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Speaker 1: What's happened everybody? Happy Friday to you.

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Speaker 2: I always say at the top of the show, we're

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Speaker 2: less than forty eight hours away from a Texans game,

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Speaker 2: but we are a little bit over forty eight hours

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Speaker 2: because the Texans will play Sunday night for the first

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Speaker 2: time in five years. Welcome into Texans All Access John

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Speaker 2: Harris alongside the voice of the Texans, Mark Van Muir.

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Speaker 2: Mark for the first time in five years, a Sunday

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Speaker 2: night game here at NRG Stadium. We've talked about it,

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Speaker 2: but now we're that much closer. How's that feel when

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Speaker 2: you kind of go whoa? Or is it gonna be

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Speaker 2: one of those things on Sunday when you wake up

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Speaker 2: early where you're like, oh, yeah, Sunday night game hit

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Speaker 2: you yet?

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Speaker 1: Can I name drop?

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Speaker 3: Of course?

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Speaker 1: All right?

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Speaker 4: So you know I minored in name dropping in college,

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Speaker 4: so I'm pretty good at this. Anyway, I'm heading out

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Speaker 4: the loading doc to get something from my car, and

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Speaker 4: Mike Tarico's there with Chris Collins were at the TV trucks.

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Speaker 4: I actually posted something earlier from the TV trucks on Instagram.

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Speaker 4: I'm singing the Carry Underwood song, not too much of it, right,

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Speaker 4: because I don't sound like carry Underwood. So I'm singing

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Speaker 4: the male version of the Carry Underwood song, which is

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Speaker 4: actually based on the Joan Jet song I Hate myself

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Speaker 4: for Loving You, But they made it into a Sunday

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Speaker 4: night football song.

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Speaker 1: You had to be there?

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Speaker 4: Yes, kids, this is actually an old Joan Jet song

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Speaker 4: that they reworked. Isn't she in the intro?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 4: I think after a certain number of years they said,

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Speaker 4: you know what, maybe Joan Jet needs to be in

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Speaker 4: the intro. Maybe they got sued for the rights by

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Speaker 4: the Joan Jet people, and they said, you know, how's

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Speaker 4: this for a compromise will make you extremely relevant?

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Speaker 1: Putting you on the number one show in America.

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Speaker 4: That's not a bad compromise. Not a bad compromise, I

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Speaker 4: a bad compromise. I don't think the lawyers are into

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Speaker 4: that kind of compromise. Lawyers are really tough that way. Anyway,

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Speaker 4: we don't need to talk about that. So I saw

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Speaker 4: Tariico and Collinsworth, and they could not have been nicer.

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Speaker 1: I like Michae a lot. You know, I got to

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Speaker 1: know Mike in the.

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Speaker 4: Nineties a little bit because he'd be doing ESPN broadcasts

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Speaker 4: of the UMass games while I was doing the radio.

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Speaker 4: We talked and etc. I saw him at Miami and

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Speaker 4: now here, and he's a really great dude. He's, oh,

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Speaker 4: you've been here since two thousand and two, right, you know,

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Speaker 4: he just knows people. He's super nice, he Harlan. I mean,

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Speaker 4: there's so many nice guys out there. Nance they're super nice,

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Speaker 4: but they're really great at what they.

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Speaker 1: Do at their top of their game.

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Speaker 4: And they were talking about being here for the first

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Speaker 4: time in five years. Sunday Night Football, the big show.

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Speaker 4: They roll in with their Sunday Night Football gigantic TV trucks.

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Speaker 1: It's a truck.

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Speaker 4: City in the loading dock right now, and you can't

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Speaker 4: help but feel that buzzz. You feel it anyway, but

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Speaker 4: you feel it extra when you see that rig those

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Speaker 4: for Sunday Night Football. And look, you and I have

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Speaker 4: talked about this, do what we do. You'd rather just

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Speaker 4: play it new and get it over with. I'm parading

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Speaker 4: around all day like it expecting father.

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Speaker 1: I gotta get this game in.

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Speaker 4: You know, and I just want to get to the

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Speaker 4: that national stage. Johnny, We're ready, Yeah, absolutely ready, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: Now it's my turn to name job because I know

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Speaker 2: Dimiko Ryans. Oh yeah, I also know Mark Vandermire and

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Speaker 2: those two caught up for a little pregame interview right here, coach,

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Speaker 2: let's start with the third phase in this one, Special teams.

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Speaker 4: This is a good group right here. You're facing dangerous bunch.

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Speaker 4: What's prep been like for them?

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Speaker 5: Really really good group on special teams. These guys really

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Speaker 3: They have a young kicker.

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Speaker 5: He does a really good job of booting the ball,

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Speaker 3: There for SAMs to get a return.

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Speaker 4: Going how hard is it to work on that stuff

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Speaker 4: and practice live.

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Speaker 3: Hell yeah, it's very hard to work on it live.

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Speaker 5: When you get the pads on on Thursday, that's the

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Speaker 5: day where special teams really ramps up the energy. You

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Speaker 5: have guys who are competing, and that's where our Scout

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Speaker 4: What's it going to take to sustain the ground game

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Speaker 5: Yeah, The difference this week is with the Bears, they

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Speaker 5: picking up the stunts, picking up the pressures, and just

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 4: Caleb Williams runs around a lot. What has the Scout

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Speaker 4: team prep been like for that? As you get ready

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Scout team prep with Davis and Slova's they

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Speaker 3: We're seeing Caleb in college.

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Speaker 5: That's where he made made his hay right, escaping the pocket,

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Speaker 5: making some wild throws on the move. So for us,

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Speaker 5: our game plan has to be keeping him in the pocket,

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Speaker 4: They didn't score an offensive touchdown last week, so is

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's very unpredictable going into this game and looking

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Speaker 5: it's like you don't know what they're gonna do. One thing,

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Speaker 5: I do know that they have to condense their packets.

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Speaker 5: So I'm anticipating some screens, some boots, right, something easy

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Speaker 3: Out of his hands.

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Speaker 1: All right, night game.

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Speaker 4: I know you want everybody in their seat when the

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Speaker 4: You want that atmosphere, Oh definitely.

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Speaker 5: I mean this, what an awesome opportunity for us to

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Speaker 5: have the Sunday night game. Everybody is watching, like, how

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Speaker 5: can we make our place rock? And it's all going

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Speaker 5: to be about our fans and how they show up,

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Speaker 5: how rowdy they're gonna be, how loud there'll be for us.

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Speaker 3: Especially when we're on defense.

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Speaker 5: We need the fans rocking and loud, Like, let's make

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Speaker 5: put it on display kind of similar to that Cleveland

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Speaker 5: How how cool our place is to play a game.

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Speaker 1: Coach, thanks a lot, good luck, Thanks.

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Speaker 2: Mark, Okay, great stuff from Demiko and a guy that's

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Speaker 1: To play a big role in this game.

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Speaker 2: I would imagine the Bears are gonna run DeAndre Swift

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Speaker 2: the Tennessee Titans. They fell behind, so to throw to

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Speaker 2: get back in it, et cetera, but to slow them down.

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Speaker 2: Number ninety seven, Mario Edwards Junior is gonna have to

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Speaker 2: for this pregame nugget.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, fellas.

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Speaker 6: We got Mario Edwards Junior here on the defensive line,

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Speaker 6: coming off a week in which you pick up a sack,

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Speaker 6: and really, it's what you've been doing since you got

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Speaker 6: But now it's the regular season. You get that sack.

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Speaker 6: Let's start there. We're gonna get into the game coming up,

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Speaker 6: but we got to revisit what was that like?

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Speaker 7: Man? It was fun.

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Speaker 8: Man, it's good to finally you know, dude, we've been

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Speaker 7: It counts.

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Speaker 6: It's a special defensive line group. You've been around the league,

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Speaker 6: you've got experience in the league. What sort of optimism

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Speaker 6: for the year ahead do you have just for that unit?

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Speaker 7: Man, it's really disguised a limit with this unit.

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Speaker 8: Man, everybody's talented, everybody works hard, nobody's selfish in the group. Man,

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Speaker 8: this is really a selfless group. And we go in

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Speaker 8: and we work hard that we win.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 8: So as long as we can work together and click together,

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Speaker 6: Mario Edwards Junior. It's a pretty unique situation. The guys

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Speaker 9: It's you.

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Speaker 6: You're new here this year. Fully, he's a new guy,

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Speaker 6: Daniel Hunter as well. So three of the four starters

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Speaker 6: But you all seem to have quickly built a pretty

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Speaker 8: I think that's all with the coaching man and us

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Speaker 8: really building a camaraderie together within the teammates. You know,

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Speaker 8: we go out for D line dinner, we're doing movies together,

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Speaker 8: so we're spending time with each other and we're understanding

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Speaker 7: And so it's kind of showing up on the field

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Speaker 6: D line dinners. Have you guys, have you figured out

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Speaker 6: who orders what yet? Does anybody have a pattern?

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Speaker 7: We all like good food, man, We all like to

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Speaker 7: he good man.

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Speaker 8: We just kind of order good steaks and seafood and

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Speaker 6: Okay, last thing on the stakes, how to get them

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Speaker 6: cooked medium rare? That's the right answer. Okay, let's move

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Speaker 6: on ahead. The spotlight obviously is on the quarterback. He's

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Speaker 6: the first two overall pick, he's won a Heisman Trophy.

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Speaker 6: Caleb Williams can do some things. What have you seen

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Speaker 8: Just able how he's able to extend the plays with

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Speaker 6: How excited are you to actually play a regular season

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Speaker 7: It's gonna be fun.

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Speaker 8: Man. Since I've been here, they said that the State

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Speaker 6: All Right, Mario Edwards Junior, we really do appreciate the time.

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Speaker 6: Best of luck on Sunday evening. Best of luck the

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Speaker 7: Thanks for the time, Thank you, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 2: All right, Mark, Mario Edwards Junior, You're gonna have to

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Speaker 2: This one stood out to me probably more than anything else.

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Speaker 2: So Kayler Williams through twenty nine times the other day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a lot.

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Speaker 2: Twenty nine for a debut, for a debut, that's a lot.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot for only ninety three yards. Okay, Well

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Speaker 2: Of the twenty nine twenty two, we're thrown under ten air.

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Speaker 2: Good point seven of those were, oh, passes over ten yards?

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Speaker 4: So it can't be the first time I've ever seen this,

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Speaker 4: What are you doing out there? I know you can

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 2: My point in that is you can't always okay, linebacker

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Speaker 1: Am I looking at? Straight? Quarters?

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Speaker 2: Jalen Johnson, how about this all? I wrote about this

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Speaker 1: Hey you've got a new employee. Yeah, welcome our new teammate.

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Speaker 1: I saw this, and what happens on Monday. Our new

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Speaker 4: Thinking, boy, that was a smooth move by us. He agreed,

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Speaker 2: Still yeah, and that's and that's another one that Texans obviously,

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Speaker 1: Good good player. I wish he would change that number.

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Speaker 1: We're in the orange, the Orange.

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Speaker 1: That's a good point.

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Speaker 4: You have to think of these things when you're describing

443
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Speaker 4: stuff on the radio. Uh mixing flexed out flexed, that's flexed.

444
00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:37,760
Speaker 2: Flexible because you say that with a tight end, like

445
00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:40,440
Speaker 2: if a tight end is is near the line of scrimmage,

446
00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:42,159
Speaker 2: but he's not like right next to the tackle, but

447
00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:43,920
Speaker 2: he's kind of he's on the line, but he's out

448
00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:44,200
Speaker 2: of the water.

449
00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:44,920
Speaker 1: You say he's flexing.

450
00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:47,960
Speaker 4: It's like you need another back quarterback to get under

451
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Speaker 4: center and call it, you know, a wing tea or

452
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Speaker 4: something or whatever. Yeah, yeah, so a power eye. Let's

453
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Speaker 4: get a tail back, full back, a guy next to

454
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Speaker 4: the full back quarterback.

455
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Speaker 2: Unders run the power eyes straight up nineties football power eye.

456
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Speaker 1: Awesome, that'd be great, Montes Sweat.

457
00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:09,679
Speaker 2: How about this only player in NFL history to do

458
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Speaker 2: something last year? In his first eight games of the year,

459
00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:17,520
Speaker 2: he had six and a half sacks with the Commanders. Okay,

460
00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:21,440
Speaker 2: then for the last nine games he had six sacks

461
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Speaker 2: for the Bears, So twelve and a half.

462
00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:24,960
Speaker 1: So twelve and a half. That's a good number. I mean,

463
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Speaker 1: he's really good.

464
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Speaker 10: He led both teams in sacks. Oh that's cold, and

465
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Speaker 10: that awesome, really awesome. He had twelve and a half sacks.

466
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Speaker 10: He led both the Commanders and the Bears.

467
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Speaker 2: He's the first player in NFL history to ever do that.

468
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Speaker 4: That is nice for him, But what does that say

469
00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:45,840
Speaker 4: about those teams and the Bears were pretty good on defense,

470
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Speaker 4: I know.

471
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Speaker 2: Exactly, but they've gone to a different level since Montest

472
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Speaker 2: Sweat was traded for Okay, how about this points allowed

473
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Speaker 2: since the Montest Sweat trade. Now this was week nine

474
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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty three, so since then, points allowed the

475
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Speaker 2: fifth in the NFL seventeen point eight total yards allowed.

476
00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:11,040
Speaker 2: They're eighth at three zero three interceptions. They're first in

477
00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:15,720
Speaker 2: the NFL with eighteen opponent passer rating seventy three point

478
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Speaker 2: six or second in takeaways they had twenty two their

479
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Speaker 2: second that's all since Montese Sweat moved to Chicago.

480
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Speaker 1: That's strong stuff. It's leave farming now.

481
00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:29,240
Speaker 4: Last week it's one thing to do what they did

482
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Speaker 4: to Will Levis, but now they definitely step up in

483
00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:36,640
Speaker 4: weight class. So we'll see how it goes. But how

484
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Speaker 4: shocking would it be? What's your level of surprise shock

485
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Speaker 4: reaction to? This is a really close game at the

486
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Speaker 4: end of the night. Oh I wouldn't be pull it out,

487
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Speaker 4: but this the Bears bring everything they've got, and this

488
00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:50,200
Speaker 4: is going to be.

489
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Speaker 1: A close game in front of a national audience.

490
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Speaker 2: I think there are a couple of factors involved with that.

491
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Speaker 2: First of all, I wouldn't be surprised.

492
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Speaker 4: I mean Texas TWI sizzle fires.

493
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's probably two. This is a good number, probably

494
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Speaker 1: two to two and a half. I think there's some

495
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Speaker 1: people out.

496
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Speaker 2: There going, hell no, they're gonna beat up the Bears

497
00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:07,879
Speaker 2: and like you'd like to see, right, and that's what

498
00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:08,520
Speaker 2: we want to see.

499
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Speaker 4: But it's NFL football, and these things that happened.

500
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Speaker 2: This This Chicago team is pretty talented now. I do

501
00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:18,120
Speaker 2: think the offensive line is still kind of a work

502
00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:21,080
Speaker 2: in progress for them, and I think you know, you're

503
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Speaker 2: starting a rookie quarterback in a really loud and raucous

504
00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:26,840
Speaker 2: environment on Sunday night, and so there's gonna be some

505
00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:28,960
Speaker 2: challenges at that point.

506
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Speaker 1: But that's big. That is the X factor at this one.

507
00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:33,040
Speaker 1: It's huge.

508
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Speaker 2: But could the Bears defense keep it close if we

509
00:20:36,359 --> 00:20:38,720
Speaker 2: kind of mess around and just you know, a turnover

510
00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:42,000
Speaker 2: when we don't need it, you know, low red zone turnover, you.

511
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Speaker 4: Miss a few, you know, folding penalty, you have to

512
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Speaker 4: settle for three.

513
00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,480
Speaker 2: Exactly sevens for threes and then they get a you know,

514
00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:50,399
Speaker 2: a flukey touchdown in some way. It's kind of like

515
00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:54,200
Speaker 2: last week against Tennessee. They get a fluky. I don't

516
00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,560
Speaker 2: know pump block. Pump blocks don't happen all that off.

517
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Speaker 2: And I know we had won in our game, but

518
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Speaker 2: that was the That was the first pump block front

519
00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,879
Speaker 2: opponent against us, like ten years yep, I think. I

520
00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:04,879
Speaker 2: don't think I've been down on the field for a

521
00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:09,280
Speaker 2: pump block against the Texans. So yeah, so yeah, it's

522
00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:13,000
Speaker 2: kind of crazy to think about. But anyways, they could

523
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Speaker 2: stick around with those things. You're a rich, high towern

524
00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:17,840
Speaker 2: special teams. You know they can make something happen. D'Angel

525
00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,879
Speaker 2: Carter who was with us for a while, he can

526
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Speaker 2: make something happen on special teams.

527
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Speaker 1: He had a long kickoff return. Some of those things happen.

528
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Speaker 2: And they're in a game, and that's all they need

529
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Speaker 2: to know is that, hey, we're in this ball game.

530
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Speaker 2: Keep it close in the fourth quarter, and at that

531
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Speaker 2: point the team with all the pressure is the Texans.

532
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Speaker 1: Maybe they end up getting tight.

533
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Speaker 4: Look normally, for a great quarterback, I's say make it

534
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Speaker 4: Blank proof, make it Josh Allen proof, make it Joe burrowproof,

535
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Speaker 4: whatever the case is. I can't say make it Caleb proof.

536
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Speaker 1: Yet.

537
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Speaker 4: You don't want to have anybody with a chance to

538
00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:51,919
Speaker 4: tie or take the lead with the ball in his

539
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:56,119
Speaker 4: hands late, especially him, I shouldn't say especially, but even

540
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Speaker 4: him being in a second game, because you don't know

541
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Speaker 4: what the ceiling is for him. He is supposedly a

542
00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,040
Speaker 4: generational talent and the light could go on. All he

543
00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:06,760
Speaker 4: has to do is make one or two plays. That's

544
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Speaker 4: exactly if you're in that situation. Last week is a

545
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:10,040
Speaker 4: great example of that.

546
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Anthony Richardson makes those plays or that game is

547
00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:17,200
Speaker 2: a thirty to seven kind of game in all honesty,

548
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:19,879
Speaker 2: but he made those plays to keep them in it.

549
00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 2: They get the pump block, and before you know it,

550
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Speaker 2: it's fifteen thirteen and you're like, yo, this is a

551
00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,440
Speaker 2: ball game now, and it's exactly what you didn't want

552
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Speaker 2: to happen. You had control of the game when I'm sorry,

553
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,520
Speaker 2: go ahead, So I having to control of the game

554
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,359
Speaker 2: is all right. Let's put this thing up two scores,

555
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Speaker 2: and let's put all the pressure back on Caleb.

556
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Speaker 1: Well, people within one score, there's no pressure on them. Yeah.

557
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Speaker 4: When was the last time the Texans were in a

558
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Speaker 4: situation where you had a good season going. I know

559
00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,760
Speaker 4: it's early, but good season going, and you're this kind

560
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Speaker 4: of favorite, you're expected to do some damage. We had

561
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Speaker 4: some situations like that, even in twenty nineteen.

562
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Speaker 1: Wasn't Nver one of those teams. Enver was one of

563
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Speaker 1: those teams.

564
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Speaker 4: He'd just beating the Patriots. Yeah, and what happened Now,

565
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:07,080
Speaker 4: I don't think this team's.

566
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Speaker 1: Gonna do that game.

567
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 4: Was Drew Lock a rookie that year.

568
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Speaker 1: John was a rookie that year.

569
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Speaker 2: Holy crap, he was a rookie that year, and he

570
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Speaker 2: threw seeds against it.

571
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Speaker 4: I remember the first year of the game Torchia.

572
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Speaker 2: The first play of the game, he hit No a

573
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Speaker 2: fan on their sideline, and I just remember thinking, well,

574
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Speaker 2: I don't like the start of this. And then it continued.

575
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Speaker 2: I mean it went like that for the rest of

576
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Speaker 2: the game, and he thought, oh my gosh. Now I

577
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 2: think the Chicago team is much better than that Denver team.

578
00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:36,000
Speaker 2: But I also feel like offensively yet right, But I

579
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:39,680
Speaker 2: also feel like this Texans team is a little bit

580
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:44,400
Speaker 2: more even yea even flow even kilter than that one

581
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Speaker 2: at twenty nineteen.

582
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Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like the one at twenty nineteen

583
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Speaker 1: could go up down.

584
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Speaker 4: That was a Texans defense that was springing leaks. You

585
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:53,919
Speaker 4: were trying to spray flex seal over some things and

586
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 4: hope that it was going to work.

587
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Speaker 1: Like, oh my gosh, it's still leaking.

588
00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,440
Speaker 2: And you know exactly what I I came in here

589
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 2: one day twenty nineteen. You vouch for me, and I

590
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,640
Speaker 2: came in here after we had struggled stoping somebody throwing

591
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 2: the ball.

592
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:07,880
Speaker 1: I was like, damn, I wish we had that kid

593
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Speaker 1: Stingley from LSU.

594
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Speaker 4: I said that twenty nineteen when he gets played freshed out,

595
00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,400
Speaker 4: and I was like, man, I'm talking about college kids.

596
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:14,960
Speaker 1: I don't care.

597
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,399
Speaker 2: He could play for us right now. Sting's gonna have

598
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,639
Speaker 2: a pretty good challenge, but I liked the one in

599
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:21,120
Speaker 2: front of him.

600
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Speaker 4: I've got one more note here on broadcasting because I

601
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Speaker 4: talked about Terico and College Worth earlier. So how many

602
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,720
Speaker 4: broadcasters let me see if I can get the number

603
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Speaker 4: in this game in the building Sunday night worked this

604
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Speaker 4: game and the very first game in Texans history. It'd

605
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Speaker 4: be Andre, Me and Melissa Stark because she did the

606
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Speaker 4: sideline for the Hall of Fame game in Canton two

607
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Speaker 4: thousand and two with Madden and Michael's in the booth

608
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Speaker 4: right right.

609
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Speaker 2: She was very close with madd I remember watching when

610
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Speaker 2: they did the when they did the Madden documentary, they

611
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 2: spent some time talking to her like her she mad

612
00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,640
Speaker 2: were very very close, wow, very close, which I thought

613
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:01,440
Speaker 2: was really cool. That was that was cool to see.

614
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 2: So yeah, so she's going to be doing the sidelines.

615
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:08,440
Speaker 2: I met Mike in twenty seventeen. He was doing a

616
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Speaker 2: Thursday night game. We were playing the Bengals, and so Mike

617
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 2: was down on the sideline. He kind of made his

618
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Speaker 2: way over and uh, he introduced himself like he needed to,

619
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Speaker 2: and I was like, hey, Mike, I'm John. As we

620
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 2: were talking and he said, hey, let me ask you.

621
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Speaker 2: How's everybody in Houston? You know, how's you have this Harvey? Yeah,

622
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Speaker 2: And so he was asking, you know, he he was

623
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Speaker 2: kind of hanging on my every word as I was

624
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Speaker 2: telling him about all you know, different you know, flooding

625
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:31,719
Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff.

626
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Speaker 1: And he's just such a neat guy to talk to.

627
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Speaker 8: You.

628
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Speaker 2: I wish we were could to talk sports as opposed

629
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Speaker 2: to you know, current events. But she really got to talk.

630
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Speaker 4: To Eagle's another one of those really good guys. I

631
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,440
Speaker 4: meant to mention him earlier when I was talking about Harlan. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

632
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,120
Speaker 4: Ian Eagle's another real saint of a play by playing.

633
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Speaker 1: Can you tell Iron Eagle and know what egle apart? Yes,

634
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:51,600
Speaker 1: you really can. I can't.

635
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,000
Speaker 4: I want to say, Noah might be a bit deeper

636
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Speaker 4: than I in. I can't tell them apart. Noah.

637
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Speaker 1: So the Brazil game and I texted you about this.

638
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 4: I thought no One was a little flat that day,

639
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 4: and I think I gotta think that he didn't feel well.

640
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 4: Something was going on. He did not feel well. I

641
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,199
Speaker 4: can't imagine him being that flat. It wasn't bad, but

642
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 4: I thought he was a little flat. He was a

643
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 4: little like down shifted because that was Noam Blackledge, right, yeah, yeah,

644
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:19,639
Speaker 4: because they did our playoff game.

645
00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 1: I thought they were good on our playoff game.

646
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,639
Speaker 4: He was far more up for that, and not that

647
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,920
Speaker 4: he was not. Al Michael's with the first Bill's touchdown

648
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 4: last night and he takes it in. Yes, and what

649
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:33,360
Speaker 4: time does my flight leave? Fire up the PJ on.

650
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 1: Are we going to hit the over tonight? Yes? Exactly. Yeah.

651
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 1: It was really cool.

652
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 2: Was just seeing Mike Tariko and Chris Collinsworth in our building,

653
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,359
Speaker 2: just knowing that that's going to be as a Sunday

654
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,160
Speaker 2: night game, and they'll be back for presumably, he would

655
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Speaker 2: he would hope that both Detroit and Houston can stay

656
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 2: on their trajectories and meet in a big one later

657
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 2: in that year.

658
00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:57,679
Speaker 4: That's pre flex or is it right at the flex?

659
00:26:57,680 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 4: That's like right at the yeah, right, it's for November.

660
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Speaker 4: I'm thinking of Buffalo. Yeah right at the time. No problem.

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Speaker 4: Come on, that's not going anywhere. That's gonna be battle

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Speaker 4: Red Knight. It's gonna be an That is gonna be amazing.

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Speaker 9: Man.

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Speaker 2: I really wish we could wear the h Town jerseys

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Speaker 2: for this one though.

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Speaker 1: For this one, the Liberty White's gonna be gonna.

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Speaker 2: Look it's gonna be all orange versus all white. We

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Speaker 2: will wear our normal.

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Speaker 1: They do the orange.

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Speaker 4: If I'm the Bears, I'm never getting out of that

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Speaker 4: uniform when I can be in my It's not black.

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Speaker 1: It's very dark blue.

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Speaker 4: You know that song dark It's very dark blue, very

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Speaker 4: dark blue.

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Speaker 2: We both say that, I don't know orange, it'll look different.

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Speaker 2: I guess it's gonna look kind of cool on TV.

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Speaker 1: The White Challenge. They've worn them before. I didn't mind it,

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Speaker 1: but I don't remember them wearing the all orange.

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Speaker 4: But you look like the Bronco the Bronco Browns or something.

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Speaker 1: Well, they're gonna look like the Bengals.

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Speaker 2: The Bengals took got The Bengals went and got all orange.

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Speaker 2: Week one, whole stadium decked out in orange, and the

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Speaker 2: Patriots went there and just slap.

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Speaker 1: That is an awful afternoon. That's bad. That's bad.

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Speaker 2: Now we've had a few of those Liberty white games

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Speaker 2: where we're in all white, and twenty seventeen comes to mind.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, hopefully Sunday night will definitely not be that way. Okay,

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Speaker 2: the injury report slash status report is out.

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Speaker 1: Who's on it? What does it mean?

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Speaker 2: I'll address that and my Keys to the game next

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Speaker 2: right here on Texans All Access. All right, here we go.

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Speaker 2: It's time to talk Bears v. Texans and dive deep

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Speaker 2: into the nitty gritty with my Keys to the game.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to this Friday episode of Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: And this is about the time that I.

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Speaker 2: Will sit down and give you the deep dive into

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Speaker 2: this game against the opponent this week gets the Chicago Bears.

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Speaker 1: So let's do two things.

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Speaker 2: Let's one get my music going and then let's start

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Speaker 2: to learn about the Chicago.

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Speaker 1: Bears and give you the keys to the game.

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Speaker 2: But before we that, we must discuss the status report.

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Speaker 2: Every Wednesday, injury report comes out every Thursday. The injury

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Speaker 2: report comes out every Friday. The injury report is combined

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Speaker 2: with the game status report.

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Speaker 1: Who's in, who's out, who's questionable, who's doubtful. This one

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Speaker 1: on both sides has well.

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Speaker 2: There are four players that are there are five players

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Speaker 2: questionable for them. I got a feeling one of them

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Speaker 2: is gonna definitely play. The other four I don't know.

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Speaker 2: So let's get it to that a little bit.

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Speaker 1: First.

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Speaker 2: Let's look at the Texans on Thursday, and this is

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Speaker 2: the one that always that always worries me. On Thursday,

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Speaker 2: Damian Pierce and Juice Scrugs were limited participants in practice

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Speaker 2: now and they weren't injured prior to this, so that

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Speaker 2: always worries me because when we go over and watch

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Speaker 2: the first thirty minutes of practice, we see them and

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Speaker 2: I remember seeing.

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Speaker 1: Both of them.

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Speaker 2: They were both at practice to start it, so at

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Speaker 2: some point during practice they got banged up, so that

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Speaker 2: always worries me, especially when they are Dnp's the next day.

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Speaker 2: And that is exactly what happened today, Juice dealing with

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Speaker 2: the groin, Damien dealing with a hamstring. Those two players

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Speaker 2: are both questionable. MJ Stewart remains out. Would love to

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Speaker 2: be able to see MJ get back, especially on that

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Speaker 2: punt team where he's personal protector.

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Speaker 1: And he is huge.

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Speaker 2: He has a huge asset when he is out. Damian

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Speaker 2: Pierce Juice Scruggs questionable. Juice with the groin, Damian Pierce

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Speaker 2: the hamstring. That's not good. That's not good.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: If Juice can't go, more than likely that would be

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Speaker 2: Jared Patterson at center. And my guess is Damian can't

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Speaker 2: go with the hamstring, that probably means cam Akers is

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Speaker 2: an active in his spot. We'll see where the touches

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Speaker 2: go at that point, but that would, I think be

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Speaker 2: where they want to go.

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Speaker 1: Now the Bear side, they're not clean either.

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Speaker 2: They have three questionable and two out two out of

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Speaker 2: Ryan Bates, kind of the sixth offensive lineman for the Bears,

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Speaker 2: did see some time the other day, replacing Nate Davis

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Speaker 2: at guard and Kyrie Blasting Game their fullback. Those two

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Speaker 2: are out questionable. Two of the big three receivers for them,

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Speaker 2: Keenan Allen questionable. Did not practice all week long deal.

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Speaker 1: With a heal.

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Speaker 2: Roman Dunsay did practice in a limited capacity today with

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Speaker 2: a knee He had MRI on Monday after the game

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Speaker 2: against the Titans, found nothing was structurally wrong, but he

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Speaker 2: didn't practice until today where he was limited.

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Speaker 1: He is also questionable.

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Speaker 2: DeMarcus Walker is a full participant in practice dealing with

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Speaker 2: a foot issue. He's questionable as well. Former Texan. Those

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Speaker 2: are three massively important individuals, as are the two for

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Speaker 2: the Texans. So the five players questionable, we'll all have

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Speaker 2: our eyes on before the game.

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Speaker 1: Are they in? Are they out?

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Speaker 2: And we'll probably know somebody will reports some maybe not all,

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Speaker 2: but we'll definitely keep an eye on those juice scrugs

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Speaker 2: with the Texans being probably the most important that bunch,

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Speaker 2: and then the two receivers and DeMarcus Walker for the

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Speaker 2: Chicago Bears. All right, let's get into the keys to

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Speaker 2: the game on this one as my music starts up

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Speaker 2: right there. Okay, with the Bears one to zero seven

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Speaker 2: point went over the Titans last week. Offensively, they're twenty

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Speaker 2: fourth in the NFL and rushing with the only eighty

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Speaker 2: four yards per game last week. They're thirty second in

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Speaker 2: the league in passing with sixty four yards and total

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Speaker 2: offense their lasting in the league one hundred and forty

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Speaker 2: eight yards per game.

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Speaker 1: We're led by rookie Caleb Williams.

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Speaker 2: We talked about the three stud receivers They've got, rub Dunes,

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Speaker 2: a Key Allen, and Dj Moore.

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Speaker 1: They did not light up the sky with footballs last week.

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Speaker 2: Titans got after him pretty good, secondary played well and

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Speaker 2: the Bears had to get fourteen points from their defensive

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Speaker 2: special teams to get it done. So keys to stopping

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Speaker 2: the Bears Number one, it's keeping Caleb Williams from creating magic.

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Speaker 2: If you keep Caleb Williams in the pocket and let

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Speaker 2: him not let him throw, but just force him to

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Speaker 2: throw from the pocket continually, I think he can have

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Speaker 2: some issues at this point in his career.

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Speaker 1: That will all I think work out for the Bears.

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Speaker 2: But if you keep him from creating magic, the role right,

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00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 2: thrown back across his body, rolling out of bounds, throwing

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Speaker 2: up the field, those kinds of things creating magic, and

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Speaker 2: he's doing that bake Anthony Richardson did, and the Texas

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Speaker 2: are gonna have some issues, Okay. DJ Moore He's a

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Speaker 2: guy that has to be stopped. Now if the other

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Speaker 2: two don't play, I have no problem giving some help

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Speaker 2: to whoever's covering DJ Moore to keep number two from

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Speaker 2: making a big place in the passing game.

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Speaker 1: And finally DJ DJ DeAndre Swift.

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Speaker 2: DeAndre Swift is one of the more underrated backs in

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Speaker 2: the NFL. Took big money to go to Chicago ten

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00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 2: carries last week for just thirty yards. I gotta think

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Speaker 2: the Bears want to test the Texans run defense again,

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Speaker 2: and they'll do it with DeAndre Swift.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: They also may do it with swing.

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00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 2: Routes screens passed out of the backfield to get Caleb

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Speaker 2: Williams some easy tosses and some easy completions. Texas have

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Speaker 2: to be aware of where DeAndre Swift is at all times,

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Speaker 2: taking making sure that in the passing game that he

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Speaker 2: is covered as well.

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Speaker 1: Because that's where he really can make some place out

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Speaker 1: in space.

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00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 2: But if you bottle him up like he did with

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Speaker 2: Johnson Taylor last week in the run game, that's a

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Speaker 2: good good start. Okay, defensively is a pretty good group,

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Speaker 2: their eighth overall in the league. Until the offense allowed.

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Speaker 2: They only give up to forty four to the Titans

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00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 2: last week. They generate three turnovers, two interceptions, also had

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Speaker 2: a fumble recovery on a Darryl Taylor's sack. So they

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Speaker 2: will get after you up front, and that's really where

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Speaker 2: it starts.

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Speaker 1: Montes sweat led.

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Speaker 2: As I told Mark in the previous segment or in

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Speaker 2: the yeah, in the previous segment, he led the Commanders

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Speaker 2: and sacks last year, led the Bears and sacks last year.

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Speaker 1: That's possible, Eh, you have to figure that out on

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Speaker 1: your own.

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Speaker 2: But he had six and a half the Commanders, six

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Speaker 2: with the Bears twelve and a half on a year.

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Speaker 1: He can get after it.

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Speaker 2: He is long, physical and fast. He ran into four

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Speaker 2: to four ranges combine back a few years ago. Texans

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Speaker 2: have to know where he is, account for him, and

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Speaker 2: I don't care who it is.

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Speaker 1: Was Learrmer, Tunsel or Titus Howard.

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Speaker 2: Give that guy a chip, give him some help, and

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Speaker 2: they'll give CJS time to throw to the football.

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Speaker 1: Cannot have four sacks again, just cannot do it.

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Speaker 2: Jalen Johnson number one the corner, very good Tyreek Stevenson

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Speaker 2: I think can be had on the other side.

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Speaker 1: Good player, not great player.

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Speaker 2: Jalen Johnson is a great player and he was all

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Speaker 2: over the Titans receivers. Calvin Ridley in particular, had interception

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Speaker 2: to end the game. He is a physical corner. I

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00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 2: think any of the three Texans receivers can beat him

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00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,840
Speaker 2: deep and that might be the way that the Texans

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Speaker 2: have to go about it.

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Speaker 1: Just challenge him.

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00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 2: See if he wants to go deep, but he's not

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Speaker 2: likely to give up a bunch.

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Speaker 1: Of deep balls. So you're gonna get him.

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00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 2: Get him good early and go get that touchdown and

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Speaker 2: then catch things in front of him, make him come

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Speaker 2: tackle you.

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Speaker 1: And finally, I love TJ. Edwards, the Bears linebacker.

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00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 2: Last week he had fifteen tackles, a mix and tackling

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00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 2: screens and passes across the field, stuff.

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Speaker 1: In the runs.

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Speaker 2: Very physical linebacker Tremaine Edmonds looks like the dude and

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00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 2: then TJ. Edwards next to him looks like, well, who

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00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 2: are you? And he's the guy that makes it on

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00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 2: a place for this team. They got to get a

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00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 2: hat on him. Got to when the Texans run game

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00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,640
Speaker 2: was clicking against the Colts, they got hats on EJ.

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00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: Speed, Anzyary Franklin and the run game pop.

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00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 2: They've got to do the same thing now might not

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00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,879
Speaker 2: be as easy if Juice isn't playing. So they got

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00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 2: to give Jared Patterson to some help on some of

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Speaker 2: the down guys. They got to get a hat on

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Speaker 2: TJ Edwards and Tremaine Edmonds in particular.

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Speaker 1: If they do run game, could pop and off we go.

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Speaker 2: Not and we're slogging through it the run game, then

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Speaker 2: they gotta throw against a really good secondary featuring the

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Speaker 2: guy we just mentioned, Jalen Johnson. Okay, those are your

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Speaker 2: keys to the game, and coming up next, we'll discuss

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Speaker 2: this one with Johnthan Alexander from the Houston Chronicle. Right

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Speaker 2: here on Texans All Access. What's typing everybody? Walking back

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Speaker 2: to this Friday initiative Texans All Access from THENDAE Texans

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Speaker 2: Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst, sideline

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Speaker 2: reporter for your Houston Texans looking forward to Sunday night

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Speaker 2: against the Chicago Bears. The Bears, it's one of my

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Speaker 2: favorite SNL skits, even though I don't like the Bears,

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Speaker 2: having lived my first eleven years my life in Green

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Speaker 2: Bay or north of Green Bay, Wisconsin, huge Packers fan

881
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 2: didn't like the Bears and well the Sunday I won't

882
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 2: like the Bears, but normally I.

883
00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: Guess I like them.

884
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 2: Okay, they're all right, especially Kayla Williams because I like Kayla.

885
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:12,240
Speaker 2: But either way, I won't like them on Sunday, somebody

886
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:12,799
Speaker 2: we do like.

887
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 1: From the Houston Chronicles. Jonathan Alexander Stepton.

888
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 2: Studio with us yesterday to talk about this matchup with

889
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 2: the Chicago Bears.

890
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 4: Jonathan Alexander from the Houston Chronicle, Jonathan, great to have.

891
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 1: You with us. How you doing. I'm doing good. Thanks

892
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: for having me fired up?

893
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 4: What's your level of fired up at this for this

894
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,240
Speaker 4: game Sunday night with the Chicago Bears visiting the Houston Texans.

895
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 2: Yeah.

896
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 11: Man, it's been a long time coming since the Texans

897
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 11: had a Sunday night football game twenty nineteen to be exact.

898
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 11: When I arrived here, the energy was low and now

899
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 11: you feel it everywhere you go. So I'm really fired

900
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,520
Speaker 11: up to see what the Texans can show the entire world.

901
00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 2: Jonathan after the game on Sunday, what was kind of

902
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 2: the biggest thing that your readers were most interested in?

903
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 7: Was it?

904
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon and his one hundred fifty nine yards.

905
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 2: Was it the Nico Tank STEPH combination, CJ clutch plays?

906
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 2: What was kind of their all thought and what they

907
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 2: wanted to see from you and read for you? Yeah,

908
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,839
Speaker 2: I think it was two things. One was a bit

909
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 2: of excitement and that's about Joe Mixon. Yeah, and just

910
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 2: how the Texans now have a running game that they

911
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 2: didn't have before. One hundred and fifty nine yards in

912
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,439
Speaker 2: the ground on thirty carries, average five point three yards

913
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Speaker 2: per carry. They ran at will, and I think that

914
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 2: opens up a lot of things that this offense could

915
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 2: potentially do now. The bad thing was, and a lot

916
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 2: of people would hit me up, was about the explosive

917
00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:28,320
Speaker 2: plays and the safety group and what are the Textans

918
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,320
Speaker 2: going to do? I think people were pushing the panic

919
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 2: button a little bit early. They do have to certainly

920
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 2: clean up a lot of those explosive plays, But I

921
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,399
Speaker 2: wouldn't push the panic button, yeah, because I think they

922
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 2: have a good young talent in Kaylen Bullock, who's probably

923
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 2: gonna play a few more snaps than he played in

924
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 2: Week one.

925
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 4: I feel like I would take better against the run

926
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 4: against Jonathan Taylor than you've ever been. And yeah, you

927
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 4: gave up those explosives, but I feel like that's easier

928
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 4: to clean up as opposed to solving the mystery of

929
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,839
Speaker 4: Jonathan Taylor, which they did it for at least one game.

930
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 1: Absolutely.

931
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:57,320
Speaker 11: I mean, Jonathan Taylor is one of the best running

932
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 11: backs in the league, and you saw that in Week

933
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Speaker 11: eighteen against a really good Texas team last year when

934
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Speaker 11: he ran for one hundred eighty eight yards. For them

935
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 11: to bottle him up and contain him when he's as

936
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Speaker 11: healthy as he's ever been was very impressive. So that

937
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 11: is something you should definitely be excited about. The explosive plays,

938
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 11: like you said, Mark is something you could clean up better.

939
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 11: Technique by Jimmy Ward on one of the plays, the

940
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 11: other was a fifty to fifty ball that you really

941
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 11: can't argue with. And then the third one with Eric

942
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 11: Murray was just a little bit at a position. If

943
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 11: he's in a better position, or even if Asese gets

944
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 11: his hand on the ball, we're talking about a different story.

945
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:26,919
Speaker 1: Yeah.

946
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 2: Absolutely, taking health out of the equation. I want you

947
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 2: to complete this sentence. If Kenyan Green plays like he

948
00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 2: did Sunday for the rest of the year, dot dot

949
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:41,359
Speaker 2: dot finished the sentence.

950
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 11: He's definitely going to get a contract extension and can

951
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,680
Speaker 11: be their long term starter. I was really impressed with

952
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,360
Speaker 11: Kenyan Green just given where he was week one. I

953
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 11: think it was maybe either he talked to Nicko Sai

954
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 11: or either talked to you all or you talked to

955
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 11: seth Us. But he was saying, you know, the things

956
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,839
Speaker 11: that Keny you needed to do do lose a little

957
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 11: bit of way. And he's done that work with Donald

958
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 11: and Sue over the summer and it's really showing he's

959
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:09,560
Speaker 11: also healthy for the first time. It's really shown out

960
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 11: in no field. You and he's a good guy. You know,

961
00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 11: Houston guy. So a lot of guys that the Texans

962
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 11: fans and Houston people are proud of, and he.

963
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 1: Is the key.

964
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 11: I thought he was the other key piece to turn

965
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 11: the Texans run defense, run offense around. Having him healthy

966
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Speaker 11: and having somebody solidified at the left guard was hugely important,

967
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:28,239
Speaker 11: and Kenyan is doing it.

968
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 4: Jonathan Alexander, Houston Chronicle joining us Jonathan am I or

969
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,920
Speaker 4: do people make too big a deal about being the hunted.

970
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 4: The Texans are the hunted now they're the good team.

971
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:42,280
Speaker 4: The Bears are coming in here underdogs. Didn't do anything

972
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,799
Speaker 4: offensively in their last game despite the victory. Do we

973
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,120
Speaker 4: make too big a deal out of that or does

974
00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 4: this really need to be addressed.

975
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 1: I think so a little bit.

976
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,760
Speaker 11: I mean, I think the Texans rather than the Hunted,

977
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 11: I think just people just don't look at them as

978
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 11: like the underdogs anymore. They don't give them as the

979
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:03,920
Speaker 11: little brothers. But I think they still have a way

980
00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 11: to establish themselves as a superpower like the Kansas City

981
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:10,440
Speaker 11: Chiefs in the Baltimore Ravens. They certainly have the ability

982
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 11: and the talent to do that. But as far as

983
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 11: a Hunted, I think what you'll see from teams is,

984
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 11: you know, obviously they'll give them their best shot, but

985
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 11: they're not going.

986
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: To roll over them anymore.

987
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 11: They're not thinking like, oh, this is gonna be easy

988
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 11: game anymore because.

989
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,520
Speaker 1: They know what CJ. Stroud and the rest of this

990
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 1: this team can do.

991
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 2: On Sunday, Nico had six catches for one seventeen. You

992
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,080
Speaker 2: had Stefan Diggs had two touchdowns. You had six catches,

993
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 2: tenk had three, had a couple of carries on reverses.

994
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess that's what we talked about all offseason, Jonathan,

995
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 2: The fact that how Are you gonna get all three

996
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,640
Speaker 2: of them involved? I kind of felt like Sunday was like, well,

997
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 2: here it goes, here it goes. Is that kind of

998
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 2: the way you saw it on Sunday? Like, man, that's

999
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:50,399
Speaker 2: a pretty good mix. Maybe it'll change the numbers as

1000
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 2: you go through, But in your estimation, was that kind

1001
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 2: of a good way to kind of spread the wealth

1002
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 2: of the football in the passing game on Sunday?

1003
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1004
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,080
Speaker 11: Absolutely not. I think you'll continue to see that. I

1005
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,839
Speaker 11: think Bylo has shown that he'll feature different players at

1006
00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 11: different weeks. You saw when both Tank Dell and Nico

1007
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:08,399
Speaker 11: Collins was healthy. One weekuld be Tanks, another week could

1008
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 11: be Nicos week. I think you'll continue to see that.

1009
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 11: Having said that, I do think Nico is the most

1010
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,839
Speaker 11: dangerous wide receiver on his team, just what he can

1011
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 11: do from his size, from his speed. So I even

1012
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 11: though I think he's the most dangerous receiver, I think

1013
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 11: you'll see a mix. Won't next week? I think you could.

1014
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 11: I mean against the Bears, I think you could see

1015
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 11: tankt go off. It'll just be a week to week thing.

1016
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: All right, Jonathan, what do you think of the Bears?

1017
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 1: What do you make of this? Team coming in here

1018
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 1: one and zero.

1019
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think the Bears have a strong defense. You

1020
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:39,719
Speaker 11: look at the cornerbacks Jalen Johnson, Tyreek Stevenson. Those guys

1021
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 11: are really good. They had the highest interception rate, tied

1022
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 11: for the most interceptions last year and they picked up

1023
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,120
Speaker 11: where they left off. So I think the Texans are

1024
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:49,359
Speaker 11: going to have to be careful in the passing game.

1025
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 11: I know CJ has been looking at film and he

1026
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 11: talked about it in his press conference, but you know

1027
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 11: where they do struggle is against the run, and obviously

1028
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 11: Joe has success.

1029
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:02,879
Speaker 1: I think it could be another big game for him.

1030
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 11: I think that the Bears offense is going to take

1031
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 11: some time, just like you saw. It takes some time

1032
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:11,640
Speaker 11: for the Texans. Anytime you have a ricky quarterback, it

1033
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:13,840
Speaker 11: takes some bearings. It takes them getting used to and

1034
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 11: I think that's why he had. Caleb Williams had ninety

1035
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 11: three yuys in that first game. So I think the

1036
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 11: Texans are finding the Bears at the perfect time.

1037
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,640
Speaker 2: So at that let's talk about Caleb a little bit

1038
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 2: more and what he means to that offense.

1039
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: You got Keen Allen and Roman dudes.

1040
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 2: They banged up They didn't practice on Wednesday, so we'll

1041
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 2: see what they do. But where do you think it

1042
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 2: goes for Caleb with this offense? An offensive line? You know,

1043
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 2: if you're playing the comparison game, Texas offensive line is

1044
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 2: better what the Bears have. They've got some struggle spots,

1045
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 2: but if the three receivers are healthy, those pretty good

1046
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 2: receivers DeAndre Swift in the backfield, so it feels like

1047
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 2: he's not starting from scratch. But the other day it

1048
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:51,799
Speaker 2: kind of looked like he was starting from scratch in

1049
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,319
Speaker 2: a sense. Would your overall thoughts about Caleb and what

1050
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 2: we might see on Sunday night?

1051
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think it seemed like the interior of that

1052
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 11: Chicago Bears offensive line was just a little bit shaky, yep,

1053
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 11: and it got to Caleb Williams. And I think if

1054
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 11: the Texans can get pressure on the interior, or if

1055
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:13,360
Speaker 11: Danil Hunter and will Anderson can cause a lot of attention,

1056
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,319
Speaker 11: then that could present opportunities for Mario Edwards and Fili

1057
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:20,280
Speaker 11: Fighter consect. So I think it's gonna be another struggle

1058
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 11: for Caleb Williams, but I think eventually he will get

1059
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 11: his bearings and will look good at some point during

1060
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 11: the season. I just think it's gonna be tough for

1061
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:29,880
Speaker 11: him early on. I think they're gonna really try to

1062
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 11: play it safe and try not to allow him to

1063
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:34,400
Speaker 11: make too many mistakes early on.

1064
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 4: Jonathan Alexander of the Houston Chronicle joining us, what other

1065
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 4: games in general do you pay attention to during the week.

1066
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 4: Are you looking at the AFC South, You're looking at

1067
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 4: some other teams. You came from Carolina, you still probably

1068
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,759
Speaker 4: have an eye in your peripheral vision on what they're

1069
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:50,480
Speaker 4: going through.

1070
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,399
Speaker 11: Tell us, Yeah, I definitely check out the Pans because

1071
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 11: I have some friends who text me all the time

1072
00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:58,759
Speaker 11: about how much in misery they are and how much

1073
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 11: they wish.

1074
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 1: That Depanz is what it took CJ. Stroud.

1075
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 11: But aside from that, I'm paying attention to the AFC

1076
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 11: South and seeing how they're looking. You know, the Texans

1077
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,280
Speaker 11: was the only team in the AFC South to win Bears.

1078
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:13,560
Speaker 11: I mean, the Jaguars lost that close one, and so

1079
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 11: did the Titans there. So it's usually the division games

1080
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 11: the Panthers and the top teams to see who's the

1081
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 11: Texans are possibly going to be competing against when it

1082
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 11: comes into December and January.

1083
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:28,799
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to say that you had

1084
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:31,880
Speaker 1: to feel sort of cursed. But Mark, I thought about

1085
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 1: our guy, Jonathan Johnson. JJ comes, he comes.

1086
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:38,879
Speaker 2: Here in twenty twenty one, he's here for twenty one

1087
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 2: twenty the beginning of twenty three, then.

1088
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:43,879
Speaker 1: He goes to Carolina.

1089
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, you had to feel like last year, like, oh, man,

1090
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 2: finally you know, I finally got a playoff team I

1091
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 2: can be around. That is a little bit of how

1092
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 2: you felt last year, kind of like you start going

1093
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:55,319
Speaker 2: to like, man, it's kind of like Carolina the first

1094
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 2: few years.

1095
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 11: John, let me tell you, Okay, So before I covered

1096
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 11: the Panthers, I covered Roy Williams only losing season of

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00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 11: his career, the worst season of Roy Williams college basketball

1098
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:08,280
Speaker 11: Tar Hills worst season.

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00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: That was a miserable year.

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00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:14,280
Speaker 11: You go into Larry Fedora's final season with the college

1101
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 11: football Carolina Tar Hills, they were bad.

1102
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:18,960
Speaker 1: Mac Brown had a little bit of a good year.

1103
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 11: It was average, and then to come go to the Panthers,

1104
00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 11: they have two bad years and then the Texans. So

1105
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 11: I thought maybe I was the one who was hurting

1106
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 11: the teams and I was covering. So yeah, last year

1107
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:31,799
Speaker 11: was definitely a great change up because you felt the

1108
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 11: excitement from the fans and it's cool to cover a

1109
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:37,760
Speaker 11: team that's winning, and I can only see more happening

1110
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:38,160
Speaker 11: this year.

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00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:40,040
Speaker 4: What do you have going out of the Chronicle that

1112
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 4: fans could pay attention to.

1113
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,359
Speaker 11: Yeah, so we're coming out with a lot of things

1114
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 11: that in Sunday's paper, I'm going to write a story about,

1115
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:51,280
Speaker 11: you know, how Joe Mixing too, the Texans came together

1116
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 11: the effort to really recruit him. I've got a newsletter

1117
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:58,080
Speaker 11: that I have it's called Texans Insider that y'all can

1118
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:01,279
Speaker 11: find as well as you find all our content on

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00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 11: Houston Chronicle dot com.

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Speaker 4: Sasports Awesome. Jonathan, thanks a lot for joining us.

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00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, Yes, sir, that's some great stuff

1122
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 2: from Jonathan Alexander of the Chronicle.

1123
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,439
Speaker 1: Glad he was able to step.

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00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 2: In and join us for this one. Now on Sunday.

1125
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 2: We've talked about this a little bit in Keys of

1126
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 2: the Game, kind of gave you a little bit of

1127
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 2: the background on some of the injury situations for the Texans.

1128
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 2: So that's gonna play a really interesting role in how

1129
00:47:30,520 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 2: a lot of people might predict this game. Well, I'm

1130
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 2: gonna predict all NFL games coming up next. I do

1131
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 2: it every single Friday, normally midway through seven'clock hour. We're

1132
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 2: gonna move it up at the seven o'clock hour. I

1133
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:48,240
Speaker 2: pick him against the spread and straight up for fun.

1134
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:52,319
Speaker 2: So every game this Sunday and Monday, I will pick

1135
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 2: next right here on Texans All Access Day, right where

1136
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 2: you are, all right here.

1137
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 1: We go, one hour down, one hour left to go.

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00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:01,760
Speaker 2: Right here on a Friday, edsue the Texans All Access

1139
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:04,399
Speaker 2: from Monday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Ayris

1140
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 2: Foot playing on a sideline reporter, and I always get

1141
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 2: to the second hour on Friday, and I'm always just like,

1142
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 2: come on, man, you gotta finish.

1143
00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: You gotta finished, you gotta finish.

1144
00:48:11,880 --> 00:48:14,840
Speaker 2: Because I get so anxious thinking about Sunday and I'm like, oh, okay,

1145
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:18,799
Speaker 2: gotta lock in, especially when i'm making predictions.

1146
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 1: And that's what we're doing in this segment.

1147
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 2: We got a full slate on Sunday and one on

1148
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 2: Monday that I'm picking straight up and against this spread.

1149
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,800
Speaker 2: Now you know the one Sunday night Texans taken on

1150
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 2: the Bears. I never picked that one. Never picked tree.

1151
00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,360
Speaker 2: My heart, my head Texans are favored by six.

1152
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:39,960
Speaker 1: And a half. I would tell you I would.

1153
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 2: I would lay the six and a half, take the

1154
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,640
Speaker 2: Texans Texans to win, Texans to cover.

1155
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,759
Speaker 1: But not gonna pick that one because I never do. Uh,

1156
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 1: just like I won't pick a game up calling.

1157
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 2: How about my weekend, I gotta I'm calling the Hawaii

1158
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 2: same Houston State game on Saturday night at six, and

1159
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 2: then Bears and Texans on Sunday night.

1160
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:00,120
Speaker 1: So good weekend. So let's do our predictions.

1161
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:02,920
Speaker 2: For every game, not including Bears Texans. So give me

1162
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 2: my music and let's rock now. I probably would have

1163
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 2: gotten Bills and Dolphins, right. I would have picked the

1164
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 2: Bills to win. I can't remember what the number was,

1165
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:14,160
Speaker 2: but man, they hammered the Dolphins, so.

1166
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 1: I'd have been one to know U. So I'll take

1167
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:15,840
Speaker 1: it all right.

1168
00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:20,760
Speaker 2: Let's go to Baltimore on Sunday as the Las Vegas

1169
00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 2: Raiders negative bodyclock game playing at one o'clock local, essentially

1170
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:31,400
Speaker 2: ten o'clock their time against the Ravens team that lost

1171
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:33,760
Speaker 2: and had a couple extra days to get ready.

1172
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 1: I think this is a no brainer.

1173
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:40,399
Speaker 2: Baltimore Ravens cover and whoop up all over the Las

1174
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:44,399
Speaker 2: Vegas Raiders. I will be shocked if the Ravens lose

1175
00:49:44,440 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 2: this game. I'll be shocked if the Raiders even cover.

1176
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 2: Baltimore wins by ten or more. That's more than nine,

1177
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:54,799
Speaker 2: So Ravens win. Ravens cover, all right.

1178
00:49:54,840 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 1: Another game of zero to one teams.

1179
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 2: The Browns taken on the Jaguire down to Duval County.

1180
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:05,839
Speaker 2: Jackson's favored by three. Deshaun Watson will play amidst all

1181
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 2: the legal trouble that he's been in. The Jaguars are

1182
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 2: gonna be without Tyson Campbell at corner and he's been

1183
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:13,839
Speaker 2: on IRS, so the Texas won't see the number one

1184
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 2: corner for the Jaguars either. The Jaguars spit the bit

1185
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,400
Speaker 2: last week. Let's just be honest. They had the Dolphins

1186
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 2: right where they wanted him. Travis Etn going in the

1187
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 2: end zone at the two yard line that would have

1188
00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 2: given him a twenty four to seven.

1189
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 1: League fumbled the ball. Tyreek Hill went eighty.

1190
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 2: On the next play, seventeen to fourteen instead of being

1191
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:32,319
Speaker 2: in twenty four to seven. Twenty four seven is totally

1192
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:33,880
Speaker 2: different than Jags are won, and oh but they're not.

1193
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 2: But now they're back at home. I think the Jags rebound.

1194
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 2: It'll be a very very.

1195
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 1: Closely fought football game. But the Jaguars are gonna win.

1196
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 2: And it's right at three, So I'm gonna say the

1197
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 2: Jaguars are gonna win and cover, beating the Browns, sending

1198
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 2: the Browns to zero and two.

1199
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:52,319
Speaker 1: Oh boy, DeShawn better play better. Just saying that.

1200
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:56,840
Speaker 2: Okay, Jets Tights AFC south of Battle. As the Jets

1201
00:50:56,880 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 2: travel out to the Bay Area, play Monday night, fly

1202
00:51:00,400 --> 00:51:02,360
Speaker 2: back home, and they have to fly down to Tennessee.

1203
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,759
Speaker 2: The Jets are favored by three and a half. I

1204
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:07,800
Speaker 2: don't quite know how to take that. I think the Jets,

1205
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 2: I think you saw Aaron Rodgers the other night. The

1206
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:11,880
Speaker 2: offense can move the football. I think you'll get a

1207
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 2: little bit more to Breze Hall. I think gonna win

1208
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 2: this game. Let's go with the Jets to win, but

1209
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:16,799
Speaker 2: I think the Tights are gonna cover. This feels like

1210
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, twenty four to twenty one at three point

1211
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:24,320
Speaker 2: deficit at most. I think the Jets will do everything

1212
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:25,960
Speaker 2: to hang on and win this game. So let's get

1213
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 2: the Jets a win, but the Titans a cover at

1214
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:30,439
Speaker 2: home that'll move the Tits.

1215
00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 1: Oh in two, that'll be fine, that'd be good enough.

1216
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 1: I don't care if the Titans, but at one point

1217
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:36,200
Speaker 1: they lose by fifty. Either way, Titans get lost. I'm

1218
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:38,400
Speaker 1: good with that. Okay, battle of one or no teams.

1219
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:42,399
Speaker 2: Sam Donald's twenty twenty three team, the forty nine Ers

1220
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:47,600
Speaker 2: against Sam Donald's twenty twenty four team, the Vikings in Minnesota,

1221
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 2: San Francisco's favorite by five in Minnesota. Keep him mind

1222
00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:55,520
Speaker 2: the Vikings beat the Niners last year in Minnesota. I

1223
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:59,400
Speaker 2: don't think it happens, but I do think that the

1224
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:01,880
Speaker 2: vikings'll get inside the Oh No, I don't think that

1225
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:03,919
Speaker 2: the forty nine Ers are gonna win and cover that five.

1226
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:04,839
Speaker 1: They're gonna win.

1227
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:07,400
Speaker 2: And cover that five. We'll see if Sam Donald and

1228
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:09,800
Speaker 2: see what Sam Donald does the week before the Texans

1229
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 2: go there. We go there next weekend, so we'll see.

1230
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 2: But forty nine ersre gonna win, forty Niners are gonna cover.

1231
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:15,719
Speaker 2: I don't eve think they'll play all that well, but

1232
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 2: they'll win that thing by ten.

1233
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:20,359
Speaker 1: Let's go thirty to twenty. Win for the Niners gets

1234
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 1: them to two and zero.

1235
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:25,360
Speaker 2: Chargers and Panthers Chargers again, negative bodyclock game, flying to

1236
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 2: the East Coast taking on the Panthers.

1237
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if the Panthers can play worse.

1238
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 2: I think the Chargers will just kind of just submission them,

1239
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,360
Speaker 2: just kind of blunt trauma all day long. Low scoring,

1240
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 2: ugly Chargers are fair by five. They'll win by seven.

1241
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 2: So let's get the Chargers. They win in a cover

1242
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:43,120
Speaker 2: on the road.

1243
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:45,360
Speaker 1: Seahawks Patriots in New England.

1244
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:48,359
Speaker 2: Another negative bodyclock game, this one for the Seahawks as

1245
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 2: they take on the surprising Patriots, who gotta win the

1246
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:51,440
Speaker 2: Jacobe Brissett.

1247
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 1: Seattle's fair by three and a half.

1248
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:57,719
Speaker 2: Playing in Julette, crazy things happen. I'm picking the Patriots

1249
00:52:57,719 --> 00:53:00,399
Speaker 2: in an upset to win and cover that well. They'll

1250
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:03,360
Speaker 2: cover by winning over the Seahawks. I think the Seahawks

1251
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 2: are a little sloppy last week, but I think the

1252
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 2: Patriots have got a formula.

1253
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: They just play hard.

1254
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:10,319
Speaker 2: Defensively, they get after you offensively. They not gonna do

1255
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,320
Speaker 2: a whole lot. We'll play action a little. Ramandre Stevenson.

1256
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:15,319
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna give the PA the Seahawks all

1257
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:18,160
Speaker 2: they can handle and get to win in Foxborough and

1258
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:20,840
Speaker 2: go to Tune oh, who would have funk it? Saints

1259
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:25,280
Speaker 2: Cowboys in Dallas, Dallas will roll. Saints are better, better

1260
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 2: than maybe people thought. But I think the Cowboys coming home,

1261
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:30,239
Speaker 2: they're faired by six. They'll win this win, They'll win

1262
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:34,759
Speaker 2: this one. Thirty one twenty three. Cowboys get to win

1263
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 2: big one for them at home. Giants and Commanders. If

1264
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 2: I could play that cricket sound like you know that

1265
00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 2: cricket sound where it's just there's nothing, there's just silence,

1266
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 2: that's kind of what I would go with here. The

1267
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 2: Commanders are favored by one and a half. The Giants

1268
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,399
Speaker 2: are not that good with Daniel Jones. The Commanders, I think,

1269
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:56,480
Speaker 2: are really gonna struggle this year. So let's flip a

1270
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 2: coin and let's go with the home team, the Commanders

1271
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 2: and the Commanders will man, I don't know, do I

1272
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:07,239
Speaker 2: feel good about that. Let's go Commanders to win at home.

1273
00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:09,319
Speaker 2: But they didn't look that good against Tampa Bay. Let's

1274
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 2: go Commanders to win against the Giants. That cover that

1275
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:13,359
Speaker 2: one and a half. Buts Lions is a playoff game

1276
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:15,120
Speaker 2: last year. The Lions are fair by seven and a half.

1277
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:16,799
Speaker 2: I can already tell you right now. The Buccaneers are

1278
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:18,880
Speaker 2: gonna cover that. They're gonna get inside that's seven and

1279
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 2: a half. But the Lions are gonna win. Just like

1280
00:54:20,600 --> 00:54:23,479
Speaker 2: last playoff game. Last playoff game they played last year,

1281
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:25,799
Speaker 2: the Lions ended up eating that went out. I think

1282
00:54:25,840 --> 00:54:27,480
Speaker 2: it's the same thing here. Baker Mayfield, I think is

1283
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 2: the most unrated quarterback in the league. He will put

1284
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:32,600
Speaker 2: some points on the board the Lions can't score, but

1285
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:34,799
Speaker 2: the Lions will also give up some points. So I

1286
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:36,919
Speaker 2: think the Buccaneers getting side that seven and a half.

1287
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 2: I like that hook, But the Lions are gona end

1288
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:40,840
Speaker 2: up winning. To get the two to zero Colts Packers

1289
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:44,840
Speaker 2: doesn't sound like Jordan Love is gonna play. But the

1290
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 2: game is in the Lambeau, Indianapolis is favored by three.

1291
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 2: I would love to see upset here.

1292
00:54:48,440 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 1: I just can't believe. I just I just can't go

1293
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:52,880
Speaker 1: with Milik Willis. I just can't. I can't go with

1294
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:56,719
Speaker 1: Milik Willison. I won't Packers will win Packers. I'm sorry.

1295
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:59,080
Speaker 1: The Colts will win and they'll cover.

1296
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:01,840
Speaker 2: That three just because Leak Willis is playing quarterback Rams

1297
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:04,880
Speaker 2: Cardinals in Arizona. The Rams will bounce back and get

1298
00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 2: a win. The Cardinals are much better. But the Rams

1299
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:09,480
Speaker 2: are gonna go there and get a win. A one

1300
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:13,320
Speaker 2: point favorite about being really basically straight up Rams, essentially

1301
00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 2: straight up Steelers taking on the Broncos out in Denver.

1302
00:55:18,440 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 1: It's as a tricky game to go out to Denver.

1303
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 1: I thought Denver was.

1304
00:55:22,719 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 2: They kind of lucked into points last week against the Seahawks.

1305
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:28,800
Speaker 1: I don't think that happens again. I think the Steelers.

1306
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 2: Will score a touchdown this week and that'll be enough.

1307
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Speaker 2: They'll cover the two and a half. Beat the Broncos

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Speaker 2: in Denver. Bengals Chiefs at Arrowhead. I think the Bengals.

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Speaker 2: Everybody talk about them all offseason. I just don't believe

1310
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:44,239
Speaker 2: in the Bengals, I really don't. I think the Chiefs

1311
00:55:44,239 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 2: are gonna beat them by ten. Let's go thirty one

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Speaker 2: to twenty one. That will cover the six. Give the

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Speaker 2: Chiefs a win and a cover, and the Monday Night

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00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:54,239
Speaker 2: Falcons Eagles, Falcons going to Philadelphia. I don't know that

1315
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins is really ready to be playing football right now.

1316
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 2: I think that hinders the Falcons. And if Eagles get

1317
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:03,000
Speaker 2: a win and cover that six and a half, they'll

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00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:06,040
Speaker 2: win that thing by seven at a minimum, give the

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00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,719
Speaker 2: Eagles a win and a cover. Okay, coming up, Demko

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00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 2: Ryans sat down with Mark and I was great stuff.

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Speaker 2: So we're gonna run it back for you next on

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Speaker 2: Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: What's tapping? Everybody? Welcome back to this Friday initiative.

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Speaker 2: Texans All Acts says from the Monday Texans Radio studio.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host, John Harrison, football analyst, iseline reporter for

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Speaker 2: your Houston Texans and every single money we get a

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00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:29,000
Speaker 2: chance to catch up with Demico Ryans and figured, you

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00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 2: know what, we got a lot of audio. Why not

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Speaker 2: use it, So let's hear what Dimiko had to say.

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Speaker 1: To me and Mark.

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00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:37,880
Speaker 2: Following up in a Colts game getting ready for the Bears.

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Speaker 2: Here's Demiko.

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00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:39,799
Speaker 1: Everybody loves him.

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Speaker 4: Let's go and here we are on the Honday Texans

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Speaker 4: Radio studio with head coach Demiko Ryan's coach. Congratulations on

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00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 4: the win, new season, same heart palpitations, coming down.

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00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:52,600
Speaker 1: To the wire again. But got the win again at Indy.

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00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:54,839
Speaker 5: Got the win. Thank you for that. I got the win.

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00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 5: But man, can we not make it as close?

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00:56:58,040 --> 00:56:59,920
Speaker 2: You're hurting us coach a little bit, but no, look

1341
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:03,880
Speaker 2: listen and went up in Indie. You if anybody knows

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00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:06,600
Speaker 2: how difficult it is to win up in Indy. It

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00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 2: took us all the way till twenty fifteen until we

1344
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:09,800
Speaker 2: got one there. Now we've got a few.

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00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:10,440
Speaker 1: Three in a row.

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00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:14,160
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, thirty thousand foot view, who

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00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:16,680
Speaker 2: was the biggest key in getting the win? Offense, defense,

1348
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 2: special teams, all that, but just what was the biggest

1349
00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 2: key in getting to win and the biggest.

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00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:23,959
Speaker 5: Key to getting to win for me was scoring those

1351
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 5: touchdowns in the red zone Like that was one of

1352
00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:29,280
Speaker 5: our keys to victory going into the game, Like we

1353
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 5: knew we would be able to drive the ball, but

1354
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:33,560
Speaker 5: we didn't want to exchange field goals with them. That

1355
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:36,440
Speaker 5: kind of happened a little bit. But for us to

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00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 5: get touchdowns right when we needed them like that was

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00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:43,600
Speaker 5: huge for us because you know, they stayed around and

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00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:45,600
Speaker 5: we kind of we allowed them to stay around with

1359
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:48,240
Speaker 5: some mistakes and miscues on the defensive side of the

1360
00:57:48,240 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 5: ball or they shouldn't have been there. But getting those

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00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 5: touchdowns allowed us to breathe a little easier even though

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00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 5: they were making a comeback.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:59,960
Speaker 4: Well, we had two public enemies in the AFC South

1365
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:02,439
Speaker 4: Derrick Henry he's out of the division now, but last

1366
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:05,360
Speaker 4: year you handled him. Now, Jonathan Taylor averaged one hundred

1367
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 4: and thirty five yards against the Texans, and you were

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00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 4: able to stop the run yesterday.

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Speaker 1: So can you discuss that.

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Speaker 4: You mentioned setting the edge in your press conference very

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Speaker 4: important to.

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Speaker 7: Do all of it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that was the key for us on defense, Like

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00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 5: we had to stop the run game first and foremost,

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00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:23,360
Speaker 5: and it started with our end setting the edge. Daniel

1376
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 5: and Will they did a great job of setting the edge,

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00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 5: like and you. Thus, when you say set the edge,

1378
00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 5: you think about the d line, but it's also it's

1379
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:34,480
Speaker 5: Stingley outside on the RPO. Because their heavy RPO team,

1380
00:58:34,560 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 5: Stingley was able to set the edge and also make

1381
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:40,040
Speaker 5: the play. So Stingley showed up in the run game

1382
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 5: a ton for US crack replacing just everybody bottle them up.

1383
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 5: So there was when we played them our last game

1384
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 5: of the season last year, it was way too much space, right,

1385
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 5: guys are running around blocks creating you know, these huge

1386
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:58,479
Speaker 5: lanes for junthing and run through. But we were able

1387
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 5: to eliminate space and that may check his feet. So

1388
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 5: now everybody on the second level peatriaz Ease Henry, they

1389
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:07,360
Speaker 5: were able to just swarm tackle and actually get him down.

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Speaker 2: Coach, I wanted to ask you about your linebackers, and

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00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:11,960
Speaker 2: I guess we'll throw Jalen in there because he kind

1392
00:59:11,960 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 2: of plays like a linebacker. It looked like they tackled

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00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 2: pretty well all things considered. Obviously, here's a six foot five,

1394
00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 2: two hundred and forty five pound quarterbacks tough to bring down.

1395
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:22,800
Speaker 2: But the way they tackled, it felt like that second

1396
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:23,840
Speaker 2: level was really tackling.

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00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:24,720
Speaker 1: Was that the way you saw it?

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00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:25,840
Speaker 3: I did see it that way.

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Speaker 5: Jalen starting with him like he was, he was very

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00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 5: active in the run game, and that's what sets him

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00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:33,080
Speaker 5: apart right when he when he does come down and

1402
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:35,680
Speaker 5: play that nickel position, like his ability to fit the

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00:59:35,760 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 5: run game.

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00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:38,760
Speaker 3: A lot of times you have those smaller.

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00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 5: Uh DB's, they'll get in there and they they don't

1406
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:44,120
Speaker 5: want to stick it up here in the run game.

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00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 5: But Jalen is one of our most physical players. And

1408
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:49,240
Speaker 5: to see the way he tackled was really well thought.

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00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:51,880
Speaker 5: Henry stepped up and did a really nice job making

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00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:54,640
Speaker 5: some making some tackles and you know, like you said

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00:59:54,640 --> 00:59:56,640
Speaker 5: on Anthony Rigisters and we had a couple of times

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00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 5: where he got out of the pocket, and we need

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Speaker 5: about twelve guys.

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Speaker 1: What about your defensive tackles getting sacks?

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Speaker 4: Though okay, I didn't have that on my Bengo card

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01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 4: necessarily for yesterday, Coach.

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01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:09,919
Speaker 5: I think everybody would have had it the opposite way

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01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:12,000
Speaker 5: of first sacks of the year, probably.

1419
01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:13,840
Speaker 3: Thinking it would be Will Anderson Daniel Hunter.

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Speaker 5: But for Foley and Mario, those are two guys been

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Speaker 5: very active all training camp. They've been consistent, they've been

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01:00:20,520 --> 01:00:23,320
Speaker 5: working hard, and they were able to get those sacks

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01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:27,000
Speaker 5: actually because of Daniel and Will. Right when they really

1424
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:30,080
Speaker 5: collapsed the pocket and made the quarterback step up, That's

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Speaker 5: where Mario and Foley were able to make their plays.

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Speaker 2: Coach, I know yesterday, when you face a guy like

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Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson, I think all of us can look at

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01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:38,840
Speaker 2: him and go, okay, he's different from a lot of

1429
01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:40,840
Speaker 2: like a lot of quarterbacks are going to face. But

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Speaker 2: then again, it's Kayler Williams this week, then there's Josh

1431
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:46,200
Speaker 2: Allen down the road. It's guys that can do some

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01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 2: kind of freaky athletic things. So from that perspective, what

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01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:52,000
Speaker 2: kind of can you take out of that game against

1434
01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 2: Richardson that you can then carry forward to other games

1435
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:56,040
Speaker 2: against those mobile quarterbacks.

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Speaker 3: One at the time.

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Speaker 5: I no, no, But you know one thing, you know

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01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:05,720
Speaker 5: A key takeaway from me is right, you have to

1439
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:08,240
Speaker 5: eliminate those guys from being able to run the ball

1440
01:01:08,480 --> 01:01:11,640
Speaker 5: and escaping the pocket. That's where those guys thrive, like

1441
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:16,000
Speaker 5: the athletic quarterbacks. Man, once they get out of the pocket, Now,

1442
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 5: how can your coverage be sound? Everything is broken down?

1443
01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:21,880
Speaker 5: So now whatever you were in, if you were in zone,

1444
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:23,800
Speaker 5: it turns into man coverage.

1445
01:01:23,800 --> 01:01:24,720
Speaker 3: And who do I match?

1446
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:28,080
Speaker 5: Like you have to match the eligible closest to you,

1447
01:01:28,120 --> 01:01:30,240
Speaker 5: and it just it all gets haywire. So if you

1448
01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:32,880
Speaker 5: can keep them in the pocket and make them be

1449
01:01:32,960 --> 01:01:37,120
Speaker 5: a pocket passer, that's when you're most successful versus the

1450
01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:37,800
Speaker 5: quarterbacks and.

1451
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:38,280
Speaker 3: Move around a lot.

1452
01:01:38,560 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 4: It was strange the way they scored because you're doing

1453
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:43,840
Speaker 4: a great job defensively, then all of a sudden, sixty

1454
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:46,160
Speaker 4: five yard bomb and he throws the one to duel in.

1455
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:49,400
Speaker 4: He's just tough to stop because there's this unpredictability and

1456
01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:50,680
Speaker 4: big playmaking ability.

1457
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:53,480
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure, And those a couple of those plays

1458
01:01:53,480 --> 01:01:56,800
Speaker 5: were on us. When I say on us, there were

1459
01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:59,560
Speaker 5: looks scouted looks that we saw and we knew what

1460
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 5: was coming, and so when that happens, I feel like

1461
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:05,200
Speaker 5: we have to be in better position to be able

1462
01:02:05,240 --> 01:02:06,960
Speaker 5: to defend those and make those plays.

1463
01:02:07,040 --> 01:02:08,920
Speaker 3: And I mean Anthony probably threw.

1464
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:11,560
Speaker 5: The ball about seventy yards and he threw up a

1465
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:13,400
Speaker 5: fifty to fifty ball there. I would like us to

1466
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:16,720
Speaker 5: come down with that one great play by their receiver.

1467
01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:18,480
Speaker 3: Great play, and then the other play too.

1468
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:20,560
Speaker 5: I think it was dueling, like we got to find

1469
01:02:20,560 --> 01:02:22,400
Speaker 5: a way to get the guy on the ground as

1470
01:02:22,440 --> 01:02:25,280
Speaker 5: our eracers back there at the safety position, like we

1471
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:27,920
Speaker 5: have to. I always say, give us a blade of

1472
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 5: grass and stand on. If you stop them at the

1473
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:32,480
Speaker 5: one yard line, that's enough. At least we still have

1474
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:34,520
Speaker 5: an opportunity right to set them out.

1475
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Speaker 2: Coach, when you're early in the season, and I know

1476
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Speaker 2: it's a division opponent, but it's Anthony versus Minshew, it's

1477
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:42,760
Speaker 2: gonna be different. How long does it kind of take

1478
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 2: for you and the staff to kind of get a

1479
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:46,640
Speaker 2: handle on, Okay, this is what they're trying to do

1480
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:50,840
Speaker 2: to us. Even their defense was a little different. It

1481
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:52,560
Speaker 2: looked a little different from what it looked like in

1482
01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:54,880
Speaker 2: week eighteen last year, in week one, when so many

1483
01:02:54,920 --> 01:02:56,720
Speaker 2: different things can happen and it's kind.

1484
01:02:56,560 --> 01:02:58,520
Speaker 1: Of a little bit of a mystery, how long does it.

1485
01:02:58,560 --> 01:03:00,440
Speaker 2: Kind of take to get on track with Okay, this

1486
01:03:00,520 --> 01:03:01,920
Speaker 2: is the kind of game it is. This is what

1487
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:03,320
Speaker 2: they're doing to us. This is what they're doing to

1488
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:05,200
Speaker 2: us on third down. How long does that kind of take?

1489
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:07,000
Speaker 1: Does it take a lot longer in weeks one, two,

1490
01:03:07,120 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: three than it will later in the year.

1491
01:03:08,520 --> 01:03:09,640
Speaker 3: Definitely in week one.

1492
01:03:09,880 --> 01:03:11,560
Speaker 5: I look at week one, it's just like I told

1493
01:03:11,600 --> 01:03:13,840
Speaker 5: you guys, it's like training camp. When we go line

1494
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:17,200
Speaker 5: up outside in training camp and we're going against the offense.

1495
01:03:17,280 --> 01:03:19,280
Speaker 5: You don't know what they're doing that day. We don't

1496
01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:21,920
Speaker 5: We don't scout plays or play like. You just have

1497
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:26,160
Speaker 5: to line up and trust your rules and trust your fundamentals.

1498
01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:29,840
Speaker 5: And if you have sound rules on all three phases

1499
01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:32,320
Speaker 5: of the game, if our rules are sound and what

1500
01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:36,120
Speaker 5: we're teaching, it should stand against everything that you're that

1501
01:03:36,200 --> 01:03:39,520
Speaker 5: you see. And so most times, typically in that first game,

1502
01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:42,760
Speaker 5: you'll see probably like after the second half, kind of

1503
01:03:43,240 --> 01:03:45,680
Speaker 5: take a deep breath. Okay, this is how they're trying

1504
01:03:45,720 --> 01:03:48,320
Speaker 5: to attack us. Hey, how do we counter, right, so

1505
01:03:48,360 --> 01:03:50,560
Speaker 5: that's when you find it out. And then coming up,

1506
01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:53,840
Speaker 5: you know, this week you have Caleb Williams. He just

1507
01:03:53,880 --> 01:03:56,280
Speaker 5: only has one game, so it's still a lot of

1508
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 5: unknown of how they're trying to deploy him.

1509
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 4: All right, Before we talk offense, let's talk special teams,

1510
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:03,680
Speaker 4: which is against type for me, by the way, to

1511
01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:06,240
Speaker 4: bring this up at this point, but weird Kazemi Fairbarn

1512
01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:08,520
Speaker 4: had a really great game for you, coach, because you

1513
01:04:08,600 --> 01:04:10,080
Speaker 4: needed every one of those points.

1514
01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:14,000
Speaker 5: Amy was big time for us. We needed him, I mean,

1515
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:16,160
Speaker 5: and he showed up big time for us. For him

1516
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:20,360
Speaker 5: to hit three field goals or over fifty yards I mean,

1517
01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:24,000
Speaker 5: and I mean they were dead on, like there was

1518
01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:26,400
Speaker 5: no doubt in his mind. And it started with good

1519
01:04:26,440 --> 01:04:29,480
Speaker 5: protection by our line up front. They did a good

1520
01:04:29,520 --> 01:04:32,200
Speaker 5: job protecting and Emy just kicking it right through the middle.

1521
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:35,760
Speaker 5: And it it doesn't go unnoticed to me, right man.

1522
01:04:35,800 --> 01:04:36,360
Speaker 3: To have a.

1523
01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:39,760
Speaker 5: Good field goal kicker is very important to the success

1524
01:04:39,760 --> 01:04:42,360
Speaker 5: of your team, and I'm very thankful that Amy is

1525
01:04:42,400 --> 01:04:42,760
Speaker 5: with us.

1526
01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:43,200
Speaker 1: Coach.

1527
01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:45,640
Speaker 2: You said it a little while ago, like making adjustments,

1528
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:47,880
Speaker 2: you know, even before the half, but then coming out

1529
01:04:47,920 --> 01:04:51,040
Speaker 2: of the half and wanting to you know establish well, okay,

1530
01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:52,920
Speaker 2: they were doing this, we want to do this. This

1531
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:54,760
Speaker 2: is our counter to that. Did you guys make a

1532
01:04:54,800 --> 01:04:58,040
Speaker 2: conscious effort in the second half? All right, look, Joe's

1533
01:04:58,040 --> 01:05:00,480
Speaker 2: eating them up in the run game. Hey, let's keep hammering.

1534
01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:02,560
Speaker 2: Joe's that kind of a conscious effort that you guys

1535
01:05:02,560 --> 01:05:03,760
Speaker 2: decided in the second half to do.

1536
01:05:04,280 --> 01:05:06,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, once I'm on the side, I see

1537
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:08,400
Speaker 5: Joe and how he's running, seeing how the O Lion

1538
01:05:08,520 --> 01:05:12,160
Speaker 5: is coming office, probably more of me barking at Bobby

1539
01:05:12,240 --> 01:05:12,720
Speaker 5: like hey.

1540
01:05:12,600 --> 01:05:16,400
Speaker 1: Keep him going, keep him going, and keep him going.

1541
01:05:16,480 --> 01:05:19,600
Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean credit to you know, Joe and

1542
01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:22,640
Speaker 5: the confidence that you give a play caller. Right, that's

1543
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 5: when everything the playbook, it kind of it opens up

1544
01:05:26,040 --> 01:05:28,040
Speaker 5: even more, Like we know we can run it.

1545
01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:29,680
Speaker 3: They have to defend the run.

1546
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:33,640
Speaker 5: Okay, let's get Nico down the field for a big play.

1547
01:05:33,720 --> 01:05:35,520
Speaker 3: So that's how all those things open up for us.

1548
01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:37,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, you have the line blocking. Well, then Pierce comes

1549
01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:39,520
Speaker 4: into the game and he has some nice runs for

1550
01:05:39,560 --> 01:05:40,120
Speaker 4: you as well.

1551
01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:42,080
Speaker 1: So it all seemed to be working on the ground.

1552
01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:42,320
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1553
01:05:42,360 --> 01:05:44,640
Speaker 5: Man, very proud of Damien for you think he had

1554
01:05:44,680 --> 01:05:47,040
Speaker 5: about nine reps in the game. And he stepped up

1555
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:50,720
Speaker 5: the way he ran the ball. He was explosive downhill

1556
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:53,960
Speaker 5: and played fast like that's the Damien I've saw during

1557
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:56,480
Speaker 5: training camp. So I was excited to see him make

1558
01:05:56,560 --> 01:05:58,240
Speaker 5: some big runs for us as well, and did a

1559
01:05:58,280 --> 01:05:59,800
Speaker 5: good job, you know, in the protection.

1560
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:02,280
Speaker 1: So that's just the halftime. We talked a little bit

1561
01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:02,880
Speaker 1: after the game.

1562
01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:05,040
Speaker 2: I felt I felt bad halftime because I'm like, I thought,

1563
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:06,360
Speaker 2: I got a good question here. I want to see

1564
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:07,760
Speaker 2: what you think about the run game. And you looked

1565
01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:09,920
Speaker 2: at me and I said, what's going with the run game?

1566
01:06:09,960 --> 01:06:12,080
Speaker 2: And you're like, O line, dummy.

1567
01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:14,080
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, yeah, I know the old line that

1568
01:06:14,120 --> 01:06:15,960
Speaker 1: they did. They did play pretty well. Coach. What was

1569
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:17,800
Speaker 1: it about what the old line was able to do

1570
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:18,720
Speaker 1: against the group?

1571
01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:20,800
Speaker 2: And I think this needs to be said, that's a

1572
01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:23,680
Speaker 2: group on the other side that for a few years,

1573
01:06:24,120 --> 01:06:25,960
Speaker 2: it's kind of giving us the business back. I mean,

1574
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:29,680
Speaker 2: they're really tough, and you know Buckner and you know Grover,

1575
01:06:30,160 --> 01:06:33,360
Speaker 2: but your interior in particular really controlled those two. Now

1576
01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:35,200
Speaker 2: they got a couple of sacks between him, but in

1577
01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:37,320
Speaker 2: the run game, you were able to move and get

1578
01:06:37,360 --> 01:06:39,480
Speaker 2: guys moved, and really it's kind of been the first

1579
01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:41,120
Speaker 2: time in a while we've seen that happen. What was

1580
01:06:41,200 --> 01:06:43,360
Speaker 2: key for them getting that movement up front?

1581
01:06:43,440 --> 01:06:45,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, the key thing. It starts, like you said, with

1582
01:06:45,320 --> 01:06:47,960
Speaker 5: the interior. You guys start with juice right in Juice

1583
01:06:48,280 --> 01:06:51,520
Speaker 5: and he had a big matchup going against Grover at

1584
01:06:51,520 --> 01:06:54,000
Speaker 5: that two hot position. He did a great job of

1585
01:06:54,040 --> 01:06:57,120
Speaker 5: flattening him. So once Joe was getting the ball, we

1586
01:06:57,160 --> 01:07:01,360
Speaker 5: had such great lateral movement that there were these creases

1587
01:07:01,400 --> 01:07:03,680
Speaker 5: on the backside that we were able to hit. And

1588
01:07:03,720 --> 01:07:06,240
Speaker 5: that starts with, you know, the guards and the center

1589
01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:08,040
Speaker 5: of being able to move and they did a really

1590
01:07:08,080 --> 01:07:11,040
Speaker 5: good job. And when you run outside zone, it goes

1591
01:07:11,080 --> 01:07:13,880
Speaker 5: back to the backside blocks and we had one it

1592
01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 5: was very teach tape worthy block of LT and KG.

1593
01:07:18,240 --> 01:07:20,480
Speaker 5: They were able to get a backside block on Buckner.

1594
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:24,000
Speaker 5: Joe cuts back and it's huge lane. It was and

1595
01:07:24,120 --> 01:07:26,360
Speaker 5: like you talked about, I said, O line, but I

1596
01:07:26,360 --> 01:07:28,160
Speaker 5: got to get credit to everyone when you run the

1597
01:07:28,200 --> 01:07:32,040
Speaker 5: ball that well, our tight ends the way they stepped

1598
01:07:32,120 --> 01:07:34,800
Speaker 5: up and blocked on the edge. I mean, K Brevin

1599
01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:37,640
Speaker 5: and Dalton did a really nice job getting a hat

1600
01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:39,000
Speaker 5: on the hat in the run game.

1601
01:07:39,440 --> 01:07:40,520
Speaker 3: And also our receivers.

1602
01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:42,520
Speaker 5: We talked about Nico and the big plays that he

1603
01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:44,720
Speaker 5: made down the field the third.

1604
01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:48,840
Speaker 3: And eleven, but in the run game, Nico is blocking right.

1605
01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:51,640
Speaker 5: Robert Woods step saying he probably had about twelve snaps

1606
01:07:51,640 --> 01:07:56,840
Speaker 5: in the game. Clinic teach tape wide receiver blocking with physicality,

1607
01:07:57,080 --> 01:08:00,720
Speaker 5: like it was outstanding by all of our guys on

1608
01:08:00,760 --> 01:08:02,720
Speaker 5: the perimeter as well as our offensive line.

1609
01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:06,200
Speaker 4: So the message is delivered and received with those guys.

1610
01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:08,400
Speaker 1: You have to be good run blockers.

1611
01:08:08,480 --> 01:08:10,560
Speaker 4: Right, Robert Woods, He's done so many things in this

1612
01:08:10,680 --> 01:08:12,600
Speaker 4: league and he comes in for that amount of snaps

1613
01:08:12,640 --> 01:08:13,600
Speaker 4: and he knows his job.

1614
01:08:13,680 --> 01:08:15,439
Speaker 5: He knows his job and he does it really well

1615
01:08:15,520 --> 01:08:18,200
Speaker 5: and he takes pride in it. And that's where you know,

1616
01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:20,599
Speaker 5: I can highlight him in the team meetings, like it's

1617
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:23,599
Speaker 5: not about how many reps you get, but it's about

1618
01:08:23,680 --> 01:08:26,759
Speaker 5: how effective are you on those reps. And Rob came

1619
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:29,400
Speaker 5: in and he helped the team right win the game

1620
01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:32,080
Speaker 5: because it meant a lot to him. He had pride

1621
01:08:32,080 --> 01:08:36,200
Speaker 5: in those reps and he showed that I'm all about winning.

1622
01:08:36,280 --> 01:08:38,880
Speaker 5: Even if I'm not getting the ball, I'm gonna block

1623
01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:40,400
Speaker 5: as hard as i can for my teammates.

1624
01:08:40,400 --> 01:08:42,360
Speaker 1: So that's so important for the younger players to see.

1625
01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:44,160
Speaker 5: Right now, younger players have to see it. And those

1626
01:08:44,200 --> 01:08:46,200
Speaker 5: are the little things that I love to highlight in

1627
01:08:46,240 --> 01:08:50,559
Speaker 5: our team meeting and show it's not about the wild plays,

1628
01:08:50,640 --> 01:08:51,920
Speaker 5: the touchdowns.

1629
01:08:52,120 --> 01:08:52,960
Speaker 3: It's not about that.

1630
01:08:53,040 --> 01:08:57,320
Speaker 5: It's about it's a mentality, right, It's about really owning

1631
01:08:57,360 --> 01:09:01,400
Speaker 5: the process and trusting the monotony football, like getting the

1632
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:03,839
Speaker 5: hat on the hat and you got to block guys

1633
01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:05,960
Speaker 5: like you don't get bored with that. And I let

1634
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:08,960
Speaker 5: guys know for us to have success in the run

1635
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:11,880
Speaker 5: game is not about just Joe mixing everybody loving up

1636
01:09:11,960 --> 01:09:16,400
Speaker 5: Joe Joe Joe and.

1637
01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:17,000
Speaker 3: A lot of people could have ran through those lanes.

1638
01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:20,040
Speaker 4: It's almost like when you say somebody's individual name, there's

1639
01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:22,240
Speaker 4: a whole bunch of other people connected. We talked about

1640
01:09:22,240 --> 01:09:25,160
Speaker 4: fair Baron too, the whole operation everything all.

1641
01:09:25,040 --> 01:09:26,519
Speaker 3: Right, it's never about one guy.

1642
01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:29,280
Speaker 5: And that's what our sort of love about our team, right,

1643
01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:32,880
Speaker 5: It's all about the team. It's team first mentality. And

1644
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:36,519
Speaker 5: our guys they showcased that, right you see. You know,

1645
01:09:36,560 --> 01:09:39,280
Speaker 5: you got to see all the crazy celebrations and in

1646
01:09:39,360 --> 01:09:42,200
Speaker 5: the end zone, but all those guys like to see

1647
01:09:42,200 --> 01:09:44,920
Speaker 5: how excited they are for one another. Our sideline is

1648
01:09:44,960 --> 01:09:48,320
Speaker 5: going crazy, like I love that enthusiasm from our team.

1649
01:09:48,360 --> 01:09:50,439
Speaker 4: When do they work on those celebrations not around you?

1650
01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:51,360
Speaker 4: I would imagine no.

1651
01:09:51,520 --> 01:09:54,000
Speaker 2: I told them, man, make sure the playbook is right,

1652
01:09:54,240 --> 01:09:58,519
Speaker 2: exactly right. You have some, but they got the celebrations down.

1653
01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:02,960
Speaker 2: I'm sure you and you've been asked about this numerous times.

1654
01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:03,800
Speaker 2: So all you bring in.

1655
01:10:03,760 --> 01:10:06,200
Speaker 1: Digs, How are you going to get everybody the ball? Okay,

1656
01:10:06,320 --> 01:10:08,120
Speaker 1: you know the divas, a wide receiver and all that

1657
01:10:08,200 --> 01:10:09,479
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. How you gonna do it?

1658
01:10:09,640 --> 01:10:12,000
Speaker 2: And then you look up, Nico's got six for one seventeen,

1659
01:10:12,040 --> 01:10:14,960
Speaker 2: Steph's got six, he's got two touchdowns, Tank has sixty

1660
01:10:15,040 --> 01:10:16,519
Speaker 2: yards and that reverse was beautiful.

1661
01:10:16,760 --> 01:10:17,679
Speaker 1: Everybody got involved.

1662
01:10:17,720 --> 01:10:19,760
Speaker 2: You talk about Robert going out and block and didn't

1663
01:10:19,760 --> 01:10:22,120
Speaker 2: see many targets, but he's going out and he's blocking.

1664
01:10:22,160 --> 01:10:25,120
Speaker 2: Your wide receiver group has probably talked about more than anybody,

1665
01:10:25,520 --> 01:10:27,240
Speaker 2: and yet they go out and they deliver, and it

1666
01:10:27,320 --> 01:10:27,800
Speaker 2: was kind of what.

1667
01:10:27,760 --> 01:10:30,120
Speaker 1: We don't talked about. Who's getting the football the open guy?

1668
01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:32,400
Speaker 2: Is that kind of the way you you saw that group,

1669
01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:34,439
Speaker 2: I mean, that group seemingly all stepped up and gave

1670
01:10:34,439 --> 01:10:34,880
Speaker 2: you something.

1671
01:10:35,040 --> 01:10:35,880
Speaker 3: They all stepped up.

1672
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:39,720
Speaker 5: Very talented group, as you say, but there aren't what

1673
01:10:39,800 --> 01:10:40,880
Speaker 5: I love about our group.

1674
01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:42,040
Speaker 3: There aren't any divas.

1675
01:10:42,400 --> 01:10:43,519
Speaker 1: Yeah right, all.

1676
01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 5: Those guys they really they love and appreciate one another

1677
01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:49,479
Speaker 5: and they go out and they don't care who gets

1678
01:10:49,479 --> 01:10:51,000
Speaker 5: the ball right, And that's what's so.

1679
01:10:51,080 --> 01:10:52,120
Speaker 3: Cool about the group.

1680
01:10:52,200 --> 01:10:55,960
Speaker 5: We know their talented, we know their accolades that they have,

1681
01:10:56,240 --> 01:11:00,000
Speaker 5: and Steph just went over ten thousand yards and his career,

1682
01:11:00,840 --> 01:11:05,280
Speaker 5: but he's so excited about Tank. It's like, it's so

1683
01:11:05,439 --> 01:11:08,639
Speaker 5: cool to see just the unselfish nature of those guys,

1684
01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:11,439
Speaker 5: the unselfish nature of our team, Like that's the makings

1685
01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:12,280
Speaker 5: of a really good team.

1686
01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:12,599
Speaker 1: Yep.

1687
01:11:12,800 --> 01:11:15,160
Speaker 4: What is going through your mind when you see CJ

1688
01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:18,759
Speaker 4: throw to Nico on third and eleven at the moment

1689
01:11:18,760 --> 01:11:21,160
Speaker 4: of truth, needing to get that first down so you

1690
01:11:21,200 --> 01:11:23,680
Speaker 4: can again try to kill the clock. And that was

1691
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:26,320
Speaker 4: no easy play, but you've got the quarterback and the

1692
01:11:26,320 --> 01:11:29,120
Speaker 4: wide receiver who could make that, plus the protection needed.

1693
01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:32,360
Speaker 5: And starting with the protection, it kind of broke down.

1694
01:11:32,439 --> 01:11:35,080
Speaker 5: Dara saved us there on the edge to give CJ

1695
01:11:35,439 --> 01:11:37,800
Speaker 5: like one more hitch to be able to deliver you

1696
01:11:37,880 --> 01:11:41,439
Speaker 5: talk about the accuracy. I mean a perfect ball corner,

1697
01:11:41,479 --> 01:11:44,960
Speaker 5: have really tight coverage. I mean it's just when you

1698
01:11:45,040 --> 01:11:47,720
Speaker 5: need your playmakers to step up at it at a

1699
01:11:47,760 --> 01:11:50,600
Speaker 5: crucial moment in the game for Nico and CJ to

1700
01:11:50,680 --> 01:11:53,880
Speaker 5: make that play. Like I had a first I had

1701
01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:55,840
Speaker 5: a front row seat to see it, and I knew

1702
01:11:55,840 --> 01:11:56,760
Speaker 5: he got the need that.

1703
01:11:56,760 --> 01:11:59,960
Speaker 3: It was just like wow, like that was big time.

1704
01:12:00,160 --> 01:12:01,800
Speaker 4: They did he get the spot right? They didn't get

1705
01:12:01,800 --> 01:12:03,960
Speaker 4: the spot right right away? We were yelling at that

1706
01:12:04,040 --> 01:12:04,439
Speaker 4: right away.

1707
01:12:06,400 --> 01:12:08,679
Speaker 3: After he saw the replay, he got the spot right after.

1708
01:12:08,760 --> 01:12:10,400
Speaker 2: Well, there are a lot of things we were yelling about,

1709
01:12:10,560 --> 01:12:13,599
Speaker 2: but it came out the right way. Coach, with with

1710
01:12:13,880 --> 01:12:17,519
Speaker 2: Joe or just with a hot player, in particular a

1711
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:20,160
Speaker 2: running back, because it is such a physical game, and

1712
01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:21,679
Speaker 2: Joe does have a physical style.

1713
01:12:21,760 --> 01:12:23,160
Speaker 1: He runs it thirty times.

1714
01:12:24,000 --> 01:12:26,439
Speaker 2: When a guy is hot, how do you kind of

1715
01:12:26,479 --> 01:12:28,800
Speaker 2: balance out, you know what, I don't want to run

1716
01:12:28,880 --> 01:12:30,800
Speaker 2: him this much because I know I've got to have

1717
01:12:30,960 --> 01:12:33,760
Speaker 2: him this entire season, but yet he's hot and he's

1718
01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:35,479
Speaker 2: telling me he wants the rock. How do you kind

1719
01:12:35,520 --> 01:12:38,800
Speaker 2: of balance that out to make sure that he makes

1720
01:12:38,840 --> 01:12:40,639
Speaker 2: it through the game safe and all that kind of stuff.

1721
01:12:40,680 --> 01:12:42,160
Speaker 1: Getting thirty carries the way that he did.

1722
01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:44,519
Speaker 5: Yeah, you still, you just have a feel than Joe

1723
01:12:44,560 --> 01:12:46,640
Speaker 5: had a lot of great runs and some runs I

1724
01:12:46,640 --> 01:12:48,080
Speaker 5: see it like, oh it looks like.

1725
01:12:48,080 --> 01:12:49,080
Speaker 3: He's a little guy.

1726
01:12:49,439 --> 01:12:51,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, slow him down a little bit. So

1727
01:12:51,760 --> 01:12:54,040
Speaker 5: you just have a feel and keep an eye on him.

1728
01:12:54,040 --> 01:12:57,639
Speaker 5: And coach Danny Barry does a great job of rotating

1729
01:12:57,680 --> 01:13:00,200
Speaker 5: the guys in and out at the right time, and

1730
01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:03,120
Speaker 5: it's it's more so up to Danny because his eyes

1731
01:13:03,120 --> 01:13:06,000
Speaker 5: are on them as close as anyone, so he makes

1732
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:06,400
Speaker 5: that call.

1733
01:13:06,560 --> 01:13:09,080
Speaker 2: And to that end, after the third and eleven, I

1734
01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:11,240
Speaker 2: think everybody on the sideline was like, yeah, we got

1735
01:13:11,320 --> 01:13:13,040
Speaker 2: you still to get a first down, right, And so

1736
01:13:13,160 --> 01:13:15,479
Speaker 2: you get to third and three and there's so many

1737
01:13:15,520 --> 01:13:18,120
Speaker 2: big plays in the game, but I can't remember a

1738
01:13:18,160 --> 01:13:20,840
Speaker 2: time coach when it was third and three, third and short,

1739
01:13:20,920 --> 01:13:23,240
Speaker 2: whatever it was, and we got to get that first

1740
01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:25,160
Speaker 2: down and you toss the running back and he goes

1741
01:13:25,200 --> 01:13:27,519
Speaker 2: and gets it. I mean, that was that was maybe

1742
01:13:27,560 --> 01:13:30,040
Speaker 2: the coolest moment all day because you just really stuck

1743
01:13:30,040 --> 01:13:31,439
Speaker 2: it at him and got that first down at the end.

1744
01:13:31,479 --> 01:13:32,920
Speaker 1: How did you see that playoff.

1745
01:13:32,479 --> 01:13:35,240
Speaker 5: Man saw it the same it was we lined up

1746
01:13:35,240 --> 01:13:38,360
Speaker 5: and I we got a little bump motion from I

1747
01:13:38,360 --> 01:13:40,559
Speaker 5: think it was Cade and we actually had two guys

1748
01:13:40,560 --> 01:13:42,080
Speaker 5: where free and the K was able to get a

1749
01:13:42,080 --> 01:13:44,760
Speaker 5: piece one of the guys and Joe I think, I

1750
01:13:44,760 --> 01:13:46,880
Speaker 5: think those guys just got tired of tackling.

1751
01:13:48,080 --> 01:13:49,920
Speaker 3: A while and it was so deflating.

1752
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:53,479
Speaker 5: Probably once Nko catches the ball on third and eleven,

1753
01:13:53,560 --> 01:13:57,400
Speaker 5: it's like a little deflating. But man, the blocking again

1754
01:13:57,560 --> 01:13:59,600
Speaker 5: and showed true and that was the That was the

1755
01:13:59,640 --> 01:14:02,120
Speaker 5: clip that I ended my team meeting with today, just

1756
01:14:02,120 --> 01:14:04,439
Speaker 5: to show like, man, this is what is about.

1757
01:14:04,600 --> 01:14:08,200
Speaker 3: It's about how you finish game when we know we

1758
01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:08,920
Speaker 3: have to run it.

1759
01:14:09,200 --> 01:14:11,040
Speaker 5: They know we have to run it, and you can

1760
01:14:11,080 --> 01:14:14,080
Speaker 5: still go run it, execute and get the yards you

1761
01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:14,880
Speaker 5: need for the first down.

1762
01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:17,960
Speaker 4: For the Bears, do you even look at the Hall

1763
01:14:18,000 --> 01:14:20,760
Speaker 4: of Fame game at all? Because that's pretty deep into

1764
01:14:20,800 --> 01:14:23,559
Speaker 4: the depth charts. Some of those guys aren't around. What

1765
01:14:23,640 --> 01:14:25,759
Speaker 4: do you do to get ready for this team besides

1766
01:14:25,840 --> 01:14:26,360
Speaker 4: Week one?

1767
01:14:26,920 --> 01:14:29,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, for them, I wouldn't. I wouldn't look at the

1768
01:14:29,920 --> 01:14:33,080
Speaker 5: Hall of Fame game. You watch their their Week one

1769
01:14:33,160 --> 01:14:36,520
Speaker 5: game and then go back to some things from Seattle

1770
01:14:36,640 --> 01:14:39,240
Speaker 5: with the Waldron, their offensive coordinator, go back and see,

1771
01:14:39,560 --> 01:14:42,120
Speaker 5: you know what he's done in his career as a

1772
01:14:42,120 --> 01:14:46,479
Speaker 5: play caller and for the for our offense, right ibra

1773
01:14:46,520 --> 01:14:48,759
Speaker 5: Flus has been there for a few years, so their defense,

1774
01:14:49,120 --> 01:14:52,400
Speaker 5: defensive structure players are still pretty much the same. But

1775
01:14:52,479 --> 01:14:54,479
Speaker 5: for the offense, we'll have to take a peek at

1776
01:14:54,479 --> 01:14:55,559
Speaker 5: some of the Seattle things.

1777
01:14:56,040 --> 01:14:58,920
Speaker 2: Coach, will you talk to your college scouts a little

1778
01:14:58,920 --> 01:15:00,960
Speaker 2: bit about Caleb or just try and rely on what

1779
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:02,920
Speaker 2: you see in the game against Tennessee. We're trying to

1780
01:15:02,920 --> 01:15:05,600
Speaker 2: bring any of what he did because imagine after a

1781
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:07,760
Speaker 2: week one outing, he may go back to doing some

1782
01:15:07,800 --> 01:15:09,000
Speaker 2: of the things that he's customer doing.

1783
01:15:09,000 --> 01:15:10,120
Speaker 1: How do you kind of handle that? Do you go

1784
01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:11,600
Speaker 1: back and talk to your college scouts or take some

1785
01:15:11,640 --> 01:15:12,160
Speaker 1: of that forward?

1786
01:15:12,200 --> 01:15:13,960
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that was my question to Nick last night

1787
01:15:14,040 --> 01:15:16,280
Speaker 5: on the plane, like, hey, college scouts, they're ready to

1788
01:15:16,320 --> 01:15:18,760
Speaker 5: go on Caleb, right, So yeah, he was like, yeah,

1789
01:15:18,800 --> 01:15:21,720
Speaker 5: they're ready to go. They'll have a report on, you know,

1790
01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:24,720
Speaker 5: on them for college. So it's pretty It's pretty cool, man.

1791
01:15:24,720 --> 01:15:26,880
Speaker 5: That's how the building works. Like all the work that

1792
01:15:26,920 --> 01:15:30,280
Speaker 5: our scouts put in right as their scouting college players,

1793
01:15:30,360 --> 01:15:33,800
Speaker 5: Like how important is that now because I don't have

1794
01:15:33,880 --> 01:15:37,879
Speaker 5: a much background of Kleb and what he's done in college,

1795
01:15:37,880 --> 01:15:40,320
Speaker 5: but to be able to rely on our scouting department

1796
01:15:40,360 --> 01:15:43,000
Speaker 5: and they're expertise in that area, and that's going to

1797
01:15:43,040 --> 01:15:44,200
Speaker 5: help us prepare for week two.

1798
01:15:44,439 --> 01:15:47,800
Speaker 4: All right, the Amigy Bank ask coach question of the

1799
01:15:47,880 --> 01:15:52,240
Speaker 4: week work life balance. Coach, how does it apply with

1800
01:15:52,439 --> 01:15:54,559
Speaker 4: you and your staff? I know it's important you feel

1801
01:15:54,560 --> 01:15:57,680
Speaker 4: like your staff should be family people and really embrace that.

1802
01:15:57,920 --> 01:16:00,120
Speaker 4: Yet you want to work hard to be great at football.

1803
01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:01,280
Speaker 4: How do you balance all of that?

1804
01:16:02,080 --> 01:16:03,840
Speaker 3: And that's an awesome question.

1805
01:16:04,439 --> 01:16:08,160
Speaker 5: First off, from on like a day like tomorrow, on Tuesday,

1806
01:16:08,200 --> 01:16:11,439
Speaker 5: it's our game plan day. Coaches are here fairly pretty

1807
01:16:11,479 --> 01:16:14,679
Speaker 5: late on Tuesday game planning. So what we did starting

1808
01:16:14,760 --> 01:16:18,120
Speaker 5: last year and thankful to Cal and Handle for providing

1809
01:16:18,160 --> 01:16:20,559
Speaker 5: as far as but we were able to have family

1810
01:16:20,640 --> 01:16:24,320
Speaker 5: dinner here at the facility with our family, so wife

1811
01:16:24,320 --> 01:16:27,840
Speaker 5: and kids can come over and have dinner with their

1812
01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:30,840
Speaker 5: husbands and you get you know, a couple hour hour,

1813
01:16:31,360 --> 01:16:33,240
Speaker 5: hour and a half or two just to see the kids.

1814
01:16:33,240 --> 01:16:35,320
Speaker 5: You can run around for a little bit knowing it's

1815
01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:37,519
Speaker 5: going to be a late night. That shows that that

1816
01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:40,519
Speaker 5: family is important, and I try to make sure guys

1817
01:16:40,840 --> 01:16:41,439
Speaker 5: understand that.

1818
01:16:41,720 --> 01:16:43,960
Speaker 4: And Friday is the big day, right Friday, when you

1819
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:45,800
Speaker 4: get off a little tiny bit early and get some

1820
01:16:45,880 --> 01:16:47,480
Speaker 4: Friday night time with the family.

1821
01:16:47,240 --> 01:16:50,160
Speaker 5: No doubt, then Friday is that's the day I tell

1822
01:16:50,240 --> 01:16:52,599
Speaker 5: guys to kick them out, say go pick your kids

1823
01:16:52,680 --> 01:16:55,400
Speaker 5: up from school, Like we're out pretty much after practice,

1824
01:16:55,439 --> 01:16:58,160
Speaker 5: we're done, you know, as a staff, go pick your

1825
01:16:58,200 --> 01:17:01,400
Speaker 5: kids up from school and you know, spend time with them,

1826
01:17:01,439 --> 01:17:03,599
Speaker 5: and then you have the evening to have a date

1827
01:17:03,680 --> 01:17:04,479
Speaker 5: night with your wife.

1828
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:06,479
Speaker 1: Very nice coach, Thanks a lot, good luck.

1829
01:17:06,479 --> 01:17:09,360
Speaker 2: I guess we always appreciate to Miko in the time

1830
01:17:09,400 --> 01:17:12,200
Speaker 2: we get with him. And it's always really really really

1831
01:17:12,200 --> 01:17:15,880
Speaker 2: really fun, especially after a win. Okay, coming up, something

1832
01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:18,400
Speaker 2: really fun that we had a chance to do, Mark

1833
01:17:18,439 --> 01:17:22,360
Speaker 2: and I we got a call from Jeff Joniac and

1834
01:17:22,439 --> 01:17:24,840
Speaker 2: Tom Thayer and they wanted the two of us to

1835
01:17:24,880 --> 01:17:28,120
Speaker 2: come on and talk about the Texans, talk about the Bears,

1836
01:17:28,280 --> 01:17:30,320
Speaker 2: and so we did. We had a really good conversation.

1837
01:17:30,760 --> 01:17:33,120
Speaker 2: They asked a lot of the questions, but we answered him.

1838
01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:35,720
Speaker 2: So let's do that next. Let's finish up with a

1839
01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:37,840
Speaker 2: little bit from that conversation. We went for about thirty

1840
01:17:37,840 --> 01:17:39,400
Speaker 2: five minutes. So let's have a little bit from that

1841
01:17:39,439 --> 01:17:43,920
Speaker 2: conversation next. Jeff, Joniac, tomp there, Marv, Vandrir and me

1842
01:17:44,080 --> 01:17:45,360
Speaker 2: right here in Texans All Access.

1843
01:17:45,520 --> 01:17:46,520
Speaker 1: What's happened? Everybody?

1844
01:17:46,360 --> 01:17:49,040
Speaker 2: A one final segment of this Friday initiative Texans All

1845
01:17:49,240 --> 01:17:52,200
Speaker 2: Access and then we're sticking around from eight to nine

1846
01:17:52,320 --> 01:17:56,120
Speaker 2: on Fridays with a little bit more Texans All Access. Mark,

1847
01:17:56,160 --> 01:17:59,439
Speaker 2: we'll have you for the next hour. But Mark and

1848
01:17:59,479 --> 01:18:01,800
Speaker 2: I had the opp or two to do something pretty fun.

1849
01:18:02,479 --> 01:18:05,120
Speaker 2: Jeff Joniack and Tom Thayer have kind of taken on

1850
01:18:05,200 --> 01:18:06,920
Speaker 2: something that Mark and I have done, or I actually

1851
01:18:06,960 --> 01:18:08,880
Speaker 2: have asked Mark to do. This is many many years ago.

1852
01:18:09,160 --> 01:18:12,040
Speaker 2: I used to tell Marcus and Mark, nobody knows the

1853
01:18:12,080 --> 01:18:15,760
Speaker 2: teams quite like the voices of the teams. I said,

1854
01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:18,000
Speaker 2: why don't you each week call up the voice of

1855
01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:20,240
Speaker 2: the team, get them on, talk about the game, ask

1856
01:18:20,280 --> 01:18:22,080
Speaker 2: him questions, and then you hear both of the voices

1857
01:18:22,120 --> 01:18:22,720
Speaker 2: that I'll call the game.

1858
01:18:22,760 --> 01:18:24,240
Speaker 1: You love the idea. We've been doing it for about

1859
01:18:24,240 --> 01:18:24,719
Speaker 1: eight years.

1860
01:18:25,360 --> 01:18:28,479
Speaker 2: Well, the Bears started something like that this year with

1861
01:18:28,600 --> 01:18:31,599
Speaker 2: Jeff Joniack and Tom Thayer. They are the two calling

1862
01:18:31,640 --> 01:18:35,320
Speaker 2: the game for the Bears, And they called up and said, Hey, Mark,

1863
01:18:35,320 --> 01:18:36,960
Speaker 2: do you think you and John would like to join

1864
01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:38,800
Speaker 2: us and we can just kind of talk about this

1865
01:18:38,920 --> 01:18:41,320
Speaker 2: game and answer questions about the Texans and your thoughts

1866
01:18:41,320 --> 01:18:41,840
Speaker 2: on the Bears.

1867
01:18:42,280 --> 01:18:45,120
Speaker 1: Bingo, let's do it. Let's go. We thought it was

1868
01:18:45,160 --> 01:18:47,000
Speaker 1: pretty good, so let's run it right here.

1869
01:18:47,600 --> 01:18:51,000
Speaker 2: Here's Jeff Joniac, Tom Theyer, Mark vandermir and me talking

1870
01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:52,439
Speaker 2: about this one Bears v.

1871
01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:52,960
Speaker 1: Texans.

1872
01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:54,760
Speaker 12: All right, now, time to go in depth on the

1873
01:18:54,760 --> 01:18:58,400
Speaker 12: Houston Texans with Tom Thayer. We've got Mark vandermer the

1874
01:18:58,400 --> 01:19:01,200
Speaker 12: longtime voice of the Houston Texans and their sideline reporter

1875
01:19:01,280 --> 01:19:04,439
Speaker 12: and outstanding analyst who does a tonnel work for the

1876
01:19:04,479 --> 01:19:10,360
Speaker 12: Houston Texans platforms, dot com and Twitter and gosh knows

1877
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:12,800
Speaker 12: what else. John Harris, you guys have been together for

1878
01:19:12,800 --> 01:19:15,960
Speaker 12: a long time. Thanks for joining us. And Tom, you

1879
01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:18,679
Speaker 12: and I. You know, we're doing this today from our homes.

1880
01:19:18,720 --> 01:19:21,759
Speaker 12: They're in a studio. Very technical, but there's a reason

1881
01:19:21,840 --> 01:19:24,720
Speaker 12: for this, Tom, because Mark Vandermier is also the vice

1882
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:29,240
Speaker 12: president of broadcasting for the Houston Texans, so he's got

1883
01:19:29,320 --> 01:19:32,600
Speaker 12: a double title. So you know he's fancy here. This

1884
01:19:32,680 --> 01:19:35,960
Speaker 12: is not his first rodeo. They also have a studio audience.

1885
01:19:36,280 --> 01:19:38,639
Speaker 12: You and I we sit by our loans themselves. They

1886
01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:40,519
Speaker 12: got to cast the thousands in there.

1887
01:19:40,880 --> 01:19:43,559
Speaker 9: It's like, you know, watching the episode of Let's Make

1888
01:19:43,600 --> 01:19:44,599
Speaker 9: a Deal or something.

1889
01:19:45,439 --> 01:19:48,559
Speaker 4: There's one guy over here and he's doing his taxes

1890
01:19:48,680 --> 01:19:51,639
Speaker 4: or something. I don't know what's going on, no studio audience.

1891
01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:56,599
Speaker 4: What's going on in h town? Fellas excitement, excitement galore

1892
01:19:56,720 --> 01:19:59,519
Speaker 4: for Sunday Night football. It's going to be Liberty white out,

1893
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:03,280
Speaker 4: so everybody's encouraged to wear white to the game. I

1894
01:20:03,280 --> 01:20:05,599
Speaker 4: think if the Bears were white too, that'd be very helpful,

1895
01:20:05,640 --> 01:20:07,640
Speaker 4: but I don't think they will. But the Texans will

1896
01:20:07,680 --> 01:20:10,040
Speaker 4: be decked out in their new Liberty white uniforms. It's

1897
01:20:10,080 --> 01:20:12,720
Speaker 4: gonna be fun, obviously, both teams coming off of win.

1898
01:20:12,760 --> 01:20:14,880
Speaker 4: You guys know this is awesome. It's gonna be a

1899
01:20:14,960 --> 01:20:16,080
Speaker 4: jacked up atmosphere.

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01:20:16,720 --> 01:20:16,880
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1901
01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:18,760
Speaker 2: I think what's interesting we were just talking with the

1902
01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:21,400
Speaker 2: Cassario or a GM guys, and we played in twenty

1903
01:20:21,400 --> 01:20:21,880
Speaker 2: twenty two.

1904
01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:23,880
Speaker 1: I mean, that doesn't seem like all that long ago.

1905
01:20:23,920 --> 01:20:25,320
Speaker 1: I mean it was just two years ago.

1906
01:20:25,680 --> 01:20:29,000
Speaker 2: But you think about how different these two organizations are

1907
01:20:29,520 --> 01:20:32,280
Speaker 2: in just two years. I mean, you guys go through

1908
01:20:32,560 --> 01:20:34,519
Speaker 2: you know, the Justin Fields experience, and then you get

1909
01:20:34,560 --> 01:20:36,960
Speaker 2: to Caleb this year and just the changes. I mean,

1910
01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:39,280
Speaker 2: Montee comes over last year, and I mean it just

1911
01:20:39,320 --> 01:20:41,600
Speaker 2: gives you guys such a boost defensively, and yeah, the

1912
01:20:41,640 --> 01:20:43,960
Speaker 2: secondary for you guys was starting to kind of come

1913
01:20:43,960 --> 01:20:46,160
Speaker 2: into shape. But for us, you look back to twenty

1914
01:20:46,200 --> 01:20:48,439
Speaker 2: twenty two and you're like, man, who still exists from

1915
01:20:48,439 --> 01:20:51,000
Speaker 2: that team on twenty twenty two. So even though it

1916
01:20:51,080 --> 01:20:53,960
Speaker 2: was just two years ago, these teams are in incredibly

1917
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:54,679
Speaker 2: different shape.

1918
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Speaker 1: And I think that's gonna make Sunday Night really exciting.

1919
01:20:57,200 --> 01:20:59,720
Speaker 9: Well, you know a part of your recent success where

1920
01:20:59,720 --> 01:21:03,240
Speaker 9: you got curious of your scheduling before the schedule came

1921
01:21:03,280 --> 01:21:06,720
Speaker 9: out about your national audiences. This is a Sunday night

1922
01:21:06,760 --> 01:21:11,000
Speaker 9: game to open up your season at home, and are

1923
01:21:11,000 --> 01:21:13,680
Speaker 9: you happy with the way that your team is scheduled

1924
01:21:13,680 --> 01:21:14,320
Speaker 9: this season?

1925
01:21:14,720 --> 01:21:17,880
Speaker 4: We do fourteen hours of radio every week, so we

1926
01:21:17,960 --> 01:21:20,599
Speaker 4: have nothing better to talk about than what's the schedule

1927
01:21:20,640 --> 01:21:23,240
Speaker 4: going to be? Like I'm kidding, the off season is

1928
01:21:23,280 --> 01:21:25,559
Speaker 4: exciting by the way, we have fewer hours in the

1929
01:21:25,560 --> 01:21:27,680
Speaker 4: off season just five hours of radio a week. But

1930
01:21:27,760 --> 01:21:31,160
Speaker 4: the point is this, Yeah, we were placing little fun

1931
01:21:31,280 --> 01:21:35,000
Speaker 4: gentlemen bets on what the amount of primetime games would be.

1932
01:21:35,200 --> 01:21:38,240
Speaker 4: Now we have seven national windows, including the Hall of

1933
01:21:38,320 --> 01:21:40,880
Speaker 4: Fame game with the Bears six in the regular season,

1934
01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:43,240
Speaker 4: this being one of them, and we knew it would

1935
01:21:43,240 --> 01:21:45,240
Speaker 4: be a lot. But that's more than I thought because

1936
01:21:45,280 --> 01:21:47,400
Speaker 4: the Texans have the Christmas Day game, so you add

1937
01:21:47,400 --> 01:21:49,320
Speaker 4: that into the mix. You got a Thursday night or

1938
01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:50,960
Speaker 4: at the Jets. I'm not going to go through them all,

1939
01:21:51,160 --> 01:21:53,240
Speaker 4: but it's a lot, and you expect it because you've

1940
01:21:53,280 --> 01:21:56,080
Speaker 4: got a hot quarterback and what should be a good team.

1941
01:21:56,520 --> 01:21:59,080
Speaker 12: Well, we're in each other's divisions this year, so we're

1942
01:21:59,080 --> 01:22:01,120
Speaker 12: gonna find out who wins the AFC South and the

1943
01:22:01,200 --> 01:22:04,720
Speaker 12: NFC North. Oddly enough, and we got three out of

1944
01:22:04,720 --> 01:22:08,040
Speaker 12: the first four weeks. Crazy, and you're both in the division.

1945
01:22:08,080 --> 01:22:10,320
Speaker 12: We're both one and oh in the AFC South. So

1946
01:22:10,360 --> 01:22:13,280
Speaker 12: how about that. Yes, thank you for beating Tennessee. We

1947
01:22:13,320 --> 01:22:14,320
Speaker 12: really appreciate that.

1948
01:22:14,680 --> 01:22:16,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, or maybe we can thank Will Levis for that,

1949
01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:19,360
Speaker 2: but either way, Yeah, it's gonna be pretty exciting. I mean,

1950
01:22:19,360 --> 01:22:21,880
Speaker 2: this is the first time we're playing a Sunday night

1951
01:22:21,880 --> 01:22:25,240
Speaker 2: game at home. Actually, it's our first Sunday night game

1952
01:22:25,280 --> 01:22:27,599
Speaker 2: at home. I think definitely the first Sunday night game

1953
01:22:27,600 --> 01:22:29,559
Speaker 2: at home in five years. Five years, so we haven't

1954
01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:33,400
Speaker 2: been on Sunday night football since before COVID. We beat

1955
01:22:33,400 --> 01:22:36,800
Speaker 2: the Patriots that night, and then obviously our organization took

1956
01:22:36,840 --> 01:22:39,080
Speaker 2: a turn and we had every single game at noon

1957
01:22:39,200 --> 01:22:41,960
Speaker 2: last year. Tom to your question, we were at noon

1958
01:22:42,160 --> 01:22:44,559
Speaker 2: every single week last year until we got to Week

1959
01:22:44,600 --> 01:22:47,559
Speaker 2: eighteen against Indeapolis, Colt. So to see a bunch of

1960
01:22:47,560 --> 01:22:50,000
Speaker 2: primetime games on the schedule this year, we were all

1961
01:22:50,040 --> 01:22:52,120
Speaker 2: really excited about that. We're just kind of curious where

1962
01:22:52,120 --> 01:22:52,840
Speaker 2: it was all going to go.

1963
01:22:53,240 --> 01:22:56,840
Speaker 12: So this, Tommy, can I just ask you, this goes

1964
01:22:56,960 --> 01:23:00,400
Speaker 12: right into my thought process then about okay, time in

1965
01:23:00,479 --> 01:23:02,639
Speaker 12: five years, I did not know that, Thank you, John Harris.

1966
01:23:03,400 --> 01:23:05,800
Speaker 12: So they're gonna be whipped into a frenzy, and so

1967
01:23:05,920 --> 01:23:07,920
Speaker 12: the Bears are going to be walking into quite the

1968
01:23:07,960 --> 01:23:09,280
Speaker 12: trap over there in Texas.

1969
01:23:09,520 --> 01:23:12,640
Speaker 1: I mean, it's gonna be loud. Yeah, what did you expect?

1970
01:23:12,720 --> 01:23:14,200
Speaker 1: I mean, this is gonna be insane.

1971
01:23:14,400 --> 01:23:16,719
Speaker 9: And it's kind of a part of my question because

1972
01:23:16,960 --> 01:23:19,640
Speaker 9: when is the last time that you walked into a

1973
01:23:19,680 --> 01:23:23,680
Speaker 9: season with expectations because of your success last year. The

1974
01:23:23,760 --> 01:23:26,920
Speaker 9: expectations of your fan base is you match that and

1975
01:23:27,600 --> 01:23:30,639
Speaker 9: improve upon it. When is the last time going into

1976
01:23:30,680 --> 01:23:35,880
Speaker 9: the season that you've had expectations of this status?

1977
01:23:36,240 --> 01:23:37,320
Speaker 1: Of this status?

1978
01:23:37,479 --> 01:23:40,080
Speaker 4: I have to go back to maybe twenty twelve right

1979
01:23:40,200 --> 01:23:43,880
Speaker 4: now with Bill O'Brien to be fair. Look, going into

1980
01:23:43,880 --> 01:23:45,680
Speaker 4: twenty nineteen, we thought the team was going to be

1981
01:23:45,720 --> 01:23:49,120
Speaker 4: pretty good and they went to the playoffs in twenty eighteen.

1982
01:23:49,360 --> 01:23:53,639
Speaker 4: That was Watson's second season, first season back from knee surgery.

1983
01:23:53,680 --> 01:23:56,600
Speaker 4: We thought twenty nineteen, let's go. But they made a

1984
01:23:56,600 --> 01:23:59,680
Speaker 4: big trade before the season, getting Laramie Tunsel. They had

1985
01:23:59,680 --> 01:24:02,000
Speaker 4: to get a running back because they lost Lamar Miller

1986
01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:02,680
Speaker 4: in the preseason.

1987
01:24:02,680 --> 01:24:03,839
Speaker 1: They got Carlos Hide.

1988
01:24:04,160 --> 01:24:06,280
Speaker 4: We knew they weren't as good as this team is

1989
01:24:06,360 --> 01:24:09,439
Speaker 4: projected to be, and Johnny, I think you'd agree after

1990
01:24:09,479 --> 01:24:13,439
Speaker 4: this opener this team has a lot of potential, but you.

1991
01:24:13,400 --> 01:24:14,599
Speaker 1: Got to keep it going. Obviously.

1992
01:24:14,680 --> 01:24:17,360
Speaker 2: Well, I think the thing that nobody saw coming was

1993
01:24:17,479 --> 01:24:19,639
Speaker 2: Joe Mixon for thirty carries in one hundred and fifty

1994
01:24:19,680 --> 01:24:22,040
Speaker 2: nine yards in a touchdown, Like nobody saw that coming.

1995
01:24:22,080 --> 01:24:25,200
Speaker 2: He was injured or in training camp when I don't

1996
01:24:25,200 --> 01:24:27,800
Speaker 2: even know that he traveled to Ohio. I think he

1997
01:24:27,880 --> 01:24:29,960
Speaker 2: might have been there, but I don't remember, and I

1998
01:24:29,960 --> 01:24:31,760
Speaker 2: think we talked about it in the booth guys of

1999
01:24:31,800 --> 01:24:32,400
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame game.

2000
01:24:32,400 --> 01:24:33,800
Speaker 1: I don't know that he was there.

2001
01:24:33,920 --> 01:24:36,760
Speaker 2: And then we saw him very limited in training camp

2002
01:24:36,760 --> 01:24:38,839
Speaker 2: and he didn't play in a preseason game. So everybody's

2003
01:24:38,880 --> 01:24:40,360
Speaker 2: kind of like, well, what's the deal with Joe Mixon?

2004
01:24:40,400 --> 01:24:42,479
Speaker 2: How's this going to look? And we saw it a

2005
01:24:42,560 --> 01:24:44,799
Speaker 2: little bit in the practice. We had a joint practice

2006
01:24:44,840 --> 01:24:47,160
Speaker 2: with the Rams, and Joe had a really good practice

2007
01:24:47,160 --> 01:24:49,720
Speaker 2: and thought, man, if they can put that together. But

2008
01:24:49,880 --> 01:24:51,920
Speaker 2: to me, it was more about the passing game, like, okay,

2009
01:24:51,920 --> 01:24:54,120
Speaker 2: you can use Joe in the passing game, but look,

2010
01:24:54,160 --> 01:24:57,080
Speaker 2: if he runs for seventy five to eighty yards, we'll

2011
01:24:57,120 --> 01:24:58,000
Speaker 2: be dancing.

2012
01:24:57,680 --> 01:24:58,360
Speaker 1: In the streets.

2013
01:24:58,960 --> 01:25:01,559
Speaker 2: And then they just took to a defensive front that

2014
01:25:02,200 --> 01:25:05,959
Speaker 2: has dominated that that Grover Stewart DeForest Buckner front.

2015
01:25:05,760 --> 01:25:08,400
Speaker 1: Has dominated us for years years.

2016
01:25:08,439 --> 01:25:11,439
Speaker 2: I mean even in beating them in Week eighteen, we

2017
01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:14,160
Speaker 2: threw the football against him, but we couldn't run for

2018
01:25:14,920 --> 01:25:17,280
Speaker 2: I mean, we couldn't run for two yards. In that game,

2019
01:25:17,320 --> 01:25:19,719
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, here's Joe Mixon pounding

2020
01:25:19,720 --> 01:25:22,120
Speaker 2: and pounding and it's eight yards, it's thirteen, it's six,

2021
01:25:22,200 --> 01:25:22,679
Speaker 2: it's five.

2022
01:25:22,960 --> 01:25:23,920
Speaker 1: He just kept going.

2023
01:25:23,960 --> 01:25:27,639
Speaker 2: And we're talking during the broadcast during breaks like are

2024
01:25:27,640 --> 01:25:28,320
Speaker 2: we seeing this?

2025
01:25:29,040 --> 01:25:31,439
Speaker 1: Because that got us even more excited, thinking, all.

2026
01:25:31,400 --> 01:25:34,519
Speaker 2: Right, if you are the Bears, what do you go

2027
01:25:34,640 --> 01:25:36,920
Speaker 2: into your defensive meeting room and say, like, okay, we

2028
01:25:36,960 --> 01:25:39,000
Speaker 2: got to stop these three wide receivers. But all of

2029
01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:41,000
Speaker 2: a sudden, man, if we kind of play a little

2030
01:25:41,000 --> 01:25:44,200
Speaker 2: bit more nickel or dime, even, does that mean that

2031
01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:46,559
Speaker 2: they're gonna run Joe Mixon another twenty five to thirty

2032
01:25:46,560 --> 01:25:48,439
Speaker 2: times and now the Bears have to stop that. And

2033
01:25:48,520 --> 01:25:51,240
Speaker 2: so it just added a whole different dimension that we

2034
01:25:51,280 --> 01:25:53,400
Speaker 2: really didn't even see coming. We thought the running game

2035
01:25:53,400 --> 01:25:56,479
Speaker 2: would be better, but to do that against that team,

2036
01:25:56,560 --> 01:25:58,760
Speaker 2: I think, let us know, maybe this is gonna be

2037
01:25:58,800 --> 01:26:01,240
Speaker 2: a little bit better of front than we thought. And look,

2038
01:26:01,280 --> 01:26:03,120
Speaker 2: running against the Bear is not gonna be easy. I mean,

2039
01:26:03,160 --> 01:26:05,320
Speaker 2: we know that front is really really good. You know

2040
01:26:05,360 --> 01:26:07,240
Speaker 2: Nick Cassaria, we just had him in here and he's like, man,

2041
01:26:07,280 --> 01:26:08,840
Speaker 2: if you thought the Cults were good, wait to see

2042
01:26:08,840 --> 01:26:09,280
Speaker 2: the Bears.

2043
01:26:09,280 --> 01:26:11,000
Speaker 1: So it's not gonna be easy, but just to.

2044
01:26:10,960 --> 01:26:13,840
Speaker 2: Have that element of a run game, to not allow

2045
01:26:13,960 --> 01:26:16,960
Speaker 2: defenses to just go, Okay, well we're gonna We're gonna

2046
01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:18,800
Speaker 2: dare you to run and just sit back there and

2047
01:26:18,840 --> 01:26:21,080
Speaker 2: take away the pass. Okay, well if you dares to

2048
01:26:21,160 --> 01:26:22,400
Speaker 2: run now and now we can hurt you. And I

2049
01:26:22,439 --> 01:26:23,960
Speaker 2: think we showed that on Sunday and that was really

2050
01:26:24,040 --> 01:26:24,559
Speaker 2: nice to see.

2051
01:26:25,120 --> 01:26:27,840
Speaker 9: So when you look at what the Houston Texans brought in,

2052
01:26:28,120 --> 01:26:31,760
Speaker 9: did you need both Danil Hunter and Joe Mixon in

2053
01:26:31,840 --> 01:26:34,840
Speaker 9: order to get this team to the next level or

2054
01:26:35,160 --> 01:26:38,640
Speaker 9: could you have won about your business with either facet

2055
01:26:39,479 --> 01:26:40,840
Speaker 9: staying a status quo.

2056
01:26:41,479 --> 01:26:44,519
Speaker 4: You had to replace Jonathan Grenard because he was leaving

2057
01:26:44,600 --> 01:26:47,400
Speaker 4: via free agency. You had to fight a running back,

2058
01:26:47,439 --> 01:26:49,880
Speaker 4: and they were in on the Barkley sweepstakes. Obviously didn't

2059
01:26:49,920 --> 01:26:53,200
Speaker 4: get that Devin Singletary. Nick was very honest that they

2060
01:26:53,320 --> 01:26:55,680
Speaker 4: made an offer to Devin Singletary, who's now with the

2061
01:26:55,720 --> 01:26:57,280
Speaker 4: New York Giants. He was a pretty good back for

2062
01:26:57,320 --> 01:26:59,880
Speaker 4: the Texans last year. Mix In is at another level.

2063
01:27:00,000 --> 01:27:03,439
Speaker 4: You know, mixing is he Barkley is he? Let's not

2064
01:27:03,520 --> 01:27:05,760
Speaker 4: even debate it. Mixing is a really good back, and

2065
01:27:05,800 --> 01:27:08,600
Speaker 4: he's great in this system. And I haven't seen a

2066
01:27:08,680 --> 01:27:11,439
Speaker 4: back this kind of back, this kind of production from

2067
01:27:11,439 --> 01:27:14,960
Speaker 4: a back, and the potential since Arian Foster. Because Arian

2068
01:27:14,960 --> 01:27:17,760
Speaker 4: Foster was so good for this team. Arian Foster caught

2069
01:27:17,760 --> 01:27:21,040
Speaker 4: the ball so well Mixing, you look at his receptions

2070
01:27:21,080 --> 01:27:23,800
Speaker 4: throughout his stay in Cincinnati. We haven't had a back

2071
01:27:23,920 --> 01:27:26,960
Speaker 4: like that who could catch the ball like that since Arian.

2072
01:27:27,200 --> 01:27:29,600
Speaker 4: So I'm excited to see all the little nuances what

2073
01:27:29,640 --> 01:27:32,360
Speaker 4: they can do offensively as they continue to move forward.

2074
01:27:32,400 --> 01:27:32,599
Speaker 3: Here.

2075
01:27:32,680 --> 01:27:35,120
Speaker 12: John, you got your masters of the University of Virginia

2076
01:27:35,160 --> 01:27:38,439
Speaker 12: in accounting, so let me ask you this question. Have

2077
01:27:38,560 --> 01:27:41,559
Speaker 12: you done the yard before contact with Mixing in week

2078
01:27:41,600 --> 01:27:43,439
Speaker 12: one and yards after contact?

2079
01:27:43,439 --> 01:27:45,080
Speaker 1: As I'd be curious with those numbers.

2080
01:27:45,240 --> 01:27:48,000
Speaker 2: You know, I haven't done it yet, Jeff, buddy, but

2081
01:27:48,080 --> 01:27:52,080
Speaker 2: you will kill you diver. Yeah, but with just eyes

2082
01:27:52,280 --> 01:27:55,640
Speaker 2: just seeing what we saw, I think one. You know,

2083
01:27:55,680 --> 01:27:57,839
Speaker 2: it's funny a lot of times they say that stats

2084
01:27:57,840 --> 01:28:02,800
Speaker 2: are for assistant coaches, geeks and losers. Nick Cross and

2085
01:28:02,880 --> 01:28:05,960
Speaker 2: Julian Blackman, and the two safeties for the Colts had

2086
01:28:06,040 --> 01:28:11,439
Speaker 2: fourteen and thirteen tackles, respectively. The other two corners had

2087
01:28:11,520 --> 01:28:14,400
Speaker 2: sixteen tackles between them, and that's forty three tackles in

2088
01:28:14,400 --> 01:28:18,800
Speaker 2: the secondary, and it was pretty evident that Joe was

2089
01:28:18,880 --> 01:28:19,799
Speaker 2: getting to the.

2090
01:28:19,680 --> 01:28:21,720
Speaker 1: Third level unabated.

2091
01:28:21,720 --> 01:28:25,360
Speaker 2: A number of times he was reeling off eight, ten,

2092
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:30,080
Speaker 2: thirteen yard runs and the only people there were crossing Blackman,

2093
01:28:30,280 --> 01:28:32,519
Speaker 2: and if one of those guys ended up missing the tackle,

2094
01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:34,679
Speaker 2: then Joe was gonna end up. There was one time

2095
01:28:34,760 --> 01:28:37,000
Speaker 2: Joe made one of them miss and I thought He's

2096
01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:38,760
Speaker 2: taking that to the house, and then he stumbled and

2097
01:28:38,880 --> 01:28:40,320
Speaker 2: ended up being a thirteen yard game.

2098
01:28:40,320 --> 01:28:42,840
Speaker 1: But he really he.

2099
01:28:42,880 --> 01:28:46,080
Speaker 2: Got to that level, and that's really where he physically

2100
01:28:46,200 --> 01:28:48,519
Speaker 2: like he tried to run them over each and every

2101
01:28:48,560 --> 01:28:50,640
Speaker 2: time he got back there to kind of prove that

2102
01:28:50,720 --> 01:28:53,880
Speaker 2: he has still got that physical presence about him. But

2103
01:28:54,160 --> 01:28:56,840
Speaker 2: those are the guys making the tackles, so he was

2104
01:28:56,880 --> 01:28:58,799
Speaker 2: getting there pretty easily.

2105
01:28:58,800 --> 01:29:01,720
Speaker 1: But the one thing that we've seen from Joe.

2106
01:29:02,080 --> 01:29:05,040
Speaker 2: That I think was really interesting was how fast he

2107
01:29:05,120 --> 01:29:07,120
Speaker 2: gets into the line of scrimmage. And when you're running

2108
01:29:07,160 --> 01:29:10,000
Speaker 2: at zone game, he gets into the line of scrimmage

2109
01:29:10,000 --> 01:29:11,679
Speaker 2: and so what he does, and I think Tom would

2110
01:29:11,680 --> 01:29:15,640
Speaker 2: appreciate this, is he makes his offensive lineman right no

2111
01:29:15,680 --> 01:29:19,320
Speaker 2: matter what the defensive tackles do. Defensive ends do, just

2112
01:29:19,560 --> 01:29:22,120
Speaker 2: get on him, Just get a hat on a hat,

2113
01:29:22,160 --> 01:29:25,479
Speaker 2: and let Joe go, because if you're at least on him,

2114
01:29:25,520 --> 01:29:27,160
Speaker 2: you got him locked up a little bit. The only

2115
01:29:27,160 --> 01:29:28,720
Speaker 2: thing they can do is stick an arm out to

2116
01:29:28,760 --> 01:29:31,000
Speaker 2: try and tackle him. Joe's gonna run through that, so

2117
01:29:31,040 --> 01:29:33,840
Speaker 2: he makes his offensive lineman right. And I think that

2118
01:29:33,960 --> 01:29:37,120
Speaker 2: was something that we hadn't had in a while because

2119
01:29:37,160 --> 01:29:39,120
Speaker 2: the backs would take too much time trying to read

2120
01:29:39,120 --> 01:29:41,240
Speaker 2: where they were supposed to go, and Joe is two

2121
01:29:41,240 --> 01:29:43,720
Speaker 2: steps and go. And I think that really helped our

2122
01:29:43,760 --> 01:29:47,360
Speaker 2: offensive line just get even more physical because they knew

2123
01:29:47,360 --> 01:29:49,599
Speaker 2: they could just pop off the ball and just get.

2124
01:29:49,439 --> 01:29:49,840
Speaker 1: On a guy.

2125
01:29:49,960 --> 01:29:52,200
Speaker 2: Just get physical with Buckner, and get physical with Stuart,

2126
01:29:52,400 --> 01:29:54,040
Speaker 2: and then Joe's going to take care of the rest.

2127
01:29:54,360 --> 01:29:56,160
Speaker 2: And what that ended up being in the fourth quarter

2128
01:29:56,360 --> 01:29:59,000
Speaker 2: was our offensive line locking them up and giving Joe

2129
01:29:59,040 --> 01:30:01,679
Speaker 2: some pretty good alley way to not take that contact.

2130
01:30:01,760 --> 01:30:02,000
Speaker 1: Jeff.

2131
01:30:02,560 --> 01:30:05,120
Speaker 9: One thing about mix and He's got great angular vision.

2132
01:30:05,280 --> 01:30:08,519
Speaker 9: He has a great he can pre predict how the

2133
01:30:08,560 --> 01:30:10,960
Speaker 9: hole is going to open up and where his next

2134
01:30:11,000 --> 01:30:13,920
Speaker 9: step is going to come from. Really fun watching that

2135
01:30:14,080 --> 01:30:16,840
Speaker 9: on tape so curiously. You know, we talk a lot

2136
01:30:16,880 --> 01:30:20,000
Speaker 9: about the Bears, and they talk about everybody from Roma

2137
01:30:20,080 --> 01:30:23,759
Speaker 9: Dunes to DJ Moore to Keenan Allen to Cole combe

2138
01:30:23,760 --> 01:30:25,200
Speaker 9: At to DeAndre Swift.

2139
01:30:25,439 --> 01:30:27,080
Speaker 1: Oh there's only one football.

2140
01:30:27,400 --> 01:30:30,040
Speaker 9: But when I look at you guys, and I think

2141
01:30:30,040 --> 01:30:33,599
Speaker 9: a Stefon Diggs, does he have the personality to fit

2142
01:30:33,640 --> 01:30:36,639
Speaker 9: in when you got thirty three touches including the catches

2143
01:30:36,720 --> 01:30:39,760
Speaker 9: by Joe Mixon and the other talented receivers you have

2144
01:30:39,880 --> 01:30:41,519
Speaker 9: along with the talented tight ends.

2145
01:30:42,680 --> 01:30:46,040
Speaker 1: Is he a guy that's going to fit in accordingly?

2146
01:30:46,840 --> 01:30:50,599
Speaker 9: Or if he doesn't get his predetermined desire of touches,

2147
01:30:51,360 --> 01:30:52,559
Speaker 9: will this become an issue?

2148
01:30:52,640 --> 01:30:54,519
Speaker 12: Won't be an issue if they run any plays again,

2149
01:30:54,560 --> 01:30:55,799
Speaker 12: because they run any place.

2150
01:30:56,200 --> 01:31:00,479
Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, that was a day point. Nico Collins catches

2151
01:31:00,479 --> 01:31:03,960
Speaker 4: over one hundred yards. He was amazing. Dell did his

2152
01:31:04,080 --> 01:31:07,479
Speaker 4: thing with a Carrie with three catches, dig still had

2153
01:31:07,479 --> 01:31:11,679
Speaker 4: two touchdown receptions. The whole band contributed to the sound,

2154
01:31:12,120 --> 01:31:15,120
Speaker 4: and Joe Mixon did what he did. So I think

2155
01:31:15,280 --> 01:31:17,920
Speaker 4: they call it a five headed monster what they have here.

2156
01:31:18,280 --> 01:31:20,639
Speaker 4: And I think, you know, you have to also add

2157
01:31:20,640 --> 01:31:23,240
Speaker 4: in Brevin Jordan. You know, he actually is a pretty

2158
01:31:23,240 --> 01:31:25,120
Speaker 4: good player for them at tight end. Kate still over

2159
01:31:25,200 --> 01:31:27,479
Speaker 4: played some fullback for them, and he's gonna play some

2160
01:31:27,520 --> 01:31:28,880
Speaker 4: tight end obviously, a lot.

2161
01:31:28,720 --> 01:31:29,920
Speaker 1: Of tight end. That's what he is.

2162
01:31:30,640 --> 01:31:33,679
Speaker 4: I think Diggs is fitting in very well. He likes

2163
01:31:33,720 --> 01:31:36,400
Speaker 4: it here. He likes the atmosphere. I know we talk

2164
01:31:36,439 --> 01:31:38,680
Speaker 4: about culture all the time in this business. Let me

2165
01:31:38,680 --> 01:31:40,320
Speaker 4: tell you, Demiko Ryans. I mean, I've been in the

2166
01:31:40,320 --> 01:31:42,360
Speaker 4: building for a long time. I've never seen it like this.

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Speaker 4: I've never seen football operations like this with this guy

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Speaker 4: in charge. The positive vibes, the positive attitude, win or lose,

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Speaker 4: We're all in it together. He has family night on

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Speaker 4: Tuesdays with the assistant coaches. He wants the players to

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Speaker 4: be better men, husband's fathers, he he legit wants that,

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Speaker 4: and I think they all feel that. And I think

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Speaker 4: Diggs is part of the mix right now. These are

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Speaker 4: good guys to be around. I can't anticipate that being

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Speaker 4: a problem here. I think he's gonna get plenty of touches.

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Speaker 4: But he knows he's got eyes. He knows they have

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Speaker 4: Nico Collins. He's gonna be an a league receiver in

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Speaker 4: this league. He already is. But the reputation hasn't quite

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Speaker 4: caught up with the production yet.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that was really fun stuff. But I wanted to

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Speaker 2: save one thing from our conversation. So as we were

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Speaker 2: talking about various things, we got on the USFL because

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Speaker 2: Tom Thayer had played in the USFL and so we

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01:32:35,040 --> 01:32:38,120
Speaker 2: got to talking about USFL and spring leagues, and I

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01:32:38,640 --> 01:32:40,800
Speaker 2: gave the story of Clid Davis, and I had mentioned

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Speaker 2: to both of them that Klid Davis played I think

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Speaker 2: it was twenty eight games in the counter year of

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, and I was saying how incredible that was,

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Speaker 2: and then Jeff Jony Act, the.

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Speaker 1: Voice of the Bear, stopped and said, well, he said.

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Speaker 12: This, but Tom, you have the honors tell him how

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Speaker 12: many games you played in one calendar year with the

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Speaker 12: I was fortunate it was Bears.

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Speaker 1: I was young.

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Speaker 9: I played a year and sixteen days straight. I played

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Speaker 9: forty four straight games throughout every game in the USFL

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Speaker 9: season on through the Super Bowl. In the NFL season,

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Speaker 9: I actually drove from a Saturday night finished game at

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Speaker 9: Tempe drove straight through NonStop to training camp Monday morning

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Speaker 9: in Platteville, Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: Oh.

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Speaker 9: And I though, yes, yeah, and my first year with

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Speaker 9: Ditka of eighty we went twenty two straight days of

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Speaker 9: to a days in pads every day.

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Speaker 1: That's what unions are for. Okay.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, so you can't see the face of Mark Vanmaron

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Speaker 12: John Harris, but they're cringing right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Forty four, it's amazing. That's amazing when men were real

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Speaker 1: men back then. Man, that's tim I'm using that on

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Speaker 1: the broadcast. I'm gonna I'm gonna steal that from you.

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Speaker 1: Forty four.

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Speaker 12: That's unbelievable in account and tell some of these guys

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Speaker 12: that play when you tell them that story to that,

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01:34:02,560 --> 01:34:03,840
Speaker 12: you should see their eyes pop.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 9: Oh sure, yeah, listen, we did. We weren't getting paid

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Speaker 9: a lot of money. I had a chance to come

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Speaker 9: and play for my hometown team. The day I walked

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Speaker 9: to practice the first day of Chicago Bears training camp,

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Speaker 9: I was flying high, you know, and I walked. We

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Speaker 9: went full pads the first day of training camp. Our

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Speaker 9: first drill was stretching right in the nutcracker, and I,

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Speaker 9: you know, I was riding high. So I don't I

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Speaker 9: don't regret a minute of it.

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Speaker 2: Forty four games in a counter year, forty four Now,

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Speaker 2: I will always tell Clil Davis's story, no doubt, but

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Speaker 2: I will follow it with Tomp thayers. That's unbelievable having

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Speaker 2: played a full year in USFL, going to the Bears

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Speaker 2: and then playing for the Bears, and then he mentioned

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01:34:47,560 --> 01:34:49,280
Speaker 2: the twenty two straight days of two days.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yo, holy smokes, do you.

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01:34:52,520 --> 01:34:54,920
Speaker 2: Know how many Union grievances there would be at that

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01:34:54,960 --> 01:34:56,360
Speaker 2: point if you had to do that in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 7: Man.

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Speaker 2: But that was a really fun discussion, and that was

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Speaker 2: a fun So big thanks to Jeff and to Tom

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Speaker 2: for joining us, to Mark Vandermir as always, to Drew Doherty,

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Speaker 2: Dimko Ryans, Tomio Edwards Junior, to Jonathan Alexander, to all

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Speaker 2: of you for listening to my man, Chris Santiago back

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Speaker 2: at studio at Sports Radio six ten Studios, who always

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Speaker 2: takes care of us and hopefully we do the same

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Speaker 2: for him. Sunday, get in there early. I'm not talking

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Speaker 2: three hours early, I'm not talking hour early, but being

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Speaker 2: there a half hour before so that when the guys

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Speaker 2: are coming out for intros, that place is jumping.

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Speaker 1: The roof's gonna be open, it's gonna beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Let's make it miserable for the Bears on Sunday night

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Speaker 2: and walk out of there tune o for the first

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Speaker 2: time since twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you on Sunday and, as always, go Texans.