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Press Pass | Doug Pederson: "We Have To Play as We've Got Everything To Prove." · Press Pass

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Tyson, he'll get some work in this week. See
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: where he's at kind of kind of day to day
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  Speaker 1: feeling better, Devon you know, same thing. We're just gonna
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  Speaker 1: keep working him and getting him some uh you know
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  Speaker 1: more you know, practice reps, make sure he's you know,
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  Speaker 1: feeling good and and you know, maintaining kind of his
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  Speaker 1: strength and and getting all that back.
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  Speaker 2: They come through.
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  Speaker 3: What makes Tank Dell a dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: Play gosh speed, quickness, size, good route runner, great hands,
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  Speaker 1: can elevate everything you want. And receiver he does well
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  Speaker 1: with C. J.
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  Speaker 3: Stroud and Stroud's anticipation kind of make it difficult on
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  Speaker 3: the defense.
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  Speaker 1: I think that in the scheme they're running some of
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  Speaker 1: the play action uh you know bootleg play action stuff
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  Speaker 1: has has also helped with that. But those two, those
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  Speaker 1: two seem to be dialed in right now.
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  Speaker 2: Do you see a lot of rookie mistakes out of
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  Speaker 2: Shroud or not?
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  Speaker 1: Really? I mean the occasional force to throw, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but I think everybody kind of gets away with that
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  Speaker 1: from time to time. But this kid is uh, he's
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  Speaker 1: playing playing extremely well, very mature individual, does a does
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  Speaker 1: a nice job.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't need to drop the quarterback obviously, But do
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  Speaker 2: you spend time in the pre draft process last year
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  Speaker 2: looking at him and you I mean.
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  Speaker 1: We we peaked at him, but you know we knew
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  Speaker 1: I didn't need one, so but you always peak at
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  Speaker 1: him because it's fun to watch, you know, good quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that he would be doing what he's
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  Speaker 3: doing right now?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's very impressive what he's doing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for for young player, especially a quarterback first
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  Speaker 1: year like this, But it's it's obviously no surprise. You know,
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  Speaker 1: his history and his background track record in college and
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I think, you know, even though we
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  Speaker 1: didn't spend a ton of time, you could see kind
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  Speaker 1: of his work ethic, you know, show up in games,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, not really a surprise that he's playing
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  Speaker 1: as well as he is.
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  Speaker 4: Does that scheme kind of make it I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to say easier, but just more quarterback friendly when they
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  Speaker 4: first start out rookie quarterback friendly? Does that make sense?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know if there's a friendly system. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's just how you how you're taught, how your
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  Speaker 1: coach they do well. You know, they do a nice
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  Speaker 1: job of doing that.
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  Speaker 4: I guess the system to make it easier for quarterbacks
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  Speaker 4: and transition from college to pros, is.
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  Speaker 2: What I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't I don't know them as much.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you see some of the San Francisco influence,
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  Speaker 1: obviously offensively and of course defensively, but you know they're
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  Speaker 1: doing a great job of just utilizing his strengths too,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not putting him in in tough situations. The
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  Speaker 1: offensive line is is blocking extremely well. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: believe Touns will be back and he's in there. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's back. When he's playing, he's he's a he's a
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  Speaker 1: he's a tough guy to pass rush against, and that
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  Speaker 1: that helps helps you ong quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 3: Is there a balance between throwing exotic looks and trying
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  Speaker 3: to confuse a young quarterback and still just being I
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  Speaker 3: guess the personality of the Jags defense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, you you just throw on any
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  Speaker 1: of these games and watch him. Teams that want to
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  Speaker 1: exotic pressure him, you know, they're they're giving up his
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  Speaker 1: zone on the back end and he's finding that window,
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  Speaker 1: you know, balls out of his hand. So you just
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  Speaker 1: gotta it's gotta be timely, you know, pressures. But they've
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  Speaker 1: they've done a nice job. They've handled it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and he's handled it. You know, you can beat the
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  Speaker 1: blitz a lot of ways protection number one and really
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  Speaker 1: throw and or use your legs, and he's they've been
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  Speaker 1: able to do all three. He's been able to do that,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, they they stay on the field a
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  Speaker 1: lot because because of that success.
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  Speaker 4: How which was will Anderson grown since you guys first
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  Speaker 4: saw him?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Quite a bit? I think he's really settled into
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  Speaker 1: that role. He's he's he's fast, you know, he's he's
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  Speaker 1: got good strength and leverage, power pad level, all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and and really turning into a really good,
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  Speaker 1: really good edge rusher.
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  Speaker 2: G seven sacks this year, obviously his career high already
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  Speaker 2: and they only won ten games in What has he
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  Speaker 2: done since when you guys faced him last year? And
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  Speaker 2: maybe can you compare the duo with Keim and Anderson
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  Speaker 2: to anybody else's face?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I I think I think what's happened is the
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  Speaker 1: addition of fifty one, you know. Uh so I think
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  Speaker 1: those two you know, but Bosa Khalil Mack right when
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  Speaker 1: it was Chris Jones and when they had you know,
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  Speaker 1: uh fifty five a year ago up for Kansas City. Yeah, Clark,
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  Speaker 1: I there's those tandem of guys, you know, and so
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  Speaker 1: that's why one benefits from the other. Right, you put
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  Speaker 1: so much emphasis over here, he'll get you on this side.
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  Speaker 1: And he's playing extremely well too. I mean he's he's
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  Speaker 1: playing fast, he's playing aggressive, you know, and doing doing
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  Speaker 1: some really good things. So I think it's the addition
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  Speaker 1: of fifty one. But in tandem they're playing well.
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  Speaker 4: You guys talk.
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  Speaker 2: At all how important this game maybe for a playoff implication?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think everybody knows that without really
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  Speaker 1: speaking it, you know, verbally and quite frankly. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's a it's obviously a meaningful football game AFC South
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  Speaker 1: all of that, and and there's still some division games left,
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  Speaker 1: you know, with a lot of a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: can play out. But I think the importance of where
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  Speaker 1: we are and what we've done and focusing on that
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  Speaker 1: and and staying true to that, and just understanding that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're going down to a place here in
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  Speaker 1: a dome. It's can be loud, the environment's can be great,
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  Speaker 1: and they have had that, they haven't had this experience
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  Speaker 1: in a few years. This is great for for Houston
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  Speaker 1: and obviously the organization to feel that sort of playoff atmosphere.
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  Speaker 2: Or last time this year, this time last year, you
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  Speaker 2: guys were I'm gonna move.
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  Speaker 1: And you think I'm confused, right, That's exactly you guys had.
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  Speaker 2: To go into chase mode and catch up mode to
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  Speaker 2: you know, catch the Titans.
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  Speaker 5: And all us.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's flipped this year. Is there something to these
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  Speaker 2: guys having to go through and being the hunter for
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  Speaker 2: the first time?
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  Speaker 1: You know the guys, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't change the mindset. It's just that the team has
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  Speaker 1: done better this year. We've done well, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: put ourselves in this position, and we still have to
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  Speaker 1: understand that, you know, we still haven't done anything right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, okay, we got in the playoffs last year,
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  Speaker 1: but didn't do anything. You know, we didn't finish right.
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  Speaker 1: So we have to play the same way we got
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  Speaker 1: to play as we've got everything to prove our backs
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  Speaker 1: against the all. It's a playoff atmosphere. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: can't make mistakes you saw Sunday when you take care
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  Speaker 1: of the football, you know, and you create the takeaways, uh,
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  Speaker 1: defensively and special teams you can, you can score points,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what a lot of these games boil down to.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, you have to match intensity a week
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  Speaker 1: to week, whether they're matching ours or we're matching theirs.
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  Speaker 1: And this team, this team, uh you know, beat us
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  Speaker 1: up pretty good, uh in the first in the first matchup,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, just a great it's gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: great football game.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think team your team has done such
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  Speaker 3: a good job of matching intensity on the road.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think maybe a little bit because
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  Speaker 1: we're we're just together more on the road from the
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  Speaker 1: time we leave to the time we get on the
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  Speaker 1: you know, back off the plane to go home Sunday night.
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  Speaker 1: You know. And it's a great group of guys too
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  Speaker 1: when they're when they're together, they enjoy being around each other.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I think that that has a long
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  Speaker 1: way to It goes a long way I think to
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  Speaker 1: the success of any any any team. How about you.
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  Speaker 5: Do you know about Bobby Slowik, I mean he's you know,
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  Speaker 5: he obviously he was with Demico and San Francisco, but
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  Speaker 5: just just being able to bring CJ along as as
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  Speaker 5: quickly as he has. I mean, again, I guess it
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  Speaker 5: goes speaks to the importance you know for head coach
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  Speaker 5: hires or everything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, and and and obviously he's got
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  Speaker 1: that San Francisco influence and and that's been you know,
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  Speaker 1: you see what they do and what their quarterbacks have done,
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  Speaker 1: you know in San fran And and you know, they
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  Speaker 1: try to try to do it through the run game.
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  Speaker 1: They got two excellent running backs you know there, and
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  Speaker 1: and try to do it that way. And then and
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  Speaker 1: then feed off of the the movement stuff and just
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  Speaker 1: give the quarterback uh an opportunity to be successful. They
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  Speaker 1: don't give him you know, you don't overload him with
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  Speaker 1: a ton of reads and progressions and you know, keep
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  Speaker 1: things really simple, keep his keep his reads right in
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  Speaker 1: front of him, you know. And and creates space, create
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  Speaker 1: that space in the pocket, which they're doing, and allowing
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  Speaker 1: allowing CJ to use his arm talent to push the
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  Speaker 1: ball down the field.
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  Speaker 5: Did you honestly think when this whole thing started in
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  Speaker 5: training camp that the Texans would be able to ascend
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  Speaker 5: as quickly as they have.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean that was a long time ago, and
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  Speaker 1: you just don't know. I mean, yeah, you think rookie
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  Speaker 1: quarterback you know Indy had a rookie quarterback Tennessee drafted,
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  Speaker 1: you know another there's another potentially three rookie quarter you
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  Speaker 1: just don't know, you know, back then. But it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: surprise me, you know, I know coach Ryan's I know
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  Speaker 1: he's a former player, I know how he's been coached,
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  Speaker 1: how he's been taught, who he's worked for and worked
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  Speaker 1: under the influence is that he's had as a coach,
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  Speaker 1: and so there's no surprise that these guys are are
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  Speaker 1: feeding off of that too, you know. And that makes
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  Speaker 1: a difference. When you get the right leader in there,
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  Speaker 1: you can flip a franchise. Obviously, you know, we were
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  Speaker 1: able to do it last year a little bit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And and and there's a belief right and there's a
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  Speaker 1: belief down there, and that's that goes a long way,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to to winning. And in this league.
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  Speaker 4: Christian Kirk was nominated for the art Roomy Sportsmanship or
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  Speaker 4: just what have you seen from him in terms of
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  Speaker 4: that and how deserving is he of this order?
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  Speaker 2: So there was a confusion there the official release from them,
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  Speaker 2: I just looked it up. The official release said Kirk,
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  Speaker 2: but you guys said for.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, well, someone has the list and everything. But anyway,
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  Speaker 4: I guess I guess it's Foyer.
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  Speaker 5: So just Foyer.
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  Speaker 3: You know what did Kirk do to get to lose
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  Speaker 3: the Okay?
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, if you can talk talk toward Boyer's you know,
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  Speaker 4: sportsmanship and what he means for the team.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, he plays the game right. He comes
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  Speaker 1: to work every day, puts in, puts into time, great
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  Speaker 1: leader on and off the field, plays hard, and like
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  Speaker 1: I said, he just plays. He plays it the right
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  Speaker 1: way and and he never misses a day. You can
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  Speaker 1: you can count on him. He's accountable and you know,
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  Speaker 1: just very deserving of this honor.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned some of the San Francisco influences on this
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  Speaker 3: Texans team. Your offense has struggled against some of the
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  Speaker 3: defenses that have had those San Francisco influences. Jets. San
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  Speaker 3: Francisco compete the Jets last year, you did, but the
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  Speaker 3: offense didn't exactly play great.
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  Speaker 1: Was it raining beat them nineteen to what three?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, they scored the first three points, you scored the
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  Speaker 2: final nineteen four.
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  Speaker 3: Is there something? Is there something to the San Francisco
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  Speaker 3: defense that that makes it difficult on.
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  Speaker 1: Offenses When we say the influence. It's sort of the
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  Speaker 1: structure of the defense, not necessarily the personnel of the defense.
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  Speaker 1: Now we see what Houston's doing. They're investing resources in
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  Speaker 1: the D line, you know, where San Francisco did the
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: same things. And again that's Demko the experience he had,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in San Francisco, and I think the structures there.
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  Speaker 1: But again, you know, you you see, you know, Matt Burke,
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  Speaker 1: who I had in Philly is the DC. He's a
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: Jim Schwartz guy. So he's a wide nine guy, which
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: we're going to see in a couple of weeks. So
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  Speaker 1: they've kind of combined the two a little bit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with the front and the back end, and they're they're
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  Speaker 1: playing it extremely well. But you can you can learn
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  Speaker 1: from And the thing is, you have an idea, a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good idea of the of the type of defense
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  Speaker 1: is going to be. But you still, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 1: you still got to study the tape and and you know,
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  Speaker 1: prepare each each week because it changes.
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  Speaker 3: I know, obviously a.
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  Speaker 4: Lot has been made about the halftime conversation, how this
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  Speaker 4: team showed up in the first half of the first.
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  Speaker 3: Meeting between these two teams.
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  Speaker 4: In your message to them this week.
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  Speaker 5: How much have you tapped into maybe we didn't show
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  Speaker 5: up the first half of this da of the first team.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the only thing I mentioned to them is
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  Speaker 1: this just when they can go back and just watch
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: the game. Just go back and watch the game. I
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  Speaker 1: don't I don't have to tap back into that or
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  Speaker 1: into last week. It's a week to week business. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously Houston's a good football team. We're a good football team.
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  Speaker 1: We're better, We've learned from it. But I do want
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  Speaker 1: them to watch it and and see for themselves just
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  Speaker 1: how we how we played in that game.
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  Speaker 4: The Christian got nominated for the Art Run Sports.
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  Speaker 6: He At any point do you start looking a big picture,
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  Speaker 6: like at any point in the season, do you start
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  Speaker 6: looking big picture or do you.
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  Speaker 3: Stay focused on this is our schedule, this is who
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  Speaker 3: we play.
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  Speaker 1: Week to week, moment by moment. You know, I think
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  Speaker 1: maybe in a down moment you can take a look
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  Speaker 1: at the big pic. Sure, but you know, I never
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  Speaker 1: want to put that in front of the team because
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  Speaker 1: this is a big, big opportunity this week. Thanks