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Speaker 1: It's the Tamiko Ryans Podcast, brought to you by Amagy Bank,

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Speaker 1: the official business bank of the Houston Texans. Coach Tamiko

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Speaker 1: Ryans joining us in studio. Coach, congratulations, great to see.

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Speaker 2: Him, Thank you, Great to see you, guys.

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Speaker 1: Let's keep meeting like this and we'll talk about the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs in a few moments, but let's reflect on what

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Speaker 1: happened against the Chargers. Outstanding effort. I have a theory

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Speaker 1: that the solid week of prep and the positive result

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Speaker 1: against the Titans really set the tone for last week

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Speaker 1: and what you got out of it on Saturday against

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Speaker 1: the Chargers.

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Speaker 3: You really did. You have to put the work in right.

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Speaker 3: That's one thing I don't want to. We want our

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Speaker 3: guys to understand you never short change the work like

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Speaker 3: we're gonna with the way we work throughout the week

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Speaker 3: has shown up in games throughout our entire season, and

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Speaker 3: we have a really good week of work and we've

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Speaker 3: been on the winning side of things when we go

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Speaker 3: and play games. When we've had short weeks, we've had

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Speaker 3: you know, things happen, or we had to cut reps

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Speaker 3: and all those days in practice we don't play as well.

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Speaker 3: So we'll continue to work like that this week. We

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Speaker 3: have a full workload this week and so hopefully it

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Speaker 3: still you know, translates to a win.

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Speaker 4: Coach, we're gonna talk about your defense a little bit,

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Speaker 4: but we're trying to find a name for CJ dribbling

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Speaker 4: the ball in the backfield and then make it play.

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Speaker 4: But that's a huge play, you know. I talked about

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Speaker 4: this a little bit. I feel like maybe the bigger

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Speaker 4: play was when he scrambled. He gets up and he

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Speaker 4: flexes and he pounds his chest a little bit, because

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Speaker 4: everybody in sideline got fired up by that. And then

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Speaker 4: when you listen to it on the radio, you can

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Speaker 4: hear the crowd have a response to that. Why do

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Speaker 4: you think that fired everybody up the way that it

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Speaker 4: did when CJ made that scramble then got up excited.

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Speaker 2: CJ is the.

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Speaker 3: Leader of our team, and everybody when they're they're all

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Speaker 3: everybody right or wrong, they're looking to him right. And

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Speaker 3: so when you see CJ make the scramble, you see

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Speaker 3: him make the play, you see his reaction. I felt

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Speaker 3: it from our entire sideline. I didn't even have to

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Speaker 3: really look at guys. I could just feel the most

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Speaker 3: you could feel like everybody just like starts to flex

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Speaker 3: their muscles a little bit, starts to pound their chest

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Speaker 3: because they see, man, that's our leader making a play.

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Speaker 2: And we always talk about putting the team on your back.

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Speaker 3: It's like that play right there put the team on

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Speaker 3: his back and he let him know like I'm here,

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Speaker 3: and at that moment it was for me.

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Speaker 2: Man, We're in control of this game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, andre Ware liking it to a basketball player to

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Speaker 1: play the X making a big shot and then he

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Speaker 1: gets hot, and it seemed like that because the rest

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Speaker 1: of the drive, super hot got the touchdown to take

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Speaker 1: the lead.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely seemed like that, you know. And we started

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Speaker 3: to move the ball more officially on offense. We started

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Speaker 3: to move it at will right even though we had

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Speaker 3: some blunders there when we gave the ball up, like

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Speaker 3: we were able to score there. CJ threw a great

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Speaker 3: ball to Nico. He's able to get in the end zone.

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Speaker 3: And just those guys just continue to press forward. Let's

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Speaker 3: always say when we don't have negative plays on offense,

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Speaker 3: we have pretty good drives. So it's all about us

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Speaker 3: if we can eliminate the plays, and most of them

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Speaker 3: are self inflicted. When we eliminate those, and we can

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Speaker 3: be a really good offense.

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Speaker 5: Coaching sudden change situation.

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Speaker 4: The worst thing that happened, get easy touchdown, second worst

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Speaker 4: or maybe one of the best things holding the field goal,

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Speaker 4: especially when they get the ball on the plus area.

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Speaker 4: I would think the best thing that could happen is

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Speaker 4: you answer a sudden change situation with your own sudden

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Speaker 4: change situation. And there were so many pivotal plays, as

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Speaker 4: we said, but Kamari's pick right after the pick that

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Speaker 4: CJ threw, How big was that for you, guys, to

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Speaker 4: not not even give a point, now even give a yard.

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Speaker 5: The very next play he goes and gets the ball.

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Speaker 5: How big was that?

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Speaker 4: Even though it turned into punch and punts going back

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Speaker 5: How big was that at that moment?

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Speaker 2: You talk about a man, you talk about.

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Speaker 3: A momentum shifter, right, I mean, it's CJ throws the

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Speaker 3: pick and it's like, oh, you know, I didn't feel

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Speaker 3: any inks or anyone from the sideline. Guys defense goes

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Speaker 3: that play, and you know, like the energy that gives

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Speaker 3: the Chargers for kamar to go out and I mean,

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Speaker 3: what a spectacular play that he made to him to

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Speaker 3: point snatch it. It was just like, man, you silence

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Speaker 3: them just like that, right, So for that was the

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Speaker 3: probably the one of the biggest play of the game,

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Speaker 3: right because they have the momentum, they can go down.

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Speaker 3: We stop them on a couple drives, but now and

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Speaker 3: you feel like, ah, are they gonna kind.

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Speaker 2: Of break the wheel? Are we gonna give up a

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Speaker 3: But Kamarai Man, he silenced that from the start, and

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Speaker 3: that's big play, big play for us, and we needed

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Speaker 3: it at that moment like we needed that play could

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Speaker 3: have win a lot of different ways. The game could

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Speaker 3: have win a lot of different ways if Kamari doesn't

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Speaker 3: make that playoff.

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Speaker 1: We've talked about this before, but it's a chicken and

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Speaker 1: egg thing with the pressure and the coverage and getting

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Speaker 1: the ball away the four picks, which is it. It's

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Speaker 1: really both right, It's everybody working together in that way.

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Speaker 3: It's always both right when when a DV is able

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Speaker 3: to make a play on the football, like did the

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Speaker 3: pressure speed the quarterback up or if we're sticky enough

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Speaker 3: in cover to make the quarterback hold the ball. Are

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Speaker 3: the d linemen are they executing the right way? Did

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Speaker 3: they take the proper steps to be exactly where they

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Speaker 3: need to be to hit the quarterback? So there was

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Speaker 3: a lot of rushing covers working together, which was definitely

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Speaker 3: our one of our biggest keys. The victory is playing

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Speaker 3: discipline and coverage and having discipline rush first off, not

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Speaker 3: letting Justin get out of the pocket and escape.

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Speaker 2: Thought. The d lin did a great job of that.

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Speaker 3: And then when they did get to the quarterback, a

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Speaker 3: lot of times it wasn't you know, interceptions, but guys

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Speaker 2: That was very impressive.

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Speaker 3: A lot of incomplete passes were really made by the

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Speaker 4: Coach, from a playclink standpoint, don't get everything away, but

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Speaker 4: it's how you call the game. Is that kind of

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Speaker 4: a few thing in a sense that man, we can't

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Speaker 4: get back there. Boy, I want to heat them up

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Speaker 4: a little bit. I need to bring pressure because the

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Speaker 4: other day it felt like these guys got the hot hand.

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Speaker 4: I'm just gonna let them eat. I'm not gonna it

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Speaker 4: was just four going after the quarterback. Do you kind

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Speaker 4: of look at it like that, or do you kind

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Speaker 4: of try and shake things up or you just these

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Speaker 4: guys got the hot hand.

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Speaker 3: I'm going with them. I always try to shake it up.

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Speaker 3: I always try to shake it up to make sure

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Speaker 3: we don't have just a tale where we're always doing

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Speaker 3: one there. So I'll always like to mix it up.

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Speaker 3: And but when our d when our D line is

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Speaker 3: is humming the way they were humming, it makes it

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Speaker 3: a lot easier to call the game because you don't

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Speaker 3: have to be so reliant on pressure to speed the

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Speaker 3: drop more an extra guy back in coverage, and you

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Speaker 3: know the D line is going to speed him up.

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Speaker 3: So it's just it's a luxury when you're D line

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Speaker 3: we need them even more so come here next week.

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Speaker 1: And there's some guys who don't get all the publicity.

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Speaker 1: Mario Edwards. Here's a player that's been in the league

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Speaker 1: a decade and he has a sack and a half

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Speaker 1: in a huge playoff game. Part of your rotation on

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Speaker 3: And Mario has been great all year. Mario is very

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Speaker 3: explosive player on the inside, like a three technique that

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Speaker 3: that three technique position well look for quick explosive players.

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Speaker 3: Mario fits that to the tee and he's made a

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Speaker 3: lot of plays for us, especially in the run game

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Speaker 3: they tried to win us trappers. Mario thought he did

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Speaker 3: a really good job of selling down and stopping some

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Speaker 3: of those run plays. And then when he's one on

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Speaker 3: one with a guard or centers, it's his quickness and elusiveness.

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Speaker 3: He's able to beat those guys very quickly and get

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Speaker 3: he's able to finish. So he's at a and probably

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Speaker 3: one of his most productive years of his career.

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Speaker 2: He's done an outstanding job.

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Speaker 4: So a guy that we have talked about, but we

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Speaker 4: didn't for a few weeks because he was not with us,

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Speaker 5: We had him in.

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Speaker 4: Studio last week and we were just like, we cheer

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Speaker 5: He could go shop at CHV and be clapping for

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Speaker 5: him the play.

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Speaker 4: He makes on third and two, Because you've got a

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Speaker 4: rumblet song where Henry's going one way and it looks

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Speaker 4: like from my angle, he looks like, oh no, Edwards

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Speaker 4: is running right through an open hole. And as he

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Speaker 4: right through a guy that's given us some issue Gus

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Speaker 4: Edwards as a running back when he was with Baltimore.

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Speaker 4: How big was that play at the moment? Obviously followed

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Speaker 4: up but Sting's playing fourth down. But the fact that

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Speaker 4: the zs makes that play at that time with that physicality,

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Speaker 4: how did that charge everybody up? Probably big an play?

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Speaker 4: Was that charge charge me up?

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Speaker 3: I know, I don't know about everyone else, but seeing

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Speaker 3: you know, linebacker do linebacker things, that's like, you got

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Speaker 3: to make a big play in the hole. Like you don't.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of you don't hear that much in ball down.

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Speaker 3: You know, everything is kind of going to coverage. And

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Speaker 3: but that's just grown man football. It's run third and two.

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Speaker 3: They're running the ball downhill and that's that's linebacker on

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Speaker 3: running back one on one in the hole, like and

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Speaker 3: you have to make the play in the B gap.

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Speaker 3: And a Z showed up with all the physicality, all

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Speaker 3: the strength that he had to get that stop. Huge

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Speaker 3: play for US, and I you know, I think you

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Speaker 3: know it was. It was such a momentum shift and

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Speaker 3: they try to go for it. They typically wouldn't go

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Speaker 3: forward there on fourth and two. They've kicked the field

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Speaker 3: goals and a lot of situations, but you know, they

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Speaker 3: felt like, man, we gotta make a play here, right,

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Speaker 3: and then Stingley goes and puts the fire out our

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Speaker 3: just two back to back, one on one battles that

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Speaker 3: no one else is involved in. Azase making a play

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Speaker 1: They had some success running the ball early, but you

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Speaker 5: But it's twenty five to twelve. It's still a ball game.

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Speaker 4: I think they were all ten minutes left and Mark

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Speaker 5: How big was that coach for you? And for the

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Speaker 2: We needed that from our offense.

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Speaker 1: More fired up you after the disease stop on third

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Frank was fired up man. Seeing Frank run

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Speaker 3: Just take him out, Like, oh my goodness, And what

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Speaker 3: Frank is running. I don't know who won that race.

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Speaker 4: I mean the Ross Brothers, they were absolutely flying, but

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Speaker 5: It takes everybody.

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Speaker 4: You talk about this all time, It takes everybody on

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Speaker 3: The Angelo is a guy who's always ready, like no

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Speaker 2: Like that's D'Angelo.

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Speaker 3: Ross doesn't get a lot of credit, a lot of praise,

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Speaker 1: What's it like to play the Chiefs less than a

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Speaker 3: I hope it helps being able to see them, but

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Speaker 1: Does it kind of help though, that you were recently

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Speaker 4: Coach, playing on this divisional playoff stage, I mean it's

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Speaker 3: I hope our guys have learned a lot about you know,

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Speaker 1: What's practiced? Like this time of year and this time

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Speaker 4: It is Patrick Mahlmes. I know you know that, and

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Speaker 4: How much do you think that helps your D line

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Speaker 5: You know they can run and do those things, and

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he is different in the fact that he loves

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Speaker 3: that be gap escape is there, so whether you're in,

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Speaker 3: we cannot get up. Feel like he's going to say

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Speaker 3: it short in the pocket escape, so we have to

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Speaker 3: I mean, we have to close out those anterior gaps.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: He got us last game, he got us just on

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Speaker 3: a huge run up in the red zone. He escaped

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Speaker 3: through the big gap, huge run to convert it allowed

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Speaker 3: him to score points.

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Speaker 1: What about CJ running. We talked about the big run,

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Speaker 1: the twenty seven yard er and getting all pumped up

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Speaker 1: earlier in the conversation, but as a whole I know

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Speaker 1: you want to see him protect himself, but it's so

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Speaker 1: effective when he can take off and run with it

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Speaker 1: from time to time.

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Speaker 3: And CJ and he's done a great job of that.

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Speaker 3: I think this past game of when it's when it's

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Speaker 3: not there, you getting pressure and you have the ability

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Speaker 3: to step up and make plays. It's similar to how

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Speaker 3: we're speaking about Patrick. Not that you're always looking to run,

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Speaker 3: but if the escape lane is there and you can

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Speaker 3: do it like man that that's a huge play. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: you can make a huge play game yardage on a

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Speaker 3: defense and you can kind of slow down the thread

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Speaker 3: of their pressures and those things. When the quarterback run,

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Speaker 3: just it slows everyone's down on the defensive side just

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Speaker 3: having the thread of run, right, you have to be

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Speaker 3: aware of it. And you see all the quarterbacks that

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Speaker 3: think that are left that we're taking all the quarterbacks

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Speaker 3: when all the teams have that escapability and CJ has

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Speaker 3: it as well. You saw it, I mean going back

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Speaker 3: to his college days, his last game versus Georgia, right

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Speaker 3: when he started to break contain he started to run.

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Speaker 3: That really opened up the lot for their offense in

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Speaker 3: that game. So you know, tell CJ, whatever you have

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Speaker 3: to do to make plays, just understand just like he was,

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Speaker 3: you know, beating his test. Like understand the moment, the

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Speaker 3: I think the energy and the enthusiasm that it gives

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Speaker 3: our entire sideline when he does make those plays.

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Speaker 4: Okay, if you were coaching a game and you went

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Speaker 4: back to the benches to talk to a particular player,

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Speaker 4: and you looked up and you saw a player reading

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Speaker 4: a book on the sideline.

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Speaker 5: What would you think?

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Speaker 3: What's wrong with this guy? No? No, no, First off,

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Speaker 3: where did the book come from?

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Speaker 5: Out there?

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Speaker 3: How did he get out here like that? Will be

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Speaker 3: My first thought is how did you get a book?

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Speaker 3: And what do you read?

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Speaker 5: Intros you're carrying? What are you reading about?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: G Brown apparently carries a book to the sideline for

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Speaker 4: every game, really and he has a passage that he reads.

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Speaker 4: And the cameras caught him on the sideline with this book.

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Speaker 4: And I mean, I mean that sidelines almost a whole

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Speaker 4: white coach. I don't know if I've ever seen.

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Speaker 3: A book, never seen that. But ada, whatever keeps you grounded, man,

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Speaker 3: keep doing it. I guess it's working for him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, And that's our MG Bank asked coach question

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Speaker 1: of the week and coach one more thing, speaking of

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Speaker 1: getting your mind right and all that. The music you

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Speaker 1: guys play in the locker room. We hear some gospel

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Speaker 1: or something on the way in, right, and it's early,

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Speaker 1: it's well before the game, but it seems like that

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Speaker 1: kind of gets the guys in a in a really

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Speaker 1: great frame of mind. It's a collective thing.

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Speaker 3: At that point, they start out with a lot of

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Speaker 3: gospel music I hear coming in and it's I think

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Speaker 3: it's just the recenter ground guys as well. Just and

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Speaker 3: then start they start blasting. I'm like, shy, we keep

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Speaker 3: the gospel music going throughout No, but that that music,

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Speaker 3: you know, it provides energy to a lot of guys,

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Speaker 3: And I'm thankful for our guys that they do have

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Speaker 3: gospel music. You don't hear that much, probably in a

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Speaker 3: lot of locker rooms, but for our guys to have

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Speaker 3: that awareness of a what keeps us all going, what keeps.

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Speaker 2: Us grounding, keeping the main thing, the main thing.

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Speaker 3: I'm proud of our guys for having a gospel music

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Speaker 3: playing absolutely.

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Speaker 5: Coach, thanks a lot of good luck.

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Speaker 2: Thank you,