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Speaker 1: Hello Texans, and welcome to the program that gets you

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Speaker 1: inside n RG Stadium, inside the thoughts of Mark VanderMeer

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Speaker 1: me I went third person for a brief moment there,

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Speaker 1: but really not for too long. Tied John Harris, my

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Speaker 1: co host, as we welcome me to Texans Radio, Texas

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Speaker 1: All Access Johnny Good evening, how's it going with my friend?

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Speaker 1: John Harris is doing well. I figured if you went

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Speaker 1: So John Harris is doing well and ready ready to

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Speaker 1: rock as we always are, and we're we're oh so

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Speaker 1: close to the schedule being released. And it was funny

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Speaker 1: I was talking to Deep today about this mark the

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Speaker 1: fact that the NFL now sees the value in treating

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Speaker 1: the schedule release as an event that isn't quite on

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Speaker 1: par with the Draft and obviously is not on par

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Speaker 1: with the super Bowl, but they're understanding this is a

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Speaker 1: big event and they're finally like, look, let's give everybody

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Speaker 1: a lockdown day. This is what it's done. It's when

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Speaker 1: we release it and make it a massive It's been

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Speaker 1: a massive event. But the fact that we can plan

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Speaker 1: I think that's I think that's huge. That's massive. I agree, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: it is huge. And I remember recent years, previous years

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Speaker 1: where they wouldn't really know the exact date and it

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Speaker 1: was in April. It might be the second week of April,

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Speaker 1: it'll be sometime around there, and then you'd find out

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Speaker 1: maybe a few days out. You know. It just wasn't

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Speaker 1: the kind of countdown that you have right now. And

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be fun tomorrow as as the schedule gets

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Speaker 1: released and we'll have it for you sixty five live

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Speaker 1: right here on this program. We will release the schedule

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Speaker 1: and we'll also be live on our social media digital

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Speaker 1: media channels. In fact, my dog is barking, so just

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Speaker 1: in celebration of the schedule coming out. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: my dogs are so excited. They're just in the background,

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Speaker 1: like what they're you know, they're down at Galison. They

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Speaker 1: couldn't care less about Texas football at this point. But

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Speaker 1: there are the only two beings that feel that way

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Speaker 1: at this point. Well, I always find it interesting my

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Speaker 1: then you know it's the ups guy. Don't you recognize

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Speaker 1: the brown truck is not going to be a problem

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Speaker 1: for us really, unless it's like one of those movies

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Speaker 1: whoever's coming to the house. I don't get it anyway.

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Speaker 1: Before we get into I know, we always have fun

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Speaker 1: on the show. We talk about football and we enjoy ourselves.

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Speaker 1: And I wanted to talk about something serious that happened

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Speaker 1: that we found out about over the weekend, maybe Monday,

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Speaker 1: well I actually I think it was overnight Saturday. But

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Speaker 1: it was the death of producer Brandon Porter for Sports

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Speaker 1: Radio six ten, who produced so many Texans radio shows

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Speaker 1: over the years, in addition to Sports Radio six ten shows.

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Speaker 1: And I know the guys have talked about it on

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Speaker 1: He produced every hour of our draft coverage this yet

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Speaker 1: as we were live from the six ten studios on

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Speaker 1: that night the Huntday Texans Mobile Radio Studio as we

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Speaker 1: call it, but really shocking news. And you know, my

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Speaker 1: heart goes out to his family, obviously the six tenth family,

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Speaker 1: and really us because we've worked with him for so long. Johnny,

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Speaker 1: station since John and Lance were doing morning drive. Okay

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Speaker 1: it was long ago that. Woh yeah, I was still

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Speaker 1: you how many how many people who actually are still

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Speaker 1: other media, whatever they're doing. How many people have been

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Speaker 1: And you know, it's interesting, I'm down and down Gallison

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Speaker 1: And while we're doing some of those shows, sometimes we

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Speaker 1: Astros were on, you know, their run in the ALCS

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Speaker 1: into it. Every time we'd have a recorded piece going,

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Speaker 1: Brandon and I would just get I mean, we'd get

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Speaker 1: And that was always really cool because I wasn't able

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Speaker 1: abreast of all that. And I loved having him produced

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Speaker 1: gonna miss him, Mark, I'm gonna miss him. And you know,

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Speaker 1: had Sports Radio six to ten. You know, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: love him, gonna miss him, for sure, there's no doubt.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know wh're gonna get my Ashrow's knowledge. Now.

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Speaker 1: you know, but not that Robert. You make me sad.

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Speaker 1: But you get my point here. Anyway, Let's let's talk sports.

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Speaker 1: That's what Brandon would want us to do. And uh,

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Speaker 1: and again our condolences to us, to his family, the

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Speaker 1: hard this week, all right, some things to go over. Um.

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Speaker 1: I was at the Houston Texans Charity Golf class yesterday. Johnny,

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Speaker 1: And Johnny, a couple of very important things. First of all,

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Speaker 1: And I made the putt okay, first of all, and

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Speaker 1: then my group said, oh, so you need the cameras

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Speaker 1: hold on him. That would surprise absolutely no one, sandbagging

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Speaker 1: the whole time. Camera crew shows up, the voice of

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Speaker 1: the Texans gets it done. So how long at that

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Speaker 1: But but but on the next hole, on the next hole.

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Speaker 1: I've done it there before at this tournament on eighteen

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Speaker 1: Then kN McNair, by the way, decided to park it

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Speaker 1: was important to meet everybody there yesterday and that was awesome.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, he showed us the way on

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Speaker 1: our twenty foot Bertie putt and um, and he showed

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Speaker 1: me the line and I made it. So that was cool,

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Speaker 1: I was like, rock and yeah, listen, there's nothing there's

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Speaker 1: nothing like showing your boss how coachable you can be

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Speaker 1: at any level, at any level, for for cal to

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Speaker 1: turn around and go, I showed you in line, mark

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Speaker 1: what you want to do with it? Now? He would

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Speaker 1: hit it three feet the other way. Awful. Your your

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Speaker 1: coachability would have been in question. Your draft report would

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Speaker 1: not have looked good at that point. But back did

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Speaker 1: you knock at home? That gives you a plus in

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Speaker 1: that category. For sure. It could have backfired on me.

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Speaker 1: He could have said, vandomar too much golf in your life.

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Speaker 1: You're done. Okay, that's true. We don't pay you to

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Speaker 1: pay to play golf. So but it all worked out.

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Speaker 1: You get it so good? Yeah, exactly, I'm really not.

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Speaker 1: It was just like blind squirrel luck. But death was

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Speaker 1: cool stopping. A bunch of former players were there. I

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Speaker 1: saw Jonathan Wells, so I always loved bumping into draft

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Speaker 1: choice from the original lot. In two thousand and two,

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Speaker 1: one thing I've always loved, you know, it's interesting. When

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Speaker 1: I've spent a few years in a different capacity, it

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Speaker 1: was always hard for me because I didn't know whether

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Speaker 1: I won or I lost. That's the great thing about sports,

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Speaker 1: and a great thing about football. I can look up

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day and go, my team

433
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Speaker 1: has more than their team. I did or must have

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Speaker 1: done a pretty good job to make my team better

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Speaker 1: than their team on that particular day. He can't do

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Speaker 1: that in a lot of other businesses. Especially when I

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Speaker 1: was in you basically handed a piece of papers, say

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Speaker 1: yeah it looks pretty good, Yeah you're good, move on

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Speaker 1: and keep your business going, that's what I was doing.

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Speaker 1: But in this sport, obviously in others, did you have

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Speaker 1: more than the other guy. And that's what makes competition great.

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Speaker 1: That's what I love about it, and that's what I

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Speaker 1: think a Kissario is really harped on this spring, this

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Speaker 1: offseason competition. All you gotta do is just look at

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Speaker 1: the lineback and court. I mean, look at the guys

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Speaker 1: that have been brought in. I think it's seven of

447
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Speaker 1: them if my math is correct on that, and every

448
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Speaker 1: single guy is sitting there looking at it, going, man,

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Speaker 1: I just signed the Texans. Oh man, they just signed

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Speaker 1: four other guys. The guys they brought in that came

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Speaker 1: in for conditioning are looking up, going okay, well I

452
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Speaker 1: got five of the guys compete with. Oh now, you've

453
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Speaker 1: got the leading tackler the Jets that now has now

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Speaker 1: is coming in to compete with all of us too.

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Speaker 1: And you either accept the challenge or you move out,

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Speaker 1: You move out of the way and you allow that

457
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Speaker 1: person to take over, or you step up compete becoming

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Speaker 1: better football play every day and you see what the

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Speaker 1: result is each and every Sunday, and you already have

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Speaker 1: the league's leading tackler in the building, right, So we're

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Speaker 1: joining that core. But they all see what Adams did

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Speaker 1: last year, who's no longer here, and now he had

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Speaker 1: an explosive season, And look, I know it's a different defense,

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Speaker 1: but you're thinking, geez, I mean, you know, maybe I

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Speaker 1: can have a big year like that, you know, and

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Speaker 1: that could really help me down the road. Like you said,

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Speaker 1: either keep employment here, get it somewhere else, but I'm

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Speaker 1: going to do the best job I can for the

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Speaker 1: football team. And you know that's the way it's drawn up.

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Speaker 1: You hope it goes that way when you eventually played.

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Speaker 1: All Right, coming up, we've got a Who's Better. We're

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Speaker 1: going back to who's better because it's Tuesday. I want

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Speaker 1: to keep who's better on Tuesday more likely to happen

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Speaker 1: later in the week. But Johnny, we've got a who's

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Speaker 1: Better featuring Texans opponents and the Texans themselves. You know,

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Speaker 1: schedule comes out tomorrow. We gotta start talking about these

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Speaker 1: opponents more and more. Everybody had their draft. Everything's coming

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Speaker 1: into focus a little bit more. You know, now that

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Speaker 1: Tebow has been side, we can all have a season. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so let's get into who's better. Elements. As we roll

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Speaker 1: on here on Texans Radio. It's Radio, It's Radio Ito

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Speaker 1: and it's Texans Radio. Mark Vandermayer, John Harris with you.

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Speaker 1: Something we'd like to do on Tuesdays. It's called Who's Better? John?

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Speaker 1: Are you ready to play? Of course, let's go. Of course,

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Speaker 1: of course, first of all, give me thirty seconds because

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Speaker 1: I haven't heard it yet. Your reaction. I heard Sesson

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Speaker 1: Sean talking about this, but your reaction to Tebow signing

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Speaker 1: with the Jags. You know, we kind of knew what

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Speaker 1: was gonna happen. I don't know we really knew what

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Speaker 1: we thought. Is this really gonna happen? It happened. Tebow's

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Speaker 1: a Jaguar. I think for now one. Does he make

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Speaker 1: the team too? What do you think? You know, it's interesting.

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Speaker 1: I think people in Jacksonville's fans are split on this.

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Speaker 1: They're they're far one way or far the other, like,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, this is great for jackson Other Jaguar fans

496
00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 1: are like, this makes us a joke. The guy hasn't

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Speaker 1: played football. And however, he had every opportunity Mark to

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Speaker 1: move over to tight end or h back or whatever

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Speaker 1: else when he was playing football, and he didn't take it,

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Speaker 1: so he gets the opportunity. The one thing I will say, Mark,

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Speaker 1: you know this. Everybody knows this, but I've I've talked

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Speaker 1: about Tebow in this way. If you can do it,

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Speaker 1: go try Because there's no pickup football happening in the park.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna have a pickup game at tackle football

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Speaker 1: in the park. So when football's over, it's done, completely done.

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Speaker 1: In this training camp coming up for Tim Tebow will

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Speaker 1: tell him whether he's done or not. So in all essence,

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Speaker 1: all this hot error that everybody's breathing about it, who cares.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna find out whether he has cut out for

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Speaker 1: it or not. I have the same thought as Clinston

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Speaker 1: on that, like, if you can play, you do everything

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Speaker 1: you can to keep playing because this thing, when it's done,

513
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Speaker 1: it's done, and then you look back going, man, I

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Speaker 1: wish I could do it. Well, he's got that opportunity

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Speaker 1: to go back because of success he had. I don't

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Speaker 1: think it will be ultimately successful, but I do appreciate

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Speaker 1: the fact that he is trying to extend a football

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Speaker 1: career for as long as he possibly can. For that

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Speaker 1: thumbs up, I just don't think he's gonna make the team,

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Speaker 1: and I think we get the training camp. It's a

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Speaker 1: fun little storyline to watch Jaguars football pretty season, Budd,

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Speaker 1: he won't make the fifty three. I agree, he's not

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Speaker 1: gonna make it. But you said it best early on

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Speaker 1: when the story originally broke about the workouts, and you said,

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Speaker 1: maybe he's the kind of guy you want in the organization,

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Speaker 1: and this is a good way to get him in.

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Speaker 1: Get to know the organization, get to know the coaches,

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Speaker 1: get to go to that whole process, gets into the players,

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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden afterwards, maybe you can

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Speaker 1: join as an assistant, assistant assistant whatever it was like,

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Speaker 1: Godrey Johnson was here or you know, one of those

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Speaker 1: guys and sort of seep in to the organization somehow,

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Speaker 1: if that's what he wants. But let's start off, who's

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Speaker 1: better with that? Who's better Tebo as a tight end

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Speaker 1: or Tebo as a baseball player in the minors. He

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Speaker 1: struggled with the Mendoza line, which is two hundred by

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Speaker 1: the ways, boys and girls, I don't have time to

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Speaker 1: tell you the Mendoza story, but trust me, so Tebow

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Speaker 1: baseball player, Tebow tight end? Who's better Tebow tight end.

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Speaker 1: I still I've always I've always felt like Tebow the

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Speaker 1: football player was always very very good. I've always respected

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Speaker 1: Tebow the football player. I just didn't think Tim was

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Speaker 1: going to be an NFL quarterback. And I know everybody,

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Speaker 1: oh twenty eleven, look, man, he was. It was miracles

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Speaker 1: left and right. In twenty eleven. He was never He

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Speaker 1: was never the quarterback and wasn't going to be that

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Speaker 1: kind of quarterback. He just wasn't going to happen. He

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Speaker 1: needed to be Taysom Hill before Taysom Hill. Basically, that's

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Speaker 1: how he could have had any pack because he could throw.

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Speaker 1: When he's on the field, you have to you have

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Speaker 1: to respect it. But he was stubborn about being a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And I give him credit for that in some sets,

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Speaker 1: but at some point you should have seen the running

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Speaker 1: on the wall, like, you know what, maybe I should

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Speaker 1: do this while I still got a little bit of

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Speaker 1: youth going here to kind of pop over being h

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Speaker 1: back and kind of learn that way and spend a

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Speaker 1: year in the practice squad maybe doing that kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: If you could have done that. But I think Tibo

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Speaker 1: the tight end, look, I don't think he's got great hands.

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Speaker 1: I don't think he's twitchy or any end of that,

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Speaker 1: but there's something about him that in two hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty pounds worth, he's kept his body in shape. He's

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Speaker 1: always been able to run a little bit, so if

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Speaker 1: he can get himself open to make a catch. Rock

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Speaker 1: on baseball player, No, Tim was never His older brother

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Speaker 1: Robbie was actually a pretty decent baseball player. I coached

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Speaker 1: against him, and so he was a pretty decent baseball player.

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Speaker 1: Tim was was okay, But I'd love the fact that

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Speaker 1: he gave it a shot with the Mets and actually

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Speaker 1: did something. I don't think people understand how hard is

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Speaker 1: it to baseball and he did that, you know, in

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Speaker 1: two thirty It sounds horrible, but he gave it a shot.

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Speaker 1: But football has always been his thing, and I think

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Speaker 1: tight end would ultimately be in the NFL where he

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Speaker 1: would where he would be, And I think he's always

577
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Speaker 1: been a very very good football player no matter what.

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Speaker 1: So that I'm going with that he's better as a

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Speaker 1: football player than a baseball player. Continuing who's better, Who's

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Speaker 1: better the Jags or the Jets? Who's better Johnny Jags?

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Speaker 1: And I hate to say that I think the Jets

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Speaker 1: are on their way. I think Joe Douglas their masterful

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Speaker 1: job in this draft. Get Obviously, getting Zach Wilson right

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Speaker 1: up front was a big one for the Jets. They

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Speaker 1: had locked down that guy. They already traded Sam Darnold,

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Speaker 1: so I did, Okay, get Zach Wilson, that's number two.

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Speaker 1: But then the way they they kind of maneuvered the board,

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Speaker 1: you know, trading backup, not giving up a whole heck

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Speaker 1: of a lot to go get a VT Elijah vera

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Speaker 1: Tucker in him FOURTEENTHO was great. The best the best

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Speaker 1: pick they may have is Elijah and more the second

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Speaker 1: pick in the second round, the receiver who I think

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Speaker 1: could be Zach Wilson's best bud. But just all the

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Speaker 1: way through the draft, they had depth players that are

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Speaker 1: gonna add to their depth, guys that are gonna be starters,

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Speaker 1: maybe maybe right away in a couple of spots, maybe

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Speaker 1: three spots. So I think the Jets are are looking

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Speaker 1: pretty good. However, the Jags already had some talent. Then

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Speaker 1: you throw in Trevor Lawrence, then you throw it in

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Speaker 1: Travis Etn, you throw in Javan Holland and a few

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Speaker 1: of the players that they drafted. Their Walker Little was

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Speaker 1: a guy they drafted. No, I'm sorry I didn't not

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Speaker 1: John holland Tyson Campbell at corner. They their first four

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Speaker 1: or five picks. I'm like, whoa, man, those are really

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Speaker 1: good on top of some of the talent they've already had.

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Speaker 1: And I don't think the offensive line is horrible night

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Speaker 1: but Trevor behind him two valid running threats, actually three

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Speaker 1: with Carlos Heyden net mix two with James Robinson. I in, man,

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Speaker 1: do you just start looking at some of the weapons

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Speaker 1: and you're like, well, these guys could be pretty good

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Speaker 1: before too long. Now the defense still has little ways

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Speaker 1: to go. But as far as talent goes, I think

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Speaker 1: the Jags are a step step and half head of

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Speaker 1: the Jets right now. I think the Jets will catch

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Speaker 1: them because they've got a few They got more draft

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Speaker 1: capital coming. The draft capital for Jacksonville was this year,

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Speaker 1: and they better they were gonna capitalize on what they

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Speaker 1: got this year. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting. You know,

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Speaker 1: you look at the coaching staffs. I know both coaching

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Speaker 1: staffs have things going for them. I wonder how Baby

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Speaker 1: Lafleur in New York and Daryl Bebel how they're gonna

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Speaker 1: feel about coaching these rookie quarterbacks, you know, in the

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Speaker 1: short term, because oh, you got these great prospects and everything, like,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, they're rookies, you know, because they're still rookie,

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Speaker 1: and you're gonna have rookie issues, rookie development problems. And

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Speaker 1: we'll see how it goes. We'll see who develops faster.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting, all right. Next Who's better? Who's better?

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Speaker 1: This is a Texans opponent version of who's better? Who's better?

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Speaker 1: Cleveland on the road or Arizona on the road. The

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Speaker 1: Texans have to deal with both of these things, these

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Speaker 1: these opponents in twenty twenty one. Who's better? Johnny Cleveland?

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Speaker 1: This look I know about you know Hop and you

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Speaker 1: know the other guy that left from here that they

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00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 1: have totally get it. And I feel like the Cardinals

635
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 1: have done a nice job, I mean, adding Xavian Collins

636
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Speaker 1: and the draft was fantastic. But Cleveland is on a

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Speaker 1: whole different level. They signed a near Pro Bowl safety

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Speaker 1: John Johnson. They get Grant Delpit back from last year,

639
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Speaker 1: who was a tremendous There was a stud at LSU,

640
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: but was injured for his rookie year. That offensive line

641
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 1: in Cleveland is just rock solid, rock solid. I don't

642
00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: think that's the way it is in Arizona. And the

643
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: additions that all the Browns have made over the last

644
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: two years, that includes Austin Hooper at tight end, you know,

645
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 1: Jack Conklin on the offensive line feels like Aden Barry

646
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: is just hit hit, hit, hit, hit all across the board.

647
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: And they've got Miles Garrett there still now as it

648
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: is for both, it relies on Kyle Murray and Baker Mayfield.

649
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 1: But Baker can rely on more of that staunch number

650
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Speaker 1: one in league running game with Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt.

651
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: Kyler can't do that. So I think Cleveland is a

652
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:11,600
Speaker 1: rough rough out and you just got to hope that

653
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: on that day that Baker is just not feeling it.

654
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: But I think that defense in Cleveland is gonna be nails.

655
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: That defense is gonna be stout, holy cow, And I

656
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: think that Jevian Clowney, I don't think it really will

657
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: make a ripple. To be honest with you, I think

658
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: it's great for him. He's there, fantastic. I don't think

659
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Speaker 1: he's I think he's just gonna be kind of like

660
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: Julius Peppers later in his career. He's gonna be kind

661
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 1: of a spot guy. You put him in and do

662
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: certain things, and that's what he does. But Miles with

663
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett with Denzel Ward, John Johnson secondary. Now they

664
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: also signed Troy Hill from the Rams. It's Cleveland. It's

665
00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: Cleveland to me with those two. But you know, Arizona

666
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: thing is gonna be pretty good, There's no doubt about that.

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00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: But that division is so tough. Leaving that out of it.

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00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,959
Speaker 1: I think that Baker he's coming along way. Oh by

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Speaker 1: the way, the Browns get obij back. Oh my god,

670
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: he has been traded yet. Huh darned No. All right,

671
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 1: we'll see how that goes. Okay, final, who's better? Who's better?

672
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 1: Texans opponent's version, Who's better Seattle or the Rams? Who's better? Johnny?

673
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 1: The Rams at Matthew Stafford. Seattle is Seattle, and they

674
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: had a whopping amount of draft choices, three of them.

675
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: But Seattle is a good team. They feel like they

676
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:36,040
Speaker 1: got better anyway. And what is your thought on this? Man?

677
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:41,720
Speaker 1: I mean, the Rams last year went the opening round

678
00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:46,440
Speaker 1: of the playoffs to Seattle and spank Seattle now new

679
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator in Seattle, and I think that's gonna help

680
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. But if Wilson feels hindered by Notock the

681
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: office coordinator, but by Pete Carroll, then maybe the Seahawks

682
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 1: are gonna be limited. My gut tells me with Aaron Donald,

683
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,720
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey, and now with Matt Stafford, that it should

684
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Speaker 1: be the Rams o by the way, one of the

685
00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 1: upcoming great running backs who I loved coming out of

686
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Speaker 1: last year's draft as cam Acres and cam Acres with Stafford,

687
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:18,319
Speaker 1: with those receivers, Oh boy, I'm gonna go Rams. I'm

688
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 1: gonna go Rams on this. I think the Rams making

689
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 1: the upgrade from Golf to Stafford, I think that's gonna

690
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: mean a ton. Now they lose a couple of pieces

691
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:28,720
Speaker 1: in the secondaries I just mentioned going to the Browns

692
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:32,600
Speaker 1: Troy Hill and John Johnson, but and also Brand Staley

693
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,800
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. But I would trust the upgrade to Stafford

694
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: is gonna make that offense that much more explosive, more

695
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: balanced offense defense, I would say Rams over Seahawks. Look,

696
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Speaker 1: I don't want to be Stafford Dasher, and I won't

697
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:48,720
Speaker 1: be Johnny, but this is gonna be a real test

698
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,919
Speaker 1: for his career for whatever it says when he's said

699
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: and done as an NFL player, Because now you're going

700
00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,800
Speaker 1: to a squad that it still look they're not loaded,

701
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 1: but they're good and if they have trouble with the

702
00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: ground game, this is really gonna be fascinating to see

703
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: how McVey handles it. If Stafford can rise to the occasion.

704
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: You're in LA, they're opening up the stadium, You're gonna

705
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 1: have people there. It's gonna be a different kind of

706
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 1: scene for Matthew Stafford and that organization. You know, as

707
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,320
Speaker 1: far as Stafford goes, Look, you're playing in the NFL

708
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: for decade plus, you've been around, you know what the

709
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 1: whole deal is about. But now you're in LA and

710
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:30,400
Speaker 1: the focus is just that much different. I'm really curious

711
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: to see how that goes down. Look, Seattle's so entrenched,

712
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 1: you know. I know, every NFL team rolls over and

713
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,280
Speaker 1: changes quite a bit, but when you've got the coach

714
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: and the quarterback there for so long, you kind of

715
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 1: know that you've got some stability the rams. Look, McVeigh

716
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,359
Speaker 1: is a really good coach. There's no question about that.

717
00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 1: Is he a great coach? Can he do it? Can

718
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: he win the championship? And now that he's got the quarterback,

719
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 1: what are the results going to be in a very

720
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: tough division. I'm so curious to fight out. Look, we're

721
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,320
Speaker 1: playing that division, so we're gonna see them. An awful

722
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,839
Speaker 1: lot to talk about them. Yep, no doubt. And I

723
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 1: think mcveigh's last two years now all of the Rams

724
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,840
Speaker 1: did get to the second round and take on the Packers.

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00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: I think the fact that mcveigh's offense was not, oh

726
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:17,760
Speaker 1: the McVeigh offense of a couple of years ago. There's

727
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,359
Speaker 1: a little bit of coaching adversity there. And you know

728
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: some of the sniping that went back and forth with

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Speaker 1: Golf and McVeigh. You know, Golf's saying McVey was micromanaging me,

730
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Speaker 1: and McVeigh was saying, look, I had to because Golf

731
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: wasn't that kind of player. Well, okay, you went and

732
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,759
Speaker 1: got Stafford. Now he's your kind of guy. What are

733
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Speaker 1: you gonna do with him? It's gonna be interesting, all right?

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Speaker 1: Coming up, rookie camp is coming up. Nick KISSI had

735
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Speaker 1: something very interesting to say. I thought a way to

736
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Speaker 1: look at it a perspective and anything else that's going

737
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: on around the league will hit on it next. On

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio Texans Radio, Maxen's Ray keeping your company out

739
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: of Tuesday Night Drive. I assume many of you are

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Speaker 1: driving right now, so be safe, especially if I was

741
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 1: on the roadways. But I'm so, we're okay, all right,

742
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: so let's go. And that's more of an indictment on

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00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 1: me than commentary on driving ability of our listeners. Trust

744
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 1: me on this, Mark Vanderbayer, John Harris with you. Rookie

745
00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 1: camp coming up, Johnny, And look, the Texans are gonna

746
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 1: probably have some tryout guys coming in. I mean, you

747
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: basically have to to field whatever you're gonna field, right.

748
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 1: I remember one year, the twenty thirteen rookie camp, it

749
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,359
Speaker 1: had some ungodly amount of players. I mean that might

750
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,800
Speaker 1: have been the most there was one year under O'Brien

751
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:31,719
Speaker 1: they had a ton as well, but I think it

752
00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: was like forty five or fifty. It was some ridiculous amount.

753
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 1: They had all these tryout guys, all these undrafted free agents,

754
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 1: and you also had these year two guys or guys

755
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: who practice squaded in year one case, Keenum the most

756
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: notable and I remember them running and Colin Klein was

757
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:49,280
Speaker 1: in that camp and they were running some really good

758
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 1: practices that year. Climb was out of Kansas State and

759
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,879
Speaker 1: it looked good. And I remember talking to Kubiak about

760
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 1: it after one of the practices and I said, geez,

761
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,799
Speaker 1: case looks pretty good. He goes, oh, yeah, he does.

762
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: You know they knew that he was on the rise

763
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Speaker 1: as a quarterback at the time. I don't know what

764
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: we're gonna get this week, but I thought Cassio Johnny

765
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 1: at the Houston Texans Charity Golf Classic was right on

766
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: the money when he's you know, I can't I'm gonna

767
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,919
Speaker 1: paraphrase here, but you're not gonna over evaluate every throw.

768
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: He makes a nice throw, It's not going to be

769
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: this sort of State of the Union address Davis Mills

770
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:27,240
Speaker 1: looking so unbelievably awesome. Or if he makes a mistake,

771
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't say, oh that's it, you know,

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00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:30,799
Speaker 1: no good. I mean you just have to go. It's

773
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: one step at a time. Andre Johnson and his rookie

774
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 1: camp had some drops because he was getting used to

775
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 1: the left hand and throwing rotation on the ball of

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00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: Dave Ragone and a fellow rookie quarterback at the time,

777
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Speaker 1: and there are other stories I could tell about things

778
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 1: like this. So we can't overreact or underreact to anything

779
00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: we see this weekend. Well, let's let's do math here

780
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: and I did this a little bit, talk about this

781
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 1: a little bit last night. They drafted five rookies, they

782
00:38:56,600 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 1: have four as we think that we know of hasn't beneficial.

783
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:08,960
Speaker 1: I'd made sure to say that for undrafted rookies, that's nine, right,

784
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,840
Speaker 1: And so to me, you can't you know, those years

785
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: we were actually able to see a practice like them

786
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 1: going through a practice, and there were times where it

787
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 1: felt like a you know, a fire drill, because where

788
00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: are you going? Who's this? And it got kind of crazy.

789
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Speaker 1: But the point being you're not going to be able

790
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: to do that. You don't even have enough to field

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00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 1: an offense, defense, whatever the case might be. But you

792
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:35,239
Speaker 1: can take them through what practice is going to feel like,

793
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: you know, this is individual period, this is what we

794
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: were doing seven on seven. But the biggest thing is

795
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,440
Speaker 1: you meet the position coaches, You learn where everything is,

796
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:46,920
Speaker 1: you show how much of the playbook you've been able

797
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 1: to retain, you go through your your meetings. Really the

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Speaker 1: only thing you can't do is seven on seven, eleven

799
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Speaker 1: eleven stuff. You can't do that because you just don't

800
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: have numbers to do it. But you know what, Davis

801
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: can throw the ball to Brevin Jordan ant Nico Collins,

802
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: the offensive line. It can work on their steps and

803
00:40:05,239 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 1: fundamentals for you know, ninety minutes or whatever it is.

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00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 1: But the biggest thing is going through meetings. Here's where

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00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 1: everything is. Meet your position coaches, learn all that kind

806
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: of stuff so that you can hit the ground running

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00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: and training camp. And oh, by the way, some of

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00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:19,360
Speaker 1: these guys are coming to Houston, I think for the

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Speaker 1: first time, so they have that going on. No, they

810
00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: won't see Houston, but they at least here's the building,

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Speaker 1: here's where you're gonna be. Here's your locker room. I

812
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 1: mean last you they had four or five different locker rooms. So, yeah,

813
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: you won't have the seven on seven stuff, eleven on

814
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 1: the eleven stuff. It's gonna be all on air. But

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Speaker 1: ye at least get a chance to look at you

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Speaker 1: the look at the guys on the hoof, how they

817
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Speaker 1: look you know, what does Nico look like up close?

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Speaker 1: Does Brevin looked like? You know, all that kind of

819
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 1: stuff you'll be able to assess. But beyond that, I

820
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 1: mean unless there are a bunch of and I don't

821
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Speaker 1: think there are many among the roster that you know,

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Speaker 1: guys that have less than one year of service time.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think applies to anybody. Maybe Isaiah Coulter,

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00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 1: maybe he might apply. So you might have a few

825
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,399
Speaker 1: of those guys. But it isn't enough to be able

826
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Speaker 1: to have a full on practice, but you can practice

827
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: in just a different way. And I think that's what

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00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: they'll do to get these guys, these young guys acclimated.

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Speaker 1: And I think these couple of days, two three days,

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Speaker 1: whatever it's gonna be, I think it's gonna be massive

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Speaker 1: for these rookies to just go through that experience to

832
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: just okay, my NFL career started as opposed to popping

833
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: into training camp and all of sudden they're storing with

834
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Speaker 1: the vets and the way you go, and it's like

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Speaker 1: whoa head spinning? Never been in Houston and all of

836
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Speaker 1: a sudden, training camps here like Yo, this will help

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Speaker 1: I think the rookies in a majing way. So remember

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00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 1: when O'Brien would have this is pre rookie camp but

839
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Speaker 1: he would have these fake practices with anybody on the

840
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 1: football ops staff to simulate a practice, so they could

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00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: just go out there and you know, run a fake

842
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 1: practice and see what it was like. And they probably

843
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: didn't go full for like an hour and a half,

844
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Speaker 1: but just did you know, whatever amount of time they did,

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00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: you know, set up the towers to shoot everything, and

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00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: then go back in and just go through that dress

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Speaker 1: rehearsal of it all. And I said, listen, I'll volunteer,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'll volunteer to go out there and you know,

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Speaker 1: practice do whatever. And he said, well, like what can

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Speaker 1: you play? And you know nothing, but you know, I

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Speaker 1: can run around as a tight end or something, you know,

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Speaker 1: if you're not gonna hit me, you know, of course

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Speaker 1: it'll be glacial speed. It'll be like runing roll like

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Speaker 1: that sucks? What are you doing? Yes? That would that

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Speaker 1: would have been interesting to see his head implode. There's

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Speaker 1: one there's one receiver, here's another receiver, and all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, it's vander Meer's turn. Been interesting though, But

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Speaker 1: of anything, I know you would have made the catch

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Speaker 1: because there's no way that a great ball would have

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Speaker 1: been thrown to you and you wouldn't have made the catch.

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Speaker 1: Maybe now. I caught a David Carr pass once during

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Speaker 1: a Sports Illustrated shoot. That's all I'm saying. You wouldn't you.

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Speaker 1: You wouldn't drop your opportunity. No, not at all. If

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Speaker 1: there's a camera involved, if there's gonna be media coverage,

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Speaker 1: I will certainly make that catch. Of course, there would

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Speaker 1: have been no media coverage of this anyway, Johnny, thanks

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Speaker 1: a lot. We look forward to tomorrow absolutely, Mark, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow night, it's schedule release at six forty five will

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Speaker 1: happen for you right here. Plenty of details along the

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Speaker 1: way during the day on your Texans social media and

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Speaker 1: digital media channels, So tune in all day long. It's

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