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Speaker 1: Welcome in, everybody to another edition of Texans All Access from.

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Speaker 2: The Honday Texans Radio studio.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, John Harris, Football on Little Satelline Reporter,

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Speaker 1: looking forward to getting on a bird and traveling in

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Speaker 1: New Orleans. I guess you could get in the car

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Speaker 1: and drive too, but we're gonna fly. It's a short

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Speaker 1: flight over to New Orleans. Kickoff Sunday night, seven o'clock

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio six ' ten. You got SHAWNA Seth doing

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Speaker 1: the pregame. You got Mark Andre and myself doing the game,

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Speaker 1: and then you got Sean and Clinton doing the post game.

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Speaker 1: And then it's the regular season. Baby oh man. Now

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Speaker 1: it's a Friday, and you know, to tgiff, thank god

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Speaker 1: it's football Friday right here on Texans All Access. And

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Speaker 1: well we got plenty for you. Jerry Hughes is gonna

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Speaker 1: join h Dbcity a little later. Robert Woods is also

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Speaker 1: gonna join Drew Doherty a little bit later in the show.

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Speaker 2: But we're gonna kick.

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Speaker 1: It off first of all with Demico Bryants. He stepped

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Speaker 1: in the studio to talk about this one. It's a

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Speaker 1: pregame interview with Mark Vandermuir and to Meek Go Ryans.

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Speaker 3: Coach, you made the decision earlier in the week to

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Speaker 3: not do the joint practices in New Orleans so you

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Speaker 3: could use the facility get things done. How has that

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Speaker 3: process gone for you leading into the game?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a little hesitant on how it's going to work out,

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Speaker 4: but man, it turned out to be a really great

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Speaker 4: move for us. All our guys were able to get back,

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Speaker 4: some guys were able to recover get more healthy, so

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Speaker 4: it was really good. We have two really good practices

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Speaker 4: on Wednesday Thursday and a really great out and on Friday,

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Speaker 4: so it was good. We had a very tough physical

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Speaker 4: practice on Thursday, exactly what we needed. So we got

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Speaker 4: the work in and we needed to and our guys

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Speaker 4: got better this week. So I'm excited about the decasion.

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Speaker 3: A few weeks into the season, you play the Saints,

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Speaker 3: So how do you balance try to be successful in

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Speaker 3: the game and not reveal too much about what you

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Speaker 3: might plan down the line?

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Speaker 4: Right, we have to keep it very vanilla since we

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Speaker 4: know we'll see these guys right in a few weeks.

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Speaker 4: Keep it very vanilla in just allow of guys to

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Speaker 4: just go out and play fast, right, So not a lot.

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Speaker 5: Of different looks or plays.

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Speaker 4: Want our guys to play our fundamentals of our offensive

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Speaker 4: defensive schemes right and go and play as fast as possible.

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Speaker 3: Well, it was reported Friday that car wouldn't play Jamis

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Speaker 3: Winston though former number one overall pick. I mean this

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Speaker 3: guy brings a lot to the table. What about facing

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Speaker 3: their offense specifically, and we know.

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Speaker 4: One thing identity of their offense, They're going to be physical, right,

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Speaker 4: they want to run the ball. They're a very physical

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Speaker 4: offensive line. So it's a good matchup for you know,

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Speaker 4: our guys, our defensive front, we struggle stopping the run

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Speaker 4: last week versus Miami, So that's a challenge for our

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Speaker 4: guys this week. No matter what we play, are we

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Speaker 4: going to stand up, be more physical, set edges and

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Speaker 5: Great challenge versus New Orleans.

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Speaker 4: Right, and Jamis, we know he's he's been his league

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Speaker 4: for a long time, made a lot of plays, So

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Speaker 4: it'd be a good match for you know, our defensive

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Speaker 3: Now, your offense facing their defense, what about that challenge

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Speaker 3: and the building the noise communicating coaches included, right, that's

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it couldn't have happened at a better time, right,

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Speaker 4: preseason everyone needs it, right, So we need the opportunity

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Speaker 4: to play in a hostile environment. We know the super

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Speaker 4: Dome has always been loud, right, rowdy fans is going

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Speaker 4: to be loud. So we'll see, you know, how we

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Speaker 4: can operate working you know, working a silent cadence, right,

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Speaker 4: and you can't use where so we'll see, you know,

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Speaker 4: for our young guys up front, young quarterbacks, see how

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Speaker 4: they operate, and what a better opportunity right to do

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Speaker 3: It feels like nobody's calling for fair catches on the kickoffs.

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Speaker 3: None of that's going on. So special teams still trying

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Speaker 3: to work it all out? Or how important is field

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Speaker 3: position in a game like this coach in a preseason finale, right, I.

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Speaker 4: Think with special teams you're still trying to evaluate returners.

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Speaker 5: So it'll be easy to fair cats.

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Speaker 4: But you don't get a true look at who are

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Speaker 4: the dynamic returners. Can our guys up front on our

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Speaker 4: and finish. So it's the opportunity, right to really get

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Speaker 6: Coach, thanks a lot, good luck right, Thanks Mark.

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Speaker 1: No coach, Thank you, appreciate you stopping by. It's always

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Speaker 1: a fun interview to listen to Miko with Mark in

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Speaker 1: the pregame. Make sure you listen to my interview with

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Speaker 1: Nick Casserio for our pregame that'll be on the pregame

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Speaker 1: show with Sean and Seth on Sunday. Now I'm about

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Speaker 1: to play for you. Now I start doing a math

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Speaker 1: in my head, like this is my tenth year alongside

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Speaker 1: Mark doing all the interviews that we've done, and we've

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Speaker 1: had some really good ones.

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Speaker 2: I mean we've.

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Speaker 1: Interviewed every you name it, every play I mean, from

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Speaker 1: coaches to gms for this organization, JJ Watt, DeAndre Hopkins,

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Speaker 1: Tyron Matthew, I mean, you name it, we've talked to

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Speaker 1: that particular person. This interview I'm about to play for

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Speaker 1: you might be my favorite of all time.

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Speaker 2: I've been waiting to do this. I don't know that

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Speaker 2: we've had this opportunity to do this.

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Speaker 1: Special Teams Coordinator Frank Ross might be the most interesting

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Speaker 1: man in the world. And I'm not kidding when I

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Speaker 1: say that this was about as fun an interview as

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Speaker 1: we could have had.

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Speaker 2: Frank Ross with Mark and myself.

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Speaker 1: Sit down and enjoy and just wait for the story

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Speaker 1: about Case number twelve.

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Speaker 2: Take a listen.

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Speaker 3: Joining us now in the Hyundai Texans radio studio. It's

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Speaker 3: Frank Ross, Special Teams coordinator coach.

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Speaker 7: How's it going good? Can I comment? Hear the intro? Yes?

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Speaker 8: My best impression, rocking roll, let's go.

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Speaker 5: I love that.

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Speaker 7: I don't have a voice for radio, but I.

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Speaker 9: Love that now you do.

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Speaker 3: Look, we were just watching the video of you on

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Speaker 3: Deal or No Deal.

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Speaker 9: Oh man, I was gonna spring this on him. I

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Speaker 9: was gonna spring that on him.

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Speaker 6: Well, Frank, we were watching. We didn't know what happened, right, So.

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Speaker 3: We're watching it in great suspense in this room together

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Speaker 3: before you came in, and we're sweating it out like.

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Speaker 9: Oh no, what's gonna happen?

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Speaker 3: And then at the end, Oh, I don't want to

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Speaker 3: play spoiler, but it happened a long time.

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Speaker 9: Case number twelve.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, case twelve.

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Speaker 9: How often you think of case twelve?

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Speaker 8: I think of case number seven because that was my

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Speaker 8: high school number. Had the million in it.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, case, and I wore and I wore.

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Speaker 8: Twelve because in college, so I was you know, I

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Speaker 9: Where my college number seven had the million.

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Speaker 7: Seven had the million in it.

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Speaker 8: So everybody back in my hometown was like, come on, Frank,

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Speaker 8: I wore seven for Kenny Loten oh Man, And yeah,

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Speaker 8: fun story, Glad it's gone.

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Speaker 7: Glad, it's gone.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but you were out there?

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Speaker 9: How did that pop up for you?

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Speaker 7: Oh?

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Speaker 8: God, you guys are funny. Long story short is this.

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Speaker 8: I wanted to raise money to have Division III football

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Speaker 8: look like I stayed whatever school we're talking about with

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Speaker 8: all the funding for uniforms.

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Speaker 7: So I got this idea.

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Speaker 8: We filmed, We submitted a video that I filmed around

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Speaker 8: campus on why John Carroll football needed new uniforms. Send

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Speaker 8: it in to California. We're on me and all of

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Speaker 8: our buddies, jump in a car. We drive on spring break.

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Speaker 8: We're on beach. I get a phone call saying, hey,

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Speaker 8: we'd love to have you on the show.

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Speaker 5: Wow.

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Speaker 8: On the phone, I'm like, all right, who's messing with me?

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Speaker 8: A giant bird dropping right on my phone. No, I'm thinking,

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Speaker 8: like and somebody told me that's to get you know bird.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, stuff on you. It is good lucks.

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Speaker 8: I'm like, all right, well ended up getting on the show. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: didn't work out perfectly, but we got some white uniforms

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Speaker 7: Thanks for bringing it up.

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Speaker 6: Well they must.

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Speaker 3: They must have loved you because you were so high

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Speaker 3: energy on the show and you still are that way.

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Speaker 3: You've always been that way. Is it caffeine? Is it

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Speaker 9: What is it?

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Speaker 7: Coach? Yeah, I don't know. My old man once told me.

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Speaker 7: He goes uh.

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Speaker 8: He said, uh, don't worry about other people trying to

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Speaker 7: So you know, just I guess that's just who I am.

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Speaker 6: He's high energy too, he was on that program.

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Speaker 2: Yeah he was.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, that's right exactly.

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Speaker 1: We're just gonna say that, like we found out where

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Speaker 1: your energy comes from. Yeah, your pops was all about that.

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Speaker 1: No matter what happens for the rest of your life,

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Speaker 9: That's pretty cool. Father son doing that together.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, And I'll give them they won't be able to

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Speaker 8: like see me or talk to me this week, Can

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Speaker 8: I give them a shout out? Of course, they're on

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Speaker 8: their fiftieth wedding anniversary to Italy to Italy trip of

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Speaker 8: a lifetime, So if they end up seeing this mom

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Speaker 8: and dad happy anniversary, that is fantastic.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, congratulations to the Ross family.

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It's all available on the Texans app and you can

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Speaker 3: take that with you anyway.

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Speaker 1: Catch a nice pug. We got a lot to talk about.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that Mark and I always talk

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Speaker 1: about are rules, and it feels like most rules impact

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Speaker 1: your group to specialties more than any other. When the

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Speaker 1: NFL decided kickoffs that are caught in between the goal

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Speaker 1: line and the twenty five you can fair catch, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: What was your initial thought to that when the rule

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Speaker 1: was enacted and then okay, the rules in effect none

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Speaker 1: that I can complained about it.

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Speaker 9: Now I got to adapt to it.

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Speaker 1: How do you kind of adjusted to that rule because

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Speaker 1: it feels like that's probably the biggest one that's changed

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Speaker 1: from last year to this.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, initial thought knocking on the defensive coordinator's door asking

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Speaker 8: if he wanted my resume for a job, just because

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Speaker 8: it's you know, thinking about the game changing here's here's

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Speaker 8: a heart felt thought. I just don't want the fabric

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Speaker 8: of the game to change, you know. I mean an

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Speaker 8: opening kickoff is in the super Bowl is the most

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Speaker 8: electric you see all the flat I mean, that is

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Speaker 8: so anyways, you know, I just wish it wouldn't change

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Speaker 8: for that, And then my mind starts turning to your

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Speaker 7: How's it gonna affect? You know what?

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Speaker 9: The results payoff.

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Speaker 8: So they are so critical it's field position, whether that

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Speaker 7: God, what a boy. Let's go.

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Speaker 8: So I don't necessarily know if it's a if it's

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Speaker 1: I think you answered it. You just said if you

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Speaker 9: You know, playing defense? It's nickel. It's all this. It's

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Speaker 1: If you love football, and if you find the guys

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Speaker 3: That's right when you practice, all right, So this offense, defense,

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Speaker 8: There's a saying that I'll edit, but it's you know,

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Speaker 7: So you know, if there's a chance for us.

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Speaker 8: To be better today, we've got to make sure we

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Speaker 9: I know a lot of them kind of don't matter.

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Speaker 7: Hey, what what is that returner looking like? Things like that. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: Frank, you know more than anybody else that there's been

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Speaker 7: Yeah, And at the end of the day.

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Speaker 8: You know, the coach kind of puts in plan a

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Speaker 8: place or in place a plan and a progression from

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Speaker 8: buildia from OTA the pre to training camp to preseason

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Speaker 8: and I gotta get him ready kind of all marching

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Speaker 8: in the same direction. But it's their team. And when

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Speaker 8: you kind of turn it over to guys like John Weeks,

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Speaker 8: like Cam and Emy, you're gonna be in a good spot.

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Speaker 7: In my opinion.

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Speaker 8: Those guys are professional, They come to work every single

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Speaker 8: day and they have a high level of care. So

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Speaker 8: I mean, if the special teams world in the special

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Speaker 8: team's room, if you've got guys that are ready to work,

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Speaker 8: high level of care, and then add in that they're

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Speaker 8: good at their physical skills, good at their jobs consistently,

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Speaker 8: you got a chance to be successful. Let's hope you

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Speaker 8: know those guys are continuing on that path here for

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Speaker 8: twenty three.

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Speaker 3: All right, we do the games with Andre Ware and

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Speaker 3: he always complains about this. If the touchback on kickoffs

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Speaker 3: comes to the twenty five, why don't punch come to

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Speaker 3: the twenty five? He wants the touchback on kickoffs to

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Speaker 3: go back to the twenty anyway, But that's another point.

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Speaker 6: But why is it different?

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Speaker 7: Frank?

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Speaker 8: Yeah? There overall, special teams is the most over officiated

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Speaker 8: play in football. Like like the ref will put his belt

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Speaker 8: buckle on that forty yard line and if you're not

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Speaker 8: in that setup zone on kick return and.

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Speaker 7: You're the the heel cleat of your shoes.

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Speaker 8: Touching that stripe like it's a flag, does that man?

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Speaker 8: I mean I don't want to say it doesn't. So

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Speaker 8: you play within the rules, right, but they got all

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Speaker 8: these rules about you know, touchback lines and gunner possession

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Speaker 8: on a field in a punt uh kick catch versus

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Speaker 8: fair catch, interference, running out of bounds, staying out of bounds,

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Speaker 8: touch back lines, time of possession. Now it's affected. Let

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Speaker 8: me just I'm getting along winded. I don't know, I

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Speaker 8: don't know.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's good. That's good.

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Speaker 3: Frank, thanks a lot for joining us. And we look

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Speaker 3: forward to a haircut soon if you'll have us.

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Speaker 7: Come on, no an we do loud? Can we do

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Speaker 7: it on here?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, let's go. I'll let this grow

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Speaker 3: out and next time I would be honored.

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Speaker 8: Actually I specialize on the high end tight if you

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Speaker 8: can't tell, so I appreciate you asking.

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Speaker 7: That's good. Thanks a lot, cool, Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: I now know and coach Ross for three years.

493
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Speaker 1: And I just found out about the Dealer No Deal,

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Speaker 1: literally twenty minutes before we were about to interview, and

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Speaker 1: Mark and I were, as Mark said, we were watching

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Speaker 1: it together in the studio, just dying on Dealer No Deal.

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Speaker 1: It's it's fantastic. It's Frank his pops, It's awesome. It

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Speaker 1: is awesome. I just absolutely I love it. I do

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Speaker 1: that guy and he is one heck of a football coach.

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Speaker 1: Frank Ross, appreciate you joining us on the show this evening.

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Speaker 1: All right, we get back Deep City sat down with

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Speaker 1: the legendary still rockin' Jerry Hughes.

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Speaker 2: That's next right here in Texans All Access looking back to.

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Speaker 1: His Friday Nation that Texans All Access from Nonday, Texans

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Speaker 1: Radio Studio. I'm your host, John Harrison Football and sideline reporter,

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Speaker 1: and am about to be joined by another j h and

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Speaker 1: one of.

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Speaker 2: My great friends, Deep E City. It's time for our

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Speaker 2: Deep Slant interview of the week.

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Speaker 1: In Deep sat down with the dr Ball former Fort

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Speaker 1: Ben ISD running back All State Jerry Hughes.

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Speaker 2: Running back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, back in the day, my dad actually coached against

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Speaker 1: him when he was a running back.

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Speaker 2: My dad told me about, Hey, there's just running back

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Speaker 2: at TCU. I'm like running back. Well no, no, no, Now

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Speaker 2: he's a defensive end. Like wait a second, you do

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Speaker 2: the math on that.

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Speaker 1: Well, TCU turned him into a defensive end and the

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Speaker 1: rest is history.

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Speaker 2: Jerry Hughes is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: So it's deep and they sat down for this interview

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Speaker 1: and Boyd's glorious.

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 10: It's a deep sent one on one presented by Exfinity.

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Speaker 10: Joining me, Jerry Hughes. You're fourteen year two with the Texans.

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Speaker 10: First of all, can we just talk about your adorable

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Speaker 10: family that was trading camp.

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 11: No, they are incredible, got four beautiful kids and amazing wife,

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Speaker 11: and so whenever they get the opportunity to, they always

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Speaker 11: want to come out and root for the Texans. Make

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Speaker 11: sure they first see Toro for anything. That's that's always

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Speaker 11: like an absolute must. Get their high fives in and

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Speaker 11: then they're ready for football.

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Speaker 10: Like Demiico Ryans. You got a birthday that falls in

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Speaker 10: camp every year. So this is how you celebrate your

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Speaker 10: birthday every year?

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Speaker 11: Oh yeah, what you practice and they make it worthwhile.

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Speaker 11: I get signs homemade cake. You can never go wrong

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Speaker 11: with homemaking.

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Speaker 10: No, I saw the sign. Yeah, they're all and that

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Speaker 10: you just recently had another one. The fourth one is

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Speaker 10: a baby. How old is the baby?

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Speaker 5: Baby old? He'll be six months on the twenty third?

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Speaker 5: Is that today?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Today? Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Good?

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Speaker 5: Okay today?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 12: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I was gonna say he doesn't need anymore, but he'll

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Speaker 5: certainly take him with a smile.

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Speaker 10: How old are the other kids.

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Speaker 11: I got a seven year old, a five year old,

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Speaker 11: and a two year old. Oh okay, so yeah, we're stacked.

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Speaker 10: Up and they kind of know that that dad plays

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Speaker 10: in the NFL. The older ones.

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Speaker 5: The older ones do. My two year old, he's just

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Speaker 5: happy to be out of the house.

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Speaker 11: He was born during like COVID, So you know, just

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Speaker 11: take him out of the house, roll the window down

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Speaker 11: in the car, and that's just what that'll make.

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Speaker 7: His day, all right.

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Speaker 10: So you and John Weeks have been in the league

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Speaker 10: for fourteen years. I asked Demiko Ryans about this earlier.

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Speaker 10: So when you were a rookie, he was still playing

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Speaker 10: in the league and you guys were in the same division.

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Speaker 10: You were with the Colts, he was here with the Texans.

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Speaker 10: Do you rem remember anything about Dimiko. I'm sure it

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Speaker 10: was a blur your first few years, But what do

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Speaker 10: you remember about him as a player.

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Speaker 11: You know what, I was actually here in high school

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Speaker 11: when he first got drafted in ose six, so I

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Speaker 11: just remembered the Texans picking him, then going with or

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Speaker 11: Mario Williams first, then they picked him in the second

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Speaker 11: round and it was just great just to see, you know,

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Speaker 11: the organization boost up the defense us from the fans perspective,

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Speaker 11: we were excited about it, and then just watching all

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Speaker 11: of his highlights, watching him play his rookie year. I

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Speaker 11: took off to college, went four years, and TCU came back,

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Speaker 11: was with the Colts my rookie year. And no, I mean,

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Speaker 11: when you're on defense, you focus so much on the

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Speaker 11: offense and vice versus. So it was really just all

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Speaker 11: about the Texans offense at that time. But it was

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Speaker 11: just more so just being a fan and just watching

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Speaker 11: the Texans defense play on the sidelines during those Sunday bouts.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I didn't even think about the fact that you

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Speaker 10: were in high school when he started playing, so you

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Speaker 10: knew all about him getting drafted. I asked him. He

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Speaker 10: said that you two had not really ever met until

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Speaker 10: he started coaching here. Is that true?

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Speaker 5: That is sure, that's true.

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Speaker 11: I mean, like I said, when you play defense, you

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Speaker 11: focus so much on the post and seemed offense, you

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Speaker 11: know just about every player, you know what they like

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Speaker 11: to do, what their interests are.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you're really that just locked into.

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Speaker 11: Who you really, I would say, is our opponent versus

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Speaker 11: actually you know, going against another defensive player, so half

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Speaker 11: the time.

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Speaker 5: Defensive players don't really know.

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Speaker 11: You don't really know each other that much unless you

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Speaker 11: meet in the offseason maybe went to school with the

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Speaker 11: guys or worked out or something like that. But other

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Speaker 11: than that, on the field talk like after games, it's

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Speaker 11: always defensive offensive guys just.

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Speaker 5: Joking it up.

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Speaker 10: So now that you're playing for him, is that strange

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Speaker 10: to have a guy that's kind of like your peer.

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Speaker 10: I guess he's still older than you, but looks it

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Speaker 10: like playing for a guy that was a former player

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Speaker 10: that is so recently retired from the NFL.

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Speaker 5: Oh Man, it's so cool. It's like a full circle moment.

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Speaker 11: Just someone who is just like you said, that was

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Speaker 11: just on the field with us lacing it up. Now

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Speaker 11: he's on the other side, giving a coaches point of view,

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Speaker 11: being able to kind of talk to guys. It's so

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Speaker 11: relatable throughout all of our meetings, which I think everyone's

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Speaker 11: been able to kind of really gravitate towards. Is just

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Speaker 11: because of how young, how relatable he is, and he's

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Speaker 11: able to kind of explain things that we see on

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Speaker 11: the field versus it being kind of taught to us,

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Speaker 11: So you kind of get the best of both ends

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Speaker 11: with him and Coach Berg being able to kind of

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Speaker 11: explain that defense and break it down for us.

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Speaker 10: You said full circle, And I think of Dylan Horton

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Speaker 10: getting drafted. He and you had seen a guy were

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Speaker 10: in your number at TCU, and now you guys are teammates.

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Speaker 10: So what's it like having all these rookies? I know,

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Speaker 10: Will Anderson is full of praise for how much you've

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Speaker 10: helped him along. So as the veteran of the group,

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Speaker 10: what's it like, you know, having such young players in

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Speaker 10: a such a diverse I would say d line group

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Speaker 10: allan super young guys.

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Speaker 11: It's so cool, Like with Will. Will was one of

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Speaker 11: the guys who I voted for for the Lot Award.

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Speaker 11: I was able to receive that in college, and so

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Speaker 11: every year they'll send me a little final list, SENDMI

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Speaker 11: finalists and things like that, and just looking of Will

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Speaker 11: stats and voting for him, and then now being his teammate,

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Speaker 11: meeting Dylan last year at his spring game, him taking

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Speaker 11: a picture with my son just because I was just

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Speaker 11: showing my kids, look, there's number ninety eight, and then

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Speaker 11: explaining to my kids how you can make that transition

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Speaker 11: from college to the pros. The importance of school. It

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Speaker 11: was a real cool, full circuit moment with him and

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Speaker 11: just those two guys being actual to be teammates with them,

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Speaker 11: but no one's a little bit about their college career

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Speaker 11: as well. And you know, for myself being so far

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Speaker 11: removed from college sports and then still being able to

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Speaker 11: connect with guys right right, right, it was so cool

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Speaker 11: to see those guys being called and then being able

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Speaker 11: to work with them throughout the off season. It's been

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Speaker 11: an amazing first start for us, and I just can't

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Speaker 11: wait for the season to kind of roll around and

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Speaker 11: just to pull it back so we can kind of

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Speaker 11: really dive in deep to you know, being football players,

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Speaker 11: being pros, and then watching them just grow throughout the years.

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Speaker 5: It's going to be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 10: So, Will Anderson, you voted for him for the Law

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Speaker 10: of War? Did you have you told him this?

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Speaker 11: No you haven't, No, no, no, should tell him you.

666
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Speaker 5: Were one of the I mean, he's an Alabama guy.

667
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 11: He's probably has gotten so many awards and accolades. He

668
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,880
Speaker 11: probably wouldn't know what a lot of words. Yeah, yeah,

669
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 11: I'll have to bring it up to him.

670
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Speaker 10: Sometimes you should, So we'll put you over the top

671
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 10: with him versus I mean, there's a lot of great

672
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,439
Speaker 10: players in this country, but what do you think put

673
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:19,000
Speaker 10: him over the.

674
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Speaker 2: Top for you?

675
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Speaker 11: Being able to watch him on Saturdays and see how

676
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 11: explosive he was. So it's like his explosion in the

677
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 11: way he's just jumped off the off the film that

678
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 11: matched his stats, his numbers, just all of his production.

679
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:31,919
Speaker 11: And that's what you like to see guys who are

680
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 11: going out there producing, But then how do they look

681
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 11: when they play. He's always someone who just has a

682
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,000
Speaker 11: knack for being around the ball, wants to be somewhere

683
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 11: where he can take the ball out, trying to be

684
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Speaker 11: that game changer.

685
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Speaker 6: And that's what I like, all right.

686
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 10: So what's it like relating with some of the younger

687
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 10: guys in the locker room?

688
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 7: Is it weird?

689
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 10: I mean, music's different. I remember we've had better and

690
00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 10: guys say, oh, the music's so different. They have different music,

691
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 10: They communicate differently, they're on their phones using social media

692
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 10: differently than I mean, what's the biggest difference do you

693
00:28:58,200 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 10: think for you with some of these younger I.

694
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Speaker 11: Think I've been really lucky and a lot of them

695
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 11: have had older brothers and sisters like older siblings, so

696
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 11: like the music isn't too far off, Like I'll catch

697
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 11: them turn on, like they're listening to like some Montell's

698
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 11: Yeah yeah, yeah, like nineties R and B. And I'm

699
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 11: kind of like looking back at like early two thousands.

700
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 11: I'm like, you guys are like five years old and

701
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:19,800
Speaker 11: the song came out and they're like bobbing their head

702
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,320
Speaker 11: singing word for word. Somebody got up the other day

703
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 11: and saying Candy rain By a new edition, and I

704
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,920
Speaker 11: was just like, wow, oh my gosh.

705
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 5: And I was just like, I don't want to put

706
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:30,240
Speaker 5: them out there.

707
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 10: Like, okay, was this the rookie talent It was.

708
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 5: A rookie talent show.

709
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 11: I felt like the vocals were good, but you know,

710
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 11: self conscious about their vocals.

711
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 5: I don't want to kind of be on the spot

712
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 5: where you might have to perform again.

713
00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 8: You know.

714
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Speaker 11: I felt like I should be in the old vet.

715
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 11: But you know, I'll take it easy on the young guys.

716
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 11: But I mean, I've been really lucky with it. They've

717
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 11: been playing a lot of music that I've been able

718
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,160
Speaker 11: to kind of listen to, Like I say, rod Wave's

719
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 11: still kind of new to me, but I can kind

720
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Speaker 11: of I can kind of you, I can move Yeah, yeah, yeah,

721
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 11: I can. I can two steps to.

722
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Speaker 9: That guy, you know.

723
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Speaker 10: All right, so what was your talent show act?

724
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 6: Do you remember?

725
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Speaker 11: Oh, my gosh, my rookie talent show was at Ruth

726
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 11: Chris unfortunately, yeah, because it was just eating. It was

727
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,480
Speaker 11: just more so providing food for the d lines. Oh,

728
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:16,120
Speaker 11: it wasn't really much so more of talent. No, it wasn't.

729
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 11: It was a great moment for us to come together

730
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 11: until I saw the bill.

731
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Speaker 5: And then I was like, oh, yeah, yeah. It was

732
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 5: like forty five fifty dollars. Yeah, in the NFL with

733
00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 5: your first welcome indeed.

734
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Speaker 11: Yeah, and that was the first time I'd ever seen

735
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 11: a steakhouse deliver like frozen steaks and water bottles to

736
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Speaker 11: people's cars, like out to like valet.

737
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 5: Guys went grocery shopping.

738
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:38,360
Speaker 10: Oh, they bought stuff for later teams.

739
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 12: Yeah.

740
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 11: They were nice enough to think about their family and

741
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 11: loved ones at home on my on my dime.

742
00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 10: So certainly, yeah, all right, you're not a rookie anymore.

743
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 10: Last year, you had such a quietly fantastic year. I

744
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 10: think for the season the team had. You were just

745
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 10: such a bright spot with what you were able to

746
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:56,280
Speaker 10: do year thirteen.

747
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 9: I don't think anybody really knew.

748
00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:59,040
Speaker 10: How you were going to produce or what you were

749
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 10: going to produce. When you look back at last year,

750
00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 10: what do you think was the key for you? And

751
00:31:03,920 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 10: do you think about this year how you can build

752
00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 10: on it?

753
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 5: Oh?

754
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 11: Certainly, I think the key for me was just staying

755
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 11: in the moment, always being relevant, just focusing on the game,

756
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 11: not worried about past mistakes, past failures or anything like that.

757
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 5: It's just always always worried about.

758
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 11: What's going on Sunday, what's going on this down and distance,

759
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 11: this point in the quarter. Just trying to just really

760
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,480
Speaker 11: just live in that moment. I found myself doing that more,

761
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,840
Speaker 11: having a lot more fun, playing faster, being free, and

762
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 11: just being myself. And I think that's the most key

763
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,880
Speaker 11: thing that's to or at least that's what I've discovered

764
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 11: at year thirteen. That's probably the most key in this business,

765
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 11: in this league of how are you going to do things?

766
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 11: It's not really worried about what you did last week,

767
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 11: how you messed up at practice. It's just more or

768
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 11: the first quarter, the first drive is what's going on now?

769
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,880
Speaker 5: How can you be present now, live in that moment now?

770
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 11: And I think just me being able to do that

771
00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,320
Speaker 11: and tap into that mentally really helped me out a

772
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 11: lot last season. Is what I to pass down to

773
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 11: the other guys in the locker room, in my room

774
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 11: so that they understand, you know, it's seventeen games, it's

775
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 11: going to be a long journey, but let's not worried

776
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 11: about you know what happened last week, not focused on

777
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 11: things you can't control, always worried about your controllables. And

778
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 11: I think for me that was really really key for

779
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 11: me last year and probably really helped me.

780
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 5: Out a lot.

781
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Speaker 10: Why do you think you learned that in year thirteen?

782
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 10: What was different about last year that you really had

783
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 10: that lesson taught to you.

784
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 11: I think it was just coming off of the year

785
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 11: we had in Buffalo, being so close to that AFC

786
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 11: Championship game, being one play away, thirteen seconds away, really,

787
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 11: and then coming here and you know, starting all over

788
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 11: this is we were rebuilding at the time, so you know,

789
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 11: we were just working on how to get that w

790
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 11: I think that was the most important part going in weekend.

791
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 11: We got how do we find ways just to win

792
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 11: this ball game? And when you're with the young team,

793
00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 11: there's a lot that goes into it, you know, Monday

794
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 11: through Friday before you even get to Sunday, and a

795
00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 11: lot of people, a lot of guys got to understand

796
00:32:57,880 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 11: as far as film study, taking care of your body,

797
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 11: just doing the little nuances to just get yourself ready

798
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 11: and prepare so you can go out and play fast.

799
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 5: You got to do it.

800
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 11: There's no steps you can skip, there's no magic pill

801
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 11: that you can take and you know and poof, you're

802
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 11: ready to go. All those things are very important, and

803
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 11: so I think just making sure everybody understood that on

804
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 11: the field.

805
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 5: I knew that as a thirteen year old VET, but

806
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 5: it was.

807
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 11: Just reiterating it to everyone on the team because the

808
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 11: great thing about football is that we're a three phase

809
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 11: team sport. Offense, defense, special teams. Everybody has to go

810
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 11: out there execute do their job at a high level

811
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 11: and then we get the outcome. But if we're lacking

812
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 11: in any department, you know it's going to be a tough,

813
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 11: tier overtime type game or you might not get the

814
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 11: outcome you want. And I think that was just me

815
00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 11: understanding that at year thirteen was just like a light

816
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 11: bulb moment.

817
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 10: All right, So this year, what sort of goals do

818
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 10: you have for yourself? And does the change in defensive

819
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 10: scheme feel like that helps you? Do you feel like, oh,

820
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 10: this is like another thing I've got to sort of

821
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,959
Speaker 10: adapt my skill set to how do you approach it

822
00:33:57,960 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 10: here in your line?

823
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 11: I think with this scheme just being a round it

824
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 11: all off season, it's something that I'm gonna really enjoy.

825
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 11: It Just about attacking, being fast, That's something that I've

826
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 11: always wanted to play. That's how I practice. It's just

827
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 11: being fast, being able to process things fast. And so

828
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 11: I think this just fits my skill level to a t.

829
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 11: And then now it's just about getting everybody else on board,

830
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:21,320
Speaker 11: getting the entire D line on board, getting the entire defense,

831
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:24,080
Speaker 11: then letting that matriculate all the way down to special

832
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,359
Speaker 11: teams offense. Because we're a young team, yes, but there's

833
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 11: no reason why we can't go out there and do

834
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,919
Speaker 11: it now. I know everyone says, oh, you're young, worry

835
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 11: about it next year. We're young, we have a lot

836
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 11: of talent. Why not now? And so it's just letting

837
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,320
Speaker 11: those guys understand that, you know, yeah, I mean everyone's

838
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,360
Speaker 11: going to count on us for the future. But what

839
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 11: happens if we go out there and do it now?

840
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 11: What are they going to say then? And it's just

841
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,239
Speaker 11: getting and you got to just prepare yourself mentally for that.

842
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 11: Like I said, it's seventeen weeks. It's a long season.

843
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 11: So it's really just about breaking it down into quarters.

844
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 5: What I like to do, what I've.

845
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 11: Learned from some of the coaches in the past, is

846
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 11: just breaking in the season down into quarters. And in

847
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 11: this first quarter, we've got four games. How are we

848
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 11: going to come about with those four games in mind?

849
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 11: And just moving along? You know, you got guys coming

850
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,479
Speaker 11: from college who've been playing in you know, college playoff games,

851
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 11: bowl games, so they're seasons, especially in the football sense,

852
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:16,839
Speaker 11: it's very very long.

853
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 5: It's up to us.

854
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's up to us who've been here, who've been

855
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 11: pros that these guys might hit this rookie wall and

856
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 11: you might see them, you know, moving on.

857
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:29,399
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you gotta just keep in mind

858
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 5: the man.

859
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 11: You know, find your purpose, remember your purpose day in

860
00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:34,879
Speaker 11: and day out while you're coming here to practice, and

861
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 11: just make sure that you're always there to check off

862
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 11: those boxes. And I think if we can keep doing that,

863
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,799
Speaker 11: keep finding ways to get better. Sky's the limit for us.

864
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,439
Speaker 2: It's gonna be fun watch, no doubt.

865
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Speaker 1: Jerry Houston deep sitter, appreciate them poor stopping by stopping by.

866
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,919
Speaker 1: Next a little Bobby Trees with double D. Right here

867
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Speaker 1: on Texans All Access. We got one final segment of

868
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,320
Speaker 1: this ineditition of Texans All Access from Nonday, Texans Radio Studio.

869
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Speaker 1: I am John Harris, your host, and about to be

870
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Speaker 1: joined by Robert Woods, who sat down with Andrew Doherty. Yeah,

871
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:10,280
Speaker 1: Drew Doherty and they talked about this matchup in New Orleans.

872
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 2: Here we go by Trees, Drew Doherty, let's go.

873
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 12: Always good to be joined by Robert Woods, veteran wide

874
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,400
Speaker 12: receiver for the Houston Texans. Robert, tell me about playing

875
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 12: the Saints. Always, you want to win a game. Always,

876
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 12: you want to exit a preseason game with everyone healthy.

877
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 12: But individually, what's the goal for you in this final

878
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 12: tune up before the regular season.

879
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,959
Speaker 13: I think this is our last prep going into Week

880
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 13: one and what we want to put on tape and

881
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:40,399
Speaker 13: show fans in the NFL what this Houston Texas team

882
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 13: is about this year. It would be a really good

883
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 13: chance to go against their team, to have a lot

884
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 13: of offensive weapons led by Derek Carr over there, and

885
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 13: then on the defensive side, a player who's been consistent

886
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 13: throughout his career, Cameron Jordan leading their guys on the

887
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 13: defensive side. So it would have been really good challenge

888
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,080
Speaker 13: to go against them throughout the week and going against

889
00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 13: them for our last preparation and preseason, going out there

890
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 13: and seeing a good defense, a good offense. Really just

891
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 13: want to go out there and start fast. Like I said,

892
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 13: it's our last test and want to leave a good impression.

893
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 12: Yeah, Demigo Ryan's earlier in the week he said, starters,

894
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 12: frontline guys probably gonna play a couple series and don't

895
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 12: know how much the Saints starters and frontline guys are

896
00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:17,399
Speaker 12: gonna play, But on the whole, you're gonna see these

897
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 12: guys later on in the regular season. You brought up

898
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 12: Cameron Jordan. Tell me about this Saints defense. What stands

899
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 12: out to you the most aside from him, Yeah.

900
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:26,879
Speaker 2: I would say a physical group.

901
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,280
Speaker 13: I wouldn't say their defense has been a great defense

902
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 13: for the past years. I think kind of since they

903
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 13: kind of had their crew of guys, they've been consistent

904
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 13: know how to get out to the quarterback. Secondary has

905
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 13: been very sound and getting the ball back and play

906
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 13: great defense.

907
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 7: I think they move fast.

908
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 13: I think it would be a good challenge for our

909
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 13: offense being able to get these guys to move, get

910
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 13: them running, make them play discipline with their eyes and

911
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 13: how we move guys around.

912
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 7: It will be a great challenge.

913
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 13: Get started right away, get a chance to go against

914
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 13: a good defense, to get ready for Baltimore, who's coming up.

915
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 13: But it's gonna be a challenge. It's all about us.

916
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:00,600
Speaker 13: It's all about what we put on tape. It doesn't

917
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 13: matter if they have their starters out here. We're trying

918
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 13: to execute our game plan and get done what we

919
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 13: need to get done.

920
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,359
Speaker 12: When you and I chit chatted before the season started,

921
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,839
Speaker 12: you were really optimistic about this offense, the direction it's

922
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 12: headed in between then and now about a month and change.

923
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 12: What's different about that idea of optimism. How much more

924
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 12: optimistic are you? What are you seeing now that you've

925
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,279
Speaker 12: been through that makes shift? You're pretty excited about what's

926
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 12: to come.

927
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 13: Yeah, very excited just seeing Honestly, CJ and Juice, these

928
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 13: are our young guys. Juice at the line making the

929
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 13: right reads, making the right points on the plays, running

930
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,880
Speaker 13: past CJ. Being able to be comfortable and confident in

931
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 13: the pocket as well as being protected. We have a

932
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 13: lot of guys who are surrounding these two young players,

933
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 13: and you see it's coming together well. And even tank

934
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 13: as well, coming and making plays. There's a lot of

935
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 13: key components to help this offense contribute and be successful.

936
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 13: You see guys playing very fast and it's coming off

937
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,760
Speaker 13: the ball right away the first step, and I think

938
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 13: the optimism is still there and even growing just because

939
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,320
Speaker 13: the timing is starting to click. The run plays are clicking.

940
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:04,479
Speaker 13: The chemistry has been built and just starting to feed

941
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 13: off of it and going to the year.

942
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:06,840
Speaker 2: That's exciting.

943
00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 12: You know, you're thirty one years old in the grand

944
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 12: scheme of life, you're a young man in the NFL.

945
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 12: That means you've got a healthy amount of experience. What's

946
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 12: it like being in a wide receiver room and having

947
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 12: that amount of experience with the guys who are around you.

948
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:22,280
Speaker 13: Yeah, I would say sharing it. I think I've always

949
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,959
Speaker 13: been a guy who worked hard and being able to

950
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 13: give some knowledge and some pointers to our receiver group,

951
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 13: kind of leading our room for the past six seven

952
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:34,800
Speaker 13: years now, but really just trying to give our guys energy,

953
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 13: knowing that they can do everything that coach is asking

954
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 13: to do, have the confidence to make these plays. And

955
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 13: I think now in my career is growing and kind

956
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,799
Speaker 13: of just spreading this around outside of the receiver room,

957
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:48,880
Speaker 13: whether it's the tight ends, the linement, the quarterbacks, the

958
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,799
Speaker 13: running backs, being able to share this wisdom and kind

959
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 13: of bring everybody along and not just our room. It's

960
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:57,359
Speaker 13: a long season for a young team and it has

961
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,319
Speaker 13: to happen now, so kind of just spreading out through

962
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:02,400
Speaker 13: our tight ends, quarterbacks, being that leader throughout our offense.

963
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 12: All right, last thing before the game? What sort of

964
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 12: stuff for you listening to? Are you doing to get

965
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 12: ready for a contest?

966
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,800
Speaker 13: I'm listening a little bit of everything. Every single artist.

967
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 13: I kind of start my day in game mode with

968
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,680
Speaker 13: kind of some chill music, whether it's some R and

969
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 13: B or just some chill house starting real slow, but

970
00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 13: by the time I'm running routes and really out there,

971
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,320
Speaker 13: the music is cranked up, the tempo is built.

972
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:28,880
Speaker 7: I'm listening, like I said.

973
00:40:28,640 --> 00:40:32,879
Speaker 13: Every artist from Little Baby to Drake to some LA

974
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 13: local artists. But whatever gets the tempo going the heart

975
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 13: rate up ready takes some heads off right there. Once

976
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 13: soon as kickoff.

977
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 12: Call Robert Woods, best of luck against the Saints. We

978
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 12: really do appreciate the time. Thanks so much.

979
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 13: Thanks, thanks for having me.

980
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:47,320
Speaker 1: Now I'm gona tell you right now, I'm a huge

981
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,279
Speaker 1: Robert Woods fan. I was just a fan of his

982
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 1: game in generally went to Buffalo, but really when he

983
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:56,359
Speaker 1: went to the La Rams, and I still see him

984
00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: roasting our defensive packs back in twenty seventeen on a

985
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: ninety five yard deep route.

986
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:04,719
Speaker 2: It's been a big fan of his game.

987
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: I hated the fact that he tours ACL in that

988
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:11,080
Speaker 1: Rams Super Bowl season. I think, yes, they won a championship,

989
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,319
Speaker 1: but I think with Woods, I think they would have

990
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,760
Speaker 1: been even that much more of a fine tune machine. Shoot,

991
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: we saw him here at Energy Stadium, and they just

992
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: did whatever they wanted to. It was the one game

993
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 1: all year that the Texans were completely outclassed that in Buffalo.

994
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:25,040
Speaker 2: I mean just badly.

995
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,800
Speaker 1: They did whatever they wanted to that day, and the

996
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: big reason for that was Robert Woods. And now he's

997
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 1: a Texan and that is great news. So I appreciate

998
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,400
Speaker 1: Robert Woods and Drew Doherty, Deep Sidu and Jerry Hughes,

999
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,960
Speaker 1: Demiko Ryans and Frank Ross. Of course, my man Mark

1000
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: Vandermire and all of you for listening. We'll see you

1001
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:46,280
Speaker 1: next time, and as always, go Texans,