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Speaker 1: Well, come in, everybody to a Wednesday edition of Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access from the Hunday Texans Radio Studio. I am

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Speaker 1: your host, John Harris. We have got a jam packed show.

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Speaker 1: How about a little first round draft pick Titus Howard.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Mark and I had a chance to catch

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Speaker 1: up with him Friday, the day that he arrived after

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Speaker 1: being drafted by the Texans. We'll have a little Tightus

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Speaker 1: Howard for you. We will go in the lab Drew Dorty,

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Speaker 1: myself and we will tell you the three X factors

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Speaker 1: on this team in twenty nineteen. But we start the

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Speaker 1: show with the voice of the Texans, Mark Van remark,

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Speaker 1: how are you doing, Johnny. I'm doing great. I've got

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Speaker 1: a lot to say. So if you're not gonna hit

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Speaker 1: on some gut reaction stuff, I've got some for you. No,

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Speaker 1: I've got some. I've got gut reaction. We're gonna do

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Speaker 1: gut reaction. We're also gonna talk like we said to Titus,

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Speaker 1: and then we'll have Drew on the show later on.

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Speaker 1: When you not have something to say, And I don't

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Speaker 1: mean that in a negative way, but it's kind of

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Speaker 1: our job, right, Yeah, we've got to have things to

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Speaker 1: say it like at all times. I've been accused of

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Speaker 1: this on the vander Household. Too much to say, too often,

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Speaker 1: too many time. My daughter my son calls it filibustering.

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Speaker 1: I'm not really trying to do this at home too well,

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Speaker 1: not not this, not this. I mean, I won't go

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Speaker 1: into Okay, Jack wants to talk about this, so I'll

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Speaker 1: just talk about Titus Howard. We have to do a

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Speaker 1: video series John Harris at home. Oh, it's pretty boring.

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Speaker 1: It's just me sitting there with my little Apple TV

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Speaker 1: clicker watching twenty twenty running Backs, which I'm already watching.

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Speaker 1: I'm already watching twenty twenty running Backs. You need help.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a good class. You need medical attention.

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Speaker 1: I'm really excited about this class. So I am getting

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Speaker 1: my I'm getting my my stuff in order. So running

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Speaker 1: backs today. I think I'll be looking at wide receivers tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna make my way through all the positions.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully by by the time we get to Minicamp, I'll

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Speaker 1: have my class at twenty twenty. Kind of rounding in

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Speaker 1: this show. Harris one hundred comes out in August. Well,

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Speaker 1: if it has to it definitely it definitely will do that.

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Speaker 1: All right, Mark, it's time for a little gut reaction.

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Speaker 1: All right, you know that I love me. Some were

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Speaker 1: under season record picks from Vegas. Okay, and they have

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Speaker 1: come out. Okay, great, so they've been revised. They they

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Speaker 1: have been revised. The west Gate. You've heard the Westgate.

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Speaker 1: So the Westgate wasted no time following the twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: draft with some over under win totals for every single

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Speaker 1: NFL team. I can't wait. I haven't seen these good

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Speaker 1: gut reaction too. We'll start with our Texans over under

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Speaker 1: eight and a half. They put it in a very

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Speaker 1: interesting spot, didn't they. Look, I gotta go over eight

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Speaker 1: over thinking no, but I can't put up with eight

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Speaker 1: and a Johnny, please, I can't do eight. No, No,

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Speaker 1: You need a little context with this though, Okay, Okay,

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Speaker 1: So gut reaction you kind of the same one I did.

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Speaker 1: First of all, going over the eight and a half,

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Speaker 1: So more people are expecting the Texas to go under. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: after all the negative publicity and it's not like this

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Speaker 1: tidal wave and it doesn't equal negative publicity in other

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Speaker 1: you see it's Chad Reuter right the NFL dot com.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he gave as to everybody. Yeah, I wish

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Speaker 1: two years ago? Came out? People were posting that that

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Speaker 1: under with them. It's funny, Johnny, because when these numbers

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Speaker 1: the putrid AFC East, and before people out there listening complain, well, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: you're the same people who say the AFC South isn't

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Speaker 1: he is very much so all right. Number three gut

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Speaker 1: reaction to this statement, the Texans will start both Titus

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Speaker 1: it's just come with you know just how I came

424
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Speaker 1: up playing. You know, I played tight end, So you

425
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Speaker 1: no matter what side you had, some places you're line

426
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Speaker 1: up on left, some places you're line up on right.

427
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Speaker 1: Um came into my basketball career. Um, you know you're

428
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Speaker 1: jumping off your right leg, you left doing layers with

429
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Speaker 1: your left hand, jump leff, you left leg doing with

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Speaker 1: your right hand. I always did everything in both ways,

431
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Speaker 1: and uh. When I first start a par office line,

432
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Speaker 1: the office line, COVID said, Hey, one of the best

433
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Speaker 1: things for you, you know, being new to the position,

434
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Speaker 1: that I'll can teach you both sides at one time

435
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Speaker 1: and it's gonna hit you out in the future. So

436
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Speaker 1: I worked hard, you know, did a lot of airs

437
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Speaker 1: to work, you know, working on the right side. Then

438
00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:53,040
Speaker 1: I had to come back and work on the left side.

439
00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:56,560
Speaker 1: So that was itstra relts, um. So I got comfortable

440
00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:59,520
Speaker 1: with both sides and uh, this year, UM, I told

441
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Speaker 1: one coach to hey, who's the other side of the the

442
00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,600
Speaker 1: quarterback blind side? Said, I want to protect that side,

443
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Speaker 1: And sometimes it happened in the middle of the game

444
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Speaker 1: I had to switch. But I was okay with that.

445
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Speaker 1: And my background playing quarterback actually helped me, you know,

446
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Speaker 1: analyze playbooks and stuff faster. So when I was learning

447
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Speaker 1: on the right side, coaching had to reteach you to

448
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Speaker 1: me on the left side. Just flipping in my head

449
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Speaker 1: and I know it. So that's another thing that helped

450
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Speaker 1: me out pretty too, pretty good. What are your expectations

451
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Speaker 1: of what it's gonna be like, because you're about to

452
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Speaker 1: get thrown to the fire with rookie mini cap and

453
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Speaker 1: OTAs and everything like that coming up. You gotta be

454
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Speaker 1: really excited about that. But how do you see the

455
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Speaker 1: first part of this going for you? I see it

456
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Speaker 1: going pretty good. I'm just you know, I'm not focusing

457
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Speaker 1: really on expectation. I just know I'm come in and

458
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Speaker 1: just do what I've always been doing, you know what

459
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Speaker 1: got me here? Just go in, you know, work, work

460
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Speaker 1: my butt off, you know, be a great teammate, you know,

461
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Speaker 1: uh get you know, talk to some vets, you know,

462
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Speaker 1: learn from those guys, you know, pick their brain or

463
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Speaker 1: stuff so I can help me out. And just you know,

464
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Speaker 1: but just continued to be me, because being me what's

465
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Speaker 1: got me here. You know, I just firm believe it.

466
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Speaker 1: You know, don't try to change who you are, you know,

467
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 1: continue to be yourself. And you know, hard work, you

468
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Speaker 1: know takes you a long way. You know. Praying, you know, praying,

469
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,680
Speaker 1: no trusting guys, you know, put you in no position

470
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Speaker 1: that you can't handle, and I feel like that's gonna

471
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Speaker 1: take me a long way. Titus. I was at the

472
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Speaker 1: Senior Bowl and I watched you go against Montez early

473
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Speaker 1: on on one on one. It's like first day out

474
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Speaker 1: of the box, you gotta face that freak zoid. But

475
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Speaker 1: what I thought was interesting was every day after that

476
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Speaker 1: you kept getting better. Every rep after that, you kept

477
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:35,320
Speaker 1: getting better from what you were doing going against those guys.

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Speaker 1: How important was the Senior Bowl for you to step

479
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Speaker 1: in and say, hey, I went to Alabama State, but

480
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Speaker 1: I can handle any of these big guys that they

481
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Speaker 1: put in front of me from all these big schools.

482
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Speaker 1: How important was a Senior Bowl for you that week?

483
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Speaker 1: It was very important because the whole process of me

484
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Speaker 1: being valued with it was you know, it was shaded

485
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Speaker 1: because as a competition. Sure I went again. So that

486
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Speaker 1: Senior Bowl week I went able to chip on my

487
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Speaker 1: shoulder to prove, Hey, UM, non't matter if I came

488
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Speaker 1: to HBCU Alabama State. I belong here. It's a reason

489
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Speaker 1: that I'm here, and I worked my butt off the

490
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Speaker 1: gear here, so I'm gonna do what I had to do,

491
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Speaker 1: you know, to prove that. And um, that first day, uh,

492
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Speaker 1: I came out, I said, hey, that's the first day.

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Speaker 1: Next day, I want to be better than I was

494
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Speaker 1: that day. So, uh, talk to offense line coach. You

495
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Speaker 1: helped me all with little stuff I could fit for

496
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Speaker 1: the next day. Came out in this day and had

497
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Speaker 1: a pretty good day, and I got to the next day.

498
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Speaker 1: I talked to officer on the coach, you know, critiquing

499
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Speaker 1: me on stuff I can learn that can help me

500
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Speaker 1: for the next day. I tried to focus on a

501
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Speaker 1: different thing each day, and I try to work on

502
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,879
Speaker 1: multiple teams each day. Uh so here critiqued me. Um

503
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 1: came and got in the third day and had a

504
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Speaker 1: real good day, you know, just pancaking guys. And it

505
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Speaker 1: just that just little firing me motivate me. So when

506
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Speaker 1: I got to the game, uh, it was it was

507
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Speaker 1: like I already had played the game through practice, and

508
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Speaker 1: I just remember getting out on the goal line. Uh,

509
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Speaker 1: I'm talking to guy and Drew his right guard from

510
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma through Samuel hum and they called up the run

511
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Speaker 1: to outside, and I said, Herry, they called it outside

512
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Speaker 1: for a reason, because we've been showing them all week.

513
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Speaker 1: If they run the ball to outside, we're gonna score.

514
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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna get some one of the guys. I

515
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: drive them like fire ARFs intil the end zone. We

516
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Speaker 1: score first drive of the game, and you know, just

517
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Speaker 1: you know, just to be in that moment it was,

518
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Speaker 1: it was so special, Uh, something I would never forget.

519
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Speaker 1: And I got back to the sideline just to see

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Speaker 1: the looking the eyes of the offensive line coach gave

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Speaker 1: me on that play. Just you know, it's just just

522
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Speaker 1: you know, it was the best feeling up it And

523
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Speaker 1: I love, you know, feeling like that. So I try

524
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Speaker 1: to put the best players I can on films. You always,

525
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, prove that a belong they have

526
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Speaker 1: that feeling, you know, And most of all, just to

527
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Speaker 1: have fun. I love the game, so I try to

528
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Speaker 1: have much fun I can with it. Can't wait for

529
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Speaker 1: that man to get started here in Houston next weekend

530
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Speaker 1: at Rookie Mini Camp. Titus Howard, all right, it's going

531
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Speaker 1: to live. That's gonna start three A Factors with Drew

532
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Speaker 1: Dorty next right here in Texas Access one final segment

533
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Speaker 1: of Texas All Access from the Honday Texans Radio Studio.

534
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Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris. Glad to be in the

535
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Speaker 1: catbird's seat since the draft is over, kind of take

536
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Speaker 1: a step back and be able to breathe just slightly,

537
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Speaker 1: and then back to work on the class of twenty twenty. Yes,

538
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Speaker 1: I've already started work on it. I mentioned the running

539
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Speaker 1: backs class, and I'm doing a little bit more work

540
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Speaker 1: on them, and I'll be moving through all their positions.

541
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Speaker 1: So hopefully by the end of this month, I'll have

542
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Speaker 1: a pretty good idea of who we need to keep

543
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Speaker 1: on the radar screen for twenty twenty as we get

544
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Speaker 1: ready to well we get ready for the twenty twenty draft.

545
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Speaker 1: That's kind of how in one living different worlds, but

546
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Speaker 1: in one world, that's kind of how it looks. It

547
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Speaker 1: just kind of and I don't worry about to see

548
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Speaker 1: the two bunches worry about the draft twenty twenty. But then,

549
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 1: of course we've got a tremendous season ahead. As Mark

550
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,879
Speaker 1: and I talked about earlier some of the things going on,

551
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Speaker 1: it's time now to jump in the lab. As an

552
00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 1: opportunity for Drew Doherty and I to geek out each

553
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Speaker 1: and every Tuesday, this case ended up being Wednesday because

554
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 1: I was out yesterday, so we get a chance to

555
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 1: kind of geek out and talk about various things, and

556
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Speaker 1: on this episode, we geeked out over X factors for

557
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Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen season. All right, X factors. Let's let's

558
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 1: not worry about rookies draft picks. Let's worry about guys

559
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Speaker 1: who are on this team, on this roster right now,

560
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,760
Speaker 1: Guys who are going to, I don't know, not make

561
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Speaker 1: a leap, but make a jump of some sort, make

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Speaker 1: an impact in twenty nineteen that we didn't see in

563
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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, or they might have made an impact in

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, but they're gonna make a huge impact in

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Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Who's an X factor for you? Number one?

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Speaker 1: Number one? Dylan Cole. Okay, Dylan Cole. To me, as

567
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Speaker 1: I think about Dylan Cole, there's there's a story in

568
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Speaker 1: the first game against the Patriots, and I noticed something

569
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Speaker 1: during that game and I was blown away. His second

570
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Speaker 1: year guy and I saw him essentially knowing what the

571
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Speaker 1: play was like before the ball was snapped, and I'm like,

572
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: here's so much about Tom Brady and how great Tom is.

573
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, how did the second year guy figure

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Speaker 1: out what the heck was going on? And I mean

575
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Speaker 1: I could, so I asked him about the next day

576
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Speaker 1: and he kind of just looked at me and smiled

577
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 1: and he's like, you saw it. I was like, yeah,

578
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Speaker 1: I saw it. I mean everybody, yeah, I saw it.

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Speaker 1: And he kind of smiled at me and he wouldn't

580
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Speaker 1: go into details, and I don't blame him, but it

581
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Speaker 1: was just the intelligence that he has on the field,

582
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Speaker 1: and that's that wasn't the first time I saw that.

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Speaker 1: I saw him do that against the Chiefs in the

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Speaker 1: Sunday night camp. I think it was a Sunday night game.

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Speaker 1: I think it was a Sunday night came. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: because he got hurt in the Cleveland game the next week.

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00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 1: So in that in that Kansas City game, I saw

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Speaker 1: him do the same thing. He was playing on the

589
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Speaker 1: left side and the Chiefs are running that they running

590
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Speaker 1: that way, and they're running sort of a jet sweeping.

591
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: He saw the motion. As soon as he saw the motion,

592
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Speaker 1: he started to widen out and he just ran into

593
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Speaker 1: a spot because he knew where the ball was going

594
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 1: and he ran right that spot made the tackle. And

595
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Speaker 1: I was like, man, this guy's really football smart. I

596
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: mean just intelligent overall, but man, his football, like you,

597
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: is really off the chart. I know, it's tough because

598
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Speaker 1: we've got Zach Cuttingham and we've got Bernardic McKinney. And

599
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Speaker 1: I think that Zach hand Zack stayed healthy. Zach should

600
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Speaker 1: have been in consideration for a Pro Bowl bid. So

601
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Speaker 1: you're talking about two guys that potentially could be Pro Bowlers.

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Speaker 1: But the Texans personnel, and I know, well, the Texans

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Speaker 1: are a three four. They're this, you know, they run

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Speaker 1: a three four. They've always been a three four in

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Speaker 1: a rack. They're almost in a four man line. I mean,

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Speaker 1: probably more often than than not. I tend to think

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Speaker 1: about getting Dylan Cole in the field a whole heck

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Speaker 1: of a lot more, and I wouldn't be surprised at all.

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Speaker 1: The Texans played more for three, I mean a true

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Speaker 1: four three where Dylan Cole's on the field was Zach

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Speaker 1: Cuttingham and Brodrick McKinney, and and Jill ends up being

612
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Speaker 1: your will linebacker in that sense. He played this later

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Speaker 1: in the year after missing the first part of the year.

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Speaker 1: Well check it out. He played eight games, and he

615
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Speaker 1: missed all of October and all of November, so he

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Speaker 1: played in the first two first three he played in

617
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Speaker 1: him because he got hurt and he gets the Giant Giants. Yeah. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And he didn't play again until the Cleveland game, which

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Speaker 1: was December second, right, and so he had very limited time.

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Speaker 1: And I think he's the kind of guy that once

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Speaker 1: he gets comfortable out in the field, he's gonna be

622
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Speaker 1: able to do a lot as far as covering running backs.

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Speaker 1: And I thought he had a heck of a camp

624
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Speaker 1: last year. Well I want to talk about that, but

625
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Speaker 1: I think he's got a chance listen during August. Everything

626
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Speaker 1: you're saying right now, that was essentially what he didn't

627
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Speaker 1: say this because he'll never say this, but that's you

628
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Speaker 1: could tell he was thinking this Bill O'Brien, because we

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Speaker 1: do those production meetings before a preseason game, so I

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Speaker 1: do the sidelines on TV, it's me, it's Spencer Tillman,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Coogler, and then they'll bring in O'Brien and a

632
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Speaker 1: few players. They brought it O'Brien before the Rams game,

633
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: the third preseason game, and he was like cold, cold

634
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: played a little bit before that, but he was hit,

635
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Speaker 1: like a nagging hit or something. So he told us,

636
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, I told Dylan, we're not gonna play you.

637
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: Why would we play you? Right now, you're gonna be

638
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 1: you're one of our best players. And that's when you

639
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: have to kind of take away and I've said this

640
00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 1: a few times this offseason, that's when you gotta have

641
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:25,720
Speaker 1: to take away that idea of he's one of the

642
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: best players that's undrafted. No, no no, no, no no. The Texans

643
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:30,959
Speaker 1: view him as one of their best players on defense,

644
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,720
Speaker 1: and he was. He was gonna get his chance last year,

645
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: but then he got injured. So, like we said, the

646
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: first three games of the season and then he was

647
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: out until week twelve. We're week thirteen really when they

648
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: played their twelfth game of the year. So that's a

649
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,360
Speaker 1: good choice. I like I like the Dylan Cole as

650
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 1: the X factor because they thought and think very very

651
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 1: highly in this guy. Yeah, and I think he's got it.

652
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: I think he's got a tremendous future in front of him.

653
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: And I just want to see him be on the

654
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 1: field for sixteen games and play a full season because

655
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: he was dinged up in the first year. Then obviously

656
00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 1: last year. It's unfortunate again what happened to him, But he,

657
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: to me, is a guy that needs to be on

658
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,160
Speaker 1: the field. And one of the things about him it

659
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 1: was the Thursday night game against Miami, and then that game,

660
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,160
Speaker 1: Zach had hurt his knee and so it was Bernardrick

661
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: and Josh Kais had to play. Brian Peters was out

662
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:24,480
Speaker 1: as well, so Kai's had to go in and play

663
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,000
Speaker 1: a bunch in that game. They eventually put Peter kellum

664
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: Bay in it and in silin backer as well, and

665
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: so on the sideline there's Dylan like talking with Kais

666
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: like and you can see coach him on the sidelines,

667
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 1: and I just thought that was really really cool the

668
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,480
Speaker 1: way that Dylan was kind of passinging on down or

669
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: passing it over to Josh Kai's the way that he was.

670
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: So I just would rather not see him and warm

671
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: up suit on the sidelines. I want to see him

672
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,560
Speaker 1: in ball games this year. I think he's a definite

673
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: acts factor, dynamic, dynamic player. Okay, that's one. We're gonna

674
00:32:54,760 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: get three. Who's your second? My second is Mark Tinis

675
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: ranking Okay, that's a natural. Yeah, And I've said that

676
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,239
Speaker 1: a few times because I think he's got to have

677
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 1: one of the five positions on the offensive line. Look

678
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: and you're thinking's left guard, right, I think it's challenge.

679
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna challenge Sneil um and I think,

680
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny. I had some conversations with people

681
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: from throughout the NFL, and I was at the Senior

682
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 1: Bowl when we're talking about the you know, Texans offensive line,

683
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 1: and I remember a couple of people saying, hey, Zax, Zax,

684
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: very good player, Like, yeah, Zax, I think Zach's a

685
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: very good player, Zach Fulton. So I think Martinez has

686
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 1: got to have one of those. So I think he's

687
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,959
Speaker 1: he's gonna challenge Snel and look and Martine's beats him

688
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: out great. Sneil beats him out great. But I feel

689
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 1: like when you drafted guy in the third round, you

690
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: gotta start seeing returns, especially in year two. You'd like

691
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: to have in your one like Justin Reid, but if not,

692
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: you gotta start seeing the returns too. And let's remind

693
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:54,240
Speaker 1: people ranking had awful luck last year because he comes

694
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: here for Rookie Mini Caamp and the second day of

695
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: Rookie Mini Caamp is done. I mean, he did not play,

696
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: we had an injury, did not get to play any

697
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: of Rookie camp, making Mini camp, any of OTAs, and

698
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 1: you know the veteran Mini camp didn't do much during

699
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: training camp until about the third week. I don't think

700
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 1: drew that he wore pads. Yeah, and then they threw

701
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: him out there against the ramps and he played three

702
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 1: different spots and that was he was like on the

703
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,920
Speaker 1: job training. But I mean literally on a job training,

704
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: like you've never done this before. I mean it sort

705
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 1: of would be like, and I thought about this, it

706
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: would sort of be like, okay, one of us, Okay,

707
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: you're going on You're going on TV tomorrow. You've been

708
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 1: here and we've done all this, you know, on paperwork,

709
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,280
Speaker 1: but you're going on TV tomorrow. Get ready, Like, oh okay,

710
00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: Well I'd be fine, babe. I mean I know you would.

711
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: I know you would. But reps, though, what are we

712
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 1: talking about? What will we be talking about If it's

713
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 1: talking about hosting Extra Points, Yeah, I mean you'd be

714
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: I'd slay that. Yeah, So come up with a different example.

715
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: But the very first time you hosted extra jo I know, yeah, yeah,

716
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: I look like a boob. Yeah every time you I

717
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: didn't mean like that, but I but no, I just

718
00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: saying like, if you think about what you do for

719
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: a living, and it doesn't have to be it doesn't

720
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: just have to be the TV or whatever. You and

721
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 1: I speak at countless career days during the year. Yeah,

722
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: I tell the story in just about every single one.

723
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: First time I went on air back in two thousand

724
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: and four, I mean I looked like a boob, you

725
00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: know I was. I talked a lot slower. I didn't.

726
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:22,879
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't know what I was doing. There's

727
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 1: there is. It's not rocket science. Believe me. I'm not

728
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: saying my job is hard, but with reps, you get

729
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,479
Speaker 1: better at what you do exactly. And it's I should

730
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 1: cringe it the first time I was when I look

731
00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: at the first time I was on TV, I just like, yeah,

732
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:36,399
Speaker 1: me too. When I was first time on the radio.

733
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: It's kind of the same thing. It was like, oh,

734
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 1: because I was not myself. So it's it's it is.

735
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: So I think Martinez has got to And when I

736
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,320
Speaker 1: think about the offensive line, when you think about the audition,

737
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: I think it's Sean trelle still is an audition addition

738
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 1: because he was he was with us, but wasn't eighteen.

739
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 1: So you've added it resigned Sean trow Henderson. You've drafted

740
00:35:55,920 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 1: two tackles, the max sharping and uh Titus Howard, You've

741
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: added Matt Khalil to your group. You've got to think

742
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 1: that Julian Davenport is gonna take strides this year. So

743
00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: there's gonna be competition on the offensive line. But I

744
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: think that's what you've wanted to have, and Martinez ranking

745
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,840
Speaker 1: has got to a being that competition and b I

746
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: think he's got to he's got to show dividends this

747
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 1: year by going and getting a starting job and then

748
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: taking those strides that you would expect the year one

749
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: to year two player to make. And I remember that

750
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 1: Philadelphia game he had to play for Snail left guard,

751
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: and I just remember thinking, we're facing Fletcher Cox. This

752
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 1: is gonna get ugly, and it really didn't. He really didn't.

753
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: I mean, Martinez held his own against Fletcher. I was

754
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: really I don't want to say I was surprised because

755
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: Fletcher on that Monday night prior against the Rams, Fletcher

756
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: put on a show. And there were times I'm watching

757
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:49,319
Speaker 1: Ranking against Cox one on one, like during the game,

758
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 1: I'm watching right through that battle. I'm like, and Martinez

759
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: is holding up pretty well. Then I would watch replay

760
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 1: to make sure I was like, he look at that

761
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. Like he was holding up. It wasn't perfect,

762
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 1: but I think the nuances of false starts, cadences, like

763
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: understanding that stuff, I think that comes a little bit

764
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: better in your second year, and Martinez can make those

765
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: strides a feel more comfortable and get some some some confidence.

766
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 1: I think he's going end up being a really good

767
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,319
Speaker 1: X factor and a pretty important guy for us. I

768
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 1: like it. I'm with you. I think he's gonna make

769
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,320
Speaker 1: his bones are at left guard. Drafted as a or

770
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: drafted you know, coming out of Mississippi State, he played

771
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: left tackle right but yeah, I think I think, based

772
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 1: on what he said in those August preseason meetings that

773
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: when we talk to them last year, it's a little

774
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: easier for him playing guard because of being in the

775
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: phone booths, so to speak, the block as much of

776
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,240
Speaker 1: a space. So I'm cool with that. Okay, So Dylan

777
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:44,280
Speaker 1: Cole was your first one Martinez rankin your second X Factor?

778
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 1: Who is mister X number three? John to Sean Gibson

779
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: all right, assigning from the Jacksonville Jaguars. And this is

780
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: where when I mentioned Leonard Fournette. This is how the

781
00:37:56,560 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 1: drafting of Leonard Fournette ended up making Shaan Gibson a Texan.

782
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: I mean you'd like, wait a second, how did that well?

783
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: Because you didn't draft Leonard Fournette. You passed on to

784
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: Shaun Watson, to Patrick Mahomes, both of whom still on

785
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:16,279
Speaker 1: rookie contracts, because Blake Portles flamed out and you didn't

786
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 1: draft one of those two and you couldn't hand the

787
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 1: ball to them. Oh, I see where you're going. You

788
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: see where I'm going here. They had to go out

789
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: and pay a lot of money to Nick Foles. Because

790
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:24,879
Speaker 1: they had to pay a lot of money to Nick Foles,

791
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: they had to look at the roster and say, well,

792
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,399
Speaker 1: we've got to get rid of some guys they're making

793
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 1: some money. So they got rid of Malik Jackson, they

794
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,399
Speaker 1: got rid of to Sean Gibson, and Sean Gibson then

795
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: goes on the free market. He ends up being Houston Texan.

796
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:41,560
Speaker 1: I think he's huge for this team, Drew because Justin Reid.

797
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:46,400
Speaker 1: If Justin Reid makes a year one to year two jump,

798
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 1: you're talking about it all pro Yeah, because he was

799
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 1: tremendous as a rookie, but with no Dre Howe, with

800
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 1: no Tyrn Matthew to Sean Gibson is a huge piece

801
00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: on this defense, but I think he helped solve I

802
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 1: don't know that you can solve it all the way.

803
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: It's got to be a team concept. When you're slowing

804
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:07,359
Speaker 1: down really good tight ends well, and this is what

805
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: he prides himself on. We've heard him saying that his

806
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 1: first press conference after after a season conditioning start stopping

807
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 1: tight ends. I mean, you look at what he does,

808
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 1: what he does against tight ends. Now, we won't face

809
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 1: one of them this year in Rob Gronkowski, but we

810
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: do face Travis Kelsey. We will. That's under the assumption

811
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: that Gronkowski doesn't unretired. I well, I see playing in December,

812
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: playing in December. That's what That's what I said right

813
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 1: away was I'll believe it when I see it. But

814
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: that said, you've got to Sean Gibson, who did cover

815
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski last year, did a great job on him

816
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: in Week two. Now, Gronk missed the second half of

817
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:50,759
Speaker 1: the championship game, but Gronk in the AFC Championship game

818
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: that half and then that game, I think he had

819
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,400
Speaker 1: a total of three catches and Gibson was responsible for

820
00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: him a decent majority of the time. So that's that's

821
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 1: gonna help you when you face Eric Ebron and the Colts,

822
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:06,720
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey, you faced Travis Kelsey with the Kansas City Chiefs,

823
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:10,040
Speaker 1: when you face those topknots tight ends, Hunter Henry with

824
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 1: the LA Chargers. Now that he's gonna be back healthy,

825
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 1: you've got a guy that can do that. And when

826
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: you think about what receivers, pass or pass catchers had

827
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: great years against the Texans or great games against the

828
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 1: Texas last year, Zach Ertz went crazy. Travis Kelsey, Uh

829
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: or not Travis Kelsey, Rob Gronkowski had a tremendous game,

830
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: and then, um, who's the third one? I was taking ahead? Greg? Oh?

831
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,840
Speaker 1: And uh, I'll mentioned Ebron. Um, there's one I'm missing

832
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: in that, oh, ERTs, I'm missing one that I that

833
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:43,399
Speaker 1: I had. Well, it felt like it felt like Rock

834
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:45,320
Speaker 1: Urts and Ebron. I was gonna say, it felt like

835
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 1: all three of the Eagles tight ends just really hurt

836
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: you so badly. I mean, there's no doubt especially on

837
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,319
Speaker 1: that very re one, that very first drive. This hurts

838
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:57,880
Speaker 1: almost every every planet drive. It wasn't it a thirty

839
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 1: six play drive. It felt like they got six fourth downs.

840
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: They completed every you know, it was Urts, Ebron, and Gronk.

841
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: Those three. If you go back and look at the

842
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:11,839
Speaker 1: numbers of those three, they hurt us and hurt us

843
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,360
Speaker 1: pretty badly. Yeah. So having a guy in Gibson and

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Speaker 1: you'll face Ebron again. You want to face Urts, thank god,

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Speaker 1: but you're gonna face some You're gonna you're gonna face

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Speaker 1: now right now, Greg Olsen is still a panther. We'll

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Speaker 1: see if that that remains. So you're gonna face some

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Speaker 1: pretty salty tight ends throughout this this season as well.

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Speaker 1: So get used to it. Sean Gibson covering a tight end.

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Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be huge. Taking that aspect away

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Speaker 1: from these quarterbacks they're gonna face. If you can slow

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Speaker 1: down the Chargers by slowing down Hunter, Henry Antonio Gates,

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Speaker 1: if Antonio still playing at that point, that that's gonna

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Speaker 1: take away from Philip Rivers a little bit um. You know,

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Speaker 1: Ebron with the Colts, if you can take that part away. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: the Colts added weapons with Devin Funcis and Paris Campbell,

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Speaker 1: but if you can take Ebron away, take away Jack

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Speaker 1: Doyle and eliminate their impact. That's gonna put you in

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Speaker 1: a really good position. Absolutely, so that's something you're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to do, so I think Sean Gibson being able

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Speaker 1: to do that on a consistent basis is my X

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Speaker 1: factor number three. There you're having, folks, Texas All Access

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Speaker 1: in the books. Big thanks to Mark, to Drew and

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Speaker 1: of course the first round draft pick Titus Howard. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: you guys listening. Thank you so much as always, and

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Speaker 1: we will see you tomorrow as always, Go Texans.