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Speaker 1: the first night of legal tampering. In some way that

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Speaker 1: John Harris alongside the Voice of Texans joining me in

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Speaker 1: this first segment, Arc Vanimir Mark. First of all, how

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Speaker 1: how's your road trip today? Oh? It was great. It

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Speaker 1: a great job analyzing a college groups game. I get

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Speaker 1: congratulations to ACU Abeleague Christian. I think it's a tough

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Speaker 1: don't think the league calls it legal tampering. They call

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Speaker 1: David did a number of interviews last week. At the

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Speaker 1: Alison's sideline report of the Texans. Oh boy, the phone

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Speaker 1: that I knew about Tim is all there plus more.

427
00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:16,680
Speaker 1: And as I said, before to someone out, remember who

428
00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:20,200
Speaker 1: it was. Tim is a ball coach, just like I am.

429
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,840
Speaker 1: He's a ball coach, and we've assembled guys around him

430
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:30,720
Speaker 1: and around Lovey. Same thing with Frank, my special team's coach.

431
00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:34,199
Speaker 1: We've assembled guys around those guys that are just like

432
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 1: that Drew. And then when you get that going and

433
00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 1: you when you hit the football field with guys that

434
00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,400
Speaker 1: love what they do, that have a great passion for

435
00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 1: what they do, and then that thing just trickles down

436
00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:47,680
Speaker 1: to those players. And every time you go out on

437
00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:50,000
Speaker 1: the football field with those particular guys, you know you

438
00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,000
Speaker 1: have a chance to get better. And that's all players

439
00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:53,520
Speaker 1: want to do is get better, and they want to

440
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 1: be able to trust you to be able to do that.

441
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,399
Speaker 1: And I've been fortunate enough to assemble coaching staff that

442
00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,440
Speaker 1: feels that way and it is going to do those

443
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 1: things for us. Yeah, and another notable name on that

444
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,640
Speaker 1: coaching staff is Pep Hamilton. He comes into the mix.

445
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,560
Speaker 1: He's going to help out as the passing game coordinator.

446
00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 1: Gonna be interesting to see how he and Tim collaborate.

447
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,679
Speaker 1: What was most attractive about bringing Pep to the squad

448
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,719
Speaker 1: for you, He's had a lot of success with quarterbacks.

449
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:21,960
Speaker 1: He's been very successful, and of course everybody knows this

450
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,399
Speaker 1: past year he was coaching the rookie of the year

451
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:28,160
Speaker 1: in this league with a rookie quarterback at a tremendous job.

452
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 1: He's done a tremendous job when he was at the

453
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:35,600
Speaker 1: coach with with Andrew Luck. He's had a history wherever

454
00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:37,679
Speaker 1: he's coached, whether it's been in college or in the

455
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:42,480
Speaker 1: NFL level of being successful. And I've known Pep for

456
00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,680
Speaker 1: a long time and felt very fortunate to be able

457
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 1: to have him to join our staff because I think

458
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 1: he is a great fit for what we're doing here.

459
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,560
Speaker 1: He's a great fit for not only for Tim, but

460
00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:58,119
Speaker 1: for but for giving ideals and whatnot. And usually here

461
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 1: here's the thing Drew about offensively, you always want guys,

462
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,879
Speaker 1: You always want ideas, you always want different ideas. And

463
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,159
Speaker 1: Tim has been great with with with all of a

464
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 1: sudden wanting to have good ideas about moving forward and

465
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 1: doing things, and people would bring a lot of experience

466
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,280
Speaker 1: there to be able to help us go that direction.

467
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:18,640
Speaker 1: Texans fans know what they saw defensively as far as

468
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 1: a scheme last year, Lovey Smith. We know about his

469
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 1: history how do those through two things meet, how do

470
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 1: they veer off? You know, what do you see the

471
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:31,320
Speaker 1: direction schematically of the defense going in twenty twenty one. Well,

472
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 1: that's a good question, and I'll tell you what. Here's

473
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:37,160
Speaker 1: the thing offensively, regardless of what scheme you're doing, Drew,

474
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:39,439
Speaker 1: the thing you'd ever don't want to do is you

475
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 1: don't want to give the other team to ball. You

476
00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,120
Speaker 1: want to be turnover free now, and that's one thing

477
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 1: thing that Tim has done a heck of a job,

478
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,640
Speaker 1: but here doing that's the first and most important thing

479
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,959
Speaker 1: with offensive football is too. It is okay every now

480
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,280
Speaker 1: and then the punt, but it's not okay to give

481
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,960
Speaker 1: the ball back to the other team. Now, let me

482
00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,440
Speaker 1: go to the other side of that. Lovey Smith loves

483
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: philosophy is taking the ball away. So when you got

484
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: an offense that doesn't want to give it away, and

485
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 1: you got a defense that is coached and their philosophy

486
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 1: is to take it away, that's a pretty good formula

487
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,480
Speaker 1: for winning in this league, regardless of what kind of

488
00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,000
Speaker 1: system you got. And that's how Tim is as an

489
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:20,919
Speaker 1: offensive guy, and that's how love he is as a

490
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:24,919
Speaker 1: defensive guy. So when all those assistants now in place,

491
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,640
Speaker 1: and with what Nick Kasserio and his crew are doing

492
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 1: on the personnel side of things, what do the next

493
00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,919
Speaker 1: few weeks hold for you all? What are y'all doings

494
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:35,800
Speaker 1: as a group, well as a group right now as

495
00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,160
Speaker 1: a staff is what we're doing is in the mornings,

496
00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,399
Speaker 1: Tim and Love and Frank are having staff meetings with

497
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:46,080
Speaker 1: their perspective coaches, And basically what we're doing is SEF

498
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: scouting each other. We're SEF scouting what we do here,

499
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 1: what we did last year, what we need to do

500
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,600
Speaker 1: to move forward offensively and defensively, and special teams. And

501
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 1: then in the afternoons, Drew, what we do is we're

502
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,639
Speaker 1: in free agency right now, we're getting ready to go

503
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 1: into the draft. And in the afternoons we split it

504
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,439
Speaker 1: up to where our coaching staff gets to go and

505
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: evaluate and watch video and and and get evaluations on

506
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,040
Speaker 1: players for free ag to see in the draft. So

507
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 1: it's it's a full day for us. It's no different

508
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 1: Drew than what any other staff in this league would

509
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,360
Speaker 1: be doing, although we're just new and doing it together.

510
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: And then the fact that we all haven't been together

511
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 1: in this building yet, we've been zooming. Of course, Zoom

512
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: is the thing now in this league. It was that

513
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:32,679
Speaker 1: way hall last year. But basically we've been getting the

514
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: same things done through Zoom meetings that we would if

515
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 1: we were here in the building. And speaking of being

516
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 1: in the building, starting Monday, for the first time, I'll

517
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,880
Speaker 1: get to see all of those guys in person here

518
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,679
Speaker 1: in this building for the first time this year, and

519
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 1: we're so excited to have that. Yeah, I gotta imagine

520
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 1: that's got to get you charge. You're a people person.

521
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: I mean I've I've been around you in the building

522
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 1: on Zoom. I gotta imagine that's got you more amped

523
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: up than you've even been before. You got this shot, right, listen, Drew,

524
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,240
Speaker 1: this is a people business, I mean, you know, and

525
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 1: it always will be. And again, having the Zoom meetings,

526
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: we've had some fun on those Zoom meetings with each other,

527
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,880
Speaker 1: but well, I mean we kind of kind of had

528
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:15,359
Speaker 1: to each of the coaches to kind of talk to

529
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 1: us about just give us something that maybe nobody would

530
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 1: know about you, that might you know, kind of give

531
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: us a little laugh. And those guys were really really

532
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: good about that. But I would say this had we

533
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,320
Speaker 1: had that and it would have been person to person.

534
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: Oh man, you talking about could have been hilarious now,

535
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,920
Speaker 1: but for the fact that it was zoom that we

536
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,320
Speaker 1: really couldn't chime in like we needed to, whether it's

537
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 1: person to person. So I'm so excited to be able

538
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: to get them in here. And I actually have some

539
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,480
Speaker 1: things that I that I wrote down when those guys

540
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: were telling me about things that I'm gonna bring back

541
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 1: up again because I want to see the reaction person

542
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 1: to person. It's a little bit different when you're saying

543
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: that reaction like you and I are right now. So again,

544
00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 1: very excited to have them in. There was a little

545
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:56,520
Speaker 1: bit of chipping away at the ice. I take it,

546
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: and you're gonna bust on through it once you guys

547
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: are all in person, and there ain't no better way

548
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 1: to bust than in person. Hey, a moment ago, you

549
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 1: talked about self scouting. Now, when a team goes four

550
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: and twelve and you're self scout afterwards, I imagine you

551
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,160
Speaker 1: see a lot of mistakes. But I'm guessing you saw

552
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff that can be corrected, not easily,

553
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:18,880
Speaker 1: but can be corrected, and you got to see some

554
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: signs of optimism. Is that is that accurate? Yes, that

555
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: is accurate. But let me tell you something about self scouting.

556
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: When you're four and whatever, or when you're twelve and whatever.

557
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: When you're twelve and whatever, you see just as many mistakes, Drew,

558
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 1: as you do as if you were four and whatever.

559
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 1: And here's what happens. Is when you look at it

560
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 1: when you're when you're when you're you're saying, and when

561
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: you look at it when you won twelve, you say

562
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:46,680
Speaker 1: and say, how now, where are we doing in twelve

563
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 1: games with doing what we just did? And then when

564
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,240
Speaker 1: you look at the four wins, you look at it

565
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 1: and you say, man, we were this close to being

566
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,600
Speaker 1: able to do that. You know, if this right here

567
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: would happen. We just make this correction right here, it's

568
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: going to flip everything around. And that's why you self scout,

569
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: and that's why you look. And an encouraging thing about that, Drew,

570
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 1: is this is that when you look and you say, okay,

571
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 1: we eliminate this mistake, we get this thing right, and

572
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 1: then the next thing you know, it gets flipped. And

573
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 1: the really good thing about getting flipped, Drew, is this

574
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:18,959
Speaker 1: is that we look at self scout. We looked at

575
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: what happened last year, But we don't ever go back

576
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: to last year. We move forward with what's going and

577
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 1: then we take those mistakes, we correct them, and then

578
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you get a flip. You can

579
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: get a flip like that, and that's why the self

580
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: scouting is so important. But it can be a positive thing,

581
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: but it can be a negative thing too. Now when

582
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: you win twelve, but you guys just don't ever see

583
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 1: the negative part when you when you win twelve, we

584
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 1: sat here and come out of that meeting said, oh

585
00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 1: my goodness, man, where we're very fortunate to be able

586
00:30:45,800 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 1: to do that. And then the other side is, as

587
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:49,560
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, when you see the four you say

588
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: here and you being you encouraged, but just correct this,

589
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: just correct that, and we can do that, and that's

590
00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 1: what's encouraging about that. And you're talking about moving forward.

591
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: We discussed the meeting with the Shawan Watson, but he's

592
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: not the only guy that you've met with that's a

593
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 1: part of this roster. What have been your interactions what

594
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: have they been like? Because I imagine you talked to

595
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 1: some guys on zoom. You're in the building, some guys

596
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 1: come in and work out. It's been a bunch of

597
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 1: different types of interactions. But what have been your impressions

598
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: of some of the players that you've met? Very positive?

599
00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 1: First of all, when they come up to me and

600
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: they're smiling, that's a good thing. You know. I haven't

601
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: had anybody come up to me yet that wasn't smiling

602
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: and that didn't have that look on they face, kind

603
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: of like the look that I have on my face

604
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: when I walk in this building every day. And Drew.

605
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: That's exciting to know. And here's the other thing about that,

606
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: Each and every one of those players that I have

607
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: met doesn't even think about what happened last. They're all

608
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: in the mode of being able. We're moving forward, you know,

609
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: we're moving on it in this direction and then that

610
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: direction is a one direction and that's all that's all

611
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 1: they want. That's all they want is Drew. Every year,

612
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: every year, at this time of year, all thirty two

613
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: teams this league feel like they can win it all

614
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 1: thirty two and you should feel that a way. But

615
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 1: all you got to do is be able to take

616
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 1: that Stef Scott, go ahead, correct things, get on the field.

617
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 1: Whenever we can get on the field, go out on

618
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: the field and do those things. And I feel like

619
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: with these with this coaching staff that I have right here,

620
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 1: that we can go out and do those things and

621
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: feel confident enough to be able to go out and

622
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: do the things that we need to do to be successful. Okay,

623
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: you and I are going to talk a lot of

624
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: more football in the years to come, So I got

625
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: to veer off and kind of ask you some fun stuff.

626
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: Omar Mazoo media relations guru has prepared you for this,

627
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 1: I know. So when you and I talked about three

628
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: weeks ago, you told me about catching up with some

629
00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: Vanderbilt teammates from of yours from the seventies and some

630
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 1: of the guys that you wound up coaching there too,

631
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: And one of them said, you, hands down had the

632
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: best record collection, the best music collection in the dorms.

633
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 1: How accurate is that? And what's the best? What's the

634
00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: story behind it? What's the deal? That is one true?

635
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: One of that player was his name was Eddie Parrish,

636
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 1: who I also recruited to come there. He was a

637
00:33:06,240 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 1: running back from Dyersburg, Tennessee. Great player, and he happened

638
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: to be able to room next to me. And the

639
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: reason he got into the record. Thing was I used

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Speaker 1: to play my music so loud that basically everybody used

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Speaker 1: to hear what was happening. And drew just to Taylor

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Speaker 1: story about my music too. I was on the fifth

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Speaker 1: floor of a sixteen floor dorm, and I would open

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Speaker 1: up my windows, which looked right out into campus, and

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Speaker 1: I would take my speakers. I had some big radio

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Speaker 1: shack speakers that I would set out in the deal

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Speaker 1: and during the afternoons when everybody was kind of through

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Speaker 1: a class, I would kind of be a disc jockey

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Speaker 1: for the university. They had no idea where it was

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Speaker 1: coming from. They just knew there was some music coming

651
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Speaker 1: from some dorm up there in Carmichael two. But the

652
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Speaker 1: thing about the music was this, I've always there's two

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Speaker 1: things that I love outside of football. Actually there's three.

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Speaker 1: One is golf, that's the first one, you know. The

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Speaker 1: second one is boxing, and then the third one is music.

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Speaker 1: And I'm talking about all music. And I'm telling you

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Speaker 1: I hear music today. I've actually the other day I

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Speaker 1: was in the dressing room in there and some guys

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Speaker 1: were playing some music and I was when I say

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Speaker 1: that they were playing something to me, it wasn't music,

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Speaker 1: because I know what music is. Whatever it was they

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Speaker 1: were playing, first of all, I couldn't understand what it

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Speaker 1: was going on, and then I realized, I says, I'm

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Speaker 1: hearing a beat that I heard somebody play twenty five

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Speaker 1: years ago. So whoever's playing that? They told me some

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Speaker 1: name that this was. I said, so listen, sliding the

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Speaker 1: family stone did that same beat twenty five years ago.

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Speaker 1: So y'all then stowed it from them, and now you

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Speaker 1: didn't put it. But I can't understand what was saying.

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Speaker 1: But my point was this, they knew I knew music

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Speaker 1: when that happened. But my point is that's just a

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Speaker 1: passion of mine. I love all types of music. And

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Speaker 1: the thing about it was, we used to get a

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Speaker 1: fifteen dollar laundry check back when I was in school.

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Speaker 1: That's going way back part of the scholarship. But how

676
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Speaker 1: much that spent on laundry though actually all went to

677
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Speaker 1: buying albums at that time. You have smelly clothes or

678
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Speaker 1: did you have somebody doing your laundry for you, Well,

679
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: I send them home to mama real quickly, That's what

680
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: I did. I mean, who didn't do that? In college?

681
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 1: Coach everybody send it back home to mom, except for

682
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: me because I would have never gotten it back because

683
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Speaker 1: I went to school nineteen hundred miles away from home.

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Speaker 1: But either way, that's the way it goes. All right,

685
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Speaker 1: we get back. A lot has gone on today in

686
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Speaker 1: the NFL. I'll try and recap it as much as possible.

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Speaker 1: Next on Texas Lax. Don't miss a single thing on

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Speaker 1: get our podcast, especially in the lab now Vandermeer's view

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Speaker 1: and deep slant very very good, no doubt. But I'll

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Speaker 1: be provincial by podcast. Drew Dorty and I have been

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Speaker 1: working on a podcast the last four weeks where we

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Speaker 1: did in Ultimate Draft thirty two teams, thirty two picks,

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Speaker 1: one pick from each team through the history of the NFL. Man.

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Speaker 1: It was a blast, absolute blast, kind of like today

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Speaker 1: has been. Welcome back to the show. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: John Harrits Football also a silent reporter, and I'm just

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Speaker 1: looking at this list of what Nick Cassario has done

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Speaker 1: since he took over. These are the things I wrote down.

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Speaker 1: If I've missed something, holler at me at your Harrits Football.

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00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 1: Since Nick took over, renegotiated, Brandon Cooks renegotiated, David Johnson resigned,

705
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: Vernon Hargraves signed, Justin Britt signed, Mark Ingram signed, Christian

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Speaker 1: Kirksey traded slash swap pick from Marcus Cannon. Traded Rogert

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Speaker 1: McKinney for Shack Lawson signed today. Well, they agreed to terms.

708
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Speaker 1: I signed. Agreed to terms. Former Pro Bowl returner Andre Roberts,

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Speaker 1: special team starting linebacker, depth guy Camu Gruge Hill, a

710
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Speaker 1: guy that I covered in college. Traymont Smith corner and

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00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: return guy. Defensive tackle Maleek Collins, twenty six years old.

712
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: I think still something left in the tank, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: Safety Terrence Brooks, who spent a lot of his career

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Speaker 1: with the Patriots. Guard Justin McCray, who played for James

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Speaker 1: Camping when James Camping was with Green Bay. Also speaking

716
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Speaker 1: of Green Bay, Joe Thomas, linebacker who last year was

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Speaker 1: with Dallas, but before that was with Green Bay. He

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Speaker 1: also signed and signed defensive tackle Vincent Taylor. Today alone

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Speaker 1: two four six, eight eight eight, and I haven't checked

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Speaker 1: Twitter in the last five minutes, so there could be more.

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Speaker 1: But the churn that's going on in this roster, and look,

722
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,319
Speaker 1: everybody wants to get out there, and as I said earlier,

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Speaker 1: they want to go to sax fith Avo or what's

724
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:11,960
Speaker 1: the what's the hot store to go to? Now I

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Speaker 1: don't even know. I ended up going to Marshals because

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Speaker 1: you know what, I can find a name brand over

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Speaker 1: at Marshalls for like half the cost Nickissario did. He

728
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Speaker 1: went over to Marshalls and he had a little bit

729
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Speaker 1: of money his pocket and he's like, well, I'll take

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Speaker 1: an Andre Roberts and I'll take a MALIEK. Collins and

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Speaker 1: oh man, Mallie Collins. That's like the that's like the

732
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Speaker 1: Ralph Larempolo that you find like right in the midst

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Speaker 1: of all the shirts and see what you got. Now.

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Speaker 1: He didn't have a great year with the Las Vegas

735
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Speaker 1: Raiders last year, but before that was showing some promise

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Speaker 1: with the Cowboys. I thought he was gonna stay with

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys, and I don't have a seen him up

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Speaker 1: close said preseason games when he's with the Cowboys. My goodness,

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Speaker 1: he's got something. If he's got something left in the tank,

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Speaker 1: and I hope he does a twenty six Malee Collins,

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Speaker 1: I could end up being a pretty big problem for people.

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Speaker 1: Also big as Vincent Taylor. We saw him last year

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Speaker 1: with Cleveland. He was I remember studying him when he

744
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: came out from Oklahoma State, and I was intrigued. I

745
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,919
Speaker 1: wasn't totally sure, like, man, do I love him? I'd

746
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 1: like him, like I'm not totally sure how to feel.

747
00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,840
Speaker 1: I really felt like one more a year in college

748
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: probably would have helped him. But a pretty active guy

749
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Speaker 1: in New Orleans from New Orleans, left New Orleans because

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Speaker 1: of Katrina, moved to San Antonio, then with school to

751
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Speaker 1: Oclhoma State the Dolphins, where probably did his best work.

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Speaker 1: Then he was with the Browns last year and again

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Speaker 1: hopefully he's got something in the tank. But to one year,

754
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Speaker 1: two million dollars deal, So if it doesn't work out,

755
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Speaker 1: you're not out. I think it's eight hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars guaranteed. So if you miss, you miss, But

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Speaker 1: if you hit, it's the it's the proverbial by low

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Speaker 1: Sell high and that's what Nick seemingly has done all

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Speaker 1: day today. And I like it. I like and I

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Speaker 1: love the approach. I know fans out there like, what

761
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Speaker 1: about this wide receiver? What about what about this big

762
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Speaker 1: name guy. Well, sometimes and a lot of times that

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Speaker 1: doesn't work. Think what the Raiders did a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago. They made that deal with Khalil Mack the

765
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 1: Saint clim Act to the Bears. They got a bunch

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Speaker 1: of first round picks back in return, they did a

767
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Speaker 1: bunch of money to spend, so they spending on a

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Speaker 1: Tramp Brown, Marcus Joyner, and I think there was one

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Speaker 1: or two other players. All those players are all gone.

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Speaker 1: That was two years ago. They're all gone. So free

771
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:32,239
Speaker 1: agency can bolster your roster like you did with the

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Speaker 1: Jaguars in twenty seventeen. That's a rare instance of paying

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Speaker 1: top dollar for players and it working out. They signed

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00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,960
Speaker 1: a j Boyer and they signed Klai's Campbell and it

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Speaker 1: worked big time. It's one of the rare times it worked.

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Speaker 1: Now across the league, Patriots are hoping it's working for

777
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Speaker 1: them because they just spent money on the following Matt

778
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Speaker 1: Judon of the Ravens tight end John U. Smith, god

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Speaker 1: Get him out of the Vision. Thank you, Bill, safety

780
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Speaker 1: Slash Nicol, Jalen Mills, defensive tackle Devon Gotschau from the Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: who I loved. In fact, a few years ago at

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Speaker 1: the bowl game against Texas Tech, I was talking a

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Speaker 1: few of our scouts and they were asking me and

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Speaker 1: I said, I like fifty seven. They were like, gotcha really?

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Speaker 1: I was like, yes, that guy, Well, he just got

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Speaker 1: paid from the Patriots today. Then they signed two receivers

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Speaker 1: Nelson Aguilar Kendrick Bourne, definitely starters for the Patriots. They

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Speaker 1: also resigned defensive end Dietrich Wise. Bill Belichick went eight

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Speaker 1: nuts today, not with signing players, but signing eight figure

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Speaker 1: a year players. Nelson Aguilar thirteen million, eight p y

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Speaker 1: John U. Smith I think got in the ten million range.

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Speaker 1: They spent a ton of cash. And when I say,

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Speaker 1: they meet Bill with the Patriots the Titans and we

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Speaker 1: go into Vision. Didn't do much today lost John U. Smith, thankfully,

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Speaker 1: but oh man, he stays in the division. I think

796
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 1: he's one of the more underrated players in this division.

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Speaker 1: And that's Dinko Autry. He goes to the Titans, the

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00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: Titans desperate for pass rush help. He signs of three year,

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Speaker 1: twenty two million dollar deal, so he stays in division,

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Speaker 1: but he goes from the Colts to the Titans. The Jags.

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Speaker 1: At first glance, you go, I don't know, it's not

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Speaker 1: a bunch. However, they got two of the more underrated

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Speaker 1: players that I think are gonna be a factor for them.

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Speaker 1: Defensive tackle Ray Robertson Harris for the Bears, tons of upside.

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Speaker 1: I think the Jags hit big there. And then they

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Speaker 1: got safety Ray Shawn Jenkins from the Chargers. I believe

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Speaker 1: he want the University of Miami. Those two players are

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Speaker 1: gonna step in and I think do some great Thanks

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Speaker 1: for the Jags. I think those are two big signings

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Speaker 1: for Trent Ballcu the new GM there with the Jags,

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Speaker 1: and also of course ran my head coach. They also

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Speaker 1: signed Philip Dorsett wide receivers one a formerly a first

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Speaker 1: pick of the Colts. His Colts and there was the

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Speaker 1: Patriots where you're on a championship now he's with the Jags.

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Speaker 1: And a boomerang if you will, back to the Jags

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Speaker 1: is running back in former Texan Carlos Hide. The Colts.

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Speaker 1: At last glance, I don't think have done anything at

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Speaker 1: this point. But they are having to spend some money

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Speaker 1: on Carson Wentz, but they still have money to spend

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00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 1: and noy Chris ballad the way that we do. He's

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Speaker 1: lining the weeds, waiting for things to happen. One of

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Speaker 1: the things to keep an eye on over the next

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Speaker 1: day or two the fact that Agilar signed wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: Kendrick Bourne signed wide receiver. I just mentioned Philip Thor said,

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Speaker 1: but the main the big name wide receivers, none of

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Speaker 1: them signed today, So you're talking Kenny Golladay, Ju Smith, Schuster,

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Speaker 1: Will Fuller. A lot of the big name wide receivers

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Speaker 1: did not sign today, so some offen the lineman got paid.

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Speaker 1: Joe Thuney going to the Chiefs, the Bucks keeping Shack

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Speaker 1: Barrett and resigned Rob Gronkowski. Kevin Zeitler signed with the

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Speaker 1: Ravens inside and tier offensive lineman. By keep an eye

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Speaker 1: on those receivers over the next couple of days. We'll

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Speaker 1: have it all for you right here on Texans All Access.

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Speaker 1: Big thanks to Mark Drew, to Coach Culley, to Joanna

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Speaker 1: back in studio. You guys are the best. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for listening. We'll see you tomorrow and as always,

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Speaker 1: go Texans. This is Texans Radio on Sports Radio six

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Speaker 1: ten