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Speaker 1: Happy Friday thirteenth, everybody, Yes, it's Friday.

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Speaker 2: Is Friday the thirteenth?

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Speaker 1: Welcome in Texans All Access from the Monday Texans Radio Studio,

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Speaker 1: John Harris Longside, the voice of the Texans Mark vandermir

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Speaker 1: So when I said Happy Friday the thirteenth, I didn't

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Speaker 1: think about that too often. I was more concerned about

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Speaker 1: tomorrow because everybody knows Tomorrow's Valentine's Day.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and it's gonna be raining. It's yeah either way.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, Friday, Friday thirteenth.

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Speaker 3: That has no meaning for me other than it has

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Speaker 3: mild shock value or surprise value when you first hear it, Oh,

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Speaker 3: Friday the thirteenth. But I don't believe in that stuff anyway,

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Speaker 3: so it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 2: Well, good for you.

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Speaker 3: How many buildings go from the twelfth floor to the

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Speaker 3: fourteenth floor And I hate to break this to you,

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Speaker 3: but the fourteenth floor is the thirteenth floor. Yeah, therefore,

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Speaker 3: or the thirteenth road to plane right, yep, the fourteenth

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Speaker 3: is the thirteenth. Sorry, I can count to thirteen. I'm

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Speaker 3: that good. So what does it all mean? I don't know?

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Speaker 3: Is that the number is that the Dan Marino only

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Speaker 3: went to one Super Bowl al Trodriguez worth thirteen because

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Speaker 3: of Dan Marino.

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Speaker 2: How about that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, didn't TJ wear thirteen the first time? Or am

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Speaker 3: I getting that run on Texas?

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Speaker 2: TJ? Yeah? New Buccaneers quarterbacks coach. You see that? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I saw that. He got a gig with them.

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Speaker 3: So he's finally gone from Atlanta, where he was for

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Speaker 3: a decade or something. Yeah, a long time with Atlanta

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Speaker 3: through multiple coaching iterations, but now he's a Buccaneer, so

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Speaker 3: good for him.

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Speaker 1: Well you know who replaces it? Well, he doesn't replace him,

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Speaker 1: sorry because the picture I saw of him was weird

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Speaker 1: because he was wearing Atlanta Falcons jersey. The new quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: coach for the Arizona Cardinals is wait who Matt Shob.

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Speaker 2: Oh he got the gig.

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Speaker 1: He got it, quarterbacks coach for the Arizona Cardinals.

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Speaker 2: Good for him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, with Mike lafor Mike Floor took over as Arizona

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Speaker 2: That's great.

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Speaker 1: It's now both the Floors have head coaching jobs. Matt

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Speaker 1: Schob will be the quarterback. Now here's your question. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: who is his starting quarterback in two twenty six? I

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Speaker 1: don't know Murray has a big contract. Hard to unload that, right.

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Speaker 1: I feel like knowing Matt now, Matt Matt, I think

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Speaker 1: would work with any situation imaginable.

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Speaker 2: I just don't see Kyler Murray and Matt get Maybe not.

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Speaker 3: But you know what, the system that Lafleur is gonna

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Speaker 3: run there, Matt has familiar that's he does.

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Speaker 2: It's from the same tree.

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Speaker 3: I know there are nuances and changes whatever, but Matt

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Speaker 3: was really good in that system. Matt blossomed in that system.

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Speaker 3: Matt knows all about repetition, being consistent, having it looked

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Speaker 3: the same way every time, but doing different things off

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Speaker 3: of it, like the drugs and everything. So maybe he

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Speaker 3: can help Murray in that way. But man, Murray, you know,

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Speaker 3: we talk about quarterbacks who have had different offensive coordinators

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Speaker 3: and systems. Murray's one of them. Murray falls right into

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Speaker 3: that category. You know, anybody who worked with Kingsbury and

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Speaker 3: is now working with Matt Schab and Mike Lafleur, that's

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Speaker 3: a real different way of doing things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see how that goes. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting.

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Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of trade speculation about Murray going

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Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh being in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 2: But I don't Why don't we do that to Pittsburgh

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Speaker 2: every time?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, because I just don't see Kyler Murray

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Speaker 1: jiving with driving with Mike McCarthy in Pittsburgh. I don't

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Speaker 1: see that either. Is Aaron Rodgers done. That's a great question.

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Speaker 1: I there obviously has been some talk about, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: was that thing didn't end all that well, right, it

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Speaker 1: didn't end all that well for McCarthy and Rogers in

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Speaker 1: Green Bay. But when Rogers did talk after the season,

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Speaker 1: you know, he was very complimentary about Mike McCarthy and

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Speaker 2: So I maybe Rogers comes back.

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Speaker 1: All I know is the Rogers that comes back in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. And this is why I think it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be tough. That game against us. He hammered because

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Speaker 1: he couldn't move. Yeah, Now, I know he'll be a

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Speaker 2: Somewhere. He's in his forties, though.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if the lack of movement his Achilles

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Speaker 2: Of it, but I think more of its age.

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Speaker 1: And he was against us just a I mean, there

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Speaker 1: was a part of me that was kind of like,

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Speaker 1: he's getting a hell beat out of him right now.

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Speaker 1: And you know our guys they have no off switch. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: once they get in the kill zone, it's like you

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Speaker 1: can forget it. And they had him like in the targets.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know. I don't know what would

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Speaker 1: would have him going back to Pittsburgh. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: he did want to play, I guess that would make

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Speaker 1: some sense, but I don't know that I see it

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Speaker 1: in all honesty. You know where he would fit pretty well,

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Speaker 1: because that sort of system would I think fit him

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Speaker 2: Actually, they're not going anywhere.

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Speaker 3: No, he went to Pittsburgh because he felt he had

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Speaker 3: a good chance to get rid of the playoffs, and

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Speaker 3: he did, but it didn't work.

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Speaker 1: No, you're you're absolutely right about that. I don't know

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Speaker 1: where Kyler Murray would go and be ultimately successful. That

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Speaker 3: I mean there's been thet I mean you want to

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Speaker 3: talk about the system, Yeah, I mean the system and

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Speaker 3: the resurrection. Well, Sam Donald was resurrected in Minnesota. Wait

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Speaker 3: was he resurrected? Was he ever up in the first place?

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Speaker 1: O that he he hit his stride in Minnesota. Tension

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Speaker 1: stayed at that in Seattle. I mean, that's an interesting

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Speaker 3: You know, ideally and it just doesn't seem to suit

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Speaker 3: his personality. But ideally, Murray's coming off the bench for somebody.

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Speaker 3: He's a backup. Now you bring up a great point

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Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson or somebody like that.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't fit his person Yeah, because the last time he

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Speaker 1: was a backup, well I take I take it back.

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Speaker 1: The last time he was a backup, he was backing

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Speaker 1: and Baker Mayfield was putting together heis, and seasons before that,

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Speaker 1: worst backups for many many reasons. I mean, he came

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Speaker 1: not the guy you wanted in house to be a backup.

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Speaker 1: So I am I'm very curious what happens to Kyler

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Speaker 1: Murray and where he fits. I still think there are

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Speaker 1: things that if I'm a defensive coordinator, that scared me

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Speaker 3: How many quarterbacks are making good money, big money, but

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Speaker 3: you don't think they're gonna start or maybe they shouldn't start.

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Speaker 2: Three and Tua. Yeah, those are the two right off

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think there's anybody I'm missing those two

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Speaker 2: Kirk Cousins, he's still making the big money.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but they did some contract stuff with him at

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Speaker 1: the point that kind of reduced some of it. I

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, what does Halfley think about to a

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Speaker 3: Well, if any head coach, Yeah, taking a new job,

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Speaker 3: do you want Tua? Is Tua your guy? Is he

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Speaker 3: the person who's going to take you where you need

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Speaker 3: to go? Do you want to begin this relationship with

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Speaker 3: the team and the organization the fans with to a

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Speaker 2: Not that too is a bad guy.

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Speaker 1: But come on, well, this is where it gets icy

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Speaker 1: in some sense, you get your first head coaching job.

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Speaker 1: And and I think about Gary Gary Kubiak a lot

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Speaker 1: about this because when Gary was coming to Houston, what

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Speaker 1: was the question he was asked? How do you feel

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Speaker 1: about David Carr? Right, you have to have a good

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Speaker 1: answer for that, And he had a good enough answer

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Speaker 1: he's realizing.

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Speaker 2: He's not my guy. This is not the guy.

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Speaker 1: And so now they're go into year two, they make

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Speaker 1: the move to get Matt Schab and then they they

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Speaker 2: For the rest of his tenure.

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Speaker 1: I think Halfley maybe went in there and said yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: a short leash. Does Bobby want to work with him slowly?

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Speaker 1: That's a great question.

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Speaker 3: Uh, And maybe he does maybe see something there because

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Speaker 3: Toua does have talent. Now, look, all these guys have

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Speaker 3: some kind of you all right. What I didn't like

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Speaker 3: having suffered all the concussions and still head first right ni,

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Speaker 3: reck testing the body, reckless? Great word, what are you doing?

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Speaker 3: Are you from? Let me introduce you to yourself. This

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Speaker 3: is not the way you need to be playing football

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Speaker 3: right now? That's right, and I think that's that's what

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Speaker 1: Kyler plays the game not recklessly, no, wildly sometimes that exactly,

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Speaker 1: And I think there there are two different ways to

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Speaker 1: look at that. Recklessly means you're Jackson Dart throwing your

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Speaker 1: your body into linebackers.

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Speaker 2: That's another too, that's too a junior right there.

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Speaker 1: That's right, and he's got a change. And I'll in

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Speaker 1: my in my scouting report of him last year, that

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Speaker 1: was one of the things I pointed out about Jackson Dart.

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Speaker 1: I remember when they played the bowl game here against

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Speaker 1: only I think it was his third year because he

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Speaker 1: Miss and finally got the starting job, so I think

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Speaker 1: it was year three, and I remember our reunia worker room.

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Speaker 1: They're having their postgame press conference Texas Tech and winning

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Speaker 1: the game, and Jackson walked in and I was just

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Speaker 1: the back, you know, for press conferences, kind of back

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Speaker 2: And so I wanted to hear what they had to say.

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Speaker 2: And so Jackson walks in. Mark.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, he looked. He looked like he had

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Speaker 1: been hit fifty times and probably did in that game, right,

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Speaker 1: And he walked down to Jackson sit here, and I

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Speaker 1: mean he it took all the and I just remember thinking,

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Speaker 1: he's got to change the way he plays the game.

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Speaker 2: At least he learned his lesson that night. No he didn't.

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Speaker 3: He did not learn his lesson. No, he did not

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Speaker 3: learn his lesson. Multiple times this year, he could have

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Speaker 3: learned his lesson. By the way, some guys get concussions,

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Speaker 3: they come right back a week later, two weeks later,

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Speaker 1: He covered, He went through all five stages of concussion

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Speaker 3: Okay, this is this is a far fetched hot take theory.

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Speaker 3: Yes, my favorite color is blue, the sky is blue,

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Speaker 3: Bill Romanowski method, which is what do you ask me

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Speaker 1: What but the famous one is in the movie Varsity

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Speaker 3: out immediately. But everything else it'll go away. Rub some

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Speaker 3: Yeah, who is the fourth scott Con scot Con.

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Speaker 3: This is a name drop, Uh, celebrity sighting because you've

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Speaker 2: Just so bad. This gout me thinking.

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Speaker 2: My quarterback were good.

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Speaker 3: Oh those fan bases, they're saying, we're good with who

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like no questions asked.

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Speaker 2: He's still playing at a high level. New England Patriots.

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Speaker 1: He had a great regular season, but as Drake May

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Speaker 1: See how many fan bases do you think are just yep,

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Speaker 3: Right, we feel like Trevor can play at his best

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Speaker 2: Even maybe Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 3: Hey, we were down seven to six going into the

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Speaker 3: I remember now, we didn't want to really see Jacksonville.

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Speaker 3: You said it, We were all right going to Jacksonville.

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Speaker 2: Here we are.

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Speaker 3: You get to see us, the ones that broke your

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Speaker 2: No, they wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: But had Jacksonville won that game against Buffalo, we would

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Speaker 3: They feel good about his gamesmanship, He's a warrior, all

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Speaker 3: Who knows what happens, And I think Jim Harbaugh as

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Speaker 2: I don't know if this year or next year.

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Speaker 2: my point at all. That is.

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Speaker 1: A lot of shakiness at the quarterback position. Go to

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. It's gonna be very very well.

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Speaker 3: You can interpret it that way, but you could also say,

441
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Speaker 3: you know, they got their guy, they got their guy.

442
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Speaker 3: You know, you can go down the list of people.

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Speaker 1: I say, the teams don't think they have their guy,

444
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Speaker 1: but they got questions. Even with having their guy, there

445
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Speaker 1: are questions even maybe maybe the number one guy in

446
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Speaker 1: the league, Josh Allen. I mean, even with him, maybe

447
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Speaker 1: there's questions because of the injuries and obviously the turnovers.

448
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Speaker 2: Et cetera. They're also supporting cast questions. No, that's that's true.

449
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Speaker 1: I won't put that on a quarterback, but you're right

450
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Speaker 1: there definitely are that, that's for sure.

451
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Speaker 2: Okay. I have for you.

452
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna read you three running back resumes. Okay, and

453
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Speaker 1: we're gonna sign one of these guys, all right, and

454
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Speaker 1: you're gonna get to pick which one it is blindly,

455
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Speaker 1: Houston Texans.

456
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Speaker 2: We'll do that next on Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to this Friday edition of Texans All Access

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Speaker 1: from the Hyundai Texans Radio studio.

459
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Speaker 2: I'm John Harris, Football panosyline reporter for your.

460
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Speaker 1: Houston Texas alongside the Voice of Texas Mark vandermir And

461
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Speaker 1: as I teased going into this segment, we are going

462
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Speaker 1: to sign a running back.

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Speaker 2: I just decided that's what we're gonna do. What are

464
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Speaker 2: you gonna do this for other positions?

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Speaker 1: I'll tell Nick, Yeah, Yeah, we're gonna sign a running back. Okay,

466
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna read you the the thirty second elevator test

467
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Speaker 1: of a particular running back.

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Speaker 2: Three of them, okay, okay, they're free agents.

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Speaker 1: That are free agents, and you're going to pick one

470
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Speaker 1: of these blindly. Okay, Okay, all right, here's the first one.

471
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Speaker 1: Two thy sixty nine snaps. It's a lot of snaps

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: Touches. Just your snaps. Yeah, I know, I didn't think

474
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Speaker 2: it was two thousand touches. Blank blank.

475
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Speaker 1: Bounced back from a tough twenty twenty four season look

476
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Speaker 1: closer to his best this year. His forty eight misstackles

477
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Speaker 1: forced tied for fourteenth amongst all running backs, and he

478
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Speaker 1: remained effective in creating explosive plays, with his twenty eight

479
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Speaker 1: rushes of ten or more yards tying for tenth at

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Speaker 1: the position. The contract projection three years, thirty four and

481
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Speaker 1: a half million, twenty two and a half million guaranteed.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you don't give me yards that he had last year.

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Speaker 2: I'm just diss all. I'm getting right here, all right, Okay,

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Speaker 2: go on.

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Speaker 1: So that's the first one, Okay, second one. Blank has

486
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Speaker 1: earned PFF grades above eighty into the past three seasons

487
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Speaker 1: and ranked eighth amongst running backs in PFF in twenty

488
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Speaker 1: twenty five. He will be just twelve years old, sorry twelve.

489
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Speaker 1: He will be just twenty five years old when at

490
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six NFLCS begins, and has established himself as

491
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Speaker 1: a top ten player at the position. Contract projection A

492
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Speaker 1: little Richard, three years, thirty seven million, twenty five million guaranteed. Next,

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Speaker 1: that's your second running back, Okay, your third one. Blank

494
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Speaker 1: currently leads all running backs in PFF grade in what

495
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Speaker 1: has been a career year. He has also been one

496
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Speaker 1: of the league's best at creating beyond his blocking, ranking

497
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Speaker 1: third at the position in miss tackles Forcing sixty five

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Speaker 1: contract projection three years, twenty seven million, twenty million guaranteed.

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Speaker 2: So not as much as the second guy. That's exactly right.

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Speaker 1: So those are the three running backs that are listed

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Speaker 1: within the top fifteen of PFF Top free agents available.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Okay again.

503
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Speaker 1: Blank currently leads all running backs in PFF grade and

504
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Speaker 1: what has been a career year, he has also been

505
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Speaker 1: one of the league's best at creating down his blocking,

506
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Speaker 1: ranking third at the position in miss tackles Force sixty five.

507
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Speaker 1: Contract projection three years, twenty seven million, twenty guaranteed.

508
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Speaker 2: Okay.

509
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Speaker 1: Blank has earned PFF grades above eighty into the past

510
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Speaker 1: three seasons and ranked eighth amongst running backs in PFF

511
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Speaker 1: grade twenty five. He will be just twenty five years

512
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Speaker 1: old when the twenty six NFL season begins, and established

513
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Speaker 1: himselves as a top ten player at the position. Contract

514
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Speaker 1: projection three years, thirty seven million, twenty five guaranteed. And

515
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Speaker 1: the third guy, and finally, Blank bounced back from a

516
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Speaker 1: disappointing twenty twenty four season and look closer to his

517
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Speaker 1: best this year. His forty six misstackles forced tied for fourteenth.

518
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Speaker 2: Amongst all running backs.

519
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Speaker 1: Now you've read first, and he remained effective in creative

520
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Speaker 1: explosive plays with his twenty eight rushes of ten or

521
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Speaker 1: more yards tie for tenth to the position. Contract projection

522
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Speaker 1: three years, thirty four and a half million, twenty two

523
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Speaker 1: and a half million guaranteed.

524
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Speaker 2: So you snaked this thing. You went one to three,

525
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Speaker 2: three to one. That's right to give all, Just to

526
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Speaker 2: give it all to you. I'll take three.

527
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Speaker 3: You're taking the one I just read, no, the other

528
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Speaker 3: third one, the third one, and the one you read

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Speaker 3: first in the recap blank. The twenty million guaranteed guy

530
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Speaker 3: who's number one in PFF something okay and third.

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Speaker 1: At the position in miss tackles four sixty five. Yeah,

532
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Speaker 1: you'd like this. Three years, twenty seven million dollar projection.

533
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Speaker 1: Four Kenneth Walker the third very Seahawks.

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Speaker 2: I just signed Kenneth Walker. There you go.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's he's a little older, and so the

536
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Speaker 1: contract projection is what it is. I think one of

537
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Speaker 1: the reasons that his contract projection is probably down a

538
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Speaker 1: little bit is he probably doesn't give you as much

539
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Speaker 1: in the passing game as maybe the other two.

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Speaker 2: Can you figure out who the other two are? No? Well, JK.

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Speaker 2: Dobbins might be one of them.

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Speaker 1: No, and number nine on PFF's Top free Agents Available

543
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six snaps in twenty twenty five with the

544
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Speaker 1: PFF grade of eighty four point four. Contract projection three years,

545
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 1: thirty seven million, twenty five guaranteed.

546
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 2: For one Breese Hall of the New York Jets.

547
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Speaker 1: Breese Hall has earned PFF grades above eighty and two

548
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Speaker 1: of the past three seasons, ranked eighth amongst running backs

549
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Speaker 1: in twenty five. This to me is key, and this

550
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Speaker 1: is why that thirty seven million would not turn me off.

551
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Speaker 1: He will be just twenty five years old when the

552
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Speaker 1: twenty six NFL season begins.

553
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Speaker 3: What about the carries? Because Walker is only in year

554
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Speaker 3: five and so is Hall. Yeah, but Walker's older. Yeah,

555
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Speaker 3: Walker's a little bit older.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: The first one I read in the last one in

558
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Speaker 1: the recap, I thought what might get you was this

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Speaker 1: last part.

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Speaker 2: He remained effective in creating explosive plays.

561
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Speaker 1: Yeah, with twenty eight rushes of ten or more yards

562
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Speaker 1: time for tenth at the position. How many of those

563
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Speaker 1: twenty eight came against us in two games this past year,

564
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Speaker 1: number fifteen on PFF's ranking the top free agents. Two games,

565
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Speaker 1: you said ETN Travis Etn so of the Jacksonville Jaguars.

566
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Speaker 1: I now this one becomes This one to me is

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Speaker 1: interesting because you pull him away from Jacksonville and now

568
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Speaker 1: you put him with us. So it's like a net

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Speaker 1: positive positive, which would be kind of nice.

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Speaker 2: Three years, thirty four and a half.

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Speaker 1: His is the middle of the three salary projections. Travis

572
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Speaker 1: Etn forty six mixed tackles, twenty eight rushes of ten

573
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Speaker 1: or more yards creating the explosive plays.

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Speaker 3: You know I'm gonna do next week. I'm gonna pull

575
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Speaker 3: Nick Cassario's scouting report on Walker on Etn ETN and

576
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Speaker 3: Brishall and Breesehall. We didn't see Breese Hall this year,

577
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Speaker 3: but we can flast year. Did we see Breeze Hall

578
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Speaker 3: in that game?

579
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Speaker 2: We did? Yeah? He had? Did he miss one of

580
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 2: those last two games in twenty three and.

581
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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty three to one on Sunday in the rain.

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Speaker 1: He had a really good ball game against Okay, I remember.

583
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Speaker 2: That for he's good.

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Speaker 3: He's probably the guy to sign Walker. It's interesting with

585
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Speaker 3: Walker because when Damian Pierce was blowing up in twenty twenty.

586
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Speaker 2: Two, Walker, also a rookie, was.

587
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Speaker 3: Doing well in Seattle's and he had a few more

588
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Speaker 3: yards than Pierce. And I remember thinking, well, we got

589
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Speaker 3: our guy. They got their guy, right, these guys are

590
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 3: going to be good now. Walker's coming off the Super

591
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 3: Bowl MVP performance and Damian Pierce is not. That's correct,

592
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Speaker 3: and he's not on this team anymore. So it's interesting

593
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 3: how pats go. You just don't know because it could

594
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 3: have gone the other way. Yea, Pierce could have become

595
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,600
Speaker 3: a stud star here. But Walker and you said it

596
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:52,240
Speaker 3: in that mystery dating game running back breakdown. Coming off

597
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 3: of disappointing twenty twenty four, he had five hundred and

598
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Speaker 3: seventy three yards in eleven games. He missed six games.

599
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,400
Speaker 3: Had he played in those games, who knows what happens.

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Speaker 3: Let's see the average. Oh, it's not good last year

601
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 3: is three point seven. Yet they still won ten games

602
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 3: somehow in Mike McDonald's first year.

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Speaker 2: YEP, I don't know. Here.

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Speaker 3: Here's the bigger question. Are they going to sign a

605
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Speaker 3: veteran running back? Are they going to try to get

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Speaker 3: one of these guys.

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Speaker 1: That's I mean, let's play the game. We're gonna do

608
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Speaker 1: this for different positions too. I'm gonna do this for

609
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Speaker 1: guard and center and tackle and other positions as well.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was kind of interesting to see because

611
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: I stumbled on. I was like, I think we can

612
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Speaker 1: do this. One's a little richer, but he's younger ones

613
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Speaker 1: maybe one dimensional in that he's gonna be really good

614
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Speaker 1: in the run game.

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Speaker 2: Maybe he's a little cheaper. And then there's one that's

616
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Speaker 2: right in the middle.

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Speaker 3: We don't throw the ball enough to the running backs.

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Speaker 3: Any Wow, that's a great point. I'd love to see

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Speaker 3: more of that. I'd love to I'd love what he

620
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Speaker 3: marks to have forty catches. I'd love to see that.

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Speaker 1: So priest hal against US in twenty three, how about

622
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Speaker 1: this against twenty and twenty three in the rain and whatever,

623
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Speaker 1: ten carries for forty yards.

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Speaker 2: Eh eight catches for eighty six.

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Speaker 1: And in twenty four against US on Thursday night, he

626
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Speaker 1: went fifteen for seventy four.

627
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Speaker 2: On the ground, he only had two catches for eleven yards. Okay,

628
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Speaker 2: but two weeks prior against the Steelers, he had six

629
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Speaker 2: catches for one hundred and three yards.

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Speaker 3: That game on the Thursday night where it was unseasonably

631
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Speaker 3: warm on.

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Speaker 4: All New York.

633
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that game because the year before I was I

634
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 3: was sick for that guy. That December game against the Jets, miserable.

635
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 3: It was rainy, cold, I was sick. I had the chill.

636
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Speaker 2: I had a fever the night before.

637
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Speaker 3: I was in bed, like you know when you have

638
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Speaker 3: the chills and all of a sudden you wake up

639
00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 3: and you're burning.

640
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 2: It was bad.

641
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And that morning at breakfast with Dreads is like, yeah,

642
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 3: I felt like Dan Aykroyd in trading places when he's

643
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 3: got the salmon caught in his Santa Beard.

644
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Speaker 2: Yes, I felt like that.

645
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Speaker 5: Uh.

646
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Speaker 2: I took a clare to D though.

647
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Speaker 3: If you take one of those when you're not feeling well,

648
00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 3: that can often get you to relatively normal. Right, And

649
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 3: you have to get the Zertech or the Clareton or

650
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 3: the you know, the Walgreens generic brand with the D

651
00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 3: and you know it's good because they make meth out

652
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 3: of it. That's how you know it's effective, Johnny, Because

653
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 3: you have to give your driver's license to get this stuff.

654
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,320
Speaker 2: Not prescription, but.

655
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 3: You have to hand over your driver's license to get

656
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,239
Speaker 3: this stuff. Because they don't want your buying too much

657
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Speaker 3: of it. You take one of those pills when you're

658
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Speaker 3: not feeling well, that'll bring you back.

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Speaker 2: And I took that.

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Speaker 3: It got me through the game. Anyway, I got off

661
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Speaker 3: track here, Johnny. Look what he marks is back. Nick

662
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Speaker 3: Chubb is a free agent, and you still have Jawar

663
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Speaker 3: Jordan waiting in the wings getting healthy, and you have

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Speaker 3: British Brooks. You're gonna add somebody, whether it's through the draft,

665
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Speaker 3: and it won't be early, but whether it's through the

666
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Speaker 3: draft or you get a veteran Joe Mixon. Forget about

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Speaker 3: it right now because you have to for purposes of

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Speaker 3: all our common stations.

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Speaker 2: There's no Joe Mixing.

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Speaker 1: If you get Joe Mixing, great, any player that's missed

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Speaker 1: a full year, right there's all.

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Speaker 2: There are always question.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's funny because no matter what, just talking

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Speaker 3: about this for a second here, Let's say you're Nick

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Speaker 3: and Dimico and you know Joe looks like he could

676
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Speaker 3: come back, but can you count on that sticking?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean exactly against Joe. This

678
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Speaker 2: is just the NFL in general.

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Speaker 3: If you knew there was football, if you knew there

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Speaker 3: was no Joe, and your plan is to sign one

681
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Speaker 3: of these backs in free agency. Is the prospect of

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Speaker 3: healthy Joe like it looks it looks good. Is that

683
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Speaker 3: going to prevent you from going with your plan? If

684
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Speaker 3: there's no Joe. I don't think it will.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it will.

686
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Speaker 3: Either.

687
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Speaker 2: You're gonna sign the guy.

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Speaker 3: And look if somebody's unhappy because Joe's back and he's

689
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Speaker 3: better than Breeze Hall or Kenneth Walker, whoever you sign,

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Speaker 3: So what you'll deal with that?

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Speaker 1: Look at our look at what we've had to do

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Speaker 1: with that position the last how many every years? Just

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Speaker 1: go one two punch. I mean, Jawar had to step in.

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Speaker 1: Was it Raiders or Cardinals? I can't remember which one was?

695
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Speaker 1: Card Play and had the HOUNDI had the honey again

696
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals. I mean we saw it in preseason, but

697
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Speaker 1: we're like, look, yours not gonna lead.

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Speaker 2: The team in rushing for a game, is he?

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Speaker 1: And yet then think about all who all we had

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Speaker 1: at the beginning of training camp, and yet it happened

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Speaker 1: that way.

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Speaker 2: You've got to have multiple weapons at that position.

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Speaker 1: Now, what you don't want is to have to pay

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Speaker 1: multiple backs at that particular position. But you gotta find

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Speaker 1: the right mix of guys, and so maybe this is

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Speaker 1: one of the ways that you can do with one

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Speaker 1: of those three guys. All right, yesterday big news dropped

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Speaker 1: here in our building.

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Speaker 2: Throughout the city of Houston.

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Speaker 1: The Texans will have a new headquarters, a new facility

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Speaker 1: out in Bridgeland. Mike Toeman, president of your Houston Texans, said,

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Speaker 1: out with Sean and Seth some great stuff in there.

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Speaker 1: Get together on Friday morning, WI the for you.

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Speaker 2: Next. We're here in Texans All Access. What was happing? Everybody?

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to this Friday edition of Texans All Access

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Speaker 1: from the Hunday Texans Radio studio.

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Speaker 2: I'm John Harris Football on a sideline reporter.

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Speaker 1: His time for Mike t Mike Toeman, Texans president, to

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Speaker 1: jump in the show. Sean at Seth HadAM on this

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Speaker 1: morning to talk about everything Toro District.

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Speaker 2: This is some fun stuff to take a listen to.

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Speaker 1: I was listening to this morning and I thought, there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that a lot of people will

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Speaker 1: ask me. We'll ask Mark Uh texted into the show.

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Speaker 1: I think Mike handles a lot of those things right here.

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Speaker 2: All right, here we go.

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Speaker 6: It is time Texans big news yesterday, eighty three acre

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Speaker 6: new headquarters site. Gonna have the headquarters, gonna have the

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Speaker 6: training facility, gonna have the practice facility, and a whole

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Speaker 6: lot of retail and entertainment to go along with it.

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Speaker 6: Yesterday was a really, really exciting day for the Houston

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Speaker 6: Texans and I think the city of Houston as a whole.

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Speaker 6: In joining us to talk about it right now, one

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Speaker 6: of the driving forces behind it, he is Texans team

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Speaker 6: president Mike Toman joining us in studio. Mike, it is

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Speaker 6: great to see you. Congratulations on the news yesterday.

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Speaker 2: That's huge.

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Speaker 7: Thank you very much, Sewn Sep, thank you for having

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Speaker 7: us as well.

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Speaker 6: Of course, how did it feel to get that done yet?

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Speaker 2: How it feel? Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I know you didn't technically hit send on the press

743
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,280
Speaker 6: release that went out, but when it popped into your inbox,

744
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 6: knowing all the work that went into it, how'd that feel?

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Speaker 2: Yesterday?

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Speaker 8: See your shoes for a second.

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Speaker 7: It was it was fantastic. I mean, you touched it.

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Speaker 7: There's a lot of work going into it that led

749
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Speaker 7: up to it, and when you see it all come

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Speaker 7: together and you can have a moment like that where

751
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Speaker 7: you can say, okay, greenlit and we're moving forward.

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Speaker 4: It was a special moment for the organization.

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Speaker 5: You know, Mike, Shawn and I talked this morning. I

754
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Speaker 5: kind of told them from a player's perspective, why I

755
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Speaker 5: think players will be excited about this. I would have

756
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Speaker 5: liked this set up a lot the way it looks

757
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Speaker 5: like you guys are planning it. From the fans perspective,

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Speaker 5: what what should fans be excited about with this? How

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Speaker 5: is it going to change their experience interacting with the team, Like,

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Speaker 5: what's the what?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 5: What does it matter from their perspective?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, No, absolutely, Well one, they are always a driving

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Speaker 7: force in how we think about the world, and so

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Speaker 7: kind of the way we think about it is NRG Park.

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Speaker 7: You want it, You want to be with us on

767
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Speaker 7: our biggest days. That that's NRG Stadium. Come see us

768
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Speaker 7: on our biggest days, the biggest stage. The other three

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Speaker 7: hundred and fifty days a year. Come to the Toro district.

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Speaker 7: That is where we're gonna live, work and play, and

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Speaker 7: that is where we can be more integrated into the community,

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Speaker 7: which was a big driver and why we did this.

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Speaker 6: So is where exactly are we right now? Was yesterday's

774
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Speaker 6: press release. The announcement that this thing is done or

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Speaker 6: are there any more steps in gaining approval or is

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Speaker 6: it just a matter of cutting the ribbon and getting

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Speaker 6: going here.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, So I think yesterday was a big day because

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Speaker 7: it was really given the authorization of the public side

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Speaker 7: of this public private partnership, so for the public to

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Speaker 7: work through with the leadership of Commissioner Leslie Brionies and

782
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Speaker 7: Commissioner Tom Ramsey. Their leadership has been fantastic in this

783
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Speaker 7: partnership and the support of the county Commissioner's overall a

784
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Speaker 7: huge part of what's happened and what happened yesterday, And

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Speaker 7: so that was the authorization to move.

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Speaker 4: Forward with it.

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Speaker 7: So now we kind of get into the planning and

788
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Speaker 7: the final details.

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Speaker 5: But so the timing of it, you know, you're moving

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Speaker 5: in twenty twenty nine hopefully. What does that mean for

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Speaker 5: I guess what like moving the entire training camp up

792
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Speaker 5: there in twenty twenty nine, having everything shifted over there

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Speaker 5: by then. Is that the goal?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that is the goal.

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Speaker 7: So you know, it's uh, it's about two and a

796
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Speaker 7: half three years from from this moment to being able

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Speaker 7: to open the training facility and the headquarters. Since I

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Speaker 7: think you mentioned training camp. You know, one of the

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Speaker 7: things that we're really excited about this is that it

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Speaker 7: can really showcase Houston and so it's built for big events,

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Speaker 7: you know, to really be able to invite in our

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Speaker 7: fan base, invite in the public for training camp and

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Speaker 7: other major major events situated there.

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Speaker 2: Well that when it.

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Speaker 5: Comes to the youth sports dynamic, I know you guys,

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Speaker 5: you know the Texans have done a lot with youth sports,

807
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Speaker 5: and you're expanding what you're doing there. I love be

808
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,320
Speaker 5: is going to be out there. Do you have a

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00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,359
Speaker 5: vision yet for exactly what you're going to be able

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Speaker 5: to provide with the youth sports side of things or

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Speaker 5: is that still a work in progress?

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Speaker 7: We definitely Again that was a driver in it as well,

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Speaker 7: So you're hitting on all the drivers. Making football accessible

814
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Speaker 7: has been one of our key key initiatives, certainly led

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Speaker 7: by Hannah McNair and the overall team from the girls

816
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Speaker 7: flag football and flag football in general. So when we

817
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Speaker 7: were putting this together, that was front and center of

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Speaker 7: how do we make sure that that's accessible to the community.

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Speaker 7: You hit on love volleyball, So it's really about making

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Speaker 7: sports overall accessible and so what you'll see with this

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Speaker 7: when we get closer to it is our field house,

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Speaker 7: it will be in a situation where not only does

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Speaker 7: obviously have an NFL football field regulation size in it,

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Speaker 7: but it can also fit three flag football fields you'll

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Speaker 7: see outdoor flag football fields. We're in a situation where

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Speaker 7: it can have up to twenty one volleyball courts, and

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Speaker 7: so we're really excited about how this can showcase and

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Speaker 7: make sports accessible community.

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Speaker 6: Well, and especially the sports you just rattled off. We

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Speaker 6: know how big a passion women's sports is for Hannah

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Speaker 6: McNair and the Texans as a whole. I mean you

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Speaker 6: just rattled off a whole you know, flag football, volleyball,

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Speaker 6: all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: I would imagine this.

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Speaker 6: I mean, this has the potential, it sounds like that

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Speaker 6: site to make Houston really sort of a mecca or

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Speaker 6: a nucleus for women's sports here.

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Speaker 7: I think we're uniquely positioned to, you know, through Hannah's

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Speaker 7: leadership and certainly Kyle on how we support the women's

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Speaker 7: sports effort. It's just in line with with who we are.

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Speaker 7: You know, I had the chance to say before, we

842
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:40,320
Speaker 7: were really fortunate because we have great vision from our ownership.

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Speaker 4: We know who we are.

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Speaker 7: One of the pieces is inspiring hope in Houston. How

845
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Speaker 7: do you raise the profile of Houston, and certainly women's

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Speaker 7: sports is a great way to do that. And we

847
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Speaker 7: look at the Toro District as like, hey, this is

848
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Speaker 7: a place you can come three hundred and sixty five

849
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Speaker 7: days a year to celebrate all of that.

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Speaker 6: I got to get used to that Toro District. It's

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Speaker 6: not just a new headquarters. It's the Toro District. That's

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Speaker 6: what we're calling it.

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Speaker 4: That's right.

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Speaker 8: So the Toro District is the eighty three acres so

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Speaker 8: it is.

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Speaker 7: It is our training center, our training facility, our headquarters,

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Speaker 7: plus the mixed usee district.

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Speaker 6: Yep, Okay, so real quick, seth the long those and

859
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Speaker 6: we're talking to Texans team president Mike Tolman in studio

860
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Speaker 6: with us here talking about the Toro District, the new

861
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Speaker 6: Texans headquarters that was announced yesterday. Take us through how

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Speaker 6: you arrived geographically at that spot in town. The Bridgeland

863
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 6: community there. We know that that Howard Hughes, the you

864
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Speaker 6: know that entity bringing that private equity in on all that.

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Speaker 6: That's that's a planned community of theirs. Can you take

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Speaker 6: us through how that all came about and why that

867
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Speaker 6: part of town was the optimal place for you guys

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Speaker 6: to do this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely, It's been a great process, and you know, we

871
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Speaker 7: were really fortunate because we had a number of different opportunities,

872
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Speaker 7: and I think that speaks so well of Houston. You know,

873
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Speaker 7: there is just so much development, so much growth going on.

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Speaker 7: So there were there were a lot of great conversations

875
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Speaker 7: out there at the end of the day when we

876
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Speaker 7: had a chance to talk to Howard Hughes and really

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00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 7: get to know them. It was important that we had

878
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 7: the right partner in it. Howard Hughes's world class and

879
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:12,240
Speaker 7: there were a couple of pieces that were really important

880
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 7: to us.

881
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 4: One do they understand Houston.

882
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:15,920
Speaker 7: You know, you have a lot of developers out there

883
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 7: who obviously do well, but to understand Houston was really important.

884
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 7: They have the woodlands, I think as everybody knows. Additionally,

885
00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,360
Speaker 7: it was do you understand sports like this is a

886
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 7: unique situation to have a sports anchored mixed use district

887
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 7: and they have shown that they really do. So they

888
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,279
Speaker 7: have the Summerline community up in Las Vegas, which is

889
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 7: anchored by the Golden Knights training facility, So they understood

890
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:43,160
Speaker 7: how all these things came together. The other piece that

891
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 7: was really a driver in this when they came was

892
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 7: the ability to stay in Harris County and so for

893
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 7: us to continue to support development in Harris County that

894
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:53,440
Speaker 7: was also big.

895
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 8: And then when you look at this, it's like geographic reach.

896
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 8: How can we get closer to other parts of our

897
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 8: fan base? And the northwest sector of Harris County is

898
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 8: one of the fastest growing areas.

899
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:06,640
Speaker 4: We have a great fan.

900
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,720
Speaker 7: Base population out there, and so just having another place

901
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 7: where fans can come, whether it's it's to NRG Park

902
00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 7: or now tour a district out there, we felt like

903
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,120
Speaker 7: it was great reach and making ourselves more accessible to

904
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:18,319
Speaker 7: the fan.

905
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,760
Speaker 5: I do like that notion of yeah, kind of geographically

906
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:25,960
Speaker 5: expanding in the You know, there's too many Cowboys fans

907
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 5: as you get closer and closer to Austin in Texas state,

908
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:32,280
Speaker 5: right right right, how do you change them? You breed

909
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 5: with them and turn them into a kind of in

910
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 5: brave heart type fashion. Yeah.

911
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 2: I like this.

912
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 6: Yes, there you go, Mike Toman joining us, joining us

913
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 6: in studio.

914
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:44,960
Speaker 2: When you how long have you been on the job.

915
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,319
Speaker 8: Now a little over a year, a little over a year.

916
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,920
Speaker 6: Was this when you I know it's been discussed for

917
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 6: a while even before you got here.

918
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 2: Was this a really high.

919
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 6: Priority when you walk through the door over there at

920
00:42:57,040 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 6: Energy Stadium to get this thing done?

921
00:42:58,680 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 4: Yeah? Absolutely.

922
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:01,319
Speaker 7: I think it was one of the things that really

923
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 7: excited me sitting down with Kallan Hannah and talking through

924
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 7: what our future is going to be and what's laid out,

925
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 7: and you look at like what's identified and so you

926
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 7: know you have a big stadium development coming or the

927
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 7: opportunity for that. You know there's a training facility opportunity,

928
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:18,640
Speaker 7: and so when you have those types of transformative moments outlined,

929
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,960
Speaker 7: huge initiative. I also think in my first meeting with

930
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 7: Nick on the way out, he's like, it'd be great

931
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 7: to have the training facility done soon.

932
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:27,359
Speaker 4: Yeah.

933
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, Well, and you said this. I saw some of

934
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 6: the media that you did yesterday and you made this

935
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 6: point clear with multiple colleagues of ours yesterday that the

936
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 6: priority in this is the football. The other stuff is

937
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:40,040
Speaker 6: all really important, and it's going to generate a lot

938
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 6: of revenue for the county and the city. It's going

939
00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 6: to generate a ton of jobs, seventeen thousand jobs. Saw

940
00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:49,080
Speaker 6: was the number yesterday. But the priority is to make

941
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 6: the Texans a more you know, they're obviously competitive already,

942
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 6: but add to that competitiveness and give it a give

943
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 6: the team a competitive advantage.

944
00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:59,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, one hundred percent.

945
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,479
Speaker 7: You know, I think again from vision of ownership and

946
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 7: really kind of our ethos, our charge is to win championships.

947
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 7: Now that's a process. You know, you have to win

948
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 7: the practice, you have to win. We have to win today,

949
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:11,760
Speaker 7: you got to win tomorrow. You have to go focus

950
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:13,319
Speaker 7: in on the games. And so it's a step by

951
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:17,040
Speaker 7: step get better process. But make no mistake. To do that,

952
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 7: you have to make sure the team is in the

953
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 7: best situation to compete on a day in and day

954
00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,760
Speaker 7: out basis. So the main thing is the football team

955
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,720
Speaker 7: and all of us living together, all of our teammates

956
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 7: as we call our entire organization. You know, we have

957
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:34,360
Speaker 7: an exciting growth path in front of us on the

958
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 7: business side, and so for all of us to be

959
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 7: together with football being the anchor being the core that

960
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,760
Speaker 7: that was a drive and focus in this if if.

961
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 5: We're going to kind of get an idea for what

962
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 5: this entire facility might look like, or this whole district

963
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:51,439
Speaker 5: might look like. And you know, people mentioned the Star

964
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:54,879
Speaker 5: District with the Cowboys a lot. Are there any other

965
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 5: similar ones that are gonna kind of be somewhat similar

966
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 5: to the to your version of it that people could

967
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 5: look at online?

968
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, so I can show the process we

969
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 7: went through. You know, we looked at a number of

970
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 7: different approaches to how people activate around their facilities. We

971
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:16,800
Speaker 7: love what San Antonio is doing with the Spurs and

972
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 7: their Human Performance Institute. We really like what Real Madrid

973
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 7: did out in Madrid with balder be Bas and and

974
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,439
Speaker 7: their training facility. We love with the Braves have done

975
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 7: with the Battery. Now that's their stadium, but they have

976
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 7: a great mixed use district. Certainly the Starrup and Frisco.

977
00:45:34,320 --> 00:45:38,280
Speaker 7: You know, I think every all of these have really

978
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:43,880
Speaker 7: shown some experiences that that we liked. I think the

979
00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:49,800
Speaker 7: main piece though, is being authentically Houston Texans and going

980
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:54,919
Speaker 7: through the process talking through what was important to us.

981
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 7: Again with Calan Hannah's leadership, it's really easy, like we

982
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:02,439
Speaker 7: feel really comfortable in our skin, we know who we are,

983
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 7: and so with that in mind, that's really been the

984
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 7: driver on how we wanted this thing to come together.

985
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 6: So the reaction, the reaction for fans yesterday. Obviously there's

986
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:18,359
Speaker 6: a lot of excitement about this. You know, anything new

987
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 6: is always exciting. Big questions about if there's any dots

988
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 6: to connect here when it comes to the stadium, which

989
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:27,640
Speaker 6: is another project that's you know down the road here

990
00:46:27,719 --> 00:46:29,879
Speaker 6: you're probably already working on already. We know the goal

991
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 6: is to is to renovate and do your best with

992
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 6: NRG Stadium right now. But that and I know the

993
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 6: lease ends in twenty thirty two. Are there any dots

994
00:46:39,080 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 6: to be connected here with the ultimate stadium project here?

995
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:44,960
Speaker 6: Because there are people wondering does this mean that the

996
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:46,879
Speaker 6: stadium is going to be up on the northwest side

997
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 6: of Harris County right now? What can you tell us

998
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 6: about the connection if there is any connective tissue between

999
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:52,000
Speaker 6: these two things?

1000
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:54,839
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I think I'd point to a couple pieces. Well,

1001
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 7: one just for clarity. Our focus is NRG Park on

1002
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 7: Our focus is to be there.

1003
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 4: We think it's a unique situation.

1004
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 7: It does not happen that often when you have three

1005
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 7: hundred and fifty contiguous acres right on a major artery,

1006
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 7: the six' ten and what's soon to be the third

1007
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:16,239
Speaker 7: largest growing, city like you focus in on those, things.

1008
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,280
Speaker 4: And we feel we have great partners.

1009
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 7: There you, know when we talk about what, drives it's

1010
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 7: content and we love saying, like what's better content than

1011
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 7: football and. Rodeo we have great partners with the. Rodeo

1012
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:35,719
Speaker 7: and WHAT i draw is The Harris County, commissioners an

1013
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:39,400
Speaker 7: overall relationship that we. HAVE i think this showcase is

1014
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:43,600
Speaker 7: a great public, partnership public private partnership and what can be.

1015
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:46,520
Speaker 7: Done and so we feel really great with our partnership

1016
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:49,280
Speaker 7: there and focusing in. There so kind of the THEMES

1017
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 7: i draw is, like, hey the makings are. There you,

1018
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 7: know we can do great things. Together this is an

1019
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 7: example of, that and we're going to take that momentum

1020
00:47:56,760 --> 00:47:58,799
Speaker 7: and focus in On Energy park in the.

1021
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 1: Future it is a Great friday. Show hopefully you enjoyed.

1022
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: It we'll be back On monday At President's. Day we

1023
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 1: will be working because that's just what we. Do we'll

1024
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: see that, everybody and as, always Go.

1025
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 2: Texans