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Speaker 1: Welcome Ma, Welcome back another episode of Texans Huddle. I

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Speaker 1: am in a d he is Drew and joining us today.

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Speaker 1: You're starting center, Michael Dieter sitting in with us. First

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Speaker 1: of all, appreciate you sitting in on your day off.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to be here, but we're glad that

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Speaker 1: you're here in the huddle with us.

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Speaker 2: All good, happy to be here.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me, and also congrats on the way

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Speaker 1: the season's going, because right now for former players, people

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Speaker 1: working with the Texans fans, I mean, it's an exciting

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Speaker 1: time and you know, obviously you're a huge part of that.

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Speaker 2: So congrats on that. Thank you, Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, how's it going. So you've been with some good teams,

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Speaker 3: You've seen some tough times as well. You came to

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Speaker 3: the Texans from the Dolphins in nineteen. You were a

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Speaker 3: rookie for about four five months. A guy named Jerremie

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Speaker 3: Tunsel was your teammate. He gets traded here. What's it

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Speaker 3: been like considering your journey there and what's been going

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Speaker 3: on here and being a part of that.

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Speaker 4: It's been a lot of fun. Obviously, there's been some

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Speaker 4: some better years than others. Twenty nineteen was whatever iem

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Speaker 4: called the tank for two year. We went six and ten,

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Speaker 4: I think, and there was a lot of negatives that year.

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Speaker 4: But we're a little better in twenty a little better

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Speaker 4: in twenty one, and then Flow was fired and they

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Speaker 4: brought in Mike and there was kind of a culture

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Speaker 4: shift and there was just more fun that year. And

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Speaker 4: then obviously we were a little successful last year, and

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Speaker 4: then free agent this offseason, signed here and just happy

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Speaker 4: to be here and so far, so good here. Obviously

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Speaker 4: a few ups and downs here too, but trending in

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Speaker 4: the right direction and it's been a lot of fun

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Speaker 4: so far being a Texan.

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Speaker 1: You know, you talked about that twenty nineteen season. I

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Speaker 1: guess y'all went six and ten, But from what I've

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Speaker 1: seen it from my vantage point, that was successful for

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Speaker 1: you because you were a rookie. You started with fifteen games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's tough. I don't care where you're drafted, and you're

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Speaker 1: drafted pretty high as an interior alignment. To be able

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Speaker 1: to not only start, but play an entire season in

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Speaker 1: the trenches, that's tough. So talk about the transition and

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Speaker 1: the success you had as far as the consistency get

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Speaker 4: It was definitely tough. The NFL's is a whole different beast,

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Speaker 4: and I think when you come into it as a rookie,

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Speaker 4: you're expecting it to be kind of similar.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why.

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Speaker 4: I just think we all think that, but it's way different.

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Speaker 4: Everyone is everyone's an all star and it didn't take

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Speaker 4: long for me to figure that out. And there was

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Speaker 4: definitely some there's some bad film out there of me

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Speaker 4: rookie year, but it was just kind of put my

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Speaker 4: head down and next play mentality and obviously do my

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Speaker 4: football and was trying to help the Dolphins win.

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Speaker 3: There's probably bad film from your rookie year, from everyone's

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Speaker 3: rookie year, I imagine.

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Speaker 2: Sure.

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Speaker 3: With that in mind, though you talked about the adjustment.

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Speaker 3: Do you think, however, being on a Wisconsin offensive lineman

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Speaker 3: and starting all those games up there and doing what

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Speaker 3: you did, do you think that kind of helped you

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Speaker 3: out a little bit and had you a little bit

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Speaker 3: better prepared than maybe some other peers.

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Speaker 5: Perhaps.

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Speaker 4: Sure, I mean it definitely helped me when it came

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Speaker 4: to like unning the football and run technique as an

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Speaker 4: at Wisconsin and every day at practice it was inside

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Speaker 4: So definitely running the football gave me probably a little

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Speaker 4: to adjust one on won pass blocking. That was probably

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Speaker 4: the toughest thing for me. But overall, playing all those

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Speaker 4: games in Wisconsin definitely helped me, but it still could

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Speaker 1: You talk about learning the pass block and techniques. A

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Speaker 1: good buddy of mine, Greg Cook, He's a Green Bay

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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, played offensive line for many years in

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Speaker 4: It's just it's not all physicality, And I think that's

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Speaker 2: Guys in the NFL.

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Speaker 4: Have a lot of them are paid to pass rush,

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Speaker 4: not all of them obviously, but they're so good with

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Speaker 2: They're smart.

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Speaker 4: They know what you're gonna do with your set, and

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Speaker 4: they know how they're going to attack you.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure of that, and you know all about that.

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Speaker 4: But that was the biggest thing is just how well

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Speaker 4: definitely a guy who would just kind of grab and lunge,

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Speaker 4: I had to work on, is just keep my head back,

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Speaker 2: All that stuff.

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Speaker 4: But definitely, it's definitely just the way guys use their hands,

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Speaker 4: and then just their brain too. They just knew what

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Speaker 1: I have a bone to pick with you, but I

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Speaker 1: already like you, so I'm gonna be I'm gonna be easy.

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Speaker 1: As a former defensive lineman, you know, I was doing

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Speaker 1: some research, and I know it high school. You were

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Speaker 1: a stud offensive lineman, a stud defensive lineman. I think

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Speaker 1: you know where I'm going. Why the heck did you

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Speaker 1: choose old line? Why didn't you come to the right

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Speaker 4: Now that I know what I know I could have

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Speaker 4: never played defensive line at this level, or probably even.

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Speaker 2: At the collegiate level.

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Speaker 5: Why not.

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Speaker 4: I just don't think I'm athletic enough, and just there's

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Speaker 4: a different twitch to play defensive line. There's a certain

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Speaker 4: twitch that guys have when you play defensive line. There's

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Speaker 4: definitely offensive lineman in the NFL who probably could. I

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Speaker 4: don't think I'm one of them, but I definitely I

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Speaker 4: would have loved it been a pass rusher, sure, like

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Speaker 4: I would rather be the guy rushing the past her

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Speaker 4: right because it's it's probably a little more fun.

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Speaker 1: Then I'll see this protect him in honor of the

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman. I don't think I could have played old

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Speaker 1: line because I never quite understood how y'all could get

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Speaker 1: enough to push the defensive lineman back. Because my thought was,

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Speaker 1: knock them off when I experimented at OH line. But

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Speaker 1: you have to be controlled, you know, you have to

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Speaker 1: be a more control. So that's something I just never

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Speaker 1: could do. So, like you said, maybe it's just a

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Speaker 1: different twitch on both sides.

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Speaker 2: For sure.

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Speaker 3: It's interesting hearing you guys go back and forth like that,

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Speaker 3: because I don't think you'd be stunned to know that

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Speaker 3: this guy at one point won the high jump title.

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Speaker 3: Was it the Texas Relays or the state meet? Is

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Speaker 3: it the Texas Relays, which is one of the biggest

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Speaker 3: track meets in the world. I mean, you bring that up,

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Speaker 3: and yeah, it marries perfectly with what you're saying.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, just.

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Speaker 4: As some d lineman athleticism right there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, you brought up the Mike McDaniel offense that

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Speaker 3: you were in. You talked about what you did at

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Speaker 3: Wisconsin obviously different. How much did plan in that offense

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Speaker 3: when you came here, because Bobby Slowick is from that

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Speaker 3: same tree, but it's a different offense, right, I mean,

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Speaker 3: how much how much do those similarities merge here?

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Speaker 4: A lot, especially like what they wanted technique wise, you know,

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Speaker 4: running off the football, playing fast, playing aggressive, and not

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Speaker 4: which isn't like that everywhere in the NFL. There's a

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Speaker 4: lot of offenses where you have to see this you

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Speaker 4: have to see that. If you see this, react to that.

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Speaker 4: And a lot of the beauties of this offense is

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Speaker 4: we have our rules and go play fast and cut

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Speaker 4: it loose, run off the ball, and just be aggressive,

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Speaker 4: which is as an old lineman, it's refreshing to hear

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Speaker 4: that definitely was something that helped me last year. And

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Speaker 4: then when I was visiting as a free agent, that

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Speaker 4: was something that I considered was it's a similar offense,

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Speaker 4: so I should be, you know, not totally in tune

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Speaker 4: with it, but a little bit ahead.

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Speaker 1: Speaking with Michael Dieter, you're starting a center for the

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Speaker 1: Houston Texans offense.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: So you grew up in Ohio, you played college ball

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Speaker 1: in Wisconsin, then you get drafted to Miami.

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Speaker 2: Was that like some kind of culture sock, like so.

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Speaker 4: Bad talk about? I mean, and I'm from a small

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Speaker 4: then I go to Madison and I was like, whoa,

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Speaker 4: this was a big city living here in Madison.

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Speaker 5: Wow.

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Speaker 4: And then I get down to Fort Aauderdale in Miami,

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Speaker 4: and I was like, Madison was a tiny town, and

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Speaker 4: it took me a while. At first, I was like,

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Speaker 4: driving around Davy. Florida's where I lived right by the facilities.

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Speaker 4: But it was definitely some culture shock and just the

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Speaker 4: I mean, it just wasn't as diverse up there, but

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Speaker 4: it was cool. After four years living there, I learned

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Speaker 4: there's just so much stuff to do, different food, all

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Speaker 4: that stuff. But at first I was like, what is

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Speaker 4: but I definitely did.

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Speaker 1: So when you say you grew up in h you

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Speaker 1: only four hundred.

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Speaker 4: No, No, the school my senior class is probably around

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Speaker 4: one hundred.

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Speaker 1: That's odd to me because I grew up in San Antonio.

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Speaker 1: You know, my school had about twenty eight hundred people.

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Speaker 1: Then I went to Houston, so I'm used to the

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Speaker 1: big city. But what's that small town like is it?

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Speaker 1: Have you seen the movie Varsity Blues.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Is it similar to that, the Midwest version of that. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 4: I loved it, and I have a house there. I

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Speaker 4: about when I was in Miami, like growing up in

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Speaker 4: It was just simple living and it was fun. But

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Speaker 4: and see the rest of the world. But still I

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Speaker 3: Too, because and he's got a hunting initiative that he's

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Speaker 5: Let's see, let's get your thoughts on it.

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Speaker 1: Hunting in the hood, shoot your food, not your neighbor.

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Speaker 4: Go to sheriff, but I don't want to dive into it.

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Speaker 2: It is a good message, I'll give you that. Instead

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Speaker 2: I didn't know. She was like, your shoe game is terrible.

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Speaker 5: She's keeping you looking good.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think I'll just wear my normal stuff.

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Speaker 4: I would get made fun of so bad. It's just

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Speaker 4: Probably just because that's where all our family is, Me

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Speaker 4: Lately, all you have to do is just go like

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Speaker 4: And she's obsessed with grabbing things and bringing it to you. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's so cute.

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Speaker 5: That's terrific. What's baby's first Christmas? What's she gonna get?

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Speaker 2: Who knows?

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Speaker 4: My wife's in charge of it. I'm sure she's gonna

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Speaker 5: I should say, what's Santa gonna bring?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, Santa is all over it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and they don't remember at this she's gonna yeah.

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Speaker 1: And you're like, all the hard work daddy and mom

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Speaker 1: putting in to get you the you know, the gifts.

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Speaker 1: What does Michael Dieter want away from football for Christmas?

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Speaker 1: What's on your wish list?

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Speaker 4: I think I put a lot of titleist prov ones,

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Speaker 4: just something to compete at and it'll be forever. It's

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Speaker 2: Fun for me.

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Speaker 4: And then I think I put some hunting gear on there,

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Speaker 4: and then I think that's about it.

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Speaker 1: Rank them in order one two, three, Hunting, fishing, golfing.

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Speaker 4: I think bow hunting white tailed deer is my absolute favorite.

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Speaker 4: Especially I go right as soon as the season's over.

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Speaker 2: But after like a whole season, it's it's beautiful.

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Speaker 4: Is it?

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Speaker 5: Just you do you go with any friend.

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Speaker 2: I'll usually go with a buddy.

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Speaker 4: You we'll go to southern Ohio and we'll just sit

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Speaker 4: is you can compete with all your buddies, a lot

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Speaker 4: of trash talk and all that stuff. And then fishing,

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Speaker 4: which I love to do, but nothing makes me matter

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Speaker 4: than like not catching fish. Like I'm probably too impatient

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Speaker 2: That really sucks. Now it sounds like you're a true

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Speaker 1: We had a Schultz sitting in that seat as well,

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Speaker 1: and he's a big time gamer.

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Speaker 2: Do you do any video games? I do.

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Speaker 4: I do like to play video games too. I haven't

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Speaker 4: played a ton this season, but in the off season

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Speaker 4: I'll play a lot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't like how guys they almost feel guilty not

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Speaker 1: But I always felt like you do need that distraction

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'll get on and play a little bit.

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Speaker 4: It's just there's not a ton of time, and especially

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Speaker 2: Ready to go to sleep too.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's been the biggest difference.

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Speaker 5: What did you do to cut loose?

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Speaker 3: Because you know you're playing in the late nineties, early

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Speaker 5: What were you doing?

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Speaker 1: You know what, Michael is right, and now I'm acting

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Speaker 2: But I really loved movies.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's kind of how I relaxed and got away.

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Speaker 1: And when I was living in Philly, my family was

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Speaker 3: Really, you know, that's the kind of so you'd watch

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, in my house. Yeah yeah, I can't

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, what okay, So you played golf with anybody

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Speaker 4: Yet or I've played a lot with Jimmy and then

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Speaker 4: I played with Scott in the off season. I haven't

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Speaker 4: played in season. Dieter Eiland wants to go all right.

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Speaker 4: Nick Broker keeps asking.

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Speaker 5: To go okay, I saw the old lineman yep, and then.

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Speaker 4: I've played with Jake Hanson and Bachman in the off seasons.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, those guys were hilarious. They were too competitive. I

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Speaker 4: I think back got a score wrong on a hole

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Speaker 4: was the funniest thing ever. They were like two brothers

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Speaker 4: going at it. It was so funny.

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Speaker 5: I've heard is one of the best guys.

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Speaker 4: I haven't played with them, but the rumor is he's good.

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Speaker 5: Case probably.

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Speaker 2: Those two I haven't played with, but I heard they're

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Speaker 3: All right, Andy, you got to get in on this too.

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Speaker 3: You brought up Jimmy Morrissey. He's he started at center

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Speaker 3: a few years back. He's been around the team for

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Speaker 3: Reputedly he and Charlie Heck are the two foodies, and

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Speaker 3: I'm using air quotes on the team, the foodies of

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Speaker 5: A is this true?

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Speaker 3: And then we got to get into Lineman meals because

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Speaker 3: I know that just that's a Pandora's box, right.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, it is, but we'll let him answer first about

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Speaker 1: the foodies, then we'll get Definitely, I would agree with

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Speaker 4: When we go out to eat, no one else even

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Speaker 4: orders like appetizers, really sit back, and Charlie grabs a

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Speaker 4: if really, I don't think I've ever named a spot

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Speaker 4: where at least one of them wasn't like, oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: They're the ones that lean on. Yeah, now what sort

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Speaker 3: of tabs are you guys knocking out? When you guys

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Speaker 4: Eat, it's expensive and and we'd never end up going

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Speaker 4: to like Applebee's, right right, right right. That was always

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Speaker 4: the joke, Like and one guy pays each week. I

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Speaker 4: to a nice steak place and it'll be at least

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Speaker 4: a few thousand bucks at least, but we eat, I mean,

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Speaker 4: we eat so much food it's insane, how much calories

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he probably won't admit it.

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Speaker 1: But now that I'm not in it, I could be

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Speaker 1: the snitch A big reason for that big bill. It's

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Speaker 1: not what you're chewing and digesting, is what you're sipping on.

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Speaker 1: And for those Michael Dieters saking his head like, no

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Speaker 1: straight water and gatorade for them. But back when I

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Speaker 1: of the few times I was thankful that I was

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Speaker 1: not a first round pick because when I was drafted

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Speaker 1: opus and I've never heard of that.

442
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Speaker 5: Like, I was just mad, you know what.

443
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Speaker 2: To this day, I don't don't even know. I just

444
00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:01,840
Speaker 2: know it's very expensive.

445
00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,120
Speaker 1: I think the whole bottle was like two thousand dollars,

446
00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:06,120
Speaker 1: and I was just like, you know it, just give

447
00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:08,360
Speaker 1: me mad dog so I can help my buddy out

448
00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:11,520
Speaker 1: for two ninety nine cents. But those are some of

449
00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:15,480
Speaker 1: the great memories of playing football everty playing, but just

450
00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:17,600
Speaker 1: the for me, the D Line dinners and the old

451
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Speaker 1: Line dinners.

452
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's definitely the other than Sunday. It's the

453
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Speaker 4: highlight of the week. I mean, you look for it.

454
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Speaker 4: We're usually do it on Friday nights. So as soon

455
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Speaker 4: as you're going on with Friday practice, here already looking

456
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Speaker 4: forward to Friday night and getting together with the guys.

457
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Speaker 4: And it's a ton of laughs and a lot of

458
00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:35,760
Speaker 4: bull crapping stories.

459
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Speaker 2: But it's so much fun. Now, is it just y'all?

460
00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,200
Speaker 1: Because Case was telling us Case Keenum and it's probably

461
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Speaker 1: because the room is so small that they bring their

462
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Speaker 1: significant others for the old line?

463
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Speaker 2: Is it just y'all?

464
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Speaker 4: It's usually just the O line. And then sometimes we've

465
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Speaker 4: had a few weeks her Case and CJF showed up.

466
00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:55,040
Speaker 2: They always get the invite.

467
00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:59,280
Speaker 4: And like Dare comes a lot, Dalton's there a lot,

468
00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,159
Speaker 4: just a few guys here and there who also show up,

469
00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:04,480
Speaker 4: so really anyone could show up, but it's mostly just

470
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Speaker 4: the on line, not the wives.

471
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Speaker 1: Are those guys showing up to be good teammates or

472
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Speaker 1: they showing up to get a free meal.

473
00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,640
Speaker 4: To be good teammates. Dara, he hosted one a few

474
00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:15,760
Speaker 4: weeks ago for the line. Yep, he it.

475
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Speaker 5: Was this is not surprising me, I want to talk about.

476
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Speaker 2: He paid for it. It was it was his week,

477
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Speaker 2: like he was a member of the on line. So

478
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Speaker 2: that's all. Yeah, they're just they're there to be a

479
00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:24,800
Speaker 2: good teammate. It's just because it's a good time.

480
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Speaker 3: You overlap with Dary a little bit at Wisconsin, didn't you.

481
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Speaker 3: What do you remember of him back then?

482
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Speaker 4: When I first got there, he played corner and they

483
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Speaker 4: switched him to running back I think in twenty fifteen,

484
00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,159
Speaker 4: and we had some injuries at running back and we

485
00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:42,639
Speaker 4: needed him and he played really well. Yeah, and it

486
00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,119
Speaker 4: was like, man sucked that he hasn't been playing there

487
00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:48,520
Speaker 4: in his whole career. But the biggest thing I remember

488
00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:52,560
Speaker 4: is he's so smart. We're playing Northwestern in twenty I

489
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Speaker 4: think twenty fifteen, Yeah, I had to be twenty fifteen.

490
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Speaker 4: But late in the game there was like a bad

491
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Speaker 4: call or something, but we needed to get the we

492
00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:05,480
Speaker 4: needed to clock the ball. We needed to stop the clock,

493
00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:09,760
Speaker 4: and uh, Dara was the only one who recognized it.

494
00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,320
Speaker 4: Like everyone else is looking around like what or like

495
00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:14,320
Speaker 4: complain about the call. I can't remember the scenario, but

496
00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,080
Speaker 4: Darry runs up and it's like, get on the ball,

497
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Speaker 4: and he took the snap from me. Like the quarterbacks

498
00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 4: over there stands when he took the snap and we

499
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Speaker 4: end up winning the game. And it was like such

500
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Speaker 4: a heads up play. I was like, this dude knows

501
00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:29,520
Speaker 4: football and he cares. And that's probably one of my

502
00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:33,240
Speaker 4: favorite memories of him. And I remember him always playing soccer. Yes,

503
00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:33,879
Speaker 4: he's got that.

504
00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:38,399
Speaker 3: He's he's sneaky, has that most interesting guy in the

505
00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:40,600
Speaker 3: world vibe to him, and there's a lot there's every

506
00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:42,920
Speaker 3: time you hear somebody tell something about him, there's there's

507
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Speaker 3: some new interesting fact about Dariakumwali.

508
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Speaker 2: That's a cool story about you. And for you to

509
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Speaker 2: be able to tell it the way you.

510
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Speaker 4: Did, yeah, it was I mean it was crazy because

511
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:53,560
Speaker 4: no one else was really locked into that moment and

512
00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:55,879
Speaker 4: he started yelling get on the ball, and he just

513
00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:57,600
Speaker 4: he took the snap and he was smooth.

514
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Speaker 2: Actually the snap spiked it and saved us.

515
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Speaker 4: Was the coach like, hey thanks dar, oh yeah, thanks

516
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,720
Speaker 4: for the defensive coordinator. It was Joe Rudolph, the on

517
00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:11,879
Speaker 4: line coach too. He couldn't stop raising him, like the

518
00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:13,639
Speaker 4: whole the rest of the year, he kept bringing that

519
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,960
Speaker 4: moment up and it was like, this is huge, this

520
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Speaker 4: is how guys need to.

521
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Speaker 2: Be and it was sweet. And this was at Wisconsin.

522
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Speaker 1: What was I always like to ask guys, especially guys

523
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Speaker 1: that had the success you had in high school?

524
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Speaker 2: What was there?

525
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Speaker 1: Your second choice, your third choice? Like how'd you end

526
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Speaker 1: up deciding on Wisconsin? Coming from Ohio, I.

527
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Speaker 4: Only had like seven or eight offers and probably three

528
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Speaker 4: or four big tens, like I think Illinois, Nebraska. The

529
00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,840
Speaker 4: rest were mostly mac and I think I had West Virginia.

530
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Speaker 4: So Wisconsin just seemed like the best choice for an

531
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Speaker 4: a lineman. But I almost went to Toledo because I

532
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:52,640
Speaker 4: was going to be a homer and just stay close

533
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Speaker 4: because I grew up like thirty.

534
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Speaker 2: Minutes outside of Toledo.

535
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Speaker 4: Okay, so I thought about going to Toledo just to

536
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Speaker 4: be close to home. But I'm glad I didn't because

537
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 4: Wisconsin was a blast, and I just it was the

538
00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 4: right place to go to play online, I thought.

539
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Speaker 3: And that's pretty much why nice, uh, you know him

540
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 3: talking about Darry doing that and it's interested. So Darry

541
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Speaker 3: was playing out of position at quarterback just for a snap.

542
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 3: This guy carried for a touchdown as a running back

543
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Speaker 3: against Illinois.

544
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Speaker 5: Yeah, one of the highlights.

545
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Speaker 3: I'm guessing of your entire time there, right, sure, Yeah,

546
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Speaker 3: well what was the situation?

547
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Speaker 5: Why'd that come up? Are you guys just smoking them

548
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:27,639
Speaker 5: in it?

549
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:28,080
Speaker 2: No?

550
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,399
Speaker 4: No, No, it was fourth quarter. I think we were

551
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:35,439
Speaker 4: probably maybe a score maybe ten points, kind of not

552
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 4: going our way. You never expected to just blow people out,

553
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:43,200
Speaker 4: but we that year. We were really good in twenty seventeen,

554
00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:46,480
Speaker 4: and uh, we didn't expect to be in that much

555
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:50,159
Speaker 4: of a dog fight, probably RSUs Illinois. And it was

556
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,199
Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter and we repped that play like

557
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:53,879
Speaker 4: twice that week. They put it in that week, and

558
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 4: it was kind of like no way, and then they

559
00:23:56,640 --> 00:24:00,600
Speaker 4: called it and we were all I started getting nervous.

560
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:02,919
Speaker 5: That was what was it like a jumbo package? You're

561
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Speaker 5: in the block as I.

562
00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 4: Was an uncovered left tack so as long as it

563
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,640
Speaker 4: was a it was a throat. It was like a

564
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 4: QB roll out right, and then he threw it backwards

565
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 4: to me, so I was an eligible receiver because I

566
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 4: wasn't covered up. And then the on line got out

567
00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 4: and like a screen and I was untouched probably like

568
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Speaker 4: fifteen yards.

569
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it was basically a screen pass, but it

570
00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,640
Speaker 3: technically went backwards to the counter as a okay, okay,

571
00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:31,080
Speaker 3: but it.

572
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Speaker 2: Was a throw. I had to catch it.

573
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So what's going through your mind when

574
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:35,440
Speaker 1: you're seeing that ball coming direct?

575
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 2: It took forever.

576
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:42,159
Speaker 4: You can see the spiral, Oh my god. And then

577
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,240
Speaker 4: the biggest thing was like catch it because it's a

578
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,600
Speaker 4: live ball. If you don't, it's not right. It's not

579
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:50,160
Speaker 4: an incomplete pass, that's a fumble. So for sure, catch

580
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 4: it and then score. As soon as you catch it

581
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,520
Speaker 4: and you see the end zone, what was it?

582
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Speaker 2: Why? Like, did you know you were gonna get?

583
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Speaker 5: For sure?

584
00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,000
Speaker 2: I had. I had all.

585
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 4: Four of my O linemen out front of me, so

586
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:02,040
Speaker 4: I was I was guaranteed.

587
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 2: So is that when you realize, like I'm about to score? Yeah,

588
00:25:04,680 --> 00:25:05,119
Speaker 2: I knew it.

589
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 4: I didn't have anything planned.

590
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Speaker 2: I just can't.

591
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Speaker 4: We all just started like beating each other up right

592
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,439
Speaker 4: right right, Like I remember being just exhausted when I

593
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,600
Speaker 4: got back to the bench, just a lot of punches

594
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:18,880
Speaker 4: in the face from everyone.

595
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Speaker 1: So you're holding out on us that or you're too

596
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:24,119
Speaker 1: humble because you said you couldn't play D line. But

597
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:26,719
Speaker 1: there's a reason they chose you to catch that ball

598
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 1: and escort it into the end.

599
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 3: If you watch it, it's slow. I'm moving slow. Offensive

600
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,199
Speaker 3: lineman way too modestly. Yeah, like it's it's part of

601
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 3: the DNA, I think an offensive linment.

602
00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: They're always known as the smartest group of a football team,

603
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:43,000
Speaker 1: at least when I played. I don't know if they

604
00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,960
Speaker 1: still get that credit and show a lot of humility

605
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,160
Speaker 1: and also a little bit dirty at the same time. Yeah,

606
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: y'all don't mind bending someone backwards if you have them

607
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 1: in a compromising position.

608
00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 4: I've had plenty of d linemen do that to me too,

609
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,119
Speaker 4: so so you don't feel bad about it.

610
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 2: No, it goes back and forth there. All right, we're

611
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 2: gonna take a quick time out.

612
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Speaker 1: I want to get your take on what's going on

613
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Speaker 1: with the college football playoffs. I want to get your

614
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 1: take on that, and we'll talk a little more. NFL

615
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Speaker 1: Houston Texans Michael Dieter joining US Texans huddle. Keep it

616
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Speaker 1: right here. Welcome in, Welcome back, Texans Huddle. I'm in

617
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Speaker 1: d kalou He's Drew Doherty. Michael Dieter sitting in with

618
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Speaker 1: us in our Texan huddle. I want to talk a

619
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Speaker 1: little college football because there's some controversial pairings, I guess

620
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Speaker 1: when it comes to the college football playoffs. So obviously

621
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Speaker 1: you play big time football in twenty eighteen, you're the

622
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Speaker 1: Big ten offensive lineman of the year, so you know

623
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Speaker 1: a thing or two about college football. When you heard

624
00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,400
Speaker 1: that Florida State, well, it is going to be left

625
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,800
Speaker 1: out of the college football playoffs after going undefeated, after

626
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: winning their conference, did you have any thoughts on that?

627
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: Do you feel like right, wrong and different?

628
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 4: I definitely feel bad for Florida State and their team

629
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Speaker 4: because I'm sure they were expecting and felt like they're

630
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Speaker 4: deserved to be in the playoffs. But it's tough. I mean,

631
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 4: to only pick four teams and they have to pick

632
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,199
Speaker 4: the best four, but it's I think it's tough to

633
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 4: not put a thirteen and zero Power five conference champion

634
00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 4: in the playoff.

635
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 2: That's really tough, But I.

636
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 4: Mean, it is what it is. The committee has a

637
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 4: tough job to do, and they had someone was gonna

638
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,480
Speaker 4: be mad. There was no way a team wasn't gonna

639
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:26,880
Speaker 4: be pissed off. It was impossible to avoid that. So

640
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,800
Speaker 4: I definitely feel bad for Florista eight and their team,

641
00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 4: but I guess that is what it is. But I

642
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:34,320
Speaker 4: don't know.

643
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,200
Speaker 2: I think they probably should have been in there. It

644
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:36,880
Speaker 2: is tough, Drew.

645
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:38,560
Speaker 1: I actually want to get your take on it as

646
00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:40,080
Speaker 1: well as a guy who studies this game.

647
00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 3: All Right, so we're talking with Michael Dieter. He has

648
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:46,120
Speaker 3: started the last five games at center. But this is very,

649
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 3: very simple. The NCAA, the networks are losing billions of

650
00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:56,159
Speaker 3: dollars every single year by not doing this, and this

651
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 3: is not my idea.

652
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 5: Mike Leech rest in Peace brought this up.

653
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Speaker 3: He said, yeah, I need to do it like basketball

654
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 3: and make it a sixty fourteen playoff. Put a man

655
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,439
Speaker 3: on the moon in nineteen sixty nine. We didn't have

656
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 3: the internet. But it's basically what he said. You think

657
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,360
Speaker 3: about it, Okay, we can figure it out. There. There's

658
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 3: many hurdles here, but you have the Alabama's, the Georgia's,

659
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,119
Speaker 3: the Michigans of the world first round. They get to

660
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 3: play at home and they're playing a quote unquote cupcake.

661
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Speaker 3: But if you think about it, it's maybe the fourth

662
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 3: or fifth best team in a conference.

663
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 5: So it's a cupcake.

664
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 3: But it's not like it's you know, Southwest Louisiana School

665
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 3: of the Mines or something. It's an actual college team that, yeah,

666
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,480
Speaker 3: they're gonna get thumped, but it's still a decent amount

667
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 3: of you know, there's a decent amount of competition. Make

668
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 3: the regular season ten games, so compared to March Madness,

669
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 3: you have November and December and January Madness. You get

670
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 3: three months of that. And if you think March Madness.

671
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 3: I don't know the names of your aunts and uncles,

672
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 3: but I guarantee you a lot of them don't know

673
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 3: anything about basketball, but they do brackets. The same goes

674
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 3: for you too, same goes for my family. Think of

675
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 3: the brackets and everything that's gonna go on. So those

676
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 3: are the early rounds. You get in a round or

677
00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 3: two in and then like the Bahama Bowls of the

678
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 3: World and the Fenway Bowls of the World, then you're

679
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 3: playing the games there. So the Bulls are still gonna

680
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 3: win two the Big Bulls, the January Bulls, they're playing

681
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 3: in the later rounds.

682
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 5: You mix it up and jumble it up every year.

683
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:23,080
Speaker 3: I know there are hurdles, but you can divert some

684
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 3: of the think of all the money that you would

685
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 3: be making with all those teams that get to play

686
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 3: in the playoff.

687
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:32,200
Speaker 1: How long would this take though, because basketball you can

688
00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 1: play every two days, every day.

689
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,920
Speaker 3: Hey, he always made the point, Well, the NFL and

690
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 3: high schools they playing, you know, they play sixteen game seasons,

691
00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 3: so like it's gonna go.

692
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 5: A long time. Yeah, but there's ways around it.

693
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 2: It's definitely interesting.

694
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:50,200
Speaker 4: But I don't know, it seems different in college football

695
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 4: to just let anyone into a playoff.

696
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 5: But you're not. It's not just anyone.

697
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 2: Sixty four teams.

698
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,320
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's sixty four teams, like four teams playing a.

699
00:29:58,240 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 2: Bowl games all year.

700
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, hey, geta you're playing in a bowl right now.

701
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's not doesn't mean anything.

702
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 4: Well, it does exactly the national championship, and.

703
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 3: Now it does, and now it would if you get

704
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:10,480
Speaker 3: to play in the playoff.

705
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you were average all year?

706
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:17,040
Speaker 3: Exactly Do we think that the average teams in college

707
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 3: basketball are really going to advance and go all the

708
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 3: way and win it?

709
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: But they're playing one ordere I guess my question because

710
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 1: I love more football, what about this?

711
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 3: This would be more football, better football in November and

712
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 3: December and January that actually means something. Do we Does

713
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 3: any of this stuff mean anything in December aside from

714
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 3: like four or five bowl games.

715
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:36,200
Speaker 2: Well I'm a little different to me. Anytime you roll

716
00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 2: the football out there.

717
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 3: It means yes, yes, But I think of all these

718
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 3: guys that are not playing now.

719
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 1: My biggest question would be the teams that get knocked

720
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,080
Speaker 1: out in the first round. So are they done with

721
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 1: football for two months?

722
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 5: While other teams and it makes it all games? Yeah,

723
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 5: five and six makes it all the more meaningful.

724
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 2: I'm okay, and I really really enjoyed Mike Leech May So.

725
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 5: You can just think about putting the money. It would

726
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 5: be yeah, exactly more money for sure, all of that.

727
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: But there's just too much downtime for the teams that

728
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: that miss out.

729
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 2: Just put twelve eight or twelve ten.

730
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,240
Speaker 3: I mean, if you're that bad of a team, should

731
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 3: you be playing this one or two or three extra games?

732
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 2: Yeah? I just have a feeling it's gonna mess with recruit.

733
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 3: You can have n I T s for the real

734
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 3: crappy team, you know what I mean, There's there's way

735
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 3: we can come on. It's like you said, we made

736
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 3: things happen a long time ago. With a lot less technology,

737
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 3: this can work.

738
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: I think the simple solution is the one that they're doing.

739
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 1: Move it up to eight teams. Sure, And because here's

740
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: the thing, we're gonna we're.

741
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 3: Gonna hear the bitching and moaning about the ninth and

742
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,200
Speaker 3: the tenth team that didn't get in, like just like

743
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 3: we hear about the sixty fifth and sixty six.

744
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the same. Someone's gotta be mad every year.

745
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 2: But if the.

746
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 5: Stakes are much higher right now, obviously.

747
00:31:53,680 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: If you're upset that you ended the season ranked ninth,

748
00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,479
Speaker 1: you're not really saying that you have a chance to

749
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 1: win the national championship. With what Michael was talking about.

750
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 1: With Florida State, they have a legit, of.

751
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 3: Course, which is why before everybody's everybody's in the in

752
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 3: the if you have eight.

753
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: If if my school, Rice University is nine and they're

754
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 1: on the outside looking in, it's like, maybe you should

755
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 1: have been in, but you probably weren't going to win

756
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: the National championship. Florida State and the Committee's lucky. Out

757
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: of the ten years this has been around, I think

758
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: this was the most controversial selection.

759
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 2: Unless I'm missing something.

760
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,920
Speaker 1: Florida State has a legit and don't let them go

761
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: dominate whatever ballgame they end up in. They have a

762
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 1: legit argument to say we we could have won it.

763
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: But I don't think number nine arguing about getting in

764
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: has a legit argument right of winning.

765
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, And it was basically just all because of.

766
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 4: The quarterback, right yeah, But that's they still went and

767
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 4: won the acc So I'm with you, like they wanted

768
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 4: the decision maker, but the quarterback issue would have been

769
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 4: such problem. They would have lost, no problem, right, and.

770
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:05,960
Speaker 2: You would, but they won.

771
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 3: Take out what happened on the field when you actually

772
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 3: played in a bowl game? What was the most enjoyable

773
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,200
Speaker 3: bowl experience? And why? Because I'm guessing you played in

774
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 3: some pretty big games during your time there.

775
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,600
Speaker 4: We played the Cotton Bowl was fun, yeah, Dallas. But

776
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 4: we played in the Orange Bowl in twenty seventeen and

777
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:29,520
Speaker 4: we beat Miami in Miami, Huge rock huge, So that

778
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 4: was crazy. It was the turnover chain here, all that stuff.

779
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 2: We beat them.

780
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 4: It was a home game for them.

781
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 2: It was crazy.

782
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 4: But that week down there was a blast. We went fishing,

783
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 4: did a little golfing, did a little bit of everything

784
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 4: that week and that was that was probably my most.

785
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,200
Speaker 1: Would go to a bowl game in Miami and find

786
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: a way to go fishing.

787
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 4: And instead of we were in Tampa for when it

788
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 4: used to be the Outback Bowl, which that was probably

789
00:33:58,200 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 4: when we went fishing there too.

790
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 2: That's cool.

791
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 3: You played a bowl, right, y'all won and you'll win

792
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 3: the southest conference time.

793
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna show my age back in my day.

794
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, we didn't have all those all the bowl games,

795
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 1: even though we went seven and five and we beat

796
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:12,320
Speaker 1: University of Texas.

797
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, the goalpost came down. I remember that game.

798
00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: We still we didn't go to both. Like after our

799
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: last game we beat Tulsa and we're thinking, like are

800
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 1: we gonna go to a bowl game? And our coach

801
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: walked in the locker room was like, oh, that was

802
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 1: a great season, Like it's over. I remember one of

803
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: the guys asked me, like what about a bowl game.

804
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 1: He's like, no one's gonna select us because we were

805
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: the smallest Division one school and it was all about.

806
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 2: Revenue and money. Yeah.

807
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 1: I mean we literally had twenty eight hundred undergrads, so

808
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: we weren't going to pack any stadiums.

809
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 2: The Senior Bowl was the only Bowl game I went to.

810
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 5: That's still a good that's good.

811
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 1: Still a little bitter about that. What was What was

812
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: the week like of the bowl game? Like, is it

813
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 1: a bunch of going out to eat in the city. Yeah,

814
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 1: for sure.

815
00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 4: The first two nights is just kind of it's like

816
00:34:56,200 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 4: a little vacation, but with practice and meetings as well.

817
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 4: But then once you get closer to the game, you

818
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 4: kind of start locking in better sleep, all that stuff eating, right,

819
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,319
Speaker 4: But it was a ton of stuff. They usually have

820
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 4: events for the teams too. Yeah, there was a few

821
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 4: events where we would like compete. I remember when we

822
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 4: played against Auburn my freshman year, we did like a

823
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:25,240
Speaker 4: bowling competition between Wisconsin and Auburn. But there was always

824
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,360
Speaker 4: some stuff like that, and then you usually have to

825
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 4: go to like a dinner type thing with like the

826
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 4: committee whoever's like put on that bowl and kind of

827
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,240
Speaker 4: just shake hands and show face with some important people

828
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:39,239
Speaker 4: stuff like that.

829
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,080
Speaker 1: So when y'all have those like bowling competitions, is it

830
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: more friendly or is it like, yeah, that's why I'm

831
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:45,279
Speaker 1: about to do this, you know.

832
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,000
Speaker 2: To you on the football field.

833
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 4: It was kind of friendly, but no one wants to

834
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,720
Speaker 4: lose like there's losing isn't an option.

835
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 5: There's Yeah, there's an edge to it.

836
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,279
Speaker 3: Because we're gonna talking with with Michael Dieter, starting center

837
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 3: for the Houston Texans. So the Texas Bowl Taxak Texas

838
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 3: Bulls coming up here this year. It's A and m

839
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:05,160
Speaker 3: Oklahoma State. They this bowl game is famous for its competition,

840
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 3: which is at the Rodeo Bowl.

841
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:08,320
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be the MC for the second year in

842
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 5: a row.

843
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 3: But basically they get a lot of the guys that

844
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 3: are kind of further down the roster, younger, and they

845
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 3: have them competing in this stuff because it's you know,

846
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 3: like getting cheap into a pen.

847
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 5: They got to hurt them and so.

848
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 3: It's pretty Yeah, they don't want anybody getting you know,

849
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:25,840
Speaker 3: trampled by an animal. None of that stuff has happened, but

850
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 3: and there's like roping that gets pretty fierce.

851
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 2: Man.

852
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 3: Last year was Ole miss and Texas Tech, and there

853
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,879
Speaker 3: were some you know, you're around these guys a little

854
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 3: bit all week and so the animosities kind of grow. Yeah,

855
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:41,479
Speaker 3: there was a fight almost when Texas played Missouri here

856
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 3: a while back. Yeah, there's like a you know, like

857
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 3: a skirmish by the elevators. Drew Locke. Yeah, with the backpack.

858
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 3: So there's an edge to it. When you talk about it,

859
00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:53,319
Speaker 3: it gets going, it gets after. You just don't want

860
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 3: to lose highly competitive individuals.

861
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about what you're doing here for

862
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 1: the Texans. Obviously you could play pretty any position, because

863
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: at training camp you played some tackle, also center, guard.

864
00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:06,760
Speaker 2: Where do you feel most comfortable? Center or guard?

865
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:12,359
Speaker 4: Either or yeah, either one. I've played both, like rookie year,

866
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 4: I started all those games at left guard, and then

867
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 4: twenty one when I was starting, I played all center, So.

868
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 2: Either one interier.

869
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 4: Wise, I'm just more built to play on the inside

870
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 4: tackle in a pinch, but probably not where I should be.

871
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 1: Okay, now's one easier between center and guard because when

872
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:30,919
Speaker 1: I see centers and when I played against them, always

873
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: pointing out the middle linebacker who's blitzing. Is it easier

874
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: to prepare for guard versus center or flip?

875
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 4: I think guard is tougher physically. Usually the matchups are

876
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 4: a little tougher. You have the Aaron Donald's and the

877
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 4: d linemen who are super physical but athletic at the

878
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 4: same time, and you'll still have that, you know, playing

879
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 4: certain zero noses at center, But at center it's just

880
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 4: different mentally because you're kind of just getting everyone on

881
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 4: the same page. So there's just more in your plate

882
00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 4: mentally getting things pointed out, getting things idd right. But

883
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 4: sometimes you'll play a week where you're not even covered

884
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:06,960
Speaker 4: the game. You got a two I to three and

885
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 4: you're not even necessarily covered the whole game. But at

886
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,080
Speaker 4: guard it's just the physical matchups are probably a little tougher.

887
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:17,280
Speaker 1: For the listeners when you're a center and you're pointing

888
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: certain people out, certain things out without giving away obviously,

889
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: you know playbook in the most basic form, what is

890
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:26,880
Speaker 1: a center communicating and who is he communicating?

891
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:30,439
Speaker 4: You get to It could be like in a run play,

892
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,240
Speaker 4: it could be who I'm working to or who someone

893
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 4: else's combo should go to, and then everyone else knows

894
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 4: from there where they need to go. Once they hear

895
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,439
Speaker 4: who I point, they go. I got maybe the next

896
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 4: guy or two from that. And then in the pass

897
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 4: protection game, it's usually who I'm accounting for or you know,

898
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 4: maybe who the back might have, stuff like that.

899
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: So once you account for your responsibility, then everything else

900
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 1: kind of falls in line for everybody else.

901
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 3: Yep, interesting one last dumb question for me before we

902
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 3: go to break Indy. But obviously CJ calls to play

903
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 3: in the huddle, it's called do you say anything after that?

904
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,319
Speaker 4: No, not until you till line, not till you wait.

905
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, stuff, everybody stays quiet. He calls it. Yeah. How

906
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:14,399
Speaker 5: interesting does the huddle get?

907
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:18,879
Speaker 4: Though not too crazy for the most part.

908
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:20,800
Speaker 5: How about when you guys are like rolling.

909
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 3: You had those two games where you sometime Jacksonville, you

910
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:24,360
Speaker 3: thump the Steelers.

911
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 5: What's huddle like? Later?

912
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 4: Sometimes it gets a little fun in there.

913
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 2: You can get a little rowdy.

914
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 5: Give us an example.

915
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,360
Speaker 4: Kind of guys just like you just make fun of

916
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 4: each other, just talk crap mid game or especially in practice,

917
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 4: when you're having a good practice, you just start saying

918
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 4: some random stuff to guys in the huddle, pick in

919
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 4: front of their clothes or cleats, something like that.

920
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 3: Seems like it's been a lot of fun practices this year,

921
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 3: right for sure?

922
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, not a blast.

923
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: So in the middle of a game, you might tell

924
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: Larry Tons of like, man, that outfit you have coming

925
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: in was just like, I can't believe you are that

926
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,280
Speaker 1: in the middle of a game. Yeah, that's awesome.

927
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:02,919
Speaker 4: How does he responds just usually tons, he's just gonna

928
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 4: laugh because he's quiet and he's just mellow like that,

929
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,879
Speaker 4: just laugh. But other guys might just bring something right

930
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 4: back at you, right your dumb dunks that you are.

931
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 1: In here, all right, quick time out. One more segment

932
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,280
Speaker 1: to go. Michael Dieter joining us here in Texas Huddle.

933
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: Don't touch that doll. Welcome in and welcome back Texan Huddle.

934
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 1: I am, indeed he is Drew. Michael Dieter joining us.

935
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: One more segment to go. We talked NFL talked a

936
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: little college football. You played your high school ball in

937
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: Ohio at a small school. You're in the mecca. And

938
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,040
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit biased, but you're in the mecca

939
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:41,040
Speaker 1: of high school football right here in Texas. Have you

940
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,399
Speaker 1: had a chance or even a desire to go check

941
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 1: out some of these high school playoffs?

942
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 2: Yeah?

943
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 4: When they played here last Friday. What's crazy is a

944
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:51,799
Speaker 4: kid I played a good buddy of mine from high school.

945
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,839
Speaker 4: I played high school football with his wife, moved down

946
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 4: here and coaches at Houston Christian University the volleyball and

947
00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 4: so they moved down here and he loves football. He

948
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 4: went and gaight at Clemson, and then he was at

949
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:09,640
Speaker 4: louisiann Roe, but he coaches at High Tower, just right home.

950
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 5: They can play, they can play, and they.

951
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 2: Just lost Saturday.

952
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 4: But last Friday they played here and we finished practice

953
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 4: and they were still playing and I ran out and

954
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 4: watched them play.

955
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,320
Speaker 2: So and it was it was crazy.

956
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:22,840
Speaker 4: It's like some of the sizes of the receivers and stuff.

957
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:25,480
Speaker 4: I being from a small school on how that was

958
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 4: crazy to me, just some of the size of the

959
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 4: guys out there. But so, yeah, I definitely care because

960
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 4: my buddy coaches at High Tower.

961
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 2: That's one small world. Yeah. Crazy.

962
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,120
Speaker 4: He was over for Thanksgiving too on Friday the next.

963
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,320
Speaker 3: Day, so it was that's huge. Yeah, he was watching

964
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 3: the game. He wasn't by himself though. You got a

965
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:43,800
Speaker 3: lot of teammates that will check it out before practice,

966
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 3: we were after practice. There's always been textans we heard

967
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,719
Speaker 3: about going on Friday nights from time to time checking out. Yeah,

968
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 3: any number of great games around. Who else was kind

969
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 3: of near you on the sidelines or you also watching

970
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 3: the action.

971
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,200
Speaker 4: I think Nico was out there. I know there was

972
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:00,399
Speaker 4: a few coaches out there.

973
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 3: I saw Jerry Hughes. He snuck in about three minutes

974
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:06,760
Speaker 3: before practice started. Yeah, and he was watching in the tunnel.

975
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:08,759
Speaker 2: I can't remember. I was locked into the game. I'm

976
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:09,359
Speaker 2: not gonna lie.

977
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,000
Speaker 4: I know we had a whole group of guys over there,

978
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 4: but I can't remember who.

979
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:12,480
Speaker 2: Was all out there.

980
00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 5: Can you imagine playing Remember his.

981
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 2: Kids wanted his autograph.

982
00:42:15,360 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's that's a common reframe for sure. Can

983
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:21,279
Speaker 3: you imagine as a high schooler getting to play there,

984
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:23,600
Speaker 3: I mean getting to play inside Energy State. What's the

985
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:25,719
Speaker 3: biggest place you played when you're you're in Ohio as

986
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 3: a high schooler, bowling Green State University, which is still big.

987
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 3: That's big, that's a big Yeah, we thought that was

988
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:33,120
Speaker 3: the coolest thing ever. But yeah, they'll be able to

989
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 3: play in here, would be nuts. And then someone told

990
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 3: the play a state game in at and T. Yeah,

991
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 3: that'd be super. That's an extravaganza like that. That's a

992
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 3: whole weekends where like the six man team start on

993
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:47,839
Speaker 3: Thursday and then they it's triple headers, quadruple head. This

994
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 3: guy played in the dome, didn't you.

995
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:53,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's man. Every time we bring stuff up, it

996
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 1: just reminds me how old.

997
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 5: Well I'm not much behind him.

998
00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:59,359
Speaker 1: It's no longer there, So we went to State and

999
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 1: we so we played the Astrodome here, which is a

1000
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: cesspool now.

1001
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 2: I don't know if you see it, man.

1002
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:06,720
Speaker 3: But back then it was the coolest thing in the world.

1003
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:08,760
Speaker 3: I went to. It was awesome.

1004
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 1: It was so cool the Astrodome, you know, back in

1005
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,319
Speaker 1: the eighties nineties, it was called the eighth Wonder of

1006
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 1: the world. For us to be able to come here

1007
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,839
Speaker 1: and play from San Antonio, that was huge. Then when

1008
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 1: we beat the team, we got to play Texas Stadium,

1009
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:21,879
Speaker 1: which is no longer around because the AT and T.

1010
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 2: Is it called AT and T it is.

1011
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's where the Cowboys used to play.

1012
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, but what Drew's talking about the high school it

1013
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: has that that basketball tournament feel when you have all

1014
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:35,320
Speaker 1: the state games over at jerry Land because you start

1015
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 1: with six a and in any given day.

1016
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 2: You have like five football games. It's awesome.

1017
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: Like there have been times where I've gone with my

1018
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: kids and just literally just yeah, just watching.

1019
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 2: The best of the high school entertainment. Yeah.

1020
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:51,320
Speaker 1: So when you you know, we talked about the transition

1021
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: from college to the NFL, because I like what you

1022
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 1: said about that in the first segment, But What was

1023
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: it like coming from a small high school going to

1024
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 1: big in football and playing with the big, big boys.

1025
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:03,240
Speaker 2: It was nuts.

1026
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 4: Might have been a little crazier than even going college

1027
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 4: the NFL, because like I said, I thought I knew

1028
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:12,280
Speaker 4: what I was getting into get in the NFL, still

1029
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,839
Speaker 4: more than I thought, but going to college, I.

1030
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,480
Speaker 2: Had no clue. I had just been recruited.

1031
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 4: I'd seen some of the guys from a distance, and

1032
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 4: then when I finally got out there, the speed and

1033
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,280
Speaker 4: just the size of guys. I had never seen anything

1034
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 4: like that, so that was pretty crazy. But I think

1035
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 4: the biggest thing was the speed, like guys were flying around.

1036
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 4: I felt like my head was spinning out there, but

1037
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,719
Speaker 4: adjusted eventually, but it was definitely crazy. It was and

1038
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 4: it was just like we ran the wing tea in

1039
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 4: high school. We're diving at your legs, you know, sixties football,

1040
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 4: so like learning zone and stuff like that. I was like,

1041
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 4: what is this and like what we didn't even really

1042
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 4: pass protect in high school. We just kind of slid

1043
00:44:56,120 --> 00:44:57,839
Speaker 4: left right and that was the end of it.

1044
00:44:58,320 --> 00:45:00,160
Speaker 2: And just learning about all that.

1045
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:03,279
Speaker 4: I never knew any of that, so that was that

1046
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:03,959
Speaker 4: was kind of cool.

1047
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: When did you feel because in twenty eighteen, you were

1048
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: literally the best offensive linement in the entire conference, not

1049
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:12,320
Speaker 1: just your school. So when did you think to yourself

1050
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 1: or start feeling like, Okay.

1051
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 2: I got this.

1052
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 4: I enrolled early, probably towards the end of springball, just

1053
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:23,399
Speaker 4: because like the first three practices were a whirlwind, but

1054
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 4: by the end of it it was getting better, and

1055
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:28,319
Speaker 4: like so I was like, Okay, we just got to

1056
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 4: keep working at it and hopefully we'll just keep getting

1057
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:33,359
Speaker 4: better and get more comfortable with it.

1058
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 2: And I would say by the end.

1059
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 4: Of that first springball, the last practice, the spring game,

1060
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 4: I was like, Okay, I think we can do this.

1061
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 5: So you enroll early.

1062
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 3: So for everybody listening, that means December January, you're done

1063
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 3: with high school for good. You're maybe seventeen, eighteen years old.

1064
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 3: You come and you enroll as a college freshman, but

1065
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 3: you're basically all your buddies from back home are still

1066
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 3: in high school finishing things out.

1067
00:45:58,000 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 5: Tell me about the.

1068
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:02,759
Speaker 3: Very first weight room weight workout that you do as

1069
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 3: a collegiate athlete, because I imagine it was one of

1070
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:08,320
Speaker 3: those sort of boot camp hell we type of moments.

1071
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 4: Right.

1072
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 5: Yeah, I wasn't ready for it. Was anybody.

1073
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:14,839
Speaker 4: The guys who were there were ready for it. But

1074
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 4: there was four of us that enrolled early. Yeah, I

1075
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 4: think three of us finished it out of the four.

1076
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 4: The one dude tapped out early like we were I

1077
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,479
Speaker 4: think maybe still warming up, and I.

1078
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 5: Was like, ooh, not a good look that stuff.

1079
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 4: But three of us made it, but we were it

1080
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:33,319
Speaker 4: wasn't we weren't successful.

1081
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 2: Sure if we finished it.

1082
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:35,959
Speaker 5: Your form wasn't very good.

1083
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 2: It was terrible.

1084
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:39,440
Speaker 4: The weight it was light, like the watching like seniors

1085
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 4: just be so strong and I was just hanging on

1086
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:42,800
Speaker 4: by a thread.

1087
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 2: It was crazy.

1088
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:46,919
Speaker 4: Knew right away that we had to get in better

1089
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 4: shape and just adjust your mindset.

1090
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 2: For sure.

1091
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 1: That is such an awesome story, you know, And I

1092
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 1: just loved how transparent you're being. So you're like, yeah,

1093
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 1: we finished, but it wasn't a good finish. So yeah,

1094
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:01,280
Speaker 1: what was the next day? Because to me, that's always

1095
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:04,400
Speaker 1: the hardest after your first so you're super sore. So

1096
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:06,400
Speaker 1: the next day was, but I don't the second day

1097
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:08,759
Speaker 1: wasn't as hard. I don't remember, Like I think they

1098
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 1: kind of understood what the first day.

1099
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:11,640
Speaker 5: Had to scare the hell out of you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, right, And the next day wasn't as hard, and

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Speaker 4: I just think having one day down, you just show

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Speaker 4: up with a whole different mindset and you just knowing

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Speaker 4: one day better is kind of all you needed.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what all we needed was to

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Speaker 1: get to know you better, to become big fans of

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Speaker 1: Michael Dieter. It's been an awesome, awesome experience having you

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Speaker 1: here in the Texan Huddle. So continue the good work.

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Speaker 1: Congrats on all the success, Thank you for Drew, for

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Speaker 1: indeed this has been Texans Huddle. Texans All Access coming

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Speaker 1: up next. Don't touch that down.