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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, Welcome to the show. We are in the

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Speaker 1: hun Day Texans Radio studio, Mark Vandermaer and John Harris

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Speaker 1: with you as the Texans are a few days away

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Speaker 1: from playing a game against the La Rams that will

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Speaker 1: conclude the twenty twenty four preseason. And Johnny, notice how

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Speaker 1: I didn't say game week Wednesday, because that's what it

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Speaker 1: is today. Even though it's a player's day off. It's weird, right, Okay, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: because tomorrow's Thursday. Yeah, and then Thursday is Friday, but

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Speaker 1: it's not a normal Friday because you're doing a joy

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Speaker 1: practice two days away from a game. But because it's

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Speaker 1: the final preseason game, we're sort of presuming, and by

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Speaker 1: sort of I mean definitely that the starters or most

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Speaker 1: of them would not play on Saturday.

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Speaker 2: I think that is the right assumption to make.

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Speaker 3: That's kind of what my gut tells me that it's

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Speaker 3: worked out well. You had the Hall of Fame game,

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Speaker 3: so you got some guys, some reps. You would have

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Speaker 3: liked to have had a fourth quarter. But he lost

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Speaker 3: that starters a little bit against the Steelers, everybody else

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Speaker 3: stealers against the Giant Chid started for a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Longer everybody else, and it just really worked out.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 3: Now you get this joint practice where it's controlled. And

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Speaker 3: I think that's the one word that comes to mind

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Speaker 3: a lot of times with these Joy practices when I

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Speaker 3: tell them, well, I don't you know, it's just the games.

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Speaker 3: The games are Yeah, the games are great, but you

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Speaker 3: can't control certain things.

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Speaker 2: You can't control hits on the quarterback.

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Speaker 3: You can't blow the whistle once the running back gets

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Speaker 3: in the secondary. You can do that in a joint practice.

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Speaker 3: So there's some stuff you can do in a joint practice.

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Speaker 3: There's some stuff that you would like to see in

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Speaker 3: a game. So you kind of get the best of

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Speaker 3: all worlds. Hey, ones on ones, good on good in

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Speaker 3: the Joy practice, control it a hour and a half,

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Speaker 3: get them out because it's probably gonna be steamy at

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Speaker 3: some point, and then you get the game and you

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Speaker 3: get it's a point at some point. I just saw

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Speaker 3: the Jets. I don't know when this was, probably I

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Speaker 3: don't know, probably a couple hours ago, because I've been

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Speaker 3: on my timeline for a little bit. They tweeted, is

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Speaker 3: seventy degrees cold for August is beautiful?

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Speaker 2: Beautiful? That's incredible don't complain Jets.

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Speaker 3: Yeah exactly because it'll get yeah, because we'll ask you. Yes,

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Speaker 3: she is a cold at fifty degrees in December while

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Speaker 3: you're enjoying a snowstorm at MetLife. So that being said,

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Speaker 3: I kind of feel like it works out well for

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Speaker 3: the Texans in that you kind of ramp up the Thursday.

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Speaker 3: You've got two more practices basically of training camp, if

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Speaker 3: that's what we'll call it, So practice Wednesday, joint practice Thursday.

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Speaker 3: The ones can kind of throttle down for a little

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Speaker 3: bit and the starters can kind of get themselves, get

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Speaker 3: the bodies back, and then you're gonna play the Colts

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Speaker 3: in a little over two weeks, which is gonna be

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Speaker 3: pretty fantastic, even though it takes place up in that building,

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Speaker 3: it's gonna be fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Yet the regular season started. This is what I've always wanted. See,

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Speaker 1: I'm getting my gift.

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Speaker 2: That's true.

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Speaker 1: You guys wanted this the Texans schedule. I've always wanted

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Speaker 1: to open at Indy. It's never happened before. Go up there,

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Speaker 1: beat them opening day, take it from there. Just take

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Speaker 1: I'm on Opening Day, because whatever happens, you're done with that.

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Speaker 2: Trip up there, You're done with the trip to Indy.

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Speaker 1: Whatever the result is now, I want the result to

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Speaker 1: be a w But I'm not going to freak out

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Speaker 1: too much because I know the NFL is hard and things.

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Speaker 2: Happen, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: My one item that dropped earlier today Matthew Stafford participating

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Speaker 1: in practice for the Rams, so that bodes well for

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Speaker 1: seeing him on Thursday, which I really want to see.

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Speaker 1: I really want to see their starting quarterback out there.

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Speaker 1: It's a great test for these young and older dbs

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Speaker 1: for the Houston Texans in this joint practice because there's

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Speaker 1: no way on God's green Earth that Stafford's going to

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Speaker 3: Oh that's correct. That is correct in no way, if

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Speaker 3: I'm being honest. With Aaron Donald having graduated out of

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Speaker 3: the NFL, thank god, I matriculated that I loved watching

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Speaker 3: Aaron Donald and we played him twice at seventeen to

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Speaker 2: It was like, what is his human being?

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Speaker 3: But with him gone, and look, I'm excited about what

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Speaker 3: the Rams have on d They've added a couple of

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Speaker 3: rookies and Fisk and Verse from Florida State and they've

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Speaker 3: got Kobe Turner last year's I think runner up to

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Speaker 2: That's great.

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Speaker 3: In all honesty, this was about the defense facing Matt

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Speaker 3: Stafford for that particular droid practice. That's what it was

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Speaker 3: to me all about, Like, oh, when I heard about it,

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Speaker 3: I was like, oh, yeah, Stafford cup pooka against this

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Speaker 3: This is gonna be really really good stuff. And then

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Speaker 3: you see, okay, oh no, Stafford's banged up. But some

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Speaker 3: reports have him back at practice in team drills today,

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Speaker 3: and that's a good thing because I would imagine they

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Speaker 2: If he's able to be back in.

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Speaker 3: Team drills there, he's gonna be eligible, I would imagine,

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Speaker 3: or able to be able to practice against the Texans

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Speaker 3: on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: So it won't that it won't the first time he's

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Speaker 1: faced the Texans and joint practices because the Lions were

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen and we saw him then, and boy, those

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Speaker 1: Lions uniforms are sweet, and to see them in the

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Speaker 1: hot August sun here was kind of like a cool,

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Speaker 1: refreshing breeze in a way, and I like.

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Speaker 3: The way you put that a cool, refreshing breeze of

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Speaker 3: Detroit Lions.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it was. It was good.

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Speaker 1: Now they're not cool and refreshing anymore. Now they're terrifying.

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Speaker 3: Do you remember do you remember Matt Patricia on his

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Speaker 3: little wheeling gator and he was just driving through everybody.

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Speaker 3: He's recovering from foot footy or something like that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he was a piece of work. I thought that that's.

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Speaker 1: When you were still not sure if it was going

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Speaker 2: Maybe it does, No, it didn't know. It did not

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Speaker 2: work out at all.

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Speaker 1: As Patricia's long gone, and it's worked out very well

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Speaker 1: with Dan Campbell coaching that squad, and we will see

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Speaker 1: Detroit battle red night.

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Speaker 2: What is that November tenth?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: That was wait, that was something that came out of

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Speaker 3: will wear one of the alternate uniforms for a Christmas

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Speaker 3: Day game against the Ravens. And immediately I was like,

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Speaker 3: if we're not wearing red on Christmas Day, then something's

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Speaker 1: Never know, those h Town uniforms really sweet, so nice.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, so they're allowed to wear one one

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Speaker 1: more time.

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Speaker 2: I think that's both. I think believe. I think that's correct.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I remember the first time where they brought out

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Speaker 1: the reds for the second time. Dom Caper's was coached,

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Speaker 1: and it was a big surprise. We thought, oh, they're

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Speaker 1: It was kind of cool. Battle Red Day is such

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Speaker 1: a great tradition. So that'll be the Detroit Lions. H

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Speaker 1: Town is the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 2: That's right, H Town's Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 3: Now, once you get to the playoffs, we've worn We

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Speaker 3: wore the you.

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Speaker 2: Gotta go traditional, no all uniforms in the playoffs. The

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Speaker 2: league is very clear on this.

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Speaker 4: That's true.

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Speaker 2: They might change in the future. I think I think.

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Speaker 2: You know what my take is, in the preseason let

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Speaker 2: him go, will go nuts?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, why can't we go nuts in the preseason and

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Speaker 1: test drive all the new unis? What the heck? Who cares?

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Speaker 1: It's the preseason. Let's do it now. The games are

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Speaker 1: important because it's developmental, but the uniforms are good. Let

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Speaker 2: Don't you want butts in the seats?

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Speaker 5: Yes, you do.

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Speaker 1: NFL so let's get that done. All right, let's get

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Speaker 1: this done as well. We mentioned Matthew Stafford, Matt Stafford,

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Speaker 1: his first name begins with them whatever. That guy will

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Speaker 1: be participating on Thursday. We hope, we think yes. Out

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Speaker 1: of Highland Park, suburb of Dallas. Very nice place, very

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Speaker 1: nice place to live. We were staying up there when

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Speaker 1: And we had to drive into the city on the

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Speaker 1: icy roads. And let me just tell you, when you're

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Speaker 1: first day, they don't know how to drive an ice.

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Speaker 2: They don't know. They freak out if the car just

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Speaker 2: wiggles a little bit. What what Like when you drive

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Speaker 1: To Life, you're like, it's a little slippy, sliding, It's okay.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna be just fine, don't worry about it.

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Speaker 1: Actually, there was no salt or sand on the roads

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Speaker 3: For that, but also up north. Well, I remember this

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Speaker 3: and dad would have snow tires put on. Oh that's yeah,

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Speaker 3: when I was a kid, snow tires. Now, I don't

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Speaker 1: I think it is in some parts of the country maybe,

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Speaker 1: But I mean when you go all out chains on

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Speaker 3: That is living life a whole different way if you

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Speaker 3: I remember when I when I was at Brown I

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Speaker 3: very select weather days that I was like, I don't

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Speaker 3: take this icy turn like forty five miles an hour.

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Speaker 3: After driving with some of them, I'm surprised I'm still

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Speaker 3: here at that point. But uh yeah, Matt Stafford playing

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Speaker 3: in these practices, I think is gonna is gonna be keys.

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Speaker 3: But this secondary just going back and watching the game

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Speaker 3: and seeing, you know, seeing this secondary against the Giants.

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Speaker 3: I know, obviously Matt Stafford is not Daniel Jones, but

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Speaker 3: I think this is gonna be a great test for

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Speaker 2: Now they see I.

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Speaker 1: Didn't mean every day. I did not mean to giggle

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Speaker 1: right there. Sorry, Sorry Giants fans.

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Speaker 2: It's okay.

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Speaker 1: Joe Mixon. I want to see him, so we'll know

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Speaker 1: more tomorrow. Tomorrow night show, we'll be talking about did

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Speaker 1: we see Joe mix on Wednesday morning?

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Speaker 2: How did he look?

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Speaker 1: This is his first practice in a while, you know,

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Speaker 1: against the Rams? I don't feel the need to see

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Speaker 2: These guys are playing.

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Speaker 1: Hard, they are playing hard for their football lives, and

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Speaker 1: As we talk about guys like Laramie Tunzel and Joe

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Speaker 1: Okay, how are we going to do this better? He's

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Speaker 3: You don't want to turn the game into Tampa Bay.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at motors numbers from last year, and they

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Speaker 1: They seek a much higher level in ground game execution.

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Speaker 3: you know, four plus yards per attempt running team this year,

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Speaker 3: They've got to be able to do the tough running things.

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 3: They got to be able to pound it in from

443
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Speaker 3: the five yard line on in.

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Speaker 2: On the goal line.

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Speaker 3: They got to be able to pick up third and

446
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Speaker 3: ones and third and two's from twenty one personnel or

447
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Speaker 3: whatever it might be.

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Speaker 2: They've got to do kind of the the the hard

449
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Speaker 2: running stuff.

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Speaker 3: You know, Look, CJ can cover up a lot of things,

451
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Speaker 3: but teams are gonna start to take some of that

452
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Speaker 3: stuff away or maybe put best. They're going to they're

453
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Speaker 3: going to go into a game and say, we're gonna

454
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Speaker 3: force you to run. Okay, we're gonna put six guys

455
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Speaker 3: in the box. That's it. Maybe even five guys in

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Speaker 3: the box. They're gonna force you to run. They're gonna

457
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Speaker 3: darest to hand it off. That's when you better slice

458
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Speaker 3: and dice.

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Speaker 1: And that's what they're gonna get Xavier Hutchinson at the line, right.

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Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, that they're just function things like that.

461
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Speaker 1: Damiko Ryans asked was asked yesterday about the fourth and

462
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Speaker 1: final preseason game for these Houston Texans.

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Speaker 2: What is he looking for?

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Speaker 1: Cut day is one week from today, one week from today.

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Speaker 1: We know the initial and we always say the initial

466
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Speaker 1: fifty three man roster and some of the practice squad

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Speaker 1: guys as well.

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Speaker 2: Here's what the coach had to say.

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Speaker 6: Coming into our last preseason game. It would be a

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Speaker 6: really big opportunity for a lot I always say young guys,

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Speaker 6: but it's a lot of guys on our team who

472
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Speaker 6: aren't just solidify ones on our team. So it's an

473
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Speaker 6: opportunity for those guys, you know, one last week to

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Speaker 6: show the improvements that they made, to show that they belong,

475
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Speaker 6: to show that they can help our team, you know,

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Speaker 6: be a you know, successful team this year. So it's

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Speaker 6: just one more, one more look for guys. And you know,

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Speaker 6: I think at this point we've seen what a lot

479
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Speaker 6: of our guys can do, We've seen how they can

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Speaker 6: help us, and I just want to see those guys

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Speaker 6: if they could take another jump, right, Can they take

482
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Speaker 6: another jump? Can they correct the things that need to

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Speaker 6: be corrected, and can the guys just go out and

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Speaker 6: compete and play fast football for us.

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Speaker 1: I do think there are spots up for grabs that

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Speaker 1: will be evaluated, decided by what you see tomorrow Thursday,

487
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Speaker 1: joint practice and in the game for those who participate

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Speaker 1: in all three.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you start talking.

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Speaker 3: Dimiko said something about starters that I don't know how

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Speaker 3: he put it, but not locked into being starters.

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Speaker 2: Which guys would you look at?

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Speaker 3: Which spots would you look at and go, I don't

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Speaker 3: know if that guy's locked in as a starter.

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Speaker 1: You know, it depends on a position group, because to me,

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Speaker 1: if you're not a starting receiver, you're gonna work your

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Speaker 1: way in there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I don't even worry about the wide receivers. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I don't really even worry about wide receivers tight ends,

501
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Speaker 3: Like I don't even worry about that.

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Speaker 1: D line could be interesting because who's out there first

503
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Speaker 1: versus But you know that's another one, Johnny. They're all

504
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Speaker 1: going to just circle through. By play number three, they're

505
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Speaker 1: sub in and whatever. You know, maybe even play number two,

506
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Speaker 1: depending on the situation. What's the first thing that happens.

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Speaker 1: We're calling a game, They make a stop, the defense

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Speaker 1: does whatever that down and distance is that determines the

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Speaker 1: sub guys are coming off the sideline. Okay, congratulations to

510
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Speaker 1: the starter who just left the field, and now another

511
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Speaker 1: guy comes in. You were the starter, but guess what,

512
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Speaker 1: you're not out there, and maybe the guy who comes

513
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Speaker 1: in is in there for several plays in a row,

514
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Speaker 1: and the starter was in there for one or two

515
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Speaker 1: snaps and then they'll go back to them. So to me,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter. But I think O line is

517
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Speaker 1: pretty determined. You know, we can pretty much.

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Speaker 2: Pretty much what Laramie's in there.

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Speaker 1: I think, yeah, Vanderkin was asked to be about Blake

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Speaker 1: Fisher because obviously Titus was out there, and if Titus

521
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Speaker 1: is unhealthy, Blake Fisher's going to be the right tackle.

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Speaker 1: Laramie's going to be healthy, he'll play left tackle. Blake

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Speaker 1: Fisher is gonna be your swing guy. Blake Fisher's had

524
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Speaker 1: all these snaps and now he's gonna sit and you

525
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Speaker 1: hope you don't need him. He's kind of like the

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Speaker 1: backup quarterback. We talk about this with swing tackles. You

527
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Speaker 1: hope to not need him, but you might, well you

528
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Speaker 1: and I feel pretty confident if he has to go

529
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Speaker 1: in a game. I feel okay with that. But the

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Speaker 1: Titus I watched the other day at right tackle. I

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Speaker 1: look back to Titus that played in twenty twenty two

532
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Speaker 1: before he got the big contract and he looks solid

533
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Speaker 1: and look, I think with Titus, I've come to this

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Speaker 1: with Titus like and man, now it looks, you know,

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Speaker 1: technically superior, whatever the case might be.

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Speaker 3: But he'll go hand in hand fighting combat against a dude.

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Speaker 3: And you want, you know, that's that's really what you're

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Speaker 3: gonna get.

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Speaker 5: That's what you want.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Coming up, Matt Shab was on the pregame show with

542
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Speaker 1: Sean and Seth on Sunday. Great conversation with the all

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Speaker 1: time passer in Texans history. We'll hear it next, and

544
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Speaker 1: then it's Mario Edwards making noise in training camp in

545
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Speaker 1: preseason games on Texans Radio.

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Speaker 2: Right back to it here on Texans Radio.

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Speaker 1: Matt Shab was in the building on Saturday and he

548
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Speaker 1: did a little Texans Radio in the booth, Texans TV

549
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Speaker 1: in the booth, and he visited with Sean and Seth

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Speaker 1: on the pregame show.

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Speaker 2: Outstanding conversation here.

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Speaker 4: It is.

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Speaker 5: Give it up for Matt Shab joining us out here

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Speaker 5: on stage.

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Speaker 4: What's going on?

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Speaker 5: I appreciate it, guys.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it definitely hasn't gotten any cooler here in Houston,

558
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Speaker 8: especially in August.

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Speaker 9: But no great to be back and be on a show. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 9: it's awesome. So let's start there with Andre. We'll talk

561
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Speaker 9: plenty about this team in this offense and whatnot, But

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Speaker 9: that was one of many memories you and Andre had.

563
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Speaker 9: How cool was that to see him go into Canton.

564
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Speaker 9: I know you were up there for the festivities.

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Speaker 8: It was amazing just to be a part of that

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Speaker 8: and witness, you know, what we all knew was going

567
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Speaker 8: to happen eventually, and it's just very great for him

568
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Speaker 8: to third time on the ballot and that he gets in.

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Speaker 8: You're just a sharing that and to know what we

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Speaker 8: were able to do both as a wide receiver quarterback,

571
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Speaker 8: but our team and all the teammates has showed up

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Speaker 8: and what we were able to accomplish here bringing the

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Speaker 8: organization from where they were to a division champion.

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Speaker 5: And playoff team.

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Speaker 8: You know, it's just cool to see the culmination of

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Speaker 8: all his hard work and what he put into this

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Speaker 8: city in this organization.

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Speaker 10: Well, and you had seen you know, Andre had been

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Speaker 10: in Gary Krubi X offense for a year by the

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Speaker 10: time you got here, and they started using him a

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Speaker 10: little bit differently, could you So you didn't you can't

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Speaker 10: really compare and contrasted. But did you see just exactly

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Speaker 10: how it was going to be different for him that

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Speaker 10: first year you got here, and how he might really

585
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Speaker 10: just take a catapult as a receiver.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, obviously with the new system the year before I

587
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Speaker 8: got here, there's a lot to learn. There's a lot

588
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Speaker 8: of nuances and route adjustments on the fly you have

589
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Speaker 8: to make, and just watching how they operated, just coming

590
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Speaker 8: in and just want to do my job, yeah, and

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Speaker 8: work with him and how Andre runs her outes and

592
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Speaker 8: getting on the same page. There was a lot of

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Speaker 8: hours spent when I first signed, you know, throwing and

594
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Speaker 8: just getting used to throwing to a guy like him

595
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Speaker 8: because he's special, right, and understanding his strengths and what

596
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Speaker 8: he does really well. But you know, we hit the

597
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Speaker 8: rod ground running that first year, and you know, when

598
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Speaker 8: you have a guy like that, you just want to

599
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Speaker 8: give him an opportunity because he can make you look really.

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Speaker 5: Good and he's going to make a lot of guys

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Speaker 5: miss with the footballs.

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Speaker 8: He's so big and strong, you know, So it's just

603
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Speaker 8: a matter of getting him the ball in space and

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Speaker 8: letting him go to work.

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Speaker 4: And just like you don't want to think it consciously,

606
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Speaker 4: but don't screw this up right, like you just.

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Speaker 5: Don't bounce it at as.

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Speaker 7: Well.

609
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Speaker 8: What is it like?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, classically it's just like keep it simple, like you

611
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Speaker 10: don't have to be like it, you know, Yeah, we've

612
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Speaker 10: got this good opportunity and just just execute the basics

613
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Speaker 10: on this play and then there you go for sure.

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Speaker 8: I mean when you have a guy like Kim, you

615
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Speaker 8: have a guy like Kevin Waltz, you have an Owen Daniels,

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Speaker 8: you have you know, the backs that we have when

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Speaker 8: we first got here.

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Speaker 5: You just have all these weapons.

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Speaker 8: And that's what's great about Gary Kubiak system is, yes,

620
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Speaker 8: you want to focus on one receiver.

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Speaker 5: You want to get Andre the ball. Everyone knows you

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Speaker 5: want to get him the ball.

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Speaker 8: But you utilize all your weapons and just put guys

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Speaker 8: in position to be successful against whatever defense you're facing.

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Speaker 5: And you know the ball is gonna find him.

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Speaker 8: You don't want to force it, but you just run

627
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Speaker 8: your offense and when you have those kind of weapons

628
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Speaker 8: around him, man, it's tough on a defense.

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Speaker 9: Matt Schaub, former Texans quarterback. We've talked a lot Matt

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Speaker 9: about the run game with this team. This year, they

631
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Speaker 9: had trouble running the football last year.

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Speaker 4: CJ.

633
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Speaker 5: Stroud was amazing.

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Speaker 9: Take us through this offense, and you guys, obviously, whether

635
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Speaker 9: it was Steve Slaton in two thousand and eight or

636
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Speaker 9: Arion Foster forever after that, can you speak to the

637
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Speaker 9: challenges of getting that the run game in this offense

638
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Speaker 9: to that.

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Speaker 8: Sure, And that's something we faced when I first came in.

640
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Speaker 8: You know, that was a big factor, is trying to

641
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Speaker 8: get the run game going. I'mon Green. Came in as

642
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Speaker 8: a free agent the year that I signed, and there

643
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Speaker 8: was just with Mike Sherman as the coordinator, we were

644
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Speaker 8: trying to get back to running the football first to

645
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Speaker 8: set up the play action and everything. And when it

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Speaker 8: doesn't really work and you're average in three yards of

647
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Speaker 8: rush where you want to be around four to four

648
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Speaker 8: point two, you know.

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Speaker 5: Sometimes that makes it hard.

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Speaker 8: Now, our play action game was still pretty good, yeah,

651
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Speaker 8: given that, but that's something I know that with this

652
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Speaker 8: offense with Bobby Slowick and where CJ's at he had

653
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Speaker 8: such a phenomenal year. We'll guess what all the teams

654
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Speaker 8: are watching that tape all offseason to this offense and

655
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Speaker 8: how we can slow them down. Well, they add Stefan

656
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Speaker 8: Diggs and they add some all these pieces. But then

657
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Speaker 8: you go out and get Joe Mixon, you know, to

658
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Speaker 8: go with Damian Pierce.

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Speaker 5: You get Cam.

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Speaker 8: Akers, who I know he's had injuries. You bring in

661
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Speaker 8: these pieces and they have a good offensive line. How

662
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Speaker 8: can they get a little more juice out of the

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Speaker 8: run game to take some pressure off CJ on third

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Speaker 8: down to make it more manageable, stay efficient and control

665
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Speaker 8: the football And that's going to make the play action

666
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Speaker 8: game so much more lethal for them.

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Speaker 4: And it's one of the.

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Speaker 10: Things that CJ's mentioned this offseason was getting more involved

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Speaker 10: and better at the run game portion of it. Where

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Speaker 10: in this offense, and you've played in several offenses, you

671
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Speaker 10: had a couple different stints with Kyle Shanahan, like what

672
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Speaker 10: can the quarterback do to help out the run game

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Speaker 10: in this offense?

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Speaker 5: But I think one thing you'll see is, you know,

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Speaker 5: maybe a lot more check with me.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and I'm sure that's part of their system last year,

677
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Speaker 8: but sometimes with a rookie quarterback you try to take

678
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Speaker 8: a little bit off. I'm sure as the year went

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Speaker 8: on you add more and more of those things, but

680
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Speaker 8: you might go to the line of scrimmage with three plays,

681
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Speaker 8: call one, but you can go to others. Some code works,

682
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Speaker 8: some things at the line of scrimmage based on what

683
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Speaker 8: the safeties are doing or your defensive front.

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Speaker 5: Just put a little more on his plate and make

685
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Speaker 5: it a little bit more of an.

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Speaker 8: Advantageous situation and get to a play that's going to

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Speaker 8: be better than the one you called.

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Speaker 10: Did you ever get to a point in your career

689
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Speaker 10: where like, like all of a sudden you felt like,

690
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Speaker 10: oh man, this is I like, I know so much now,

691
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Speaker 10: But it tends to be also as your your body

692
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Speaker 10: starts to decline a little bit, and I think we

693
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Speaker 10: all get there, did you? But like, yeah, like that

694
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Speaker 10: part for quarterbacks especially though, because I mean, you just

695
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Speaker 10: hear so many of you guys. By the time you

696
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Speaker 10: get after you've been in the league a decade or so,

697
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 10: you can just see things automatically, right, And like I

698
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Speaker 10: guess in Atlanta you were a really good resource for

699
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Speaker 10: the younger guys for something. You're basically a quarterbacks coach

700
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Speaker 10: in some regards at the end of your career, right.

701
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Speaker 5: You find yourself in that role.

702
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Speaker 8: And when I got to Atlanta in twenty sixteen, and

703
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Speaker 8: I'm backing up Matt Ryan who had been doing it

704
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Speaker 8: at such a high level and been so durable. You

705
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Speaker 8: know that, Yes, I knew how to get myself ready

706
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Speaker 8: to play, and I knew what it took mentally and

707
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Speaker 8: physically throughout the week. But where can I add some

708
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Speaker 8: more value to what I bring from my experiences? And

709
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Speaker 8: that was more for the defense? You know, run the

710
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Speaker 8: cards for the defense to give them the best look

711
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Speaker 8: I can. Well, I'm trying to help them with some

712
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Speaker 8: of the looks that they're seeing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Then I'm trying to help the young receivers, the young

715
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Speaker 8: lineman offensively with some of their process and how they're

716
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Speaker 8: going about getting ready to play.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

718
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Speaker 5: So there's a way you can just add because there's

719
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Speaker 5: some things you want to try to take off the

720
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Speaker 5: starter's plate so they can just focus on their job

721
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Speaker 5: and the guys that they're going to be in the

722
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Speaker 5: huddle with. But how can we all get better?

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Speaker 8: And that's as you get to be a veteran, especially

724
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Speaker 8: at the quarterback position, you can, you know, have your

725
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Speaker 8: hands in on a lot of different things to help

726
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Speaker 8: different players out.

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Speaker 10: What's the biggest lesson that you wished you'd learned earlier

728
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Speaker 10: in your career. Like if you if you just know,

729
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Speaker 10: if I just done this in my thing, you know,

730
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Speaker 10: in my third or fourth season, it would have been

731
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Speaker 10: that much better.

732
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Speaker 8: Well, I mean, it'd be easy to say, hey, don't

733
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Speaker 8: throw in too many interceptions.

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Speaker 5: That's like the glaring one, right. I don't know what

735
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Speaker 5: you're talking about, man, but you know some of those

736
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Speaker 5: things still haunt you. But I mean, it's just getting

737
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Speaker 5: a process earlier of how to go like you learn

738
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Speaker 5: by doing it then. So there's only so much you

739
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Speaker 5: can have told to you.

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Speaker 4: You have to have a beat in your head a

741
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Speaker 4: little bit and shown to you.

742
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Speaker 5: You almost have to just go through it. And there's

743
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Speaker 5: different ways to learn.

744
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Speaker 8: There's different ways to prepare yourself to play or to

745
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Speaker 8: get ready for the opportunity to play. Like when I

746
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Speaker 8: was in Atlanta my first year is backing up Michael Vick.

747
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Speaker 8: I learned so many things from just watching him go

748
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Speaker 8: about his process. There's thing you learned that you want

749
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Speaker 8: to implement in your own er team, but there's also

750
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Speaker 8: things you're like, you know what I think, I want

751
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Speaker 8: to do it differently. And at that time he was

752
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Speaker 8: one of the most visible athletes in all the world.

753
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Speaker 8: So why not just take a little bit of notes

754
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Speaker 8: about what he was going through, the media obligations, the

755
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Speaker 8: things with the coaches, what he's going through when it's

756
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Speaker 8: a good good win or a tough loss. And so

757
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Speaker 8: it's just things that you try to jot down. But

758
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Speaker 8: then just learning the game plan, learning of the system.

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Speaker 8: How can you be more efficient in that because when

760
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Speaker 8: you look at it in totality can be overwhelming, But

761
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Speaker 8: when you really like hone in on certain things, it's

762
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Speaker 8: a little bit easier to pick up breaking it.

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Speaker 10: Down, like studying Michael Vick especially. I like to think

764
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Speaker 10: you have an old notebook somewhere where it says run

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Speaker 10: for seven.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, run fast.

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Speaker 5: Well I had that note it crossed it out. That's great.

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Speaker 4: That's great.

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Speaker 9: Matt Job joining us here on Texans Countdown. You talked

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Speaker 9: about that mix that you had with the skill guys

771
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Speaker 9: here back when you were the quarterback for the Texans. C. J.

772
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Speaker 9: Stroud has some high level weapons now and with Nico

773
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Speaker 9: Collins tank tell Stefan, these are all guys who could

774
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Speaker 9: be number one receivers on any given team out there.

775
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Speaker 9: How how different does that make what Bobby Slowik is

776
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Speaker 9: doing from what you had back.

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Speaker 4: In the day.

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Speaker 5: Well, I'd have to say based on our offense we

779
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Speaker 5: had here in Atlanta.

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Speaker 8: I mean, I think the skill positions when you look

781
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Speaker 8: at it as a whole group, wide receivers, running backs,

782
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Speaker 8: tight ends, and there's there's they're they're very comparable, right

783
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Speaker 8: and but what they have right now, I mean I

784
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Speaker 8: saw this on ESPN as they ranked the wide receiver

785
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Speaker 8: group number one in the going into the NFL season,

786
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Speaker 8: which I totally agree with. And you just don't you

787
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Speaker 8: can go past the first group, look at the second

788
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Speaker 8: group when you had Robert Woods, Noah Brown, Like, there's

789
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Speaker 8: plenty of talent in that wide receiver room and they're

790
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Speaker 8: gonna be fighting for reps. But that's a luxury that

791
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Speaker 8: you have as a quarterback in a play caller, just

792
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Speaker 8: throw the dart at the dartboard and you know, let it,

793
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Speaker 8: let it just go find the open guy.

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Speaker 5: You know what, you had Dalton Schultz at tight end

795
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Speaker 5: right right, I mean.

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Speaker 10: The the rookie too. He's only been playing tight end

797
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Speaker 10: for two years. He's he's done some good things.

798
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Speaker 5: For sure, and he's got guys ahead of him to

799
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Speaker 5: just watch.

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Speaker 10: The you know, as you talk about all those different offenses,

801
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Speaker 10: and in a Kubiak Shanahan type system, is you want

802
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 10: these big bodied wide receivers the way it is in

803
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Speaker 10: San Francisco right now. And I guess that's one area

804
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Speaker 10: where this is a little bit different because two of

805
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Speaker 10: your top three guys are not bigger guys, or they're both.

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Speaker 4: They're both willing to tackle.

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Speaker 10: Stephan Diggson Eric excuse me block and Stephan Diggson, Tank

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Speaker 10: Dell and I And you know, without knowing exactly how

809
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Speaker 10: it's gonna look, does it does it feel a little

810
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Speaker 10: bit almost more like the early Sean McVay rams offenses

811
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Speaker 10: the way it's constructed than the Kyle Shanahan offenses.

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Speaker 5: I think there's an element of that too, for sure.

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Speaker 8: You know the one thing you look at Stefan Diggs

814
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Speaker 8: and Tank Dell, Yeah, they're not physically imposing, but they're tough.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

816
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Speaker 5: And they're tough with the ball in their hands.

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Speaker 8: You know, you saw that last week with the touchdown

818
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Speaker 8: the Tank had. I mean just his physicality after the

819
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Speaker 8: catch is huge. But Nico Collins just watching him last season,

820
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Speaker 8: just the physical presence, you know, when he caught the ball,

821
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Speaker 8: he was not giving himself up.

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Speaker 5: He was not an easy tackle.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and I've never seen it since Andre really a

824
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Speaker 8: wide receiver that many times, just that first guy, he

825
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Speaker 8: just walks right out of that tackle.

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Speaker 5: He's so easily.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: So I love his physical ability with the ball in

829
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Speaker 5: his hands. And he's a bigger guy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a big guy.

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Speaker 10: I mean he's you know, he led the league and

832
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Speaker 10: broken tackles after the reception last year, but pretty healthy

833
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Speaker 10: margin too. And I feel like it was almost it

834
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Speaker 10: still felt like he was just really getting a feel

835
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Speaker 10: for it as you hit the playoffs, because then they

836
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Speaker 10: got that's where Shaba in the playoffs, man, like a

837
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Speaker 10: lot of those guys like Dalton Schultz, Nico and a

838
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Speaker 10: few of the other guys they like, all of a

839
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Speaker 10: sudden turned into savage mode. It was cool to see

840
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Speaker 10: because it was a different they flipped the switch that

841
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Speaker 10: was different from the regular season.

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Speaker 5: Certainly, you know, And that's that's what happens when the

843
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Speaker 5: playoffs hit.

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Speaker 8: You just want to get hot, and they were the

845
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Speaker 8: hot team there at the end of the year, and

846
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Speaker 8: just you know, you find a way to make plays,

847
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Speaker 8: get it to your playmakers, who knows what's going to happen,

848
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Speaker 8: and it was just it was fun to watch and

849
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Speaker 8: see the team and the organization under Demiko and what

850
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Speaker 8: they've been able to do to just you know, really

851
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Speaker 8: just ascend.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, we haven't even brought up to Miko Ryan's name yet.

853
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 9: Obviously a team eight of years for several years. Was

854
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Speaker 9: he somebody when you were playing with him and you

855
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Speaker 9: you were opposite him in practice every he's a quarterback

856
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Speaker 9: of the defense or quarterback of the offense.

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Speaker 4: Was he a guy you saw right away like this

858
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Speaker 4: guy's going to be a great coach someday?

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Speaker 7: He was.

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Speaker 8: You know, it's hard when you're going through and you're

861
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Speaker 8: playing to think about what the next step would be.

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Speaker 8: But if you had to, say, two thousand and seventy

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Speaker 8: eighty nine, you know, if you had to pick one

864
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:11,360
Speaker 8: guy on your team there was going to be a

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Speaker 8: head coach, yeah, and be so successful in his first year,

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Speaker 8: it would have been de Miko. There's a reason you

867
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Speaker 8: guys know what his nickname was, cap Yeah, And there's

868
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Speaker 8: a reason for that because he loved being the middle linebacker,

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Speaker 8: the leader of that defense, and just his style and

870
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Speaker 8: how he went about relating to his teammates.

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Speaker 5: You could see it and his knowledge and as someone

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Speaker 5: that I just talked to all the time.

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Speaker 8: You know, I'd tell him what I saw from the

874
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Speaker 8: defense and what he was calling and what they were doing,

875
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 8: and he was, you know, let me know things I

876
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:39,520
Speaker 8: was doing in the offense where they were picking up

877
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:41,479
Speaker 8: some beats on some plays. So we had a really

878
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,879
Speaker 8: good battle during training camp and that just made us better.

879
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 8: But just his way communicated with everybody.

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Speaker 5: You just saw that. It's just so cool to see

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Speaker 5: how he's just ascended in the coaching ranks.

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Speaker 10: Matt I Shans heard this story before, so Barry Michellan,

883
00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:54,800
Speaker 10: but you'll appreciate this.

884
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 4: Matt.

885
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,839
Speaker 10: My last year in the NFL was Demko's rookie year,

886
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 10: and I was just, you know, it's all I'm a grumpy,

887
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,640
Speaker 10: fat defensive lineman, grizzle, little veteran.

888
00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 4: And the first day that they had to Miko go

889
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 4: with the ones, I'm.

890
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 10: Just thinking, like rookies, you know, I let him go

891
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:13,320
Speaker 10: with the one. He's gonna blow this And it was Dimigo.

892
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 10: Dimko's having a hard time spitting out the play call

893
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 10: in the huddle, and I was like, come on, and uh,

894
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 10: I swear to you. He looked at me and it

895
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 10: was like he was the beast Master or something. I

896
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 10: don't even know what he did, but he just like

897
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:26,880
Speaker 10: said three words to me, and all of a sudden,

898
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 10: I just calmed down. Yeah, like a tranquilized rhinoceros.

899
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 4: And it was right there. I was like, Oh, this

900
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 4: kid's And then getting to know him, you know, he

901
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 4: just had a maturity about him in a way about.

902
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,839
Speaker 10: Him that it's hard to It was frustrating when when

903
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 10: the Texans were hoping to sign it, to sign him

904
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 10: or to hire him. It's one of those things it's

905
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 10: hard to explain because I've never come across somebody like

906
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 10: him before, so it's like, how do you explain? It

907
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,439
Speaker 10: just sounds like all the overly praised stuff that people

908
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 10: say all the time.

909
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 4: He's just different than other hurons.

910
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 7: He is.

911
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 8: And I'm sure when you probably had your hand in

912
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:58,880
Speaker 8: the dirt and you look back at him, he probably

913
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 8: just had a big grin on his face because he

914
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 8: loves football, and even as a rookie and early in

915
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,800
Speaker 8: his career, like he just loved being out there. He

916
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 8: had a passion for just playing the game and he

917
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 8: just loved football. And you when you have a guy

918
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,360
Speaker 8: like that that was basically born and raised as a

919
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 8: Texan right as.

920
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 5: A rookie, and he played here for eight years.

921
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 8: Like for him to come back, it means means a

922
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 8: little bit more, whereas you see coaches that just are

923
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 8: going to the next thing, climbing the ladder they want

924
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,839
Speaker 8: to be. But he really, truly, in his heart of heart,

925
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 8: it means something to be a Houston Texan and this

926
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 8: organization in this city. So there's just an added little.

927
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:38,439
Speaker 10: Love where that an NFL head coach chooses the city

928
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 10: he wants to go to. Because Dimiko said that in

929
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 10: his opening press conference. Is like he told them in

930
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 10: the interview, which is bad negotiating kids. He told them

931
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 10: this is where I want to be here, this is

932
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 10: where I want to be in Casario and McNair looked

933
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:54,439
Speaker 10: at each other like, well, I guess that's it, yeah right, yeah,

934
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 10: And it turned out to be a great fit right

935
00:38:57,120 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 10: in it.

936
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 6: Yeah.

937
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:00,240
Speaker 9: What was the group text like when Dimico got hired

938
00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:01,760
Speaker 9: here with you and all your former teammates.

939
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 8: Wow, I got to say, I'm sure it was a

940
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 8: busy time for him because it took them a little

941
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 8: bit to get back to it and all your former teammates, Yeah,

942
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 8: you know, like it was one of those.

943
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 5: Things once that season two years ago was over.

944
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, we knew.

945
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 8: He had had some interviews the year prior, yep, that

946
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 8: this was going to be the year, and it was

947
00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:20,359
Speaker 8: like a no brainer. It's like this is going to happen.

948
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,399
Speaker 8: So when it did, it was like we already knew.

949
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was.

950
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 5: Just yeah, it was just like the celebration. This is awesome.

951
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,960
Speaker 9: Yeah, Matt shob joining us out here. Hey, did you

952
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 9: used to host the Halloween party back in the day.

953
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 7: I did.

954
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember that.

955
00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,880
Speaker 9: David Anderson we've kept in touch and Joel Dreesen was

956
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:40,360
Speaker 9: the ultimate Warrior one the Shop Halloween Party was legendary

957
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 9: amongst players that we used.

958
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 4: To talk to.

959
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 5: No, it was so much fun.

960
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 8: My wife really took the bull by the horn, so

961
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:47,800
Speaker 8: this beating on that and she's she's she's such a

962
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 8: fan of holidays, but Halloween is something different. So to

963
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 8: be able to like have that time with the teammates

964
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 8: where you can get together away from yeah, practice and

965
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 8: meetings and all that is so fun.

966
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:56,919
Speaker 7: Yeah.

967
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,839
Speaker 4: Honestly, you guys, like it's rare in the NFL.

968
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 10: I have a certain type of camaraderie I feel about

969
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 10: the almost like a college feel to it. And that's

970
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,239
Speaker 10: what I always felt bad that you guys, you know,

971
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:09,399
Speaker 10: had a window there where maybe you could have gotten

972
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,800
Speaker 10: it too. I felt like, you guys deserve to because

973
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 10: it's just, yeah, you don't get to necessarily have that

974
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 10: same chemistry in that same gel on most NFL teams

975
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 10: hundred percent.

976
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 8: That's what made things so special and so cool to

977
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 8: be a part of this team back in those days

978
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 8: because there were so many guys that were, you know,

979
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 8: in the same walk of life that were in that

980
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 8: mid to late twenties.

981
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 5: Around thirty, you know, getting married, having kids at the

982
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:30,760
Speaker 5: same time.

983
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 8: And when you're going through those things, and you know,

984
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 8: it's just another level in that bond, in that connection.

985
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,399
Speaker 8: Like you hear about a college locker rooms where you're

986
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:40,800
Speaker 8: getting out of practice, you're going to play video games

987
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:42,840
Speaker 8: or hanging out in the dorms, like that was the

988
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 8: feel that we had here. And you know, it's cliche

989
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 8: to say, but it's it's very true that that can

990
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 8: find you can find a way to have that be

991
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 8: the difference in one or two games.

992
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I'm sure if I really.

993
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 8: Thought about I could pinpoint a couple that we won

994
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 8: because of that. And here's a shame that we fell

995
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:58,879
Speaker 8: short of the ultimate goal a couple of those years.

996
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 8: But it would have been fun to see how how

997
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 8: it would have shaken out in twenty eleven. I hate

998
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 8: to say it when I had my foot injury, you know,

999
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:07,399
Speaker 8: because that was the year that our team is really

1000
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:09,799
Speaker 8: breaking through, and especially on the defensive side.

1001
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 9: It's just a shame, you know how things that was

1002
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 9: in my opinion, that was the best Texans team. And

1003
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 9: with you at quarterback on that twenty eleven team, that

1004
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 9: defense was scary.

1005
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 5: They were you know, we we started off slow that.

1006
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:24,399
Speaker 8: Season, but then we hit I think like a five

1007
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 8: or six game winning streak and we were eight and

1008
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 8: three there after Tampa Bay and and you know, we

1009
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 8: did a great job as a team, and the coach

1010
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 8: did great and TJ.

1011
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 5: Yates filled in as a rookie play.

1012
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 8: Extremely well that last month and even into the playoffs

1013
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 8: against the Bengals.

1014
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:40,600
Speaker 5: But it would have been fun to just to see

1015
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 5: what would have happened. Yeah, if we would have, you know,

1016
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 5: ended the season on a little bit different notes, seeing

1017
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 5: maybe have another home game in the playoffs, not have

1018
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 5: to go to Baltimore.

1019
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 10: Right that Ravens game, you guys were running the ball

1020
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,480
Speaker 10: on a very very good run defense, like the I'd

1021
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:55,239
Speaker 10: watched every Ravens game that year, and that was the

1022
00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 10: best anybody you've been running the ball against in the

1023
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 10: first half. But after, like you can only sustain something

1024
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 10: without full force for so long.

1025
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1026
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 9: Sure, yeah, Matt job joining us before we cut you loose,

1027
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 9: because we know you got a ton of stuff you're

1028
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 9: doing today. You're looking to get into this broadcasting game.

1029
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 9: It sounds like, are you is this what you're looking

1030
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 9: to do? I am you know, I'm so intrigued by it. Yeah.

1031
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 8: I've always been a fan of like radio TV, the broadcast,

1032
00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 8: talking football, talking sports, and you know, I have a

1033
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 8: passion for this game and just you know, something that

1034
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 8: I want to dive into and see we see what

1035
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,399
Speaker 8: comes to fruition. But it's fun, it's exciting. I'm glad

1036
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 8: to be on here with you guys talking Texans.

1037
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:29,919
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure.

1038
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:31,799
Speaker 4: And what are you doing today? You're gonna be Radio

1039
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:32,760
Speaker 4: Antia whatever.

1040
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 8: Mark Vandamir has for Man, I think I'm gonna do

1041
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:36,879
Speaker 8: some radio, do a little of the TV broadcast, maybe

1042
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 8: get a quarter quarter and a half of each. Just

1043
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 8: get you know, get a feel for it, get your

1044
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:42,319
Speaker 8: feet where it happens. And I've got a few things

1045
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 8: this season in college. You know, MI alma mater with

1046
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:47,759
Speaker 8: University of Virginia do some things in their games. So

1047
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 8: just stan what comes to light.

1048
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's former Texans quarterback Matt job who did a

1049
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,720
Speaker 1: little TV on Saturday, did a little radio on Saturday

1050
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: and did that great pregame conversation with Sewan and Seth

1051
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: coming out. Mario Edwards doing a great job in training camp.

1052
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:07,800
Speaker 1: That's next on Texans All Access. Final segment tonight on

1053
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: Texans Radio. Short and sweet Mario Edwards not short and

1054
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 1: he's probably pretty sweet playing some sweet football on that

1055
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 1: d line for your Houston Texans out of Florida State.

1056
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:21,720
Speaker 1: His dad was a Dallas Cowboy, among other teams, played

1057
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:22,760
Speaker 1: with Travis Johnson.

1058
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 2: Big history here.

1059
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 1: But a nice quick visit with Mario Edwards, who's doing

1060
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 1: well in the preseason games and practice.

1061
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:30,600
Speaker 2: That's been great man.

1062
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:32,279
Speaker 7: Able to be able to craft with some of the

1063
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 7: guys with the hunt with dB and being able to

1064
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 7: go out there and craft. It's been real fun.

1065
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 4: All right.

1066
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:39,399
Speaker 2: What about this coming week?

1067
00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: You have a joint practice scheduled with the Rams, other practices,

1068
00:43:42,719 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 1: and a final preseason game.

1069
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 7: He's got to bring your work payod man, you got

1070
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 7: to bring your hat and be ready to go to work.

1071
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:50,879
Speaker 7: And as they say, bow your nick and earn your check.

1072
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,800
Speaker 1: You know, are you looking forward to the two weeks

1073
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:56,840
Speaker 1: between the final preseason game and the regular season opener?

1074
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 5: What's that going to be like?

1075
00:43:58,200 --> 00:43:58,359
Speaker 4: Oh?

1076
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 7: I haven't really even thought that far. Walking off the

1077
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:02,400
Speaker 7: field now, I was talking to the guys and coaches

1078
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:04,839
Speaker 7: said that this is the fastest training camp I've been

1079
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 7: a part of it, but also the funniest training camp

1080
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 7: I've been a part of too, going.

1081
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 4: Into year teen.

1082
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've been around the block, So talk to me

1083
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 1: a little bit about why it's fun.

1084
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:13,840
Speaker 2: How it's fun for you.

1085
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 7: Just the camaraderie we have around here, the way that

1086
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:21,000
Speaker 7: the guys attack work every day. There's no jealousy. Man.

1087
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 7: We all helping one another. And you know, when you

1088
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 7: have a player's coach like the Meeko man, it makes

1089
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:26,799
Speaker 7: it super fun and we go in and we get

1090
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:27,319
Speaker 7: the work done.

1091
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: You think that trip to Cleveland helped you guys, being

1092
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,839
Speaker 1: there on your own out in the Burbs. You weren't

1093
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 1: downtown or anything like that. Did that help?

1094
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 7: Definitely? I think the change of scenery definitely helped. Instead

1095
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,359
Speaker 7: of being cooped up in the hotels all day, having

1096
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 7: a little change of scenery definitely helped a little bit.

1097
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 4: All right.

1098
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 1: So, like I said, you've been around the block. When

1099
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: you face a team like the Rams in any context,

1100
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 1: is it special because it's the La Rams?

1101
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:50,280
Speaker 5: Definitely?

1102
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:50,480
Speaker 8: Man.

1103
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Speaker 7: You know they always have electrifying athletes over there, and

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Speaker 7: to get out there and go against that soli of

1105
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Speaker 7: offense is going to be fun.

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Speaker 1: Your dad was a Dallas Cowboy to start out his career.

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Speaker 1: Did you grow up as a Cowboy fan? You can

1108
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:03,040
Speaker 1: be honest with us, We'll forgive you.

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Speaker 4: I did.

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Speaker 7: I did. I grew up a Cowboys fan with Emmin

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00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 7: and rocket Ishmael and Darren Woodson and all those guys.

1112
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Speaker 7: So yeah, I was a Cowboys fan.

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Speaker 1: You lived in a lot of different places. Let's say

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00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:16,320
Speaker 1: somebody's not from Texas. Tell somebody about Texas. What is

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00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 1: good about Texas?

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Speaker 7: In your opinion, everything's bigger in Texas. I guess that's cliche,

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Speaker 7: but just you know, just the Southern hospitality. Man, I'm

1118
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 7: originally from Mississippi, so not too eight hours away, but

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00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:31,400
Speaker 7: just the Southern hospitality, the good Southern food, and everything's

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Speaker 7: been pretty good.

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 1: So Florida State is gonna take on Georgia Tech this

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Speaker 1: weekend in Ireland. Would you like to have been part

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Speaker 1: of a game like that where you play overseas and

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Speaker 1: what do you think their season's gonna be?

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Speaker 9: Like?

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Speaker 7: Absolutely, man, I would. I think they're actually getting it

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Speaker 7: back on track now. They were a little shaky a

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Speaker 7: couple of years back, but now they're getting on track

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Speaker 7: and I'm excited to see what they do this year.

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Speaker 1: Now that you've spent time with these guys in training camp,

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Speaker 1: I know that once you get into the regular season

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00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 1: and the college team start playing, you guys have these

1134
00:45:58,440 --> 00:45:59,879
Speaker 1: rivalries going on in the locker.

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Speaker 2: What's that gonna be like?

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00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 4: Here? Oh, man, it's gonna be fun.

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Speaker 7: We're already doing a little bit of trash talking between

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Speaker 7: me and fifty nine men, and we've been arguing with

1139
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Speaker 7: Auburn and all this stuff. And he's Marcus has been

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Speaker 7: going back and forth with me. So I told him,

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Speaker 7: I said, last time I played Auburn, we won a

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Speaker 7: national championship.

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Speaker 2: So it was fun, very good. Thanks a lot, Mario nobutam,

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Speaker 2: thank you.

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Speaker 1: There's Mario Edwards, defensive lineman for your Texans, and there's

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00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:24,839
Speaker 1: the show for you tonight tomorrow night. We'll talk plenty

1147
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: about the practice that will take place in the high

1148
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: heat at the Houston Methodist Training Center and joint practice

1149
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 1: Thursday against the Rams, game Saturday. It is all happening

1150
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:39,399
Speaker 1: with game week two weeks away and cut down Day

1151
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: in one week. Area forty five coming up next. You

1152
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: got to hear what they have to say. Have a

1153
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 1: great night, Go Texans.