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Speaker 1: What is going on? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Happy Wednesday to you, New Year's Day. My gosh, I

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Speaker 2: buried the lead. It's New Year's Day. Happy twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: five to all of you out there. I'm your host

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Speaker 2: for this evening, John Harris, football analyst, sideline reporter, and

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Speaker 2: I know there are a lot of people hurting, not

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Speaker 2: what transpired very very.

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Speaker 1: Early this morning.

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Speaker 2: So our love, thoughts and prayers go out to everybody

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Speaker 2: New Orleans, everybody affected. Just an incredibly horrible situation. Sugar

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Speaker 2: Bowl that was supposed to be played tonight will be

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Speaker 2: moved till tomorrow. Don't know if we played at night,

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Speaker 2: New Orleans. So Georgia and Notre Dame will end up

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Speaker 2: playing tomorrow as it appears right now.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if things change.

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Speaker 2: But man, what a difficult way to wake up this

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Speaker 2: morning to see that news of what happened in New Orleans.

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Speaker 2: And I know Sheriff Houston Sheriff's office commented about the

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Speaker 2: work that they're doing in Houston to make sure something

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Speaker 2: like that does not happen here in our area. I

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Speaker 2: just hate that it happened in New Orleans. It's a

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Speaker 2: place that I love dearly. My wife and I took

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Speaker 2: our honeymoon there when we were teachers and we weren't

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Speaker 2: of people here in the Houston area. So thoughts out

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Speaker 2: to everybody in New Orleans. Now, as we always do

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Speaker 2: on this show, we talked football. We try and take

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Speaker 2: you away from whatever and bring you into our football

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Speaker 2: world for just a little bit and talk ball, have

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Speaker 2: some fun, stay on the radio, and that's what we're

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Speaker 2: gonna do here this evening, and on a Wednesday, we

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Speaker 2: start that off as we always do with general manager

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Speaker 2: Nick Casserio. Now, when we talked with Nick this on Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: you guys always know we talk with Nick on Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: So this was probably up on YouTube last night. Some

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Speaker 2: about what happened to Ne Orleans. That's why we definitely

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Speaker 2: would have asked Nick's thoughts on it, because I know

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Speaker 2: he probably feels the same as I.

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Speaker 1: Do, but we did this on Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: So this is Nick Casario, general manager your Houston Texans

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Speaker 2: on with Mark and.

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Speaker 1: Myself joining us in studio now.

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Speaker 3: Executive vice president and general manager, Nick Cassario.

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Speaker 1: Nick, Happy New Year.

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Speaker 4: How's it going, Jen, It's good to see you. Happy

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Speaker 4: New Year?

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Speaker 3: All right, here we go with a typical week. I

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Speaker 3: would say, even though you have New Year's now, but

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Speaker 3: this and then the playoffs next week.

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Speaker 1: You know you're in.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Look, we got two weeks in front of us,

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Speaker 5: so first and foremost and focus will be on Tennessee.

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Speaker 5: Kind of go through a normal week, out the extra

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Speaker 5: day yesterday with the kind of the bonus Monday, if

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Speaker 5: and then we'll finish out the week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, travel, Saturday,

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Speaker 5: play Tennessee on Sunday.

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Speaker 4: Have an idea we're playing when we're playing.

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Speaker 5: After the Tennessee game, so back to work, back to business,

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Speaker 5: and that's where we are.

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Speaker 2: So I know we always talk about advanced prep. So

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Speaker 2: in advanced prep, we know it's one of three teams.

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Speaker 1: One of them we just played last week, or I

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Speaker 2: One we have played this year, the other two trying

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Speaker 1: So do you do advanced prep for all three teams? Nick?

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Speaker 1: At this point?

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Speaker 2: Do you wait until Saturday night to see Rabs and

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Speaker 2: advanced prep for the playoffs? No, it's a great question.

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Speaker 5: You sort of have to start some of the work

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Speaker 5: So but other than that, we do we have to

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Speaker 3: Coach Ryan saded like he wanted to get back to

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Speaker 3: the basics here. Let's play some good football. Let's get

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Speaker 1: You see it that way as you face Tennessee on Sunday.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really a big summation of our season. We've

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Speaker 5: kind of sat here multiple weeks and we've played good

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Speaker 5: We go back and look at the Tennessee game week twelve,

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Speaker 5: it's kind of some respects the synopsis of our season.

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Speaker 5: Gave us some explosive plays, turn the ball over a

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Speaker 5: little bit. I think we were penalized eleven times, so

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Speaker 5: just trying to minimize some of those bad plays. Tennessee

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Speaker 5: played better than we did. We understand that this is

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Speaker 5: a challenging opponent that has a number of skilled players

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Speaker 2: We've had this yere nick before where week seventeen. I

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Speaker 2: don't want to use the word irrelevant, because any game

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Speaker 2: is relevant, but it's not going to change seeding. We're

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Speaker 2: we want to be as healthy as possible. Yeah, we

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Speaker 5: Yeah, every game takes on significance whenever it is, whatever

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Speaker 4: Can't worry about who we don't have. Also're gonna do

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Speaker 5: So each week is going to be different, each team

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Speaker 3: Matter who you facing the postseason. This is good prep.

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Speaker 3: I know you want to be better at stopping the

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Speaker 4: Yeah, really good back.

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Speaker 5: the run game will be important, I'd say this time

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Speaker 2: Are you trying to sneakily steal my scoutez?

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Speaker 1: You got it?

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Speaker 4: Here with it, joh the gun.

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Speaker 3: I'm just my last.

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Speaker 4: Report because we've already but we can. Let's start in there.

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Speaker 1: Week twelve, we got a chance to see these guys.

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Speaker 2: We didn't see Taj Spears uh and he was part

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Speaker 2: playing both quarterbacks Mayson Rudolf and Will Levis. What what's

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Speaker 5: The big thing, it's always personnel related more than anything

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Speaker 5: We saw that, you know, with Chick on the big

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Speaker 3: All Right, what about this streak you have going on

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Speaker 3: go back to what twenty twenty one, twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 3: when the Texans last lost an AFC South game on

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Speaker 3: the road. Is there anything too that I know it

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Speaker 3: spans different coaching eras and that kind of thing, but

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Speaker 3: you've been here the whole time time.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean each week it's really one game at

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Speaker 5: I mean, streaks are streaks, but all streaks are made

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Speaker 1: That just wasn't our day.

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Speaker 4: And really both games we had opportunities.

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Speaker 5: Which goes back to what Tomiko talked about, like this

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Speaker 2: Nig I don't know if we've had a chance to

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Speaker 1: As you go out to week eighteen.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, our philosophy is always just look to take advantage

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Speaker 5: Ultimately you make a decision, well this makes sense or not.

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Speaker 5: I think the situation with Tank maybe you know said, hey,

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Speaker 5: good football Player's a lot of experience. So Deante's been

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Speaker 5: I mean, this is a player you know actually had

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Speaker 5: he's athletic, he's fast, he's got good quickness, he's been productive.

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Speaker 5: So when you get a player this late, obviously you

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Speaker 3: It really puts a test on your wide receiver group overall, though,

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Speaker 5: We felt that, you know, the depth in that room

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Speaker 5: Metch has had his opportunities, he's taken advantage of them.

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Speaker 5: Hutch seemingly in each game when we throw them the ball,

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Speaker 5: he makes it play. So it's about other players getting opportunities.

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Speaker 5: You know, jay Wayne had to be he was elevated

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Speaker 5: we'll take four or five receivers to the game, however

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Speaker 2: We've also had injuries at this seemingly the nickel position

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Speaker 2: This guy's since his days back to Washington, you always

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's a very smart, experienced, instinctive player, has position versatility.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think he played I don't know, seven

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Speaker 5: Wasn't drafted, but he's a great kid, works really hard,

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Speaker 5: So we'll kind of see what makes the most sense here.

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Speaker 5: Kamari's been in there, Miles was in there. We'll just

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Speaker 3: Well, Kate Stover, Johnny and I have visited with him

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Kaid's a smart, tough, versatile, instinctive player. He's improved

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Speaker 4: And we've talked about this.

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Speaker 4: So glad he's here.

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Speaker 5: He's helped us, you know, in a number of different

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Speaker 3: And if you ever want to learn more about beef production,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's the expert in that.

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Speaker 2: Candi absolutely, Nick, I don't know if you've ever been

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Speaker 2: Have you ever been persuaded by a guy's second sport,

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Speaker 5: rugby background, wasn't really a football player. Now he's become

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Speaker 5: one of the best left tackles in the league. So

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Speaker 5: it's not always going to work out all the time.

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Speaker 5: But I think if you have an open mind and

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Speaker 5: then just take the individual player and just their mindset,

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Speaker 5: their thought process, how they work, how they approach it,

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Speaker 5: and see if they make some progress along the way,

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Speaker 5: then ultimately you just kind of let let you know,

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Speaker 5: nature run its course.

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Speaker 4: A little bit.

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Speaker 1: You ever played lacrosse.

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Speaker 5: I've played with my daughters throwing the ball, but I

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Speaker 5: never actually played lacrosse.

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Speaker 4: So it's a great sport. Yeah, honestly, I wish I would.

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Speaker 6: Have learned it.

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Speaker 1: You're good at it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I was too consumed by baseball, playing baseball since

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Speaker 5: I was six years old, so I didn't even know

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Speaker 5: what lacrosse was. We actually had at our high school

457
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Speaker 5: and I was trying to figure out what this sport was.

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Speaker 5: But it's a great sport, honestly. Not to get into

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Speaker 5: lacrosse discussion, but I think what Paul Rabel has done

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Speaker 5: for the sport of lacrosse has been phenomenal. His impact

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Speaker 5: and the way they've grown it, both on the male

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Speaker 5: and female side. I think there's a professional women's lacrosse

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Speaker 5: team that he are, a league that like they're promoting

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Speaker 5: that he started. But his impact on the game has

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Speaker 5: been significant. So had the good fortune of you know,

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Speaker 5: meeting Paul on the way. But I mean, look, it's

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Speaker 5: a tremendous sport and a couple of our my daughters

468
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Speaker 5: have actually just experimented with it, and I think it's

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Speaker 5: a great sport for all young kids to try if

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Speaker 5: they have the opportunity.

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Speaker 3: And Jim Brown played it at Syracuse about that I

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Speaker 3: was to the.

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Speaker 2: Sport that we had here, because that's the sport I

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Speaker 2: would have thought about, probably in front of baseball, because

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Speaker 2: I mean, I love baseball too. I get to Brown,

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Speaker 2: I had never seen the cross and I see some

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Speaker 2: of the lacrosse players, I'm like, whoa these guys A

478
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Speaker 2: lot of them played football in high school but then

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Speaker 2: decided to focus on the.

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Speaker 4: Cross running, changed direction, hand eye coordination, coordination.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing to see what those guys can do with

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Speaker 2: a stick and direct the ball, make people missing space.

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Speaker 1: I mean, once I saw Hogan sign with you guys,

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Speaker 1: I thought this is going to be interesting because I got.

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Speaker 2: A feeling he's a pretty good athlete, and it turned

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Speaker 2: out he was a really good athlete.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 3: So there's something called the scepter and it's handed out

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Speaker 3: from Good Morning Football Kyle Brandt for Angry Runs.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 3: Damian Pierce won Angry Run of the Year two years ago,

492
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Speaker 3: but this week he just won another sceptor for his return. Yes,

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Speaker 3: this is breaking news, we saw it in the Morning show.

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Speaker 3: But he had that tremendous kickoff returned go all the way,

495
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Speaker 3: but he knocked over several people along the way, and

496
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Speaker 3: it could have been a game changing play at that point.

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Speaker 3: But he's found a way to If he gets his

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Speaker 3: hands on the ball, it's going to be exciting and

499
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Speaker 3: he's trying to make a difference even though he doesn't

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Speaker 3: get all the carries.

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Speaker 5: No, he's shown that over the course of his career

502
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Speaker 5: when he gets the ball in his hand, good things

503
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Speaker 5: can happen. And he's worked really hard, talking about like

504
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Speaker 5: a skill he necessarily didn't have, but he's worked really hard.

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Speaker 5: You Frank has spent a lot of time with him,

506
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Speaker 5: and there's some nuances that are involved and understanding how

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Speaker 5: the returns blocked and what we're trying to accomplish. But

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Speaker 5: once you get the ball in your hands and you

509
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Speaker 5: let your run instincts take over. Damien's hard to tackle.

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Speaker 5: He's got good lower body strength, he's slow center of gravity,

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Speaker 5: he's strong with the ball in his hands.

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Speaker 4: And there's been multiple examples.

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Speaker 5: Not only were the kickoffers in the other day, but

514
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Speaker 5: even going back to the touchdown run against the Patriots

515
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Speaker 5: and then the kickoff returned last year with the Browns.

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Speaker 5: So it's a skill that he's learned and acquired, and

517
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Speaker 5: he's embraced it and he's helped our team in that

518
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Speaker 5: particular area.

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Speaker 2: Nick, we talked last week before you said, you guys

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Speaker 2: are starting your draft meetings. How does that work with

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Speaker 2: playoff games? Are you are guys at playoff games? Are

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Speaker 2: you are are you sending to certain guys to playoff games?

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Speaker 2: Are certain teams or just players that you still have

524
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Speaker 2: questions about? How you kind of handle the playoff situation

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Speaker 2: for your draft scouts.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's interesting sometimes those games are like off limits

527
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Speaker 5: relatively like the normal scouting protocol. Normally during the season

528
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Speaker 5: you get a credentially get the sideline for the game.

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Speaker 5: You know, when they're playoff games, it takes on a

530
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Speaker 5: little bit of different significance. But you know, with the

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Speaker 5: Texas Bowl here and in our stadium, so it's not

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Speaker 5: definitely actually I saw I've seen LSU and Baylor play

533
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Speaker 5: a couple different points.

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Speaker 4: But it's always good to get another look.

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Speaker 5: You're not necessarily looking for anything new, maybe just a

536
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Speaker 5: follow up from something from earlier in the year. So,

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Speaker 5: but as far as specific to the playoff games, you know,

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Speaker 5: there's probably not too much you can glean, you know,

539
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Speaker 5: from a live look, you're just continue to gather information.

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Speaker 4: So but it's creeping up on us.

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Speaker 5: So I mean, we're going to be the Senior Bowl

542
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Speaker 5: before we know it, and then the middle of February

543
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Speaker 5: we're going to have our next round of draft meetings.

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Speaker 4: So the train keeps moving, there's no question about it.

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Speaker 3: Johnny was saying warm ups. Sometimes he sees scouts looking

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Speaker 3: at the players in warm ups as opposed to well

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Speaker 3: in addition to being in the game and at the combine,

548
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Speaker 3: this comes up to you like to watch them milling

549
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Speaker 3: around and interacting and going through whatever they're going through

550
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Speaker 3: to get ready.

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Speaker 5: No, really, you're just looking for an opportunity to observe

552
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Speaker 5: the player in a different environment or maybe there's something.

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Speaker 5: Pregame is usually interesting too, because you can see how

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Speaker 5: they approach their warm up, what are they doing, what's

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Speaker 5: their process. Maybe you haven't seen a player catch live

556
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Speaker 5: or they're doing a drill, reactually able to see something

557
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Speaker 5: a little bit different, or to go back there at

558
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Speaker 5: pregame and catch punts. So it's always an opportunity to

559
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Speaker 5: learn and gather more information, so it not necessarily earth

560
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Speaker 5: shattering but it's just more part of the information gathering process.

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Speaker 3: Okay, now we have a question here, and this is

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Speaker 3: a big development. Okay, well, Demiko, we gave them this

563
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Speaker 3: situation with the new year, New Year's resolutions.

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Speaker 5: He asked me about New Year's resolutions, because I've never

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Speaker 5: really had any.

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Speaker 3: We must say, all four hang on a second, Okay,

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Speaker 3: all right, I had to give my hypothetical here. He

568
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Speaker 3: has to give up one thing, one of these four

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Speaker 3: barbecue text mes, pasta, or fish, and he took barbecue,

570
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Speaker 3: and we couldn't help but thinking this is your influence

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Speaker 3: on him. Maybe Nick, I don't know. So he said

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Speaker 3: he needs to work out. He could beat my ass.

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Speaker 3: So like whatever he says, like he's b.

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Speaker 1: Because he was trying to like, all right, I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to watch myself. We we both said pasta. We know

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Speaker 1: you can't give up pasta.

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Speaker 5: There's no way, not a big pasta consumer necessarily.

578
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Speaker 4: I have it maybe once or twice a week, so

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Speaker 4: our kids love it.

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Speaker 1: Carbs and things like that.

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Speaker 4: You're just a little bit of variation.

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Speaker 1: You're not giving up fish, so forget about that stand.

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Speaker 4: So I have to give up one of those.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for you this is easy, but probably would give.

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Speaker 5: Up the text mechs even though I don't eat text mes.

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Speaker 1: That's easy. I'll give it up. Quit smoking, I don't

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Speaker 1: stop drinking. You stop drinking on.

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Speaker 4: Actually, when we go out to dinner and that ridge,

589
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Speaker 4: she loves ribs. So it's great. They all have different.

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Speaker 1: Thanks a lot of good luck this week.

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Speaker 4: Thanks fellas.

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Speaker 1: I love our interviews. I love Scott and Rport.

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Speaker 2: I love just getting to know some of the BTS stuff,

594
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Speaker 2: behind the scenes stuff. I love with preparation. But when

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Speaker 2: we ask Nick things about food, things you would take

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Speaker 2: out of your Christmas meal, all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: I just love where that discussion ends up going. We

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Speaker 2: always have a blast with him. Now, a guy that

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Speaker 2: we have not had in studio often. I think we

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Speaker 2: had him back in May or June. Could play a

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Speaker 2: big role on Sunday against the Titans. That is former

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Speaker 2: Washington Husky, former New England Patriot Miles Bryant Nickel safety corner,

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Speaker 2: defensive back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Miles Bryant plays them all and he's on with us. Next.

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Speaker 2: Right, you're in Texas All Access. Yes, sir, you heard

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Speaker 2: the man. It's Texans All Access. John Harris Foot playing

607
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Speaker 2: all the sideline reporter still trying to kind of calm

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Speaker 2: myself down after watching one of the greatest college football

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Speaker 2: games I've ever seen, Texas and Arizona State. If you

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Speaker 2: missed it, my god, you missed a great one. An

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Speaker 2: incredible comeback by Arizona State. The little engine that could

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Speaker 2: just kept fighting back camp Scatabo Heisman finalists.

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Speaker 1: Was an absolute you.

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Speaker 2: Know, he wasn't a Heisman finalist, should have been a

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Speaker 2: Heisman finalist, was an absolute dude. He threw a touchdown,

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Speaker 2: he ran I think he ran for two. He caught

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Speaker 2: a huge pass to the fourth quarter. So Arizona State's

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Speaker 2: down by sixteen. It is twenty four to eight. They

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Speaker 2: tie it at twenty four. Texas comes down, kick afield.

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Speaker 2: What's gonna be over right? He misses the field goal,

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Speaker 2: so Arizona State now has a chance, and on third

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Speaker 2: and ten, sever.

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Speaker 1: Catches the ball in Arizona State across the middle.

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Speaker 2: It is definitely targeting. Definitely Texas fans, you could miss

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Speaker 2: me with it. Whatever you're gonna say that, it is

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Speaker 2: definitely target It's the definition of targeting. He got the ball,

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Speaker 2: he's defensives receiver and hit him in the head. That's

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Speaker 2: the definition of targeting. Go read the rule book, and

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Speaker 2: they didn't call it. They said it was no targeting.

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Speaker 2: That would have been a first down. Arizona State could

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Speaker 2: have kept the drive together but didn't. Texas couldn't score.

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Speaker 2: They went in overtime. Arizona State scores first thirty one

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Speaker 2: to twenty four, lead, fourth and thirteen. Quinn Ewers throws

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Speaker 2: a touchdown in Matthew Golden kicked extra points ty to

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Speaker 2: thirty one. You flip it the other way, Gunnerhilm first

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Speaker 2: play of the drive, touchdown, then yours to Golden for

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Speaker 2: the two. Thirty nine thirty one, and then Sam Levit's

638
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Speaker 2: pass quarterback for Averzonla State is picked off by Andrew

639
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Speaker 2: micaba At, an Austin native. Austin Micabo who usually played

640
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Speaker 2: who played for Clemson and transferred back home to Austin.

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Speaker 2: Had a great ball game that would steal it. Longhorns

642
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Speaker 2: win thirty nine thirty one, and now the Longhorns play

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Speaker 2: in the Cotton Bowl and they will play the winner

644
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Speaker 2: of the Rose Bowl Oregon v Ohio State. So you're

645
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 2: gonna get Oregon Texas or you're gonna get Ohio State.

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Speaker 2: Texas in the Cotton Bowl. That is tremendous. And Texas

647
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Speaker 2: has been to a Cotton Bowl since two thousand and three.

648
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Speaker 2: I think it's two thousand and three season they played LSU.

649
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 2: Roy Williams was a receiver for Texas. I remember that,

650
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Speaker 2: but things have changed since then. So Texas gonna play

651
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 2: the winner of Oregon Ohio State from the Rose Bowl

652
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Speaker 2: in the Cotton Bowl. Congratulations to Sark didn't have the

653
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Speaker 2: greatest game. Texas was a two touchdown favorite and Arizona State

654
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Speaker 2: played its guts out. I mean, that was one of

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Speaker 2: the greatest college games I have ever seen. Now, our

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Speaker 2: next guest played in the playoff. Our next guest played

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Speaker 2: in a playoff game. He played in the Rose Bowl.

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Speaker 2: That is going on with Oregon Ohio State as a

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Speaker 2: member of the Washington Huskies. Miles Bryant, defensive back, was

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Speaker 2: a freshman. He played in the playoff and I asked

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Speaker 2: him about that. Here we talk about his time in Houston,

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Speaker 2: what he thinks about playing the Titans on Sunday. Here's

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Speaker 2: Miles Bryant one on two with Mark and.

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Speaker 3: Myself in studio with us. Now, Miles Bryant, Texas defensive

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Speaker 3: back Miles, how's it going?

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Speaker 7: Happy New Year, Good, Happy New Year.

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Speaker 3: All right, here we go training, getting ready, practicing for

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Speaker 3: the Tennessee Titans regular season finale. What's it like to

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Speaker 3: get ready for a game where you know you're already

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Speaker 3: in the playoffs and this doesn't really affect seating, but

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Speaker 3: you want to play well. You want to show up,

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Speaker 3: do a good job. How's it going for you getting

673
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Speaker 3: ready for this one?

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Speaker 7: It's going well. I'm excited for it.

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Speaker 8: You know, opportunity to go out there and play, and

676
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Speaker 8: like you said, you want to go out there perform well.

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Speaker 8: I think even though, like you said, there's no kind

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Speaker 8: of consequence with winning or losing in terms of seating,

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Speaker 8: I think at this point of the year, you want

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Speaker 8: to roll into the playoffs with good momentum.

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Speaker 7: You want to, you know, play some of your best ball.

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Speaker 8: Are your best ball at this time of the year,

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Speaker 8: so it's very important, Miles.

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Speaker 2: Most players will have a designation offensive tackle, wide receiver.

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Speaker 2: For you, it's this dB Nickel safety corner. I mean,

686
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Speaker 2: you've played them all throughout your career. Watching you from

687
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Speaker 2: your days in Washington till now, it feels like you're

688
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Speaker 2: most comfortable at the nickel position, and it feels like

689
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Speaker 2: that's a position where you got to take all of

690
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Speaker 2: those defensive back assets and kind of put them into

691
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Speaker 2: play at that position. What's it like kind of playing

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Speaker 2: inside the formation at that spot as opposed to maybe

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Speaker 2: playing deeper at safety or playing outside of corner.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it's kind of like you said, taking

695
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Speaker 8: all those qualities and then I think you also.

696
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Speaker 7: Got to add in the linebacker.

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Speaker 8: That's that's certain things that you know, our defense may

698
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Speaker 8: ask you to where you got to get in there

699
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Speaker 8: play the run.

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Speaker 7: So I mean it's a lot of fun. You get

701
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Speaker 7: in there. You know, you're always around the action.

702
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Speaker 8: You know, a lot of offenses they like to attack

703
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Speaker 8: the middle of the field, right, So the nickel plays.

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Speaker 8: Sometimes you play corner, you might not have a target

705
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Speaker 8: at that game. Sometimes you play safety. You might just

706
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Speaker 8: you know, be in the deep part of the field.

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Speaker 7: And that's why you're doing guests all you're doing.

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Speaker 8: So, I mean in the nickel, at the nickel spot,

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Speaker 8: you're always around the action, You're always at the point

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Speaker 8: of attack.

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Speaker 7: So I think it's a lot of fun. Yep.

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Speaker 3: Well, and in the situation the team is now Jelen petreout,

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Speaker 3: Jimmy Ward out. What's happen like for you to see

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Speaker 3: those guys go out and now you're gonna get more

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Speaker 3: playing time in all likelihood, I know they're going to

716
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Speaker 3: movie around and everything. And how is that for you

717
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Speaker 3: to approach that and practice and in games?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it was tough losing those guys, but

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Speaker 8: I think I learned a lot from them. I mean,

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Speaker 8: even you know, Jalen being younger than me, I just

721
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Speaker 8: sat back and then you know, we would be in

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Speaker 8: the meeting room out of ask him what he saw

723
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Speaker 8: here or what he thought here, you know, how he

724
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Speaker 8: made that play or what he could have done better.

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Speaker 7: And then same with Jimmy.

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Speaker 8: So I mean it's an opportunity to go out there

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Speaker 8: and you know, just play the game. I love go

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Speaker 8: out there and just perform and you know, try to

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Speaker 8: get a win against Tennessee.

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Speaker 3: You feel like you want to lobby for blitzes because

731
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Speaker 3: I would think, if I'm playing that position, coach, come on,

732
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Speaker 3: let me go get the quarterback, let me let me

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Speaker 3: go to the backfield, hand off or whatever. I want

734
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Speaker 3: to go attack the backfield. How is that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: I mean it's a lot of fun.

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Speaker 8: You know, getting being able to you know, get penetration

738
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Speaker 8: in the backfield or you know they want you to

739
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Speaker 8: cover a guy in the slot. I think, no matter

740
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Speaker 8: the opportunity, I think it's a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: Last week it's Derrick Henry, I mean Derrick Henry. This

742
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Speaker 2: week it might not be a guy's size like Derrick Henry.

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Speaker 2: Uh with Tennessee and don't know whether the two backs

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Speaker 2: they have.

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Speaker 1: Are going to play or not.

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Speaker 2: What's kind of your scattering report thus far, Miles and

747
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Speaker 2: what you see from Tennessee, especially the running backs.

748
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Speaker 1: Let's start about, you know, stopping the run, because that's

749
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Speaker 1: one of.

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Speaker 2: The first parts you've got to do playing that role,

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Speaker 2: playing the running backs, playing the run.

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Speaker 1: Game for Tennessee. What's the key against those guys this week?

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Speaker 8: I think it's just having everybody at the point of attack,

754
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 8: you know, no matter who's you know, carrying the ball

755
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:41,479
Speaker 8: for them, just you know, making sure guys are you know,

756
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Speaker 8: in the right gaps. And then once we're in the gap,

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Speaker 8: you take care of what you gotta do, whether that's

758
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Speaker 8: getting off a block or you know, just setting the

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Speaker 8: edge and doing that, and then you know, just coming

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Speaker 8: off and making attackle so I think it's just you know,

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Speaker 8: having guys swarm to the ball.

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Speaker 3: So, Miles, you are undrafted, do you feel like when

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Speaker 3: you're undrafted it's a different mindset and you're fighting to

764
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Speaker 3: make the team. You're on practice squad sometimes sometimes not

765
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Speaker 3: on the active roster. What is the approach and how

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Speaker 3: does that affect the way you go about your business?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think initially coming into the league, it was

768
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Speaker 8: kind of like felt like the the odds were against

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Speaker 8: me in a sense, and then once you get into

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Speaker 8: the league, you kind of see, you know, how things happen.

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Speaker 7: And I think it's a very week to week league.

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Speaker 7: So I mean, for me, just.

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Speaker 8: Coming in since day one, I just tried to make

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Speaker 8: sure I was prepared whether I was playing that week

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Speaker 8: or whether I was just you know, helping out on

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Speaker 8: the scout team. And I think that's been my mindset,

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Speaker 8: you know, the past five years, just whether I was

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Speaker 8: starting that week, you know, just trying to be prepared

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Speaker 8: to go help the team win.

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Speaker 2: So, Miles, did you have that moment earlier career where

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Speaker 2: you're like, yeah, I wasn't drafted, but man I could

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Speaker 2: play with these dudes. Like did you have that kind

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Speaker 2: of moment, whether it's earlier, your first training camp or

784
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Speaker 2: a preseason game or whatever the case might be, where

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Speaker 2: you're like, I can't play with these guys, man, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I deserve to be here.

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Speaker 1: Did you ever have kind of that moment early in

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Speaker 1: your career?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it was the first play of my

790
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Speaker 8: training my rookie training camp. I ended up getting an

791
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Speaker 8: interception and seven or seven. Yeah, so I was like,

792
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Speaker 8: you got kind of yeah, that kind of could show

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Speaker 8: them that I could play. And then from there, just

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Speaker 8: you know, each day, each moment, you know, each rep,

795
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Speaker 8: just try to get better, no matter who I was

796
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Speaker 8: going against, whether I was on scout team going against

797
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Speaker 8: Julian Edelman at the time, or I was on the

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Speaker 8: defensive team and I had a scout receiver going against me,

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Speaker 8: just you know, trying to get better, trying to you know,

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Speaker 8: sharpen the craft.

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Speaker 3: Miles Bryant with us, we talk about swarm. What a

802
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Speaker 3: swarm mean to you? What's the message to the players

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Speaker 3: about swarm?

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Speaker 8: I mean special work ethic, relentless mindset. I think just

805
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Speaker 8: going out there and you know, just playing fast, playing

806
00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 8: physical and just trying to trying to everybody coming together

807
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Speaker 8: to you know, get get the gold done.

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Speaker 1: Very good.

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Speaker 2: So you're from Pasadena if I remember crack right, yep,

810
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Speaker 2: But you go to University Washington and while you're at Washington,

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Speaker 2: you guys ended up playing in the playoff while you

812
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Speaker 2: were there, right, was that correct?

813
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Speaker 1: Yeah? That was my freshman that was your freshman year.

814
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Speaker 1: What was that like?

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Speaker 2: Because we got the playoff going on on New Year's Day?

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Speaker 1: You know, they played Boise State and Penn State. What

817
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Speaker 1: was that like?

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Speaker 2: Because Washington at that point had not been in the

819
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Speaker 2: playoff mix and all of a sudden, you guys have

820
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Speaker 2: this tremendous year and you make that run and I

821
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Speaker 2: know you ran into Alabama, which is a really good

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Speaker 2: team at that point.

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Speaker 1: But what was it like being in that college football playoff? Miles?

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Speaker 6: Man?

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Speaker 7: The atmosphere was crazy. I think.

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Speaker 8: We played in Atlanta, Yeah, and the what was it

827
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Speaker 8: the Georgia doing with Georgia Dome?

828
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Speaker 7: I think it might have been the last game there.

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Speaker 8: But the atmosphere was crazy, just you know, going out

830
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Speaker 8: there and kind of felt like it was all Alabama

831
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Speaker 8: versus US. Ye granted the location, yeah yeah, yeah, so,

832
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Speaker 8: but no, it was crazy. I think the atmosphere was

833
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Speaker 8: like second to none. And then I think you look

834
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 8: back at that game and then you see all the

835
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Speaker 8: NFL players from both sides, both sides of the game side, Yeah,

836
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Speaker 8: and it's just like it's ridiculous. Yeah, I don't know

837
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 8: from their side, like Jalen Hurts, Marlon Humphrey, Minka Fitzpatrick.

838
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Speaker 8: I think Jonathan Allen, Deron payin like a bunch of guys.

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Speaker 1: So there was that was a load. That was a

840
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Speaker 1: loaded team.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: That twenty sixteen team was Ruben Foster linebacker. I mean,

843
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 2: that dude was scary. I mean, that was That was

844
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Speaker 2: an incredible team. But that was such a great run

845
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Speaker 2: by Washington. What was it like kind of going through

846
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Speaker 2: that season and at that time, there's only four teams

847
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Speaker 2: in the playoffs, right, so there's no guarantee.

848
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 1: Now you got twelve, you guys probably would have gotten in.

849
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Speaker 2: But what was it like kind of going through that

850
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Speaker 2: at Washington where you guys are trying to build a

851
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Speaker 2: program back up where.

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Speaker 1: It needed to be.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it was a lot of fun. I mean for me,

854
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Speaker 8: it was my freshman year. I actually walked on that

855
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Speaker 8: year and I was able to get you know, a

856
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Speaker 8: lot of plays, a lot of snaps because we were

857
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Speaker 8: beating teams bad, so I was able to get in

858
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Speaker 8: that late third quarter and get some reps in.

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Speaker 7: But no, it was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 8: I think the guys that were before me, like Buddha Baker,

861
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Speaker 8: Kevin King, Sidney Jones, just learning from those guys, seeing

862
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Speaker 8: how they practice, seeing how they prepared, and then I

863
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 8: mean each each game day it was a lot of

864
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Speaker 8: fun because I mean we knew we were going to

865
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Speaker 8: beat the other team across from us, and I mean

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Speaker 8: each week, I feel like it was I don't know,

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Speaker 8: I feel like every every game we had like a

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Speaker 8: collective one. It wasn't like it was just one guy,

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Speaker 8: you know, John Ross, Dante Pettis, Miles Gasking, our big

870
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Speaker 8: special teams play just yeah, guys, guys just making plays.

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Speaker 7: It was a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: Miles Bryant with us. You left college football before COVID,

873
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Speaker 3: So now when you look at college football and all

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Speaker 3: the craziness, the NIL stuff, the portal, the way it's

875
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 3: all set up right now, what's your action to the

876
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 3: state of college football today.

877
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,399
Speaker 7: It's kind of tough. I feel like for.

878
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 8: I don't know, fans and players, it's kind of it's

879
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 8: kind of hard to necessarily. I mean, you have your

880
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 8: team if you if you're an Arkansas fan or Missouri

881
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 8: Michigan State fan, like that's your team. But it's kind

882
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 8: of like you don't become enamored with the players how

883
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:27,919
Speaker 8: we once, did you know what I mean?

884
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: Like you had a guy for four years?

885
00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:32,319
Speaker 8: Yeah, you had a guy three four years to where

886
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,720
Speaker 8: it's like, all right, I grew up like even Robert

887
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 8: Woods when I was in high school and Woods at

888
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 8: s S, so like I got to see him grow

889
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 8: and become you know who he was at SC. So

890
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 8: I think I think you lose that kind of aspect

891
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 8: of it, which I kind of don't like. And then

892
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:52,919
Speaker 8: you also got the business aspect of it to where

893
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,839
Speaker 8: the nil people you know might stay at an extra year.

894
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:59,439
Speaker 8: I saw quinn Ewers got offered six million dollars from

895
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 8: whatever school to stay next year. So I mean it's

896
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,399
Speaker 8: kind of I don't know, I feel like it's kind

897
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 8: of tough to follow just guys moving year to year now,

898
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 8: But I don't know, it's it's the current state. You

899
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 8: gotta you just gotta weather as a player, coach, a fan.

900
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 2: So you're talking about Robert and obviously from Pasadena, California

901
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 2: where the Rose Bowl being played, Oregon, Ohio State. Who

902
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 2: did you grow up watching? Who were your guys growing up?

903
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 2: Was there like somebody you looked at and thought, Okay,

904
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,399
Speaker 2: I want to be like him, I want to play

905
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:33,359
Speaker 2: like him. Was there anybody that that you really love,

906
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 2: that that was a guy you whatere, offense, defense, whatever

907
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 2: it might be, but it's the guy that you just

908
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 2: loved watching and that was your guy growing up.

909
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it's mostly offensive guys. But growing up,

910
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 8: you know USC had that run, Yeah, Carrol Lendale, Lionert Brendale.

911
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,919
Speaker 8: So I think mainly it was Reggie Bush. Everybody wanted

912
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 8: to be Reggie Bust.

913
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 1: Why you wore the five? Uh?

914
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 7: In college? I wore it because it was the best available.

915
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 8: But when I was when I was in Pop Warner,

916
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 8: I ended up wearing five because of Reggie Bush.

917
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 7: So I think Reggie Bush was like the pinnacle. He

918
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 7: was like the main one. And then I mean it

919
00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 7: was mainly.

920
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:20,320
Speaker 8: Guys from USC, like Woods was one, Marquise Lee, Nelson, Aguilore,

921
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 8: Dwayne Jarrett, Mike Williams.

922
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we're bringing up some names now.

923
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think teams were ridiculous too. Yeah, I mean,

924
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 2: let's not get it twisted. I mean, Vince Young beat

925
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:35,399
Speaker 2: them by himself, but that was it. Other than that

926
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 2: Lendale and Reggie, I mean that those teams were unbelievably good.

927
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 7: Thunder and lightening, those two. Yeah.

928
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 3: Matt Leoner was a Texan for a few minutes back

929
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 3: in twenty eleven, so Myles Bryant. A couple more forty

930
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:52,200
Speaker 3: quick ones. Houston. What do you think You grew up

931
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:55,560
Speaker 3: in southern California, you went to you dubbed, you spent

932
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 3: four years with the New England Patriots Organization? What do

933
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 3: you think of being in Houston? I love it as

934
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 3: a place to live.

935
00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 7: Yeah, I love the food. Everybody always asking me about it.

936
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 8: I'm like, the food is second or nothing you could

937
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 8: just it's ridiculous. Whatever you want can't go wrong. I

938
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,320
Speaker 8: think when I first got here the weather was tough.

939
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 4: It was like a little warm than.

940
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 8: May May June, and then going into camp it was hot,

941
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 8: like right when you step outside, just walking to the car,

942
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 8: you sweat.

943
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 7: But coming from New England, it makes me.

944
00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:33,239
Speaker 8: Appreciate Like today I was out there practicing just a

945
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,399
Speaker 8: T shirt on, no long sleeve or hoodie. This time

946
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 8: here you got to layer up out there. So I mean,

947
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:40,520
Speaker 8: I'm loving Houston.

948
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 2: It's like you put the deposits in in the summer

949
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 2: and then you get to reap the benefits of it

950
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 2: in December. You know, all that interest comes back to

951
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,719
Speaker 2: You're like, yeah, check it out, shorts, a T shirt. Meanwhile,

952
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:51,920
Speaker 2: they've got blizzards and snow and all that kind of

953
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:55,719
Speaker 2: stuff going on. So yeah, weatherwise, you get through the

954
00:40:55,760 --> 00:41:00,360
Speaker 2: tough part of well basically what may through September.

955
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 1: Even longer this year, maybe longer. Yeah, you're golden at

956
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,799
Speaker 1: that point. It's awesome. It's awesome after that, I mean,

957
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: that's why you live here.

958
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 2: But then in August it's one oh five, and you're like,

959
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, how am I gonna make through? When

960
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 2: you've got that long practice in pads, the first one.

961
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:15,359
Speaker 2: I always feel for you guys when you go through

962
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 2: that first one in pads, I'm like, how are they

963
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 2: gonna make it through?

964
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:19,920
Speaker 7: Today?

965
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: There's no way to make it through to I mean,

966
00:41:21,719 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 1: I don't know how you do it.

967
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 7: No, I just take it to play at the play

968
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 7: at a time.

969
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:26,439
Speaker 1: That's true. Time.

970
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 3: One more, what's your excitement level for the postseason, because

971
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 3: no matter what happens on Sunday, you're in next week

972
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 3: at this time we'll be talking about playoff game and

973
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 3: the opportunity to move on.

974
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: What do you think?

975
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 7: Very excited.

976
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 8: I've been to the This will be my second out

977
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 8: of my five years going to the postseason, so it's

978
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 8: been for me like a two year drought, and I

979
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 8: mean that's one of the reasons I came here because

980
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 8: we have a competitive team and we got a you know,

981
00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 8: chance to go far in this thing. So I mean,

982
00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:00,600
Speaker 8: I'm very excited just to go out there and you know, compete,

983
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 8: compete in January and hopefully feverbrwhere outstanding.

984
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: Miles, thanks a lot for joining us.

985
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 7: Good luck, I'm proud, thanks for having me.

986
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you saw guys at the age of Miles

987
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,479
Speaker 2: Bryant from LA we're number five.

988
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:16,240
Speaker 1: It was all about Reggie Bush, who was supposed.

989
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 2: To be the first round pick of the Texans in

990
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:20,840
Speaker 2: two thousand and six, but it didn't turn out that way.

991
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:24,120
Speaker 1: So there you go. All right, injury report is out.

992
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,439
Speaker 1: What does it tell us anything at all?

993
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 2: Can we glean from this injury report that came out

994
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 2: this afternoon. We'll talk about that next right here in

995
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,880
Speaker 2: Texans All Access. Welcome back Wednesday edition of Texans All

996
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:39,680
Speaker 2: Access with me John Harris, football Analyst sideline report for

997
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 2: your Houston Texans. We are getting ready for the Tennessee

998
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 2: Titans on Sunday.

999
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: Kick is at noon.

1000
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 2: I know they had to wait until Sunday night to

1001
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 2: be able to put all that news out, but we're

1002
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:57,839
Speaker 2: playing at noon on Sunday. There's no consequence either way.

1003
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 2: The only consequence of this game really is well, I

1004
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 2: know a lot of you might have over nine and

1005
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 2: a half, so there's that, but it doesn't affect the

1006
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 2: Texans seed.

1007
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:09,839
Speaker 1: You heard Miles talk about it. This game has nothing

1008
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 1: to do with seeding.

1009
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:12,320
Speaker 2: But you want to play well, There's no question you

1010
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 2: want to play well anytime you go out and it's

1011
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 2: against the Titans, a team that beat you earlier in

1012
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 2: the year. Now, they only consequence really is that Tennessee wins,

1013
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 2: they might drop as many as six to seven spots

1014
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 2: in the draft, and that's massive in this draft, absolutely massive,

1015
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:32,359
Speaker 2: especially if you're looking for a quarterback, which it might be. Now,

1016
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 2: the first piece of news as it pertains to this

1017
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:39,120
Speaker 2: game pertaining to the quarterbacks is that Brian Callahan isn't

1018
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 2: totally convinced of his quarterback rotation yet. They're both getting

1019
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 2: first team reps in practice. With Mason Rudolph we started

1020
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 2: last week and Will Levis. There's talk about, well, you know,

1021
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:52,040
Speaker 2: we still want to see what Levis can do. We

1022
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 2: still want to see this, We still want to see that.

1023
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 2: I gotta think their mind is made up and their

1024
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 2: mind is telling them we don't have a quarterback for

1025
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 2: the future because Mason Rudolph is a really good backup.

1026
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 2: He's not a great starter. Will Levis is really kind

1027
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 2: of neither of those. He's a really good athlete. And

1028
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:11,719
Speaker 2: the Levis career has kind of gone exactly like I

1029
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 2: said it was going to go a couple.

1030
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:14,440
Speaker 1: Of years ago. So pat me on the back. How

1031
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:14,759
Speaker 1: about that?

1032
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:18,200
Speaker 2: No, I'm kidding, but we're probably gonna see about them,

1033
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,920
Speaker 2: Brian Callian said, Now a guy we may not see.

1034
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:22,840
Speaker 1: It's ta J Spears.

1035
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,840
Speaker 2: Now we missed Spears the first time. I want to

1036
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 2: say he was dealing with a concussion then too, but

1037
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 2: he was not. He did not participate in practice today,

1038
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 2: as it appears he's still in a concussion protocol now.

1039
00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 2: With Tony Pollard, we did see him. He's dealing with

1040
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:43,319
Speaker 2: the ankle issue. He's limited, but kind of just number

1041
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:46,799
Speaker 2: of people I follow from Tennessee, there's not a whole

1042
00:44:46,880 --> 00:44:50,840
Speaker 2: lot of positive feelings about either one of them playing.

1043
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:52,560
Speaker 2: And I mean not about them being good or bad,

1044
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 2: just they're not thinking either one of them is going

1045
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 2: to play. So we could maybe not see Spears and Pollard.

1046
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:01,719
Speaker 2: We might see Julius Chestnut for the Titans this Week

1047
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:02,640
Speaker 2: eighteen game.

1048
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: And obviously back a few years ago this Week seventeen.

1049
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 2: I'll then forget when we went to Indianapolis at the

1050
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:12,760
Speaker 2: end of the twenty seventeen season and there were guys

1051
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:15,239
Speaker 2: starting in that game on both sides, and it was like,

1052
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 2: who are these guys that could be the Titans lineup.

1053
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:21,680
Speaker 2: I don't think Texas line up because we all know

1054
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 2: the Texans, but it could be the Titans lineup on Sunday.

1055
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 2: So for the Texans, I don't know if I'm gonna

1056
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 2: get too hot mothered about guys that didn't practice on

1057
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 2: Wednesday for this one. Danika Autry's been dealing with a

1058
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:37,959
Speaker 2: knee for Anish for a while. Fully fought Acossi dealing

1059
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 2: with ankle still, Kamari Lasser with a quad and Shaq

1060
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 2: Mason's been dealing with that knee issue since he got

1061
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:49,360
Speaker 2: hurt against Kansas City. So I, in all honesty, I

1062
00:45:49,360 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 2: don't know that I want to see any of those

1063
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 2: four on Sunday anyways. But again, you still got to

1064
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 2: fill out a forty eight man roster. Nico Joe Laramie.

1065
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:02,240
Speaker 2: Those are all rest days for the veterans. Christian was limited.

1066
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 2: They were all limited. Christian Harris limited with the ankle,

1067
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:09,759
Speaker 2: Jeff Acuda limited with a concussion. Juice Scruggs. Nice to

1068
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:12,399
Speaker 2: see him back at practice for a bit. He's dealing

1069
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 2: with that foot issue. He missed a couple of games.

1070
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 2: He missed three games, Yeah, because he got hurt in

1071
00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 2: the Jacksonville game, so he missed Miami, Kansas City, Baltimore.

1072
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:19,879
Speaker 1: Good Seed.

1073
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 2: Juice at least back at practice, limited capacity, full participant,

1074
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 2: Will Anderson Junior, Nick Broker, both of them dealing with

1075
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 2: hand issues now on the Titan side, a couple of

1076
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:32,799
Speaker 2: these guys, I mean they sit out this game. I'm

1077
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:35,359
Speaker 2: okay with it, Tyja Spears being one of them. Arden

1078
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 2: Key outside linebacker edge rusher deal a hand issue. He

1079
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:41,839
Speaker 2: did not participate at the walkthrough that the Titans had today.

1080
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 2: Nick Folk the kicker deal with the abdomen issue, Tyler Boyd.

1081
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,799
Speaker 1: Whider she were dealing with the foot. Tony Polter was a.

1082
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:52,799
Speaker 2: Limited participant in practice dealing with an ankle issue, and

1083
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 2: a couple of linemen were back Jalen Duncan and Dylan Raidns.

1084
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 2: But I'd like to see, like Jeffrey Simmons did not participate,

1085
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 2: reason doesn't want to play on Sunday, and I'd be

1086
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 2: okay with that, but that's that's not gonna happen. Jeffer

1087
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 2: Simmons gonna play against the Texans. He loves to play

1088
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:11,439
Speaker 2: against the Texans. He'll have an opportunity on Sunday. So yeah,

1089
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:14,360
Speaker 2: both teams a little banged up. It's interesting from the

1090
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 2: Titans side, all the talk there from their media, you

1091
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 2: gotta lose this game because if you win it, you

1092
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 2: could drop from one or two in a draft all

1093
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 2: the way down to eight or nine, and that's a

1094
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:26,240
Speaker 2: big drop.

1095
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Speaker 1: But you know, the Titans are gonna want to win

1096
00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 1: this game. They're gonna want to beat us.

1097
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:33,720
Speaker 2: But we'll see, depends on how healthy are certain guys.

1098
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 2: Can they get some out of this guy and then

1099
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:38,840
Speaker 2: maybe some down for I don't know, it's gonna be

1100
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:41,719
Speaker 2: an interesting play on Sunday, to say the least. Now,

1101
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 2: the guy calling the action for the Titans on Sunday

1102
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Speaker 2: is our good friend Mike Keith coming up. It's men

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Speaker 2: behind the mics, Mark Vannermier the Voice of the Texans

1104
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 2: with Mike Keith, the voice, the longtime voice of the

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Speaker 2: Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 1: That's next to Texans Auxis.

1107
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Speaker 2: We got one hour in a book, says We start

1108
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five Texas All Access shows and we will

1109
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Speaker 2: take you all the way through the Texans seasons.

1110
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Speaker 1: Where are All Access shows?

1111
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 2: Are Texans Monday Shows Texans All Access Matchup Edition. So

1112
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 2: we'll take you all the way through for however long

1113
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 2: the Texans play, and we know it's longer than this week.

1114
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 2: We just don't know the opponent as we get into

1115
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:23,759
Speaker 2: the playoffs. We do know this week it's the Tennessee Titans.

1116
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 2: And since the Titans have been in Tennessee, there has

1117
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 2: been one voice for that organization, and that is the

1118
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 2: Voice of the Tennessee Titans, Mike Keith. We always have

1119
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 2: a blast talk with Mike. He's become a good friend

1120
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 2: over the years. I love his voice. I love listening

1121
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 2: to him well when the Titans aren't playing so good,

1122
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 2: because yeah, it's better when they're not played so good

1123
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:50,120
Speaker 2: when they were great with Derrick Henry and Ryan Tannehill.

1124
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:55,160
Speaker 2: But I love Mike. He is a fantastic broadcaster, fantastic dude.

1125
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Speaker 2: And he sat down with Mark to discuss this matchup

1126
00:48:58,880 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 2: on Sunday.

1127
00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 3: Titans Texans joining us now in Texans Radio. It's the

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00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 3: voice of the Tennessee Titans, Mike Keith, and we just

1129
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:07,760
Speaker 3: caught up a few weeks ago. Mike, and that game

1130
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,720
Speaker 3: that we preview did not go well for the Houston Texans.

1131
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:13,799
Speaker 3: It went extremely well for the Tennessee Titans. And I

1132
00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 3: know not every other game has, but what went well

1133
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 3: in that game that you feel like can be duplicated

1134
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 3: for the Titans. I know there's only one game left

1135
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 3: in this season, but they've done some things well despite

1136
00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 3: the record.

1137
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 6: You know what was interesting about that game, Mark, is

1138
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:32,799
Speaker 6: that was the Titans' best performance of the year, and

1139
00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 6: yet they still had a turnover that resulted in a

1140
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 6: touchdown for the other team. They still had a turnover

1141
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:44,800
Speaker 6: on their way into scoring on the fumble that happened

1142
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:49,040
Speaker 6: with Levis and Pollard. They still gave up a bunch

1143
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 6: of sacks in the ballgame. They still had a lot

1144
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:54,759
Speaker 6: of the problems they've had all year, but they made

1145
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,760
Speaker 6: so many big plays during the course of the ballgame

1146
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 6: they overcame the mistakes, and that's what it would take

1147
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 6: to win again this week. This team has thirty three

1148
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 6: turnovers on the season, so an average of two per games.

1149
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 6: They're minus sixteen in turnover ratio. And what's really fascinating

1150
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 6: when you break down numbers is if you take the

1151
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 6: Titans and the Texans, the Texans are plus ten in

1152
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 6: turnover ratio eighteen turnovers. The Titans are minus sixteen in

1153
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 6: turnover ratio thirty three turnovers. If you look at all

1154
00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 6: the numbers between the two teams, there's not an appreciable

1155
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:42,440
Speaker 6: difference in a lot of areas, particularly total offense, total defense,

1156
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 6: things of that sort. But that's the appreciable difference is

1157
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 6: the turnovers. That's the difference in being a nine win

1158
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 6: team and on your way to the playoffs and being

1159
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 6: a three way team whose season is going to be

1160
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:59,040
Speaker 6: over at three point fifteen on Sunday, and I think

1161
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:01,840
Speaker 6: that's what they would have to find a way to overcome.

1162
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 6: December has been just disastrous for this team, and in

1163
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:12,279
Speaker 6: so many different ways it has happened. At moments for

1164
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 6: this ball club. They'll be playing well and then all

1165
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 6: of a sudden, the bottom will fall out in run defense,

1166
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:23,319
Speaker 6: or suddenly penalties crush any chance they have, or red

1167
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 6: zone mistakes. I've never seen a season quite like this

1168
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 6: that a ball club has not been able to get

1169
00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:35,280
Speaker 6: in any sort of rhythm at all because in large

1170
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 6: part of penalties, turnovers, and unfortunately for the Titans quarterback play,

1171
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 6: You're just not going to win with twenty one touchdowns

1172
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:45,360
Speaker 6: and twenty one interceptions. It's just not going to happen.

1173
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:48,800
Speaker 3: So Brian Callahan has said that Will Levis and Mason

1174
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:51,320
Speaker 3: Rudolph would both play in this game.

1175
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:52,720
Speaker 1: What about Levis?

1176
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 3: What do you need to see from Levis in a

1177
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 3: half a player, whatever he gets to make you feel

1178
00:51:58,040 --> 00:52:01,760
Speaker 3: better about the offseason, and just talk about him in general,

1179
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:05,040
Speaker 3: Mike and his progress or lack thereof, or whatever you're

1180
00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 3: seeing this year out of Will Levis in his second season, it's.

1181
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 6: Just been up and down. Mark, I mean That's what

1182
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 6: it comes down to. It's been up and down. Everything

1183
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:18,239
Speaker 6: about what's happened with Will Levis has been all over

1184
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 6: the road. And early in the season he made some

1185
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 6: horrific mistakes. He came back after an injury and started

1186
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:30,280
Speaker 6: to play better, and then in the first Jacksonville game

1187
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 6: he missed two open receivers in the end zone and

1188
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:36,959
Speaker 6: a ten to six loss had been the following week,

1189
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 6: he just had a disastrous stretch and a performance against

1190
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 6: Cincinnati and you know, four turnovers. They had to take

1191
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:47,320
Speaker 6: him out of the game. And so Mason Rudolph's played

1192
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 6: and Mason's been okay. But the thing is Will is

1193
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 6: a much more spectacular talent. I mean, you saw in

1194
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 6: the game in Houston. He can throw it now, I

1195
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 6: mean he can flat wing when he's on, he's really on.

1196
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:06,720
Speaker 6: But then he'll throw the interception, He'll make the mistake,

1197
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 6: he makes an incorrect read at an inopportune moment. My

1198
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 6: feeling on Will is that Will is not done. That

1199
00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 6: Will could be a real candidate to be one of

1200
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 6: those quarterbacks who continues to develop through the course of

1201
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:27,880
Speaker 6: his career and becomes a more stable player as he

1202
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:30,880
Speaker 6: goes That you can count on. Remember this too about

1203
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 6: will Will's under contract for two more years and Mark

1204
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 6: because he was a second round pick, he doesn't cost

1205
00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:41,280
Speaker 6: that much money. I mean, he's not a thirty million

1206
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 6: dollar player. I think there's a very good chance Will

1207
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:47,640
Speaker 6: Levis is back on this roster next year. So what

1208
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 6: will it be like for Will Levis for the first

1209
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:54,920
Speaker 6: time in five years to potentially be playing in the

1210
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 6: exact same system two years in a row. His last

1211
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:02,239
Speaker 6: two years, it can touch it didn't happen, and it's

1212
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:05,399
Speaker 6: certainly coming from Penn State to Kentucky had made a change,

1213
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:07,640
Speaker 6: So you can go back even further, and then it's

1214
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 6: two years in the NFL. It's been something different in

1215
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:14,359
Speaker 6: two seasons. So what would it be like for him

1216
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 6: to have this opportunity. The Titans have to fix the

1217
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 6: quarterback position. Will Levis is not going to do anything

1218
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:25,879
Speaker 6: on Sunday to make them decide that he's the guy

1219
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:29,400
Speaker 6: for twenty twenty five, but he could certainly give himself

1220
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:32,839
Speaker 6: some confidence. He could give them a little more confidence,

1221
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 6: and he could put himself in the mix to compete

1222
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 6: going into the twenty twenty five offseason.

1223
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:43,400
Speaker 3: On the bright side, Tony Pollard the pickup. I know

1224
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:46,040
Speaker 3: he's fumbled a couple of times, but thousand yard season,

1225
00:54:46,120 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 3: four point three per carry, had a good game against

1226
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:50,400
Speaker 3: the Texans last time. This looks like a pretty good pickup.

1227
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:53,800
Speaker 3: I know he's not Derek Henry, but it's not his fault,

1228
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 3: so to speak, that things aren't going as well as

1229
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 3: you want them to. He's had a pretty nice campaign.

1230
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 6: He really had. He really really has a good pick up.

1231
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 6: He's from Memphis and so he's got a lot of

1232
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 6: following here, much like the you know, the guys from

1233
00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 6: the state of Texas are popular with the Texans, guys

1234
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 6: from the state of Tennessee are popular with the Titans

1235
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:18,359
Speaker 6: fan base. So people really really were pulling for him

1236
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 6: to do well. And then he's done that on a

1237
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:26,239
Speaker 6: bad team. He has been a bright spot and he's

1238
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 6: played with a painful ankle injury for the second half

1239
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:32,880
Speaker 6: of the season, and last week they just had to

1240
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:36,439
Speaker 6: tell him, you're not gonna play. We just can't play.

1241
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:41,440
Speaker 6: You're gonna have to sit down. Otherwise I think probably

1242
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:44,319
Speaker 6: what would have happened Mark and he may play this week,

1243
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:48,279
Speaker 6: we don't know yet, but his numbers probably would have

1244
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:53,360
Speaker 6: equaled Derrick Henry's numbers with US a year ago, and

1245
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:56,920
Speaker 6: you know, that's a pretty good standard. Last year the

1246
00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 6: Titans won six games, and this year they're going to

1247
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:02,920
Speaker 6: win either three or four. And to have him put

1248
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:06,400
Speaker 6: up those kind of numbers on a football team that

1249
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:11,400
Speaker 6: has not been that good would be really, really impressive,

1250
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 6: because you know, the issue with the run game when

1251
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 6: you're losing is how many times do you have to

1252
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 6: go away from it in the second half or how

1253
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:23,400
Speaker 6: many times do you have to go away from it

1254
00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:27,439
Speaker 6: when you fall behind in the first half. So if

1255
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 6: this is a football team that's got eight or nine wins,

1256
00:56:30,840 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 6: I think you're probably talking about a guy who's a

1257
00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 6: thirteen hundred and fourteen hundred yard rusher and probably a

1258
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:43,560
Speaker 6: Pro Bowl caliber selection. Tony's Tony's been a highlight. I

1259
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:45,840
Speaker 6: think if you made the case he was the Titans

1260
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 6: offensive MVP for this season, I think that would be

1261
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 6: a very fair case to make. But you know, and

1262
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 6: there have been several of those free agents who have

1263
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:58,160
Speaker 6: certainly not been disappointments on this ball club. He would

1264
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:00,399
Speaker 6: be at the top of the list of a free

1265
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:02,840
Speaker 6: agent signing who has been a plus for the Titans

1266
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:03,279
Speaker 6: this year.

1267
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:05,759
Speaker 3: Well, and it seems like Ridley, if he's healthy, he's

1268
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 3: a thousand yard guy and he's just about there with

1269
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:11,359
Speaker 3: a game to go. And he's been a pretty good

1270
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 3: pick up as well. I mean, he gets solid numbers.

1271
00:57:14,239 --> 00:57:14,759
Speaker 1: I know that.

1272
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:17,360
Speaker 3: Again, it hasn't been the passing attack you hope for

1273
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:20,440
Speaker 3: with the turnovers, but Ridley has done some good things.

1274
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, Ridley's really good play. He's explosive and the Titans

1275
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:28,400
Speaker 6: had not had that since the trade of AJ Brown

1276
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 6: and so to get an explosive player in that mix,

1277
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 6: and to do it that way with Calvin being able

1278
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 6: to run the way he can, he's a guy another

1279
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:44,640
Speaker 6: good pre agent pickup. I think they'll try to get

1280
00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:47,560
Speaker 6: him the ball enough to Sunday or on Sunday to

1281
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 6: get him to one thousand yards. Got off to a

1282
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 6: really rough start and decided to kind of bear down

1283
00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 6: and do things the right way and do the extra

1284
00:57:59,120 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 6: and he's been a really good player over the last

1285
00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 6: ten games. So I think from from that standpoint, you've

1286
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 6: got ian We're talking about Tony Pollard and Calvin Ridley.

1287
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:11,680
Speaker 6: They're both going to be back next year, and so

1288
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:15,080
Speaker 6: I think you've got some good building blocks there. Now

1289
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 6: the Titans need another explosive receiver, They need another player

1290
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 6: who can really make things happen. But to have him

1291
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:26,959
Speaker 6: already on board and doing the job that he has, Yeah,

1292
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:29,320
Speaker 6: he's been what they hoped he would be, no doubt.

1293
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:30,000
Speaker 1: All right.

1294
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:33,080
Speaker 3: So defensively, Landry has the eight sacks. He had the

1295
00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 3: sack on CJ. Stroud late in the last game. Simmons

1296
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 3: is Simmons, you have a lot of pieces to work

1297
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 3: with moving forward. Who are some of the players you're

1298
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 3: excited about, not necessarily Sunday, but moving into the future

1299
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:46,320
Speaker 3: twenty twenty five and beyond.

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Speaker 6: That's Andandre Sweat is where you have to start. He's

1301
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 6: been more than anybody could have hoped. You know. The

1302
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:56,880
Speaker 6: reputation was that he was out of shape and that

1303
00:58:57,560 --> 00:59:00,200
Speaker 6: you know, he'd be hard to motivate, and he's than

1304
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 6: none of that. He's played really good football for the

1305
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 6: Tennessee Titans. And at three hundred and seventy pounds, he's

1306
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:11,880
Speaker 6: an amazing talent. And so knowing that they have he

1307
00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:16,200
Speaker 6: and Jeffery going together in the future is very exciting.

1308
00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 6: On that interior, Harold Landry just I mean, he's just

1309
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:23,440
Speaker 6: a workmanlike player, Harold is probably not ever going to

1310
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 6: be a fifteen sacked guy, but if he gets double

1311
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:30,240
Speaker 6: digit sacks, if he gets two sacks on Sunday, then

1312
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:33,920
Speaker 6: he will have double digit sacks in his last three

1313
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 6: complete seasons. Of course, he did not play in twenty

1314
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:40,400
Speaker 6: twenty two because he tore an ACL and training camp,

1315
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:43,560
Speaker 6: so he's done a lot of good things. He plays

1316
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:48,160
Speaker 6: the run too, and so he's that complete guy. You

1317
00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:50,640
Speaker 6: can use him as a defensive end, you can use

1318
00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:54,720
Speaker 6: him as an outside linebacker. Taydan's big question is they're

1319
00:59:54,760 --> 00:59:57,080
Speaker 6: going to have to figure out what they're going to

1320
00:59:57,160 --> 01:00:00,920
Speaker 6: do at linebacker because they're very thin, and there's a

1321
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 6: real possibility that they'll use their seventh different combination at

1322
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:10,880
Speaker 6: inside linebacker this week. Very possible that happens. Safety having

1323
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:12,880
Speaker 6: to figure out a lot of things about what they're

1324
01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:16,160
Speaker 6: going to do there going forward with a Moni Hooker,

1325
01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:19,040
Speaker 6: Money's going to be there, but who's going to be

1326
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:21,600
Speaker 6: with him at the other spot. And some of the

1327
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 6: young corners have come on. Brown Lee has come on,

1328
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:28,080
Speaker 6: Darryl Baker has come on, but guess what, they're young

1329
01:00:28,120 --> 01:00:33,640
Speaker 6: corners and so Chido Owouse need more from him going

1330
01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:36,160
Speaker 6: down the stretch here, and they got a little more

1331
01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:39,880
Speaker 6: last week and then hopefully get la Jerious Snead back

1332
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 6: next year because they just got very little out of

1333
01:00:43,240 --> 01:00:46,360
Speaker 6: him due to an injury that turned out to be really,

1334
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:47,120
Speaker 6: really bizarre.

1335
01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:49,200
Speaker 1: Mike Keith, Voice of the Titans with us.

1336
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Speaker 3: All right, let me reach back for a moment, because

1337
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:53,920
Speaker 3: I don't know if you saw the Steve McNair show

1338
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:56,600
Speaker 3: on Netflix. I want to know what the reaction was

1339
01:00:56,640 --> 01:01:00,720
Speaker 3: in the city about watching that. See a lot of

1340
01:01:00,760 --> 01:01:04,680
Speaker 3: disturbing stuff there, but I'd like reliving some of the

1341
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:06,520
Speaker 3: good stuff with Steve McNair. I wish we had a

1342
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:08,840
Speaker 3: little bit more of that, but it was what it was.

1343
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:11,920
Speaker 3: What was the reaction in Nashville when people watch that.

1344
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:15,360
Speaker 6: Well, I think you get into a lot of the

1345
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:19,120
Speaker 6: things that people are interested in as far as documentary

1346
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:22,360
Speaker 6: style things and podcasts and people like all the true

1347
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:25,440
Speaker 6: crime stuff. You know, so you knew you were going

1348
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:28,680
Speaker 6: to get a lot of that. There was nothing in

1349
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 6: that that people here didn't know, So I think it

1350
01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:38,280
Speaker 6: was designed a great deal more for the broader audience

1351
01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:42,840
Speaker 6: that you know. You if you didn't know the Steve

1352
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:46,400
Speaker 6: McNair story from fifteen years ago, which most people around

1353
01:01:46,440 --> 01:01:50,720
Speaker 6: the country didn't. Then I get where it was probably

1354
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:56,439
Speaker 6: very very interesting. But from here and having lived through

1355
01:01:56,480 --> 01:02:00,680
Speaker 6: it and lived through the subsequent investigations and the people

1356
01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:04,600
Speaker 6: who have conspiracy theories about all of it, which quite

1357
01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:08,800
Speaker 6: frankly have been debunked, and you know, all of it,

1358
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:13,840
Speaker 6: it's just still incredibly sad. And Steve was a different guy,

1359
01:02:14,080 --> 01:02:17,120
Speaker 6: you know. He was a different guy from the standpoint

1360
01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 6: that he grew up so poor, and I think there

1361
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:22,439
Speaker 6: was a little bit of a Mickey mantle to him

1362
01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:26,440
Speaker 6: that he didn't know that he was going to probably

1363
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:30,360
Speaker 6: be around until he was seventy, so he didn't always

1364
01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:33,840
Speaker 6: make the best choices about his life. And yet when

1365
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:37,000
Speaker 6: he came back here after his couple of seasons in Baltimore,

1366
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:40,520
Speaker 6: I had a conversation with him that was easily the

1367
01:02:40,560 --> 01:02:43,760
Speaker 6: deepest conversation I had ever had with him, And it

1368
01:02:43,840 --> 01:02:46,040
Speaker 6: was like, you know, two grown ups. It wasn't like

1369
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:48,479
Speaker 6: a broadcaster and a player. It was like two guys

1370
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:51,800
Speaker 6: who were dads. And I really enjoyed it, and I

1371
01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:55,080
Speaker 6: thought to myself, Man, I really looked forward to seeing

1372
01:02:55,160 --> 01:02:58,320
Speaker 6: him around over the next few years and watching his

1373
01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:01,320
Speaker 6: boys grow up and all of these things, and just

1374
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:04,520
Speaker 6: a few months later he was gone. And it's a tragedy,

1375
01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:08,240
Speaker 6: I mean, the whole thing in so many different ways,

1376
01:03:08,880 --> 01:03:14,840
Speaker 6: a tragedy about a guy who was very complicated but

1377
01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:20,480
Speaker 6: is still the guy who is seen as this franchise,

1378
01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 6: at least this incarnation of the franchise's fates, and Eddie

1379
01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:29,960
Speaker 6: George has taken over a lot of that because he

1380
01:03:30,080 --> 01:03:32,320
Speaker 6: knew he needed to. He knew it was he and Steve,

1381
01:03:32,480 --> 01:03:35,960
Speaker 6: But once Steve was gone, Eddie really felt like he

1382
01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:39,280
Speaker 6: needed to be that face and that voice at critical moments.

1383
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:41,760
Speaker 6: But I think Eddie would tell you that to the

1384
01:03:41,800 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 6: fan base, it was Steve because of how he played

1385
01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:48,640
Speaker 6: and how tough he was, and you know, kind of

1386
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:53,440
Speaker 6: everything that went with him. He's what people probably in

1387
01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:57,840
Speaker 6: thirty two NFL cities would want their guy to be.

1388
01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:01,920
Speaker 6: You know, he had so much of that for people,

1389
01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:06,640
Speaker 6: So wrong answer your question, but you know, it's been

1390
01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:09,520
Speaker 6: fifteen and a half years and we still haven't recovered

1391
01:04:09,520 --> 01:04:10,920
Speaker 6: from the loss of statement there.

1392
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:14,439
Speaker 3: Well, it's been even longer since losing the Super Bowl.

1393
01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:16,360
Speaker 1: I wanted you to weigh in on this.

1394
01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:18,640
Speaker 3: Debate we were having, and I don't know what it's

1395
01:04:18,680 --> 01:04:22,080
Speaker 3: like to do either one. But Charlie Casly always said

1396
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:25,200
Speaker 3: it's worse to lose the Super Bowl than any other game,

1397
01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:27,240
Speaker 3: and I would figure it's got to be worse to

1398
01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:29,400
Speaker 3: lose the championship game because at least you go to

1399
01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:31,040
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl. Now you went to one of the

1400
01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 3: most dramatic Super Bowls ever, Tennessee Titans versus the Rams.

1401
01:04:34,760 --> 01:04:35,800
Speaker 1: You'll lose by a yard.

1402
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:38,880
Speaker 3: It's an incredible ending, really, and I got to imagine

1403
01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:40,720
Speaker 3: the feeling in the moment was awful.

1404
01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:42,400
Speaker 1: But what do you think of that?

1405
01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:45,360
Speaker 3: Would you rather lose in the AFC Championship Game or

1406
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:47,280
Speaker 3: go to the Super Bowl and lose it.

1407
01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:52,600
Speaker 6: So the twenty two days that we had from the

1408
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:57,000
Speaker 6: Music City Miracle game to the Super Bowl. It's the

1409
01:04:57,040 --> 01:04:59,320
Speaker 6: twenty fifth anniversary of that, by the way, which is

1410
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:03,520
Speaker 6: hard to believe. So January January will be the twenty

1411
01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:07,280
Speaker 6: fifth anniversary of the Music City Miracle. And moving forward

1412
01:05:07,280 --> 01:05:10,880
Speaker 6: to Super Bowl thirty four, winning a game in Indianapolis

1413
01:05:10,920 --> 01:05:14,600
Speaker 6: that everybody picks you to lose, beating Jacksonville for the

1414
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:18,800
Speaker 6: third time in Jacksonville in a season where they lost

1415
01:05:18,840 --> 01:05:21,440
Speaker 6: to nobody else, and then going to the Super Bowl

1416
01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:25,120
Speaker 6: without a week off. I mean, we went almost straight

1417
01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:29,120
Speaker 6: from Jacksonville to Atlanta. There's a massive ice storm that week,

1418
01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:34,480
Speaker 6: and so for what we do, it's crazy. It's the

1419
01:05:34,520 --> 01:05:38,880
Speaker 6: greatest twenty two days of my life. And if I could,

1420
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:42,680
Speaker 6: if I could give that as a gift to every broadcaster,

1421
01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:46,280
Speaker 6: that's the gift I would give them. So I disagree

1422
01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 6: with Charlie Cashery wholeheartedly. He's a much more refined football

1423
01:05:53,080 --> 01:05:55,560
Speaker 6: man than I will ever be. I'm just a broadcaster.

1424
01:05:56,280 --> 01:06:02,320
Speaker 6: But as a broadcaster, that experience was life changing. It

1425
01:06:02,400 --> 01:06:06,960
Speaker 6: was you had everything. I will say this, I have

1426
01:06:07,120 --> 01:06:11,280
Speaker 6: never felt after a loss ever back when I was

1427
01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:15,680
Speaker 6: a player in high school, covering college, being involved with

1428
01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:18,959
Speaker 6: the NFL, I have never felt the way I did

1429
01:06:19,120 --> 01:06:23,560
Speaker 6: after losing a Super Bowl. I'm almost ashamed to say

1430
01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:26,640
Speaker 6: how crushed I was after losing that Super Bowl because

1431
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:29,080
Speaker 6: it is just a game, right, you know, it's just

1432
01:06:29,120 --> 01:06:32,680
Speaker 6: a football game. But you literally do want to cry.

1433
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:35,560
Speaker 6: And I don't know how much of it was that

1434
01:06:35,840 --> 01:06:40,600
Speaker 6: game or just the fact that that ride was ending.

1435
01:06:40,840 --> 01:06:43,680
Speaker 6: You know, we had a parade here, We had a

1436
01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:49,080
Speaker 6: parade here two days after the Super Bowl, right, you

1437
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:51,840
Speaker 6: think about that, despite I mean, have you ever heard

1438
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:56,640
Speaker 6: of that ever? I mean, so that whole experience was

1439
01:06:56,760 --> 01:07:01,160
Speaker 6: just fantastic. And again, if I can hand that off

1440
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:04,600
Speaker 6: to the people that I love in this business, I

1441
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:10,800
Speaker 6: would so do it because it's it had everything in it.

1442
01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:16,840
Speaker 6: It was the ultimate story of what you never expected

1443
01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:18,320
Speaker 6: in every way shaping.

1444
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:22,360
Speaker 3: Form well said, and I always thought that I'd love

1445
01:07:22,400 --> 01:07:24,600
Speaker 3: to go, love to be there, want to win it,

1446
01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:26,440
Speaker 3: of course, but would love to be able to have

1447
01:07:26,480 --> 01:07:28,720
Speaker 3: that opportunity. And I love what you said about giving

1448
01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:31,280
Speaker 3: a gift to the other broadcasters. I wish you could

1449
01:07:31,320 --> 01:07:33,120
Speaker 3: do that, but we can't. We just have to see

1450
01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:34,280
Speaker 3: how it plays out on the field.

1451
01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:34,680
Speaker 1: Mike.

1452
01:07:34,720 --> 01:07:37,160
Speaker 3: It's always so enjoyable to visit. And we want to

1453
01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:38,000
Speaker 3: thank you for the time.

1454
01:07:38,520 --> 01:07:40,000
Speaker 6: Mark, thank you so much for the time.

1455
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:43,439
Speaker 2: I can't tell you the number of times now Mark

1456
01:07:43,520 --> 01:07:46,000
Speaker 2: Vannery and I have sat in this studio or the

1457
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:47,920
Speaker 2: one next door since I got this building at twenty

1458
01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:51,120
Speaker 2: fourteen and talked about that what will it be like

1459
01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:52,320
Speaker 2: to go to Super Bowl?

1460
01:07:52,720 --> 01:07:55,720
Speaker 1: What would it be like? What would this town do?

1461
01:07:55,880 --> 01:07:58,840
Speaker 2: I Mike makes a great point there, talks about a

1462
01:07:58,880 --> 01:08:01,720
Speaker 2: parade two days after or the Titans ended up losing.

1463
01:08:01,880 --> 01:08:04,240
Speaker 2: I think that would happen in Houston. I think there

1464
01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:07,240
Speaker 2: would be a parade for us going to the super Bowl.

1465
01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:09,640
Speaker 2: I think there would be a parade for us regardless

1466
01:08:09,680 --> 01:08:12,480
Speaker 2: of the outcome after the super Bowl. That's how much

1467
01:08:12,520 --> 01:08:15,280
Speaker 2: I think this town, this city wants to go to

1468
01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:17,600
Speaker 2: a super Bowl no matter what. I don't want to

1469
01:08:17,600 --> 01:08:20,240
Speaker 2: go there and lose forty nine to two. But I

1470
01:08:20,240 --> 01:08:23,120
Speaker 2: wouldn't think that would happen because I think this team,

1471
01:08:23,160 --> 01:08:25,120
Speaker 2: no matter what, can compete with anybody.

1472
01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:27,360
Speaker 1: You gotta bring your a game to do it, and

1473
01:08:27,400 --> 01:08:28,080
Speaker 1: it would be tough.

1474
01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:32,120
Speaker 2: But that said, just getting to the super Bowl and

1475
01:08:32,360 --> 01:08:37,400
Speaker 2: experiencing that, seeing your guys on NFL Network, everybody at

1476
01:08:37,439 --> 01:08:39,880
Speaker 2: podiums talking about the season, I mean, it would just

1477
01:08:39,920 --> 01:08:43,280
Speaker 2: be It would be fantastic. But it's got taking one

1478
01:08:43,320 --> 01:08:46,240
Speaker 2: at a time. And this week it's the Tennessee Titans,

1479
01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:49,960
Speaker 2: who are voiced by and all their games voiced by

1480
01:08:50,080 --> 01:08:52,880
Speaker 2: Mike Keith. So it's good to catch up with Mike.

1481
01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:55,760
Speaker 2: Can appreciate he stepping up to Mike with Mark. When

1482
01:08:55,760 --> 01:08:59,200
Speaker 2: we get back, Drew Doherty joins me as we go

1483
01:08:59,479 --> 01:09:02,679
Speaker 2: in the lab. We get a little geeky with this one.

1484
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:04,960
Speaker 2: Of course, and who are gonna be our cream of

1485
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:08,360
Speaker 2: the crop players now Drew and I recorded are in

1486
01:09:08,439 --> 01:09:12,040
Speaker 2: a lab earlier on Wednesday before the injury.

1487
01:09:11,680 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 1: Report came out. So my guy was listed on the

1488
01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:17,160
Speaker 1: injury report. It's a killer.

1489
01:09:17,200 --> 01:09:19,360
Speaker 2: But you'll hear who I have to say if he plays,

1490
01:09:19,840 --> 01:09:21,800
Speaker 2: because he has been fantastic as a rookie for this

1491
01:09:21,840 --> 01:09:22,360
Speaker 2: team this year.

1492
01:09:22,360 --> 01:09:23,800
Speaker 1: That's next up, Texas Axas.

1493
01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:30,080
Speaker 2: It is time for the SLB stats Challenge. I'll give

1494
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:36,920
Speaker 2: you the number. The number is ten now twenty twenty one,

1495
01:09:37,120 --> 01:09:43,240
Speaker 2: stick with me two, twenty twenty two, three, twenty twenty three, three,

1496
01:09:43,760 --> 01:09:48,200
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four two two three three two adds up

1497
01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:54,639
Speaker 2: to ten. That's ten straight wins over the AFC South

1498
01:09:54,960 --> 01:09:58,599
Speaker 2: on the road. That is an incredible number. I wonder

1499
01:09:58,600 --> 01:10:00,560
Speaker 2: if Peyton Manning and the Colts did that back in

1500
01:10:00,600 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 2: the day. Maybe, but they're looking for win number eleven

1501
01:10:05,680 --> 01:10:06,720
Speaker 2: on the road in a.

1502
01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:09,160
Speaker 1: Row against the Vision opponents.

1503
01:10:09,560 --> 01:10:13,599
Speaker 2: It's incredible to have won that many games, especially when

1504
01:10:13,600 --> 01:10:15,479
Speaker 2: you had two teams at twenty twenty one to twenty

1505
01:10:15,479 --> 01:10:19,599
Speaker 2: twenty two that want to combine four and three makes seven.

1506
01:10:20,400 --> 01:10:22,880
Speaker 2: He won seven. Five of those were in the division

1507
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:27,000
Speaker 2: over those two years. So that is your stats challenge.

1508
01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:29,439
Speaker 2: Go to Houston Texans dot com to learn more about

1509
01:10:29,520 --> 01:10:33,680
Speaker 2: the SLB Stats Challenge. Now, if we want to get

1510
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:38,160
Speaker 2: even more geeky on this show, staper Drew Doherty nine

1511
01:10:38,200 --> 01:10:39,960
Speaker 2: to go in the lab.

1512
01:10:40,120 --> 01:10:41,120
Speaker 1: Take a listen.

1513
01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:43,080
Speaker 9: Happy New Year, John, How you doing?

1514
01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:48,200
Speaker 2: Oh? Happy New Year twenty twenty five to everybody out there. Man,

1515
01:10:48,360 --> 01:10:52,400
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, it seems so longer. I remember my

1516
01:10:52,479 --> 01:10:54,120
Speaker 2: son was born in two thousand.

1517
01:10:54,600 --> 01:10:56,799
Speaker 9: It's like, man, that's twenty five years ago as.

1518
01:10:56,680 --> 01:10:57,519
Speaker 1: Twenty five years ago.

1519
01:10:57,600 --> 01:10:59,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, I ho was hear twenty five and January eleventh,

1520
01:11:00,080 --> 01:11:03,240
Speaker 2: it was just like, where did the time go?

1521
01:11:03,800 --> 01:11:05,800
Speaker 1: Where did time go? I know you feel that way too,

1522
01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:06,599
Speaker 1: because I.

1523
01:11:06,560 --> 01:11:09,960
Speaker 2: Remember when I remember seeing your twins my first summer,

1524
01:11:10,200 --> 01:11:12,240
Speaker 2: first training camp with the Texans. They were in a

1525
01:11:12,800 --> 01:11:15,479
Speaker 2: two twins, they were in a twin troller, and now

1526
01:11:15,479 --> 01:11:16,879
Speaker 2: they're just out and about living.

1527
01:11:16,680 --> 01:11:21,599
Speaker 9: Like k the aircraft carrier. Yeah, exactly, we need to turn.

1528
01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:25,080
Speaker 1: I think was enormous, but it had to be yet.

1529
01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:27,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, get two kids in there, a sweethearts.

1530
01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:28,000
Speaker 9: Yeah they are.

1531
01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:30,640
Speaker 10: They're eleven now and they'll be amazing twelve at the

1532
01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:33,599
Speaker 10: end of May, happy near to you, Happy near to you.

1533
01:11:33,680 --> 01:11:36,840
Speaker 10: Watching listening the three of us, John, Me and you.

1534
01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:39,719
Speaker 10: We're gonna have a nice little time here today because

1535
01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:44,519
Speaker 10: the end of the regular season is here. You have

1536
01:11:44,720 --> 01:11:46,760
Speaker 10: at least two more football games to go, and if

1537
01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:51,160
Speaker 10: things go your way, you're gonna play much deeper into January,

1538
01:11:51,240 --> 01:11:56,960
Speaker 10: maybe even February. So rest is on the docket. Whether

1539
01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:00,920
Speaker 10: it's a full game, a half game, a quarter game,

1540
01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:03,800
Speaker 10: doesn't matter. You've gotten more rest because you play it

1541
01:12:03,840 --> 01:12:09,280
Speaker 10: on a Wednesday and you've had those extra three four

1542
01:12:09,360 --> 01:12:12,840
Speaker 10: days to get some time for you. So that's been

1543
01:12:12,840 --> 01:12:15,120
Speaker 10: a good thing. I think that's gonna help help things out.

1544
01:12:15,160 --> 01:12:16,960
Speaker 10: But by the way, this is in the lab presented

1545
01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:20,599
Speaker 10: by Exfinity in case you're wondering anyways the value of

1546
01:12:20,880 --> 01:12:24,080
Speaker 10: a mini buy. We say that mini by term usually

1547
01:12:24,120 --> 01:12:26,400
Speaker 10: when you're playing on a Thursday and you get that

1548
01:12:26,439 --> 01:12:27,040
Speaker 10: weekend off.

1549
01:12:27,080 --> 01:12:28,080
Speaker 9: Oh, it's like a mini bye.

1550
01:12:28,080 --> 01:12:30,719
Speaker 10: We've said it many many times over the last decade,

1551
01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:33,400
Speaker 10: really longer than that, even But what do you think

1552
01:12:33,439 --> 01:12:35,400
Speaker 10: the benefit of that mini buye might be?

1553
01:12:35,920 --> 01:12:36,080
Speaker 1: Now?

1554
01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:39,320
Speaker 10: It coincides with the holidays, but I imagine some self

1555
01:12:39,320 --> 01:12:41,320
Speaker 10: scouting has continued to go on and you get a

1556
01:12:41,360 --> 01:12:43,720
Speaker 10: little bit more time to do that. Some scouting for

1557
01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:47,360
Speaker 10: who your potential playoff opponents might be has happened as well.

1558
01:12:47,360 --> 01:12:49,920
Speaker 10: Could be the Steelers, could be the Chargers, the Broncos.

1559
01:12:49,960 --> 01:12:53,560
Speaker 10: Maybe we don't know, but those are the likely candidates,

1560
01:12:53,680 --> 01:12:57,080
Speaker 10: likely suspects. But self scouting over this many by, because

1561
01:12:57,080 --> 01:12:58,639
Speaker 10: there's a lot of things you can fix, John, there's

1562
01:12:58,680 --> 01:12:59,559
Speaker 10: a lot of things you can get better.

1563
01:12:59,600 --> 01:13:00,800
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely.

1564
01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:03,240
Speaker 2: I mean you should be self scouting all the way

1565
01:13:03,280 --> 01:13:05,960
Speaker 2: to the super Bowl. And I think the biggest thing

1566
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:08,679
Speaker 2: for the players drew at this point of the year.

1567
01:13:08,840 --> 01:13:10,880
Speaker 2: And you and I have talked about this at times

1568
01:13:10,920 --> 01:13:15,440
Speaker 2: over the years. You're in this building in week fifteen,

1569
01:13:15,840 --> 01:13:20,160
Speaker 2: on week fourteen on stand on a service level. When

1570
01:13:20,200 --> 01:13:22,280
Speaker 2: the offensive line and defensive line are getting out of

1571
01:13:22,280 --> 01:13:25,320
Speaker 2: their meetings and walking to the locker room, they are

1572
01:13:25,680 --> 01:13:28,920
Speaker 2: barely able to get down a hallway like it is.

1573
01:13:29,800 --> 01:13:32,360
Speaker 2: I mean, they've got to think to take a step.

1574
01:13:32,479 --> 01:13:34,639
Speaker 2: I mean it's they're beat up that much. I'll never

1575
01:13:34,680 --> 01:13:38,800
Speaker 2: forget seeing DJ Reader in his second year. So his

1576
01:13:38,800 --> 01:13:42,360
Speaker 2: second year was twenty sixteen, and he and will Folk

1577
01:13:42,439 --> 01:13:46,439
Speaker 2: were playing together. But now DJ was a true starter

1578
01:13:46,560 --> 01:13:48,800
Speaker 2: and he was staying on the field for probably eighty

1579
01:13:48,880 --> 01:13:52,040
Speaker 2: eighty five percent of snaps, and he was getting double

1580
01:13:52,080 --> 01:13:54,920
Speaker 2: team down almost every snap. And I just remember seeing him.

1581
01:13:54,960 --> 01:13:56,880
Speaker 2: He had slides on. He was going on a hallway

1582
01:13:57,840 --> 01:14:00,479
Speaker 2: and it was taking him. I was all the way

1583
01:14:00,520 --> 01:14:02,880
Speaker 2: down by the radio studio. He was a way by

1584
01:14:03,520 --> 01:14:07,200
Speaker 2: the auditorium team auditorium. Yeah, And there wasn't much room

1585
01:14:07,240 --> 01:14:09,920
Speaker 2: from the team auditorium to the cafeteria. There's a little

1586
01:14:09,960 --> 01:14:12,200
Speaker 2: distance from here to cafeteria. I nearly beat him to

1587
01:14:12,280 --> 01:14:14,280
Speaker 2: the cafeteria. I could see him, so I kind of

1588
01:14:14,280 --> 01:14:15,599
Speaker 2: picked up my walk a little bit so I could

1589
01:14:15,640 --> 01:14:16,240
Speaker 2: say hey to him.

1590
01:14:17,200 --> 01:14:18,679
Speaker 1: And I got near him.

1591
01:14:18,520 --> 01:14:22,479
Speaker 2: And I was just like, man, you're beat up. He's like, yeah,

1592
01:14:22,760 --> 01:14:24,320
Speaker 2: but I'm playing on Sunday, Like he just he was

1593
01:14:24,320 --> 01:14:24,880
Speaker 2: gonna play.

1594
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:27,040
Speaker 1: I was respected him for that. But those guys are

1595
01:14:27,080 --> 01:14:27,720
Speaker 1: so beat up.

1596
01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:32,000
Speaker 2: So if you give them three extra days of rest, yeah,

1597
01:14:32,200 --> 01:14:35,320
Speaker 2: I mean that's enormous to even get your body back

1598
01:14:35,400 --> 01:14:40,400
Speaker 2: to just some sense of normalcy. I mean, even getting

1599
01:14:40,400 --> 01:14:41,679
Speaker 2: to get back to eighty five.

1600
01:14:41,520 --> 01:14:44,120
Speaker 1: Percent down from sixty five percent, I think is big.

1601
01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:48,120
Speaker 2: So for the players, I think there's definitely that rest

1602
01:14:48,200 --> 01:14:49,280
Speaker 2: aspect for the coach.

1603
01:14:49,400 --> 01:14:50,879
Speaker 1: I think it's a mental break.

1604
01:14:51,479 --> 01:14:53,760
Speaker 2: Coaches need to have that mental break when you have

1605
01:14:54,479 --> 01:14:56,920
Speaker 2: when you've had the games that Texas have had, the

1606
01:14:57,000 --> 01:15:00,160
Speaker 2: close finishes against good teams and the intense game in

1607
01:15:00,320 --> 01:15:03,880
Speaker 2: short weeks and primetime games, you need a mental break

1608
01:15:03,880 --> 01:15:04,639
Speaker 2: for a couple of days.

1609
01:15:04,640 --> 01:15:05,639
Speaker 1: You need to check out.

1610
01:15:06,080 --> 01:15:11,280
Speaker 2: And I know what, and I mean not even not

1611
01:15:11,320 --> 01:15:13,839
Speaker 2: even coaching or playing, but just being around the team.

1612
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:15,160
Speaker 1: When we had that weekend.

1613
01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:19,400
Speaker 2: Last weekend was the first weekend for me that I

1614
01:15:19,439 --> 01:15:23,719
Speaker 2: had Saturday and Sunday off. There had been probably seventy

1615
01:15:23,720 --> 01:15:25,920
Speaker 2: five percent of the weekends this fall where I worked

1616
01:15:25,920 --> 01:15:28,680
Speaker 2: both Saturday and Sunday with a college game that I

1617
01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:31,800
Speaker 2: was calling and then our game or try to have

1618
01:15:32,200 --> 01:15:34,439
Speaker 2: or I was moving, you know, And that was always

1619
01:15:34,479 --> 01:15:37,360
Speaker 2: tough because that was obviously self inflicted when we traveled

1620
01:15:37,439 --> 01:15:40,040
Speaker 2: to Way games. But last week was the first time

1621
01:15:40,080 --> 01:15:42,680
Speaker 2: I had a Saturday and Sunday and I literally I

1622
01:15:42,760 --> 01:15:45,120
Speaker 2: just checked out. I just I watched Red Zone, I

1623
01:15:45,160 --> 01:15:48,439
Speaker 2: watched NFL games, I went and got went to my

1624
01:15:48,439 --> 01:15:50,800
Speaker 2: favorite bakery and got my Sardo breett. I mean, I

1625
01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:53,519
Speaker 2: did all those kind of things that I just just

1626
01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:56,679
Speaker 2: checked out and there's a part of me that would

1627
01:15:56,720 --> 01:15:58,080
Speaker 2: love for this team to just check out for a

1628
01:15:58,080 --> 01:16:01,840
Speaker 2: couple of days, and how much you feel refreshed from

1629
01:16:01,880 --> 01:16:04,280
Speaker 2: that to charge into the last part of this season.

1630
01:16:05,880 --> 01:16:08,400
Speaker 10: You took us off in a tangent, and I'm gonna

1631
01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:11,040
Speaker 10: go tangent off of that tangent because you brought up

1632
01:16:11,040 --> 01:16:15,000
Speaker 10: Grave Dave DJ Reader, my favorite Texans ever. Yes, he's

1633
01:16:15,040 --> 01:16:18,240
Speaker 10: now a Detroit line an important part of that defense, and.

1634
01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:22,280
Speaker 9: They're they're coming along. Man, they're really really good.

1635
01:16:22,320 --> 01:16:24,519
Speaker 10: But anyways, before they the game that they played here,

1636
01:16:24,600 --> 01:16:25,720
Speaker 10: which Texans.

1637
01:16:27,720 --> 01:16:28,559
Speaker 9: Had so much.

1638
01:16:28,600 --> 01:16:32,240
Speaker 10: They were so much that game, but pregame, but pregame,

1639
01:16:32,880 --> 01:16:36,080
Speaker 10: I'm on our sideline, the Texans sideline round about the twenty,

1640
01:16:36,800 --> 01:16:38,840
Speaker 10: and I see him come out to stretch and he's

1641
01:16:38,880 --> 01:16:41,479
Speaker 10: doing the high legs and I just kind of get

1642
01:16:41,560 --> 01:16:43,360
Speaker 10: in a spot where I know, like I can see

1643
01:16:43,439 --> 01:16:45,400
Speaker 10: him and he can see me. And when I see

1644
01:16:45,720 --> 01:16:47,960
Speaker 10: him kind of scan the crowd to see I just

1645
01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:51,280
Speaker 10: go like a nice four scump type of wave and

1646
01:16:51,320 --> 01:16:54,800
Speaker 10: he kind of smiles and stop and does this yeah,

1647
01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:57,439
Speaker 10: And so it was nice to see DJ. And then

1648
01:16:58,680 --> 01:17:01,200
Speaker 10: I got a video from deep our old pal Dp

1649
01:17:01,320 --> 01:17:05,400
Speaker 10: city about two days later because they come towards that

1650
01:17:05,520 --> 01:17:07,800
Speaker 10: end zone and I was like, Okay, I'll get over

1651
01:17:07,800 --> 01:17:09,120
Speaker 10: there and maybe i'll you know, we'll get.

1652
01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:11,000
Speaker 9: A bro hug or whatever.

1653
01:17:11,520 --> 01:17:13,760
Speaker 10: And I get kind of close and they're doing these

1654
01:17:13,760 --> 01:17:16,519
Speaker 10: one on one drills with their coach, and off to

1655
01:17:16,560 --> 01:17:22,160
Speaker 10: the side, Melissa Stark is interviewing. So she was interviewing somebody,

1656
01:17:22,360 --> 01:17:26,400
Speaker 10: and I'm like looking like this looks like I'm looking

1657
01:17:26,400 --> 01:17:29,000
Speaker 10: at Melissa Stark like total creep.

1658
01:17:29,080 --> 01:17:30,639
Speaker 9: And hey, she's very good at what she does. She's

1659
01:17:30,680 --> 01:17:31,120
Speaker 9: very pretty.

1660
01:17:31,280 --> 01:17:33,599
Speaker 10: Yeah, but I was just trying to get a uh

1661
01:17:33,960 --> 01:17:37,360
Speaker 10: like a bro hug from DJ Reader. But she, she shaid,

1662
01:17:37,560 --> 01:17:40,880
Speaker 10: deeply clipped this video that somebody else had taken and

1663
01:17:40,920 --> 01:17:43,360
Speaker 10: then like zoomed in on the corner where I was,

1664
01:17:43,680 --> 01:17:46,800
Speaker 10: and it's like the leering Drew Doherty looks.

1665
01:17:47,439 --> 01:17:49,160
Speaker 1: We used to say that about our friend Billy Ucci.

1666
01:17:49,160 --> 01:17:51,000
Speaker 9: You're lurking, leering, lurking.

1667
01:17:52,160 --> 01:17:53,680
Speaker 10: But it was all for DJ Reader because I'm a

1668
01:17:53,680 --> 01:17:55,320
Speaker 10: bit because I you and I both saw him in

1669
01:17:55,360 --> 01:17:57,760
Speaker 10: Cincinnati a year ago when Texans won that one and

1670
01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:00,439
Speaker 10: got to say hello to him. Then, so ingrats to

1671
01:18:00,520 --> 01:18:02,760
Speaker 10: DJ Hope you go all the way to the Super

1672
01:18:02,760 --> 01:18:05,160
Speaker 10: Bowl and you lose to the Texans in the Super Bowl.

1673
01:18:06,120 --> 01:18:09,320
Speaker 1: But yeah, second time around, Yeah, that's a game.

1674
01:18:10,600 --> 01:18:13,280
Speaker 2: You know, I feel like that Detroit game is one

1675
01:18:13,320 --> 01:18:18,760
Speaker 2: that left the stain that hasn't completely it's gone. You know,

1676
01:18:18,840 --> 01:18:21,519
Speaker 2: you think about what that could have meant. Probably you

1677
01:18:21,560 --> 01:18:24,760
Speaker 2: win that game. You're definitely not losing to Tennessee. Yeah,

1678
01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:27,519
Speaker 2: you're you know, you're probably going a little bit of

1679
01:18:27,560 --> 01:18:30,280
Speaker 2: a little bit of a run maybe and see where

1680
01:18:30,280 --> 01:18:31,920
Speaker 2: you are at that point. But you know what you

1681
01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:34,120
Speaker 2: are what you are right now, You're nine to seven

1682
01:18:34,400 --> 01:18:37,479
Speaker 2: and you've got the division wrapped up, and now you

1683
01:18:37,600 --> 01:18:41,479
Speaker 2: play the Tennessee Titans who beat you in your building.

1684
01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:46,080
Speaker 2: You've got this road division streak going on that has

1685
01:18:46,120 --> 01:18:50,240
Speaker 2: been phenomenal, and you have no idea who's.

1686
01:18:49,960 --> 01:18:51,439
Speaker 1: Gonna play in that game.

1687
01:18:51,600 --> 01:18:55,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, you think everybody, But are there guys that are

1688
01:18:55,080 --> 01:18:58,559
Speaker 2: are just are playing through nicks and bumps and bruises

1689
01:18:58,560 --> 01:19:02,960
Speaker 2: that could use a week and off. Probably could every

1690
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:06,360
Speaker 2: guy use the weekend off? Probably, But you gotta fill

1691
01:19:06,400 --> 01:19:08,360
Speaker 2: out a forty eight man game day roster. So it's

1692
01:19:08,360 --> 01:19:09,880
Speaker 2: gonna be interesting on Sunday.

1693
01:19:09,640 --> 01:19:10,000
Speaker 9: Yes it is.

1694
01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:11,680
Speaker 10: We're gonna talk about Sunda we're gonna get into our

1695
01:19:11,680 --> 01:19:13,920
Speaker 10: Cream of the Crop award winners who we think will

1696
01:19:13,920 --> 01:19:15,240
Speaker 10: be a Cream of the Crop award winner.

1697
01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:16,840
Speaker 9: But before we do, John, we got to raise a glass.

1698
01:19:16,840 --> 01:19:18,800
Speaker 9: So let's raise the medelo to.

1699
01:19:18,840 --> 01:19:23,599
Speaker 10: A new year, new beginnings, and the promise of many,

1700
01:19:23,640 --> 01:19:26,000
Speaker 10: many good things. We don't know where this year is

1701
01:19:26,000 --> 01:19:29,160
Speaker 10: gonna take us, where this postseason is gonna take us,

1702
01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:31,599
Speaker 10: but it's good to be in the postseason because you

1703
01:19:31,640 --> 01:19:35,120
Speaker 10: and I and Texans fans for many, many years, most

1704
01:19:35,160 --> 01:19:38,160
Speaker 10: recently twenty twenty one, twenty two didn't get to worry

1705
01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:39,280
Speaker 10: about January football.

1706
01:19:39,360 --> 01:19:42,760
Speaker 9: That's right, So I'm all for it. I'm raising a

1707
01:19:42,760 --> 01:19:43,280
Speaker 9: glass of that.

1708
01:19:43,400 --> 01:19:46,639
Speaker 10: Now let's move on, our good pal, Randy macho Man,

1709
01:19:46,680 --> 01:19:50,720
Speaker 10: Savage the crop. Thank you, macho Man. Yes, it is

1710
01:19:50,840 --> 01:19:53,120
Speaker 10: time for that Cream of the Crop award winner. And

1711
01:19:53,160 --> 01:19:56,080
Speaker 10: you know, interestingly enough, we took a break for Christmas

1712
01:19:56,160 --> 01:19:59,200
Speaker 10: last week and there was no Cream of the Crop

1713
01:19:59,200 --> 01:20:01,880
Speaker 10: award winner because didn't do it, and maybe that's why

1714
01:20:01,920 --> 01:20:05,439
Speaker 10: the Texans lost. So we can get the mojo back, John,

1715
01:20:05,720 --> 01:20:11,200
Speaker 10: and this week cream of the Crop my choice will

1716
01:20:11,240 --> 01:20:17,639
Speaker 10: be the interior offensive line. You've made that choice many

1717
01:20:17,680 --> 01:20:20,400
Speaker 10: times this season and they've got to come up big

1718
01:20:20,439 --> 01:20:23,760
Speaker 10: because you are facing a pair of monsters if they

1719
01:20:23,800 --> 01:20:27,479
Speaker 10: do play in. Jeffrey Simmons and Devandre Sweat, those guys

1720
01:20:28,040 --> 01:20:30,880
Speaker 10: wrecked you in this last game that they played here.

1721
01:20:30,920 --> 01:20:33,400
Speaker 10: The Titans beat the Texans. They beat them up, and

1722
01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:36,720
Speaker 10: it was bad. Those two were key reasons why. So

1723
01:20:36,800 --> 01:20:40,080
Speaker 10: you got to keep them free and clear of CJ.

1724
01:20:40,160 --> 01:20:40,519
Speaker 9: Stroud.

1725
01:20:40,520 --> 01:20:42,120
Speaker 10: You got to keep them free and clear of your

1726
01:20:42,160 --> 01:20:44,800
Speaker 10: run game because you want to generate some run game,

1727
01:20:45,080 --> 01:20:47,280
Speaker 10: get that thing going as you get into the playoffs,

1728
01:20:47,280 --> 01:20:49,920
Speaker 10: because I would imagine Bobby Slok wants to show some

1729
01:20:50,040 --> 01:20:53,679
Speaker 10: things that are different to opposing defenses and maybe hold

1730
01:20:53,720 --> 01:20:55,680
Speaker 10: some things back as well. But you got to get

1731
01:20:55,680 --> 01:20:58,679
Speaker 10: things going forward in a forward direction, and that doesn't

1732
01:20:58,720 --> 01:21:02,400
Speaker 10: happen without your guys guard center guard, whoever they may be.

1733
01:21:02,920 --> 01:21:06,680
Speaker 10: Like we mentioned resting, starting and so on and so forth.

1734
01:21:06,520 --> 01:21:07,200
Speaker 4: Whoever they may be.

1735
01:21:07,280 --> 01:21:09,840
Speaker 10: You gotta play really, really well there to get things

1736
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:12,120
Speaker 10: cracking for twenty twenty five.

1737
01:21:12,520 --> 01:21:15,000
Speaker 1: You are on it. You know how, I you know how.

1738
01:21:15,040 --> 01:21:17,519
Speaker 2: I think we've been around each other to know enough

1739
01:21:17,560 --> 01:21:20,280
Speaker 2: to know that Jeffrey Simmons and Devandre Sweat have been

1740
01:21:21,360 --> 01:21:27,479
Speaker 2: absolutely awesome. Awesome together, awesome individually, and they're a tough uh.

1741
01:21:27,960 --> 01:21:28,639
Speaker 1: They're tough out.

1742
01:21:28,680 --> 01:21:30,760
Speaker 2: So no matter who's playing in there, those two have

1743
01:21:30,800 --> 01:21:34,960
Speaker 2: got to be controlled. And the crazy thing was they

1744
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:37,840
Speaker 2: really weren't getting loose on you in the game against

1745
01:21:37,880 --> 01:21:42,439
Speaker 2: the Titans until the fourth quarter. Yeah, and then they

1746
01:21:42,800 --> 01:21:47,320
Speaker 2: started doing things inside and reckon your pass rush and

1747
01:21:47,880 --> 01:21:49,720
Speaker 2: sack and CJ and then the whole thing kind of

1748
01:21:49,720 --> 01:21:50,320
Speaker 2: fell apart.

1749
01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:53,080
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the guy that if we did.

1750
01:21:54,479 --> 01:21:54,599
Speaker 7: So.

1751
01:21:54,640 --> 01:21:58,120
Speaker 2: After the game against the ravens Omar Majub who came

1752
01:21:58,320 --> 01:22:02,160
Speaker 2: who's our pr superstar came over and was like he

1753
01:22:02,200 --> 01:22:03,760
Speaker 2: looked at me and always going to play. After the game,

1754
01:22:03,800 --> 01:22:05,559
Speaker 2: he knew that he looked at me and he was

1755
01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:09,720
Speaker 2: like Townsend, Yeah. I was like, nah, don't worry about

1756
01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:11,360
Speaker 2: it's not gonna have one. Because it was that kind

1757
01:22:11,400 --> 01:22:14,200
Speaker 2: of game. The only two points were scored by the

1758
01:22:14,240 --> 01:22:17,320
Speaker 2: guy that I am making my Creamy the cropper this

1759
01:22:17,360 --> 01:22:21,040
Speaker 2: week and as Kamara last ye and I think Kamara Laster.

1760
01:22:21,680 --> 01:22:24,439
Speaker 2: I just remember back the draft night and I remember

1761
01:22:24,439 --> 01:22:28,120
Speaker 2: they said his name, and I just I got excited

1762
01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:31,840
Speaker 2: about what he could do in this defense. I thought

1763
01:22:31,880 --> 01:22:34,960
Speaker 2: eventually I thought he'd played the nickel and Corey Onunlin

1764
01:22:35,360 --> 01:22:38,599
Speaker 2: defense pass game coordinator sat in with me and Mark

1765
01:22:39,080 --> 01:22:41,120
Speaker 2: two weeks ago, I think, and we were asking abou Kamara,

1766
01:22:41,200 --> 01:22:43,880
Speaker 2: and I asked him, I said, was the plan basically

1767
01:22:44,120 --> 01:22:46,120
Speaker 2: got to the point of was the plan originally put

1768
01:22:46,160 --> 01:22:48,760
Speaker 2: Kamara at the nickel and then let him play there

1769
01:22:48,840 --> 01:22:51,719
Speaker 2: and then eventually he might go out the perimeter corner

1770
01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:54,080
Speaker 2: or maybe leave at the nickel. He says that was

1771
01:22:54,120 --> 01:22:56,880
Speaker 2: a plan, and then he just was like, we had

1772
01:22:56,880 --> 01:22:59,439
Speaker 2: to have him on the field every single play, and

1773
01:22:59,479 --> 01:23:01,880
Speaker 2: so then we moved into the perimeter corner and obviously

1774
01:23:01,920 --> 01:23:04,800
Speaker 2: the rest is history. But he's played some nickel as

1775
01:23:04,840 --> 01:23:07,800
Speaker 2: they've kind of moved some things around, and he does

1776
01:23:07,840 --> 01:23:10,120
Speaker 2: a hell of a job because he's a tremendous cover

1777
01:23:10,200 --> 01:23:14,040
Speaker 2: corner and he is really really physical, Like he he's

1778
01:23:14,080 --> 01:23:20,759
Speaker 2: the prototype Nickel in this defense because he blitzes pretty well,

1779
01:23:20,880 --> 01:23:23,880
Speaker 2: He tackles exceptionally well. He can cover man and man

1780
01:23:23,960 --> 01:23:26,519
Speaker 2: on guys inside where which is where you think you

1781
01:23:26,720 --> 01:23:31,880
Speaker 2: lose with a kind of linebacker mentality like Nickel, but

1782
01:23:32,080 --> 01:23:35,639
Speaker 2: he tackles well and covers well. So there's a part

1783
01:23:35,640 --> 01:23:38,120
Speaker 2: of me that thinks you know, maybe this offseason Texans

1784
01:23:38,160 --> 01:23:41,519
Speaker 2: look at a guy that can play the perimeter corner

1785
01:23:42,240 --> 01:23:45,360
Speaker 2: they feel comfortable with, and they just leave Kamara at

1786
01:23:45,360 --> 01:23:48,000
Speaker 2: the nickel, or they get Jalen Petrie back healthy, Camara

1787
01:23:48,000 --> 01:23:50,400
Speaker 2: can stay outside. Either way, I think they've got some options.

1788
01:23:50,439 --> 01:23:52,639
Speaker 2: Wants to get everybody healthy. But for me, Kamara Laster

1789
01:23:52,760 --> 01:23:54,280
Speaker 2: is gonna be that guy. He's got to help on

1790
01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:58,160
Speaker 2: the run game. You know, covering Calvin Ridley is always

1791
01:23:58,200 --> 01:24:01,000
Speaker 2: a challenge, and we go back to I don't know

1792
01:24:01,000 --> 01:24:02,840
Speaker 2: how many guys are gonna rest, how many guys you

1793
01:24:02,880 --> 01:24:05,920
Speaker 2: want to rest. You know, Derek Stingley has played. I

1794
01:24:06,000 --> 01:24:08,479
Speaker 2: think I think Sting's played every single game. You know,

1795
01:24:08,520 --> 01:24:10,680
Speaker 2: maybe sting sits a half well, that puts you know,

1796
01:24:10,760 --> 01:24:12,880
Speaker 2: Kamari on in the field for the full game with

1797
01:24:13,120 --> 01:24:14,200
Speaker 2: Jeffacuda or whomever.

1798
01:24:14,280 --> 01:24:17,120
Speaker 1: So I'm going with Kamara Laster. I think it's a

1799
01:24:17,120 --> 01:24:17,559
Speaker 1: good one.

1800
01:24:17,560 --> 01:24:20,920
Speaker 2: These rookies have played extremely well this year, probably better

1801
01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:23,880
Speaker 2: than anybody. Imagine the fact that you've got for your

1802
01:24:23,880 --> 01:24:27,400
Speaker 2: top four draft picks end up being starters basically on

1803
01:24:27,439 --> 01:24:30,000
Speaker 2: your team, and not the starters, but can retribute ralid

1804
01:24:30,280 --> 01:24:33,880
Speaker 2: impact contributors. So I'm gonna go Kamara Laster for this one.

1805
01:24:33,960 --> 01:24:36,280
Speaker 10: John, I wish you could measure I wish there was

1806
01:24:36,320 --> 01:24:39,400
Speaker 10: a unit of measurement you could use for confidence. There's not,

1807
01:24:39,840 --> 01:24:43,920
Speaker 10: you know, but before the season started, had a chance

1808
01:24:43,960 --> 01:24:45,880
Speaker 10: to I think it was I think it was during

1809
01:24:46,360 --> 01:24:49,519
Speaker 10: OTA's had a chance to interview Kamari one on one.

1810
01:24:49,800 --> 01:24:51,920
Speaker 10: I wasn't at the draft and he wasn't. He wasn't

1811
01:24:51,920 --> 01:24:53,360
Speaker 10: really at the draft either, because he was not a

1812
01:24:53,439 --> 01:24:56,680
Speaker 10: Day one pick, but I just remember being struck by

1813
01:24:56,680 --> 01:24:59,160
Speaker 10: his confidence and a lot of times, look, you don't

1814
01:24:59,200 --> 01:25:01,680
Speaker 10: get to the NFL if you're not confident. Every guy

1815
01:25:01,720 --> 01:25:04,640
Speaker 10: we've ever talked to has got confidence in abundance, but

1816
01:25:05,200 --> 01:25:08,160
Speaker 10: his is different and his is not any false bravado either.

1817
01:25:08,760 --> 01:25:11,040
Speaker 10: I can't remember what the question was, but it was

1818
01:25:11,880 --> 01:25:13,760
Speaker 10: something along lines of when did you know that you

1819
01:25:13,880 --> 01:25:17,920
Speaker 10: belonged and you could play in the NFL? And he

1820
01:25:18,360 --> 01:25:20,680
Speaker 10: he was not being cocky when he said these, but

1821
01:25:20,840 --> 01:25:24,240
Speaker 10: he said probably my freshman year when I got to campus,

1822
01:25:24,479 --> 01:25:28,320
Speaker 10: at my first practice at Georgia. Because I looked around

1823
01:25:28,360 --> 01:25:32,200
Speaker 10: and I was starting and everybody else around me, I

1824
01:25:32,280 --> 01:25:35,000
Speaker 10: knew would be playing in the NFL and probably be in.

1825
01:25:34,920 --> 01:25:35,479
Speaker 4: A pro bowler.

1826
01:25:35,520 --> 01:25:39,080
Speaker 10: I'm paraphrasing what he said, but basically, he's known since then,

1827
01:25:40,280 --> 01:25:42,759
Speaker 10: and he thought he was good going in. But that's

1828
01:25:42,800 --> 01:25:45,240
Speaker 10: cemented and solidified because think about who he.

1829
01:25:45,120 --> 01:25:46,439
Speaker 9: Was playing with back in the day.

1830
01:25:46,600 --> 01:25:47,240
Speaker 7: I mean that the.

1831
01:25:47,200 --> 01:25:50,439
Speaker 1: First time across that rock.

1832
01:25:52,080 --> 01:25:54,559
Speaker 10: Stars, but he was holding his own with those guys,

1833
01:25:54,600 --> 01:25:57,400
Speaker 10: holding his own against those guys. And I just remember

1834
01:25:57,439 --> 01:25:59,880
Speaker 10: when he walked out of that meeting, I don't know

1835
01:26:00,040 --> 01:26:01,719
Speaker 10: he's gonna do on the field. I had no idea,

1836
01:26:01,880 --> 01:26:05,439
Speaker 10: but I thought that guy's really confident guy. I mean,

1837
01:26:05,439 --> 01:26:08,320
Speaker 10: I've seen confident guys, but not like that. Yeah, it

1838
01:26:08,400 --> 01:26:10,559
Speaker 10: was it was herts and I wish you could quantify

1839
01:26:10,680 --> 01:26:15,040
Speaker 10: like he's got ninety eight rampules of you know, confident.

1840
01:26:15,080 --> 01:26:16,240
Speaker 9: I mean you can't.

1841
01:26:16,360 --> 01:26:19,240
Speaker 10: But whoever, if you, if you had to put everybody

1842
01:26:19,320 --> 01:26:21,519
Speaker 10: side by side, he's probably up at the tippy top

1843
01:26:21,720 --> 01:26:23,680
Speaker 10: on the Texans as far as confidence.

1844
01:26:23,840 --> 01:26:25,799
Speaker 9: What's funny you say.

1845
01:26:25,640 --> 01:26:28,320
Speaker 2: About that is I remember talking to him felt.

1846
01:26:28,120 --> 01:26:28,719
Speaker 1: The same way.

1847
01:26:29,600 --> 01:26:33,639
Speaker 2: Then we talked to Kaylen Bullock when Kaylen was drafted.

1848
01:26:33,680 --> 01:26:36,280
Speaker 9: I believe it's block block. He pronounced it block.

1849
01:26:36,520 --> 01:26:40,280
Speaker 1: He did pronounced it block thought block. Yeah, So Kalyn

1850
01:26:40,320 --> 01:26:41,559
Speaker 1: Bock Kaylen Block.

1851
01:26:43,000 --> 01:26:45,920
Speaker 2: Anyways, Kaylene is drafted, and I remember talking to him

1852
01:26:47,280 --> 01:26:50,280
Speaker 2: and I asked him about being in Houston meeting. What

1853
01:26:50,360 --> 01:26:51,880
Speaker 2: was it like all that kind of stuff, and you

1854
01:26:52,000 --> 01:26:54,280
Speaker 2: did you get on the board drops some places? Oh yes, sir,

1855
01:26:54,360 --> 01:26:56,120
Speaker 2: man I killed that. I mean like I was like

1856
01:26:56,160 --> 01:26:58,479
Speaker 2: a boy. He is supremely confident.

1857
01:26:58,600 --> 01:27:02,240
Speaker 9: Yeah, and then it's sort of way like hello.

1858
01:27:02,560 --> 01:27:04,400
Speaker 2: It wasn't like, yeah, you know, hey, I'm gonna be

1859
01:27:04,439 --> 01:27:07,120
Speaker 2: in the Pro Bowl nine times, think six years. It was,

1860
01:27:07,479 --> 01:27:10,960
Speaker 2: you know, just but very self assured. And then I

1861
01:27:10,960 --> 01:27:13,400
Speaker 2: thought about Kamario. I was like, that could be kind

1862
01:27:13,439 --> 01:27:16,720
Speaker 2: of fun. And those two are Kareem and Jjo like

1863
01:27:17,040 --> 01:27:20,720
Speaker 2: they travel everywhere together, the two of them together, best

1864
01:27:20,760 --> 01:27:21,080
Speaker 2: of friends.

1865
01:27:21,080 --> 01:27:22,840
Speaker 10: That's really when I was walking in today it's New

1866
01:27:22,880 --> 01:27:25,840
Speaker 10: Year's Day. I was walking in running thirty is sure

1867
01:27:25,880 --> 01:27:28,160
Speaker 10: and I'm not flexing like I'm some hard you know

1868
01:27:28,280 --> 01:27:30,679
Speaker 10: lunch paale worker. Anyways, when I was walking in down

1869
01:27:30,680 --> 01:27:33,160
Speaker 10: the hall, those two were walking in the locker room together.

1870
01:27:33,280 --> 01:27:35,559
Speaker 10: Kimer what they're saying, but they're just they're with each other,

1871
01:27:35,840 --> 01:27:36,400
Speaker 10: hanging out.

1872
01:27:36,280 --> 01:27:36,840
Speaker 1: All the time.

1873
01:27:37,240 --> 01:27:39,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll leave where you see four you see twenty

1874
01:27:39,840 --> 01:27:40,760
Speaker 2: one and vice versas.

1875
01:27:40,800 --> 01:27:42,720
Speaker 1: It was like the same thing with Kareem and j Joe.

1876
01:27:42,960 --> 01:27:45,639
Speaker 2: Wherever you saw twenty five, you saw twenty four all

1877
01:27:45,960 --> 01:27:47,719
Speaker 2: the time for years.

1878
01:27:47,960 --> 01:27:49,840
Speaker 9: What a nice young secondary those two.

1879
01:27:50,080 --> 01:27:50,360
Speaker 7: Yep.

1880
01:27:50,400 --> 01:27:55,080
Speaker 10: Petree Stingley, cooking scot and still gotta keep everybody healthy.

1881
01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:55,559
Speaker 9: Amen.

1882
01:27:55,760 --> 01:27:58,640
Speaker 10: All right, so those are our cream of the croppers Tennessee.

1883
01:27:59,479 --> 01:28:01,600
Speaker 10: Gonna be a fun trips. Close out the season with

1884
01:28:01,640 --> 01:28:05,599
Speaker 10: a bang. Lots of Texans seasons have and regular seasons

1885
01:28:05,600 --> 01:28:10,799
Speaker 10: have ended in Nashville. This one will end in Nashville

1886
01:28:10,880 --> 01:28:15,240
Speaker 10: regular season wise. Let's end on a high note. And yeah,

1887
01:28:15,400 --> 01:28:18,240
Speaker 10: let's get twenty twenty five started the right way. Hey,

1888
01:28:18,680 --> 01:28:20,519
Speaker 10: always love doing this with you, John, I always love

1889
01:28:20,600 --> 01:28:22,679
Speaker 10: doing this with you. Thank you for listening and for watching.

1890
01:28:22,800 --> 01:28:26,759
Speaker 10: We appreciate it. Couldn't do without you yourself. So until

1891
01:28:26,840 --> 01:28:28,960
Speaker 10: next time. We're talking about a playoff game next week.

1892
01:28:29,040 --> 01:28:31,920
Speaker 10: But until then, so long, and this is in the

1893
01:28:32,000 --> 01:28:33,760
Speaker 10: Lab presented by Exfinity.

1894
01:28:34,439 --> 01:28:35,599
Speaker 1: All right, we get back.

1895
01:28:35,720 --> 01:28:40,559
Speaker 2: We will go around the world of football, American football.

1896
01:28:40,560 --> 01:28:44,400
Speaker 2: Of course, a lot of things going on, news about

1897
01:28:44,439 --> 01:28:48,760
Speaker 2: the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, all of that, and

1898
01:28:48,800 --> 01:28:50,960
Speaker 2: what's going on in the NFL. Next right here in

1899
01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:53,439
Speaker 2: Texans All Access. We got one final segment of this

1900
01:28:53,600 --> 01:28:57,240
Speaker 2: edition of Texans All Access from London, Texans Radio Studio.

1901
01:28:57,400 --> 01:29:00,839
Speaker 2: I am your host, John Harris, football analyst, side line reporter,

1902
01:29:01,600 --> 01:29:03,919
Speaker 2: and then we'll turn it over to you. Area forty

1903
01:29:04,160 --> 01:29:08,719
Speaker 2: five coming up after me, and I always hesitate, who's

1904
01:29:08,720 --> 01:29:11,400
Speaker 2: going to be honest, No, it's Area forty five. I

1905
01:29:11,439 --> 01:29:15,360
Speaker 2: know that on the holidays you just never know who's

1906
01:29:15,360 --> 01:29:18,080
Speaker 2: stepping in what's going on. But either way, Area forty

1907
01:29:18,080 --> 01:29:22,360
Speaker 2: five will be on Sports Radio six ' ten coming up. Okay,

1908
01:29:22,680 --> 01:29:25,639
Speaker 2: around the world of football in the NFL, I'll bring

1909
01:29:25,760 --> 01:29:29,720
Speaker 2: say the world of football because college football. I'm kind

1910
01:29:29,720 --> 01:29:34,719
Speaker 2: of taking a stage on January first, as it typically does.

1911
01:29:34,800 --> 01:29:35,040
Speaker 1: Now.

1912
01:29:35,280 --> 01:29:38,080
Speaker 2: There was supposed to be three games today, but because

1913
01:29:38,120 --> 01:29:41,760
Speaker 2: of the tragedy that occurred on Bourbon Street, Bourbon and

1914
01:29:41,800 --> 01:29:46,720
Speaker 2: Canal last night and early this morning, fifteen.

1915
01:29:46,240 --> 01:29:47,280
Speaker 1: People have died.

1916
01:29:47,439 --> 01:29:50,920
Speaker 2: At this particular moment, that game the Superdome is just

1917
01:29:51,479 --> 01:29:55,720
Speaker 2: literally a driver in, you know, three wood away from

1918
01:29:55,720 --> 01:29:59,960
Speaker 2: where that took place. And because of the incident being

1919
01:30:00,160 --> 01:30:04,719
Speaker 2: considered a terrorist incident, the game tonight will get moved

1920
01:30:04,720 --> 01:30:08,200
Speaker 2: the Sugar Bowl between Notre Dame and Georgia will move

1921
01:30:08,320 --> 01:30:11,519
Speaker 2: to tomorrow. Now there's been talk about whether that game

1922
01:30:11,560 --> 01:30:15,160
Speaker 2: will move up in time. I think there's one of

1923
01:30:15,200 --> 01:30:17,160
Speaker 2: the I think the Gator Bowl is tomorrow as well.

1924
01:30:17,280 --> 01:30:20,880
Speaker 2: So there has been some push from ESPN, Georgia and

1925
01:30:20,920 --> 01:30:23,840
Speaker 2: Notre Dame to move that game up earlier because now

1926
01:30:23,880 --> 01:30:26,200
Speaker 2: you're losing a day of prep if you win the game,

1927
01:30:26,560 --> 01:30:29,120
Speaker 2: because the winner of that will play Penn State in

1928
01:30:29,200 --> 01:30:34,000
Speaker 2: the Orange Bowl. So they want to move that thing up.

1929
01:30:34,520 --> 01:30:36,479
Speaker 2: Sounds like everybody wants to do it now, it's just

1930
01:30:36,479 --> 01:30:41,160
Speaker 2: a matter of can they get the clearance from FBI

1931
01:30:41,320 --> 01:30:44,320
Speaker 2: local officials to be able to do that. But the

1932
01:30:44,360 --> 01:30:48,840
Speaker 2: Sugar Bowl in New Orleans postponed until tomorrow night, and

1933
01:30:48,880 --> 01:30:52,600
Speaker 2: again thoughts of prayers go go out to the families impacted.

1934
01:30:52,760 --> 01:30:55,479
Speaker 2: So many were there for the Georgia Notre Dame game.

1935
01:30:55,560 --> 01:30:58,040
Speaker 2: So many people go to New Orleans for New Year's Eve.

1936
01:30:59,439 --> 01:31:02,639
Speaker 2: Just an absolute It's one of those things you wake

1937
01:31:02,720 --> 01:31:03,640
Speaker 2: up to you and see it.

1938
01:31:03,640 --> 01:31:04,439
Speaker 1: It's one of those.

1939
01:31:04,320 --> 01:31:06,639
Speaker 2: Notifications on my phone at seven o'clock in the morning

1940
01:31:06,640 --> 01:31:08,920
Speaker 2: and you just, I mean, I literally started.

1941
01:31:08,680 --> 01:31:11,320
Speaker 1: Crying because I love that city. I love New Orleans.

1942
01:31:11,360 --> 01:31:13,320
Speaker 1: Of other people that city. I love the people that

1943
01:31:13,360 --> 01:31:15,200
Speaker 1: go down there and visit, spend their money there. I

1944
01:31:15,320 --> 01:31:19,719
Speaker 1: just everything about it and just gut punch of gut punches.

1945
01:31:20,200 --> 01:31:24,080
Speaker 2: Now on the field with the playoff game today, Texas

1946
01:31:24,080 --> 01:31:26,920
Speaker 2: beats Arizona State Mark and I actually watched that game

1947
01:31:27,200 --> 01:31:29,439
Speaker 2: all the way to its conclusion, and what a game

1948
01:31:29,560 --> 01:31:32,080
Speaker 2: it was. Texas was a thirteen and a half point

1949
01:31:32,160 --> 01:31:35,760
Speaker 2: favorite against Arizona and Camps Campscataboo. And if you haven't

1950
01:31:35,800 --> 01:31:38,200
Speaker 2: seen Camp Scataboo, shame on you, because that dude is

1951
01:31:38,240 --> 01:31:40,639
Speaker 2: an absolute baller. He should have been a Heisman finalist.

1952
01:31:40,960 --> 01:31:42,800
Speaker 2: I said it at the time. I'd say it again.

1953
01:31:43,400 --> 01:31:45,840
Speaker 2: On my ballot, it would have been Ashton Genty, who

1954
01:31:45,880 --> 01:31:48,880
Speaker 2: was fantastic. Literally, Travis Hunter been in Campscatterbury. Those have

1955
01:31:48,880 --> 01:31:53,040
Speaker 2: been my three. They Academy was fantastic in the game,

1956
01:31:53,840 --> 01:31:57,120
Speaker 2: didn't get much early, was thrown up on the sideline,

1957
01:31:57,280 --> 01:32:00,640
Speaker 2: was caught on video saying, you know, I'm done with this.

1958
01:32:00,680 --> 01:32:02,120
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, we gotta be better. I mean

1959
01:32:02,120 --> 01:32:04,280
Speaker 1: he's just really kind of going off. Well. They were

1960
01:32:04,280 --> 01:32:06,600
Speaker 1: down sixteen in the second half, missed a.

1961
01:32:06,600 --> 01:32:10,120
Speaker 2: Couple of field goals, got stopped at the two yard line,

1962
01:32:10,600 --> 01:32:12,800
Speaker 2: but then they got a safety, kind of got back

1963
01:32:12,840 --> 01:32:14,679
Speaker 2: in it. Texas scored to make it twenty four to eight.

1964
01:32:15,760 --> 01:32:20,000
Speaker 2: Then Skataboo on fourth and two through about forty yard

1965
01:32:20,040 --> 01:32:22,720
Speaker 2: touchdown on a half back pass. They scored the two,

1966
01:32:23,479 --> 01:32:27,639
Speaker 2: got the ball back. Then Scataboo catches the ball down,

1967
01:32:27,640 --> 01:32:30,080
Speaker 2: the field goes in his scores. Then he scores the two.

1968
01:32:30,360 --> 01:32:34,000
Speaker 2: They tied at twenty four. Texas misses the field goal.

1969
01:32:34,640 --> 01:32:37,799
Speaker 2: Arizona State can't do anything with it. Controversial non targeting

1970
01:32:37,880 --> 01:32:41,960
Speaker 2: call by Texas should have been targeting. Texas fans, you can,

1971
01:32:42,040 --> 01:32:43,519
Speaker 2: like I said earlier, you can miss me with all that.

1972
01:32:43,520 --> 01:32:46,240
Speaker 1: That's targeting. That's the definition of targeting. Was missed.

1973
01:32:46,560 --> 01:32:50,799
Speaker 2: Don't know why, but the game goes in overtime. Arizona

1974
01:32:50,840 --> 01:32:53,439
Speaker 2: State scores looks like they may have the game. It's

1975
01:32:53,479 --> 01:32:57,040
Speaker 2: fourth and thirteen for Texas. Quinny Ewers drops a bomb

1976
01:32:57,040 --> 01:32:58,439
Speaker 2: on Matthew Golden touchdown.

1977
01:32:58,439 --> 01:32:58,800
Speaker 1: Tied up.

1978
01:32:58,840 --> 01:33:03,000
Speaker 2: Goes the second overtime Gunnerhelm touchdown from Ewers. Matthew Golden

1979
01:33:03,040 --> 01:33:05,960
Speaker 2: two point conversion from Ewers. They go out thirty nine

1980
01:33:06,000 --> 01:33:09,120
Speaker 2: to thirty one. Arizona State gets the ball down inside

1981
01:33:09,640 --> 01:33:12,439
Speaker 2: the twelve yard line. Tried to round a wheel route,

1982
01:33:12,479 --> 01:33:16,439
Speaker 2: gets picked off by Austin native and Clemson transfer Andrew maccaba,

1983
01:33:17,000 --> 01:33:17,439
Speaker 2: and that's it.

1984
01:33:17,640 --> 01:33:19,840
Speaker 1: One of the greatest college football games I've ever seen.

1985
01:33:20,200 --> 01:33:21,320
Speaker 1: Is unbelievable.

1986
01:33:21,520 --> 01:33:23,760
Speaker 2: Texas will now go to the Cotton Bowl for the

1987
01:33:23,760 --> 01:33:26,439
Speaker 2: first time to two thousand and three when they played LSU.

1988
01:33:26,720 --> 01:33:29,080
Speaker 2: Roy Williams was a wide receiver at Texas and that

1989
01:33:29,160 --> 01:33:30,760
Speaker 2: was in the old Cotton Bowl. So they go to

1990
01:33:30,840 --> 01:33:33,720
Speaker 2: the Cotton Bowl to take on the winner of the

1991
01:33:33,760 --> 01:33:37,120
Speaker 2: Rose Bowl, Oregon in Ohio State and Manas Ohio State

1992
01:33:37,160 --> 01:33:39,280
Speaker 2: look good. So you get Texas, Ohio State, Texas, Oregon

1993
01:33:39,280 --> 01:33:40,720
Speaker 2: in the Cotton Bowl. That's as good as it gets.

1994
01:33:40,920 --> 01:33:43,280
Speaker 2: You'll get Penn State Notre Dame or Penn State Georgia

1995
01:33:43,840 --> 01:33:47,599
Speaker 2: in the Orange Bowl in the semifinals. Like I said,

1996
01:33:47,600 --> 01:33:51,240
Speaker 2: Georgia and Notre Dame will play tomorrow as the game

1997
01:33:51,479 --> 01:33:55,360
Speaker 2: has been postponed until then. Let's go to the NFL.

1998
01:33:55,800 --> 01:34:02,200
Speaker 2: The Chiefs will start Carson Wentz on on Sunday against

1999
01:34:02,240 --> 01:34:06,240
Speaker 2: the Denver Broncos. Makes a ton of sense that he

2000
01:34:06,280 --> 01:34:10,479
Speaker 2: would start. You're gonna rest guys, well, Patrick Mahomes' first

2001
01:34:10,520 --> 01:34:13,480
Speaker 2: and foremost, especially dealing with that ankle issue.

2002
01:34:13,600 --> 01:34:16,080
Speaker 1: So Mahomes will.

2003
01:34:15,880 --> 01:34:20,519
Speaker 2: Rest on Sunday against the Denver Broncos. Expected that. Now

2004
01:34:21,160 --> 01:34:27,000
Speaker 2: the math on this, let's do it together. They've last

2005
01:34:27,000 --> 01:34:29,840
Speaker 2: played Christmas Day, that was when we played, so the

2006
01:34:29,920 --> 01:34:33,960
Speaker 2: twenty fifth, and they get to buy so they'll rest

2007
01:34:34,240 --> 01:34:37,200
Speaker 2: this weekend, then they get the bye week, and then

2008
01:34:37,240 --> 01:34:40,000
Speaker 2: they'll play in the divisional round. It's about three and

2009
01:34:40,040 --> 01:34:43,160
Speaker 2: a half weeks that Mahomes and company will get a

2010
01:34:43,280 --> 01:34:46,760
Speaker 2: chance to rest for the divisional playoff round game. And

2011
01:34:47,080 --> 01:34:51,040
Speaker 2: if the Texans were to win there the wildcard round game,

2012
01:34:51,600 --> 01:34:55,760
Speaker 2: more than likely they would play those rested Chiefs at Arrowhead.

2013
01:34:56,000 --> 01:34:58,400
Speaker 2: My goodness, all right, that's gonna do it for tonight's show.

2014
01:34:58,720 --> 01:35:03,960
Speaker 2: Appreciate everybody for being here with me, Mark Drew, Nick,

2015
01:35:04,160 --> 01:35:06,760
Speaker 2: Miles Bryant, Mike Keith, all on the show.

2016
01:35:06,840 --> 01:35:09,840
Speaker 1: Appreciate it you guys listening. Happy New Year to everybody.

2017
01:35:10,160 --> 01:35:12,400
Speaker 2: Thoughts and prayers to everybody in New Orleans and those

2018
01:35:12,479 --> 01:35:16,120
Speaker 2: impacted by everything that took place in New Orleans New

2019
01:35:16,160 --> 01:35:18,400
Speaker 2: Year's Day, early early morning.

2020
01:35:18,720 --> 01:35:20,960
Speaker 1: Love you guys so much. We'll see tomorrow and as always,

2021
01:35:20,960 --> 01:35:21,559
Speaker 1: go Texans.