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Speaker 1: John mcclaim from The Houston Chronicle to General joining us. Gentleman,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the program, and let's start with you, General boy.

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Speaker 1: I heard a promo running a lot on six TAD

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Speaker 1: about you citing the Texans running game as, what is

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Speaker 1: it the second worst in the history of the franchise

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Speaker 1: on pace for that anyway through eight games, something they

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Speaker 1: really need to correct quickly. They do, and they need

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Speaker 1: to start Sunday in Cleveland where the weather's going to

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Speaker 1: be terrible. And Duke Johnson at least he'll be playing.

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Speaker 1: He's familiar with the conditions at the Browns Stadium because

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Speaker 1: he played there four years. But right now they're on

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Speaker 1: a pace to be the second worst to the two

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Speaker 1: two expansion team with Jonathan Wells as the leading rusher.

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Speaker 1: They're only seventy five yards ahead of that pace, and

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Speaker 1: that is a dubious distinction they do not want to set. Oh, General,

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Speaker 1: do not tell me that this weather is going to

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Speaker 1: and it's changed. It's supposed to be nice in Northeast

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Speaker 1: Ohio until Sunday morning, and then Sunday morning it's supposed

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Speaker 1: to be between at game time forty five to fifty five.

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Speaker 1: That's a big discrepancy, but that's why it is on

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Speaker 1: Lake Erie with wind gust up to forty miles an hour.

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Speaker 1: Their last game, if they lost in home sixteen to

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Speaker 1: six to the Raiders, the wind gusts were thirty five

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Speaker 1: miles an hour and they threw Derek card through one

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Speaker 1: hundred and sixteen yards Baker Mayfield one hundred and twenty two.

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Speaker 1: There was only one touchdown in the game, but Josh

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Speaker 1: it didn't benefit the Browns, but they got Nick Chubb

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Speaker 1: back to go with Kareem Hunt. They're having one hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty yards of game five yards of carry. As

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Speaker 1: Anthony Wavers told us today, it'll be a ground and

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Speaker 1: pound game. Well, that's not the Texans I saw hot

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Speaker 1: Tea cot Key. It's throwing a football with DeShawn Watson

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Speaker 1: kind of stuff. You know, he played at Ohio State,

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Speaker 1: and yes, he did lead the Texans in rushing year

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Speaker 1: about the man who would eventually become the rapper called Merciless.

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Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, James Allen, who ran for five nineteen that year. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but they did go to Cleveland that year. They would

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Speaker 1: lose that game. John. The last time the Texans were

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Speaker 1: It's interesting this time last year the Browns were two

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Speaker 1: People up there, I've done three talk shows up there.

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Speaker 1: They're so skeptical and they should be. The last time

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Speaker 1: they have the good bankers to the bad banker. Now

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Speaker 1: they say their defense can be thrown on, and that's

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Speaker 1: under normal conditions. But I think Shaun Watson, he ran

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Speaker 1: That's in jeopardy because of the conditions. But everybody up

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Speaker 1: Thanks to Ray Smith making that deal with Sashi Brown,

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Speaker 1: their former general manager. You know, it's amazing to me

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Speaker 1: when you think about this. Kevin Stefanski, he worked with

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Speaker 1: he wanted his Stefanski instead of Freddy Kitchens, but the

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Speaker 1: You talk about instability. He's the fourth coach in four years.

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Speaker 1: They've had three general managers in four years. And they

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Speaker 1: hope now that Andrew Berry the general manager and the

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Speaker 1: If you look at Cleveland and the last truly great

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Speaker 1: they can run the rock. Okay, you said something there.

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Speaker 1: I auto Graham was an outstanding quarterback, and kids, trust us,

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Speaker 1: he was outstanding. Look, he's way before my time. I've

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Speaker 1: good for a bit. With Sam Ratigliano coaching the Cleveland Browns,

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Speaker 1: he had had the biggest interception in Brown's history. Man

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Speaker 1: read right, nineteen eighty. All they had to do was

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Speaker 1: and they was such a class act. Answered every question

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Speaker 1: the early eighties. You know, they hadn't been doing as

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Speaker 1: suffered through. They've gone through the drive the fumblest such

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Speaker 1: is the greatest player I've ever seen in football, John,

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Speaker 1: do you think that the Stefanski Andrew Berry combination it

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Speaker 1: feels like it has staying power. I mean, it feels

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Speaker 1: two because Jimmy Haslam has gone through general manager and

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Speaker 1: like that is staying power. Do you think that's the case.

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Speaker 1: It feels like it, And the fact that they are

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Speaker 1: But you guys, know, all it could take is one

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Speaker 1: general on earlier Johnny Chubb Nick Chubb for the Cleveland

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Speaker 1: Browns and we were touching on this last night. When

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Speaker 1: before he went out with the injury, they were leading

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Speaker 1: the league and rushing Johnny, is he that good? I mean,

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Speaker 1: what makes them so good running the football this year?

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Speaker 1: He's decisive, he's explosive, he's twitchy. He's as athletic as

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Speaker 1: you're gonna find. I mean, he was a sprinter in

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Speaker 1: high school. He has got incredible burst and balanced. The

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Speaker 1: first year at Georgia, when Todd Gurley had his little

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Speaker 1: thing with the NC double A, Chubb stepped right in

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Speaker 1: and was like, Um, did y'all think this guy might

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Speaker 1: be better than the other guy? By the way, he's

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Speaker 1: that good. Um. Now, coming off an injury, there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be some ross, hopefully, but his contact balance like, you've

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Speaker 1: got to bring everything, You've got to try and tackle

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Speaker 1: this guy. I mean, he's about two hundred and twenty

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Speaker 1: five pounds and he's just a brick and is a

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Speaker 1: fast moving brick. And the one thing that we've struggled

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Speaker 1: with is making contact and wrapping up. And unfortunately with

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Speaker 1: both of these backs, Chubb and Hunt, they are very

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Speaker 1: difficult to get to the ground. One on one is

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Speaker 1: nearly impossible. So guys gonna be flying at the football,

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Speaker 1: but they can't be throwing shoulders into guy into these

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Speaker 1: running backs. They've got to wrap up rugby style tackle,

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Speaker 1: get him the ground. Because they are together, that alone,

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Speaker 1: separated or together, they're that good. There's no question. Well,

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Speaker 1: you and I last night talked about shootout vibe. But

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Speaker 1: here we go with the weather report. The plot thickens

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Speaker 1: with high winds and maybe some rain, and it's just ugly.

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Speaker 1: And you know, McLay talked about forty five to fifty

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Speaker 1: five degrees and there's a big difference. I don't think

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Speaker 1: there's a big difference. Man, If it's blowing forty yea

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Speaker 1: by Lake Erie, it could be sixty five. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: feel like thirty five. It's gonna be awful. But what

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Speaker 1: about how this thing might be played now? And yeah,

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Speaker 1: ground game certainly helps, but the Texans have not been

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Speaker 1: able to create one. How can they create something that's

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Speaker 1: gonna move the football for them in these conditions on Sunday?

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Speaker 1: What do you think they're gonna do well? Again? I

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Speaker 1: think for this team utilizing the short passing game as

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Speaker 1: an extension in the run game. I mean, that's got

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Speaker 1: to be one thing. The other thing is Duke Johnson

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Speaker 1: I think is capable of putting together a game or two.

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Speaker 1: I really do. I think because of his different skill

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Speaker 1: set and the fact that he can make guys miss

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Speaker 1: the way that he did. I mean, mark how many

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Speaker 1: yards did he pick up that didn't end up on

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Speaker 1: the stat sheet the other day? Just by making a

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Speaker 1: guy miss two yards into the backfield or you know,

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Speaker 1: he'd be hemmed in for a three or four yard loss.

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Speaker 1: He turned it into a one yard game. I mean

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Speaker 1: he probably had twenty to twenty five yards in addition

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Speaker 1: to what he picked up. Because he was making guys miss,

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Speaker 1: he didn't really have an opportunity to, Oh, they got

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Speaker 1: push off the ball. Now, I could just find my

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Speaker 1: hole and scoot through here for ten to twelve yards.

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Speaker 1: But it could very well be a Duke Johnson game.

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Speaker 1: And I'm okay with that. I just don't And I

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Speaker 1: say that because I don't think that David's going to

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Speaker 1: be ready. He hasn't practiced the last couple of days.

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen him out there for activation. So I

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Speaker 1: think it's Duke. Now the question becomes, who else do

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Speaker 1: you put with him. And I've heard guy boy, I

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Speaker 1: love I love my dudes Landry and John, but they're

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Speaker 1: hounding Buddy Howe for fummeling a snap, for fumbling a handoff.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, look when you're not when you haven't

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Speaker 1: taken a handoff from that guy, or you haven't taken

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Speaker 1: and putting your hands under the butt of a new center,

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Speaker 1: everything's different, man, It is different. So the fact that

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Speaker 1: it's a it's an RPO or a zone read. That's

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Speaker 1: difficult for anybody regardless. So I'd like to see Buddy

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Speaker 1: some poundability, if that makes sense. He can pound out

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Speaker 1: the defense a little bit. He's a bigger guy. He's

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Speaker 1: north south. He gets downhill in a hurry. And look,

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Speaker 1: if there's no hole there, he's he makes one because

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Speaker 1: he just puts his head down and he goes. Now,

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Speaker 1: he may miss a cut here or there because he

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Speaker 1: may not see it because he's just tunnal vision, but

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Speaker 1: he might put He might be able to put a

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Speaker 1: hurt and on some of the guys up front to

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Speaker 1: have to try and tackle him. So if it's neither

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Speaker 1: of those guys, then it becomes CJ Prosise or it

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Speaker 1: becomes Scottie Phillips in addition to Duke Johnson. And we

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Speaker 1: you know, look, I loved CJ coming out of Notre Dame,

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Speaker 1: but he just hasn't been able to stay healthy to

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Speaker 1: be that guy. And Scottie Phillips is kind of a

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Speaker 1: poor man's Clyde Edwards e layer and he's a tough

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Speaker 1: guy to tackle because of his size and how he's built.

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Speaker 1: So I'm curious to see how this running game comes

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Speaker 1: together in the end. They think it's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: lot of Duke Johnson, and I'm okay with that, as

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Speaker 1: long as they mix in some of the short passing game. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna They're gonna have to. And then if it

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Speaker 1: gets to be just a grind it out battle, your

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Speaker 1: defense is gonna have to do everything possible to bend

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Speaker 1: but not break, and just keep them out of the

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Speaker 1: end zone. Uh. And hopefully you could put the ball

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Speaker 1: and the ends with a few times and knock these

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Speaker 1: guys off. But I've looked, I've looked back at the

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Speaker 1: weather mark, I've checked it and it. It looks like

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Speaker 1: by game time we might we might not have as

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Speaker 1: much rain as um as you could possibly have. Now

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Speaker 1: again that it's Cleveland, so weatherwise, you just you just

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Speaker 1: never know. But to me, if the wind is a

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Speaker 1: big factor, oh boy, that that that gets tough. The

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Speaker 1: that's the thing. We'll always go back to that Green

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00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: Bay game in OA when it was three degrees but

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Speaker 1: it wasn't windy, so they threw for over four hundred yards.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be tough on Sunday if it's high winds

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Speaker 1: of thirty to forty miles per hour coming off Lake Erie.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the stadium's right there. I tweeted out a

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Speaker 1: picture of the stadium on a really nice day, uh,

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Speaker 1: in preparation to this show. So go to at Texan's

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Speaker 1: Voice if you want to see a picture of Brown

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Speaker 1: Stadium the way it is now, not the old one

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Speaker 1: that McClean was talking about. That I wish I did

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Speaker 1: a game there, job. I mean, that's one regret I

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Speaker 1: have that I got into the league at O two

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Speaker 1: and I and I missed out on some of these

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Speaker 1: old buildings, you know, days of your in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I mean I did a game at the old Meadowlands.

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Speaker 1: You know, I did a game at the old Jack

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Speaker 1: Murphy Stadium and they named it Qualcom later. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: we did a game at the Raiders Stadium where many

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Speaker 1: games there actually, you know, because it's I just think

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Speaker 1: it's part of the NFL history and you want to

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Speaker 1: see these old buildings and and you want to be

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Speaker 1: in there. I've never done a game at Three Rivers

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Speaker 1: and you ye a winter game in Three Rivers Stadium.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, Yeah, Soldier Field obviously, but but after they

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Speaker 1: redid it, and they redid it in such a ridiculous way,

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Speaker 1: it still doesn't make sense to me. And every time

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Speaker 1: someone from Chicago tries to explain to me how they

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Speaker 1: did it and why they did it the way they did,

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking my head starts spitting around, Like Linda Blair.

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Speaker 1: I mean, come on, Okay. So we've got the Texans

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Speaker 1: and the Browns on Sunday, and we talked about it

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Speaker 1: with John McClain the Titans and the Colts tonight. But

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Speaker 1: give me your quick thumbnail on this one tonight, because

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Speaker 1: I think this is a very interesting matchup. And I

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Speaker 1: was joking about being nauseous while watching it. Might not

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Speaker 1: be much of a joke. But I'm definitely watching this

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Speaker 1: one because the Texans are gonna play them both again.

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Speaker 1: They have two games coming up with the Indianapolis Colts,

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Speaker 1: and I hope they're highly meaningful, and in order to

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Speaker 1: make them meaningful, if you win the next three in

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Speaker 1: a row, which is a tall order, I get it.

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Speaker 1: But if you do, you're playing the Colts for a

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Speaker 1: chance to go five andrid in the opening game of

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00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:05,919
Speaker 1: the month of December. Let's go Yeah, yeah, man, would

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Speaker 1: you sign up for that? Heck, yeah, no, doubt Well

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Speaker 1: I would definitely sign up for that. As you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Mark, I like to dive into the ex's nose, like, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, if the Colts are in this front and

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Speaker 1: tell you to do that, you know, like all that

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Speaker 1: kind of stuff that's important in a granular sense. But

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Speaker 1: to me, this one really comes down to which Philip

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Speaker 1: Rivers shows up, Which Philip Rivers shows up. If Philip

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Speaker 1: Rivers shows up with ty Hilton back, and Philip is dealon,

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00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,080
Speaker 1: he's using all of his weapons, He's throwing it to

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Speaker 1: ten or eleven different guys. I think Colts end up

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Speaker 1: being They're tough to be but if if Rivers is

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Speaker 1: actually making them both. He can't make this play but

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Speaker 1: not an Oris situation for the Colts. I was surprised

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Speaker 1: the Colts are favored. I really was because the Titans

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Speaker 1: They got Desmond King who had a fumble return for

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Speaker 1: a touchdown. And I think we want the Titans to win.

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Speaker 1: That's the question to add for you, who do you

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Speaker 1: to win. Right, Let's move the Colts closer to us. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think you want to do that. I think all

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Speaker 1: You need these teams to lose this weekend, and the

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Speaker 1: at this point. I had the Texans beaten the Titans

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Speaker 1: the Cults because you play them twice, and I'd have

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Speaker 1: at this point, Titans, you run off with the AFC

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Speaker 1: South Texans if they're gonna get in have to get

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Speaker 1: at this point, Johnny, I'll take it. Hey, thanks a

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Speaker 1: Injury report today, d NP. This is did not participate.

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Speaker 1: That would be one David Johnson with the concussion. He's

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Speaker 1: still in the protocol Sinnel Calamte. Same thing for the

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Speaker 1: those three out of practice today and the final injury

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Speaker 1: report will come out tomorrow. I would doubt those guys

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Speaker 1: would be available, but you never know. Dylan Cole went

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Speaker 1: pick it up. So this is good that Cole was

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Speaker 1: he can go on Sunday. Very good special teams player

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Speaker 1: and certainly can play some linebacker for you. As well

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Speaker 1: as far as the Browns go, They've got five guys

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Speaker 1: limited who are limited yesterday. You would expect that they

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Speaker 1: if you're full, you're full. You just have injuries because

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Speaker 1: to list these things. But Austin Hooper and Jarvis Landry

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Speaker 1: are the most notables there and they are going to play,

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Speaker 1: so get ready, buckle up. The Browns have some weapons

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Speaker 1: on offense. I mean they can throw the ball. Austin Hooper,

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Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry, are you kidding me? I don't care that

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Speaker 1: Obj's out for them, that's no. I mean, look, that

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Speaker 1: have guys like Landry and Hooper and you have Kareem

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Speaker 1: Hunt the throw who out of the backfield as well.

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Speaker 1: My goodness, this is gonna be interesting. And I know

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Speaker 1: they have a high wind forecast for Sunday. But as

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Speaker 1: we mentioned, the Browns can run the ball. Led the

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Speaker 1: league and rushing in the first four games when Chub

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Speaker 1: was still healthy for them. And as far as the

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Speaker 1: running back situation goes for the Texans, we were talking

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Speaker 1: have Duke the former Brown available, that's great. And the

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Speaker 1: You know, I go back to the early Kubiak years. Man,

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Speaker 1: Ron Dane and he'd give you a Hundy or something

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Speaker 1: like that. You need something of that nature to happen

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Speaker 1: this weekend. Somebody's got to rise up and give you

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Speaker 1: some rushing yardage. I know Duke can do some, but

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Speaker 1: there has to be another player, I think, helping out,

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Speaker 1: Safely running the ball socially distanced running for a quarterback

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Speaker 1: includes sliding, running out of bounds, avoiding contact right stay

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Speaker 1: six feet away from everybody. But get us some rushing

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Speaker 1: yards and maybe that can certainly help the cause as

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Speaker 1: you try to beat the Cleveland Browns this weekend. Let's

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Speaker 1: get to Houston Methodist minutes now. This week we decided

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Speaker 1: him and talked to him about what this is, what

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Speaker 1: it's basically brain cells dying off. He talked about it. Yes,

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Speaker 1: very progressive way. So it's a disease that goes through

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Speaker 1: People in this situation are a higher risk. Now, somebody

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