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Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to a Friday edition, a TGIF edition

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Speaker 1: of Texans All Access, our last Friday edition of Texas

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Speaker 1: All Access for the twenty twenty one season. Now we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have Friday editions of Texas All Access throughout the

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Speaker 1: year and throughout our off season. Hey, it'll be from

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Speaker 1: last show until Monday after the super Bowl. That will

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Speaker 1: pick it up every single night, six to seven, five

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Speaker 1: nights a week in the off season. But tonight is

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Speaker 1: the last Friday edition. And John Harris your host football

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Speaker 1: and also salout reporter, So glad to be with you,

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Speaker 1: coming off of two hours with my man around the

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Speaker 1: show hugely on Sports Radio six ten, and then following

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Speaker 1: me it was rich Lord. It was really really cool.

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Speaker 1: Rich Lord, who did Sidelines before I did, is an icon,

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Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer. I mean, he's just incredible. So

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Speaker 1: it's good to see rich today. As I was leaving

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Speaker 1: the studio and he was stepping in. So we have

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Speaker 1: got plenty of Texans for you today and it's going

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Speaker 1: to start with David Culley. Mark Vannimer had a chance

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Speaker 1: to catch up with the head coach today and talk

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Speaker 1: about this finale against the AFC number one seed currently

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Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans. Mark, take it away, coach one more time,

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Speaker 1: and I know the fundamentals applied to this one as

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Speaker 1: well as every other game you've played this year. And

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Speaker 1: getting off to a good start is going to be

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Speaker 1: paramount against the Titans. Very important to get off to

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Speaker 1: a good start. You know, we actually got off to

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Speaker 1: a good start with him the last time we played him. Mark,

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Speaker 1: it's very important that we do the same thing this time.

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Speaker 1: And it's not just against them. It's very important and

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Speaker 1: weekly to be able to do that, and Mark, this

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Speaker 1: is the last one, and obviously to be able to

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Speaker 1: play this football team and have the success that you

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Speaker 1: got to have with this football team. Again, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go back to first you gotta do is you got

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Speaker 1: to protect the ball against this team and you got

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Speaker 1: to control the ball against this team because that's what

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Speaker 1: they want to do. And so that's why it's important

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Speaker 1: for us to get off to a good fast start.

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Speaker 1: And what about the battle and the trenches they're top

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Speaker 1: three and running the football and stopping the run. Derrick

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Speaker 1: Henry or no, Derrick Henry. They like to run the ball, Coach, Yes,

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Speaker 1: they do. And then we know what, Mark, that we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have to stop it. And not only are we

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Speaker 1: doing it as we've ever been this year because we

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Speaker 1: know they're gonna do it. And that's part of ball control,

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Speaker 1: that's part of being able to control the clock. And

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Speaker 1: then and again, everything we do stems off of that

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Speaker 1: from a passing standpoint, with our playoffs and pass game

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Speaker 1: obviously know that they're going to do the same thing.

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Speaker 1: We know what they're gonna do. Mark, they know what

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Speaker 1: we're going to try to do, and it's just a

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Speaker 1: matter of whoever does what they do best. Well, last

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Speaker 1: time you play them. I know every game is different,

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Speaker 1: but yet thirty eight carries. But I guess you don't

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Speaker 1: get there unless you're converting third down. So what about

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Speaker 1: Davis mills on down against their pass rush and whatever

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Speaker 1: else they throw against you. Well, the big thing that

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Speaker 1: mark is that we've got to be in third and manageable.

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Speaker 1: We can't be in third and long. And that goes

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Speaker 1: back mark to first and second down. We've got to

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Speaker 1: be positive in first and second down. And I thought

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Speaker 1: third and management and making those third We were in

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Speaker 1: and we converted those. And we've got to do the

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Speaker 1: same thing now. And that starts with first and second down. Mark.

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Speaker 1: What's the key to getting after their quarterback? Coach? Because

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Speaker 1: you had all those picks last time, I know you'd

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Speaker 1: love them this time. Every game is different. But what

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Speaker 1: the first thing you gotta do is you got to

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Speaker 1: Like I said, there they lead. They lead their number

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Speaker 1: to throw it another fifty two times. What about the

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Speaker 1: kicking game element of this matchup, coach? Very important? As

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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, it was so important in our

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Speaker 1: we've been very consistent with that, and it's very important

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Speaker 1: consistent and well, it's fan appreciation day, So what about

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Speaker 1: showing out for the fans one more time. Right, we

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Speaker 1: want to end a thing the right way with them,

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Speaker 1: them the appreciation we have for them, and they will

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Speaker 1: be a big part of being us getting that win

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Speaker 1: this week, Mark coach, thanks a lot, good luck, Thank

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Speaker 1: you very much. Mark, looking forward to it. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's keep this train a rolling with little Drews dozen

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Speaker 1: to start off as well. Now we'll have Drew's final

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Speaker 1: which I just kind of buried the lead in some

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Speaker 1: Lopez Junior. Drew, take it away. Look who it is, friends,

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Speaker 1: It's Roy Lopez defensive lineman. And this is a Drews dozen.

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Speaker 1: You did this back when it was really really hot

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Speaker 1: have our fun with this. Tell me about your hair,

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Speaker 1: how long is your hair going to grow? No, it

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Speaker 1: or originally it was my nana. My sister. She now

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Speaker 1: So I let her have that, and I started growing

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Speaker 1: so I take it. Your nana is one of your grandmother's. Yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: it was? So, both of my nana's are hairdressers. That's

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Speaker 1: what they do. They'll do hair. But it's been my

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Speaker 1: my hair everything like that. But now as my sister,

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Speaker 1: they understand that my sister took over. You know, my

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Speaker 1: a credit to her. Well, that's cool, you know, And

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Speaker 1: your sisters. They're obviously very very important parts of your life. Heck,

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Speaker 1: we've seen them. I saw tears coming down their face

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Speaker 1: seeing them react to your successes, right, you know, And

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Speaker 1: small portion of what people feel, you know. And my family,

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Speaker 1: they're glued to the TV on Sunday, you know, they

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Speaker 1: send me videos. Everybody's just surrounding the TV. That's the

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Speaker 1: That's the crazy. They always get the pictures and videos

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Speaker 1: how would your nanas and how would your sisters great

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Speaker 1: Would they have something to say about it? Probably not

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Speaker 1: too Goody's fine, but it's a little uneven, So that

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Speaker 1: she'll probably get me a c oh okay. But we

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Speaker 1: need we need those folks in life that hold us

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Speaker 1: sound of what Alexa's like. That sounds stuff. You stay

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Speaker 1: on him, Okay. Last week I interviewed Jacob Martin. He

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Speaker 1: was sitting where you're sitting now, and he said, unprompted,

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Speaker 1: that you are the best dancer on the entire team.

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Speaker 1: And he's not just talking about sacks, He's talking about

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Speaker 1: dances in the locker room and stuff. Why is this

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Speaker 1: the case, Rod Lopez, I don't know why he said that.

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Speaker 1: I do not know why he said that. That's funny,

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Speaker 1: but the d line, I'm got too much dancers, so

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Speaker 1: it might be me. Okay, yeah, he said, you didn't

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Speaker 1: know why he said. I don't know why he said that.

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Speaker 1: He said you could do the gritty obviously said the salsa.

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Speaker 1: Do you know how to tango? I do I know

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Speaker 1: how to? Because he said the tango is the only

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Speaker 1: dance that he cannot do, and he knew you could

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Speaker 1: for some have you been tangoing in the locker room? No,

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Speaker 1: I saw a video what it was. But you know,

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Speaker 1: different machinations before the Titans, they're thinking win and we

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Speaker 1: rest I'd like to disrupt that apple cart, no doubt,

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Speaker 1: is Garrett Wallow, the rookie linebacker who's really played well

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Speaker 1: much time, but he has shown that he is going

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Speaker 1: to be a vital player in this game, but also

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Speaker 1: one presented by Vixfinity. My guest linebacker Garrett Wallow wrapping

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Speaker 1: up his rookie campaign. Garrett, I mean it's coming to

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Speaker 1: a close now. How has it felt year one in

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Speaker 1: the NFL and how much do you feel like you've

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Speaker 1: grown through these past few games? It was definitely. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: it's flown by really fast, even though it felt like

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Speaker 1: a long year. It's to look back and think, like yesterday,

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Speaker 1: I was just walking here for a rookie mini camp

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Speaker 1: and OTA. So it's honestly just been a blessing. It's

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Speaker 1: been a long ride. It's been a good one too.

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Speaker 1: I'm learn a lot by myself as a player. I've

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Speaker 1: grown a lot mentally on the field and just physically

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Speaker 1: on the field and in the way room as well.

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Speaker 1: So it's just been an overall very successful year. I

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Speaker 1: got to learn from a bunch of guys in front

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Speaker 1: of me, got to learn from a bunch of great coaches.

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Speaker 1: So I'm just happy to know. I'm just happy to

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Speaker 1: be here, happy to keep growing happy to keep improving

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Speaker 1: and just you know, improving little things. I know you

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Speaker 1: had said Sean Baker, who's the assistant Special teams coach,

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Speaker 1: had told you back in training camp how much you

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Speaker 1: had grown just from rookie minicamp. Where did you feel

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Speaker 1: like you grew even before the season started. You felt

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Speaker 1: like you had really grown a lot in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Where was the early part of the learning for you?

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Speaker 1: I think, um, well, I really started to take those stages,

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Speaker 1: those steps, in those stages where really when I got

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Speaker 1: some game reps um, the more confidence I got in

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Speaker 1: the field, the more confidous like Okay, yeah, I can

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Speaker 1: do this. And you know what I'm saying is like

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Speaker 1: I'm out here in the NFL, like it's been a

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Speaker 1: dream come true. I'm actually playing NFL doing I could

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Speaker 1: actually do this. So once that confidence really kicked in,

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Speaker 1: that's when, like all the other things started founding each other.

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Speaker 1: But just working on like the small details every day

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Speaker 1: with Sean and Frank on special teams and then with

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Speaker 1: my lineback corp coach Miles and the guys man just

489
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Speaker 1: constantly learning from them, growing from them. Just looking back,

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Speaker 1: there's been so much improvement and you know, I didn't

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Speaker 1: really realize how much I was improving, so you really

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Speaker 1: just sit back and reflect. So, I mean, like I said,

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Speaker 1: it was none but a blessing, just happy, happy to

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Speaker 1: see it all. Right. So, both Lovey Smith and Frank Ross,

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Speaker 1: they both described you as a student of the game,

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Speaker 1: and I believe you played all three linebacker spots and

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Speaker 1: you're on special teams. What was the toughest part of

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Speaker 1: your learning curve as a rookie? Was it just the

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Speaker 1: competition level of the guys? Was it learning the playbook,

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Speaker 1: was at the speed of the game. What did you

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Speaker 1: think was the biggest challenge for you and just sort

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Speaker 1: of overcoming up this year, right, I think it was

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Speaker 1: really just getting confidence in the defense. I think all

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Speaker 1: that really just comes from reps, you know. I think

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Speaker 1: a lot of the guys helped me along the way

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Speaker 1: to understand each position. I think I've definitely learned the

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Speaker 1: defense a lot better by understanding all through linebacker positions,

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Speaker 1: and I'm constantly learning, you know, it's always still a

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Speaker 1: growing process, still learning. But I'll definitely say just the

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Speaker 1: confidence and just being able to be confident in the defense.

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Speaker 1: I mean that just takes practice, reps, in game reps,

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Speaker 1: which has lately been coming in. It's been a blessing.

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Speaker 1: But that's just the biggest thing, just being able to

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Speaker 1: trust myself that I know what I'm doing out there,

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Speaker 1: and you know, just you know game my teammates trust

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Speaker 1: as well. So yeah, you definitely got a lot more

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Speaker 1: reps in December. You have backpack starts, just with all

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Speaker 1: the injuries and COVID and everything else going on, and

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Speaker 1: you really stepped up to the plate, especially your first

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Speaker 1: start in Jacksonville. You got your first stack, you had

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Speaker 1: a quarterback hit, you had a TfL, you led the

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Speaker 1: team in tackles. I mean, what was that whole experience like?

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Speaker 1: And how did you not let the moment get too

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Speaker 1: big for you? Right? Just taking everything play by play,

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Speaker 1: didn't realize how much I was how many. I didn't

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Speaker 1: really think about the stats. So somebody told me after

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Speaker 1: the game, and I was just like, you know, I

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Speaker 1: was out there feeling like a kid again, you know,

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Speaker 1: running around having fun, you know, playing the game I love.

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Speaker 1: And you know, moments like that when you had great

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Speaker 1: success on the field with your teammates, you know, it

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Speaker 1: just makes everything worth it. You know, the hard work,

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Speaker 1: the ups and downs that this game bring, this game brings.

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Speaker 1: I mean not everything's gonna be high, but you know

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Speaker 1: the downs is the one that you know strengthen you

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Speaker 1: and build you up. So I just think all that

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Speaker 1: was just a surreal moment for me, and just you know,

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Speaker 1: putting that aside and be able to move on to

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Speaker 1: the next week is huge. You know. Although I did

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Speaker 1: have success that game, you know, I wanted that for

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Speaker 1: every game. You know, I just want our team that

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Speaker 1: had just sets every game. So definitely it was excited

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Speaker 1: about that, but you know there's still still just that

544
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Speaker 1: idea of wanting more for the team is always gonna

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Speaker 1: be the game plan. Your game day personality is described

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Speaker 1: as quote pretty chill patient. That's how some teammates have

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Speaker 1: described you. Who described me? Is that? I think Nevil

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Speaker 1: hewittt Nevil Hewitt said you were pretty chill? That is

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Speaker 1: that not accurate? Is that accurate anything? So that's funny

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Speaker 1: that you say that. So in college, my coach used

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Speaker 1: to have to slow me down on game days. He's

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Speaker 1: always said the first couple of plays I was always

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Speaker 1: too wild up to where like you had to watch

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Speaker 1: what he called like the first three play until I

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Speaker 1: calmed down. That's because you know, just an excitement ready

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Speaker 1: to play. But now I think I play better when

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Speaker 1: I'm when I'm relaxed and can think good and just

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Speaker 1: when when I'm either just having fun. So yeah, I

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Speaker 1: definitely say I'm pretty chill. I'm intense, but I don't

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Speaker 1: show it. I'm intense in to dt an inside, but

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty chilling outside. So how do you do that?

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Speaker 1: How do you? I mean, it's probably a lot of nerves,

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Speaker 1: especially in your rookie year. You're getting start, you're getting

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Speaker 1: meaningful snaps. I mean, how do you keep yourself calm

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Speaker 1: on game day? I mean you see a lot of

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Speaker 1: vets out there that have a hard time calming themselves

567
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Speaker 1: and calming their nerves. But how do you do it?

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Speaker 1: There's been a learning process, to be honest, ever since

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Speaker 1: I started playing, you know, every it feels like every

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Speaker 1: time I step into a new stage of like football

571
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: in my life, I learned more and more about myself. Right,

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Speaker 1: So a lot of it's come from preparation, just preparing

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Speaker 1: mentally for the game. It's not all just you know

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Speaker 1: X and nos. You know, sometimes you get you gotta

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Speaker 1: prepare your mind to just be mentally ready to go

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Speaker 1: against go into a war. So the most thing for

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Speaker 1: me is just like I never wanted to be seen

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Speaker 1: as a weekly right, So just going out there and

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Speaker 1: just show myself, keeping composed no matter if things go

580
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Speaker 1: bad or good. You know a lot of guys getting

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Speaker 1: respect for that. And again, you know, I learned from

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Speaker 1: like of course invest in front of me. You know,

583
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Speaker 1: if things go bad, they always tell me to swipe

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Speaker 1: it to the next player, just keep moving on, just

585
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 1: keep having fun, keep playing. So keeping your composers huge.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, you don't want to show anybody that

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Speaker 1: you're that your week, you know, and that's just kind

588
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: of always been my mindset. So but also have fun

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Speaker 1: with it as well. You do seem to keep your

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Speaker 1: cards pretty close to your chest. You don't really put

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Speaker 1: a lot of yourself out there on Instagram. You're not

592
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Speaker 1: really out there on social media. So for people that

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Speaker 1: want to know, for fans that want to get to

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Speaker 1: know you a little bit better, what are some of

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Speaker 1: your hobbies, What are some things that you do in

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Speaker 1: your free time, your interests, What do you think about huston? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for sure, I'm not really a big social to be

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Speaker 1: a guy too I used to be and you know,

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Speaker 1: back in the day. But there's a reason why for that.

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Speaker 1: I just like to, you know, just enjoy what's going

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Speaker 1: on in life. You know what I'm saying. Well, I

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Speaker 1: could see in person things like that. Yeah, I actually

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Speaker 1: I need to get back to writing. But I used

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Speaker 1: to write a little bit of poetry that was kind

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Speaker 1: of something to just like calm my mind. Took a

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Speaker 1: poetry class in college and I really fell in love

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00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:03,719
Speaker 1: with it. You know, my tutor, he tastes me all

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00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: the time still and he's like, you need to get

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Speaker 1: back to writing. You need to get back to writing.

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Speaker 1: So that's something I'm very passionate about my really life,

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Speaker 1: spending time with family and having profits balls. I think

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Speaker 1: that's why I had my most fun to see my

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Speaker 1: family happy eating crawfits. You know, that's something that we

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Speaker 1: do like traditional wise, having balanced music playing, like good

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Speaker 1: music playing, everybody's dancing. I'm having a good time. And

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Speaker 1: then I just like I like watching movies for some reason,

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Speaker 1: when I get away from football, I've always went home

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Speaker 1: and put a movie on. That's just something that like

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Speaker 1: just calms my mind. Something that I've always been interested

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Speaker 1: in my life all different type of genres, like anything

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Speaker 1: something made me laugh, something that made me a little

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Speaker 1: emotional in a good way, and just movies all over.

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Speaker 1: So I definite say those three things are really nice.

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Speaker 1: And then I'm starting to get a little bit. I've

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Speaker 1: been trying to read a couple of start like reading

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Speaker 1: a couple of books too. Yeah, just doing a couple

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Speaker 1: of things outside. I'm very I'm active too. I like

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Speaker 1: to hunt. I like to fish a lot. That's one

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Speaker 1: thing I do like to do. Me and my girlfriend's

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Speaker 1: brother When every time I'm back in Dallas, we go

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Speaker 1: fishing a whole lot. So I'm a big fisher. I

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Speaker 1: just like to be outdoors. Really. Yeah, that's okay. There's

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Speaker 1: first of all, there's a lot to unpack there. You

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Speaker 1: you have like a wide range of interest. I had

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Speaker 1: no idea. All right, you started with poetry, so let's

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Speaker 1: let's start there. What kind of what kind of poems

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Speaker 1: you write? I interviewed the Arian Monster a long time ago.

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Speaker 1: He was really big into poetry. He used to write

639
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: every single day. Is that something that you have to

640
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: do to keep up your poetry skills? When I was writing,

641
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: I just kind of wrote whatever came to mind. So

642
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: I would just have like a subject. So one time

643
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 1: I wrote about like a night in New Orleans. You know,

644
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 1: I just wrote about it, like sometimes and I try.

645
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: I try to. I wrote my girl poem about love,

646
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: you know. I just like to do like things like that,

647
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: just like if you just give me a subject whatever

648
00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 1: comes to my mind. I just try to find like

649
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 1: some rhythm with it and some things that make sense

650
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: and attach to each other. So I just feel like

651
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 1: I have like a natural, a natural gift for it,

652
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 1: which is something that I could I could get better

653
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: and better at. Um. That's something I'm definitely gonna like

654
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 1: look back onto into the off season kind of get

655
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,160
Speaker 1: back into because I really found a lot of peace

656
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: when I was you know, just write down whatever came

657
00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: to mind, whatever I was thinking, just put it on paper.

658
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: It is actually like a really beautiful thing. But uh,

659
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 1: I really do so it's so creative. I mean sometimes

660
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:11,240
Speaker 1: I guess when you're playing such a physical game, it's

661
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: kind of I used to go do something creative. That's

662
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: like a good Yeah, you guys do music, Yours is

663
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 1: poetry obviously. Yeah, you would really be surprised what you

664
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: come up with if you just you know, put a

665
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: pen and paper in front yourself and just just start writing.

666
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 1: You don't even have to think too much of just

667
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:28,960
Speaker 1: start writing something down and just just keep going. As

668
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: someone who likes to write, I totally understand that. All right.

669
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: So crawfish, boils and hunting, I feel like those kind

670
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: of go hand in hand. You grip in New Orleans?

671
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 1: What sort of things do you like to hunt? Are you?

672
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 1: Does that mean you're good in the kitchen? I feel

673
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: like people that hunt, they generally like to cook what

674
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: they hunt. Are you pretty good? I've never been much

675
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: of a cooker, So when we hunt, like, um, I

676
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: want deer hunting. My uncles, you know, grew up deer hunt.

677
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 1: My honey who just passed away, as my grandpa called

678
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: my honey. We're all big deer hunters. So when whenever

679
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:57,480
Speaker 1: I was younger, I always you know, I used to

680
00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,719
Speaker 1: play so many sports. I used to play basketball and baseball,

681
00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 1: foot wall, So I wasn't able to go to me

682
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: too much when I was younger. So but I always

683
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,000
Speaker 1: had like a love for it, you know. I just

684
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 1: like being in the being, like in the forest and

685
00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: the stand which is just playing grass in site. Man,

686
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 1: it's just it's just something about it. Just peaceful. You know,

687
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 1: good weather, it's not high, it's pretty cold. It's just

688
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: it just you know, it gives my mom peace when

689
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: I'm out there. So I used to go sometimes when

690
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 1: I was younger, when I had some free time. One

691
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 1: of the funnest things I've ever did was alligant or hunt.

692
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: That's probably the probably the funnest experience of my life,

693
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 1: like hunting wise, it was definitely crazy. I think I

694
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: remember on that trip that we went alligator hunting, somebody

695
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: on a trip shot like a thirteen foot alligant and

696
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: I was like the craziest thing I've seen in my

697
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 1: life when I say it came out of the water.

698
00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know if I would call alligant

699
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: or hunting fun, but I guess if you're it's a

700
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 1: lot more funner than you think. Like I don't feel

701
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 1: like an outdoors and press. You just had to experience it,

702
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: like something like I was. I'm scared of alligat I

703
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 1: still in So. We had actually had a camp that

704
00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 1: I grew up on. We would go away just for

705
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 1: like camp trips, oh, that my family owned and on

706
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 1: the water. You know, my uncle's used to out of

707
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: here hunt in the water, like whether on the water

708
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 1: where the camp was at. So as a kid, you know,

709
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 1: we used to jump in and Jim jump in and

710
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: out of that water. I was fishing since I was younger,

711
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: So I always had like that love for like an

712
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: outdoor field, even though like I live in like the city.

713
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: But um, I do love outdoors a lot. And then

714
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,320
Speaker 1: crawfish balls, I mean that he just got to call

715
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: them one. I might to invite you to one. You

716
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 1: can see how fun it is. But I mean, I

717
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,960
Speaker 1: feel like you would know being from Louisiana. I tried

718
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: it when I moved to Texas. But yeah, really it's

719
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: really a social thing too, right, everybody gets just forget

720
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 1: whatever's going on in their life for that just moment.

721
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,560
Speaker 1: Just have a good time with each other. My mom

722
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: she makes a great crawfits. My uncle's I mean he

723
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: does a thing. So we all just you know, just

724
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: have a good time, play music, just enjoy each other,

725
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: enjoy each other's presence. That's always a really good time.

726
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 1: It's so social. It's such a fun activity to do

727
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: with a bunch of people. I don't know if it's

728
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,400
Speaker 1: for the food I mean usually pretty hungry. Maybe I'm

729
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: not shelling crawfish fast enough. What about movies and books?

730
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:03,600
Speaker 1: All right? What have you have you had any time

731
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: to see anything? I know it's kind of crazy during

732
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: the season, but during your downtime, I mean, is there

733
00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: a movie that you've seen lately? A book that you're

734
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,560
Speaker 1: wanting to read here when the off season kicks off.

735
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 1: So I have a book that just got for Christmas.

736
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,720
Speaker 1: It was Sean Taylor book. He's actually my favorite player.

737
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 1: It was always going full speed, like just like a

738
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,320
Speaker 1: book about like things that went on in his life,

739
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:25,359
Speaker 1: good and bad. So that's one thing I really want

740
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: to read and get get to know more about him

741
00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 1: because in high school, you know, I grew up watching

742
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: his highlights. Like I'm a big Sean Taylor fan, Like

743
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 1: that's why I used to base my game around. And

744
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 1: then movies. I mean to be honest, I put on

745
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: a movie every night, Like yeah, like I put on

746
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: a movie every night just while like you know, I'm

747
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:45,439
Speaker 1: over there doing like my game playing stuff and going

748
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 1: over my notes. I'll just throw a movie on there

749
00:34:47,640 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: and just kind of like old movies new movies, I

750
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: watch it all, Okay, I watch it all, which is everything. Yeah,

751
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: I guess if you've got a movie every night, you're

752
00:34:57,480 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 1: pretty open to all the times. I actually have a

753
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: lot like good conversations with it with the training room

754
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:04,720
Speaker 1: people in there, and I'm like, give me another movie,

755
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 1: and they're like, okay, you go watch this. I was like,

756
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: we'll come back and we'll talk about it every day.

757
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,040
Speaker 1: Sometimes we won't finish, but like, yeah, I'm I love movies.

758
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,600
Speaker 1: I don't know, I just like I like figure well,

759
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: like I've I've watched movies so much that I like

760
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:18,680
Speaker 1: I figure out was gonna go on with at the

761
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: end between like the first ten minutes, I'm like, okay,

762
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,439
Speaker 1: I like to give like a theory, like this's gonna happen.

763
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 1: It's gonna happen, And most of the time I'm usually right. Yeah.

764
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: I feel like I feel like there's a segment for

765
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 1: Garrett's movie reviews somewhere somewhere in this, like you, if

766
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 1: anybody is interested, I'll definitely put down Okay, we gotta yeah,

767
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: maybe that's something we might be interested in. Something that

768
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: all right before okay, one more question before I let

769
00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:44,840
Speaker 1: you go, Well, actually two more for the first is

770
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: your name because you only have one tea on the

771
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: end of Garrett, And that's been really hard for some

772
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,959
Speaker 1: of us that know Garrett always filled Garrett with two teams?

773
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: Whose idea was that? And how often does your name

774
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,320
Speaker 1: get mispelled because of that? All right, this is really embarrassing,

775
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:03,800
Speaker 1: But my own family still spells my name wrong sometimes. Yeah.

776
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 1: So Garrett one t two hours, one tea, usually it

777
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 1: spelled with two hours and two teas. Um. I asked

778
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 1: my mom one day. I was like, hey, why'd you

779
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: why did you just leave one tea on? She's like,

780
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,360
Speaker 1: I just want you to be different. I was like, okay, okay.

781
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:20,520
Speaker 1: And my stepdad he's like, well it sounds better with

782
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 1: two teas because I was like I'm just like okay,

783
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:24,360
Speaker 1: Like we can't go back and forth to this, like

784
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 1: we gotta like come up with something. But um, yeah,

785
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:29,440
Speaker 1: she just always wanted me to be different, so she

786
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,399
Speaker 1: just kept one tea at the end. And I think

787
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 1: I've never like it's like the craziest thing, like sometimes

788
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 1: like all my like my college awards like all that

789
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,000
Speaker 1: two teas. Yeah, it's like the craziest thing ever. Like

790
00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:42,360
Speaker 1: I just like I just got used to it. But

791
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: I was like, you know it is. I was like,

792
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: your name probably gets misspelled a lot, but I've never seen, yeah,

793
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,800
Speaker 1: honestly be surprised. Like I've never had my name spelled

794
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 1: so wrong so many times in my life, But like

795
00:36:56,160 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 1: I just laugh at it now, like like it's never

796
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:00,439
Speaker 1: bothered me. I just knew, like with the reason why

797
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: my name was spelled different. So every time I see

798
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:04,600
Speaker 1: I just like, it's just I just started laughing It's

799
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,960
Speaker 1: like it's funny. That's good. You've got a good attitude

800
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 1: about it, all right. So, now you got your year

801
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 1: two coming up. I mean everyone talks about this big

802
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: rookie jump from year one to year two. What are

803
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 1: some goals that you have for yourself now that you

804
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,879
Speaker 1: got one year under your belt almost and you've got

805
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: some starts, you've kind of mastering special teams there, What

806
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:23,560
Speaker 1: are some things that you want to get better at

807
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 1: next year? Most definitely, I think just just taking that

808
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:30,839
Speaker 1: jump with my body physically, preparing my body to go

809
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: a seventeen game season longer and just be like feeling

810
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,720
Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying, just just grow physically

811
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: has definitely been like a goal. Definitely keep improving on

812
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:43,759
Speaker 1: the field, keep improving my knowledge, my football knowledge. But um,

813
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: I think just that this offseason is going to be

814
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: so huge for me just as just as an individual.

815
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:51,439
Speaker 1: I'm thinking just like just how much I want to grow,

816
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,960
Speaker 1: how much I want to change my body around to

817
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:55,399
Speaker 1: just be at my best that I can't be next

818
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: year for the team. So um, it's definitely gonna be

819
00:37:57,719 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: a long It's gonna be a hard, hard off season

820
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:01,960
Speaker 1: for me, and I'm going to put everything into it.

821
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,439
Speaker 1: So I'm definitely excited about it. All right, we can't

822
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: wait to see it. Garrett with one team who loves

823
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:10,360
Speaker 1: movies and writes poetry. I've learned so much about you

824
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 1: that I did not know. It's great to get to

825
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: know you finally. Yes, thank you so much, Garrett, all right,

826
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 1: best elect for the rest of the season. Oh, thank

827
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 1: you so much. Love that dude, man, I love him

828
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:22,480
Speaker 1: on the field, great dude off the field. I can't

829
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: wait till Mark and I have a chance to have

830
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,320
Speaker 1: an interview with Garrett Wallow. I'm a little envious that

831
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: deep you had such a great time talking with the

832
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 1: New Orleans native. Garrett Wallow pledgies ball at John Curtis

833
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,799
Speaker 1: is High SCHOOLBA at John Curtis, which I know well

834
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 1: TCU for Gary Patterson and obviously his first year here

835
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: with the Houston Texans. All right, we get back, we'll

836
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: discuss our keys to a win over the Titans. That's

837
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 1: next a Texans All Access since all Axcess, since all Axcess,

838
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,879
Speaker 1: Well Max Friday Edition, Texans All Access. I'm your host,

839
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: Sean Harris, football analyst and sideline reporter, and it's time

840
00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:03,720
Speaker 1: for my weekly Keys to the game against the Tennessee Titans.

841
00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 1: Titans eleven and five I mentioned earlier playing for the

842
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: number one seed in the AFCAT. At the end of

843
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 1: sixty minutes, could be the number one seed in the AFCAT.

844
00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,439
Speaker 1: So how will the Texans do it? Well, let's start

845
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:20,560
Speaker 1: with the Titans offense. In the Texans defense. Number one key,

846
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: Titans won't change. I'm not gonna change. As I put

847
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 1: in my know your faux article ain't changing. Watching the Titans.

848
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter where Derrick Henry is at running back,

849
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,400
Speaker 1: or Deante Foreman's at running back, or you or I

850
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: r at running back. They're gonna do what they do

851
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 1: because they're gonna run behind that that quintet upfront. Taylor

852
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:44,399
Speaker 1: Luan Roger Saffold, Ben Jones, Nate Davis, David Questenberry. They're

853
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: gonna run behind those guys. They're gonna run zone. They're

854
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,360
Speaker 1: gonna run zone, and they're gonna pound, and they're gonna

855
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: you know, cut back and they're run split zone. That's

856
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: just what they do. They're not changing. So you've got

857
00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 1: to meet them in the middle. As physically as you've

858
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:05,359
Speaker 1: played all year long. It takes a toll, but if

859
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: you match them physical for physical, you'll be in a

860
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:10,279
Speaker 1: game in the fourth quarter of an opportunity to win it.

861
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: They the Texans, I would say, got away with anything.

862
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:15,400
Speaker 1: But the Texans got out to a lead because of

863
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:19,280
Speaker 1: turnovers and takeaways and some solid tire Taylor play before

864
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,640
Speaker 1: the rain hit, and the Titans had to then throw

865
00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 1: the ball way more than they want to. They want

866
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 1: to pound the rock, they want to get behind that

867
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,080
Speaker 1: quintet of guys up front and really take over the

868
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: game physically. Don't allow it. Run, hammer, tackle, well, do

869
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 1: whatever you gotta do, but get them out of what

870
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,320
Speaker 1: they do well. Number two I call it. Just asked

871
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 1: the Niners, And the reason I say that is the

872
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:46,360
Speaker 1: Niners had a whale of a time trying to stop

873
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:50,000
Speaker 1: a J. Brown. A horrible time stopping a J. Brown.

874
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: The Texans have had a horrible time stopping a J. Brown.

875
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: But Desmond King game a hit in the rib cage

876
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:57,879
Speaker 1: and that knocked him out of the game and the

877
00:40:57,880 --> 00:40:59,759
Speaker 1: Titans offense for the rest of the game was just

878
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 1: a wayward without him. Now, Nick Westbrook a Keene did

879
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: some decent things. That offense is different without AJ Brown.

880
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 1: The Niners found that out because Tannehill went to AJ

881
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 1: Brown consistently in the second half six catches for one

882
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,240
Speaker 1: hundred twenty one yards and the tuty in the second

883
00:41:15,239 --> 00:41:17,840
Speaker 1: half and that changed things. And finally the tempo. The

884
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 1: Titans want to go at a fast pace, not all

885
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 1: the time, but at key times, and that could be

886
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: a difference at the Texans aren't ready for it. Defensively,

887
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 1: it's about Jeffrey Simmons upfront. That front is outstanding with

888
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 1: he and Nico Autry now there. With outsize, Nick Juan

889
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,240
Speaker 1: Jones and Tier Tart are gonna be out but Simmons

890
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:39,800
Speaker 1: and Autrey inside, Harold Landry and Bud Dupree and the

891
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: outside that's as tough a group to move and have

892
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 1: success against number two thirty ones. Down there, Joe Burrow

893
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: said this about Jamar Chase last week. I know Jamar's

894
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:54,399
Speaker 1: down there somewhere. Well for the Texans, Kevin Bayard's down

895
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: there somewhere, and he is going to make plenty of

896
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:58,319
Speaker 1: players on the ball if you throw the ball up

897
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 1: and let him go make one. And finally, I say

898
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,440
Speaker 1: this every week with Davis Mills started. Get him comfortable early,

899
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: he'll produce late. Get him comfortable early, he'll produce for

900
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 1: you late. All right, those are your keys to the

901
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: game now. Drew Dorry and I did a little in

902
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,720
Speaker 1: the Lab for you coming up next it gets wacky,

903
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: trust me, we'll do that for you on the other side.

904
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:22,239
Speaker 1: Right here in Texans All Access, we got one hour down,

905
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: one hour left to go. Right here on a Friday edition,

906
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:28,160
Speaker 1: our last Friday edition for the twenty twenty one season.

907
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 1: That is a Texans All Access. I'm your host, John Harris,

908
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 1: football analysts and silent reporter, and Drew Dory and I

909
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: get together each week and we chat on our podcast

910
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: called in the Lab. And this week we sort of

911
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: looked into the screen and we looked at each other thought,

912
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: what are we doing? When Drew said just go with it,

913
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:51,280
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, And so he asked me about

914
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:57,240
Speaker 1: rookies and expectations for the rookies, and so I think

915
00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 1: I started with Davis Mills, I believe, and I gave

916
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 1: him what I thought, and then all of a sudden

917
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 1: he gave the most the wildest answer, like wait what.

918
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 1: I was like, all right, let's go with that, let's

919
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:17,720
Speaker 1: do that, Let's have expectations. And then the wildest expectations

920
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,520
Speaker 1: you could possibly have for this finale against the Tennessee Tides. Yeah,

921
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 1: I got a little nutty on in the lab. You know,

922
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 1: we're all a little tired, we're exhausted at this point

923
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: of the year. So let's get nutty on in the

924
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: lab right about now. In the lab, time is right now,

925
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:34,480
Speaker 1: and my name is Drew Doherty. Your name is John Harris,

926
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,239
Speaker 1: John Harris, and we got some fun stuff to talk

927
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:39,160
Speaker 1: about because the final week of the season is here,

928
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: and the Texans been a tough year. You know, four

929
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 1: and twelve. Can't say too many good things in a

930
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,799
Speaker 1: four and twelve season. But looking to the future, I

931
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 1: think this rookie class is pretty promising, pretty exciting. What

932
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,759
Speaker 1: would be obviously a win, But aside from a win,

933
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 1: what would be a semi ideal to nearly ideal scenario

934
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:03,399
Speaker 1: for you on an individual basis with these players on

935
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 1: Sunday against the Titans, what do you want to see

936
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 1: from the likes of Davis Mills and the likes of

937
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:12,439
Speaker 1: Garrett Wallow and Nico Collins and Brevin Jordan and Roy

938
00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 1: Lopez and so on and so forth. So it's kind

939
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,319
Speaker 1: of like a Christmas wish list in some sense for

940
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 1: our rookies. I like that, of course, a few days

941
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: after Christmas that said, here we go Davis Mills. I

942
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 1: would like to see a second half drive trailing that

943
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:34,200
Speaker 1: he finishes and puts us ahead. Second half, we're trailing,

944
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:37,439
Speaker 1: I don't know, twenty to seventeen and he deals down

945
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 1: the field and puts us up twenty four twenty. I'll

946
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 1: one up you. You know what I want to see

947
00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 1: go ahead? I want to see the Texans up thirty

948
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: five nothing and they get the ball with fifty eight

949
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:52,799
Speaker 1: seconds and one time out right before the half, and

950
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 1: they get the ball at their own seven yard line,

951
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 1: and I want to see Davis Mills march down the

952
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:01,439
Speaker 1: field in about seven plays throw a touchdown as time

953
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,439
Speaker 1: expires in the half, to go up forty two to nothing.

954
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 1: That's what I want. That would be fantastic. And then

955
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: I'd like to see a camera in Coach Rabel's face

956
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 1: at that point, because Matt Rabel is always fun. Let's

957
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:14,880
Speaker 1: keep going. Now, okay, that's our first one. Let's keep going.

958
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:17,319
Speaker 1: I'll keep one upping you. Okay, okay, so let's keep

959
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 1: you do the you do the rational one and I'll

960
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: do the optimistically wildly. Okay, this is fun. We're making

961
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 1: this up. Okay, fly all right, here we go the

962
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,920
Speaker 1: next The next pick in the draft was Nico Collins correct.

963
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,359
Speaker 1: One of the things I think Nico's gotta continue to

964
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:38,040
Speaker 1: improve is understand that he is a big receiver. He's

965
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: a big guy. And you know, last week I think

966
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: was a was a good example. He's going to get

967
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:44,440
Speaker 1: his former teammate Ambrey Thomas. And I saw Ambry play

968
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl and I thought he's a good player,

969
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 1: but I was like, man, he's thin, he's gonna get

970
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:52,000
Speaker 1: knocked off. Well, Ambry played very strong. Nico's gotta play

971
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:54,240
Speaker 1: with that strength. I mean he's got He's gotta muscle

972
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: up a little bit more and utilize his size a

973
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:01,239
Speaker 1: little bit more. Now, let a guy like Abry Thomas

974
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:03,879
Speaker 1: kind of grab his shoulder and pull him and then

975
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:06,959
Speaker 1: ripped through and almost pick off of football. Niko's gotta

976
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: begin to play with that play strength, the physical strength

977
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: he has. He is a dynamo with the ball in

978
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 1: the air, great hands, excellent feet, But I want to

979
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 1: see him start to play with that strength embody guys

980
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 1: that really have no business being in the vicinity with him.

981
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:29,359
Speaker 1: So with Jack Rabbit Jenkins on one side, and at

982
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: this point, don't know who's gonna play the other corner

983
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 1: for the Titans because some guys are banged up, but

984
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: Niko's gotta start playing with that strength and really take

985
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 1: over with that strength like we saw Andrey Johnson du

986
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: during his career. I like that. That's a good one,

987
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: and I'll word up it by saying, using that strength

988
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 1: to catch six balls for two hundred and fifty five

989
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: yards and four scores, three of those scores being deep

990
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: shots into the end zone where he kind of are

991
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,839
Speaker 1: not necessarily deep shots, but shots into the end zone

992
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 1: where he, like you're talking about it, takes advantage of

993
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:01,839
Speaker 1: the size and does what he can do and what

994
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 1: he it looks like he's sort of built to do.

995
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 1: So yeah, I like that. That's a good one, John,

996
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 1: I love it. Okay, let's stay offensive. Revin Jordan. Sure,

997
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 1: you know. Brev didn't get involved too much in the

998
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:14,879
Speaker 1: offense the other day, which thought was a little disappointing

999
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 1: to And for whatever reason, there was one third down

1000
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 1: throw where Davis kind of threw it in between Brevin

1001
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:23,680
Speaker 1: Jordan and Brandy Cooks and they all sort of looked

1002
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 1: at each other like, wait, was that for me? It

1003
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: was that for you who's at four? And I feel

1004
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: like it was Brevin who didn't. Davis was trying to

1005
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: throw him to a spot. I think Brevin saw zone

1006
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: and just circled up. So they were both right and

1007
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 1: both wrong in that Davis was trying to throw to

1008
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 1: a spot, but in zone you gotta put it on

1009
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 1: the guy, and Brevin was doing what you're supposed to

1010
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: in zone, you circle up. But Brevin had to feel

1011
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: and needed to feel the guys to his inside and

1012
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 1: kind of just slide to the outside. If he does,

1013
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 1: it's a big third down catch and you move on.

1014
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 1: I'd like to see Brev getting the end zone again

1015
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:02,880
Speaker 1: against the Titans. They really I don't think that. I

1016
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: think Brevin played in that game in the rain and

1017
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:07,839
Speaker 1: did some decent things, but it's now time to go

1018
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: back to what he was against the Chargers, being a

1019
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:13,239
Speaker 1: four catch a game guy without a doubt and going

1020
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: and making big plays with those four catches. I want

1021
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: to see eight catches, John, and I want to see

1022
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 1: three of them be touchdowns. But more importantly, I don't

1023
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 1: want to ever see him catch a ball on third

1024
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 1: down because I don't think the Texans need a third

1025
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: down in this game. They're gonna They're gonna move the

1026
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:29,920
Speaker 1: ball and or score on first and second down and

1027
00:48:29,960 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 1: just march down the field or you know, get the

1028
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:34,840
Speaker 1: big stuff going. And what I really want to see

1029
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 1: is Brevin Jordan about seven or eight times taking the

1030
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 1: guy that he's blocking on a run play and just

1031
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 1: staying with him and blocking that guy into two or

1032
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:48,759
Speaker 1: three other guys and just creating massive holes, massive creases

1033
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 1: for the Texans run game. That's what I want to see.

1034
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:55,000
Speaker 1: I like the way you're thinking. I really do. Okay,

1035
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:56,640
Speaker 1: I'm kind of getting the hang of this now, so

1036
00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:06,799
Speaker 1: you're the rational expectation. Okay, Okay, expectation Garret Wallow's next. Yeah,

1037
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:11,359
Speaker 1: And I think with Garrett just being on the field consistently.

1038
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 1: You know, we saw that against Jacksonville when he got

1039
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:16,600
Speaker 1: on the field, Holy smokes. He can run, he can

1040
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 1: fly to the football. Obviously, with some guys coming back healthy,

1041
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:22,319
Speaker 1: coming Gruge Hill, Christian Kirksey, Nevill Huett, those guys all

1042
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:25,720
Speaker 1: coming back healthy. I don't want to say relegated Garrett

1043
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 1: to you know, back watching, but it did to a degree.

1044
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 1: But I'd like to see Garrett get on the field

1045
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 1: and show what he can do in coverage. I think

1046
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 1: we've seen in the run game, like the way he

1047
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:39,360
Speaker 1: can run, get that outside zone. They'll get tested with

1048
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 1: the Titans, I mean with deantay Foreman, the way that

1049
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: deantay Foreman is running, which I'm gonna do a tellustrator on.

1050
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 1: I don't want to say they're not lacking a lot

1051
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 1: without Derek Henry, but deantey Foreman has found his form,

1052
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:52,359
Speaker 1: no doubt, and the run dy has got to be

1053
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:55,440
Speaker 1: strong against that. But I think Garrett Wallow has got

1054
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: to show what he can do in past coverage. I

1055
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 1: think that's an undiscovered or unearthed asset that we know

1056
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:02,840
Speaker 1: that he has. And I think the staff and the

1057
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:05,839
Speaker 1: personnel guys that's scouting him last year, they know he's

1058
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:09,320
Speaker 1: got it. It's just a matter of putting that together

1059
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 1: with the way that he plays to run. I think

1060
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:12,759
Speaker 1: we see those things. I think Garrett can end up

1061
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,279
Speaker 1: being a starter for a long time for this team. Yeah,

1062
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:17,040
Speaker 1: for sure. And you know, I mean there are questions

1063
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:19,799
Speaker 1: when the Texans took Wallow, Hey, are you guys gonna

1064
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: play him at like a big safety or They're like, nope,

1065
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 1: he's he's a linebacker. So he sort of has that

1066
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:28,879
Speaker 1: in his proverbial toolbox, so to speak. So I like that.

1067
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:32,840
Speaker 1: What I want to see is Garrett go to the

1068
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 1: buffet and get some jello, and get some ham, have

1069
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:43,839
Speaker 1: some potatoes, maybe some Brussels sprouts, maybe some green bean casserole,

1070
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 1: you know, finish it up with a pie or two,

1071
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:49,800
Speaker 1: and then maybe on top of it, add some turkey,

1072
00:50:49,960 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 1: add a slice of carved roast beef or something like that.

1073
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 1: I want him to hit all the categories, you know,

1074
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 1: get double digit tackles, get a sad, get a takeaway, Actually,

1075
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:06,320
Speaker 1: get force a fumble, recover a fumble, break up some passes.

1076
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 1: I want a little bit of everything from him on

1077
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 1: Sunday and just be a real difference maker. I think

1078
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:13,799
Speaker 1: he could do it. You know, why not. We've seen

1079
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: that around here from JJ Watt, right. I mean, you

1080
00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 1: start talking about food and I'm like, I thought I

1081
00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: was gonna have to smite you, sir, sort of like

1082
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: I've done. I didn't mean to do it to my

1083
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 1: friend Seth pay because I didn't hear Seth say it.

1084
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 1: But they're talking about Garrett being undersized. I'm like, Garrett's

1085
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:30,960
Speaker 1: not undersized. Man. Yeah, he's speaking of size, but that

1086
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:33,719
Speaker 1: number thirty two I think throws people off. So either way,

1087
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 1: I thought that's where you were going with it. But

1088
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 1: I understand completely. But yeah, hey, and speaking of under size,

1089
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:41,320
Speaker 1: speaking of undersize, our good pal Mark VanderMeer has done

1090
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:45,800
Speaker 1: a deep dive kind of on the linebacker position now

1091
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:49,280
Speaker 1: in the NFL versus ten years ago, and he's pretty interesting.

1092
00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:51,239
Speaker 1: You should probably, if you haven't already, you should try

1093
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:53,880
Speaker 1: to get him on air talking about this guys are together,

1094
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:57,279
Speaker 1: just the difference in size for these guys versus a

1095
00:51:57,360 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 1: decade ago. I mean across the league, not just with

1096
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: the Texans, but the linebacker spot in general, it's pretty

1097
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:04,399
Speaker 1: fascinating if you if you get him going on, wait,

1098
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:10,360
Speaker 1: so Mark Vandermer, our head of analytics, Yeah exactly, Okay, okay,

1099
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 1: all right, all right, let's get to our final pick,

1100
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 1: and that's Roy Lopez. And I will get Mark Vandermer

1101
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: credit for this because when he did his final vander mock,

1102
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 1: he had Roy Lopez Junior as the pick for the Texan.

1103
00:52:21,560 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 1: It was absolutely remarkable. I don't think he got inside information,

1104
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 1: and he wouldn't tell you that, but he was pretty excited.

1105
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 1: And look, Roy's been starting all year, all year long,

1106
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:33,479
Speaker 1: and the only game that he missed was unfortunately against

1107
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:34,880
Speaker 1: the Chargers, where I think he would have had some

1108
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:38,319
Speaker 1: success against that offensive front that lack Corey Lindsley. Well,

1109
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:42,359
Speaker 1: here's your opportunity. It's the Titans. These are the kind

1110
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:46,719
Speaker 1: of games that you would say you drafted Roy Lopez for.

1111
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 1: When you draft a guy that late in the draft,

1112
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:50,879
Speaker 1: you're just like, man, we're hoping to get something good

1113
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:52,759
Speaker 1: out of him. But this is why you draft him

1114
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:55,399
Speaker 1: because he fits so well in this run defense. So

1115
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:58,719
Speaker 1: against the Titans, I would imagine, look if they run

1116
00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:01,760
Speaker 1: the ball, well, I don't know thirty to thirty five times.

1117
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 1: I would say seventeen to eighteen tackles for our loss

1118
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:09,720
Speaker 1: is probably reasonable, probably reasonable this week. So I'm gonna

1119
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:14,160
Speaker 1: go with Roy Lopez seventeen. I just I don't want

1120
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: too much pressure on him. It's seventeen tackles for a

1121
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:20,320
Speaker 1: loss this week against Deontay Foreman and the Titans. Feeling

1122
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:24,360
Speaker 1: that that is going to end up being a pretty

1123
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:27,360
Speaker 1: solid performance on a capper of a rookie season for

1124
00:53:27,440 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 1: Roy Lopez. All Right, a few things here. Roy Lopez

1125
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 1: is going to be the player pregame interview this week. Also,

1126
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: Drew's dozen with him, so that's gonna be fun. It'll

1127
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 1: be good to catch up with him. I'm looking forward

1128
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 1: to that. Make sure you listen on game day. Listen

1129
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 1: to John on Friday night sports Radio six ten, or

1130
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:47,520
Speaker 1: the Houston Texas Mobile app, or just go to the

1131
00:53:47,800 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 1: app or the website. It'll be up there probably on

1132
00:53:50,120 --> 00:53:53,440
Speaker 1: Friday as well. On top of all that, you and

1133
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 1: I I think we need to pat ourselves on the

1134
00:53:55,120 --> 00:53:57,680
Speaker 1: back because when he got here, he was somebody that

1135
00:53:57,719 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 1: when we looked at who he was, what he'd done,

1136
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: what his background was, we thought this guy could be

1137
00:54:02,719 --> 00:54:05,440
Speaker 1: a real you know, he could be a pretty pretty

1138
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: big impact player at that spot. It's not a glamorous spot.

1139
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 1: It's not going to rack up a lot of stats

1140
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 1: at that spot, but it's important and I think he's

1141
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: more than fit the bill as far as what's been

1142
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:19,359
Speaker 1: asked of him. I mean, he's exceeded those expectations, I think.

1143
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:22,320
Speaker 1: So it's been really fun considering where he was picked,

1144
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 1: the expectations, and I've loved seeing what he's done. And

1145
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:30,759
Speaker 1: you took the seventeen eighteen TFLs, but make some TFLs

1146
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 1: be there in the backfield to meet Foreman right after

1147
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:37,280
Speaker 1: he gets that handoff. It's been fun seeing Roy Lopez.

1148
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:39,680
Speaker 1: You know who else is a big, big Roy Lopez

1149
00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:41,880
Speaker 1: fan is a guy who played that position as well

1150
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:44,359
Speaker 1: for this team the first few years that the team

1151
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:47,000
Speaker 1: was in existence, Seth Payne. He's got all sorts of

1152
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 1: fun stuff to talk about with Roy Lopez or about

1153
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:53,719
Speaker 1: Roy Lopez. So bringing up with Seth next time, you guys, Chichen,

1154
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:57,360
Speaker 1: I know you have, but it's cool and for good reason,

1155
00:54:57,520 --> 00:54:59,160
Speaker 1: he loves him and for good reason, and of course

1156
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 1: they both were nine one and they both have the

1157
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 1: same haird so yeah, I mean it's it's pretty much

1158
00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:08,319
Speaker 1: I mean, like peas in a pod now you me.

1159
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:10,759
Speaker 1: I think most people that look at this draft that

1160
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: has your draft class, it's just pretty much played out

1161
00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 1: its rookie year. I think, man, there's a great future here.

1162
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:19,879
Speaker 1: Looks like Nick as Sario and company really hit on things.

1163
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 1: There's a few people out there who quibble with that,

1164
00:55:22,120 --> 00:55:25,359
Speaker 1: but whatever, man, I I'm really excited about what these

1165
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 1: five can do, and maybe a few of the undrafted

1166
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 1: guys who have also come in from other organizations since

1167
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:33,920
Speaker 1: the the you know, the the draft went down late

1168
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 1: April of last year. There's a few guys that are

1169
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:38,840
Speaker 1: really going to contribute and make a difference here in

1170
00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 1: the future, and I'm excited. It's It's really one of

1171
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:43,840
Speaker 1: those things where it looks like they hit on everyone.

1172
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:46,439
Speaker 1: Everyone has a future with this team. We're not saying

1173
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:48,879
Speaker 1: you got six all pros, but you got guys who

1174
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:50,480
Speaker 1: are all going to contribute and be a part of

1175
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: you know, what you want to do or what you

1176
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:54,719
Speaker 1: want to be successfully in the years to come, right, Yeah,

1177
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:57,760
Speaker 1: no doubt, I mean that's look good. Nick has addressed

1178
00:55:57,800 --> 00:55:59,319
Speaker 1: us a couple of times he's done here with Mark

1179
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 1: and I talking about the future at various points and

1180
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:05,840
Speaker 1: pointing out, look, this is a it was a pretty

1181
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:11,440
Speaker 1: massive rebuild that he was tasked with, and that's not

1182
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:14,839
Speaker 1: done overnight. I mean, you think about renovating a house,

1183
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 1: it's probably the best way to look at it. You've

1184
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:21,440
Speaker 1: got to make sure that the foundation is absolutely rock solid.

1185
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 1: And I think the concrete has been poured and it's

1186
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:27,120
Speaker 1: getting smoothed out where you want it to go. The

1187
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:29,360
Speaker 1: rest of it goes up pretty quickly at that point,

1188
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 1: but you've got to get that foundation right. And I

1189
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:34,799
Speaker 1: think this is the off season. And Mark pointed this out.

1190
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:37,920
Speaker 1: We were talking. I believe we were on the air,

1191
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:39,120
Speaker 1: so I don't think I'm out of line. I think

1192
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:40,840
Speaker 1: he brought this up. He said there were four things.

1193
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:46,239
Speaker 1: Now I will readily excuse me. I'll readily admit I

1194
00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:50,080
Speaker 1: can't think of the fourth, but I know I know three.

1195
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 1: Number one, what this offseason could be for the Texas.

1196
00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:56,760
Speaker 1: Number one, in no particular order, Number one, Andre Johnson

1197
00:56:56,840 --> 00:57:00,440
Speaker 1: potentially going into all of Fame. That will be tastic.

1198
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 1: Number two, a potential trade that could bring back significant

1199
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:12,120
Speaker 1: draft equity. And then number three, it is the draft

1200
00:57:12,680 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 1: because you've got first and second rounders for the first

1201
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:18,600
Speaker 1: time since seemingly forever. I mean, if you think about

1202
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, Titus was the last first round

1203
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 1: pick you had. But you didn't have any first round

1204
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 1: picks in eighteen, you didn't have any in twenty in

1205
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:27,640
Speaker 1: any twenty twenty one. So the last first round pick

1206
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 1: you really made goes back to twenty seventeen with Dashawan

1207
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:34,720
Speaker 1: before Titus. So I mean Titus was the only one

1208
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:37,960
Speaker 1: that you've had over that run. And not to say

1209
00:57:37,960 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 1: that you have to win with a bunch of first rounders,

1210
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:41,919
Speaker 1: You've got to win with a bunch of good football players. Well,

1211
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:43,840
Speaker 1: the reason guys get picked in the first round is

1212
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 1: because they typically are good football players. And now you're

1213
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 1: going to have some. Maybe it's just one this year,

1214
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:53,040
Speaker 1: depending on how the whole trade thing and timing and

1215
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 1: all that goes down, maybe it's just one, But you

1216
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 1: got plenty of picks the rest of this draft. And

1217
00:57:57,800 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 1: I know to your left, you've got a list of

1218
00:57:59,680 --> 00:58:01,920
Speaker 1: all the draft picks that the Texans are gonna have

1219
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 1: this year. You know, they got the extra third from

1220
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:06,480
Speaker 1: Bradley Roby. If they are able to pull in some

1221
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 1: other draft picks. This draft becomes alter important. However, Nick Cassario,

1222
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:13,480
Speaker 1: I'll look at it. I won't look at it that way.

1223
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:15,720
Speaker 1: Niko Saro is gonna look at it as it's a

1224
00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 1: piece of the process. It's just that instead of you know,

1225
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 1: going to waiting until day you know two to make

1226
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:26,840
Speaker 1: a pick, they'll be ready to roll early Thursday night

1227
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:29,200
Speaker 1: being able to make a pick in the top five.

1228
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: I think five as the lowest they could pick. So

1229
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:33,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna get a top five football player that night,

1230
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 1: maybe more, maybe more, and then we really can start

1231
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 1: setting that foundation in place. And hey, if he still

1232
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 1: hits like he did or like you think he did

1233
00:58:40,760 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 1: this year on those late round third day picks, keeping money,

1234
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:47,720
Speaker 1: he's got three six six is this year. Yeah, three

1235
00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:51,200
Speaker 1: more sixth in twenty twenty three. So yeah, there's there's

1236
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 1: quite a bit coming down the pipe in the years acop.

1237
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:59,040
Speaker 1: Maybe even four sixths in twenty twenty three. If the

1238
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:03,160
Speaker 1: trade with with the Saints for Robie all those weeks,

1239
00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, I don't know if he did either.

1240
00:59:05,240 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 1: I know he's been playing a lot lately, but at least,

1241
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 1: you know, the big part of that is getting that third,

1242
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:14,040
Speaker 1: so oh yeah, we'll see, we'll see what happens. We

1243
00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 1: did talk a little bit further about the LSU in

1244
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:19,440
Speaker 1: Kansas State game because we were recording that on Tuesday,

1245
00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 1: which was the night of the bowl game. And appreciate

1246
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 1: both those universities for making the trek down or over

1247
00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:31,080
Speaker 1: to Houston. LSU had thirty nine scholarship players, had a

1248
00:59:31,120 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 1: lot of opt outs, a lot of things going on,

1249
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 1: but they still played in a bowl game. They're hat

1250
00:59:34,440 --> 00:59:35,800
Speaker 1: a lots of people Houston and a lot of the

1251
00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:37,880
Speaker 1: people in the buildings, So I appreciate the Tigers for

1252
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:40,480
Speaker 1: making a trip. And of course the Wildcats came through

1253
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 1: the big win. Duce Vaughan Skyler Thompson was the MVP

1254
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:46,240
Speaker 1: number twenty two. Doucevan, like I said, he was incredible,

1255
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 1: five five hundred seventy five pounds. I'll take him all day,

1256
00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:51,400
Speaker 1: every day. If there was an all Harris team, like

1257
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 1: an all Maddened team, duce Van would be on it

1258
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:56,560
Speaker 1: and would be like the first pick to beat on it.

1259
00:59:56,600 --> 00:59:58,760
Speaker 1: He is so fun to watch, so tough, such a

1260
00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:03,320
Speaker 1: really good football player, just in just finishing his second

1261
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:07,160
Speaker 1: year in college football. All Right, we got predictions to

1262
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:11,760
Speaker 1: make next straight up against the spread, some big, big,

1263
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:16,440
Speaker 1: big big games, determining playoff positioning. All that would be

1264
01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:19,040
Speaker 1: termined in week eighteen. I'm gonna pick him next. Sponsored

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Speaker 1: all right, Welcome back to this Friday edition to Texas

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Speaker 1: to that time of the show, my favorite time of

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Speaker 1: the show where I get to compete buy make it picks.

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Speaker 1: I love this. I love getting to make picks straight

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Speaker 1: up and against the spread. And we've got a full slate.

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Speaker 1: Two games on Saturday, fourteen games on Sunday. It's the

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Speaker 1: first time in NFL history that's seventeen regular season games

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Speaker 1: will be played. So you're ready. I know you're ready.

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Speaker 1: So let's go. But get my music. I need my music.

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Speaker 1: I only pick games when the music's rolling because it's

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Speaker 1: a vibe. You know, it's a vibe. You get that

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Speaker 1: got the vibe, So let's do it. Music's going, So

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Speaker 1: let's start on Saturday three thirty on ABC and ESPN.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs are taken on the Broncos. Now, the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: are on the road at the Broncos. Broncos season is finito,

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Speaker 1: it's done. They've put Teddy Bridgewater on IR. They put

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Speaker 1: Kurneam Jackson IR. They're kind of limping to the finish

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Speaker 1: in a significant loss here could mean a lot. Not

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Speaker 1: a great way for Vic Fangio. The Chiefs need a

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Speaker 1: win after losing last week to Cincinnati Bengals. If the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs get this win. In fact, the Chiefs losing to

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Speaker 1: the Bengals last week moved a potential Texans Titans game.

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Speaker 1: There was a rumor that the Titans of Texas we're

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Speaker 1: gonna play on Saturday, and in playing that game, if

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs said wanting us the Bengals, the Chiefs wouldn't know,

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Speaker 1: or they would know, O do that? Are they gonna play?

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Speaker 1: Are they not? If the Titans then lost to us,

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs would know. Okay, this thing is pretty much

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Speaker 1: locked up to be the number one seed either way.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs are taking on the Broncos. I think the

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Speaker 1: Chiefs are gonna cover that ten and a half points spread.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna win this by a couple of touchdowns. Let's go, Twins,

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Speaker 1: go thirty one seventeen. I think the Broncos are ready.

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Speaker 1: The cars in the parking lot are ready to go.

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Speaker 1: This season's done for the Broncos. We'll see what it

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Speaker 1: means for Vic Fangio coming up very very soon. The

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Speaker 1: Chiefs win and they cover that ten and a half

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Speaker 1: point spread, then the Cowboys are taking on the Eagles.

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Speaker 1: Cowboys eleven and five cannot be the number one seed.

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Speaker 1: That's locked up by the Green Bay Packers. The Eagles

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Speaker 1: at nine and seven can't win the division, but they

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Speaker 1: clinched a playoff spot last week. Dallas is favored by

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Speaker 1: four in Philly Philly has played well, but I ultimately

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Speaker 1: haven't beaten great teams, but they won the games they're

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Speaker 1: supposed to win, in fact, the games in front of them.

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Speaker 1: I man, this one's This one's tough because I don't

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Speaker 1: see either team having a ton to play for other

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Speaker 1: than where exactly do they get slotted who they play

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs, which can mean something. But I think

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Dallas to cover that four point spread.

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Speaker 1: I think Dallas is relatively healthy. I can't I haven't

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Speaker 1: seen if Michael Parsons is ready to go at this point.

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Speaker 1: If he is, I would definitely say Dallas. I've got

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Speaker 1: an offense on this, but still go with Dallas. You

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Speaker 1: gotta make a pick here. Dallas will win and cover

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Speaker 1: the four on the road in phill even though the

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Speaker 1: Eagles have been playing much much better. The Bengals won

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Speaker 1: the AFC North last week ten and six. The Cleveland

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Speaker 1: Browns are seven and nine. The Browns are a mess case.

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Speaker 1: Keenum will apparently start for the Browns and Cleveland's a

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Speaker 1: six point favorite. Joe Burrow will not play for the Bengals.

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Speaker 1: I think the Browns will try and get one final win.

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Speaker 1: I think they'll get it. I think the Bengals will

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Speaker 1: try and keep guys from getting hurt. So I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: lay the six, take Cleveland to win and cover that

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Speaker 1: six point spread that I'll give them eight. That'll make

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Speaker 1: them eight and nine, and again another season in which

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Speaker 1: all kind of height for the Cleveland Browns and they

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Speaker 1: finish sub five hundred packers taken on the Lions. All right,

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Speaker 1: the Lions spoil? Would I really at this point, I

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Speaker 1: don't want the Lions to win this game, and I

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Speaker 1: feel bad for saying that, but I don't want the

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Speaker 1: Lions to win this game, and I want an upset

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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. Why because that would then make the Lions

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Speaker 1: the number one pick. So if the Lions lose, they'll

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Speaker 1: finish two fourteen and one. If the Jaguars lose, they'll

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Speaker 1: finish two to fifteen. Will Jacksonville get the number one pick,

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Speaker 1: and they presumably could take a guy that we all

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Speaker 1: really like, Aidan Hutchinson. Now they may not, but I

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Speaker 1: would think that's the guy they want to pick at

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Speaker 1: that particular number one spot. But the Lions win, then

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Speaker 1: it's doesn't matter what happens with the Jaguars. The Lions

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Speaker 1: will the number one spot. I don't think it happens.

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Speaker 1: I think I think the Packers go to to Detroit,

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Speaker 1: get the win, cover that three and a half to

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Speaker 1: try to play hard. I'll gotta give it up for

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Speaker 1: im and ross A Brown. He's been playing much much better.

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Speaker 1: But let's give the Packers to win on the road,

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Speaker 1: covering that three and a half. As the Lions go

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Speaker 1: to two. The Lions shoad even be in that position.

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Speaker 1: Alions should have four or five wins this year, but

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Speaker 1: they've played hard. For Dan Campbell, I think this one

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Speaker 1: against the Packers, I think the Packers will get that

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Speaker 1: win and cover that numbers low. I think because they're

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Speaker 1: not expecting the Packers to do much. They've got the

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Speaker 1: number one seed locked up. I don't think anybody can

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Speaker 1: reach them. The Buccaneers are twelve and four. Can the

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Speaker 1: buccaneer trying to remember if the Buccaneers and Packers that

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Speaker 1: had to have played. I think the Packers won that

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Speaker 1: game if I remember correctly, but maybe I'm wrong either way,

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Speaker 1: Packers win. Number one seed goes through Green Bay yet again,

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Speaker 1: Bears taken on Vikings. Neither team going anywhere in this one.

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Speaker 1: Andy Dalton's gonna start for the Bears. The Vikings are

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Speaker 1: a mess at seven and nine. Could be the last

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Speaker 1: game for both head coaches. Both head coaches in this game,

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Speaker 1: Matt Nagee for the Bears, Mike Zimmer for the Vikings.

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Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. Minnesota's favor about five and a half.

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Speaker 1: I think the Vikings get to win. They moved to

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Speaker 1: eight nine, the Bears will fall to six and eleven. Ironically, no, no,

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Speaker 1: if it's ironically, But if the Bears win, then both

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Speaker 1: teams will finish seven and ten, and I don't know

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Speaker 1: how that puts in the seating, but this one matters

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Speaker 1: because the Texans would then play the team that finishes

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Speaker 1: in third place, and if they're both at seven and ten,

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Speaker 1: I'm not totally sure which one that's gonna be. I've

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Speaker 1: been thinking Chicago, and we would go to play Chicago

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Speaker 1: because we will play the third place team at their

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Speaker 1: place in the NFC North. So I'm not sure if

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be the Vikings or the Bears. So that's

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Speaker 1: definitely one worth watching. So that's the reason to watch

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Speaker 1: that game if you're watching football on Sunday. Washington taken

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Speaker 1: on the Giants. Washingtons favor by seven. Let's get the admirals,

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Speaker 1: I mean the Washington football team the win on the

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Speaker 1: road against the g Man g Man stink. Colt's taken

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Speaker 1: on Jags any the fifteen point favorite on the road.

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Speaker 1: Colts gotta have it and I think they'll get it.

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Speaker 1: Colts will win this fifteen's rich. I think the Jaguars

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Speaker 1: will play hard. One last time. They head that game

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Speaker 1: with its six and had the ball in the fourth

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01:08:12,360 --> 01:08:15,640
Speaker 1: quarter four Trevor Lawrence was sacked and stripped to the football.

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Speaker 1: I think Colts win once they get a big lead.

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Speaker 1: I think they'll back off a little bit, give the

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Speaker 1: Jaguars a backdoor cover inside the fifteen. Steelers taken on

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Speaker 1: the Ravens eight seven and one, and it's eight and

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Speaker 1: eight now there's still a path for the Steelers. I

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Speaker 1: don't think it matters. Tyler Hunt is gonna play. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna start for the Ravens. Lamar Jackson's out. Baltimore's favored

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Speaker 1: by three and a half. I think the Ravens, if

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Speaker 1: they can get anything at all from their secondary, I

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Speaker 1: think they'll slow down the Steelers. I don't think Ben's

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Speaker 1: gonna do much. I think the Ravens will eat this

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Speaker 1: one out. I think it's gonna get inside three and

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Speaker 1: a halfs give the Ravens will win. The Steelers with

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Speaker 1: the cover butt out of the playoffs. The Saints and Falcons.

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Speaker 1: The Saints have got to win and then hope the

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Speaker 1: Rams beat the forty nine Ers. That gets the Saints

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Speaker 1: in on the road Atlanta, New Orleans. Favored by three

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Speaker 1: and a half, the Falcons would like nothing better than

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Speaker 1: to give the Saints a ninth loss. They would both

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Speaker 1: then finish at eight and nine. I think the Falcons

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01:09:14,720 --> 01:09:16,200
Speaker 1: are gonna do that. I think the Falcons are gonna

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01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:19,120
Speaker 1: find a way with Matt ryanot quarterback, to eke this

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Speaker 1: one out straight up win over the Saints, and both

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Speaker 1: teams finish eight and nine, and that will knock the

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Speaker 1: Saints out of playoff consideration even before the forty nine

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01:09:29,840 --> 01:09:31,720
Speaker 1: Ers in Rams play. Actually, you're gonna be playing at

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Speaker 1: the same time. At three twenty five. The Jets taken

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01:09:34,439 --> 01:09:41,439
Speaker 1: on the Bills, Bills win, they win the division, Bills lose.

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01:09:41,800 --> 01:09:45,000
Speaker 1: The Patriots got a shot playing the Dolphins to win

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Speaker 1: the division. So that's how it's gonna go. I don't

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01:09:48,720 --> 01:09:50,439
Speaker 1: think the Bills are gonna lose. Bills are favored by

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Speaker 1: sixteen at home. It's a bunch of snow. I don't

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01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:55,240
Speaker 1: think the Jets will score. The Jets will fall to

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Speaker 1: four and thirteen. The Bills will win and go to

1441
01:09:57,840 --> 01:10:00,840
Speaker 1: eleven and six and win the AFC East and cover

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Speaker 1: the sixteen. Then you got your forty nine Ers Rams game.

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Speaker 1: This is gonna be a barnburner. Not heard whether Jimmy

1444
01:10:07,800 --> 01:10:09,680
Speaker 1: Garoppolo is gonna play. I don't think it matters. I

1445
01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:12,360
Speaker 1: think Trey Lance should be the guy the Rams. Matt

1446
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:16,160
Speaker 1: Stafford's got an opportunity here to shut the door into

1447
01:10:16,200 --> 01:10:17,920
Speaker 1: forty nine ers, keep them out of the playoffs, because

1448
01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:19,519
Speaker 1: I think of the playoffs, forty nine ers could be

1449
01:10:19,560 --> 01:10:21,639
Speaker 1: a tough not to crack. LA is fair about four

1450
01:10:21,640 --> 01:10:24,439
Speaker 1: and a half. I think the Rams get that they

1451
01:10:24,479 --> 01:10:27,439
Speaker 1: will put up more points offensively. The Texans were able

1452
01:10:27,479 --> 01:10:29,200
Speaker 1: to last week, and that'll put pressure on the forty

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01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:30,639
Speaker 1: nine ers to do it. I don't think they will.

1454
01:10:30,840 --> 01:10:33,920
Speaker 1: I'm going twenty seven twenty one Rams. That will cover

1455
01:10:33,960 --> 01:10:35,479
Speaker 1: the four and a half and get the Rams the

1456
01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:41,439
Speaker 1: number two seed in the NFC. Even though the Buccaneers

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01:10:41,439 --> 01:10:43,840
Speaker 1: are gonna win and beat the Panthers and cover the eight,

1458
01:10:43,880 --> 01:10:46,519
Speaker 1: which is a little bit later, I think, and that'll

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01:10:46,520 --> 01:10:48,240
Speaker 1: give Meat them thirteen and four. If the Rams win,

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01:10:48,240 --> 01:10:49,840
Speaker 1: they'll be thirteen and four. But the Rams beat the

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01:10:49,880 --> 01:10:52,719
Speaker 1: Bucks earlier, so Rams will be the two seed. Bucks

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Speaker 1: will be the three seed, and that'll make the four seed.

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01:10:59,160 --> 01:11:01,719
Speaker 1: Who would be the four seed? That would be in

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01:11:02,080 --> 01:11:05,559
Speaker 1: the south northeast East, it would be the Cowboys. Cowboys

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01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:07,479
Speaker 1: would be the four seeds. So that's how it will

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01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:09,840
Speaker 1: break down those two games. Go Patriots are taken on

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01:11:09,920 --> 01:11:14,320
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, that's gonna be a whitewash. I think the

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01:11:14,320 --> 01:11:16,160
Speaker 1: Patriots are gonna go down to Miami and hammer the

1469
01:11:16,160 --> 01:11:18,760
Speaker 1: Dolphins cover the six and a half box I said,

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01:11:18,840 --> 01:11:21,200
Speaker 1: beat the Panthers. Cardinals are gonna win against the Seahawks

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Speaker 1: at home. Chargers Raiders, Oh boy, that's intriguing, really really intriguing.

1472
01:11:28,680 --> 01:11:32,840
Speaker 1: And I'm going with the Raiders to lose to the Charges.

1473
01:11:32,880 --> 01:11:34,880
Speaker 1: I think the Chargers come up the Chargers just not

1474
01:11:35,040 --> 01:11:38,520
Speaker 1: much better, and they will cover the three in the process.

1475
01:11:38,880 --> 01:11:41,760
Speaker 1: Those are your picks, brought to you by Caesar's Rewards.

1476
01:11:41,960 --> 01:11:44,760
Speaker 1: For every way you play, we get back. It's Drew

1477
01:11:44,800 --> 01:11:49,280
Speaker 1: Doherty's Final Word with Roy Lopez Junior on Texans All Access.

1478
01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:52,680
Speaker 1: On Texans All Access, we have one final segment of

1479
01:11:52,720 --> 01:11:57,000
Speaker 1: this Friday edition of Texans All Access in the twenty

1480
01:11:57,080 --> 01:12:00,439
Speaker 1: twenty one season game on Sunday against the Tennessee Heightens.

1481
01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:02,519
Speaker 1: And this has been my eighth year and I'm John

1482
01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:05,160
Speaker 1: Harris Football, you know, a sideline reporter, So glad to

1483
01:12:05,200 --> 01:12:08,000
Speaker 1: be with you. It's strange when you get to about

1484
01:12:08,040 --> 01:12:13,080
Speaker 1: mid season, You're like, man, Okay, we're halfway through this thing,

1485
01:12:13,160 --> 01:12:15,920
Speaker 1: all right. And obviously when you're having a season like

1486
01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:19,679
Speaker 1: we are having and that was not great, but there

1487
01:12:19,720 --> 01:12:24,840
Speaker 1: have been moments and nuggets that you'll take forever. I'll

1488
01:12:24,840 --> 01:12:27,280
Speaker 1: remember that Chargers game as one of my favorite wins

1489
01:12:28,160 --> 01:12:32,240
Speaker 1: of the twenty one season. Everything that came to fruition

1490
01:12:32,280 --> 01:12:35,479
Speaker 1: in that game, beating Justin Herbert, beating a team that

1491
01:12:35,600 --> 01:12:37,960
Speaker 1: could potentially go to the playoffs. The Chargers will play

1492
01:12:37,960 --> 01:12:41,000
Speaker 1: the Raiders for a spot. Winner gets in the playoffs.

1493
01:12:41,880 --> 01:12:44,479
Speaker 1: If the Colts lose to the Jags, if they tie,

1494
01:12:45,160 --> 01:12:47,720
Speaker 1: then they both get in, and crazy stuff going on

1495
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:50,600
Speaker 1: with that. But either way, everything that went with that

1496
01:12:50,720 --> 01:12:53,800
Speaker 1: Chargers game. You had so many players not playing because

1497
01:12:53,840 --> 01:12:57,240
Speaker 1: of COVID. You had players out there that never dressed.

1498
01:12:57,320 --> 01:13:00,320
Speaker 1: Here we are in week sixteen and players have never

1499
01:13:00,479 --> 01:13:03,280
Speaker 1: dressed or put on a uniform before. Michael dwe four

1500
01:13:03,400 --> 01:13:06,040
Speaker 1: thing goes out there and did it against the nine

1501
01:13:06,080 --> 01:13:09,360
Speaker 1: Ers two. Showed man he could play. He give guys

1502
01:13:09,360 --> 01:13:12,160
Speaker 1: an opportunity to play, and you put him out there

1503
01:13:12,240 --> 01:13:14,600
Speaker 1: and like, wow, Okay, I want to see more. I

1504
01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:17,120
Speaker 1: want to see more. And when it's young guys like

1505
01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:20,559
Speaker 1: Michael Due four, when it's young guys like Nico Collins

1506
01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:23,679
Speaker 1: and Davis Mills and those guys are making plays, You're

1507
01:13:23,720 --> 01:13:27,720
Speaker 1: just like, okay, man, that's what the future is going

1508
01:13:27,760 --> 01:13:30,240
Speaker 1: to be. And I like the looks of it. Let's

1509
01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:34,599
Speaker 1: get this thing continued to be put together. Let's continue

1510
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:38,400
Speaker 1: to build the house and see that. We can't make

1511
01:13:38,439 --> 01:13:41,479
Speaker 1: a house that stands for a very long time, unlike

1512
01:13:41,720 --> 01:13:43,919
Speaker 1: a team like Jacksonville who did that in twenty seventeen.

1513
01:13:44,280 --> 01:13:46,200
Speaker 1: It's like they built a pop up shop and that

1514
01:13:46,240 --> 01:13:48,880
Speaker 1: thing was up and then out. I want to be

1515
01:13:48,880 --> 01:13:52,559
Speaker 1: able to build the house that can sustain anything for

1516
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:56,600
Speaker 1: the longest period of time for two three decades. You

1517
01:13:56,640 --> 01:14:01,080
Speaker 1: look at Pittsburgh, I mean how often is Pittsburgh, you know,

1518
01:14:01,200 --> 01:14:03,559
Speaker 1: not making the playoffs or I think Mike Thomas been

1519
01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:06,040
Speaker 1: her fifteen years, I haven't losing season. That's what you're

1520
01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:09,400
Speaker 1: looking for. You're looking to build that foundation such that

1521
01:14:09,520 --> 01:14:12,080
Speaker 1: that house stays up and it's not impacted by anything.

1522
01:14:12,160 --> 01:14:14,240
Speaker 1: So that's a lot offseason talk, and I'm sure we'll

1523
01:14:14,240 --> 01:14:16,760
Speaker 1: get into small season talk, Mark and I will on

1524
01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:20,040
Speaker 1: Monday on Texans Monday with our gaggle of host We

1525
01:14:20,040 --> 01:14:22,960
Speaker 1: have one more game to win and a guy that's

1526
01:14:22,960 --> 01:14:25,040
Speaker 1: gonna be key in that game and of course in

1527
01:14:25,080 --> 01:14:28,200
Speaker 1: the future is Roy Lopez Junior. It's time for Drew

1528
01:14:28,240 --> 01:14:33,000
Speaker 1: Doherty's final word. Every single Friday, I give Drew the

1529
01:14:33,160 --> 01:14:37,559
Speaker 1: final word essentially as he sits down with one of

1530
01:14:37,600 --> 01:14:40,240
Speaker 1: the great players on this team. We did drews dozen earlier,

1531
01:14:40,240 --> 01:14:42,959
Speaker 1: which was no football. The final word is all football.

1532
01:14:43,040 --> 01:14:46,600
Speaker 1: Here's Drew with Roy Lopez Junior. This pregame interview is

1533
01:14:46,600 --> 01:14:50,880
Speaker 1: powered by reliant Drew Doherty with defensive lineman Roy Lopez

1534
01:14:50,960 --> 01:14:53,639
Speaker 1: and Roy. It seems kind of odd it's your rookie

1535
01:14:53,680 --> 01:14:55,720
Speaker 1: season coming to an end and we're gonna get into

1536
01:14:55,760 --> 01:14:57,719
Speaker 1: the game in just a moment. But in this final

1537
01:14:58,000 --> 01:14:59,800
Speaker 1: stretch of the season, this final we get the season,

1538
01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:01,519
Speaker 1: you look back at things. What have you learned about

1539
01:15:01,520 --> 01:15:04,280
Speaker 1: yourself as a football player? The biggest thing you learn

1540
01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:07,400
Speaker 1: as a rookie, All the past little things you've done

1541
01:15:07,479 --> 01:15:09,640
Speaker 1: to lead up to this year and lead up to

1542
01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:13,040
Speaker 1: the moments you're in. They matter. You know, everything's about

1543
01:15:13,080 --> 01:15:14,720
Speaker 1: the little things. You know, people you hear that so

1544
01:15:14,800 --> 01:15:16,920
Speaker 1: many times, but you know when you get up here,

1545
01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:19,559
Speaker 1: you understand what they're talking about. So you just focus

1546
01:15:19,600 --> 01:15:21,360
Speaker 1: on that. Every day. You try to remind yourself and

1547
01:15:21,360 --> 01:15:23,920
Speaker 1: don't forget because on Sunday you're thinking about the little things,

1548
01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:27,120
Speaker 1: So you gotta remember to practice those things on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

1549
01:15:27,200 --> 01:15:29,519
Speaker 1: So and that's something you did pretty darn well because

1550
01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:32,360
Speaker 1: you came in here in May, shortly after you were drafted,

1551
01:15:32,400 --> 01:15:34,320
Speaker 1: and you didn't mess around. You had a good training camp,

1552
01:15:34,320 --> 01:15:37,080
Speaker 1: and then you go on to start fourteen games this season.

1553
01:15:37,160 --> 01:15:40,599
Speaker 1: Really from week two onward. There was about of COVID

1554
01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:42,519
Speaker 1: in there. But I mean, I'd say you handle those

1555
01:15:42,600 --> 01:15:46,080
Speaker 1: little things pretty well, don't you, Right, Yeah, I was.

1556
01:15:46,160 --> 01:15:48,439
Speaker 1: I was fortunate enough and blessed enough to be able to,

1557
01:15:48,560 --> 01:15:51,400
Speaker 1: you know, play the full season and be able to perform.

1558
01:15:51,479 --> 01:15:53,559
Speaker 1: But you know, that just goes to show the type

1559
01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:55,760
Speaker 1: of room I was in, the trust that they gave me,

1560
01:15:55,960 --> 01:15:58,040
Speaker 1: and the trust that the coaches put in me and

1561
01:15:58,320 --> 01:16:01,080
Speaker 1: my teammates put in me, playing at onside everybody, and

1562
01:16:01,280 --> 01:16:04,320
Speaker 1: just understanding you can't skip a beat. When Vincent Taylor

1563
01:16:04,360 --> 01:16:06,360
Speaker 1: went down, you know, I still asked him questions and

1564
01:16:06,400 --> 01:16:08,080
Speaker 1: he helped me a lot. So just being able to

1565
01:16:08,160 --> 01:16:10,840
Speaker 1: lean on everybody in the room didn't matter if they

1566
01:16:10,840 --> 01:16:14,360
Speaker 1: play nose guard, three technique, five, six techniques, that didn't matter.

1567
01:16:14,479 --> 01:16:16,720
Speaker 1: You know, I had questions and that's something that you know,

1568
01:16:16,760 --> 01:16:19,120
Speaker 1: I'm grateful for that I was able to ask questions

1569
01:16:19,160 --> 01:16:22,160
Speaker 1: to my coaches, fellow teammates and everybody. So every you know,

1570
01:16:22,200 --> 01:16:24,360
Speaker 1: I owe a lot to my teammates to be able

1571
01:16:24,360 --> 01:16:26,599
Speaker 1: to help me grow. That's really cool to hear about

1572
01:16:26,600 --> 01:16:29,880
Speaker 1: your curiosity, the inquisitiveness. How much though, did self confidence

1573
01:16:30,080 --> 01:16:33,760
Speaker 1: plan all that? And how much has your self confidence grown? Right?

1574
01:16:33,880 --> 01:16:36,000
Speaker 1: I mean, if you ask anybody in my family or

1575
01:16:36,120 --> 01:16:38,120
Speaker 1: any of my friends, really, they'll probably say, you know,

1576
01:16:38,160 --> 01:16:40,000
Speaker 1: I don't I don't like too much confidence. At the

1577
01:16:40,040 --> 01:16:42,080
Speaker 1: same time, I'm hard on myself. There's a good happy

1578
01:16:42,080 --> 01:16:43,880
Speaker 1: medium where I follow in that line, you ought to

1579
01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:47,000
Speaker 1: be able to cutigue yourself and remind yourself that it's

1580
01:16:47,040 --> 01:16:50,599
Speaker 1: the next play. Whether it's good and bad, it doesn't matter.

1581
01:16:50,680 --> 01:16:52,960
Speaker 1: You can't celebrate too much, you can't dwell on the

1582
01:16:52,960 --> 01:16:55,200
Speaker 1: past too much. So being able to stay level headed

1583
01:16:55,320 --> 01:16:58,200
Speaker 1: is something that people have complimented me throughout my whole

1584
01:16:58,200 --> 01:17:00,280
Speaker 1: career that I'm kind of just laid back. I can

1585
01:17:00,320 --> 01:17:02,439
Speaker 1: kind of just try to focus on myself and others

1586
01:17:02,479 --> 01:17:05,200
Speaker 1: and make sure we all get the job done. So

1587
01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:06,720
Speaker 1: and so, with all that in mind, and we're going

1588
01:17:06,800 --> 01:17:08,240
Speaker 1: to talk about this game, and I know that's the

1589
01:17:08,280 --> 01:17:10,200
Speaker 1: main focus for you right now. But with all that

1590
01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:13,320
Speaker 1: in mind, how do you attack this offseason? What do

1591
01:17:13,360 --> 01:17:15,519
Speaker 1: you plan on working on and trying to improve the most?

1592
01:17:15,760 --> 01:17:17,960
Speaker 1: And where do you plan on doing the bulk of that?

1593
01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:21,400
Speaker 1: Right Yeah, I'm looking forward. I'm excited to play this

1594
01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:23,439
Speaker 1: last game and go try and get a win. And

1595
01:17:23,479 --> 01:17:25,200
Speaker 1: you know, I'm also looking forward to the off season

1596
01:17:25,240 --> 01:17:27,439
Speaker 1: because I understand now what players, I'm gonna get what

1597
01:17:27,479 --> 01:17:29,800
Speaker 1: the NFL is all about coming as a rookie and

1598
01:17:29,800 --> 01:17:32,080
Speaker 1: you're like, man, just try to play football, try to

1599
01:17:32,120 --> 01:17:34,000
Speaker 1: hold your gap and make the play and they come

1600
01:17:34,040 --> 01:17:35,559
Speaker 1: to you know, so now you gotta take the next

1601
01:17:35,560 --> 01:17:37,519
Speaker 1: step going into year or two and you see that,

1602
01:17:37,600 --> 01:17:39,559
Speaker 1: you know with the rookies that we're here last year.

1603
01:17:39,640 --> 01:17:41,960
Speaker 1: You know, you look at John Grenard, that's taking a step.

1604
01:17:42,040 --> 01:17:44,000
Speaker 1: I'd like to take a step also, and just being

1605
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:46,719
Speaker 1: able to understand my body and being a nose guard

1606
01:17:46,760 --> 01:17:49,320
Speaker 1: and understand the double teams that all the players I'm

1607
01:17:49,320 --> 01:17:53,120
Speaker 1: gonna get and so being able to grow mentally physically

1608
01:17:53,320 --> 01:17:56,719
Speaker 1: my feet, my hands, and just another year of maturity

1609
01:17:56,840 --> 01:17:59,400
Speaker 1: and understand that. You know, you got to take advantage

1610
01:17:59,439 --> 01:18:02,200
Speaker 1: of the time you're here. So that's really exciting stuff

1611
01:18:02,200 --> 01:18:04,200
Speaker 1: because you started out at a really good level and

1612
01:18:04,240 --> 01:18:06,200
Speaker 1: if you take a step, that reads really good things

1613
01:18:06,200 --> 01:18:08,080
Speaker 1: for the Texans defense and this team as a whole.

1614
01:18:08,400 --> 01:18:11,639
Speaker 1: Also means bad things for the Tennessee Titans offensive line,

1615
01:18:11,680 --> 01:18:13,240
Speaker 1: who you're going to see two times next year and

1616
01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:15,439
Speaker 1: you're going to see this weekend. Tell me about that group,

1617
01:18:15,479 --> 01:18:18,320
Speaker 1: because they obviously can't run the ball the way they

1618
01:18:18,400 --> 01:18:21,040
Speaker 1: do without those guys doing what they do in a

1619
01:18:21,040 --> 01:18:24,520
Speaker 1: pretty good way, right right. They're a line's a respective

1620
01:18:24,520 --> 01:18:27,240
Speaker 1: group of guys. They play well with each other. Pretty

1621
01:18:27,280 --> 01:18:30,000
Speaker 1: much all veterans played many many years. Comes down to

1622
01:18:30,040 --> 01:18:33,040
Speaker 1: playing your keys and technique. And you know that's why

1623
01:18:33,240 --> 01:18:36,160
Speaker 1: our defense is so technique sound, or you have to be,

1624
01:18:36,360 --> 01:18:38,840
Speaker 1: you know, because you know that's what we got an

1625
01:18:38,880 --> 01:18:41,960
Speaker 1: advantage over offenses. You know, we rely on our technique.

1626
01:18:42,120 --> 01:18:44,679
Speaker 1: Comes down to playing football. That's just what we've got

1627
01:18:44,680 --> 01:18:46,360
Speaker 1: to do. You know. The oline they're a line is

1628
01:18:46,840 --> 01:18:49,479
Speaker 1: well respected around the league, and it looks like Deonta

1629
01:18:49,640 --> 01:18:51,160
Speaker 1: Foreman is going to be the guy that gets the

1630
01:18:51,200 --> 01:18:53,320
Speaker 1: bulk of the carries this weekend. He had one hundred

1631
01:18:53,400 --> 01:18:55,479
Speaker 1: yard game last week, he said two others in the

1632
01:18:55,560 --> 01:18:57,400
Speaker 1: last four or five games. What do you see from

1633
01:18:57,479 --> 01:18:59,680
Speaker 1: him as a running back and what's the challenge that

1634
01:18:59,720 --> 01:19:02,240
Speaker 1: he presents in your rise. They got a great group

1635
01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:04,920
Speaker 1: of running backs. The running back room there is deep.

1636
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:06,720
Speaker 1: You know, they didn't skip a beat. You know when

1637
01:19:06,760 --> 01:19:09,479
Speaker 1: Derek Henry went down and you know seeing him come back,

1638
01:19:09,680 --> 01:19:12,280
Speaker 1: it's good for them. But all respected runners, they run hard,

1639
01:19:12,400 --> 01:19:14,519
Speaker 1: they gotta speed, They see the whole and they hit it.

1640
01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:16,639
Speaker 1: We gotta stay in our gap. We gotta be technique

1641
01:19:16,640 --> 01:19:19,080
Speaker 1: sound and play your one eleventh of the defense and

1642
01:19:19,120 --> 01:19:20,840
Speaker 1: make sure that you take care of your jobs. That's

1643
01:19:20,840 --> 01:19:22,920
Speaker 1: our goal going into this week and seeing those running

1644
01:19:22,960 --> 01:19:25,760
Speaker 1: backs perform. We got to take that upon ourselves. And

1645
01:19:25,800 --> 01:19:28,720
Speaker 1: how about the quarterback, Ryan Tannell, how would you describe him?

1646
01:19:29,160 --> 01:19:31,080
Speaker 1: He's a leader. You know, you hear him throughout the

1647
01:19:31,080 --> 01:19:33,280
Speaker 1: whole game talking. You can hear him in between the plays,

1648
01:19:33,320 --> 01:19:35,479
Speaker 1: you can hear him when he's underneath the center. You know,

1649
01:19:35,479 --> 01:19:37,439
Speaker 1: he's a leader, been doing this for a long time.

1650
01:19:37,560 --> 01:19:39,400
Speaker 1: You know, he's athletic. He can throw, he can make

1651
01:19:39,439 --> 01:19:42,280
Speaker 1: all the throws. That's another man that is very well

1652
01:19:42,280 --> 01:19:44,960
Speaker 1: respected around this league. All right, kickoff is at noon

1653
01:19:45,160 --> 01:19:48,160
Speaker 1: inside NRG Stadium. So let's find out how you're gonna

1654
01:19:48,200 --> 01:19:51,160
Speaker 1: power game day the night before. What time will you

1655
01:19:51,160 --> 01:19:53,559
Speaker 1: go to sleep and what time will you wake up? Yeah,

1656
01:19:53,600 --> 01:19:55,920
Speaker 1: I'm out. I'm not a dude that stays up. Doesn't

1657
01:19:55,920 --> 01:19:57,519
Speaker 1: matter the day of the week. I'm out by nine,

1658
01:19:57,680 --> 01:20:01,479
Speaker 1: nine thirty, all right, MC tannet. That's shooting for the stars.

1659
01:20:01,680 --> 01:20:04,120
Speaker 1: I'm up at five o'clock. I'm up five o'clock every day,

1660
01:20:04,120 --> 01:20:06,240
Speaker 1: and who knows game day, I'm up earlier. You know,

1661
01:20:06,320 --> 01:20:08,840
Speaker 1: I'm ittching. I'm ready to get up to at least

1662
01:20:08,840 --> 01:20:11,400
Speaker 1: the facility and be able to see everybody and smile

1663
01:20:11,479 --> 01:20:13,240
Speaker 1: and you know, joke around and be able to get

1664
01:20:13,240 --> 01:20:15,200
Speaker 1: our minds right. But also calm down because I know

1665
01:20:15,240 --> 01:20:16,840
Speaker 1: I'm not the only one that wakes up early, and

1666
01:20:16,920 --> 01:20:19,439
Speaker 1: it's anxious just just to get to the stadium. You

1667
01:20:19,439 --> 01:20:21,680
Speaker 1: get to the stadium and lock in, go through your

1668
01:20:21,720 --> 01:20:24,519
Speaker 1: routine and everything and everything kind of falls on the line.

1669
01:20:24,520 --> 01:20:26,519
Speaker 1: And the next thing, you know, this game time. It's

1670
01:20:26,560 --> 01:20:29,000
Speaker 1: five am. When you wake up that early, is the

1671
01:20:29,120 --> 01:20:32,120
Speaker 1: noon kickoff an eternity away or does it go by

1672
01:20:32,160 --> 01:20:34,680
Speaker 1: like that? Org? It both. No, it's not. It's not

1673
01:20:34,760 --> 01:20:38,040
Speaker 1: eternity because, like I said, once you get up here,

1674
01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:40,280
Speaker 1: you're in your routine, so then it's boom boom boom.

1675
01:20:40,640 --> 01:20:42,439
Speaker 1: You know I wake up at five, but let mean

1676
01:20:42,479 --> 01:20:44,360
Speaker 1: I get up at five. You know I'm up at five,

1677
01:20:44,400 --> 01:20:46,960
Speaker 1: but I'm just chilling in bad or all my phone.

1678
01:20:47,439 --> 01:20:50,040
Speaker 1: Usually I have a family in town. They're up before me.

1679
01:20:50,360 --> 01:20:52,080
Speaker 1: Go talk to my dad, Go talk to my mom

1680
01:20:52,280 --> 01:20:54,360
Speaker 1: my sisters. I always like to move around in the

1681
01:20:54,400 --> 01:20:56,000
Speaker 1: morning of a game, so I'll go on a walk

1682
01:20:56,040 --> 01:20:58,080
Speaker 1: and I usually call somebody from my family and just

1683
01:20:58,160 --> 01:21:00,800
Speaker 1: kind of say what's up. Wake him up and bothered them.

1684
01:21:00,920 --> 01:21:04,160
Speaker 1: So what do you eat game day? Game day? I

1685
01:21:04,200 --> 01:21:05,920
Speaker 1: switched it up during the season because it was a

1686
01:21:05,960 --> 01:21:07,880
Speaker 1: twelve o'clock so I had to get used to twelve

1687
01:21:07,880 --> 01:21:10,439
Speaker 1: o'clock games. I was doing the breakfast, but then I

1688
01:21:10,479 --> 01:21:12,360
Speaker 1: swisted it up. I went carbs, I went I went

1689
01:21:12,400 --> 01:21:15,639
Speaker 1: pasta for the games. Yeah, so I'm waking up. I'm

1690
01:21:15,720 --> 01:21:18,400
Speaker 1: eating pasta at nine am in the morning. But that

1691
01:21:18,479 --> 01:21:20,439
Speaker 1: is what it came down to. So someone has suggested

1692
01:21:20,479 --> 01:21:22,800
Speaker 1: to me. Sure enough, I had pasta one game, and

1693
01:21:22,840 --> 01:21:24,599
Speaker 1: I had a good game. So now it's a routine.

1694
01:21:24,720 --> 01:21:28,200
Speaker 1: So and I don't consider myself too superstitious. Though pasta

1695
01:21:28,320 --> 01:21:32,080
Speaker 1: for an athlete before a competition is not odd. I

1696
01:21:32,080 --> 01:21:34,040
Speaker 1: mean it's it's not the normal thing that I think

1697
01:21:34,080 --> 01:21:36,840
Speaker 1: most people consider. But it's not like eating pasta with

1698
01:21:36,880 --> 01:21:38,840
Speaker 1: syrup like your buddy the elf from the movie Off.

1699
01:21:38,880 --> 01:21:42,519
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's totally cool. All right, Well, Roy,

1700
01:21:42,800 --> 01:21:44,920
Speaker 1: best of luck. We've had fun watching in the season.

1701
01:21:45,160 --> 01:21:47,479
Speaker 1: Knock him dead on Sunday against the Titans, and we

1702
01:21:47,479 --> 01:21:50,000
Speaker 1: can't wait to talk to you again in twenty twenty two. Yeah,

1703
01:21:50,120 --> 01:21:53,720
Speaker 1: thank you, appreciate it. And there he is. Roy Lopez

1704
01:21:53,880 --> 01:21:56,200
Speaker 1: Junior had two rookies on it. I big thanks to them,

1705
01:21:56,280 --> 01:21:59,280
Speaker 1: Roy Lopez, Garrett Widow. I think those guys are gonna

1706
01:21:59,280 --> 01:22:03,800
Speaker 1: be They're gonna be important pieces of the twenty twenty

1707
01:22:03,800 --> 01:22:05,679
Speaker 1: two defense. I want to say, well, they're gonna be starters,

1708
01:22:05,680 --> 01:22:09,040
Speaker 1: They're gonna be this. Obviously, there's a long off season ahead,

1709
01:22:09,240 --> 01:22:12,639
Speaker 1: but an important one, and thank god it's long because

1710
01:22:12,680 --> 01:22:13,720
Speaker 1: there are a lot of things that have got to

1711
01:22:13,760 --> 01:22:16,280
Speaker 1: happen in that off season before we get cranked up

1712
01:22:16,280 --> 01:22:18,519
Speaker 1: for twenty twenty two. But Roy Lopez and Garrett Wallow

1713
01:22:18,680 --> 01:22:20,839
Speaker 1: our guys that we're gonna have our eyes on, no

1714
01:22:20,920 --> 01:22:25,280
Speaker 1: doubt heading in to OTAs in the off season in

1715
01:22:25,439 --> 01:22:28,000
Speaker 1: May and in June before we get to the twenty

1716
01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:30,920
Speaker 1: twenty two seasons. So big thanks to them, A big

1717
01:22:30,960 --> 01:22:33,880
Speaker 1: thanks to Coach Cully. Every single Friday, sits down with

1718
01:22:33,960 --> 01:22:36,559
Speaker 1: Mark Vandamir gives us some thoughts about the game they're

1719
01:22:36,560 --> 01:22:38,920
Speaker 1: about to play. Well the Coach Cully Show on Monday,

1720
01:22:38,960 --> 01:22:43,400
Speaker 1: and that's when we'll say our thanks to Coach Cully.

1721
01:22:43,439 --> 01:22:45,200
Speaker 1: But I got to thank him because every Friday I

1722
01:22:45,200 --> 01:22:47,679
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to put that right off the top.

1723
01:22:48,040 --> 01:22:50,920
Speaker 1: I'll let you hear from the head coach of your Houston,

1724
01:22:50,960 --> 01:22:54,479
Speaker 1: Texas with Mark Vanamir and of course to my content

1725
01:22:54,760 --> 01:22:58,559
Speaker 1: team Mark Vandamir, Drew Doherty and Dpcito. Could not do

1726
01:22:58,640 --> 01:23:01,479
Speaker 1: any of these radio shows with out them, their friendship,

1727
01:23:01,560 --> 01:23:05,160
Speaker 1: their support, all the content they provide to everybody in

1728
01:23:05,160 --> 01:23:09,120
Speaker 1: our digital broadcast department. Couldn't do it without them. All

1729
01:23:09,120 --> 01:23:11,800
Speaker 1: the people at Sports Radio six ten, You guys are

1730
01:23:11,840 --> 01:23:15,719
Speaker 1: the absolute best. Got to know. I think every producer

1731
01:23:15,760 --> 01:23:17,280
Speaker 1: over the last eight years, I don't know how many

1732
01:23:17,320 --> 01:23:19,880
Speaker 1: of them have produced this particular show. I think this

1733
01:23:19,960 --> 01:23:23,120
Speaker 1: year alone, there's been like six that to the Wednesday

1734
01:23:23,160 --> 01:23:26,479
Speaker 1: and Friday all Access So Jimmy and Robert's doing it

1735
01:23:26,520 --> 01:23:31,280
Speaker 1: tonight and Chris Santiago, Austin Mendez, my Manti Millner in

1736
01:23:31,600 --> 01:23:34,080
Speaker 1: a pinch has always been there for us, So everybody

1737
01:23:34,120 --> 01:23:36,559
Speaker 1: a Sports Radio six ten. Armory Williams leads that crew

1738
01:23:36,920 --> 01:23:40,320
Speaker 1: absolutely love them and most importantly to you guys, the

1739
01:23:40,400 --> 01:23:44,439
Speaker 1: listeners who support me, who support us, have been there

1740
01:23:44,479 --> 01:23:47,360
Speaker 1: from day one. You guys are the best. I mean,

1741
01:23:47,439 --> 01:23:51,680
Speaker 1: I just don't do this without you, and I you know,

1742
01:23:51,760 --> 01:23:54,200
Speaker 1: sometimes you hear people say, you know, thanks, like I'm

1743
01:23:54,240 --> 01:23:56,080
Speaker 1: doing right now and you think now, you don't really

1744
01:23:56,080 --> 01:23:59,439
Speaker 1: mean it. Man, I can trust me. It means a lot.

1745
01:23:59,520 --> 01:24:01,840
Speaker 1: When I see you out and about, stop me say hello,

1746
01:24:02,120 --> 01:24:07,360
Speaker 1: Talk Texans. Please do that because it's fun to meet

1747
01:24:07,400 --> 01:24:10,439
Speaker 1: you guys. Talk to you guys. You ever are out

1748
01:24:10,439 --> 01:24:12,840
Speaker 1: and about and I'm there, please definitely don't hesitate to

1749
01:24:12,880 --> 01:24:16,160
Speaker 1: say hello, and I will in turn say thank you

1750
01:24:16,240 --> 01:24:18,639
Speaker 1: to you for everything that you have done for us

1751
01:24:18,640 --> 01:24:21,360
Speaker 1: and for me. And that's it. That's it for all

1752
01:24:21,439 --> 01:24:24,439
Speaker 1: access in the twenty twenty one season on a Friday night.

1753
01:24:24,880 --> 01:24:28,599
Speaker 1: We'll do a little bit on Monday, but not as much.

1754
01:24:28,680 --> 01:24:30,360
Speaker 1: They had some open spaces, so I just want to

1755
01:24:30,360 --> 01:24:32,360
Speaker 1: make sure everybody understood how much they meant to me

1756
01:24:32,640 --> 01:24:36,040
Speaker 1: and to us this year, especially on Friday night. Thank

1757
01:24:36,080 --> 01:24:39,719
Speaker 1: you for listening. We will see you on Sunday at noon.

1758
01:24:40,160 --> 01:24:42,680
Speaker 1: Kickoff against the Tennessee Titans is at noon. Be there

1759
01:24:42,760 --> 01:24:45,639
Speaker 1: be loud Fan Appreciation Day. Thanks ageainting everybody, and it's

1760
01:24:45,640 --> 01:24:46,479
Speaker 1: always Go Texans.