Best of the Bus: CJ Stroud On His Early Success In The NFL

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Speaker 1: Fellas.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to another Best of the Bust episode, where we drop an episode every Saturday recapping some of our best of episodes and interviews back in the day. CJ Stroud hopped on a zoom call with the boys back in twenty twenty three and we talked about his early success in Houston, took some playful shots at his Ohio state dates because of course, you know, go blue Taylor's a Michigan boy, and wrapped it up with his worst rookie moment in a spooptober Tier talk.

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Speaker 1: This is one for the books.

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Speaker 2: CJ's one of the boys and we got to get him on the bus next offseason.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy this one. Big hugs, tiny kisses, CJ.

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Speaker 3: What's up man?

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Speaker 1: What's up? Brow doing? Good man? How are you?

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Speaker 3: I'm good man, blessed.

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Speaker 4: I love that we are we rolling.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's three people on this busn No, let's give a round of a plus for cjs drug best quarterback of Ohio state history, already proven best quarterback of all time. Brother, listen getting drafted by the Houston Texas. I know you're sitting there and the PR guys are sitting right behind the computer right now, trying to tell you what to say and not to say when you get drafted by Houston. People were saying the franchise, like, franchise might be dead, a lot of issues. You've come in and have truly played incredible. Yes, really, what was what was the vibe when you got drafts where people like, oh, Houston, or were they like fired up for you?

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Speaker 3: I know my inner circle like and including me, I was excited.

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Speaker 6: I've always loved challenges and loved new things to work on and to be better at. And I haven't been anywhere where we've been bad, so it was kind of new and just being honest with myself the situation I saw. I knew there's a lot of work was gonna be how to be made so and I was inducting from that. And so me and my family we were really excited, man, because not only was it a new opportunity to flip something around, but Houston is a great city and I.

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Speaker 3: Didn't want to live in the middle of nowhere anymore.

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Speaker 6: So, which Columbus isn't. But I didn't want to live in the Midwest no more. So it was good to be to a city that was kind of they were proud of being who they were, and I was just ready for them to rep detections at that point. So that's what my goal was. And I feel like I'm compting that a little bit. We got a lot more to go in the tank.

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Speaker 2: So, dude, you really have You've had a You've had an incredible year thus far as a rookie. And I just use the word surprising in like an impressed way, like it's been very impressive to see you play and how everything is unfolded for you when you got drafted to Houston. I know you haven't played anywhere else in the NFL, But what do you feel like the organization and the staff and the culture has kind of done to transition you into the NFL? Because you hear you hear it every year when rookie quarterbacks they play right away, they struggle, they do this, it's almost like doing them a disservice to play them right away. What do you feel like that organization and staff has done to help you transition so well to the to the NFL.

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Speaker 6: I really believe that they had a plan for me when I got in here, not only just myself, but just like the scheme that we run Bobby Slogroc has done a great job. He coming from the forty nine ers with Kyle Shanahan, so we run the West Coast offense, and he.

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Speaker 3: Did a great job of putting pieces together that.

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Speaker 6: Kind of fit my playing style on top of the offensive scheme. And then coach did really well along with our receiver coach Ben and Draw Johnson, our quarterback coach or try to coach Jake morland O, Lion coach, coach Strawson. We've all kind of bought into this new scheme. Uh So that was kind of testament to what he's done over with Kyle and Kyle Chinahan with the Niners and brought it here and kind of did his own twist to it, which has been great. But man, I really believe that, Man, you don't. I don't believe that you kind of lose talent once you become.

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Speaker 3: To the league.

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Speaker 6: I think either you work hard or you're just in the You're you either don't work hard or you just go into a bad situation. So I really don't think it's a it's in between. So for me, no matter what the situation was, it was never gonna be on me. I was just gonna work really hard to make sure that this thing went the right way.

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Speaker 5: When you think leadership, when you think about the quarterback position as an automatic leader, you're basically guaranteed to see on your chest. And you're walking into coming from a college locker room where everyone's hanging out the boys. You guys are all kind of going out on the weekends doing your thing. Now you're in the NFL where you know, nine ten year vets are married, they got multiple kids and stuff like that. How did you approach the process of becoming a leader in that locker room.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, for me, I wanted to let it be known when I first got drafted, like I don't want anything to be given to me on earn everything. And for me coming from a place like a house state, like that's how it was there, and that's why I feel like I was able to grip that locker room and to fall in love with me and understanding that I was a natural born leader, not just somebody who was just a quarterback. So I was kind of like the same thought process here where I was gonna come here and try to not just win guys over, but make them trust me not only on the field, but off, So just spending time with guys, a building core relationships and not just the small conversations on just man, how how this doing, and not really caring and not talking about it every again, but really just having de conversation with guys and just being myself.

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Speaker 3: I think that I've done a decent job.

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Speaker 6: Along well with Will. Will is also captain. But something that we could admit to is man, we weren't giving it. We earned that, and we brought a new swagen and new type of mindsetting and.

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Speaker 3: To this culture.

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Speaker 6: And I think Demico also has that, and that's why he gave us that see on our chest to represent the Texans like we do.

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Speaker 2: So you come from Ohio State, you come from a conference that's the toughest, most competitive conference in the country. You play against some of the best defenses you'll ever see, like the ones in Nebraska. Is the NFL That is the NFL as big as as big of a jump as you thought it'd be, or is it a little easier than you thought it'd be.

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Speaker 6: I would say it's like in between. I wouldn't say it's easy nor like super hard. I feel like football is football, and of course the players get better the windows are smaller, throwers are. You got to be more efficient, a lot more accurate. But I mean, I feel like that's the that's the fun part of the game. That's what I enjoy. That's what I love, just the grind of like how detailed you got to be to execute your job every play and just go want to know play. And I think sometimes as a young player, you can try to do so much on one player really just you you think that you're superman when you come out of college. But for me, I knew that man, I had to grow and I to learn, and I knew that if I put into work, not only would I be good, but I would hopefully be great and leave my guys to victory and leave my guys to be better. And then that's kind of like the mindset I've had was just want to know each play and not trying to put too much.

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Speaker 3: On my plate, control the controllables.

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Speaker 6: And I know it's easy to say, it's harder to do, but I really try hard to just get on my routine and make sure that I was simplifying every thing so I can just play fast on Sundays. And of course my team around me has done a great job. I have a great marketing team, a great agent, a great manager assistant. I have a great team around me that kind of filter out a lot of stuff so I can just focus on ball, which is a super good thing for me and a blessing.

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Speaker 5: When you came from college, you you came from a system that you look to the sideline and you see a cool you know, hardboard, and you look at a couple of pictures and then you know what the play is. What was the process like for you to learn the verbiage and bring it into a huddle and be able to be confident and spew it and not only spew it, but know it as well.

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Speaker 4: Was that a difficult thing?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? It was.

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Speaker 6: It was tough, man, because everything, like you said, in college is all signals, so uh it was. It was even harder learning those signals when I first out to college. And then when you get to lead, you got to throw it out the way and get used to that headset and the ear piece that's in your your helmet, which is isn't always the most clear thing ever, So it.

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Speaker 3: Kind of just got to get you to like the.

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Speaker 6: I would say, the accent in there, like it sounds like gibbers sometimes, So you got to really know your plays so you can piece it together. And really, you want to tell a story right you're in there. You don't want to just ram through the play and make it seem like it can sound like something else. You want to like tell a story and give it really detailed so guys know exactly what's going on. So that was a really big jump coming from that. And of course in the Big Ten there was a lot of defenses that were like NFL styles, so that kind of helped me as well, kind of going back to your question from the last question, so it was kind of a little bit of both though.

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Speaker 3: I was learning the new.

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Speaker 6: Idea of listening to in the headset to going out there and then looking at the defense from a huddle and not like being out there the whole time and be able to see as you're getting to play.

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Speaker 4: Can I just say something before you ask the next question?

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Speaker 1: Go ahead?

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Speaker 5: I want to give a shout out to your PR team. They have done in a phenomenal job up of Hey, this is what you say, this is what you don't say. You seem like you you're doing a great job of being a pro in this moment and kind of trying to decipher that what the show is all about, and you kind of just coming and think, hey, answer it. Don't give him too much, too much BULLETI material or anything.

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Speaker 2: Like that him like you know, maybe maybe he maybe he needs more credit.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but he plays plays with too much swack, plays with too much he you know, and you can tell he's meticulous. He's trying to make sure that he doesn't say anything wrong right now. And I love that. Ye, that's the thing you should do.

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Speaker 2: I think what I love hearing is when he talks about doing the you know, because I've played on defense, like I've you know, whether or not wearing the green dot and telling a story. Like as he's talking about the plays, delivering the plays and like you kind of got to tell a story.

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Speaker 1: It's like when he's sitting there, he's.

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Speaker 2: On a knee, talking to his huddle and like giving the energy throughout the play on like we're kind of in this situation some guys, you know, whether you're sticking up your arm here, you're like, you're kind of telling a story.

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Speaker 1: What I want to go back to is you talk about.

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Speaker 2: This one and O mentality and You're like, it's easier said than done. Do you have any you know, pro process or something you lean on or something you've picked up and learned that you really try and lean into during this, because you're right, it is really hard to go want to know every play, it's hard to forget about a failure you might have had just to play before. Uh, is there anything there or you feel like you've just kind of cultivated this naturally.

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Speaker 3: I would say a little bit of both.

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Speaker 6: I would be lying if I said I've always been kind of cool, calm, like let stuff go, like just being young and amateur. Like probably even before college and going into college, I was very, very like fiery and I didn't take no bs like I just was was.

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Speaker 3: That's just who I was, and I still am that way.

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Speaker 6: But I know how to kind of put that to the side when it's not necessary, which is important especially as a quarterback. Everybody's looking at you when stuff hits the fans. So for me, I mean, I always lean on my faith and I try to pray through things and just have like some breathing exercises that I do.

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Speaker 3: But when those things, I mean, those things usually work.

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Speaker 6: But I also kind of just understand man like thinking about the last play, like what benefit does that do me? What is that going to help in the long run in the future, So you might as well just throw it away and go to the next play, because I'm king of like man like man after the game rewatching a bad clip ten times, like man, I should have did that, I should do this. I mean, when you're moving out the speed of light, man, And you know how y'all both played in the league for a long time at a high level, you're moving so fast. Sometimes your body and your mind just does things. So you gotta play with your instincts at the same time and give yourself a little bit of credit even when you do make a mistake, because I think as players we can be our biggest critic and that's a good thing. But sometime you got to build yourself up just like you break yourself down when you know you have to keep yourself accountable. So I try to do both, but more so in anything, I try to make sure that I have a playing face that I'm saving, even keel about the whole game, because I know that just how your next play could have been, your last play could have been bad, It could have been good too, so you gotta let that go as well.

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Speaker 3: So it's a little bit of both.

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Speaker 1: That's man, that's that's that's really well said.

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Speaker 2: It was there. There was there a moment, not I know that's like a combination of moments, right, But was there a time where you were losing your cool and maybe you had a conversation kind of made you rethink.

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Speaker 1: About it in zoom out You're like, oh, yeah, I kind of see this.

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Speaker 2: Was it observing somebody like because you said, like I wasn't always like this, like sometimes I wouldn't let shit go. But like, was there was there a loss that you had, like at a game in college or was there a sequence of plays to kind of make you rethink.

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Speaker 3: That, Yeah, it was all the way back in college.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: I actually was just in Columbus this.

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Speaker 6: Past weekend and I was talking to my running back coach Tony Alford, and at the time, like, you know, you see your buddies on the other side of the country who stay home, or like you see some guys that you felt better than playing well and like the time I was a plan as a freshman and like being myself, Like, man, I feel like like I know I wasn't a playoff for Justin, but like, I feel like, man, we were up a lot, like I should have got in and stuff like that, and I was like, man, I'm ready to go home, Like I'm tired of Columbus. I want to I want to leave, Like I want to do this, I want to do that. You know, you're just talking. I remember I sat down for like three hours with my running back coach after practice in the freezing code and we were just talking, man, just about everything. And so like, I go back to that moment and I was kind of like a really big moment for me to just to mature as a man. And he was just being honest with me that whole time, and he really was just saying, man, comparison is a thief for joy. My dad used to always tell me that as a kid, like comparing yourself to somebody on social media, especially in the social media day and age where everybody's posting their wings and victories and a lot of his fate. Like back then, when my dad was telling me, it wasn't so alarming to me because I was just a kid at the time. But when my coach said that, it made me think about when my dad used to tell me, and man, you compare yourself to others, Man.

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Speaker 3: You don't really get to love your life.

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Speaker 6: I love what you're going through, and you have to go through some type of struggle to be.

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Speaker 3: Great, I mean anything.

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Speaker 6: So that was a moment where like, man, it was like all made since and then I can't. I started getting a lot more mature, a lot more. I started calming down more.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing.

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Speaker 5: That is incredible. You talk about your relationship with your running back coach in high school. Have you been able to find a similar type of relationship in the NFL with one of your coaches now that you're able to lean on from an emotional standpoint when things don't go well, when you have a three and out or you make a bad pass or something like that. Is there any time or any coach on that staff that you're like, hey, I just give me a second kind of vent and talk a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I mean our quarterback coach, Rod Johnson, he's always right there. Me's somebody that I've known since high school. I mean he was my leader loving coach when I was in high school.

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Speaker 3: I was like sixteen.

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Speaker 6: So for it to come full circle, is kind of crazy. So he's always right there. I got Davis and case Keenum, They're always right there to talk about a play or to tell me, man, like you couldn't you can do anything right there, like you got to just get rid of it whatever, Like bad are good.

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Speaker 3: They always try to get be honest with me, which I really appreciate.

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Speaker 6: And for me even bigger like off the field, I have a lot of support, uh because sometimes man, you know, y'all played this game at a high level, so you know, when you get home, sometimes you don't want to talk about ball.

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Speaker 3: You want to talk about anything else.

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Speaker 6: And so I have a good friend of mine who helps me just talk about certain things that I need to get off my chest and things like that. So that's some advice for you guys out there who are coming into this league man for next year, or if you haven't done that yet, just have somebody that you convent to, because this world will tell you how bad you are and you'll start listening. And if you don't, if you don't have something to kind of get out of that way. So for me, I mean, those are being some big pieces for me to be successful.

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Speaker 3: To this point.

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Speaker 5: You brought up a home before you do, before you do that segment you brought up being back in Columbus this past weekend obviously a big win against the Nitney Allons.

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Speaker 4: What is uh?

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Speaker 5: What's your expectation going into the third week of November this year? What's your expectation for Ohio State this year?

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Speaker 3: A big expectations, man, just like every year. Man for us, it's natty or nothing.

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Speaker 6: Man. I know you being a team up North guy, you have your own opinion and I respect I respect it, and yeah, I can't.

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Speaker 3: Talk too much. I didn't beat y'all.

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Speaker 6: So high respect for those guys over there. I don't like y'all, but it's respect, and I think that team over there. Talking to the DC Mike who's with the Ravens now my first time actually talking to him and since we played him in twenty twenty one, and he had a lot of respect for me seeing a JOBU. I got to see Hutchinson and it's all respect after you after you're done playing in that game, because we know how hard that game is if you've played in there.

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Speaker 3: So it's not from respect for me.

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Speaker 6: I'm still a little bitter, a little bitter from it, just being honest. But this year, I hope we get you guys and we get to go to the big Championship and win Natty Man.

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Speaker 3: So that's to go for us every year. But that's the big game every year.

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Speaker 6: So I'm excited to see what happens this year.

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Speaker 3: C J.

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Speaker 2: We got a segment presented by Dude Wives. It's the It's there we go. Dry butttholes are a thing of the past. It's all over with Dude Wives cleaning up at the end of your shit. What has been your shittiest moment of your rookie year so far?

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Speaker 6: M that's a that's a great that's a great, great question for me. I've had a couple, you know, you always get a couple, but I would say maybe that my preseason game against the Patriots that first my first drive, it was like third and twenty six and like me being as hungry and aggressive eye, I'm like, man, I'm gonna get the first down, and my got meals from the Patriots out to him, great great player.

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Speaker 3: They were in like.

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Speaker 6: This one one plug look or really one lurk whether the guy was robbing my eyes and he was guarding our tight end and our tight end block, so he freed up and I didn't notice, and he jump right in front of it and picked it off. So that was a good learning point for me. It's just thirty twenty six. Sometimes you got to just lick your wounds to take the check down. So that was good learning for me. So that was probably one of the worst moments I had. I'm trying to think of a funny one that I've had, Like off the field.

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Speaker 1: Did did you get any rookie hazing anything with a veteran?

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Speaker 2: Not that it's like a shitty I'm pissed off moment, but like, yeah, like you got got by one of the boys.

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Speaker 3: I've gotten fined a lot for like for being on TV.

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Speaker 6: I don't know, likeways on TV get fine. Yeah, rookies on TV. I guess as a no no. So I got fined this weekend from being on game Day. I get fine after every win that we get for being.

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Speaker 3: On on with the.

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Speaker 6: Reporter after the game, pulling them in on certain things. So it's kind of funny to me, but a lot of money right now.

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Speaker 2: If you if you show up on TV, what is what's that fine?

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Speaker 3: Like five hundred's it's a thousand?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, they see nothing but.

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Speaker 5: Jemmy mainstream media show. Watching this show right now. Stop putting CJ. Stroud on the on the TV. Save my man some money.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he can come to our podcast.

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Speaker 5: Let's talk about Let's talk the spirit in the holiday of Spooktober. If you don't know what Spootober it is, it's funny a word for October, which is Halloween.

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Speaker 1: Dude.

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Speaker 5: The fall has hit, the leaves are falling, the weather is breaking into a beautiful time, especially in Houston.

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Speaker 4: Where it's a little swampy down there.

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Speaker 5: Let's talk. Let's take it back to when you're a little kid. We're going to do a thing, a segment called Tier Talk, and it is going to be your top three favorite Halloween candies. We like to start from the bottom three and go up to one, and once you finish, everybody on the bus will give a one word answer describing how we feel about your picks.

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Speaker 1: Are you ready for that?

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Speaker 2: You want?

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Speaker 4: You want us to go first?

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Speaker 3: Us?

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Speaker 4: You want to go first?

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Speaker 1: Go ahead?

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Speaker 5: Okay, My Tier three is going to go to when you're hungry, you're a little you're a little aggressive, you're a little bit angry, and what do you pop in there. You pop into Snickers I think as Snickers, and especially the fun size. For whatever reason, it's a nice little snack. You just pop it in your mouth real quick. It's a it's a fun, delicious treat everybody can enjoy. My Tier two is gonna go to uh uh sour Skittles, preferably the little tiny bag. And I know the quantity of them is only like six or seven. However, I think if you have a bunch of those little sour Skittles, you start doing the big a little quick. If you want to say policy, you're more than welcome to again on that. I think you have that, and then all of a sudden it turns into a sweet little treat as well, and down the gullet it goes. And my Tier one, not sure why, it might be the branding they've done since the nineties two thousands, they've done an amazing job of it, is gonna go to uh the Res's pieces. I'm not a chocolate guy. I'm more of a gummy guy than I am a chocolate guy. But the Res's always did a phenomenal job of taking the bite out, making a spooky commercial and really making you feel like the Reese's Peanut butter Cup is the staple the franchise player of Halloween. I'm sorry Reese's Peanut butter Cup, not Reese's PC. Reese's Peanut butter Cup. Thank you for okay. That is a big clarification change. Yeah, that's a big change.

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Speaker 4: CJ.

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Speaker 5: Do you want to give one word to describe how you feel about my picks?

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Speaker 3: I would say solid. That's solid.

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Speaker 4: It's a keyword in this bus.

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Speaker 1: Good. Oh good. I'll go with good. Mitch. What's your word?

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Speaker 5: Um veteran, I have been doing a long time, thirty two years old, Willie. Let's hear what you got?

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Speaker 2: My Tier three and I don't think they get enough love. I think it's uh could potentially been an unpopular opinion, but I want to give them their flowers because I enjoy a nice handful of candy corn. I'm a candy corn guy. I love the candy corn. I love the shapes, I love the colors. Like give me the candy corn. I see that face, EJ. That's okay, my tier too. Peanut m and MS. I love peanut eminems. And when you get them in that little fun sized back against like another, it's like another fistful no pause, peanut ms. My Tier one is in the res the Reese's Family. But it's a fast break, dude, getting fast breaks. They are the fucking best. That's my top Halloween candy of all time. It's the fast Break And that concludes my tier talk c.

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Speaker 3: J yuck.

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Speaker 7: Average Okay, Mitch almost it's the candy corn for years, are you guys?

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Speaker 1: The candy corn?

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Speaker 3: The fast breaking fast break might be the best candy of all time.

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Speaker 4: Another fast you know what that is?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, fast break is well, yeah, you gotta get you one, brother, Okay, all right, whenever you're ready, brother.

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Speaker 6: Okay, I'm just clarification. I'm not a big candy guy. Like, I don't like candy. I really, I was a born kid, it I guess.

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Speaker 3: Uh. But if you're a.

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Speaker 2: Protein bar guy, I hope he just names all protein bars. Yeah.

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Speaker 6: If I had to pick, I'm gonna go Jolly Ranchers, Blue Raspberry and great those are my top two water number two. I'm gonna go Starburst. Pink is my favorite, pink and red. You can't go wrong with good Starbursts. And then I was an angry kid. I was kidding, but uh, I'm gonna go with Snickers to be my number.

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Speaker 4: One hyphenated not hyphenated rainbow.

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Speaker 7: I'll say, okay, Mitch, okay, yeah, sure, taking a shot your own guy.

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Speaker 5: And Mitch is one of our producers. He's Ohio steak guy as well.

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Speaker 1: All right, Mitch, Yeah, all right? Manwit Hey, CJ.

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Speaker 4: Strad the best quarterback in the Hot state history?

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Speaker 1: Do you have a question like you? Do you have a question for CJ?

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Speaker 2: I know you are an Ohio State fan, but you got something fired up for him.

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Speaker 8: I guess a question I would have for you it would be stepping back to you Ohio State days. What was it like being in that wide receiver room with Gary Wilson Olive and Jake budd Well, Marvin Harrison like all those guys.

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Speaker 6: Nah, of course, of man, it was a blessing, bro like, not only did did they helped me a lot? I feel like I helped them and we were kind of like ying and yang, like we just worked together really well. I had a natural connection in chemistry right when I stepped on campus with them, and I definitely appreciate like the grind that they taught me to put in to be great in his game, especially Marv. Like Marv Man, he's the epitome of just a workaholic.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 6: And then Garrett like he's just naturally just super great at everything in basketball, baseball, table tennis, like you name it, Yeah, you.

00:25:09
Speaker 3: Get him a ball, he's gonna he's gonna make it happen.

00:25:12
Speaker 6: And Chris he's silk man, silky smooth, smooth the other side of the pillow.

00:25:17
Speaker 3: And he's just.

00:25:19
Speaker 6: That type of swag that you just like you feel comfort around because you know he's gonna make a play. And then Jackson, Uh, he's just a dog like, he's somebody who just loves football and he does. I've never seen him get guard one on one like and get locked up ever in my life. Like, I don't think I've ever seen him not make a play up in a game. And excited to see what he does in Seattle. So, man, I missed him boys, And it was a blessing to be in such a talented room. At the time, Man, we were just young kids figuring it out and and now we're all in the league now, so it's it's pretty cool. And Marvin's Marvel's next. So excited to see the future for everybody.

00:25:53
Speaker 4: I don't know how many questions you have left to have two questions.

00:25:56
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm solid man. Yeah, Marvin Harrison Jr. Let's say you guys don't make the playoffs. Would you want if if Marvin Harrison Jr. Is available when your team picks next year, is that the number one guy you'd like on your team out of everybody in the draft?

00:26:15
Speaker 6: I'm playing GM Uh Yeah, man, of course I got to say my guy Marv, and I wouldn't just even if he was in my teammate. You turn on the film, you hear the word of mouth of everybody on how hard he works, what type of guy is, And I know for him, like everybody always talks about his family and like his pops, and he gets it from that. If I'll be honest, I would say his dad set the foundation and he let him go. And Marvin loves this game for himself and for me, that kind of that kind of opens the eyes, like, man, this dude's gonna be great because you hear like stories from guys from great players. Kids, they want to be great because they want to be better than their dad or whatever the kiss may be. Marv wants to be great because he wants to be great. So man, if I had to pick, I definitely pick Marvin for sure. He's a top three pick. In my opinion, he should be the first God drafted. But that's not for me to decide.

00:27:07
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that.

00:27:09
Speaker 5: My last question is going to be about an AFC seuth divisional opponent.

00:27:14
Speaker 4: It's gonna be about the Tennessee Titans.

00:27:16
Speaker 5: This week they're wearing the throwback oiler uniforms. Where is your stance on who should be able to wear the Oilers' uniforms?

00:27:26
Speaker 6: I would say it would have to be us. I mean, I mean, we're we're Houston, so I don't really know too much about the rivalry or too much about like the color situation.

00:27:37
Speaker 3: I know that we were they were here and.

00:27:41
Speaker 6: Then moved to Tennessee and then Mischig ganaer Pick picked up the team, So I would say, just like whoever started in that home city. And I think those colors are dope, Like baby lou is my favorite color. So if you're listening to mister, let's go back to baby blue.

00:27:56
Speaker 3: But nah, man, I.

00:27:57
Speaker 6: Would say to us, but uh man thon today, man, their colors like, let's play ball.

00:28:02
Speaker 4: I love that and Letten.

00:28:03
Speaker 5: I have a one hundred percent disagree with you, but we can get into that at a different.

00:28:06
Speaker 1: Time because we'd have them on the bus and the.

00:28:09
Speaker 5: We'll have him the bus in the offseason. Dude, we are I'm fired up for you. I really am. I know I went to Michigan and all that, and I have these dumb jokes about Ohio State quarterbacks being a bus. You are really playing at a level that all of Houston, Texas, all Houston Texans can be happy about and be proud about know that their franchise is on the right on the right path.

00:28:27
Speaker 4: Man, happy for you.

00:28:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate that a lot. Man, Thank you, CJ. Thanks for coming on man like legit. I'm a fan. I'm a fan of yours. I'm gonna be room for you the rest of the year. And I think the story that you gave when you were a freshman in college and you had a three hour conversation with your running backs coach and where your mental was, I think can relate to any good freshman player that is struggling with wrapping their mind around, patience and waiting on their moment. And I think that is incredible And I am I'm a fan of yours, so I'm excited.

00:28:57
Speaker 3: Thank you. Appreciate that.

00:28:58
Speaker 6: Man A fan of y'all is man in the fami of you off for a long time, so I appreciate you all lot.

00:29:02
Speaker 1: You'll be on here in the offseason, bro, I can't wait.

00:29:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't wait. All right, I'll be blessed.