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Speaker 1: on Thursday. We are almost there, I'm John. This is Mark.

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Speaker 1: We're almost there, Mark Vandomir almost. Let me tell you

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Speaker 1: there's some high tech stuff going on here, John. They're

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Speaker 1: previously anyway. Last year we talked about sports performance center,

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Speaker 1: very cool. Like you said, the walkthrough room, people are like, wait,

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Speaker 1: right in with offensive tackle Juliane Davinport. I know it's

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Speaker 1: in so many different places. You don't even think about,

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Speaker 1: like I mean coming in here saying yeah, he played

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Speaker 1: at a London university, he played American football. I mean

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Speaker 1: there are people that are like, I didn't even know

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Speaker 1: London head universities that played any football at all, And

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if I know anybody. I just

431
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Speaker 1: think that's I think that's so cool. What are your

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Speaker 1: what are your folks and family and everybody back home

433
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Speaker 1: when they see you play? What's that like for them?

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Speaker 1: You see, you're from a small town. What's that like

435
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Speaker 1: for them to see you come out, make it through

436
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Speaker 1: Bucknell and then get here to the NFL and play

437
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Speaker 1: on a weekly basis. What's that like for them? You know,

438
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Speaker 1: is big time. You know they knew this was a

439
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Speaker 1: dream growing up. Man. To see me fulfill it, you know,

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Speaker 1: it just makes everybody happy. You know. All the people

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Speaker 1: in the town also very supportive, you know, follow my

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Speaker 1: journey and still you know, communicate to this day. So

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Speaker 1: I'm just kind of, you know, living my own dream,

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Speaker 1: but also living through them as well, it's funny. We

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Speaker 1: just did a feature on Vincent Smith coming from a

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Speaker 1: really small school. Not I'm buck Nell's huge compared to Limestone, right, yeah,

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Speaker 1: And of course the Texas just drafted Titus Howard out

448
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Speaker 1: of Alabama State. You came from buck now, But what

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Speaker 1: is it about that a smaller program or whatever that

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Speaker 1: that has an effect early on? And how do you

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Speaker 1: shake that off early on? Is that overrated or is

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Speaker 1: it taken out of context? Really when people talk about

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Speaker 1: guys coming from quote smaller school, I mean, yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: taken out of context to a little bit. But I

455
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Speaker 1: mean once you the big thing is just to get here.

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Speaker 1: Once you're here, all that's thrown out the window. You know,

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Speaker 1: you just gotta put in the work and develop and

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Speaker 1: show your team or any other team what you can

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Speaker 1: do to make sure you stay in this league and last.

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Speaker 1: So the only thing they can say about it is

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Speaker 1: I guess some underdevelopment stuff like that, But you know

462
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Speaker 1: it got you got here, so right obviously you had

463
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Speaker 1: the skill set good enough to be here. There is

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Speaker 1: Julian Davinport joining us. That was a really fun interview,

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Speaker 1: especially him talking about London and going over to London

466
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Speaker 1: and having that trip over there and thinking about where

467
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Speaker 1: the Texas will play in Week nine against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Now,

468
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Speaker 1: a guy that was instrumental in joining this team after

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Speaker 1: he's claimed on waivers is a J. Moore. He sat

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Speaker 1: down with Drew Doherty and talked about a number of

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Speaker 1: different things. It's impact on the twenty eighteen team, wants

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Speaker 1: you what he wants to do in tween nineteen, and

473
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Speaker 1: being a twin. You're not the only twin on the team.

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Speaker 1: You feels who got Deante Foreman? He's got a twin brother. Really, yeah,

475
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Speaker 1: he didn't know that. I did not know that. That's cool.

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Speaker 1: You guys got to connect. What's it like having a twin?

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's a bond that no one else

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Speaker 1: really knows about it. I think it's special. I definitely

479
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Speaker 1: feel like it's a blessing. But it's it's also super

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Speaker 1: cool though, just to have the twin moments and to

481
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Speaker 1: just also look at someone and be like, yo, you

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Speaker 1: look just like it's pretty awesome. What's the latest twin

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Speaker 1: moment you've had? The latest one was so he just

484
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Speaker 1: signed with his team in Detroit and I was singing

485
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Speaker 1: a song earlier that day, earlier end of the day,

486
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Speaker 1: he had nothing that he knew nothing about it. We

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Speaker 1: got on the phone that later and he was singing

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Speaker 1: the same exact song, same exact words. I'm like, bro,

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Speaker 1: hold up, was I singing that in front of you?

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Speaker 1: He was like, no, But who was taking the same song?

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Speaker 1: I often do? You guys talk too much? Every day?

492
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Speaker 1: All day? We can just be on the phone and

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Speaker 1: not even say nothing. But it's just it's just cool

494
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Speaker 1: to be on the phone, and we'd be on the game.

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Speaker 1: We'd be on the game, on the head sets, talking

496
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Speaker 1: all day. But on the flip side, I'm guessing growing up,

497
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Speaker 1: you guys, we're also and still are also very very

498
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Speaker 1: competitive most definitely over everything, of course, like who's better

499
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Speaker 1: physically the fastest, strongest, who could eat the most, who

500
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Speaker 1: could drink water the fastest, who gets in the front

501
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Speaker 1: seat first? Yeah, everything, everything, that's awesome. You lead the

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Speaker 1: team in special teams tackles last year. How do you

503
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Speaker 1: grow on that? How do you improve upon? Most importantly

504
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:04,239
Speaker 1: staying healthy just so I can get ready for my

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Speaker 1: body to be able to perform again at a high level.

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Speaker 1: There's always room for improvement, So I go back, I

507
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Speaker 1: watch my worst plays that I think of my worst plays,

508
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Speaker 1: and I just I try to find a way to

509
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Speaker 1: eliminate those plays by doing that that would automatically make

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Speaker 1: me better by eliminating my bad plays. Last year, the

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Speaker 1: Texans were one of the best, and they were the

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Speaker 1: best in a lot of different categories special teams, WIS

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Speaker 1: and before that it had been a pretty dark story.

514
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Speaker 1: How much pride you take that you led the team

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Speaker 1: in special team tackles and it's one of the best,

516
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Speaker 1: probably the best special teams units this team, this franchise

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Speaker 1: has ever had. I definitely take a ton of pride

518
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Speaker 1: in it. It's definitely a fun group to be around,

519
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Speaker 1: to be with the boys. But I've always been pretty

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Speaker 1: big on special teams since college. My coach once told

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Speaker 1: me the best way to make it to the NFL

522
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Speaker 1: and to stay in the NFL is playing special teams.

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Speaker 1: So since then, my freshman year of college, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I've been big on special team and I always wanted

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Speaker 1: to be the best. It's funny we're talking with Buddy.

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Speaker 1: If he was saying, you know before, where you guys

527
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Speaker 1: go down on a kickoff or punt, you're all talking

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Speaker 1: together Who's gonna make the tackle? And I was like, well,

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Speaker 1: which guys? And he said, you callum by him, Johnson, Battamosi.

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Speaker 1: And it's no surprise. Those are the four leaders in

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Speaker 1: those categories. What's it like having those teammates there that

532
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Speaker 1: embrace that role like you do. It's great just to

533
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Speaker 1: have someone besides you knowing that they have your back

534
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Speaker 1: and they're just as hungry as you are. And so

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Speaker 1: we just work as a team, man, and just going

536
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Speaker 1: dominated our opponent. What's next for the Texans special teams

537
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Speaker 1: units in twenty nineteen. We definitely made a big jump

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Speaker 1: from of course here seeing this the statistics from last year,

539
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Speaker 1: but we just want to we want to play better

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Speaker 1: as a unit, eliminate the bad plays, and we will

541
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Speaker 1: let the stats take care of itself. We just want

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Speaker 1: to play as one. When Texas Tech came in here

543
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Speaker 1: to play Old Miss last year, George Thomas was at

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Speaker 1: the game and he went the Misissippi State, and so

545
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Speaker 1: I asked him, I said, look, I know you went

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Speaker 1: the Misissippi State, but do you know anybody in you

547
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Speaker 1: Old Miss? Him as, oh, man, I know on all

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Speaker 1: of them guys, And he said, twins and at the time,

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Speaker 1: I just kind of no ahead, I'm like the twins,

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Speaker 1: Like I'm thinking on miss, Like who the twins? Who

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Speaker 1: are the twins? That day or the next day we

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Speaker 1: claimed aj More on waivers And it was when we

553
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Speaker 1: claimed AJ when I figured it out. I was like,

554
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Speaker 1: Oh CJ. Moore, Oh CJ. Moore? Who was still at all? Miss?

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00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,199
Speaker 1: Now with lions and AJ, there were the twins. I

556
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Speaker 1: got it. So Jordan Thomas kind of gave me the

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Speaker 1: heads up on that. So that was the story. So

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Speaker 1: he says the twins, that's what he's talking about. AJ

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Speaker 1: and CJ. More to you guys in the NFL. Congratulations

560
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 1: and them. Great interviews with both AJ and Julian. Now

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Speaker 1: we get back, Drew's gonna stay with us. We're gonna

562
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Speaker 1: do some over unders and just letting you know the phrase,

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Speaker 1: there's a plate offf homemade wishes on the kitchen windows sill.

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Speaker 1: We'll be mentioned in the following segment. If you know

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Speaker 1: what it is, then good for you hashtag and is enough.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you in a bit right here in Texas, Axas.

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Speaker 1: What final segment of this Wednesday night edition of Texans

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Speaker 1: All Access from the Hunday Texans Radio Studio. I'm your

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Speaker 1: host John alongside my Podna in the lab partner, my

570
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 1: office mate, like neighbor Andrew Dorty. Buddy, not much man, Uh,

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Speaker 1: just been face happing and up. Uh. You know my

572
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: buddy lands Airline did his. It's so funny because I

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Speaker 1: know his dad, Larry, who coached with the Cardinals the Browns,

574
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Speaker 1: uh coach Uvate for a long time. Larry's awesome. He

575
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Speaker 1: tweeted that out and I went, oh my gosh, what's up, Larry.

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Speaker 1: I mean it looked just like a dad. It was

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Speaker 1: amazing to look at. So, yeah, those things are kind

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Speaker 1: of freaky. It's it's like Terminator two, remember ninety one

579
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Speaker 1: when he came out. Yeah, it reminds me of that

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Speaker 1: as far as like they have the liquid magma guy

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Speaker 1: like that. That's how mind blown I am. Well to

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Speaker 1: go on top of that. Uh oh, what's her name?

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00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: Linda Hamilton who plays so Sarah Connor. Yeah, she's back

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Speaker 1: in the new Terminator movie. So it's almost like it's

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Speaker 1: almost like, dude, that because if you watch that movie,

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Speaker 1: you look at her, and I mean she's a beautiful woman.

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00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: She you know, beautiful now, but it's like you can

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00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 1: see like the face app of like what thirty years

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Speaker 1: essentially does I don't know. Yes, somebody clever on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember who it is, but I just saw today.

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Speaker 1: You know it's this. This app is evidently run by

592
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Speaker 1: a company out of Saint Petersburg, Russia. So of course, yeah,

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00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 1: so who knows what's going on, But there's somebody clever

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00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: today tweeted something along the lines of now the terminators

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Speaker 1: are getting their blueprints for their faces for the future.

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Speaker 1: I was like, that's really good. That's pretty good. That's

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Speaker 1: pretty good. I figured, having you in Drew that we

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Speaker 1: would do how you feel about some over runners? Oh yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: Now do you want to just do a straight up

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Speaker 1: over under or do you want me to give you

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Speaker 1: kind of the either or over under? M let's do uh,

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Speaker 1: let's do whatever you want to douse. I like mixed up.

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Speaker 1: I'll go down rabbit holes. Let's let's let's mix it

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Speaker 1: up a little bit. Okay, all right? Who has more

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Speaker 1: m the Shawn Watson passing touchdowns? Okay? Or Baskin Robbins flavors.

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna have more than thirty one this year.

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Speaker 1: I think touchdowns. Yes, over, Yes, I think he's gonna

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Speaker 1: have over thirty one passing Touchdow had twenty five last year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Texans record is twenty nine, and you're saying he's

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Speaker 1: gone plu at least to thirty two. So yeah, because

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Speaker 1: I think plus three of the record. Yes, because I

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Speaker 1: think you're gonna see much more of Will Fuller and

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Speaker 1: Kiki QT. And I also think you're gonna even get

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Speaker 1: some more production out of the tight ends. Yeah. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do think he's gonna crack that. You had four

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Speaker 1: touchdowns last year from your tight ends. Jordan Thomas was

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Speaker 1: all of them. You had double digits with DeAndre. I

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Speaker 1: think you get eleven. I think it's eleven. So that

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Speaker 1: was fifteen of the twenty five. And when they've played together,

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Speaker 1: they've averaged a touchdown a game. Watson to Will Fuller.

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Speaker 1: And then you mix in QT, you mix in random

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Speaker 1: guys like catching it from the running back spot, right,

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Speaker 1: maybe e Vincent Smith gets one here, two or there. Uh,

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Speaker 1: maybe there's a fifth receiver that gets in the mix.

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Speaker 1: I yeah, I do think you're gonna see him break that.

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Speaker 1: So let's say, yeah, okay, let's say Deondre gets ten,

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Speaker 1: just ten, I mean probably can be twelve. Probably. I

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Speaker 1: think you're gonna be shootouts too. I think you're gonna

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Speaker 1: be in games where you gotta throw. I think I

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Speaker 1: think you're probably right. So again that I think about

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Speaker 1: is the Chiefs game. It's on Sunday night in twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 1: the unfortunate night that JJ and Wittner got hurt. Shout

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Speaker 1: through five touchdowns in that game. Yep, you losing forty

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Speaker 1: two thirty four um for a number of reasons. But

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Speaker 1: Alex Smith was a dude that night. The So let's say, okay,

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00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:41,600
Speaker 1: let's say Deondre gets twelve. Say will who averages I

637
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,480
Speaker 1: think a touchdown every time he plays with de Shaun.

638
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: Let's say he just let's let's we'll just be conservative.

639
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 1: Let's go twelve for him two, okay, because that's twenty four, right,

640
00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 1: So Kiki five to six tight ends in total five

641
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 1: to six. Yeah, there you go. You get, Uh, you're

642
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: gonna get a Lamar Miller you Smith run one in,

643
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: they'll get they'll get they'll get a passing touchdown. I

644
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 1: think you're probably right. I think you're probably right. Deshaw

645
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: Watson passing touchdowns beats Baskin Robbins flavors. Okay, next one,

646
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: let's make this a true over under. DeAndre Hopkins catches

647
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, setting the over under at one O

648
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 1: seven and a half. I kind of think he'll be

649
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 1: under that because of so many more weapons and options available.

650
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: Ye I still think he's gonna get a lot of catches,

651
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 1: a lot of targets. But I think because I really,

652
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 1: I really believe the tight end group is going to

653
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 1: be better this year, and you're gonna find that Watson's

654
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: gonna go to them a lot more. I think, look

655
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: at look what we've seen from forming out of the backfield,

656
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 1: his best highlights evolvement catches, the best highlights evolvement catches

657
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: except for the two touchdown runs against Arizona as a

658
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: rook and then, like I just said it a moment ago,

659
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: Fuller in QT, you're gonna gobble up some catches too.

660
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: So that's not a bad thing. If Hopkins goes under

661
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 1: the number, I still think he's gonna be insanely productive

662
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: and still the best receiver in the game. In the

663
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: last four seasons. Last four years, he's gone over that

664
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,560
Speaker 1: number twice in twenty fifteen, he had one eleven for

665
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty eleven touchdowns, and then this past year twenty eighteen,

666
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 1: he had one hundred and fifteen receptions one thousand and

667
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:36,080
Speaker 1: five or seventeen yards eleven touchdowns. Now, in twenty seventeen,

668
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: where he shared a little bit more with Will, his

669
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: yards per catch were up. He actually had a higher

670
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,239
Speaker 1: yards per catch fourteen point four yard average, but his

671
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: volume was down down it was in ninety six. But

672
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 1: he did have thirteen touchdowns. So I think you're I

673
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 1: think you're probably dead on if if Will plays a

674
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,160
Speaker 1: full year, you get QT for a full year, I

675
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 1: think you might even more touchdowns for Hopkins. And actually

676
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: for all of them, he was the only thing going

677
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 1: there in the receiving corps and tight end core basically

678
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: for chunks of the last two seasons. I mean, you

679
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: really didn't. You had guys with very limited experience out

680
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: there alongside him, so it was kind of like you

681
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: had to feed him. That's a good thing. You do

682
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: want to feed him, Yeah, there's no question. But now

683
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: you have more options, more weapons around him. I think

684
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: you're right. Okay, uh, how about a non Texans one? Okay,

685
00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: all right? Who has more Cleveland Browns have wins twenty

686
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 1: nineteen wins or the number in the Van Pattent family

687
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 1: in Sacramento is enough. Yeah, so did they have eight

688
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: kids or were there six kids? There were six kids

689
00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: and two parents? Yeah? Okay, yeahs enough love love you're saying,

690
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 1: please tell me you'll sing the line with a plateful

691
00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: of wishes. My friend Frank is listening and he will

692
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: exactly what that's all about. That was a good show.

693
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:07,640
Speaker 1: And there are about five different seasons where Williams would

694
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 1: look right beyond the camera and get really angry at

695
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: whoever he was talking to and say, this is nineteen

696
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: seventy nine, and then he'd say this is nineteen eighty

697
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:21,120
Speaker 1: and then he'd go on about like why whatever this

698
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: person was talking to him about it was being so

699
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: old fashioned. Have I ever told you I know the Williams.

700
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: I think we might save the Williams story for in

701
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,759
Speaker 1: the Lap storytime one day, which is absolutely fantastic. But

702
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:35,800
Speaker 1: you're saying the over under eight for the Browns. I

703
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,880
Speaker 1: think you're gonna go under. I'm with you. I'm not

704
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:41,320
Speaker 1: sold on them yet. I'm not either. I'm not either.

705
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 1: I am sold on the individual talent, Like I mean,

706
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: it's hard to question O B J. Jarvis Landry, Like

707
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not questioning that. I think Baker Bayfield's

708
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: gonna be a really good quarterback. I do think in

709
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: year two there are some hiccups. You start seeing some

710
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,319
Speaker 1: different things, teams are doing some different things. You gotta

711
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 1: process things little bit better. I'm not totally sold on

712
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: the offensive line in front of him. I think it's decent.

713
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 1: I mean it's good, but it's I don't think it's tremendous.

714
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: And I think defensively there's Miles Garrett, there's Denzel Ward,

715
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: and I know, I know they loved Joe Schobert. But

716
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: other than that, I'm like, Okay, there's some decent players

717
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 1: Larry Ogenjobi and gard Avery, some good players that in

718
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: due time, I think the secondary could get torched. So

719
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,439
Speaker 1: I think they could be in a lot of shootouts too,

720
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 1: So I'm with you. I'm I think the ceiling for them,

721
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 1: the ceiling is nine, so I would be with you.

722
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: I'm going with the Van Pattins on that one. You know,

723
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: were you kind of sad about it? Like I was

724
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: that Merle the Pearl never went further than very I

725
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 1: thought big things were very sad. I wanted to see

726
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 1: him in a big league uniform, which they would never

727
00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: show on eight is enough because the next Mark Langston

728
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: or next was he a lefty or a righty? I

729
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 1: think he's a righty. I think he was a righting,

730
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 1: so he's probably like the next Yeah, because I tried

731
00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,879
Speaker 1: to mimic him, so he definitely was a right hand. Yeah.

732
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 1: I mean he was probably scuffing there. That was that

733
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: was on Channel twenty right in reruns back then. I

734
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: never saw runs. I never saw it like live it

735
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:10,040
Speaker 1: was ABC. Yeah, I never saw that because I was

736
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 1: showing my age anyway, showing my age. Okay, let's go

737
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: back to Texas for this one. Who has more Justin

738
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: Reid interceptions in twenty nineteen or the number of college

739
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 1: national championships in the quarterback room. You've got two with

740
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: a J mccaren and one with the Shawn Wattson three. Yeah,

741
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 1: get three? Yeah, I do, because I think um time

742
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,400
Speaker 1: for team league last year with Andre Howard three. I

743
00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:45,080
Speaker 1: think the Watt Clowney pressure upfront will help help out

744
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: with that. But I also think his being in the

745
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: system another year doing the film work another year, getting

746
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 1: more more starts. He only started twelve games. Yeah, that's true.

747
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: I think he was gonna start every game. I was

748
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: going back today and I was watching week two. I'm

749
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: kind of watching the games in order. I'm I'm pretty

750
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 1: sick individuals. I'm went back and I watched all sixty

751
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 1: two sacks because I wanted to do that. And then

752
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: I went back and I'm kind of going back and

753
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 1: watching games, just especially the ones early in the season. Hey,

754
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 1: the Texas didn't play very well, So I'm looking for

755
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 1: things that how did they change things? What did they change,

756
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: how did they adapt? All that kind of stuff. And

757
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: so I was on week two and I was watching

758
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,360
Speaker 1: and I was like, he's not on the field, and

759
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 1: then you see him pop on and feel like, oh, Okay,

760
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 1: there he is. And what really stood out is when

761
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:25,279
Speaker 1: he went on the field, he was making a play

762
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,800
Speaker 1: against Titans. Yeah, and made plays and so that really

763
00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: is kind of what kept him, like pushed him forward

764
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,120
Speaker 1: to get that starting spot. And now, I mean, where

765
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: would you be without him? So I'm like, you, I

766
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: hope there's more than three. And I do think that

767
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 1: if with Sean Gibson, if Gibson takes a lot of

768
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: the reps, covering the tight ends. I leaves justin free

769
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: a little bit more. Maybe that gives him an opportunity

770
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 1: and make some more plays on the ball. I can't wait, man,

771
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:53,000
Speaker 1: I really just more opportunities you're gonna get, you know.

772
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: I think he'll start every game, whereas last year only

773
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,879
Speaker 1: a twelve and even though he didn't start in those four,

774
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:00,359
Speaker 1: he still played a heck of a lot like you're

775
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 1: talking about, but actually more reps and he's gonna be

776
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 1: called upon that have a big role, bigger role on

777
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 1: this team. Yeah, I think he'll get over under number

778
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:13,240
Speaker 1: of rookies that's start in Week one at New Orleans.

779
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: I'm putting the over under at two, going over and

780
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 1: you're going under. I think Max sharp and will start

781
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: after that. I think Titus starts. It wouldn't surprise me, yea,

782
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 1: I wouldn't surprise would surprise me with those two will start,

783
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: So you gotta either go one or three. Basically because

784
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 1: I set the number at two, I didn't. I made

785
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,959
Speaker 1: it a little bit more difficult that way. Sean Penner

786
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: Gas would be proud of me because the way I

787
00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 1: set that number, forcing you to make a decision on

788
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: one or three. Now two gets you pushed, So it's

789
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,879
Speaker 1: probably not a bad bet to make to go over

790
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 1: if you think two of them. So do you think

791
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: wearing starts. Do you think Howard starts? I think I'll

792
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: go over because I think there's gonna be a combo

793
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 1: Lonnie Johnson starts. I mean sometimes starts, I'll be honest.

794
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: Sometimes starts I think are kind of foolhardy because there's

795
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 1: nickel packages dime. Yeah, I mean, especially like tight ends

796
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:03,759
Speaker 1: and corners, and I think if you're going that, if

797
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 1: you're going with that, and then yeah, I think they'll

798
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: go over. I think it'll be over. Yeah, I think

799
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 1: it's gonna I don't. I don't know what tells me.

800
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:13,799
Speaker 1: I think three just adding up injuries. I do think

801
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 1: rookies will be a factory. Maybe three's rich. That's why

802
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: I set the number two, because I kind of think

803
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 1: it will be two. I think they're gonna go tight

804
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:20,839
Speaker 1: end heavy a lot, like I think I think you're

805
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: gonna see a lot of two three tight end sets.

806
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 1: So with that, I think I think you can see that.

807
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 1: That's why I think you'll see wearing out there. I

808
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: think because you have three guys that can do three

809
00:39:28,719 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: different things. Really, I think you can win matchups. I

810
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 1: think you can stay, you can show run looks. I

811
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 1: think the one thing that that that Bill of Brown

812
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,439
Speaker 1: would love to do with this offense, and Tim Kelly

813
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,399
Speaker 1: as well, is we're gonna show you. We're gonna show

814
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: you different looks. I'm sorry, we're gonna show you the

815
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: same look, same formation, same personnel, and we're gonna, you know,

816
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 1: same under center or gone same show you the same

817
00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:52,799
Speaker 1: thing and run four or five different things out of it.

818
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 1: And so you have really no answers. So what you

819
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 1: decide to do, We're going to Okay, well you decide

820
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 1: you're gonna play nickel against all right, we're gonna run

821
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 1: because we got three tight ends on the field. Yeah,

822
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 1: you know, you decide you're gonna play bass defense against this. Okay,

823
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:06,799
Speaker 1: well we're gonna take advantage as we can throw the

824
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 1: football against us. That's why I think I do think

825
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:12,240
Speaker 1: you'll see and the Texas do run a good portion

826
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 1: of twelve personnel, one back, two tight ends. They run

827
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 1: a little bit of a thirteen personnel. They've done that,

828
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: but I think you'll see twelve personnel a good bit.

829
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 1: I think it forces defenses to have to balance up,

830
00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:26,040
Speaker 1: like if you can bounce him up with twelve personnel

831
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,280
Speaker 1: totally putting a tight end and Hop on one side

832
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: and a tight end and will on the other side.

833
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 1: There's a lot you can do with that, just balancing

834
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 1: things up like that and forcing teams to make a

835
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:37,920
Speaker 1: declaration um and if you want to at that point

836
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 1: just run the football and so different things, motion shifts

837
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:41,520
Speaker 1: and all that kind of plan too. So I want

838
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 1: to be surprised. Yeah, I think I think Holliday is

839
00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:47,399
Speaker 1: getting the field the respect that Madden twenty showed him.

840
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: He's the highest rated rookie in the Texans. Oh yeah, yeah,

841
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:55,280
Speaker 1: he was number one. Number two was Lonnie Johnson. Number

842
00:40:55,320 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 1: three was Titus Howard, number four was Johnny Dixon. Wow. Interesting, Yeah,

843
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,759
Speaker 1: I mean interesting stuff that mad. People were not too

844
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: happy with the Mad race across the board, and by people,

845
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: I mean those players that were being rated. They were

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Speaker 1: none too pleased about it to say the least. Okay, uh,

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Speaker 1: last one who has more Texans defense sacked total or

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Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson total touchdowns? So you said a little while ago,

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Speaker 1: I think he's refresh Watson, just to refresh. You said

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Speaker 1: Deshaun would go over because the thirty two, you go

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Speaker 1: thirty over thirty one for two or three or four scores. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so might even catch one. So if you go just

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Speaker 1: oh I heard it, let's move along. I heard it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Sack totals you probably get into the forties. Maybe could

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Speaker 1: you get to the forties. Could Deshan get the forties.

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Speaker 1: I would say, I'm gonna say Watson, I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: with the Watson. I would say Sacks. I think it's close.

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Speaker 1: I would go Sacks. Okay. I would say Sacks, that's

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Speaker 1: a good one. We'll track that one throughout the year.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna that will be differ right now to mark

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Speaker 1: this down, write it down. July seventeenth, I say Sacks.

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Speaker 1: Drew says touchdowns for n Sean. We'll check it out.

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Speaker 1: It is enough to fill our house with love. No

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Speaker 1: better way to end to show than that right there.

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Speaker 1: But thanks you, Drew, Julian Davenport, A. J. Moore, Mark Vanimir,

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Speaker 1: you guys for listening. We'll see tomorrow buddy, and as always,

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Speaker 1: go Texans.