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Speaker 1: This is the OTP presented by Farm Bureau Health Plans.

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Speaker 1: roots at FBHP dot com with Amy Wells. I'm Mike Keith,

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Speaker 1: and we are glad to be with you. Unfortunately, for

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Speaker 1: the first time this week. I guess we need to

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Speaker 1: tell them what happened. Yeah, so we recorded an OTP

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Speaker 1: four D on Monday, and naturally we were very happy

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Speaker 1: with it because that's way this always works. There was

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Speaker 1: to websites, and it has not been able to be uploaded. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's nobody's fault, but wanted to let you know we

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Speaker 1: because my buddy Andy Garrison texted me yesterday says, where's

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Speaker 1: the OTP. I'm like, what we did? What do you mean?

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Speaker 1: What do you mean? You know? And that was how

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Speaker 1: for their not being an OTP four D. But we

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Speaker 1: towards Saturday. Yes, we are moving towards Saturday. Still excited

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Speaker 1: that we have the opportunity to do an OT right,

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Speaker 1: even if it's not four D. I still I claimed

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Speaker 1: sabotage because you said some very nice things on that podcast,

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Speaker 1: So I'm as su. I bragged on the fact that

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Speaker 1: you are an excellent sideline reporter and that you did

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Speaker 1: an excellent job updating people on all of the quarterback

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Speaker 1: top of what was going on with Ryan Tannehill and

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Speaker 1: public will never hear it now, No, but you just

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Speaker 1: said it again. I didn't didn't really, it wasn't really

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Speaker 1: We do two a week and you know when loser draw,

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Speaker 1: which the Titans haven't done in fifty one years. Knock

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Speaker 1: on wood, haven't done it since nineteen seventy one, haven't

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Speaker 1: all right? What am I going to start with here?

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Speaker 1: The Wednesday injury report? Yeah? I think that's a good

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Speaker 1: injury report. Yeah, the big stories are in the offensive line.

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Speaker 1: Dylan Raidens was on the injury report today for his knee.

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Speaker 1: the air at eleven am Central Time with Titans Countdown.

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Speaker 1: Amy Wells and also Rhett Brian have that show for you,

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Speaker 1: Me to talk to Deep Sadu of the Houston Texans

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Speaker 1: about her club, that club that is on its way

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Speaker 1: into Nashville this Saturday. Enjoy this on the OTP dep

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Speaker 1: Sadus does it all for the Houston Texans, TV Texans Radio,

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans dot Com. Also tweets at deep Slant. She

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Speaker 1: is everywhere, ma'am. Do you sleep at all? No? Not

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Speaker 1: during the season. You guys know how this goes. But

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Speaker 1: you know, my husband jokes there is no off season

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Speaker 1: because I always promise I'll get to the important things

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Speaker 1: around the house in the off season, and then the

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Speaker 1: comline comes, and then free agency hits, and then it's

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Speaker 1: OTA's and then it's Mini camp, then it's training camp.

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Speaker 1: So but love what I do is my tenth season

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Speaker 1: covering the team. So and every season's different, as is

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Speaker 1: this one. Let's talk about the last two weeks. Texans

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Speaker 1: have played some excellent football in losing close ones to

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys in the Chiefs, two of the best teams

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Speaker 1: in football. What has impressed you about the Texans effort

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Speaker 1: in the last two games? Deep, Well, I mean, obviously

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Speaker 1: when you're one, twelve and one. There's very little positives

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Speaker 1: in a season, and I think this Texans team was

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Speaker 1: very healthy. Actually early on they were losing games, but

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Speaker 1: the health of the team was actually quite quite good.

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Speaker 1: In the last two weeks, we've seen a lot of injuries.

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Speaker 1: This last game against the Chiefs, were without our top

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Speaker 1: three offensive players. No Brandon Cookes, no Nico Collins, who've

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Speaker 1: actually missed the past two weeks. And then no Damian Pierced,

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Speaker 1: the rookie running back who was placed on IR. And

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Speaker 1: then on defense, you're without your two starting cornerbacks and

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Speaker 1: Steven Nelson and Derek Stingley Junior, the number three overall

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Speaker 1: pick placed on IR. So the past few weeks there

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Speaker 1: have been a lot more injuries at the starting positions,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's what surprising is that this team

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Speaker 1: has responded so well. I think the matchup obviously tough

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Speaker 1: matchup in both the Cowboys and and the Chiefs, and

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Speaker 1: I think both those teams were surprised by the effort

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Speaker 1: the Texans put forth. Now in the past few weeks,

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Speaker 1: there have been changes on offense. We've seen a two

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Speaker 1: quarterback offense that is unusual, but yet weirdly entertaining and

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Speaker 1: able to move the ball just a little over two

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Speaker 1: hundred yards on offense, and that's passing and rushing against

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Speaker 1: the Chiefs. But the Texans tied their point total high

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Speaker 1: against the Chiefs, putting up twenty four points, and then

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Speaker 1: last weekend's Cowboys putting up twenty three points, and it

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Speaker 1: really had been a struggle bus I think these past

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Speaker 1: few weeks, just moving the ball, giving the offense going.

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Speaker 1: In recent weeks, teams had figured out that Damian Pierce

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Speaker 1: was predominantly your prize possession on offense, so the Texans

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Speaker 1: weren't even able to run the ball very well. We

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Speaker 1: had back to back weeks where there were single digits

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Speaker 1: in rushing numbers. So to bounce back from those performances

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Speaker 1: and put up the type of efforts that they put

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Speaker 1: up in the past two weeks is what's really impressed me.

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Speaker 1: But you know, no one wants to see a loss,

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Speaker 1: and there are no moral victories. There are also no

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Speaker 1: moral losses in football, as you guys both know. But

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Speaker 1: you know, it's been a fun two weeks in the

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Speaker 1: sense that you see some positive sort of emerging out

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Speaker 1: of some of these games. All right, dB, we need

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Speaker 1: to break this down a little bit more. We have

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Speaker 1: been reading and kind of studying about the Texans, and

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Speaker 1: you mentioned it, they're using two quarterbacks. Correctly, we're using

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Speaker 1: both Davis Mills and Jeff Driscoll. Explain that to me

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Speaker 1: a little bit how that's working with the philosophy behind

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Speaker 1: that is all right. So, as you all know, Davis

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Speaker 1: Mills was a starting quarterback for the Texans. In his

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Speaker 1: second season, there were a lot of turnovers and then

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Speaker 1: there were some turnovers that were pick sixes and fumble sixes,

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Speaker 1: and so the Texans decided Levy Smith decides to bench

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Speaker 1: Davis Mills in favor of the backup Kyle Allen. So

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Speaker 1: Kyle Allen comes in same issues. Over the next two

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Speaker 1: games that Kyle Allen started turnovers, costly turnovers that ended

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Speaker 1: up in points like the Cleveland Browns. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: give up all these non offensive touchdowns to defense, to

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Speaker 1: special teams. And then against the Cowboys, Levy Smith said,

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Speaker 1: Davis Mills is a starting quarterback. Now, what we all

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Speaker 1: did not know at the time was that while Davis

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Speaker 1: Mills was the starting quarterback, we're gonna bring Jeff Driskell

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Speaker 1: back into the mix. And now early on in the season,

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Speaker 1: for the first two games, we saw Jeff Riskill come

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Speaker 1: in as sort of a wildcat option. He was coming

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Speaker 1: up off the practice squad. He's been on this team

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Speaker 1: for the past few years. And then there was nothing

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Speaker 1: for a long period of time, so we sort of

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Speaker 1: forgot about the Driscoll cat option. Plus there were all

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Speaker 1: these other struggles on offense, and then he had one

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Speaker 1: elevation left, so one more standard elevation off the practice squad.

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Speaker 1: We see the Texans use that against the Cowboys and

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Speaker 1: in a move that really surprised all of us, even

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Speaker 1: those that cover the team, because we don't watch all

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Speaker 1: of practice. We watched warm ups, we watched some position drills,

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Speaker 1: we watch a little special teams, and then we go inside.

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Speaker 1: But the snap count for both Mills and Driscoll were

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Speaker 1: right down the middle. Each had thirty two snaps, so

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Speaker 1: it was a fifty fifty offense. And I think the

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Speaker 1: main reason behind that was they just needed a spark

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Speaker 1: the run game. Like I mentioned earlier, they couldn't get

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Speaker 1: things going with Damian Pierce or any of the backs

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Speaker 1: for that matter, so they thought Driscoll gave them a

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Speaker 1: few more options because Driscoll's really athletic. He can he

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Speaker 1: can run with the ball, he can throw the ball,

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Speaker 1: and so you gotta have you gotta keep defenses on

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Speaker 1: their toes a bit. They have to prepare for this

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Speaker 1: X factor that they had not prepared for, and I

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Speaker 1: think it worked against the Cowboys. They certainly were not

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Speaker 1: prepared for dress Jeff Driskll getting half of half of

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Speaker 1: the snaps. Now this past Sunday against the Chiefs, that

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Speaker 1: was not really the case. It was like eighty one

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Speaker 1: percent Mills, twenty nine percent drist goal and for those

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Speaker 1: of you that do the math, you know that adds

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Speaker 1: up to more than one hundred percent, well ten percent

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Speaker 1: of the snaps we saw both of those quarterbacks in.

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Speaker 1: So the Texans are really trying to be as creative

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Speaker 1: as they can because now obviously you've got these injuries

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Speaker 1: on offense and they're doing whatever it takes to move

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Speaker 1: the ball. So, you know, it's it's sort of an

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Speaker 1: amy to answer your question. We're sort of finding our

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Speaker 1: way as we go. I don't think any two week

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Speaker 1: is going to any two weeks are going to be

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Speaker 1: the same. I think every week they're going to adjust

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Speaker 1: according to accordingly, and I think defense is now they

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Speaker 1: have some film to steady, they can be better prepared

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Speaker 1: for this two QB offense. So we're gonna see it

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Speaker 1: a ball, We're gonna see it changed. But I think

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Speaker 1: the premise behind it is whatever it takes to move

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Speaker 1: the ball to get the run game going, because it

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Speaker 1: certainly opens up things in the passing game. And we

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Speaker 1: saw that with Davis Mills. He had probably one of

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Speaker 1: his best performances, minus a very costly turnover in overtime

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Speaker 1: against the Chiefs. Threw two touchdowns, rushed for a touchdown

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Speaker 1: which was a career long. I've never seen Davis Mills

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Speaker 1: scramble seventeen yards for a touchdown, but was really you know,

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Speaker 1: getting into the end zone and able to put up

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Speaker 1: points for the Texans. I credit a lot of that

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Speaker 1: to the fact that they're trying to be as creative

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Speaker 1: as it can to move the ball. And if that

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Speaker 1: starts with two quarterbacks, so be it. You did a

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Speaker 1: great interview with tackle Laramie Tunsil and it was a

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Speaker 1: fantastic piece and it looks like he's head into another

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. What's the most interesting thing that you took

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Speaker 1: from that conversation. You know, Laramie is a guy that

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Speaker 1: we traded for Laramie in twenty eighteen. He sort of

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Speaker 1: arrived here. I had a chance to chat with him,

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Speaker 1: and he's really quiet under the radar guard He actually

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Speaker 1: does not like to do media interviews. He definitely doesn't

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Speaker 1: like to do one on ones, and so I really

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Speaker 1: enjoy the person that Laramie Tunsila is off the field

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Speaker 1: as well as on the field. You know, I had

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Speaker 1: been negotiating with him in the locker room for several weeks,

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Speaker 1: like Okay, we'll do a one on one like what

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Speaker 1: he wanted. He doesn't really like to talk about football,

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Speaker 1: which is fine with me. I'm like, cool, we'll just

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Speaker 1: talk about fashion and we'll talk about music. And he

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Speaker 1: did this piece last year. I forget what the outlet was,

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Speaker 1: but they talked about his draft day experience and we

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Speaker 1: all know the story behind the gas mask and how

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Speaker 1: he fell to the Dolphins, and it just we just

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Speaker 1: watched this young man's life sort of unfold on national

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Speaker 1: television and just the most unfortunate of circumstances. And I

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Speaker 1: think what I took away from that is that he's

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Speaker 1: put that behind him. He's moved on from it, and

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Speaker 1: he has just really embraced his role with the Texans now.

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Speaker 1: When he signed with the Texans, the Texans were winning.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that was the year that the Texans had

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Speaker 1: a nine game win streak. They went to the playoffs

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Speaker 1: that year, they won the division that year and twenty

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Speaker 1: nineteen as well. And the last three seasons have been

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Speaker 1: a struggle. But Laramie Tunsel is a captain of this team,

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Speaker 1: and he's a leader on that offense. And I just

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Speaker 1: think that the way that he's embraced his role on

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Speaker 1: this team even in a losing season, because I think

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Speaker 1: that's when you really know what players are made of,

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Speaker 1: is they how they sort of respond when the team

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Speaker 1: is losing. That's what I took away from it, Amy,

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Speaker 1: is that you know, he's all in on this team. Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to happen in the off season,

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Speaker 1: but for right now, you know he's playing really hard

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Speaker 1: considering you know, some guys may want to protect themselves

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Speaker 1: in their future for future seasons. That's not Laramie Tunsel.

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Speaker 1: He was actually sick last week. I don't know what,

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Speaker 1: you know, the flu or whatever was going around. He

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Speaker 1: missed one day of practice and came back the very

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Speaker 1: next day. So he's all in. He's in with the rookies.

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Speaker 1: He's really helped some of the younger guys on the

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Speaker 1: O line as well, and I just really like the

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Speaker 1: leadership that I've seen evolved. I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: people don't know that about Laramie Tunsil. We're joined by

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Speaker 1: dpsa do who's covered the Houston Texans for a decade. Deepee,

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Speaker 1: you mentioned him a little earlier that you were talking

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Speaker 1: about Damian Pierce, the rookie running back from Florida. We

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Speaker 1: were impressed with him earlier this season. Obviously he's on IR,

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Speaker 1: but who is carrying the load for the Texans in

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Speaker 1: Pierce's absence? You know, it's running back by committee. I

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Speaker 1: don't think any one player can replace the loss of

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Speaker 1: a guy like Damian Pierce, even though he's a rookie.

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Speaker 1: You know, he racked up mistackle. Sometimes he'd get hit

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Speaker 1: at the line or even behind the line, and then

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Speaker 1: you'd see those yak yards just really rise up, and

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Speaker 1: it really just gave everybody a boost to see his

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Speaker 1: spin moves and you know, his ability to find the hole,

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Speaker 1: to have vision and to make guys miss and he

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Speaker 1: just played with so much joy and passion that I

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Speaker 1: think none of us really expected that out of a rookie,

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Speaker 1: especially a fourth round pick like Damian Pierce. So now

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Speaker 1: that he's out, we saw roy Spreeman surprisingly get a

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Speaker 1: number of carries. He's come up off the practice squad.

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Speaker 1: I think Daria google Walle is another guy to keep

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Speaker 1: your eyes out for because we've seen him sort of

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Speaker 1: weeks get a lot more touches, both in the passing

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Speaker 1: game and in the run game. I think it'll be

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Speaker 1: Dara Goomba Wally. I think we'll see more of Royce Freeman.

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Speaker 1: I think Jeff driscoll care you know, helps out with

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Speaker 1: the run game a little bit. But I don't think

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Speaker 1: you're going to have a three down back, and of

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00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 1: course Rex Burke hit on third downs. I think it's

641
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 1: going to be running back by committee. I just don't

642
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: think there's one guy that can play the way Pierce played,

643
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 1: and I don't think that they are looking to replace

644
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:27,240
Speaker 1: him just with a one on one player. Dpu've outlined

645
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,000
Speaker 1: a lot of the injury woes that you guys have had,

646
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,240
Speaker 1: and with that in mind, what is the biggest difference

647
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 1: in the Texans offense that we might notice in Part

648
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 1: two of Titans Texans. I think to look out for

649
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:43,399
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks and Nico Collins. I think without those guys,

650
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: I mean, those are a big part of the receiving game,

651
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: and I think Nico Collins really stretched the length of

652
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 1: the field when he's in the game, you know. I

653
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: think that the ability to rely on your two top

654
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:56,720
Speaker 1: receivers obviously just changes what the offense looks like without them.

655
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:58,560
Speaker 1: I think the big thing to look for is this

656
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 1: two quarterback offense, because we're still sort of discovering it

657
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: as we go, and I think the Titans are about

658
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 1: to see it as well firsthand. You know what the

659
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 1: Texans are able to do. I think that's the biggest difference,

660
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,960
Speaker 1: you know, from the first time. I think I would

661
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: look out for the fact that those two wide receivers

662
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 1: being out of the mix. And Damian Pierce. I mean,

663
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,400
Speaker 1: I don't think I can underscore enough how much his

664
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 1: absence is going to mean to this team, but I

665
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: think you lose your top three offensive weapons. I mean,

666
00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: it's a big loss for any team. Lovey Smith is

667
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:29,240
Speaker 1: known for defense, so I guess we should talk about

668
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: that too. It seems like he always finds a way

669
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 1: to cook something up. We've seen a lot of that

670
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 1: over the last few weeks. But what have they been

671
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 1: doing so well in your opinion, DP, I think two things.

672
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: I think one against Patrick Mahomes, they really got the

673
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: pressure on him, and I think Lovey dialed up some

674
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: really well timed blitzes early on in the game. Patrick

675
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: Mahomes even after the game said we were studying the

676
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 1: game film, we did not expect to see so many

677
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 1: blitzes so early in the game, so they really made

678
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: things uncomfortable for him. It was hard for him to

679
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:02,919
Speaker 1: move the ball. He saw the pressure coming, you would

680
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 1: get a little jumpy. I think that even if they

681
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: forced him out of the pocket, they were after him.

682
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,360
Speaker 1: That front seven really did a great job of getting

683
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 1: after Patrick Mahomes. The other thing I would mention is

684
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: the secondary. Like I said, they were banged up, you

685
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: lose your top two starting corners. Traymont Smith, who is

686
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 1: our kick returner, comes in and you know he had

687
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: two picks against the Cowboys. He's force turnovers. I think

688
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 1: he's done a tremendous job stepping up. And then of

689
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 1: course Desmond King, who was also in the return game.

690
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: He's our punt returner. I think those two have done

691
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 1: an outstanding job, along with Tavier Thomas to really step in,

692
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 1: you know, next man up. There's two starting corners are out.

693
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: No one can really cry a river for you, but

694
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: I think they've really come in and they've really forced

695
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 1: a lot of turnovers because that's really the premise of

696
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 1: a Lovey Smith defense is takeaways, the peanut punch, and

697
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,240
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's the one thing that he's been preaching.

698
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 1: I think that's you know, been impressive this year. But

699
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 1: I think in the last few weeks we've seen a

700
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: lot more of them and a lot more of the

701
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: blitz is dialed up. Let's go back to the pressure

702
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 1: for a second one quarterback sex for the Texans, Jerry

703
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,319
Speaker 1: Hughes leads the team with eight sex. He's thirty four

704
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,320
Speaker 1: years old now, but dep it looks like the Sugarland,

705
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 1: Texas native still has it right. Yeah. I mean, this

706
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: is the best season he's had so far. He's, like

707
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 1: you said, thirty four years old. And I think at

708
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 1: one point and early on in the season, I told Jerry,

709
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 1: I said, Jerry, at this rate on pace. Guy says,

710
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: you're going to get twenty two sacks for me. He

711
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: slowed down a little bit from there, but you know,

712
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 1: he was pretty proud of himself. I think that, you know,

713
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 1: having Jacques's air come from the Buffalo Bills, he was

714
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 1: a D line coach. I asked him, I said, what

715
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 1: differences with Jerry Hughes this year? He said that, you know,

716
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: he thought a lot of the potential for Jerry obviously

717
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: last year. We know what Jerry brings to any D line,

718
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 1: but the ability to finish a sack and to sort

719
00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: of follow through. And I think what Jerry does really

720
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 1: well is that, you know, and this comes with just

721
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 1: experience in the league. You know, he'll start up with

722
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,359
Speaker 1: one move and sort of disguise it into something else,

723
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 1: and I think that really catches a lot of offensive

724
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:03,240
Speaker 1: linemen off guard, and he's sort of found the secret

725
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: formula to getting all these sacks. We are all completely

726
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: impressed with what Jerry Hughes does. And let me tell you,

727
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:11,680
Speaker 1: every week, when we want to talk to him in

728
00:41:11,719 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 1: the locker room, he's nowhere to be found. And you

729
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: know a lot of times you choc the players don't

730
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 1: want to speak to the media. Well, he has a

731
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 1: very lengthy routine of cold tub rehab, massages, like everything

732
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: that you need to get back into game health. And

733
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: I think it's it's working for him. He's sort of

734
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: discovered this fountain of youth, everything he needs to stay

735
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: healthy and available and to be as productive as he

736
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 1: has been. I think he really likes playing in this defense,

737
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 1: and you know, I think to see what he's been

738
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,759
Speaker 1: able to do, he's just such a great guy to cover.

739
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 1: I remember watching him for years. I feel like I've

740
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 1: been watching him for years and even you know, I

741
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 1: think none of us could have expected the sort of

742
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:52,279
Speaker 1: season he's having, and it really couldn't have happened to

743
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:55,000
Speaker 1: a nicer guy. He's just such a great veteran presence

744
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: and leader of that d line from a veteran guy

745
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 1: to some rookie guys. Are there rookies on the Texans

746
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 1: defense specifically that you feel like could be long term

747
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:09,399
Speaker 1: solutions for this team? Yeah? Absolutely, Amy. I think when

748
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,440
Speaker 1: Justin Reid departed in free agency, you know, safety had

749
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:15,000
Speaker 1: been a big need for this team for the past

750
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: several years. Really, and I think that Jalen Petrie, the

751
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 1: second round pick out of Baylor has been outstanding. I

752
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 1: mean he's gotten interceptions, he's gotten pressures, he moved from

753
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,240
Speaker 1: strong safety to free safety. That's sort of now his niche.

754
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 1: I think that he has really found his spot there

755
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 1: at double digit tackles. I think he let him and

756
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 1: Christian Harris both I'll just throw Christian Harrison there as well,

757
00:42:35,760 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 1: the linebacker from Alabama. They've both done a tremendous job

758
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:41,680
Speaker 1: as defensive players. I think all eyes are on Derek

759
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 1: Stanley being the number three overall pick. But Jalen Petrie

760
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 1: in OTA's Levey Smith said he's a starter. And you know,

761
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 1: we don't really name starters. Coaches don't like to name

762
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: starters in the off season. But throughout mini camp, I

763
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: mean we just saw him. He had his hands on

764
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 1: the ball, it seemed like every single play and that

765
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 1: continued actually in real game actions. So I think Jalen Petrie,

766
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: and also he is from Stafford, Texas, went to high

767
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: school about twenty minutes from here. It's just so great

768
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: to have a local kid that grew up watching the team.

769
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 1: You know, I think he's a long term solution at

770
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: the safety spot. And I think Christian Harris, who started

771
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: off the season on IR and has sort of worked

772
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 1: his way back up into the mix. It's really been

773
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 1: exciting to see what he does in the run game,

774
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 1: you know, the tackles. He is just wherever a guy is.

775
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 1: I feel like Christian Harris is there as well. He

776
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 1: had double digit tackles yesterday. He's sort of come into

777
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: his own too, and it's been slow going, I think,

778
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 1: coming off the injury. But I think those two guys

779
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 1: are definitely two to watch out for us as the

780
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: years go on. Who or what has been the most

781
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 1: pleasant surprise this season for the Texans. I have to

782
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 1: say Damian Pierce. I mean, I think that when the

783
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 1: Texans drafted him in the fourth round, they everyone had

784
00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 1: wanted the Texans to take a running back, and so

785
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:54,719
Speaker 1: you know, everybody was sort of chanting running back from

786
00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 1: like day two onwards, and they finally took Damian Pierce

787
00:43:58,320 --> 00:43:59,839
Speaker 1: in the fourth round out of Florida. He was really

788
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:03,960
Speaker 1: underutilized at Florida with Dan Mullen and nobody could quite

789
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:06,399
Speaker 1: figure out why or what the deal was and why

790
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,919
Speaker 1: he had slipped to the fourth round. And Damian Pierce

791
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 1: was fine with it. He said it was what it was,

792
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,000
Speaker 1: but he wants to make the most of his opportunity,

793
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 1: so he comes here. And let me just say, like

794
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: the day he was drafted, I interviewed him and you know,

795
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: when asked what was the one thing that he knew

796
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: about Texas, he said pretty houses and pretty girls, and like,

797
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,440
Speaker 1: I mean, the media was like in love. I mean

798
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 1: everyone had you know, the emoji with the hard eyes.

799
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: That was the media, Like he is the media darling.

800
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,240
Speaker 1: And the players love him too. I think Rex Burkin

801
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,480
Speaker 1: calls him Peppy. The rest of them just love like

802
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: how happy is how fun he is. He just, like

803
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 1: I said, plays with a lot of joy and he

804
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 1: just is just so happy, go lucky all the time.

805
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:49,880
Speaker 1: He had some fumbles early on in the season, and

806
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:53,279
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone was harder on himself than Damien was.

807
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: But he's had some explosive plays a seventy five yard

808
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:58,560
Speaker 1: touchdown early ont of the season that I felt like

809
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: really turned things around. You know, in the course of

810
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: a game, when you see a young guy like that

811
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:05,720
Speaker 1: makes so many players miss and I think on social

812
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,680
Speaker 1: media all the offensive linemen were just you know, in

813
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: awe of how many tackles he made miss. I mean,

814
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:13,479
Speaker 1: I think everyone wants to block for him, Everyone wants

815
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:15,839
Speaker 1: to play with a guy like that. He's been such

816
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 1: a pleasant surprise, and I think he's become a fan favorite.

817
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 1: Fans we're just all over Levey Smith early on in

818
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:24,759
Speaker 1: the season for not playing him more like why is

819
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:26,919
Speaker 1: he not getting more carries? Why is not that they're

820
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,800
Speaker 1: down back? And then as the season went on, people

821
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 1: were saying, why are you playing him so much? He's

822
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 1: going to get hurt, Like we have to preserve him

823
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,240
Speaker 1: for the next year, Like I mean, I think nobody

824
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 1: can win with the right amount of touches, And even

825
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,399
Speaker 1: though he's on IR, I think there's a little bit

826
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: of relief that it won't be for something more serious

827
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: for the next year, because I think people are just

828
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 1: so excited to see him return next year when the team,

829
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 1: you know, gets a fresh O and O start and

830
00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 1: then see what Damian Pierce is able to do. But

831
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 1: I think he's just been such a wonderful surprise, and

832
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:57,239
Speaker 1: I think I've just loved how the fans have just

833
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 1: so embraced him, and by the way he goes by DP,

834
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 1: which is super confusing to me, but nobody else to

835
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 1: walk in and never in my life have I ever

836
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 1: had another DP where I work, So let me just

837
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:11,360
Speaker 1: throw that out there. I think there's a DP and

838
00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 1: DP segment coming in in his future and mine. Well

839
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:19,320
Speaker 1: to this DP. Listen what you described in his personality,

840
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 1: that's he became one of my favorite players to watch

841
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,399
Speaker 1: and talk to. It to combine in Indianapolis, so that

842
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: that doesn't surprise me what you say about him at all. Lastly, DP, obviously,

843
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:30,440
Speaker 1: the win loss record has not been what the Texans

844
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:33,040
Speaker 1: wanted at all, But where's the club feel like they

845
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 1: have set the stage for the future under Lovey Smith.

846
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 1: You know, that's a great question. I think you want

847
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 1: to take some positives out of it. I think that

848
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:46,320
Speaker 1: just losing so many close games early on in the season,

849
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: you can say, Okay, you're close, you're close, and then

850
00:46:48,239 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 1: as the weeks have gone on, you know, even the

851
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 1: coaches say, you know, that's not enough. They've got to

852
00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: do more to win. But I think that the fact

853
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 1: that these players know there's no playoffs in their hope,

854
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 1: there's no AFC South within grasp this year, they're still

855
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 1: playing really hard. So I think that we see sort

856
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 1: of the bones of a team in the future, and

857
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:10,480
Speaker 1: I think these young guys, these rookies, give a lot

858
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 1: of hope moving forward because I think that these rookies

859
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 1: at how much they were able to contribute early and often,

860
00:47:16,960 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 1: and Levi Smith wasn't shy about throwing rookies in the

861
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: you know, into the starting lineup. So they've gotten a

862
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:23,799
Speaker 1: lot of real game action under their belt and a

863
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 1: lot of experience. And I think that that's definitely something

864
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: to carry forward from this year to next year. Between

865
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 1: the Jalen Peatrees, the Damian Pierces, you know, even guys

866
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 1: like Derek Stanley and Christian Harris and Kenyan Green, the

867
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: offensive lineman. You know, you see what they're able to do.

868
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: They're you know, they're taking their lumps, but they're learning

869
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 1: along the way. I think that really gives you hope

870
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: for the future. And the Texans have a lot of

871
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 1: draft picks coming up, because you know, last year you're

872
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 1: dealing with Deshaun Watson in that situation that's off your hands.

873
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:53,040
Speaker 1: This offseason, you enter into it fresh, You've got a

874
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 1: lot of draft picks. You've got the number one overall

875
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 1: pick right now, you also have Cleveland's first round pick,

876
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:00,080
Speaker 1: and you have a lot of draft capital, and you

877
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:02,080
Speaker 1: hope that you get some more rookies to add this.

878
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: And you've got sort of the veterans that you really

879
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: like on this team. We talked about some of them earlier,

880
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:09,600
Speaker 1: Laramie Tunsel, you know, Titus Howard, they're at right, tappily

881
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 1: still over to left guard with Kenyan Green out in

882
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 1: Sunday's game against the Chiefs. And then you know, on defense,

883
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: you've got a lot of a lot of players that

884
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: you can really build around. So I think you're starting

885
00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:20,600
Speaker 1: to see the bones of a team and it would

886
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 1: be nice to see them next year to sort of

887
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:25,240
Speaker 1: take that to the next step. dB Sad you are awesome.

888
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:27,360
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for taking time with us to

889
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:31,760
Speaker 1: talk about the Texans and hopefully we'll see this weekend. Absolutely, guys,

890
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 1: thank you so much for having me. Well. I feel

891
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: schooled right two quarterback system, multiple running backs, they're not

892
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: sure who the wide. Pretty good on defense, Jalen Petrie,

893
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 1: the rookie safety, has had a great year. Christian Harris

894
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: the rookie linebacker, playing very well right now. Jerry Hughes

895
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 1: can still play. Houston's a team that has a lot

896
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:00,359
Speaker 1: of pieces. Those pieces haven't found how they all fit

897
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: together yet, but they're in there. They're all in the

898
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: box well, and they're going to get better because listen,

899
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 1: they've got a bunch of draft picks. As it stands

900
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:12,359
Speaker 1: right now, they're going to have the first draft pick,

901
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:15,879
Speaker 1: and then they've got Cleveland's first rounder, and they've got

902
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 1: multiple other picks. They'll be fine on the cap. I mean,

903
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:22,800
Speaker 1: they're going to be able to retool and come back

904
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 1: rather quickly if they get the picks right. And one

905
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 1: would have to figure they're going to take a quarterback

906
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:32,360
Speaker 1: at one, Yes, yeah, I mean you would assume. I

907
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:34,839
Speaker 1: would assume because they're going to take a quarterback at one.

908
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: So we'll see. But I mean, it doesn't matter who

909
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 1: plays quarterback for them this weekend, whether it sounds like

910
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 1: it might be two people, yeah, Mills or driscoll or both,

911
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 1: they're on the field at the same time. But the

912
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 1: whole thing is they're going to get after the Titans,

913
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:50,319
Speaker 1: and the Titans have to find a way to get

914
00:49:50,360 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 1: after them. And here's what's amazing. So Derrick Henry, the

915
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: last four games he has played against Houston, he has

916
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: at over two hundred yards rushing in all four games.

917
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:03,280
Speaker 1: It's never ever been done against one opponent in NFL history.

918
00:50:03,480 --> 00:50:05,120
Speaker 1: I would love for it to be five. It would

919
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:08,719
Speaker 1: be great. I think that would be really really good. Obviously,

920
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 1: we know the Titans offense plays their their best football

921
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 1: when Derrick Henry is rolling, and so from that standpoint,

922
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 1: I think it would be good. Derrick Henry Man is

923
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 1: such a what's the word I'm looking for, Yes, beast monster,

924
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 1: all of those things, but he has such a big

925
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:34,160
Speaker 1: impact on the overall morale of the offense. He's one

926
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 1: of those heart and soul kind of guys. And he's

927
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:38,400
Speaker 1: not flashy, he doesn't talk a lot, he doesn't do

928
00:50:38,480 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 1: all those things. But man, when he's feeling good and

929
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 1: he's rolling, everyone around him is feeling good. And when

930
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 1: things aren't right and he's not feeling right or he's frustrated,

931
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 1: everybody around him is frustrated. He is. He is a

932
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: mood controlling kind of guy within that group. Well, it's interesting.

933
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:03,799
Speaker 1: I was asked the question about the advantage, you know, said,

934
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 1: who would really have the advantage in this weather that's upcoming. Well,

935
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:13,360
Speaker 1: the Texans play indoors. Yeah, it's in Texas. In Texas,

936
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 1: they play indoors, So you would think, okay, slight advantage

937
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:20,200
Speaker 1: Titans because they play more games outside, but that's not

938
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:26,360
Speaker 1: a huge huge deal. Quarter their quarterback is from Atlanta.

939
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill has played in a lot of weather. If

940
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:34,279
Speaker 1: he can't play, then that really hurts because this is

941
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:38,640
Speaker 1: something he's done before. In the afcast. The Titans quarterback

942
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 1: then would be from Atlanta, right right, So kind of

943
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:47,239
Speaker 1: a kind of a push there. But the Titans have

944
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry and the Texans don't have Damian Piers. He's

945
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 1: on ir right, So I think with all things being equal,

946
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 1: that's a that's a significant can't advantage. You know what

947
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:05,839
Speaker 1: just occurred to me. If Malik is going to be

948
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,840
Speaker 1: the starter, we need to make sure that Ryan Tannehill

949
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 1: tells him about the nose on the surface trick to

950
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 1: go from picture to pictures because your fingers are frozen.

951
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:19,920
Speaker 1: Tell people what the surface is because they may not

952
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,239
Speaker 1: know what you're talking. So there's the surface, the it's

953
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: the tablet on the sidelines that the microsoft surface. Yes, yes,

954
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 1: that the players use. There's pictures on there of previous plays.

955
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 1: They're able to break down things in real time looking

956
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 1: at the surface surfaces, surface side surfaces, um, anyway, they're

957
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: able to look at them. And so Ryan Tannehill was

958
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: caught on the sidelines I believe it was in twenty

959
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:49,359
Speaker 1: twenty Bay at Green Bay, and it's very cold, and

960
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 1: he had gloves on and so and his hands were

961
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:55,319
Speaker 1: covered and so he couldn't use the touchscreen, so he

962
00:52:55,440 --> 00:53:00,239
Speaker 1: used his nose to slide from picture to pick. Sure.

963
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:02,879
Speaker 1: It was awesome and it was genius and they've used

964
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:06,520
Speaker 1: it in subsequent commercials and different promotional things. But we

965
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 1: need to make sure that Malik knows because that's genius.

966
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:13,719
Speaker 1: And it is but I mean, it's not like he's

967
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:15,920
Speaker 1: wiping his nose on it. But you've got to be

968
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:20,880
Speaker 1: able to get through these pictures and keep your hands warm. Yeah, Mike, Yeah,

969
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 1: these are the things that this is what separates a

970
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 1: veteran from agree. You got to make sure that all

971
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:29,279
Speaker 1: of the wisdoms, which is why Joshua Dobbs is here

972
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:32,359
Speaker 1: as well, is to hopefully he knows the nose well.

973
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: He's got to. He'll have a lot of good answers

974
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: for the young man if that's who it is, and

975
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:38,480
Speaker 1: if he has to go in the game, we know

976
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:40,760
Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs is a good athlete. He can do things

977
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 1: as well. That's assuming that Ryan Tannehill can't go, which

978
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:48,440
Speaker 1: as we record this edition of the OTP, we have

979
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 1: no idea. We have no idea, we have no clue.

980
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:53,879
Speaker 1: We just know he didn't practice. We hadn't seen him,

981
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:57,000
Speaker 1: so at this point we'll just have to wait and

982
00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:59,840
Speaker 1: see throughout the course of the week. If he strapped

983
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:02,360
Speaker 1: it on and went out there, would I be surprised, No,

984
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:06,600
Speaker 1: because what I saw last week in Los Angeles it

985
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: was toughness on another level. Oh yeah, well it was

986
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:15,200
Speaker 1: toughness on a Titans level, Yes, because I've seen this before. Yeah,

987
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:20,839
Speaker 1: and we had a guy who you know, yeah, it's

988
00:54:20,840 --> 00:54:25,200
Speaker 1: a it's a beautiful thing, you know. This is Fortunately

989
00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:27,359
Speaker 1: we got a chance to be familiar with this and

990
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 1: seeing what Tannehill did last week and seeing what he

991
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:35,359
Speaker 1: has done at different points is so reminiscent in that

992
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 1: way of Steve McNair. And that's a beautiful thing because

993
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:42,000
Speaker 1: that's what that team, those teams were about, and what

994
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 1: he's about. And I think that's something that Tannehill brings

995
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 1: that you miss if he's not there on the field,

996
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:53,319
Speaker 1: not because other people aren't tough, but just there's a

997
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:57,399
Speaker 1: the fellas love the guy because they have that kind

998
00:54:57,400 --> 00:55:00,279
Speaker 1: of belief in him. Same with Ben Jones. And and

999
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:02,920
Speaker 1: not everybody has that in life. Some people have it

1000
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:07,920
Speaker 1: in spades, and certainly Steve McNair did, and Tannehill does

1001
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 1: and Ben Jones does and it's a special quality. We've

1002
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 1: got a lot of tough, tough individuals on this Titans team. Okay.

1003
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 1: Some awards that were announced Wednesday night. Derreck Henry headed

1004
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl for the second time. Correct. Jeffrey

1005
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:24,720
Speaker 1: Simmons headed to the Pro Bowl for the second time. Correct.

1006
00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 1: Morgan Cox long snapper, native of just outside of Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee,

1007
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:34,399
Speaker 1: Vall going to his fifth Pro Bowl. Get it, Morgan Cox? Yes,

1008
00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 1: what's the Pro Bowl? Now? It's not a Hayton Mannings

1009
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 1: producing it right, Yeah, he is involved. Is a flag

1010
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:45,160
Speaker 1: football game now, but there are other contests and feats

1011
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 1: of strength more or less, Omaha Productions is the one

1012
00:55:49,040 --> 00:55:52,160
Speaker 1: who's going to be which is Peyton Mannings Production Company.

1013
00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 1: So is this is a series of skill competitions and

1014
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:01,440
Speaker 1: there are points to be one and so it's kind

1015
00:56:01,440 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 1: of you're like rooting for your team. You're trying to

1016
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 1: win like skills competitions and win flag football games. You

1017
00:56:08,520 --> 00:56:11,919
Speaker 1: acquire points in doing that. So they're getting away from

1018
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 1: the football game. That was kind of not kind of

1019
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:19,239
Speaker 1: that was a lighter version of an actual football People

1020
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 1: would say el stinko, well, I will I would not

1021
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 1: say el stinko, well because they didn't tackle people. They

1022
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:28,320
Speaker 1: didn't tackle people. There wasn't a lot of um football

1023
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:31,400
Speaker 1: things that really went on. Can you blame guys, No,

1024
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:34,320
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants to hurt anybody else.

1025
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:37,880
Speaker 1: It's I mean, it's all about the event and the

1026
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:40,600
Speaker 1: experience for those guys. It wasn't so much about the

1027
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:43,839
Speaker 1: actual game. Um, So I understand why the league would

1028
00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: want to move away from that because it just wasn't

1029
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:48,320
Speaker 1: the product that fans were expecting. When you go to

1030
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 1: see a football game, you expect to see an actual

1031
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:54,839
Speaker 1: football game and not like that. Yeah, it's just not

1032
00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:58,160
Speaker 1: the same. But so now they're doing a flag football

1033
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:00,280
Speaker 1: game and they're going to be doing some of these

1034
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:03,279
Speaker 1: other skill events, which I don't know what they are.

1035
00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:07,560
Speaker 1: It just has skill competitions, um feats of strength, feats

1036
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:10,279
Speaker 1: of strength. I don't know the airing of the grievances.

1037
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:13,520
Speaker 1: I would go to the airing of the grievances for sure.

1038
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 1: But I think it's going to be interesting to see

1039
00:57:18,920 --> 00:57:23,960
Speaker 1: how it all comes together. And us Stanza will be there.

1040
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:28,080
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Were They haven't told us what these

1041
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:31,200
Speaker 1: things are yet. They haven't told us some more information.

1042
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 1: But I know it's going to be in Las Vegas.

1043
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:36,160
Speaker 1: There's going to be flag football involved and they're going

1044
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:43,800
Speaker 1: to be Titans players. There have a slot competition play blackjack.

1045
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:47,200
Speaker 1: I get in on that would be good. U. Now,

1046
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:50,400
Speaker 1: the whole thing is I think the idea is the

1047
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:54,480
Speaker 1: game that was being played did not meet the standards

1048
00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:59,080
Speaker 1: of the NFL. It was not the NFL product. And

1049
00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:04,720
Speaker 1: the other thing about the flag football is they want

1050
00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: to encourage more and more boys and girls to take

1051
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:12,800
Speaker 1: part in flag football. They think it's very important. They

1052
00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 1: think it's a huge growth area. We're certainly seeing that

1053
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:19,960
Speaker 1: in Tennessee with the girls flag football starting to take

1054
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 1: off the way that it's going to. I mean, it's

1055
00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 1: been a massive success in Williamson County. Davidson County has

1056
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 1: an upcoming. I don't think it's going to be long

1057
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:33,160
Speaker 1: before it's a tub a sport. I really don't, and

1058
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:36,800
Speaker 1: so it's a good thing to promote flag football if

1059
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 1: you're going to do something in that way and then

1060
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:43,960
Speaker 1: have some fun with the other things, with players having

1061
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:47,680
Speaker 1: the ability to show some personality and to have a

1062
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 1: good time, and for fans to be around the players

1063
00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:53,240
Speaker 1: in those ways. What this is going to do now

1064
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:56,480
Speaker 1: is it's going to give fans, or continue to give

1065
00:58:56,520 --> 00:58:58,920
Speaker 1: fans the opportunity to get up close and personal with

1066
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:01,880
Speaker 1: some of their favorite players, which is such an awesome

1067
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:05,000
Speaker 1: thing that the league even has an all Star game

1068
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 1: to give fans that option. It's also going to give

1069
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: the league the opportunity to highlight some of their stars

1070
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 1: just of the sure because honestly, we've been to a

1071
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 1: lot of Pro Bowls here now and the highlight the

1072
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:23,000
Speaker 1: main event isn't the game anymore. It's all of the

1073
00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:26,880
Speaker 1: personality stuff that you're able to do after the practices

1074
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 1: and goofing off on the field and those types of things.

1075
00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:33,320
Speaker 1: That's what the players doing things with one another because

1076
00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:37,320
Speaker 1: many of them are friends off the field, and you know,

1077
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:39,680
Speaker 1: the messing around a little bit. It's kind of the

1078
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:41,920
Speaker 1: and you're not old enough to remember the Battle of

1079
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 1: the Network Stars. No, I don't know how well they

1080
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 1: used to have on TV on A I guess it

1081
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 1: was ABC used to have stars from all three networks.

1082
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 1: There are only three networks, and they would have these competitions.

1083
00:59:57,520 --> 01:00:01,040
Speaker 1: So you would have like Jacqueline Smith from Charlie's Angels

1084
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:04,240
Speaker 1: against Gil Girard for Buck Rogers in the twenty fifth

1085
01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:08,320
Speaker 1: century against a member of the cast of Maud and

1086
01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:12,040
Speaker 1: they would be running some sort of wheelbarrow race or whatever. Well,

1087
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:13,600
Speaker 1: it was kind of a it was kind of a

1088
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:16,520
Speaker 1: big deal because again there were only three networks, but

1089
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:20,560
Speaker 1: also because all the big stars would be there now

1090
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:23,400
Speaker 1: like that, like the cast of Happy Days would be

1091
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:26,280
Speaker 1: there when it was the biggest show. They wouldn't all

1092
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:29,600
Speaker 1: be taking part, but they'd interview them or Howard Cosell

1093
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:32,760
Speaker 1: would do the play by play of it. And it

1094
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:35,480
Speaker 1: was a huge deal. And so there was something to

1095
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 1: it that was kind of goofy fund And I think

1096
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:41,520
Speaker 1: that's what this is going to end up sort of

1097
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:45,280
Speaker 1: capitalizing on, is there's there's some goofy fun to be

1098
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:48,560
Speaker 1: had that will be a nice thing. Gives the opportunity

1099
01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:54,040
Speaker 1: for for fans to be creative of players, right, and

1100
01:00:54,280 --> 01:00:57,120
Speaker 1: I think that is that's the ultimate goal, is to

1101
01:00:57,280 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 1: promote the sport, promote the guys that really make this

1102
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:03,840
Speaker 1: incredible and them without their helmets on. Yeah, and give

1103
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:05,960
Speaker 1: fans the chance to kind of get up and up

1104
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:08,400
Speaker 1: close and personal with them. So it should be fun.

1105
01:01:08,440 --> 01:01:11,680
Speaker 1: And it's in Vegas. I mean, people love Vegas. Everybody

1106
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:15,479
Speaker 1: loves Vegas. I love Vegas. See there you go, point

1107
01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:18,000
Speaker 1: proven sometime we'll be able to go play in Vegas.

1108
01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:22,000
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I want to see that stadium that's

1109
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 1: supposedly what our stadium's going to look like. All the

1110
01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:26,320
Speaker 1: more reason to see. By the way, how good was

1111
01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:31,000
Speaker 1: that twenty seven to eight to three Yes, Metro Council,

1112
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:36,160
Speaker 1: Yes proves the term sheet approves the one percent hotel

1113
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:40,160
Speaker 1: motel tax increase to pay for the stadium. Does say

1114
01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:43,040
Speaker 1: that right? Yeah? Close? Yeah, but it sounds like hotel

1115
01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 1: motel holiday inn. And everybody laughs every time. If your

1116
01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:49,040
Speaker 1: girl starts acting up, then you take her friend. See

1117
01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:52,800
Speaker 1: there you go. He knows. Do you know what you

1118
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 1: were saying? No? But I was that's like we were crazy.

1119
01:01:56,080 --> 01:01:58,560
Speaker 1: You knew what you were doing. But I know rappers delight.

1120
01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, what, you're very cool. I'm not

1121
01:02:05,280 --> 01:02:09,920
Speaker 1: cool at all. Y, I'm the most uncool personal are cool,

1122
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 1: There is no question I have no cool. But it's

1123
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:16,560
Speaker 1: exciting because while the stadium thing is not done done,

1124
01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:21,479
Speaker 1: it's much closer and it's certainly on track. There's gonna

1125
01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 1: be work to be done in the first quarter of

1126
01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:26,480
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three to get it finalized. But the vote

1127
01:02:26,960 --> 01:02:30,120
Speaker 1: on Tuesday night from Metro Council, especially, I think so

1128
01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:34,520
Speaker 1: overwhelmingly was a real big deal. Twenty seven to eight

1129
01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:38,680
Speaker 1: with three abstaining is a is a solid margin which

1130
01:02:38,720 --> 01:02:40,840
Speaker 1: makes people feel it's not like it was fifteen to

1131
01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:44,040
Speaker 1: fourteen or you know, it's a solid margin that the

1132
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:48,840
Speaker 1: that the Metro Council sees the value in that part

1133
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:51,080
Speaker 1: of the funding for the stadium, along with what the

1134
01:02:51,120 --> 01:02:53,680
Speaker 1: Titans are putting up, along with what the state's putting up.

1135
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:58,480
Speaker 1: And I'm I'm so proud because when we were at

1136
01:02:58,560 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 1: so Far last week, the atmosphere with that roof is

1137
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:07,560
Speaker 1: still just fantastic. Yeah, it's like Burke Nyhill says about,

1138
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:11,680
Speaker 1: there's indoors, there's outdoors, and then there's kind of this

1139
01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:16,600
Speaker 1: third thing and it really is. It's like playing outdoors

1140
01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:19,680
Speaker 1: because of the breeze and everything that you get and

1141
01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:22,240
Speaker 1: how the sun comes in, but you have a roof.

1142
01:03:22,360 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely. I mean I had sunglasses on the entire

1143
01:03:25,240 --> 01:03:29,880
Speaker 1: game and we were indoors, but that's how that's how

1144
01:03:29,960 --> 01:03:33,320
Speaker 1: much sunlight comes through. I nearly wore my sunglasses to

1145
01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:36,160
Speaker 1: call the first quarter because the light was shining so

1146
01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:38,960
Speaker 1: brightly in the particular area where our booth was. So

1147
01:03:39,400 --> 01:03:41,600
Speaker 1: I know what you're talking about. I feel like you're outside,

1148
01:03:41,640 --> 01:03:43,880
Speaker 1: you do, And how much would you like to have

1149
01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:48,160
Speaker 1: a roof this Saturday? I would really enjoy it. It

1150
01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:51,320
Speaker 1: would be wonderful. That would be wonderful. Now, But I mean,

1151
01:03:51,360 --> 01:03:55,480
Speaker 1: this facility is is going to be so special in

1152
01:03:55,560 --> 01:03:59,200
Speaker 1: so many different ways. Look forward to Titans games there,

1153
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:04,520
Speaker 1: the Music City Bowl there, different college games there, hopefully

1154
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:08,320
Speaker 1: the College Football Playoff, which is now expanded to twelve teams.

1155
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:13,440
Speaker 1: Concerts there, concerts there, The acoustics will be fantastic. Um,

1156
01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:17,240
Speaker 1: it's just it's exciting. I mean, it's just exciting. And

1157
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:19,320
Speaker 1: the people who've worked so hard to make it happen

1158
01:04:19,800 --> 01:04:22,080
Speaker 1: should be very proud right now. And to all the

1159
01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:27,600
Speaker 1: ot people, Um, this is gonna be so fantastic, and

1160
01:04:27,720 --> 01:04:31,200
Speaker 1: what it's gonna do for that entire development down there

1161
01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 1: is going to be phenomenal. Yeah, it's it's such a

1162
01:04:34,840 --> 01:04:38,400
Speaker 1: big deal. I watched the entire vote happen. I streamed

1163
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:42,440
Speaker 1: it while my child was in the bathtub. So probably

1164
01:04:42,480 --> 01:04:44,600
Speaker 1: not the safest parenting thing I've ever done, but we

1165
01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:46,439
Speaker 1: did watch it a mid a lot on this show.

1166
01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:49,000
Speaker 1: Don't really, these are my friends. The ot people are

1167
01:04:49,040 --> 01:04:52,000
Speaker 1: my people. They are your people. Do they ever submit questions?

1168
01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:55,360
Speaker 1: Do they ever submit otpques? We've been throwing that out there. Good, Yeah,

1169
01:04:55,360 --> 01:04:57,880
Speaker 1: sure they do. We should keep keep pushing it though.

1170
01:04:57,960 --> 01:05:00,400
Speaker 1: Let's keep getting some more and then we'll you can

1171
01:05:00,440 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 1: ask us all sorts of questions. Yeah, whatever you want

1172
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:06,560
Speaker 1: to know about the otp q's good Tennessee Titans dot

1173
01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:12,200
Speaker 1: com slash OTPQ otp Q. Yep, maybe we'll go through

1174
01:05:12,240 --> 01:05:14,800
Speaker 1: a few of those. We should will gather them, Yes,

1175
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:20,520
Speaker 1: I will gather them up. That them so your child's

1176
01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:25,240
Speaker 1: first Christmas? You little fired up? I'm yes, really, I'm

1177
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:29,200
Speaker 1: a little I'm a little fatigued right now. There have

1178
01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:33,480
Speaker 1: been some some late nights trying to get everything gathered

1179
01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:38,280
Speaker 1: and because there's the purchasing step. Well, there's deciding what

1180
01:05:38,280 --> 01:05:39,960
Speaker 1: you're going to get. Then you have to find it.

1181
01:05:40,320 --> 01:05:42,440
Speaker 1: Then you've got to wrap it and assemble it and

1182
01:05:42,520 --> 01:05:45,040
Speaker 1: put it all together, and then you've got to lug

1183
01:05:45,040 --> 01:05:47,760
Speaker 1: it all downstairs. And she's not going to remember. And

1184
01:05:47,960 --> 01:05:52,480
Speaker 1: she cares none percent, Mike Keith. She doesn't care it all.

1185
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:55,680
Speaker 1: This is for me. All she cares about her doorstops.

1186
01:05:55,760 --> 01:05:59,120
Speaker 1: She didn't care about anything else. Doorstops and zippers, my

1187
01:05:59,240 --> 01:06:03,000
Speaker 1: killing her hangers and boxes. Yeah, you could give them

1188
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:04,640
Speaker 1: a code hanger in a box and it'd be a

1189
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:07,080
Speaker 1: tissue paper, the greatest thing in the world. Yeah, she

1190
01:06:07,200 --> 01:06:13,000
Speaker 1: cares zero percent. I care a tremendous amount. I gotta

1191
01:06:13,040 --> 01:06:15,479
Speaker 1: fix this in year two. Your one's been too much

1192
01:06:15,960 --> 01:06:19,320
Speaker 1: for you. You won't, No, I think this is just

1193
01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:21,920
Speaker 1: my life. Yeah, for a while, but then you get

1194
01:06:21,960 --> 01:06:25,120
Speaker 1: to my point, it's like, what do you want money? Gosh,

1195
01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:28,200
Speaker 1: I would have I would love to be able to

1196
01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:30,880
Speaker 1: give this baby a chicken nugget and a couple of

1197
01:06:30,920 --> 01:06:35,040
Speaker 1: bucks and send her on her way. That's what we're having.

1198
01:06:35,560 --> 01:06:37,880
Speaker 1: Chicken nuggets and some dollars and a couple of bucks.

1199
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:43,520
Speaker 1: We're actually Christmas is very actually giving them giving them

1200
01:06:43,600 --> 01:06:46,920
Speaker 1: dunking cards as you should. Yes, a great kid. Duncan

1201
01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:52,320
Speaker 1: has a new rewards program called Duncan Rewards. How about that? Clever?

1202
01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:54,400
Speaker 1: I wonder how long the marketing team worked on that.

1203
01:06:54,600 --> 01:06:58,800
Speaker 1: Let's see what do we new Duncan Rewards program? Well,

1204
01:06:58,800 --> 01:07:01,160
Speaker 1: it was probably like a working title, and then someone

1205
01:07:01,200 --> 01:07:03,400
Speaker 1: forgot to change in the promotions and they're like, well,

1206
01:07:03,480 --> 01:07:06,360
Speaker 1: let's just supposed to be something a lot more flesh.

1207
01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:09,640
Speaker 1: But it works because that's what it is. Save them,

1208
01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:11,760
Speaker 1: stack them, use them however you want use your points

1209
01:07:11,760 --> 01:07:14,640
Speaker 1: to get a donut free, coffee free, breakfast sandwich, is

1210
01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:17,920
Speaker 1: anything that they've got at Duncan. You stack them up

1211
01:07:17,960 --> 01:07:21,840
Speaker 1: by downloading the app and just getting in and then

1212
01:07:21,920 --> 01:07:24,320
Speaker 1: doing what I did this morning, just going by Duncan

1213
01:07:24,480 --> 01:07:27,400
Speaker 1: after I order. I've got a new Duncan and Franklin

1214
01:07:27,440 --> 01:07:32,480
Speaker 1: on Carother's Parkway. They're really nice, and I order, I

1215
01:07:32,560 --> 01:07:35,560
Speaker 1: do my mobile app, I get there, it's always ready,

1216
01:07:35,760 --> 01:07:38,840
Speaker 1: and I walk out and I get points every time. Wow,

1217
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:42,520
Speaker 1: And because I've been twelve times this month, my points

1218
01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:46,960
Speaker 1: go up even more. They accelerate my key. Yeah. Oh

1219
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:49,600
Speaker 1: I love the Duncan rewards and I love the new Duncan.

1220
01:07:49,720 --> 01:07:54,520
Speaker 1: Thanks for building one here my home. Well that's good.

1221
01:07:54,560 --> 01:07:59,920
Speaker 1: Well it's convenient. Yeah, No, having convenient coffee is a strong,

1222
01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:04,120
Speaker 1: crucial part of strong living experience. Absolutely. Ye. Well that's

1223
01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:05,880
Speaker 1: going to do it for this edition of the OTP.

1224
01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:10,360
Speaker 1: And Marry Christmas everyone. Marry Christmas. Mike Keith, Merry Christmas.

1225
01:08:10,400 --> 01:08:13,440
Speaker 1: Do you marry Christmas? Ashley Farrell, m We look forward

1226
01:08:13,480 --> 01:08:16,960
Speaker 1: to seeing the ot people at the game on Saturday. Yes,

1227
01:08:17,240 --> 01:08:18,639
Speaker 1: it could be a lot of fun time. We're all

1228
01:08:18,680 --> 01:08:21,960
Speaker 1: in it together, guys. Yes, somebody asked me, will the

1229
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:25,360
Speaker 1: window be open in our booth? It's always open. It's

1230
01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:29,760
Speaker 1: always open, Mike Keith, don't play. We don't close the booth. No,

1231
01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:33,760
Speaker 1: the booth is always open. Booth is always open. I

1232
01:08:33,840 --> 01:08:37,280
Speaker 1: like it. Yes, your hardcore Mike, thank you. You're welcome.

1233
01:08:37,800 --> 01:08:42,960
Speaker 1: If your girl starts acting up, so cool, Mike, so cool,

1234
01:08:43,160 --> 01:08:45,400
Speaker 1: I'm wonder Mike, and I'd like to say hello, oh

1235
01:08:45,439 --> 01:08:47,880
Speaker 1: my god. All right, all right, that that does it

1236
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:53,040
Speaker 1: for the OTP for Amy Wells, Ashley Farrell and Mike

1237
01:08:53,120 --> 01:08:56,599
Speaker 1: Keith Again, Marry Christmas everyone, See Saturday at the ball game.

1238
01:08:56,920 --> 01:09:05,120
Speaker 1: And thanks for listening to the O T T, M H.

1239
01:09:10,960 --> 01:09:15,240
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Big Show where the legends go. Everybody

1240
01:09:15,400 --> 01:09:19,840
Speaker 1: knows it's our house, fighting for Tennessee, making us to

1241
01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:21,600
Speaker 1: read cleanness is better be