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Speaker 1: Welcome in Texans All Access Players Edition. I'm in d Kalud.

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Speaker 1: He is Mark vandermir sitting to my right. One of

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Speaker 1: my favorite stories when it comes to the Houston Texan

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Speaker 1: and the Houston Texan roster. Khalil Davis and most of

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Speaker 1: you listening know about this man, but why it's a

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Speaker 1: great story for me as a guy myself who's drafted late,

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Speaker 1: got cut, bounced around before I finally, you know, got

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Speaker 1: security in the league. I see that with you being

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Speaker 1: a late draft pick with the Tampa Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, going off to the USFL and being

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Speaker 1: the stud defensive player of the Year and now finding

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Speaker 1: a home in Houston. You know, it's just an awesome,

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Speaker 1: awesome story and something I appreciate. So first of all,

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Speaker 1: congratulations on sticking with it and finding a home. And man,

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Speaker 1: we're pumped to have you here with the Players Edition.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 3: All right, So, Khalil, what do you make of it

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Speaker 3: so far? Because you got here last year and last

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Speaker 3: year was a crazy year. Let's just talk about that

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Speaker 3: for a moment. Because you played for Birmingham in the USFL.

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Speaker 3: That's the us right, so they changed the name of

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Speaker 3: the league already because they merged with the XFL. We're

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Speaker 3: keeping tabs on this, but how many games did you

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Speaker 3: play for them?

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Speaker 4: And then for the Texans last year?

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Speaker 2: So it's kind of funny.

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Speaker 5: My first two games, I was inactive in that league

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Speaker 5: because I got there late because I just had a baby,

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Speaker 5: so the coach didn't really know me. So it was

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Speaker 5: twelve games and two playoffs. So I missed the first

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Speaker 5: two games of that season, so I played ten plus

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Speaker 5: the two playoffs, and coincidentally here I was inactive the

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Speaker 5: first two games and then I was active the rest

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Speaker 5: of the year, So that was what twelve plus twenty

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Speaker 5: twenty two to twenty four games?

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Speaker 4: How did that affect your body? Just going through all

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Speaker 4: of that?

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Speaker 5: It was. It was hard, but I just knew, like

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Speaker 5: you know, I try to think of it from the

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Speaker 5: coach perspective, like they don't care about that. They just

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Speaker 5: want to see results. So I just kind of shut

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Speaker 5: that out on my mind and did what I had

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Speaker 5: to do to take care of my body. And it

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Speaker 5: hurt for sure, but being available is the best thing,

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Speaker 5: so I just made sure I was available.

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Speaker 1: You talked about the first two games inactive with your

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Speaker 1: USFL team because you got there late. What happened, like,

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Speaker 1: when did you open eyes? Was it in practice? When

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Speaker 1: did they say, oh, we got to get that gun

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Speaker 1: on the field.

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Speaker 2: So it's a funny story. I was contemplating.

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Speaker 5: I was having a hard time making a decision if

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Speaker 5: I wanted to do the USFL a little bit of pride,

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Speaker 5: you know, I felt like, you know, I'm not the

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Speaker 5: type of player that needs to do this, but you know,

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Speaker 5: I'm very spiritual, and I just you know, some kept

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Speaker 5: telling me that, you know, just do it, try and

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Speaker 5: see where it goes and see where gonna take you.

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Speaker 5: But at the same time, I was my baby was

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Speaker 5: just born in February, so I was like, man, I

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Speaker 5: need to spend time with you know, with my wife

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Speaker 5: and baby. But you know, she was she was very

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Speaker 5: encouraging on you know, if you need to go do this,

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Speaker 5: go do it. So I ended up making the decision,

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Speaker 5: but it was still late. They had already started camp

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Speaker 5: and there was only one week of camp left, so

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Speaker 5: I got their late. Coach didn't really see a lot

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Speaker 5: from me, so he was like, you know, I'm going

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Speaker 5: with these other guys first, and you know, I went

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Speaker 5: and after that first game, I went to go speak

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Speaker 5: to a man to man, I was like, you know,

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Speaker 5: I just need a shot. I know you know these

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Speaker 5: other guys better than me, but just you know, just

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Speaker 5: give me a shot. Let me get one game. And

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Speaker 5: I just told myself I've never looked back. But you know,

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Speaker 5: we joke about it at the end of the season.

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Speaker 5: He was like, that was one of the best decisions

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Speaker 5: Because he's like, I didn't know what I was dealing with,

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Speaker 5: but I'm very happy that I chose to put you

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Speaker 1: Did he not watch film? How did he not know?

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Speaker 1: Like he didn't go watch the Nebraska film and early on.

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Speaker 1: But for those listening, he said, she Khalil's beautiful wife,

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Speaker 1: Emily is in studio with us, and she probably was saying, now,

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Speaker 1: when we had the baby, did you want to just

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Speaker 1: get out the house, get out of your hair? So,

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Speaker 1: you know, supportive wife told him to do what he

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Speaker 1: had to do. But I love those stories. Let's talk

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Speaker 1: about the difference between the USFL and the NFL. I

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Speaker 1: know a lot of times when we get asked, what's

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Speaker 1: the difference between college and the NFL. For me, I

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Speaker 1: always told people was the size and speed of the guys.

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Speaker 1: Like every week, somebody's just been and they're fast and quick.

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Speaker 1: What's the difference between the USFL and the NFL.

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Speaker 5: I would I would have to agree with you on that.

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Speaker 5: It's just the size, but also technique. You know, in

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Speaker 5: the UFL there was you know, guys that had size,

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Speaker 5: but I think where the difference is is those guys

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Speaker 5: can't get their technique to what it is in the league. So,

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Speaker 5: you know, I had speed, I had quickness, but I

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Speaker 5: was able to just do you know, have my way

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Speaker 5: really all technique and how how perfect can you be?

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Speaker 5: You know, nobody's perfect, but those guys that are elite

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Speaker 5: with their hands, and that's the difference from UFL and.

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Speaker 4: NFL.

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Speaker 3: Skip Holtz was the coach, right, yeah, Skip Holtz, Okay,

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Speaker 3: all right, Travis the coordinator. Okay, used to coach at Yukon.

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Speaker 3: So that's why I don't like him. Just kidding, just kidding.

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Speaker 3: That goes back deep with me. Khalil Davis with US

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Speaker 3: all right, so you start with the Bucks and you

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Speaker 3: must have learned a lot from those guys on that

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Speaker 3: d line discussed that a little bit what that was like.

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Speaker 3: And you're the young popp in there and they're on

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Speaker 3: a Super Bowl campaign with Tom Brady on the other

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Speaker 1: It was.

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Speaker 2: It was so much fun.

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Speaker 5: But at the same time, you know, when you have

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Speaker 5: then it went all the way up to what year thirteen,

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Speaker 5: Sue and Donkan. Sue was in year twelve at the time.

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Speaker 5: So I learned a lot, but you know, a lot

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Speaker 5: of a lot of rookie a lot of rookie hazing,

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Speaker 5: which was you know, I enjoyed it. I have a

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Speaker 4: You enjoyed the hazing now now at the top, not

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Speaker 2: You can look back and laugh.

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Speaker 5: Now, it was I respect it because you know, they

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Speaker 5: that's just their way of bringing you into the league.

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Speaker 5: So I understood what, you know, what I had to do,

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Speaker 5: I you know, I saw a bunch of guys. Will Golston,

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Speaker 5: Steve McClendon was in the room, Keem new Year's roach

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Speaker 5: is Vita Veya? All those guys are you know, everyone

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Speaker 5: was at a different point in their career. But I

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Speaker 5: just saw, you know, what each person brought to the table.

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Speaker 5: So I was like, you know, I knew, you know,

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Speaker 5: but I just, you know, I was. I was on

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Speaker 5: scout team going up against the number one O line

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Speaker 5: every week, so I was preparing him for the game.

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Speaker 5: So I was I was getting better even though I

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Speaker 5: wasn't playing. But oh, I have so many questions about that.

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Speaker 3: All right, wait a couple of things here, nd because

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Speaker 3: all right, first of all, in no particular order, Vita Vea,

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Speaker 3: what's he like? And athletically? How impressive to be around him?

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Speaker 3: To be that size and move the way he can move?

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Speaker 5: I was, I was blown away, to be honest, I've

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Speaker 5: of say it like this, he's like a statue. Like

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Speaker 5: the further away you're you're away from him, You're like, man,

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Speaker 5: he's not that big. But you get two feet away

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Speaker 5: from your life. Oh my goodness. But yeah, I've seen

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Speaker 5: him do some things that just doesn't make sense on

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Speaker 5: just amazing to watch him work at the you know,

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Speaker 5: at the size that he is.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 3: Second thing, can you give us an example? Is there

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Speaker 3: something you could tell us about the hazing? Like and Andy,

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Speaker 3: I want you to weigh in on this. You you

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Speaker 3: were probably were you hazed at all early in your career?

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Speaker 1: Hey, so I was drafted in ninety seven. Hazing was

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Speaker 1: big back then. But luckily coach Andy Reid, he was

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Speaker 1: big on the rookies have enough to learn, so don't

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Speaker 1: mess with him because they they have to learn the playbook.

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Speaker 1: So we got lucky. But what we had to do.

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Speaker 1: We had to bring in breakfast every morning. Yeah, then

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Speaker 1: on the flights, Okay, we had to bring in the food.

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Speaker 4: Not like weird fraternity. Yeah, I had.

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Speaker 2: I had a little bit of everything.

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Speaker 5: Mainly it was from Mainly it was from Sue just

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Speaker 5: he just gave me, you know, an extra hard time.

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Speaker 5: But you know, simple things like he would the coach

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Speaker 4: So gosh, those are just.

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Speaker 2: You know, small things to just try to, you know,

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Speaker 3: Then scout team, so that means Brady's on the other side.

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Speaker 3: So you're playing defensive Scout team buccaneer practice, Brady's getting

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Speaker 4: What was that like?

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Speaker 3: He's right across a lot of scrimmage for you, the

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Speaker 2: What was that like before before he was on the team.

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Speaker 5: You know, I was not a Brady fan, you know,

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Speaker 5: but being able to practice against him, I just saw how,

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Speaker 5: you know, every every practice, every day was like a

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Speaker 5: game to him. So and I as a quarterback to

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Speaker 5: see that, it was like, man, like He's treating everything

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Speaker 5: perfect or I need to you know, be on my

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Speaker 5: on my stuff because you know, Tom's on it every day.

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Speaker 5: But he it was it was a blast just to

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Speaker 5: just to see that from a caliber player like him

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Speaker 5: and you know, you can learn a lot just from

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Speaker 5: being around them.

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Speaker 4: And so, yeah, was there a time you have Tom

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Speaker 3: So I figured, you figured it's always possible to get

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Speaker 3: to the super Bowl, and you're probably just focused on

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Speaker 3: your career really just trying to fit in and make plays.

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Speaker 4: Well, we were trying to.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we were actually getting tested week to week

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Speaker 3: You're not going anymore. And that applies to the players too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's awful.

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: So having a season where you didn't have any preseason

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Speaker 5: I think it definitely helps the players, especially for the

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So all right, Khalil Davis with us, all right, after

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Speaker 5: The Colts was only four month I went. I went

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Speaker 3: What is that like as a young pro. I mean,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's honestly, it's very hard. You can't you can't

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Speaker 1: It was hard.

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Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie. It was really hard.

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Speaker 5: But honestly, I feel like I made a lot of

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Speaker 5: So it was hard. But really I just don't know

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Speaker 5: I didn't look at it. It's like, man, I knew

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Speaker 3: So last year you're in a room that has Maleak,

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Speaker 5: It's honestly, Nate and make the room very, very fun.

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Speaker 3: What's it going to be like when the team gets

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Speaker 5: I think it's the D line's going to be even

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Speaker 5: You can line him inside, you can line him outside,

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Speaker 5: I finally got a chance to show, you know, giving

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Speaker 1: All right, speaking of tape, what's your go to pass rush?

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Speaker 5: I know I'm short, I'm small, but if I can

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Speaker 1: You say you're short, I don't understand. Some of the

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Speaker 5: That's that's my bread and butter every every like I

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Speaker 3: dbs because I don't even know what I'm looking at.

436
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Speaker 4: Do you enjoy those?

437
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Speaker 3: What part of practice, if any, do you enjoy?

438
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Speaker 1: Do?

439
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Speaker 3: I look forward to this because I know I've heard

440
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Speaker 3: the old saying. The old cliche is you pay me

441
00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:15,240
Speaker 3: to practice Sundays, I'll give you for free or whatever

442
00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:18,359
Speaker 3: it is. But what about practice? Khalil I?

443
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Speaker 5: My mentality about practice has changed. I used to dread

444
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Speaker 5: practice for some reason, not that I wasn't ready to

445
00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,639
Speaker 5: go work, but there's something about it. But now I

446
00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:31,920
Speaker 5: embrace practice. But one on ones is like, it's like

447
00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:33,760
Speaker 5: where you get to go craft just try try it

448
00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:36,240
Speaker 5: for moves and you know, do things that you normally

449
00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:39,400
Speaker 5: wouldn't do in a team situation. So it's fun. It's

450
00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,320
Speaker 5: unrealistic a little bit, but that's that's where you go

451
00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:44,240
Speaker 5: craft man. That's where you learn your moves and just

452
00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:45,439
Speaker 5: go try some new stuff.

453
00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:47,840
Speaker 1: All right, Who has the advantage one on one? Pass

454
00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:50,080
Speaker 1: us drill? Because every time a D lineman would win,

455
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Speaker 1: the offense will say, oh, you know, this is designed

456
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Speaker 1: for you, And anytime offense would win, we'll say, oh, you.

457
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Speaker 2: Know, it's definitely designed for the old line. Yeah, come on.

458
00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:04,280
Speaker 3: There it is you guys, stick it together. It's a

459
00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:09,480
Speaker 3: fraternity to uh goal line stand on Sunday against the Jaguars.

460
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Speaker 3: Take us through that, because that is something else, being

461
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Speaker 3: able to stop them after Kalen make sure that he's

462
00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:19,840
Speaker 3: out of bounds, setting up that whole situation. And you

463
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Speaker 3: guys had to get fired up for that, like, yeah,

464
00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:23,200
Speaker 3: we gave up a big one, but let's go ahead

465
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Speaker 3: and put up a wall.

466
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Speaker 2: That was awesome.

467
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Speaker 5: I wasn't I was on the sideline, but you know,

468
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Speaker 5: I was watching the play and I'm like, you know

469
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Speaker 5: what this is. This is not a not a pass,

470
00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:34,480
Speaker 5: is QB draw? And so I knew that the play

471
00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:39,320
Speaker 5: was coming. But you know the way Foley plays and Mario,

472
00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:42,760
Speaker 5: Mario just shot off the ball. You know, those guys

473
00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:44,600
Speaker 5: won on one. It's a it's a win every time

474
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Speaker 5: to me. And so to think that, you know, it's

475
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Speaker 5: kind of disrespectful that they thought that, you know, those

476
00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:52,119
Speaker 5: two guys are gonna beat Mario in in folly. But

477
00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,000
Speaker 5: it's a it's a big time play, really big time

478
00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,520
Speaker 5: play for Foley, And you know, I'm happy that he

479
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Speaker 5: he was able to make that on his former teams.

480
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Speaker 3: That's that's amazing. So what's he like, what's his personality like?

481
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Speaker 5: Fully is very mature, like very you know, ahead of

482
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Speaker 5: his time, even though he is an older guy. But

483
00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:16,639
Speaker 5: he's uh, he's very very calm, but he gets the

484
00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,760
Speaker 5: guys riled up. He can you know, he can give

485
00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:21,720
Speaker 5: a speech get you riled up. But fully is very

486
00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:25,760
Speaker 5: intentional about everything he does. And so we have he's

487
00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,720
Speaker 5: my locker maate. So every day before practice, we what's

488
00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:30,720
Speaker 5: what's what's your what's your one today? What's your you

489
00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:32,119
Speaker 5: know your one? Get better today?

490
00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,520
Speaker 3: So okay, do you feel like there's a lot of

491
00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:37,160
Speaker 3: New Yorker in him because he's from New York?

492
00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:39,840
Speaker 4: But I feel like I hear it in his voice.

493
00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:40,080
Speaker 2: A little bit.

494
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Speaker 5: It comes out, it comes out of Sometimes I'm like, man, like,

495
00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:45,199
Speaker 5: are you trying to change your voice? But it just

496
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Speaker 5: I think it just you know, if you're from there,

497
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:50,359
Speaker 5: you naturally have that that accent that comes with it.

498
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Speaker 1: So absolutely, you talked about the the goal line stand,

499
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Speaker 1: and I love that you got the mental rep because

500
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Speaker 1: he said, you knew it wasn't going to be a past.

501
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Speaker 1: So he's lined up in shotgun. You know it's going

502
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:02,399
Speaker 1: to be a run. What do you see to say

503
00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:03,840
Speaker 1: this isn't going to be a pass.

504
00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:07,480
Speaker 5: It's just you know, kind of something that you you

505
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:09,320
Speaker 5: can just tell, like if you if you watch a

506
00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,080
Speaker 5: sequence or you know, a set of plays, the way

507
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,080
Speaker 5: that he set up, you know, there was no like

508
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:16,800
Speaker 5: looking out to a receiver. It was kind of you know,

509
00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 5: you can tell one of the quarterbacks playing off something

510
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:21,639
Speaker 5: and he's kind of trying to.

511
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,600
Speaker 2: Hurry up so make you think it's past.

512
00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,280
Speaker 5: But he's nothing about his body language said I'm going

513
00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:28,679
Speaker 5: to throw the ball, and so I just knew, like

514
00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,720
Speaker 5: QB draw, he's going to go here and go straight

515
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:33,879
Speaker 5: up the middle. But it's just something you you know,

516
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 5: the more you watch football, you can if you truly

517
00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:38,560
Speaker 5: watch football, you can say, oh, you know, I know

518
00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:39,159
Speaker 5: what this play.

519
00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:39,480
Speaker 2: Is going to be.

520
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I love that for the you know, parents

521
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,520
Speaker 1: that have kids that play that are listening. It just

522
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:47,600
Speaker 1: goes to show it's not just about the Bruce strength.

523
00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 1: Athleticism is watching tape, studying and understanding the tendencies of

524
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Speaker 1: the quarterback. All right, Quick time out. This is Texans

525
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Speaker 1: All Access Players Edition. Khalil Davis in with us. Don't

526
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Speaker 1: touch that dial, Welcome in, Welcome back, Texans All Access Players. Addition,

527
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Speaker 1: I'm in d Kalu here is Mark vandermierk Khalil David

528
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,520
Speaker 1: sitting to my right, nice enough on his day off

529
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:11,680
Speaker 1: to hang out with us and talk a little football

530
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Speaker 1: before we get back to some Texans. Before we get

531
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Speaker 1: back to talking about this season, let's go back to

532
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Speaker 1: your Nebraska day. It's very successful at Nebraska. But one

533
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 1: thing I wanted to talk about with Nebraska are they back?

534
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 1: The one thing I wanted to ask you, you know,

535
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Speaker 1: with the success they've had early on, you know, are

536
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,360
Speaker 1: are you wearing the corn Husker gear around the locker

537
00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:34,120
Speaker 1: room and talking trash proudly?

538
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:39,120
Speaker 5: Probably I'm the only Nebraska I here, but I wouldn't say,

539
00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,240
Speaker 5: you know, you know, people love to, you know, quick quick.

540
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 2: To say, you know, brighton Nebraska's back. What I do

541
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Speaker 2: think they have.

542
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Speaker 5: I think they have a coach, a head coach that

543
00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 5: can win, and they have a QB that can that

544
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:54,160
Speaker 5: can win. And so I think if they just keep

545
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,600
Speaker 5: doing what they're what they're doing, correct the little mistakes,

546
00:23:57,840 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 5: I think they can win a lot of football games

547
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 5: this year. And you know, I'm excited to watch. I'm

548
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,159
Speaker 5: tuned in every week. But yeah, I think they have

549
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 5: a quarterback. I think they have a great head coach,

550
00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,240
Speaker 5: Matt Ruhle, and you know he can you know, fire

551
00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,160
Speaker 5: fire those guys up, and they're they're a well coached team,

552
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:14,400
Speaker 5: a better coach team this year.

553
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Speaker 1: So I'm excited. I wanted to ask you this because

554
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Speaker 1: you obviously played your entire career at Nebraska. Congratulations. It's

555
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,240
Speaker 1: a great school and you're young enough to kind of

556
00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:26,400
Speaker 1: have a feel about college life. Is like, do you

557
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,439
Speaker 1: like the state of college football with the nil and

558
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 1: the portal and the guys moving around as frequently as

559
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Speaker 1: they do?

560
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Speaker 5: You know when I was, I was you know, the

561
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,480
Speaker 5: era before that with no nil, and that's at that time,

562
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Speaker 5: I felt like that's what you know, guys were kind

563
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 5: of you know, fighting for at the time, and you know,

564
00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,399
Speaker 5: now that it's it's here. I think it's great for

565
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:50,960
Speaker 5: the players to you know, make a little money and

566
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Speaker 5: you know, get sponsorships.

567
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Speaker 2: I think it's great for that.

568
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Speaker 5: I just think it was it was a bigger beast

569
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 5: than you know, people thought it was going to be,

570
00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:01,040
Speaker 5: and so now there's so much moving parts with it

571
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:04,360
Speaker 5: that's it's hard to control. But I think it's great

572
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:06,320
Speaker 5: for the players, just you know, maybe for the coaches.

573
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 5: They probably don't like it as much because now they

574
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:09,959
Speaker 5: you know, it's kind of like the league a little bit.

575
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,680
Speaker 5: You know, these players have money, so you know they're

576
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:14,360
Speaker 5: not going to be one to coach a certain way.

577
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 5: So yeah, it is what it is.

578
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 4: And then they leave, See, they get their free to go.

579
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Speaker 4: It's kind of strange.

580
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 5: That just wasn't you know, my in my area, that

581
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Speaker 5: just wasn't a thing. I was going to ride it

582
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Speaker 5: out no matter what.

583
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Speaker 1: You know.

584
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Speaker 5: To leave it was like, you know, you're going to

585
00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 5: leave your brothers and you know, go transfer. You know,

586
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 5: it wasn't as big back then, but I understand it,

587
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,400
Speaker 5: definitely understand. You know, guys transferred.

588
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,239
Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about your twin brother, Carlos and

589
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:41,440
Speaker 3: you guys you were in at least one camp together, right,

590
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 3: was it Pittsburgh? What was that like, you're in the

591
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 3: same camp. Now, it's one thing to be in college,

592
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,639
Speaker 3: but it's the same NFL camp trying to make a squad.

593
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:52,040
Speaker 1: It was.

594
00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 2: It was very weird, but it was very.

595
00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 5: Very uh, very cool expertsperience because he was you know,

596
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 5: we were you know in La Trope that's very historic

597
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 5: in the Pittsburgh family, and we were in a dorm,

598
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 5: so he was my you know, our rooms were connected

599
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,840
Speaker 5: by a bathroom, so you know, we're competing for a job.

600
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 5: But we both understood, you know, what was going on.

601
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 5: You know, we may not make the team. We may

602
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:20,679
Speaker 5: he may be on the team, I may not be.

603
00:26:20,800 --> 00:26:23,199
Speaker 5: But we didn't care about that. We were you know,

604
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 5: we looked at it as like we're in the NFL

605
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:29,679
Speaker 5: camp together to come out here and you know, crafts

606
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,399
Speaker 5: play with each other every day. Really, it was no

607
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 5: matter what happened, we both got better as players in

608
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 5: that camp. It was the hardest camp of my life. Mike,

609
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,280
Speaker 5: you know, a camp with Mike t Mike Tomlin. He

610
00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 5: would always say, you can't run, you can't run from it. Basically,

611
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:48,959
Speaker 5: you know, you can't run from how hard we're going

612
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 5: to work. And so it was the hardest camp of

613
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 5: my life. But I enjoyed every every day, to be honest.

614
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,679
Speaker 5: And you know, he would have a team meeting at

615
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Speaker 5: the end of every practice towards the later that night,

616
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,119
Speaker 5: and just to hear him talking, you know, his his

617
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:05,880
Speaker 5: speeches to the players, it was awesome.

618
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 3: All bad My Tomlin must be very entertaining. Khalil Davis

619
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Speaker 3: with us. All right, so your twin brother. What do

620
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 3: people not know about twins? The bond that exists between twins,

621
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 3: It's something that you probably can't understand unless you're a twin.

622
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:25,919
Speaker 5: Right in first, are you fraternal or identical? We're identical. Ok,

623
00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,879
Speaker 5: so we're twins to the heart. Man, We're one person,

624
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,879
Speaker 5: but we're very different, if that makes sense.

625
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,679
Speaker 2: We love the same things.

626
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,640
Speaker 5: We do this, enjoy doing the same hobbies, but we're

627
00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:41,679
Speaker 5: very different people. But that is truly like, you know,

628
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,400
Speaker 5: my best friend, and you know, no matter what happens,

629
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,920
Speaker 5: we'll always come back to each other. I talk to

630
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 5: him almost every day. But yeah, we're twins. Man, it's

631
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 5: like having a best friend your whole life as a kid,

632
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,679
Speaker 5: and you know, a baby and the connection is just different.

633
00:27:58,320 --> 00:27:59,639
Speaker 4: Wow.

634
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 3: You were telling me once that at the combine, you

635
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,919
Speaker 3: guys were rooming together. Right, So you're both at the

636
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 3: combine trying to make the league, rooming together and you

637
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 3: got some sort of wrestling match or something like that.

638
00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 5: Oh, this is a this is pre draft training where

639
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 5: we were in the same hotel and training at the

640
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 5: same facility. For you know, that's about a month before

641
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 5: you get drafted or and it just you know, you're

642
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,000
Speaker 5: playing video games. You had nothing to do but to

643
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,000
Speaker 5: train all day and then go back to the hotel. Things,

644
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 5: you know, things happened, you know, you know, brotherly love.

645
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:35,919
Speaker 5: That was I think I was telling you it was.

646
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 5: It was a horrible fight, but it was. It was

647
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,560
Speaker 5: a fight of like we both understood, you know, this

648
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 5: will never be the same for both of us, and

649
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,960
Speaker 5: you're going your separate way. I'm going my separating and

650
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 5: sometimes that's the only way to express it, right, And

651
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 5: so it ended up being, you know, a brutal a

652
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 5: brutal battle in the room, but you know, tore up

653
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:56,000
Speaker 5: the hotel bis.

654
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 2: But it was our way of saying, you know, I

655
00:28:58,440 --> 00:28:58,760
Speaker 2: love you.

656
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, sure, that's how men communicated I love you.

657
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:05,800
Speaker 1: So let's tear up the hotel room.

658
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 3: And then and there you end up in Pittsburgh for

659
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 3: a short time anyway, but you're together again, so you

660
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 3: never know what's going to happen in life.

661
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: That's big to have that bond then, and correct me

662
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong. I'm assuming y'all played junior, high, high

663
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 1: and college together. So when you finally do part, you know,

664
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: after the pre draft and you're in a hotel room

665
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: somewhere he is. I mean, what was that transitioning experience

666
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 1: like it was?

667
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 5: It was It was hard because I knew, you know,

668
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 5: his mindset was in a different place because he has

669
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,600
Speaker 5: he has a wife as well, and so he, you know,

670
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 5: he wanted to do his own thing, and you know,

671
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 5: at some point, you know, our you know, mindsets, you know,

672
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 5: if we even wanted to go to the league was

673
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 5: very different. So you know, he kind of he kind

674
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 5: of felt like, you know, you know, I want to

675
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 5: go this way, and I was like, I was adamant

676
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 5: on I want to go to the league, and maybe

677
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 5: he wasn't at the time, and he was kind of

678
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 5: doing it just because his brother was doing it, and

679
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:06,800
Speaker 5: you know, maybe he wanted to go pursue something else,

680
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 5: but you know, he's still stuck with it. And so

681
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,440
Speaker 5: that was kind of a little of a battle that

682
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 5: we were dealing with each other. He felt like, oh,

683
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 5: I'm you know, maybe I'm only doing this because my

684
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 5: brother wanted to, but he still wanted to do it.

685
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:23,920
Speaker 5: I just don't think at the time he you know,

686
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,479
Speaker 5: the way our careers went at Nebraska, he was in

687
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 5: a different direction.

688
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 3: I want to ask you this because my second child

689
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 3: I adopted. Right, you guys were adopted? When did you

690
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 3: find out you were adopted?

691
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 4: What age? Because it's different for everybody.

692
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 3: We told our kid pretty young, and you know, we

693
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 3: kind of debated about it, but we thought, eh, whatever,

694
00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 3: you know, well he's going to find out what he's

695
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 3: going to find out, and maybe we want to hit

696
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 3: it early. And it just worked out. But he's eleven now,

697
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 3: so I'll let you know. I'll give you a progress

698
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 3: report later. But what about you guys?

699
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,760
Speaker 5: I think we were around somewhere between like nine ten

700
00:30:59,920 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 5: or eleven, Yeah, somewhere around there. And when they told us,

701
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 5: it wasn't like we we could comprehend what that meant. Yeah,

702
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:08,800
Speaker 5: We're like okay, And then we went went back outside.

703
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 4: Yeah that's all you know.

704
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all we know. The house, Yeah, that's all

705
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 2: we know.

706
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 5: So it's you know, it's it's harder on the parent

707
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 5: because you don't know, like what's the right age to

708
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 5: tell your child. And you know, when you know, for

709
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 5: my parents, it was like do we wait because you know,

710
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 5: maybe they won't even comprehend it yet or be able to,

711
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 5: you know, handle the emotions of so a lot of

712
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 5: the stuff that they kept away from us. They kept

713
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 5: it away until we were mentally capable of handling the information.

714
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 2: Cool.

715
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: It's crazy how resilient kids are. So you literally learned,

716
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,479
Speaker 1: you know, a life changing information and y'all say, all right,

717
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 1: let's go back outside. Is that how it went down or.

718
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 5: That that's literally how they called us in and told us.

719
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 5: And then we were like, you know, okay, because we

720
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 5: really we didn't care a the time to go back outside.

721
00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 2: Yeah.

722
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 5: So, but we, I would say this, we we kind

723
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 5: of knew just because of the way certain things were

724
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 5: happening around the family. We knew that we were different,

725
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 5: and we knew that that was our family. But it

726
00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 5: just felt, you know, you know, some things you just know,

727
00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 5: and so I think we both knew that, you know,

728
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 5: maybe you know something was off, but you don't really

729
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,440
Speaker 5: know how to show that at the time.

730
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:24,600
Speaker 3: As we speak, Carlos is a free agent, right, yes, sir,

731
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 3: so is that kind of straightly? He's probably working out

732
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 3: for teams and waiting for that phone to ring. So

733
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 3: a lot of season left a lot of opportunities out there.

734
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 2: Right for sure.

735
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's he's in Dallas, he's in Arlington, not too

736
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 5: far from here, training at the facility out there every day,

737
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,320
Speaker 5: and you know he's just waiting, waiting on a call,

738
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 5: and you know, staying ready.

739
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 2: We talk every day. He's just you know, waiting, waiting

740
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 2: for the right call.

741
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 4: Khalil Davis with us.

742
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 3: All right, So let's get into some of your pregame routine,

743
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 3: maybe the night before. What is specific to you? What

744
00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 3: do you like to do to get ready. Is it

745
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 3: the same thing every time or you a routine guy

746
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 3: or do you mix it up?

747
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 4: How do you handle it?

748
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 5: I'm the same every time. I'm a big believer in

749
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 5: a routine, and I have to do this before a game.

750
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 5: You know, she's not gonna like to hear this, but

751
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 5: I have to get my space away from everybody, even

752
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 5: the wife in the sun.

753
00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 2: So I like to stay at the hotel like that.

754
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,520
Speaker 4: Four So keep your head clear.

755
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just have a routine, like I just like

756
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 5: to get my mind in a space where it's just me.

757
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 5: I have a stretch your team. I always do, and

758
00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 5: I just like to little bed by myself and I

759
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 5: have a little bit of peace before the night.

760
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 4: So get ready.

761
00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:40,640
Speaker 1: Don't feel bad, miss Emily. That is the norm for

762
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: guys because there's so much love for the wife, they

763
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 1: feel like they have to give you attention. But before

764
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 1: a game, you want to get in that space. You're

765
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: very soft spoken, very humble like. But when you play,

766
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: you play not the way you sound on this podcast.

767
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 1: Do you listen to something? Is there a certain music?

768
00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: Coaches always say you can't turn off, turn on, and

769
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: off the switch, but with some guys I've seen that

770
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: they can. How do you go into that different mindset.

771
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 5: I'm very reserved because the person that my brother and

772
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 5: I were very loose cannons growing up. As far as

773
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 5: playing the game of football. My high school coach, he

774
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 5: was very He knew what type of players you were,

775
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 5: so he just fed the beast. So he allowed us

776
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,359
Speaker 5: to play where it was just you know sometimes when

777
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 5: you cross the line. He allowed us to stay on

778
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 5: that line every week. So it was we were loose cannon.

779
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:31,399
Speaker 5: So I can turn the switch on just like that.

780
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 5: I'm very in control of myself and my emotion. So

781
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 5: I'm very reserved this way because the only time I

782
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,359
Speaker 5: get to switch and be that other side is when

783
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 5: I'm on the field. So I have to say this

784
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 5: way because I don't like the other person that comes out.

785
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 1: Sounds like incredible haulk Bruce Banners saying, you don't want

786
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 1: to see the other side of me.

787
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 4: Just between the lines, right, just between the lines.

788
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:53,360
Speaker 2: That's it.

789
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 5: And also, because you know I have a family now

790
00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 5: and my son, you know I have to be able

791
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 5: to turn that on and off and keep that separate

792
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 5: from the family.

793
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,960
Speaker 4: Okay, talk to me about the Miko Ryans. What's he like.

794
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:06,479
Speaker 3: You've been around a bunch of head coaches, so what

795
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 3: kind of vibe do you get? And obviously it's working

796
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:11,879
Speaker 3: out well record wise so far, but what do you think?

797
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 5: He's just a player's coach, like a true player's coach,

798
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 5: someone who is fairly He just finished a not too

799
00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,520
Speaker 5: long ago, so he's still like a player. But the

800
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 5: knowledge sometimes is just amazing to see how much he

801
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 5: understands the game. And you know a lot of our

802
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 5: defensive meetings are for the back end DB's and safeties,

803
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,240
Speaker 5: but as he's coaching it, he knows it so well,

804
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 5: Like he tells the players like, you know, you need

805
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 5: to be in this spot this time, and he knows

806
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 5: exactly where the ball is going to go, and it's

807
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 5: just as a player is So when you know your

808
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 5: coach is legit and you understand who he was as

809
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 5: a player and how he's as a coach, you just

810
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 5: trust him. You believe everything is saying and you want

811
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 5: to go play for him and play play as hard

812
00:35:58,680 --> 00:35:59,240
Speaker 5: as you can.

813
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 3: For it's the repid h Town game. So htown Houston,

814
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 3: what does it mean to you? You're getting a house here,

815
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 3: you have Emily here, you have a child here. So

816
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,359
Speaker 3: what is your thought about Houston? Or if somebody from

817
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 3: the outside asks you, hey, what's Houston like? What do

818
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 3: you like about it? What would you tell them?

819
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:21,279
Speaker 5: I would say, Houston is Houston is its own, its

820
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:24,439
Speaker 5: own brand, its own its own city. It has its

821
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 5: it has its swag to it that you know, most

822
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 5: people don't know about. But as far as football terms like,

823
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 5: it's it's just this this this beast, this new beast,

824
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 5: this new emerging beast that we just want to go

825
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 5: out there and show like what it is and put

826
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 5: it on tape.

827
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:38,720
Speaker 2: So kind of refreshing.

828
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:42,239
Speaker 3: All right, Well, it's been great visiting with you. I

829
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 3: know indeed feels the same way defensive lineman brotherhood.

830
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 1: And number ninety four. Yeah, that's right.

831
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.

832
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 1: I like to say he's wearing it better than I

833
00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: did because that explosiveness. I just, you know, appreciate it,

834
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 1: really appreciate your story. Then when I had a chance

835
00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 1: to interview you before the preseason game, I saw, man,

836
00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 1: he's too nice. I like this guy too much. Now

837
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: I'm going to be rooting them on. But no, just

838
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 1: congratulations first and foremost on the beautiful family and just

839
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: the success. You know, to bounce around, and I know

840
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 1: you always have to have that mentality that you can

841
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,759
Speaker 1: be cut at anytime. But you've definitely found a home

842
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: here in Houston. It's pretty fun to fun to watch.

843
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:21,600
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you for having all Right, coming up,

844
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:24,959
Speaker 1: Vandy and I are going to discuss the Jacksonville Jaguar game.

845
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:28,360
Speaker 1: And it doesn't get any easier. Josh Allen, the Buffalo

846
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 1: Bills are coming to town. Welcome in, Welcome back Texans

847
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,360
Speaker 1: All Access players. Addition, a big thank you to Khalil

848
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,800
Speaker 1: Davis for joining us right now. Myself in d Kalu

849
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 1: and Mark Vandermier going to take you the rest of

850
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,439
Speaker 1: the way so we can really talk about what took

851
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 1: place on the football field just last week. As the

852
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,520
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars came to town, but they left with the L.

853
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 4: They left with the big L.

854
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 3: All right, So back to the goal line stand, which

855
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,400
Speaker 3: we talked to Khalil about a little bit at D.

856
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,880
Speaker 4: You're a D lineman. I think that was such a

857
00:37:58,920 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 4: shot in the arm.

858
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:01,760
Speaker 3: I know that and automatically win the game right away

859
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 3: from there, because that was to open the fourth quarter.

860
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 4: But when that occurred, I thought, it's not your day.

861
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:08,839
Speaker 1: Jaguars.

862
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 4: Might not be our day yet, but it's definitely not

863
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 4: your day.

864
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: That's one of the biggest boosts of adrenaline on the

865
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. And like you mentioned, that

866
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: wasn't the game winning play, but that momentum carries you.

867
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 1: When you can stop an NFL offense from scoring when

868
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 1: they're only two three yards out and you have that

869
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 1: goal line stand, I mean that just does something, not

870
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 1: just for the defensive side of the ball, but it

871
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 1: resonates to the special teams. That resonates to the offensive

872
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:36,720
Speaker 1: side because it's so tough to do. Think about it.

873
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: You have, obviously on defense, you have eleven guys, but

874
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: you have eleven guys in front of you in the NFL,

875
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 1: and they're just trying to pick up a couple of

876
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 1: yards and you stop them from doing it. When that happens,

877
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 1: it's big.

878
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 3: Well, you tell me, now, So the Texans did not

879
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,840
Speaker 3: play a perfect game, we all know that, and the

880
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 3: Jacks didn't neither.

881
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 4: But you got the win.

882
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 3: And I think that coming off the Minnesota game, you

883
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 3: didn't clean up all that ailed you in that game,

884
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,040
Speaker 3: but you got the win in the division to go

885
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 3: to two and zero in the division. I think that

886
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 3: another factor is you improve as the season goes along, preferably.

887
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,280
Speaker 4: I mean, that's the way you have to look at things.

888
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 3: So you tell me, what can this do for the

889
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:21,399
Speaker 3: team heading into a big game like this weekend, because

890
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 3: you know the competition is that much tougher.

891
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 1: Well, keep in mind because it didn't look as pretty

892
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: as we expected the win against the Jacksonville Jaguar. But

893
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: keep in mind, with that win, did you go up

894
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,680
Speaker 1: to zero in the AFC South? Now, So, I know

895
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 1: you've talked about it. I'm sure you and John have

896
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: already talked about it. But I know after the game

897
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 1: people were disappointed. I received some texts and they had

898
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 1: too many penalties, which they did. It didn't look as

899
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,240
Speaker 1: clean as you wanted it to look, which it didn't.

900
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 1: But you know what good teams do. They play bad

901
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,959
Speaker 1: sometimes and they still win the game. They still find

902
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: a way to get CJ. Stroud to leave them down

903
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 1: for the game winning drive. They still find a way

904
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: to get a guy like dar A Gumbawale to make

905
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 1: a game clinching catch. So, yes, there's a lot of

906
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: film to watch. There's a lot of things to clean

907
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 1: up for this team to achieve the goals that it

908
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,760
Speaker 1: had before the season. But when you win a game,

909
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 1: even when you know that you didn't play your best game,

910
00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: you didn't have your a game, and this a divisional game,

911
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 1: I mean that's pretty big.

912
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 3: We forgot to tell Khali he's supposed to have three

913
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,840
Speaker 3: sacks on Sunday because Dari had the game winning touchdown

914
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 3: after being on this program, right, we forgot to mention

915
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:28,399
Speaker 3: that to him.

916
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 1: We did so, But if he has a sack, then

917
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 1: there's something to that. There's something to it.

918
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're going to put up a plaque here in

919
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 3: the studio and announce it to all the players. So

920
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 3: I want to ask you, when you talk to the

921
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 3: current players, you know so many former players. You know

922
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 3: you're Texans legend, You're part of the community, and you

923
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 3: know a lot of these current players. And what people

924
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,399
Speaker 3: didn't see is Khalil hung out in studio a little

925
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:56,320
Speaker 3: bit to ask you some questions about podcasting in general.

926
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 3: But I know that last week Dari was asking you

927
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 3: about real estate. I mean, do you feel like a

928
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 3: responsibility of sorts and I know you want to impart

929
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 3: wisdom on these guys if at all possible.

930
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: Oh. Absolutely. It's similar to when you're still playing. And

931
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 1: this is one of the phenomenons that I noticed in

932
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 1: the NFL early on that I truly appreciated and respected

933
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,239
Speaker 1: when a younger guy comes in who's essentially there to

934
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,879
Speaker 1: take your position. But in my twelve years, I never

935
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: saw something different than the older guy taking him under

936
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: his wing and kind of coaching them up, teaching them

937
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: up because you just know the better he is, the

938
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: better it's going to be for you for your team,

939
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 1: or if he knocks you out and you don't play,

940
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:38,319
Speaker 1: it's going to be better for the NFL because you're

941
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:41,680
Speaker 1: bringing guys up. And I actually take pride when some

942
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: of the current players ask, like, hey, you know, give

943
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: me some tips on life after football. Or you know,

944
00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 1: what did you experience, where were some of your shortfalls

945
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:52,240
Speaker 1: or what could you have done better? Because the football

946
00:41:52,239 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 1: community is still very small. Like you know, Khalil Davis,

947
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,960
Speaker 1: who is probably twenty years younger than me, he taught

948
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,760
Speaker 1: about playing with Tom Brady. I played against Tom Brady.

949
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: You know, there's always that six degrees of separation. His

950
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: coach is Dimica Ryance. You know, obviously I played with

951
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: Domico for three years, but there's that overlap. And it's

952
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: still a small community. So as an elder statesman, you

953
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: always want to, you know, put down that wisdom on

954
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: it's asked for.

955
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you feel like if a guy is not

956
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 3: going to help out a younger player, what.

957
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 4: Does that say about it?

958
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: Exactly?

959
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 4: And that's bad karma anyway, it's bad.

960
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: And you know, most guys aren't that petty to think, oh,

961
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 1: they brought him in to replace me. If I give

962
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 1: him bad advice and I'm gonna have a great year

963
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: because he's not gonna play. It just doesn't work like that,

964
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 1: Like the best player is gonna play. I don't know

965
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 1: if you remember the name Trent Cole, very good pass rusher.

966
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:45,879
Speaker 1: Towards the end of my career. They brought him in

967
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,839
Speaker 1: to replace me, and I saw something special on him.

968
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 1: I was like, man, this guy's good, so you try

969
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 1: to help him every step of the way. Then when

970
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 1: I finished at Philadelphia, they didn't resign me. I finished

971
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: my contract, came to Houston. Then he went off to

972
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,800
Speaker 1: become the stud you know, edge rusher for the Eagles

973
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:04,800
Speaker 1: and the Colts, And to this day we still text

974
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 1: each other. So it just it works out when you

975
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 1: try to make those better next to you, and it

976
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:11,399
Speaker 1: just ultimately helps you out.

977
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 3: To Wait, if you mentioned him off the air that

978
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 3: you I think you were getting a house in Houston

979
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 3: even before you played here, right, Oh yeah.

980
00:43:17,719 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 1: I feel like even though it's funny, my friends that

981
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 1: are born in Houston, they keep saying, Man, you can't

982
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 1: claim Houston. You know you're from San Antonio. But as

983
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 1: soon as I stepped foot in Houston at the age

984
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 1: of seventeen, when I enrolled at Rice, I knew this

985
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,360
Speaker 1: was going to be home. So even when I signed

986
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,360
Speaker 1: my contract in Philadelphia, I basically use that money to

987
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 1: build my house in Houston because I always knew Houston

988
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: would be home.

989
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:41,880
Speaker 3: All right, don't listen people in San Antonio tell us

990
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,800
Speaker 3: he doesn't mean it. I mean he does, but he doesn't. Anyway,

991
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,879
Speaker 3: they know, they know, all right. So one more thing

992
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,040
Speaker 3: for you about Houston. It is Repid h Town Week.

993
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 3: So I don't think I asked you about this yesterday

994
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 3: when you're on Texans Monday. Repid Htown. What does Htown

995
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:57,320
Speaker 3: mean to you?

996
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,760
Speaker 1: You know what we talked about the culture of Houston,

997
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: but repping Htown. This is sounds funny, but this is

998
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:07,240
Speaker 1: what I'm doing. I have a nineteen ninety six Chevy

999
00:44:07,280 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: and pala and to me, that's all it says Houston.

1000
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 1: When I was living in Houston in the nineties, that

1001
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,840
Speaker 1: was the dream card to have. So I'm gonna shine

1002
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: that up. I'm gonna and yes it has a CD player,

1003
00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:20,760
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna put a little scarface in the CD

1004
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,880
Speaker 1: player and I'm gonna wear obviously my hetown gear for

1005
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 1: the game. But when I think Houston, I just think,

1006
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 1: you know the parts that I grew up around here,

1007
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:32,800
Speaker 1: you know, as a seventeen year old going to Rice

1008
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 1: on the weekends, going to King's Flea Market getting three

1009
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: T shirts for ten dollars, and going to Timmy Chan's

1010
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:44,280
Speaker 1: Sharpstown mall. I mean, but what I've told you before,

1011
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: there's so many different cultures. You know, you have people

1012
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: from Alvin, you know from Katie that they have their

1013
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: own Houston culture experiences that they love. And that's what

1014
00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: I like about Houston is so diverse. There's so many

1015
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 1: different cultures to embrace. All Right, that's gonna do it

1016
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: for US Texans, all Access. I am in d Kalud

1017
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 1: for Mark Vandermer. This has been the player's edition. But

1018
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 1: don't touch that dial. Leave it right here.