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Speaker 1: Hello, Texans, welcome to the show on New Year's Eve Eve.

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Speaker 1: That's right, New Year's Eve is tomorrow, So it's New

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Speaker 1: Year's Eve Eve. Mark Vandermere and John Harris with you.

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Speaker 1: And we're not celebrating anymore, are we? Well maybe a

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Speaker 1: little bit, because the Texans are in the playoffs, but

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Speaker 1: looking forward to that Colts game and observing all the

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Speaker 1: matchup possibilities, if I gave you all the scenarios, your

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Speaker 1: head would explode, seriously, it would. I mean, Omar mazoom

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Speaker 1: are pr Guru sent out this thing that explains everything,

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Speaker 1: And as you're reading it, you're thinking, just tell me

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Speaker 1: who we're playing Sunday afternoon. Please, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: read this anymore. It's not Sunday afternoon. Really, it's Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: Because you have to know the result of the Ravens

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Speaker 1: and the Steelers. But Johnny, the Texans could be seated fifth, sixth, seventh,

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Speaker 1: could be seated third if they win the division. So

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Speaker 1: there's so many possibilities out there. Let's just see what

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Speaker 1: happens against the Colts and with the Jags and the

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Speaker 1: Titans and the Steelers and the Ravens and the rest.

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Speaker 2: But It's fun to talk about because at oen three,

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Speaker 2: what were we talking about.

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Speaker 1: We were talking about, please go on our run, Please

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Speaker 1: win one game, actually, just.

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Speaker 3: Win one game.

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Speaker 2: It's six to nothing going into the fourth quarter of

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Speaker 2: the game against the Tennessee Titans. They're owing three, we're

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Speaker 2: owing three, and they're scoop and score from going up

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Speaker 2: seven to six in.

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Speaker 3: The fourth quarter. Oh my gosh, that's right.

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Speaker 2: And then three touchdowns, two Woody Marks touchdowns and a

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Speaker 2: Jaden Haagens touchdown, and it's twenty six to nothing, and

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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, it's the first shutout.

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Speaker 3: It's all right, I guess it's the only shutout of

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Speaker 3: the year.

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Speaker 2: And it's the defensive performance you're looking for. The offense

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Speaker 2: got something going, and then you beat Baltimore next week.

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Speaker 3: I felt like, okay, on a roll, let's go to Seattle.

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Speaker 2: Proved something after the bye week, and then when Seattle

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Speaker 2: punched us in the mouth, I thought, oh, now it's

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Speaker 2: a short week and it's San Francisco. I know San

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Speaker 2: Francisco's beat up, but they just beat They just jumped

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Speaker 2: all over Atlanta. Yep, just jumped all over Atlanta. And

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Speaker 2: we played really well in the Niners game, and I thought, Okay,

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Speaker 2: this is the run. Three games at home, Niners, then Broncos,

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Speaker 2: then Jags. Here's the run. And then early in the

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Speaker 2: second quarter, CJ goes down with the concussion, and I thought, but.

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Speaker 1: We all knew that that was a tough stretch, that

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Speaker 1: three game home stretch. Great that they're at home, but

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Speaker 1: playoff team, playoff team, playoff team that you're facing.

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Speaker 2: Well, if you go buy pft's power rankings, yes, this

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Speaker 2: is what you face in three straight weeks. The number

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Speaker 2: five team, the number three team, and the number four team.

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Speaker 3: Beat two of them. You beat two of them, two

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Speaker 3: of them.

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Speaker 1: You lost to the third by a chin, I mean

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Speaker 1: yin ea chin chin. You know you're looking at a

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Speaker 1: field goal loss in a game where CJ got hurt

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Speaker 1: in the first half and Davis had to finish it

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Speaker 1: off and you just couldn't move the football.

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Speaker 3: Well, you lost by three in that one.

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Speaker 1: You still held them to sixteen, which is kind of

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Speaker 1: a Texans recurring number if you will. Sixteen, Yeah, sixteen,

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Speaker 1: get to seventeen and you win, babe, you win.

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Speaker 3: That's all you got to do for this is they

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Speaker 3: missed an extra points somewhere along the line.

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Speaker 1: But you mentioned those power rankings. Seahawks won, followed by

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. The Jaguars are the number three ranked team

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Speaker 1: on the PFT Power Rankings and a lot of other

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Speaker 1: power rankings. There's no one go to power ranking place,

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Speaker 1: but I'll use theirs just for this purpose to say

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Speaker 1: the Jags are third, and it's hard to argue it

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Speaker 1: really is, because they beat the Broncos, who are right

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Speaker 1: behind them. They beat the forty nine ers, They beat

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Speaker 1: the seventh ranked Texans. They did not play the Bills.

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Speaker 1: They beat the eleventh ranked Chargers. They have some pelts

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Speaker 1: from this year regular season pelts.

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Speaker 3: The Jags got them.

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Speaker 1: They go to Indy last week a couple of days ago,

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Speaker 1: and we were all ready for the Colts to win.

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Speaker 1: And the Colts played well enough to stay within striking distance.

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Speaker 1: They made some errors, they turned the ball over, they

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Speaker 1: got some takeaways right, they picked off Trevor Lawrence and

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Speaker 1: the end zone another pick, but unable to get it done.

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Speaker 1: And I think that was the last stand for the Colts,

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Speaker 1: even though they knew they were out of it with

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Speaker 1: the Texans victory over the Chargers. They gave the Jags everything.

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Speaker 1: They wanted it more. But the Jags give them credit.

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Speaker 1: They have won when you thought they should go out.

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Speaker 1: Thank goodness. The Texans came back from nineteen down to

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Speaker 1: get that win. When they did, they split with the Jaguars.

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Speaker 1: But you and I talk about it all the time

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Speaker 1: that Week three loss. It stings, It sticks with you.

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Speaker 1: But maybe look, you are where you are, which is

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Speaker 1: a really good place, and maybe you had to go

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Speaker 1: through all those downs to get to the ups that

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Speaker 1: you have now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt, I feel like you did. I just

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Speaker 2: I have those moments during the year where I watched

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Speaker 2: this team. You and I watched every single play, every

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Speaker 2: single scrimmage of practice, in training camp, everything, and I

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Speaker 2: walked out of there thinking, we got a squad. We

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Speaker 2: got a squad defensively, it's even at a different level offensively, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I think this is going to be a little bit

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Speaker 2: of a struggle at first till we get settled in

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Speaker 2: the offensive line, get settled here?

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Speaker 3: Do we get settled there? And I felt like settling

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Speaker 3: in was.

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Speaker 2: Starting to happen in that Broncos game, and then CJ

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Speaker 2: went out, you know, offensively. Then CJ went out and

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Speaker 2: he thought, okay, ooh man, Now they got to adjust

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Speaker 2: to Davis. And they did a good job adjusting to Davis.

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Speaker 2: But then CJ came in. Okay, there's got to be

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Speaker 2: an adjustment of CJ. Then the offensive line gets banged

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Speaker 2: up as we go place the Chargers. But through all that,

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Speaker 2: we still won, and that obviously is the most important thing.

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Speaker 2: But it kind of confirmed I thought about this team

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Speaker 2: early on. They've got a really good chemistry. They're very

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Speaker 3: But oh and three, it's not coming to fruition and

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Speaker 3: they're like, man, what did I miss? What did I

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Speaker 3: what I miss? Why is? Why is this team own? Three?

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Speaker 2: Okay, the offense wasn't performing up to a particular level.

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Speaker 2: Then they started to show some signs of life in it. Ironically,

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Speaker 2: it's starting at the fourth quarter against Jacksonville in Week three.

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Speaker 2: Then they started kind of getting it going a little bit,

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Speaker 2: and then the concussion kind of set them back. Seattle

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Speaker 2: set them back a little bit. That Seattle game is,

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Speaker 2: oh man, Tennessee. That that's a tough place to play.

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Speaker 2: That's a place that Jacksonville didn't have to go. Jacksonville

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Speaker 2: played Seattle, got beat by Seattle in New vau County

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Speaker 2: So I just I feel like the Texans, how is

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Speaker 2: this whole thing change if? And I brought up this

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Speaker 2: play before, and it's not his fault because to me,

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Speaker 2: he's the most outstanding player offensively the chense Nico Collins.

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Speaker 3: What if Nico doesn't fumble at Jacksonville?

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Speaker 4: Do they score?

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Speaker 3: Do they win? You don't know.

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Speaker 2: I think they can run the clock out and kick

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Speaker 2: a field go win the game. Yeah maybe, but you

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Speaker 2: never know. And I mean maybe the season plays different,

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Speaker 2: plays out differently.

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Speaker 3: If you think it could win.

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Speaker 1: I think it could look like I said, you are

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Speaker 1: where you are, butterfly effects stuff, yep, and maybe you

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Speaker 1: had to go through all of that and here you are.

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Speaker 1: It would be great to have a playoff game at home.

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Speaker 1: And I just feel like, Man, the Jags they've won

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Speaker 1: seven in a row now right, they're right.

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Speaker 3: Now the one game behind this, so we're eight. There's seven.

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Speaker 1: They've won seven in a row. If you told me

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Speaker 1: after that day when Davis Mills runs it in third

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Speaker 1: and fourteen and you make that stop on defense and

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Speaker 1: Sheldon Rankins runs it into the end zone, hey, Mark,

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Speaker 1: the Jags from here are winning the next seven. No

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Speaker 1: fricking way, Okay, this I would bet the house, and

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Speaker 1: I don't bet, but this is an expression. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: would not bet, but I would just put a lot

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Speaker 1: of gentlemanly whatever currency on it that the Jags are

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Speaker 1: not going to win seven in a row from there.

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Speaker 1: Look at the schedule. There's no way.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So let me ask you this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what if I'd have told you after that Jacksonville game,

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Speaker 2: think about where we are at that point in the season. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: what if I'd have told you the Colts won't make

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Speaker 2: going to.

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Speaker 1: And one of them is going to be the third

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Speaker 1: rank power ranked team in the country. What would you

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Speaker 1: have said, You're bleeping crazy, crazy, You're crazy, you can't

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Speaker 1: there's no way. But the culture the Jaguar Like twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three meltdown, because the Jags, we talk about it

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Speaker 1: all the time. They were eight and three when they

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Speaker 1: left here. When the ball doinks off the crossbar from

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Speaker 1: Matt Amadola, you know what, it strikes me up a

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Speaker 1: little bit more.

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Speaker 2: What the Titans in twenty two. That was another meltdown,

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Speaker 2: another meltdown because this division, Johnny, the Titans had their

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Speaker 2: meltdown and they lost that play in game. If you

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Speaker 2: will with the Jaguars, yes, because remember how twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: two went for the Titans. They get out to a

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Speaker 2: pretty good lead. The Jags actually do not get out

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Speaker 2: well in twenty two. Then the Jags get hot at

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Speaker 2: the end of the year, the Titans fade, and then

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Speaker 2: they got to go win that game at Jacksonville and

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Speaker 2: they're actually ahead in that game. Josh aans Allen sacks,

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Speaker 2: Dobbs ball out, Jaguar score, take the lead and then

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Speaker 2: so what you're.

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Speaker 1: Telling me is three of the last four years, the

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Speaker 1: AFC South Division leader, with maybe six seven weeks to go,

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Speaker 1: maybe less than that, melts down into oblivion.

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Speaker 2: That's true and does not make the postseason. Wait a minute, marvel, what.

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Speaker 1: About the Colts in twenty twenty Wait, no, twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: what about the Carson Wentz.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, same thing.

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Speaker 1: Colts were they leading and then they fell apart late. No,

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Speaker 1: they had a chance to get in by beating Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: They couldn't do it.

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Speaker 2: No, No, No, the remember Wentz and the Wentz had the

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Speaker 2: whole COVID thing. They had to win one of the

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Speaker 2: last two they had to win one of the last two.

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Speaker 2: They had to beat the Raiders or they had to

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Speaker 2: go down to Duval County and beat the Jacks.

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Speaker 1: But the Titans were the number one seed that because Wentz.

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Speaker 1: I'll never forget it.

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Speaker 2: Wentz made a throw against the Cardinals, either on Christmas

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Speaker 2: Eve or the day after Christmas, I can't remember, in

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Speaker 2: the back of the end zone to beat the Cardinals.

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Speaker 2: I'll never forget. There was a tremendous throw. He's kind

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Speaker 2: of going left, makes it throw. They beat the Cardinals,

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Speaker 2: They've got to win one of the last two. The

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Speaker 2: Raiders beat them at home. And remember Wentz. Remember the

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Speaker 2: NFL had changed its rules so that Wentz could actually

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Speaker 2: play based on its COVID testing. Wentz plays, hasn't practiced

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Speaker 2: all week. He's a mess. The Raiders beat them on

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Speaker 2: the last second field goal. They then go to Jacksonville

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Speaker 2: the following week. The whole team is a mess, and

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Speaker 2: Think about this, going back to twenty sixteen, the Colts

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Speaker 2: Twenty sixteen we faced Luck both times. Twenty seventeen we

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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty three, Minshew and Richardson a little bit, and

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Speaker 2: even really believe I'm saying this, but I think, and

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Speaker 2: Minshew is not good enough to win a Super Bowl,

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Speaker 2: but you know what, he's good enough to do bridge

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Speaker 2: got Gardner Minshew when Shane Slikin stepped in there because

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Speaker 2: they should have said, you know what, it's Minshew. We

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Speaker 2: not have You know what, we really like CJ.

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Speaker 1: You're saying that last year they should have had Minshew

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Speaker 1: Yes, we all know that they wanted to recapture the

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Speaker 2: Or or somebody somebody else. But Minshew at least he

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Speaker 2: But I my point in that is twenty twenty three's

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Speaker 2: don't even draft Richardson. That would And that's the thing.

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Speaker 2: They fell in love with him. They fell in love

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Speaker 2: He can do backflips, he can throw it out of

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Speaker 2: was proven at East Side High School and at Florida

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Speaker 2: it was proven he can't play quarterback.

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Speaker 3: He was an athlete playing quarterback. He was not an

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Speaker 3: they screwed up.

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Speaker 1: There can the Texans beat the Riley Leonard quarterbacked Colts?

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Speaker 1: Sitting guys, This is thing, this is something I'm not

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 1: But I guess I'm feeling like you could still beat

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Speaker 1: I don't mean everybody, but I'm talking sting Lasseter Azz Petree.

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Speaker 2: Who is anybody who if anybody left your report for

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and for a number of things.

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Speaker 3: I mean I do not. I don't.

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Speaker 2: I mean I don't feel like I mean, look, you

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Scoob healthy, Jamal Hill, Jamal Hill play

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Speaker 2: Ajan mccaron played right, Yeah, who played running back that day?

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Speaker 3: He's like, oh, yeah, maybe we should have.

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Speaker 2: Something for him, okay, and he ended up playing like

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean to keep a keep guys healthy, b

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Speaker 1: Show you what maybe they've got and you still might

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Speaker 1: get them anyway. I don't know if the Colts aren't

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Speaker 3: We'll see. I mean, there's no deforce Buckner. He's on

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Speaker 2: I would think Sauce is not gonna play. He went

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Speaker 3: What about Taylor, you feel like he's got to play.

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Speaker 3: Here's the thing.

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Speaker 3: So we might have a Derek Henry situation on our hand. Right.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Bijon put up what two bills?

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Speaker 1: Mean, he saw the talent, but you're like, is this

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Speaker 3: When it's all said, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, next year, going to twenty twenty six, he's got

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I mean, I got I gotta.

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Speaker 1: Think someone I know was playing against him this weekend, thought, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, someone you know that, someone I know too. The

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 2: I was thinking about that watching the Monday night game,

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Speaker 2: in the NFL right now? And I think it's really

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Speaker 2: difficult to know who it is. Diamino Leonor said it best.

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Speaker 2: He's like, who cares the number one team is? And

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Speaker 2: he basically was saying, whatever you thought of the Niners before,

436
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Speaker 2: where we are right now, we're right in position. We

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Speaker 2: win one game at home with the number one seed

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Speaker 2: in the NFC. And now that now that forty nine

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Speaker 2: ers become tough, and and there's a possibility that Fred

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Speaker 2: Warner could pull a JJ Watt and get back for

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Speaker 2: the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: That can them with Warner back.

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Speaker 1: I'll go ahead and play him because that means we

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Speaker 1: see him in the exactly with me, Fred come back,

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Speaker 1: all right, Tory lines go Lore happened coming up? Dy

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Speaker 1: Kalu joins us and after that, Johnny and I on

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Speaker 1: sports viewing QUICKI at the end of the show, but

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Speaker 1: d next on everything about this football team on Texans

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Speaker 1: Radio here in the hun Day Texans Radio Studio. Great

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Speaker 1: to have you listening to the program. Let's get to

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Speaker 1: it our conversation with nd Kalu, D good evening. Tell

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Speaker 1: me your reaction to all of it. The big run,

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Speaker 1: the start zero in three, making the postseason, beating the

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Speaker 1: Chargers on Saturday, what do you got.

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Speaker 5: You know what, If I give you my reaction to everything,

456
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Speaker 5: Mark will be here for two hours. But one of

457
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Speaker 5: the things that really sticks out, and I was thinking

458
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Speaker 5: about this the other day, this is why you hire

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Speaker 5: a guy like Jamiko Ryans. Is easy to be a

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Speaker 5: leader when things are going well. It's easy to be

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Speaker 5: a head coach when you're five and three instead of

462
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Speaker 5: three and five and everyone's patting you on the back.

463
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Speaker 5: But to keep the confidence up to truly believe in

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Speaker 5: what you're preaching of the culture when you're zero and

465
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Speaker 5: three and you don't waiver, you don't change who you are.

466
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Speaker 5: Trust me, I've been in locker rooms like that. The

467
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Speaker 5: team really galvanizes around it and they start to believe

468
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Speaker 5: the message even if things aren't going well. I remember

469
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Speaker 5: when I was in Philadelphia during our nice runs and

470
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Speaker 5: we were on a very good defense, not as good

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Speaker 5: as this defense with the Texans, but we were on

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Speaker 5: a very good defense. And when we had two or

473
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Speaker 5: three bad games in a row. Are great coordinator Jim Johnson,

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Speaker 5: he never changed, he never panicked, and we just knew,

475
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Speaker 5: like you know what, something didn't go our way. But

476
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Speaker 5: we're still a good defense. And I feel like that's

477
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Speaker 5: how this Houston Texan team feels because of the leadership

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Speaker 5: of Dmiko Ryans.

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Speaker 3: Indy, you guys in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 2: I'd to imagine had clinched a playoff spot before the

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Speaker 2: final week of the season, how tough is that final

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Speaker 2: week or the final weeks when you already have the

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Speaker 2: playoffs wrapped up, but you still got to finish these

484
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Speaker 2: final regular season games before you can get into those

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Speaker 2: playoff games.

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Speaker 3: How tough is this? Knowing the Texans are in the.

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Speaker 2: Playoffs, there's still a lot at stake, But how tough

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Speaker 2: are those games because you know you want to play

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Speaker 2: those playoff games, yet you got to get through these

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Speaker 2: final regular season ones.

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Speaker 5: Man, that's such a great question because I can sit

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Speaker 5: back and just say, oh, everyone's getting paid, it's not

493
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Speaker 5: tough to play. But you're right, John, it has that

494
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Speaker 5: preseason feel where the powers that be they don't want

495
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Speaker 5: to hurt the nucleus. They don't want to hurt obviously

496
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Speaker 5: your star players, but at the same time they expect

497
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Speaker 5: the guys who step on the field to have that

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Speaker 5: same intensity. So the toughest part isn't the game, Like

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Speaker 5: once the lights come on and the fans start cheering.

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Speaker 5: It's easy to play a game. I mean, we saw Cleveland,

501
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Speaker 5: who isn't playing for quote unquote anything, play a passionate

502
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Speaker 5: game and be Pittsburgh last week. So once, I mean,

503
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Speaker 5: these guys are competitors. But during the week is where

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Speaker 5: it's tough job because a guy like Danielle Hunter is

505
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Speaker 5: thinking about the first playoff game and hey, I want

506
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Speaker 5: to get my body right, get my body ready for

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Speaker 5: this first playoff win. But you have a week of

508
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Speaker 5: preparation for the team that's going to be in front

509
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Speaker 5: of you, and that's the hardest part to stay focused

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Speaker 5: during the week leading up to the game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, especially when you know that the Jags losing to

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Speaker 1: the Titans is such a long shot. It really is

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Speaker 1: now it could happen. I don't expect it to happen.

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Speaker 1: There are a lot of different dynamics that play here, nd,

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Speaker 1: but that does make it more difficult for the coaching

516
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Speaker 1: staff or everybody involved. Do you rest a little bit

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Speaker 1: knowing that the really important games are still in front of.

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Speaker 3: You or go all out? I know you're going to

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Speaker 3: go all out.

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Speaker 1: Once the lights are on, like you said, but it

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Speaker 1: is a weird dynamic when you look at it that way,

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Speaker 1: you're going to be scoreboard watching, because if the Jags

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Speaker 1: have a huge lead, I would imagine guys will start

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Speaker 1: coming out. And it's not like you have a seventy

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Speaker 1: player roster of college football whatever, but you'll do what

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Speaker 1: you can do to rest guys your thoughts.

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Speaker 5: No, you're right, it's not like you can play a

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Speaker 5: guy and he'll still keep his red shirt so he

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Speaker 5: doesn't mind playing. But it's a situation mark where when

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Speaker 5: Domico and the coaching staff as of right now, when

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Speaker 5: they're putting their heads together, Hey, how are we going

532
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Speaker 5: to approach this? Once they come up with that plan,

533
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Speaker 5: then they have to push it and they can't waiver

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Speaker 5: from it. And that's the toughest part coming up with

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Speaker 5: the plan. Like if the plan is, Hey, we're going

536
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Speaker 5: to go in this and we're gonna tell everyone we

537
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Speaker 5: need to win this game to keep the momentum going,

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Speaker 5: and we're gonna play our starters, then you just have

539
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Speaker 5: to stick with it. If the plan is, hey, everyone

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Speaker 5: understands that even if we don't win this game, that

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Speaker 5: we're still in the playoffs and the rest is more

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Speaker 5: important than winning the game, then you preach that to

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Speaker 5: the team, you know, during the team meeting on that

544
00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 5: Monday meeting, Tuesday meeting, you say, hey, look, guys, this

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Speaker 5: is how we're going to approach it. The first three

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Speaker 5: series we're going to play these guys. It's going to

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Speaker 5: be just like that preseason field. And you tell the guys, hey,

548
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Speaker 5: when you start talking about playoff football, it's all about

549
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Speaker 5: the death. So if you're in this game, we're getting

550
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Speaker 5: you prepared for the playoffs and we want you to

551
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Speaker 5: play as if you are the starters. Whatever you do,

552
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Speaker 5: you just have to solidify it early and make sure

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Speaker 5: that you present it to the entire team and not

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Speaker 5: have any delays in what you're saying and any question.

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Speaker 5: You know, you have to be positive about your plan

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Speaker 5: moving forward because guys, they'll start to see, you know,

557
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Speaker 5: they'll start to see if you don't truly believe how

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Speaker 5: you're going to approach this week.

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Speaker 2: In the week E team might actually present an interesting

560
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Speaker 2: opportunity as it pertains to preparation, et cetera. Riley Leonard

561
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Speaker 2: apparently will get his first start for the Indianapolis Colts

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Speaker 2: against the Texans defense.

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Speaker 3: He's a mobile quarterback.

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Speaker 2: He moves around, but Is that the kind of thing

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Speaker 2: when you face a rookie quarterback that kind of charges

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Speaker 2: up a defense, like, oh, hey, we got to teach

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Speaker 2: his young bucks some things. This is the first time

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Speaker 2: we're seeing him, and I know he does some things

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Speaker 2: that you go, oh, Okay, this guy's different than maybe

570
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Speaker 2: this guy or that guy. But he's a rookie. We

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Speaker 2: got to kind of show him what it's all about.

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Speaker 2: We get that opportunity. How much how much does that

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Speaker 2: kind of play in for a defense when you are

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Speaker 2: facing rookie.

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Speaker 3: Whether it's week eighteen or week one, that you're.

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Speaker 2: Facing a rookie, he's starting for the first time and

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Speaker 2: you really want to impart your your dominance over him

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Speaker 2: in particular.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what y'all's Instagram algorithms are like, but

580
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Speaker 5: for mine, for whatever reason, I get the Kanye Corso's

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Speaker 5: those big beautiful dogs, yeah eating they're eating the raw chicken,

582
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Speaker 5: the fish, and before they start eating this kind of

583
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Speaker 5: roads but kind of cool, they're just salivating, like the

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Speaker 5: spit is just dripping from their mouths, salivating before the

585
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Speaker 5: master tells them that they're able to eat. When you're

586
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Speaker 5: a defensive lineman, when you play on a defense like this,

587
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 5: regardless lineman, cornerback, linebacker, and you know a rookie's about

588
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 5: to start his first start against you, you start salivating

589
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Speaker 5: during the week, just thinking about how you're going to

590
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Speaker 5: eat them up, how you're going to destroy him. And

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00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:53,640
Speaker 5: guys like not just you know, we got to get passed.

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Speaker 5: And when I say we, I'm talking about me, John.

593
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Speaker 5: I got to get past just mentioning Will Anderson and

594
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Speaker 5: Danil Hunter when I talk about this front four, because man,

595
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Speaker 5: those dogs are hunting. You know, those guys all across

596
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Speaker 5: the board from TOGII, they're all just hunting. But when

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Speaker 5: they see that there's going to be a rookie starting

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Speaker 5: for the first time, they start to salivate during the week.

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Speaker 5: They start envisioning what they're going to do to them.

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Speaker 5: You absolutely get up and you know, really get excited

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Speaker 5: when you know that somebody's making his first start against

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Speaker 5: your defense.

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Speaker 1: And the speaking of the defensive line, when you look

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Speaker 1: at guys in the interior who just joined the team,

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Speaker 1: like Lecky Fotoo, like nay Kwon Jones, new guys who

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Speaker 1: are not around when this streak began, Really, what do

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Speaker 1: you think of that joining the team being part of

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Speaker 1: the mix, especially FOTWO looked like they couldn't get him

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Speaker 1: in there often enough. At times, he's playing a lot

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Speaker 1: of guts of the game snaps. What are your thoughts

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Speaker 1: on adapting coming into this building and contributing for those

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Speaker 1: players who were not really wanted where they were recently?

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Speaker 3: Thoughts?

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Speaker 4: No, they should love that.

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Speaker 5: And when you have a chance to join a defense

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Speaker 5: like this, even you know, if it's due to injury,

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Speaker 5: and like you said, Mark, you're not just on the

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Speaker 5: roster as a just in case. You're getting meaningful snaps.

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Speaker 5: That means somebody saw something in you. And then it

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Speaker 5: also talks about the great culture this defense has, and

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Speaker 5: I know we hear that a lot, but it is

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Speaker 5: what it is. Especially when you see a defense like

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Speaker 5: this where you can plug in guys and they're going

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Speaker 5: to fall in line, like there's a lot of respect

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Speaker 5: for this defense. And if you're being plucked up from

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Speaker 5: someone's practice squad or they're bringing you in quote unquote

627
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Speaker 5: off the street and they're saying, hey, oh, by the way,

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Speaker 5: you're going to get some snaps with the best defense

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Speaker 5: in the NFL, and this is how they play, you

630
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Speaker 5: start to see guys just fall in line and they're

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Speaker 5: excited about that opportunity. So I think it really says

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Speaker 5: a lot more not just about those individuals, credit them

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Speaker 5: for being ready. You know, you stay ready so you

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Speaker 5: don't have to get ready, but to the culture of

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Speaker 5: this defense, where there are certain positions where you can

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Speaker 5: just bring in guys. They're gonna plug and fit in

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00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,960
Speaker 5: because of the way you've set up your practices, the

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Speaker 5: way you set up your culture as far as hunting

639
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 5: and flying to the ball at practice, so it just

640
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 5: becomes second nature during the games.

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Speaker 2: I don't even know if I have a question with

642
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Speaker 2: this one, but I happen to stumble on a stat

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Speaker 2: today and it's about splash rate, which I don't even

644
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Speaker 2: know exactly what that splash rate is, but it's kind

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Speaker 2: of the NFL nerds, the analytics people that came up

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Speaker 2: with this. The Texans have at number one in the

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Speaker 2: league Will Anderson Junior with twenty one point two percent

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Speaker 2: splash rate, At number four danil Hunter sixteen percent splash rate,

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Speaker 2: and at number sixteen.

650
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Speaker 3: How about this?

651
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 2: And I want to ask you about him and d

652
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 2: because he's like the specials, He's like the three point

653
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 2: shooter you bring into the game when you really need

654
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 2: a three. He's like the striker that you just put

655
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 2: in there because he can get instant offense.

656
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 3: But in this case, he's instant defense.

657
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 2: And that's de Nico Autry with thirteen point eight percent,

658
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 2: he's at sixteenth in the league. The Texans have three

659
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 2: guys in the top sixteen of the league basically creating

660
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 2: havoc and splash plays. And it's Deniko Autrey that doesn't

661
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 2: play all the time ind but when he does, whether

662
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:20,720
Speaker 2: it's inside, whether it's outside, he has been completely dominant

663
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 2: last five games. Maybe and I don't know that anybody's

664
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 2: really talking about him, but yet Nick saria kom a

665
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 2: junkyard dog and he just since he's been healthy, he

666
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 2: has done a little bit of everything for this team.

667
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,160
Speaker 2: But his pressure rate and the way he's able to

668
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 2: get pressure from the inside has been so key on

669
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 2: these third downs. What do you think about a grizzled vet.

670
00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 2: Does he have to play a lot? He could just

671
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 2: be your pass rush specialist, but he's producing in that role.

672
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 4: No, And that's what I'm talking about. John.

673
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 5: When I say we being me, you know I have

674
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 5: to quit just mentioning Danielle Hunter, will Anderson is because

675
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 5: of guys like Deniko Audrey, Derrick Barnett, what they're doing

676
00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 5: when they get in the game, especially Deniko Audrey. You know,

677
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 5: time and time again we're saying, oh, great play, and

678
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 5: then it's Deniko Autrey. To the point where I thought

679
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 5: he played a lot. I didn't know what percentage of

680
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 5: snaps he was taking, but because of his splash rate,

681
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Speaker 5: like you mentioned, I would have just assumed he's getting

682
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,479
Speaker 5: seventy five eighty percent of the snaps. But being that

683
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,960
Speaker 5: role player, that guy that's been in the league a

684
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 5: long time, he's definitely taking advantage of his reps. And again,

685
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 5: this is a team sport. Why is he getting these

686
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 5: you know, these splash rates because of what's going on

687
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 5: on the outside. So he's not getting double teams, and

688
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 5: he's taken advantage of those one on one matchups and

689
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 5: he's crushing guys with his awesome inside moves where he

690
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 5: has him from a three technique sometimes you see him

691
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 5: in a two technique. And what I love about Denico

692
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 5: Autrey without getting too technical, he knows, he truly knows

693
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 5: what it means to get to half a man you know,

694
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 5: defensive line coaches are always talking about if you're gonna rush,

695
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 5: you want to rush half a man, and he truly

696
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 5: understands that concept, whether he's inside or outside. But yeah,

697
00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 5: he's just one of many, one of multiple guys, and

698
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 5: I loved it. I didn't know much about the splash

699
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,960
Speaker 5: rate with the Texans. They should call it the splatter rate,

700
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 5: because they really splatter these you know, these offensive linemen

701
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 5: and these quarterbacks. But to have three guys in the

702
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 5: top sixteen, you know, that's big time, and you see

703
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:16,320
Speaker 5: it when you turn on the film.

704
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:21,399
Speaker 1: Here's the definition, measuring how often players or teams generate impactful,

705
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: game changing plays, sacks, turnovers, big gains relative to their

706
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: snaps for a defensive impact, how often a defender beats

707
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 1: their block quickly, pass rushin rate, or disrupts runs, run

708
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: stop win rate, all that stuff.

709
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Speaker 3: So it's a nerd thing.

710
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Speaker 1: It's a nerd thing because I gave you the very

711
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 1: general definition. Actually, so much more goes into that. But

712
00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 1: they cannot make enough statistics in football. Well, here's all

713
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: the analytics. They're really stats, just going a lot deeper.

714
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 2: This is to Endy's point, though, when you see a

715
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,480
Speaker 2: number like that. You're like, eh, but doesn't match up

716
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:57,320
Speaker 2: with the film.

717
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Speaker 3: It does totally.

718
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 2: It totally matches the film because number two on that

719
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,880
Speaker 2: list was debian Clowney and when you watch Clowning with

720
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:05,360
Speaker 2: the Cowboys, he's been phenomenal.

721
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: He's been really he's out there, he's making big plays.

722
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,319
Speaker 1: He's making you can do that, he can do that.

723
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: We just saw Khalil Mack in the same draft, and

724
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: those guys are still around Indy. I want to go

725
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,399
Speaker 1: here CJ. Stroud. A lot of talk about how good

726
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,840
Speaker 1: is he, how is he compared to this guy, compared

727
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 1: to that guy? All I know is this, He's the

728
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: starting quarterback on a team that's going back to the

729
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,359
Speaker 1: playoffs for the third consecutive season. He's brought them there

730
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,520
Speaker 1: every single time, and he's won playoff games his first

731
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 1: two playoff appearances. And here he is, twenty four years old,

732
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 1: about to be in the playoffs for the third time

733
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:36,359
Speaker 1: in his career. And let's see where it takes us.

734
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 1: I'm here for the story and I think it's fun.

735
00:35:38,920 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: I think he's doing really well. You can pick up

736
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,840
Speaker 1: part things here and there, whatever, you know, Thank goodness,

737
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: you do have a defense that can erase some of

738
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: your mistakes. But your thoughts on CJ's progress and where

739
00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:50,040
Speaker 1: it's going from here.

740
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 5: No, I love what I'm seeing, especially when he came

741
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 5: back from the concussion protocol. I feel like he took

742
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 5: on the challenge of replacing Davis Mill, stepping up to

743
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,800
Speaker 5: the challenge to make the fans forget about the success

744
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,760
Speaker 5: that Davis Mills had during his three game stints.

745
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,279
Speaker 4: And here's where I'm more excited. Mark.

746
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 5: As much as I like seeing the improvement, I still

747
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 5: feel like there's more. And when you talk about the playoffs,

748
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 5: you talk about a little bit of luck. You know,

749
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:20,040
Speaker 5: guys that are the healthiest going into the playoffs, they're

750
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 5: going to have the success. You talk about playing great

751
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 5: defense in the run game and then improving with your

752
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 5: quarterback play as you go. I still feel like CJ.

753
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 5: Stroud hasn't reached his ceiling and he's still climbing towards it.

754
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 5: So can you imagine if we're saying in two to

755
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 5: three weeks he's playing his best ball with the way

756
00:36:37,120 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 5: the defense is playing, I mean, sky's the limit. I

757
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 5: don't want to, you know, start making Super Bowl predictions,

758
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 5: but that's what a true Super Bowl contender is they

759
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 5: go into the playoffs healthy, they go into the playoffs

760
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 5: with the defense playing well and still improving on offense.

761
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 5: I'm very excited about the trajectory this season. I'm not

762
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 5: talking about next year or years beyond this season with CJ.

763
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 4: Stroud.

764
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 3: Okay, so this one, it's just a fun question.

765
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 2: This isn't the I mean, you got to think about it,

766
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 2: but it's just it's a fun question.

767
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 3: But it might be kind of hard the more I

768
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 3: think about it.

769
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't want to ask who's most valuable, but

770
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 2: I want to ask who is the most outstanding player

771
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 2: on offense for the Texans this year? Who's the most

772
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 2: outstanding player on defense for the Texans' that's this year?

773
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 3: I know, I know, and I and I mean, it's tough.

774
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 3: I've been putting together the ultimate level defensive plays of the.

775
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:35,319
Speaker 2: Year, and I it's it's I have fifty clips. I

776
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 2: have to cut it down to eleven. So I'm not

777
00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:38,640
Speaker 2: going to I'm just gonna have a bunch of them

778
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 2: that have like number eleven.

779
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 3: Here's six clips. So I'm so I'll ask it that way.

780
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 2: Most outstanding offense, most outstanding defense, indeed you have good answers.

781
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 5: I think offense is easy and no offense to anybody else,

782
00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 5: but you have.

783
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:59,800
Speaker 4: To go Yeah Davis middles quarterback CJ. Stroud.

784
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 5: I still feel like he's gonna shine because of the

785
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 5: type of player he is. And on defense it gets

786
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 5: a little more difficult where I feel like there's four

787
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 5: to five good answers. But just for the sake of

788
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 5: answering this awesome question, I have to go Will Anderson.

789
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 5: And a lot of it has to do with the

790
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 5: splash rate that you talked about, because there are so

791
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 5: many plays that don't result in sacks, they don't result

792
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,320
Speaker 5: in tackle for the losses, but their impact plays because

793
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,280
Speaker 5: of his get off, because of the way he changes

794
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 5: the line of scrimmage. You can say the same thing

795
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 5: about the Neil Hunter. I almost wanted to go Aziz

796
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,239
Speaker 5: out Shire, but to answer your question offense, I gotta

797
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 5: go Nico Collins and defense, even though I feel like

798
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 5: there's multiple players, I'm gonna go Will Anderson.

799
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: I really think the defense is that band where multiple

800
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: players sing lead multiple musicians. Yeah, I just I didn't

801
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:53,879
Speaker 1: step into the metaphor fully here. Yeah, but I want

802
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,800
Speaker 1: to say Stingley, because we always talk about that Coroner

803
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 1: can cut off half the field as an option.

804
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 3: He is one of those guys.

805
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: And when they do throw it Stingley, I'm thinking, oh,

806
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: they throw it Stingley, Well, that's interesting. You know, it

807
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 1: just doesn't seem to happen that often relatively, And I

808
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: don't have all those numbers in front of me.

809
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,359
Speaker 3: It's hard to argue with what End said.

810
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 1: I wanted to say his ease as well, because he's

811
00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: the quarterback of the defense.

812
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,799
Speaker 2: But man ya both Gloss and Ova. What I think

813
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 2: is the most outstanding player on his team Kamari Lassiter,

814
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 2: Mary Lassiter. He gets because he's done it in the

815
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 2: run game, and he's done it in the past game.

816
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:30,879
Speaker 3: You go, I mean every.

817
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 2: Single game there is a Kamari Lassiter big big play,

818
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 2: a big a big play. I mean, I agree with

819
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 2: both of you. I mean, I think you could have

820
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 2: gone with Daniel Anderson Junior. I think that individual, we

821
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 2: make them one combined entity, that would be probably number

822
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 2: one because of the havoc they've created. But you know,

823
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:55,160
Speaker 2: I love a man staying. But Kamari Lassiter has played

824
00:39:56,160 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 2: so extremely well in both phases in run f and

825
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 2: in past coverage. I mean, I think you throw him

826
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,240
Speaker 2: into You've got to throw him into the mix at least.

827
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Speaker 4: And you know what got it? John, you asked you

828
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 4: asked that question.

829
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Speaker 5: And you have three guys that have watched every single snap,

830
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Speaker 5: every single game, and they give you three different answers.

831
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Speaker 4: So what does that mean? That means we're talking about

832
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 4: a great defense.

833
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 3: Yep.

834
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 2: I think if Kaylen Bullock would have intercepted a couple

835
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 2: of balls that hit him in the hands, which, by

836
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,319
Speaker 2: the way, if Kamari could have caught that one in

837
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:29,720
Speaker 2: the end zone, had kept the Chargers only ten points

838
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:31,320
Speaker 2: when he had that one go through his hands, I

839
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,880
Speaker 2: think Kaylan has made a case, uh for being for

840
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 2: being that guy. I mean, if he gets another one,

841
00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 2: a couple more interceptions, he's got six or seven on

842
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 2: the season, and he's he clearly.

843
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 3: Should have been going to the Pro Bowl.

844
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 1: But he's got four guys on the back end with

845
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 1: four picks. Yeah, I mean that's incredible. I mean, Petri,

846
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: you can make a case for absolutely, he's played really well.

847
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:54,520
Speaker 1: Believable all right, and d one more for you playoffs

848
00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:59,400
Speaker 1: and as a former player, how special is it? And

849
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,359
Speaker 1: it's not a rhetorical question. How special is it to

850
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:05,839
Speaker 1: get to the postseason. I don't want to let this

851
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: trip to the playoffs go by without us fully appreciating

852
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 1: how special this is third consecutive year in you are

853
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:17,480
Speaker 1: in once again as a Houston Texan, So tell me

854
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: how special it is to these players to be able

855
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:20,279
Speaker 1: to get there.

856
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 5: This is where I get annoyed with some fans, and

857
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 5: maybe it's the unsilent minority mark where if you get

858
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 5: in as a wild card or just getting in, and

859
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,400
Speaker 5: they kind of brush it off, like, oh, you know what,

860
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,839
Speaker 5: if you don't win the Super Bowl, then it doesn't matter. Yeah,

861
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 5: I get it, that's the ultimate goal. But you really

862
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 5: want to experience the playoffs. You want to get in out.

863
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 5: The first time I played in a playoff game, I

864
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Speaker 5: was amazed at how much more intense it was than

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Speaker 5: a regular season game, because in my mind playing in

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Speaker 5: regular season NFL games, I thought, Okay, it doesn't get

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Speaker 5: any more intense than this, but it gets faster, the

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Speaker 5: hits are harder. Every thing is just, you know, ten

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Speaker 5: times ten next to the adrenaline that you experience in

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Speaker 5: the regular season, and just to experience that is an awesome,

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Speaker 5: awesome feeling. So it's not easy. I mean, look at

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Speaker 5: the teams and look at the people that will be

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Speaker 5: sitting at home this playoff season, you know when you

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Speaker 5: look at some of the great teams out there and

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Speaker 5: the great players. So it's definitely a huge accomplishment and

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Speaker 5: just the experience, Like just when I'm it's going to

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Speaker 5: be packed. I don't care who you're playing, where you're playing,

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Speaker 5: you're pretty much going to have a sellout. The game

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Speaker 5: is so meaningful because as soon as it's over, one

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Speaker 5: team's going to continue moving, another team's going to can kun.

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Speaker 5: It's one of the greatest things that you can experience

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Speaker 5: in your NFL career, just playing in the playoffs. Then

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Speaker 5: obviously the deeper you go, the more intense it gets.

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Speaker 5: But that first playoff game, I don't care where the

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Speaker 5: Texans play is going to be well deserved and it's

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Speaker 5: going to be as intense, if not more intense, than

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Speaker 5: anything the fan base experienced this season.

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Speaker 1: Great stuff and d As always, thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: joining us.

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Speaker 4: Thank you all. Oh y'all, keep up the good word.

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Speaker 3: There's nd Kalude now coming up.

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Speaker 1: One more segment, Johnny and I review some sports movie,

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Speaker 1: sports documentary stuff real quick. We'll get to Texans matchup

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Speaker 1: in the second hour with the top eleven defensive plays

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Speaker 1: of the year. If Johnny can keep it to eleven,

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Speaker 1: we'll do it all here on Texans Radio. All right,

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Speaker 1: final segment here on Texans Radio tonight. Talked a lot

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Speaker 1: about the playoff possibilities, everything else involving your Texans playing

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Speaker 1: the cold Sunday at noon Space City game at NRG Stadium.

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Speaker 3: Can't wait for that quickie on the way out here.

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Speaker 1: Sports viewing tips reviews Lway the documentary Big on Netflix.

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Speaker 3: Johnny quick review, You like it? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I thought it was good. I thought they could have

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Speaker 2: gone a little deeper on a few things. But there

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Speaker 2: were some things I learned in that that I didn't know.

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Speaker 2: I didn't realize that John Elway, I know he ended

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Speaker 2: up divorcing his wife.

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Speaker 3: I didn't realize that it had been kind of rough

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Speaker 3: for a while.

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Speaker 2: But it was interesting hearing people talk about Lway and

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Speaker 2: what just talking about what a kind man he was,

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Speaker 2: how even in college he's be inundated with people.

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Speaker 3: He's so kind to people, so nice to people. Wasn't

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Speaker 3: I didn't know that. I guess.

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Speaker 2: But when you hear over the years all this stuff

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Speaker 2: about Dan Reeves and they butted heads, and you kind

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Speaker 2: of think, you know, maybe you know, and then l wait.

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Speaker 3: Obviously the draft itself, you think, oh, maybe this guy's

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Speaker 3: a butt heead.

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Speaker 2: But you know when he explained everything, and and the

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Speaker 2: thing is, he and his dad were right. The Baltimore

922
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Speaker 2: Colts were a mess, Robert or Say was a mess.

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Speaker 3: He did the right thing.

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Speaker 1: I think if he was a butt heead, Kubiak would

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Speaker 1: not have gone back to work for him at the

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Speaker 1: Denver Broncos because I think Gary would have gotten another

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Speaker 1: job somewhere else, because he was offensive coordinator in Baltimore

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Speaker 1: the year after he was let go. Here the Ravens

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Speaker 1: at the time at their best offensive season ever, so

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Speaker 1: I think he would have had a selection. Not everybody,

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Speaker 1: but he would have had other options as well. You

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Speaker 1: know what I saw F one, Oh yeah, you're watching

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Speaker 1: the play was good?

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Speaker 3: It was good.

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Speaker 1: Now people hearing who've seen it? You watch it on

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Speaker 1: the plane Vandermere. This is an eye Max movie. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is really well. It was enjoyable anyway, I thought

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Speaker 1: it was very good. YEA on a big screen, this

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Speaker 1: thing is unbelievable. I've seen racing movies. You've seen racing movies.

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Speaker 1: I've never seen footage like this. Really, it is so good, Johnny.

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Speaker 1: They take you into the car in a way that

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Speaker 1: you know, you hear me say that, even you think,

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Speaker 1: all right, how good could it possibly be? It is good.

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Speaker 1: I don't know where they're They're putting the camera right

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Speaker 1: on the pavement. You know you are going fast with

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Speaker 1: these people. You feel the speed of these cars as

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Speaker 1: you're watching this movie. Even on the small screen, I

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Speaker 1: thought it was incredible. And I bring my bows with me,

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Speaker 1: so I plug that in. So the audio is really

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Speaker 1: good and I make my ears bleed. So I thought

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Speaker 1: it was a tremendous movie. Now, the theme, it's it's

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Speaker 1: kind of Hollywood. It's Brad Pittty's too old to race,

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Speaker 1: but he races anyway. It's kind of like Maverick, Top Gun, Maverick. Yeah, okay, Hoosiers,

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Speaker 1: oh okay.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And there's another one in here, maybe like the Natural

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Speaker 1: have a baby and this pops out f one.

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Speaker 3: There that trio gets together. Yeah, baby pops out because

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Speaker 3: he's old.

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Speaker 1: And then you have I'm not gonna spoil it anything else,

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Speaker 1: anything else.

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Speaker 3: I say, I'm definitely gonna watch it.

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Speaker 2: I know the Harris family will watch it because I've

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Speaker 2: got two people in a family that love pit So.

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Speaker 1: I'll say this though. The lead actress in the movie,

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Speaker 1: she does a great job. She reminds me a lot

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Speaker 1: of Rebecca Ferguson, and I kept wishing Rebecca Ferguson was

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Speaker 1: in the movie. It's like, this movie would be so

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Speaker 1: much better with Rebecca Ferguson. Not that she didn't do

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Speaker 1: a great job. She really did, but it made me.

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Speaker 1: You know, I like watching Silo, and I like Rebecca

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Speaker 1: Ferguson in the Mission Impossible movies, and she's she's a

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Speaker 1: really good actress. Liked her in that The World's Greatest

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Speaker 1: Showman movie with Hugh Jackman where she fake sings that

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Speaker 1: big song.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't see that. You didn't see that. I

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Speaker 3: didn't see that. That's a good plane watched, Johnny.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm not the best, you know, film watcher.

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Speaker 2: I've got to get caught up on my things.

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Speaker 3: Caught up like The Godfather, you know, a couple of

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Speaker 3: like little did movies here. It's a wonderful life.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Oh my gosh, I know, I know, you have

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Speaker 1: to wait till next December.

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Speaker 3: All right, that's gonna do it.

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Speaker 1: For tonight's show, Texans Matchup is coming up, and Johnny's

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Speaker 1: gonna go over the ultimate eleven defensive plays of the year.

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Speaker 1: He had a hard time picking these, a really hard time,

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Speaker 1: so I think he's gonna cramp forty plays into the

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Speaker 1: top eleven somehow. Okay, we'll find out next together here

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Speaker 1: it's Texans Radio.