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Speaker 1: Welcome to everybody to a Monday edition of Texans All

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Speaker 1: Access from the Monday Texans Radio studio. Glad to be

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Speaker 1: with you a few About forty eight hours after the

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Speaker 1: Texans come up with a sixteen thirteen win over the

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Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine Ers in preseason game number two

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Speaker 1: on tap this weekend, the La rams out in the Coliseum,

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Speaker 1: a renovated coliseum, apparently half renovated. I'm your host, John

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Speaker 1: Harris alongside the voice of the Texans, Mark Vanomer. We

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Speaker 1: talked a little bit about the Colisseum this morning, and

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Speaker 1: I've seen more pictures Mark. That renovation is gonna be

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Speaker 1: nice when it's all done, but it's about halfway through.

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Speaker 1: How about you playing a stadium where they're renovating it,

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Speaker 1: and you're playing in it while they're renovating it, and

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Speaker 1: it's not for you. They're not doing it for you,

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Speaker 1: they're doing it for USC plays. Meanwhile, it is under

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Speaker 1: construction elsewhere, and don't even ask me where that is.

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Speaker 1: It's like, La is strange. I don't know La. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know La, but I don't know geographically.

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Speaker 1: I can't five way rat La without Google. I don't

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Speaker 1: have a clue last year to La. The Rams game

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Speaker 1: is my first game first time, two lost, which I

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Speaker 1: found really surprising. I've been there a number of times,

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Speaker 1: but I just don't know the city. I had never

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Speaker 1: It's the only big city I've never been to. I've

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Speaker 1: ended pretty much every United States big city, you name it,

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Speaker 1: I've been there. At least it's not a small country.

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Speaker 1: I think it's I would like to see a little

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Speaker 1: bit more of the the parts that make La La like.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to go to Hollywood. I'd like to other places.

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Speaker 1: But the stadium apparently is going to be down by

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Speaker 1: where the Great Western Forum used to be. It's right across. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be right across. Apparently they've up, They've they've

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Speaker 1: updated and renovated the Great Western Forum. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what they're gonna do with it, because I don't call

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Speaker 1: it that. I call it the LA Forum. Forming out

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Speaker 1: the LA Farm for Game seven Celtics and the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: There were some great games in that building. I'd rather

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Speaker 1: be square. Dan tak an a leparicality. That's Johnny most

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Speaker 1: the Yellow Cowards the way they do when he would

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Speaker 1: getting mad about the Detroit Pistons yoh, he was the

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Speaker 1: best chick. Her was way more of a gentleman than

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Speaker 1: Johnny Most was about those things. Most was a gentleman.

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Speaker 1: I actually met him once, way before I was in

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Speaker 1: the business, and he had quit smoking and you could

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Speaker 1: barely recognize his voice. After he quit smoking. He was like, hither, everybody,

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Speaker 1: my name is Johnny Most. I'm like, wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: you're not Johnny Most. Where you gotta take up smoking again.

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Speaker 1: One of my favorite Johnny Most stories of all time.

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Speaker 1: He's when his cigarette oh yes, his cigarette ash that's

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Speaker 1: out there and Glenn Ordway his pants catch on fire

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Speaker 1: during a game. Pants on fire literally like literally literally

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Speaker 1: it's the absolutely By the way, what I know, we

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Speaker 1: have to talk about Clowney and Martinez, ranking and everybody.

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Speaker 1: But while we're on the subject of announcers, uh, hat

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Speaker 1: hats off to Bob Lamy on a terrific career the

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Speaker 1: voice of the Indianapolis Colts. He is retiring at age eighty,

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Speaker 1: and I didn't know he was eighty. You know, I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying that Bob is exactly spelt all right, but

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Speaker 1: I didn't know he was eighty. He actually looks pretty

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Speaker 1: good for eighty and he decided to call it quits.

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Speaker 1: Just tiring being on the road all the time and everything.

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Speaker 1: He just decided that's enough. And when you're eighty, come on,

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Speaker 1: that's a great run. He hat. He's the only guy

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Speaker 1: to call Colts games in Indy, So that's saying something. Look,

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Speaker 1: you know they've had some success there, there's no doubt

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Speaker 1: about that. So congratulations to him. He's a wonderful guy,

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Speaker 1: really nice guy. Well, if you think about it from

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Speaker 1: this perspective, Mike Keith has been in Tennessee for since

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Speaker 1: they got there. Well so since right is the first

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Speaker 1: year they got there or ninety seven? Yeah, so in

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Speaker 1: the AFC South since two thousand and two, the three

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Speaker 1: of you, Mike Keith, Bob Lamy and you had called

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Speaker 1: every game for your respective organizations. Well, I mean and

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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville was just Brian Sexton and count because they

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Speaker 1: are the Oilers. No, No, I'm just saying from a

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Speaker 1: having not having to change in voice if you will,

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Speaker 1: like the vision. Yeah, so the vision going through some change.

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Speaker 1: We'll see Matt Taylor, who we know pretty well, has

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Speaker 1: He's gonna go up in the booth and do play

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Speaker 1: by play, at least in in room until they make

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Speaker 1: a decision of what they're going to do. M Peyton

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Speaker 1: Manning is play by play man. No, that can't happen,

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Speaker 1: could it? Play by play man? No, that won't happen. No, No,

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Speaker 1: that really wants that would make for a fun man

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Speaker 1: behind the mics. You haven't interview Payton Manning? Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: I want to get his phone number and interview him

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Speaker 1: every week. Now. It's funny because Matt Taylor has taken

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Speaker 1: Zach Street. He's had a couple of games under his

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Speaker 1: belt to be the play by play announcer. He's a

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Speaker 1: former player for them. I heard some of the broadcast.

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Speaker 1: Not going to comment on it right now. It's preseason.

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Speaker 1: Let them work out some of the kinks. But you know,

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Speaker 1: I think I'm the only guy. I am the only

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Speaker 1: but you know we're the youngest franchisees. Well, so I

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Speaker 1: and then obviously Bob stepped away. Here's my quick story

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Speaker 1: about Bob. This was in either fifteen or sixteen. I

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Speaker 1: which was always the way it was, at least since

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Speaker 1: I've been around four fourteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen seventeen. We

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Speaker 1: didn't know that voice, Like who? I didn't know that?

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Speaker 1: And I turned around, I see, I see Bob. Bob's

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Speaker 1: And so we chatted for just a little bit, told

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Speaker 1: wife made cookies for you, which I thought was absolutely unbelievable. Spoke, oh,

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Speaker 1: They were delicious. And Bob is also from Victoria and

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Speaker 1: There's one of the team in the AFC. There was

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Speaker 1: They were the Dallas Texans, and so were the Colts,

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Speaker 1: broke apart and got back together. In indeed, there's a

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Speaker 1: played for the Jets. Dockery, Uh, John Dockery, Yeah, John Dockery. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I I wanted to see all the footage I possibly

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Speaker 1: Chick Harris, he used to coach running backs here and

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Speaker 1: was a Sweetwater Country Club member. Might still be. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure anyway, Chick Harris coached in the WUFL, and

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Speaker 1: would who would hit WFL man, Oh, there are a

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Speaker 1: bunch of guys. Jim Fossil, What did Jim Fossil coaching? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. These guys all have a lot of

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Speaker 1: Mourra got into the league. He was with the USFL

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Speaker 1: YEA turned to Philadelphia Stars into champions. He goes and

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Speaker 1: takes the head coaching job with the Saints and the GM.

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Speaker 1: him is he's just that's just cup. You never know

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Speaker 1: what you're gonna get. It's uh, it's a play by

425
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Speaker 1: air deal when you when you did it with him,

426
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Speaker 1: So anything you heard from him, you know what I'm saying,

427
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Speaker 1: Just keep your eyes up and to keep a question

428
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Speaker 1: Mark next to you. I understand completely. The question mark

429
00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,400
Speaker 1: makes sense now, I totally get it. Brandon. We get

430
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Speaker 1: into this last week week and a half in training camp.

431
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Speaker 1: What is it you want to see from from your squad?

432
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Speaker 1: In particular, what do you want to see over this

433
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Speaker 1: last week and a half you guys get ready for

434
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Speaker 1: the regular season. Name confirmorary football, all three phases working together.

435
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Speaker 1: We really believe in what coach o'b is preaching to us.

436
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Speaker 1: I promise you. We are a lot of veteran guys.

437
00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:38,280
Speaker 1: Heard know what's lingo. You know what I'm saying, No,

438
00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:40,080
Speaker 1: what he's expecting, no what he wants, and we just

439
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Speaker 1: want to execute for that guy and for us to

440
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Speaker 1: go out here this week three and uh, we're gonna

441
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Speaker 1: understand confirmary football, you know, player together and put it together,

442
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Speaker 1: you know the way he wants it that we've been

443
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Speaker 1: gonna shape. Brand. Appreciate man, thank you, thank you. That

444
00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:58,000
Speaker 1: man is outstanding. I appreciate this time, Brandon. Done. Yeah,

445
00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:03,119
Speaker 1: the all dressed chips, it's continues to have layers to

446
00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:07,080
Speaker 1: it because I always fed that information by somebody in

447
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Speaker 1: the organization. I will not say who. And then I

448
00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:12,080
Speaker 1: asked Christie Compton about it, and of course he played

449
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Speaker 1: it down, so I had to get the real truth

450
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Speaker 1: from random done. But here's the one thing I love.

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Speaker 1: I love about this defensive line. When we talk about

452
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Speaker 1: various groups and units on a team, a lot of

453
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Speaker 1: people just immediately go to the offensive line. Oh, they're

454
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Speaker 1: the offensive line. That's the tightest group in the room.

455
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Speaker 1: Those guys have to work together, they're synergy, they're always working.

456
00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:38,440
Speaker 1: You know, five guys make a fist, you know, five

457
00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:40,199
Speaker 1: fingers make a fist, all that kind of stuff. And

458
00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:42,600
Speaker 1: so it's always thought that the offensive line is the

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Speaker 1: tightest group because they have to be. They have to

460
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Speaker 1: play that way. And the secondary around here has been

461
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Speaker 1: very tight. I mean, that's a that group led by

462
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Speaker 1: a creeman J Joe. For the last seventy years, those

463
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Speaker 1: guys have been a really tight, solid group, and I

464
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Speaker 1: think that's still the same. I think the one thing

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Speaker 1: I've noticed with the defensive line the last couple of

466
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Speaker 1: years is how tight and how I don't say different,

467
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Speaker 1: but unique I guess that that D line group is

468
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Speaker 1: and how well they all get along. To see them

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Speaker 1: at the Greenbrier and to just see how they all

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Speaker 1: work together and how they kind of poking pride one another.

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Speaker 1: But yet they know, as as Brandon said an interview,

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Speaker 1: that they're all family and they're all looking to help family.

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Speaker 1: But they will not they will not back down from

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Speaker 1: taking a little bit of a jab at one another.

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Speaker 1: I love that room, and of course the guy who

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Speaker 1: leads at Anthony Weaver and assistant mat Odonald. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I've known we for a long time and Matt o'donald

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Speaker 1: went to Round University, so I've got love for the

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Speaker 1: two defensive line coaches and Anthony Weaver and I I've

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Speaker 1: known we for a long long time, from the time

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Speaker 1: when he was a player and I did radio with

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Speaker 1: him until now. I think the world of Weave. I

483
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Speaker 1: think he's a whale of a d line coach, and

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Speaker 1: I think he's taken a group and turned it into

485
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Speaker 1: a and it will be a complete monster. And Brandon Dunne,

486
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Speaker 1: it's going to be part of that. Made a couple

487
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Speaker 1: of really nice plays. I thought he played some great

488
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Speaker 1: football in twenty seventeen, which I thought was unfortunate because

489
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Speaker 1: it sort of got lost in at four and twelfth season.

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Speaker 1: But I thought Brandon Dunne was exceptional in twenty seventeen

491
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Speaker 1: and hopefully twenty eighteen brings about similar results from the

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Speaker 1: guy they call it DJ Dunney. Now let's flip it

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Speaker 1: over to the offensive side of the ball, in the

494
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Speaker 1: offensive line, as Mark Vandermer had a chance to catch

495
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Speaker 1: up with Toledo's finest, Greg mans Mark. So here you

496
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Speaker 1: are the wiley veteran. I mean, are you one of

497
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Speaker 1: the elder states has been here? In your opinion? The

498
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Speaker 1: way you kind of help other guys along. You know,

499
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Speaker 1: it's sort of funny when you look at the room.

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Speaker 1: You know, DQ was the only guy who was here

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Speaker 1: before me Lammon slide. So it's sort of a you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a different field this year. You know, we don't

503
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Speaker 1: necessarily have some of the some of the veteran like

504
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Speaker 1: age guys, but we have a lot of guys who've

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Speaker 1: played a lot of football. So it's sort of a

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Speaker 1: neat group. So they say, they all say to a

507
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Speaker 1: man that you're the guy who keeps people loose, other

508
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Speaker 1: than maybe Big Trail, how do you see it? You know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Trail's obviously got the got the jokes. He's

510
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Speaker 1: definitely the funny guy in the room. Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: I just like to have a come and have a

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Speaker 1: little energy at practice, you know, So it's the same

513
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Speaker 1: way sort of just try to have some fun, you know,

514
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Speaker 1: dance around a little bit, half a good time. What

515
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Speaker 1: about Terry Swantson. I mean, it's it's really cool because

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Speaker 1: you know, I remember when he came in as a

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Speaker 1: freshman at Toledo, you know, and now I get to

518
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Speaker 1: see him as a rookie in the NFL. It's really

519
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Speaker 1: neat to be able to be on his team both times,

520
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 1: and it's been neat to sort of see him grow up.

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Speaker 1: You guys obviously keep track of this stuff. So you

522
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,239
Speaker 1: haven't allowed any sacks so far in the preseason. That's

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Speaker 1: got to be some sort of a sense of pride

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Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, you know, I mean it's a step

525
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Speaker 1: in the right direction. But really the only thing that's

526
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Speaker 1: important was today and then tomorrow and then the game

527
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Speaker 1: this weekend. So you know, we have a long way

528
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Speaker 1: to go before I think any of us would say

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Speaker 1: we've we've reached our goals or anything like that. But

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's a one step along the way. I know,

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Speaker 1: as a group, you want to run the ball better,

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Speaker 1: and that's really a sense of pride. So what does

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Speaker 1: it take to get better at that? You know, I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of it is just we we got

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Speaker 1: to work together, you know, every day, and it's one

536
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Speaker 1: of those things where it's not going to be and

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Speaker 1: you know, we got to keep battling through their you know, tomorrow,

538
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Speaker 1: the rest of camp, you know, and just keep working

539
00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,439
Speaker 1: because it's never gonna be perfect. But as long as

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Speaker 1: we can keep trying to get better, it should get

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Speaker 1: better throughout the year. How do you get better at technique?

542
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Speaker 1: And I see you guys staying after practice and doing

543
00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 1: things with the medicine ball or whatever, And what does

544
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Speaker 1: it take? I think, you know, for an offensive linement,

545
00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:24,119
Speaker 1: it's just a lot of practice muscle memory, because you know,

546
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 1: our position is all about positioning and leverage and blocking,

547
00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 1: and coach Dev gives us a lot of tools and

548
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,200
Speaker 1: sort of lets us figure out what we need to

549
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:33,760
Speaker 1: get better and then we work on it, like you said,

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Speaker 1: after practice, before practice, whenever we can your knowledge of

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Speaker 1: the offense. I mean, I've heard from other guys it

552
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,200
Speaker 1: takes three or four years to really get comfortable. Where

553
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,680
Speaker 1: are you at personally? You know, my rookie year, I

554
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,320
Speaker 1: hurt my knee, and it gave me a great chance

555
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:49,280
Speaker 1: to learn everything in the classroom at a different at

556
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Speaker 1: a different level. So I'd say I have you know,

557
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 1: you're always learning. You're always learning about formations and routes

558
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,119
Speaker 1: and blocking schemes, and you're watching other guys and seeing

559
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Speaker 1: what they're doing. But I think I have a good bay.

560
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Speaker 1: You know, it's amazing how time flies. Feels like guys

561
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: like Greg Mantz and Christian Covington just got into the

562
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 1: locker room yesterday and yet they've been around here since

563
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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, fourth year. I mean it's amazing to think.

564
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Speaker 1: I mean, Jamien Clowney is this is his four, five, six, seven, eight,

565
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Speaker 1: this is fifth year. I mean, time really has flown.

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Speaker 1: And when I think about Greg mans, I mean I

567
00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 1: think about that twenty sixteen season where he started sixteen games.

568
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Speaker 1: Think about the offensive line. The last couple of years,

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Speaker 1: there have not been many players that started all sixteen

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Speaker 1: games on the offensive lines, certainly not left tackle, that's

571
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Speaker 1: for sure. Jeff Allen was banged up. I think Xavier

572
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 1: may have played sixteen games last year, but I believe

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Speaker 1: Greg Mantz in sixteen was sixteen games, and I think

574
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Speaker 1: Xavier suf Fiel last year, the only two offensive lineman

575
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Speaker 1: last couple of years to go all sixteen games, and

576
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Speaker 1: Greg did that and then obviously played in the playoffs

577
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Speaker 1: for another couple of games. So Greg Man's going from

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Speaker 1: undrafted again one of those undrafted guys that found his

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00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,640
Speaker 1: way and looked he should have been drafted, and we've

580
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 1: seen that. We've seen that story a little bit over

581
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:15,800
Speaker 1: the last few years. Duke Getge four, a guy that

582
00:27:15,840 --> 00:27:18,440
Speaker 1: should been drafted earlier, it gets drafted in the sixth round,

583
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Speaker 1: fully healthy. I don't think Duke gets out of the

584
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 1: third round, to be honest with you, but because he

585
00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:25,520
Speaker 1: was banged up in the draft process, he goes in

586
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Speaker 1: the sixth round. Greg Man's should have been no worse

587
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: than a fifth rounder, but he gets undrafted because he

588
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,400
Speaker 1: was banged up in the draft process. So those injuries

589
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 1: set those guys back from drafted perspective. But once you

590
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: get him healthy and you get him on campus, so

591
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: to speak, they turned back into the players you thought

592
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Speaker 1: they were gonna be. And Greg obviously going it's his

593
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Speaker 1: fourth year, has proven his value to the organization and

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be a key guy that's offen to deliable

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Speaker 1: rely on. Look like I just said, how many guys

596
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Speaker 1: played sixteen games the last couple of years to this

597
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Speaker 1: team only two, So there're gonna be some guys banged

598
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Speaker 1: up along the way. You hope that doesn't happen, but

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Speaker 1: it's gonna happen, and you gotta be able to have

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Speaker 1: a guy you rely on. Greg mans is definitely a

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Speaker 1: guy that Texans have relied upon him. When he goes

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Speaker 1: in the game, you feel confident. This guy started for

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Speaker 1: a playoff team at sixteen at all sixteen games plus

604
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Speaker 1: two playoff teams, all eighteen games of that season, he

605
00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: started at center, so you know how much value he

606
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:21,480
Speaker 1: provides because of that situation. But getting Martinez Ranking back

607
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: today huge step in the right direction. Having a guy

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Speaker 1: around like Greg Manz who is continued to be a

609
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: guy that Texas organization can rely upon. Those things help

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Speaker 1: those two players in particularly help the depth of this

611
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Speaker 1: offensive line, and you're gonna have to rely I would

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Speaker 1: imagine on those two at some point this year. At

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Speaker 1: some point this year, Greg mans Is gonna be on

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Speaker 1: the field and Martinez Ranking gonna be on the field,

615
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Speaker 1: and they got to be able to produce and Greg

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Speaker 1: obviously has in the past, and Martinez has got to

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Speaker 1: prove that he's worthy of that third round pick, and hopefully,

618
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Speaker 1: if my gut is correct, I think he'll show that

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Speaker 1: he's more than a third round pick. He's gonna end

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Speaker 1: up being a player Martiness ranking for a long time.

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Speaker 1: But either way, big thanks to Greg Nance and to

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Speaker 1: Brandon Done. All right, Coming up, it's the man we

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Speaker 1: love to hear from on Mondays, and that is Andre

624
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: where he gives us his thoughts on a number of

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Speaker 1: topics from the preseason win over the forty nine ers.

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Speaker 1: Next RADI here in Texans All Access. What is up? Everybody?

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to a Monday edition of Texans All Access

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Speaker 1: from the Hounday Texans Radio Studio. Been inside all day,

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Speaker 1: was inside for Texas Monday from eight to ten this morning,

630
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: was inside for practice today, and back in our palatial

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Speaker 1: Honday Texans Radio student right now. And I can't tell

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Speaker 1: you how good that feels. We've had enough outside for

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Speaker 1: the time being, and we'll be going outside to LA

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Speaker 1: for the game on Saturday. As Mark mentioned the first segment,

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Speaker 1: three o'clock Central time, kick one o'clock out in La.

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Speaker 1: If you do happen to go one o'clock out in

637
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Speaker 1: LA three o'clock central kick, which I actually I don't

638
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 1: mind it because that'll get us back. It'll get us

639
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: back at dark thirty, late Saturday night or early Sunday morning.

640
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 1: But it's not like a night game where we'd have

641
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 1: who knows when we would have gotten back. Oh my gosh,

642
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,280
Speaker 1: it was a West Coast night game. And then we're

643
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Speaker 1: coming back after that. No, thank you, appreciate you being here.

644
00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris Football Anosto silent reporter. It's

645
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: time to talk to our good friend on DRE where

646
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 1: he obviously had some thoughts on the preseason went over

647
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers, so we caught up with him

648
00:30:55,720 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 1: to discuss those DRE after seeing what Watson did during

649
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: that drive, what are your thoughts on where he's at

650
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: right now going into year two, coming back from the

651
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: knee all of it, Well, you could tell he didn't

652
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 1: just go into rehab and just start working on his knee.

653
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: He worked on you know what, the things between his

654
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 1: ear is, getting to know the system a little bit better.

655
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: And now he's coming out he looks like he's four

656
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: or five years in the league as opposed to just

657
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: being going into a second year and so when you

658
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:31,000
Speaker 1: when you're at a level, he is is going to

659
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: make a lot of guys around you better at that position.

660
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 1: And you know, he looked like it was. He made

661
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: it look easy on Saturday night, and we obviously dre

662
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: you know more than anybody else. It is not that easy.

663
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,880
Speaker 1: But I actually heard this, and I want to, Okay,

664
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: I want to ask you this because I heard this

665
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: on a podcast that I actually was listening to this

666
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: weekend on Saturday, and it was a writer from The

667
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 1: Ringer by name of Kevin Clark, and he made a

668
00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 1: comment he said, it is now easier to play quarterback

669
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: than ever before. He said it is now, he actually

670
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,280
Speaker 1: said later it is easy to play quarterback in the NFL.

671
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: You agree this year that comment? Has he ever played?

672
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: Of course? That my questions has he ever played the game,

673
00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: because a lot of guys hit around and they look

674
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 1: at stats and missed that and the other. And I'm joking,

675
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: but I'm half serious as well. It's not easier. Athletes

676
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: are bigger, faster, stronger. You got guys flying off the edges,

677
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: you get guys coming right in your face. That first

678
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: pass or the big pass that he hit, that Deshaun

679
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: hit Bruce Ellington on he had somebody right in his face.

680
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:42,280
Speaker 1: So I think it's tougher to play it at this

681
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: day and age than it was years ago because the

682
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:49,200
Speaker 1: athletes are different. There's no doubt about it. Yeah, I'd

683
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:51,480
Speaker 1: love to I'd love to see that article. Send it

684
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,520
Speaker 1: to me, Johnny, and where I can get some you know, real, real,

685
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: big and real. You can get some substance from it,

686
00:32:57,120 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: but there's uh, there's no way that's actual. Yeah, it's

687
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: funny because when I heard him say it, I was driving.

688
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: I heard him saying, I almost drove off the road,

689
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 1: as like he did not just say I what I

690
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: thought he said. And he started talking about, well, you know,

691
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:13,239
Speaker 1: you can throw the ball in the middle of the

692
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: field now and it's easy to get completion percentages. But

693
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: what you're seeing on defense is so complex. I mean,

694
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: you don't see in the preseason, but you're seeing such

695
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 1: complex coverages and things. You're seeing guys like Aaron Donald

696
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: Khalil MC. Of course they're not back, but you know

697
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 1: Von Miller and Joey Bose, you got throwing. Those guys

698
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 1: are bearing down on you. I would think it's probably

699
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:34,040
Speaker 1: more difficult now than ever before to play in the

700
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: NFL with all the different things that you're seeing. Defensively,

701
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 1: you're right three or four looks. You get zone blitzers,

702
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: things of that sword guys that are you know, big

703
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 1: defensive lineman ends dropping in the coverage. You got some

704
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: that are a defensive tackle, the nose tackles, and now

705
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: start to rush back out and you're talking about throwing

706
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: over the middle if you got an under outcoming. And

707
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: I'm getting a little technical now for our listeners, but

708
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 1: he's got a big, you know, nose tackles sitting there

709
00:33:58,960 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 1: that you don't account for being in that passing like.

710
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: It is tougher this day and age to play quarterback,

711
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Andre Ware joining us Toy. They've

712
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: thrown the ball a bunch through the first two preseason games.

713
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: They haven't given up any sacks. So that's a good

714
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: thing about the old line performance. But they're not running

715
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: the ball the way they watch. So what about that

716
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: phase of it? What about that side of it the

717
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 1: old line in general? Well, you know, this may be

718
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: what this team becomes this year, and by that I

719
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: mean you may have to throw to get the running

720
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,279
Speaker 1: game going and spread people out where now you've got

721
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: you know, better creases, better blocking angles, things of that sort.

722
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: And then once they settle back into stopping the run again,

723
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 1: go back and throwing the football. That might just be

724
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:43,760
Speaker 1: the makeup of this team. And that's how New England

725
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: does it. I mean, Brady throws the ball around to

726
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: get the running game and there's no there's no fault

727
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 1: in that, and that's just how it is on some

728
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,399
Speaker 1: teams and in certain years. But I'm not worried as

729
00:34:56,440 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 1: I was before the preseason started about the this offensive line.

730
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 1: I think they've they've they're gonna jail, they're coming together.

731
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 1: Things are there there the week before, the week prior

732
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 1: against Kansas City. They're worth some some running lanes there,

733
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: especially early in the game for Lamar Miller. So I'm

734
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: not quite as quite as worried about the old line

735
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: as I was before the season actually started. Dre defensively,

736
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 1: was there anything good or bad that stood out to

737
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 1: you from that side of the ball. Obviously, Garoppolo took

738
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: that first drive and took it all the way down.

739
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: The second drive. They got a little bit of help

740
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 1: from the penalties, especially Western Richburg. But defensively, what did

741
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: you think overall from that unit? Well, the good that

742
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: I took away some young players continuing to step up.

743
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 1: Duke et four, you know, did what he did. He's

744
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 1: pressure in the quarterback. And not only that, we talked about, Okay,

745
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: if he's gonna make this football team's gonna have to

746
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:54,680
Speaker 1: make it basically on his ability to play special teams,

747
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 1: and he did and looked well, looked very good playing

748
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: special teams. Devin of another outside linebacker type, that undrafted

749
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 1: college free agent that you know you've mentioned it during

750
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,400
Speaker 1: the broadcast, Johnny that at Daryl Georgia, there's times that

751
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: he looked dominant and there's times he didn't look like

752
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:13,919
Speaker 1: he was on the field. Well, Saturday night, we knew

753
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:15,800
Speaker 1: he was on the field. He made some plays, he

754
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 1: recovered a fumble. I thought Brandon Dunn had one of

755
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: his better preseason games. And inside at nose tackle looked well,

756
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: was very active. The takeaway from the other side of

757
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: it is that there needs to be some young defensive backs,

758
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 1: especially at corner, that step up. You know, we talked

759
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:37,239
Speaker 1: about injuries. All of a sudden, Kevin Johnson goes out

760
00:36:37,239 --> 00:36:40,760
Speaker 1: of this game, early and now you've got guys running

761
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: wide open behind the secondary, and that that's Jimmy Garoppolo

762
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,759
Speaker 1: in the game. There are a couple of instances where

763
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,840
Speaker 1: that's six and it's instead of C. J. Bethort and

764
00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: he's overthrowing receivers. But you just can't have that. You

765
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 1: can't have a guy running two steps by the secondary.

766
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 1: Once the starters are out of the game, and they're

767
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,919
Speaker 1: gonna be instances where are these young guys are going

768
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 1: to have to play? So that is where I think

769
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: the work needs to be done. Drey, did you ever

770
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: play a game at the Coliseum? I forgot No, I

771
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 1: did not. By the way, two hundred seventy remember the

772
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 1: hike up to the press box and and all of that,

773
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 1: But no, I never never played there. Two hundred and

774
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 1: seventy million dollars renovation there, and it's not done. It's

775
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 1: a mess. It's as well, I'll just put it this way.

776
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 1: For what we do, it's kind of a mess. And

777
00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 1: I think for the fans too. They are under construction

778
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:37,359
Speaker 1: at the coliseum and basically the press box, all that

779
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: press box has moved down. There's like a there's like

780
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 1: a semi permanent press box like in the middle of

781
00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: the home side, well, which is nicer for us, Tray,

782
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 1: we want to have to walk up as much because

783
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: I was pretty winded after that. Yeah, I remember, you know,

784
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: it's all about the view for us and how we

785
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 1: view it from our vantage point. But so moving it

786
00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 1: down it is certainly then make it a lot better.

787
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 1: I don't know about you know, where we're sitting and

788
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,319
Speaker 1: all that stuff. We'll deal with that, but the view

789
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: was horrible when we were there last year. Are you

790
00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: with me that? Well, look, I can't even say that

791
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: I'm one on this, but what do you think of

792
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:19,720
Speaker 1: Watson's playing time this week? I'm almost feeling like, jeez,

793
00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: do you even need to see him again? I mean,

794
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: he looked so good against San Francisco. Do you want

795
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: to risk it or how do you handle it? Onre

796
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 1: you want to keep them sharp. They're not gonna have

797
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: any joint practices this week. What do you do on Saturday? Well? Oh,

798
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: this will sound crazy, but I think it's it's almost

799
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: predicated on who the Rams play and if you're if

800
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 1: you're getting the Rams their first team, you kind of

801
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 1: want the challenge to see where you are on an

802
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 1: office they have. He has yet to be in a

803
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 1: game with DeAndre Hopkins as you have to be in

804
00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: a preseason game with Will Fuller, you know, a full

805
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 1: compliment of players, so at some point you want to

806
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 1: see that. Now there's some gray area, and understandably so

807
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 1: where you don't want to subject anybody to injury and

808
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: just let's get to the regular season. But I think

809
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:13,840
Speaker 1: you need to work. I think you answer the challenge

810
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 1: and you want to see who can block who. You

811
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: want to see if if guys can get themselves open,

812
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: and if it looks as easy once he has a

813
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:25,919
Speaker 1: full compliment, you know, your right mind would say yes,

814
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:29,399
Speaker 1: it should be easier because the athletes around him will

815
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: get better and so the play will go up. But

816
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 1: I think you still need to work as a total

817
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:37,360
Speaker 1: first team unit. So with that being said, maybe maybe

818
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,919
Speaker 1: two or three series and then you set him down

819
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:43,959
Speaker 1: based on how they look. If it takes the first

820
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 1: quarter to get yourself going and rebbed up as an offense,

821
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: because chemistry is hard to find, and you know, once

822
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: you see what you need to see, then that'll be

823
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: it for I think all of them to have a

824
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: seat and let the young guys take over. I can't

825
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: believe Joy We've gone this far without talking about the

826
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 1: other quarterback. And I put an air quotes because it

827
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: feels like he's done so much more than just be

828
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,120
Speaker 1: a quarterback. And that's Joe Webbing. He didn't throw the

829
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,239
Speaker 1: ball excessively well, Dre he obviously made the big throw

830
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,840
Speaker 1: at the end, But there's just something about Joe Webb

831
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,720
Speaker 1: being in a football game that I feel really good about.

832
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: And I think there's a spot for him on not

833
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: only the fifty three, but on the forty six man roster.

834
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about Joe Webbing? What did the

835
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: other night and how he projects on this roster going forward? Well,

836
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 1: you know, fans just attract themselves to guys like Joe Wibb.

837
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: You know, I'm listening to different talk shows and they're

838
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:35,280
Speaker 1: you know, fans of calling Man asking about Joe Wibb.

839
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, and right now he's the third.

840
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,799
Speaker 1: But when you look at what he does and his

841
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:47,439
Speaker 1: story and how he's how he's lasted for now going

842
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 1: on what is it, nine years in this league, he's

843
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 1: a guy to check their root for. He will do

844
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 1: anything to make the team. He's a phenomenal athlete where

845
00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 1: he's played special teams, he played wide receiver, he's played quarterback,

846
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,879
Speaker 1: he's run the ball from the quarterback position. He can

847
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Speaker 1: do you know, you can do it all. He's a

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Speaker 1: versatile guy, and so he's easy to root for in

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Speaker 1: that sense. When you see him going down covering kicks

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Speaker 1: at six y four two hundred and thirty pounds, I

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Speaker 1: think he makes it. The way I think he makes

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Speaker 1: it is somebody else and Mark and I were having

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Speaker 1: this conversation the other day that somebody else needs to

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Speaker 1: step up and become a kick return man within a

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Speaker 1: position group, whether it's a defensive back, a wide receiver,

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Speaker 1: a running back. Troy made Pope can go a long

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Speaker 1: way in that yard. He had a great return the

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Speaker 1: other night. But for Joe to find a spot on

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Speaker 1: this scene, I think that's gonna have to happen because

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Speaker 1: they can't really afford to carry a specialist who just

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Speaker 1: returns kicks. And then somebody else who you know, Now

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Speaker 1: you got Brian Peter, he becomes Brian Peters versus Joe will.

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Speaker 1: So it's a difficult decision, but one that you kind

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Speaker 1: of welcome because you know that you've got talent. No

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Speaker 1: matter which way you decide to go. But I actually

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Speaker 1: think he finds a way to make this team. And

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Speaker 1: there is Andre where our game analysts and one of

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Speaker 1: the best you're gonna find in this business, really appreciate

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Speaker 1: Dre stopping by. Had a lot of fun today, had

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Speaker 1: Greg manson the show, had Brandon done, had Mark Vandermer.

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Speaker 1: Early in the show, we talked about the preseason game

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Speaker 1: coming up on Saturday. Some big news for the Texans

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Speaker 1: if you missed it, Martinez Ranking is back, the rookie

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Speaker 1: out of Mississippi State taking off the pup list. Oh

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Speaker 1: and oh, by the way to Devion Clowney is back

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Speaker 1: as well. The thing about Clowne is he's been around,

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Speaker 1: He's been doing work. It's just he got ramped up

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Speaker 1: to one hundred percent today. It was sort of the

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Speaker 1: time frame that we figured it was. Now, we just

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Speaker 1: need a couple of guys that are a little dinged

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Speaker 1: up to get back that started training camp with Merciless,

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Speaker 1: in particular KIKQT. Got to get them back and hope

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Speaker 1: that Kevin Johnson is gonna be okay going forward and

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Speaker 1: we can get him back on the field when the

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Speaker 1: pieces come together. I saw earlier today. Michael Lombardi, long

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Speaker 1: time executive in the NFL, worked for the Cleveland Browns,

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Speaker 1: and Bill Belichick was there pick the Packers in the

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Speaker 1: Texans as this super Bowl pick who Boy, that would

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Speaker 1: be fun going at lant or a bout of cheese

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Speaker 1: heads and Texans man, that would be a blast. We

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00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 1: got a long way to get there, but this team

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Speaker 1: continue to put in the work. As you heard Brandon Dunstay,

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Speaker 1: continuing to follow coach O'Brien's message. See what this team

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Speaker 1: can do. Boy, it would be fun to be doing

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Speaker 1: this show all the way into February, There's no question

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Speaker 1: about that. So big thanks to everybody participated, to my

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Speaker 1: guys back in studio at Sports Radio six ten, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for s tomorrow everybody, and as always,

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Speaker 1: go Texans.