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Speaker 1: What's happened? Everybody?

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Speaker 2: Welcome into a Wednesday edition of Texans All Access from

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Speaker 2: the Honday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harris,

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Speaker 2: football Analyst, sideline reporter. Well, we're about ten seconds into

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Speaker 2: the show and I've already what kind of lied to you?

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Speaker 3: In some sense.

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Speaker 2: We play the Bears tomorrow, so we're technically up in Cano, Ohio,

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Speaker 2: but we still have six to seven every single night

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Speaker 2: Texans All Access, so we've got plenty of show for

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Speaker 2: you even though we are in Ohio. So that's like

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Speaker 2: the hyundaid Texans Radio Studio, just Northeast version, if you will.

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Speaker 3: So we got plenty for you tonight.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna hear from Tim Boyle here in just a

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Speaker 2: second here for John McClain. We also had a great

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Speaker 2: interview with trap Jay Travis Johnson, who is a great

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Speaker 2: friend of Andre Johnson, talking about Andre going to the

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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame, so it was fun to talk to him.

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Speaker 2: And then if you missed our interview with the mcnairs,

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Speaker 2: you will hear that as well during the show.

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Speaker 3: But we're gonna kick it off with Drew Doherty, who.

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Speaker 2: Caught up with Tim Boyle, who I would imagine you'll

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Speaker 2: get a lot of snaps against the Bears tomorrow night.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, twenty five hours away from kickoff. Can

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Speaker 2: you imagine? It's unbelievable that it's here, But it is.

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Speaker 2: And Tim Boyle's right here as well.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much, fellas.

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Speaker 5: We got quarterback Tim Boyle, Tim Football finally here. You

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Speaker 5: guys have been practicing, You guys have been going through

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Speaker 5: trading camp, but game action.

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Speaker 4: How stoked are you for that?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Excited to go against another team.

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Speaker 7: You know it's been a grind obviously, showing up a

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Speaker 7: week early for the Hall of Fame game and just

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Speaker 7: wrapping up practice ten. Kind of sick of going against

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Speaker 7: the same guys. You know, you hear the same calls.

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Speaker 7: You're kind of getting a little antsy to go play

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Speaker 7: someone else. So we're excited about the game. It's always

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Speaker 7: good to be out here in Kanton, Ohio, and we're

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Speaker 7: gonna have a good Dame.

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Speaker 5: It'll be the first look for Texans fans that you

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Speaker 5: in a Houston uniform. How excited are you about that aspect?

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Speaker 5: Playing for this team. You've been around the block, You've

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Speaker 5: started some games in the NFL, but this is your

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Speaker 5: first time playing in a game with the Houston Texans.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, incredibly exciting.

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Speaker 4: Love the guys here, love the coaches.

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Speaker 3: It's a great.

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Speaker 4: Fit for me.

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Speaker 7: Honestly, I feel like I'm becoming a much better quarterback.

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Speaker 7: Coach Johnson, coach Slow, coach Alas are really doing a

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Speaker 7: good job of, you know, assessing my weaknesses and pushing me.

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Speaker 4: But you know, like you said, it's football's.

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Speaker 7: Back, and I'm excited to be a Texan and then

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Speaker 7: try to go.

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Speaker 4: Tame those Bears.

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Speaker 5: What's the most exciting thing about this offense? Not necessarily

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Speaker 5: what we're gonna see tonight in the game, but on

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Speaker 5: the whole, what is in store for this season?

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Speaker 4: What's got you most excited about as a whole.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think we want to build in our explosives

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Speaker 7: from last year.

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Speaker 4: I think we do a really good job.

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Speaker 7: We have a really good receiver deep receiver room. Offensive

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Speaker 7: line has done a really good job holding up so

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Speaker 7: complimenting the run. I think we're gonna do a really

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Speaker 7: good job of doing some play pass, throwing the ball

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Speaker 7: downfield and generating some explosives.

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Speaker 5: Quarterback Tim Boyle. You just mentioned that deep receiver room.

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Speaker 5: Let's talk about some of the guys that are not

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Speaker 5: at the tip top like Digs Dell Collins, not necessarily

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Speaker 5: in that or either, but down the line, what's the

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Speaker 5: coolest part of that room as far as the depth

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Speaker 7: You know, whether you're getting one rep, two reps, or

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Speaker 7: three reps, you know you're getting quality receivers in there.

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Speaker 7: Whether it's Ben s Kirwanik, you know you're getting Metchi,

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Speaker 7: Jayden's doing a really good job right now, and Steve

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Speaker 7: Simms having himself a camp so and any of those

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Speaker 7: have two really good guys on the outside. I got

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Speaker 7: a great slot receiver. So it makes our job easier.

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Speaker 7: You know, when you're looking at your guys who you're

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Speaker 7: assessing who's running what route that we don't have any

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Speaker 7: guys who are really swimming out there. They're all smart,

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Speaker 7: veteran players who've been around the block, and it's extremely exciting.

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Speaker 4: As a quarterback, quarterback.

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Speaker 5: Tim Boyle with us right now, tight ends wise, fullbacks,

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Speaker 5: those are some weapons you can throw to as well,

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Speaker 5: aren't they?

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Speaker 7: Of course, tight ends have been doing a really good job.

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Speaker 7: I think Brev's having a really good camp. Teaguan's having

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Speaker 7: a lovely time too, And I know we're antsy to

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Speaker 7: get a couple of guys back, but it's a complete

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Speaker 7: passing squad. It really is receivers, tight ends, and like

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Speaker 7: you said, fullbacks back doing a really good job coming back,

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Speaker 7: and Troy complete fullback. So we have a really good

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Speaker 5: So how are you guys preparing specifically for the Chicago

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Speaker 5: Bears and their scheme as far as getting ready for

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Speaker 7: It's challenging just because it's the first preseason game, and

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Speaker 7: I think the Bears have a new coordinator. I know,

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Speaker 7: you know the scheme pretty much stays the same, but

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Speaker 7: you know, you try to watch some stuff from the

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Speaker 7: previous kind of off seasons and try to get a

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Speaker 7: graft of what you think they're gonna do. But really,

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Speaker 7: first preseason game, you got to go out there and react.

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Speaker 7: You got to go see it, and like I said,

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Speaker 7: I think it's gonna be pretty vanilla on our end

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Speaker 7: and probably on their end, just because he played each

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Speaker 7: going out there and reacting. But you know, once you

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Speaker 7: get into preseason two, preseason three can kind of washing

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Speaker 7: some film. But the coaches are doing a really good

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Speaker 4: But yeah, there's definitely a little bit of prepth that

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Speaker 7: I think that's gonna really start, you know, going into

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Speaker 5: Like I said, quarterback Tim Boyle in just a day

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Speaker 5: or so, Andre Johnson's going into the Hall of Fame

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Speaker 5: Pro Football Hall of Fame. You haven't been here long,

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Speaker 5: but you grew up in America, so you saw some

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Speaker 5: Andre Johnson highlights here and there. What are your impressions

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Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, extremely consistent number one. Obviously big and physical,

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Speaker 7: and he came in and talked to us last year

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Speaker 7: going into one of our playoff games. And he's kind

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Speaker 7: of a mild mannered guy, just kind of a quiet,

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Speaker 7: you know, deep voice, and when he talks you listen

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Speaker 7: and especially going to the Hall of Fame. A ton

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Speaker 7: of respect for him and what he's done and consistently

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Speaker 7: it's one of the greatest honors you can get as.

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Speaker 4: A football player.

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Speaker 7: But extremely proud of him, obviously having him go first

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Speaker 7: texting to get introduced to the Hall of Fame, but

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Speaker 7: happy to go support him this week at the Hall

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Speaker 7: of Fame induction. I know a bunch of the guys

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Speaker 7: to have him around. Obviously, his his presences felt, especially

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Speaker 7: But I mean extremely extremely exciting for the organization and

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Speaker 7: him to get inducted.

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Speaker 5: Last thing, I know you love this current croper receivers

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Speaker 5: in the building, but how nice would it have been

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Speaker 5: for you to throw to Andre Johnson?

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Speaker 4: What sort of numbers would you guys have put up?

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Speaker 4: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 7: I mean, it's one of those guys where you don't

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Speaker 7: really have to put it anywhere specific. You know, you

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Speaker 7: can kind of throw it in the vicinity, knowing he's

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Speaker 7: going to go make a play for you. So I

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Speaker 7: would like to think I could just chuck it up

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Speaker 7: to him and have him.

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Speaker 4: Go make a play for me. But to answer your question,

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Speaker 4: I mean, if Andre.

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Speaker 7: Johnson was on the field with me, it'd be tough

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Speaker 7: not to throw in the ball.

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Speaker 5: Quarterback Tim Boyle, best of luck tonight against the Bear's

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Speaker 5: best of luck the rest of training camp.

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Speaker 4: We'll talk again real soon, thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: All right, excellent stuff from the gun slinger himself. Yes,

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Speaker 2: he called himself that, he would say, I'm the guy

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Speaker 2: he just said when I asked him earlier this spring.

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Speaker 2: You know what can Texans fans expect? He's like, I'm

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Speaker 2: a gun slinger and that is true. You watch that

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Speaker 2: got through the football, That is absolutely true. Also a

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Speaker 2: gun slinger. The General John McClain. We caught up with

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Speaker 2: him and talked about all kinds of stuff with him,

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Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame, the AFC South, new rules going

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Speaker 2: on in entering the football, and we also asked him

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Speaker 2: about a news nugget that's been floating around there from

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Speaker 2: the NFLPA about reporters in the locker room, which I

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Speaker 2: thought he's gonna have a great answer. He's got great

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Speaker 8: We've got John McClain, right now the general joining US

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Speaker 8: Pro Football Hall of Famer as we venture to the

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Speaker 8: Pro Football Hall of Fame for the Texans Bears. General.

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Speaker 3: Good morning.

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Speaker 8: Exciting week for sure set the stage for us as

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Speaker 8: the Texans play in the game and they have their

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Speaker 8: first ever player going in on Saturday.

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Speaker 6: Well, they're gonna the big deals on Saturday. You know,

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Speaker 6: the game itself is going to be a bunch of backups.

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Speaker 6: The coaches need to evaluate for depth, and they do

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Speaker 6: have starting competition on defensive defensive positions. Deniko Audrey is

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Speaker 6: a big loss, and then offense till I think it's

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Speaker 6: left guards Kenyan Green's to lose. But they're much more

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Speaker 6: solidified on offense than defense, because you know when Nicossario

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Speaker 6: brought in fourteen fifteen defensive free agents and drafted five

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Speaker 6: of the nine defensive players, including Kamari Laster, who's been outstanding.

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Speaker 6: I wrote about him on Houston Texans dot Com this week.

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Speaker 6: That's where you want to watch most and it'll be

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Speaker 6: a lot of backup defensive lineman, but everybody wants to

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Speaker 6: know who are going to be the starting defensive tackles.

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Speaker 6: And of course everybody's fired up about Andre. There's thousands

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Speaker 6: of people going up there, A lot of former teammates, coaches, Deniko,

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Speaker 6: have a team there up in the stands Cheerney MA.

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Speaker 6: I just wish he wasn't last. The guy it goes

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Speaker 6: last against a lot of prodding from the Hall of

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Speaker 6: famers on the stage, hurry up, get it over with,

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Speaker 6: We're hot. But we didn't expect Andre Johnson to stay

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Speaker 6: up there and do a filibuster. You know, I thought

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Speaker 6: he was would probably be the shortest speech, and uh

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Speaker 6: so I'm fired up about I wrote for Houston Texas

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Speaker 6: dot Com yesterday how he ended up here. First time

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Speaker 6: I ever saw him was as a sophomore Miami watching

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Speaker 6: the game on TV against Florida State when he stood out,

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Speaker 6: and how he came to be drafted here, and boy,

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Speaker 6: what a mistake the Lions made with Charles Rogers. Charlie Cashley,

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Speaker 6: the general manager's time, used to tell me, tell me

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Speaker 6: off the record, what they were going to do, and

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Speaker 6: he had told me for a while. I knew they

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Speaker 8: Lineman general sell the Hall of Fame for me. People

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Speaker 6: I've been going to the Hall of Fame since nineteen

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Speaker 3: But you know.

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Speaker 6: and see what he thinks about it. But I'm so

436
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Speaker 6: glad he got in first in the Ring of Law,

437
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Speaker 6: first and first star, first in the Ring of Honor,

438
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Speaker 6: and first in the Hall of Fame. And that'll always

439
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Speaker 6: He's immortal, you know, long after Andre's gawing, people will

440
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Speaker 6: know he was the first Texan in the Hall of Fame.

441
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Speaker 8: General, the Texans camp is active, productive, busy, but we

442
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Speaker 8: don't have players and radio talk show hosts talking to

443
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Speaker 8: each other in the manner of what's going on in

444
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Speaker 8: Nashville with Buck Reesing and Jeffrey Simmons.

445
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Speaker 9: On one four five, the zone is that the station

446
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Speaker 9: you're on in Nashville, No.

447
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Speaker 6: Let's station I used to be on, and I left

448
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Speaker 6: and went to OutKick, and now I'm on OutKick once

449
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Speaker 6: a week and then I'm on their rival station. And

450
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Speaker 6: Paul Kaharski, who wrote and I tweeted this yesterday a

451
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Speaker 6: great don't fall his best thing he's ever written. He

452
00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:46,000
Speaker 6: wrote about Simmons and where he is in his career

453
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Speaker 6: and basically how bush league that was. And he's supposed

454
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Speaker 6: to be a leader for a guy like Andre Sweat

455
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Speaker 6: the second round pick, and pr can't do anything with

456
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Speaker 6: him anymore. So it's up to coach, the general, manager,

457
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Speaker 6: owner because he's out of control. Simmons is one of

458
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Speaker 6: those players that doesn't know what he didn't know, thinks

459
00:22:06,440 --> 00:22:09,320
Speaker 6: he knows everything, and he knows very little, and he

460
00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,920
Speaker 6: attacks the media in general because he's mad at a guy,

461
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Speaker 6: and then he tells people he wants to be accountable,

462
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Speaker 6: and then when they give him a chance to respond,

463
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Speaker 6: he won't said he won't talk to the media, and

464
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Speaker 6: when he gets accused of doing something like spitting on

465
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Speaker 6: a player, at one point in the media ask him

466
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Speaker 6: about he got mad. He didn't think they should be

467
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Speaker 6: asking him about it, even though the player claimed he

468
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Speaker 6: did so. Paulk Arsky has on website he wrote a

469
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Speaker 6: thing that was great about what's going on with them

470
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Speaker 6: and Simmons and how it can be a detriment and so, yeah,

471
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Speaker 6: that's been a dominant topic up there this week for

472
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Speaker 6: him going after a guy who was doing a talk

473
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Speaker 6: show on the air when he started screaming at him.

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Speaker 2: Okay, General, I kind of know I have a feeling

475
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Speaker 2: I know where you are on this one. But it

476
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Speaker 2: was reported that over the weekend, maybe Monday, that the

477
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Speaker 2: NFLPA is looking at reporters in the locker room and

478
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Speaker 2: potentially looking at a different solution for something like that.

479
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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's to eliminate the media in

480
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Speaker 2: there completely or not, but I know over the years

481
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Speaker 2: we've talked about just getting access to the locker room

482
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Speaker 2: and just a little nugget of store you can get

483
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Speaker 2: by being in the locker room as a reporter, as

484
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Speaker 2: some of you covers a team, somebody like you throughout

485
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Speaker 2: the years, who has done it so so very well,

486
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Speaker 2: what are your thoughts if the NFLPA does get its

487
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Speaker 2: way and reporters are out of the locker room or

488
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Speaker 2: they're limited in the locker room going forward.

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Speaker 6: The reason you have the media is that can do

490
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Speaker 6: it for the fans who pay the freight. If it

491
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Speaker 6: wasn't for the fans, there'd be no teams. And so

492
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Speaker 6: the way you do it now, teams have websites, and

493
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Speaker 6: that would include I'm sure that the guys who work

494
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Speaker 6: for the websites would not be allowed in there either.

495
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Speaker 6: Ask every player in the league, would you like to

496
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Speaker 6: clear the locker room of the media and have a

497
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Speaker 6: thing like they have in the Olympics, where the media

498
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Speaker 6: is lined up outside. You have to ask the same

499
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Speaker 6: questions over and over which the Pro Football Writers of

500
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Speaker 6: America they were able to keep this from happening this year.

501
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Speaker 6: And I'm not exactly sure where it's come from. You know, Reeves,

502
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Speaker 6: maybe there used to be here. He's the new president,

503
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Speaker 6: and so if it's not as important to me as

504
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Speaker 6: it used to. If I was still covering the Texans

505
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:39,040
Speaker 6: for the Chronicle, I'd be all over this to talk

506
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Speaker 6: to the NFL, you know, like, what's the point now

507
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Speaker 6: If when it comes to the eighteenth game, they say, okay,

508
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Speaker 6: we'll agree to this, but we don't want to have

509
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Speaker 6: off season program. We'll come to training camp on June

510
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Speaker 6: the first or June the fifteenth, and we don't want

511
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Speaker 6: the media allowed in the locker room anymore. We'll send

512
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Speaker 6: players out to talk to them outside. And they might

513
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,200
Speaker 6: do that. The league might do it because it's those

514
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,160
Speaker 6: sweat off them, you know. They just want to get

515
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 6: the money from that eighteenth game. And another thing, if

516
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 6: the media is not where they can talk to players

517
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,800
Speaker 6: and build relationships and all that, the public doesn't get

518
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Speaker 6: as much information and sometimes I used to talk to players,

519
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,480
Speaker 6: you know, all these former players. They wouldn't get that

520
00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 6: access either that are in the media. But anyway, I

521
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:37,000
Speaker 6: think eventually it's coming. It won't happen without a fight.

522
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Speaker 6: And rogercdale used to be a pr guy. He understands

523
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Speaker 6: the importance of the media. But I would hate to

524
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Speaker 6: be younger and involved in that fight.

525
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Speaker 8: Boy, I'm going to ask both of you this. If

526
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Speaker 8: I were a player, and I'm clearly not, but if

527
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Speaker 8: I were, I think it'd rather have the nine week

528
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Speaker 8: off season conditioning program and the way they do it now,

529
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Speaker 8: because that's voluntary. And if I had to go somewhere

530
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Speaker 8: and miss a week here or there for whatever reason,

531
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Speaker 8: a family event or clearly an emergency, but whatever reason,

532
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Speaker 8: I think they'd let you go obviously, because they have to.

533
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Speaker 8: It's voluntary, except for mini camp. I'd rather have that

534
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Speaker 8: than the break and then a two week training camp

535
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Speaker 8: and we're off and running. I want six weeks of

536
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Speaker 8: mandatory haf to be there after I have an entire

537
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Speaker 8: off season of not being around the building.

538
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Speaker 9: I would not like that.

539
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Speaker 8: I don't think it's even good for them as people.

540
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Speaker 8: It's good to have somewhere to go be around your guys.

541
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Speaker 8: This is what all the veterans miss when they retire.

542
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Speaker 8: The first first thing they say is I miss being

543
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Speaker 8: around the guys in the locker room.

544
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Speaker 9: So I don't know, what do you think.

545
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Speaker 6: General, you give them four months off thinking about your

546
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:44,920
Speaker 6: guys that would come in out of shape, well rookies.

547
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,919
Speaker 6: The rookies would be behind because they wouldn't have that

548
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,120
Speaker 6: rookie mini camp and then jumping into OTAs and OTAs

549
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:56,399
Speaker 6: is all about the mental aspect anyway, and so I

550
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Speaker 6: don't know anybody that likes it. And another thing is

551
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Speaker 6: kid are out of school and sometimes vacations are planning,

552
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:11,879
Speaker 6: So I just it's radical. It's never been done. No,

553
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 6: that's not true. Hell, when I started covering, they didn't

554
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 6: have an off season program. They just reported training camp

555
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,120
Speaker 6: and they made them do too immediately the first day,

556
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 6: full pads, full contact, two to two hour practices in

557
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 6: which they used those to get in shape because they

558
00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 6: hadn't stayed in shape in that long off season program.

559
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Speaker 6: You know, there was no free agency back then. You

560
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 6: had to draft and that was it. And veteran players

561
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 6: are not involved in that. So if guys could stay

562
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Speaker 6: in shape, get getting stayed or stay in shape on

563
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:48,200
Speaker 6: their own. Then the facilities should be open with three

564
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Speaker 6: meals a day in all that to give them every opportunity.

565
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Speaker 6: But there's a lot of players you don't want to

566
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Speaker 6: turn them loose for four or five months and leave

567
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Speaker 6: them on their own.

568
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Speaker 8: You know, it would have been a great show back then,

569
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Speaker 8: off season Hard Knocks with Kenny Stabler, all off season,

570
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 8: off season Hard Knocks with Dan Pasterini.

571
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Speaker 3: That's the show.

572
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Speaker 5: I want to want to.

573
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Speaker 6: Tell you what you didn't need off season with those guys.

574
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Speaker 6: They were fun. They had made sure they enjoyed their

575
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,960
Speaker 6: training camp and their off season whatever they were doing.

576
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Speaker 6: But those were two fun guys to cover, no.

577
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Speaker 3: Question about that.

578
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 2: Also a fun guy to cover, Travis Johnson Trapp J.

579
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Speaker 2: We had an excellent time talking with him earlier in

580
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Speaker 2: training camp.

581
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Speaker 3: That for you. Next right here in Texans will access.

582
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Speaker 2: What's happened everybody, coming to you from Cleveland, Ohio, where

583
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Speaker 2: the Texans are getting ready to take on the Bears

584
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Speaker 2: in Hall of Fame Game, the opening game of the

585
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four preseason to take on Chicago in Canton.

586
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Speaker 3: Cannot wait.

587
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Speaker 2: I'm your host of Seating John Harris foot Planals sideline reporter,

588
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 2: and I know guy that's really excited only about this

589
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Speaker 2: team in twenty twenty four, but about his guy under

590
00:28:57,920 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 2: Johnson going to the Hall of Fame. Is our guy,

591
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,719
Speaker 2: Travis Johnson Trapp J with one of our favorite interviews

592
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 2: from training camp.

593
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Speaker 8: Take a listen, let's get to a special guest here.

594
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Speaker 8: Legends Community member two thousand and five first round draft choice,

595
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 8: Travis Johnson, seminole Texan, all around great American.

596
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: What's up? Travis's what's happening to fellas? Y'all doing all right? Yeah,

597
00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: we're doing great.

598
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 9: It's great to see you here, my friend.

599
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: It's great to be here, brother, great to be here.

600
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 2: All right?

601
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Speaker 9: Would you practice out in this rain right now?

602
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 8: Oh?

603
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 3: Problem?

604
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 10: Yeah? I mean you remember five is pretty hot man.

605
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 10: You know, Domin didn't believe in that going in that bubble.

606
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 10: So you know the fact that the rain it didn

607
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 10: get a little muggy out here, because.

608
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie.

609
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 10: I got I got, I got, I got a little

610
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 10: swamp behind right now. But you know what it's it is, you.

611
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: Know it is. It's okay, man, this is a good

612
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:44,280
Speaker 1: weather man.

613
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Speaker 10: It's big man weather it loves up the joints, man,

614
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,880
Speaker 10: and have you have a great practice.

615
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Speaker 2: Trav, What was the first day of pats like at

616
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Speaker 2: any level, high school, college, pro? What was that first

617
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 2: day of pads like, especially for big dudes, because you

618
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Speaker 2: get in spring practice you can't do a whole heck

619
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Speaker 2: of a lot, especially the pros do anything, and then

620
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 2: you put the pads on. Guys are talking trash. I

621
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,440
Speaker 2: would imagine what's the first day in pads like?

622
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Speaker 10: Well, I think the biggest thing is like you didn't

623
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:09,320
Speaker 10: sleep the night before a little bit because you were

624
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,600
Speaker 10: a little nervous, like, man, who you know, uh, who

625
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 10: am I gonna hit? How am I gonna hit? How

626
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 10: am I gonna play? You know, especially when you were younger,

627
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 10: when you got a little older, Yeah, you were nervous

628
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 10: because you're like, you know, we got to college. You're like, man, dang,

629
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Speaker 10: I wanna make sure I'm good enough, you know, as

630
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 10: as advertised, we got the league.

631
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Speaker 1: It is like, man, I just hope I'm good enough.

632
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Speaker 10: They don't cut me and I can and I can

633
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Speaker 10: help the team out of any way possible.

634
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Speaker 1: You know.

635
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Speaker 10: So first day pads is always an interesting day, you know,

636
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 10: cause there's gonna be some guys.

637
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Speaker 1: It's real itchy because it's you know in the league.

638
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 10: You know, springball, there's still no pads for from the

639
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,520
Speaker 10: end of last season until now, and so now you

640
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 10: get the first time to hit people. Now you're gonna

641
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 10: really try to be like, let me thut them. I'm

642
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 10: not trying to hurt him, but I'm gonna try to

643
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 10: let him, let him feel me a little bit.

644
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 1: Yeah.

645
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Speaker 8: So you're all teammates, but in camp you're facing the

646
00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 8: same old lineman all the time.

647
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Speaker 9: Individuals and team drills and all that.

648
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 8: Do you ever develop a rivalry with a particular offensive

649
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 8: lineman one or two and it becomes maybe a little touchy.

650
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,959
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, with some people, especially guys you don't like,

651
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,719
Speaker 10: you know what I mean, Like guys you don't like

652
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 10: and we were life like, Man, I really don't like

653
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 10: this dude. Man, even in the locker room, you don't speak,

654
00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 10: y'all come out here, you don't say anything to each other,

655
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 10: and you try to go to each other's throat. You

656
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 10: know that that happens a lot.

657
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know.

658
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 10: If you remember my first training camp. On many fights,

659
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 10: I got into the guy that it was across from you.

660
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 10: I really didn't like it, you know, and that and

661
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 10: it went it stemmed from something that happened in college between.

662
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: The two of us.

663
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 10: Yeah and uh, but so yeah, it can get a

664
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 10: little it get a little chippy at times. And I mean,

665
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 10: you respect each other, but you you just want to

666
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 10: be you want to get the most out out of yourself.

667
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,960
Speaker 11: Wait till you get along with this person. Now I

668
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 11: don't even know this person. Now, No, they didn't make

669
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 11: the team, okay, but.

670
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 3: Just stall that.

671
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,360
Speaker 2: The college robberies, though they do take over, they do

672
00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 2: linger a little bit. And your mind is long, yes,

673
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 2: because if something happened in the game, you'd see a

674
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 2: guy later down the road, like maybe not exact revenge,

675
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 2: but you were looking forward to seeing that.

676
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,280
Speaker 10: It'd be it'd be Joey Porter and Levi and the

677
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 10: Casino all over again.

678
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: You know.

679
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:18,000
Speaker 10: If I seen the right guys from college, yes, it

680
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 10: would be. It wouldn't be like that out here in

681
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 10: the NFL as much, you know, because now you know

682
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 10: guys are you're more business partners. You know, when it's

683
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 10: all said and done, you want to get the best,

684
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 10: you know, we want to get the best out of

685
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 10: each other. You want to stay up, you want to

686
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:32,600
Speaker 10: stay uninjured, and you want to be able to make

687
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 10: it throughout the season.

688
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 8: Travis Johnson with us, Well, your arrival of the University

689
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 8: of Miami being a seven, all but you and Andre

690
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 8: Johnson are very close, Yes, all right. He told us

691
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 8: the story of you not knowing and trying to find

692
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 8: out and he knows he's gonna get in and you don't.

693
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 3: And you're bugging him.

694
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: What was that like?

695
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 10: Me to Vegas and leading up to that, It was

696
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 10: the most nerve wracking thing because I could feel it

697
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 10: like it was gonna happen, you know, because previous years,

698
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 10: you know, he had called me and we talked when

699
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 10: he hadn't got in, you know, because I had found

700
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 10: out the weekends he hadn't got in. I called him,

701
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 10: checked on him, go by the house, make sure he's

702
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 10: doing all right, not know much it meant to him

703
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 10: to get in to get his gold jacket. And then

704
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 10: so around that same time, you know, I go back,

705
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 10: I look at our text messages from the year reform,

706
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 10: like hold on this. When he found out he didn't

707
00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 10: get in last year, it should be about time now.

708
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 10: So I called him and they're like, no, we haven't

709
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,480
Speaker 10: heard anything. No, we haven't heard anything. And so we

710
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 10: get to Vegas and I'm like, I'm going to Vegas

711
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 10: because I'm like.

712
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: If he gets in, it's the weekend we want. I

713
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: need to be in Vegas.

714
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 10: And I'm calling him, call him, calling him, I call him,

715
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 10: I call Miscar and his mother, I call Willie, his brother.

716
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 10: I'm calling everybody, like I'm calling him, calling Hannah, and

717
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 10: I'm like, did.

718
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: He get it? Did he get in? Have you heard

719
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 1: anything yet? Have you heard anything yet?

720
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 10: Then he comes out on stage and I sent him

721
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,239
Speaker 10: a text message you mother, you know what I mean.

722
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 1: I can't believe you been hold his promise.

723
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 10: So when we get a dinner that night, he's like, man,

724
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 10: I want to tell you, but man, I wanted to

725
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 10: see I really wanted you to wait because I knew

726
00:33:58,200 --> 00:33:58,920
Speaker 10: how happy you would be.

727
00:33:59,000 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: I knew how much.

728
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 10: And it literally it brought me to tears because I

729
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 10: love the guy man, you know, and it's you know,

730
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 10: even when we rivals, I still loved you guy.

731
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: He's always been a great dude, you know what I mean.

732
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:10,439
Speaker 1: And Uh, it was a.

733
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 10: Nerve wracking day because I was in the hotel room no,

734
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:15,319
Speaker 10: I wouldn't e go out like, I'm like, no, I'm

735
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 10: waiting to find out. I'm waiting to find I wait

736
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 10: to mind, and he makes me wait till like whatever

737
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 10: o'clock at night it was, and I'm like.

738
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: It still was. It was.

739
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:24,959
Speaker 10: It was just as exciting as it would have been

740
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:26,720
Speaker 10: as if I would have found out.

741
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: Months before when he was at his house.

742
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:30,120
Speaker 10: But I asked him the question, what about a drove

743
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:34,240
Speaker 10: by that day and seen and seen Chris Carter outside?

744
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 8: Then what camera crew Travis? Had you found out earlier?

745
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,720
Speaker 8: How hard would it have been to keep the socket?

746
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: He know, he knows it been. I mean have been

747
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: a hell of a secret.

748
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 10: But I mean at the same time, I would have

749
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 10: kept it because I know he wouldn't have wanted me.

750
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:51,800
Speaker 10: I wouldn't allowed to say anything, you know, but it

751
00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 10: still would have been hard. I'd have been like Robert

752
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 10: my brother in law, how do I not tell Roe Beert?

753
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like, how do I not?

754
00:34:57,840 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 7: You know?

755
00:34:58,239 --> 00:34:59,759
Speaker 10: But I'm like, I would have had to keep this

756
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 10: in the bucket and not telling anybody. So I'm glad

757
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 10: he didn't tell me, but I'm still kind of his trap.

758
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:07,120
Speaker 3: We talked to David Anderson.

759
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:07,840
Speaker 1: I don't know.

760
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 2: It's probably a couple of weeks ago, and he was

761
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 2: in the six draft class, so he was right there

762
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 2: with Dray. It feels like more people I talked to

763
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:17,400
Speaker 2: are more excited for Dreda.

764
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:18,839
Speaker 3: Drey's excited to go into Hall of Fame.

765
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 2: I know that, But it feels like his teammates, guys

766
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 2: like you, David Anderson, are even that much more excited

767
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 2: for him to go into the Hall of Fame because

768
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 2: of the teammate that he was.

769
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:29,439
Speaker 3: Am I misreading that or is that kind.

770
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:30,800
Speaker 1: Of the way correct?

771
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 10: I mean, this is telling him he's not my first

772
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 10: teammate to go in the Hall of Fame, you know

773
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:34,359
Speaker 10: what I mean?

774
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: But uh, you.

775
00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 10: Know it's my first Texas teammate. And it was you know,

776
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 10: you know I was telling I was telling Doug earlier.

777
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 10: Uh you know, when I first got drafted here in

778
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 10: one of the things, it was like, I was such

779
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 10: a fan of the NFL. You're like, man, I wish

780
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 10: I'd have went to a storied franchise with all his

781
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:48,919
Speaker 10: history and all.

782
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:49,480
Speaker 1: This other stuff.

783
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 10: But then when you got here, you realize, hold on,

784
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:54,759
Speaker 10: we are the history. We are we are the timeline,

785
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 10: you know what I mean, Like everything's gonna be judged

786
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 10: by what we do, and everybody's gonna remember what we do,

787
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 10: whether good or bad. And the fact is that he's

788
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 10: the first to do it. The fact is he's the

789
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 10: teammate he was. The fact is when we were all young,

790
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 10: you know, I'm telling people the other day, like we

791
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 10: were young out here, like we were all babies. Nobody

792
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 10: was married with kids. It was the majority of the

793
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 10: team was twenty six years old and younger, and we

794
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 10: all had a great time. We all wanted to see

795
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 10: each other succeed, and we all loved each other and

796
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 10: love being around each other. And it's it hadn't changed

797
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 10: even though now you know he you know, I'm.

798
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 1: Forty two, he's forty three. You know what I mean,

799
00:36:29,840 --> 00:36:30,799
Speaker 1: it hadn't changed a bit.

800
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 9: Hey, you did that show with MacLean.

801
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:38,919
Speaker 3: Yes, it probably won't espn Obi.

802
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:40,759
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out who I send the bill to.

803
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 3: It was old school news school.

804
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:46,400
Speaker 8: But the twist was you at the old schools, so

805
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 8: you always embraced the history of sports.

806
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:52,800
Speaker 10: I've always not just history, like really for me, history

807
00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:56,120
Speaker 10: of baseball because I'm the first generation of America. My

808
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 10: parents were Panama, and it was always baseball, baseball, baseball,

809
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,400
Speaker 10: growing up in football because you know, when I was

810
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 10: a young kid, the first guy talking about to play

811
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:05,880
Speaker 10: playball Al lups.

812
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:07,399
Speaker 1: When I was nine ten years old.

813
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 10: Al gave me a VHS of NFL films and I'm

814
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,759
Speaker 10: listening to I'm listening to Mississable talking to Old in

815
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 10: the Frozen Tundra, you know what I mean. Like I enjoyed,

816
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 10: Like I watched those on repeat. You know, Deacon Jones

817
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 10: was my favorite player of all time. I got to

818
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 10: do a show with Deacon Jones when I was seventeen

819
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:25,479
Speaker 10: years old.

820
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:26,839
Speaker 1: You remember Hardcore.

821
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 10: Football, He's be on Fox Sports back they me, Deacon

822
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 10: Jones were on that show and we were together and

823
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 10: and really just got to chop it up with for hours,

824
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 10: just trying to get a thirty minute show finished because

825
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 10: it kept cursing Kevin having to take a smoke break.

826
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 1: It just was. It was great.

827
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 10: So like part of the reason I'm excited too is

828
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 10: because like I can't wait to talk to Andre about

829
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 10: that that private that private dinner, that private talk that

830
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 10: they have with the Hall of Famers before they.

831
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: Actually get the sayers. Yeah.

832
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 10: Yeah, just like for people out there in radio land

833
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 10: who don't know Hall of Fame. The week of their all,

834
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 10: they aren't allowed to speak to the media, they aren't

835
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:06,000
Speaker 10: allowed to speak really to to anybody until their speech.

836
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 10: But I think the night before, a couple of nights before,

837
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 10: they always have a uh, we're all the old timer

838
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:11,840
Speaker 10: Hall of Famers.

839
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: For Dickey Jones used to lead this back in the

840
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: day before he passed away.

841
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:16,759
Speaker 10: Uh. You used to sit there and talk and talk

842
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 10: about the history of the game and everything. I'm waiting

843
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:21,879
Speaker 10: to hear what comes out of that room because it's

844
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:24,160
Speaker 10: like it's like food for my soul when it comes

845
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 10: to the game of football.

846
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 3: So are you gonna be there? And can't no to

847
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 3: match that you're gonna You're not missing that.

848
00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm gonna be there.

849
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 2: Teammates, teammates that you know they are gonna be there.

850
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just it's gonna be a pretty big

851
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 2: everybody everybody. I mean, have you ever been in camp before?

852
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 12: No?

853
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 1: I have not. I regret it because I didn't want

854
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 1: to go until he got in.

855
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:43,879
Speaker 10: You know, when Eltie I was I was in body

856
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,480
Speaker 10: the LT you know, when when when the Damien got

857
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 10: in and I didn't want to go. I said, I'm

858
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 10: not going into dragons. I'm not going into dragons in

859
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 10: and he was like, well, I can understand that, I said,

860
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 10: because I don't want to spoil what it is for me,

861
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 10: you know what I mean. I don't want to say, oh, yeah,

862
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 10: this is another time I've been, another time I've been,

863
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 10: you know, but uh, you know, Junior say, I was

864
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 10: good friend of mine, enjoyed you know, drinking buddies, hanging

865
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 10: out buddies, and I got invited when Junior went, but

866
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 10: I just didn't want to.

867
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 1: Go until I figure Dre was gonna get in.

868
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:14,000
Speaker 10: And so now it's it's it's.

869
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:14,240
Speaker 1: I'm so excited.

870
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 10: I think, you know, losing to Kobe kind of put

871
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 10: a damper on, you know, for us, you know, uh,

872
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 10: these these last you know, this upcoming weeks. But I think,

873
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 10: you know, it'd be great that one we'll go from

874
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 10: Jacoby's funeral to andre celebration, So it'd be it'd be

875
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 10: it'd be a kind of mixed bag, but I think

876
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 10: everybody is gonna be super excited for, you know, to

877
00:39:35,520 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 10: see our brother Andrey Lamon Johnson get into the Hall

878
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 10: of Fame.

879
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 8: Well, Travis, uh, when you look at this, Dimiko is

880
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:44,359
Speaker 8: gonna bring the whole team to the induct ship and

881
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 8: going back to Dimico for a moment. There are a

882
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 8: lot of guys that I point this out, There are

883
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 8: a lot of guys who I think would be good coaches,

884
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 8: but a lot of guys just start willing to do it, right,

885
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 8: And He's certainly willing to do it. And you always

886
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 8: think he would be willing to do it because I

887
00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,839
Speaker 8: feel like most people believe that, yeah, when they were

888
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 8: a round of as a player, who's.

889
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 3: Gonna be a good coach if he wanted to do it.

890
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 1: No question.

891
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 10: I think I think for him it was he was

892
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 10: gonna need the game the way the game needed him,

893
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 10: you know what I mean, Like, I think he loved

894
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 10: the game so much and put so much into it.

895
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 10: If you remember his rookie year, he comes in, he's

896
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 10: SEC Defensive Player of the Year. He goes the second

897
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:21,200
Speaker 10: round only because he ran a four six four seven forty,

898
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:22,320
Speaker 10: which was garbage.

899
00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: You know when you think about it as a whole, because.

900
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 10: You're like, he was SEC Defensive Player the year, it

901
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:28,919
Speaker 10: should just spoke for itself. But I'm glad he fell

902
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:32,319
Speaker 10: to us. But you remember who was starting a training camp,

903
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 10: Sam Coward. Sam Kyr was starting middle linebacker at the time.

904
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 10: They just signed Sam Kyr, gave a million dollars. The

905
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 10: side came here, was expected to play, and by week

906
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,960
Speaker 10: three it was yeah, we're gonna get to me go

907
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 10: to job, and you keep that million dollars.

908
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:48,359
Speaker 1: We're gonna send you a home, you know.

909
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 10: And and that was that was when you realize when

910
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 10: he came in that.

911
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 1: Huddle and he was took charge, he.

912
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 10: Did everything you wanted him to do, you realize he

913
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 10: was you know, he wasn't exactly what we thought he was.

914
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 10: You know he was he was a great leader. The

915
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 10: game respects him. Everybody who played with him respects him.

916
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 10: Everybody who played against some respection and they knew what

917
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:09,720
Speaker 10: type of guy he was. So you knew he would

918
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 10: want to be. You knew he'd be a great coach.

919
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 10: And like you said, what he want to be. But

920
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 10: I think he wanted to be because there's another challenge

921
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 10: for him to see can I do it the same

922
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:20,360
Speaker 10: level I did it as a player.

923
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 1: And I think he's doing that.

924
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 2: Trap You're excitement about this team twenty twenty four. I know,

925
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 2: going into twenty twenty three, everybody's kind of like a

926
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 2: I don't know him. He got some young dudes I

927
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 2: don't know. But now you've got this squad. Your thoughts

928
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 2: about twenty twenty fours team, Man, I'm so I'm listening.

929
00:41:32,520 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 2: I'm so excited the expectations. I don't even want to

930
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 2: mention it because I don't want to. I don't want

931
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,400
Speaker 2: to put it out there right now and be, you know,

932
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:41,640
Speaker 2: and be like, what.

933
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 3: You're crazy.

934
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:45,839
Speaker 10: But at the same time, I think this might be

935
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 10: outside of that team that lost Matt shab you know

936
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 10: what I mean, this is the best team we've ever had,

937
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 10: and this is our best quarterback this franchise ever seen,

938
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:57,360
Speaker 10: you know what I mean. And I think that this

939
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 10: guy's the limit. I mean for us to have sold

940
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 10: our game we have, I mean, we've always sold our

941
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:02,840
Speaker 10: games in here, you know what I mean. But to

942
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 10: start the season sold out last year I did. I

943
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 10: want to say, I did seven season ticket uh STM

944
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 10: get together's upstairs on the on the the the West Club,

945
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,839
Speaker 10: you know, for all season. I've done zero this year

946
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:21,879
Speaker 10: because I'm pretty sure all the seat tickets are gone.

947
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 9: Yeah, they're gone.

948
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:24,160
Speaker 10: Exactly, So there was no reason for me to work

949
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 10: last year. I did seven you reboard, I think I

950
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 10: did ten.

951
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:30,399
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying That we paid off? Yeah,

952
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 1: you know it was great.

953
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 10: Work, and I don't get me wrong, I truly enjoyed it,

954
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:35,719
Speaker 10: you know what I mean, And it was I'm a

955
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 10: people person, so I got to interact with a bunch

956
00:42:37,680 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 10: of people. But the fact that all of them are gone,

957
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 10: and I remember how many people were quarreling a couple

958
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,799
Speaker 10: of years ago, Like, man, I don't know, man, like

959
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 10: what you think is gonna really be? I'm like, listen,

960
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 10: you better get out. Hey, like any stock by a

961
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 10: buy cheap right now, we're down. But it ain't it

962
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 10: ain't gonna it ain't gonna stay. It ain't gonna stay

963
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,320
Speaker 10: like this. Callahanna put too much work into this franchise

964
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 10: to to first to stay like this, you know what

965
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 10: I mean from the now, from everything you see from

966
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,880
Speaker 10: the rebrand that everything has been phenomenal. So it's it's

967
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 10: you know, I really believe this team is a super

968
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 10: Bowl contender, and nobody wants to hear it. Nobody wants

969
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 10: might want to say it, but I think if it

970
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 10: for us for the first time in history is Super

971
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:19,439
Speaker 10: Bowl the bus ooh man.

972
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 3: Trap Jay's got some expectations.

973
00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:23,240
Speaker 2: I know a lot of you think that same way,

974
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 2: and a lot of you thinking about New Orleans in February.

975
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 3: I wouldn't mind it.

976
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 2: Little Drago's grill Oyster chargol Oysters and the Texas winning

977
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:33,320
Speaker 2: a Super Bowl. Yeah, I'm down with it. Thanks trap

978
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 2: That'd be awesome if that happens. Awesome because of two

979
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:41,440
Speaker 2: people that Trap Jay mentioned an interview Callahanna McNair, they

980
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 2: joined us, Well, have that for you next right here

981
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 2: in Texas All Access.

982
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 3: What better way for Texans All Access on.

983
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 2: The night before the opening preseason game of the year

984
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 2: than to have the McNair's Cal and Hannah McNair with

985
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 2: us in studio.

986
00:43:58,520 --> 00:43:59,040
Speaker 3: Let's rock.

987
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 2: What is it like for you guys us to see

988
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 2: the level of interest with the fans at practice as

989
00:44:03,719 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 2: it's been I mean eight o'clock, we turn the MIC's

990
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 2: on outside and we see people like running to a

991
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 2: spot where theyn get autographs.

992
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 3: It's been incredible. And see what's it like for you

993
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 3: guys to see that crowd.

994
00:44:12,640 --> 00:44:15,840
Speaker 13: That's awesome because uh, you know, the weather's been off, yeah,

995
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,160
Speaker 13: the last couple of practices with rain and all, and

996
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:21,360
Speaker 13: so I was expecting a very light crowd, but no,

997
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,760
Speaker 13: they all showed up and they're they're in their seats

998
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:26,960
Speaker 13: and ready to go and excited, and yeah, I mean

999
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 13: it's really really a lot of fun.

1000
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 3: It is really fun.

1001
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 12: And the kids that are excited in the stands. It's

1002
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 12: nice to have players on the field that you're proud

1003
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 12: of and that you know, can be role models for

1004
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 12: these young kids that are in the stands. So that's

1005
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:42,439
Speaker 12: that's a lot of fun to see the young kids.

1006
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:45,560
Speaker 8: I'm calling it the greatest training camp ever weather wise,

1007
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:49,200
Speaker 8: even though it's rains, Hey, rain is better than one

1008
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:50,800
Speaker 8: hundred plus degrees, right.

1009
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 3: I don't know.

1010
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:53,960
Speaker 12: I like the heat, so the rain is not good

1011
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:54,479
Speaker 12: for my hair.

1012
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,279
Speaker 3: I like the rain's good for my hair either. So

1013
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:00,200
Speaker 3: we're just you know, we're let it all hang out there.

1014
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:02,359
Speaker 3: Looks good, it's fine, it's fine.

1015
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:02,919
Speaker 1: We get there.

1016
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 3: Just the weather is just put a hat on.

1017
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:06,399
Speaker 9: It's easy for you all.

1018
00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 13: I'm just glad to be out there on the grass,

1019
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 13: whatever the weather.

1020
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 12: So yeah, and it was good that they were playing

1021
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 12: in bad weather because last year, all the bad weather

1022
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 12: games we lost, so for them to get some reps

1023
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 12: and some bad weather, to me, I thought that was

1024
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 12: really good.

1025
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: It'll be a good thing.

1026
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:24,839
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was it ounced that season tickets are sold out.

1027
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,280
Speaker 8: What's your reaction to that, cow, that's pretty amazing.

1028
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 13: That's amazing. The fans are there, they're buying all the tickets,

1029
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:34,239
Speaker 13: all the season tickets. There are some single game seats left,

1030
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 13: so don't let's not, okay, forget about those, but yeah, sweet,

1031
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 13: sales have been strong. Season tickets have been strong. You know,

1032
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:42,840
Speaker 13: a lot of work, a lot of credit goes to

1033
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 13: the ticketing department and the managers there and the folks

1034
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 13: making the calls to get the seats sold. And I'm

1035
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:50,919
Speaker 13: just really proud of you know, the whole team coming

1036
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 13: together and and I'm making that happen. Of course, it

1037
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 13: helps when you have a good a good year in

1038
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 13: the rearview mirror, and that helps a lot. But our

1039
00:45:59,239 --> 00:46:02,479
Speaker 13: guys are working hard and those are great results. Great,

1040
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:03,360
Speaker 13: we have great fans.

1041
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 8: Well, I know, so much work goes into the game experience,

1042
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 8: win or lose. There's so many other things going on

1043
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 8: to entertain people. And do you guys participate. I know

1044
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 8: you participate in that. How does that process work in

1045
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:17,840
Speaker 8: a way, because I know so many people are involved

1046
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:19,799
Speaker 8: with it, and you've got to be excited about what

1047
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:21,839
Speaker 8: you're going to unveil this year, whatever it might be

1048
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 8: when we start playing home games August seventeenth and the

1049
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:25,280
Speaker 8: twenty fourth.

1050
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:28,319
Speaker 13: Yeah, down to how the fields are painted, and then

1051
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 13: the game presentation and then the Yeah, we're talking about

1052
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:37,319
Speaker 13: the roof and it looks like we can we'll have

1053
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:39,279
Speaker 13: the option to open it or close it this year,

1054
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 13: even before it's repaired. So that'll be interesting to see,

1055
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:45,600
Speaker 13: you know, get everyone's input on how we want to

1056
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 13: handle that, and also listen to the fans because they

1057
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:53,800
Speaker 13: like to be comfortable watching the game too, So that'll

1058
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 13: we'll listen and take all those inputs and come up

1059
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 13: with good decisions.

1060
00:46:57,480 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: But we get to.

1061
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 13: Visit with the folks that are help managing the traffic

1062
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 13: inbound and managing the traffic outbound and trying to get

1063
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:10,160
Speaker 13: the fans in and out as efficiently as possible, and

1064
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:12,880
Speaker 13: then how they check into the game and where those

1065
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 13: checkpoints are. We've moved them out so people can roam

1066
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,399
Speaker 13: around the stadium a lot more easily. And then we've

1067
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 13: gone out to the tailgate. Did we go last year?

1068
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:24,040
Speaker 9: We've couple of times.

1069
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:26,359
Speaker 13: Yeah, And I mean they're having a lot of fun

1070
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 13: out there, so yeah, we just need them to wrap

1071
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 13: that up a little bit and come in and watch

1072
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 13: the game. But you can see why because they're having

1073
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 13: a lot of fun. There's some major setups south.

1074
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:39,800
Speaker 2: Man, so much good stuff that interview with Callahana Mcare.

1075
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 2: We really appreciate them for stopping buying. All of you

1076
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:46,640
Speaker 2: guys for listening. Tomorrow night, Baby, let's get it kicked off.

1077
00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 2: We're nearly twenty four hours away. A big thanks to

1078
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,760
Speaker 2: Cal and Hannah, A big thanks to the General, John McClain,

1079
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 2: Trap Jay, Marv vandermiir is always all of you for listening.

1080
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:59,800
Speaker 2: We will see you tomorrow Canton, Baby, let's go and

1081
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 2: let's go Texans,