
01:09:29,920 --> 01:09:32,960
Speaker 10: and they're going their best when both guys are available.

1565
01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:36,360
Speaker 10: But seemingly that's been an issue as well, trying to

1566
01:09:36,360 --> 01:09:39,639
Speaker 10: figure out exactly how to work in the run game

1567
01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:41,679
Speaker 10: to help compliment the pass game. I think it would

1568
01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:44,960
Speaker 10: be beneficial. I think that they are at times hesitant

1569
01:09:45,200 --> 01:09:47,960
Speaker 10: to kind of kind of go that direction and prefer

1570
01:09:48,040 --> 01:09:50,320
Speaker 10: they have a really nice compliment of wide receivers, and

1571
01:09:50,360 --> 01:09:52,559
Speaker 10: so they like to spread the football round and throw

1572
01:09:52,560 --> 01:09:55,479
Speaker 10: it around, and sometimes I think the run game gets

1573
01:09:55,479 --> 01:09:58,519
Speaker 10: forgotten in that aspect, but there's always kind of a push.

1574
01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:00,840
Speaker 10: But can they continue it in the midst of a game.

1575
01:10:01,360 --> 01:10:05,120
Speaker 1: Josh Klingler joining US sideline reporter for the Chiefs Radio Network. Josh,

1576
01:10:05,160 --> 01:10:07,439
Speaker 1: what kind of version are we getting of Travis Kelce

1577
01:10:07,560 --> 01:10:08,519
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five?

1578
01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:12,040
Speaker 10: You know, I think that there was probably an expectation

1579
01:10:12,160 --> 01:10:14,839
Speaker 10: this year that hey, they gotten younger at wide receiver,

1580
01:10:14,920 --> 01:10:17,599
Speaker 10: They've spent some draft picks at wide receiver, the wide

1581
01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:20,479
Speaker 10: receiver room was pretty full. So maybe Travis Kelsey can

1582
01:10:20,520 --> 01:10:23,240
Speaker 10: take a step back and maybe just be be a guy,

1583
01:10:23,400 --> 01:10:25,360
Speaker 10: or be a tight end, just be just a straight

1584
01:10:25,680 --> 01:10:29,680
Speaker 10: normal NFL tight end. And you know, he looks he

1585
01:10:29,760 --> 01:10:32,559
Speaker 10: looks great, you know, even to the point where you know,

1586
01:10:32,560 --> 01:10:34,960
Speaker 10: everybody kind of assumed that this was his last year.

1587
01:10:35,640 --> 01:10:38,760
Speaker 10: Maybe it's not. He still hasn't definitively answered that, but

1588
01:10:38,840 --> 01:10:41,880
Speaker 10: also hasn't ruled it out. He's been very, very good.

1589
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:46,400
Speaker 10: Still is Patrick mahomes number one target. If Patrick Mahomes

1590
01:10:46,439 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 10: is in trouble, he's looking for eighty seven. They have

1591
01:10:49,040 --> 01:10:52,360
Speaker 10: a magical connection that has worked over the years and

1592
01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:56,360
Speaker 10: is still right now. Does he have the speed He has? No,

1593
01:10:57,040 --> 01:10:59,360
Speaker 10: But can he get open in the middle of the field. Absolutely.

1594
01:10:59,479 --> 01:11:01,759
Speaker 10: He's probably get less double teams than he's ever gotten

1595
01:11:02,439 --> 01:11:05,439
Speaker 10: because they are, you know, taking the focus to some

1596
01:11:05,479 --> 01:11:08,479
Speaker 10: of the other wide receiver targets. But no, he's and

1597
01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:10,160
Speaker 10: they've also i think, done a pretty good job of

1598
01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:13,320
Speaker 10: balancing his plays out this year, probably been on the

1599
01:11:13,320 --> 01:11:16,559
Speaker 10: field a little bit less by design than another year,

1600
01:11:16,640 --> 01:11:20,040
Speaker 10: so they've kept him nice and fresh. He's still a

1601
01:11:20,200 --> 01:11:24,040
Speaker 10: very viable target. Even though I thought heading into the

1602
01:11:24,080 --> 01:11:26,280
Speaker 10: year this would be the year they maybe start to

1603
01:11:26,280 --> 01:11:29,200
Speaker 10: phase him out, it's been anything but that. He's still

1604
01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:30,840
Speaker 10: the emergency blanket for.

1605
01:11:31,320 --> 01:11:35,600
Speaker 1: Patrick all right, Rashie Rice tell me about him. Obviously

1606
01:11:36,080 --> 01:11:39,599
Speaker 1: very productive and has made such a difference since coming back.

1607
01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:42,160
Speaker 10: Yeah, I can do a number of different things too,

1608
01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:44,760
Speaker 10: and they've still i think just kind of scratched the

1609
01:11:44,760 --> 01:11:47,720
Speaker 10: surface of how they want to use him. But very

1610
01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:51,920
Speaker 10: effective in the red zone, very effective in getting the

1611
01:11:51,960 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 10: ball and running after catch. A guy they line up

1612
01:11:54,920 --> 01:11:57,360
Speaker 10: in the backfield a little bit as well. Haven't seen

1613
01:11:57,360 --> 01:11:59,400
Speaker 10: as much of that as we thought maybe they would

1614
01:11:59,400 --> 01:12:01,400
Speaker 10: when they brought him act. But he's a guy that

1615
01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:03,400
Speaker 10: can can take the burden a little bit off the

1616
01:12:03,479 --> 01:12:06,080
Speaker 10: run game, or at least uh switched the run game

1617
01:12:06,080 --> 01:12:08,960
Speaker 10: into kind of a different phase. His ability to to

1618
01:12:09,080 --> 01:12:11,680
Speaker 10: run out of the backfield or use end a rounds. Uh.

1619
01:12:11,720 --> 01:12:13,640
Speaker 10: They've even used him in a kind of a wildcat

1620
01:12:14,000 --> 01:12:18,639
Speaker 10: situation as well. Really versatile guy that has the chance,

1621
01:12:18,880 --> 01:12:20,799
Speaker 10: has the chance still has played a lot of games.

1622
01:12:21,040 --> 01:12:22,519
Speaker 10: I mean, he still has a chance to be one

1623
01:12:22,560 --> 01:12:24,479
Speaker 10: of the one of the top wide receivers in the league.

1624
01:12:24,520 --> 01:12:26,559
Speaker 10: He's got great hands, he's got good speed, he can

1625
01:12:26,640 --> 01:12:32,439
Speaker 10: run all the routes. At times last week a couple drops,

1626
01:12:32,479 --> 01:12:34,759
Speaker 10: so he kind of shook your head about. So hopefully

1627
01:12:34,760 --> 01:12:37,719
Speaker 10: that's just kind of a one off type thing. Andy

1628
01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:40,920
Speaker 10: Reid seems to think it was a guy that can

1629
01:12:41,040 --> 01:12:43,360
Speaker 10: use in a lot of versatile, versatile ways, and so

1630
01:12:44,560 --> 01:12:47,000
Speaker 10: he's a key component to the offense. He was the

1631
01:12:47,040 --> 01:12:49,200
Speaker 10: guy if you were you know, asking you who is

1632
01:12:49,240 --> 01:12:52,559
Speaker 10: going to be Patrick's go to guy? Once Kelsey is

1633
01:12:52,680 --> 01:12:55,200
Speaker 10: maybe no longer there. I think it's setting up to

1634
01:12:55,200 --> 01:12:57,559
Speaker 10: be Rashie Rice. There are games where he is the

1635
01:12:57,640 --> 01:13:02,960
Speaker 10: definitive number one target, but it's been consistency with pretty

1636
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:06,360
Speaker 10: much all the receivers and really this entire offense. That yes,

1637
01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:09,519
Speaker 10: it's a good problem to have to not exactly keep

1638
01:13:09,520 --> 01:13:13,040
Speaker 10: a defense knowing who you're going to go to, but

1639
01:13:13,160 --> 01:13:15,759
Speaker 10: also at times you have to answer the question yourself,

1640
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:18,000
Speaker 10: who are you going to go to? And I think

1641
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:20,679
Speaker 10: at times it probably should be Rashie Rice a little

1642
01:13:20,680 --> 01:13:21,000
Speaker 10: bit more.

1643
01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:24,280
Speaker 1: Josh Klinger joining us. He does the sideline reporting for

1644
01:13:24,280 --> 01:13:26,600
Speaker 1: the Chiefs Radio network. What about the defense? When we

1645
01:13:26,640 --> 01:13:28,640
Speaker 1: talk about the Chiefs defense in Houston, we always talk

1646
01:13:28,680 --> 01:13:32,599
Speaker 1: about Chris Jones first and maybe George carloftis second. Are

1647
01:13:32,640 --> 01:13:35,559
Speaker 1: we right to do that? Who else should the Texans

1648
01:13:35,560 --> 01:13:36,080
Speaker 1: be aware of?

1649
01:13:36,760 --> 01:13:39,840
Speaker 10: Well, they're the most important, to be sure, and that's

1650
01:13:39,880 --> 01:13:42,080
Speaker 10: an area that kind of comes and goes as well.

1651
01:13:42,120 --> 01:13:44,320
Speaker 10: They haven't been all that great in the sack department,

1652
01:13:44,400 --> 01:13:48,200
Speaker 10: but creating pressure at times has been good. Defense has

1653
01:13:48,240 --> 01:13:51,920
Speaker 10: been for the most part pretty solid. Now last week

1654
01:13:52,080 --> 01:13:54,479
Speaker 10: was the anomaly. Two weeks ago against the Colts, they

1655
01:13:54,479 --> 01:13:56,920
Speaker 10: were the absolute story, shutting down the Colts in the

1656
01:13:56,960 --> 01:13:59,559
Speaker 10: second half and really kind of waiting for the offense

1657
01:13:59,600 --> 01:14:02,000
Speaker 10: to get and they were the story of that game.

1658
01:14:02,280 --> 01:14:04,200
Speaker 10: Last week, they were also the story of the game,

1659
01:14:04,200 --> 01:14:06,040
Speaker 10: but for the other reason they couldn't get off the field,

1660
01:14:06,120 --> 01:14:08,880
Speaker 10: especially on third downs, and really especially on third down

1661
01:14:08,880 --> 01:14:11,439
Speaker 10: and long situations. They got themselves in last week. So

1662
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:14,320
Speaker 10: it's a little bit baffling. At times they look like

1663
01:14:14,720 --> 01:14:17,760
Speaker 10: they are world beaters and then at times they can

1664
01:14:17,800 --> 01:14:22,080
Speaker 10: be exposed. Nick Bolton at linebacker another guy to watch,

1665
01:14:22,160 --> 01:14:26,120
Speaker 10: real downhill runner, maybe a little bit susceptible in the

1666
01:14:26,160 --> 01:14:28,479
Speaker 10: past game, and I think that's been kind of the weakness.

1667
01:14:28,520 --> 01:14:31,560
Speaker 10: Can you occupy the middle of the field against the

1668
01:14:31,640 --> 01:14:34,200
Speaker 10: Chiefs defense. Do you have wide receivers that can run

1669
01:14:34,240 --> 01:14:35,800
Speaker 10: a lot of crossing routes. Can you get a tight

1670
01:14:35,880 --> 01:14:37,599
Speaker 10: end open in the middle of the field, because that's

1671
01:14:37,640 --> 01:14:40,960
Speaker 10: been where they've been most vulnerable. And then in the secondary.

1672
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:44,599
Speaker 10: Trent McDuffie's They're all Pro corner probably played his worst

1673
01:14:44,640 --> 01:14:47,680
Speaker 10: game of his career last week against the Cowboys, So

1674
01:14:48,479 --> 01:14:50,240
Speaker 10: guessing he's going to try to bounce back from that

1675
01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:53,040
Speaker 10: one because he had a not so great performance dealing

1676
01:14:53,080 --> 01:14:55,799
Speaker 10: with Lamb and Pickens a week ago from the Cowboys,

1677
01:14:55,800 --> 01:14:58,920
Speaker 10: who really chewed up the chief secondary last week.

1678
01:14:59,479 --> 01:15:02,320
Speaker 1: Josh. The Chiefs are six and six, as you know,

1679
01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:05,479
Speaker 1: and Denver's got that ten win total heading into the

1680
01:15:05,479 --> 01:15:09,680
Speaker 1: weekend leading the AFC West. But who are you concerned

1681
01:15:09,760 --> 01:15:12,519
Speaker 1: with coming down the stretch here as far as making

1682
01:15:12,560 --> 01:15:15,000
Speaker 1: the playoffs? Who do you think the main competition is?

1683
01:15:15,080 --> 01:15:17,719
Speaker 1: What are you looking at here after losing a Buffalo?

1684
01:15:17,760 --> 01:15:19,679
Speaker 1: They have the seventh spot right now, but what else?

1685
01:15:19,680 --> 01:15:21,400
Speaker 1: How do you see the field right now?

1686
01:15:21,400 --> 01:15:24,479
Speaker 10: If you will, Yeah, I mean I think they have

1687
01:15:24,560 --> 01:15:27,760
Speaker 10: to run the table. I know that there's scenarios out

1688
01:15:27,800 --> 01:15:29,360
Speaker 10: there that are doing kind of the mass and can

1689
01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:32,080
Speaker 10: say they can give up one more, But it just

1690
01:15:32,120 --> 01:15:34,559
Speaker 10: feels like a team that has to go and win

1691
01:15:34,600 --> 01:15:36,720
Speaker 10: them all. And that would include beating teams that have

1692
01:15:36,760 --> 01:15:39,679
Speaker 10: already gotten you in the Chargers and the Broncos, so

1693
01:15:39,920 --> 01:15:43,040
Speaker 10: those are massive. The Texans one, obviously is huge. You're

1694
01:15:43,080 --> 01:15:45,479
Speaker 10: talking about kind of similar teams and similar boats. They've

1695
01:15:45,479 --> 01:15:47,280
Speaker 10: lost a lot of the head to head kind of

1696
01:15:47,280 --> 01:15:54,640
Speaker 10: tiebreakers that they probably need. Buffalo certainly was there the Jaguars,

1697
01:15:54,640 --> 01:15:57,320
Speaker 10: which was one of their weird performances of the year.

1698
01:15:58,320 --> 01:16:01,000
Speaker 10: They do have a tiebreaker over the the Ravens. Bolva

1699
01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:02,840
Speaker 10: Bat Division is kind of a mess right now, so

1700
01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:05,240
Speaker 10: it's hard to kind of see where that one shakes out.

1701
01:16:05,320 --> 01:16:08,120
Speaker 10: So they've lost some of the key tiebreakers in this

1702
01:16:08,240 --> 01:16:12,559
Speaker 10: six and six effort as well, So I think I

1703
01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:14,439
Speaker 10: think they got to run the table, which is asking

1704
01:16:14,479 --> 01:16:17,320
Speaker 10: a lot for a team that again is six and

1705
01:16:17,400 --> 01:16:20,360
Speaker 10: six to win five straight games, But I feel like

1706
01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:22,440
Speaker 10: it's going to take that to get into the postseason.

1707
01:16:22,479 --> 01:16:24,560
Speaker 10: I don't think seven. I think seven. You're doing a

1708
01:16:24,600 --> 01:16:28,400
Speaker 10: lot of squinting in mass and and hoping for a

1709
01:16:28,400 --> 01:16:30,439
Speaker 10: lot of stuff to happen to get you in that position.

1710
01:16:30,479 --> 01:16:32,920
Speaker 10: But I think they need to beat the Texans, the Chargers,

1711
01:16:33,200 --> 01:16:36,320
Speaker 10: and the Broncos. Those are huge games. Their road games

1712
01:16:36,360 --> 01:16:39,000
Speaker 10: are at Tennessee and at the Raiders, two very bad teams,

1713
01:16:39,000 --> 01:16:41,840
Speaker 10: so can't afford to stub your toe there. But got

1714
01:16:41,880 --> 01:16:44,439
Speaker 10: to win one to win the rest, and I think

1715
01:16:44,640 --> 01:16:47,679
Speaker 10: I think if it all shakes out, if they drop

1716
01:16:47,720 --> 01:16:49,439
Speaker 10: one more, they're going to be on the outside looking in.

1717
01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:52,800
Speaker 1: What are people in Kansas City saying about the Texans.

1718
01:16:53,600 --> 01:16:56,080
Speaker 10: Really really afraid of the pass rush and I think

1719
01:16:56,120 --> 01:16:58,439
Speaker 10: that's rightfully, So I don't know what kind of shape

1720
01:16:58,479 --> 01:17:00,639
Speaker 10: the Chiefs offensive line is going to be this week.

1721
01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:04,920
Speaker 10: Lost their left tackle Josh Simmons to what appears to

1722
01:17:04,960 --> 01:17:07,360
Speaker 10: be a season ending risk injury, although he's getting a

1723
01:17:07,400 --> 01:17:12,120
Speaker 10: second opinion. They're right tackle Juwan Taylor has been off

1724
01:17:12,120 --> 01:17:14,320
Speaker 10: and un injured all season and he had to leave

1725
01:17:14,360 --> 01:17:17,000
Speaker 10: the game last week, so had two backup tackles in

1726
01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:20,320
Speaker 10: the ballgame last week, also still playing without their their

1727
01:17:20,360 --> 01:17:23,120
Speaker 10: all Pro guard in Trey Smith, who might not be

1728
01:17:23,160 --> 01:17:27,839
Speaker 10: available this week either, so they could have three backup

1729
01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:30,720
Speaker 10: offensive linemen trying to deal with the Houston pass rush,

1730
01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:34,040
Speaker 10: and so that certainly is a number one. If they

1731
01:17:34,040 --> 01:17:36,360
Speaker 10: don't protect Patrick Mahomes this week, it is going to

1732
01:17:36,360 --> 01:17:38,640
Speaker 10: be a long day at the office because even with

1733
01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:41,840
Speaker 10: the starters in their Houston's defensive line is really really good.

1734
01:17:42,120 --> 01:17:45,200
Speaker 10: And again, there could be three backups playing along the

1735
01:17:45,200 --> 01:17:47,679
Speaker 10: offensive line this week, which would not bode well.

1736
01:17:48,240 --> 01:17:50,639
Speaker 1: Josh, what kind of a sports town is Kansas City?

1737
01:17:50,680 --> 01:17:53,560
Speaker 1: We all know it's Chiefs Kingdom, we all know the success,

1738
01:17:53,960 --> 01:17:57,679
Speaker 1: but in general over the years, how would you define

1739
01:17:58,160 --> 01:18:00,840
Speaker 1: or characterize Kansas City of sports city?

1740
01:18:01,360 --> 01:18:03,479
Speaker 10: I think a real good one. I think. I think

1741
01:18:03,920 --> 01:18:07,639
Speaker 10: their ability to host events has been kind of on display.

1742
01:18:07,760 --> 01:18:10,439
Speaker 10: It's been obviously the neighborhood of the the Big Twelve

1743
01:18:10,439 --> 01:18:12,800
Speaker 10: basketball tournament for years and years and years in Kansas City,

1744
01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:16,280
Speaker 10: has a great job hosting various other kind of tournaments

1745
01:18:16,280 --> 01:18:18,559
Speaker 10: are coming through the The College Cup is here this weekend,

1746
01:18:18,640 --> 01:18:22,200
Speaker 10: the the the final four of of the women's soccer tournament,

1747
01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:24,479
Speaker 10: although we probably need to get some snow off the

1748
01:18:24,520 --> 01:18:26,680
Speaker 10: ground for that for that event to be a hit.

1749
01:18:27,080 --> 01:18:30,960
Speaker 10: But their ability to kind of host events throughout Kansas City.

1750
01:18:31,000 --> 01:18:33,800
Speaker 10: The World Cup obviously part of the rotation as well,

1751
01:18:33,880 --> 01:18:36,280
Speaker 10: So I think that's kind of what's been been huge.

1752
01:18:36,320 --> 01:18:38,200
Speaker 10: It's a it's a real good soccer town as well.

1753
01:18:38,640 --> 01:18:41,360
Speaker 10: Uh Sporting case has always done well. The women's team,

1754
01:18:41,960 --> 01:18:44,360
Speaker 10: the Current were number one till being knocked out in

1755
01:18:44,400 --> 01:18:47,680
Speaker 10: the playoffs and then they've been sellouts since really the

1756
01:18:47,760 --> 01:18:52,760
Speaker 10: last three years. So it's been a really neat sports town.

1757
01:18:52,760 --> 01:18:56,479
Speaker 10: Obviously driven by the the Chief success and before that, uh,

1758
01:18:56,640 --> 01:18:58,640
Speaker 10: you know, the run by the Royals, but you know

1759
01:18:58,680 --> 01:19:02,839
Speaker 10: they they love following their teams. College basketball college football

1760
01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:05,000
Speaker 10: always been big in this area with kind of the

1761
01:19:05,040 --> 01:19:07,880
Speaker 10: three colleges nearby and Kansas Missouri and Kansas State all

1762
01:19:07,960 --> 01:19:10,360
Speaker 10: kind of always fighting over Kansas City as their home.

1763
01:19:10,479 --> 01:19:12,639
Speaker 10: So always been a good sports town right now maybe

1764
01:19:12,640 --> 01:19:17,479
Speaker 10: a little grouchy sports town again, because I think everybody

1765
01:19:17,479 --> 01:19:20,599
Speaker 10: expected this is a really talented Chiefs team, maybe more

1766
01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:24,360
Speaker 10: talented than the last couple that made it, you know,

1767
01:19:24,400 --> 01:19:26,160
Speaker 10: all the way to the super Bowl and to find

1768
01:19:26,200 --> 01:19:28,320
Speaker 10: themselves at six and six. I think I think the

1769
01:19:28,360 --> 01:19:30,479
Speaker 10: town's a little more grouchy than it's been. And I

1770
01:19:30,479 --> 01:19:32,880
Speaker 10: don't know, it's kind of a combination of is the

1771
01:19:32,960 --> 01:19:37,800
Speaker 10: run over and maybe less appreciative of the run at

1772
01:19:37,800 --> 01:19:40,040
Speaker 10: this point, and more people saying what the heck happened

1773
01:19:40,080 --> 01:19:42,040
Speaker 10: this year and what's going on? Why are they in

1774
01:19:42,040 --> 01:19:45,160
Speaker 10: this position than appreciative of the fact that they've been

1775
01:19:45,200 --> 01:19:48,320
Speaker 10: living in the football penthouse for quite some time now.

1776
01:19:48,479 --> 01:19:52,280
Speaker 10: And this is how normal I think normal NFLF seasons go. Right,

1777
01:19:52,360 --> 01:19:55,200
Speaker 10: You're playing the last five games for your playoff lives.

1778
01:19:55,840 --> 01:19:56,680
Speaker 10: We're not used to this.

1779
01:19:56,800 --> 01:19:59,879
Speaker 1: Right now, What is the latest on the stadium situation?

1780
01:20:00,840 --> 01:20:02,920
Speaker 10: The latest is there isn't the latest. It has been

1781
01:20:03,720 --> 01:20:09,160
Speaker 10: just a few years now of negotiations and setting up

1782
01:20:09,320 --> 01:20:12,439
Speaker 10: test balloons, that kind of thing. Because the Royals and

1783
01:20:12,520 --> 01:20:17,360
Speaker 10: Chiefs share a complex. At the moment, the Royals don't

1784
01:20:17,360 --> 01:20:20,000
Speaker 10: want to be there. The Royals have been trying to move.

1785
01:20:20,040 --> 01:20:24,240
Speaker 10: They had a failed attempt to move downtown. They have

1786
01:20:24,560 --> 01:20:27,920
Speaker 10: basically said they will not be at that complex when

1787
01:20:27,920 --> 01:20:30,840
Speaker 10: their lease expires in twenty thirty one. But the things

1788
01:20:30,880 --> 01:20:33,679
Speaker 10: are clocks ticking now, and so they don't have a location.

1789
01:20:33,840 --> 01:20:37,479
Speaker 10: I think the Chiefs ultimately are waiting to see exactly

1790
01:20:37,560 --> 01:20:39,880
Speaker 10: what the Chief's location is going to be, and then

1791
01:20:39,880 --> 01:20:41,519
Speaker 10: they're going to figure out whether or not they're going

1792
01:20:41,560 --> 01:20:45,439
Speaker 10: to stay in their current location and build a new stadium,

1793
01:20:45,840 --> 01:20:48,200
Speaker 10: or they're going to be looking elsewhere as well. We'll

1794
01:20:48,200 --> 01:20:50,880
Speaker 10: see it's still completely up in the air. Both states

1795
01:20:50,880 --> 01:20:53,959
Speaker 10: are involved, which makes this unique as well, Kansas and Missouri.

1796
01:20:54,840 --> 01:20:56,840
Speaker 10: Not to say fighting over it, the kind of fighting

1797
01:20:56,840 --> 01:20:59,559
Speaker 10: over it. I think everybody's kind of trying to weigh

1798
01:20:59,560 --> 01:21:01,599
Speaker 10: their best deal, but the best deal has apparently been

1799
01:21:01,720 --> 01:21:04,080
Speaker 10: very very slow, because it feels like we've been kind

1800
01:21:04,080 --> 01:21:08,720
Speaker 10: of sitting in neutral for quite some time. In my

1801
01:21:08,800 --> 01:21:11,960
Speaker 10: heart of hearts, I think the Chiefs will stay at

1802
01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:15,000
Speaker 10: their current location, maybe build a new stadium on that

1803
01:21:15,120 --> 01:21:17,880
Speaker 10: site rather than any kind of renovations, and then you know,

1804
01:21:18,040 --> 01:21:19,840
Speaker 10: the state of Kansas may get a part of it

1805
01:21:19,840 --> 01:21:21,920
Speaker 10: as well, maybe a practice facility or something in the

1806
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:24,160
Speaker 10: state of Kansas. I think wouldn't be kind of out

1807
01:21:24,200 --> 01:21:26,880
Speaker 10: of line, and that the Royals will eventually find a

1808
01:21:26,920 --> 01:21:29,200
Speaker 10: way to figure out to get at least closer to

1809
01:21:29,680 --> 01:21:33,120
Speaker 10: downtown and we'll have downtown Baseball and then a stadium

1810
01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:35,880
Speaker 10: still in both in Kansas City, Missouri. But could be

1811
01:21:35,880 --> 01:21:38,160
Speaker 10: completely wrong because it seems like the wind blows and

1812
01:21:38,720 --> 01:21:43,320
Speaker 10: something changes, and nothing's been definitive really from either side

1813
01:21:43,360 --> 01:21:45,840
Speaker 10: that they're are both still waiting to see what the

1814
01:21:45,840 --> 01:21:48,559
Speaker 10: other is doing, and neither's moving very fast.

1815
01:21:49,040 --> 01:21:51,640
Speaker 1: Well, great information there, Josh, Thanks so much for joining us.

1816
01:21:51,640 --> 01:21:54,280
Speaker 1: We look forward to seeing your Sunday night at Arrowhead.

1817
01:21:54,680 --> 01:21:56,599
Speaker 10: All right, dial down the pass rush a little bit,

1818
01:21:56,600 --> 01:22:00,400
Speaker 10: all right, back off to those edge rushers. Okay, they

1819
01:22:00,479 --> 01:22:01,160
Speaker 10: could have a day.

1820
01:22:01,479 --> 01:22:03,719
Speaker 1: They won't listen to me anyway, Thanks Josh.

1821
01:22:04,360 --> 01:22:09,719
Speaker 3: No, bring the heat, bring all the heat bringing. Speaking

1822
01:22:09,760 --> 01:22:12,559
Speaker 3: of bringing the heat, Demiko Ryans brought to this press

1823
01:22:12,600 --> 01:22:15,120
Speaker 3: conference today, let's hear it in its entirety.

1824
01:22:15,160 --> 01:22:16,800
Speaker 2: To finish up the show next right here, in Texans

1825
01:22:16,840 --> 01:22:17,560
Speaker 2: All Access.

1826
01:22:20,040 --> 01:22:23,280
Speaker 3: We got one final segment Wednesday, istion a Texans All Access.

1827
01:22:23,320 --> 01:22:25,200
Speaker 3: I'm your host, John Harris, foot play on a sideline,

1828
01:22:25,200 --> 01:22:28,439
Speaker 3: Reporter's time, take a listen, Tomko Ryans and a lot

1829
01:22:28,479 --> 01:22:30,080
Speaker 3: says presser today.

1830
01:22:30,400 --> 01:22:33,880
Speaker 2: Let's take a listen to it in its entirety. Let's rock.

1831
01:22:34,600 --> 01:22:37,680
Speaker 11: But how dangerous still is the Chiefs with all the

1832
01:22:37,680 --> 01:22:39,120
Speaker 11: ball players they special offense.

1833
01:22:39,320 --> 01:22:40,840
Speaker 7: We know the Chiefs are a really good team.

1834
01:22:41,640 --> 01:22:44,799
Speaker 12: Sorry, next opponent, So we're fired up for the matchup,

1835
01:22:44,960 --> 01:22:48,519
Speaker 12: excited to go play a really good team.

1836
01:22:48,600 --> 01:22:51,120
Speaker 13: There's an extra element of having them playing in the cold.

1837
01:22:52,000 --> 01:22:53,000
Speaker 7: What is the challenge of that?

1838
01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:54,000
Speaker 1: And did you have any.

1839
01:22:53,800 --> 01:22:55,960
Speaker 13: Strategies when you were a player of keeping warm in

1840
01:22:56,040 --> 01:22:56,639
Speaker 13: cold games?

1841
01:22:56,800 --> 01:22:57,000
Speaker 7: Yeah?

1842
01:22:57,040 --> 01:22:59,439
Speaker 12: This strategy for playing in the cold is not to

1843
01:23:00,080 --> 01:23:03,120
Speaker 12: focus on it too much, right, It's it's a mindset factor.

1844
01:23:03,200 --> 01:23:04,840
Speaker 7: You have three hours, like, no.

1845
01:23:04,720 --> 01:23:07,560
Speaker 12: Matter what the weather is, matter what the temperature like,

1846
01:23:07,640 --> 01:23:10,320
Speaker 12: you gotta go out and play ball for three hours.

1847
01:23:10,360 --> 01:23:13,519
Speaker 12: So it shoulda it shoulda be a factor for our guys.

1848
01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:17,280
Speaker 11: You updated on Kamor and Lasser and also uh uh

1849
01:23:17,280 --> 01:23:18,120
Speaker 11: Woody Marks.

1850
01:23:18,439 --> 01:23:21,400
Speaker 12: Yeah, Kamari Woodie will they all They'll be fine. See

1851
01:23:21,400 --> 01:23:23,040
Speaker 12: how the week, uh week goes.

1852
01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:26,760
Speaker 8: A pretty bitter lost in Kansas City is pretty fired

1853
01:23:26,840 --> 01:23:28,800
Speaker 8: up locker room. Do you feel like there's any kind

1854
01:23:28,840 --> 01:23:30,800
Speaker 8: of funny rivalry there and do you think that your

1855
01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:33,200
Speaker 8: players thought about that lost specifically the summer of the

1856
01:23:33,240 --> 01:23:34,400
Speaker 8: season anything like that.

1857
01:23:34,520 --> 01:23:37,200
Speaker 7: No rivalry, No, no hard feelings.

1858
01:23:37,240 --> 01:23:40,200
Speaker 12: We lost a football game, right, new season, we have

1859
01:23:40,240 --> 01:23:43,760
Speaker 12: a new team. Uh s about this team this year? Like,

1860
01:23:43,840 --> 01:23:45,759
Speaker 12: how do we go out and how do we prepare

1861
01:23:45,880 --> 01:23:48,200
Speaker 12: this week to put ourselves in position to go out

1862
01:23:48,200 --> 01:23:49,679
Speaker 12: and play as best as we possibly can?

1863
01:23:50,439 --> 01:23:52,800
Speaker 11: A problem is their speed or how much a problem

1864
01:23:52,880 --> 01:23:56,400
Speaker 11: can their speed at specifically at receiver be for defense?

1865
01:23:57,000 --> 01:23:57,160
Speaker 7: Yeah?

1866
01:23:57,200 --> 01:23:59,519
Speaker 12: They they have good players, right, they have good players

1867
01:23:59,520 --> 01:24:02,559
Speaker 12: at the parents. Uh, we have good players too. So

1868
01:24:03,160 --> 01:24:05,920
Speaker 12: we play fast, play physical that that's not gonna change

1869
01:24:05,920 --> 01:24:06,240
Speaker 12: for us.

1870
01:24:06,800 --> 01:24:09,000
Speaker 14: As you look at the tape of the last couple

1871
01:24:09,000 --> 01:24:11,320
Speaker 14: of games from your offensive line play that there, there's

1872
01:24:11,360 --> 01:24:14,200
Speaker 14: this perception idea that they're playing in more physical style

1873
01:24:14,720 --> 01:24:16,960
Speaker 14: or you seeing that and what is that group perhaps

1874
01:24:17,000 --> 01:24:18,120
Speaker 14: doing well right now?

1875
01:24:18,439 --> 01:24:18,639
Speaker 7: Yah?

1876
01:24:18,760 --> 01:24:21,960
Speaker 12: Our offensive line is definitely playing playing physical right. You

1877
01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:24,760
Speaker 12: see you see the clips another clip with it. It's

1878
01:24:24,800 --> 01:24:28,000
Speaker 12: a really nice clip, but you see that physicality show up.

1879
01:24:28,200 --> 01:24:30,880
Speaker 12: You see guys playing together, they're playing connected on the

1880
01:24:30,920 --> 01:24:33,760
Speaker 12: double teams. They're finishing well. So they're they're doing a

1881
01:24:33,800 --> 01:24:35,800
Speaker 12: really good job. E since second week that we had

1882
01:24:35,840 --> 01:24:38,960
Speaker 12: that same old line and so excited to see them

1883
01:24:39,000 --> 01:24:42,080
Speaker 12: go back for another week and continue to grow, continue

1884
01:24:42,080 --> 01:24:42,679
Speaker 12: to get better.

1885
01:24:42,760 --> 01:24:45,840
Speaker 7: So, uh, they're doing a great job. Just gotta keep

1886
01:24:45,840 --> 01:24:46,160
Speaker 7: it going.

1887
01:24:47,280 --> 01:24:48,599
Speaker 4: This unit has clicked.

1888
01:24:48,600 --> 01:24:50,320
Speaker 5: And you know, you always wanna find the best five

1889
01:24:50,360 --> 01:24:51,439
Speaker 5: guys that work well together.

1890
01:24:51,560 --> 01:24:53,920
Speaker 4: What is it about this unit that's really worked for them?

1891
01:24:54,280 --> 01:24:56,680
Speaker 12: Yeah, the guys are playing well together. That's that's the

1892
01:24:56,680 --> 01:24:57,559
Speaker 12: most important thing.

1893
01:24:58,120 --> 01:24:59,920
Speaker 9: You talk about.

1894
01:25:01,160 --> 01:25:04,200
Speaker 7: This chief's offense to the the challenges they present.

1895
01:25:04,280 --> 01:25:07,479
Speaker 11: I mean, you forget about the cope record, But what

1896
01:25:07,600 --> 01:25:07,800
Speaker 11: is it.

1897
01:25:07,840 --> 01:25:10,800
Speaker 8: That makes you know Patrick Patrick? And is he still

1898
01:25:11,120 --> 01:25:11,800
Speaker 8: you can't take this?

1899
01:25:12,800 --> 01:25:12,960
Speaker 9: Yeah?

1900
01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:16,200
Speaker 12: Patrick gets still Patrick right, He's it's called him Houdini.

1901
01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:19,000
Speaker 12: He finds a way to make plays all over the field.

1902
01:25:19,040 --> 01:25:22,280
Speaker 12: That's why this team it's always been a threat. That's

1903
01:25:22,280 --> 01:25:26,080
Speaker 12: why they're their games are always close because of Patrick

1904
01:25:26,120 --> 01:25:30,160
Speaker 12: and his capabilities of extending plays and not just to

1905
01:25:30,240 --> 01:25:32,680
Speaker 12: run the run plays, not to run the football, but

1906
01:25:32,720 --> 01:25:34,880
Speaker 12: the way he extends plays, the way he finds his

1907
01:25:34,960 --> 01:25:39,000
Speaker 12: guys down the field. Uh, it's it's unique, right, There's

1908
01:25:39,040 --> 01:25:41,680
Speaker 12: not many guys in the league that can do how

1909
01:25:41,720 --> 01:25:42,439
Speaker 12: Patrick does it.

1910
01:25:42,600 --> 01:25:43,960
Speaker 7: That's why he's a special player.

1911
01:25:44,400 --> 01:25:44,519
Speaker 2: Uh.

1912
01:25:44,560 --> 01:25:45,880
Speaker 7: The guys he play with, they.

1913
01:25:45,840 --> 01:25:48,639
Speaker 12: Know where where he's looking, they know what to look forward,

1914
01:25:48,720 --> 01:25:51,559
Speaker 12: so they're they're connected. Although it may seem like they're

1915
01:25:51,600 --> 01:25:55,800
Speaker 12: scrambled plays, they're connected and coordinated and where they're where

1916
01:25:55,800 --> 01:25:59,360
Speaker 12: they're finishing and Patrick knows the spots, so you just

1917
01:25:59,400 --> 01:26:01,679
Speaker 12: have to be away. And now with that threat as well,

1918
01:26:01,760 --> 01:26:05,000
Speaker 12: he can run the football ex you know, gain third

1919
01:26:05,040 --> 01:26:07,960
Speaker 12: downs in those critical moments as well. So it's gonna

1920
01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:12,519
Speaker 12: be a challenge as always with the four guys rushing.

1921
01:26:12,600 --> 01:26:15,320
Speaker 12: Got to do a great job of having awareness, knowing

1922
01:26:15,360 --> 01:26:17,720
Speaker 12: where he is and the guys in the back end.

1923
01:26:17,800 --> 01:26:20,880
Speaker 12: You gotta cover him twice like, because he can extend

1924
01:26:20,920 --> 01:26:22,719
Speaker 12: plays and they can go on and on and on.

1925
01:26:23,160 --> 01:26:25,120
Speaker 12: You have to be aware of the guys in your

1926
01:26:25,200 --> 01:26:30,400
Speaker 12: your zone, your area, and you have to stay on them.

1927
01:26:30,680 --> 01:26:33,320
Speaker 15: What does Nico Collins mean to this team and how

1928
01:26:33,400 --> 01:26:35,519
Speaker 15: valuable is it to have a superstar like that that

1929
01:26:35,600 --> 01:26:37,639
Speaker 15: will do whatever you need to help the team win.

1930
01:26:38,280 --> 01:26:41,599
Speaker 12: Nico is is such a valuable piece to our team.

1931
01:26:42,160 --> 01:26:46,599
Speaker 12: First off, with that's his mindset. He's he's humble. There's

1932
01:26:46,640 --> 01:26:49,200
Speaker 12: not an ego with Nico, even though he's one of

1933
01:26:49,200 --> 01:26:51,839
Speaker 12: the best receivers in the league. You know, he doesn't

1934
01:26:52,400 --> 01:26:56,240
Speaker 12: walk around that way like somebody owes him something like.

1935
01:26:56,280 --> 01:26:59,800
Speaker 12: He's a very humble guy, respectful guy. He brings it

1936
01:26:59,840 --> 01:27:03,519
Speaker 12: in every single day that he's working. Like just watch

1937
01:27:03,600 --> 01:27:06,840
Speaker 12: him work on a Wednesday Thursday, Like he works extremely

1938
01:27:06,880 --> 01:27:09,880
Speaker 12: hard at his craft. To see a young guy, you know,

1939
01:27:09,960 --> 01:27:13,000
Speaker 12: like Nico just continue to get better and better as

1940
01:27:13,040 --> 01:27:14,040
Speaker 12: he's been in this league.

1941
01:27:14,040 --> 01:27:15,439
Speaker 7: That's what it's about. That growth.

1942
01:27:15,600 --> 01:27:20,160
Speaker 12: He's exhibited that and he's he's a great teammate. He

1943
01:27:20,160 --> 01:27:22,720
Speaker 12: he'll do whatever it takes for the team to win,

1944
01:27:23,280 --> 01:27:25,759
Speaker 12: knowing that it's not just about him, it's about the team.

1945
01:27:25,800 --> 01:27:29,200
Speaker 12: And you couldn't ask for a better guy. Who should

1946
01:27:29,280 --> 01:27:32,400
Speaker 12: be this this superstar a lot of people are talking about,

1947
01:27:32,439 --> 01:27:34,760
Speaker 12: but you don't hear much about it. He's quiet, He

1948
01:27:34,800 --> 01:27:37,000
Speaker 12: goes about his business the right way, and you know

1949
01:27:37,080 --> 01:27:38,320
Speaker 12: that's his approach.

1950
01:27:38,000 --> 01:27:41,559
Speaker 7: And that's just fine. I love the way Nico prepares

1951
01:27:41,640 --> 01:27:42,559
Speaker 7: each and every week.

1952
01:27:42,880 --> 01:27:45,920
Speaker 12: Love the man that he is and I'm just excited

1953
01:27:45,920 --> 01:27:48,000
Speaker 12: to have him on our team and see him, you know,

1954
01:27:48,080 --> 01:27:51,719
Speaker 12: get the praise and accolades that he truly deserves.

1955
01:27:51,800 --> 01:27:53,840
Speaker 13: What you talked about the office is line earlier than

1956
01:27:53,880 --> 01:27:57,320
Speaker 13: he just talking about people college and then wide receiver group,

1957
01:27:58,600 --> 01:28:00,280
Speaker 13: you have players.

1958
01:27:59,800 --> 01:28:02,880
Speaker 7: In willing to you know, fee themselves up as far

1959
01:28:02,960 --> 01:28:06,439
Speaker 7: as blocking gets concerned. Last week, especially on the on

1960
01:28:06,479 --> 01:28:07,439
Speaker 7: the touchdown run.

1961
01:28:07,760 --> 01:28:09,479
Speaker 2: Uh there was touchdown run.

1962
01:28:09,280 --> 01:28:11,280
Speaker 13: In and I think it was another play where Exzavier

1963
01:28:11,360 --> 01:28:13,320
Speaker 13: Hutchison got in there and made a huge block.

1964
01:28:13,720 --> 01:28:15,080
Speaker 2: You know, Christian Kirk got in there and made a

1965
01:28:15,120 --> 01:28:15,599
Speaker 2: huge block.

1966
01:28:15,680 --> 01:28:17,479
Speaker 1: Those type of things show up on the field if

1967
01:28:17,479 --> 01:28:18,280
Speaker 1: they don't show.

1968
01:28:18,160 --> 01:28:19,720
Speaker 7: Up on social media and things like that.

1969
01:28:20,040 --> 01:28:22,080
Speaker 13: How much of an emphasis have you all put on

1970
01:28:22,479 --> 01:28:24,439
Speaker 13: having your wide receivers get involved in.

1971
01:28:24,320 --> 01:28:27,160
Speaker 12: The right game like that with our wire receivers is

1972
01:28:27,280 --> 01:28:30,320
Speaker 12: very critical to our offense that they that they block

1973
01:28:30,560 --> 01:28:32,559
Speaker 12: and a lot of a lot of receivers want the

1974
01:28:32,600 --> 01:28:36,720
Speaker 12: football that you can't get the football like unless you're

1975
01:28:36,800 --> 01:28:40,360
Speaker 12: unless you're blocking, So our guys have that unselfish mindset.

1976
01:28:40,400 --> 01:28:42,439
Speaker 12: Coach ben Is done a great job with the group

1977
01:28:42,760 --> 01:28:45,360
Speaker 12: when they are blocking, all the guys are responsible to

1978
01:28:45,439 --> 01:28:47,800
Speaker 12: block at some point of the game. So it's not

1979
01:28:48,040 --> 01:28:50,680
Speaker 12: just one particular player who has to do it. All

1980
01:28:50,720 --> 01:28:52,720
Speaker 12: the guys have to do it. All the guys are

1981
01:28:52,960 --> 01:28:55,840
Speaker 12: getting better and they're excelling at it. And some of

1982
01:28:55,880 --> 01:28:58,120
Speaker 12: our touchdowns that we're able.

1983
01:28:57,920 --> 01:29:00,000
Speaker 7: To get it, it will be because.

1984
01:28:59,680 --> 01:29:02,439
Speaker 12: Of our wire receivers are finishing their blocks down field

1985
01:29:02,600 --> 01:29:04,720
Speaker 12: like they are the touchdown blocks, and they have to

1986
01:29:04,720 --> 01:29:07,200
Speaker 12: get it. They have to stay connected, move their feet,

1987
01:29:07,439 --> 01:29:09,519
Speaker 12: and they have to be physical in there. And our

1988
01:29:09,560 --> 01:29:12,280
Speaker 12: guys are willing to do that and that's why you know,

1989
01:29:12,360 --> 01:29:15,120
Speaker 12: we can make the plays we make because of those guys.

1990
01:29:15,160 --> 01:29:17,519
Speaker 7: In the run game, it's very critical, you know, for.

1991
01:29:17,520 --> 01:29:20,439
Speaker 12: Our wire receivers to to block, and that's why our

1992
01:29:20,479 --> 01:29:23,200
Speaker 12: run game will excel because of them.

1993
01:29:24,439 --> 01:29:26,600
Speaker 8: You couldn't kick the field goal on it gone for it.

1994
01:29:26,680 --> 01:29:29,280
Speaker 8: Have you reevaluated or watched those decisions and did you

1995
01:29:29,320 --> 01:29:31,080
Speaker 8: ever go back and the tape to think about that?

1996
01:29:31,200 --> 01:29:33,920
Speaker 7: In port down, Uh, this is new year. We're here

1997
01:29:33,960 --> 01:29:36,040
Speaker 7: to play Kansas City with this team this year and

1998
01:29:39,200 --> 01:29:41,120
Speaker 7: chow him. So we're some of the challenges of those

1999
01:29:41,120 --> 01:29:41,559
Speaker 7: guys in.

2000
01:29:41,479 --> 01:29:45,360
Speaker 12: Particular, their front is very good front, you know, starting

2001
01:29:45,400 --> 01:29:48,400
Speaker 12: with Jones. You talk about a guy who is very

2002
01:29:48,400 --> 01:29:52,000
Speaker 12: disruptive in the run game, Uh, it's passing game Like.

2003
01:29:52,040 --> 01:29:54,639
Speaker 12: He finds a way to get into the opposing teams

2004
01:29:54,680 --> 01:29:56,400
Speaker 12: backfield time and time again.

2005
01:29:56,640 --> 01:29:58,720
Speaker 7: So he's a guy we have to have awareness for

2006
01:29:58,800 --> 01:29:59,840
Speaker 7: him at all times.

2007
01:30:00,160 --> 01:30:03,000
Speaker 12: He can record play and wreck your series. If you

2008
01:30:03,040 --> 01:30:05,559
Speaker 12: don't have eyes and wearing his form and you have

2009
01:30:05,680 --> 01:30:08,120
Speaker 12: the intensity you need to go out go after him

2010
01:30:08,160 --> 01:30:11,519
Speaker 12: and block him consistently. Then you got Karlotis on the edge.

2011
01:30:11,720 --> 01:30:14,360
Speaker 12: Really good player, good young player in this league. Now

2012
01:30:14,400 --> 01:30:16,920
Speaker 12: you talk about a workhorse, he's gonna stay after it.

2013
01:30:17,000 --> 01:30:20,280
Speaker 12: Relentless guy finds a way to get after the quarterback,

2014
01:30:20,400 --> 01:30:24,040
Speaker 12: leading their team in sacks. But just a physical, relentless rusher,

2015
01:30:24,280 --> 01:30:27,360
Speaker 12: and we're gonna have to outwork him this week. The

2016
01:30:27,400 --> 01:30:31,160
Speaker 12: Spagnolo does well as a defensive coordinator that presents challenges

2017
01:30:31,200 --> 01:30:33,559
Speaker 12: for you as a offensive and coach. Fags has done

2018
01:30:33,560 --> 01:30:35,880
Speaker 12: a great job his entire career of having some of

2019
01:30:35,880 --> 01:30:38,519
Speaker 12: the best defenses in the league. And what he does,

2020
01:30:38,560 --> 01:30:41,400
Speaker 12: he really stresses offenses just with his blitz package.

2021
01:30:41,400 --> 01:30:43,080
Speaker 7: I think that everybody's aware of that.

2022
01:30:43,439 --> 01:30:45,280
Speaker 12: He does a good job of bringing the pressure to

2023
01:30:45,320 --> 01:30:47,720
Speaker 12: guys do a great job of executing it, and it

2024
01:30:47,760 --> 01:30:51,320
Speaker 12: could be anyone right corners, Nickels backers, like, he does

2025
01:30:51,320 --> 01:30:53,920
Speaker 12: a good job of mixing it up. So it's you

2026
01:30:53,960 --> 01:30:56,760
Speaker 12: can't just watching and say, oh, I know who's blitzing

2027
01:30:56,960 --> 01:30:59,719
Speaker 12: all the time, Like you really have to trust your rules.

2028
01:31:00,200 --> 01:31:03,280
Speaker 12: You really have to be aware and them the receivers

2029
01:31:03,600 --> 01:31:06,840
Speaker 12: tight ends. But everybody have to be on the same page.

2030
01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:09,120
Speaker 12: Everybody has to see the game through the same set

2031
01:31:09,120 --> 01:31:11,599
Speaker 12: of eyes when it comes to their blitz package because

2032
01:31:11,920 --> 01:31:14,080
Speaker 12: it's very lethal, and he does a good job of

2033
01:31:14,120 --> 01:31:16,840
Speaker 12: calling it, not only on third down, but in some

2034
01:31:16,920 --> 01:31:19,960
Speaker 12: of those you know, first down, second like anytime, So

2035
01:31:20,000 --> 01:31:22,120
Speaker 12: we have to be prepared for that, and uh, if

2036
01:31:22,120 --> 01:31:24,360
Speaker 12: we can execute that the right way, we feel like

2037
01:31:24,360 --> 01:31:25,839
Speaker 12: we can make some plays.

2038
01:31:26,040 --> 01:31:28,120
Speaker 2: So you guys are go ahead.

2039
01:31:28,760 --> 01:31:31,400
Speaker 13: You guys have obviously finished at both home and in

2040
01:31:31,479 --> 01:31:34,520
Speaker 13: a way in this recent street. But are there differences

2041
01:31:35,960 --> 01:31:39,360
Speaker 13: in finishing at home versus finishing away or or things

2042
01:31:39,360 --> 01:31:41,439
Speaker 13: that you have to count for latent games.

2043
01:31:42,040 --> 01:31:42,879
Speaker 7: It's no difference.

2044
01:31:43,000 --> 01:31:45,840
Speaker 12: Every game, I would say, every game is you know,

2045
01:31:45,920 --> 01:31:48,439
Speaker 12: it's the game of itself, like whatever that if it's

2046
01:31:48,479 --> 01:31:50,840
Speaker 12: on the road or away, it really doesn't matter whatever

2047
01:31:50,880 --> 01:31:53,519
Speaker 12: that game calls for when it comes to making the

2048
01:31:53,520 --> 01:31:57,439
Speaker 12: plays necessary to win it. Really it's no difference game

2049
01:31:57,960 --> 01:32:03,320
Speaker 12: home or away this week that you know his team's uh.

2050
01:32:03,240 --> 01:32:07,280
Speaker 13: You play calling though tipular tounsons of of of other people.

2051
01:32:07,880 --> 01:32:09,600
Speaker 2: What is it like match wits.

2052
01:32:09,479 --> 01:32:14,200
Speaker 7: With Andy Ring? I don't try to s my old coach.

2053
01:32:14,280 --> 01:32:16,840
Speaker 7: I don't try to uh let Andy have that. So

2054
01:32:17,880 --> 01:32:20,760
Speaker 7: we're prepare how we need to prepare. Andy's uh man,

2055
01:32:20,840 --> 01:32:21,960
Speaker 7: he's he's a great coach.

2056
01:32:22,520 --> 01:32:25,240
Speaker 12: At the pleasure of playing for him for one year,

2057
01:32:25,600 --> 01:32:28,920
Speaker 12: he's been uh he's an outstanding coach and he's has

2058
01:32:28,960 --> 01:32:31,280
Speaker 12: to track record to prove that. So you know, it's

2059
01:32:31,320 --> 01:32:34,040
Speaker 12: always a challenge going on with Andy because you know,

2060
01:32:34,160 --> 01:32:36,639
Speaker 12: whatever you've seen on tape, he's gonna have some type

2061
01:32:36,680 --> 01:32:39,360
Speaker 12: of wrinkle right there, gonna be some type of new

2062
01:32:39,439 --> 01:32:42,320
Speaker 12: play design that we can't prepare for.

2063
01:32:42,360 --> 01:32:43,599
Speaker 7: Because we haven't seen it.

2064
01:32:43,600 --> 01:32:47,040
Speaker 12: It's cause he's very still cutting edge, uh, just a

2065
01:32:47,080 --> 01:32:50,080
Speaker 12: really smart coach. Does a great job of position as players,

2066
01:32:50,479 --> 01:32:52,639
Speaker 12: making you have to adjust and think on the fly

2067
01:32:52,760 --> 01:32:54,680
Speaker 12: on defense as well, and that's why he's one of

2068
01:32:54,760 --> 01:32:55,880
Speaker 12: the best to ever do it.

2069
01:32:56,800 --> 01:33:00,000
Speaker 11: Said, it's Kamar last year, not just on the outside,

2070
01:33:00,200 --> 01:33:02,479
Speaker 11: but near the line of scrimmage. Seems like he's getting

2071
01:33:02,479 --> 01:33:04,840
Speaker 11: more involved blitz seeing and every time he's around the

2072
01:33:04,840 --> 01:33:07,080
Speaker 11: line of scrimmage seems like there's a lot of violence.

2073
01:33:08,320 --> 01:33:10,400
Speaker 12: And Kamari is is one of the hands down, one

2074
01:33:10,400 --> 01:33:12,720
Speaker 12: of the best corners in this league when it comes

2075
01:33:12,760 --> 01:33:15,439
Speaker 12: to playing physical, right it comes to stepping up in

2076
01:33:15,479 --> 01:33:18,160
Speaker 12: the run game. You wanna see a corner tackle, go

2077
01:33:18,200 --> 01:33:21,000
Speaker 12: watch Kamari's tape. For any corners that want to learn

2078
01:33:21,040 --> 01:33:24,360
Speaker 12: how to tackle young corners, go watch Kamari Lassiter. Go

2079
01:33:24,400 --> 01:33:26,760
Speaker 12: watch him tackle, Go watch him take on blocks like

2080
01:33:26,800 --> 01:33:27,960
Speaker 12: There isn't a.

2081
01:33:27,840 --> 01:33:29,040
Speaker 7: Better corner in the league.

2082
01:33:29,080 --> 01:33:32,240
Speaker 12: When it comes to the physical h presence that he

2083
01:33:32,439 --> 01:33:34,800
Speaker 12: provides to a defense, there is not a better guy

2084
01:33:34,800 --> 01:33:37,120
Speaker 12: than Kamara.

2085
01:33:37,880 --> 01:33:39,720
Speaker 15: I know you like to take things week by week,

2086
01:33:39,760 --> 01:33:42,400
Speaker 15: but if you could pick out a common thread that

2087
01:33:42,439 --> 01:33:45,320
Speaker 15: has led to you you got success during this winning street.

2088
01:33:45,040 --> 01:33:48,680
Speaker 12: What would it be coming thread for us? Winning is

2089
01:33:48,880 --> 01:33:52,600
Speaker 12: our players making the place. That's what it's all about. Chris, like,

2090
01:33:52,680 --> 01:33:55,559
Speaker 12: our our guy has done a great job of finding

2091
01:33:55,560 --> 01:33:58,400
Speaker 12: a way to make whether that's special teams offense, to

2092
01:33:58,479 --> 01:34:00,600
Speaker 12: everybody stepping up making a play when we need to

2093
01:34:00,640 --> 01:34:03,400
Speaker 12: make a play, and that won't change, you know, this

2094
01:34:03,479 --> 01:34:05,680
Speaker 12: week as well. It's it's always gonna be about the

2095
01:34:05,760 --> 01:34:07,519
Speaker 12: players and that that won't change.

2096
01:34:10,439 --> 01:34:13,519
Speaker 11: Remain strong this season because what about the way that

2097
01:34:13,600 --> 01:34:16,280
Speaker 11: they play together in their chemistry makes them so difficult.

2098
01:34:15,920 --> 01:34:18,559
Speaker 7: As that and both guys if of course, they played

2099
01:34:18,560 --> 01:34:19,040
Speaker 7: together for.

2100
01:34:19,000 --> 01:34:21,960
Speaker 12: A long time and they kind of know, you know,

2101
01:34:22,000 --> 01:34:25,479
Speaker 12: when the routes, Kelsey can shut it round down, probably

2102
01:34:25,520 --> 01:34:27,160
Speaker 12: sooner than it needs to be shut down.

2103
01:34:27,160 --> 01:34:30,360
Speaker 7: And my homes is feeling the same thing or seeing

2104
01:34:30,400 --> 01:34:31,719
Speaker 7: the same thing that he's seeing.

2105
01:34:31,760 --> 01:34:33,519
Speaker 12: And that's why they're able to have that you know,

2106
01:34:33,600 --> 01:34:37,080
Speaker 12: good connection Kelsey plays with. You know, he has great hands,

2107
01:34:37,600 --> 01:34:40,360
Speaker 12: really good job, really great awareness of zone coverage and

2108
01:34:40,400 --> 01:34:42,320
Speaker 12: when to sit it down like win the break out,

2109
01:34:42,400 --> 01:34:45,360
Speaker 12: break in. It's just they're tied in together because they've

2110
01:34:45,360 --> 01:34:48,080
Speaker 12: seen football through the same set of eyes for such

2111
01:34:48,120 --> 01:34:50,400
Speaker 12: a long time and you see that connection. It's still

2112
01:34:50,439 --> 01:34:53,439
Speaker 12: there on tape, right all right, Thank you guys, Thank

2113
01:34:53,439 --> 01:34:56,280
Speaker 12: you all the big thanks to Miko and of course

2114
01:34:56,320 --> 01:34:57,000
Speaker 12: the Houston media.

2115
01:34:57,200 --> 01:35:00,280
Speaker 3: Nice job at the presser today and and that.

2116
01:35:00,320 --> 01:35:01,920
Speaker 2: Was a little bit of good news.

2117
01:35:01,960 --> 01:35:04,680
Speaker 3: Knowing that there'll be some guys that are fine and

2118
01:35:04,760 --> 01:35:08,080
Speaker 3: ready to go for Sunday Night against the Kansas City Chiefs.

2119
01:35:08,120 --> 01:35:11,519
Speaker 3: What a big thanks to Miko, to Nick, Jakub Johnson,

2120
01:35:11,680 --> 01:35:14,360
Speaker 3: Josh Klingler to Mark, to all of you for listening

2121
01:35:14,360 --> 01:35:16,720
Speaker 3: my guys back at sports Radio six ten. You are

2122
01:35:16,720 --> 01:35:18,920
Speaker 3: the best stay tuned for Area forty five right here

2123
01:35:18,920 --> 01:35:20,920
Speaker 3: at ports Radio six ten. We'll see Tomorro everybody, and

2124
01:35:20,920 --> 01:35:22,040
Speaker 3: as always, go Texans.