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Speaker 1: Welcome into Texans All Access on a bye week Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: A depco along with Mark Vandermir Drew Doherty bringing these

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Speaker 1: guys in. We've always got stuff to discuss. But first, Mark,

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Speaker 1: I think a week ago we were talking about the

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Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints being fat and happy they were and

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Speaker 1: coming in and we were going to try to get

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Speaker 1: a win from them. But I want to ask you

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Speaker 1: who is fat and happy now sitting at three and

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Speaker 1: three hitting into a y.

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Speaker 2: The Texans are not fat and happy. I'm slim happy.

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Speaker 2: Well we might be, but the team they're slim, lean, mean,

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Speaker 2: fighting machines. All these players they want more. They've got

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Speaker 2: a taste for it. Look, they tried very hard at Atlanta,

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Speaker 2: didn't come up with the victory. But it wasn't like

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Speaker 2: they got blown out and they laid down or whatever

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Speaker 2: they were lack of days ago, none of that. They

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Speaker 2: just didn't get the job done. So they're competitive going

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Speaker 2: into all these games. This is going to be interesting

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Speaker 2: because they get the buye, they do whatever they do,

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Speaker 2: and then they come back and Dimiko's got to get

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Speaker 2: them going again. For Carolina, I almost wish they were

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Speaker 2: playing somebody else because you look at that big fat

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Speaker 2: goose egg and the win column for Carolina and they

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Speaker 2: have a buye as well, so that's not going to

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Speaker 2: change this weekend. But new play caller, we can get

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Speaker 2: into all that. I just think that this team has

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Speaker 2: fire in their bellies and I'm gonna have food in

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Speaker 2: my belly this weekend watching other football.

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Speaker 1: Mount Mark will be fat and happy.

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Speaker 3: There we go. Yeah, we'll call them Mount Mark. Feels

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Speaker 3: will be so big. But hey, speaking of Mount Mark,

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Speaker 3: we were talking right before you got in here off

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Speaker 3: air about this whole idea of Wow, the rebuild is

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Speaker 3: a head of schedule. Well, don't tell that to these

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Speaker 3: guys in the locker room. Sheldon rankins to paraphrase what

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Speaker 3: he said in an interview. He's like, we don't care

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Speaker 3: about that. We don't care about last year. We're caring

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Speaker 3: about right now. We want to win games, and we're

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Speaker 3: winning games, and we've got bigger plans. So it's fun

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Speaker 3: to see that and hear that and recognize that. Based

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Speaker 3: off of what we've seen here the last three seasons,

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Speaker 3: it's been awful. But now it's like twenty nineteen. It's

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Speaker 3: like twenty eighteen when you were rocking and rolling at

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Speaker 3: this point of the season, at the bye, you were

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Speaker 3: either five hundred or above five hundred doing nice things.

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Speaker 3: So any talk of a rebuild that doesn't really crunch

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Speaker 3: through their brains in there across the hall here.

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Speaker 1: So and we heard from Nick Cassirio earlier today, and

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Speaker 1: I think he was asked, like, you know, is this

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Speaker 1: kind of what you expected? I'm paraphrasing, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: being three and three sitting at the by when you

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Speaker 1: put this team together and.

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Speaker 3: Time out, time out. Because when he's asked questions like this,

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Speaker 3: I'm amused on the inside because I can almost see

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Speaker 3: his skin crawling, you know, because.

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Speaker 4: He look at his face twitching hat stuff.

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Speaker 3: Like like the big broad you know, yeah, can you

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Speaker 3: reflect on you know, he does not.

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Speaker 4: Some of it.

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Speaker 2: He does if it's a different kind of question, but likeeations,

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Speaker 2: yes versus reality is not.

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Speaker 3: I apologized for I had to get that in though.

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Speaker 1: No, no, I know, he doesn't like being asked those

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Speaker 1: questions and he's never going to give you like a yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: of course. We thought this is where Bobby shocked or

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Speaker 1: whoa h know, I did pretty well. No, he's not

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Speaker 1: going to say that. He did say though he thought

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Speaker 1: the team would be competitive at this point the season,

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Speaker 1: did not know how that would translate to wins and losses.

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Speaker 1: And we've seen that in the past, where sometimes the

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Speaker 1: team is better than its record or worse than this record.

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Speaker 1: But at three and three, it feels like, especially from

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Speaker 1: where the team started, like you're kind of on the

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Speaker 1: upward tick here.

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Speaker 3: No doubt. Oh yeah, absolutely. I mean, and we've talked

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Speaker 3: about it at length and on every show that we do,

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Speaker 3: whether it's television or YouTube or this. I mean, you're

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Speaker 3: It's in large part two the leadership at the tippy

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Speaker 3: top with Damiko Ryans and the quarterback and what he's doing,

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Speaker 3: and we're gonna get into that more throughout this show.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, we're loving where the Texans are right now.

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Speaker 3: You have a good football team. Yeah you haven't had

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Speaker 3: you haven't. You haven't been able to say that in

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Speaker 3: four years. But this is a good football team now

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Speaker 3: and they've got high hostess.

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Speaker 2: Man, the league feels more even than ever right now.

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Speaker 2: Think about the greatest Texans seasons ever. All right, twelve

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Speaker 2: and four was the best record ever. After six you

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Speaker 2: So a twenty eleven which is maybe the greatest amount

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Speaker 4: It was a ten win season. They were three and three. Sure,

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Speaker 4: you can go anywhere from three and three. You can

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Speaker 4: go anywhere from five and five. Right, you just get

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Speaker 4: hot at the end.

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Speaker 2: Bill O'Brien always said, you don't know what you've got

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Speaker 2: till Thanksgiving. I really think he's right on with that.

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Speaker 2: You don't know really where you're going. And even after that, Look,

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Speaker 2: you could win three out of four down the stretch,

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Speaker 2: did in twenty twelve when you lost home field advantage throughout,

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Speaker 2: or you get hot at the end and bang you're there.

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Speaker 2: All of a sudden, you're in the postseason. Maybe you

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Speaker 2: have a good situation going so who knows. It's a

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Speaker 2: journey here. It's a good start for this team. You'd

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Speaker 2: rather be four and two, of course, but everybody's bunched

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Speaker 2: up here, and it gets confusing or cumbersome to look

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Speaker 2: at the whole league.

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Speaker 4: Just look at the division.

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Speaker 2: You're a game behind the Jaguars right now, you beat them,

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Speaker 2: they have a game up on you there four and two.

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Speaker 2: They knocked off the Colts twice. The Colts beat you. Look,

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Speaker 2: it's like that the entire league. But the fact is,

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Speaker 2: to Drew's point and to Sheldon Rankins and all the

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Speaker 2: players points, they are right there and they can do

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Speaker 2: a lot from here.

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Speaker 4: But you know, you just got to go week to

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Speaker 4: week and try to improve.

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Speaker 1: I do feel like though, Mark, for the last few seasons,

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Speaker 1: you kind of knew what you had by October.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think by October we had a pretty good idea.

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Speaker 2: What was the record was what was the record after

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Speaker 2: five games last year? Because we joined one it was one,

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Speaker 2: three and one, and you had just beaten Jacksonville. And

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Speaker 2: I didn't think that team was going anywhere because guess what,

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Speaker 2: we didn't know that Jacksonville was going to do what

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Speaker 2: logging their way through another bad season. And you beat

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Speaker 2: a bad Jags team in North Florida, So what And

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Speaker 2: you knew that you had those close games with the

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Speaker 2: So what does that make you at the time. I

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Speaker 2: don't even want to talk about last year. This is

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Speaker 2: such a different situation, the optimism, the positivity, and then

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Speaker 2: we'll talk about this with Nick Assario tomorrow. But Blake

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Speaker 2: Cashman on the postgame show with Sean and Klay talking

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Speaker 2: about what is expected of these players from Dimico, and

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Speaker 2: I got a vibe of, Yeah, we see the big

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Speaker 2: wants to follow him and rally around him. But also

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Speaker 2: he's more of a task master than you think detail oriented. Hey,

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Speaker 2: put your foot there, not there, you little tiny things,

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Speaker 2: he gets on them. And Cashman was telling the stories

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Speaker 2: about it, and you get the feeling he's on them.

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Speaker 4: But they know it works, they know what's good. He played. CJ.

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Speaker 4: Stroud talked about that in the post game.

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Speaker 2: This guy played, he knows and the psychology of it

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Speaker 2: and the technical aspects of it, it all blends together.

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Speaker 3: So well, yeah, you bring that up, and that's something

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Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys have talked about this.

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Speaker 3: But Stroud in the postgame was asked about his interception

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Speaker 3: and he talked about Nico popping the ball loose, which

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Speaker 3: led to him talking about Hey. Every week, Dimiko has

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Speaker 3: Dino Vassa, the cornerbacks coach, come in and talk to

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Speaker 3: the entire team about hey. And there's a quick change

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Speaker 3: when there's an interception or a fumble return. Usually these

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Speaker 3: ball security. Go for it this way, go forth, that way,

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Speaker 3: punch it loose. Yeah, the defensive players who have now

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Speaker 3: ways you can get the ball loose. Well, what did

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Speaker 3: we see. Nico popped it loose, Titus fell on it.

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Speaker 3: It was the Texans ball again, So even when he

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Speaker 3: throws picks, they get first downs. I mean, that's little

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Speaker 3: stuff that I'm sure other teams do this. I'm not

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Speaker 3: saying Demiko and the Texans invented it, but there's such

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Speaker 3: whether it's that, whether it's the food they eat on

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Speaker 3: a daily basis. It's just so refreshing to hear about

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Speaker 1: I think we talked a lot about Demico Ryans in

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Speaker 1: the offseason and what a great move it was for

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Speaker 1: and I think everybody thought, Okay, the proof's going to

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Speaker 1: be in the pudding. But I feel like now we've

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Speaker 1: been talking about CJ. Stroud, we've been talking about some

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Speaker 1: talking enough about Demiko Ryans because just hearing how Nick

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Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't like like you alluded to earlier, Drew,

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Speaker 1: he doesn't really answer questions head on. But when you

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Speaker 1: ask him about Demico Ryans, the first word, without hesitation

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Speaker 1: you know, I know he focuses on the details. He's

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Speaker 1: hard on the players. In that CJ. Stroud press conference,

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Speaker 1: I actually took something else away from it. It was

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Speaker 1: how encouraging he is in times of mistakes with his

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Speaker 1: after the interception, you know, he could have been down,

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Speaker 1: he could have been feeling bad about it. You know,

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Speaker 1: there was no streak, forget the streak and all that,

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Speaker 1: but you know, even just to get back out there

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Speaker 1: on offense, he said he looked over at at Demiico.

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Speaker 1: Demiko's like, you got this keep going, probably slowly, you

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Speaker 1: really encouraged him that even when he's not having his

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Speaker 1: yelling at him, they're encouraging him, like we got faith

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Speaker 1: in you. And he's like that really builds confidence. So

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Speaker 1: I think with Demiko, it's not just one way of coaching.

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Speaker 1: He's he's multifaceted in how he you know, deals with

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Speaker 1: the players, deals with the situations, deals with the games.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just I just don't think we're saying

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Speaker 1: enough about what a great job he's in coaching, especially

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Speaker 1: through all the injuries. My god, the injuries alone to

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Speaker 1: the offensive line, and then you look at the secondary.

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Speaker 1: You still don't have Derek Stanley back there. Secondary is

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's really outstanding. I think that nationally people

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Speaker 1: are going to start catching on. Right now. They're still

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Speaker 3: That's what we're that's what we are here to. I

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Speaker 1: The too early person is always me, not in life,

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Speaker 1: I think the one thing that has surprised me. Johnny

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Speaker 3: And I'm not still I'm not pouring dirt on their

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Speaker 1: Think it's it's definitely underperformed what we had expected. The

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Speaker 2: Well, the way it ended was with Damian Pierce injured,

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Speaker 2: I am surprised about that as well, though I thought

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Speaker 2: It's not like they put up a ton of yards

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Speaker 2: There's a lot to what you just said. I think that, Yeah, Demiko,

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Speaker 4: I think that's not the factor.

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Speaker 4: And look at the results so far.

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Speaker 2: They haven't arrived yet, but what they've arrived at is

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Speaker 4: Here there are three and three doing it. Got to continue.

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Speaker 1: I like that against Atlanta. Of course, Atlanta comes back

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Speaker 1: But they did it differently. They were I mean, they

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Speaker 1: much like what he says about Cgstrail not making the

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Speaker 2: How about this, their top half in the league in

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Speaker 4: Consider where they were. They were at the bottom.

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Speaker 2: and everything three wins last year, you have already matched it.

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Speaker 2: Everything's trending in the right direction here. But you know

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Speaker 3: You know another thing they're really good at. He brought

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Speaker 3: you don't know what that means, they've had six more

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Speaker 1: Off which I think that's a big part of it.

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Speaker 3: Purty and unless Perdy falls off the face of the

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Speaker 3: we just call him glock Purdy from can we keep

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Speaker 3: The But yeah, it's you're You're right. He's been so

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because no Deshaun Watson. We should have this one. Look,

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying they.

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Speaker 4: They had no McCaffrey, Deebo Drew.

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Speaker 2: That's a huge factor for them because NFL memes went

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Speaker 2: morphs into Zach Wilson. Oh you know, you know how

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Speaker 4: They're just funny.

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Speaker 1: It's like one minute they love you, the next minute

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Speaker 2: With NFL memes, and if people don't know what we're

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Speaker 2: be honest. It's the Chargers after all, but justin Herbert

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Speaker 1: They probably had one for each. Yeah, like ready to

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Speaker 4: Fans that played.

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Speaker 2: Pretty well yesterday. I got to give him credit for that.

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Speaker 3: It was a good day for Dallas sports.

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Speaker 2: It really was, ew, that's disgusting on I never even

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Speaker 4: Funny because my ten year old he doesn't.

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Speaker 1: What do you think of it now that you're in Houston?

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Speaker 1: And he was, I mean maybe everybody's just super nice

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Speaker 1: What I thought. No, But I lived in Dallas for

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Speaker 3: Know, actually, are you talking about the teams or the

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Speaker 1: Cities as a whole? And maybe because But but when

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Speaker 4: They don't like Houston. They don't like Houston.

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Speaker 1: I mean they do. Look there is a rivalry, but

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Speaker 2: Yeah that's Dallas. This is not a hot take. But

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Speaker 2: Dallas is actually a nice city.

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Speaker 4: It is. But I like this better. This is more

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Speaker 1: So it would be a really bad commute if you didn't.

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Speaker 2: Ye terrible, there's no well, there is a there are

435
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Speaker 2: a bunch of lakes. Lakes are okay, but we've got

436
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Speaker 2: you know, the water here. This is awesome. Love Houston.

437
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Speaker 3: He's also a Salt Lake city. Guys, he's from.

438
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Speaker 1: We talked about that too, because he you, I think

439
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Speaker 1: you uncovered that he did not like text mex Which

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Speaker 1: I just I don't understand this at all. Even if

441
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Speaker 1: you're from outside of.

442
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Speaker 4: How does that happen?

443
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Speaker 1: How do you move to tech, how do you not?

444
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Speaker 1: What is there to not like about text mex exactly?

445
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Speaker 4: Something forever just getting barbecue? What about our barbecue here?

446
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Speaker 2: Well?

447
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Speaker 1: I didn't ask about barbecue, but he said that there

448
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Speaker 1: was one text mex place that he liked, and he

449
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Speaker 1: was a place in Dallas.

450
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Speaker 2: Maybe he's like Nick and he eats a lot of

451
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Speaker 2: vegetables and there's never going to be a cheese product

452
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Speaker 2: on there, especially melted not happenings.

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Speaker 1: He said he liked sushi, and then I asked him

454
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Speaker 1: growing up in Utah? I thought, maybe this is a

455
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Speaker 1: Stanford thing. You picked up sushi? He picked up sushi

456
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Speaker 1: in Utah at grocery.

457
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Speaker 3: Store really.

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Speaker 1: Shultz for food, Right, great sushi, I'll say that, right.

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Speaker 1: But it wasn't hib the grocery store in Utah.

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Speaker 4: It was.

461
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Speaker 1: But looks, I know where I'm going with this.

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Speaker 4: They know what they're doing.

463
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Speaker 2: But anybody who brings actually first as a food they like,

464
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Speaker 2: you know, they're probably not going to be talking about

465
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Speaker 2: keso and chips and gwat.

466
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Speaker 1: I like them both.

467
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Speaker 3: Mark J. J. Watt loves sushi.

468
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Speaker 4: Yah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, is he gonna bring it up first? Now he's

470
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Speaker 2: gonna bring up Texas barbecue. First, Max, there's something hearty.

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Speaker 1: No, Mark, this is no fun.

472
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Speaker 2: To fill up on sushi. I gotta spend one thousand

473
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Speaker 2: dollars at.

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Speaker 1: A restaurant because Drew and I. Drew and I ran

475
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Speaker 1: into Matt Burke when he first signed with the Texans

476
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Speaker 1: as defensive coordinator. It was in the off season and

477
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Speaker 1: we were just talking about moving to Houston, what the

478
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Speaker 1: move has been like, and he said, oh, I got

479
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Speaker 1: a lot of restaurant recommend recommendations, and you know, we

480
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Speaker 1: were like, oh, of course from JJ Watson's coach coached

481
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Speaker 1: you know, in Arizona last year. And so then I

482
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Speaker 1: was like, let me, let me just guess what they are,

483
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Speaker 1: because we all know JJ's favorite restaurants. And there was

484
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Speaker 1: a sushi restaurant, there was a barbecue restaurant, there's a

485
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Speaker 1: tex Mex restaurant. Yeah, got one of everything. I think

486
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Speaker 1: you can like everything.

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Speaker 4: That's a good quiz. Guess Gues's favorite.

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Speaker 2: Restaurant JJ recommended, you know, mainstream restaurants.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he's he'd been here long enough that

490
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Speaker 1: he would always talk about and he would tweet about

491
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Speaker 1: him too, the restaurants that he missed once he left,

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Speaker 1: okay frequently, So how did we get adult hungry? We've

493
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Speaker 1: gone from like Texas Dallas? We do here, that's what

494
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Speaker 1: that place.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well it's the bye week anyway.

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Speaker 1: It's it's it's the bye week. But coming back from

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Speaker 1: the by you mentioned Carolina, Yeah, and the Goose Egg.

498
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Speaker 1: But you know, I actually look at that game differently.

499
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's oh, they're oh to six, it's Carolina.

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Speaker 1: I look at it like one versus two oh with

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Speaker 1: the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's gonna get a lot of attention.

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Speaker 1: It should get more. I think it would get more

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Speaker 1: attention if Carolina wasn't oh and six. Sure, but the

505
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Speaker 1: fact that CJ is out playing the number one pick

506
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Speaker 1: in the draft, I think it should be a big story.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: They were up fourteen nothing on Miami this past weekend,

509
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Speaker 2: but Miami just ran away after that, so that evaporated.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like because I do the scores on sideline at

511
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Speaker 3: the game and I was like, okay, wow, that's fourteen nothing.

512
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Speaker 3: And then in between the time they handed me one

513
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Speaker 3: highlight and I actually did the highlight JumboTron, and then

514
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Speaker 3: I don't see they don't show me the score until

515
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Speaker 3: it's up on the big board, and I just kind

516
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Speaker 3: of freelance from there. It was, Oh, in Miami's now

517
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Speaker 3: taking a twenty one fourteen league.

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Speaker 4: Whoa you knew what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 2: Carolina is not a good football team, but like I said,

521
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Speaker 2: anybody can beat anybody, and you better be ready for that,

522
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Speaker 2: because to them, this is their chance, this is their

523
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Speaker 2: shot to show the world coming off the buy, everybody's

524
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Speaker 2: got extra juice. So Carolina will, the Texans will. We'll

525
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Speaker 2: see how it goes.

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Speaker 1: They've got two weeks now with Thomas brown Oc who

527
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Speaker 1: also interviewed for this Texans Yes, he did head coaching job.

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Speaker 2: By the way, I googled that, I'm like, oh, it's

529
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Speaker 2: on our website.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I wrote. I think I'm the one that wrote

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Speaker 1: the story that we were interviewing him, me or Drew,

532
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Speaker 1: one of us did thirty four years old. He's now

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Speaker 1: going to be calling the plays for Frank Reich, who

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Speaker 1: is an offence of mind who I would think that's

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Speaker 1: why the Panthers brought him on his.

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Speaker 2: I have a theory, Well it's not going well, that's

537
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Speaker 2: one of the thing explain.

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Speaker 4: That's a fact. But I think the owner.

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Speaker 2: It's and also a fact the owner is very much

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Speaker 2: involved in a lot of decisions here and this might be.

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Speaker 4: One of them.

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Speaker 2: This might be one of them because I can't see

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Speaker 2: Frank Reich letting go of too much here unless Frank

544
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Speaker 2: Reich feels like he's not the right guy for it.

545
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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: Frank Reich had Nick Sirianni in Indianapolis with him, right,

547
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Speaker 2: But you know, Frank is involved, and Thomas Brown might

548
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Speaker 2: have a little bit of a different take on things

549
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Speaker 2: having worked with McVeigh for so long. So we'll see

550
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Speaker 2: how it all gets put together. Brown has been around

551
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Speaker 2: for a long time as a coach. He's a highly

552
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Speaker 2: regarded assistant and maybe a fresh approach is exactly what

553
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Speaker 2: they need. But we had Tom Goo in here this

554
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Speaker 2: week and we asked him about it. He said, yeah,

555
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Speaker 2: they could be different, but they can't change the whole playbook.

556
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Speaker 4: They can't. They cannot do that, right.

557
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Speaker 2: They can do a little self scout, adjust some things,

558
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Speaker 2: get ready, but it's still going to be Bryce Young

559
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Speaker 2: back there and the weapons they do or do not have,

560
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Speaker 2: and you got to come after them on deep.

561
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Speaker 1: We've done that in the past too, where Bill O'Brien

562
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Speaker 1: was here. Sometimes he'd be calling plays or he'd handed

563
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Speaker 1: over to Tim Kelly. Now, I think we were talking

564
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Speaker 1: about this with Indy and John, because Andy brought up

565
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Speaker 1: an interesting point. He said, like, let's assume I agree

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Speaker 1: with you Mark. I'm sure something has come done for ownership,

567
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Speaker 1: But what if Frank Reich is handing over the play

568
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Speaker 1: calling duties. Is it because a, Okay, we're oho and six,

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Speaker 1: something's got to change. Let me just try something different,

570
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Speaker 1: or is it b as Indy says, you see how

571
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Speaker 1: easy this is. I'm gonna give it to you and

572
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Speaker 1: you're gonna be the same result, and then you'll realize

573
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Speaker 1: it's not as easy as yes.

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Speaker 2: For all we know, Okay, and there are I don't

575
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Speaker 2: know if there are reported rumors or whatever, but maybe

576
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Speaker 2: Frank Reich. I'm just throwing this out there. Frank Reich,

577
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Speaker 2: what if he wanted CJ. Stroud or Anthony Richardson and

578
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Speaker 2: the owner wanted Bryce Young. I don't know what if

579
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Speaker 2: that happened and Frank is saying, oh, you think it's

580
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Speaker 2: the play calling because you have your guy in there.

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Speaker 2: Remember what Tepper said about Bryce Young, a quote he

582
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Speaker 2: was interviewed about him, and he said, listen, it's okay

583
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Speaker 2: that we trade DJ Moore to Chicago because we have

584
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Speaker 2: a point guard. He called Bryce Young a point guard

585
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Speaker 2: and he's gonna make everybody around him better, no matter

586
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Speaker 2: who it is.

587
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Speaker 4: And they were talking about saving us.

588
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Speaker 2: He used the term saving money on receivers because Bryce

589
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Speaker 2: will make everybody better and he'll handle it all.

590
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Speaker 4: It doesn't work that way in this league.

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Speaker 2: You need talent all over the place as much as

592
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Speaker 2: you can possibly get.

593
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Speaker 4: I don't care who the quarterback is.

594
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Speaker 3: And there was about a two week stretch right around

595
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Speaker 3: the combine or right after or before, where what's a lock? CJ.

596
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Speaker 3: Stroud is going to Carolina.

597
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Speaker 2: It's an absolute lock because they talked about getting together

598
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Speaker 2: something up.

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Speaker 4: What was it again, Ohio State?

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Speaker 1: Was Yeah, them out for dinner and then it's been

601
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Speaker 1: a couple of days. They went there early and hung out.

602
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Speaker 3: With them, and then that all flipped. And yeah, because

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Speaker 3: the thing wild, how many things just fluctuate during that

604
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Speaker 3: whole season of the presumably fluctuate during the whole season

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Speaker 3: of the draft.

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Speaker 1: I'm still holding out hope that we flex this game

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Speaker 1: in prime time because I still.

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Speaker 4: Think this game is no way plas, but later in

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Speaker 4: the season.

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Speaker 1: First my hopes injuries.

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Speaker 2: If you're playing for some meaningful stuff, that's a possibility,

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Speaker 2: especially if they have a real stinker on Sunday or

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Speaker 2: Monday night later in the season. But I think that

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Speaker 2: the way the league is, everything's so even, right, and

615
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Speaker 2: what if we talk about in the offseason, w'd be

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Speaker 2: a great goal to be in the hunt.

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Speaker 4: Right in the hunt.

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Speaker 2: It's mid December and the logos are up there and

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Speaker 2: you're in the hunt. I'd rather be in playoff position, right,

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Speaker 2: But in the hunt at the very least wouldn't be

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Speaker 2: so bad as long as you have a legitimate shot

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Speaker 2: to get there. If you get hot late in the year,

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Speaker 2: I'd take that. But I think a lot of teams

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Speaker 2: are going to be in that mix right the way

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Speaker 2: the league is going right now. We talked about it earlier,

626
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Speaker 2: So we'll see if the Texans can start stacking wins.

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, let's go all right.

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Speaker 1: So you mentioned quarterbacks that could get hot and teams

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Speaker 1: that could get hot. Is there a quarterback that could

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Speaker 1: be making return in December the Texans might face We're

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Speaker 1: going to go around the NFL. But first, I like

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Speaker 1: to do early awards, you guys. So we're gonna give

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Speaker 1: us some mid season awards. That's coming up next on

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Speaker 1: Texans All X Welcome back Texans All Access. We roll on.

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Speaker 1: It's week seven, it's the bye week. It's almost mid

636
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Speaker 1: season ish. But you know, Mark, I feel like we

637
00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 1: should always do mid season awards. We should celebrate every win,

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00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 1: and we should celebrate a three and three record because

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00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's been fun. Every week's been fun.

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Speaker 1: The wins have been fun. And so I got some

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Speaker 1: mid season awards for you, I think, but hang.

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Speaker 4: On a second.

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Speaker 2: You're doing something that everybody's doing right now, which is

644
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 2: not the awards, but mid season. C J. Stroud said

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Speaker 2: the second half of the year. I'm like, it's not

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Speaker 2: quite half all right, it's stickler.

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Speaker 1: It's never going to be half.

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Speaker 4: No, it's never.

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Speaker 2: Because of this seventh we've had later buyes I like

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Speaker 2: to buy, you know, last week of October, first week

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Speaker 2: of November. That's nice, but it is where it is.

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Speaker 2: It falls where it falls, you deal with it and

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Speaker 2: you go from there. Last year it was a week earlier,

654
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 2: so that was okay, you know what.

655
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 1: And last year was rough because it came so early

656
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,200
Speaker 1: in the second half of the season, which already wasn't

657
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 1: going well.

658
00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:58,960
Speaker 2: It was loss loss, loss, loss, loss, and then you

659
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 2: got two wins at the end. Johnny said, we are

660
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 2: five and four in our last nine. Is an organization.

661
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: Woo oh, that's pretty good. We're above winning.

662
00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 4: Yeah.

663
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 1: I like it all right, Well, you know, okay, before

664
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,199
Speaker 1: we get to the awards the bye week, I was

665
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:13,919
Speaker 1: talking to you about this because you had Demiico on

666
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,639
Speaker 1: the show. Dimika was asked about it Monday, about the

667
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 1: early Would you like the early bye? Do you like

668
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 1: the late buye? And I thought, Dimika was here when

669
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,720
Speaker 1: we had the earliest bye in the history of buys.

670
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, two thousand and eight.

671
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 1: Two thousand and eight, when the roof like fell off

672
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:31,160
Speaker 1: came off ding Ike hurrianke it was. It was and

673
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,400
Speaker 1: the game was Baltimore and the Texans had figured out

674
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 1: a get what.

675
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 4: I solved it right away. I was at my house.

676
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 1: Was this your idea to add the week two buy?

677
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 4: No, it wasn't my idea. They had to do what

678
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 4: they had to do.

679
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 2: But I looked at the schedule and I said, oh,

680
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 2: we had the bye later on and Baltimore, our Week

681
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 2: two opponent had the same same bye, so they had

682
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,240
Speaker 2: to agree to say, okay, yeah, because you guys were

683
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 2: hit by a hurricane and it was a devastating hurricane.

684
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:02,720
Speaker 2: They decided, okay, we'll take the bye now and play

685
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 2: you guys during our would be bye week.

686
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:05,479
Speaker 4: Later in the season.

687
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 2: So the raven Yeah, they had to do it, but

688
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 2: you know, it was the gracious right thing to do.

689
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 2: Otherwise the schedule would have been a total mess. I

690
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 2: don't know what they would have done, but it all

691
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 2: worked out. Texans lost to the Ravens by the way

692
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 2: later on that season, but they took week two off

693
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 2: because they had two because of Hurricane Ike, and they

694
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 2: were never the same. I remember coming back from the

695
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 2: hurricane and playing at the Titans, at the Jags, and

696
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 2: then you come home to play the Colts and that

697
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 2: was Rosencopter. That was Rosencopter trying to get the first

698
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 2: win of the year. Lost that and then finally beat Miami,

699
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 2: did you guys?

700
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: And I don't think eight had any primetime games or

701
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 1: short weeks.

702
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 2: They did a long way by two thousand and eight

703
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 2: had a Monday nighter with Jacksonville later in the season,

704
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 2: and that's when the Texans were on the comeback trail

705
00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,840
Speaker 2: because they had one at Cleveland.

706
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 4: They were three and seven.

707
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 2: They won at Cleveland, and then they beat the Jags

708
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving Monday and got that victory, so that's two in

709
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 2: a row. And then they took on Green Bay at

710
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,719
Speaker 2: Lambeau with shop coming back and they beat them. And

711
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 2: then they beat the Titans thirteen to twelve. Don't ask

712
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 2: me how I remember this.

713
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 1: It is crazy that I had. I forgot about the

714
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 1: Monday night game.

715
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:16,959
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they it was good.

716
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 2: Mario Williams had like three and a half sacks in

717
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,120
Speaker 2: that game and the victory over the Titans. That was

718
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 2: a good Titans team that were thirteen and three, and

719
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 2: one of those losses was to the Texans, so that

720
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 2: was pretty cool.

721
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 4: And then they lost on the play.

722
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: Next time you complained about it early bye, I'm gonna say, Mark,

723
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:32,160
Speaker 1: it could be a week two.

724
00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 4: It could be a way too early by.

725
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 1: That's a way too early by. So yeah, so it's

726
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: not as bad as that. But all right, mid season

727
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,640
Speaker 1: awards first of all three and three. Yeah, and you

728
00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: got a bunch of teams, like you said, huddled around

729
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 1: a three and three record. This division is just all

730
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 1: the same too. But I feel like just for the

731
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 1: Texans in general, when you look at what's happening for

732
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:56,960
Speaker 1: the Jags, the Colts, the Titans at the quarterback, the injuries.

733
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: I mean, these are the Titans Ryan Tannehill getting carted off. Yeah,

734
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 1: at the end of the game. You don't know what

735
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: they're going to do or back. Yeah, and then Trevor

736
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 1: Lawrence is wearing a brace on his knee today. Short week,

737
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson may be done for the year. We saw

738
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: the reports that he could have a shoulder surgery that

739
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: could put him out for the year.

740
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, you know me, DP, normally I

741
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 2: wouldn't be So I'm not saying I'm really unhappy or

742
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 2: disappointed about those things happening, but I'd rather see our

743
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 2: guy beat their guy and everybody full strength of this instance,

744
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 2: because I don't want to wish any ill will on anybody,

745
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 2: because I feel so blessed right now with CJ. I'm

746
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 2: just you cannot this stuff cannot happen to the Houston Texans.

747
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 1: Okay, it's plenty of other times, but time we've.

748
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 2: Seen a lot of quarterbacks evolving door years of quarterbacks

749
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 2: and we don't want to see that again and got

750
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 2: our guy. Want to see him healthy upright, playing the

751
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 2: whole season and see where the chips fall. It's too

752
00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 2: bad for the Colts with Richardson. He's had issues with

753
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 2: a shoulder in the past, so I know they did

754
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 2: the homework on that, but it is what it is,

755
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 2: and they get him back when they get him back.

756
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 2: I knew that Gardner Minshew would have some sort of

757
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 2: expiration date.

758
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 4: I didn't know it would be this.

759
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: It was fast. Yeah, three pairs, Babe bounces back.

760
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 4: They could.

761
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 2: I mean, look, they have to use them, they have

762
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 2: to go with him, they have to figure it out.

763
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 4: Right.

764
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 2: What surprised me I didn't even look. I looked at

765
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,760
Speaker 2: the highlights, but I didn't look deeply. Within that game,

766
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 2: they couldn't run the football, the Colts on the Jaguars,

767
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,520
Speaker 2: and I guess the Jaguars thought, Minshew, we're gonna make

768
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 2: you try to beat us, and he couldn't do it.

769
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 4: And the rest of the same.

770
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: I mean, he threw three interceptions and it seems like

771
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 1: there was a fourth that he could have had a fourth,

772
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:36,600
Speaker 1: but there was like an offside penalty.

773
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 2: Jeez lost a fumble. Why couldn't he cough up a

774
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 2: pick or two against the Texans.

775
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,479
Speaker 1: Well, he had some fourth quarter touchdown drives which kind

776
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 1: of made the score seem a little bit a little

777
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,760
Speaker 1: bit closer than it was. They still lost thirty seven

778
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 1: to twenty. Big issues in India if they can't get

779
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 1: that figured out. And then, of course the Titans, which

780
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 1: I think everybody was very high on the Titans, and

781
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 1: then you know everything, that's when Tannehill I thought, they

782
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 1: didn't really do a whole lot this offseason to make

783
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: that team better.

784
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people, all right, so the

785
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,479
Speaker 2: Jags are the chalk pick in the division coming in

786
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,719
Speaker 2: and look they're four and two and they're hot right now.

787
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,800
Speaker 2: They've won three hunder rows sins losing to the Texans

788
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 2: the Titans, a lot of people thought, hey, don't discount

789
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 2: the Titans, because, yeah, if they do enough on the

790
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 2: offensive line, Derek Henry still Derek Henry, if Tannehill.

791
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 4: Just keeps it together, they could do some things.

792
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 2: They still have a good defense and they can manufacture wins,

793
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 2: and who knows, maybe they get on a roll. And

794
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 2: Jacksonville has this inflated thing going on and they come

795
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,479
Speaker 2: down to earth a little bit, but it's not really happening.

796
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 4: It's still early.

797
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 2: I think the Titans can figure out ways to win games,

798
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 2: but they've got to get it together at quarterback. You

799
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 2: can't have a quarterback who throws those those There's never

800
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 2: really a timely pick. Actually there is a timely pick. C. J.

801
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 2: Stroud proved it. I never finished my point earlier. Not

802
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,200
Speaker 2: only does he throw a pick on second down and

803
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 2: it turns it to a first down for him, but

804
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 2: you talk about like shaking it off and everything, there.

805
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 4: Was no shaking it off because there's no time to

806
00:33:58,760 --> 00:33:59,320
Speaker 4: shake it off.

807
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 2: It was like a pick where it's like line it

808
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 2: up again. You know we're gonna go again here. You

809
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 2: didn't have to go on the sideline and think about it,

810
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 2: looks the pictures and think about it and stew and

811
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 2: and let it ice him or whatever.

812
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 4: Nothing happened like that. He just got right back up.

813
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 4: A lot of scrimmage.

814
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: The best way to have to throw your first career

815
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: interception back in the history and the history of first career.

816
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 2: Interceptions, the best possible way his first completion was to

817
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 2: himself and his first pick. He got right back our

818
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 2: luck has changed here, and I'm not a real luck guy,

819
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,400
Speaker 2: but I'm with you feeling like it, you know what

820
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 2: I mean?

821
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 1: Things are kind of falling the Texas.

822
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 2: You have the Colts and getting the second pick, and

823
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 2: Bryce Young is a non starter because they're gonna take him,

824
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 2: and you get.

825
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: Stroud, and maybe you would have taken Bryce Young had

826
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:48,240
Speaker 1: you had that, maybe you would have still taken Stroud

827
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:48,839
Speaker 1: at number one.

828
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 2: You know what, we will never know. We'll never know,

829
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 2: but we don't have we don't have the board, right.

830
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 2: They probably erased it quick.

831
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,200
Speaker 1: One day, one day, like many many years from now,

832
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 1: when we're doing these like thirty for thirties, I want

833
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 1: someone to ask Nick, Yeah, we'll find out who was

834
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:06,879
Speaker 1: at the top of your born. I'm sure he'll say

835
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,239
Speaker 1: if he was smart, it was always it was always CJ.

836
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: Stroud number one pick.

837
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 2: I look, I don't envy anybody in that position and

838
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 2: having it, of having to pick a quarterback because you

839
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 2: don't know what's going to happen. Right, Young might have

840
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,399
Speaker 2: been awesome, and look, Young can still be awesome. I'm

841
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 2: not gonna, like Drew would say, throw dirt on his career.

842
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,320
Speaker 2: Were six games in for crying out loud.

843
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:28,479
Speaker 4: Young might be.

844
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:30,600
Speaker 1: Great, turn it around. I mean there's plenty of time.

845
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I mean he is a smart kid and start. No,

846
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,439
Speaker 2: it's not a good start. But he's got a bad team.

847
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 2: He's on a worse team than the Texans, a worst situation,

848
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 2: even though they had to trade up to get him,

849
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 2: had a better record than the Texans last year. Clearly,

850
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 2: look the coaching staff here, the football organization, because Nick

851
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 2: was already here and so you had some some seedlings

852
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 2: of players here at Petrie here, numerous guys Pierce, you

853
00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 2: know the rest. So I think it's just a better

854
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 2: organization right now than what they're putting out there, in

855
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 2: addition to CJ being a better quarterback. But it doesn't

856
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 2: mean Young can't be good if they build around him

857
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 2: with suitable talent.

858
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 1: All right, let me get to some mid season awards.

859
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:15,240
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna go We're gonna go broad to start.

860
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:18,280
Speaker 1: Favorite moment for the first six games.

861
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:19,080
Speaker 4: Well, that's a good one.

862
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: It could be on the field, it could be off

863
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,480
Speaker 1: the field. You could pick one of each, whatever you fancy.

864
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:27,839
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say Tank Dell in Jacksonville third down late

865
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,799
Speaker 2: in the game, there was something about that that I

866
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 2: just freaking loved. It was third down, it was the

867
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 2: final dagger, final nailing the coffin for the Jaguars. That

868
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 2: was my moment. And then he does it again that

869
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 2: next week to Nico Collins. That was awesome. But that

870
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 2: moment with Dell the first victory and knowing that it's

871
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,240
Speaker 2: gonna happen, It's gonna happen now.

872
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:50,480
Speaker 4: It was.

873
00:36:51,120 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 2: It was it was gonna happen before that, but that

874
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 2: one just slammed the door on the Jaguars threat I'm.

875
00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,800
Speaker 1: Gonna go Andrew Beck, which I didn't think of it.

876
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: Out of everything that I was gonna of, all the

877
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 1: highlights and all the things that we're excited about, I

878
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: did not think that a full back with a muff

879
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: pump would return return the ball for a touchdown. It

880
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: was so crazy that like every player we talked to

881
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: that week said I've never seen a play like it.

882
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: Jimmy Ward, who's played like a decade in the league,

883
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: said I've never seen anything like it. It was just

884
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:23,879
Speaker 1: insane when he's able to do And then we had

885
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: him on Texan's huddle and just his like walking us

886
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: through what was going on. In his head. I just

887
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 1: feel like that in itself could be It's we could

888
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: shoot like a whole like feature on what everybody was

889
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: doing on that play to get into the end zone.

890
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,280
Speaker 1: And that brings me to my favorite off the moment,

891
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 1: off field moments, which is basically what the sideline looks

892
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 1: like after every single play, Like the sideline was going

893
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 1: bananas for Andrew Beck, but also just seeing like Demiko,

894
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: the players, everybody celebrating on the sideline after every single play.

895
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 1: It's so different from what we've seen other teams do,

896
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:02,360
Speaker 1: our team included past. I like that he wants the

897
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,239
Speaker 1: guys to be fired up and celebrate every single moment.

898
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: It's not like, hey, look at the score, act like

899
00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: you've been there, let's before. No, He's like, everybody celebrate,

900
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: get your team hyped up. That's great for the players

901
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 1: on the field too.

902
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 2: He gets upset if they're not into the game and

903
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 2: on their feet, supportive, excited.

904
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 4: He wants that energy constantly.

905
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 2: You better bring the heat if you play for Demiko,

906
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 2: if you're a him in his world, you better bring

907
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 2: the enthusiasm, the energy. He wants that because he knows

908
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 2: everybody feeds off each other.

909
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: He feels like the players play better. And he did

910
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: this a lot in San Francisco too. I remember watching

911
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 1: him in the playoff run like he was always celebrating

912
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: and they were shoulder bumping and chest bumping and the

913
00:38:40,719 --> 00:38:43,879
Speaker 1: coaches and the players, and I love that. It's not

914
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,719
Speaker 1: just a function of that forty nine ers team. It's him.

915
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: He brought that here like I will. I think I

916
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: tweeted it during maybe it was a Jacksonville game. I said,

917
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,760
Speaker 1: I will never ever get sick of seeing them celebrate

918
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: on the side.

919
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 4: I would love to know.

920
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 2: And it's a conversation for him in the future, but

921
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 2: just what he's learning about being a head coach. We

922
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 2: could ask him and he'll say some things, but I

923
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 2: think it's an off season kind of conversation. We'll see

924
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 2: where it ends up and off season three years from

925
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:12,240
Speaker 2: now what he's learned, because if you look at his career,

926
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,799
Speaker 2: the trajectory of coaching of being a guy in a

927
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 2: cubicle and Bobby Slowik is next to him and they're

928
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 2: quality control guys, and slogan is actually quality control on

929
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,839
Speaker 2: defense with the Mico, and then he works his way

930
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 2: up linebacker, coach, defensive coordinator, now head coach, just what

931
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 2: he's learned along the way, and I think there's no

932
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 2: question he's the same guy, but he's the guy, and

933
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,280
Speaker 2: it's very different when you're the guy and he's handling

934
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:35,399
Speaker 2: it brilliantly so far.

935
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: All right, biggest surprise not named CJ. Stroud.

936
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 4: All Right, that's a good one.

937
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:46,799
Speaker 2: I would say overall defense, they're tied for ninth in

938
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:50,479
Speaker 2: scoring defense and points aloud. In other words, I think

939
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 2: that's a surprise. I thought they'd be better. There's no

940
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 2: question they were going to be better. You get Tomko

941
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 2: coaching them, and look, we saw some plays made in

942
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 2: the last two years, but they bring in all this talent.

943
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 2: You got Petrie in year two. You know who the

944
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 2: players are. And Blake Cashman is probably a bit of

945
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 2: a surprise to people. I always thought he'd be good

946
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 2: once he got out there and stayed healthy and continually played,

947
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 2: that he'd.

948
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 4: Be a factor.

949
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 2: But I think the entirety of the defense really trending

950
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 2: up in the stand in the rankings as tied for

951
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,640
Speaker 2: ninth in points allowed. That's strong stuff. I know it's

952
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 2: only six games, but it's a really good start for them.

953
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 1: All Right, I will go the play of the offensive line,

954
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: because I think that we expected that to be a

955
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 1: position that was just lock everybody in and go. And

956
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 1: I think seeing Titus go out.

957
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:40,760
Speaker 4: Like I think under the circumstance, under.

958
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 1: The circumstances how the offensive line is played, not giving

959
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 1: up sack for three straight games, you don't have your

960
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 1: two tackles, your two best players on the line. Then

961
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 1: you lose Kenyon Green for the year. Like it just

962
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 1: seemed like, Okay, this is just doomed to fail. You've

963
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 1: got a rookie quarterback. He's gonna get hit more times

964
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: we can count. We've seen it throughout the league, these

965
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,120
Speaker 1: rooky quarterbacks getting hit, and I feel like they have

966
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,080
Speaker 1: really held up their own no matter who's in there.

967
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: It's great coaching. I feel like that is We've talked

968
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 1: about that in the past too. Chris Strausser, Demiko Ryans,

969
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: Bobby Slowik, everything they're doing with the offensive line to

970
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:15,799
Speaker 1: me has been the biggest surprise because that's been a

971
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:18,439
Speaker 1: position group that has really struggled even when they've been good.

972
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 4: Good award, all right.

973
00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:23,240
Speaker 1: So we come back may should we continue the awards?

974
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 1: Maybe we will, But we've also got another quarterback who

975
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: could prove to be his own surprise against the Texans.

976
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 1: We'll get to that one final segment of Texans All

977
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 1: Access coming up, one final segment of Texans All Access,

978
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,360
Speaker 1: and we definitely have to get to this before the

979
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: end of the show. Mark Robert Sala was on NFL

980
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: network Good Morning Football. He was asked about this. He

981
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 1: was evading the question. But there are some reports that

982
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:50,800
Speaker 1: people are saying that Aaron Rodgers, who suffered an achilles

983
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: tear in week one, could be on track to return

984
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 1: because his rehab is going so swimmingly well and the

985
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: date of his turn is projected to be when the

986
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 1: Jets host the Texans. What do you think of that.

987
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,719
Speaker 2: I don't think it will happen if I don't and

988
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 2: I don't do this, But if I wager this, oh no, yeah,

989
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 2: I'll go, doctor Vandermer. Doctor Vandermer says, that is a

990
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:18,240
Speaker 2: very quick recovery from an achilles injury. He's not coming

991
00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:21,239
Speaker 2: back against the Texans, but if he does, they'll deal

992
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 2: with it. And how effective can he be? I mean,

993
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 2: how much can he really run around on an achilles?

994
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 2: That's just what three months injured or recovered less less?

995
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 2: So yeah, can this really happen? I don't think so.

996
00:42:36,760 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 2: If he does come back, I think they originally said

997
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 2: maybe super Bowl, right, Well, how are they going to

998
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 2: get to.

999
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:45,360
Speaker 1: The Super Bowl with Well, listen, if you're in the

1000
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,480
Speaker 1: Super Bowl without Aaron Rodgers.

1001
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 4: You've done something.

1002
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: Why would you even play him? Then?

1003
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 2: Well, I think, yeah, why would you play him? It

1004
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:55,480
Speaker 2: kind of reminds me of Max Scherzer, right for the Rangers.

1005
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 2: You know, he comes back and in a very different

1006
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 2: way because it's not the same injury, of course, but

1007
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 2: you know what could he give them after not having

1008
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 2: any activity right in the regular season? Who else has

1009
00:43:07,719 --> 00:43:10,279
Speaker 2: done stuff like that? Ohto did it for the Eagles, right,

1010
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 2: He played on that bad foot or whatever. It was

1011
00:43:12,719 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 2: a bad ankle, bad foot in the Super Bowl against

1012
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 2: the Patriots, had a monster game, didn't win, but had

1013
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:20,240
Speaker 2: a monster game against New England.

1014
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:21,240
Speaker 3: So well.

1015
00:43:21,320 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry a few years ago, he was banged up.

1016
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: They brought him back in the playoffs. He just didn't clind.

1017
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, that's right. Last year.

1018
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 2: I think it was the year before, and didn't look

1019
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 2: as good. Yeah, it just did not look the same.

1020
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 1: They didn't hand him the rock as many times as

1021
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 1: they should have, so you're right.

1022
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 2: It was the year before. It was the year before.

1023
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, he didn't look the same. He wasn't himself,

1024
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 2: you know what. Did it obviously late in the regular

1025
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 2: season and came back for the playoffs for the Texans

1026
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:46,879
Speaker 2: and did it for Arizona too.

1027
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 4: I think he got tired of doing that kind of thing. Well.

1028
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: I remember when he had the was a peck tear, yeah,

1029
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:55,280
Speaker 1: and we had the Texans players show Whitney Merciless who also.

1030
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 4: Had yeah, peck tear, and we asked him about it in.

1031
00:43:57,840 --> 00:43:59,799
Speaker 1: Twenty seventeen, I think I asked him. We asked him

1032
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:01,800
Speaker 1: on the air, and then during the break, I'm like, okay, Whitney,

1033
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 1: but how hell like how hard is it? And he

1034
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:07,759
Speaker 1: was like, that is it's near impossible to repair to

1035
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 1: that level where you're back and playing in December, because

1036
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 1: they were, and he did had that great public that

1037
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 1: actually turned the tide of the game around against Buffalo

1038
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:18,759
Speaker 1: because I think same sort of thing brought all the

1039
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:20,359
Speaker 1: juice on the sideline. Everyone was fired up.

1040
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 4: But this is an achilles tendon.

1041
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 1: Three months yeah minimum, right, Achilles?

1042
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:26,240
Speaker 4: Oh minimum?

1043
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 1: Say it takes three months for the achilles tend to

1044
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:31,919
Speaker 1: heal properly, so that's when they can start.

1045
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:33,839
Speaker 2: Oh that's why they're saying that, that's when they can

1046
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:34,840
Speaker 2: start rehab.

1047
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: Right, get this another couple of months.

1048
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 2: Get the stress. So he's walking without crutches. People act

1049
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 2: like that.

1050
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:43,399
Speaker 1: And throwing the football. Yeah, why is he doing that?

1051
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 4: They're throwing a football, and they're throwing a football. I

1052
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 4: don't know why a doing that if I don't think it.

1053
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 2: Helps Zach Wilson. All right, it might give the Jets

1054
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:54,359
Speaker 2: fans hope. Does that motivate Zach Wilson? Does that help them?

1055
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:55,959
Speaker 2: I don't know if it does or not. Maybe it does.

1056
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 2: But Zach Wilson's doing the best he can out there

1057
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 2: with what he's got the work.

1058
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:02,359
Speaker 1: Focus on what I'm trying to do here, Like there's

1059
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: maybe he's creating a distraction so people will stop talking

1060
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:07,640
Speaker 1: about Zack Wilson because now they're talking about Aaron Rodgers,

1061
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 1: Robert Sala. So they asked him what he thought about it,

1062
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 1: and he said, he said, well, I just like I'll

1063
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: get on Google and just you know, be typing like

1064
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 1: should he be doing that? Which is kind of funny

1065
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 1: because I thought the same thing, like should he be

1066
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 1: on the field throwing that? Should he be on he

1067
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 1: can be standing here.

1068
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:25,880
Speaker 2: No, Robert, you work for the New York Jets, and

1069
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:28,279
Speaker 2: you have access to some pretty good medical minds. You

1070
00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 2: could ask those guys instead of googling, like we do.

1071
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:35,280
Speaker 1: You know, googling? Maybe he said, I was asking should

1072
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 1: we be doing that? Maybe the googling, maybe that's there.

1073
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 1: I would do whether or not he should be doing that.

1074
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:42,719
Speaker 1: I think it makes for an interesting matchup in December

1075
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 1: either way, because this is going to be something that

1076
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 1: if they're talking about it in New York, they're talking

1077
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:50,319
Speaker 1: about it all over the country. Aaron Rodgers' potential return, Yeah,

1078
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:52,360
Speaker 1: makes an interesting game all of a sudden.

1079
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 2: Gets him a lot of publicity his appearances on the

1080
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,719
Speaker 2: Pat McAfee show, which have reportedly earned him a lot

1081
00:45:56,719 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 2: of money as well. I'm excited to see them play

1082
00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:03,239
Speaker 2: at the New York Jets the Texans. I want to

1083
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 2: see this one. I mean, I'll be there. I can't wait.

1084
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 2: I don't think he'll be there. I don't think he'll

1085
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 2: be out there. I don't think he makes it back

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Speaker 2: until unless they get to the postseason. If he does

1087
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Speaker 2: come back, I think it's a postseason comeback, not December tenth.

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Speaker 2: There's a big difference between December tenth. You have another

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Speaker 2: month to go before the end of the regular season,

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Speaker 2: So at that point, why rush it right? If they're

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Speaker 2: doing well enough, I know they'll probably have to eke

1092
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Speaker 2: out some wins down the stretch. There're three and three,

1093
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 2: same record as the Texans right now, so they're hanging

1094
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:37,080
Speaker 2: in there. Look, Buffalo came within a whisker of losing

1095
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 2: to the Giants. The Texans almost had the same record

1096
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 2: as Buffalo this week. But the Dolphins are running away

1097
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Speaker 2: with that division. I think we all agree, even though

1098
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Speaker 2: they lost.

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Speaker 1: To the Buildings three and three heading into the by

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Speaker 1: just I guess you never.

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Speaker 4: Know, you never know. I'm saying all this and I

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Speaker 4: don't know either.

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Speaker 1: To be continued. But in the meantime, we've got Texans

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Speaker 1: matchup coming up next with John Harris. That's going to

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Speaker 1: do for Texans All Access. Thank you so much for listening,

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Speaker 1: and as always, go Texans.