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Speaker 3: These are the type of guys, the type of men

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Speaker 1: Send her sap that question, Harris.

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Speaker 4: Game day is every day.

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Speaker 3: Love the Energy Whip by Stateley Portray.

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Speaker 1: Texans have the ball on the pit.

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Speaker 4: And if you want it, you gotta go work it now.

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Speaker 4: It's Texans all xas.

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Speaker 1: All right, Hello Texans.

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Speaker 2: We are live at NRG Stadium, the Hundai Texans Radio Studio,

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Speaker 2: Mark Vandermir and John Harris with you.

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Speaker 1: And you saw my Twitter video maybe maybe you didn't.

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Speaker 2: We have probably more listeners than I have, people who

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Speaker 2: And the General's going to help me do it a

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Speaker 2: a Thursday as usual, General, Good evening. I retweeted your

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Speaker 5: Thank you for retweeting are Utopia Football podcast. Now if

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Speaker 5: you retweet the column my road on sports Radio six '

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Speaker 5: ten dot com in which I give CJ. Stroud and

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Speaker 5: I know you guys get the same thing I do.

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Speaker 5: be disappointed. No, people are realistic. They know you got

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Speaker 3: One of the moves that Nick SiO did make this

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Speaker 5: You know, you can't have Damian Pierce with his style.

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Speaker 5: And as you guys know, there's nothing to be befriend

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Speaker 5: But the way they used him last year was just preposterous,

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Speaker 1: Oilers, all right, this one's for both of you.

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Speaker 2: And we saw a two minute situation the other day

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Speaker 1: But it was a good little run, good little run.

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Speaker 5: One of the things about Stroud there was a lot

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Speaker 5: He's not a runner, he's a quarterback. And he had

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Speaker 1: I think that's a safe bet. Johnny.

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Speaker 3: I'll go under, you'll go under. I'll go under, but

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Speaker 2: To hear Watson's rushing numbers, well, here was the quick.

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Speaker 1: Math on Watson.

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Speaker 3: Always it felt like it was thirty five to forty

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Speaker 3: you're talking about six six fifty. I don't know that

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Speaker 3: CJ will do quite that, but here's what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: A lot like Joe Burrow. Look up Joe Burrow's numbers

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Speaker 2: Joe burd Watson's high watermark, by the way, five point

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Speaker 2: The rest were a four thirteen and twenty nineteen winning season,

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Speaker 2: me look up Joe Burrow. I think I think it's

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Speaker 1: Stroud.

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Speaker 2: And it is funny how in this day and age

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Speaker 1: You have to defend your ability to.

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Speaker 2: is a sack goes against your passing numbers, your overall

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Speaker 3: Will pick and choose his spots when to run, and

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Speaker 2: Burrow last year two fifty seven, thank you, and that

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Speaker 5: Why would those three receivers, Why in the world would

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Speaker 1: That'd be stupid.

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Speaker 5: Watson always thought. Watson always wanted to run. He considered

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Speaker 5: himself a great runner. When the coverage would breakdown, he

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Speaker 5: was taken off. I think Stradd will be better in

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Speaker 5: He just done run a lot, and I think Strad's

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Speaker 3: I think I think the number is somewhere between three

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Speaker 3: I think it's I think there's going to be a

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Speaker 1: And he may do that a couple.

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Speaker 3: then you never know, he may he may back off

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Speaker 1: He knew he had to run, but then the number

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Speaker 3: I watched Burrow and I see Burrow run when he

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Speaker 5: Only two teams that have showed interest to the Patriots.

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Speaker 5: I just read this long story on ESPN about him

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Speaker 5: Time and money heals a lot of ones. The champ,

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Speaker 5: told Titans, this report by Diana Russini confirmed by a

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Speaker 2: I would say so too, Johnny, I would say so too.

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Speaker 2: I would like to see him go to New England.

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Speaker 2: And if he goes to New England and doesn't want

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Speaker 2: that's who he is. But it's fine because he performs

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Speaker 2: to say general JJ Watt going into the Ring of Honor.

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Speaker 2: Thoughts on this. You've watched a lot of Hall of

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Speaker 5: happen as soon as we were retired. We knew it

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Speaker 5: was going to happen. We said Pittsburgh would be the

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Speaker 5: best game, even though we didn't know when it would be.

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Speaker 5: It was just a natural. And maybe Derek, his other brother,

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Speaker 5: will re sign with the Steelers to play fullback, but

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Speaker 5: right now he's without a job. But it's going to

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Speaker 5: be great. You know, even if a lot of Steeler

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Speaker 5: fans have bought tickets. The Steelers and Pittsburgh fans have

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Speaker 5: a great respect for Houston, going back to the great

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Speaker 5: rivalry between the Steelers and the Oilers. And I'll guarantee

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Speaker 5: you every Steeler fan in the stands will stand and

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Speaker 5: give JJ a huge ovasion when he's introduced. I have

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Speaker 5: never seen anything like his last game at forty nine

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Speaker 5: Ers and at the end of the game, and I

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Speaker 5: asked him about this on the conference call, when the

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Speaker 5: fans started channing. Every fan in the in Levi Stadium

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Speaker 5: is standing clapping and channing his name, and across the

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Speaker 5: field you see the defensive coordinator of the forty nine

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Speaker 5: Ers clapping along with all the forty nine Ers coaches

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Speaker 5: and people on that side of the ball. Most of

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Speaker 5: him work for the Texans and I've never seen that.

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Speaker 5: I remember hearing Derek Jeter the Red Sox fans at

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Speaker 5: Fenway Channing Derek Jeter are just like the Yankee fans

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Speaker 5: as a tribute to him. But I've never seen it,

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Speaker 5: and I know I'll never see it again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's incredible.

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Speaker 3: Think about General the impact JJ has had on the

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Speaker 3: city of Houston, and when you think about the greats

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Speaker 3: of the city of Houston, I think about keem Olaijwaant.

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Speaker 3: He plays college ball here. Earl Campbell was from Tyler

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Speaker 3: and went to ut Nolan Ryan was from Alvin. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: here's this kid that comes from Wisconsin that on Draft

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Speaker 3: Day there are a lot of people that went, wait,

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Speaker 3: why we drafted him. I don't know that I can

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Speaker 3: remember a player in this city general that's had an

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Speaker 3: impact on this city that wasn't from Texas or from

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Speaker 3: the area that came in and had an impact like JJ.

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Speaker 3: Is that something you look back on and think, Man,

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Speaker 3: I never thought he would take that or have that

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Speaker 3: impact on the city the way that he has, especially

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Speaker 3: coming from Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: I think he came from ut or A and M

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Speaker 1: or someplace like that.

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Speaker 5: If our Governor Greg Abbott and our new Mayor Sylvester

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Speaker 5: Turner's term limits over whoever's running for mayor. They better

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Speaker 5: be on their knees thanking God that JJ White doesn't

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Speaker 5: want to be mayor or governor, because if he did,

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Speaker 5: he would win. And you guys know that, I've never

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Speaker 5: seen a player do more off the field. A lot

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Speaker 5: of players do charity things like crazy donate money, but

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Speaker 5: JJ was doing it with a very family in two

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Speaker 5: thousand before he even signed, came into town, heard about

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Speaker 5: these two kids, these kids who were in the hospital

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Speaker 5: and they might not walk again, and their parents were killed.

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Speaker 5: And he went up there to visit him, and he's

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Speaker 5: still really close to him. And I just never seen

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Speaker 5: anybody do it. I ask him one time, why do

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Speaker 5: you do all that? He said, well, I'm single. Someday

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Speaker 5: i'll be married and I'll sit around on my sofa

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Speaker 5: playing with my kids and my wife and watching Sports Center.

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Speaker 5: But right now I'm not doing that. So I want

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Speaker 5: to get out and do things in the community. It's

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Speaker 5: just just what I get such a kick out of

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Speaker 5: doing it. When he was honored with the NFL Man

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Speaker 5: of the Hero Ward for his off season accomplishments, you

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Speaker 5: know that to me was as big as NFS three,

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Speaker 5: NFL Defensive Player of the Year Awards because it defined

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Speaker 5: who JJ White was. He's come a long way from

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Speaker 5: delivering pizza, having a wreck, having to call his parents

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Speaker 5: to dig him out, and eating all the pizzas he's

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Speaker 5: supposed to be delivered, and then walking on his tiny end.

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Speaker 2: That's beautiful at Central Michigan originally, Fire up chips, General,

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Speaker 2: You've got the Utopia podcast, your column on what was it?

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Speaker 2: The offensive line, and other stuff for us to look

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Speaker 2: forward to.

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Speaker 5: Right I do on Sports Radio six ten dot com.

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Speaker 1: And it's free, free, free, General, Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for being with us. Thank you guys very much.

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Speaker 5: Have a great weekend.

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Speaker 1: All right you too. Coming up Who's Better?

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Speaker 2: Texans Opponents Edition, individuals, teams, stats stuff.

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Speaker 4: It's Texans Radio, Texans All Access continues in a moment,

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Speaker 4: we returned to Texans All Access.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we do here live with the Honday Texans

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Speaker 2: Radio Studio, Mark Vandermere and John Harris.

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Speaker 1: Johnny, I just heard that Shaquille Griffin promo.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because he was a guest on Sports Radio six

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Speaker 2: to ten. And I'm thinking about the corner spot here

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Speaker 2: before we get to Who's Better, I'm thinking about Steven Nelson,

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Speaker 2: Derek Stingley, junior Shaquille Griffin. If they had to play

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Speaker 2: somebody after that, is it des or to Tavier Thomas

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Speaker 2: who moves outside.

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Speaker 3: As would move outside and then have would stay inside.

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Speaker 3: That makes them Dare I say it deep at corner deeper? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's definitely deeper. It's not ocean deep, right, but it's

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Speaker 3: lake deep. And you gotta hope that at some point,

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Speaker 3: you know, like last year pond deep, right, but last

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Speaker 3: year what happened late in the year, Treymon Smith stepped

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Speaker 3: up and got some reps when they needed to. So

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Speaker 3: you need another guy beyond that, whether it's a Kendall Sheffield,

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Speaker 3: whether it's Kadar Holman who we talked to who will

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Speaker 3: hear from next week, who's really fun to talk to,

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Speaker 3: one of those other guys, Kobe Francis, who was a

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Speaker 3: rookie last year.

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Speaker 1: He made a nice play yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been really impressive. I mean those guys are

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Speaker 3: all kind of high weight speed guys. I mean, they've

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Speaker 3: got size and they can all run. So I think

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Speaker 3: if you can find that one other guy too, just

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Speaker 3: so you can feel really good. And they had Tremond

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Speaker 3: here last year, and so I think that always helped that. Okay,

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Speaker 3: sting went down, You're gonna move Dez out, but you've

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Speaker 3: got Tremon having to step up to take some reps.

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Speaker 3: You know, isn't that Dallas game when when Stingley was

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Speaker 3: already out then Stephen Nelson gets hurt in that game,

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Speaker 3: So now all of a sudden, you got Dez out there,

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Speaker 3: Tremont goes in and I remember, like, wait a second,

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Speaker 3: Tremon's in the game, and I was just about to

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Speaker 3: tell you he picks off a pass in that game

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Speaker 3: against Dallas. I mean it was I mean, it was perfect.

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Speaker 3: He ended up having two that game. But I think

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Speaker 3: that's what you need. You need a veteran that's gonna

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Speaker 3: be that that guy that you you're gonna feel the need.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna feel that like should we move DEAs outside?

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Speaker 1: To move with DEAs outside?

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Speaker 3: If you can get that other guy to step up,

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Speaker 3: then you don't need to move des outside.

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Speaker 1: But if you do have to move dead outside, you.

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Speaker 3: Have Tavi Aer inside or you know, either way, I mean,

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Speaker 3: if if Tabier is a guy inside, I just I

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Speaker 3: love what those two guys can bring. And when they're

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Speaker 3: on the field together, some good things happen when when

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Speaker 3: Desmond King and Tavia Thomas on the field together. So

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Speaker 3: you're right, deep is definitely not a word we've used

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Speaker 3: for a while with the secondary, but I think all

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Speaker 3: things consider it. Again, you talk about this all the time.

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Speaker 3: Injuries something you have to monitor, but if you keep

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Speaker 3: those guys healthy back there, for the most part, I

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Speaker 3: think you're an opportunity to have a pretty stellar secondary.

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Speaker 2: Well, Tavia or Thomas. PFT rated him very high as

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Speaker 2: a slot corner two years ago, and I know you

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Speaker 2: love PFT.

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Speaker 1: All right, I'll stop PFF. You mean PFF. PFT is

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Speaker 1: pro football talk. I like PFT. I'm okay with Mike

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Speaker 1: Florio for the most part. Yeah, I mean he muck

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Speaker 1: rakes a.

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Speaker 2: Little bit, but of course, but you know what he created,

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Speaker 2: that's just him.

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Speaker 1: All right. Let's get to who's better Texans opponents?

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Speaker 4: Edition?

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Speaker 2: The Texans are playing the NFC South Johnny, Yes, the

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Speaker 2: New Orleans Saints and the Atlanta Falcons.

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Speaker 1: Who's better? Now?

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Speaker 2: Let me just paint the picture for you here, because

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Speaker 2: Derek Carr joins the Saints, who went seven to ten

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Speaker 2: last year, had some nice little wins down the stretch,

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Speaker 2: including but not limited to, beating the Cleveland Browns, thank

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Speaker 2: you very much for doing that. Yeah, and the Falcons,

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Speaker 2: look they should be better Arthur Smith year two. Desmond

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Speaker 2: Ritter is the quarterback, but who's better? They both had

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Speaker 2: seven wins last year.

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Speaker 5: Go.

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Speaker 3: I think the Saints are more complete, but I think

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Speaker 3: the Falcons have some elite dudes and do not sleep

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Speaker 3: on Klay's Campbell in Atlanta helping that squad out. Watching

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Speaker 3: him last year, I mean, you're like, he's eighty years old,

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Speaker 3: and my god, he's still disrupting plays.

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Speaker 2: He probably doesn't have to play every stamp either, right,

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Speaker 2: exactly doesn't have to.

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Speaker 1: He got Grady Jarrett there.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if the Falcons are excellent upfront, but

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Speaker 3: Grady Jarrett Klays Campbell, They've got something there that I

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Speaker 3: think they can do something with. I think the Saints

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00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 3: defense is better than people think. Tyron played some good

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Speaker 3: ball last year. Marshawn Lattimore still back there, the Mario

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Speaker 3: Davis at linebacker with Pete Warner.

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Speaker 1: Their front is pretty deep.

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Speaker 3: Now. They lost Rankets from a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 3: and I don't know if they've ever really replaced him.

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Speaker 3: To lose David Anyamada, who was a big big He

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Speaker 3: filled that role for Rankins.

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Speaker 1: It was really good. So I think the Saints have

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Speaker 1: a little bit to do defensively. But I just think

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Speaker 1: across the.

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Speaker 3: Board Alba Kamara Jamal Williams, that's gonna be a tough

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Speaker 3: So that's a tough duo to stop, especially because you

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Speaker 3: can play them together.

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Speaker 1: With Kamara, the Slots run a bunch of choice routes or.

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Speaker 3: Option routes, and that's how they That's what they did

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Speaker 3: against the Rams in the NFC Championship gap for years ago.

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Speaker 3: They just ran option routes to Kamara and he tore

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Speaker 3: them a new one. But they just couldn't do it

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Speaker 3: enough to win the game. But I think the Saints

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Speaker 3: front offensive front, Falcons offensive front pretty close. Falcons offensive

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Speaker 3: fronts a lot better than people think. Falcons got some

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Speaker 3: lead dudes. I'm talking myself into the Saints like this

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Speaker 3: is Saints fifty one, Falcons forty nine sort of thing.

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Speaker 3: I think it's pretty close. That's a good one. I

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Speaker 3: think it's a really close one.

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Speaker 1: It's a good one.

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Speaker 2: Texans practicing against the Saints prior to their preseason game

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Speaker 2: with them in New Orleans, that'll be interesting. We will

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Speaker 2: see Derek Carr up close and personal. He apologized for

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Speaker 2: his performance in Las Vegas last year he was benched,

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Speaker 2: which leads us to our second who's better better comeback?

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Speaker 2: Deshaun Watson or Derek Carr? Oh was benched he goes

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Speaker 2: to New Orleans. Will he have a good comeback, a

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Speaker 2: better one than Deshaun Watson who did not play well

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Speaker 2: down the stretch in his six appearances with the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 2: Will it be better this year or at least better

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Speaker 2: than Derek Carror whatever he does in New Orleans?

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Speaker 3: And yeah, yes, and I will be I hate saying

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Speaker 3: that Deshaun Watson will have the better comeback than Derek Carr.

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Speaker 1: I hate saying it. I hate saying it now.

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Speaker 3: On the one factor is the fact that over the

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Speaker 3: last two months of the year, the Browns will play

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Speaker 3: I can't remember what what their schedule looks like, but

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Speaker 3: they will play a number of games in cold weather.

652
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Speaker 1: So let's take a look at this from November on.

653
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Speaker 3: From November twelfth at Baltimore, possibility against Pittsburgh at home

654
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 3: could be cold at Denver November twenty sixth, now.

655
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Speaker 1: La, no, Jacksonville. You never know out December. That's at home.

656
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 3: Then the Chicago Bears at home, they'll come here inside,

657
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 3: then they go to the Jets.

658
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 1: They go I'm sorry.

659
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 3: They get the Jets at home, and they get the

660
00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 3: Bengals on the road. There's six or seven games down

661
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 3: to stretch where he's gonna be playing, whether he doesn't like.

662
00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,760
Speaker 3: And I know that Derek Carr doesn't have to worry

663
00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 3: too much about that because they'll play in a dome.

664
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Speaker 1: They come here playing a dome.

665
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 3: They I don't know if they go to Indye or not,

666
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 3: but if they go to Indy Dome, so it's a

667
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 3: little different, and I think Sean might realize that. That said,

668
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 3: I just feel like Watson is the type of quarterback

669
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 3: and the type of player that I think Relish is

670
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 3: showing everybody you forgot about me watch this. So I

671
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 3: think he'll bounce back. I think he's a little more

672
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 3: comfortable as system.

673
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 2: Here's the thing. What if he doesn't what he doesn't

674
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 2: bounce back, what does that mean? They have to ride

675
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,520
Speaker 2: it out? They have to ride out another years to

676
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 2: Fancy's probably gone.

677
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 1: He can't probably going and you just go from there.

678
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,719
Speaker 2: If you're them, what choice do you have At what

679
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:16,800
Speaker 2: point does it become friendly to get out of that

680
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 2: two hundred and thirty million dollars guaranteed deal.

681
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:20,960
Speaker 3: I don't know when you can actually even think about

682
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:22,839
Speaker 3: doing it, especially because they pushed all this money.

683
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 2: You're riding this out. You pushed everything into him. There's

684
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 2: no fallback. It's him or two more years and bust,

685
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 2: and you eat it and move on from there. All right,

686
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:35,399
Speaker 2: let's move on to the next one here. Who's better?

687
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 2: Texans Opponent's edition? Bear with me on this one. Who's better?

688
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 2: Better record this year? Steelers or Jaguars?

689
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:45,200
Speaker 1: Hold on.

690
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:49,520
Speaker 2: Steelers went nine and eight last year. Kenny Pickett was

691
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 2: the quarterback. Rookie got better as the year went on.

692
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:56,680
Speaker 2: Jaguars went nine and eight. Horrible first half, good second half.

693
00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 2: We saw the playoff game. Jaguars Division will be tougher

694
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 2: than it was. Yes, I think we can definitely say

695
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 2: that maybe some tougher routes here. Who's better Jaguars or Steelers?

696
00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 2: Obviously the AFC North is a very difficult division. But

697
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 2: the Steelers should be better too, shouldn't they?

698
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 1: Question Mark? Yeah, you would think. I think the Steelers should.

699
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: I think the Steelers will bounce back, and I say

700
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: bounce back. I think there'll be nine to ten wins.

701
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 3: I don't know if the offensive line is all together

702
00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 3: there yet. I know they moved up to get Broderick Jones,

703
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 3: and I think that will help them in the long run.

704
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 3: I don't know about right away, but they still have dudes.

705
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:39,040
Speaker 3: I mean with TJ. Watt, Alex Heismith on the outside,

706
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 3: Cameron Hayward, They're still They're still dude worthy.

707
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 1: On defense.

708
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 3: It's a matter whether Kenny Pickett can kind of keep

709
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 3: it going from what you saw at the end of

710
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 3: the year. But even when he got it going, they

711
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 3: didn't score a ton of points maybe the Raiders, like

712
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 3: thirteen to ten or something like that late in the year.

713
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:57,960
Speaker 3: So it's an interesting schedule for them because they played

714
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:02,080
Speaker 3: the NFC West, so that's Niners, but the Cardinals aren't great,

715
00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 3: you know, you know what the Rams are gonna get,

716
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 3: and then they play the AFC South, where they're gonna

717
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 3: get a bunch of rookie quarterbacks. Yeah, minus Trevor Lawrence.

718
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,400
Speaker 3: They'll lose here on JJ Watt Day, Yeah, they'll loose here.

719
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 3: They get the Jaguars in Pittsburgh, So I think that

720
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 3: Jacksonville's ten wins. I think Jacksonville's ten seven. Okay, I

721
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 3: kind of feel like the Steelers are ten and seven.

722
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 3: But if I'm gonna lean anywhere, I'm gonna leave with

723
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:30,440
Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence. So I'm gonna go. I'll go Jaguars. Okay,

724
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 3: ten and seven, Steelers nine to eight.

725
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 2: All right, let's do this one Texans opponent's edition of

726
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 2: Who's Better? They're playing the AFC North, as we said, Ravens,

727
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 2: Who's better the twenty twenty two Ravens record or the

728
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three Ravens record. In twenty twenty two, they

729
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 2: were ten and seven. People, forget todd or Uddly. They

730
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 2: made the playoffs. They didn't win, but they made the playoffs.

731
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 2: How many, quickly? How many playoff games have the Ravens

732
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 2: won since twenty fourteen? Zero won? They got one win

733
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 2: Lamar Jackson, they beat him. They oh the Titans a

734
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,200
Speaker 2: year after they lost to the Titans when they were

735
00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 2: the number ones?

736
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 1: Can I go off on JK Dobbins? Sure? JK.

737
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 3: Dobbins is quote unquote holding in during team mandatory mini camp.

738
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 3: He's not practicing because he wants a new contract. How

739
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,160
Speaker 3: many games do you think JK. Dobbins has played? Oh,

740
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:32,759
Speaker 3: he's always hurt running backs for the Ravens. Hurt, Lamar Jackson, hurt,

741
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,760
Speaker 3: a lot of hurt there. He's played twenty three total games,

742
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 3: he started nine times, nine times, Wow, thirteen twenty five

743
00:37:43,239 --> 00:37:46,720
Speaker 3: yards and he wants a new contract.

744
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 1: When he's healthy. Is good?

745
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 3: Well, he's healthy, but den eight games last year he

746
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:53,839
Speaker 3: played fifteen as a rookie, has started once.

747
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 1: But let me give you an example here.

748
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 2: If I say everybody in the league is healthy at

749
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 2: the running back position, and where would you rank j

750
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:02,879
Speaker 2: K Dobbins or at what point?

751
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:07,320
Speaker 1: Does this mean? Yeah, at the most, there are a

752
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 1: lot of guys start running backs in this league. They

753
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,320
Speaker 1: are taking JK. Dobbins over Damian Pierce.

754
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 3: No, no, nobody is what team and what team in

755
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 3: AFC South has taken that JK Dobbins over there guy, nobody, nobody,

756
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 3: not you taken a Steelers taking him over Najie Harris,

757
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 3: Josh Jacobs with the Raiders. No, no, no, no, I

758
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 3: mean he's not even I don't even know if he's

759
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 3: top ten in the AFC.

760
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 1: He's holding it.

761
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 3: Anyways, I think the I do think the Ravens will

762
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 3: be salty. I think the OBJ addition is actually more needed.

763
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 3: I was reading about Rashad Bateman and what he's going through.

764
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 3: He may not be ready for a while, so they

765
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 3: may need OBJ to be ready right away. But they

766
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 3: added Zay Flowers and got him signed yesterday. So I

767
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 3: do think with Lamar coming back, that contract all taken

768
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,799
Speaker 3: care of new offenses is going to be interesting. How

769
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:00,799
Speaker 3: they all take to that. But does sound like it's

770
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 3: going pretty well with Todd Munkin. But I'm gonna go

771
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 3: with the Ravens twenty twenty three. Just you gotta think

772
00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 3: Lamar will be healthy. I think it's Ravens Bengals in

773
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:12,919
Speaker 3: the NFC North and it's gonna be close. It's gonna

774
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 3: I think twelve and five is gonna have to win

775
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 3: a division, so I'm gonna give them eleven wins, So

776
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 3: that's gonna give them. I think Bengals are twelve, Ravens

777
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 3: with eleven, I think Steelers nine and Brown's won.

778
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 1: Nice one.

779
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,719
Speaker 2: All right, Coming up, we brought up the running back

780
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 2: position for the Houston Texans and segment one. Let's go

781
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 2: back to that for a moment. How good is this

782
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 2: group potentially compared to previous groups. And good buddy of

783
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,960
Speaker 2: ours who's battling something and he's an announcer and he

784
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 2: might not make it to the starting line this year.

785
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 2: Hope he gets back. We'll talk about that briefly coming

786
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 2: out here on Texans Radio.

787
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:53,919
Speaker 4: More Texans Radio is on the way, Tixans Radio is back.

788
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we are, We never left.

789
00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 2: The show will be available via podcast. I suited up

790
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:02,919
Speaker 2: Chris Santiago producing. All Right, a couple of quick things

791
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:06,279
Speaker 2: here running back room for the Houston Texans. I don't

792
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 2: want to get overly excited, but I guess I did.

793
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: I love this, you do? But just the one two

794
00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 1: punch of Damian Pierce and Devin Singletary. Yep, right there.

795
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 2: Bill's leading rusher. He didn't put up gargantuan numbers. He

796
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 2: was steady explosive when he needed to be. Josh Allen's

797
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 2: a bit of that rushing yard total. You know, when

798
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 2: I look at the running back rooms that Texans have

799
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 2: had the last few years, Johnny, you know, we talked

800
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 2: about Carlos High, Duke Johnson, etc.

801
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:39,280
Speaker 1: In twenty nineteen.

802
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:41,760
Speaker 2: Watson was a big chunk of that twenty eighteen Watson

803
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:43,239
Speaker 2: was a big chunk of the rushing yards, you know,

804
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:45,720
Speaker 2: significant chunk when you get four or five hundred yards

805
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 2: from your quarterback.

806
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:48,399
Speaker 1: It's part of the running game.

807
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 2: And I think that masked when you look at those

808
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:55,720
Speaker 2: rushing yard totals for those squads, That masked what was lacking.

809
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,360
Speaker 2: You know, Bill o'brown, I'm sure would tell you I

810
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:00,800
Speaker 2: would rather have, you know, a thousand yard rusher and

811
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 2: a six hundred yard rusher and not have my running

812
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,239
Speaker 2: my quarterback run so much. But that's just the way

813
00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 2: they had to do business because they couldn't run it

814
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 2: the way they needed to.

815
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:09,359
Speaker 1: Yeah.

816
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,839
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And we talked about earlier. Sean was always good

817
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 3: for thirty five to forty, like almost every game. Yeah,

818
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 3: thirty five to forty. And there were times, you know,

819
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:22,439
Speaker 3: like Cincinnati in seventeen he in the fifty forty nine.

820
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,759
Speaker 2: Fifty one yard first start. You win it, whatever way

821
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 2: you could do it. Yeah, absolutely, no tight ends, I

822
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:28,440
Speaker 2: mean exactly.

823
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 1: He was finding a way.

824
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Speaker 3: He didn't run more as his you know, career, war

825
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:37,360
Speaker 3: On seeming like, Yeah, more comfortable in the pocket, and

826
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,399
Speaker 3: the offensive line got a little bit better obviously. Larrm

827
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 3: me being a part of that, Titus being a part

828
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 3: of that. But he was always good for thirty five

829
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 3: to forty yards. It was always that number. I remember

830
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:48,279
Speaker 3: Bill Obriant talking about that when we woul talk about

831
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:50,000
Speaker 3: the running game. He's like, yeah, you know, Deshawn's good

832
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 3: for thirty to forty yards, which is true. And obviously

833
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:55,839
Speaker 3: that was not St. Davis's ballely Wick and I don't

834
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 3: think it'll be CJ's either. But I think CJ can't

835
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 3: take off in Ota practice when he gets a rush

836
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 3: and the rush gets upfield, Well, he's good enough to

837
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,800
Speaker 3: get up the field and get something, get positive yardage

838
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:11,800
Speaker 3: and make a defense pay for not stay in the rushlanes,

839
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 3: not being disciplined, and that's really what you what you want.

840
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,359
Speaker 3: And then if it's third down and seven, you're playing man,

841
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 3: everybody turns their back and he could take off and

842
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 3: go yeah great.

843
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 2: I think he'll mean stuff like that. It'll be the

844
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:27,879
Speaker 2: strategic run as needed running. I'm not I'm just gonna

845
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:29,279
Speaker 2: take off and run with it for the heck of it.

846
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,719
Speaker 2: Trivia question, Who is the third leading rusher for the

847
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 2: Texans in twenty sixteen? Lamar Miller led the way with

848
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:39,399
Speaker 2: one thousand and seventy three yards. Alfred Blue had four

849
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:41,440
Speaker 2: to twenty. Who is the third leading rusher for that

850
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:44,080
Speaker 2: twenty sixteen team that won the division, Johnny.

851
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 1: Oh Man, it was uh Jonathan Grimes, he was the fourth.

852
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 2: Brock Osweiler was your third leading rusher with one hundred

853
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:53,280
Speaker 2: and thirty one yard.

854
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Yeah, so Brock did that. Brock would take

855
00:42:56,480 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: off when he saw man coverage.

856
00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 3: There a few times when the big draft would come

857
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 3: running at me and I'm like, man, I gotta get

858
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:02,359
Speaker 3: out of the way.

859
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: He can move a little bit. That was a very

860
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: underrated aspect of his game. Look, he was a winning quarterback.

861
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 2: I think his record he was eight and six, right,

862
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,720
Speaker 2: and Savage was one in one or something.

863
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: And that's all she wrote.

864
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Speaker 2: Okay, they went not won the division with the number

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Speaker 2: one defense in the NFL. By the way, By the way,

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Speaker 2: good luck and many blessings to our friend John Murphy,

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Speaker 2: voice of the Buffalo Bills, who is recovering from a

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Speaker 2: stroke and may or may not broadcast this season. They're

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Speaker 2: gonna make that decision in late July. That story was

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Speaker 2: circulating nationally today. So John, we're praying for you. I

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Speaker 2: know you know Salpaccio very well, sideline reporter. They might

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Speaker 2: have to go a year without him and take it

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Speaker 2: from there, but we'll see what they do in Buffalo.

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Speaker 2: It's just a little inside stuff from us as we're

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Speaker 2: praying for a friend here, all right, No doubt. That's

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Speaker 2: it for the show tonight. We got another big one

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Speaker 2: for you tomorrow. Lots of player content tonight. We had

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Speaker 2: the General on and talked about some other things. But

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Speaker 2: it's going to be fun on Texans Radio from now

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Speaker 2: through camp through eternity. Thank you Chris for producing the show.

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Speaker 2: Will be on podcasts soon enough. Have a great night, everyone,

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Speaker 2: Go Texans how This is Texans

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Speaker 4: Radio on Sports Radio six ' ten