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Speaker 1: There is no off season for your Houston Texans. Game

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Speaker 1: yes it is, Hello Texans. Mark Vandermer with you with

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Speaker 1: The General John McClain from the Houston Chronicle joining us

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Speaker 1: as we talk about everything involving the Texans, the NFL

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Speaker 1: life in general. It's the fiftieth anniversary of the Godfather

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Speaker 1: But we don't have to get into that right now,

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Speaker 1: Let's start with this, John McClain. We didn't get a

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Speaker 1: the signings, the resignings. Where do you think they are

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Speaker 1: draft a little over a month from now. I believe

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Speaker 1: there's guys that Nick Cassario who somehow magically made an

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Speaker 1: two thousand twenty four into a six. That's Nick the magician,

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Speaker 1: and I have my theory about it. I was able

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Speaker 1: more high priced free agents to come here. General. One

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Speaker 1: us tonight, Thanks to the general for being on. And

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Speaker 1: it's time to play Who's better? Are you ready? Johnny?

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Speaker 1: Of course? I am ready. Let's roll. Why do I

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Speaker 1: even bother asking? Let's go? You got say, Let's go

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Speaker 1: to the AFC North Assuming Deshaun Watson plays an entire season,

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Speaker 1: there's no suspension or major injury. Who's better Cleveland or Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati or Baltimore? So I know Pittsburgh has Mitchell Trubisky

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Speaker 1: penciled in right now? Or Rudolph Cincinnati. We know who

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Speaker 1: they are. They strengthened the old line Baltimore did. Did

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Speaker 1: you just say Mason Rudolph instead of Mitchell? I you know,

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Speaker 1: I lost your mind. I'm not losing my mind. I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you you never know until you get people out there.

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Speaker 1: But I would think Trubisky would win that job. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but look, Tomlin had dinner reportedly with Malik Willis the

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Speaker 1: other I don't know what to make of that. Maybe

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Speaker 1: they had just had a nice meal together. And Baltimore

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Speaker 1: with a healthy er Lamar Jackson next year, your thoughts, well,

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Speaker 1: Baltimore is the one that stood out, like, I want

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Speaker 1: to see what Baltimore's gonna have coming back. I mean,

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Speaker 1: with a healthy Marquise Brown. Oh wait, I'm bearing the lead.

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Speaker 1: With a healthy Lamar Jackson, with a healthy Ronnie Stanley.

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Speaker 1: They signed Morgan Moses, So the offensive line should I

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Speaker 1: think get back to a pretty high level. Now. I

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Speaker 1: still think there's more needed, but JK. Davits comes back healthy, hopefully,

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Speaker 1: Lamar's back healthy, Ronnie Stanley's back healthy. That's massive. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's the core of the offense there in Baltimore. SAT's

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Speaker 1: gonna have I think Baltimore is the one to watch.

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Speaker 1: I think Cleveland probably takes a step back, just kind of,

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Speaker 1: you know, regression to the mean if you will. YEA,

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Speaker 1: Cleveland's gonna be nasty. I don't think there's any any doubt.

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Speaker 1: But there's no Jarvis Clanger and there's no O b. J.

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Speaker 1: There isn't Amari Cooper, so there's at least that. And

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Speaker 1: I think Omar is gonna get a lot of targets,

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Speaker 1: but Cleveland needs a little bit of help. Thought of

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Speaker 1: the people's jones, I think it is solid Cleveland's I

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Speaker 1: think it's Cleveland Baltimore. Yeah, Cleveland Baltimore. Cincinnati's gonna be

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Speaker 1: nipping at the heels, of course, but I think it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be those two, and it's gonna be watching Lamar

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Speaker 1: and Deshaan twice a year. The matchups of Texans Ravens

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Speaker 1: didn't live up to the billing. But back in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: in the year that Clemson won a national championship and

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Speaker 1: Lamar won the Heisman Trophy, those two went at it

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Speaker 1: at it in Clemson. I mean, it was a battle.

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Speaker 1: It was an unbelievable football game. And now that's twice

508
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Speaker 1: a year so of course nineteen and twenty didn't work

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Speaker 1: out very well for the Texas from that standpoint. But

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Speaker 1: we'll see how it works in Cleveland. But man, Cleveland's

511
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Speaker 1: just hell a talented. I just think baltimoren't that ammunition

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Speaker 1: coming back offensively. I think it's I think it's Cleveland

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Speaker 1: Baltimore with Cincinnati close. I think Pittsburgh's gonna learn not

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. By the way, Mike tom An only had

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Speaker 1: dinner with Mulie Willis. He also was in Cincinnati at

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Speaker 1: Cincinnati's Pro Day and had dinner with Desmond Ritter, who,

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Speaker 1: by the way, desnm't Rittters sitting there at thirty seven.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't mind it. I wouldn't mind it. Well, he's

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Speaker 1: coming up and who's better tonight? So there you have it.

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Speaker 1: I like it. Yeah, there you go. By the way,

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Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett happens to operate in the same city where

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Speaker 1: Tomlin works. I mean, didn't they at least have a

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Speaker 1: sandwich together or something. He's out dinner with these other guys,

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Speaker 1: what about Pickett? Maybe maybe you know I've heard that

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh is more in love with Mullick Willis than any

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Speaker 1: of them. That was the worst kept secret at the

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Speaker 1: Senior Bowl. But it could be complete tall smoke screen.

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Speaker 1: They might be on picket. It might be one of

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Speaker 1: the rooneys that said, hey, hey, hey, hey, remember an

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Speaker 1: eighty three, we kept passing on the kid from pitt

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Speaker 1: and we passed on him, and we passed on him,

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Speaker 1: and then he ends up going to Miami and he

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Speaker 1: ends up becoming Dan Marino. Yeah, let's not do that.

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Speaker 1: This guy's right in our backyard. Let's make the move.

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Speaker 1: And I think Kenny Pickett's Kenny Pickett is better right

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Speaker 1: now than either Mitchell Trubisky or Mason Rudolph. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, that's a question for our buddy, because we

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Speaker 1: know that Andre Where really likes Kenny Pickett, and we

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Speaker 1: also know he really likes Mitchell Trubisky. So we need

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Speaker 1: to ask Dre Drey either or take your pick, Kenny

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Speaker 1: Pickett or Mitchell Trubisky. Where you're going answer, We'll get

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Speaker 1: him on the show next week maybe. All right, So

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Speaker 1: since you brought it up, actually I brought it up.

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Sandwich Promanti Brothers, yes, or Boston lobster roll from

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Speaker 1: Legal Seafoods better? What's better? Go Oh that's a lobster roll. Listen.

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00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: Promanti Brothers is fantastic. I don't know. I tell you

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Speaker 1: a story back in twenty fourteen when we went there.

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Speaker 1: It's stunned. The next time we were there as twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty was Covidyere. We had to stay in our rooms

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Speaker 1: the whole time. I love the city of Pittsburgh. We

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Speaker 1: had we had a Monday night game, and so we

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00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: got a chance. And when we ever had a night

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Speaker 1: game on the road, I just get up in the

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Speaker 1: morning and I just walked the city. So I walked

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Speaker 1: to the Annie Warhol Museum. Was clothes. I was so mad,

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Speaker 1: and I just walked the city. I went to P

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Speaker 1: and C Park, I took pictures with Stargell and clementing

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Speaker 1: to my favorites grown up. And then I went to

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Speaker 1: Permanity Brothers. There's one seat in the entire place. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I gotta take it. I looked to my right. It's

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Speaker 1: Chris Jones. Jonesie was the only person I knew in there,

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Speaker 1: and I just happened to sit right next to it.

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Speaker 1: We could have never planned it that well. Either way,

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Speaker 1: love the Permanity Brothers. Love it. It's a Pittsburgh institution.

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Speaker 1: But you can give me a lobster roll all day,

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Speaker 1: every day. And my son Jack just heard that. He

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Speaker 1: just ran into the dining room. He's like, yes, Dad,

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Speaker 1: lobster roll. So yes, lobster roll gonna be flying to

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Speaker 1: Boston tonight. Who's better right now? Miami or New England?

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Speaker 1: Dolphins went nine and eight last year after the horrendous start.

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Speaker 1: New England went ten at seven, just one game better

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Speaker 1: overall record, and the Dolphins just acquired the Cheetah among

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Speaker 1: other things. Who's better Dolphins or Patriots? Go? What you're

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Speaker 1: asking me is who's better? Mac Jones or to a

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Speaker 1: tongue of yoloa, Because if you went across the board

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Speaker 1: and said weapons, it's Miami and there's no doubt. I

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Speaker 1: mean you kidded me with Tyreek Hill and Mike Kisiki

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Speaker 1: tight end slash receiver, more receiver than the tight end,

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Speaker 1: and Jalen Waddle and they signed Cedric Wilson and they

580
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Speaker 1: have Chase Edmonds in the backfield to go along with

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Speaker 1: Miles Gaskin and Mod seven A mod and the additor

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Speaker 1: on Armstad left tackle. Are you kidding me? Miami's really talented?

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Speaker 1: But do I believe into a Tunga Byoloa. That's a

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Speaker 1: different question. New England's even close to me in that talented.

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Speaker 1: I'll give you a Hunter Henry and John nas Smith.

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Speaker 1: But other than that, whatever, I think the running backs

587
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: are a lot better in New England. Defensively, that's where

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I think Miami's pieces. I think Miami's got

589
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Speaker 1: some really good pieces. I think Christian Wilkins up front,

590
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Speaker 1: it's very very good. I think Javon Holland is fantastic.

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Speaker 1: I but beyond that, I don't know. I think I

592
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Speaker 1: would put my money on Miami just because two it

593
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: can just flip it out to Wattle or Tyreek and

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Speaker 1: gold do something. So he may have to be great

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Speaker 1: down the field, but he can just flip it off

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Speaker 1: to those guys on bubbles and quick screen smoke screens

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Speaker 1: and just get them the jet sweeps, push passes, all

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Speaker 1: those kind of things, and it's gonna be a six

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Speaker 1: inch pass and those guys will take it and do

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Speaker 1: something with it, and that should open some things up,

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Speaker 1: I think. But I'll give two of this two ahead

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Speaker 1: and listen. Almost in an entire year of trade rumors,

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Speaker 1: oh Miam's gonna go get to Sean. Miam's gonna do this.

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00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: Miami wants to Sean, they want to Shaw. There's a

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Speaker 1: deal made, and Two just put his head down and

606
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 1: he worked and he worked. Now behind the scenes, who knows.

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00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,399
Speaker 1: He may have been complaining about it, not happy about it,

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Speaker 1: but it had to impact him a little bit. But

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Speaker 1: once he finally got the job back after our game

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Speaker 1: they ended up winning, I think what six, eight, six nine,

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Speaker 1: down to stretch whatever it was, he wasn't fantastic, but

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Speaker 1: he starts showing some things and if they build off

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Speaker 1: of that, and then year three, boom, away you go

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Speaker 1: and I go back to Drew Brees. Drew Brees when

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Speaker 1: he got into the league in two thousand and one,

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Speaker 1: struggled two thousand and one, two thousand and two, to

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Speaker 1: a point where the two thousand and four drafts they

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Speaker 1: went drafted Philip Rivers because they were not convinced Drew

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Speaker 1: Brees with a guy. And all of a sudden he

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Speaker 1: becomes Drew Brees. Well maybe that's what to a tongue

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Speaker 1: of byloa, all that, all that stuff was going on,

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Speaker 1: and maybe two becomes the next version of Drew Brees,

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Speaker 1: who knows, but I'm gonna I'm gonna roll with the

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Speaker 1: weapons in Miami being that much better than they are

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Speaker 1: in New England and that'll give Miami of the edge. Well,

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Speaker 1: the fact that there was any hesitation at all, I

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Speaker 1: was gonna say, is an indictment on tah But let's

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Speaker 1: go this way. It's at least indicative of the uncertainty

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Speaker 1: around to the fact that they added everything they did

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Speaker 1: and they have everything they have. But it's still like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you're better than the Patriots after

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Speaker 1: they made that kind of investment on that side of

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Speaker 1: the football in particular, and only being one game less

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00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: than the Patriots last year nine and eight verses ten

635
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 1: and seven, and they beat the Patriots once, oh twice, right,

636
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,960
Speaker 1: they swept him last year. But we're still saying, well,

637
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's very interesting. And obviously the Texans

638
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: play the Dolphins at Miami this year. Johnny one more,

639
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 1: who's better Desmond Ritter, Bailey ZAPPI our guy Bailey or

640
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: Desmond Ritter? And I gotta feel like you're gonna say

641
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: Desmond because you have him maybe going as high as

642
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,879
Speaker 1: thirty seven to a team we know, well, maybe yeah,

643
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 1: I think, like any idea, I mean, I think the

644
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,800
Speaker 1: idea is now outside of the round of possibility. You know,

645
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 1: he's six four, two fifteen, he's got a cannon foreign arm.

646
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 1: He's not Malik Willispon again, who is. He's mobile, he

647
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,319
Speaker 1: was an incredible leader at Cincinnati. He is inaccurate at

648
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: times with the football because his foot. Uh. But but

649
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 1: he's mature, he's married, he has a son. He is

650
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: a film rat. He is all the intangible things you

651
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: want wrapped in one and oh, by the way, if

652
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: things break down into pocket, he can go. And I'm

653
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: not opposed to that. I'm really I'm not opposed to

654
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: that at all. And you know, what was the buzzword

655
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 1: the other day after the Sean trade was clarity. Well,

656
00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: last year going into training camp, the buzzword was competition.

657
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: So if you bring in some competition and then you

658
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:17,880
Speaker 1: figure it out from there, and if and if Davis

659
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,760
Speaker 1: Bills desn't, Ridder aren't aren't the guys, well you'll probably

660
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,920
Speaker 1: be picking picking pretty high in the twenty twenty three

661
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: draft and then you can go get c. J. Stroud

662
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: or Bryce Young, Philaderkovic Will Rogers are gone through that

663
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: list to guys already many many times, so you can

664
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Speaker 1: do that. But at number thirty seven, I wouldn't be

665
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:39,240
Speaker 1: opposed to having Desmond Ridder, which makes me think probably

666
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,879
Speaker 1: not gonna, probably not gonna get there. We talked about

667
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,399
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh earlier need a quarterback at twenty. Milik Wills doesn't

668
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 1: getting twenty to promise you that Desmond Ridder might, and

669
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh might say, you know what, we're gonna take maybe

670
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: a more polished, less gun slinger mentality Desmond Ridder than

671
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: Malik Willis. And I will tell you right now, if

672
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 1: they drafted Desmond Ritter, he would be QB one by

673
00:39:05,239 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: the time of week one, over Mitchell, Trubisky and Mason Interesting. Well,

674
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,719
Speaker 1: this is gonna be fun to follow. Bailey's happy. By

675
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: the way, Western Kentucky sixty nine percent completion rate, sixty

676
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: two only sixty two touchdown passes. Yeah, last year three

677
00:39:22,120 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 1: sixty two at eleven picks. Yeah, not bad. I know

678
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:27,839
Speaker 1: it's Western Kentucky, but come on, this is pretty good.

679
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 1: I'll give you, you know, fifteen too many for inflation purposes.

680
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 1: It's still a ton of touchdown passes, all right. Next up,

681
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: McClaine made fun of me for my USFL stuff with

682
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 1: rule changes that they are implementing in this pro game

683
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: and what could possibly go to the NFL. I'll tell

684
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 1: you what's going to go to the NFL, and you

685
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,840
Speaker 1: tell me what the NFL will adopt out of these

686
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: and the latest Dot overtime. It's coming up next on

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Speaker 1: your way home or wherever you might be headed. Right now,

703
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Speaker 1: Johnny USFL heard some of these rule adjustments changes implementations,

704
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 1: So defensive PI fifteen yards or if it's flagrant, I

705
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 1: don't have the wording in front of me. I would

706
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 1: take it that if it's like the NBA equivalent or

707
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 1: the NFL equivalent of the NBA's clear path to the

708
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 1: basket kind of thing. If you just take somebody down,

709
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,719
Speaker 1: obviously that'll be a spot foul. Otherwise, if it's just

710
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: a DPI, even though it's way to have field fifteen

711
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:29,320
Speaker 1: yard penalty, thoughts on that one. I like the egregious

712
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: part of it because that's always something in in college

713
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:37,879
Speaker 1: football that in high school. Shoot, I taught it. Look

714
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,120
Speaker 1: this dude beat you on a double move. You grab him,

715
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 1: just grab, just tackle. I don't care. I don't care

716
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: if the whole other side booze and coach screams, I

717
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: don't care, you get beat you grab him. Well you

718
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,840
Speaker 1: do that now and ends up being a spot foul.

719
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: That's well, that's a big one. So I hope it

720
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 1: doesn't become one of those kind of crutches that they

721
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: rely on. But we've seen that before. You know, if

722
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,879
Speaker 1: we got if a referee's gonna make a judgment call

723
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: like he's gonna air on the side of probably not egregious,

724
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: and so that's gonna be kind of a sticking point.

725
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: But you know what if for a league that you

726
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,280
Speaker 1: know it'll have some mojo just because it's a spring

727
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 1: league and people want to see football steamingly all the time,

728
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:22,319
Speaker 1: for a league that's gonna have some run early, it

729
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:25,879
Speaker 1: probably dare I say this, it probably wouldn't be a

730
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:29,439
Speaker 1: horrible thing if there is some sort of controversial call

731
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 1: based on an egregious pass interference, it kind of gets

732
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 1: everybody talking about the league four five weeks in. I mean,

733
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: I hate to say it that way, but you know

734
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: what they say, the only bad press is no press.

735
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,359
Speaker 1: So from that perspective, maybe it gets Hey, man, I'm

736
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,000
Speaker 1: gonna watch this and see how this kind of works

737
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: out the next week whatever the case might be. I

738
00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I'll watch it because it's football,

739
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: but there might be a lot of people that start

740
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:51,719
Speaker 1: talking about it because there may not be much going on. You'

741
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:53,919
Speaker 1: gonna talk about Kentucky Derby or you're gonna talk about

742
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:56,400
Speaker 1: some controversial call that happened in the USFL because of

743
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 1: this rule, and then oh man, the NFL put that

744
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 1: rule in all that kind of stuff. So I think

745
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: you could be kind of interesting with the egregious part

746
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 1: and how that gets how that gets put out there.

747
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 1: But I like it. I like that. I don't mind

748
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 1: the overtime. I'll tell you. I go. We were I

749
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: can't remember where we were flying to, but it was

750
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 1: before we took off last year on a Saturday in

751
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 1: Penn State in Illinois, playing overtime in Happy Valley and

752
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 1: they can't score from the two yard line. I mean,

753
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 1: it's back and forth and back and forth and back

754
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:34,280
Speaker 1: and forth. So I would here's my thing with overtime.

755
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:38,600
Speaker 1: If you gave, if you gave both teams of possession,

756
00:43:39,360 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 1: then it needs to end after that, like score touchdown,

757
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: Gopher two, they score touchdown, go whatever. It's got to

758
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:49,719
Speaker 1: end after one possession each way, because watching that Penn

759
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: State Illinois game is like, oh my time, then it's

760
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:56,880
Speaker 1: a tie. I don't know. You kiss your sister, I

761
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know, or at that point maybe

762
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:01,399
Speaker 1: you go sudden death. I don't know, maybe maybe bring

763
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,440
Speaker 1: that in. What about all right? So the USFL one

764
00:44:03,840 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 1: is you get three shots from the two each and

765
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:10,919
Speaker 1: the best of is gonna win it? Do they keep

766
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:14,759
Speaker 1: going until they have a winner? Death after that? So

767
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:18,799
Speaker 1: if they say they each score you know, touchdowns on

768
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:21,800
Speaker 1: three straight plays, then I think it becomes a sudden

769
00:44:21,800 --> 00:44:24,879
Speaker 1: death like the Penn State Illinois game where they go

770
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,560
Speaker 1: where they go back and forth, and that's just if

771
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:31,879
Speaker 1: the offenses are bad like Penn State Illinois where last year,

772
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:35,600
Speaker 1: then that can just drag. In the NFL, it's it's

773
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:37,840
Speaker 1: gonna go all right? What about this? I don't like

774
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 1: this at all. You can go for three after a touchdown,

775
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 1: so you can go for one with a kick, two

776
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 1: with the two point conversion traditionally, or you can go

777
00:44:45,719 --> 00:44:48,399
Speaker 1: for three if you put it in the end zone

778
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: from the ten yard line after a touchdown. I don't

779
00:44:51,040 --> 00:44:52,799
Speaker 1: like that at all. So you get nine points, you're

780
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:56,040
Speaker 1: down nine late in the game, or let's say you're

781
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: up nine, you're facing a hot quarterback, you happen to

782
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 1: allow a touchdown. That kind of stinks. I mean, it's

783
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 1: good for them, it's good for the offense that you have.

784
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes at the ten yard line with a chance

785
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 1: to just sling it into the end zone. All of

786
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: a sudden it's a tie game, or they decided to

787
00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: go for three instead of two and win on that. Nah,

788
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:15,759
Speaker 1: I don't like the three. I like the one of

789
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: the two. It's cheap. One of the two is yeah.

790
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: The three just seems to me like you spent fifty

791
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 1: eight minutes playing like, playing horribly, and then you could

792
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:29,359
Speaker 1: get back in it with you're down nine, you get

793
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:31,640
Speaker 1: back in it with a drive and a ten point

794
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 1: touchdown or ten yard touch No, no, no, no no, I don't.

795
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 1: I mean, now it's not easy to score them ten

796
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:40,399
Speaker 1: yard line because it gets condensed and it's it's tough,

797
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: but still, I don't you get a hot quarterback and

798
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 1: he's ripping them in there. I mean, think about that.

799
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: When we played the Colts in twenty eighteen, we were up,

800
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:53,040
Speaker 1: we were up eight, so they still had to score

801
00:45:53,160 --> 00:45:55,799
Speaker 1: and score two. Can you imagine if they decided at

802
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 1: that point everybody's gas and Andrew Luck decides to take

803
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 1: one rip from the ten to win it. I mean,

804
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: that would have just been a horrible ones or two's

805
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:09,240
Speaker 1: I'm fine with no threes. The threes get kicked through ones,

806
00:46:09,280 --> 00:46:12,239
Speaker 1: and twos are either kicked or scored. I'm good either way. Now.

807
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 1: I think it's good for the USFL, though Spring Football

808
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:17,400
Speaker 1: TV make it entertaining as possible. That's great, not for

809
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: the NFL. And another one not for the NFL. I

810
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 1: know we gotta go here, but fourth and twelve, Uh,

811
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 1: it deep in your own head instead of the on

812
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:28,280
Speaker 1: side kick, all right, So there's no onside kick safety whatever,

813
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: low percentage. You get a fourth and twelve opportunity if

814
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:34,759
Speaker 1: you want. If you're down, I don't like that at all. No,

815
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:38,400
Speaker 1: thank you. I do like it. I like it. If

816
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 1: I'm down, I don't want it. I don't want it

817
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:42,239
Speaker 1: in the league. I don't want to. I think fourth

818
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: and twelves too easy, though. I think it's fourth and

819
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 1: fifteen ye, I mean, just ampered up fourth and fifteen

820
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:51,759
Speaker 1: then it okay, But I like that. I have mark.

821
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 1: I have never liked the onside kick, all right, I

822
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 1: just have never. I've never liked it. Um. I was

823
00:46:57,760 --> 00:46:59,839
Speaker 1: the hands guy on our on side kick way way

824
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 1: way back in the day, and I would always have

825
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 1: to drop on side kicks. I'm like, man, this kid's

826
00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 1: gonna get killed. It's just it's not I don't I've

827
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: never liked the onside kick at all, don't like it,

828
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:11,239
Speaker 1: so I don't mind this at all. But move it

829
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: back fourth to fifteen is much better. All right. There's

830
00:47:13,800 --> 00:47:15,880
Speaker 1: always stuff to react to. We'll react to more of

831
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: it tomorrow. National Football League free agency season continues. Texans

832
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,759
Speaker 1: still have plenty of cap room and money or that's

833
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:26,360
Speaker 1: the same thing, really, and spots on the roster. I

834
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:28,759
Speaker 1: was gonna say, in order to make some moves here,

835
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 1: and obviously the draft is a little over a month away.

836
00:47:31,680 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 1: Plenty to talk about. On tomorrow's program six o'clock Texans

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio six ten. Thank you Johnny, Thank you Chris

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