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Speaker 1: Vandomer here in the Hunday Texans Radio Studio, and busy

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Speaker 1: for US players are still at although I see a

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Speaker 1: They're not around much this time of year. They'll probably

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Speaker 1: This is the one time of year they get to

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Speaker 1: although I doubt he sleeps much anyway, he's a high

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Speaker 1: This is an annual tradition, the Everything but the Texans

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Speaker 1: Show by Bill O'Brien. Now, I know how many of

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Speaker 1: you want to hear about some of the topics, especially

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Speaker 1: we're not going to get into that today. We did

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Speaker 1: record this a while ago. Just full disclosure here. He's

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Speaker 1: not live in studio tonight. I don't know what he's

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Speaker 1: or maybe he's on a space mission with Richard Branson.

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Speaker 1: I have no idea what Bill O'Brien's doing. Right now.

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Speaker 1: But he has opinions on a lot of things, and

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Speaker 1: sometimes we ask him about stuff during his regular weekly

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Speaker 1: show that's unrelated to Texans games or maybe even the

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Speaker 1: game of football. So I decided, Hey, let's do an

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Speaker 1: in the offseason, and you're gonna hear that stuff tonight

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Speaker 1: former Alabama signal caller. It's interesting with he and Deshaun

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Speaker 1: hear what a J. McCarron has to say. That's coming

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Speaker 1: also later on in the show, we've been doing our

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Speaker 1: top one hundred countdown one hundred days until at the

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Speaker 1: start of the season, where at what sixty three or

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Speaker 1: share some stuff about that with you because it's interesting.

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Speaker 1: I find it interesting, and I think you will too.

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Speaker 1: I will make it interesting for you. That's a virtual guarantee,

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Speaker 1: But I'll do my very best to make that interesting

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Speaker 1: asking the coach about how he spends his break between

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Speaker 1: h you know, hey, you know so and so needs

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Speaker 1: to meet with you. So and so needs to meet

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Speaker 1: with you, and and you have to budget your time.

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Speaker 1: You've got to organize your time in a way that

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Speaker 1: you can get your task done before the end of

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Speaker 1: the day. And a lot of times you don't get

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Speaker 1: everything done and you go to bed thinking, man, I

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Speaker 1: didn't get that done. I got to get that done tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: And you just keep budgeting your time and organizing your time.

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Speaker 1: The number one key Vandy that I've learned in this

435
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Speaker 1: whole thing is the people. The people that you have

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Speaker 1: in your you know, all those different capacities you know obviously, players,

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Speaker 1: assistant coaches, and all those those other department and so

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Speaker 1: sub programs that I that I mentioned, if you have

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Speaker 1: great people, which we we do here. We we have

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Speaker 1: great people. I mean, all the things that we've accomplished

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Speaker 1: this spring, we we've we've done a lot this spring

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Speaker 1: we we've really uh moved the needle on this team. Now.

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Speaker 1: You know, the proof will be in the pudding in

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Speaker 1: the fall and things like that, and you know, we've

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Speaker 1: got to play well and all that and coach well.

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Speaker 1: But but I think it's really about making sure you

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Speaker 1: have the right people doing the right things. And I

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Speaker 1: think if you have that, you have trust, and you

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Speaker 1: have loyalty, and you have um, you know, a lot

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Speaker 1: of good things going on. That that's a that's a big,

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Speaker 1: big key. All right, you're ready for some either worse.

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Speaker 1: These are These are Bill O'Brien's specific either words. It's

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Speaker 1: very simple. You pick one or the other. Okay, ready,

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Speaker 1: see he has he's known me for thirty years. These

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Speaker 1: are easy, all right, you're right, yeah, yeah, okay, either

456
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Speaker 1: Larry Bird or Jim Rice. You got to pick either. Larry.

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Speaker 1: I'm not picking that because here's why I'm not picking. No.

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Speaker 1: I know you stated the rules of the game, but

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean I'm not I'm not picking because

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Speaker 1: here's why. When I was that's a that's a brutal question.

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Speaker 1: Because when I was in Boston, you know, when you

462
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Speaker 1: played hoop, you were fighting over who wore number thirty three, right,

463
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Speaker 1: and you were. I mean those games were unbelievable. Brent

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Speaker 1: Musburger Lakers, Celtics, bumpa bo. I mean it was That's

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Speaker 1: what you grew up with. And then you grew up

466
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Speaker 1: with Johnny Most and your dad would turn the TV

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Speaker 1: down so you could hear Johnny Most. I mean you

468
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Speaker 1: grew up with that. And then when you go to

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Speaker 1: Jim Rice, if you played baseball, you imitated Jim Rice's stance,

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Speaker 1: you know, understance. You know, I know this is on

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Speaker 1: the radio. I don't know why I'm doing the stance

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Speaker 1: right now because no one will see it. And you

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Speaker 1: you fought over who would wear number fourteen and so

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Speaker 1: and and Jim Rice lived in my hometown and so

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Speaker 1: he played golf at the country club in my hometown

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Speaker 1: and all that, and he he was a great guy.

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Speaker 1: You know, I didn't know him, but I'm just saying

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Speaker 1: just right when you hear about him and things like that,

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Speaker 1: so there's no way I can pick him. Okay, sorry,

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Speaker 1: all right, that's good though, right answer, I'll give you

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Speaker 1: an easier one. Kawhi Leonard or Jannis Antenna Coompo. I

482
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Speaker 1: mean Kawa Leonard. I mean Kawhi Leonard's incredible. I mean,

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Speaker 1: look at what he did. He put a team on

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Speaker 1: his back. I mean, I'm gonna be really honest with you,

485
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Speaker 1: I didn't really know a lot about Kwai Leonard until

486
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Speaker 1: this playoffs. Playoffs run here. Yeah, I mean Michael and

487
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Speaker 1: I are at home and these games are on kind

488
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Speaker 1: of late later, yeah, and so we can I get

489
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Speaker 1: home and we were watching these games last night. The

490
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Speaker 1: corner jumper that he hit, the beat the Sixers. I mean,

491
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Speaker 1: this guy is unbelievable. Yeah. The size, the strength, and

492
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Speaker 1: the demeanor with which he plays with which what I love.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the guy is a consistent, not a rah

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Speaker 1: ra guy. Just really, I mean just really love watching

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Speaker 1: that guy play. You need to make it to the airport.

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Speaker 1: You're running late. Who do you want driving me? Or Mark? Oh? Vandy, Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's probably right, vand you. Yeah that's got yeah. Uh

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Speaker 1: look I would I owned my skills in Boston. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's very that is something I think. Actually, I probably

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Speaker 1: drove Johnny. I used to drop Johnny off at the

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Speaker 1: library and I'd head to the bar and yeah, the

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Speaker 1: oh you're grill item of choice burger or hot dog,

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Speaker 1: you know, burger, definitely, But there are certain hot dogs

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Speaker 1: that I love. But you know, the one thing when

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Speaker 1: you say that I haven't grilled in a long time,

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Speaker 1: and I gotta get back to grill. We used to

507
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Speaker 1: grill all the time, but this, you know, just haven't

508
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Speaker 1: had time to grill, and that's a bad deal. So

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Speaker 1: I but burger, okay. Most important attribute of being a leader.

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Speaker 1: And I listened because I had this written down. I

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Speaker 1: listened to when you were talking about it earlier. I

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Speaker 1: heard both of these, either being a good communicator or

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Speaker 1: being able to inspire others. Well, I think they go

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Speaker 1: hand in hand. I don't know. I think that you know,

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Speaker 1: people talk about motivate or motivated. It's not about motivating.

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Speaker 1: You know, these guys are motivated, you know the I mean,

517
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Speaker 1: if they're not motivated, they won't last long. You know

518
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Speaker 1: that you're at the highest level of football. It's really

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Speaker 1: about inspiring them in different ways, not not necessarily with

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Speaker 1: raw speeches, but inspiring them with Hey, look, this is

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Speaker 1: what Lad Harris did today to help us have a

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Speaker 1: better you know, meal or whatever. Hey, Lad, come on up,

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Speaker 1: talk to the team. Boom team belief. We believe in Lad,

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Speaker 1: You know, this is what Mike Eubank, or excuse me,

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Speaker 1: Mike Parson did to get us some new cleats and

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Speaker 1: the work he's put into new helmets. But Mike, come

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Speaker 1: on up and talk to these guys about that boom

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Speaker 1: team belief. These guys are inspired by Mike Parson and

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Speaker 1: what he's doing in equipment room and so on and

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Speaker 1: so forth. Timmy Brogg, we got to walk through two

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Speaker 1: walkthrough rooms that are going in this summer. I mean,

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Speaker 1: these things are really going to help our football team.

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Speaker 1: Tim Brogg did the whole thing. He designed it, he

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Speaker 1: communicated it. Hey, Timmy explained to us the walk through room.

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Speaker 1: Come on up, team belief. And so I think that's

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Speaker 1: that It's not always about Hey guy, you know the

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Speaker 1: Saturday night the pregame speech. That's not always inspects part

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Speaker 1: of it. Sometimes different times of the year require those

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Speaker 1: type of communications, but you know a lot of it.

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Speaker 1: You can be inspired by your belief and what is

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Speaker 1: going on around you. And I think that's a big,

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Speaker 1: big deal. That's Bill O'Brien. It's the everything but the Texans,

543
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Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien's show, But Texans questions are on the way

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Speaker 1: stuff about the Shaun Watson, the coach's ability to sort

545
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Speaker 1: of let go when Watson improvises. Let's talk about that also.

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Speaker 1: AJ mccaren coming up on the show. You're not gonna

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Speaker 1: want to miss a thing here on Texans Radio. Great

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Speaker 1: to have your listening to Texans All Access today from

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Speaker 1: the Honday Texans Radio Studio at NRG Stadium, which will

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Speaker 1: be kicking in the next couple of weeks as people

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Speaker 1: get ready. People here get ready for training camp. Players

552
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Speaker 1: arrive in a couple of weeks, maybe less than that really,

553
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Speaker 1: as they'll trickle in. Rookies have been here a lot

554
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Speaker 1: and a lot of guys have been working at getting

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Speaker 1: things done. There's a lot of remodeling going on here.

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Speaker 1: We hope to show you some of that in a

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Speaker 1: video tour. And they did a ton of stuff here

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Speaker 1: last year. I mean, you've heard all about the Sports

559
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Speaker 1: Performance Center aka weightroom and the Nutrition Center aka cafeteria,

560
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Speaker 1: but those were dramatic changes that took place with those

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Speaker 1: two sites. And there's a whole lot of other stuff

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Speaker 1: going on here, very high tech stuff, very cutting edge.

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Speaker 1: It's so cool and I think it's gonna make a

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Speaker 1: big difference. So looking forward to that All right, let's

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Speaker 1: get back to it the Everything but the Texans Show

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Speaker 1: with Bill O'Brien. But let's delve into some Texans questions.

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Speaker 1: Really more about the emotional mental side of things. We

568
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Speaker 1: heard about some of the leadership aspects of coaching. What

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Speaker 1: about the coach and his ability to sort of let

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Speaker 1: go when Deshaun Watson lets it rip, what he improvises,

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Speaker 1: when maybe he goes off the playbook a little bit

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Speaker 1: in the course of a play that might break down,

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Speaker 1: whatever the case is, Let's resume the conversation, how hard

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Speaker 1: is it to let go sometimes? Because sometimes we watched

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Speaker 1: de Sean and maybe a play breaks down, or he

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Speaker 1: starts scrambling around the play in Philly when he hit

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Speaker 1: akens for the first things like that, what is going

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Speaker 1: on in your mind? As you guys know. But if

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Speaker 1: but if I was my up on that Philly play,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, it'll be it would be the classic no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: throw it away, throw it away? And then yeah, yes,

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Speaker 1: what a play. Okay, here we go, we got something going.

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Speaker 1: He is just a very instinctive, uh you know, really

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Speaker 1: a fun guy to coach and uh, for a lot

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Speaker 1: of different reasons, just a great guy, you know, He's

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Speaker 1: just a great guy to coach. You guys been around

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Speaker 1: him now going on three years. He's just a hell

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Speaker 1: of a guy. And he makes those plays. It's like whoa,

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Speaker 1: you almost here we go, but he but he gets

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Speaker 1: he that those That's another example of inspiring the team.

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Speaker 1: You know that that we didn't win that game, but uh,

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Speaker 1: that play inspired that team. All right, I got a

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Speaker 1: couple more. All right. Would you rather have or be

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Speaker 1: able to do throw a ninety nine mile in our

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Speaker 1: fastball or have the ability to dunk uh fastball? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean the dunk you know that. I'm

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Speaker 1: I always like the kind of the Steph Curry lay

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Speaker 1: up high off the backboard, you know, and yeah, the

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Speaker 1: dunk is the I mean unless it's Michael Jordan, who

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Speaker 1: is the best, or Doctor Jay or Flare with that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Darryl Dawkins would break the backboard. Those type of dunks

602
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: are unbelievable. But to be able to rear back and

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Speaker 1: throw it. Like the other night, I went to the

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Speaker 1: Astros and uh and Nolan Ryan was there from from Afar.

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Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't you know, talk to him or anything.

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Speaker 1: I've met him once and just I remember when I

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Speaker 1: met him, I'm like, this guy could throw some heat now,

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Speaker 1: I mean, and so just to be able to rear

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Speaker 1: back and throw at ninety nine mile fastball, that'd be

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Speaker 1: pretty cool. So I bet I know this one. Would

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Speaker 1: you rather have four three speed or forty eight in vertical?

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Speaker 1: I'd rather be able to run fast, I think I'm

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Speaker 1: not I don't know the vertical. Yeah that's great, But

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Speaker 1: see that's the dunk thing. I guess, the five three

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Speaker 1: and then and the ninety nine mile per hour fastball.

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Speaker 1: You can start another career with that if you could

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Speaker 1: do that right now. Yeah, but if you can dunk

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Speaker 1: on everybody, you got an opportunity play in the NBA

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Speaker 1: in some respect. Yeah. Maybe. All right, So let me

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Speaker 1: let me ask you this because you brought upland Ryan.

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Speaker 1: The fact that you're a Boston guy and Roger Clements

622
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Speaker 1: was so great in the eighties at Fenway Park, and

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Speaker 1: you knew the Nolan Ryan connection then, and then you

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Speaker 1: meet him here and now you're in Texas and that

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00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 1: whole bridge between the two places and you being here.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that pretty cool? Oh? Yeah, I mean, especially when

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Speaker 1: Rocket came to practice a couple years ago. Remember that

628
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Speaker 1: and he was yep, oh my gosh, he was throwing

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Speaker 1: those passage of the linebackers at the end of practice

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Speaker 1: and that was awesome. I mean, I actually, I think

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Speaker 1: you can look this up. I think it might might

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Speaker 1: be like nineteen ninety one or ninety two Nolan Ryan

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Speaker 1: pitched against Rocket in Fenway. I think it was Rangers

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Speaker 1: Red Sox, and I was at the game and now

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Speaker 1: I was in college. I think I stayed for like

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Speaker 1: two innings like an idiot, and then we went across

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Speaker 1: the street Washington on TV at a place but Casking Flagon. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: But you know that when I come down here and

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Speaker 1: I'm able to, you know, just shake people's hands like that,

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Speaker 1: that's a I mean, I was saying that to somebody

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Speaker 1: the other day. You know, part being a head coach

642
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Speaker 1: you get to meet a lot of interesting people, and

643
00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: those type of people Rocket Nolan in the history, the

644
00:30:07,200 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 1: legendary way that they played the game and there and

645
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Speaker 1: just what they meant to their cities that they pitched

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Speaker 1: in and their teams that they pitched for. And then

647
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Speaker 1: you think about all the military people, Marcus Latrelle who

648
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: came and spoke to our team. I mean, that's lone survivor.

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00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 1: That's him. That's that guy is an unbelievable guy. And

650
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Speaker 1: Admiral Bill mccraven who came and spoke to the team

651
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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. I mean Navy seals that

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Speaker 1: we've had in We've had, you know, a number of

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Speaker 1: great speakers. We had Brett Farve this year, Michael Vick,

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Speaker 1: Steve Smith. I mean, all of these guys spoke to

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Speaker 1: our team. I mean this, this position that I have

656
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Speaker 1: is a privilege, and it's just an honor to be

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Speaker 1: able to meet those people and shake their hands and

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Speaker 1: talk to him a little bit. That's It's a great deal. Coach,

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Speaker 1: thanks a lot for joining us, Good luck, Thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: There he is Bill O'Brien. That was the everything but

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Speaker 1: the Texans Bill O'Brien show with some Texans stuff in there.

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00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:58,200
Speaker 1: We do it every year. It's a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: And this will be podcast so podcast dead podcast so

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Speaker 1: you'll be able to catch it on Houston Texans dot com,

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Speaker 1: the Texans app, or wherever fine podcasts are available. I

666
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: promised this Texans backup quarterback, high profile backup quarterback. I've

667
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 1: got some notes on Texans backup quarterbacks throughout the years.

668
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 1: Kind of interesting stuff. But AJ mccarren's certainly a high

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Speaker 1: profile kind of guy based on college pedigree, and he

670
00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 1: has played some of this league. Started a playoff game

671
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: that he could have would have should have won. Some

672
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,720
Speaker 1: others made some mistakes on some other aspects or other

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Speaker 1: phases of the game that were unrelated to him. Man,

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Speaker 1: they could have won that game. And since then, Eddie

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Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh. That's all I want to say. Anyway, here's

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Speaker 1: AJ mccaren. Drew Doherty caught up with him recently. Aj,

677
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Speaker 1: what's been the biggest adjustment since you got here? Really

678
00:31:45,880 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 1: just trying to figure my way around the city. But

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Speaker 1: along with the offense, just different terminology, coming back to

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Speaker 1: the style offense from West Coast, but other nets. Just

681
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out all these streets. They all look

682
00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: the same and they're all over the play You brought

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00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: up the playbook. What's that like? After what you've been through,

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Speaker 1: you know, in your careers in the NFL and then

685
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Speaker 1: in Alabama before that, this offense is definitely different. Good

686
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Speaker 1: thing is I have a little bit of time when

687
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 1: I was in Buffalo. It's basically the same terminology in

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Speaker 1: a way, so that part of it has really helped

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Speaker 1: to any other offense I've been in the league is

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Speaker 1: completely different. I've been in nothing but West Coast really,

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Speaker 1: so it's definitely, you know, a hurdle, but it's been fun.

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Speaker 1: How excited are you to get to throw to some

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Speaker 1: of these receivers you got DeAndre Hopkins, Will Fuller and Qt.

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Speaker 1: The list goes on or on. What do you see

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Speaker 1: out of that past catching group that that's in front

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Speaker 1: of you? Of course with those three especially, you got

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Speaker 1: great playmakers. It almost makes me in a way feel

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Speaker 1: like my time at Cincinnati when I got to play.

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Speaker 1: We had aj Green, Mosinu and then Marvin Jones. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's definitely we got guys here that can make plays

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna be fun to, you know, see them

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Speaker 1: get the ball in their hands in and do what

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Speaker 1: they always do. Take what you thought of the Texans

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00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: before you got here, and how's that are with what

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00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: you think of them now that you're a part of them.

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Speaker 1: The only person that I ever really thought anything about

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Speaker 1: was J Joe and I just pictured some one time especially,

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Speaker 1: I think we played here maybe right before Christmas one year,

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Speaker 1: and Coach All week kept saying, Hey, he's gonna play

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Speaker 1: high on the post. He's gonna play high on the post,

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Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to throw it flat. And we

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Speaker 1: still ran a post and try to throw it and

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Speaker 1: it wasn't flat and ended up getting picked off by

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Speaker 1: j Joe. And so I just remember standing all the

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Speaker 1: sidelines watching the ball in the air a d threw

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Speaker 1: it and being like, oh, that's not good. So that's

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Speaker 1: probably the biggest thing. He's a guy who's been around

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Speaker 1: quite a bit. And then you got guys like JJ

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Speaker 1: Watt and Jadeville Clowney. What about that defense? Do you

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Speaker 1: think is gonna be a good challenge for you when

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Speaker 1: you're you're practicing it so well? I mean, anytime you

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Speaker 1: got so many superstars and guy and playmakers on defense

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Speaker 1: and you're able to challenge yourself day in and day

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Speaker 1: out at practice against those guys, there's always a great

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Speaker 1: deal to go against that. But really shows a as

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Speaker 1: a whole, as an offense how good you actually are.

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Speaker 1: And that's always the tough part during this time to

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Speaker 1: really for teams to see, all right, we're practicing great

729
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Speaker 1: offenses clicking, but really, how good is our defense? But

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Speaker 1: here knowing that our defense is really good and it'll

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Speaker 1: give us a marker of where our offenses. You brought

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00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: up the playbook and learning the playbook team moments ago.

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Speaker 1: What's the one thing though, aside from that that you

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Speaker 1: really kind of honed in on I'm focused on as

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Speaker 1: far as trying to improve yourself for this off season,

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Speaker 1: for me was just getting stronger. You know, I really

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Speaker 1: wanted to try to put on as much muscle mass

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Speaker 1: as I could, and I really feel great, especially my

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Speaker 1: lower body feels better, and then I'll probably have in

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Speaker 1: a long time. So for me, that was the biggest thing.

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Speaker 1: I really took basically the whole off season off and

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Speaker 1: not even throwing the ball. This is probably the first

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Speaker 1: year I've done that. Usually I get straight back into it,

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00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,160
Speaker 1: but getting older and trying different ways to see how

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Speaker 1: my body will react, and I feel great. That's true,

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Speaker 1: Adorty with a j mc karen Texans backup quarterback. Now, mccaren,

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00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,839
Speaker 1: that's a good prospect here as far as backup possibilities.

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Speaker 1: I know some people are gonna get mad at me

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Speaker 1: for this. Look, this is called insurance, all right. I'm

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Speaker 1: not jinxing anybody. Oh, by the way, just as an aside,

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Speaker 1: here Scott McClellan, president of HB your favorite supermarket. So

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00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: he's going to be on a podcast with me. I

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00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,240
Speaker 1: can't wait to record this sucker tomorrow. It's gonna be great.

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00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 1: By Sucker, I mean the podcast I'm not calling Scott.

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00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 1: Scott's a great guy, president of HIB real great story

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00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,399
Speaker 1: about him. You see him in the commercials. He kind

757
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 1: of plays a role there. He's kind of a character

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00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 1: in the commercials. You hear him speak, he is really inspirational.

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00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:38,200
Speaker 1: I heard him speak to a group once and I thought,

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00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 1: this guy's talking about groceries, and I'm riveted. He's got

761
00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: a lot of things to say. Anyway, we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: to him about all the commercials he's shot. So they're

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Speaker 1: shooting one or they did earlier this week with Deshaun

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00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: Watson and DeAndre Hopkins. You might have seen some of

765
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: the tweets. Did you see Deshaun throwing sushi at DeAndre

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Speaker 1: and he catches it with chopsticks? Go check out our

767
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: Twitter feed. Guy retweeted it. So it's pretty cool. Anyway,

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00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: just they were having some light moments and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: feature some of the making of this stuff, and there

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Speaker 1: was a whole lot of great footage that won't make

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Speaker 1: the commercial. You'll see it in Texans preseason TV when

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00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: we air our games starting in August on ABC thirteen,

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00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,359
Speaker 1: so we're gonna feature some of that stuff. Anyway, a

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00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: lot of people were tweeting back, Oh, no, it's the

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00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: HGB curse. There is no curse. There is no I

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00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: know what you're thinking about Osweiler and David Carr and everything,

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00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 1: but last year you had Deshaun Watson and Tyron Matthew.

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Speaker 1: Both guys stayed healthy throughout the entire campaign. Thank you

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00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 1: very much. Now, Watson, you can debate how healthy was

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00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 1: it he played. Okay, that's what counts. There's no HV curse.

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00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:44,400
Speaker 1: Please stop with the curse stuff. And I'm not cursing

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Speaker 1: anybody by saying. AJ mccarren's a good backup quarterback for

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Speaker 1: the Texans. You hope to not have to use him,

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00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,359
Speaker 1: but when you look at what he did with Cincinnati,

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00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: he was able to take the helm when Andy Dalton

786
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: got hurt. This was the twenty fifteen season. We all

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00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:00,919
Speaker 1: know that season well for the bank goals, because hey,

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00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: the Bengals and Texans their histories are sort of intertwined

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00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,200
Speaker 1: during Texans playoff history anyway, because the Texans were two

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00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 1: and five that year. They went three and five. Then

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00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: they went to Cincinnati were able to pick up a win,

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00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: a valuable win against the Bengals because the Bengals what

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00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,840
Speaker 1: were eight no And the Texans got that great defensive performance,

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Speaker 1: the big catch by Hopkins off the arm of t J. Yates.

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Speaker 1: The rest is history. Anyway. Later on that season, Andy

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Speaker 1: Dalton gets hurt, mccaren takes over and goes to the

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00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: playoffs with the Bengals, and they could would have should

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00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: have beaten the Steelers. They weren't able to. But mccaren's

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00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 1: numbers in that season we're pretty good. Six touchdowns, two picks.

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Speaker 1: In the playoff game, he was a touchdown and a pick.

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00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:43,879
Speaker 1: But again they had a late lead, they couldn't hang

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Speaker 1: on and they were unable to get over the hump

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Speaker 1: and win their first playoff game in forever and get

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00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: Marvin Lewis off the schneide. Anyway, mccaren's a good backup

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Speaker 1: quarterback for this team. Good guy to have a ram

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00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 1: And I was talking about it before the interview aired.

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Speaker 1: What about high profile backups in the history of this franchise.

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Speaker 1: There habit a few now yet Matt Liner that was

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Speaker 1: a pretty high profile backup based on college play, right,

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Speaker 1: And the same thing with McCarney. He really hasn't done

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Speaker 1: much as a pro, but what he's done has been

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00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: nice when he was with the Bengals anyway. With the Raiders,

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00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to do much, but Matt Leiner

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00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 1: certainly had college pedigree. Didn't quite work out for him

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Speaker 1: in Arizona, but it was a good backup signing here.

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00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:25,440
Speaker 1: Unfortunately he got hurt in the first half of his

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Speaker 1: first start in twenty eleven for the Texans. Other high

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Speaker 1: profile backups you're thinking, who is there? Rex Grossman, ladies

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Speaker 1: and gentlemen, pretty high profile backup former started for the

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Speaker 1: Chicago Bears, started a Super Bowl for the Bears that

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Speaker 1: they lost, but they got there with Rex Grossman, thank

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Speaker 1: you very much. And I remember Rex Grossman won the

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Speaker 1: backup job in the fourth and final preseason game in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, beating out dan Orlowski because Grossman

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00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 1: was just chucking a deep trying to make plays, was

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Speaker 1: making plays and Orloski was, I guess shown the door

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Speaker 1: after that game. That's how you'd put it. And he's

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Speaker 1: now become a good analyst on NFL networks. So that's

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00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,839
Speaker 1: good to see for Dan Orlovsky. Good guy. But Rex

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Speaker 1: Grossman a high profile back up here. Who else? Jeff

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Speaker 1: Garcia never really saw the light of day, and he's

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Speaker 1: probably the highest profile because he did the most in

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Speaker 1: the league other than Grossman. But Garcia was a pretty

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Speaker 1: good quarterback when he was when he had it going

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Speaker 1: on with San Francisco, won a playoff game with t

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Speaker 1: O and all that other stuff. That's pretty cool stuff.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I liked him a lot as a forty

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Speaker 1: nine er as a Texan, didn't get a chance to

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Speaker 1: do much. Jake the loam was here all right. Now

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Speaker 1: This transitions into the Texans Top one hundred because I

841
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 1: have tomorrow's top one hundred story and that's on the

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Speaker 1: Texans beating Carolina in the very first battle Red Day

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Speaker 1: early November two thousand and three. Battle Red Day a

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Speaker 1: team tradition. It's a day that you sort of circle

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Speaker 1: on the calendar and say, yep, you get to wear

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Speaker 1: the red Dead Day. It's pretty cool, but the very

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Speaker 1: first one felt like a playoff game. This was only

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Speaker 1: the twelfth home game in the history of the franchise,

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Speaker 1: not including preseason. The twelfth home game in the history

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Speaker 1: of the franchise was the battle Red debut, and it

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Speaker 1: came in year two. They didn't do it in year one.

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Speaker 1: Year two against the Panthers. Now, Jamie Roots, the team

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Speaker 1: president of the Texans, long ago decided, Hey, game Day

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Speaker 1: is awesome. It's great. Every game in the NFL as

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Speaker 1: an event, there's no question, but let's make it even

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Speaker 1: more of an event by having a theme. And that's

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Speaker 1: why you have all these themes. That's why you have

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Speaker 1: Salute the Service Day, which the Texans basically invented or popularized,

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Speaker 1: and the rest of the league jumped on that and

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of other stuff that the Texans originated.

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Speaker 1: But battle Red Day. You know, Texans didn't have a

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Speaker 1: throwback jersey obviously, so they went to the alternate red jersey.

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Speaker 1: And the players instantly loved it and they played well.

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Speaker 1: They played well in battle Red. The fans obviously loved it,

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Speaker 1: loved putting on the red. Now, I was talking with

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Speaker 1: Jamie and we both kind of thought that the iconic

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Speaker 1: and I'll use that word carefully here but Texans iconic

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Speaker 1: photo of Pete Fagans DeMarcus Fagans standing on the ledge

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Speaker 1: in front of the bullpen section in all red and

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Speaker 1: all the Red Cloud fans going nuts that that was

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Speaker 1: from the first battle Red game, but it wasn't. It

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Speaker 1: was from the second one against Jacksonville in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and four. The first bomb was two thousand and three,

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Speaker 1: playing Carolina, a team that came out of the gate

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Speaker 1: at six and one, piping hot. Jake Delane, the former

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Speaker 1: Saints backup at quarterback, and Stephen Davis runs for over

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty yards for the Panthers. But the

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Speaker 1: Texans win the game because the d brought the lumber

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Speaker 1: where it mattered in the red zone, kept Carolina out

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Speaker 1: of the end zone more than once, and the Texans

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Speaker 1: got a late touchdown relatively Tony Banks hitting Billy Miller.

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Speaker 1: Banks got the start that day. David Carr was hurt.

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Speaker 1: Texans in year two had the second most players they

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Speaker 1: ever had on IR. It was a real banged up year.

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Speaker 1: The victories that year were all special to me. And

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Speaker 1: maybe you remember that the David car over the top

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Speaker 1: on fourth and one against Jacksonville. The win over Michael

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Speaker 1: Vick and Atlanta here, the win over Carolina, a team

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Speaker 1: that would eventually play in the Super Bowl in this building,

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Speaker 1: a win at Buffalo. I mean, there were some nice

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Speaker 1: victories that year, so the one against Carolina stands out

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Speaker 1: because that was the debut of battle Red Day for

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Speaker 1: this franchise, and we named it one of the top

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Speaker 1: one hundred moments in the history of the franchise. Again,

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Speaker 1: we're counting this down because you have the one hundredth

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Speaker 1: birthday of the league. Every team in the league is

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Speaker 1: celebrating the one hundredth birthday of the NFL, even though

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Speaker 1: every team in the league is not one hundred years old,

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Speaker 1: because it's a family reunion kind of thing. It's a celebration.

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Speaker 1: We're celebrating the birthday of this great league of ours.

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Speaker 1: So everyone's doing their own kind of top one hundred thing.

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Speaker 1: The Bears, obviously, I mean they get a lot. Okay,

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Speaker 1: they've got one hundred years and a lot of moments,

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Speaker 1: so good for them. They could enjoy that. We've been

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Speaker 1: around since two thousand and two, so we're picking our

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Speaker 1: spots here, but we get a lot of moments on

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Speaker 1: and off the field. Battle Red Day certainly one of

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Speaker 1: them that's gonna do it. For the show today. A

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Speaker 1: whole lot of fun with Bill O'Brien, everything but the Texans.

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Speaker 1: AJ McCarron, fun listening to him, Johnny and I back

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Speaker 1: tomorrow with you. A whole lot of stuff to talk about.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into some x's and o's, get you ready

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Speaker 1: for the season. Camp opens two weeks from Thursday. They'll

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Speaker 1: be slinging it at the Houston Methodist Training Center in

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Speaker 1: the heat. Let's do it. Have a great night, everyone,

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Speaker 1: Go Texans.