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Speaker 1: Happy Monday, everybody, and happy Combine Week from Indianapolis. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Smart Vandomir and myself, John Harris will be in Indy

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Speaker 1: as we have been for the last one carry the

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Speaker 1: four fourteen years, thirteen years. Ooh, fourteen years, thirteen years.

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Speaker 1: It's somewhere and there. We've been there for a while

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Speaker 1: and we have seen this thing grow and grow, and

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Speaker 1: we are getting excited about scouting Combine twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Mark, how are you?

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Speaker 3: What was the year we didn't go because of COVID?

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Speaker 3: That wasn't the COVID year of twenty twenty because we

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Speaker 3: had the combine and then it hit spring break.

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Speaker 4: We hit COVID, So we went to Man.

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Speaker 1: We went to twenty twenties Combine, right, and I remember

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Speaker 1: hearing about COVID.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we were there and I was like, Ah, this

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Speaker 2: will be nothing, no problem.

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Speaker 4: Blu, no big deal. Then all the pro days got

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Speaker 1: Then in twenty twenty one there was no combine, right,

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Speaker 1: but then all.

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Speaker 2: The pro days came back.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So it was over a span at twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: back ever since, and.

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Speaker 2: Such a joy to go back. It was.

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Speaker 3: It was so good because Lovey was the head coach

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Speaker 3: and going around the combine with Lovey was fun because

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Speaker 3: Lovey is NFL institution.

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Speaker 2: He had great stories.

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Speaker 3: About the early days of the Combine and when he

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Speaker 3: was on Tony Dungee's staff in Tampa Bay and he

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Speaker 3: remember that, and in McAfee studio when McAfee was really budding.

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Speaker 2: So that was really cool to be there with Lovey.

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Speaker 3: Obviously the season wasn't great and everything, but at the

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Speaker 1: And then the next year was twenty twenty three and

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Speaker 1: it was the start of the Demico Ryans era. I

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Speaker 1: remember being at that combine because that was the first

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Speaker 1: time I'd ever met Demiko.

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Speaker 2: I had not met a Miko before.

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Speaker 1: That.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that crazy because you got here to seven.

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Speaker 4: I know, I got here in O seven and he

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Speaker 2: It happened.

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Speaker 1: It just never happened where I had a chance to

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Speaker 1: I was at the Senior Bowl, and I'll never forget

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Speaker 1: that being at the Senior Bowl, and I remember I

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Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl A twenty twenty three. So I wasn't

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Speaker 1: here for any of the introductory press conference any of that.

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Speaker 1: I was in mobile scouting players. I was looking at

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Speaker 1: Dylan Horton man, I was watching him. I was watching Tank.

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Speaker 1: That was That was a good year for watching some

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Speaker 3: And now you guys are regular buds. Postgame private interview

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Speaker 3: to go it's really cool. We played on Monday is

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Speaker 1: we're at home we've won.

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Speaker 1: Like there's so many things that we hit on, and

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Speaker 1: So NFC East teams are there, and so they're asking

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Speaker 3: It'll be interesting to see who gets in first, because

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Speaker 2: Nick.

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Speaker 3: Sorry if this was asked, but I have a question

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Speaker 3: missed a lot of nights at home. Anyway, the CJ

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Speaker 3: Stroud question came to me forty seven different times, Okay,

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Speaker 2: What about CJ. What's gonna happen?

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Speaker 3: And well, he's the quarterback of the Houston Texans, and

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Speaker 3: I'm sure he hopes that things go better next time

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Speaker 2: I mean, what am I gonna say?

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Speaker 3: You know, but Nick has to answer the contract questions,

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Speaker 3: and I know what he's gonna say already. Do you

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Speaker 3: We want to ask a question, Yeah, go ahead, ask

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Speaker 3: a question. I'll give you my Nick answer, Nick.

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Speaker 1: Steve Pelozolo from the thirty thirteen standing high above everybody else, Yes,

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Speaker 1: with my c J. Stroud had a tough couple of

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Speaker 1: for an extension. He is also obviously a fifty year

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Speaker 3: Well, every player is handled differently, and every player is

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Speaker 3: a different path and will handle Cij the way CJ

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Speaker 3: the options available and make the best decision for the

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Speaker 2: So we look forward to that.

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Speaker 1: Dame Brugler, the athletic Nick, this is not a draft

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Speaker 1: for college quarterbacks. It's not rich with college quarterbacks. So

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Speaker 1: if you did decide to trade CJ. Stroud, what will

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to get into anything like that, Dane.

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Speaker 5: I hear you.

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Speaker 2: I like asking fake Nick. I could be Nick all

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Speaker 1: I know because we've been there, We've either been in

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Speaker 3: No, okay, we will have on tomorrow by the way, Yeah, Nick,

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Speaker 3: Greg Cossel, NFL Films.

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Speaker 4: Oh boy, you know the change in offense for Nick

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Speaker 4: Cayley last year?

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Speaker 1: What it resulted? Are you going to be more of

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Speaker 3: Well, Greg, we're gonna do what's best to move the

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Speaker 2: I mean, what how else can you put it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we want to play offense better in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: And when we're in information, we're gonna do this. He's

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Speaker 1: not gonna tell he's not gonna do anything. I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you the one. Here's here's the last question. H Nick,

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Speaker 1: John Harris Houston text dot com. Each and every week

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Speaker 1: when we have an opponent, we ask for the scouting report.

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Speaker 1: Give us a scouting report right now, the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: six Houston Texans. Now that would be an interesting answer.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna ask you to finish that.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna be a tough, physical football team that's going

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Speaker 3: to make you feel it.

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Speaker 2: This is a paraphrase.

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Speaker 3: You course say it like that, and play great defense,

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Speaker 3: play great efficient, effective offense, and hopefully we come out

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Speaker 3: every Sunday.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's gonna happen. Where's my kicker question

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Speaker 2: that I would ask? Okay, where's I got I got one?

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Speaker 4: I got one?

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Speaker 2: I got one.

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Speaker 1: Mark Vandermier, who's textas dot com the voice of Texans, Nick,

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Speaker 1: how you doing doing great.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what do you got van?

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Speaker 2: What do you got?

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Speaker 5: So?

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Speaker 1: Indianapolis is famous for it's after hours steakhouses. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: Saint Elmos or Prime forty seven post ten o'clock. Which

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Speaker 1: one would be Nick Cassario's cup of tea?

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Speaker 3: Well, come on, I'm gonna be a bed, Guys, I'm

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Speaker 1: the scouting Combine, John Harrison vandam here here. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: We're gonna run to a lot of people we know.

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Speaker 1: I was a senior boy. I ran into our buddy,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Joniak, the Voice of the Bears. He's got a

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Speaker 1: But I came up with what I'm calling the underrateds.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm a preface number two by saying I'm not

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Speaker 1: I loved about Henry Totoa is that he had a

442
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Speaker 1: tough game against the Raiders and then he came back

443
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Speaker 1: and had arguably his best game of the year against

444
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Speaker 1: the Chargers. I think it was the very next week,

445
00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:05,480
Speaker 1: and it was like, Yeah, this guy is turning into

446
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Speaker 1: a true professional where the green dot if needed. He

447
00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,120
Speaker 1: knows his defense in and out. He is making plays,

448
00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:13,520
Speaker 1: as they would say, sideline the sideline, but he's doing

449
00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:15,760
Speaker 1: it both the run and the pass. I would love

450
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Speaker 1: to be able to get Henry extended now because I

451
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Speaker 1: think if Henry has another great year, I think that number,

452
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Speaker 1: that dollar number is going up and up.

453
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Speaker 3: Well, think about it like this, Christian Harris is a

454
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Speaker 3: free agent to be right now, following that second year

455
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Speaker 3: he had the playoff performance. There is no way on

456
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Speaker 3: planet Earth that I thought we'd come to this point ever,

457
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Speaker 3: where we're talking about do you extend Henry before his

458
00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:47,919
Speaker 3: final year versus Harris is likely to walk unless you

459
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Speaker 3: can resign him to a really team friendly deal and

460
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Speaker 3: one that he likes as well, and then you.

461
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Speaker 2: Give it a go. Because it's kind of a mystery

462
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Speaker 2: with him.

463
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Speaker 3: I think you fortified the position so much that you

464
00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:01,040
Speaker 3: could argue, had he been given more playing time, he

465
00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:02,960
Speaker 3: might be playing a whole lot better. But the guys

466
00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:04,280
Speaker 3: were just a little bit in front of him, and

467
00:21:04,280 --> 00:21:06,040
Speaker 3: a little bit goes a long way, and then they

468
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Speaker 3: edge him out as far as playing time, and that's it.

469
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Speaker 3: He's in active a lot, a lot of the time.

470
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Speaker 3: So I don't know exactly how they feel about him,

471
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Speaker 3: but you know that the other guys were ahead of

472
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Speaker 3: him because he was a healthy scratch. Sometimes, as far

473
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Speaker 3: as Henry goes, it's a really good underrated Johnny, because

474
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Speaker 3: let's look at it from Henry's standpoint. If you don't

475
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Speaker 3: give me the offer, I like, maybe I just wait

476
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Speaker 3: and bet on myself, so to speak, and I play

477
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Speaker 3: that final year of my rookie deal and then take

478
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Speaker 3: it from there and I make a ton of money

479
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Speaker 3: the following year.

480
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Speaker 2: Or maybe they're gonna reward him right now. But Johnny,

481
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Speaker 2: the bills next.

482
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Speaker 3: Year are really steep, sure, because then you have entering

483
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Speaker 3: this time next year, entering year four Calen Bullock. But

484
00:21:48,520 --> 00:21:51,800
Speaker 3: that's crazy to think about, Kamari Lassiter. We're already at

485
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Speaker 3: this point next year. Now I'll add to that, you're

486
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Speaker 3: gonna pay Will, no question. We don't know what's gonna

487
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Speaker 3: happen with CJ. His contract situation, eligible for the extension

488
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Speaker 3: and all that. But let's say it gets kicked down

489
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Speaker 3: the road to next year, you pick up the fifth

490
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:07,920
Speaker 3: year option, it gets kicked down the road, then you

491
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Speaker 3: got CJ, Kamari Klin, possibly Henry coming off year four

492
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Speaker 3: of his rookie deal and he shines again, and where

493
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Speaker 3: we going from there? Because disease isn't getting any younger,

494
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Speaker 3: you'd love to keep him around forever.

495
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Speaker 1: Throw into that, I think Titus is up after next

496
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Speaker 1: year too.

497
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Speaker 3: It's gonna be a big freight train of money that

498
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Speaker 3: you have to deliver to keep all these guys. And

499
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Speaker 3: will you have room under whatever the CAP's going to

500
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Speaker 3: be in twenty twenty seven. So the Henry decision or

501
00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 3: approach plays into all of that, right, I mean, all

502
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,400
Speaker 3: of that you have to take into consideration. So, hey,

503
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Speaker 3: that's a good one for Nick. That's a really good

504
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Speaker 3: one for Nick. Now Nick's just gonna say, well, we'll

505
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,720
Speaker 3: talk to players about what's right for them. You know,

506
00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,080
Speaker 3: he's going to generalize and I don't know what he's

507
00:22:53,119 --> 00:22:54,480
Speaker 3: thinking in his office though.

508
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Speaker 1: About and you bring up the exact reason why it's important,

509
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Speaker 1: because if you get a head of that, then maybe

510
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,239
Speaker 1: you can save some dollars that you can spread out

511
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,240
Speaker 1: to everybody else. And that's one of the reasons that

512
00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:12,399
Speaker 1: you would extend a guy before the final year of

513
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:17,520
Speaker 1: his contract is up, because you're betting on the rise,

514
00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:20,920
Speaker 1: but you're not paying what it would be after he's

515
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 1: actually gotten there. I think he's risen to a particular

516
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,920
Speaker 1: point that he deserves it, more deserves it. But part

517
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Speaker 1: of my reasoning is what you just said, and that

518
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Speaker 1: is you could absolutely have a huge chunk next offseason

519
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,280
Speaker 1: where you're like, oh boy, the players you mentioned and

520
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,679
Speaker 1: I believe Titus would fall into that category too, So

521
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Speaker 1: I would like to do that this year, feel good

522
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Speaker 1: about what I've got with Henry going forward.

523
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Speaker 3: Azz is also up next year. Yep, yeah, I bet

524
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Speaker 3: they try. I bet they try to get Henry locked up.

525
00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 3: And I don't know how this is going to play out, man,

526
00:23:56,359 --> 00:24:00,200
Speaker 3: because it's Henry and Azse and you mentioned it, EJS

527
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:01,399
Speaker 3: a free agent, and.

528
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Speaker 1: That's why that's why in my mock I had them

529
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,120
Speaker 1: taking Jacob Rodriguez in the third round at football tegover

530
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Speaker 1: dot com.

531
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Speaker 3: A rookie control of a really promising player. Yep, Johnny,

532
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 3: he might be gone.

533
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Speaker 2: That's what you've got. Might be gone by the third round.

534
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Speaker 4: I mean might be no, no, no, you might have to

535
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:15,919
Speaker 4: take him.

536
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:19,040
Speaker 2: Friday night earlier in the second round. You might just

537
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Speaker 2: like I I've come around on.

538
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:22,440
Speaker 1: Actually was texting with Sean Pendergast over the weekend because

539
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:24,639
Speaker 1: I had heard them. They had a segment they were

540
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Speaker 1: talking about Jeremiah Love and it was Bucky Brooks, who

541
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Speaker 1: I love. I love Buck, not Bucky. Charles Davis love

542
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 1: both them. But Charles did his mock draft and his

543
00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 1: mock draft he had Jeremiah Love falling at eighteen and

544
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Speaker 1: I can't remember who's the AH heard about he'd him

545
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,920
Speaker 1: at eighteen. And so as I was listening, I got

546
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Speaker 1: to thinking, because Sean started mentioning trading up and going

547
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Speaker 1: and getting Jeremiah Love because it is I mean, you're

548
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 1: at twenty eight, twenty eight to eighteen. It's a lot

549
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:52,920
Speaker 1: of different going twenty eight to three or twenty eight

550
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Speaker 1: to five. And so he was like, yes, I would

551
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Speaker 1: trade to move up and I would absolutely think about it.

552
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Speaker 4: But then I hit him with I said, well, let

553
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 4: me ask you this.

554
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,159
Speaker 1: What if you ended up staying at twenty eight and

555
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,680
Speaker 1: taking his teammate generian price, and you held onto the

556
00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: picks and you used one of those to pick an

557
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 1: interior offensivelignment in one of the later rounds. You tell

558
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,280
Speaker 1: me though, he told me he said, I'd still trade

559
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:16,880
Speaker 1: up for love.

560
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:19,840
Speaker 2: Who said this Sean Sean?

561
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 1: And Sean would know because Sean has seen both those

562
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 1: Notre dame guys in the number of times.

563
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 3: But you know, Sean would recuse himself from the conversation

564
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:29,720
Speaker 3: as well, like if Nick Cassario included him in the

565
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:33,200
Speaker 3: decision making process, he would have to say, my Irish

566
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,840
Speaker 3: blood and I have to stand outside the door while you.

567
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 2: Guys make this decision. I'm kidding Sean.

568
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 3: He can evaluate that and that would be sexy as

569
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 3: all get out to move up. But I think Sean

570
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 3: said to move up to eighteen from where you are

571
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Speaker 3: now twenty eight?

572
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:52,399
Speaker 2: Said would you give up a two? Johnny? It's going

573
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 2: to cost more than a two to move from twenty

574
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Speaker 2: eight to.

575
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Speaker 1: Eighteen because I think other EF two it's done, because

576
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Speaker 1: there are.

577
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Speaker 2: Other teams that are thinking about it. It's publisher's clearing house.

578
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 3: At that point, Ed mc mann shows up and presents

579
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,840
Speaker 3: you with a check for a billion dollars. Because you're

580
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,359
Speaker 3: the Vikings at eighteen, you're going to be able to

581
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 3: command a hefty price to get somebody to move into

582
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Speaker 3: that slot to take Love.

583
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 2: If he's still there at eighteen.

584
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,399
Speaker 4: What teams following or in and around where the Texans are.

585
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:19,840
Speaker 3: By the way, you have to find me for that

586
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 3: freaking Ed McMahon reference right there. Fine, I love hold

587
00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 3: on dated reference. It's the first day of combine.

588
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 2: I let it slid. I let it slide.

589
00:26:28,160 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 1: Teams that would be interested in and running back in

590
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:32,560
Speaker 1: and around where the Texans would be.

591
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,960
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh. But I think they need more to running back Chargers.

592
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:45,520
Speaker 1: No Eagles, no Browns, no Bears, maybe Buffalo, no Niners,

593
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 1: no Rams, no Denver, yes, New England, no Seattle.

594
00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:52,639
Speaker 2: Yes.

595
00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:55,280
Speaker 1: And those are teams that because of the way those

596
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,919
Speaker 1: teams are constructed, they could give up a second and

597
00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,719
Speaker 1: a third in move up in this above you and

598
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 1: get go get Jeremi Love if he felt eighteenth.

599
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,359
Speaker 3: In this draft, He's a transcendent player in this draft.

600
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:09,720
Speaker 3: A draft without sexy Colt.

601
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:13,920
Speaker 1: It's almost like the second quarterback, almost from from A

602
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: from A.

603
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 4: I want that guy.

604
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,159
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's where it feels because you would trade up

605
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 1: to get Fernanda Mendoza, and you would trade up potentially

606
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 1: get Jeremiah Love.

607
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:26,440
Speaker 2: He's kind Travis Hunter ish in this draft.

608
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 3: Now, very sexy offensive player go that high in all

609
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 3: likelihood if somebody might talk themselves into it.

610
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,200
Speaker 2: Because you watch all that tape, you're like, I gotta

611
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:35,920
Speaker 2: have this guy.

612
00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 3: I have other needs as well, but this guy could

613
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 3: really change. He's gonna make my offensive line better. He

614
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 3: is one of those running backs that will make my

615
00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 3: line better.

616
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: He'll make my quarterback better. He'll make my running game better.

617
00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: He'll make my offensive line better. He'll make the play

618
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 1: action game better.

619
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would.

620
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 4: I would make the trade too. I'm with you.

621
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: But I wouldn't sleep on Jennari and Price being drafted

622
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,359
Speaker 1: in the first round because, like I said, the Broncos

623
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 1: and Seattle both could be in the market form depending

624
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 1: on what happens to Kenth Walker.

625
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,159
Speaker 4: The Denver Broncos need a running back. I mean, I

626
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 4: know they have RJ.

627
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 1: Harvey, but the way that he is running offense there

628
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,439
Speaker 1: in Denver, they have wanted a second running back.

629
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Speaker 2: I call my shot. He's going. Price is going in

630
00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:15,120
Speaker 2: the first round. Two.

631
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 1: I yeah, that's why. I I'm the one who started that.

632
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, no, so I'm shot.

633
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 3: Uh.

634
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 2: Next underrated topic.

635
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: Next under rated? Finding the one true in line? Why

636
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 1: tight end that can really block his ass off for

637
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 1: the tight end.

638
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,640
Speaker 2: Room, We haven't found it yet.

639
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 4: Here's here's one of the one of the reasons.

640
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: Look, I feel like Dalton did a hell of a

641
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 1: job blocking this year, especially better than twenty twenty four.

642
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 2: And that's fine, but he's not that go on. But

643
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 2: he's not what you described.

644
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 4: We had to go six offensive lineman. How many times.

645
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 2: You're talking about CJ. Fedorowitz.

646
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 3: You're talking about a big, behemoth tight end that can

647
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 3: block his ass off yet catch a ball of game.

648
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 1: And it probably probably will have to be in the

649
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 1: free agent realm because most of the tight ends in

650
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: his college draft are the best. You probably get is

651
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 1: a you tight end to kind of move around do

652
00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 1: some different things. I it at twenty eight tight end

653
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: from Oregon. His name is Kenyon Sadie. His nickname is

654
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 1: the Freak.

655
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 3: How big is he he's six four, two fifty.

656
00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 2: Okay, he's the.

657
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 4: Best athlete at tight ends.

658
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 3: How big is fed Door? I mean door with the

659
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 3: biggest stovers. I think he's probably about the same size

660
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 3: as Stover Mark. He's got like three percent body fat.

661
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 3: Wait till you see what he does at the Combineey.

662
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,280
Speaker 2: You can't take him right there, though, I know you

663
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:48,840
Speaker 2: have too much other stuff. I know exactly you're exactly

664
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 2: tell me about Caid. Now. Cad got heard opening day that.

665
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 3: Was a killer killer for a lot year to say,

666
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 3: and you know we had the Stover shove and everything.

667
00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 3: I'm here to say that Ca can play a lot

668
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 3: better than he did down the stretch. And he'd be

669
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Speaker 3: the first one to tell you that.

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Speaker 2: I agree.

671
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 4: I absolutely agree.

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Speaker 3: And you know you get Brev back too, and I

673
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,440
Speaker 3: know he's not exactly what you described there. Brev is

674
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 3: a weapon and he can block right and you can't

675
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 3: rely on.

676
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 2: Him because he missed the last two years.

677
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 3: But man, you want to talk about finding gold that

678
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 3: you hung on to Brev, and if Brev can stay

679
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 3: healthy for fifteen sixteen games and give you what his

680
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 3: full potential is, that could be huge for this team.

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00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody talks about and then maybe I should

682
00:30:33,080 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: put that on. There's the development because everybody talks about, well,

683
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,520
Speaker 1: if Tank comes back healthy, if Tank comes back healthy,

684
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 1: what if Brev comes back healthy?

685
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 2: You know last year, I bet.

686
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 3: Caley and his private moments would tell you because we

687
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 3: never could go there with him because Brev was gone.

688
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 2: You gotta move on.

689
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,920
Speaker 3: But in his private moments was thinking soul because Brev

690
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 3: had a look on his face. Brev was so determined

691
00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 3: to have an outstanding twenty twenty five and then he's lost,

692
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 3: and you saw everybody who was there saw how devis dated.

693
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 2: He was. The whole team was that he was out and.

694
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 3: Look, you can't count on that because and he'd be

695
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 3: the first to tell you that too. He's like, I know,

696
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 3: I mean at the last two years, but he's coming

697
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 3: back with a vengeance again. I see him here almost

698
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 3: every day, and he's probably here every day. I just

699
00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 3: don't see him every day. He's rehabbing hard, and doctor

700
00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 3: VanderMeer says he's going to be ready. Now can he

701
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 3: stay out there? That's the big thing with Brev, of course,

702
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 3: So back to your topic, it's too early for that, Johnny.

703
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:29,640
Speaker 2: But it is in need.

704
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:32,040
Speaker 3: It is something to have to be sure about going in.

705
00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 3: Are we okay a tight end at the very least?

706
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna give you one minute for this. Now,

707
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: I got four others. I want you to pick the

708
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: one out of here that you think should not be

709
00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: in the underage, should actually be something we're talking a

710
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: little bit more about as a priority or something that's important,

711
00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,720
Speaker 1: all right. Number four Graham Mertz development for when Davis

712
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 1: Mills eventually moves on getting a shot at bringing it

713
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: being starved somewhere else. Number five culture Guys, extensions, Darya

714
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: Gumbuale Rankins, and probably a couple of it, so I'm

715
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: not thinking about time. Ver six Dylan Horton's progress into

716
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: being the number three defensive end on this football team.

717
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 2: That's good.

718
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: Number seven and last one being able to maintain the

719
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: defensive coaching staff one hundred percent intact from twenty twenty five.

720
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna put that last because I think they'll

721
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 3: solve those problems.

722
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 2: Right. We have Matt Burke here, we have Demico Ryan.

723
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,240
Speaker 4: No, that's what I'm saying. You were able to do that.

724
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 4: We were able to.

725
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: Do that, and I don't think people are talking about it, like,

726
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: I think that's huge for this team from twenty twenty

727
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: six that you were able to maintain the whole staff.

728
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 3: So that was Oh so that's an underrated plus. It's

729
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 3: already taken care of that, right, Okay. I thought you

730
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 3: were thinking that they were still gonna get rated or

731
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 3: something as far as Rankins goes or culture guy Rankins. Look,

732
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 3: interior d line is a top topic. Okay, so we

733
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 3: know that, and Rankins is number one on that list.

734
00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 2: What you do with him? Uh?

735
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Speaker 3: You mentioned Mertz. This is interesting. Merch is gonna get

736
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 3: to play a bunch, right. You had four quarterbacks last years,

737
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 3: Slovis was on the roster eating up some reps, and

738
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 3: I don't know if they go with four or three

739
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,160
Speaker 3: this year. And this all factors into the CJ situation,

740
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:16,959
Speaker 3: but I think Merch is gonna get obviously a lot

741
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 3: more playing time in OTA's practice time, in OTA's in

742
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 3: training camp, and that'll be really great for Mertz.

743
00:33:21,520 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 2: You have to develop Mertz.

744
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 3: You're right, because eventually Davis is gonna move on, maybe

745
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 3: trade Davis.

746
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 2: Maybe not.

747
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 3: I don't know what was another one you gave, but

748
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 3: I thought was pretty important. Yeah, because depth, Derek PARNETCI

749
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 3: free agent depth at defensive end is huge.

750
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:37,160
Speaker 2: These guys play.

751
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 3: These guys are in there first and second down sometimes

752
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 3: your reps, yeah, or maybe first down at least. Then

753
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 3: it's second and long, and like Will and Daniel come

754
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 3: back in, let's get a sack. Poor Bartnett has to leave.

755
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 3: Sometimes he probably had more sacks, but hey, it's okay.

756
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 3: We got the best in the league coming in. These

757
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 3: guys are gonna play, So yeah, Diddlan horton development and

758
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 3: depth there in general, do you draft you Obviously you're

759
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 3: gonna get a free agent there, if it's Barnet or

760
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 3: somebody else, you're gonna get help there. But are you

761
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 3: gonna draft another guy, get to draft another edge to

762
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:07,440
Speaker 3: help you out there?

763
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 2: I think it's a big topic.

764
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely.

765
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:14,240
Speaker 1: Now the inspiration for this underrated topic was Henry Toatore.

766
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: He caught up with Jonathan Joseph on an Audible's podcast,

767
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:20,240
Speaker 1: Take a listen to that. Coming up next to Texas

768
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Speaker 1: All Access, We're gonna one final segment of this edition

769
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Speaker 1: of Texas All Access from under Texas Radio Studio.

770
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 4: I'm your host, John Harris, football analyst.

771
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: Sideline reporter as I teased, it's Henry toatoa time with

772
00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 1: Jonathan Joseph.

773
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 6: Tell us a little bit. How you got here, man?

774
00:34:35,400 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 5: Man?

775
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 7: Uh, I feel like it's just been a It's been

776
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 7: a long road, a long journey for sure. Started playing

777
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 7: ball when I was about five or six, and then

778
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 7: grew up in Sacramento, California, And then for high school,

779
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 7: I moved to the Bay Area, went to Dalla Soal

780
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 7: and then went to College of Tennessee for two years,

781
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 7: and then I went to the rival. They hate me

782
00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 7: for it. They hate me. Then boys hate me over

783
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 7: there Tennessee. I went to Alabama for two years and

784
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 7: then I ended up here.

785
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 5: Man.

786
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,080
Speaker 7: But it's just been a long journey. It's been a blessing.

787
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 7: I'm the oldest out of my entire family, well second oldest.

788
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 7: I got nothing but younger siblings that look up to me.

789
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 7: So to be able to be like a pioneer for

790
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 7: my family, it's been huge. So such a bless for

791
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 7: me to be here in the league playing for the

792
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 7: you know, the best organization in the NFL.

793
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:23,600
Speaker 5: But I'm blessed to be here.

794
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:25,800
Speaker 6: And I remember you at Tennessee. I just always remember

795
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,439
Speaker 6: the name you're jumping off the screen. Yeah, just started

796
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 6: at Tennessee, went to Alabama, and you had Alabama on

797
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 6: your list to start with, So why would you What

798
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 6: was for about?

799
00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:34,919
Speaker 5: Man?

800
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,080
Speaker 7: Honestly, it wasn't what I thought I was gonna be

801
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 7: when I went to Tennessee.

802
00:35:42,239 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 5: It wasn't nothing that I was waiting for my time.

803
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 7: So if everybody thinking then I got faded, I ain't

804
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 7: get a die. But but it was it just like

805
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 7: I'm a big culture guy. Like I'm big on my

806
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 7: family culture. You know, my dad raised me like as

807
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 7: an upfront man, and there's standards and their standards to

808
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 7: be upheld. And that's kind of what I what I

809
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 7: was going to in Tennessee. Not saying it's a bad program,

810
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 7: but Alabama was ultimately where I wanted to be.

811
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 5: I want to compete against the best.

812
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 7: I wanted to play with the best coach, and I

813
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 7: also wanted to, you know, compete for national championship. So

814
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 7: that's what I did, and I went there and it

815
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 7: was a hell of a time.

816
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,480
Speaker 6: And talking about culture, obviously growing up with seven siblings,

817
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:21,399
Speaker 6: talking about that, you know, obviously you having to fight

818
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 6: your way up each and every day and early you're

819
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 6: keeping your household. You know, I'm sure that kind of

820
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 6: you know, moted you into the player you are and

821
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 6: the man you are today. So talking about him.

822
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 7: One hundred percent man man just being able to be

823
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 7: and I feel like me being an older brother kind

824
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 7: of raised me to to be, you know, the upcoming

825
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 7: father that I'm going to be and and ultimately the

826
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 7: husband that I am right now. Just being able to see,

827
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 7: you know, two lovely parents love each other and how

828
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 7: my dad loved my mom. But then also the love

829
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 7: that I have for my siblings, Like I just know

830
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 7: that I'm gonna reciprocate that when I have kids. So

831
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,320
Speaker 7: that's kind of the standard that I have. And it

832
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 7: also comes with my culture. I come from the Polynesian background.

833
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 7: I'm someone on a Tongan and were big on family,

834
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,840
Speaker 7: like we run deep and you're.

835
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,720
Speaker 5: Not saying we run deep in the family.

836
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,919
Speaker 7: So when it comes to that, and when it comes

837
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 7: to family like that kind of just bleeds over to

838
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 7: my football life because the men I step on the

839
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:17,680
Speaker 7: field with every single day, like man, I love them,

840
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 7: and when I say I love you, like I'm willing

841
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:21,160
Speaker 7: to do anything on that field for you.

842
00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 2: Oh, man.

843
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,799
Speaker 6: So you know growing up in Sack, Yeah, being far

844
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 6: away from home, how do you get your family to convert?

845
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 6: You know, I was everybody being forty nine ers, fans

846
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 6: being forty nine as ends. How do you get them

847
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:32,880
Speaker 6: to pervert and come move and be a Houston Texans man.

848
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 7: That's probably one of the hardest things, man, because I

849
00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 7: used to beleeve right and go too like, That's all

850
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 7: I knew growing up was the Niners.

851
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:41,879
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying, Patrick Willis Navart, Like that's

852
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 5: all I knew.

853
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 7: So, man, when it came to me getting drafted here,

854
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:47,800
Speaker 7: I think I felt like for my family it was

855
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 7: second or nothing, like they was like, no, we were

856
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:50,760
Speaker 7: Houston Texas.

857
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 5: My son is there and we're gonna ride to die

858
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:52,879
Speaker 5: for them.

859
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 7: So I feel like that transition wasn't It wasn't hard

860
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:57,319
Speaker 7: for me, like I love it here when I feel

861
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 7: like for my family it was a little hard.

862
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 5: But they stake now they know who they rock West.

863
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 6: I trust you. I know how y'all run deep.

864
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 7: Man.

865
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 6: I tell you know, a couple of guys back in

866
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:13,399
Speaker 6: my day Paul College together and Final Attack gez right there. Yeah,

867
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 6: I played with it, so I know real tough. But

868
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 6: you know, talk about it after you got drafted. You

869
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 6: married your wife right away, Yes, I right after you

870
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 6: got drafted. Talk about that a little.

871
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 7: Bit, man, Uh, Like I tell her about this, like

872
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,080
Speaker 7: that's probably one of the best scions I ever made,

873
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 7: Like being able to have somebody by your.

874
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 5: Side and that knows you in and out, that will

875
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 5: ride a die for you, whether you're wrong or right.

876
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 7: But then also mean, she's like she's let my backbone, Like,

877
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:39,919
Speaker 7: whatever I do wrong, she's gonna be there. And there's

878
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 7: another person that I would rather die for on this

879
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 7: earth besides her. So it was kind of fitting, like

880
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:47,080
Speaker 7: to be able to celebrate. We kind of had an

881
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 7: intimate wedding after It was only my siblings and her

882
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 7: siblings and our parents there initially, so man, we just

883
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 7: felt like it was the right time to do it.

884
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 7: I wanted to tie the knot, and you know, it

885
00:38:59,160 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 7: was just funn It's all good.

886
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 6: Congress and then appreciate that Congress on that talk about

887
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 6: unless she's an influence, she's pretty big time herself.

888
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, she'd be on a TikTok a little bit.

889
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 7: She'd definitely be on a TikTok and I feel like

890
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:17,920
Speaker 7: I feel like it's just her being her. Like when

891
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 7: we first started dating, she loved like recording herself and

892
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:24,399
Speaker 7: making videos and whatnot. But she's gotten really really good

893
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 7: at it and she's kind of a natural for it.

894
00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 7: And the thing that I love about her content is

895
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 7: like it's just her. She's not trying to front and

896
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 7: be who someone she's not. She's making content because she

897
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 7: loves doing it. But she's putting out real stuff about

898
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 7: who she really is, who we really are.

899
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 5: And the love that we have for each other.

900
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,839
Speaker 7: So that's why I love what she dos in And

901
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 7: you know, sometimes she makes me get up and do some.

902
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 5: Dances that I don't like. And people got some more

903
00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:49,840
Speaker 5: to say, but it is what it is.

904
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 7: You know.

905
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 5: I do anything for that lady.

906
00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 6: That's all I was going to. Actually, do you enjoy

907
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 6: the one of the videos because they sometimes she's got

908
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 6: to be a good husband, and.

909
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, take it in for what it is. Oh yeah,

910
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 5: want I was saying, Man, I enjoy it. And maybe

911
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 5: some days I ain't even lie, you know, just like

912
00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,240
Speaker 5: I don't feel like doing it. But but the smile

913
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 5: that I see on.

914
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 7: Her face when when we make a video or she

915
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 7: makes content and whatnot, Like that's that's what I live for.

916
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 7: And there's some things that she puts up with me

917
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 7: that that she forced herself to do. So it's kind

918
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 7: of that vice versus marriage where you kind of giving

919
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 7: budds on on some type of things.

920
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 6: So talk about your dog a little bit, you talk

921
00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:22,440
Speaker 6: about them.

922
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got a little dog named King.

923
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:24,439
Speaker 2: Man.

924
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 5: He ain't got no kids, but my dog is my kid.

925
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 7: Like man, I never I grew up with dogs, but

926
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 7: I never knew I could love a dog the way

927
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 7: I love my dog right now. Man, he he's saw

928
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 7: mostly there for me and especially for my wife. She's

929
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 7: always there with them. But man, be able to have

930
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 7: your little puppy walking around with you, Man, I let

931
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 7: it look at Man.

932
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,000
Speaker 6: You can start your TikTok over there right there, and

933
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:45,719
Speaker 6: you can start your own brand and head into that.

934
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 6: You ever looked into doing your own brand or just

935
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 6: being an influence or.

936
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,960
Speaker 5: Anything, Nah, I ain't gonna lie.

937
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,399
Speaker 7: I've never been big on a camera. I've never been

938
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:56,920
Speaker 7: big on recording myself for influencing. And I feel like

939
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 7: my influence is playing football, Like that's what I do

940
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 7: and like that's what I love to do, and that's

941
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,320
Speaker 7: kind of like my main focus and you know, when life.

942
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 5: Happens after ball, then I figured out. But no, I

943
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:08,359
Speaker 5: ain't really thought about the camera too much.

944
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:11,120
Speaker 6: You know, you need to focus, you know. But now

945
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 6: it's not frowned upon like but out.

946
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 5: You know.

947
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 6: Now you know, guys can have their own podcast during

948
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 6: the years and right after, so you know, football is

949
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:19,919
Speaker 6: in a different space sports in general now. So yeah,

950
00:41:20,040 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 6: that's why I really asking that question to see if

951
00:41:22,239 --> 00:41:23,680
Speaker 6: you had any interest in that.

952
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,560
Speaker 7: I probably would, probably down the road, but I like,

953
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 7: I don't know, it's just my mind, Like, man, I'm

954
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,360
Speaker 7: so stuck on ball when it's in season, but probably

955
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:32,440
Speaker 7: down the road, I definitely would.

956
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:34,439
Speaker 6: Okay, we're going to peep with the ball a little

957
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:36,840
Speaker 6: bit there. Yeah, let's talk about when you're playing football,

958
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 6: when you actually go watch fielm and yourself, Like, what

959
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 6: do you kind of think jump out the most about

960
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 6: you is yourself when you watch yourself through your set

961
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 6: of eyes.

962
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 7: By myself, that's a that's a good question, j Joe.

963
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 7: I ain't gonna lie because I mean, you know it,

964
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:52,440
Speaker 7: like you'd be so hard on yourself. You want to

965
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 7: critique yourself and it's it's so easy to look over

966
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 7: the goods. Like I try not to look at no

967
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 7: goods cause it's just like in that grind of the season,

968
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 7: you want to always improve. You want to be the

969
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 7: best player you can for your teammates. But like, I

970
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:08,359
Speaker 7: feel like I'm a physical player, Like every linebacker got

971
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,320
Speaker 7: to be physical. And I feel like, I know, you

972
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:13,879
Speaker 7: know some Tennessees, I'm kind of I'm an intelligent player

973
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 7: and I know what's gonna happen sometimes off the Tennessees

974
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 7: that the offense gives us. But man, like just that physicalness,

975
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 7: like I take pride in and obviously there's some little

976
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 7: things that I want to fix here and there, but

977
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 7: it's ultimately that like improving every single day, like I

978
00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:30,200
Speaker 7: always want to see improvement, Like I got a great

979
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 7: leader disease and then he approaches the game the same way,

980
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:34,839
Speaker 7: and that's just how I want to approach and move

981
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 7: about my way.

982
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 6: Oh man, that's big because I had a chance to

983
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 6: be around you when I was here doing the in

984
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:41,439
Speaker 6: term and everything, and that's the first thing that jumped

985
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 6: out to me was like, man, he's pretty intelligent. I've

986
00:42:44,040 --> 00:42:45,880
Speaker 6: seen you played before in college and those things, but

987
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 6: just watching you play, you very instinct. They're very intelligent.

988
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:50,359
Speaker 6: So that's why I always ask, like, when you watch

989
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,880
Speaker 6: the family yourself, like what exactly do you see? Do

990
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 6: you critique yourself hard or all these things? Or do

991
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,320
Speaker 6: you try to emulate yourself at the other guys in

992
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 6: the league.

993
00:42:58,360 --> 00:43:00,719
Speaker 7: That's a great question. I ain't a lie like, I

994
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 7: ain't gonna lie like. And this is not just saying

995
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 7: because he's my teammate, but like Asese, Asese has been.

996
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:07,759
Speaker 5: One of those I grew up a forty Niner fan.

997
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:09,560
Speaker 7: He was at the Niners before I was even drafted,

998
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 7: and watching him and Fred and Dre like dems was

999
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 7: the dudes that I looked up to just.

1000
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 5: How they play.

1001
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 7: They played smart, to play physical, they play fast, Like

1002
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:19,600
Speaker 7: that's how I try to immolate my game. And then

1003
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 7: you know, God blessed me what eased to be able

1004
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 7: to be here. So it's like being able to have

1005
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 7: him right next to my side, someone that I looked

1006
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 7: up to playing at the Niners was huge, man, So

1007
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:30,840
Speaker 7: so kind of those you know, those three guys were

1008
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 7: kind of the main one because that's my generation of

1009
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 7: great linebackers.

1010
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 5: But yeah, those guys are definitely definitely up there for me.

1011
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 6: So it seems like your football got taken through it

1012
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 6: football or buzz for you, definitely, I ain't gonna lie.

1013
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 5: It was either this or nothing. It was either this.

1014
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 5: I'm back at the crib of doing you know, working.

1015
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 7: For the fan, you know what I'm saying like that,

1016
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 7: I had to put the marbles in and then I

1017
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 7: just had to go to trust myself.

1018
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 5: Like I had a great support system, you know.

1019
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 7: My dad was my lifelong coach and we kind of

1020
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 7: he he built out a plan for me to get

1021
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 7: to where I'm at right now, and if for one

1022
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 7: fam I wouldn't here and my mom too.

1023
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 5: But uh yeah, man, it was either football or not.

1024
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 6: Man with you, man, you only got a short windows,

1025
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 6: you know, just to even get to this level, so

1026
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,399
Speaker 6: obviously you got to put the time in there for Yeah,

1027
00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 6: what was your welcome to the NFL moment?

1028
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:20,759
Speaker 7: I ain't gonna lie, man, it was right when I

1029
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,439
Speaker 7: probably when I had first got here. When I first

1030
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 7: got here, we had my boy lt Ley Tuttu he

1031
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 7: uh man. One of the best times, probably the best

1032
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 7: time I ain't ever played with nobody like him.

1033
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 5: I'm over there rushing on the edge.

1034
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 7: We had a little blitz, a little change of car

1035
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 7: and I'm coming off the edge and then LT look

1036
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 7: he looked to the side, he see him coming, and

1037
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 7: then he go and grab me like this with one arm.

1038
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 5: And he's still blocking the tackle like this, and he

1039
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 5: looked at me. He looked at me, said I could

1040
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 5: have dumped you right now. And I said that. I

1041
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 5: said that, said my chest plate like that. Oh man,

1042
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 5: I'm good, big bro, you got it, miss me.

1043
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 2: We've all at that moment.

1044
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 6: I should never still forget. I would lined up in

1045
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 6: press against Santanamos as a rick. Yea, he shot by me.

1046
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:07,959
Speaker 6: So I didn't put a hand on it. I didn't

1047
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 6: put it hold on it.

1048
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:10,880
Speaker 2: And I was like, man, is this for me? You know?

1049
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 2: So we wony have that moment.

1050
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 5: I'm trying to tell you, are you.

1051
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 6: A trash talk out there?

1052
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 5: Ah? I just be screaming out there from a lot

1053
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:21,359
Speaker 5: of streak background, you know, saving the times.

1054
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 6: He ain't really allow on much and things like that.

1055
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:25,439
Speaker 5: So I see saving my dad.

1056
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 7: My dad used to yell at me when I was

1057
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 7: young when he's a chat sog. You know, I grew

1058
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 7: up on respecting the game, Like I just let the

1059
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 7: past talk for real. You know, sometimes I get determined,

1060
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 7: but I it's nothing crazy. It's just kind of give

1061
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 7: me two stuff.

1062
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 5: But nah, I don't be talking crazy.

1063
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 6: How the same one is kind of like I'm the

1064
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 6: same way a little bit. We kind of keep you

1065
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 6: in the moment, you know, you know, we'll have to

1066
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:44,960
Speaker 6: let somebody know that you're there when you make it

1067
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:47,799
Speaker 6: bigger there. But also you can't get so caught up

1068
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 6: in all the hype and of holla and lose focus

1069
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 6: and don't do your job.

1070
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 5: One. Yeah, it's kind of a push and give kind

1071
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 5: of thing.

1072
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, what's your goals? Man, they don't have to be

1073
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 6: your football goals. They don't have to like whether you know,

1074
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:03,239
Speaker 6: obviously we all play trying to win a Super Older

1075
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 6: championship Like that is like do you have a certain

1076
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 6: amount of years you want to accomplish in the league?

1077
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 6: You know, obviously I'm sure you will be a pro bowler.

1078
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 7: Uh first and foremost man, Like I mean, like you said,

1079
00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:18,440
Speaker 7: like I'm trying to win Super Bowl and like I'm

1080
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 7: trying to win to hear, Like with the guys that

1081
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 7: we have in this locker room and that's kind of

1082
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 7: like been my main goal no matter you know what

1083
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 7: my role is, Like, I just want to win, Like.

1084
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:28,719
Speaker 5: That's my biggest actcome of winning. Coaches, I just want

1085
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 5: to win.

1086
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 7: But then also like like personally, like, man, obviously I

1087
00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 7: want to play tamplus years.

1088
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 6: You get to be selish with them.

1089
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:40,879
Speaker 7: Yeah, I I want to play. I probably want to. Yeah,

1090
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:42,359
Speaker 7: the pretend is to go. You know what I'm saying,

1091
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 7: depend on how my body hold up. And I felt

1092
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 7: like I got a good routine recovery process. But definitely

1093
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:51,360
Speaker 7: tamplus I want to be obviously all pro pro bowler,

1094
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,480
Speaker 7: like anything that a kid could dream of, Like, that's

1095
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 7: what I want, And like I want my kid dreams

1096
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Speaker 7: to be alive, because you know, when I first thought

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Speaker 7: about making it, I thought about all the little things

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Speaker 7: and stuff and whatnot. And that's what I want that

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Speaker 7: little Henry, I want his little dreams to still be alive.

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Speaker 7: You know, no matter how old I am.

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Speaker 6: That's a big time man. So you know, I know

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Speaker 6: you got a field day to go back to and

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Speaker 6: get to. Man, so we appreciate having you on the Audibles. Man,

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Speaker 6: I appreciate that you got big things to continue doing. Man,

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Speaker 6: glad to watch you as a Houston Texans, watch your

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Speaker 6: collegiate career.

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Speaker 3: Man.

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Speaker 6: Just keep doing what you've been.

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Speaker 5: Doing that Joe, appreciate your big brother. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Great stuff there from Henry and Jjo. You can catch

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Speaker 1: all of these on an Audibles podcast. Check it out

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Speaker 1: on YouTube our podcast page. It is awesome stuff. Jjo

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Speaker 1: did a great job with a lot of the guys

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Speaker 1: he had in there. We played Jalen Petrie before, Derek

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Speaker 1: Stingley and today Henry toa tota. All right, we got

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Speaker 1: plenty coming for the combine the next few days. Stay

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Speaker 1: locked in right here at Sports Rido six'.

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Speaker 4: Ten thank you for. Listening we'll see next. Time as,

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Speaker 4: Always Go.

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Speaker 2: Texans