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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome to the show that brings you

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Speaker 1: inside in urg Stadium, right across the hall from the

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Speaker 1: locker room here in the Hunday Texans Radio Studio. Mark

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Speaker 1: Vandermayer and John Harris with you and basking in the

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Speaker 1: glow of a great day of pro vision the school

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Speaker 1: and Sunnyside helping underprivileged kids. And I was out there

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Speaker 1: today as Janice McNair, Cal McNair and Hannah McNair were

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Speaker 1: dollar donation to the school. They grow their own food,

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Speaker 1: they're developing housing, affordable housing. They do so much in

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Speaker 1: the community and it was just great to be a

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Speaker 1: part of it out there seeing the great work done

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Speaker 1: by Royn L. Young, who has led the school for

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Speaker 1: twenty nine years, played in the NFL for the Philadelphia Eagles,

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Speaker 1: and he was making friends with Jonathan Joseph, Andre Johnson,

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Speaker 1: Andre Howe. They were out there as well. So it's

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Speaker 1: very cool to be a part of that. And you'll

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Speaker 1: hear a little bit more on that later, but let's

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Speaker 1: start here. And I feel like this is one of

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Speaker 1: those things Johnny where can't comment on litigation. It's not

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Speaker 1: really litigation. But the Clowney trade talk the rumors and

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Speaker 1: the talk is just talking. There's just media reports and

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Speaker 1: that kind of thing. So we don't know what's happening.

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Speaker 1: What's going to happen. Clowney's a franchise tagged player, and

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Speaker 1: we don't know. So we'll wait and see and when

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Speaker 1: we know, you'll know. When you know, we'll know, and

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Speaker 1: we'll all talk about it together. Well, I think what's

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Speaker 1: interesting is there have been times in the building where

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Speaker 1: we have known things and it's like, oh, I can't

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Speaker 1: about that. There have been times, not all the time,

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Speaker 1: but there have been times. I remember twenty fifteen, remember

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Speaker 1: what JJ had had hurt his hand. Yeah, he'd hit

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Speaker 1: it on a helmet or something, and he and so

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Speaker 1: DP and I were walking in it was like on

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Speaker 1: tweet that, you know. So some of those things, but

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Speaker 1: this is one where it's just the whole the whole

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Speaker 1: thing with JDS just sort of mysterious, and I think

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of things to consider. Number One,

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Speaker 1: he hasn't signed his franchise tag yet, so in essence,

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Speaker 1: he has kind of a kind of a pseudo no

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Speaker 1: trade clause, like he won't sign the franchise tag until

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Speaker 1: either a he wants to get paid to start playing

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Speaker 1: for the Texans, or he's agreeable or amenable to going somewhere.

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Speaker 1: But it just it feels like there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: smoke coming up for there to be no fire somewhere.

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Speaker 1: Now he's a franchise player. That's what the franchise tag

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Speaker 1: is for, to try to work out a deal or

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Speaker 1: a trade or something. And I know that we're past

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Speaker 1: that July fifteenth deadline, so I guess everything is not everything,

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Speaker 1: but a lot of things are still in play. Not

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Speaker 1: everything that was prior to July fifteenth, but a bunch

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Speaker 1: of things still are, right. I think that's the big

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Speaker 1: that's the big thing mark with July fifteenth is I

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Speaker 1: believe he cannot sign a long term deal, so can't

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Speaker 1: do it here, can't do it anywhere else, so he's

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Speaker 1: got to play out the season. And it's well, you

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Speaker 1: don't have to play I mean Levey on Bell proved

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Speaker 1: that you don't have to play. He can sit out

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Speaker 1: the whole year, But I don't think that does any

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Speaker 1: good because that's fifteen million dollars you're never gonna see again.

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Speaker 1: I think Levea Bill found that out, that there was

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Speaker 1: thirteen fourteen million that was never gonna end up in

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Speaker 1: his bank account. So that said, it's it's just been.

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Speaker 1: It's a year. That's the problem with Levion Bell. And

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Speaker 1: I always point this out. It's a year, and it's

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Speaker 1: not even a year to you and me. It's a

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Speaker 1: year to these guys in a ten fifteen year career

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Speaker 1: if you're fantastic, most likely completely healthy, seven eight year

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Speaker 1: four or five year career if you're good enough to

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Speaker 1: play in this league period. I mean, it's such a

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Speaker 1: short window, so to skip an entire year is very

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Speaker 1: costly in a variety of ways. It's also your life

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Speaker 1: playing football, playing the game you love. So that's how

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Speaker 1: I look at it. We'll see how it plays out. Hey,

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Speaker 1: there's another story out there, and I want to get

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Speaker 1: the AFC South and the balance of power. And Jim

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Speaker 1: Ursay on Sirius XM NFL Radio. By the way, Pat

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Speaker 1: and Jim will be here on Thursday. Pat Kerwin and

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Speaker 1: Jim Miller doing their show, and we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: They're excellent. They'll be here covering the Texans and the

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Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. Really it's their Texans training camp stop. They

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Speaker 1: don't know if they go to every spot. Maybe Marvez

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Speaker 1: They've mixed it up. They've got they've got like two

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Speaker 1: I think they split up. Like Jim Miller went to Chicago.

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Speaker 1: He did a show with Jeff Joniac okay in Chicago,

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Speaker 1: They interviewed a Keim Hicks and so they've kind of

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Speaker 1: mixed it up. But I'm glad Jim and Potter coming here. Well,

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Speaker 1: ever since I said no to the show they offered

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Speaker 1: me in twenty fifteen because I was having vocal problems.

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Speaker 1: He said Hard Knox was here and everything, and I said,

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Speaker 1: I can't do it. So we had Googler do it

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Speaker 1: because he was intoing TV. And that was my idea

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Speaker 1: that I handed Serious XM. They haven't asked me to

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Speaker 1: do anything. I'm in a guest, but oh no, dope.

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Speaker 1: Other vander Mary, I'm like, I'm better now, I'm better.

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Speaker 1: Your vocal cords are an issue. Better? Thank you? It

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Speaker 1: being cool to do a show with Kerwin. Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: I think actually today Serious XM is in Indianapolis, of

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Speaker 1: all places where I am going right now with this

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Speaker 1: thought over there, Jimmer say, small bone injury, Johnny, Well,

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Speaker 1: when you okay, There's there's a lot to take in here.

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Speaker 1: First of all, the calf injury. We kind of relate

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Speaker 1: back to Kevin Durant with the calf injury because he

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Speaker 1: recent big time calf injury, right, and usually with a

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Speaker 1: calf injury and I remember when I strained my calf,

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Speaker 1: of lingered him like okay, something isn't quite right, Durant

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Speaker 1: it misdiagnosed? Durant said no, but aren't there grade strains

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Speaker 1: and get strained, sprain whatever they classify things as. But

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Speaker 1: I think the thing here was was it a calf

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Speaker 1: could the calf turn into an achilles? Well hopefully, I'm

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Speaker 1: just kidding. As a bonus, totally different here. Now we're

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Speaker 1: what's the deal with the bone, Because now you're not

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Speaker 1: a completely different part of the body. So it to me,

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Speaker 1: it's sort of crazy, this whole thing, he said, A

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Speaker 1: the small little bones, foot hand, small little bones, toes, toes,

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Speaker 1: Pro Football Talk kind of funny in this way. The

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Speaker 1: calf is a muscle, not a bone. That was an

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Speaker 1: actual sentence from the story. Thank you very much for

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Speaker 1: clarifying that. But Ursay's quote, I'm going to read it

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Speaker 1: to you. I really feel very confident that he's going

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Speaker 1: talking about this. You know, I know Oliver, we know

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Speaker 1: Andrew a little bit and everything, and I just want

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Speaker 1: to know. I want to know. But you pointed this

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Speaker 1: out before the show Johnny last year, what was going

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Speaker 1: on last year at this time? It was actually before this,

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Speaker 1: the duke the NFL football, they're completely different. I mean

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Speaker 1: Those footballers are completely different. And one is the college

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Speaker 1: wasn't even throwing that. He was just throwing a smaller

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Speaker 1: then we're thinking, well, last year. It's so funny. It's

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Speaker 1: going to continue, like Luck has just after missing the

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Speaker 1: entire twenty seventeen season and he's not throwing an official

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Speaker 1: NFL football and OTA's in twenty eighteen. He's thinking he's

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Speaker 1: not coming back anytime soon. He's gonna be ready by now.

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Speaker 1: But he comes back and we all know what happened.

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Speaker 1: Ten wins and he beats here here in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I hate the Colts anyway, so here

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Speaker 1: he is now not participating in practice since win OTAs.

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Speaker 1: That's when the alleged calf injury came up. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, there's a lot of misinformation. The team doesn't

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Speaker 1: in preseason and offseason. It leaks out from some other

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Speaker 1: source or say, just confirmed small little bone. That's the

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Speaker 1: it's very unspecific, only that it's a little bone. I

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Speaker 1: feel weird talking about this, but it is a big

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Speaker 1: topic because it's the health of Andrew Luck and the

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Speaker 1: Colts have been picked by most to win the division. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so I this argument, Okay, you know question in the

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Speaker 1: go with Jacoby Brissette. Yeah, that doesn't make me feel

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Speaker 1: Johnny versus Andrew Luck. Yeah, they're still a really good

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Speaker 1: unique for us is that when I came into the

425
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Speaker 1: NFL coach, O'Brien talked to me about, like, you know,

426
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Speaker 1: really simulating game situations, which has really helped me as

427
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Speaker 1: a coach because you know, that's what we do. We

428
00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:36,800
Speaker 1: really just try to, you know, create game like situations

429
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Speaker 1: and try to mimic those as best we can with

430
00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:44,399
Speaker 1: bags or other you know, interns and stuff like that.

431
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Speaker 1: So that's really where every one of our drills comes from,

432
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Speaker 1: is like, Okay, how can we challenge this situation they

433
00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:54,080
Speaker 1: came up in a game, so that when it comes

434
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Speaker 1: up in a game, they know how to handle it. Well.

435
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Speaker 1: If you ever need help, like if you need me

436
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Speaker 1: to be a dummy or something, let me know. I'll

437
00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:03,640
Speaker 1: volunteer my services. Yeah, John says, you're good at being

438
00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:07,640
Speaker 1: a dummy. Yeah, exactly. A plenty of experience typecasting. That's

439
00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,600
Speaker 1: what it is. The walkthrough role gigantic video wall. How

440
00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:15,080
Speaker 1: does that help you? I've been thanking Tim Bragge every

441
00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:18,080
Speaker 1: single day. That room has been priceless for the wide

442
00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:22,200
Speaker 1: receivers and the new end zone wide copy that we have.

443
00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:28,200
Speaker 1: The literally we can get players in the play in

444
00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:31,679
Speaker 1: the walking room walk through room, which makes it amazing.

445
00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,440
Speaker 1: They can see the coverages, they can see the disguises,

446
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,440
Speaker 1: they can see what the other receivers are doing around them.

447
00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,480
Speaker 1: It's been priceless for us. Very cool. Andre Johnson, how's

448
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:45,439
Speaker 1: he helping you out? Andre is fantastic, He's fantastic with

449
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Speaker 1: the players. He's fantastic with me because he's just been

450
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Speaker 1: able to reinforce a lot of the things we believe

451
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:57,520
Speaker 1: in anyways, which has been great because you know, he

452
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Speaker 1: can really kind of take it to the next level

453
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Speaker 1: and just kind of add you know, his experience on

454
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Speaker 1: top of the things that we're talking about, Like you know,

455
00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:07,960
Speaker 1: if we're talking about a technique or something like that,

456
00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,600
Speaker 1: he can really just add in like, oh, yeah, that

457
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,920
Speaker 1: came up in this game in this situation, blah blah blah,

458
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,240
Speaker 1: and and the guys really are on the edge of

459
00:22:16,240 --> 00:22:18,440
Speaker 1: their seats when he's talking to him that way. So

460
00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:22,760
Speaker 1: he's he's an awesome guy, and it's done been a

461
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,200
Speaker 1: tremendous asset. Give me one or two of the things

462
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:28,720
Speaker 1: that the rookies have difficult time, or if some of

463
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:30,880
Speaker 1: the harder things to master when you're coming right into

464
00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:32,680
Speaker 1: this league and you're just trying to get it down.

465
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Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing for them is just trying

466
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Speaker 1: to master the fact that, like it really becomes a

467
00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:42,920
Speaker 1: mental challenge because they all think it's just down to speed,

468
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 1: but everybody runs very fast in this league, so it's

469
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Speaker 1: really can I run fast and think fast? And it's

470
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Speaker 1: usually the guy who can think the quickest and react

471
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Speaker 1: to that the quickest. You know, so because it's really

472
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Speaker 1: not doesn't become just a physic a good game. It's

473
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Speaker 1: not just the fastest of the quickest, which is why

474
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Speaker 1: you know, guys like DeAndre Carter or you know whatever,

475
00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:10,240
Speaker 1: you know, just find a way because they outthink their

476
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Speaker 1: opponent and that helps them, you know, to perform at

477
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Speaker 1: a high level. Cool. Thanks a lot, coach, Thanks a

478
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Speaker 1: little hot John Perry, Wide receivers coach. We get to

479
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,440
Speaker 1: visit it all day as Sun plays at Clemens High School.

480
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Speaker 1: He's the quarterbacks. So I lived down in that area,

481
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:26,000
Speaker 1: so I know a lot of people will know him,

482
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Speaker 1: and it's just interesting to compare notes. A lot of

483
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 1: the guys down there are wondering why Perry can't hang

484
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 1: out on game days even when they go on the road. Coach,

485
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,600
Speaker 1: can you spend some time. One of the guys actually

486
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,679
Speaker 1: said I wanted to go fishing with me in New Orleans.

487
00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,280
Speaker 1: I said, listen, I can't speak for him, but I

488
00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,359
Speaker 1: can guarantee that's not happening anyway. Let's get to this.

489
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Speaker 1: One of Perry's pupils is Stephen Mitchell, who drew a

490
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Speaker 1: big pass interference penalty against the Jags and the regular

491
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Speaker 1: season finale last year. Now, Mitchell's trying to make it

492
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Speaker 1: as a slot receiver, outside receiver, doing whatever he can

493
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Speaker 1: to get on this fifty three and roster, maybe even

494
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Speaker 1: as a return guy. And I've visited with him after

495
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 1: practice the other day and asked about things were going wonderful, man,

496
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:11,840
Speaker 1: this first first time being here at this time in Houston. Um.

497
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm a Cali boy, so the weather is

498
00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,680
Speaker 1: a little different for me, but man, it's it's wonderful.

499
00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 1: We out here working hard every day. Um, I mean

500
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Speaker 1: just competing. So where do you feel more comfortable? Slot? Outside?

501
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 1: Wherever they put you? How does that go? I feel

502
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Speaker 1: most comfortable on the football field. Man. Wherever they put

503
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Speaker 1: me outside slot, I can play it all. Don't mean

504
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 1: the badfield if they want. Um, I'm just I'm just

505
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Speaker 1: an athlete, man. So wherever they put me on, I

506
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:38,119
Speaker 1: can go out there and do it. What are some

507
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 1: of the challenges and playing the slot, Like how difficult

508
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 1: is that to master? Um? Well, you have a lot,

509
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,880
Speaker 1: you have a lot more space, so uh, the dB

510
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:48,960
Speaker 1: pretty much has you know, more room to be patient.

511
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Speaker 1: Um So in the slot, you got to really take

512
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Speaker 1: your time with the technique and your routes. Um. As

513
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:57,600
Speaker 1: far as outside, you know, it's it's a little more quicker,

514
00:24:57,640 --> 00:24:59,920
Speaker 1: so you got to do stuff more so much fast.

515
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Speaker 1: What about the special teams part of it? How has

516
00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:04,919
Speaker 1: that been for you? Oh? Man, Hey, special teams, I

517
00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 1: would say it is one of the most important aspects

518
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 1: of practice. Um, not only because it gets us in shape,

519
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 1: but you know, it gets us ready for a game time. Um.

520
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Speaker 1: You know some teams don't don't practice as hard as

521
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 1: we do as special teams in the show. So it's

522
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,360
Speaker 1: a very very important aspect Stephen Mitchell with us. How

523
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 1: was it going up to Lambeaux the experience for you man?

524
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Speaker 1: That was my first time ever ever going there. Uh.

525
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 1: I think I stared at at a rod for about

526
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:35,520
Speaker 1: five minutes of the first time ever seeing him in person. So, um,

527
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,639
Speaker 1: you can just feel a tradition in the air, and

528
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:39,760
Speaker 1: it was you know, it was great planning that in

529
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Speaker 1: that field, special tradition in his historic place. So you

530
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 1: mentioned the weather here. Have you been in that CRZ much?

531
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Speaker 1: What's it like when you go in there and come

532
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,560
Speaker 1: back out? Does that help? Yeah? It actually does help.

533
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 1: It's it's very cool. It uh, it lowers your body

534
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 1: temperature um and you come back out you can actually

535
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 1: you actually feel much better. So very cool. Now the

536
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,200
Speaker 1: Rams are coming in in a couple of week. I

537
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: know we're taking them one at a time. But what's

538
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:03,880
Speaker 1: it gonna be like for you to play them? Oh? Man,

539
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 1: it's gonna be It's gonna be very fun, you know,

540
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 1: being there last year, seeing on my old teammates. It's

541
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 1: gonna be very competitive. I'm excited, man, I'm excited to

542
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: see auto coaches and stuff. So I notice gives them

543
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:19,560
Speaker 1: opportunity to see where I'm at now. It's just how

544
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Speaker 1: I'm doing. So all right, well, best of luck to you.

545
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,359
Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I appreciate them. There's Stephen Mitchell

546
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Speaker 1: out of usc LA. Guy. Now let's get to this.

547
00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:29,879
Speaker 1: Next up, Danny Barrett. He's the running backs coach. He

548
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:33,320
Speaker 1: was a quarterback in the CFL. Super interesting, so let's

549
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,919
Speaker 1: dive deep with Drew's Dirty dozen questions for him. And

550
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,199
Speaker 1: also Jarrell Adams tight end who had to catch the

551
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 1: other night. We'll visit with him. A Dpcity who catches

552
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 1: up with Brennan Scarlett and his new haircut. Trust me,

553
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. It's Texans Radio. It's been an off

554
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,679
Speaker 1: day for the Houston Texans. They'll be back at it

555
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,920
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning with the Detroit Lions at NRG Stadium. The

556
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 1: Houston Methodist Training Center joint practices for Wednesday and Thursday,

557
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 1: and bring the water. That's all I gotta say about that.

558
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 1: Let's say this about Danny Barrett. He was a quarterback

559
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,919
Speaker 1: at the CFL. He's the running backs coach for this team.

560
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 1: And let's dive deep brus dirty dozen questions for Danny Barrett,

561
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,680
Speaker 1: the running backs coach. Time to do the Dirty dozen

562
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: and we start things off with Canadian football. You're a

563
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Speaker 1: legend there. What was the biggest adjustment for you? Three

564
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: down football? You know, once I went up there, he'd

565
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,159
Speaker 1: be third down. I'm standing on the field and the

566
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 1: special teams is running on the field, and so I

567
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 1: had to get reacclimated to the US game. You got

568
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,440
Speaker 1: used to three down football. So when I came back,

569
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 1: third down was an extra down for me, you know,

570
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:37,320
Speaker 1: try to get a first down. So I was excited

571
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,120
Speaker 1: about that. Is it kind of weird and you kind

572
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: of raise your eyebrows when there's that idea that, oh,

573
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:44,919
Speaker 1: this guy didn't make in the NFL, he'll just go

574
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,640
Speaker 1: to Canada. Because it's not that simple, right, not at all,

575
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:49,640
Speaker 1: you knows. As a matter of fact, it's tougher withold

576
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 1: all the different rules. The first thing you have to

577
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: realize again three downs to get a first down. But

578
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 1: then there was also the ratio and the numbers have changed.

579
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:58,919
Speaker 1: And I talk about ratio. You can only have so

580
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,359
Speaker 1: many Americans on the team because of the Canadian quoting

581
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 1: as well. So when I went up there, you can

582
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 1: only have eighteen Americans on the team, and two of

583
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 1: those guys had to be quarterbacks. So that was the

584
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 1: biggest adjustment. You were only because I was a quarterback,

585
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: it was a little bit easier, but for other positions

586
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,200
Speaker 1: or receivers competing against a dB or a linebacker trying

587
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,399
Speaker 1: to get a roster spot to be the best Americans

588
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 1: on the team. So that was the biggest adjustment. So

589
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 1: when you go up then you realize, you know you're

590
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 1: competing with your position, No, you got to realize that

591
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 1: you're competing against everybody that's an American on that team.

592
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,280
Speaker 1: I know you're happy to be a Houston Texan right now,

593
00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 1: anything at all you miss about Canada and you're playing

594
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 1: days when you're up there. Just the fun of the game,

595
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: the speed of the game was fun. But making no

596
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 1: mistake about it, I do not miss the cold weather.

597
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: I'm a Floridian and being able to come over to

598
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 1: Houston after I left Miami, it's like a dream come true.

599
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:52,000
Speaker 1: I'm really blessed. But you know, I went last year

600
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 1: for summer vacation because my wife is Canadian. So we

601
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,479
Speaker 1: went back and took the girls or where they were

602
00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: born and everything and the various provinces over there, and

603
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 1: it was in the sixties doing the summer. I said,

604
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: I do not miss this cold weather at all. Which

605
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 1: of your fellow coaches makes you laugh the most? Car smell?

606
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 1: Oh come. He's been around the game for so long

607
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: and just some of the subtle remarks. He just reminds

608
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: me of old school football, and we just laugh and

609
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 1: look at each other and laugh about some of the

610
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 1: old school stuff and that we remember from back in

611
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: the day. Which of your coaches is the loudest, Wow,

612
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 1: the loudest coach. That's a good one. It's hard to say.

613
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:30,959
Speaker 1: Maybe Coach Devlin coach del because he's always yelling at

614
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 1: the old line because again, those guys he's got probably

615
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: you know, the largest number of guys you know to

616
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:38,880
Speaker 1: work with, so at times, you know he has to

617
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 1: raise his voice and h he's heard out on the

618
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: football field. Since you've been here clean shaven, but you

619
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: came back from the break, you got a beard, going,

620
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 1: what's the deal. I just went into the break relaxing,

621
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 1: and then once I relaxed for those six weeks, I

622
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 1: came back and it felt good. You know. I got

623
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Speaker 1: the approval from my wife, and that's it's a big one.

624
00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:00,120
Speaker 1: And my daughter keeps calling me Santa Claus though, so

625
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 1: I don't know it's it's the whitened the beard. But

626
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: they said as wisdom, so maybe I hang on to it.

627
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,239
Speaker 1: And a lot of it has to do with the

628
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 1: fact that, you know, I just want to relax and

629
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Speaker 1: let the guys know that I'm gonna be me and

630
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: coaching with them, looking younger or older, I want to

631
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: still bring that vibrant energy each and every day. Do

632
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: you have any songs that help you get ready on

633
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 1: game to error? Is that all in the past? You

634
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 1: know what, I'm a big gospel music guy. So you

635
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: know various artists, you know, Kurt Franklin, John p Key,

636
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 1: all those guys that I can listen to various music

637
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,440
Speaker 1: just to relax, just to keep my mind focus on

638
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: that piece more than anything else. That's pretty much been

639
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: my routine for years, you know when I played. Even

640
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 1: as a coach, you know, just you're going to the day,

641
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,320
Speaker 1: relax and so you can focus on the task at

642
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 1: hand without any distractions. Who was your biggest who are

643
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 1: your biggest influences coaching wise? Wow, it goes back to

644
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 1: my youth. I think my high school coach, Nate Collins.

645
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 1: You know, it was big, you know for myself. He's

646
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: still like a father figure for me. We stay in contact.

647
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 1: And then I'll say Mike Goffrey, you know my college

648
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: coach once he came through the University of Cincinnati. There

649
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 1: was a big influence on me as far as learning

650
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:10,240
Speaker 1: how to be a quarterback. And I really credit himself for,

651
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 1: you know, allow me the opportunity to get to the

652
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 1: next level because he instilled that in me, that confidence

653
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: that you could do it, but you got to be

654
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: consistent each and every day. And then from a pro standpoint,

655
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: you know, the guys up in Canada really had a

656
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,280
Speaker 1: big influence on myself. Being a quarterback, you're always going

657
00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: to be a student of the game. And Walibuano, which

658
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: is since retired all time winning his coach up in

659
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: the CFL, he gave me my first opportunity to become

660
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: a coach because he saw in me, you know, the

661
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: work ethic that I had as a player, and he

662
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: said he allowed me to go from a coaching one day.

663
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,400
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, from playing one day to coaching the very

664
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: next day. So I credit those guys and obviously coming

665
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: down here, everybody you know that I can look back

666
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 1: and I was a big Hankstram guy. You know how

667
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: the kans City Chiefs used to see my team. You know,

668
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: I've always you know, believed in you know, guys that

669
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 1: were you know, just old school, true to the game.

670
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:04,080
Speaker 1: And so his name comes up, and you know, obviously

671
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 1: everybody that I've had a chance to work with, you know,

672
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: down here has been great for myself. Adam Gates has

673
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: taught me a lot. Bill O'Brien's taught me a lot

674
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: as well as for us, you know, how to be

675
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 1: a pro coach and what it takes to win at

676
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: this level. Any players on the Texans now, he could

677
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 1: see one up coaching. There's a few of them. I

678
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,240
Speaker 1: think Nick Martin's a guy you know that I look

679
00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: at you know, he's he's against student of the game. Center,

680
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: hasn't make all the calls and everything. He's a guy

681
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: that does a good job with that. Lamar talks about

682
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 1: having aspirations to do that as well. You know, he's

683
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: he's a good influence with the young guys. And I

684
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: think a guy from the defensive side, maybe Jjo, you know,

685
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: because again he's older vet, you know, been around and everything,

686
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: and you know, I think those guys they're just there's

687
00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 1: just a few is. I'm pretty sure there's a lot

688
00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: of other guys in that locker room. But that's just

689
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: a few of the guys that I see, you know,

690
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,280
Speaker 1: each and every day. You know. Obviously JJ he can

691
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: probably send up and be a head guy one day,

692
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,120
Speaker 1: you know, because he's been around, his love of the

693
00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: game and his passion for the game. You know, I

694
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 1: think U is masked by no other Tell me what's

695
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,600
Speaker 1: on a perfect hamburger? I would say lettuce, tomatoes, a

696
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: little fried onions, catch up mustard mail, how do you

697
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 1: start to day? What breakfast? Well, you know what, I

698
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: change it up because some days I'm on liquid fast.

699
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: I should say that, so I'll do this. Oh why what? Well,

700
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: you know from a spiritual standpoint, you know, I think

701
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: you know, fasting allows me to be spiritually cleansed, you know, mentally.

702
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 1: So some days once a week I'll do just a

703
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: liquid fast in the morning so that I don't eat

704
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: until six in the afternoon. But for the most part,

705
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: I've been going with the old oatmeal and yogurt and

706
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 1: strawberries and blueberries and banana coach, always going to talk

707
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: with you. Appreciate the time, best of luck this season.

708
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate you as well. Always enjoy that

709
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: first Dirty does it him with Danny Barrett, the running

710
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 1: backs coach. Now let's get to the defensive side of

711
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 1: the football. Brennan Scarlett outside linebacker. We've heard from him

712
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: a few times this cap, but Deepe's too, goes one

713
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: on one with him in the Exfinity one on one.

714
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 1: Here's Deepe Brennan. Before we get started, I gotta ask

715
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 1: you about the training camp haircut. Is it practical? Was

716
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 1: there something behind him. No, it was just, you know,

717
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,839
Speaker 1: time for a fresh start. But I'm really I'm really

718
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: on my zero Dark thirty Seal Team six. Like it's militant.

719
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,359
Speaker 1: We're getting ready for battle. I like it a lie.

720
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 1: You're getting a lot of reps here in training camp.

721
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: You got to go against David Buttier a little bit

722
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: in Green Bay, and then you're going against the old

723
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: line here. What's it been like for you working alongside

724
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: Whitney Murcless. You know, working with Whitney is always always

725
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,319
Speaker 1: an honor. The guy's ultimate professional. And I've learned from

726
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,399
Speaker 1: him since I was a rookie, just how to how

727
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: to craft, how to get ready for my game. And

728
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 1: this training camp has been no different, just preparing, getting ready,

729
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 1: just so you know, every day getting better so when

730
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 1: the time comes, you know, be all my best. How

731
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: much of what you do depends on that chemistry with

732
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 1: the other guy on the line up opposite you, and

733
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 1: how much of it is just you doing your own job. No,

734
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 1: I think it's big. I think you know, if the

735
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: whole defense, you know, the chemistry is a big deal,

736
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,319
Speaker 1: you know, on the front, seven, on the back end,

737
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: and everybody just playing together as a defense because we

738
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,319
Speaker 1: feed off of each other's energy. And so when I

739
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 1: see Wi getting back there working is moves, getting back

740
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: to the quarterback, it's contagious. You know, I want to

741
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: get back there and do the same thing, and you know,

742
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:15,359
Speaker 1: same thing with the back end. They pick some off

743
00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: like okay, it's now it's now signed for me to

744
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: make a sack and make a play. So, you know,

745
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: we just feed off of each other. How do you

746
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: think you got better this offseason? Were you working on

747
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 1: some pass rush moves to work into your arsenal? What

748
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 1: were some of the things you're working on the off season? Ah, yeah,

749
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 1: we got Uh, you know, we got a lot of

750
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 1: work in this offseason. Coach Bagano and Bobby King done

751
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: a great job with the linebackers. You know, they put

752
00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 1: us in practical drills, you know, getting our fundamentals and

753
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: our technique right. And uh, you know, now it's our

754
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: job to be SEMy carry over and that's what training

755
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: camp is for, so that everything we work on come

756
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:48,239
Speaker 1: game time and we're ready for You've always done been

757
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,759
Speaker 1: been a big contributor on special teams. How has that

758
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: changed for you this year? You just like one of

759
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: the leaders on special teams now heading into the season,

760
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: you know, just try to just try to come every

761
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: day and do my job and you know, and work

762
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: hard and lead that way. You know. So being an

763
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 1: older guy now, you know, I take that, I take

764
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: that initiative to make sure come out every day and

765
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 1: get better. I work on my craft, whether it's on

766
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: defense or special teams, and that's what I continue to do.

767
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: Is it extra hard being a guy that plays both

768
00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: to sort of balance those meetings and all the work

769
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: that you learn in both. How how do you manage

770
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 1: all it? In Ah? You know, it was just part

771
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,840
Speaker 1: of the job, you know. I My job is to

772
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: come out here and play special teams, play defense. Um,

773
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 1: so you know it's just a matter of taking the

774
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: time learning what to do, and they're coming out here

775
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 1: and executing it on the field. All right. What are

776
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: some things you want to get better at? You've got

777
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 1: a few more weeks of training camp. You've got the

778
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 1: Lions coming in here in a few days for some

779
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,399
Speaker 1: joint practices. What are some Brenain Scarlett goals for these

780
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 1: next few weeks? You know, we keep it simple, build

781
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: the wall, set the edge and Russia passer and uh

782
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: fly around on sts. You know, keep it real simple.

783
00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: That's the that's the goal, all right. And I want

784
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,879
Speaker 1: to ask you how you are arsenal or closet full

785
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,439
Speaker 1: of retro Houston gears coming along. I know that's something

786
00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: that you like to put out there and people hit

787
00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: you up and let you know where to find those

788
00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 1: those retro surrets. How's your collection coming along? Believe it

789
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 1: or not. I haven't had so much time to do

790
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: a lot of ventare shopping latnly. You know, it's it's

791
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: been twenty four seven ball. You know, we've had a

792
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: couple of days off here over this training camp. But

793
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,320
Speaker 1: you know, maybe once a regular season rolls them around

794
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 1: and we get on a normal schedule, I'll come by

795
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: and hit my thrift shops, my vintage stores, and I'll

796
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: get back right. All right. Sounds good, Thanks so much training,

797
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 1: good luck in pre season. Good luck with your thrift

798
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:28,000
Speaker 1: store shopping. Thanks, d appreciate it. Dpcity with Brendan Scarlett

799
00:37:28,120 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 1: following practice this week. Now, Jarrell Adams one of the

800
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: tight ends who you probably didn't know much about entering

801
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,399
Speaker 1: training camp, but now you do because he was good

802
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:41,760
Speaker 1: the other day in the preseason premiere he had a touchdown, catch,

803
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: had a couple of plays, you'd walk back, I'm sure

804
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 1: he would say. But he looked pretty good out there,

805
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 1: and he's been looking good in these camp practices. I

806
00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 1: caught up with him and asked him about his camp experience.

807
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,440
Speaker 1: So far, My spirens been pretty good. Now. I was

808
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,359
Speaker 1: working hard, trying to get better every day. We each

809
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 1: tight end, you know, just working on our craft playbook.

810
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:02,080
Speaker 1: What's different for you this camp, this franchise is opposed

811
00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,240
Speaker 1: to everything that went on with the Giants. No different,

812
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 1: you know, just same though. You know, team to work

813
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,439
Speaker 1: hard every day, push yourself, always try to get better,

814
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:12,800
Speaker 1: never try to stay the same, you know, just keep working.

815
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: I notice you're working with your hands after practice. How

816
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: important is that to keep concentrating on that phase of

817
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 1: the game, you know, catching the ball. You know that's

818
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: what you get paid for. You know, you get paid

819
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: for a Blockabu, you get paid baby bus catching the ball.

820
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: So I started working on every day with all the

821
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:30,359
Speaker 1: tight ends, blocking or pass catching? Which do you like better?

822
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: Which is harder to master as a tight end? Uh?

823
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 1: I say both. You gotta be real solid that blocking.

824
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 1: You gotta be real good at catching so I mean,

825
00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: if you can get good at both in the better

826
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: chance you have for being in the league. Now, what

827
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 1: about Will Longing as tight ends coach? How's it going

828
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 1: with him? He's knowing pretty good. I thinking he's a

829
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 1: great coach, great guy owning off the field. You know,

830
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: he tried to get noise guys personally offend on the field,

831
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:56,080
Speaker 1: and he's just a good guy. You're from South Carolina.

832
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:57,919
Speaker 1: We got a lot of South Carolina guys on this team,

833
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: got some Clemson got some South Carolina, of course. But

834
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,839
Speaker 1: what about that connection that you were able to make

835
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: with these guys. It's good because a lot of some

836
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: of us now a lot of but some of us

837
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 1: know each other since high school, so we kind of

838
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 1: know had that chemistry before we even went in to college.

839
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: So it was good to reconnect with the guys and

840
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 1: had that old bond again. Is it kind of strange

841
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,319
Speaker 1: to see how many guys there are from South Carolina?

842
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,680
Speaker 1: And our founder who passed away last year, it's also

843
00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:23,399
Speaker 1: a South Carolina a love. I mean there's a ton

844
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: of that here, more than Texas or any other place. Really. Yeah,

845
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: I wasn't shot because I know, like you said, the

846
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 1: owner and he was our big South Carolina guy and

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Speaker 1: he loved this South Carolina guy. So me coming and

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Speaker 1: seeing all the South Carolina guys, I I was happy,

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Speaker 1: a lot of friends. You know. How did the touchdown

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Speaker 1: field the other night? It felt good, you know, but

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Speaker 1: you know, try to stay at home. I need plenty

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Speaker 1: any more, leary more to make this team. So all right,

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Speaker 1: thanks a lot for joining. Thank you. That tight end

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Speaker 1: group is very interesting. You know, we didn't see Kahale

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Speaker 1: wearing a practice the other day. He was there, but

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Speaker 1: he wasn't participating. But Jordan Thomas was back. That was huge.

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Speaker 1: Aikins has been performing well, Adams has looked good, Darren

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Speaker 1: Fells has looked good. So pretty jammed up, pretty interesting.

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Speaker 1: That's what you want if you're the coaching staff. You

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Speaker 1: want tough decisions come final preseason game when they have

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Speaker 1: to cut it down to fifty three. A couple of

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Speaker 1: reminders we mentioned joint practices tomorrow I want to re

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Speaker 1: mention this top of the show. I did say that

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Speaker 1: Janice McNair gave five and a half million dollars to

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Speaker 1: the School Provision along with cal and Hannah. She was

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Speaker 1: there today special presentation with Roynell Young, who has been

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Speaker 1: leading that school for twenty nine years. One an outstanding

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Speaker 1: job they do in the Sunnyside community and beyond with

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Speaker 1: those kids and helping educate them. They're undergoing an affordable

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Speaker 1: housing initiative. They've got a farm where they sell food

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Speaker 1: to restaurants. It's just incredible stuff they have going on.

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Speaker 1: We caught up with Jeff Van Gundy a few weeks

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Speaker 1: ago and talked about it, and you'll hear a whole

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Speaker 1: lot more about that school pro vision from me because

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Speaker 1: I absolutely love it. I'm gonna get Junior Achievement involved

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Speaker 1: with them. I'm on the board of Junior Achievement. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: that's enough for today. I do want to remind you

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Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions Saturday night. Now Here are the ways

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Speaker 1: you can consume the game. I always recommend radio. I

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Speaker 1: don't know why, but I just do. And it's right here.

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Speaker 1: It's also on the Boom one hundred point three FM. Now.

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Speaker 1: Our TV crew does a great job, Kevin Coogler, Spencer Tillman,

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Speaker 1: Drew Doherty. You can check them out on ABC thirteen

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Speaker 1: and also on the stream on the Texans app if

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Speaker 1: you downloaded the app last week had some issues. Do

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Speaker 1: it again. I promise you it's gonna be a whole

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Speaker 1: lot better. And it's very cool. All our videos, all

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Speaker 1: the articles, all the stuff is there you want to

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Speaker 1: enjoy your Houston Texans experience, game day at the stadium

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Speaker 1: and otherwise. It's all there on the Texans app. That's

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Speaker 1: going to do it for the program today, I want

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Speaker 1: to thank everybody worked on the show. We'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you tomorrow. Sean and Seth, they'll be at practice in

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Speaker 1: the morning. Have a great day everyone, and go Texans.