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Speaker 1: What is up, everybody? Welcome to your Wednesday edition of

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Speaker 1: Texans All Access from the Hunday Texans Radio Studio. I

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Speaker 1: am your host, as I am eating every Wednesday. My

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Speaker 1: name is John Harris, Football and the sideline reporter for

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Speaker 1: your Houston Texans, and we've got a jam packed show.

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Speaker 1: We got a little Money, we got a little Eric,

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Speaker 1: we got a little dre We got a little bit

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Speaker 1: of everything. By Money, I mean Matt Money, Matt Money

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Speaker 1: Smith play by play man out of the La Chargers,

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Speaker 1: Mark Vandermer had a chance to catch with him, dre

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Speaker 1: Is Andre Andre where Mark had a chance to catch

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Speaker 1: up with him. We'll also have Eric Williams, who covers

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Speaker 1: the Chargers for ESPN dot Com. He will be around.

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Speaker 1: My good pal Dirty Red. Clint Starner is gonna be

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Speaker 1: in at the bottom of this hour, and then the

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Speaker 1: end of the lab, cruis gonna stop by me Andrew Doherty.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk a little bit about this offensive line that

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Speaker 1: we talked about on the podcast. You get a little

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Speaker 1: snippet of that. And if you want to check out

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Speaker 1: the podcast, go to Houston Texas dot com, go to iTunes,

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Speaker 1: check out the podcast in the lab. Give it a review.

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Speaker 1: Just continue to listen to. We've been doing it now

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Speaker 1: for I think about two years. So it's a good podcast, man,

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Speaker 1: so go check it out. As we start to get

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Speaker 1: ready for the l A Chargers LA Chargers, I have

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Speaker 1: to say it because I'll call him San Diego and

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Speaker 1: I swear i'll call him San Diego on Sunday and

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Speaker 1: I won't mean to. But Philip Rivers still lives in

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Speaker 1: San Diego. He takes a bus. He does the d

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Speaker 1: Shaun thing, but it's just from San Diego law Houston

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Speaker 1: to Jacksonville. He does it every day. He takes the bus.

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Speaker 1: He's got a big RV and they leave at whatever

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Speaker 1: time in San Diego, goes up to practice, does all

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Speaker 1: the work that he needs to do, takes it on back.

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Speaker 1: It's got been decked out. I mean, he didn't want

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Speaker 1: to take his kids out of San Diego school. So

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Speaker 1: that's what Philip's doing, and he's done a good job

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Speaker 1: since they've been in LA. It's gonna be a big, huge,

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Speaker 1: massive challenge to take on the Chargers in their building.

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Speaker 1: And I know some people snickering out their building, Well

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Speaker 1: they'll go to the big building next year, the one

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Speaker 1: that they're gonna share with the Rams over at Englewood, which,

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Speaker 1: by the way, I flew to LA in June. My

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Speaker 1: daughter and I were going out there and we're kind

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Speaker 1: of doing the sights and sounds too, were of LA

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Speaker 1: if you will, And as you're flying into Lax, you

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Speaker 1: see this monstrosity and like, oh my goodness, I can't

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Speaker 1: wait to see what this thing looks like. I was

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Speaker 1: supposed to be done for this year, but I guess

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Speaker 1: some weather and some red tape gotta push back to

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Speaker 1: twenty twenties. So we'll have to go out there some

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Speaker 1: other time. Hopefully we'll get on a Charger schedule again.

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Speaker 1: Maybe if we both finished in first place this year,

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Speaker 1: play the Chargers next year in that new building, but

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Speaker 1: they're not there yet. We're gonna be playing in the

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Speaker 1: smaller building, which it seems as though everybody tends to

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Speaker 1: like that goes out there, and I hope, I hope

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Speaker 1: you fans go out there. I would say dressing red.

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Speaker 1: I've seen some blue, but I don't want to get

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Speaker 1: it meshed in with their blue. So we're red, stand out,

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Speaker 1: the red stands out. I watched Georgia Vanderbilt. This was

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Speaker 1: first game of the college football season, and there was red.

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Speaker 1: You could see red on TV all over the place.

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Speaker 1: It looked like a Georgia home game. They just completely

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Speaker 1: stadium and hopefully traveling tech, we'll get out to LA

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Speaker 1: have a good time. I realized I'd like LA a

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Speaker 1: whole lot more than I ever thought I did. I'd

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Speaker 1: done the whole site and sounds thing and saw the sites.

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Speaker 1: I had a blast. My daughter and I had a

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Speaker 1: We had a blast. We did every La thing you

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Speaker 1: Matt Money Smith in the Lab crew, Clint Starner, Eric Williams,

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Speaker 1: off with our hot Reads Hot Reads brought to you

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Speaker 1: hot Read and it is Whitney Merciless AFC Defensive Player

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Speaker 1: early on. It is the second time that he has

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Speaker 1: So when he gets his second honor in the last

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Speaker 1: four years and just doing a tremendous, tremendous job with

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Speaker 1: Immerciless AFC Defensive Player of the Week, string a couple

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Speaker 1: of the Month because he's had two tremendous games to

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Speaker 1: start off. And I'm curious, really curious how the Chargers

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Speaker 1: But I would imagine that they would decide to double

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Speaker 1: But that's gonna leave with one on one forget it now.

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Speaker 1: If you want to go one on one with Watt

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Speaker 1: And went against the Chargers back in twenty sixteen. He

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Speaker 1: so AFC Defensive player of the Week Whitney merciless. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: he can duplicate that on Sunday against the LA Chargers.

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Speaker 1: But great news to hear that Whitney had earned earned

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Speaker 1: important injury report. Now it gets a little lengthy as

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Speaker 1: There is your injury report. Now, we've been talking about

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Speaker 1: this one for a while. The Chargers have been banged

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Speaker 1: So sub banged up football team. Hunter Henry is more

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Speaker 1: that was big news because that's the starting safeties for

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Speaker 1: have an undrafted free agent rookie starting at safety in

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Speaker 1: And of course when you talk about the Chargers, you

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Speaker 1: have to start with the defense of Joey Bosa and

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Speaker 1: Melvin Ingram. Here's what Sean had to say today when

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Speaker 1: Chargers brought him in because of that, because of that versatility,

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Speaker 1: and they really wanted to use him as a kickoff specialist.

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Speaker 1: Michael Badgeley, who came in last year as a mid

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Speaker 1: season addition, performed well for them last year. But he's

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Speaker 1: dealing with a growing issue and that's why he didn't

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Speaker 1: play the first two weeks. He did kick on Friday

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Speaker 1: of last week, though, was I think pretty close to playing.

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Speaker 1: I think they're hopeful that he can be healthy on

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Speaker 1: Sunday against the Texans. The issue is those they don't

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Speaker 1: want him to have any lingering issues with that growing issue.

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Speaker 1: The issue. They don't want to run him out and

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Speaker 1: then he gets reinjured and now he's going to be

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Speaker 1: out for a longer period of time. So they're going

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Speaker 1: to make sure that he's fully healthy going against the

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Speaker 1: Texans on Sunday. But I think they're hopeful that he

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Speaker 1: can lay on Sunday. Yeah, it look like the puncher there,

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Speaker 1: Tai Long, he missed a couple of field goals. If

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Speaker 1: if the kicker is not ready to go, you think

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Speaker 1: they signed someone else, or they're they're going to just

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Speaker 1: stick with the situation they have. I think they would

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Speaker 1: stay with Tai Long as it stands now, but certainly

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Speaker 1: the possibility they do sign a kicker if they don't

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Speaker 1: have faith in him going out there and making the kicks.

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Speaker 1: He was good in the first week against the Colts,

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Speaker 1: made I think a thirty nine yard or made all

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Speaker 1: its extra points. Obviously against the Lions it was a

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Speaker 1: different story. He struggled with miss two field goals. So

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Speaker 1: that's an important area. You know, a lot of game

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Speaker 1: within a touchdown within the league. But I think for

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Speaker 1: right now, as it stands it's badly not available, I

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Speaker 1: think they would go with Tai Long again. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's switch gears and talk about that defense. The run

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Speaker 1: defense the Chargers. They got stingy after allowing over two

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Speaker 1: hundred yards in Week one against the Colts. They did

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Speaker 1: pretty well against the Lions. What do you think was

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Speaker 1: the biggest key in the Charger's ability to slow down

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Speaker 1: the opposing ground game last week? I think continuity, just

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Speaker 1: just having the same guys out there again and being

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Speaker 1: disciplined in their run fits and where they need to

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Speaker 1: be playing and play out. The Colts were able to

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Speaker 1: create a lot of explosive plays through the run game,

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Speaker 1: particularly second half of that game. They only had twenty

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Speaker 1: nine rushing yards in the first half against the Chargers

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Speaker 1: and then kind of open things up in the second half. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: the Colts have a pretty good offensive line too, so

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Speaker 1: that's that's part of the equation as well. So I

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Speaker 1: just think having some continuity and getting guys on the

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Speaker 1: same page against the lines, they were able to perform better.

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Speaker 1: And we'll see if they can continue to do that

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Speaker 1: against attachments. Let's talk about fan support. The last time

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Speaker 1: we played the Chargers on the road was back in

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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. They were still in San Diego. Now they're

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Speaker 1: in LA. What's the situation, what the fans support like?

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Speaker 1: Have they sort of embraced having the Chargers there in town,

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Speaker 1: especially with the Rams of also playing in the same city. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: embraced probably isn't the word I would use, fair enough

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Speaker 1: of veloping, you know, just it's a unique situation. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: you're playing in the soccer stadium. There's twenty seven thousand seeds.

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Speaker 1: So when the Texans were in San Diego in two thirteen,

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Speaker 1: you know, if you had ten thousand Texans fans in

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Speaker 1: there in a sixty five thousand feet stadium, their presence

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Speaker 1: can be felt, but not as much as if they're

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Speaker 1: in a smaller venue. So now when you play in

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Speaker 1: a smaller venue you have ten to twelve thousand opposing fans,

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Speaker 1: that their presence is just felt more than it would

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Speaker 1: if you're in a larger stadium. So I think that's

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Speaker 1: been the main issue. I think they're continuing to gain

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Speaker 1: more fans in LA, but there's a lot of competition.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of proteins in LA, and then you

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Speaker 1: know they're not fully being embraced at this point. There

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Speaker 1: are some fans from San Diego that have continued to

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Speaker 1: follow the team up to LA, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: we're going to really be able to truly evaluate how

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Speaker 1: they're doing in the market until they move into the

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Speaker 1: new stame in Englewood, which happens in twenty twenty. They're

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Speaker 1: pricing their tickets a little bit lower so they so

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Speaker 1: more people can afford to go to the game. We'll

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Speaker 1: see if that helps um, but I think we're still

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Speaker 1: kind of in waiting temo in terms of how they're

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Speaker 1: doing in the market. Does Philip Rivers still drive that

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Speaker 1: big bus in training camp to get to the facility

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Speaker 1: where he watches film? Is that still a thing out there?

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Speaker 1: It's a Cadillac Suvu. He does not drive it. He

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Speaker 1: has a driver that drive of course. Of course. Uh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's and it's set up so he can he can

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Speaker 1: watch film in the back while he's driving, so he

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Speaker 1: can be productive. It's a nice looking vehicle. I think

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Speaker 1: it's probably about eighty minutes from him door and door

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Speaker 1: going back and forth, which in LA he's driven in LA.

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Speaker 1: If you're driving for one part of the LA to

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Speaker 1: another part, it could take you that long to get

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Speaker 1: from one place to another. So yeah, he's still making

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Speaker 1: the commute. I love it all right, Thanks so much. Eric.

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Speaker 1: What are some of the stories that you're going to

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Speaker 1: be working on this week heading into the Texans game. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think one of the main stories is, you know,

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Speaker 1: talking to Derek Watt, JJ Watch's younger brother. This will

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Speaker 1: be the first time they actually spaced off by the

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Speaker 1: last time the Chargers played against Houston and Houston JJ.

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Speaker 1: I think what's dealing with a back injury at that point.

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Speaker 1: So he's looking forward to go against his older brother,

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Speaker 1: and Derek's actually two and oh against his brothers. They

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Speaker 1: beat the Steelers last oh no TJ. So you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a little bit of talking back and forth, you know,

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Speaker 1: of course with the brothers texts each other daily, communicate

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Speaker 1: with each other and really close. So I think that's

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Speaker 1: kind of one of the main storylines. How he's folks

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Speaker 1: been on this week. There you have it, a little

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Speaker 1: bit of La Charger football from Eric Williams. Hopefully he

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Speaker 1: becomes a good buddy of ours, hopefully played the Chargers

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Speaker 1: more often, and we'll have Eric on very very good

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Speaker 1: stuff there. Covers the Chargers for ESPN l A and

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Speaker 1: appreciate his time. Now a guy who covers the Texans

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Speaker 1: for US here in Houston, covers Arkansas football play for

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. The man has done pretty much everything. He's

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Speaker 1: our good friend Clint Sterner and he is next right

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Speaker 1: here on Texas All Access. Welcome back to the Wednesday

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Speaker 1: edition to Texas All Access from the Hounday Texans Radio Studio.

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Speaker 1: I am John Harris, your host, and I'm join Boy,

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Speaker 1: joined by my good friend for sports Radio six ten,

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Speaker 1: former Arkansas quarterback for former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Man knows Ball,

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Speaker 1: and I love having them on for that reason. It's

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Speaker 1: our buddy Clint starring Clint. What's going on? Man? How

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00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 1: you doing? Man? Much for Hell? I thought you liked

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00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 1: having me on because little buddies. I didn't realize there

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00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: was only one reason you Starry Sucker. No, look, there's

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00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,560
Speaker 1: multiple reasons. There are multiple reasons that I like having

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Speaker 1: you on the air. One of these days, I want

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Speaker 1: you to tell all your Amsterdam stories. But I think

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Speaker 1: we'll have to move that to either satellite radio or

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Speaker 1: some podcast because I want to hear all. I want

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Speaker 1: to hear all the Amsterdam stories, all of them. At

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Speaker 1: some point you had to break you had to break

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Speaker 1: out the cold beer in tequila or something fessimally happens. Now, look,

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Speaker 1: i'll do it, I'll do that. I just want to

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Speaker 1: hear the stories. Man. I went to Amsterdam once once

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Speaker 1: in a just were we were passing through, but we

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Speaker 1: had like five or six hours passing through, and more

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00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:08,919
Speaker 1: stuff happened in those five six hours that I have

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Speaker 1: stories from just that one five six hour instance that

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Speaker 1: I can only imagine what it was like to be

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Speaker 1: over there for a significant period of time, and you

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Speaker 1: were over there to play World League correct, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the NFL Europe. Man, it was I was over there

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Speaker 1: for eleven weeks, I guess. So yeah. I mean you're

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Speaker 1: knocking on, knocking on three months. Man. It's a different

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Speaker 1: It's a different world over there, like literally no no,

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Speaker 1: no pun intended. It's a different world. But I tell

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Speaker 1: you what, man, you come back a change man, and

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00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 1: you appreciate the United States of America and that flag

577
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 1: is flying high every day. Man, you appreciate it a

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Speaker 1: lot more when you spend that kind of time overseas. Amen,

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Speaker 1: brother a man. All right, Clint, Sunday's Sunday's game. Some

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Speaker 1: up some downs. I mean it took me about three

581
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:53,480
Speaker 1: to three and a half hours to get through the

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00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: all twenty two and the coaches shot in the film.

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Speaker 1: I feel good about some things, and there's some things

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Speaker 1: I feel little uneasy about that I want to see change.

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Speaker 1: But overall, w's of w Clint, what just thirty thousand

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Speaker 1: foot view of the win Sunday against the Jacks? What

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Speaker 1: do you think? Well, anytime you can win ugly. And

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Speaker 1: when you can win when you're not at your best,

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Speaker 1: then that then you've reached a certain level of good,

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Speaker 1: a certain level of of talent. I mean, you've reached

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Speaker 1: a mark where most teams across this league. Um, I'll

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Speaker 1: say two thirds of the team in this league would

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Speaker 1: have lost that game Sunday had they played as bad

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Speaker 1: and and and really struggled in several categories the way

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Speaker 1: that the Texans did. And so I think at just

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Speaker 1: a big picture of view, you've got to look at

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Speaker 1: it as man, we won while we were not at

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Speaker 1: our best, and for the Texans that that is a

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Speaker 1: a next step, that is a that there is a

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Speaker 1: lot to be said about that fact. I think this

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Speaker 1: team would have lost that game time and time again

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Speaker 1: over the last four or five years. But they've reached

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Speaker 1: the point where they can win ugly. So I think

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Speaker 1: that's the that's the overview. Now it gets ugly as

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Speaker 1: we dig in, but that's the that's the thirty thousand

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Speaker 1: foot view of last Sunday versus jackon Bill Clinton felt

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Speaker 1: like in the first half they were able to run

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Speaker 1: the ball pretty well. It felt like first drive of

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Speaker 1: the second half. Offensively, they get kind of out of

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Speaker 1: the shadow, they're on go posts to get a first down,

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Speaker 1: and then they fumbled the ball on an exchange where

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Speaker 1: I think Sean's running a bootleg. Then the next snap

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Speaker 1: is a botched shotgun snap. I don't know if the

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Speaker 1: Sean and Nick were on the wrong page with that one,

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Speaker 1: and they got to get off the field, and it

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Speaker 1: felt like that sort of knocked the train off the

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Speaker 1: tracks and they never really got back. When you went

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Speaker 1: back and you looked at the game or just watched

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Speaker 1: it live, what did you think was going on in

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Speaker 1: the second half? What was kind of the the out

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Speaker 1: of sync aspect of this offense? What did you attribute

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Speaker 1: to attribute that too, John, I think it was a

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Speaker 1: combination of things that are typically very detrimental to a team.

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Speaker 1: You know it to again broad broad prushing this thing.

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Speaker 1: The the coming out of the locker room at halftime

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Speaker 1: is one of the four most important aspects of a game,

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Speaker 1: right both come out, and then the way you end

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Speaker 1: the first half of the way you end the second half.

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Speaker 1: Those four things are those four situations coming into every

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Speaker 1: game you know one hundred percent are going to be

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Speaker 1: very vital to your success at the end. And so

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Speaker 1: that the situation that plays. The mistakes that you just highlighted,

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Speaker 1: UM are clearly a sign of not not coming out

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Speaker 1: the way that champions come out, and so that that

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Speaker 1: in itself is a problem, regardless of how it happened.

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Speaker 1: Coming out and having a couple of drive stall and

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Speaker 1: not getting the first down or getting the two first downs,

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Speaker 1: that's the problem when you're as explosive as this offense is.

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Speaker 1: But look, I think we I think I think we've

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Speaker 1: got to give credit John to to Jacksonville UM and

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Speaker 1: for the plan defensively that they had coming in. Jalen

642
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Speaker 1: Ram held the shot uh Andre Hopkins to a game

643
00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: that I don't remember seeing, and he had he had

644
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 1: a few yards, but not only was he quiet statistically,

645
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: but he really never was a factor in the game,

646
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: And that's all you can ask for. The plan was

647
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: really good. It threw off the John Watson. I think

648
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: it threw off the play called multiple times throughout the

649
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: game and kept an explosive offense out of a rhythm.

650
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: And so I think it happened. I think the Texans

651
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: got themselves in the foot multiple times, no doubt about it.

652
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: But we got to tip our hat to Jackson doing

653
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: what they did him the defensive side of the ball. Clu.

654
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: It's a great point just going back, and I made

655
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 1: a mention before the game, the fact that the Jaguars

656
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: have lost some personnel, but they still have some personnel

657
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: on that side of the field. And even though Jayla

658
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: Ramsey was squawking at his coach, boy, he played a

659
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,640
Speaker 1: really good ball game against DeAndre Hopkins. Hop gut him

660
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,479
Speaker 1: last time. Felt like Ramsey maybe got him this time.

661
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 1: And that goes kind of back to your first point

662
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: about you still found a way to win the ball.

663
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: Gamelin changes on the offensive line, we knew Titus Howard

664
00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: was gonna start at some point and we were happy

665
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 1: to see him get back in the lineup at left guard.

666
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:02,719
Speaker 1: He starts the left guard, and then a little bit

667
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 1: of a surprise when Roger Johnson starts at right tackle.

668
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: Going back and looking at the offensive line, I know

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Speaker 1: they gave up four sacks, but as you look at

670
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,520
Speaker 1: each sack, you think, man, I don't know that I

671
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: can pin all of these on the offensive line. I

672
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: think there was one you definitely could. But then he

673
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 1: goes part of it goes back to the Jaguar scheme.

674
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 1: Got one especially in a nickel blitz where DJ Hayden came.

675
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: But overall, what do you think of the way the

676
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: offensive line changes looked with Rogert Johnson at right tackle

677
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 1: on Titus Hirard at left guard. And do you think

678
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: the arrows maybe pointing up with this group were obviously

679
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: we got a long way to go. But how do

680
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: you like or not like what they did on Sunday? No,

681
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 1: john looked at the arrow is definitely pointing up. I mean,

682
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: you're still talking about a unit that never had a

683
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 1: full week of practice. As when the coach goes, hey,

684
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Speaker 1: give me the starting offensive line. The five guys that

685
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,400
Speaker 1: are supposed to stand up, No, they're supposed to stand upright,

686
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: This is they've never practiced together. And so I think

687
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: the arrow is pointing up. To answer that question, I

688
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: think Robert Johnson at the right tackle position. I don't

689
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,719
Speaker 1: know how good of a right tackle he's gonna be,

690
00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: but the reason that makes that a wise decision is

691
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: he is extremely sound the basic things man hand placement,

692
00:34:12,800 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 1: keeping a wide face, being able to drop the anchor,

693
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: knowing who he's got and knowing how he's gonna at

694
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 1: least attack the them. That's a huge advantage for him

695
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 1: with this offensive line. I think there's some talented guys

696
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: up there in countro Hnderson talented. I think Davin Boord

697
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: was talented as far as having a high ceiling. Those

698
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: guys just got themselves in trouble immediately when the ball

699
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: was stat with bad footwork, bad mechanic, bad technique, And

700
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: so Roderick Johnson is an upgrade in that category, and

701
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: therefore he'll be much more stable. I'm anxious. I'm excited

702
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 1: to see how good this offensive line can be with

703
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: some true time together to bond and jail and communicate

704
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 1: as one. They're already running the hell out of a

705
00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 1: rock the way that nobody expected. Two of the four

706
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: sacks this past week, we're no hint, no question about it,

707
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: zeroes out about it. We're on Deshaun Watson and so

708
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:10,839
Speaker 1: that they're getting better. And last week, all in all,

709
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 1: they played a free damn the pretty good defense and

710
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:18,320
Speaker 1: had a solid performance that quite frankly, their ability to

711
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,680
Speaker 1: run the football probably won them the game this week

712
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:25,280
Speaker 1: or last week Sunday. So the offensive line is definitely

713
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: trending up. John and uh and I expect big things

714
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Speaker 1: out of them moving forward this season, all right, coach Sterner,

715
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: you cut it to thirteen to twelve, you decide to

716
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Speaker 1: go for two points. You have Leonard Fournette, you have

717
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:40,239
Speaker 1: Gardner Mitchell a rookie, but he's been creating plays. In

718
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: the second half. The passing game has kind of gotten

719
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: on track a little bit. What do you call for

720
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 1: your two point conversion? And did you agree with what

721
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: the Jaguars did. I love the two point attempt. I

722
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:58,040
Speaker 1: love the aggressive Let's say we're on the road, We're

723
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:01,400
Speaker 1: in a hostile environment. Let's get versus a very explosive team.

724
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 1: Let's not give him another quarter to hit a couple

725
00:36:03,719 --> 00:36:06,319
Speaker 1: of big plays on us. Let's let's go in this

726
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 1: thing now. The play call was very, very suspect. I mean,

727
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Speaker 1: other than the fact that you drafted Leonard Fournette in

728
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 1: the top five and you expect him to be, you know,

729
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 1: a true three down back in this league, which I

730
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 1: don't think he's proven that he can be a high

731
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: caliber three down back in this league. In Jacksonville, Yet

732
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: your quarterback had the hot hand. You're playing a very

733
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Speaker 1: stingy run defense, regardless of what personnels here. In twenty eight,

734
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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, versus twenty eighteen. There's still damn good versus

735
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Speaker 1: the run, and so the call was a bit questionable

736
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 1: to me. He had a young quarterback that's very comfortable

737
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: moving the pocket, throwing with different arms, flights. He was

738
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 1: hotter than the five cracker had had the momentum, and

739
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: you took the ball out of his hand. I thought

740
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: that was suspect. But from the Texans point of view,

741
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: John great call, Jacksonville great, no doubt. And here's here's

742
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 1: the Oh god, I even I cringe as I see

743
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 1: this down on the bottom of the format where they

744
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: had the trips receivers. The number three runs a shallow

745
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: across the field and they run a pick route with

746
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: the other two and the outside receiver comes Scott free.

747
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 1: That if he somehow sticks it in his belly and

748
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 1: sees it and pulls it, it's ballgame. He's why healing

749
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 1: cole is wide open. Thank god he put it in

750
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: four net's belly and those guys upfront did a great job,

751
00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: and then Justin Reid finish it off. And to that point, Clint,

752
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 1: when you have a play like that that you and

753
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: the defense was really good all day long. I mean,

754
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 1: wit was AFC defensive player of the weakest, two sacks,

755
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: two strip fumbles, Charles Amner who gets a strip fumble,

756
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:40,479
Speaker 1: Zach cutting at with the sack. I mean, they really

757
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 1: were good all day long. But when you make a

758
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 1: play like that, what can that mean for a defense?

759
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 1: What can that mean for a team to save a win,

760
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: get a side relief sort of win and kind of

761
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: propel you going forward. It doesn't really mean anything, I know,

762
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: and look, maybe lower levels it does the NFL. Can

763
00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 1: it do that as well to kind of have a

764
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 1: play to really you on after you save a game

765
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: like that at the end. Absolutely, John, Look, I mean

766
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 1: I don't I don't care what angle we discussed this

767
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: game from. It's a positive angle simply because you go

768
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: in everybody's in a good mood because you won a game.

769
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: You can go watch film and correct the ton of

770
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: mistakes the texts on really on both sides of the ball.

771
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,880
Speaker 1: The defense played well, but there were glaring moments that

772
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: were mistakes. And offensively, it was the worst game that

773
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: I've seen. I personally seen the text and play for

774
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: four quarters They've been bad for Spurs, but for four

775
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 1: quarters it was tough. Spled on the offense side of

776
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: the football. So there's a ton of coaching that can

777
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: be done on for this gon and quite frankly that

778
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: the first week the defense didn't get it done. So

779
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: in that defensive meeting room, you're sitting there going, guys,

780
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 1: we let our team down. Well, guess what now as

781
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: a thirteen twelve victory, and this defense can sit in

782
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,720
Speaker 1: that in their meeting room and say, well, we've even

783
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 1: the playing field. We've gave it. We've given the offense

784
00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 1: a little payback here. We kept them out of the

785
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: end zone on the day when they were strug So

786
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: absolutely it means something. Man, that was a big time stop.

787
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: And by the way, Angelo Blackston and DJ Reader they

788
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: ain't getting the len up they deserved. By man, they

789
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:10,160
Speaker 1: made that play at the goal line. I know, I know,

790
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 1: justin Reefer there did a clean up, did a great

791
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,560
Speaker 1: job being the cleanup man. But DJ Reader and Angelo

792
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: Blackton to push they got up front with special man.

793
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 1: You know, observe a tip of the hat. They deserve

794
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: a sculling crossbone in the back of the helmet. Oh man,

795
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: I got chills. I used to roll the skull and

796
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 1: crossbones on my helmet many many years ago. Oh my gosh,

797
00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: they gave me and you're right, Clinton, not only on

798
00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: that play, Reader and Blackson were monsters. They are unbelievable upfront.

799
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,560
Speaker 1: They did a tremendous job stopping stopping the run, and

800
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: they did such a good job with their gap discipline

801
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 1: stopping Leonard four Nette. I want to transition to this

802
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 1: because you obviously understand the position better than anybody else.

803
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,160
Speaker 1: But you got Drew Brees down in New Orleans. You

804
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 1: got Ben Roethlisberger uh in Pittsburgh deal with that injury. Obviously,

805
00:39:55,719 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 1: Nick Foles has already gone down, but we've seen a

806
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 1: little bit from Gardner, Minshew bad Mason, Rudolph Jerry still out,

807
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,439
Speaker 1: but he did throw a couple of touchdowns in that game.

808
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater, as a guy that's had starts in this league,

809
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 1: which team that is now having to play a backup?

810
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Speaker 1: Do you look at it and say, I think that team,

811
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 1: maybe not is destined to be a tremendous success, but

812
00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:22,399
Speaker 1: can weather the storm without their starting quarterback. Man, I'm

813
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: want to say New Orleans simply because they've got an

814
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,839
Speaker 1: options a quarterback and that division that they're playing the end.

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00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 1: I just don't think is very talented, So I think,

816
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,280
Speaker 1: and there's light at the end of the tunnel relative

817
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: to the fact that Drew Brees is coming back. So

818
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: I think Teddy Bridgewater, along with Sean Payton, Taysom Hill,

819
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,359
Speaker 1: all that talent they have around the quarterback, I would

820
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,279
Speaker 1: be a fool not to say the same. I do

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00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:48,359
Speaker 1: think Mason Rudolph will do a good job in Pittsburgh though.

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Speaker 1: You take these air Raid guys that have just they've

823
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: taken a stamp and made a decision eighty times a

824
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:57,360
Speaker 1: game throughout their college career. They are just more prepared

825
00:40:57,400 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 1: to come off the bench and straight sling the foot

826
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: ball around. So I expect Mason Rudolph to have some

827
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: success in Pittsburgh as well. There is Clint Sterner. You

828
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 1: can hear from two to six every single weekday on

829
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: Sports Radio six ten. You hear him up in Arkansas

830
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,839
Speaker 1: when they've got a game up there doing PrePost game

831
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:16,839
Speaker 1: up there. You can hear him doing post game with us.

832
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 1: The man does it all. He knows ball and I

833
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: love having him on, not for just that reason, but

834
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 1: for many reasons. And you just heard why there you

835
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Speaker 1: read you the best man we'll talk to you next week. Brother.

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Speaker 1: All right, guy, we'll see you baby. Be good. I

837
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 1: can't tell you how much I love talking ball with

838
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 1: Clint Sterner. Now we've got a jam pack second hour.

839
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:34,879
Speaker 1: We still got to catch up with our man Andrea Ware.

840
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,520
Speaker 1: We've got the end the Lab Crew me Drew Doherty

841
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,280
Speaker 1: discussing the offensive line, what we liked about the Jacks,

842
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 1: seeing some improvement there, and some other things. So we

843
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: got to snip it from her in the Lab podcast.

844
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Speaker 1: But we're gonna kick off the second hour with the

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Speaker 1: guy by the name of Matt Smith. And Matt Smith

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00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: heard the name for How about Matt money Smith? Oh yeah,

847
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: I've heard that name for. He's been around covering the

848
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:57,279
Speaker 1: NFL for a long time. He's been out in LA.

849
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:58,880
Speaker 1: He worked for the NFL Network and he got to

850
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:02,399
Speaker 1: play by play job next Hanild Jeremiah as the man

851
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 1: behind the mic out in Los Angeles. We talked to JB.

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Speaker 1: Long a couple of years ago. We'll catch up with

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Speaker 1: Matt money Smith with our men behind the Mike's segment

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Speaker 1: to kickoff our second hour of this edition of Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access seen a few Let's hike off the second

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Speaker 1: hour of this edition of Texans All Access with our

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Speaker 1: men behind the mikes. Yes, Mark vandermir the voice of

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00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: the Texans each and every week catches up with the

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00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,479
Speaker 1: play by play voice of the opponent. In this week,

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Speaker 1: it's the LA Chargers. That means Matt money Smith, Mark

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Speaker 1: take it away, joining us right now. It's Matt money

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Speaker 1: Smith's voice of the LA Chargers. Matt, welcome in and

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Speaker 1: first of all, tell us the voice of the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: How did you get the gig? What transpired here? You

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00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:49,840
Speaker 1: are in LA doing these games? It's awesome. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I was very fortunate. It's I guess, kind of a

867
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Speaker 1: Hollywood story, right. They called me when they made the

868
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: move up north. I had been calling both college and

869
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: NFL games and think they were just kind of looking

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00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: to turn over their broadcast, you know, in Reset and

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00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,840
Speaker 1: you know, kind of get established in the new market.

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Speaker 1: And I've been doing a radio show here in Los

873
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Speaker 1: Angeles since two thousand and six on the station you know,

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Speaker 1: and the iHeart network that they're on. And then prior

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Speaker 1: to that, I was doing sports on a local FM

876
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: morning show that was quite famous, Kevin and Bean on

877
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 1: k Rock since nineteen ninety six. So I think they

878
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 1: probably looked at it and said, well, here's the guy

879
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: who's doing play by play and is pretty well settled

880
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: into the market, and they reached out to me, and

881
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 1: certainly I had some contacts. You know, we had done

882
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:37,839
Speaker 1: some stuff with the Chargers as a radio show as

883
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: well because we had no team here in LA, so

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00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 1: they had kind of been partners with us, So there

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00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 1: was certainly some familiarity there. And to make a long

886
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Speaker 1: story longer and try to put an end to this

887
00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: answer that you probably just wanted a three word answer before,

888
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 1: they just reached out and I said, absolutely, let's do it.

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00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:55,760
Speaker 1: What about Daniel Jeremiah because we've had them on several times,

890
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,399
Speaker 1: we had them on for an entire season weekly at

891
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: one point. What's it like to work where they am?

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00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: He's the best DJ and I have done a lot

893
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:06,839
Speaker 1: of work together at NFL Network and on NFL dot Com,

894
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:10,880
Speaker 1: covering the draft, on podcast dot com, digital feeds, on

895
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:14,800
Speaker 1: television feeds. And when Nick Hardwick decided he wanted to

896
00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:16,360
Speaker 1: spend more time with the kids and it was just

897
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Speaker 1: too tough of a commute for him coming up from

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Speaker 1: San Diego. He lives deep San Diego, so it was

899
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Speaker 1: a challenge for him to stay connected to the team

900
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:27,360
Speaker 1: after that first year, and as soon as he decided

901
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Speaker 1: to stick down that way in San Diego and leave

902
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Speaker 1: the analyst position, I think, you know, a number of

903
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: names were thrown around. All of them were great, and

904
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Speaker 1: when DJ's name came up, I didn't want to be

905
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Speaker 1: kind of the guy that was was pushing too hard

906
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 1: because he's such a close friend of mine. When they

907
00:44:45,960 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: mentioned it, I just immediately lit up and said, you know,

908
00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 1: if that's if that's what you're going with, just stop

909
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Speaker 1: the search now. He's he's the best analyst in the business,

910
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Speaker 1: and I just I believe that wholeheartedly. I have not

911
00:44:57,480 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: you know, he and I've worked with Brian Baldinger, and

912
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: I think that two of them are very similar in

913
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 1: that they can watch a play in real time and

914
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:09,560
Speaker 1: diagnose it from so many different levels line play, you

915
00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:11,720
Speaker 1: know where the help is coming from, what place should

916
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,760
Speaker 1: have been made it was, and it's just it's sublime.

917
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: I mean, it's hard to fathom how the human mind

918
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Speaker 1: can work that quickly when there's twenty two guys moving

919
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: around on the field at once, Yet he is so

920
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,840
Speaker 1: good at diagnosing what happened, why it happened and what

921
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Speaker 1: should have happened Matt money Smith joining us voice of

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Speaker 1: the Chargers. So I imagine someday you'll tell stories to

923
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Speaker 1: your grandchildren about this period in Chargers history, which is

924
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:41,319
Speaker 1: still in transition, playing in the smaller stadium, waiting for

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Speaker 1: the bigger place to be available. What is that like?

926
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Speaker 1: What has it been like ushering the Chargers into the market.

927
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Speaker 1: I believe it's the best stadium in the NFL, and

928
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Speaker 1: I know that's going to be so hard for people

929
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Speaker 1: to comprehend because it's pact full of opposing fans. But

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Speaker 1: we'll never see anything like it. It's too bad. I

931
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Speaker 1: think an arrow and more and more people are staying

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Speaker 1: home and want that second screen, and they're just too

933
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Speaker 1: busy to sit in traffic or deal with a parking

934
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Speaker 1: lot or wait in line to get in that this

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Speaker 1: could have been the model. Maybe not twenty three to

936
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Speaker 1: twenty five thousand, depending on how many people are going

937
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Speaker 1: to be allowed in for standing room. But it's such

938
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Speaker 1: a unique experience, and I always tell people it's not

939
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Speaker 1: it's not that there isn't a bad seat in the house,

940
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 1: because you can go to other stadiums and get great

941
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 1: seats and say, man, I really felt like I was

942
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:32,799
Speaker 1: on top of the action. But the difference with this

943
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: stadium where the Texans are going to play on Sunday

944
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: is the sound. You can't you can't understand how much

945
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: different it is to watch a game without the white

946
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: noise of sixty to eighty thousand people there. You hear audibles,

947
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Speaker 1: you hear conversations on the sideline, you hear coaches, you know,

948
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Speaker 1: having discussions. And I'm not talking about being in the

949
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Speaker 1: first five rows. I'm talking about you know, when you're

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Speaker 1: twenty rows up, you can hear those things. And it's

951
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 1: such in a unique and interesting experience that we're never

952
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Speaker 1: gonna have again. So I cannot here. If you're in

953
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Speaker 1: Houston and you've kind of kicked around the idea of

954
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,279
Speaker 1: coming out and do it, because you'll you'll never be

955
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: able to experience anything like it again in this league.

956
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 1: That is very cool stuff. All right, Let's talk about

957
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:20,239
Speaker 1: the team between the lines. What happened on Sunday. I

958
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:23,319
Speaker 1: know you had those final four possessions that they would

959
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:27,280
Speaker 1: like the end of back. How are the Chargers after

960
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 1: that one? What's the feeling like around the organization? I

961
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: was surprised, and I guess because you know, I went

962
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 1: through it in twenty seventeen when they lost so many

963
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 1: close games in in you know, manners which are heard

964
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: to comprehend. And they were dejected when we would get

965
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 1: on the plane to come back from Jacksonville, when Blake

966
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: Bortles had thrown two interceptions in the five final five minutes,

967
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,080
Speaker 1: and yet when they had a lead and couldn't win.

968
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 1: You know, that's kind of a stuff that they were

969
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 1: dealing with. And it was a quiet, somber ride home

970
00:47:55,400 --> 00:47:58,520
Speaker 1: on this one. I'm not saying they were dismissed yet,

971
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:00,840
Speaker 1: but they were just like, man, we can't make those mistakes,

972
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:02,840
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, we felt like we moved the ball,

973
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:05,960
Speaker 1: the defense, felt good about stopping the run. You know,

974
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:07,880
Speaker 1: carry on, got a couple got loose with it a

975
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:10,440
Speaker 1: couple of times, but overall, they just felt really good

976
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 1: about how they played. And you know, obviously Austin Ekeler

977
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 1: was pretty he was he was probably the guy that

978
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 1: was taken at the hardest. You know, that bumble was huge.

979
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:21,879
Speaker 1: You just cannot give up that ball in a first

980
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 1: and goal from the one, and I think you go

981
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:25,399
Speaker 1: up two scores and the way the defense was playing,

982
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:26,800
Speaker 1: they really would have been able to lean on I

983
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,279
Speaker 1: think another mistake from Stafford and just kind of led

984
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: that clock a little more. So I was surprised and

985
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:35,720
Speaker 1: kind of I don't want to say they were upbeat,

986
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: but they walked away going wow. I mean, we had

987
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty yards of offense, held them to

988
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:43,399
Speaker 1: under three and a half yards for Terry, and yet

989
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:45,359
Speaker 1: somehow we only scored ten points. We got to get

990
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:48,319
Speaker 1: that cleaned up and work fine. Matt Money Smith's voice

991
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: of the Chargers with US on Texans Radio. Okay, so

992
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:54,399
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers last man standing for the time being from

993
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:57,399
Speaker 1: the two thousand and four quarterback class. With Roethlisberger out

994
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:01,000
Speaker 1: of the year and Eli Manning seeing the ben. What's

995
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 1: Rivers like to be around on a regular basis? He's

996
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,800
Speaker 1: the best um And yeah, I know I'm the because

997
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 1: of play by play guy, right, and I'm biased, but man,

998
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: he he is an individual that loves football so much

999
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:18,479
Speaker 1: that it is it's just hard for me to under

1000
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:20,799
Speaker 1: And I guess if you're you know, a Bronco fan

1001
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 1: or a Raider fan or something, you're tired of hearing

1002
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 1: him chirp at your sideline or get upset with the officials.

1003
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: But like so after the game, right, we're walking on

1004
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 1: the plane and I think this is just Philip and

1005
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: I'll try to do my best Philip Rivers accent here

1006
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 1: he uh, he says hey, and two penalties. Here's the touchdowns.

1007
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 1: He legit penalties. It's like, yeah, I'm It's like, I

1008
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 1: guess they were probably maybe not the one on Tevy.

1009
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: That was a question with Block Golly, I felt the

1010
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:50,279
Speaker 1: same way. Yeah, and then I can see, but man,

1011
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:53,000
Speaker 1: I thought that one on Tevy was wasn't good. I mean, like,

1012
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 1: that's just how that guy his right, he lived it,

1013
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 1: he breathed it. I've heard him having arguments with offensive

1014
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: linemen about which three wide receivers, if they could have

1015
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 1: any in the history of the NFL, they would want

1016
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 1: to make up the team. That's just that's how he is.

1017
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:08,759
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a football geek, and it's kind of

1018
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 1: fun to be around knowing that here's someone who's probably

1019
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:13,479
Speaker 1: going to go into the Hall of Fame relatively soon

1020
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:17,440
Speaker 1: after he retires to still be into it. Like you know,

1021
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 1: DJ was watching college film on the way back on

1022
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,360
Speaker 1: an Ohio State defensive end and Judy out of Alabama,

1023
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,879
Speaker 1: and still it was just walking by. He just probably like, hey,

1024
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:29,400
Speaker 1: what are you watching and just sat down next to

1025
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: DJ and just starts chopping it up about you know,

1026
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: Judy's release. It was hilarious. I mean, he's he's that

1027
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 1: much fun to be around. He's just a total I mean,

1028
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 1: he and I've gotten into conversation about flag football and

1029
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:42,760
Speaker 1: his kid and Friday night lights in San Diego versus

1030
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 1: Friday night lights where I live in Orange County. I mean,

1031
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 1: it's he really is a joy to be around. Is

1032
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:52,280
Speaker 1: he still limmoing into the facility from the San Diego

1033
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 1: area every day? How's he handling his life right now?

1034
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 1: He does, Yeah, he's still you know, they they're settled

1035
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:00,399
Speaker 1: down there. His son's about to start high school there,

1036
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 1: and he's got a daughter in high school. So I

1037
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 1: think with all the kids, you know, kind of having

1038
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:07,560
Speaker 1: their friend group and their peers, they didn't want to

1039
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:09,799
Speaker 1: uproot him and pull them up north. So he has

1040
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,920
Speaker 1: this sprinter band that's been converted essentially to a mobile

1041
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:18,239
Speaker 1: film studio, So he just watches football film there and back,

1042
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:20,919
Speaker 1: and it's about a you know, seventy minute to mute

1043
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 1: for him, So it's not too bad. He loves it.

1044
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 1: And you know, by myself, I get to just kind

1045
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 1: of watch a ton of film and work on my

1046
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:31,919
Speaker 1: game and studying. Opponent Matt money Smith joining us voice

1047
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 1: of the Chargers here at Texans Radio. Okay, what's the

1048
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 1: LA sports market like right now? The two NFL teams

1049
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 1: in the market. You've got all this crazy NBA stuff

1050
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,440
Speaker 1: going on. You've got the Dodgers and the Angels. You

1051
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,719
Speaker 1: have hockey, so two hockey teams. What's it like there

1052
00:51:47,719 --> 00:51:50,280
Speaker 1: at LA? How would you describe what kind of sports

1053
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:53,200
Speaker 1: town it is or sports area? So it's a great

1054
00:51:53,239 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 1: sports town. You know. The Dodgers and Lakers, I think

1055
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 1: have is dedicated and committed a fan base to teams

1056
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 1: in the nation. Um, you know, you take your Yankees

1057
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:06,320
Speaker 1: and your your Red Sox and whatever your Bears. You know,

1058
00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:08,240
Speaker 1: when you think of those just kind of blue collar

1059
00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: markets and how they feel about their teams. Um, those

1060
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:15,239
Speaker 1: two teams dominate the marketplace, and it is hard. It's

1061
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:17,400
Speaker 1: gonna be hard for both the Rams and the Chargers

1062
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:20,799
Speaker 1: to try to figure out where they where they slide in.

1063
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 1: Even when the Kings were winning multiple Cups. They never

1064
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 1: I never really felt like they were growing their fan

1065
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 1: base a whole lot. UM. I thought, how you know,

1066
00:52:30,239 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 1: I don't think hockey is a sport really expanded, you know,

1067
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 1: nothing like that happened. UM. It'll be interesting with the

1068
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:38,919
Speaker 1: Clippers if they can rip off a championship or two,

1069
00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,520
Speaker 1: whether or not they'll be able to grow. UM. As

1070
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 1: far as professional football, I'll say this, I think the

1071
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:49,080
Speaker 1: one thing that has impacted UM, it's college football. You know,

1072
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl and the Coliseum used to be pretty

1073
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 1: well packed with people for SC and UCLA games, and

1074
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:58,160
Speaker 1: you've seen their numbers come down the last couple of

1075
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: years and this year as well, especially for UCLA because

1076
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:04,439
Speaker 1: they've been so bad and and I'm interested to see

1077
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 1: what kind of impact it's going to have on them.

1078
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 1: And that's where they end up taking you know, some

1079
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:13,479
Speaker 1: fans from. But but right now, yeah, they're the Rams

1080
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 1: even you know, even though the Rams went to the

1081
00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and I think everyone was like, oh, what

1082
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 1: do you get what the Charger's gonna do? Now there's

1083
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 1: the Rams lens and they got there's no way they're

1084
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 1: going to be the Clippers to their Lakers. And it's

1085
00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 1: like Hey, man, the Rams and the Chargers are both clippers.

1086
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:27,000
Speaker 1: You know, if you want to put it into that

1087
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:29,400
Speaker 1: sort of you know, through that lens and look at

1088
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:31,799
Speaker 1: it through that prison, they're they're both the clippers when

1089
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:33,920
Speaker 1: it comes to LA as it relates to the Lakers

1090
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:36,520
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers. And that's that's what you're trying to

1091
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:38,960
Speaker 1: figure out. And you know, I've had a bunch of

1092
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:41,879
Speaker 1: conversations about it, and I have I have said, look,

1093
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:44,359
Speaker 1: there's a model out there, and can you replicate it?

1094
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:46,799
Speaker 1: Probably not, But look at the Patriots. I mean, that

1095
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,200
Speaker 1: team was ready to move. I had friends in Boston

1096
00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 1: at the time. They didn't give two rips about the Pack.

1097
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:54,439
Speaker 1: Might as well have not existing. Um, and now they're

1098
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:56,520
Speaker 1: the most popular team in town because they became a

1099
00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:58,840
Speaker 1: dominant Nyman seam. And that's the town that had the

1100
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 1: Celtics on the Red Sox. I think LA is very similar.

1101
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 1: And it's going to take that sort of just stretch

1102
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:08,799
Speaker 1: of let's sake, five to seven years where this is

1103
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:11,319
Speaker 1: one of the best teams in the NFL and you're

1104
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:14,560
Speaker 1: competing for championships and maybe winning a couple. I think

1105
00:54:14,600 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 1: before you're going to be able to kind of work

1106
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:20,360
Speaker 1: yourself in that conversation. One more for you, Matt, what's

1107
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:23,359
Speaker 1: the feeling out there on the Texans and on this

1108
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 1: game on Sunday. Well, the Texans certainly have things that

1109
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:31,600
Speaker 1: give the Chargers problems. A very athletic and mobile quarterback,

1110
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:36,960
Speaker 1: you know, DeShawn is the type of pastor that gives

1111
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 1: them issues. And a lot of that has to do

1112
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:42,399
Speaker 1: and it's it's going to be impacted even more. Not

1113
00:54:42,440 --> 00:54:44,279
Speaker 1: only are they down Derwin James, but now they're down

1114
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:47,120
Speaker 1: Adrian Philip who with Derwin backup, So you're probably going

1115
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:49,400
Speaker 1: to see ray Sewn Jenkins move up into that strong

1116
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:51,839
Speaker 1: safety spot. And that's after an offseason where he lost

1117
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:55,360
Speaker 1: fifteen pounds so he could be more nimble playing free.

1118
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:58,919
Speaker 1: That's going to impact him, the fact that he got

1119
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:01,799
Speaker 1: two ends and and you know Sam Tabby has turned

1120
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:05,399
Speaker 1: into a really really good right tackle. Um, he's young,

1121
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:08,400
Speaker 1: but in his third year out of Utah, he's really

1122
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:11,319
Speaker 1: become a great player on that line. Left tackle now

1123
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: you got an issue, and obviously with detections that's a

1124
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:16,920
Speaker 1: big concern. So you've got to leave a tight end

1125
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:19,680
Speaker 1: in Um. They've they've you know, I'll tell you in

1126
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:22,800
Speaker 1: light of this, Melvin Gordon, you know, hold out. They've

1127
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,440
Speaker 1: they've really had Offtin Eckler and Justin Jackson to a

1128
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:29,919
Speaker 1: bang up the job and past protection. So that's that's

1129
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 1: where the concerns are. I think detections, you know, probably

1130
00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: matchup pretty darn well with this team. Now. The flip

1131
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:39,000
Speaker 1: side of that, of course, is how the Chargers feel defensively,

1132
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 1: you know, with with both and Ingram on the edges,

1133
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:43,920
Speaker 1: knowing the issues that this team has had, trying to

1134
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:46,399
Speaker 1: keep the Shaun Watson protected in him maybe hanging onto

1135
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:48,879
Speaker 1: the ball a beat or two too long regularly. So

1136
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:51,239
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's where the game's gonna be one.

1137
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:53,719
Speaker 1: I think it'll it'll be if both in Ingram can

1138
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 1: can win that matchup and make left stuff on on

1139
00:55:56,640 --> 00:56:00,319
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. And then conversely, if if Philip was so

1140
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:03,359
Speaker 1: good at overcoming deficiencies on the off office of line,

1141
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: but if it's just too much for him to overcome,

1142
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 1: I think that's how it kills him. Attaction's favorite great analysis. Hey,

1143
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 1: we really appreciate the time man, Thanks a lot for

1144
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 1: joining us and I look forward to seeing you on

1145
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 1: Sunday in the bandbox in La There we go. I

1146
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:18,279
Speaker 1: look forward to seeing you his mouth. Good stuff there

1147
00:56:18,320 --> 00:56:21,920
Speaker 1: from Matt money Smith, diving into a lot of different

1148
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:25,839
Speaker 1: realms if you will, with Mark Van Amir and our

1149
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,840
Speaker 1: men behind the mics. Now we're gonna have Andrea Ware

1150
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:32,440
Speaker 1: coming up in the next segment. But this week's stats

1151
00:56:32,520 --> 00:56:35,160
Speaker 1: Challenge is brought to you by Schlumberge. Visits Houston Texas

1152
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 1: dot com today to register to take the stats Challenge.

1153
00:56:39,840 --> 00:56:44,279
Speaker 1: So your stat challenge tonight is on Pace Guy. I

1154
00:56:44,360 --> 00:56:48,759
Speaker 1: love being on Pace Guy. At this rate, on pace

1155
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 1: Guy would tell you that Whitney Merciless is on pace

1156
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 1: for twenty four sacks and sixteen forced fumbles. Well, that

1157
00:56:57,560 --> 00:57:03,120
Speaker 1: would be acqua. Four sacks, sixteen forced fumbles. You can

1158
00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:05,440
Speaker 1: just write him into the NFL Defensive Player of the Year.

1159
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 1: But that's what He's on pace for. Three sacks thus far,

1160
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:11,480
Speaker 1: two forced fumbles, throwing an interception, He's on pace for

1161
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:14,440
Speaker 1: eight interceptions, so he's on pace to do some pretty

1162
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 1: good stuff. But those would be great numbers, but he's

1163
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 1: already put up two games worthy of numbers and why

1164
00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 1: he is AFC Defensive Player of the Week. On Sunday,

1165
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 1: he had two sacks, two forced fumbles, played the run

1166
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 1: extremely well. He was excellent. And if he finishes his

1167
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 1: year with twenty four sacks and sixteen forced fumbles and

1168
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:34,200
Speaker 1: eight interceptions, it'll be the greatest season in NFL history

1169
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 1: for a defensive player. So on, pace guy, and he's

1170
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:40,000
Speaker 1: gonna lose out a little bit, but those numbers, those

1171
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 1: stats are truly phenomenal stuff right there from Schlumberja. All right,

1172
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 1: let's get to our man, Andre Ware next right here

1173
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:50,520
Speaker 1: on Texans All Access. Can't wait to get to LA

1174
00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:56,040
Speaker 1: on Saturday afternoon for a game on Sunday afternoon. Now,

1175
00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:57,800
Speaker 1: a guy that's gonna get there a little bit later

1176
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 1: than us, but he will be there, is Ware. He

1177
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 1: is our game analyst, been a game analyst from the beginning.

1178
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:08,040
Speaker 1: He's got a college game in Virginia, in Saville Charlottesville,

1179
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: so what I called home for a couple of summers.

1180
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:13,840
Speaker 1: Great great place. But he's got a game in Virginia

1181
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 1: and then he's gonna fly all the way across country

1182
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:20,880
Speaker 1: to cover the Texans out in LA and then we'll

1183
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 1: fly home with us after the game. I don't know

1184
00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:26,440
Speaker 1: how he does it. This is as tough a trip

1185
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:29,200
Speaker 1: as you could possibly have, but no, buddy andre Ware

1186
00:58:29,280 --> 00:58:31,560
Speaker 1: talked about the Chargers, talked about what we saw against

1187
00:58:31,600 --> 00:58:34,160
Speaker 1: the Jags, and obviously what he will be doing this

1188
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:37,320
Speaker 1: weekend covering the University of Virginia. Dre Here, we go

1189
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:42,280
Speaker 1: to LA to face the LA Chargers, and I've got

1190
00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:44,920
Speaker 1: some news for you, my friend. I've been told that

1191
00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:48,000
Speaker 1: we are going to love this tiny little stadium that

1192
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:51,000
Speaker 1: holds twenty seven thousand people because the booth is excellent

1193
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:54,040
Speaker 1: and the site lines are good, and yeah, it might

1194
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 1: not be the greatest home field advantage for the Chargers,

1195
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 1: but who cares will be comfortable? Your thoughts on going

1196
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:01,760
Speaker 1: out there, Yeah, you know, I think it's a it's

1197
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:05,120
Speaker 1: a good road trip. It's a good test to go

1198
00:59:05,840 --> 00:59:10,240
Speaker 1: out and face a quarterback the caliber of Philip Rivers. Now,

1199
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:14,880
Speaker 1: they've got injuries and holdouts and all of the above,

1200
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:17,840
Speaker 1: but I think it'll be a good test for the

1201
00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:21,640
Speaker 1: team and and a tough test. Especially. I think with

1202
00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:25,840
Speaker 1: the Chargers coming off a loss in Detroit, you're definitely

1203
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 1: going to get their best, There's no doubt about it. Yeah,

1204
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:31,000
Speaker 1: the Chargers had a lot of possessions down the stretch

1205
00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:34,480
Speaker 1: that they want back turnovers, missed field goals, that kind

1206
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 1: of thing. Now as far as the Texans go, obviously

1207
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 1: wanted more points last week, but got the win. What

1208
00:59:39,760 --> 00:59:42,960
Speaker 1: about offensively? The running game is working well, what do

1209
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:45,200
Speaker 1: they need to do to continue to do that well

1210
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:48,200
Speaker 1: and improve in the passing game? Yeah? I thought at

1211
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 1: times last week, the way Carlos Hide was running the football,

1212
00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:56,320
Speaker 1: I mean, he's closing in on one hundred yard performance,

1213
00:59:56,440 --> 01:00:01,680
Speaker 1: ninety yards on twenty erries, they would actually stay with

1214
01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:04,840
Speaker 1: the run a little bit more and uh, and they

1215
01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:07,920
Speaker 1: had it pretty much whenever they wanted it it. Uh.

1216
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:12,200
Speaker 1: You know, I think it's worth worth the offensive line

1217
01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:15,120
Speaker 1: or the investment in the offensive line to kind of

1218
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:18,240
Speaker 1: ease them in comfortably, so to speak. That's the best

1219
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:20,680
Speaker 1: way to do it is is to just run, block

1220
01:00:20,760 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 1: and let guys come off the football. And when you're

1221
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:26,200
Speaker 1: doing it with a degree of success that they were

1222
01:00:26,360 --> 01:00:29,440
Speaker 1: they were having with Carlos Hide and Duke Johnson, at

1223
01:00:29,520 --> 01:00:33,120
Speaker 1: times I thought maybe maybe just maybe you stick with it,

1224
01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:36,320
Speaker 1: developing timing with the receivers. You know, Qt has been

1225
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 1: out a bunch. You have Stills just getting here. He's

1226
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:42,919
Speaker 1: made some catches look good. Hopkins is Hopkins. But they've

1227
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:45,520
Speaker 1: got to find a way to get the chemistry generated,

1228
01:00:45,560 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 1: getting sync, and it's hard to do it in the

1229
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:50,000
Speaker 1: flow of the season. What are you thinking about that? Yeah,

1230
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 1: that's why you know, I'll go back to the preseason

1231
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 1: and you you look at the lack of reps in

1232
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:58,520
Speaker 1: a game type situation, and it's it's hard to go

1233
01:00:58,600 --> 01:01:02,160
Speaker 1: from from zero to sixty miles an hour, so to speak,

1234
01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:05,640
Speaker 1: in terms of building continuity and chemistry. And that's what

1235
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 1: offensive football is all about. It's about being on the

1236
01:01:08,840 --> 01:01:13,200
Speaker 1: same page, building continuity within a group, and the group

1237
01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:16,720
Speaker 1: at some point functioning as one. And it's just gonna

1238
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 1: take a little time because they didn't get the preseason

1239
01:01:19,440 --> 01:01:23,520
Speaker 1: reps together. Deshaun Watson played a little bit in the preseason,

1240
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 1: not very much. Will Fuller didn't play at all. Didn't

1241
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:29,480
Speaker 1: see Hopkins, you know, so on and so forth, and

1242
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:33,320
Speaker 1: so even with the offensive line, which makes everything work

1243
01:01:34,320 --> 01:01:38,360
Speaker 1: in one big, one instance, so to speak, this is

1244
01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 1: a new group that hasn't played a whole lot of

1245
01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:43,800
Speaker 1: football together, so they're still learning everything. And if you

1246
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:48,480
Speaker 1: can't get things up front to work together, then everything

1247
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:51,400
Speaker 1: else around it, no matter how talented you are as

1248
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 1: an offensive group. It's gonna gonna take some time. Whitney merciless.

1249
01:01:56,400 --> 01:02:00,640
Speaker 1: Three sacks so far year eight for him, and he's

1250
01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 1: off to a terrific start, best start of his career.

1251
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:05,840
Speaker 1: Why is that he's just more comfortable pass rushing from

1252
01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:09,640
Speaker 1: that side, Yeah, I think so. And it's uh, in

1253
01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:12,320
Speaker 1: a situation where he knows that he's in the game,

1254
01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:15,960
Speaker 1: he knows that he's the starter, and and there's some

1255
01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:19,440
Speaker 1: confidence that comes with that, knowing that you can be

1256
01:02:19,520 --> 01:02:22,720
Speaker 1: relied on in the coaching staff as well as your teammates,

1257
01:02:22,720 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 1: feel like you're you're you're capable of doing the job.

1258
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:27,640
Speaker 1: And he has. And so that's why I think he's

1259
01:02:27,680 --> 01:02:31,000
Speaker 1: off to this This is magical start, so to speak.

1260
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:34,200
Speaker 1: At at outside linebacker, he is. He just playing with

1261
01:02:34,200 --> 01:02:35,920
Speaker 1: his hair on fire right now, and it's it's a

1262
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:38,040
Speaker 1: lot of fun to see. Yeah. The other linebacker is

1263
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:40,200
Speaker 1: doing well too, Zach Cuttingham. I know you've always been

1264
01:02:40,200 --> 01:02:42,840
Speaker 1: a fan of him, but Ardrick McKinney doing well. Uh,

1265
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:44,760
Speaker 1: And they're gonna have to continue to do that to

1266
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:46,960
Speaker 1: slow down this running game with Deckler and everything else

1267
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:48,400
Speaker 1: that they're gonna get thrown at them in the next

1268
01:02:48,440 --> 01:02:52,200
Speaker 1: few weeks. Yeah, and tossing Brennan Scarlett's name as well,

1269
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:55,400
Speaker 1: because he's been close on a couple of occasions to

1270
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Speaker 1: having his name called in the sack category. So uh,

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Speaker 1: it's it's one in situation with him where he's actually

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Speaker 1: there forces a quarterback up and then somebody else's reaping

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01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:09,160
Speaker 1: the benefits of a sack. But he's been close to

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01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:11,880
Speaker 1: look for him to get one on the board or

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01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:14,000
Speaker 1: nine to one on the board in his own right.

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Speaker 1: But that group as a whole has played very well

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Speaker 1: this season. Ray the secondary, we know Colvin's gone obviously

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01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:23,320
Speaker 1: was for this game, and you get Robie in there

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01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:26,280
Speaker 1: doing some things and Johnathan Joseph of course, but what

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Speaker 1: about Lonnie Johnson. I know you watched them all out

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Speaker 1: in college and he needs to really get going in

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01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:34,040
Speaker 1: a hurry as a rookie, which is tough in this league,

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Speaker 1: but they need him. Put it that way. Yeah, I

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01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:40,960
Speaker 1: think against Jacksonville and a rookie quarterback with Garner Menshew,

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Speaker 1: Garner Menshew, he wasn't target. I think he's going to

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01:03:45,520 --> 01:03:49,320
Speaker 1: be this week. There'll be a lot on his plate.

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Speaker 1: Philip Rivers will identify him and he'll test you know,

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01:03:53,240 --> 01:03:55,560
Speaker 1: he'll test what's under the engine, so to speak, in

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Speaker 1: terms of sinning guys at him, trying to match him

1290
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:02,080
Speaker 1: up for Mason in the league, so on and so forth.

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01:04:02,120 --> 01:04:05,360
Speaker 1: But I think Garniamenthi was just trying to complete passes

1292
01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:08,720
Speaker 1: where I think a guy like Philip Rivers and experienced

1293
01:04:08,800 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 1: quarterback will indeed identify him and see, hey, until you

1294
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:17,080
Speaker 1: stop it, we're gonna throw it over there. Drey Rivers

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01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:20,200
Speaker 1: is from that class of two thousand and four, Rothlisberger

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01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:22,760
Speaker 1: out of the season from the same class. Eli Manning

1297
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:24,880
Speaker 1: benched from the same class. I mean, I think it's

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01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:27,360
Speaker 1: impressive how long these guys have played. But Rivers is

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01:04:27,400 --> 01:04:29,680
Speaker 1: still out there doing his thing. Yeah, when you get

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01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:32,840
Speaker 1: up to you know, into the teams, so to speak,

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01:04:32,880 --> 01:04:35,080
Speaker 1: and you're still playing at a very high level. They've

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01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:38,160
Speaker 1: done a nice job of surrounding him with some talent.

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01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:41,400
Speaker 1: We know about Keenan Allen and the job that he's

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01:04:41,480 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 1: done over his seven year career. And now you had,

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01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:46,600
Speaker 1: you know, a guy like Mike Williams who's finally healthy

1306
01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:50,240
Speaker 1: to that mix. You're right, it's impressive that he's been

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01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:54,720
Speaker 1: around this long. It's even more impressive that he's still

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01:04:54,760 --> 01:04:57,480
Speaker 1: playing at a very very high level. All right, So

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01:04:57,600 --> 01:05:01,000
Speaker 1: what about all these quarterback injuries? Incidental thing? I mean,

1310
01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:04,480
Speaker 1: it's got to be right, Breeze, that was a freaky thing. Roethlisberger,

1311
01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:07,640
Speaker 1: you saw the highlight or low light in this case.

1312
01:05:07,840 --> 01:05:09,600
Speaker 1: It's just kind of weird how this is happening to

1313
01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:12,200
Speaker 1: so many guys so early of the season. Yeah. I

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01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 1: don't think you can point to one thing and says, hey,

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01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:18,120
Speaker 1: it's causing this. I think it's just the year. There's

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01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:23,160
Speaker 1: kind of accidents or injuries that happened during Sometimes it's hamstrings,

1317
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:27,840
Speaker 1: sometimes it's high ankle sprainings. Sometimes it's shoulder injuries. From

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01:05:28,120 --> 01:05:31,160
Speaker 1: from player to player, from team the team. You just

1319
01:05:31,200 --> 01:05:35,000
Speaker 1: get hurt. And I guess this is the year of

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01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:38,680
Speaker 1: the quarterback, so to speak. Where you're losing some pretty

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01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:42,280
Speaker 1: significant ones, in talented ones in a guy like Drew

1322
01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:46,080
Speaker 1: Brees and Ben Roethlisberger in the same week. It's unfortunate,

1323
01:05:47,560 --> 01:05:50,280
Speaker 1: and that's kind of a lot of it's all about

1324
01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:52,840
Speaker 1: timing too. They just think think back for a second,

1325
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:55,920
Speaker 1: if the Texans were facing the Saints this week as

1326
01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:59,080
Speaker 1: opposed to in Week one, when Breeze wouldn't be there,

1327
01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:02,400
Speaker 1: and then he was in Week one. But you know,

1328
01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:05,800
Speaker 1: needless to say, it's it's just unfortunate for those guys,

1329
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:10,120
Speaker 1: but they will bounce back. Ben Roethlisberger will play again,

1330
01:06:10,560 --> 01:06:12,960
Speaker 1: as will Drew Brees, and Drew Brees has a chance

1331
01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:15,479
Speaker 1: to actually come back in a couple of weeks. So

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01:06:16,320 --> 01:06:17,880
Speaker 1: I don't think New Orleans is going to be out

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01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:20,120
Speaker 1: without him for very long. You look at the young

1334
01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:23,640
Speaker 1: quarterbacks though in the NFL, with Watson here and Mahomes

1335
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:25,960
Speaker 1: and what Lamar Jackson is doing, and Murray looks like

1336
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:27,920
Speaker 1: he's up to a pretty good start as well. I mean,

1337
01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:29,920
Speaker 1: there's a lot of hope for the future, a lot

1338
01:06:29,920 --> 01:06:33,440
Speaker 1: of star power moving forward. Yeah, there's a good mix

1339
01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:36,439
Speaker 1: I think of veterans and then young players who are

1340
01:06:36,520 --> 01:06:39,560
Speaker 1: coming into their own so to speak. All the guys

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01:06:39,560 --> 01:06:43,360
Speaker 1: that you just talked about pretty much, or guys they've moved.

1342
01:06:43,800 --> 01:06:46,000
Speaker 1: You know that. That's what the position is kind of

1343
01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:49,760
Speaker 1: evolving to. Is a player that there's not a stationary

1344
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:52,760
Speaker 1: target that sits in the pocket anymore. It's a guy

1345
01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:55,640
Speaker 1: that they can move around and make plays with his legs,

1346
01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:58,400
Speaker 1: a more athletic type player, and it's kind of made

1347
01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:01,800
Speaker 1: the game even more so fun to watch offensively, Drey,

1348
01:07:01,840 --> 01:07:03,680
Speaker 1: what do you have on the college circuit this week

1349
01:07:04,200 --> 01:07:07,000
Speaker 1: going up to Virginia. Virginia is a hot team. They're

1350
01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:09,560
Speaker 1: picked to win the Coastal this year. I think six

1351
01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:13,040
Speaker 1: teams have won the Coastal in the last six seasons.

1352
01:07:13,120 --> 01:07:15,680
Speaker 1: It's a Virginia's turn to the only team that hasn't

1353
01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:19,000
Speaker 1: beat a good Florida State team last week and they're

1354
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:21,880
Speaker 1: playing ODU who you know. When I break down the film,

1355
01:07:21,880 --> 01:07:25,360
Speaker 1: I've been pleasantly surprised to see not only the team itself,

1356
01:07:25,400 --> 01:07:28,360
Speaker 1: but the size and the athletic ability that they display

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01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:30,920
Speaker 1: on both sides of the football. This will be a good,

1358
01:07:31,200 --> 01:07:34,920
Speaker 1: good matchup for you, for me and looking forward to it. Okay,

1359
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:38,000
Speaker 1: And I think the game plan of getting from Charlottesville

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01:07:38,040 --> 01:07:40,080
Speaker 1: to LA has to be one of the more under

1361
01:07:40,080 --> 01:07:43,880
Speaker 1: the radar, behind the scenes, you know, compelling stories of

1362
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:47,320
Speaker 1: the weekend. Perhaps. Yeah, there'll be two Charlotte's involved in

1363
01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:50,920
Speaker 1: the travel, Charlotte'sville to Charlotte and then Charlotte to Los Angeles.

1364
01:07:51,880 --> 01:07:54,680
Speaker 1: But luck will be on my side. I got a

1365
01:07:54,680 --> 01:07:57,200
Speaker 1: feeling will be. I'll be sitting sitting right next to

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Speaker 1: you when the ball's kicked, all right, my friend, get

1367
01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:02,560
Speaker 1: forward to it. Thanks a lot, all right, buddy, there

1368
01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:06,480
Speaker 1: is Andre Whare who is chucking up some frequent flyer

1369
01:08:06,560 --> 01:08:09,240
Speaker 1: miles taking that trip. My brother in law's taking that

1370
01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:13,760
Speaker 1: trip from Charlotte to LA. It's a monster, he actually is.

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01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:16,240
Speaker 1: He took one from Raleigh San Francisco and he's taking

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Speaker 1: one from Charlotte to LA. That's a long flight. And

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01:08:19,400 --> 01:08:21,200
Speaker 1: Dre told us Monday, he's like, I just getting the

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01:08:21,240 --> 01:08:23,600
Speaker 1: plane sleep, which is true. I can't do that. I

1375
01:08:23,680 --> 01:08:26,080
Speaker 1: got on a plane. I'm a nervous nelly. That's just me.

1376
01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:29,559
Speaker 1: I'm getting high anxiety on a plane. So hopefully Drey

1377
01:08:29,680 --> 01:08:31,559
Speaker 1: is a good flight, gets some rest and gets ready

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01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:34,439
Speaker 1: to call this game on Sunday. Now, the in the

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Speaker 1: Lab crew gets together each and every Tuesday for our

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Speaker 1: weekly podcast. This week, Drew Doherty and I sat down

1381
01:08:40,439 --> 01:08:43,679
Speaker 1: and talked about the offensive line and who are creaming

1382
01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:47,200
Speaker 1: the crop players against Jacksonville last Sunday. We'll have that

1383
01:08:47,240 --> 01:08:49,479
Speaker 1: for you next right here in Texans All Access, We've

1384
01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:51,760
Speaker 1: got one final segment of Texans All Access from the

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Speaker 1: Hounday Texans Radio Studio. I am your host, John Harris

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01:08:55,280 --> 01:08:58,759
Speaker 1: glad to be with you. How about a little next

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01:08:58,880 --> 01:09:01,840
Speaker 1: gen stat I've gotten kind of into this now that

1388
01:09:01,880 --> 01:09:04,200
Speaker 1: I'm living and dying with stats, but I always find

1389
01:09:04,600 --> 01:09:07,880
Speaker 1: there's some very interesting stuff in some of these stats.

1390
01:09:09,080 --> 01:09:14,400
Speaker 1: Fastest ball carriers in the twenty nineteen season thus far,

1391
01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:21,559
Speaker 1: Will Fuller comes in at one, two, three, four or five, six, seven,

1392
01:09:22,439 --> 01:09:26,679
Speaker 1: eight nine, ten, tied for tenth with Rohem most start

1393
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:30,719
Speaker 1: in week one his fifty four yard reception down the field,

1394
01:09:31,360 --> 01:09:34,840
Speaker 1: Will Fuller came in tenth. He ran twenty one point

1395
01:09:36,120 --> 01:09:39,800
Speaker 1: three twenty one oh three miles prior now. These next

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Speaker 1: gen stats are powered by a w S. The thing

1397
01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:47,559
Speaker 1: about it is if Will had caught the ball clean,

1398
01:09:47,640 --> 01:09:50,400
Speaker 1: like caught it on the run where he could catch

1399
01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:53,280
Speaker 1: and run, I think he would be the number one guy.

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01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:57,960
Speaker 1: Cordell Patterson is the number one guy against the Denver Broncos.

1401
01:09:58,040 --> 01:10:01,240
Speaker 1: He reached twenty two point two two three as the

1402
01:10:01,320 --> 01:10:05,080
Speaker 1: top speed in the NFL this year. Will Foiler comes

1403
01:10:05,080 --> 01:10:06,880
Speaker 1: in tied for ten. I tell you, I'm telling you.

1404
01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:10,040
Speaker 1: Will gets out in the open, catches one, splits a

1405
01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:13,439
Speaker 1: seam and then he's got a hit max speed. He

1406
01:10:13,479 --> 01:10:15,640
Speaker 1: will be number one in this list. But number one

1407
01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:18,519
Speaker 1: Cordeo Patterson Saquon Barkley at twenty one point seven six.

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01:10:18,560 --> 01:10:21,799
Speaker 1: That was number two Autobackham Junior. Other night hit twenty

1409
01:10:21,840 --> 01:10:25,040
Speaker 1: one point seven. He was smoking down the field on

1410
01:10:25,080 --> 01:10:28,559
Speaker 1: his eighty nine yard reception. It was about a fifteen

1411
01:10:28,600 --> 01:10:30,720
Speaker 1: to seventeen yard catch and then it was like a

1412
01:10:30,800 --> 01:10:33,880
Speaker 1: seventy yard run. Excellent stuff and whatever. Beckham Junior. But

1413
01:10:34,040 --> 01:10:38,599
Speaker 1: Will Fuller is tenth in the league for twenty one

1414
01:10:38,720 --> 01:10:42,080
Speaker 1: point zero three miles per hour and those next gent

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Speaker 1: stats brought to you by A W. S. All right,

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01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:46,920
Speaker 1: let's talk a little lineman with the in the lab

1417
01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:49,680
Speaker 1: crew meet and Drew Dorny. Drew, I only want to

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01:10:49,680 --> 01:10:51,880
Speaker 1: talk about one main thing before we do our cream

1419
01:10:51,880 --> 01:10:54,479
Speaker 1: of the crop and wrap this thing up. One main thing.

1420
01:10:54,640 --> 01:10:59,080
Speaker 1: It was the focus of consternation all last year, all

1421
01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:05,679
Speaker 1: off season, understandably so Texans and DeShawn Watson sixty two

1422
01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:09,000
Speaker 1: sacks last year, way too many. So far he's been

1423
01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:11,160
Speaker 1: sacked ten times in two games. That's not good either.

1424
01:11:11,439 --> 01:11:14,080
Speaker 1: But I think we see a glimmer of light, a

1425
01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:17,439
Speaker 1: glimmer of hope based on the shakeups that we saw

1426
01:11:17,520 --> 01:11:20,759
Speaker 1: on the offensive line last week. So Laramie Tunsel started

1427
01:11:20,760 --> 01:11:24,080
Speaker 1: again at left tackle. Next to him, though the rookie

1428
01:11:24,400 --> 01:11:27,439
Speaker 1: Titus Howard the handed and then and everything had healed

1429
01:11:27,520 --> 01:11:29,920
Speaker 1: up enough for him to go. Center was Nick Martin,

1430
01:11:30,040 --> 01:11:32,599
Speaker 1: right guard Zach Fulton. And out at right tackle wasn't

1431
01:11:32,600 --> 01:11:35,599
Speaker 1: Sean Charle Henderson. It was a guy who really impressed

1432
01:11:35,680 --> 01:11:38,720
Speaker 1: us all in training camp, really impressed us in the

1433
01:11:38,760 --> 01:11:40,840
Speaker 1: preseason work that he had when he was working at

1434
01:11:40,920 --> 01:11:44,800
Speaker 1: left tackle. Talking about Roderick Johnson, I really liked what

1435
01:11:44,880 --> 01:11:46,720
Speaker 1: I saw, john because I think a few of the

1436
01:11:46,760 --> 01:11:52,000
Speaker 1: sacks we saw on Sunday were really not your typical

1437
01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:55,559
Speaker 1: sacks and not your not your sack that you can

1438
01:11:55,600 --> 01:12:01,479
Speaker 1: attribute to a porous offensive line. Yeah, I think, Oh,

1439
01:12:01,520 --> 01:12:04,719
Speaker 1: we talk about PF a lot Pro Football focus, and

1440
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:09,280
Speaker 1: I don't put a ton of stock in what they

1441
01:12:10,600 --> 01:12:12,519
Speaker 1: the numbers that they come up with, because I think

1442
01:12:12,520 --> 01:12:15,160
Speaker 1: it's very difficult to grade players because it's you don't

1443
01:12:15,200 --> 01:12:16,479
Speaker 1: know what, you don't know what, you don't know what

1444
01:12:16,520 --> 01:12:18,880
Speaker 1: players have been assigned to do right, and they might

1445
01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:20,880
Speaker 1: be carrying out their assignment, but it looks and it

1446
01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:23,040
Speaker 1: really came to like for me because I was watching

1447
01:12:23,040 --> 01:12:27,880
Speaker 1: the Seahawks and the Bengals and the Bengals broadcast radio

1448
01:12:27,920 --> 01:12:32,000
Speaker 1: broadcast crew. They put some of the radio broadcast crew

1449
01:12:32,080 --> 01:12:34,080
Speaker 1: highlights on a play that the Seahawks had run. It

1450
01:12:34,120 --> 01:12:36,680
Speaker 1: was a touchdown for the Seahawks, and they were blasting

1451
01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:40,559
Speaker 1: their starting safety for making what they thought was a

1452
01:12:40,640 --> 01:12:45,120
Speaker 1: huge mistake, but in fact, they didn't recognize the coverage.

1453
01:12:45,560 --> 01:12:48,479
Speaker 1: So they're blasting Jesse Bates, and Bates is you know,

1454
01:12:48,520 --> 01:12:50,960
Speaker 1: I mean, he's playing the coverage the way it's supposed

1455
01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:52,880
Speaker 1: to be. But they didn't. They didn't see it. They

1456
01:12:53,120 --> 01:12:55,960
Speaker 1: like missed it. They misconstrued what they were looking at,

1457
01:12:56,000 --> 01:12:58,000
Speaker 1: and they like, what's Bates doing? This is terrible, and

1458
01:12:58,080 --> 01:13:00,479
Speaker 1: so like, you know, that's that's the hard part, because

1459
01:13:00,479 --> 01:13:02,400
Speaker 1: you don't know what the call is. You don't know

1460
01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:05,479
Speaker 1: what exactly you're supposed to. So I think there's there's

1461
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:09,519
Speaker 1: some level of what PF does, and I'm just I

1462
01:13:09,600 --> 01:13:11,600
Speaker 1: take with the grain of salt, especially when people are

1463
01:13:11,600 --> 01:13:14,240
Speaker 1: like well says they had a ninety degree and I'm like, look,

1464
01:13:14,240 --> 01:13:18,200
Speaker 1: I watched my eyes and if my eyes that grade

1465
01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:21,479
Speaker 1: matches with my eyes, and great. If my eyes don't match,

1466
01:13:21,600 --> 01:13:22,920
Speaker 1: the grade is and I'm like, oh, I want to

1467
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:26,639
Speaker 1: go back and watch again and see and go no, no, no, okay,

1468
01:13:26,720 --> 01:13:29,760
Speaker 1: I know what this supposed to be, et cetera. But

1469
01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:36,439
Speaker 1: because basically they grade an E vacuum, you can't. And

1470
01:13:36,479 --> 01:13:39,320
Speaker 1: I credit them for for creating an industry. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they've done a really good job for themselves, and I

1472
01:13:41,240 --> 01:13:43,519
Speaker 1: think it's fantastic, but I think it's very, very difficult.

1473
01:13:44,080 --> 01:13:47,679
Speaker 1: But they said of the four sacks, they credited two

1474
01:13:47,760 --> 01:13:51,040
Speaker 1: or three of them to Deshaun, and I don't know

1475
01:13:51,080 --> 01:13:52,960
Speaker 1: if I would say Deshaun, but I think what you

1476
01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:55,400
Speaker 1: could say is coverage. There were times when he went

1477
01:13:55,439 --> 01:13:59,400
Speaker 1: back to pass and the coverage was good and there

1478
01:13:59,560 --> 01:14:01,800
Speaker 1: was nothing and he could do. And there was one

1479
01:14:01,840 --> 01:14:04,600
Speaker 1: they brought to Nickel Blitz and DJ Hayden got a

1480
01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:07,720
Speaker 1: shot onto Sean, and that play seemed to be kind

1481
01:14:07,760 --> 01:14:10,920
Speaker 1: of just dead on arrival because guys did get beat

1482
01:14:10,960 --> 01:14:14,200
Speaker 1: on the offensive line and Hayden came free. The next

1483
01:14:14,240 --> 01:14:17,599
Speaker 1: time that Hayden ran at Blitz, though, the Sean hit

1484
01:14:17,760 --> 01:14:20,280
Speaker 1: Jorde Nakins for a sixteen yard game. So I felt

1485
01:14:20,280 --> 01:14:23,559
Speaker 1: like overall, when they needed what fifteen yeah, I think

1486
01:14:23,560 --> 01:14:25,840
Speaker 1: he got fifteen and a half when he reached the ball.

1487
01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:27,800
Speaker 1: I was a tremendous play by Jordan Nakens. It was

1488
01:14:27,840 --> 01:14:33,040
Speaker 1: one of the more unmentioned plays that should have been

1489
01:14:33,080 --> 01:14:35,080
Speaker 1: more underrated plays in the game. It was an incredible

1490
01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:38,200
Speaker 1: play by Jordan Nakins and helped lead to the field

1491
01:14:38,200 --> 01:14:40,360
Speaker 1: goal at the end and a half. But I felt

1492
01:14:40,400 --> 01:14:44,439
Speaker 1: like overall groups still coming together. Pass protection takes a

1493
01:14:44,439 --> 01:14:49,320
Speaker 1: lot of communication in working together a lot. Run blocking

1494
01:14:49,439 --> 01:14:51,920
Speaker 1: sometimes is just we know what the run play is,

1495
01:14:52,280 --> 01:14:54,280
Speaker 1: just come off the ball and hit somebody in the face.

1496
01:14:54,720 --> 01:14:58,040
Speaker 1: What I like about it is that that's what we're doing.

1497
01:14:58,400 --> 01:15:00,559
Speaker 1: We are coming off the ball and we're hitting dudes

1498
01:15:00,600 --> 01:15:02,160
Speaker 1: in the face. We're getting a hat on a hat,

1499
01:15:02,160 --> 01:15:04,479
Speaker 1: We're getting movement off the line of scrimmage. I did

1500
01:15:04,520 --> 01:15:08,400
Speaker 1: a telestrator on There was a run that Duke had

1501
01:15:08,840 --> 01:15:13,479
Speaker 1: in the first half, I think, and the whole right

1502
01:15:13,640 --> 01:15:17,200
Speaker 1: side just caved in. It was like if if you

1503
01:15:17,280 --> 01:15:19,920
Speaker 1: had if you have like a parallel, or you have

1504
01:15:19,920 --> 01:15:23,200
Speaker 1: a line, and then alson that line is just pivoted

1505
01:15:23,240 --> 01:15:26,160
Speaker 1: on the left side, just pivots and it pivots like

1506
01:15:26,200 --> 01:15:28,960
Speaker 1: four or five yards. That's essentially what they did. They

1507
01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:32,880
Speaker 1: just caved in that whole side. Rod knocked Darius four

1508
01:15:32,960 --> 01:15:37,000
Speaker 1: yards downfield. Unfortunately, rodn't stay on the block long enough.

1509
01:15:38,120 --> 01:15:40,800
Speaker 1: Darius ended up forcing Duke to move, but it wasn't

1510
01:15:40,960 --> 01:15:44,000
Speaker 1: until four yards down field that Duke actually had to

1511
01:15:44,080 --> 01:15:47,240
Speaker 1: make a cut because they had pushed guys down field.

1512
01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:51,479
Speaker 1: I think Titus. I thought Titus did a pretty decent

1513
01:15:51,680 --> 01:15:53,320
Speaker 1: job for the most part. I know, he got the

1514
01:15:53,320 --> 01:15:56,800
Speaker 1: tripping call and it was it was valid. He got it.

1515
01:15:57,000 --> 01:15:59,080
Speaker 1: He got a good one on Campbell, but Campbell didn't

1516
01:15:59,120 --> 01:16:01,400
Speaker 1: get a shot on the Shawn. So sometimes you will

1517
01:16:01,439 --> 01:16:02,880
Speaker 1: get away with it. The one thing I want to see,

1518
01:16:03,560 --> 01:16:05,719
Speaker 1: I think that is a you don't want to see tripping,

1519
01:16:05,800 --> 01:16:08,479
Speaker 1: you know, so you guys can come penalties, but you

1520
01:16:08,479 --> 01:16:12,640
Speaker 1: also don't want your quarterback getting needlessly hit. And yeah,

1521
01:16:12,680 --> 01:16:15,479
Speaker 1: you know what, it's one that in a win, okay, whatever,

1522
01:16:15,880 --> 01:16:17,599
Speaker 1: you know. And I don't know that it really would

1523
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:20,040
Speaker 1: have been the contributing factor to a loss and the

1524
01:16:20,080 --> 01:16:23,000
Speaker 1: Texans not pull But yeah, I'm okay with that. I'm

1525
01:16:23,040 --> 01:16:26,960
Speaker 1: okay with not having Watson get jacked in the ribs

1526
01:16:27,120 --> 01:16:29,439
Speaker 1: or something happened to it, you know, I'm I'm fine

1527
01:16:29,439 --> 01:16:31,760
Speaker 1: with that. Yeah, I am too. I Actually, when I

1528
01:16:31,800 --> 01:16:33,439
Speaker 1: thought about it later on, I was like, yeah, they

1529
01:16:33,479 --> 01:16:35,760
Speaker 1: get it a big play, but he didn't get hit again.

1530
01:16:35,840 --> 01:16:39,040
Speaker 1: It's kind of like when you a receiver breaks free

1531
01:16:39,160 --> 01:16:41,400
Speaker 1: and a dB just pulls on a shirt and he

1532
01:16:41,400 --> 01:16:44,040
Speaker 1: can't there, so so he's not gonna catch the touchdown. Right, Well,

1533
01:16:44,400 --> 01:16:46,360
Speaker 1: you know, you gave away thirty yards, but you didn't

1534
01:16:46,360 --> 01:16:48,760
Speaker 1: give away the score and you've lived to fight another day. Yeah,

1535
01:16:48,800 --> 01:16:50,760
Speaker 1: And I think that's that's essentially what happened, and that's

1536
01:16:50,760 --> 01:16:53,040
Speaker 1: a that's a learning thing for Titus. I think the

1537
01:16:53,080 --> 01:16:55,599
Speaker 1: one thing Titus has got to do when you play

1538
01:16:55,720 --> 01:16:59,280
Speaker 1: tackle versus playing guard. You know, when you're out on

1539
01:16:59,280 --> 01:17:04,040
Speaker 1: an island and you're blocking a guy in the passing game,

1540
01:17:04,160 --> 01:17:07,519
Speaker 1: like sometimes it just like the timing in your head.

1541
01:17:07,560 --> 01:17:10,360
Speaker 1: You know the ball's got to be gone. So sometimes

1542
01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:12,000
Speaker 1: you just have dominated your guy and you just kind

1543
01:17:12,040 --> 01:17:13,439
Speaker 1: of stop. At some point you're like, all right, the

1544
01:17:13,439 --> 01:17:15,080
Speaker 1: balls should be gone, so I'm not gonna watch the

1545
01:17:15,120 --> 01:17:18,040
Speaker 1: dress to play. There was one play in particular where

1546
01:17:18,160 --> 01:17:19,760
Speaker 1: it was I think it was a run play and

1547
01:17:20,400 --> 01:17:24,679
Speaker 1: Titus was blocking and then he was on the block

1548
01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:27,240
Speaker 1: or he missed the block or he fell off the block,

1549
01:17:27,600 --> 01:17:30,439
Speaker 1: and he was just kind of standing there and whoever's

1550
01:17:30,520 --> 01:17:32,800
Speaker 1: running the ball broke through a tackle and literally ran

1551
01:17:32,880 --> 01:17:35,920
Speaker 1: into him. And it's like, look, you blocked to that

1552
01:17:36,080 --> 01:17:39,920
Speaker 1: damn whistle all the time. Yeah, you block till you

1553
01:17:40,080 --> 01:17:43,559
Speaker 1: hear the whistle, like if you fell off a block

1554
01:17:43,680 --> 01:17:45,120
Speaker 1: or whatever. I used to tell my guys this all

1555
01:17:45,160 --> 01:17:46,960
Speaker 1: the time because one of the things that that they

1556
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:48,320
Speaker 1: would do is they would miss a block and then

1557
01:17:48,320 --> 01:17:50,200
Speaker 1: they would go backwards trying to find their guy, like

1558
01:17:50,240 --> 01:17:52,200
Speaker 1: they would block to the whistle. But I'm like, look,

1559
01:17:52,439 --> 01:17:54,360
Speaker 1: if you miss your block or you go and he's

1560
01:17:54,400 --> 01:17:56,800
Speaker 1: not there, like he slanted or moved away, like you

1561
01:17:56,880 --> 01:17:59,240
Speaker 1: just keep going, like, go to the next just keep

1562
01:17:59,360 --> 01:18:02,519
Speaker 1: running to the next jersey up the field. Yeah, those

1563
01:18:02,560 --> 01:18:06,559
Speaker 1: are the little things that tightest that Titus has got

1564
01:18:06,560 --> 01:18:08,439
Speaker 1: to work through, and I think when he does that,

1565
01:18:08,520 --> 01:18:10,920
Speaker 1: he's going to be a really good player. But I

1566
01:18:11,080 --> 01:18:13,960
Speaker 1: like the way in the run game in particular that

1567
01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:16,560
Speaker 1: they all work and I felt like the pass protection

1568
01:18:16,960 --> 01:18:19,360
Speaker 1: improved from week one to week two. A lot of

1569
01:18:19,360 --> 01:18:20,880
Speaker 1: that has to do with communication, and I think it

1570
01:18:20,920 --> 01:18:25,040
Speaker 1: will continue to get better. Okay, what do you think

1571
01:18:25,080 --> 01:18:29,080
Speaker 1: of Roderick Johnson? I thought rod played pretty well. PFF

1572
01:18:29,160 --> 01:18:31,519
Speaker 1: did credit one of the sacks to Rod and Josh

1573
01:18:31,560 --> 01:18:33,600
Speaker 1: Allen gave him a little bit of an issue. But

1574
01:18:33,680 --> 01:18:37,080
Speaker 1: I'll say that as Josh Allen is probably the closest

1575
01:18:37,080 --> 01:18:39,240
Speaker 1: thing that we've seen to Kalil Mack. And I know

1576
01:18:39,320 --> 01:18:42,599
Speaker 1: that's that whoa way a second. I've seen a lot

1577
01:18:42,640 --> 01:18:44,320
Speaker 1: of guys come through this league to this point, from

1578
01:18:44,320 --> 01:18:46,720
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen till now, I've not seen a guy with

1579
01:18:46,720 --> 01:18:52,120
Speaker 1: that combination of skills length, ability, dropping coverage, rush strength,

1580
01:18:52,680 --> 01:18:55,920
Speaker 1: all the assets you're looking for in a guy like

1581
01:18:56,040 --> 01:18:59,599
Speaker 1: Josh Allen has, like Khalil Max. So in NFL start

1582
01:18:59,680 --> 01:19:02,320
Speaker 1: number one for Rod Johnson, he limited a guy like

1583
01:19:02,479 --> 01:19:05,000
Speaker 1: that with that skill set to one sack and on

1584
01:19:05,040 --> 01:19:07,880
Speaker 1: the whole the run game was able to do what

1585
01:19:07,920 --> 01:19:11,360
Speaker 1: it did right, And that's pretty dark good. That's pretty good.

1586
01:19:11,680 --> 01:19:13,479
Speaker 1: First you, Yeah, and I think Josh Allen's going to

1587
01:19:13,560 --> 01:19:15,640
Speaker 1: get better and better, but I felt like Rod did

1588
01:19:15,640 --> 01:19:17,240
Speaker 1: a pretty good job. I talked to the locker room

1589
01:19:17,240 --> 01:19:19,800
Speaker 1: after the game, and right before I got to him,

1590
01:19:19,800 --> 01:19:22,519
Speaker 1: Brady dumb was like, Hey, Rod, congrats on the first

1591
01:19:22,520 --> 01:19:24,439
Speaker 1: start of your career and you can just Rod him

1592
01:19:24,439 --> 01:19:27,639
Speaker 1: a smile for your gear, And I said, uh, um,

1593
01:19:28,400 --> 01:19:31,439
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, congratulations man, And I said, just like

1594
01:19:31,439 --> 01:19:33,800
Speaker 1: I told you in training camp, you've come a long way. Man,

1595
01:19:33,960 --> 01:19:36,120
Speaker 1: You've come a long way. You deserve to start. You

1596
01:19:36,240 --> 01:19:38,120
Speaker 1: did a good job, he said, smile. He goes, Man,

1597
01:19:38,160 --> 01:19:40,400
Speaker 1: I just gotta I gotta do better. I gotta do better. Yeah,

1598
01:19:40,400 --> 01:19:42,559
Speaker 1: and I will do better. And he's been consistent about

1599
01:19:42,560 --> 01:19:46,080
Speaker 1: saying that because we've interviewed him. Yeah, getting better, that's

1600
01:19:46,080 --> 01:19:47,519
Speaker 1: the thing. It's one thing to say like, oh, I

1601
01:19:47,560 --> 01:19:50,200
Speaker 1: gotta get better, but he's heard the accolades, but he

1602
01:19:50,280 --> 01:19:53,080
Speaker 1: knows like I still have yeah, a ways to go,

1603
01:19:53,200 --> 01:19:55,479
Speaker 1: and like he's striving for greatness, which is what you

1604
01:19:55,479 --> 01:19:57,559
Speaker 1: want to say. Look, whether rod stays are right tackle

1605
01:19:57,720 --> 01:20:00,880
Speaker 1: or not, I don't know. I know, and we both

1606
01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:03,920
Speaker 1: know that this coaching staff really likes Max Sharping and

1607
01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:06,120
Speaker 1: everything he brings. That's who I was gonna bring up next.

1608
01:20:06,120 --> 01:20:09,360
Speaker 1: We still have not heard or seen him right, and

1609
01:20:09,520 --> 01:20:11,840
Speaker 1: we will and that's a good thing. At some point

1610
01:20:11,840 --> 01:20:14,479
Speaker 1: you're gonna hear from Max Sharping. He's he's got a

1611
01:20:14,520 --> 01:20:16,439
Speaker 1: future and it's a bright one, there's no question. And

1612
01:20:16,479 --> 01:20:18,960
Speaker 1: I'm really I'm very excited about this. I am not

1613
01:20:19,080 --> 01:20:23,680
Speaker 1: down about that at all. But with Max, what it's

1614
01:20:23,760 --> 01:20:26,840
Speaker 1: doing for Rod Johnson to be playing well, for Zach

1615
01:20:26,880 --> 01:20:30,120
Speaker 1: Fulton to be playing well, is Max doesn't have to

1616
01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:33,720
Speaker 1: get thrown in the fray right away, right his development

1617
01:20:33,840 --> 01:20:36,400
Speaker 1: can take a little bit longer. I know people said,

1618
01:20:36,400 --> 01:20:38,559
Speaker 1: well he's a second round pick. Yeah, I know, but

1619
01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:41,280
Speaker 1: you look at Justin Reid. Justin Reid is now turned

1620
01:20:41,280 --> 01:20:43,280
Speaker 1: into one of our better defensive players in a short

1621
01:20:43,280 --> 01:20:45,160
Speaker 1: amount of time. But he did start till a week four,

1622
01:20:45,200 --> 01:20:47,880
Speaker 1: week five and started twelve games last year. He's got

1623
01:20:48,120 --> 01:20:51,479
Speaker 1: the fewest starts of those safeties when you include Jalila

1624
01:20:51,560 --> 01:20:54,640
Speaker 1: Daye who started all sixteen games past playoff games, you

1625
01:20:54,680 --> 01:20:57,320
Speaker 1: include to Sean Gibson all twelve games last year. Yeah,

1626
01:20:57,360 --> 01:21:02,519
Speaker 1: and yet he's still the leader of that group exactly.

1627
01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:04,920
Speaker 1: And boy would have play that he made. But I

1628
01:21:04,960 --> 01:21:07,280
Speaker 1: think it just allows I think every coach would love

1629
01:21:07,320 --> 01:21:09,160
Speaker 1: to be able to say this, we'd like for our

1630
01:21:09,240 --> 01:21:13,920
Speaker 1: rookies to develop up, but we don't want them to

1631
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:16,360
Speaker 1: have to be thrown into fray right away when they're

1632
01:21:16,400 --> 01:21:18,599
Speaker 1: not quite ready. And not saying that Max is or isn't.

1633
01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:22,000
Speaker 1: It's just that he can develop on his own time.

1634
01:21:22,200 --> 01:21:25,639
Speaker 1: And I think that's that's the beauty of that. And

1635
01:21:25,760 --> 01:21:30,519
Speaker 1: look if Rod Johnson turns into a really good right

1636
01:21:30,560 --> 01:21:32,760
Speaker 1: tackle and you're happy with him every single week and

1637
01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:35,759
Speaker 1: you just get better and better and better and better. Great,

1638
01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:39,080
Speaker 1: it's like the twenty twenty dollars your bill you find

1639
01:21:39,120 --> 01:21:42,240
Speaker 1: in your jacket in like late October, early November, when

1640
01:21:42,240 --> 01:21:46,960
Speaker 1: that col front comes through and you're like, hey, my jacket. Yeah. Anyways,

1641
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:49,320
Speaker 1: all right, let's do cream of the crop. Time for

1642
01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:54,200
Speaker 1: cream of the crop. And that's where basically we chit

1643
01:21:54,320 --> 01:21:57,840
Speaker 1: chat about our player who we thought was awesome this game.

1644
01:21:57,880 --> 01:22:00,640
Speaker 1: The cream of the crop. I mean, it's pretty explanatory.

1645
01:22:00,640 --> 01:22:02,439
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go first. I'm gonna go with Carlos Hide.

1646
01:22:02,479 --> 01:22:05,879
Speaker 1: We brought him up earlier twenty carries for ninety yards.

1647
01:22:06,560 --> 01:22:09,960
Speaker 1: He had a long John in this one, like that

1648
01:22:10,040 --> 01:22:14,080
Speaker 1: long John fourteen yards, So that's a good run. That's

1649
01:22:14,120 --> 01:22:17,599
Speaker 1: technically an explosive run. But it's not like he had

1650
01:22:17,600 --> 01:22:20,160
Speaker 1: a few of those. He had that fourteen yard and

1651
01:22:20,200 --> 01:22:23,479
Speaker 1: then he just moved chains five yards six yards, four yards,

1652
01:22:23,520 --> 01:22:26,799
Speaker 1: five yards, six yards. I mean, he was absolutely strong

1653
01:22:26,880 --> 01:22:29,880
Speaker 1: in this one. Did not get pushed back. Followed up

1654
01:22:29,920 --> 01:22:32,439
Speaker 1: on what he did in week one, Carlos Hide is

1655
01:22:32,479 --> 01:22:34,439
Speaker 1: my cream of the crop. This is a guy you

1656
01:22:34,520 --> 01:22:39,280
Speaker 1: traded Martinez ranking four, and that's really really exciting. You've

1657
01:22:39,320 --> 01:22:45,559
Speaker 1: gotten a durable, productive running back doing good things when

1658
01:22:45,600 --> 01:22:48,320
Speaker 1: you really needed it. After Lamar Miller goes down and

1659
01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:51,160
Speaker 1: he's complimented by Duke Johnson, who's doing a solid job

1660
01:22:51,200 --> 01:22:53,719
Speaker 1: as well. But I love what I'm seeing from Carlos

1661
01:22:53,760 --> 01:22:55,400
Speaker 1: Hide so far. He's my cream of the crop. For

1662
01:22:55,479 --> 01:22:58,599
Speaker 1: what we saw on Sunday, john it was really good,

1663
01:22:58,880 --> 01:23:01,240
Speaker 1: really good. I think it's hard not to say that

1664
01:23:01,280 --> 01:23:04,040
Speaker 1: Whitney merciless, it's not creaming the cross. Yeah, put on

1665
01:23:04,080 --> 01:23:06,400
Speaker 1: a t for you again. I did hockey last week,

1666
01:23:06,400 --> 01:23:10,439
Speaker 1: so you could do Watson. Yeah, yeah, thank you. I

1667
01:23:10,479 --> 01:23:12,720
Speaker 1: think there's some guys that you can you can put

1668
01:23:12,800 --> 01:23:14,599
Speaker 1: a category. I'll say this before I talk a little

1669
01:23:14,640 --> 01:23:17,880
Speaker 1: bit about Whitney. There's so much handwringing after Demi on

1670
01:23:17,920 --> 01:23:20,040
Speaker 1: Clowney trade and you're like, well, you're gonna get pass rush?

1671
01:23:20,080 --> 01:23:21,880
Speaker 1: Do you get a pass rush for I saw pass

1672
01:23:21,960 --> 01:23:26,000
Speaker 1: rush from three guys on Sunday and Jake Martin and

1673
01:23:26,080 --> 01:23:28,960
Speaker 1: Brand Scarlett and Charles a man who that I look

1674
01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:31,120
Speaker 1: at it and go if those guys rushed like that

1675
01:23:31,320 --> 01:23:33,760
Speaker 1: when they get the opportunities. You know, the strip sack

1676
01:23:33,800 --> 01:23:36,360
Speaker 1: that Charles men who has J. J. Watson on the field,

1677
01:23:36,400 --> 01:23:39,320
Speaker 1: and the irony of that play where Charles stripped the

1678
01:23:39,320 --> 01:23:43,360
Speaker 1: ball and then Brennan blasted mid shoot the I know

1679
01:23:43,439 --> 01:23:46,320
Speaker 1: you agree with me. Whitney is the one guy that

1680
01:23:46,400 --> 01:23:49,240
Speaker 1: gets blocked on the whole play. Like Whitney like he's

1681
01:23:49,240 --> 01:23:51,479
Speaker 1: throwing every move, he can't get there for some reason.

1682
01:23:51,520 --> 01:23:53,880
Speaker 1: Will Richardson blocked him the best he did all day

1683
01:23:53,880 --> 01:23:56,479
Speaker 1: on that one play, but everybody else got there, and

1684
01:23:56,920 --> 01:23:58,679
Speaker 1: and JJ was not on the field in that play,

1685
01:23:58,720 --> 01:24:00,760
Speaker 1: So you create a strip sack when JJ is not

1686
01:24:00,760 --> 01:24:04,200
Speaker 1: on the field. I mean that's huge. But the spin

1687
01:24:04,280 --> 01:24:08,760
Speaker 1: move that Whitney uses is tremendous. But the spin move

1688
01:24:08,800 --> 01:24:12,439
Speaker 1: that he used on will Richardson was as good of

1689
01:24:12,439 --> 01:24:14,400
Speaker 1: one I've ever seen. It was one of those where

1690
01:24:15,040 --> 01:24:18,760
Speaker 1: it worked so perfectly that Minshew didn't even get to

1691
01:24:18,800 --> 01:24:21,559
Speaker 1: his drop point and Whitney is on him. It was

1692
01:24:21,600 --> 01:24:25,439
Speaker 1: like when he spun inside, the spin created so much

1693
01:24:25,520 --> 01:24:29,960
Speaker 1: momentum to propel him towards Minshew. Sometimes your spin move

1694
01:24:30,080 --> 01:24:32,120
Speaker 1: just gets you around the guy and then you kind

1695
01:24:32,120 --> 01:24:34,519
Speaker 1: of have to collect yourself and go. The spin move

1696
01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:38,880
Speaker 1: propelled Whitney passed everybody and gave him like this extra

1697
01:24:39,000 --> 01:24:41,760
Speaker 1: boost to get to Gardner Minshew. And what a play

1698
01:24:41,800 --> 01:24:43,960
Speaker 1: it was. And by the way, I don't know how

1699
01:24:44,080 --> 01:24:46,040
Speaker 1: JJ Watt got the ball to that pile. I have

1700
01:24:46,120 --> 01:24:48,519
Speaker 1: no idea. I watched that play a million times. I

1701
01:24:48,560 --> 01:24:51,960
Speaker 1: have no idea because he's a jungle cat. Remember you

1702
01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:53,519
Speaker 1: don't have talked about it. He's a great athlete. He

1703
01:24:53,600 --> 01:24:55,960
Speaker 1: get some big old hands, he can he's fast, he's quick,

1704
01:24:56,000 --> 01:24:59,719
Speaker 1: he can see. He's unbelievable. How he ended up getting

1705
01:24:59,720 --> 01:25:03,680
Speaker 1: the oh of that pile is absolutely just unreal to me.

1706
01:25:04,160 --> 01:25:07,040
Speaker 1: All right, that's our cream of the crop, and that

1707
01:25:07,240 --> 01:25:09,720
Speaker 1: is gonna do it for this week's version of In

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01:25:09,800 --> 01:25:13,040
Speaker 1: the Lab. As always, John fun talking with you, Devin.

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01:25:13,080 --> 01:25:15,719
Speaker 1: We will talk with you again next Tuesday. And there

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01:25:15,720 --> 01:25:19,040
Speaker 1: you go show in the books. Big thanks to Dpcity,

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01:25:19,200 --> 01:25:24,760
Speaker 1: Eric Williams, Mark Vanner, Meer, Andre Ware, Clint Sterner, Drew Doherty,

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01:25:25,120 --> 01:25:29,759
Speaker 1: Matt money Smith, anybody else I forgot. Thank you, and

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01:25:30,040 --> 01:25:31,720
Speaker 1: most of all to you guys for listening. Thank you

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01:25:31,760 --> 01:25:33,799
Speaker 1: so much. We'll see tomorrow and as always, Go Texans.