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Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody. Welcome in to Wednesday the issue

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Speaker 1: of Texans All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: I am your host, John Harris, and I am glad

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Speaker 1: to be with you on this wonderful Wednesday evening. We've

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Speaker 1: got plenty for you this evening. We're gonna go behind

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Speaker 1: me sidelines with DP City this week because this is

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons. It's the venable d Orlando led Better

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Speaker 1: and I found out today the D stands for Daryl

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Speaker 1: Darryl Orlando led Better. D Orlando led Better a fixture

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Speaker 1: in the Atlanta area covering the Falcons. He will join us.

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Speaker 1: Clint Sterner will join us at the bottom of this hour,

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Speaker 1: as he always does, talking about quarterback play, talking about

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Speaker 1: the Shawn, talking about Matt Ryan, talking about this team,

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Speaker 1: this offense moving forward, what he sees the improvement that

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Speaker 1: he wants to see. Great conversation with Clint. Second hour,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna stay with our quarterbacks, our good friend Andre

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Speaker 1: where our game analysts will join us. My man David

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Speaker 1: Fletcher is gonna stop by GM of Lone Star Sports

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Speaker 1: and Entertainment. There's a big one in the college realm

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Speaker 1: happening at NRG Stadium on Saturday, the Battle of the

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Speaker 1: Piney Woods. So's gonna stop by to talk about that,

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Speaker 1: and then we're gonna go behind the mics with the

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Speaker 1: two men that will call the action on Sunday for

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Speaker 1: the respective squads. You know, Mark Vandermir, but how about

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Speaker 1: West Durham, the sun of long time North Carolina voice

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Speaker 1: Woody Durham. And that's how I kind of know the

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Speaker 1: Durham family. When I moved to North Carolina in two

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Speaker 1: calls Atlanta Falcons football, and I know he did Georgia

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Speaker 1: Tech for a long time. I don't know if he

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Speaker 1: we will have West Durham on and our men behind

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Speaker 1: the Mike's segment to close down the show. So we

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Speaker 1: got plenty for you, but let's get it kicked off

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Speaker 1: kind of nice, all right. The first hot read right

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Speaker 1: out of the gate is got to be the injury report. Now.

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Speaker 1: The good thing I think about the injury report is

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Speaker 1: not a ton going on for the Texans in a

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Speaker 1: bad way. Now, we will hold our breath a little

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Speaker 1: bit about Kenny Stills. He's dealing with the hamstring and

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Speaker 1: he was a limited participant in practice today. The other

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Speaker 1: two wide receivers, Will fuller In Deandrew Hopkins were limited

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks for Will and for DeAndre. Hopefully they'll

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Speaker 1: he is dealing with a concussion, and that happened actually

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Speaker 1: on the last play of the game. As the Sean

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Speaker 1: I imagine he's in the concussion protocol. But everybody else

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Speaker 1: family that like the Falcons, right the Sean or has

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Speaker 1: that changed? They rocking with Agetown? Yeah, they they missed.

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Speaker 1: the cover four and we talked about that the other night,

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Speaker 1: the process, and that was very like simple, you know,

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Speaker 1: know in the first game they got a couple of

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Speaker 1: garbage cut downs late, you know the game was over

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Speaker 1: and you know they tried to score a cup of touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: So the other twelve points that didn't really matter. They

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Speaker 1: did come back and against the coach got to cut

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Speaker 1: downs and they needed to stop twice. They got to

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Speaker 1: cut down twice to close within three to leave fourth overtime,

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Speaker 1: and the defense failed them there. So they were competitive,

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Speaker 1: and that one and then this one here they didn't

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Speaker 1: even mount much of a rally. They came out after

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Speaker 1: halftime and drove down and out of field goal and

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Speaker 1: that was just about it for him. So, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: the only thing that's been happening there is they've been

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Speaker 1: able to get some late stuff to Julio that you know,

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Speaker 1: they haven't been able to get to him earlier in

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Speaker 1: the game. They kind of got a four speed Julio

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Speaker 1: to get this thing going. Maybe move him around, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, get him. They try to get him the

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Speaker 1: ball on the reverse, then throw to Cavailly off of

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Speaker 1: Julio all his other stuff, throwing the hooper and SNU

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Speaker 1: is not gonna beat anybody. Yeah, Julio Jones, I mean,

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Speaker 1: he just looks outstanding. Four receiving touchdowns through four games.

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Speaker 1: He's already got two one hundred yard receiving performances already.

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Speaker 1: He's in the year nine. You've covered him his whole career.

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Speaker 1: What really stands out to you covering him all this time?

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Speaker 1: What is it about Hulu that makes him so hard

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Speaker 1: to cover. Well, it's this combination of his speed and

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Speaker 1: athletic ability. Uh, you know, in the hands have been

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Speaker 1: pretty good too. He can get going real, real fast,

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Speaker 1: and then you gotta honor his speed and then he'll

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Speaker 1: break a round off and be wide open. And the

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Speaker 1: timing between him and mad is usually pretty good. So

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Speaker 1: they know each other, they've they know where he's gonna,

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Speaker 1: they know where each other wants. You know, he wants

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Speaker 1: Ryan knows where he wants him to be, and Julio

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Speaker 1: knows how to get there. So, uh, you know, over

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Speaker 1: the years that's really worked for their benefit. But you know,

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Speaker 1: here early they've been getting a lot of garbage yards

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Speaker 1: all right. This week the Falcons made a trade with

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Speaker 1: the Eagles for safety Jonathan Cyprian. What can you tell

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Speaker 1: us about the trade? What went into that? Was that

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Speaker 1: a surprise or were you looking to see them sort

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Speaker 1: of fortify the backfield there? Well, they they were hurt

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Speaker 1: back there. J J. Wilcoxon's hurt on the first dead

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Speaker 1: training camp and then against the Coast, Kean O'Neill suffered

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Speaker 1: and achilles injury in the end zone, so he was

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Speaker 1: there in the box safety who helped and run support.

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Speaker 1: They didn't have a good replacement, so they went in time,

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Speaker 1: you know, traded for Jonathan Cyprian, who's a box safety. Players.

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Speaker 1: Jack Neville on Tennessee was with the Eagles this year

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Speaker 1: and they're hoping he can come in and fortify their

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Speaker 1: run defense. He uh started seventy games in the leagues.

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Speaker 1: Known as a hard hitter and a good tackler. It's

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Speaker 1: not gonna cover anybody, but he can help you in

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Speaker 1: the run defense, and that's what they needed. With Kean

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Speaker 1: O'Neill being out, he was there enforcer on the defensive

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Speaker 1: side of the football. All right, Daryl, what are some

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Speaker 1: of the tough storylines you'll be covering this week for

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Speaker 1: the Falcons as they get ready to face the Texans. Well,

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Speaker 1: the high powers, alleged high powered offense is only scoring

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Speaker 1: seventeen points a game. I want to know how they

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Speaker 1: can get into the end zone, how they can start faster. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna go back and look at Dirt

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Speaker 1: Cutter in two thousand and twelve and see how many

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Speaker 1: he scored on his opening drive versus going over four

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Speaker 1: this season. You know that'll be opening drive and drive starts.

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Speaker 1: Then how the Falcon's gonna block J. J. Watt and

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Speaker 1: Whitney merciless man that know that Texas front, Houston's front

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Speaker 1: looks formidable to a fuck Falcon fans who've seen the

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Speaker 1: deep Falcon fans who've seen the offensive line struggle so so.

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Speaker 1: And of course the Shane Watson, local kid from Gamesville,

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Speaker 1: George up here. We'll try to put the best third

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Speaker 1: week can together about the Shawn for our Sunday readers. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I do remember Deshaun Watson saying early on that that

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Speaker 1: was this is definitely one of the games he's looking

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Speaker 1: forward to, being from the Atlanta area, getting to face

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Speaker 1: the team that he grew up playing. And then Matt Ryan.

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Speaker 1: Wasn't he a ball boy for Matt Ryan back in

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Speaker 1: the day. Yes he was, Yes he was. I used

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Speaker 1: to see him out the practice taking care of the

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Speaker 1: bomster Matt and running around with his til making sure

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Speaker 1: that uh all the balls were good and ready for

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Speaker 1: the quarterback. I'm sure that's gonna come up this week

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Speaker 1: when we talked to Deshaun Watson. All right, good stuff.

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Speaker 1: De Orlando led Better, Falcons beat writer for the Atlanta Journal, Constitution.

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Speaker 1: Always a pleasure, Darryl, and we'll talk soon. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: having me. De Orlando led Better, Oh the Atlanta General Constitution.

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Speaker 1: I love hearing all this stuff this week, and we

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Speaker 1: heard earlier from Deshaun Watson and Deshautos sort of downplay

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Speaker 1: it to a degree, but so many people interested and

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Speaker 1: I am as well. Just how Deshaun grew up with

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Speaker 1: the Falcons. Was a ball boy, did it for four years,

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Speaker 1: was around the team, and they in turn then would

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Speaker 1: go and watch his games at Gainesville High School Northeast

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Speaker 1: is that right northeast of Atlanta. They would go out

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Speaker 1: there and see his games, and they try to convince

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Speaker 1: him go to Alabama. Julio Jones is trying to convince

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Speaker 1: him go to Alabama. He's like, no, no no, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go to Clemse and beat Alabama. And then he did it.

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Speaker 1: He did it. This is gonna be an interesting one,

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Speaker 1: I would think from Deshawn's perspective, to be on the

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Speaker 1: field against guys that he grew up watching and wanting

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Speaker 1: to be like, and now he's gonna be on the

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Speaker 1: same field as them. So interesting storylines. But it's good

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Speaker 1: to hear from de Orlando led better off the aj

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Speaker 1: C giving us the inside i'd scoop on the Atlanta Falcons.

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Speaker 1: All right, we get back. It's not from my man,

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Speaker 1: dirty Red. Clint Sterner stopped by it gives his thoughts

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Speaker 1: on what he saw last week, what to expect this

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Speaker 1: week against Atlanta Falcons. Do that next right here in

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access. We'll go back to a Wednesday edition

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Speaker 1: of Texans All Access from the Honday Texans Radio studio.

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Speaker 1: Please to be joined by my next guest. You can

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Speaker 1: hear him week days two to six on our flagship

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio six ten. You can hear him on our

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Speaker 1: postgame show with Sean Pendergast. He's the better part of

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Speaker 1: that postgame show. Just kidding. Sean four marks quarterback, former

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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys quarterback playing in the Arena League, played in

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Speaker 1: World League manos Ball. It's my good friend Clint Sterning. Clint,

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Speaker 1: what's going on, brother? How you doing? Man? Not much?

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Speaker 1: It's good to be back on again. I hate to

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Speaker 1: hate to have to join you after a tough loss,

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Speaker 1: but man, it's good to be on here to chop football,

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Speaker 1: whether it's a it's a big win or a tough

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Speaker 1: laws man let's get it all right, Clinton, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: ask you maybe the easiest question with a pretty complex

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Speaker 1: answer Sunday afternoon, more about what the Texans didn't do

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Speaker 1: offensively or what the Panthers did do defensively. I think

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Speaker 1: it's more about what the Texans didn't do. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a very similar uh issue or

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Speaker 1: situation um that they faced with the Jacksonville Jaguars. When

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Speaker 1: there is a a good front that can get pressure

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Speaker 1: on the quarterback and collapse the pocket with the down

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Speaker 1: four guys, with linebackers that can play sideline to sideline

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Speaker 1: and really handle the run game and can be multiple

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Speaker 1: behind that, then then the Texans have struggled. I think

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Speaker 1: it's on the offensive side of the ball. Clearly, there's

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Speaker 1: a there's the ability to take shots and do it

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Speaker 1: at a high level. The problem is is when you

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Speaker 1: miss a couple of those shots, it really puts you

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Speaker 1: in a hole. If you hit them, you have the

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Speaker 1: ability to get the leads, swing the momentum. But when

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Speaker 1: you miss those shots, it's detrimental to the offense because

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Speaker 1: the other things that are going on offensively are subpar

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Speaker 1: quite frankly so, it's it's um, it's more about the

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Speaker 1: Texans and what they they haven't done. And the only

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Speaker 1: reason I say that is because the two times that

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Speaker 1: they faced a really solid, solid front defensive front, they've

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Speaker 1: struggled and and they've got to get that that fixed.

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Speaker 1: And it comes down between the quarterback and the play

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Speaker 1: caller play designer. They got to get a little bit

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Speaker 1: more creative in the quick game and allow the quarterback

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Speaker 1: to play at a higher level, allow the offensive line

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Speaker 1: to play at a higher level, and and and make

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Speaker 1: some changes. Man, it's it's uh. It was a tough

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Speaker 1: tough sunday for sure. Along those lines, Clint, though, it

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Speaker 1: is a tough sunday, but you said it. Sometimes it

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Speaker 1: sends you back to the drawing board to look at

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Speaker 1: some of the ways that maybe you're doing things, and

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Speaker 1: it makes some adjustments, etc. I found this kind of

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Speaker 1: weird dichotomy as I look back through the last five

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Speaker 1: home games and the last four road games. Clinton. I

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Speaker 1: don't know that there's an explanation, but it feels like

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Speaker 1: sometimes in football, maybe there's whatever pressure or whatever it

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Speaker 1: is hanging over your head when you're at home, and

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Speaker 1: then when you go on the road, you're just kind

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Speaker 1: of free. Nobody expects you to win, so you play

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Speaker 1: a little bit more freer, and the outputs better, the

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Speaker 1: productions better, etc. Do you see any particular reason why

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Speaker 1: the Texans offensively have maybe struggled more at home than

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Speaker 1: they have on the road. They've been almost brilliant on

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Speaker 1: the road, but at home they've sort of struggled, kind

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Speaker 1: of scuffled along, missed some things. Do you do you

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Speaker 1: think there's any particular reason for that, for struggling so

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Speaker 1: much at home versus being really good on the road. No,

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Speaker 1: I think, And I don't know exactly all these opponents

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Speaker 1: you're talking talking about, but off the top of my head,

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Speaker 1: I know the last three home game where versus indeed

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Speaker 1: there's a pretty good defense Jacksonville who's a pretty good defense,

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Speaker 1: to Carolina who's clearly got a pretty good defense. So

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Speaker 1: I would lean more towards the opponents and the caliber

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Speaker 1: of defense. Uh that then I then I would the

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Speaker 1: home or away situations, John, I mean, I I just

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Speaker 1: simply I believe this, man. I believe that the the

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Speaker 1: the from an offensive standpoint, that the team and that

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Speaker 1: they lean on this god watch this ability to be

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Speaker 1: superman DeAndre Hopkins ability to be the best receiver in

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Speaker 1: the league. Uh and and from a physical standpoint of

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Speaker 1: being able to just go up and make great catches,

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Speaker 1: um and and and if they've got to lean towards

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Speaker 1: uh being a little bit more creative to get those

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Speaker 1: guys the ball in space. And I don't know if

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Speaker 1: that scheam. I don't know if that's that's just uh

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Speaker 1: you know, if if the system is flexible enough to

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Speaker 1: allow that, if it's just a matter of focusing on

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Speaker 1: that and emphasizing that. But but I think they got

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Speaker 1: to find a way to to get to get guys

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Speaker 1: in space, uh, to get the ball out of the

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Speaker 1: quarterback's hands quick, um and and and let those guys uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, make us make a defender miss attackle and

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Speaker 1: go get an extra team instead of always having to

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Speaker 1: throw the ball, uh, you know, twenty yards down field

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Speaker 1: or drive the ball downfield. They've got to find different

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Speaker 1: ways and get creative. And so I'm less about the opponent. Clearly,

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Speaker 1: you struggle against higher caliber defenses. Obviously that that's a given.

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Speaker 1: But but I think this team is talented enough john

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Speaker 1: to where they should be dictating. They should be dictating

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Speaker 1: the pace and the coverages they're receiving and the momentum

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Speaker 1: of the game. They're talented enough to do that. They

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Speaker 1: just gotta they gotta just to focus a little bit. Hey,

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Speaker 1: this is maybe a weird question, but I feel like,

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Speaker 1: you know, quarterbacks, offenses, whatever the case might be, there,

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Speaker 1: there are certain players that maybe the pace in which

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Speaker 1: they play. And I know Deshaun Clemson they ran a

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Speaker 1: little bit of hurry up. They weren't Nascar tempo kind

643
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Speaker 1: of thing, but they would run some hurry up. They

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00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: would do some stuff a little bit quicker, and I

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00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: know that Bill Brian would like to do that. I

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00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,239
Speaker 1: feel like Deshan would like to do that. Do you

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Speaker 1: feel like maybe upping the team tempo a little bit

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Speaker 1: improve you know, getting the pace a little bit faster

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Speaker 1: might help the offense or do you feel like there

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Speaker 1: might be too many, too many pieces that are new

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Speaker 1: to it that maybe they can't go as fast as

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Speaker 1: they want because nobody not everybody's on the same page

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Speaker 1: just yet, because they've only been together for about a month.

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Speaker 1: What do you think about the pace that the offense

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Speaker 1: is playing at and do you think that going at

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Speaker 1: a higher tempo, a faster tempo might end up helping

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Speaker 1: them in the long run. Well, I definitely think that

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Speaker 1: that it's something that they should consider across the board

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Speaker 1: to do it a lot more often, regardless of the situation.

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Speaker 1: But just because of the things you mentioned, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson is comfortable with it. This offensive line, it's

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Speaker 1: not that these young guys that are playing now, they

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Speaker 1: played with tempo in college. Everybody plays with tempo in

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Speaker 1: college at this point in time, and so you know,

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Speaker 1: I think I would personally like to see him do

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Speaker 1: it across the board and use it as a weapon

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Speaker 1: in the first quarter, you know, even at just different

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Speaker 1: times throughout the game. But I definitely would like to

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Speaker 1: see them, uh in a game like last week where

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Speaker 1: you're having a hard time whether it's the quarterback of

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Speaker 1: the play call or be on the outside, you don't

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Speaker 1: know which point it is, but they were having a

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Speaker 1: hard time really putting their finger on what exactly Carolina's

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00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: defense was doing. And a lot of times when you

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Speaker 1: catch them in a play, if you use tempo, then

676
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,400
Speaker 1: they'll come right back with that same coverage and you

677
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 1: can pop them again and you can really die in

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00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: on what they're doing. So I was surprised they did

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Speaker 1: not do that, uh for Sunday versus Carolina, and I

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00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 1: would definitely think that something moving forward that they that

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00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 1: they've got to do it looks good. I mean, you're

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00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: you're four weeks into this thing, really eight weeks if

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Speaker 1: you count the preseason. There's no reason at all for

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Speaker 1: from a personnel standpoint, for guys not to simply be

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Speaker 1: able to use tempo, for guys to be able to

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Speaker 1: tag formasons and not have to use timeouts to to

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Speaker 1: to to overcome some alignment issues. Those are all things

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Speaker 1: that this offense should seem um be able to do.

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Speaker 1: At the drop of my head, that's not something that

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00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: that personnel should not hold this team back. If Bill

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Speaker 1: O'Brien wants to do it, which he should, they should

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Speaker 1: be able to do it at the spur of the

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Speaker 1: moment at any point in the game. I'm with you.

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Speaker 1: I just always feel like I feel like a pitcher

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Speaker 1: in some state. In some cases, I feel like changing

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Speaker 1: the speeds is it is almost better for you. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you keep throwing one hundred mile an hour fastball,

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00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 1: eventually everybody catches up to it. But if you can

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Speaker 1: combine a hundred mile fastball, eighty five mile hour breaking ball,

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Speaker 1: and then maybe a seventy eight mile hour changeup, and

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00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: you can mix those up. You keep the hitter off balance.

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Speaker 1: I think you do that offensively. I think that ends

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00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 1: up paying dividends. Coming in on Sunday, Clinton, It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be Matt Ryan and Matt similar to Philip Rivers. Maybe

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00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: a little bit more athletic, but you know where Matt

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00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 1: is going to be. But he's got three dynamic receivers

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Speaker 1: that he can throw too. Arguably one of the better

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Speaker 1: ones in the game. That's not arguable, But is he

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Speaker 1: the best one in the game, Julio, Joe, It's Calvin Ridley,

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00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: Mohammed Sanu, but the offensive line has struggled. What are

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Speaker 1: your thoughts about Matt Ryan, what you've seen from him

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Speaker 1: over his career and with the explosive offense that he

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Speaker 1: brings into NRG on Sunday. Well, I tell you, I've

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Speaker 1: always put Matt Ryan in the same category with Tony Romo,

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Speaker 1: with Philip Rivers. Great quarterbacks put up huge numbers, but

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Speaker 1: for whatever reason that they can't they can't see that

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Speaker 1: that rock for their offense, and Matt Ryan's on the

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Speaker 1: edge because look, he's he's obviously made some runs in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, and he's had a good career. But I

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Speaker 1: just I just have a hard time buying into Matt

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Speaker 1: Ryan's gonna come in here and just beat you. Some

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Speaker 1: guys you gotta heat, Like Philip Rivers. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: one of them that you go, man, this guy, if

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Speaker 1: you let him, he'll beat you. Yeah, um if if.

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Speaker 1: And there's several of those quarterbacks on this on this roster.

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Speaker 1: I mean, on this schedule. You've got Drew Brees, You've

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00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: already seen him. They're guys that boy, if you let

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00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 1: him sit in that pocket, they're just gonna beat you.

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Speaker 1: I'm not buying into Matt Ryan. I believe that that

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Speaker 1: Romeo Ocranelle will have a a great plans versus this offense.

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Speaker 1: They're awfully, awfully talented, but the fact that they can't

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Speaker 1: get it figured out in the W column is a concern.

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Speaker 1: You know. I think the good thing about this game

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Speaker 1: is it's two offenses that are extremely explosive that have

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Speaker 1: struggled this year, and so which everyone can get on

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Speaker 1: track this Sunday will come away with a victory. It's

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00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: gonna be it's gonna it's a tough battle though they're

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Speaker 1: a good football team. Don't let the record fool you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no doubt. Sometimes I feel like with Atlanta with Matt

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Speaker 1: Ryan Mark uses this phrase. Sometimes Clint he calls it

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00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,280
Speaker 1: empty calories. I mean, he threw for what three ninety

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Speaker 1: seven last week, but he did a lot of that

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Speaker 1: after the fact, after Tennessee had taken a twenty four

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00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: to three lead, and he was kind of just piling

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Speaker 1: up yards because they had to try and get back

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00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: in that. I think it's probably a good analogy for Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: But I you know, since twenty sixteen and Kyle Shanahan left,

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00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 1: they've struggled, and they've struggled mightily. But I feel like

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Speaker 1: they're desperate team, and sometimes Clint, the more desperate team

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Speaker 1: walks out of the stadium with the win. I feel

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00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: like maybe this is the opposite. I feel like that

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Speaker 1: whatever team can kind of slow themselves down and get

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00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:13,760
Speaker 1: in a groove a little bit early, getting a rhythm

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00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: a little bit early, will be the team that loosens

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00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,360
Speaker 1: up and ends up winning this game. I feel like

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00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 1: it's the looser team that ends up with a winning

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00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 1: this one. Considering where these two teams are one wanting

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00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 1: to get to two and three and one wanting to

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Speaker 1: avoid two and three. Well, look, Johnny, here's my deals is.

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Speaker 1: I think it comes down to quarterback play. Deshaun Watchon's

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00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: obviously got to play better. And at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, I believe that Deshaun Watching is a guy

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Speaker 1: that that is better outside the pocket. He's a little

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Speaker 1: more he's a little bit more of a playmaker. I

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Speaker 1: believe this game balls down to give Matt Ryan. The

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00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,439
Speaker 1: defense has to push Matt Ryan off the spot. Matt

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Speaker 1: Ryan does not scare me when he gets outside the

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Speaker 1: pocket at all, with his legs over with his arm,

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Speaker 1: and so I believe that the technis to be able

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Speaker 1: to push him off the spot. But Deshaun watch has

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00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 1: got to play better. Deshahn Watson's got to got to

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00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:05,240
Speaker 1: got to manage the game better. He's got to command

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Speaker 1: the offense better. And when I say that, look, I'm

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Speaker 1: saying Deshohn Watson. But when I'm saying that, I'm talking

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00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,879
Speaker 1: about Tim Kelly, I'm talking about Bill O'Brien. I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about what they're doing today, what they're doing tomorrow, what

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Speaker 1: they're doing the rest of the week. The plan's gotta

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00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 1: be better. The preparations he's gotta be better, and then

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00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 1: you'll see a good point. You'll see it unfold and

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00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 1: see it be executed on Sunday. The problem is is

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Speaker 1: that do you trust what's going on right now throughout

782
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Speaker 1: the week to unfold on Sunday in a different way

783
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: than what you've seen versus Jacksonville and what you saw

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00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 1: versus Carolina at home. There's gotta be some tweaks being

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00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:43,800
Speaker 1: made right now, not when Sunday kicks. I think DeShawn

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00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:46,120
Speaker 1: Watson will rebound and have a good game. But it's

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00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,480
Speaker 1: all about the quarterbacks here, man. It's all about who

788
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 1: can who can make more plays for their football team

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Speaker 1: and win this thing on Sunday. Quarterback always want to

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Speaker 1: make it about the quarterbacks. I see how you roll

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Speaker 1: Clinch Stir, I see how you roll Dirty Read. There

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Speaker 1: is Sterner. Can listen to him every weekday two to six,

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Speaker 1: right right there on our flagship sports RADI six ten

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Speaker 1: and on our postgame show alongside Sean Pendergast. They do

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Speaker 1: a tremendous job. I love getting a chance to join

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Speaker 1: them on home games. Clint, I appreciate you time brother,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. We'll talk again next week. I'll

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Speaker 1: be good say it every week, and for good reason.

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Speaker 1: I absolutely love talking about with that man right there,

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Speaker 1: Clint Sterner, Dirty Red Is. They said you can hear

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Speaker 1: him weekdays. In fact, I joined him on his show

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00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 1: earlier today, he joins me on my show. It's a

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00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:31,719
Speaker 1: little quid pro quo, but I would do it even

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Speaker 1: if he didn't come on the show because I love

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Speaker 1: being on with he and Rick Hambler doing a great

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Speaker 1: job on our afternoon show on Sports Radio six ten.

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Speaker 1: All right, it's time for this week's stats Challenge is

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Schlumberge. Visit Houston Texans dot com

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Speaker 1: today to register to take the stats challenge. Now, I

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00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: mentioned this on the show actually with Clint and Rick.

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Speaker 1: The last four games home and road for Shaan Watson,

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Speaker 1: let's just look at from that. Well, I actually let's

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00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: go five, because I did five games. So I went

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Speaker 1: back to the Colts game in December that broke the

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Speaker 1: streak Texas at nine game winning streak. That was the

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00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: one that broke it. That afternoon. Sean had a pretty

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00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 1: good day that day. Twenty seven thirty eight, two hundred

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00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,879
Speaker 1: sixty seven yards and a touchdown. Texas ended up taking

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00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 1: one in that day twenty four twenty one. Three straight

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00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:23,720
Speaker 1: touchdown drives for the Colts were pretty much the difference

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00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: in that one. Now the four there have been four

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Speaker 1: road games since five home games, including the playoff game.

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Speaker 1: In those five home games, the passing game has registered

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Speaker 1: sixty four percent completion percentage average, two hundred and eleven yards,

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00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: throw a total of two touchdowns in one interception, and

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Speaker 1: the Texas have not thrown a touchdown at home this year.

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Speaker 1: On the road, facing the Jets, the Saints, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: the Jets, the Eagles, the Saints, and the Chargers, the

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Speaker 1: Texans have completed seventy three percent of their passes for

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Speaker 1: three hundred thirteen yards, ten total touchdowns, and still only

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00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 1: one interception. That was the Markus Williams interception. So on

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00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: the road versus at home, there is about one hundred

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00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 1: and two yards on average difference. And that's what I

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00:42:23,320 --> 00:42:25,399
Speaker 1: was referring to when I was talking to Clint and

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Speaker 1: who knows why? Who knows why? I mean, you can

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Speaker 1: it was the Colts, of Jags and the Panthers, those

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00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,239
Speaker 1: are the three teams they faced at home in those

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Speaker 1: five games, because they faced the Jags twice and the

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Speaker 1: Colts twice, and on the road the Jets, the Eagles,

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00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: the Saints and Chargers. Those defenses are all They've all

841
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: got some dudes, there's no question. So why at home

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00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:49,799
Speaker 1: we kind of just stubbed our toe? Who's to say?

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00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:52,319
Speaker 1: I mean, look, when Deshaun was a rookie at home,

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Speaker 1: he threw five touchdowns I think three times. I mean,

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00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:57,359
Speaker 1: he just went off when he was at home. So

846
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 1: we're just in a rut right now. But I find

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00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 1: it interesting to look at the difference in home and

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00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 1: road and hopefully I would say it flips for good,

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00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: but hopefully it flips on both sides. Hopefully it stays

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00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:11,480
Speaker 1: like it does on the road, and hopefully we can

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Speaker 1: flip it back on the home side and get that

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Speaker 1: going in the right direction, starting with the Atlanta Falcons

853
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:21,280
Speaker 1: on Sunday. All right, we get back. It's our own

854
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Speaker 1: quarterback Heisman Trophy winner from nineteen y nine, Andre ware

855
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,239
Speaker 1: Dre caught up with Mark earlier today. Weather for you.

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00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 1: Next to kick off our second hour Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: We've got one hour in the books, one hour left

858
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Speaker 1: to go on this Wednesday edition of Texans All Access

859
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Speaker 1: from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I am your host, John Harris,

860
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:46,600
Speaker 1: football analyst and sideline reporter, and I have the fortunate

861
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Speaker 1: opportunity each and every Sunday, mostly Sunday, to join the

862
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: next two gentlemen. They're up in the booth. I'm down

863
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Speaker 1: on the sidelines, Mark VanderMeer and our game analyst Andre Ware,

864
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: who has a little bit of a weird weekend for him.

865
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 1: Drey's weekend is typically call a college game on Saturday,

866
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 1: get on a plane, either fly back to Houston for

867
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Speaker 1: a home game Sunday, or fly to wherever we are

868
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 1: for a road game on Sunday. But he's got a

869
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: Thursday night game in Mobile, Alabama, which sort of changes

870
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: things a little bit. So he had to fly out

871
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: on Tuesday to get two Mobile to get ready for

872
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: that game on Thursday. But he's got a game on now.

873
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: He's with that game on Thursday, has no game on Saturday,

874
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: so he's gonna be able to be home on a

875
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 1: fall Saturday for the first time, and I don't know

876
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: how long. I'm sure it's gonna be pretty weird. But

877
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 1: Drey sat down with Mark to talk about the Texans,

878
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,399
Speaker 1: talk about the offense, and talk about that Thursday night

879
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 1: game that he's got in Mobile, Alabama before we get

880
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: ready for the Falcons on Sunday. Let's get to Sunday's

881
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 1: game before we talk about what you're doing onre with

882
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:55,319
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan and the Falcons coming in. First of all,

883
00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: what are you seeing from Matt Ryan at this stage

884
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,839
Speaker 1: of his career, A few years off of Super Bowl

885
00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 1: up parents. He can still throw touchdowns, but the pick

886
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: numbers a bit too high for his liking. Yeah, this

887
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:08,879
Speaker 1: is a team with you know, obviously led by Matt

888
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 1: Ryan and as one of the worst turnover margins in

889
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: the NFL that minus five and they're turning it over

890
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:19,359
Speaker 1: at an alarming rate. What's scary about it is if

891
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:23,000
Speaker 1: they can reel that in, it's a very talented roster

892
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:26,240
Speaker 1: that will allow him to score a lot of points,

893
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:30,680
Speaker 1: score points quickly because there's just weapons at his disposal.

894
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:34,800
Speaker 1: When you talk about Julio Jones, Mohammed's new Calvin Ridley,

895
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: DeVante Freeman, They've got just weapon after weapon, but they

896
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 1: just can't stop turning the ball over. So he gets

897
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 1: that that's fixed. Look out, it's it's it's still a

898
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: dangerous team that was in the Super Bowl a few

899
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:52,239
Speaker 1: years ago. Andre Julio Jones, we don't see him much

900
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 1: as far as Texans games go. We only see him

901
00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 1: once every four years, but we see him on national

902
00:45:56,719 --> 00:46:00,440
Speaker 1: television or whatever your thoughts on his game. He's always

903
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 1: in that debate with DeAndre Hopkins who's the best in

904
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:05,799
Speaker 1: the league. And they're all good, all these guys who

905
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 1: are at the top there, But what do you think

906
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:10,160
Speaker 1: of Jones's game? I think he's one of the best

907
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 1: in the game when you look at just the physical

908
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 1: aspect of how he plays the game in a very

909
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:21,960
Speaker 1: very physical manner, challenging and pulling balls in when defenders

910
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 1: are all over him. And then he's got the speed

911
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 1: to go with the size. He can pull away from

912
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 1: defenders that are giving chase. He's not afraid to go

913
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 1: over the middle and make catches and then try to

914
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: get yards after the catch. So yeah, I would think

915
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 1: definitely he's in the top two or three, top top

916
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: certainly top five receivers in the league. All right, So

917
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: what do you think of the Texans as they try

918
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 1: to snap out of this offensive funk they're in for

919
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 1: lack of a better word at homes going thirteen points

920
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 1: in the home opener and then in the next game

921
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:57,879
Speaker 1: ten points, and you know they could do a whole

922
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,879
Speaker 1: lot better. What do you think has to first here

923
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:02,840
Speaker 1: as they try to get going on that side of

924
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 1: the football, Margaret, that you have to score points when

925
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: when given opportunities to score points, you get down inside

926
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: the thirty inside the red zone. That points need to

927
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 1: go on the board. You can't keep coming up empty handed,

928
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 1: so to speak, and then allow a team to stop

929
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 1: you or turn it over whatever, and then they take

930
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:25,400
Speaker 1: the ball and they go down and score now you

931
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 1: and especially in close games, and that's been kind of

932
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 1: them o of the season. Every single game in the

933
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:35,920
Speaker 1: first four weeks of the season have been close games,

934
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:39,880
Speaker 1: and so you can't do anything to come up empty

935
00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:44,080
Speaker 1: handed in those instances of close games. You need points.

936
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 1: You need the momentum. Sometimes that's all it takes or

937
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 1: points on the board to kind of snatch momentum from

938
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: a team and then they feel pressure. So I think

939
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:56,839
Speaker 1: that's where you started that when scoring opportunities are there,

940
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 1: you got to put points on the board. DaShan said

941
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: after the game that he needs to take his game

942
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: to another level. So what's the prescription for him as

943
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 1: he tries to get these offensive problems solved in the

944
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 1: home Jim, I think his games at a level that's

945
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 1: just fine already. The thing about it is just and

946
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 1: I hope he means it from the standpoint of just

947
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 1: getting rid of the football when necessary, because that's the

948
00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: only thing I think he needs to do. When you

949
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: start talking about taking it to another level, if you're

950
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 1: thinking literally, then you're gonna you're gonna try to produce

951
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: more than need be. And at that point, I think

952
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 1: some mistakes might come in to play where you start

953
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: forcing balls where they don't need to be forced. Where

954
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 1: he looked like he did when he came back from

955
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:46,880
Speaker 1: the injury and then had to reel himself back in

956
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,399
Speaker 1: and he was a much better player for having done.

957
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:52,799
Speaker 1: So I think DaShan is just fine. The ball just

958
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:54,879
Speaker 1: needs to come out, and so from the net, from

959
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 1: the next level standpoint that he's speaking of, I hope

960
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 1: it's from get through reads quick, get the ball out

961
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 1: a little quicker, don't take unnecessary hits, and certainly don't

962
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 1: hold on to it as much as he did against

963
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 1: the Panthers. But I think he's just fine. If he

964
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 1: looked like he I'll take Deshaun Watson that looked like

965
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:20,279
Speaker 1: he did against San Diego every excuse me, La Chargers

966
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 1: every single week. We're going to do that all year.

967
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 1: So we'll just accept it now. So and maybe someday

968
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:28,799
Speaker 1: they move back and we'll be proven right. Oh, I'm

969
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: hoping they move back for sure, and the people in

970
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 1: San Diego hope so as well. Andre. I look at

971
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: all these young quarterbacks, what is your theory on why

972
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:42,560
Speaker 1: they look more game ready than ever to step into

973
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: an NFL situation and produce, maybe not producing an all

974
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 1: world sense, Pro Bowl sense, but certainly get the job done.

975
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 1: All these young guys in the league, it's really amazing.

976
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: I think a big part of it, Mark is that coaches,

977
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:59,799
Speaker 1: the head coaches of these young players really understand who

978
00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 1: they they are, and they're giving them a high dose

979
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: of what they did in college. They're adapting to what

980
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,799
Speaker 1: the player did in college as opposed to trying to

981
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 1: force a system on the player. And it takes longer

982
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:18,120
Speaker 1: when that happens. When you give a young player a

983
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:21,799
Speaker 1: taste of what they're already accustomed to and what they've

984
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:26,240
Speaker 1: been running for three sometimes four years in college. Sometimes

985
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 1: you know, guy red shirt didn't played five years of

986
00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 1: college football. So it's a foundation that they're very familiar with.

987
00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 1: They can go in, it's second nature and they can

988
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: just go in and execute. And I think the way

989
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 1: that they brought Pat Mahomes along in Kansas City where

990
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:44,960
Speaker 1: he was able to kind of take a red shirt year,

991
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:48,120
Speaker 1: get adjusted, and then Andy Reid on top of that,

992
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:52,760
Speaker 1: still mixed in some things that he did at Texas

993
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 1: Tech and allowed him to just be Pat Mahomes was

994
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:59,680
Speaker 1: just it was bordering on genius and it turned into

995
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 1: and the MVP season for him last year, and he's

996
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 1: continuing to play at such a high level. So I

997
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 1: think that's the case across the board with a lot

998
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 1: of these young guys. You see it in with Mitchell Trabinsky,

999
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:14,000
Speaker 1: who's out now, but when he was playing well last year,

1000
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:16,840
Speaker 1: you see him run some zone reading, some things that

1001
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 1: he's comfortable with when he was in North Carolina and

1002
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: so on and so forth. Andre, how are the Texans

1003
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 1: taking the ball away so well? I mean they're really

1004
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:28,720
Speaker 1: dislodging the ball from the opponent at a good clip

1005
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: right here. Three strip sacks on Sunday. They weren't able

1006
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:34,239
Speaker 1: to capitalize the way they wanted, but that could really

1007
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 1: come in handy this week because the Falcons have been

1008
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:40,480
Speaker 1: having pass protection issues. When you think of taking the

1009
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 1: ball away, you're thinking about interceptions, it's not really coming

1010
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:45,840
Speaker 1: in that form. It's just parting the ball out and

1011
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 1: they've done an excellent job of kind of really concentrating

1012
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:51,920
Speaker 1: on that as they rushed the pass or where's the ball,

1013
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 1: let's locate the ball. And I think the way the

1014
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:59,400
Speaker 1: game has changed where you can't really level a quarterback

1015
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:02,839
Speaker 1: in today game. You have to take him down, but

1016
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 1: the next best thing is to aim for the football

1017
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 1: as you're delicately bringing him down, so to speak. So

1018
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 1: that's a that's an area where you still can be

1019
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 1: very aggressive as a play on the football as a

1020
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,319
Speaker 1: as a pass rusher, and I think it's something that

1021
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: they work on quite a bit and have gotten pretty

1022
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 1: good at it at doing so Andre where ruining us dre.

1023
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: You have Georgia Southern this Thursday night, rare Thursday night

1024
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: game for you, and they run that triple option. That

1025
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:35,920
Speaker 1: stuff is very difficult to defend and it's fun to

1026
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 1: watch when it's really clicking yeah, And that's what makes

1027
00:52:38,560 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: them special is that they run the triple option. So

1028
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:44,480
Speaker 1: it's tough to get ready for him. It's tough to

1029
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:47,799
Speaker 1: prepare for him inside of a week, and you see

1030
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 1: it with a military Academy's Army Navy. When you face

1031
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: the mid season, that is just a nightmare to get

1032
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 1: ready for because you really have to forget all things

1033
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 1: football and go back, you know, years to put it

1034
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: in as a defensive coordinator of how to stop the

1035
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:11,080
Speaker 1: triple option, and some of these defensive coordinators don't have frankly,

1036
00:53:11,120 --> 00:53:14,720
Speaker 1: don't have the experience in stopping it, and it becomes

1037
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: very frustrating. The next thing you know, you're in the

1038
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:19,400
Speaker 1: middle of a game and uh, and they're executing at

1039
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 1: a very high level. So it's tough to face a

1040
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:27,319
Speaker 1: team like Georgia Southern in a midweek and especially on

1041
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 1: a short week where you just played on Saturday. Now

1042
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 1: you ran an option type game in high school, correct?

1043
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:35,239
Speaker 1: Do I have that right? I run the wing tea

1044
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 1: which had some components of the option in it, and

1045
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 1: and then I kind of fell into the running shoot

1046
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:46,399
Speaker 1: once I got to the University of Houston. So two

1047
00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:49,440
Speaker 1: totally opposite ends of the spectrum in terms of of

1048
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 1: the offenses I ran in at in high school and

1049
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 1: in college. That is beautiful. The wing tea to the

1050
00:53:56,719 --> 00:54:00,359
Speaker 1: running shoot different worlds. And let me ask you, why

1051
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 1: don't more schools run an option game? Is it because

1052
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 1: it's not sexy and kids don't want to play it

1053
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 1: coming out of high school? It's tough for recruiting, is

1054
00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 1: that it? Yeah? I think especially from the state of Texas,

1055
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:16,719
Speaker 1: you got now the seven on seven things going on

1056
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 1: on the high school level that they're running during the offseason.

1057
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 1: I think we had a conversation about that just last week.

1058
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 1: And the one thing I know about kids nowadays, and

1059
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:31,040
Speaker 1: especially maybe not even kids, but parents, it's how do

1060
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 1: I get to the NFL. Well, they're not running the

1061
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:37,759
Speaker 1: triple option in high schools or they're not running the

1062
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:41,160
Speaker 1: triple option in the NFL, so to speak. So I

1063
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: need my son to get to a place where they're

1064
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:48,560
Speaker 1: running a system that prepares them for the next level.

1065
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:51,200
Speaker 1: And you know, at some point it's football's football, and

1066
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: you can make the transition from from one one offense

1067
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 1: to the other. If you're a good football player, you're

1068
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 1: you're going to make it to the NFL, so I

1069
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 1: think it's just really overblown and a great deal of

1070
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 1: it is just it's the parents. Drey, thanks a lot

1071
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:08,319
Speaker 1: for the time. We appreciate it as always, and we'll

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00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:11,640
Speaker 1: see you on Sunday. We'll see there. There is Andre

1073
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: where with our good friend Mark Vandermerger. Here from Mark

1074
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:17,719
Speaker 1: later on when we go with our men behind the

1075
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:23,280
Speaker 1: MIC's segment with West Durham of the Atlanta Falcons. It's interesting.

1076
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 1: I said this a little bit earlier in the show.

1077
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:28,200
Speaker 1: West is the son of Woody Durham, who is who

1078
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:32,239
Speaker 1: was the longtime voice of North Carolina football and basketball.

1079
00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:35,799
Speaker 1: And I heard Woody's voice for so long, and I

1080
00:55:35,840 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: listened to the interview with West, I was like, oh

1081
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 1: my gosh, that's Woody. It was just it was bizarre.

1082
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 1: But obviously father's sons, you know, we'll have same voice patterns.

1083
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 1: I know when I call home sometimes my mom's like

1084
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 1: that my husband or is that my son? Because our

1085
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:51,759
Speaker 1: voices sound very, very similar. So just interesting. While I

1086
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 1: remember Behind the Mike's segment later in the show. Now

1087
00:55:55,200 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 1: coming up next on Saturday, we have one of the

1088
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:04,920
Speaker 1: greatest college football rivalries in the country that will be

1089
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 1: taking place at NARG Stadium. You may know it as

1090
00:56:09,360 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 1: Stephen F. Auston versus Sam Houston State. We all know

1091
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: it as the Battle of the Piney Woods. This rivalry

1092
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:20,080
Speaker 1: has now I believe this is the tenth year, tenth

1093
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:24,360
Speaker 1: year at NARG Stadium. SFA's got a new coach, Kobe Carthel.

1094
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:26,839
Speaker 1: They got their first win of the year. The Lubberjacks

1095
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:29,480
Speaker 1: did last week beating Lamar. I believe it's twenty four seventeen.

1096
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 1: Sam Houston State has been playing very well on a

1097
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 1: longtime coach, Casey Keeler. This rivalry, though, you can throw

1098
00:56:36,719 --> 00:56:39,319
Speaker 1: the records out the window, this will be a fun one.

1099
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:41,760
Speaker 1: I'm actually doing a luncheon on Friday here at the stadium.

1100
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:44,720
Speaker 1: The game is on Saturday, and my man, the GM

1101
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:47,239
Speaker 1: of Lone Star Sports Entertainment and Executive director of the

1102
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:50,759
Speaker 1: Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas Bowl, David Fletcher, is gonna

1103
00:56:50,840 --> 00:56:53,759
Speaker 1: join me next to talk about Battle of the Piney Woods,

1104
00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:56,600
Speaker 1: a little college football right here on Texas All Access.

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00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Wednesday, Nation of Texas All from the

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00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:05,320
Speaker 1: Honday Texans Radio Studio. Before I get to my next guest,

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Speaker 1: I need to talk to all of my Houston teachers

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Speaker 1: out there. Do you want to bring some Texans football

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Speaker 1: to your classroom thirty fourth grade teachers, then how about

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Speaker 1: covered to listen. I taught math many many years ago,

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Speaker 1: and I used football as a way to teach my kids,

1113
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 1: and they were in high school. I can imagine you

1114
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 1: can get through to your third and fourth graders by

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00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 1: teaching them some math that comes out of Toros Matros.

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Speaker 1: how to tackle math in the classroom. Go to Houston

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Speaker 1: Texas dot com slash Toros Mathtros to learn more. Like

1119
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Speaker 1: I said, I'm your host, John Harris footballan US to

1120
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 1: SILAR reporter and a huge college football fan, which brings

1121
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 1: me to my next guest, GM of LSS. He's an

1122
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:58,280
Speaker 1: executive director of the Academy Sports and Outdoors Texas bull

1123
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 1: It is a good friend because we got a big

1124
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:03,360
Speaker 1: one coming up this weekend, and that is David Fletcher Fletch.

1125
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 1: How you doing, my man, man, Johnny. We're in the

1126
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:08,600
Speaker 1: throes of the college football just a football seasons in general.

1127
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:10,920
Speaker 1: Man it is. It is fun to see how this

1128
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 1: year has started, whether it be at the FCS level, Yeah,

1129
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:16,160
Speaker 1: we're seeing in the Southland and we'll talk about in

1130
00:58:16,200 --> 00:58:19,600
Speaker 1: a moment, or you know, anything in the top twenty five.

1131
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:22,720
Speaker 1: Boy there, there's there's a lot of fun going to

1132
00:58:22,760 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 1: be here over the next ten weeks, that's for sure. Yeah,

1133
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 1: no doubt. I want to start by going back a

1134
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:32,440
Speaker 1: little bit aftercare Texas to kickoff Washington State in Houston.

1135
00:58:33,040 --> 00:58:35,960
Speaker 1: Just your overall thought about how that went, having the

1136
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: Coogs and the Coogs in here put up a lot

1137
00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:41,320
Speaker 1: of points, as we sort of expected, but a fun

1138
00:58:41,440 --> 00:58:45,560
Speaker 1: football game to have and two teams that normally don't

1139
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 1: play each other, but because of the connection between Holgerston

1140
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:50,440
Speaker 1: and Leach and all that, how did you feel overall

1141
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 1: all of that went. Then obviously the game that we

1142
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 1: ended up getting, I mean want an electric atmosphere. I

1143
00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:57,360
Speaker 1: mean it was awesome to have the energy here on

1144
00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 1: a Friday night. Yeah, you know, big stage both those schools.

1145
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:03,200
Speaker 1: I'm gonna speak to the locals. I would have loved

1146
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:05,480
Speaker 1: to seeing the uv H Cougars pull that game off.

1147
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:08,640
Speaker 1: I thought Dana and his squad um you know, played

1148
00:59:08,680 --> 00:59:10,600
Speaker 1: a great had a great game plan and played well,

1149
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:14,040
Speaker 1: but um, Washington State just too much offense. You know,

1150
00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 1: Anthony just looked phenomenal. Um, and uh, anytime you give

1151
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 1: up four hundred fifty yards and five touchdowns, it's stuff

1152
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 1: to overcome that. But you know, for our community to

1153
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 1: have that game continue to be one of the biggest

1154
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 1: neutral site games to start the year, um, it's a

1155
00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 1: huge statement as to what college football means to Houston.

1156
00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 1: To our partners at ESPN, that was the best Friday

1157
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 1: Night rated games since two thousand and fifteen. Yeah, I mean,

1158
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 1: and why not Leach and Holgersson a lot of offense,

1159
00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:43,480
Speaker 1: as you said, So you know, we're looking forward next year.

1160
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:45,479
Speaker 1: We got a huge matchup to start the year, back

1161
00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: to Labor Day weekend, Baylor and Old Miss, big twelve

1162
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 1: sec matchup, just like we have in the Academy Sports

1163
00:59:51,040 --> 00:59:54,439
Speaker 1: and Outdoors Texas Bowls. So you know, I'm excited about

1164
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:56,080
Speaker 1: what we've been able to do with that game. It

1165
00:59:56,200 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 1: really really set the tone for what is uh gonna

1166
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:02,520
Speaker 1: be a fun football season here in Houston, and we

1167
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:05,360
Speaker 1: get to keep that role in this weekend. Two big

1168
01:00:05,440 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 1: games we all know about Founder's Day on Sunday and

1169
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 1: the Texans and the Falcons, but one of the best

1170
01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 1: rivalries in all the sports, one of the biggest and

1171
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:18,200
Speaker 1: oldest college football rivalries in Texas. Coming back to NRG

1172
01:00:18,360 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 1: for the tenth year in a row. Sam Houston State

1173
01:00:22,120 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 1: Stephen F. Auston Battle of Piney was presented by HGB

1174
01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 1: this Saturday afternoon. Flex. We'll get into the game a

1175
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 1: little bit because it was good to see SFA get

1176
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:32,240
Speaker 1: a big win last week against Lamar Lamars, a team

1177
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:34,200
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen that sort of came out of nowhere

1178
01:00:34,240 --> 01:00:37,919
Speaker 1: after a coaching change, and SFA did get that win

1179
01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:40,360
Speaker 1: last week was big for them and Sam's just piling

1180
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:42,280
Speaker 1: up more points. So we'll talk more about the matchup.

1181
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:47,960
Speaker 1: But why this matchup here at NRG and why does

1182
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:52,160
Speaker 1: it work here at NRG for Sam Houston State and

1183
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:55,280
Speaker 1: Stephen F. Auston Because you think about two college rivals. Yeah,

1184
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:57,520
Speaker 1: we'd like to play, you know, a rivalry game. You know,

1185
01:00:57,640 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: hey played our play So it's a dear place. But

1186
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:03,600
Speaker 1: it's really found a nice home here at NRG Stadium,

1187
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:05,439
Speaker 1: and I know both schools look forward to it both.

1188
01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:07,480
Speaker 1: Why does it work? Why does it make so much

1189
01:01:07,520 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 1: sense for it to be here. Well, it's the fans.

1190
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 1: I mean, first and foremost, it's the fans. I mean,

1191
01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:15,640
Speaker 1: this is the super Bowl each year for these two schools.

1192
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:17,600
Speaker 1: It's really become the homecoming for each of them. And

1193
01:01:17,640 --> 01:01:19,360
Speaker 1: I know they do a great job on campus. But

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01:01:19,760 --> 01:01:22,120
Speaker 1: you know, both Sam Houston State and Stephen F. Austin

1195
01:01:22,200 --> 01:01:25,800
Speaker 1: are incredible parts of our regional community here. They have

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Speaker 1: over one hundred thousand plus alums in this market alone,

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01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:32,479
Speaker 1: and the opportunity to play on this big stage means

1198
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:35,680
Speaker 1: a lot to their institutions, not just the football side,

1199
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 1: but you look at all the amazing things Sam Houston

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01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:40,880
Speaker 1: is doing with building a medical school here in the

1201
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:45,960
Speaker 1: Houston community, continuing to grow significantly each and every year

1202
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:49,960
Speaker 1: on their enrollment. SFA new president coming in, but he's

1203
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 1: coming into a situation where Houston is their number one

1204
01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:55,880
Speaker 1: market for new students and also their biggest alumni market.

1205
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 1: So for them to have their football team front and

1206
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 1: center means a lot just to the football side, but

1207
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:03,880
Speaker 1: to those two institutions to be able to play on

1208
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:05,840
Speaker 1: this stage, and they've they've really embraced it, and we

1209
01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 1: know they'll do it again this weekend. Calling on every

1210
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:10,840
Speaker 1: Lumberjack and every Bearcat to get out here if he can.

1211
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:15,160
Speaker 1: It's an incredible atmosphere, one of the largest FCS games

1212
01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:17,640
Speaker 1: in the country. Um, we'll have over twenty six thousand

1213
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:20,600
Speaker 1: again this year. I hope we can get to thirty

1214
01:02:20,880 --> 01:02:23,000
Speaker 1: UM and um. But we need your help to do that.

1215
01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:26,240
Speaker 1: And it is a fun, very affordable way to get

1216
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:28,600
Speaker 1: into an event here at NRG Stadium as part of

1217
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:31,400
Speaker 1: what will be a huge football weekend. Yeah, definitely a

1218
01:02:31,480 --> 01:02:35,120
Speaker 1: huge football weekend. Before we get into the matchup itself,

1219
01:02:36,200 --> 01:02:39,720
Speaker 1: does the lumberjack get to bring his axe into the building?

1220
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:42,640
Speaker 1: He does? Okay, good, Yeah, it's clear it is the

1221
01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:45,320
Speaker 1: only one that gets past the garback policy. Yeah. I figured.

1222
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:47,400
Speaker 1: I mean, if we ever got Wisconsin and Minnesota here,

1223
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:49,240
Speaker 1: then they can bring in Paul Bunyan Zax. But that's

1224
01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:51,520
Speaker 1: a I don't know that that'll ever happen. It would

1225
01:02:51,560 --> 01:02:54,000
Speaker 1: be interesting. Hey, I'm always working on it. He Consota's

1226
01:02:54,040 --> 01:02:56,040
Speaker 1: off to a great start in Wisconsin's in the top ten,

1227
01:02:56,120 --> 01:02:59,360
Speaker 1: so they definitely make it happened, Johnny. But this matchup

1228
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:02,280
Speaker 1: over the years, it's been a kind of an odd

1229
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 1: matchup in this sense. Stephen F. Austin has not had

1230
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:08,480
Speaker 1: the success that Sam has. You mean, you can look

1231
01:03:08,520 --> 01:03:12,720
Speaker 1: at Sam's playoff history going to championship games, not having

1232
01:03:12,720 --> 01:03:14,840
Speaker 1: won one, but having gone to championship games, and Stephen

1233
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:17,320
Speaker 1: f has not been at that level. But whenever these

1234
01:03:17,360 --> 01:03:21,280
Speaker 1: two teams meet, it really has been the proverbial throw

1235
01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:24,040
Speaker 1: the records out the window and let's go to battle.

1236
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:26,680
Speaker 1: And sometimes they've been a ton of points, sometimes not

1237
01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:29,240
Speaker 1: as many, but it's always been a close ball game

1238
01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:31,360
Speaker 1: no matter what in the stadium and these two teams meet,

1239
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:34,040
Speaker 1: it's always been close. Been been on that orange side

1240
01:03:34,040 --> 01:03:35,880
Speaker 1: a lot more often than not, though eight in a

1241
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:39,920
Speaker 1: row for the Bearcats in this game. But you know,

1242
01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:42,360
Speaker 1: new head coach at SFA, Kobe Carthl was coming off

1243
01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:44,360
Speaker 1: a huge win as you mentioned last week, his first

1244
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:47,880
Speaker 1: as the head coach of the Lumberjacks. Has has spoken

1245
01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:50,520
Speaker 1: to just what you talked about. These are close games.

1246
01:03:50,520 --> 01:03:52,960
Speaker 1: This is a rivalry game. Um. They need all the

1247
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:55,200
Speaker 1: help they can get from the fans to be out

1248
01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:57,360
Speaker 1: here and help them get over the top and on

1249
01:03:57,400 --> 01:03:59,040
Speaker 1: the other side of the table. Casey Keeler's in his

1250
01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:01,880
Speaker 1: seventh one of these, and I tell you he's not

1251
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:04,120
Speaker 1: sitting on it thinking he's got it locked in the bag.

1252
01:04:04,160 --> 01:04:07,000
Speaker 1: He knows what Coach Karthlo. They were out here and

1253
01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:10,160
Speaker 1: visited with you at the at the Lions game earlier

1254
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:12,360
Speaker 1: this year, and both of them talked about the intensity

1255
01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:15,160
Speaker 1: that they're seeing from their players as as they as

1256
01:04:15,160 --> 01:04:17,600
Speaker 1: they look towards this game, you know, not not gonna

1257
01:04:17,680 --> 01:04:20,920
Speaker 1: focus on any of the um other games leading up

1258
01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:22,479
Speaker 1: except for the game in front of you. But boy,

1259
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:23,840
Speaker 1: it's the game in front of you now, and they're

1260
01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:26,520
Speaker 1: ready to play, and it's it's it's really really fun

1261
01:04:26,560 --> 01:04:29,000
Speaker 1: to see what these two are doing, you know, in

1262
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:32,160
Speaker 1: in social media and everything else leading to uh this weekend,

1263
01:04:32,160 --> 01:04:34,040
Speaker 1: coming off of big win for each of them last weekend.

1264
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:37,640
Speaker 1: I think it goes to show for SFA in particular,

1265
01:04:37,920 --> 01:04:39,880
Speaker 1: but I think it also goes to show with same

1266
01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:42,720
Speaker 1: Houston State on one end, with same Euston State. It's

1267
01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:45,640
Speaker 1: about the continuity of Casey and his staff and what

1268
01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:49,240
Speaker 1: they've what they've built there. I think at SFA and

1269
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:52,240
Speaker 1: I call a couple of SA games over the years,

1270
01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:56,480
Speaker 1: and you could just tell that with interim coach just

1271
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Speaker 1: the program's kind of like, all right, what are we

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01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:00,920
Speaker 1: gonna do? And you know when kids are going through

1273
01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:02,680
Speaker 1: that situation, Look, they want to play hard. You only

1274
01:05:02,680 --> 01:05:05,840
Speaker 1: get four years at a college institution, but you know

1275
01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:09,320
Speaker 1: that there's change coming in the program and it's not

1276
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:12,840
Speaker 1: completely settled. But then they added Kobe Carthle as head

1277
01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:15,600
Speaker 1: coach at SFA, and I can only imagine what that

1278
01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:18,320
Speaker 1: does is give them a clear, direct vision and a voice.

1279
01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:21,200
Speaker 1: This is the guy that's gonna lead you. He's gonna

1280
01:05:21,240 --> 01:05:23,160
Speaker 1: be that guy. He's brought a staff in to lead you.

1281
01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:26,120
Speaker 1: And it just feels like just watching SFA from Afar

1282
01:05:26,560 --> 01:05:30,320
Speaker 1: like that has meant a lot to have Kobe Carthel's voice,

1283
01:05:30,440 --> 01:05:34,520
Speaker 1: vision and mission in front of Lumberjacks, so they know

1284
01:05:34,640 --> 01:05:36,160
Speaker 1: where they want to go and what they're gonna do.

1285
01:05:36,240 --> 01:05:39,720
Speaker 1: And we've seen in the Southland Conference carnt Word and

1286
01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:42,439
Speaker 1: Lamar two coaching changes over the last couple of years.

1287
01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:45,720
Speaker 1: Those teams went from being two and eight, two and nine,

1288
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:47,720
Speaker 1: three and seven, kind of in that range, to all

1289
01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:49,080
Speaker 1: of a sudden being teams that can fight for a

1290
01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:51,640
Speaker 1: Southland Conference title, no question. I mean, the Southland is

1291
01:05:52,160 --> 01:05:54,040
Speaker 1: competitive a conference day in the country, but you got

1292
01:05:54,080 --> 01:05:58,120
Speaker 1: two championship caliber coaches. You know, Casey Keeler's won his

1293
01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:00,640
Speaker 1: when he was a Delaware As you mentioned Earli, He's

1294
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:03,760
Speaker 1: gotten at Sam Houston consistently in the playoffs into the

1295
01:06:03,840 --> 01:06:06,680
Speaker 1: championship leveled in the last few years as a coach.

1296
01:06:07,080 --> 01:06:09,280
Speaker 1: Kobe Carl was coming off a national championship D two

1297
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:11,040
Speaker 1: level down a commerce just a couple of years ago

1298
01:06:11,040 --> 01:06:12,640
Speaker 1: when he was the head coach there. He's got a

1299
01:06:12,720 --> 01:06:16,280
Speaker 1: championship caliber staff and he's got energy and so you're

1300
01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:18,320
Speaker 1: gonna see it out of the players. One of the

1301
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:21,720
Speaker 1: best recruiting classes ever at SFA this past year. Again

1302
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:24,640
Speaker 1: it's a process. He's in year one and you know,

1303
01:06:24,720 --> 01:06:26,800
Speaker 1: they got their first win last weekend, so they're coming

1304
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:29,440
Speaker 1: in with a little bit of momentum. I know, Casey

1305
01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:32,880
Speaker 1: Keeler and Sam Houston staff, they know what they they're

1306
01:06:32,880 --> 01:06:35,200
Speaker 1: cut out for, and they got some challenges as well.

1307
01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:38,000
Speaker 1: They're on their third stream quarterback this weekend due to

1308
01:06:38,040 --> 01:06:40,840
Speaker 1: some injuries, so you know it's it's gonna be exactly

1309
01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:44,400
Speaker 1: what it should be, a fast paced, a high energy,

1310
01:06:44,840 --> 01:06:47,360
Speaker 1: a rivalry as it should be the ninety fourth edition

1311
01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:49,880
Speaker 1: of this great matchup presented by HB and it should

1312
01:06:49,880 --> 01:06:51,919
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. If you're a football fan

1313
01:06:52,160 --> 01:06:54,520
Speaker 1: and you're looking for something to do this weekend. Tickets

1314
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Speaker 1: as low as fifteen bucks ticketmaster dot com. I promise

1315
01:06:57,640 --> 01:07:01,080
Speaker 1: you will not have a tailgate ex experience UM like

1316
01:07:01,160 --> 01:07:04,280
Speaker 1: this anywhere except for maybe on Sunday when the Texans

1317
01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:06,919
Speaker 1: and Falcons to go to battle. So, um, Weather's gonna

1318
01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:09,000
Speaker 1: be great, should be a lot of fun. Get yourself

1319
01:07:09,040 --> 01:07:12,640
Speaker 1: out here, uh ticketmaster dot com as SFA and Sam

1320
01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:15,000
Speaker 1: Houston battle it up for the tenth time in a row. Here, Yeah,

1321
01:07:15,040 --> 01:07:16,919
Speaker 1: get out here and see this Battle of the the Piney Woods.

1322
01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:19,120
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a fun ball game. There will be

1323
01:07:19,160 --> 01:07:22,560
Speaker 1: there will be points. Are they wearing the orange and

1324
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:25,720
Speaker 1: the purple jerseys? Oh yeah, I love that. I love that.

1325
01:07:25,760 --> 01:07:27,400
Speaker 1: I wish it will be half and half, you know.

1326
01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:29,920
Speaker 1: I love that because oh well, one team's gonna wear

1327
01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:32,120
Speaker 1: why because of the road team. And I love the

1328
01:07:32,200 --> 01:07:34,360
Speaker 1: rivalries USC and US. Shelly went back to this a

1329
01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:36,680
Speaker 1: few years ago where US Shelley's wearing a blue and

1330
01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:39,040
Speaker 1: USC was wearing the Cardinal. And I love it. I

1331
01:07:39,080 --> 01:07:41,280
Speaker 1: absolutely love when the carton when they can wear their

1332
01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:43,840
Speaker 1: their home I love that. So that was one of

1333
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:45,640
Speaker 1: my I was so happy to see that a few

1334
01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:48,040
Speaker 1: years ago when they went to the Purple versus the Orange,

1335
01:07:48,040 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 1: I thought that was really cool. So Flesh, you've done

1336
01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:52,160
Speaker 1: a heck of a job with this game. College football

1337
01:07:52,280 --> 01:07:55,120
Speaker 1: is ramping up. But like Fletch, ticketmaster dot com to

1338
01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:57,880
Speaker 1: get your tickets to come see Battle of the Piney

1339
01:07:57,960 --> 01:08:01,840
Speaker 1: Woods on Saturday. Fletch time, brother, Thank you. Johnny coming

1340
01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:04,680
Speaker 1: up next, Let's go behind the mikes with two minute

1341
01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:07,280
Speaker 1: I'll call the action on Sunday, Mark Vandermer, you know

1342
01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:10,160
Speaker 1: for the Houston, Texas. West Durham isn't played by play

1343
01:08:10,240 --> 01:08:12,439
Speaker 1: voice at the Atlanta Falcons and he joins us right

1344
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:15,960
Speaker 1: here on Texans All Access. Let's get right to it, Amen,

1345
01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:18,679
Speaker 1: behind the mikes this week is with West Durham play

1346
01:08:18,720 --> 01:08:20,880
Speaker 1: by play voice all of the Atlanta Falcons. Mark, take

1347
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:23,800
Speaker 1: it away, West, long time, no speak? How's it goll

1348
01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:26,280
Speaker 1: my friend. I'm great. Mark. It's good to hear your voice.

1349
01:08:26,280 --> 01:08:29,360
Speaker 1: Good to look forward to seeing you this weekend. Well likewise,

1350
01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:31,439
Speaker 1: and I know the Falcons are having a tough time

1351
01:08:31,439 --> 01:08:33,559
Speaker 1: of it right now. But before we get into all that,

1352
01:08:34,120 --> 01:08:37,000
Speaker 1: let's get into this. You were the voice of Georgia

1353
01:08:37,080 --> 01:08:39,280
Speaker 1: Tech for so long. And I know you're doing so

1354
01:08:39,360 --> 01:08:42,719
Speaker 1: much stuff with the ACC now, but tell me about

1355
01:08:42,720 --> 01:08:45,519
Speaker 1: your experience with Bill O'Brien back in the day when

1356
01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:48,680
Speaker 1: he was an assistant. Well, it actually goes back to

1357
01:08:48,720 --> 01:08:53,040
Speaker 1: when he was a GAU because I got the job

1358
01:08:53,080 --> 01:08:57,720
Speaker 1: at Georgia Tech in nineteen ninety five and he had

1359
01:08:57,840 --> 01:09:01,480
Speaker 1: just come on as a GA for coach Leary Georgia Leary.

1360
01:09:02,080 --> 01:09:05,120
Speaker 1: And it wasn't long after I first met Bill that

1361
01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:09,439
Speaker 1: we realized that I had done a game when I

1362
01:09:09,479 --> 01:09:12,799
Speaker 1: was at Marshall that he had actually played in for Brown.

1363
01:09:14,680 --> 01:09:17,640
Speaker 1: So we kind of connected a little bit there, and

1364
01:09:17,680 --> 01:09:21,680
Speaker 1: then Dolly, I'm met he, I'm met Colleen when they

1365
01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:23,599
Speaker 1: were dating. I mean, you know, what do you want

1366
01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:28,080
Speaker 1: to tell you? It's um, you know, it's I'm thrilled

1367
01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:30,840
Speaker 1: for him. I'm thrilled for his football journey. But also

1368
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:33,920
Speaker 1: he and Colleen are just wonderful, wonderful people. So the

1369
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:36,760
Speaker 1: memories aren't football centers, but they're very fine because of

1370
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:40,080
Speaker 1: our friendship, and we still occasionally connect and I hope

1371
01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:42,080
Speaker 1: I get a chance to visit with him before Sunday.

1372
01:09:42,120 --> 01:09:44,759
Speaker 1: But he was a really good football coach, a smart

1373
01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:49,479
Speaker 1: guy obviously, and not anybody who was around Georgia Tech

1374
01:09:49,560 --> 01:09:52,479
Speaker 1: at that time. A surprise the success he's had in

1375
01:09:52,560 --> 01:09:55,080
Speaker 1: terms of his football coaching at all. And Doug Moron

1376
01:09:55,240 --> 01:09:58,080
Speaker 1: was around two, right, Yeah, Doug was a football ops

1377
01:09:58,120 --> 01:10:01,439
Speaker 1: guy in nineteen ninety five, later game and assistant. It

1378
01:10:01,479 --> 01:10:05,120
Speaker 1: was kind of an interesting situation because that staff also

1379
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:07,800
Speaker 1: featured Randy Vel at one point, who was a former

1380
01:10:07,880 --> 01:10:12,320
Speaker 1: defensive coordinar in Jacksonville. There was an interesting line of,

1381
01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:17,320
Speaker 1: you know, kind of a pedigree of Northeast guys. Tom

1382
01:10:17,360 --> 01:10:21,840
Speaker 1: Coughlin influenced guys. Obviously Georgia Leary with Bobby Ross influenced guys.

1383
01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:24,160
Speaker 1: I mean, there was all sorts of different kind of

1384
01:10:24,200 --> 01:10:27,639
Speaker 1: coaching trees crossing there, and it was a really good staff.

1385
01:10:27,680 --> 01:10:29,840
Speaker 1: And Georgia Tuneck had just come off a one and

1386
01:10:29,960 --> 01:10:32,960
Speaker 1: ten season when coach O Leary was named the head

1387
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:35,960
Speaker 1: coach and all these guys got there and then you know,

1388
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:39,280
Speaker 1: Loy and Behold they won an ACC title and double

1389
01:10:39,320 --> 01:10:42,320
Speaker 1: figured games. In nineteen ninety eight they won ten games,

1390
01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:45,040
Speaker 1: and so it was it was a really good way

1391
01:10:45,120 --> 01:10:47,120
Speaker 1: to kind of start mind what ultimately ended up being

1392
01:10:47,160 --> 01:10:49,880
Speaker 1: an eighteen year career there. Mark. But you also had

1393
01:10:49,880 --> 01:10:52,000
Speaker 1: a lot of friendships that you still have, even with

1394
01:10:52,200 --> 01:10:55,839
Speaker 1: guys who played who are also now coaches or scouts

1395
01:10:56,160 --> 01:10:59,080
Speaker 1: or doing something else in football as well. West Durham

1396
01:10:59,160 --> 01:11:01,760
Speaker 1: joining us voice of the Falcons, also former voice of

1397
01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:06,320
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech and currently with ACC stuff with Fox Sports

1398
01:11:06,360 --> 01:11:09,000
Speaker 1: and everything else you do. West, Now, how difficult a

1399
01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:12,200
Speaker 1: decision was it when you left Georgia Tech to do

1400
01:11:12,280 --> 01:11:15,960
Speaker 1: more ACC at large type stuff on television. Well, it

1401
01:11:16,040 --> 01:11:18,920
Speaker 1: was just it was a professional opportunity I couldn't turn down.

1402
01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:22,000
Speaker 1: I mean, I just kind of wanted to see if

1403
01:11:22,160 --> 01:11:23,760
Speaker 1: I would want to do television. I was going to

1404
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:26,719
Speaker 1: do a handful of games in twenty thirteen because Georgia

1405
01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:30,360
Speaker 1: Tech had four Saturdays off Mark because of a double buy,

1406
01:11:30,640 --> 01:11:33,280
Speaker 1: you know, the two buys in the schedule, and then

1407
01:11:33,320 --> 01:11:36,400
Speaker 1: they had two Thursday night games and I was talking

1408
01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:39,479
Speaker 1: to them folks at Fox and Raycom Sports at the time,

1409
01:11:39,520 --> 01:11:42,639
Speaker 1: and well I went in to do a screen test

1410
01:11:42,680 --> 01:11:44,720
Speaker 1: with them because they were hiring a new analysts for

1411
01:11:44,760 --> 01:11:46,679
Speaker 1: their regular package. And the next thing I know, they're

1412
01:11:46,680 --> 01:11:48,679
Speaker 1: asking me if I mentioned in doing the whole package.

1413
01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:52,160
Speaker 1: And my wife laughs today. Fortunate we didn't have a

1414
01:11:52,200 --> 01:11:54,040
Speaker 1: long time to make the decision. We only had about

1415
01:11:54,040 --> 01:11:58,040
Speaker 1: seventy two hours to decide, but we made the decision.

1416
01:11:58,080 --> 01:12:01,280
Speaker 1: And I'm fortunate because in the ACC network from the

1417
01:12:01,439 --> 01:12:03,880
Speaker 1: ESPN lost in August, they were good enough to include me.

1418
01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:06,720
Speaker 1: And now I'm doing games on the new network and

1419
01:12:06,760 --> 01:12:08,920
Speaker 1: doing a daily morning show and I've had to kind

1420
01:12:08,920 --> 01:12:12,240
Speaker 1: of relocate to Charlotte to do that, but I've been

1421
01:12:12,360 --> 01:12:15,439
Speaker 1: very blast and very fortunate to see some dreams on

1422
01:12:15,439 --> 01:12:18,479
Speaker 1: that side for sure, and still get the great support

1423
01:12:18,560 --> 01:12:20,960
Speaker 1: of mister Blank and Rich McKay to keep doing the

1424
01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:24,040
Speaker 1: Falcons on radio as well. West Durham with us Voice

1425
01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:26,360
Speaker 1: of the Falcons and West I was on Twitter, and

1426
01:12:26,439 --> 01:12:29,000
Speaker 1: sometimes these stories don't end well when you begin with

1427
01:12:29,160 --> 01:12:31,680
Speaker 1: I was on Twitter, but I was on Twitter and

1428
01:12:31,760 --> 01:12:35,240
Speaker 1: I saw an old video of you doing a coach's

1429
01:12:35,280 --> 01:12:40,120
Speaker 1: show for Radford and Oliver Pernell is the coach and

1430
01:12:40,200 --> 01:12:42,559
Speaker 1: you're talking about the lock Haven game. And I just

1431
01:12:42,600 --> 01:12:45,320
Speaker 1: love this stuff because it shows where you were and

1432
01:12:45,360 --> 01:12:48,800
Speaker 1: where you are now. And we talked about connections and

1433
01:12:48,800 --> 01:12:51,360
Speaker 1: you knowing Bill O'Brien from Georgia Tech. There's Oliver Purnell

1434
01:12:51,439 --> 01:12:54,479
Speaker 1: back at Radford. That's really cool stuff. Yeah, yeah, and

1435
01:12:54,520 --> 01:12:58,280
Speaker 1: he and I connected there, and you know, and now

1436
01:12:59,120 --> 01:13:02,280
Speaker 1: it's ironic. One of his former student managers at Clemson

1437
01:13:02,360 --> 01:13:04,519
Speaker 1: was Will Wade, who was the basketball coach at LSU.

1438
01:13:05,120 --> 01:13:07,760
Speaker 1: I mean that shows you just how small the neighborhood

1439
01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:12,000
Speaker 1: can get sometimes, right, I mean absolutely, It's amazing, and

1440
01:13:12,200 --> 01:13:15,720
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I've been very fortunate Mark. I mean, first

1441
01:13:15,760 --> 01:13:17,479
Speaker 1: time you and I met, I was at Georgia Tech

1442
01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:21,120
Speaker 1: and you were at you man right exactly, and so yeah,

1443
01:13:21,120 --> 01:13:24,920
Speaker 1: I mean it's crazy how this business works. And you know,

1444
01:13:24,960 --> 01:13:27,240
Speaker 1: in some ways, announcers are a little bit like coaches.

1445
01:13:27,240 --> 01:13:30,280
Speaker 1: We have different connections to different trees and and that

1446
01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:33,000
Speaker 1: kind of thing. But it's uh yeah, Radford was a

1447
01:13:33,040 --> 01:13:34,840
Speaker 1: great place to start out of college. They gave me

1448
01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:37,080
Speaker 1: an opportunity that I didn't I wasn't sure I was

1449
01:13:37,080 --> 01:13:39,320
Speaker 1: gonna get a first job out of college and ended

1450
01:13:39,360 --> 01:13:40,920
Speaker 1: up with a pretty good one and helped me really

1451
01:13:40,960 --> 01:13:44,680
Speaker 1: get started West. You posted something about your father recently,

1452
01:13:44,960 --> 01:13:48,760
Speaker 1: the legendary Woody Durham, and I just I love that

1453
01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:51,639
Speaker 1: as well, seeing that kind of tribute. Was there ever

1454
01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:53,439
Speaker 1: any doubt that you were going to go into this

1455
01:13:53,520 --> 01:13:56,800
Speaker 1: line of work with your dad doing what he did.

1456
01:13:58,600 --> 01:14:01,760
Speaker 1: I don't know that there was a out. I think,

1457
01:14:02,080 --> 01:14:04,040
Speaker 1: like a lot of us, I got connected in this

1458
01:14:04,200 --> 01:14:07,920
Speaker 1: because I love sports. I like playing I played basketball

1459
01:14:08,040 --> 01:14:11,760
Speaker 1: most of my teenage years and had a lescent years

1460
01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:15,320
Speaker 1: youth years growing up in North Carolina and had a

1461
01:14:15,360 --> 01:14:17,519
Speaker 1: blast playing basketball, played a little bit of football, a

1462
01:14:17,520 --> 01:14:20,679
Speaker 1: little bit of baseball. But I wanted to stay connected

1463
01:14:20,720 --> 01:14:23,559
Speaker 1: to sports, and so I saw how much passion and

1464
01:14:23,560 --> 01:14:26,639
Speaker 1: work ethic and enthusiasm my dad had for doing games

1465
01:14:26,680 --> 01:14:30,479
Speaker 1: and working in television at the time, and I really

1466
01:14:30,560 --> 01:14:33,719
Speaker 1: connected to it, and I thought it was a great

1467
01:14:33,720 --> 01:14:37,040
Speaker 1: way to stay stay tied to sports, and so especially

1468
01:14:37,120 --> 01:14:39,040
Speaker 1: college sports. And it just so happened that I have

1469
01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:42,960
Speaker 1: an opportunity to do the NFL behind it. And you know,

1470
01:14:43,000 --> 01:14:44,720
Speaker 1: like I said a moment ago, I've been fortunate to

1471
01:14:44,720 --> 01:14:46,840
Speaker 1: have really I had a great college experience. I mean

1472
01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:49,000
Speaker 1: I did. I had a lot of bad tape in

1473
01:14:49,040 --> 01:14:51,519
Speaker 1: college now and there's still some of it out there,

1474
01:14:51,560 --> 01:14:56,360
Speaker 1: which is scary too, But the experiences I had have

1475
01:14:56,479 --> 01:14:59,120
Speaker 1: all been very rewarding. And I've learned trying to keep

1476
01:14:59,160 --> 01:15:01,640
Speaker 1: an open minds older and further in the career, to

1477
01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:05,160
Speaker 1: keep learning, and you know, the opportunity to speak to

1478
01:15:05,200 --> 01:15:07,040
Speaker 1: a group at Syracuse last week, and I think I

1479
01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:09,040
Speaker 1: learned as much as they did. I mean, I ask

1480
01:15:09,120 --> 01:15:11,760
Speaker 1: them more questions than they asked me, just about the

1481
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:14,400
Speaker 1: process they're going through now with all the technology and

1482
01:15:14,479 --> 01:15:18,120
Speaker 1: things like that that are available. But my dad's a

1483
01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:21,479
Speaker 1: tremendous influence still still is. I mean, even eighteen months

1484
01:15:21,479 --> 01:15:24,519
Speaker 1: after he passed away, he's still with me in terms

1485
01:15:24,560 --> 01:15:26,760
Speaker 1: of the preparation I go through every week and things

1486
01:15:26,800 --> 01:15:30,760
Speaker 1: like that. And I typically have something of his that

1487
01:15:30,840 --> 01:15:34,360
Speaker 1: I wear on television. The last year or so since

1488
01:15:34,360 --> 01:15:36,600
Speaker 1: he passed away. I wear either a lapel pin or

1489
01:15:36,680 --> 01:15:40,519
Speaker 1: tie or pocket square on all my television broadcast. It's

1490
01:15:40,600 --> 01:15:43,519
Speaker 1: kind of like a just a small tribute to what

1491
01:15:43,640 --> 01:15:46,040
Speaker 1: he meant to me and certainly to people in the

1492
01:15:46,080 --> 01:15:49,519
Speaker 1: ACC as well. That's fantastic to honor him that way.

1493
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:51,360
Speaker 1: And you know, I ask you these questions because I

1494
01:15:51,360 --> 01:15:53,439
Speaker 1: have Vander kid, who's thirteen, but he still thinks he's

1495
01:15:53,439 --> 01:15:55,960
Speaker 1: gonna be DeAndre Hopkins instead of his dad. So we'll

1496
01:15:55,960 --> 01:15:58,920
Speaker 1: see how that works out for now. That's his Trea.

1497
01:15:59,040 --> 01:16:01,160
Speaker 1: I would six feet I was six feet telling one

1498
01:16:01,200 --> 01:16:02,960
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five or twelve. I thought I was

1499
01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:06,880
Speaker 1: gonna be talking too. All right, let's talk about the

1500
01:16:06,920 --> 01:16:09,679
Speaker 1: Falcons now. I know. It's not a good start at all,

1501
01:16:09,800 --> 01:16:12,560
Speaker 1: and one thing that jumps out to me is obviously

1502
01:16:12,640 --> 01:16:16,920
Speaker 1: the turnover problem, the turnover differential issue, and also not

1503
01:16:17,040 --> 01:16:21,080
Speaker 1: running the football. What do you make of all of that? Well,

1504
01:16:21,120 --> 01:16:23,920
Speaker 1: I think that the running game is is pretty well

1505
01:16:23,920 --> 01:16:26,519
Speaker 1: tied to kind of what has been a little bit

1506
01:16:26,520 --> 01:16:28,680
Speaker 1: of chaos up front. To be honest with you, I mean,

1507
01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:31,160
Speaker 1: you know, you lose your number one pick or one

1508
01:16:31,160 --> 01:16:33,120
Speaker 1: of your two number ones and Chris Lynstrom in the

1509
01:16:33,160 --> 01:16:37,679
Speaker 1: opening game against Minnesota, and while you were going through

1510
01:16:37,680 --> 01:16:40,320
Speaker 1: that process, you were just kind of getting James Carpenter

1511
01:16:40,360 --> 01:16:43,400
Speaker 1: and Jamon Brown back to full speed from you know,

1512
01:16:43,479 --> 01:16:45,960
Speaker 1: kind of a scattershot through training camp in terms of

1513
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:49,200
Speaker 1: their health. And then Caleb McGarry, you know, didn't play

1514
01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:52,160
Speaker 1: until the last preseason game or at least, so you know,

1515
01:16:52,200 --> 01:16:55,280
Speaker 1: the offensive line is probably still just taking the name

1516
01:16:55,320 --> 01:16:58,679
Speaker 1: tags off, if you know what I mean. I think

1517
01:16:58,720 --> 01:17:01,519
Speaker 1: that's certainly is handcuff the run game. The thing that's

1518
01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:05,160
Speaker 1: probably more concerning is that they've just gotten off these

1519
01:17:05,200 --> 01:17:09,120
Speaker 1: plotting starts. I mean last week against Indianapolis or rather

1520
01:17:09,120 --> 01:17:12,040
Speaker 1: against Tennessee, Mark was the first time they'd scored a

1521
01:17:12,080 --> 01:17:15,920
Speaker 1: touchdown in the first quarter of the game. They In fact,

1522
01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:18,200
Speaker 1: both they and the Titans only had three points in

1523
01:17:18,280 --> 01:17:20,679
Speaker 1: the first quarter going into the ball game last week.

1524
01:17:21,240 --> 01:17:26,120
Speaker 1: So the slow start is very troublesome, especially since Atlanta's

1525
01:17:26,160 --> 01:17:30,519
Speaker 1: best teams have typically been fast starters. I'm going to

1526
01:17:30,600 --> 01:17:32,839
Speaker 1: be interested to see kind of how they play Sunday

1527
01:17:32,920 --> 01:17:36,320
Speaker 1: because last week against Tennessee was just not good at all.

1528
01:17:37,439 --> 01:17:41,479
Speaker 1: The defense didn't play particularly well. The offense struggled most

1529
01:17:41,479 --> 01:17:44,760
Speaker 1: of the day, you know, and to be honest with you,

1530
01:17:45,240 --> 01:17:48,360
Speaker 1: they did the defense. Mariota had been sacked on had

1531
01:17:48,400 --> 01:17:51,439
Speaker 1: seventeen times coming to the game and didn't get touched once.

1532
01:17:52,160 --> 01:17:55,400
Speaker 1: Ryan had gone did not get sacked in Indianapolis, and

1533
01:17:55,479 --> 01:17:58,240
Speaker 1: he was hit four times last week. So there's a

1534
01:17:58,240 --> 01:18:01,320
Speaker 1: lot of concern. Now you under that with and you've

1535
01:18:01,320 --> 01:18:03,519
Speaker 1: seen this as well as I have that you know,

1536
01:18:03,560 --> 01:18:06,519
Speaker 1: a Sunday does not make a season, right, So here's

1537
01:18:06,640 --> 01:18:09,000
Speaker 1: here's Atlanta who doesn't play very well. They'll come in

1538
01:18:09,040 --> 01:18:11,639
Speaker 1: and play with their hair on fire. The only concern

1539
01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:15,360
Speaker 1: I have there is is that Houston's strength plays to

1540
01:18:15,439 --> 01:18:18,880
Speaker 1: Atlanta's weakness and that is that you know, JJ Watt

1541
01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:21,880
Speaker 1: is such a terror and no matter how many guys

1542
01:18:21,880 --> 01:18:24,040
Speaker 1: you put over there, he's gonna make an impact on

1543
01:18:24,080 --> 01:18:27,360
Speaker 1: the ball game. So the resources that Atlanta will have

1544
01:18:27,400 --> 01:18:30,800
Speaker 1: to commit to stopping JJ Watton and the rest of

1545
01:18:30,840 --> 01:18:33,639
Speaker 1: that talented defense is a concern to at least met.

1546
01:18:34,120 --> 01:18:36,479
Speaker 1: And how will the Falcons you know, develop any kind

1547
01:18:36,520 --> 01:18:39,120
Speaker 1: of offensive continuity or rhythm in the ball game on Sunday.

1548
01:18:39,400 --> 01:18:41,679
Speaker 1: I think that's one of the big, real, big questions

1549
01:18:41,680 --> 01:18:44,080
Speaker 1: going in to be honest with him. West Durham, voice

1550
01:18:44,120 --> 01:18:46,759
Speaker 1: of the Falcons with US on Texans Radio. I noticed

1551
01:18:46,760 --> 01:18:50,000
Speaker 1: the receivers, how could you not? And two guys having

1552
01:18:50,120 --> 01:18:52,840
Speaker 1: nine catches last week and Jones wasn't one of them.

1553
01:18:53,120 --> 01:18:55,439
Speaker 1: There's a lot of talent there and that crew. Yeah,

1554
01:18:55,560 --> 01:18:58,760
Speaker 1: it's it's really remarkable. And you know everybody looks at

1555
01:18:58,840 --> 01:19:01,519
Speaker 1: Ryan's numbers and says, well, I can have the interceptions. Well,

1556
01:19:01,520 --> 01:19:03,519
Speaker 1: there are a lot of times at that now. I mean,

1557
01:19:04,479 --> 01:19:07,680
Speaker 1: Julio Jones is spectacular. I mean he's just you know,

1558
01:19:07,720 --> 01:19:10,240
Speaker 1: it's as good as advertised and sometimes he's in better.

1559
01:19:11,240 --> 01:19:13,400
Speaker 1: But Austin Hooper is really off to a nice start.

1560
01:19:13,439 --> 01:19:15,920
Speaker 1: This year, and I thought he might be because Dirk

1561
01:19:15,960 --> 01:19:18,080
Speaker 1: Cutter and Mike Malarkey have a lot of influence in

1562
01:19:18,120 --> 01:19:21,559
Speaker 1: this offense and both guys like tight ends and Hoop

1563
01:19:21,680 --> 01:19:24,439
Speaker 1: is a is a really emerging guy who can who

1564
01:19:24,439 --> 01:19:26,400
Speaker 1: can do a lot of things. I think Mohammed Sanu

1565
01:19:26,479 --> 01:19:29,559
Speaker 1: and Calvin Ridley have had very good starts. Ridley kind

1566
01:19:29,600 --> 01:19:31,880
Speaker 1: of went away a little bit in the last couple

1567
01:19:31,920 --> 01:19:34,040
Speaker 1: of weeks, but I think you'll see more of him,

1568
01:19:34,960 --> 01:19:38,200
Speaker 1: and then Sanu has just been as steady as as

1569
01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:42,000
Speaker 1: it gets. And Mos has been a really good addition

1570
01:19:42,040 --> 01:19:44,479
Speaker 1: to this team the last four years. And I'm excited

1571
01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:46,640
Speaker 1: to see kind of where it goes. But I'll go

1572
01:19:46,720 --> 01:19:49,439
Speaker 1: back to my concern, and you can't throw it every down,

1573
01:19:49,720 --> 01:19:52,040
Speaker 1: and so you've got to be able to run in

1574
01:19:52,040 --> 01:19:54,400
Speaker 1: a little bit. And now that below seventy five yards

1575
01:19:54,400 --> 01:19:57,400
Speaker 1: the game rushing, which is a real big concern going

1576
01:19:57,479 --> 01:20:00,760
Speaker 1: into going into this game, and really you don't want

1577
01:20:00,760 --> 01:20:02,960
Speaker 1: it to become some sort of habit that you have

1578
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:05,640
Speaker 1: the rest of the twenty nineteen seasons. West. What's the

1579
01:20:05,680 --> 01:20:08,960
Speaker 1: relationship like between Matt Ryan and the fan base, the

1580
01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:13,120
Speaker 1: community in Atlanta. It's pretty good. I mean the You know,

1581
01:20:13,160 --> 01:20:15,679
Speaker 1: a lot of people are anxious, and you know, Mark,

1582
01:20:15,720 --> 01:20:17,559
Speaker 1: I mean when they got to Euston a few years ago,

1583
01:20:17,600 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 1: three years ago now for the Super Bowl. I mean,

1584
01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:23,080
Speaker 1: this place was flying high and it's it's a franchise

1585
01:20:23,160 --> 01:20:25,000
Speaker 1: that has done a lot of good, good things, but

1586
01:20:25,960 --> 01:20:28,280
Speaker 1: you get that close and you have that kind of night,

1587
01:20:28,400 --> 01:20:30,680
Speaker 1: you're anxious to try and get back to make up

1588
01:20:30,720 --> 01:20:33,320
Speaker 1: for the mischance. And I think, you know, the fan

1589
01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:35,919
Speaker 1: base as much as the team sometimes can be accused

1590
01:20:35,920 --> 01:20:39,120
Speaker 1: of pressing a little too much. We'll see where it goes.

1591
01:20:40,960 --> 01:20:42,720
Speaker 1: I think this is a team that can still have

1592
01:20:42,720 --> 01:20:44,640
Speaker 1: a very, very quality year. They're going to have to

1593
01:20:44,640 --> 01:20:47,679
Speaker 1: do it without a Pro Bowl guy safety and Keiant

1594
01:20:47,680 --> 01:20:49,880
Speaker 1: o'neils who was obviously was lost in the endy game.

1595
01:20:50,600 --> 01:20:54,040
Speaker 1: But Ryan does a great job of being the face

1596
01:20:54,040 --> 01:20:57,280
Speaker 1: of this franchise. And it's one of those things that

1597
01:20:57,360 --> 01:20:59,160
Speaker 1: you know, you and I probably had the good fortune

1598
01:20:59,160 --> 01:21:01,800
Speaker 1: to see in sports of a guy who followed the

1599
01:21:01,960 --> 01:21:05,840
Speaker 1: guy and may be gone five years before he ever

1600
01:21:05,880 --> 01:21:09,479
Speaker 1: gets the full credit he deserves. But the Falcon organization

1601
01:21:09,520 --> 01:21:12,439
Speaker 1: has been very, very blessed to have Matt Ryan, especially

1602
01:21:12,479 --> 01:21:14,800
Speaker 1: on the heels of Bobby Petrino and the Mica vic

1603
01:21:14,880 --> 01:21:17,519
Speaker 1: thing and all that stuff. In two thousand and eight,

1604
01:21:17,560 --> 01:21:20,360
Speaker 1: with a new coach and a new GM, they drafted

1605
01:21:20,360 --> 01:21:22,960
Speaker 1: a kid out of Boston College who's a great competitor,

1606
01:21:23,360 --> 01:21:27,840
Speaker 1: an incredibly hard worker, who wants to win. And it's

1607
01:21:27,880 --> 01:21:30,799
Speaker 1: been great. I mean, this is you know, market, it's amazing.

1608
01:21:30,880 --> 01:21:33,920
Speaker 1: This is the most successful Stretches franchise has ever had,

1609
01:21:34,360 --> 01:21:37,840
Speaker 1: I mean ever in fifty four years. And so you know,

1610
01:21:37,920 --> 01:21:40,400
Speaker 1: sometimes that gets lost in the what have you done

1611
01:21:40,400 --> 01:21:42,880
Speaker 1: for me lately? Deal? But on the most part, I

1612
01:21:42,960 --> 01:21:47,920
Speaker 1: think I think Matt Ryan is beloved by a majority

1613
01:21:47,920 --> 01:21:50,280
Speaker 1: of that majority of the sports fans in Atlanta. And

1614
01:21:50,280 --> 01:21:53,160
Speaker 1: then talking fans in particular, well more for you West,

1615
01:21:53,280 --> 01:21:55,439
Speaker 1: what are people saying about the Texans that you've been

1616
01:21:55,439 --> 01:21:58,080
Speaker 1: able to gather so far? What's the reaction to what

1617
01:21:58,200 --> 01:22:01,479
Speaker 1: they're facing on Sunday here at RG Stadium. Well, I

1618
01:22:01,520 --> 01:22:03,200
Speaker 1: think the one thing, and I'll go back to the

1619
01:22:03,240 --> 01:22:05,559
Speaker 1: watch deal is is that you know J. J. Watt

1620
01:22:05,680 --> 01:22:09,240
Speaker 1: is in Atlanta, has has you know, struggled at times

1621
01:22:09,240 --> 01:22:12,120
Speaker 1: with guys who are dominated at defensive end, I mean,

1622
01:22:12,800 --> 01:22:15,360
Speaker 1: you know, and it's it's possible that Sunday could be

1623
01:22:15,439 --> 01:22:18,639
Speaker 1: that way. Um. But then again, you know, the Texans

1624
01:22:18,640 --> 01:22:21,599
Speaker 1: are also competing, and I think the one thing that's happened,

1625
01:22:21,640 --> 01:22:24,200
Speaker 1: I don't know how the how your division feels about it.

1626
01:22:24,240 --> 01:22:26,400
Speaker 1: I think one thing that's happened with the NFC South

1627
01:22:26,439 --> 01:22:30,439
Speaker 1: playing the AFC South this year is, um, I realized

1628
01:22:30,479 --> 01:22:33,519
Speaker 1: how how competitive your division is now and Andrew lutz

1629
01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:36,680
Speaker 1: retirement and all the things going on around it. I mean,

1630
01:22:36,760 --> 01:22:39,840
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew coming on in Jacksonville and certainly for Set's

1631
01:22:39,840 --> 01:22:42,880
Speaker 1: also a good start at Indy and things of that nature.

1632
01:22:42,920 --> 01:22:44,720
Speaker 1: I mean it, it's gonna be interesting to see what

1633
01:22:44,760 --> 01:22:47,679
Speaker 1: happens in that division. So Houston's got playing to play

1634
01:22:47,720 --> 01:22:49,760
Speaker 1: for it two and two and I'll be in a

1635
01:22:49,840 --> 01:22:53,519
Speaker 1: non conference game. Um. You know, I think Falcon fans

1636
01:22:53,600 --> 01:22:57,040
Speaker 1: understand now you're you're rolling against the division that is uh,

1637
01:22:57,120 --> 01:22:59,080
Speaker 1: that's kind of up for grabs as well. I will

1638
01:22:59,120 --> 01:23:01,439
Speaker 1: say this, they're there are a lot of people in

1639
01:23:01,439 --> 01:23:04,679
Speaker 1: this market. They're going to be excited for Deshaun because

1640
01:23:05,280 --> 01:23:07,160
Speaker 1: Deshaun grew up in Gaines While he was a ball

1641
01:23:07,160 --> 01:23:10,240
Speaker 1: boy at the Falcons camp for a few years. He's

1642
01:23:10,280 --> 01:23:12,080
Speaker 1: a great young man. I had a chance to meet

1643
01:23:12,160 --> 01:23:15,240
Speaker 1: him before his junior year in high school the training camp,

1644
01:23:15,280 --> 01:23:18,680
Speaker 1: and you know, a lot of people in the organization themselves,

1645
01:23:19,320 --> 01:23:21,840
Speaker 1: Mark or thrilled for his success. They were they were

1646
01:23:21,840 --> 01:23:24,400
Speaker 1: thrilled for him mcclemson, and they were even more thrilled

1647
01:23:24,400 --> 01:23:27,280
Speaker 1: for him to have the kind of professional career he's

1648
01:23:27,280 --> 01:23:30,320
Speaker 1: having because he's a he's such a good young man

1649
01:23:30,520 --> 01:23:34,400
Speaker 1: and obviously with a great organization. I said one more

1650
01:23:34,439 --> 01:23:37,799
Speaker 1: before I lied one more now, and that is Atlanta,

1651
01:23:37,840 --> 01:23:41,679
Speaker 1: of course, a very proud professional sports town, but college

1652
01:23:41,720 --> 01:23:44,879
Speaker 1: football being so dominating in the South. What's the balance

1653
01:23:44,960 --> 01:23:48,960
Speaker 1: like between college sports, college football and pro sports in

1654
01:23:49,040 --> 01:23:51,599
Speaker 1: Atlanta with the fan base and sports talk and all

1655
01:23:51,600 --> 01:23:54,840
Speaker 1: of that. Well, I think for me, you know, and

1656
01:23:54,920 --> 01:23:57,439
Speaker 1: haven't been in the market since nineteen ninety five, Mark,

1657
01:23:57,680 --> 01:24:01,160
Speaker 1: I can tell you that it's it's incumbent upon and winning. Okay,

1658
01:24:01,280 --> 01:24:03,679
Speaker 1: first of all, and the Brays obviously were in the playoffs,

1659
01:24:03,680 --> 01:24:06,920
Speaker 1: so that certainly helps the momentum for them in the market.

1660
01:24:07,920 --> 01:24:10,599
Speaker 1: When the Falcons are winning and having some success, they're

1661
01:24:10,680 --> 01:24:13,760
Speaker 1: very strong in the market. But make no mistake, it's

1662
01:24:13,800 --> 01:24:16,120
Speaker 1: it's college football now. I mean, I like to tell

1663
01:24:16,160 --> 01:24:19,120
Speaker 1: everybody Atlanta, George's a crossroads of the sec of the

1664
01:24:19,120 --> 01:24:22,800
Speaker 1: a secate in so many ways. I mean, you think

1665
01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:25,200
Speaker 1: within a four hour drive of the schools you can

1666
01:24:25,280 --> 01:24:28,400
Speaker 1: get to from the Atlanta market, It's it's amazing. You

1667
01:24:28,400 --> 01:24:33,960
Speaker 1: can go Auburn, Alabama, Tennessee, Clemson, South Carolina, Georgia, Georgia Tech.

1668
01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:36,280
Speaker 1: And I mean I'm missing something, you know. I mean

1669
01:24:36,840 --> 01:24:38,479
Speaker 1: that just shows you where you can get in four

1670
01:24:38,520 --> 01:24:41,880
Speaker 1: or four and a half hours. And for that reason,

1671
01:24:42,080 --> 01:24:47,360
Speaker 1: Atlanta is a melting pot of college football. And it's

1672
01:24:47,680 --> 01:24:50,639
Speaker 1: it's a strong, strong college football market, there's no question.

1673
01:24:50,680 --> 01:24:53,920
Speaker 1: And it's obviously a heavily Georgia market, but I think

1674
01:24:53,960 --> 01:24:57,280
Speaker 1: people from outside would be really, really surprised to see

1675
01:24:57,320 --> 01:25:01,320
Speaker 1: the all the schools that are represented in Atlanta when

1676
01:25:01,320 --> 01:25:03,080
Speaker 1: it comes to college football. How do you like the

1677
01:25:03,080 --> 01:25:09,360
Speaker 1: new stadium? It's pretty good. It's it's an unbelievable spectator venue.

1678
01:25:10,160 --> 01:25:13,479
Speaker 1: It's you know, and I've had I have not gone

1679
01:25:13,520 --> 01:25:16,200
Speaker 1: to the Mercedes Been Stadium except to do games and

1680
01:25:16,360 --> 01:25:19,840
Speaker 1: that unique, but I've had My wife's told me, a

1681
01:25:19,880 --> 01:25:22,600
Speaker 1: bunch of friends have told me, people I interact with

1682
01:25:22,640 --> 01:25:25,840
Speaker 1: in business have told me that the sight lines the

1683
01:25:25,880 --> 01:25:30,160
Speaker 1: seating Bowl. Just the venue itself is really second to none,

1684
01:25:30,200 --> 01:25:33,880
Speaker 1: and like Houston, I think it's a building that'll put

1685
01:25:33,880 --> 01:25:36,920
Speaker 1: in Atlanta on the map now for major events not

1686
01:25:37,000 --> 01:25:39,559
Speaker 1: only in American sports, but certainly an opportunity to host

1687
01:25:39,560 --> 01:25:42,320
Speaker 1: international events like the World Cup here in the next

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Speaker 1: few years as well. West, thanks so much for the

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Speaker 1: time and we really look forward to seeing you on Sunday. Okay, Mark,

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Speaker 1: thanks man. Just amazing to hear his voice and think

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Speaker 1: of his dad, Woody, who was who I listened to

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Speaker 1: for a long time living in North Carolina. Is the

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Speaker 1: voice of North Carolina football and basketball. West does a tremendous,

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Speaker 1: tremendous job, and this will be the first time back

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Speaker 1: in Houston. Sense that Super Bowl defeat to the New

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01:26:05,960 --> 01:26:08,320
Speaker 1: England Patriots. I'm sure that won't be on their mind,

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Speaker 1: top of mind, but it's somewhere back there in the

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Speaker 1: cerebellum I would imagine coming to Houston for the first

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Speaker 1: time since. So we'll see what happens on Sunday. But

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Speaker 1: appreciate West for joining the show. Appreciated a lot of

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Speaker 1: people for being here on the show. We had deer

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01:26:22,560 --> 01:26:25,200
Speaker 1: Lando Ledbetter join DPC, we had my man Clint Sterner,

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01:26:25,240 --> 01:26:28,320
Speaker 1: Andre Ware joined us, David Fletcher, GM alone Star Sports

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Speaker 1: and Entertainment talks, some Battle of pining Woods and of

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Speaker 1: course West Durham right there with our man Mark Vanimer.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening to everybody. We'll see

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Speaker 1: you tomorrow and as always, go Texans