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Speaker 1: even though I knew Maverick wasn't going down. But there

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Speaker 1: I wish it had been longer. That was a pretty

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Speaker 1: What do you have going on at Sports Radio six s?

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Speaker 1: Are you on the afternoon show tomorrow as they hit

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Speaker 1: I like to talk to them, post from pictures with them.

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Speaker 1: They treat me like royalty, as does the station. And

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Speaker 1: then I'll be back on Tuesday at We're doing a

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Speaker 1: remote at Cormiers in Spring where we did one on

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Speaker 1: Friday for the one thousandth episode of In the Loop.

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Speaker 1: As I tweeted earlier, I do not know how John

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Speaker 1: with Henry Locker, but somehow they have been able to

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Speaker 1: survive him. And you'll see me over at the mini

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Speaker 1: help them celebrate that one thousand episode. All right, looking

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Speaker 1: forward to all of it. Thank you General for being

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Speaker 1: on tonight. Mark and John, thank you very much. This

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Speaker 1: time next week, Mark, we can talk about your appearance

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Speaker 1: as one of the speakers on the toast of the General.

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Speaker 1: I look forward to it. Thank you. Oh yeah, I'm ready,

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Speaker 1: Thank you General. All right? Coming up, Who's Better? We

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Speaker 1: do it on Thursdays most of the time, and I've

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Speaker 1: got Texans offensive stuff, AFC South stuff, practice stuff. Maybe

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Speaker 1: even we'll get back into the movie thing. Who Knows

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Speaker 1: Mark vandamer John Harris with you. Great to have you.

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Speaker 1: Long for the ride tonight, Johnny, You're ready for a

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Speaker 1: Who's better? Let's do this? Let's go all right now?

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Speaker 1: This is a projection. What's better the two thousand and

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Speaker 1: seven Texans offense? I'll say, why I bring this up again?

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Speaker 1: Or the twenty twenty two offense. What's gonna be better?

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Speaker 1: And to reset things, I bring up two thousand and

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Speaker 1: seven because that was the kind of jump that this

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Speaker 1: offense needs. They went from twenty eighth to two thousand

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Speaker 1: and six to fourteenth in two thousand and seven and

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Speaker 1: twelfth in points, they ran for fifteen hundred eighty six

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Speaker 1: yards three point april pop. That's not a ton there

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Speaker 1: as a team and passing, Get this, Johnny. They threw

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Speaker 1: twenty four touchdown passes between Shop and Rosenfels and twenty

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Speaker 1: one picks, yet still went eight and eight and jumped

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Speaker 1: all those spots in total offense, finishing fourteenth. What do

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Speaker 1: you think, oh, seven or twenty twenty two? What's better

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two? Now here's something interesting to think about.

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Speaker 1: How many starts did Matt's Shop have in the NFL

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Speaker 1: going into two thousand and seven two? How many Davis

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Speaker 1: Mills have more than Eleves had more than two? Yeahs,

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Speaker 1: So so Mills has a starting experience leg up on

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Speaker 1: Matt's Shop. There was a lot, I mean, there was

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Speaker 1: a lot of excitement about matchup coming here and you

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Speaker 1: only had two starts in the NFL. Receiver wise, you

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Speaker 1: had andre I mean two thousand and seven, okay, Kobe

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Speaker 1: Jones came along as a rookie. You know, Kevin Walters

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Speaker 1: started to kind of emerge with the receiver group. I

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Speaker 1: would think this year with the Texans, nobody's gonna top

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Speaker 1: Andre Johnson. But you know, Brandy Cooks doesn't take a

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Speaker 1: back seat to t anybody. Two thousand and seven offensive line,

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Speaker 1: I gotta give it to twenty twenty two. I you know,

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Speaker 1: look you got Chester, you got from up there. But

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Speaker 1: I thought Flannagan was just a disaster at center. You

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Speaker 1: had Eric Winston on one side. But I think for

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Speaker 1: the most part, the offensive line has more potential. But

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Speaker 1: I think we're two thousand and seven had a little

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Speaker 1: bit of an edge. It was a tight end position,

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Speaker 1: and the general alluded to it, and I actually wrote

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Speaker 1: my position breakdown for the tight ends and then I've

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Speaker 1: got to submit it forgot to submit it for the show,

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Speaker 1: but it will be out hopefully on He's Texas dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Looking at the tight ends position, that to me is

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Speaker 1: the difference if you put it on Annuals on this offense,

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Speaker 1: look out. One of these tight ends has to emerge

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Speaker 1: for this twenty twenty two offense to go to a

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Speaker 1: different level. And I'm not saying that guy's gotta be

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Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey. I'm not saying that guy's gotta be George Kittle.

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Speaker 1: But you know what I would take Owen Daniels. I

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Speaker 1: would take Brevin Jordan turning into a reliable Owen Daniels

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Speaker 1: like threat somewhere on the field. And he's got the

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Speaker 1: ability to do it. He absolutely has the ability to

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Speaker 1: do it. But I think a tight end, another past

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Speaker 1: receiving weapon has gott gotta emerge, There's no doubt. And

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Speaker 1: one of these running backs Laric's Rex Martin Mack, Damian Pierce, Lear's,

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Speaker 1: Jed Anderson, Darry Ogumbally, any of these, one of these

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Speaker 1: running backs has got to step up and maybe not

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Speaker 1: be the equivalent of Ron Day down to stretch in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, but it's got to be something

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Speaker 1: where you go okay when you hand the ball to

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Speaker 1: that guy, but defense respects it and goes, okay, this

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Speaker 1: is gonna be trouble the way when we face I'm

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Speaker 1: not putting our running ba the classes to Henry and Taylor,

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Speaker 1: but whenever the balls turned around, when whenever Tanny Hill

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan turned around a handed to Taylor or Henry,

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Speaker 1: I hold my breath every time, every time, because that

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Speaker 1: thing's a house call. If you're not taking care of

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Speaker 1: your gap responsibility. That's a house call. And we've seen

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Speaker 1: him from those two guys over the last time and

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Speaker 1: every years. The Texans have to have a guy like that.

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Speaker 1: They have to have a guy. When that guy touches

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Speaker 1: the ball, and I don't care if it's Metchi or

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Speaker 1: Brandon or a Pierce or Jenny Anderson or whomever, somebody,

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Speaker 1: when that guy touches the ball, that defense is in

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Speaker 1: for a long day. Miss a gap, He'll embarrass you.

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Speaker 1: That's the kind of player that Texas got to have

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Speaker 1: develop in two twenty two to guarantee what I'm saying

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Speaker 1: that twenty twenty two is better than the two thousand

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Speaker 1: and seven offense. That's got to happen. But if I'm

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Speaker 1: a betting man, which I'm not, but if I got

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Speaker 1: a few diet cokes in my pocket, I would put

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Speaker 1: it on the twenty twenty two offense. And I also

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Speaker 1: would trust Pep Hamilton too. I think Gary Kubiak did

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Speaker 1: yeah wonders with that offense, but I'm gonna roll with

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Speaker 1: Pep Hamilton helping this group get the most out of

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Speaker 1: what's there. That team also got a bunch of turnovers,

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Speaker 1: by the way, helping them finish eight and eight for

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Speaker 1: the first time in franchise history, a five hundred records.

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Speaker 1: All Right, next, who's better? It's what's better? What's a

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Speaker 1: better chance? Well, actually, I'm gonna go who's better here

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Speaker 1: because this is much more palatable, And I'm gonna go national. Okay,

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Speaker 1: who's got a better chance of finding a new home? First?

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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield or Jimmy Garoppolo a better chance of finding

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Speaker 1: a new home? First Mayfield or Garoppolo. Go Baker, because

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Speaker 1: I think Jimmy's injury is it's the X factor in

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Speaker 1: all this. Look, I mean, how how how Baker responds

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Speaker 1: to everything? As an X factor too, because you know,

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Speaker 1: Baker can be a little different. He can be dangerous

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Speaker 1: one day, he can kind of be in his feelings

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Speaker 1: the next. I mean, it's you know, you Stiver know it, Baker.

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Speaker 1: You'd like to see him be a little bit more

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Speaker 1: flat in some sense. I love the fiery plays with

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Speaker 1: but I just worry about what I'm getting on a

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Speaker 1: consistent day to day basis with him. I think with Garoppolo,

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Speaker 1: I get that, I get kind of flatline. I get

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Speaker 1: excitement when it's needed before the most party stays pretty

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Speaker 1: level headed, but I just don't know how that shoulder

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Speaker 1: is gonna respond, and that I think is a big factor.

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Speaker 1: He will not have gone through a team Zoe, neither

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Speaker 1: one of him have gone through a team's OTAs. But

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Speaker 1: how much with that shoulder surgery are you're gonna let

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Speaker 1: Garoppolo throwing camp? How much are you gonna let him

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Speaker 1: get comfortable with his receivers? At least with Baker, if

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Speaker 1: you get him before your camp, you can I don't

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Speaker 1: say wear him out, but you can get him up

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Speaker 1: the speed pretty quickly. You don't have to have him

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Speaker 1: on a pitch count. And if you find, you know,

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Speaker 1: a decent fit for him, I think Baker ends up

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Speaker 1: being that guy. I just think the injury to Garoppolo

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Speaker 1: is a little bit we're just sort of poo pooing it, like, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's a shoulder injury, he's fine. I don't know about

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Speaker 1: that with Jimmy Garoppolo. So we saw what happened with Baker.

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Speaker 1: Mayfield had a shoulder injury on his non throwing shoulder,

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Speaker 1: So Jimmy got to come back from that. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think that's that worries me more than a lot

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Speaker 1: of things. Now you go back in two thousand and six,

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Speaker 1: and Drew Brees has got this you know, laboram thing,

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Speaker 1: and the Dolphins are like, na, no, we don't trust it.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go with Dante called Pepper. I don't know

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Speaker 1: that there's as big a talent gap between Baker Mayfield

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Speaker 1: and Drew Brees as there is between Dote called Pepper

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Speaker 1: Drew Brees. I don't know. Maybe back in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and six, we didn't see him see it as a gap.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but it's certainly turned into one. I

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Speaker 1: don't think there's this big a gap that this injury

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Speaker 1: would would Oh yeah, I'm gonna wait for Jimmy Garoppolo. No,

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Speaker 1: I don't get that feeling. I would go ahead and

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Speaker 1: fire on Baker, surround him with some good vets, and

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Speaker 1: I think give him a good offensive plan. Doesn't have

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Speaker 1: to carry anything, he doesn't have to carry the team,

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Speaker 1: just surround him and just let him ball and then

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Speaker 1: hopefully he matures into the quarterback. People can think any

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Speaker 1: stays healthy. I think last year the biggest problem was

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Speaker 1: Baker just didn't stay healthy. And because he wasn't healthy

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Speaker 1: and the running back everything, yeah that too. And I

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Speaker 1: mean Look, he had to the better running backs on

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Speaker 1: his team with Cream Hunt Nick Chubb, so he just

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Speaker 1: needed to rely on them a little bit more. They

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Speaker 1: needed to rely on him a little bit more, and

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Speaker 1: Baker just went sideways. Yeah well yeah, I mean Hunt

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Speaker 1: was hurt for a little bit, Chubb was hurt for

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Speaker 1: a little bit. But I think Baker's got to be

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Speaker 1: in a position where he's not carrying a team right away.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not totally sure there's there's a spot like that,

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Speaker 1: but I would trust him a little bit more. Because

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Speaker 1: Garoppolos got that shoulder injury, it's gonna be tough to

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Speaker 1: come back from. All Right, This is a reset question

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Speaker 1: and who's better because I asked you this about a

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Speaker 1: month or two ago, but we're gonna do it again

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Speaker 1: because things change over time and maybe opinions change. You

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Speaker 1: never know who's better, the Cults or the Titans. The

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Speaker 1: Cults with Matt Ryan handing off to Jonathan Taylor, Darius

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Speaker 1: Leonard forcing fumbles, Mayhem, Kenny Moore your favorite player the universe,

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Speaker 1: even though he's a cult I'm just kidding. I know

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Speaker 1: he's not your favorite player of the universe, but you

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Speaker 1: do like Kenny Moore a little bit. Or the Tennessee

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Speaker 1: Titans with Derek Henry back healthy and them doing damage

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Speaker 1: on the ground, defense with Jeffrey Simmons upfront wreaking havoc.

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Speaker 1: Who's better culture Titans Colts. I feel pretty confident in

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Speaker 1: that about the Colts being better. Now the Darius Leonard

651
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:33,920
Speaker 1: thing becomes very, very interesting. He's gonna have back surgery.

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Speaker 1: It sounds like he's gonna be back for training camp.

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Speaker 1: But look, we've seen those back situations, and if it's

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Speaker 1: the type of surgery that I think he's having, I've

655
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Speaker 1: had that surgery, and now I mean I had that

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Speaker 1: surgery at the age of forty eight. He's having it

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Speaker 1: at twenty eight. So there's a little difference there. But

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Speaker 1: the dude plays a position in which having a back

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Speaker 1: injury is not the greatest thing in the world, especially

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Speaker 1: if it keeps him from full flexibility and all that

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Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Now, Gronk had those surgeries, but it

662
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Speaker 1: took its toll after a while, so we'll see if

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Speaker 1: it takes a toll on Darius Leonard. They still have

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Speaker 1: got players, there's no doubt, But there are certain players

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Speaker 1: when you take can pluck that player off that team.

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Speaker 1: There's just something, something changes and I'm not gonna say that, Oh,

667
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Speaker 1: the Colts defense is gonna go from I don't know,

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Speaker 1: top five in the league without Darius Leonard to you know,

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Speaker 1: bottom five. But there's something that's missing when Leonard is

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Speaker 1: not on the field. Because he's so good in coverage,

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Speaker 1: he's so good punching the ball out and creating turnovers

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Speaker 1: and takeaways. That's gone. That's when he's not in the

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Speaker 1: on the field, you don't fear that. And those the

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Speaker 1: Colts play with a different spirit that that makes sense

675
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Speaker 1: when he's on the field. When he's not on the field,

676
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 1: there's a you know, kind of workman like attitude. They

677
00:37:55,400 --> 00:37:57,840
Speaker 1: go through their big you know, through their business and

678
00:37:57,920 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: do their business. But it's just different. So am I

679
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Speaker 1: hoping that Darius Leonard isn't there? Yes, I hope you

680
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Speaker 1: miss is week one, But overall, if Leonard is back healthy,

681
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Speaker 1: I do think Matt Ryan's got his fastball for at

682
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Speaker 1: least a year and that's gonna be enough. Because I

683
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: think the Titans and upset this a few times. I

684
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Speaker 1: think the Titans take a step back. This is the

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Speaker 1: I think the Titans are nine and eight. I think

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Speaker 1: this is a year they've got. They gotta play at

687
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Speaker 1: first place schedule in the FC, which is supremely difficult

688
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:30,320
Speaker 1: because that means Buffalo and that also means the Cincinnati

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Speaker 1: Bengals on top of playing the entire AFC West. So

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Speaker 1: that just two games, but it's a big two games

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Speaker 1: to have to play those two teams Cincinnati and Buffalo

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Speaker 1: that the Texans don't have to play. That the Colts

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Speaker 1: don't have to play. Now, the Colts are got to

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Speaker 1: play the Patriots and the brass Steelers. That right, Steelers,

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Speaker 1: I think it could be the Steelers. So there's a

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Speaker 1: little difference there for the Colts as opposed to face

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Speaker 1: in Josh Allen and Joe Burrow. You know, the Titans

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Speaker 1: get to face those two guys. The Colts don't, and

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Speaker 1: I think that helps them. So I'm gonna give the

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Speaker 1: Colts the advantage on a lot of different fronts. I

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Speaker 1: some stuff from practice. It's all coming up next year

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Speaker 1: on Texans All Access. Texans All Access continues. In a moment,

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Speaker 1: I was gonna throw this one at you about what's

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Speaker 1: better liv golf? Yeah, live golf. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: they want to be addressed or the USFL, because it's

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Speaker 1: competing with a really known established entity. Both are and

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Speaker 1: by the way, I guess the USFL. I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: what the ratings were. The last couple of weeks. I've

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Speaker 1: stopped checking. I haven't really watched much of it. I've

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Speaker 1: watched a few possessions here and there. It's not grabbing me.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if the Birmingham thing is working. I

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Speaker 1: think obviously this would have worked well during COVID because

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Speaker 1: there were no other sports and people were used to

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Speaker 1: watching things, at least eventually without fans in the stands.

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Speaker 1: But right now it's just like, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: the XFL be any better. I know there's a Houston

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Speaker 1: team in the USFL, but it's not really a Houston

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Speaker 1: team since they're playing in Birmingham, Alabama. Liv golf. It's

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Speaker 1: not on regular TV, so you can watch it on

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Speaker 1: YouTube or on their website. But you know who finds

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Speaker 1: that cumbersome golf fans. They don't like this. They like

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Speaker 1: things on the Golf channel or on ESPN, because golf

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00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 1: fans tend to be a little older. Like, how do

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Speaker 1: I find YouTube on my flat screen? I can do

741
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:49,839
Speaker 1: this very easily, but a lot of golf fans might

742
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Speaker 1: have some difficulty doing this. It'll be interesting. It's the future.

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Speaker 1: I get it streaming, so stream on your flat screen

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00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:59,520
Speaker 1: that way, but it'll be a challenge for them to

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Speaker 1: grab a foothold in the American mind space. Sports wise,

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Speaker 1: you bring up a great point, that is, how do

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Speaker 1: I how do I find it? And how do I

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Speaker 1: find it? On my TV? I can find on my phone.

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Speaker 1: I can find out a computer, YouTube dot com, the

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Speaker 1: way you go. But you're you're right. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think about my parents. Could I my parents? You know,

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Speaker 1: my dad who likes to watch golf. I was a

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Speaker 1: great golfer himself. Hey, how do I watch this? All right,

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Speaker 1: We'll go to YouTube on your TV? How do I

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00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: do that? Uh? Boy, that's what he gets. That's a

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Speaker 1: it's a great it's a great point. But it also

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00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:41,600
Speaker 1: it keeps you I guess. I mean, maybe maybe it'll happen.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they want to put the product out there for

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Speaker 1: free and let people see it, get some people hooked

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Speaker 1: on it, and then find some way of of putting

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Speaker 1: it out there. I don't know, and what becomes kind

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Speaker 1: of interesting market And this is kind of a on

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Speaker 1: this point and kind of not. But I just saw

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Speaker 1: the LSU just decided to have their own streaming subscription service,

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Speaker 1: LSU Gold they call it. Yeah, And I think they're

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Speaker 1: charging eight ninety nine a month. And I'm sure they're

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Speaker 1: gonna be LSU fans. They are like, yeah, heck yes,

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Speaker 1: sign me up. Now they're gonna be a out. They're like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I don't know how to sign

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Speaker 1: up for that. But if you start getting some you know,

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Speaker 1: some fans that are excited about it, they'll sign up

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Speaker 1: for it. Maybe that's what they're gonna do. Maybe it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be a subscription based sort of thing where they

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Speaker 1: charge people to watch the tournaments after the YouTube thing.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I have no idea. But the USFL

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Speaker 1: they gotta score, man. They can't score scores like seventeen

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Speaker 1: ten they I'm telling you, I know it sucks to

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Speaker 1: say this in some sense, being a defensive guy, they

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Speaker 1: gotta put up scores like fifty to forty one, like

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Speaker 1: to get people's attention. Man, did you see the end

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00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 1: of that game? Three touchdowns in the last two minute.

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Speaker 1: You gotta score. You have to score to get people's attention,

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Speaker 1: and that league is not doing it. Excellent point, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: excellent point. Right there. I was going to ask you

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Speaker 1: what's better at practice, special teams or throwing on air.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to watch the guys on a yeah special

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Speaker 1: teams though, you know how I feel about that. I

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Speaker 1: know how you feel about that. I'm ahead for the restroom.

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Speaker 1: I think when you put the pads on, the special

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Speaker 1: teams part, it gets a little bit more exciting when

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Speaker 1: you put the pads on. But I love to watch

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Speaker 1: guys throwing catch. I mean, I just where the quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: put the ball, how the receivers, you know what techniques

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Speaker 1: they're using to catch the ball? Are using the right techniques?

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Speaker 1: Are they body catchers? Those kind of things. So I

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Speaker 1: always love guys throwing on air. That never has bothered me.

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00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 1: I love watching that sort of stuff. And of course

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Speaker 1: you see receivers at that point at the quarterbacks not

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Speaker 1: on point doing some crazy things when handy catches and

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Speaker 1: things like that. You know, I can see had special teams.

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Speaker 1: But you know me, I always wanted to watch the trenches,

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Speaker 1: So I pass on that on air stuff to go

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Speaker 1: watch the trenches down on the other side. All right, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for today. I got plenty more.

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Speaker 1: But we have plenty more shows between now and the

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Speaker 1: end of time to go over this stuff. And we

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Speaker 1: will have Nicossario on either tomorrow or Monday. We'll let

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Speaker 1: you know soon enough and it's gonna be fun Tomorrow

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