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Speaker 1: Hello, Texans, Welcome to the program. Always a pleasure on

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Speaker 1: a Thursday night to talk football any night of the week,

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Speaker 1: but especially on Thursday because we that's Mark vandermir John Harris,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to General, John McClain, Sports Radio six ten, Sports

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Speaker 1: Radio six ten dot Com, the Utopia Football Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Among other things. General, how's it going.

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Speaker 3: It's going great. I'm ready for training camp. Can't wait.

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Speaker 3: So many fun things to watch. A lot of people

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Speaker 3: don't like being out in the heat. I do. I've

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Speaker 3: been in Texas my whole life, and he doesn't bother

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Speaker 3: me because you get the sweat and I love the sweat.

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Speaker 3: So I can't wait to see Miko, Bobby Slowly, mag Burke, CJ. Stroud,

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Speaker 3: Will Anderson Jr. And all the new players.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's obviously exciting to see the new players. Think

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Speaker 4: the fans are gonna be excited to see the rookies,

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Speaker 4: no doubt. General, you mentioned some of those players that

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Speaker 4: you're really excited about seeing outside of CJ and the quarterbacks.

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Speaker 4: What's probably the biggest storyline to you heading into this

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Speaker 4: training camp? And what number is this? I know we're approaching.

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Speaker 3: My first one was in nineteen seventy seven, So this.

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Speaker 4: Is forty seven training camps. I don't know. I can't

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Speaker 4: do it.

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Speaker 2: Count I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I can't do math. I never I never could. But

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Speaker 4: your storyline going in outside of CJ, what's probably the

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Speaker 4: biggest storyline or the biggest thing that you want to

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Speaker 4: kind of pay attention to early in camp.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of things that in my idea to

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Speaker 3: have a columnist sports Radio six ten dot com bout

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Speaker 3: ten things Tomiko needs to achieve in training camp, and

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Speaker 3: there's something at every position. You know, it seems weird.

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Speaker 3: The position of me that is the most set is

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Speaker 3: safety with Jalen Patrie and Jimmy Ward and veteran backup

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Speaker 3: Saric Murray and MJ. Stewart. Now they may keep another

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Speaker 3: one because they're top heavy at corner. But the one

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Speaker 3: thing I want to see, they paid it dearly to

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Speaker 3: get Will Anderson Jr. And he is the best defensive

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Speaker 3: prospect to the draft. A lot of people had him

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Speaker 3: as the best prospective overall. You know, he's favored to

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Speaker 3: be NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year. And will he

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Speaker 3: be a double digit sack guy as a rookie? And

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Speaker 3: he should and If he's as good as everybody thinks

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Speaker 3: he is and he was at the University of Alabama,

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Speaker 3: then he would be the first SIS JJ Watt at

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Speaker 3: sixteen in twenty eighteen. I can't wait to watch him

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Speaker 3: and the ends overall, because John t. Gernard last year

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Speaker 3: of his contract, he's been hurt way too much. Guys

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Speaker 3: of their contracts, and John could be playing for big

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Speaker 3: money from somebody, And then can Jerry Hughes stay in

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Speaker 3: that founder of you to give them three good pass

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Speaker 3: And the other thing We're not going to know this

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Speaker 3: till the season starts. Will they finally be able to

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Speaker 3: be respectable against the rud They've been an embarrassment the

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Speaker 3: last four years.

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Speaker 1: Biggest improvement offense or defense This year.

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Speaker 3: The secondary and the past coverage statistically was pretty good,

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Speaker 3: among the best in the NFL, and a lot of

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Speaker 3: that had to do with the way Lovely Smith played zone.

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Speaker 3: He wanted the ball always to be in front of

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Speaker 3: instead of turning and running it. Receivers having to adjust,

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Speaker 3: but I think you've got to run it better. Damian

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Speaker 3: Pearson needs to stay healthy. Devin Singletary could turn out

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Speaker 3: to be neck Casario's best free agent signing if he

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Speaker 3: catch most of the passes. No need for Damian Pierce

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Speaker 3: had to run the ball better and we more consistently,

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Speaker 3: and a lot of that has to do. Last year

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Speaker 3: anybody and then they have to stop the run better.

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Speaker 3: And I'm not exactly sure how they're gonna do that,

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Speaker 3: but if they don't, they're gonna be spinning their wheels.

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Speaker 4: Generally mentioned the secondary, and there was some activity this

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Speaker 4: Sheqi Griffin was added a corner. Kobe Francis, the second

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Speaker 4: How do you think this plays out in the secondary.

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Speaker 4: Do you think Steven Nelson holds out? How do you

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Speaker 4: kind of think this plays out at the corner? Position.

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Speaker 3: In particular, if you're thirty years old going into your

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Speaker 3: because you're not gonna get a big contract. You know,

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Speaker 3: maybe they've been asking for a one year extension. Give

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Speaker 3: him a little more money somewhere, move it around. He

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Speaker 3: Asio's first news conference at training camp, I'm gonna ask him,

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Speaker 3: is your blue vest in the cleaners or is it

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Speaker 3: just too hot? Now? I hope most people in the

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Speaker 3: media will understand when I say that, based on what

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Speaker 3: Stephen Nelson. Nelson posted about him wearing that blue vest

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Speaker 3: a good sense of humor, he'll understand. But uh, that's

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Speaker 3: a pretty stupid thing to do when you're trying to

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Speaker 3: get another another year or two on your contract.

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Speaker 1: Well, John and I are very heavily invested in Nick

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Speaker 1: Cassio because we once both wore vests. Here for an

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Speaker 1: I hope he was, because that would have been weird

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Speaker 1: if we were both wearing vests and he was. But anyway, general,

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Speaker 1: how will they handle the quarterback reps? How are these

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Speaker 1: We all know where it's going eventually, but how soon

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Speaker 3: I wish I had a blue vest. I'd wear it

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Speaker 3: to the first day in practice. I just don't have one. Well,

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Speaker 3: first of all, Dimiko told us in his last news

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Speaker 3: conference after the off season program that the starter would

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Speaker 3: play out. We all knew, we all know and that CJ.

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Speaker 3: Strouds is going to be the starter. Davis Mills knows it,

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Speaker 3: Case Keenham knows it. That their teammates know it, coaches

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Speaker 3: so I'm guessing they're not going to annoy him right away.

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Speaker 3: I'm guessing they're just my opinion, then after those joint practices,

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Speaker 3: because they don't want to say, Okay, he's the starter

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Speaker 3: And I think it would be good for Stroud just

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Speaker 3: gonna be asking Tom go about it. After every single practice.

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Speaker 4: Generally mentioned CJ. Stroud and the guys that he gets

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Speaker 4: good run from national media, in particular, if there were

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Speaker 4: any wide receiver rankings, Power rankings NFL, typically the Texans

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Speaker 4: we're thirty two at the receiver position. But I've thought

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Speaker 4: a lot better than we think. John Metchi Pet actually

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Speaker 4: coming back. We'll wait to see when he comes back.

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Speaker 4: Tank Dell's got obviously some explosiveness of Nico say healthy.

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Speaker 4: Those are a lot of ifs, But how do you

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Speaker 4: look at this receiver position. And lastly, who do you

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Speaker 4: think leads from the receiver group leads that group in receptions?

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Speaker 4: Not Dalton Schultz, Becau. That's why I think will lead

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Speaker 4: the team. But who do you think from the receiver

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Speaker 3: First of all, they're gonna that's gonna be a position

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Speaker 3: And when people look at it from AFAR, I understand it.

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Speaker 3: Robert Woods coming off a bad season, cut after one

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Speaker 3: season with the Titans, Nico Collins can't stay healthy. John Matschee,

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Speaker 3: the third had to fight cancer and recover from a

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Speaker 3: torn ACL. They don't know much about Tank. He's five

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Speaker 3: was a sixth round pick, so there's no playmakers there.

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Speaker 3: I believe that it's going to be Robert Woods. He's

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Speaker 3: torn ACL. So last year is that proverbial, you know,

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Speaker 3: I think that will develop great rapport in passing situations,

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Speaker 3: think it'll be Robert Woods. And the one that I'd

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Speaker 1: General, we'll get back to the Texans situation and they

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Speaker 1: don't have to deal with this kind of situation for

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Speaker 1: another year or two with Damian Pierce. But the running

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Speaker 1: not getting these long extensions. Is this sort of a

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Speaker 2: The way they wanted it paid.

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Speaker 1: Todd Gurley, Derek Henry got paid, But you can't say

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Speaker 3: So Henry only makes twelve and a half million, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you know, the guy makes all the Money's Christian McCaffrey

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Speaker 3: sixteen and a half million, and he was not the

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Speaker 3: Then he goes to the forty nine ers and he's great.

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Speaker 3: A lot of theys do with playing on an offense

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Speaker 3: with so many playmakers because you can't focus on one player,

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Speaker 3: and I think this on the running backs. The galactive

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Speaker 3: bargain ring is the reason it's happening because teams are

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Speaker 3: able to do that. You can't pay everybody, and Matt

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Speaker 3: Miller of ESPN pointed out, you keep a guy for

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Speaker 3: five his first round, picking franchising twice. That means next

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Speaker 3: Mike Florio speculated analytics has something to do with it,

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Speaker 3: because analytics can point out how you can win without

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Speaker 3: having a great running back or paying a great running

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Speaker 3: back a lot of money. Jacobs didn't help the Raiders,

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Speaker 3: they were terrible. Barkley helped the Giants, Begumonga's surprise and

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Speaker 3: getting the playoffs. And Derrick Henry. You know, anybody's worth

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Speaker 3: it to me, it's not Christian McCaffrey, it's Henry. Now,

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Speaker 3: Henry's twenty nine and the last year of his second contract,

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Speaker 3: so he'll be thirty next year. You know, Mike Rabell's

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Speaker 1: Yeah that's true. But you know, Love You Blue has

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Speaker 2: We'll see about that. Surprised. I'm just just dangling stuff,

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Speaker 3: We'll be different. They'll just be the same colors. Any

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Speaker 1: W Well. The other thing is the Chargers. They kind

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Speaker 4: The ones they wore in the Super Bowl, the one

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Speaker 2: Those old school the Warren Bay. Yes, heaven can wait.

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Speaker 2: They they wore.

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Speaker 1: Three four different kinds of uniforms. They must have been

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Speaker 3: You better say that's from the movie Heaven Can Yes,

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Speaker 3: Heaven Can Wait. Of the people watching and listening will

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Speaker 1: It's actually a very watchable pen sports movie. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny with the Astros trade talk. This

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Speaker 2: We get trade scenarios.

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Speaker 1: What about the show Quarterback on Netflix, it's a big hit.

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Speaker 1: With it being eve week of training camp, it's all

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Speaker 1: It's outstanding. We're at the fifty yard line with the fans.

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Speaker 1: Oh general, what what is your favorite never mind how

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Speaker 3: to do at night. She had some kind of news

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Speaker 3: and I just loved San Antonio was fabulous. And my

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Speaker 3: first camp seventy seven was in Nacadocia's the only year

434
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Speaker 3: they ever went there, and they weren't prepared for the

435
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Speaker 3: heat in the piny woods where all the big trees

436
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Speaker 3: that Stephen F. Fauston kept all the heat. In thirty

437
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Speaker 3: six players had spend the night in the hospital getting

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Speaker 3: ived that year. And they moved after that to San Angelo.

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Speaker 3: And I'll never forget that first one because where they

440
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Speaker 3: were it was hot oran anything I have ever experienced.

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Speaker 1: So they went to the cool summer breezes of San Angelo.

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Speaker 2: I get it general.

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Speaker 3: What temperature drops in San Angelo between the days and

444
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Speaker 3: at night more than any city in Texas. Oh, really

445
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Speaker 3: thirty degrees because the Santa Ana winds will blow through there.

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Speaker 3: Players used to go outside the dorm and just sit

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Speaker 3: around as the breeze came through before they had to

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Speaker 3: get up and do two hours of double two two

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Speaker 3: hours in the morning, two hours in the afternoon.

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Speaker 1: So it's far enough west to get that. That is

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Speaker 1: interesting stuff. I figured it would still be hot as

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Speaker 1: haities General, what are you working on on sports radio

453
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Speaker 1: six ten dot com, et cetera.

454
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Speaker 3: I have a column on sports Radio six ten dot

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Speaker 3: com which is free, free, free about ten things the

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Speaker 3: Texans need to accomplish in training camp. I have an

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Speaker 3: astro's column, and I'm looking forward to seeing you guys

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Speaker 3: at training camp. It's always a lot of fun. People

459
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Speaker 3: are more fired up than any training camp under Bill

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Speaker 3: O'Brien because they didn't like Bill, and people ask me

461
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Speaker 3: if they ever been as fired up. Well, of course,

462
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Speaker 3: the first one in O two. They'll never duplicate that,

463
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Speaker 3: but the one with Gary Gary Kubiak coming home with six.

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Speaker 3: This is the most punk people have been since Kubiak's

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Speaker 3: first win in.

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Speaker 2: Six Outstanding General, Thanks a lot of the time.

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Speaker 3: We appreciate hean you guys very much as always.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, John Harris and I play Who's Better? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that show the Quarterback's gonna come up in this and

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Speaker 1: the Wide Receiver R among other things on Texans Radio.

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Speaker 1: Great to have you listening tonight to Texans Radio. Mark

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Speaker 1: VanderMeer and John Harris with you. Great to have the

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Speaker 1: general lot as well. In the last segment. This show

474
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Speaker 1: will be up on pods soon enough, so you can

475
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Speaker 1: listen to that if you missed it.

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Speaker 2: And Johnny, He's right. People are so fired up.

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Speaker 1: I've been talking to radio affiliates around the state and

478
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Speaker 1: they say the level of interest in the markets around

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Speaker 1: the state, all over this great lone star state of

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Speaker 1: ours has not been this high in a long time.

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Speaker 1: In some cases maybe ever. It's hard to judge those things,

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Speaker 1: but you could feel the buzz, you can feel the electricity.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's super pumped up.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely. It's weird because it's almost like every single

485
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Speaker 4: stop kind of along the way, like okay, coaching change,

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Speaker 4: all right, what's gonna happen? Oh, tomko Ryans, Oh, I'm listening. Okay,

487
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Speaker 4: free agency, you got some money spent? What are we

488
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Speaker 4: gonna do? And that was a little bit of a

489
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Speaker 4: slow burn because it was like every single day it

490
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Speaker 4: was like, wait, Devin Singletary and Adult Schultz and we

491
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Speaker 4: traded for shak Mason, but we just signed Shed. So

492
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Speaker 4: it was like free agency climbed and then you get

493
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Speaker 4: to the draft and you have Thursday night of the

494
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Speaker 4: draft where it's CJ backed up by Will and you're

495
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Speaker 4: like yo. Then you know along the way, you've got

496
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Speaker 4: some contracts and you've got Laramie's extension done. You got

497
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Speaker 4: that taken care of. So it's all this momentum and

498
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Speaker 4: then you know, we we go out and we watched

499
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Speaker 4: this team in OTAs in mini camp, but we could

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Speaker 4: just see a much improved team from from what it's been.

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Speaker 4: It's like, yeah, I mean you can feel the hope

502
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Speaker 4: growing as you as you go through. And you know,

503
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Speaker 4: maybe the biggest domino was Demico and that kind of

504
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Speaker 4: kicked things off, but I think there were kind of

505
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Speaker 4: some things moving in that direction already. I think Tomko

506
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Speaker 4: was just I mean, that was that was huge for

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Speaker 4: a lot of people to go that's the guy we

508
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Speaker 4: believe in as a player. We think that's exactly what

509
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Speaker 4: this team needs. And look, it may work, it may

510
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Speaker 4: not work out, it may be an und spectacular failure.

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Speaker 4: But sitting here right now, I don't see that happening.

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Speaker 4: And I feel really a lot of hope that he

513
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Speaker 4: is here working with Nick Cassaria to build this team

514
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Speaker 4: for twenty twenty three and beyond. Yeah, I can absolutely

515
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Speaker 4: I get that. Everybody I talk to it's the word

516
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Speaker 4: that you man. I'm so hopeful. Man, this is really cool.

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Speaker 4: It's not like it's been the last couple of years

518
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Speaker 4: where people would tell you and me and I would

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Speaker 4: get tweets, John, I love you. I just can't do

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Speaker 4: it this year. It's a completely different ball game. Exactly.

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Speaker 4: That's good. Exactly.

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Speaker 1: Well, look last year, you're one and eleven at one point.

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Speaker 1: That's not gonna happen this year, right, Okay, Freezing Cold

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Speaker 1: Takes just recorded.

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Speaker 2: That, But I doubt that happens this year.

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Speaker 4: I won't tell you.

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Speaker 1: Let's play who's better? Now, Okay, let's do it. Who's better?

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Speaker 1: Better storyline other than quarterback? Texans offense or Texans defense?

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Speaker 1: Better storyline? I'll say the early going here camp, getting

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Speaker 1: into the season, I.

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Speaker 4: Think it's Texans offense. I think there's just a lot.

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Speaker 4: There's a lot happening with this Texans offense. You know,

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Speaker 4: I think with the defense, with the Miko and Matt

534
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Speaker 4: Burke running the defense, you know, there's experience there, guys.

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Speaker 4: You know, Matt Burke was a DC for two or

536
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Speaker 4: three years, Dueko has been a DC for the last

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Speaker 4: how many of a years since Sala has been with

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Speaker 4: the New York Jets. So you've got experience over there,

539
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Speaker 4: you don't. You know, obviously Wills Will's added to the mix,

540
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Speaker 4: but you've got experience in nearly every position. So you

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Speaker 4: look at the offense and not that I'm turning this

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Speaker 4: into a negative, I think it's gonna end up being

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Speaker 4: a positive. But you know, Draw Johnson's quarterback coach for

544
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Speaker 4: the first time, Bobby slow it's offense coordinator for the

545
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Speaker 4: first time. You could have a you could have a

546
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Speaker 4: rookie at quarterback. You could have a rookie and you

547
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Speaker 4: could have a rookie quarterback and a rookie center.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: On top of the fact that I did this last night,

550
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Speaker 4: I was finishing up my wide receiver training camp breakdown.

551
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Speaker 4: So make sure you're checking those out at Houston, Texans

552
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Speaker 4: dot com. I think quarterback is posted. There'll be a

553
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Speaker 4: few others. I got one more to do. They're all

554
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Speaker 4: in the can. They're just gonna be popping out to

555
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Speaker 4: make sure you go check those out Houston Texans dot com.

556
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Speaker 4: And I was looking at the receivers. How many receptions

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Speaker 4: total receptions from last year do we have returning this year?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Total receptions receptions. You've got Nico's thirty seven. Uh, you've

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Speaker 1: got Ray Rogers, Jordan, you got Amri. I'm talking about receivers,

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Speaker 1: just receivers. Got Amri Rodgers twelve?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 2: Did did camp catch anything?

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Speaker 4: That's it? That's fifty. That's fifty. You have fifty receptions returning.

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Speaker 4: Whereas think about the Bengals have returning, think about what

566
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Speaker 4: the Chiefs have returning, think about the Bills have returning

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Speaker 4: at those particular as a ch So my point in

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Speaker 4: that is, with receiver, it's not as if you've got

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Speaker 4: a bunch of rookies playing, but you might. I mean

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Speaker 4: if you consider Mechi in hopefully you know Mechi posted

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Speaker 4: a picture on Instagram in his uniform and it was like,

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Speaker 4: is that is that the is that the bats?

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Speaker 2: I missed this?

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Speaker 4: He did? Yeah, in hads. Yeah, in his jersey and pads.

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Speaker 4: It might have been just a one of the media

576
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Speaker 4: day's picture. Yeah, but he's got to that's a good sign. Hey,

577
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Speaker 4: that's that's the kind of I thought that was the

578
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Speaker 4: bat signal right there.

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Speaker 1: I got excited and Johnny if Mechi's out there day one,

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Speaker 1: the fuggest story that is.

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Speaker 4: I started thinking about this mark. We you and I

582
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Speaker 4: have been there for David Quisenberry's first day back and

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Speaker 4: Drey Hole's first day back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I remember Dre house first first game back. I mean,

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Speaker 4: we could. You can't forget. It's twenty eighteen at Jacksonville.

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Speaker 4: It's the bus game, but it's also drey How's return

588
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Speaker 4: that week. And I remember right before, uh you you

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Speaker 4: threw it down to me. I see Dre on the

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Speaker 4: sidelines and I give him a huge, I mean huge hug,

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Speaker 4: and I'm like, I'm emotional for him. I can't imagine

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Speaker 4: what that's gonna be for John Mechi, those guys. I mean,

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Speaker 4: I guess, you know, DQ had not really played in

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Speaker 4: the NFL. Dre had, so you know, he kind of

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Speaker 4: bounced back into a game. But for David, it was

596
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Speaker 4: getting to his first NFL action. That was really gonna

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Speaker 4: be incredible. It's gonna be a big lift of the whole.

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Speaker 4: So fingers crossed. That's that was kind of the bats

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Speaker 4: and hopefully we get good good news on that over

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Speaker 4: the next few days that he is going to be

601
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Speaker 4: ready to go for Day one. But essentially, he's a

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Speaker 4: rookie in the field. Tank Dell's a rookie on the field.

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Speaker 4: Xavier Hutchinson rookie on the field. So but you've got

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Speaker 4: a mix of veterans in there too, So I think

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Speaker 4: there's gonna be a lot of storylines because wide receiver

606
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 4: is a sexy position. You'd like to talk about that.

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Speaker 4: We'll figure out what happens in the interior line. So

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Speaker 4: I think it's offense, all right.

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Speaker 2: Who's better better receiving group? Bear with me?

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Speaker 1: Now, better receiving group, the Houston Texans or the Tennessee Titans.

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Speaker 1: Now before just receivers, Just receivers, before people go crazy here.

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Speaker 1: Of course, DeAndre Hopkins has joined the Tennessee Titans. We

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Speaker 1: know this, so he's the best receiver among both groups.

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Speaker 1: We get it, most accomplished Robert Woods here instead of there.

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Speaker 1: And after that it gets interesting because who do you

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Speaker 1: have here, you have trailing Burke's over there. How good

617
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Speaker 1: is he? We don't really know yet, And you have

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Speaker 1: a lot of speck here. You have a lot of

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Speaker 1: speculation how good some of these young players can be.

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Speaker 1: We know Nico's good, like I said the other day,

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Speaker 1: when Nico plays, he makes plays. Got Tank Dell coming in,

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Speaker 1: Xavier Hutchinson, Like you said, We'll see what else the

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Speaker 1: rest of the group can do.

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Speaker 4: I you know, it's hard to not say the Titans

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Speaker 4: because of Hop, but again, you don't really you don't

626
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Speaker 4: know where Hop is. I heard somebody say this, and

627
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Speaker 4: I kind of countered this, like, well, you know, Hop

628
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Speaker 4: has played with some below average or average to blow

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Speaker 4: average quarterbacks before. Yeah, he was also twenty four and

630
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Speaker 4: twenty five years old when he was doing that. Yeah,

631
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Speaker 4: he's no longer that age. You know, he's now dealing

632
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Speaker 4: with Ryan Tannehill and Will Levis.

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Speaker 1: How about this ten years ago, he was getting ready

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Speaker 1: for his first season, right, he was twenty one, freshly

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Speaker 1: twenty one.

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Speaker 2: I remember we made a big deal about how young

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Speaker 2: he is.

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Speaker 1: He's out there and he had that overtime game winning

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Speaker 1: catch against the Tennessee Titans in week two, good looking

640
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Speaker 1: rookie campaign for him in a bad season, but a

641
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Speaker 1: good looking season for him, promising season with Andre Johnson

642
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Speaker 1: still on the team. Ten years later, he's thirty one.

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Speaker 1: How's it going? What's happening? But Johnny take him off?

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Speaker 1: The Titans for a moment before the act? Was it

645
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Speaker 1: not even close?

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Speaker 2: The Texans?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say that Texans. Okay, if you were

648
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Speaker 4: to do a draft, if you did a draft like

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Speaker 4: one through ten of receivers, you would you go one Hopkins.

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Speaker 4: Then at number two you might might go Mike go

651
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Speaker 4: Berks on spec. But then after that you're gonna go Woods,

652
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Speaker 4: Nico Tank, Mechi. You know, you're gonna go all the

653
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Speaker 4: Texans guys until you get down to Nick Westbrook Akine,

654
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Speaker 4: who's done some things in the league. That's the kind

655
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Speaker 4: of guy that I I mean, I like what we

656
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Speaker 4: have at receiver, I really do. I know people you know,

657
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 4: poo poo that that group of receivers. I think it's

658
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Speaker 4: gonna be a good group that can develop. But man,

659
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Speaker 4: I I would love to have a guy like Nick

660
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Speaker 4: Westbrook A Kine. I think he's perfect as the number

661
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Speaker 4: three for them. That was the other thing too, receivers

662
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Speaker 4: kind of got a I don't want to say they

663
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Speaker 4: gotta be This guy's gonna be number one, this guy's

664
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Speaker 4: gotta be number two, this guy's gotta be number three,

665
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Speaker 4: but just what you're asked to do. Westbroog and Kinne

666
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Speaker 4: is the perfect number three.

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Speaker 1: But I expected bigger things from him last year than

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Speaker 1: he produced.

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Speaker 4: All Right, that's what I'm saying. He's not a two

670
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Speaker 4: to be able to do that, He's got to be

671
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Speaker 4: a three. So Hopkins helps, Burk's and west Virkiny kind

672
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Speaker 4: of fit their roles, all right.

673
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Speaker 1: Who's better best storyline of the quarterback series? Is it Mahomes?

674
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Speaker 1: Is it Cousins? Is it Mariota? What's the best storyline?

675
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Speaker 1: The most compelling storyline doesn't mean the best quarterback. Obviously

676
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 1: that's Mahomes, But what's the best storyline here?

677
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Speaker 4: As the documentary went on, I was more and more

678
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Speaker 4: intrigued as to what was going on with Cousins.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and I am I'm only an episode three or

680
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Speaker 1: four here, I forget I've watched it late at night.

681
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Speaker 1: I guess I like the Cousins storyline to follow. Not

682
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Speaker 1: that I'm a huge Cousins fan, but It's interesting to

683
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Speaker 1: me how he conducts his business, that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 4: You're exactly where I was two episodes in, two or

685
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Speaker 4: three episodes in. It starts to change for me. And

686
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Speaker 4: I'm starting to see that on social media too. I'm

687
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 4: starting to see this, you know, instead of oh, Kirk

688
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Speaker 4: Cousins can't win the big Game. There's a discussion about

689
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 4: that on the documentary, it becomes more this begrudging respect

690
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Speaker 4: for Cousins because you see him get absolute you know what,

691
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Speaker 4: beat out of him, and you see the class with

692
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Speaker 4: which he has. And I interviewed him back in twenty thirteen.

693
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Speaker 4: It was the second year with at the time the Redskins,

694
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Speaker 4: and I interviewed him and I found him just to

695
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,880
Speaker 4: be awesome. He was very matter of fact about things.

696
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Speaker 4: He is stubborn on a certain thing, and you'll find

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Speaker 4: that out. But I feel like, not the wormst turning

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Speaker 4: on him. He still has to prove he can win it.

699
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Speaker 4: But I feel like that documentary has really made Kirk Cousins,

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Speaker 4: I don't want to say sympathetic figure, but kind of

701
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Speaker 4: a sympathetic figure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, he And I'm not spoiling anything here.

703
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: There's a lot of grunting and pain on the sideline.

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Speaker 1: He's like it almost I don't want to say it

705
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,719
Speaker 1: gets comical because it's very serious. But at the same time,

706
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Speaker 1: it's like there's Cousins groaning and grunting again because he's

707
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Speaker 1: in such pain during these games, and I never expect

708
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Speaker 1: the ability to take hits.

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Speaker 4: It was never on the injury report apparently.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, really, are you kidding me?

711
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Speaker 1: I'm sure Florio is all quickie here, who's better?

712
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Speaker 2: What's better?

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Speaker 1: Best storyline to follow moving forward? I'm gonna give you

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Speaker 1: two names, Justin Herbert or Tua. All Right, the guys

715
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Speaker 1: this morning, Sewn and Seth came out with I think

716
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Speaker 1: Seth said Mac Jones that would be interesting. Baker Mayfield

717
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Speaker 1: for Sean. But give me a choice here. I'll give

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Speaker 1: you those four.

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Speaker 4: Two or are those four?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: We want Mac Jones because we want to see what's

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Speaker 1: going on inside the building with.

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Speaker 4: You know, Mac Jones is a pretty interesting one, especially

724
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Speaker 4: because Bailey Zappy is there and I think they like

725
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Speaker 4: Zappy and I think Mac with you know, Max kind

726
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 4: of volatile, so he's got a volatile ce so that

727
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Speaker 4: gets interesting. But I think more pressure is on Justin

728
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 4: Herbert because he's supposed to be God's gift to quarterbacking

729
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Speaker 4: in some sense. And the look, I'm just as guilty.

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Speaker 4: I've put him up there. I think he's wildly talented,

731
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Speaker 4: but hasn't come together yet as a team. What have

732
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Speaker 4: they done? No, they don't get to the playoffs. Then

733
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Speaker 4: they get to the playoffs and blow a four touchdown lead. Yeah,

734
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Speaker 4: they've got to do something or there's going to be

735
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Speaker 4: hard times, hard times in LA for the Chuts.

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Speaker 2: Most teams would take him in a hot second, absolutely.

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Speaker 1: All right, Next up, biggest rule change in college football

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Speaker 1: and should the NFL pick it up? We'll discuss its

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio. All right, let's keep it going here on

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio.

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Speaker 2: Mark VanderMeer and John Harris with you.

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Speaker 1: Rule changes coming down in college football, and Johnny, the

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Speaker 1: biggest one and should the NFL adopt this is stopping

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Speaker 1: and starting the clock on first downs. And I'm going

745
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Speaker 1: to read it the way I have it here in

746
00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: the release from the Powers that be. When Team A

747
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 1: the offense gains a first down, the clock will no

748
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Speaker 1: longer be stopped to award a first down, except with

749
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Speaker 1: less than two minutes remaining in the second and fourth quarters.

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Speaker 1: This change is effective immediately for Division one and Division

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Speaker 1: two and will be implemented in twenty twenty four for

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Speaker 1: D three.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why they have that, but they have

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Speaker 2: it in D one.

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Speaker 1: The college football we watch the most, they're going to

756
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Speaker 1: have clock rolling after first downs except after two minutes

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Speaker 1: to go in the second and fourth quarters.

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Speaker 2: Should do you like it? First of all? And should

759
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Speaker 2: the NFL adopt this rule?

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Speaker 4: I like it, but I don't want the NFL say

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Speaker 4: what it is.

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Speaker 2: Ooh really yeah, I really do.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I love the end of games, but I'd

764
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Speaker 4: love to watch a team. I mean, you know, of course,

765
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Speaker 4: you know, on one side of it, it's like, well, man,

766
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Speaker 4: I wish we had a time out. Our wish the

767
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Speaker 4: clock would stop on this drive so we could beat

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Speaker 4: the Titans the next week. It's like, man, I'm glad

769
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:53,160
Speaker 4: that rule doesn't exist. I just feel like the NFL

770
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:58,440
Speaker 4: has more opportunities to work on two minute situations that

771
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Speaker 4: they don't need those that clock stop. Just let us

772
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Speaker 4: stop it. Too many warning and you got timeouts, that's it.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 4: For colleges, I think having that time out the last

775
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,840
Speaker 4: two minutes of each half is is gonna are the

776
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Speaker 4: clock stopping after a first down the last two minutes

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Speaker 4: and a half. I think that's good. I like that rule.

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Speaker 4: I think that's great. It'll shorten the games hopefully by

779
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 4: you know, a good ten to fifteen minutes. And I

780
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Speaker 4: know some people were like, well, I mean you can

781
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Speaker 4: watch the game anyways, but you know what, Look, you're

782
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,760
Speaker 4: trying to get a different you're trying to get younger,

783
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Speaker 4: younger people involved in watching the game. It's too long,

784
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 4: and it's too long. Yeah, once you get to three

785
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Speaker 4: forty five, it's too long. It's you ready, two hours

786
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Speaker 4: is long. But once you get to three thirty three

787
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Speaker 4: forty five almost four hours, like some games can get

788
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Speaker 4: forget it, man, you can't keep stopping the clock with

789
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Speaker 4: that clock run. I think it's perfect the way they've

790
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Speaker 4: just put it in. Clock stops after first downs the

791
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Speaker 4: last two minutes each half. Good. Yeah, I leave the

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Speaker 4: NFL A loone, leave the NFL loone. Let these guys

793
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Speaker 4: are professionals. They should be able to do it without

794
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Speaker 4: the clock stopping after first down.

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Speaker 1: So clearly they have problems doing it. Yes, they have problems.

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Speaker 1: You make a good point, you know what, and I'm

797
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 1: in favor of this anyway, go back to sudden death

798
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Speaker 1: overtime and make the clock stop inside the final two minutes,

799
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Speaker 1: maybe not of the half, but of the game, second half,

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Speaker 1: second half.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I could see that. Yeah, I could see that.

802
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 4: Sudden death overtime. Boy, that's never coming back.

803
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Speaker 2: It's never coming back, never coming back.

804
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Speaker 4: It is, it's not coming back over time.

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Speaker 1: Okay, here it is. Each team gets a possession no

806
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Speaker 1: matter what. After that, we're going to if you tie

807
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Speaker 1: it up, we're going to the two yard line and

808
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Speaker 1: we're gonna go be.

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Speaker 4: Like to do in college. Now essentially, essentially we're doing that.

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Speaker 2: We're doing that.

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Speaker 1: We can't be there for an entire overtime period and

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Speaker 1: have a tie.

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Speaker 4: Although the first year in college when they went to

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Speaker 4: that rules and in college now you go to twenty five,

815
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Speaker 4: you played out. Then second over time, you go to

816
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Speaker 4: twenty five, you played out, but you have to go

817
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Speaker 4: for two right third overtime you go right to the

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Speaker 4: two yard line. The first year they did that, Illinois

819
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Speaker 4: Penn State played nine over times because they couldn't score

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Speaker 4: from the two.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but at least there on the stats go crazy

822
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Speaker 1: two yard run or whatever, and I like it that

823
00:41:05,520 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 1: way better. College football was getting crazy, well, well it

824
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Speaker 1: was from the get go. There were crazy games from

825
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Speaker 1: the get go when they adopted overtime, and I'll need

826
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Speaker 1: it over time.

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Speaker 4: All those numbers guy throws are seven touchdowns. Well yeah,

828
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Speaker 4: because he played in nine overtimes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he needed in bought the twenty five yard line.

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Speaker 1: That's a terrible spot situation.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right. I didn't like that, so I kind

832
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 4: of like what college football is doing now. It's a

833
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 4: much easier way of doing it. But you're right. Give

834
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Speaker 4: each team a possession, then go the two yard line,

835
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Speaker 4: battle it out for two point plays.

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Speaker 1: The other thing about the clock in college football, it's

837
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Speaker 1: always going to be longer because of halftime. You cannot

838
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Speaker 1: shorten halftime in college football, because of the bands and

839
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:45,759
Speaker 1: the people in the stands needing to get that halftime show.

840
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Speaker 2: It's part of the game, that's part of the tradition.

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Speaker 1: I know, the half is long when you're watching a

842
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,400
Speaker 1: TV game compared to the NFL NFL halftime, you barely

843
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: have time to visit the restroom, mean even at home,

844
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Speaker 1: and get back for the second half. It just feels like,

845
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: you know, the old I'm gonna mow the lawn of behalf.

846
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 1: There's nothing you can do with the half. And if

847
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:07,800
Speaker 1: you're watching red Zone, there is no half, right because

848
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 1: the games keep going no matter what.

849
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Speaker 2: They're eternal.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, you mean it's I was telling somebody about

851
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,359
Speaker 4: you'll know where I'm going with this twenty sixteen at

852
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 4: Tennessee final game of the year, and I had a

853
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 4: little bit of a stomach issue. Man, I just about

854
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 4: missed one of the things I've ever heard in the

855
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 4: locker room, in large part because it was so short.

856
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 4: It was so short, and so anyways, Yeah, it really

857
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 4: is behind a curtain. I get coach coming off the field,

858
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,520
Speaker 4: I send it in, I walk down and get a water.

859
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 4: I come in here and I sit for thirty seconds

860
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Speaker 4: in the studio and then I go right back out

861
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Speaker 4: and there are three minutes leftn o'clock and we got

862
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 4: to get going to the second half. It's like, that's

863
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Speaker 4: how fast halftime goes.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's so fast.

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Speaker 1: Credits at the restroom, I grab one bite of food

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Speaker 1: and that's white literally, and refilled drinks. Back to the booth.

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Speaker 1: But I do a little stats thing. Yeah, back half

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Speaker 1: of halftime. But even having that six minutes is nice.

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Speaker 4: Meanwhile, Dre's over there with nachos and brisket.

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Speaker 2: Drey's over there in the third quarter eating.

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Speaker 4: And I always I always hear about it too. If

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Speaker 4: we're go with yeah, if we're going with the radio team, uh,

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Speaker 4: Dre in the third quarter, like man Mark, these cookies

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Speaker 4: are great. Meanwhile, I'm downstairs having nothing because I can't

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Speaker 4: get a.

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Speaker 1: Sorry about that. That's gonna do it for the show today.

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Speaker 1: on among other guests.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening. Go Texans.